if 33 out of 50 states hadn't banned them on sidewalks.
This looks like a great Sci-fi advancement come to life but unfortunatly the good'uns have made them all but useless by saying we can't have them on the sidewalks before they ever prooved they were a problem. Sheeeze. In the country of "innocent untill prooven guilty" it is surpriseing to see us delcair a vehicle dangerous before we try it out. Usually it takes at least 3 million dollar studies before we ever pass a law against something. I am ashamed to see the majority of states react the way they did to progress.
If the game makers would put out the games I want to play for Linux I would use it for my PC. I currently use Debian for my web and ftp servers.
But... Even with the push to Linux by main stream business and the apparent market buzz about it I don't think game makers will bother putting out linux distros in any volume for a while. Then you tack the DMCA on top of it and you realize not even the open source comunity can fill that gap.
From the article...The announcement on Monday, instead, will be devoted to discussing the technology, which employs an antenna shaped like a large picture frame, about three feet by four feet and about three inches thick.
I don't think most of us will be mounting a solid metal plate to our walls. Of course there is always a few extreemists. And if the price is low it may decrease the cost to enter the market as an internet provider. If that is true then I would love to see the increse in competition. If you listen carefully when it is released you just might hear your monthly internet price drop.
I think I might have a small reason to complain. And my mother might not like it too much either if you killed me for one bad joke. Last I checked the law might care too.
I wonder if they will let you run distributed clients on your computer that donate your cpu time to the pool and then you get check cut once a year or so.
I also think it would be cool if someone made an opensource project that let me donate my cpu time w/o having to worry about what project it was going to at any one point in time. That way when one contest stops I don't loose time switching to another.
So let me get this straight. IBM wants us to send them our code so they can compile it on their super computers? Then they can submit my code to the opensource project for me and take credit for my work so they can get there stats higher so they can win the coding challenge? Well hold on I will go ask Microsoft Palladium if you are on my list of trusted compilers.
For those of us with no job a good suggestion is retreat inside a government job or inside a university for more schooling. But for those of us who have jobs I suggest become more mobile and make it your goal to become team leader/management as soon as possible. Government won't be laying off at least untill Bush is gone and additional schooling makes you more marketable. Management skills are something that doesn't change very much but programming languages and other skills are conastantly being changed even as you learn them. So becoming management allows you to use your experiance from IT jobs and not have to relearn at the rate that is best left to the young.
Gone are the days you could work for a giant corp for your whole life and never have to move. Companies are more and more looking outside themselves for people to hire instead of promoting from within. (Grass is greener...) So be loyal to your project not your company. A project you can write on a resume. So when you feel your project is nearing completion start looking for another.
Deregulation is always a good idea because that is the ultimate goal of Capitolism(an economy that regulates itself). But unfortunatly regulation is necessary as an immediate fix when capitolism is failing in a particular industry. During regulation periods the government should simultainuously stimulate competition and thus new entry into that industry. Sadly though our government has a recnet track history of just deregulating w/o any evedince of increased competition.
IMHO Deregulation is good, regulation is bad, but lack of competition is worse.
What the hell do you mean in your reply to the cycle of things
by Hanno where you say "Problem: I fear that anyone who trusts the markets right now -- especially when Bush and his crowd are doing everything they can to torpedo essential reform -- is misguided.
What exactly has Bush done to torpedo reform?
If anyone else has any idea what he is talking about here please feel free to inform us all.
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Digium offers a range of professional services to complement our hardware and software offerings. Custom software development services are available. We can enhance and extend our software offereings to provide custo
mized solutions for telephony customers, and consulting services are available to help plan and implement enterprise telephony systems and Linux based data networks.
Digium, based in Huntsville, AL, is located in Cummings Research Park, 3 minutes from Interstate 565 and 10 from Huntsville International Airport. If you are interested in visiting, please contact us for driving directions and staff availability.
You have to change your network card? Is your username bound to one mac address? Or can I have lots of them?
Really it doesn't matter. Companies like this won't ever catch on very big. With all the compaines out there right now giving you a free taste 1st(most don't even require registering) no one will pay the up front cost(even if it is time of install or time of registering).
Like Balmer said, We can't beat free.
If they want to implement this kinda stuff they have to offer a free service 1st to the people just to get them to consider their pay service. Then spin it by saying "are you tired of playing on our free servers with all the cheeters and annoying people?"
So when my house burps will it say excuse me?
In the future when our lamps are shining to bright will our house doctor come for a vist and tell the house "take 2 of theese and call me in the morning"?
Slashdot Mirror
That is great so can we now get the cart to count the items in it and shock the people who get in the 15 item limit line with 50 items?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2002/11/19/BA152460.DTL
I was wrong he was right. Paragraph 4. I skimed and made a mistake. Sorry:)
Of course now I wonder why we have to pass laws to allow things. I thought we were free minus the laws/restrictions.
if 33 out of 50 states hadn't banned them on sidewalks. This looks like a great Sci-fi advancement come to life but unfortunatly the good'uns have made them all but useless by saying we can't have them on the sidewalks before they ever prooved they were a problem. Sheeeze. In the country of "innocent untill prooven guilty" it is surpriseing to see us delcair a vehicle dangerous before we try it out. Usually it takes at least 3 million dollar studies before we ever pass a law against something. I am ashamed to see the majority of states react the way they did to progress.
If the game makers would put out the games I want to play for Linux I would use it for my PC. I currently use Debian for my web and ftp servers. But... Even with the push to Linux by main stream business and the apparent market buzz about it I don't think game makers will bother putting out linux distros in any volume for a while. Then you tack the DMCA on top of it and you realize not even the open source comunity can fill that gap.
From the article ...The announcement on Monday, instead, will be devoted to discussing the technology, which employs an antenna shaped like a large picture frame, about three feet by four feet and about three inches thick.
I don't think most of us will be mounting a solid metal plate to our walls. Of course there is always a few extreemists. And if the price is low it may decrease the cost to enter the market as an internet provider. If that is true then I would love to see the increse in competition. If you listen carefully when it is released you just might hear your monthly internet price drop.
I can see why you wouldn't want to let them lose too much in flight. They might go nuts and try to open the airlock door and kill themselves.
I think I might have a small reason to complain.
And my mother might not like it too much either if you killed me for one bad joke.
Last I checked the law might care too.
1. Format
2. Insert Favorite Linux distro into cup holder.
3. Profit!
I wonder if they will let you run distributed clients on your computer that donate your cpu time to the pool and then you get check cut once a year or so.
I also think it would be cool if someone made an opensource project that let me donate my cpu time w/o having to worry about what project it was going to at any one point in time. That way when one contest stops I don't loose time switching to another.
So let me get this straight. IBM wants us to send them our code so they can compile it on their super computers? Then they can submit my code to the opensource project for me and take credit for my work so they can get there stats higher so they can win the coding challenge?
Well hold on I will go ask Microsoft Palladium if you are on my list of trusted compilers.
IMHO: The market will recover.
For those of us with no job a good suggestion is retreat inside a government job or inside a university for more schooling. But for those of us who have jobs I suggest become more mobile and make it your goal to become team leader/management as soon as possible. Government won't be laying off at least untill Bush is gone and additional schooling makes you more marketable. Management skills are something that doesn't change very much but programming languages and other skills are conastantly being changed even as you learn them. So becoming management allows you to use your experiance from IT jobs and not have to relearn at the rate that is best left to the young.
Gone are the days you could work for a giant corp for your whole life and never have to move. Companies are more and more looking outside themselves for people to hire instead of promoting from within. (Grass is greener...) So be loyal to your project not your company. A project you can write on a resume. So when you feel your project is nearing completion start looking for another.
Deregulation is always a good idea because that is the ultimate goal of Capitolism(an economy that regulates itself). But unfortunatly regulation is necessary as an immediate fix when capitolism is failing in a particular industry. During regulation periods the government should simultainuously stimulate competition and thus new entry into that industry. Sadly though our government has a recnet track history of just deregulating w/o any evedince of increased competition.
IMHO Deregulation is good, regulation is bad, but lack of competition is worse.
What do you think the future will bring?
And an objective reivew of yesterday.
What the hell do you mean in your reply to the cycle of things by Hanno where you say "Problem: I fear that anyone who trusts the markets right now -- especially when Bush and his crowd are doing everything they can to torpedo essential reform -- is misguided.
What exactly has Bush done to torpedo reform?
If anyone else has any idea what he is talking about here please feel free to inform us all.
Risky?
I don't think so.
Remember Microsoft's policy. E^3
Embrace (XML), Extend (XML),Extinguish (XML)
http://www.digium.com/
In 2002, Linux Support Services, Inc. changed their name to Digium, as the focus of the business had grown to include not just Enterprise Linux Support but Linux-based Telephony development. Digium has developed the Open Source Asterisk PBX Software Suite. Finding a lack of high-quality, reasonably priced telephony hardware for Linux, Digium has moved to develop powerful hardware solutions for Linux based telephony. Digium offers a range of professional services to complement our hardware and software offerings. Custom software development services are available. We can enhance and extend our software offereings to provide custo mized solutions for telephony customers, and consulting services are available to help plan and implement enterprise telephony systems and Linux based data networks. Digium, based in Huntsville, AL, is located in Cummings Research Park, 3 minutes from Interstate 565 and 10 from Huntsville International Airport. If you are interested in visiting, please contact us for driving directions and staff availability.
You have to change your network card? Is your username bound to one mac address? Or can I have lots of them? Really it doesn't matter. Companies like this won't ever catch on very big. With all the compaines out there right now giving you a free taste 1st(most don't even require registering) no one will pay the up front cost(even if it is time of install or time of registering). Like Balmer said, We can't beat free. If they want to implement this kinda stuff they have to offer a free service 1st to the people just to get them to consider their pay service. Then spin it by saying "are you tired of playing on our free servers with all the cheeters and annoying people?"
I can only see this as a good thing because friendly competition creates drive for better(less clippy) products.
Microsoft Friendly?
Friendly Competition?
Since when?
So when my house burps will it say excuse me? In the future when our lamps are shining to bright will our house doctor come for a vist and tell the house "take 2 of theese and call me in the morning"?
I thought open source was a constraint? .ogg player+encoder since it is open and .mp3 is not plus they are better anyway.
Get Ogg Vorbis
*Players-
Sonique
Zinf (formerly FreeAMP)
*Encoders
OggdropXPd - More powerful, more complex drag and drop GUI encoder
http://www.vorbis.com/download_win.psp