I bought a Sony Clie (NX600) from Best Buy, and didn't do all that much with it. But I did get a PSP for it. Two years later, the irreplacable battery dies
I was fed the line about the irreplaceable battery on my clie nx80. Its pure cr@p. you can replace the battery. There is one single screw over the compartment. The owner's manual even described how to do it. Don't listen to the 16 y/o clerks. They don't have a clue.
My clie will be the last thing I buy there. To get my clie, 802.11b card, and memory stick, I had to go to three different registers. The clerk lied to me three different times during the transaction. I don't know if he was just ill informed, or blatently lying, but it doesn't matter. Both make me stay very clear of them.
Know what you are lookking at before you go into any electronics store. Now that most of the used car lots are becoming more honest the electronics stores are taking all their sales people.
And this is where your fud blows up in your face. For the base
price of a MS OS (98+) you get an online KB for free, windows update for free,
support from hundreds of vendors and there KB's for free. What do you get from
Red Hat, a single point of contact for support or RTFM from people in the
community? If I were to purchase a desktop OS purely on the idea of support MS
products would be top of my list due to the fact they actually might be around
for awhile.
This is just wrong.
Red Hat has all of those things plus you can go to user groups for special
needs. I don't know who the 100's of vendors are, but I suspect you count every
device maker out there. Just having support is not enough. I have spent hours
on the phone trying to get an answer from MS($120/hr+), Dell(mostly free), and
other vendors. I have spent minutes on the Phone with Red Hat(free install support with purchase), Suse(free install support with purchase), and IBM(yes we pay boat loads to these guys, but hey
its IBM). The supports structures these companies provide, allowed me to
escalate a call much quicker, and all took into account the criticality that I
assigned the problem. Basing a purchase of software on whether a company will
be around for a while is just plain dumb, because you still have no guarantee
of support. MS frequently drops support for products, and leaves customers
hanging that choose not to upgrade.
IF I WERE TO BUY A DESKTOP OS PURELY ON THE IDEA OF SUPPORT, LINUX PRODUCTS WOULD BE TOP OF MY
LIST DUE TO THE FACT I HAVE MANY PLACES TO FIND ANSWERS, AND THE VENDORS
RESPECT MY TIME.
5) Public or private? If you work a government job, it'll generally pay less than the private sector. The compensation is that most tend to have excellent benefits, plenty of vacation time, and little to no overtime.
I don't agree. I'm in government, and make on the high side of average per hour. I have as much overtime paid at time and a half as I want(doing real work) My benefits are no better than the contract position that brought me here. I do get plenty of time off, but not only a day more than I got on my contract.
Rational Software already does this. I don't know many programmers who use it, but I do know some high level engineers who use it to dump a bunch of crap on them. I already work with programmers who use Software Programming Tools for Idiots. It doesn't change the fact they are idiots. Bill Gates and his ilk believe that with the right tool anyone can write software. I have worked with computers for a long time, and they are wrong. The truth is given the right tools anyone can build a piece of crap. Just go to your average home improvement store, or watch TLC for a while and you will see that not everyone can do home repair and improvement, but with cheap easy to use tools they will try and make a mess of it. This is even more true in computers, since everyone I know thinks that thier 12 year old kid is a computer genius, because he can install any piece of software they buy.
LET THE MASSES HAVE THEIR TOYS. IT ONLY EMBOLDENS THEM TO MAKE THE STUPID MISTAKES THAT MAKE ME MORE VALUABLE, AND ULTIMATELY DRIVE MY SALLARY UP, UP, UP
Simply put, if ICANN adopts a TLD that duplicates a TLD that "unofficially" is being registered by another registration system, then we'll have a fracturing in the standards just like in the way that it's almost impossible to tell who the heavyweight boxing champion is. Whenever you have multiple self-appointed authorities, you're bound to have conflicts.
Their is no reason for choas, or standards splits. new.net is a rogue DNS system. Anyone who paid them for their service has taken a risk. If they did not know the risk, then too bad for them. I have a rogue DNS at home. It is a great way to play with DNS software and such, but I haven't tried to sell it as a service.
Your boxing comparison is ridiculous. Boxing is a sport that has two seperate authorities or leagues at the professional level. A boxer has to win in both to be the undisputed champion. ICANN is the only recognized authority for domain names. Anyone can do run their own DNS system, but ICANN is still the only recognized authority, and can make decisions that will break your system. They may even make decisions expressly to break your system to discourage this sort of activity.
Enough people can decide to recognize the rogue's, and create a new defacto standard. This could cause chaos, but in the end it would just buy a whole lot of government intervention. Shoot the UN would probably get involved, and that would surely make a mess of things.
The registry is a poor implementation of a good idea. IBM uses a much better, but similiar idea with thier ODM database for portions of the configuration in AIX
Just about every business model, not just software, depends on control. That's why businesses spend so much money getting IP protection laws passed. Every business wants locked-in customers, it's a good revenue stream. When OSS companies start playing with the big boys (public investors), they're going to have to find a way to keep them happy.
Check out the car industry for a model of business that is based on both. Most car buyers purchase cars based upon the cars individual merits. On the other hand they attempt to lock you in with leases. It is much easier to just "upgrade" your lease at the end of a lease term, than it is to terminate the lease. The great part is YOU have a choice.
Almost time for a new configuration
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All we have to do is create a new smtp network on a new port, or rebuild the protocol to be a little more robust, and launch it. A gateway could be built for old mail readers that don't support the new protocol directly. Screw the commercial types who want to find a new way to make a buck. I already pay for my email. I pay for my service. I pay for my server. Why should I have to pay someone else.
In particular, it sounds like they make very heavy use of mouse-based control, when they should do as much as possible with the keyboard. With 100 keys, and tens of thousands of key combinations, a well-designed UI should allow you do do damned near anything, really quickly and easily, with just a simple keyboard.
"That kind of argument is crap. If a neighboring state allows nearly unregulated access to guns then the neighbor state that doesn't, that tightly regulates guns, is screwed. Those who want guns in regulated state simply drive to unregulated state, buy their guns, then drive back to regulated state, commit their crimes, etc. Thus, the state with tighter gun control gets screwed (and thus any reasonable statistical analysis gets screwed) by the low gun control state."
Why would a criminal go by a traceable weapon for the sole intent of committing a crime. They would buy something that was pilfered from someone else.
"Or are you? The greatest user of recycled aluminium is the motor car industry. So all those gas-guzzling, air-polluting SUVs driving around are made cheaper by being constructed from your recycled Coke cans..."
Well without recycling, those SUVs so many love to hate would be made from heavier steel, and would use much more gas. But since we don't want to help out those automakers in making cheap autos for us to drive, we shouldn't recycle steel either. They should only use brand new steel straight out of PA. That would put many more steel workers into good paying jobs. Well that is until the automakers figured out no one could afford the all steel cars, and the industry collapsed. With the auto industry done, and all of us working to pay for our cars because they are as expensive as our homes, the economy would tail spin. Next thing you know the Taliban, tired of being hunted in Afganistan, will move to DC and set up shop in the White House.
I certainly wouldn't want to help the auto industry. They are so eeeeevuhl.
They have patented standards that have been openly published for more than 7 years. Netscape had used this technology on thier website before MS knew what a cookie was, since they were the first browser to use them.
Think of it this way. The pencil was invented, and the standards for making pencils went to the IWISA(International Writing Instruments Standards Association) for public consumption. Then Mead comes along and patents the use of a pencil to write notes on paper. You can't patent the intended use of an invention. Though if mead developed a means to turn said pencil into a flying machine, they then would have a case for the patent.
Cookies were intended to either store site preferences, or enough data to recover those preferences. This will fall when challenged by a company with enough cash, or when someone like EFF stands up for a little guy.
I can't believe that was modded as insightful. UNIX tends to use a single configuration file for a single purpose. You rarely see a 100+ files to manage an application. The bookmark file for a browser is just a configuration file. When MS moved to make the web browser the file manager, they decided to cut out the code for managing bookmarks, and let the file management portion of the code do the work. The windows registry is not a unique concept. Just check out AIX, and you will see the ODM database is very similiar(don't I remember an old partnership between IBM and MS. They couldn't have stolen the idea, could they have?). The difference is a corrupt ODM will not prevent me from booting the machine. It can be rebuilt in single user mode at the very least, and the applications still store thier own settings. A horked windows registry equates to a useless windows system.
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Younger minds work faster but older minds work smarter.
I don't agree. I have played the programming game for close 20 years, and have done it professionally for half that. My mind is faster and sharper than it ever was. The difference is when I am presented with a problem now, I draw out the problem and an attack plan. When I was younger I just started coding. When the boss comes by now I show him a piece of paper full of unreadable crap, and when I was younger I showd how my code didn't quite work yet. The other difference is that I meet my deadlines now.
Admittedly, Windows in a much better gaming platform than Linux, so I can't imagine forcing them to do everything on Linux doing more than just frustrating them. It still frustrates me!
Nah, its not a better platform, it just has more games.
Finish Daddy's business my ass. Bush 41 did exactly what the UN resolutions said. Got Sadam out of Kuwait. Bush 43 is simply trying to enforce the agreements Sudam made after losing.
Lets see, there are any number of Easter Eggs in MS products like the "Mars Flyer" There were so many easter eggs in one version of excel that it was estimated to increase the memory footprint by 10-15%
You are aware that DHCP servers have logs that can map a particular computer to an IP address?
I suspect I am more aware than you. My argument still stands. Why would I say keep logs for a short time, if I meant keep all but the DHCP logs for a short time. The provider could throw out the logs hourly, or daily. The RIAA and the likes would have to act pretty fast to get an injunction to save those logs. Shoot, use shred to delete them, store them on a non journaled filesystem, and exclude the filesystem from the backup processes. Now an ISP can claim truthfully that they do not have a means to supply the information. There may be some exceptions, but they could protect most users this way.
This is a good reason for all ISPs to only keep logs of user connections for a reasonable amount of time to do analysis of thier networks, and to assist the user in technical issues. This is also a good argument for being a DHCP user, because without logs as I just stated, and no static asignments Verizon or any other ISP likely will not have the data to give to the court/plaintif as requested by the subpoena.
Collaboration should be easy. Why aren't more people making moves like horde.org, and building web solutions. Then you don't need anything but a standards compliant browser to do the job.
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IF I WERE TO BUY A DESKTOP OS PURELY ON THE IDEA OF SUPPORT, LINUX PRODUCTS WOULD BE TOP OF MY LIST DUE TO THE FACT I HAVE MANY PLACES TO FIND ANSWERS, AND THE VENDORS RESPECT MY TIME.
Rational Software already does this. I don't know many programmers who use it, but I do know some high level engineers who use it to dump a bunch of crap on them. I already work with programmers who use Software Programming Tools for Idiots. It doesn't change the fact they are idiots. Bill Gates and his ilk believe that with the right tool anyone can write software. I have worked with computers for a long time, and they are wrong. The truth is given the right tools anyone can build a piece of crap. Just go to your average home improvement store, or watch TLC for a while and you will see that not everyone can do home repair and improvement, but with cheap easy to use tools they will try and make a mess of it. This is even more true in computers, since everyone I know thinks that thier 12 year old kid is a computer genius, because he can install any piece of software they buy.
LET THE MASSES HAVE THEIR TOYS. IT ONLY EMBOLDENS THEM TO MAKE THE STUPID MISTAKES THAT MAKE ME MORE VALUABLE, AND ULTIMATELY DRIVE MY SALLARY UP, UP, UP
Your boxing comparison is ridiculous. Boxing is a sport that has two seperate authorities or leagues at the professional level. A boxer has to win in both to be the undisputed champion. ICANN is the only recognized authority for domain names. Anyone can do run their own DNS system, but ICANN is still the only recognized authority, and can make decisions that will break your system. They may even make decisions expressly to break your system to discourage this sort of activity.
Enough people can decide to recognize the rogue's, and create a new defacto standard. This could cause chaos, but in the end it would just buy a whole lot of government intervention. Shoot the UN would probably get involved, and that would surely make a mess of things.
The registry is a poor implementation of a good idea. IBM uses a much better, but similiar idea with thier ODM database for portions of the configuration in AIX
All we have to do is create a new smtp network on a new port, or rebuild the protocol to be a little more robust, and launch it. A gateway could be built for old mail readers that don't support the new protocol directly. Screw the commercial types who want to find a new way to make a buck. I already pay for my email. I pay for my service. I pay for my server. Why should I have to pay someone else.
"That kind of argument is crap. If a neighboring state allows nearly unregulated access to guns then the neighbor state that doesn't, that tightly regulates guns, is screwed. Those who want guns in regulated state simply drive to unregulated state, buy their guns, then drive back to regulated state, commit their crimes, etc. Thus, the state with tighter gun control gets screwed (and thus any reasonable statistical analysis gets screwed) by the low gun control state."
Why would a criminal go by a traceable weapon for the sole intent of committing a crime. They would buy something that was pilfered from someone else.
Islamic terrorists say convert or die, and kill you if you don't.
Linux zealots say convert before MS kills you, and continue to become more shrill if you resist.
The Linux zealots may be annoying(or at least that is how some have described me), but not dangerous.
"Or are you? The greatest user of recycled aluminium is the motor car industry. So all those gas-guzzling, air-polluting SUVs driving around are made cheaper by being constructed from your recycled Coke cans..."
Well without recycling, those SUVs so many love to hate would be made from heavier steel, and would use much more gas. But since we don't want to help out those automakers in making cheap autos for us to drive, we shouldn't recycle steel either. They should only use brand new steel straight out of PA. That would put many more steel workers into good paying jobs. Well that is until the automakers figured out no one could afford the all steel cars, and the industry collapsed. With the auto industry done, and all of us working to pay for our cars because they are as expensive as our homes, the economy would tail spin. Next thing you know the Taliban, tired of being hunted in Afganistan, will move to DC and set up shop in the White House.
I certainly wouldn't want to help the auto industry. They are so eeeeevuhl.
They have patented standards that have been openly published for more than 7 years. Netscape had used this technology on thier website before MS knew what a cookie was, since they were the first browser to use them.
Think of it this way. The pencil was invented, and the standards for making pencils went to the IWISA(International Writing Instruments Standards Association) for public consumption. Then Mead comes along and patents the use of a pencil to write notes on paper. You can't patent the intended use of an invention. Though if mead developed a means to turn said pencil into a flying machine, they then would have a case for the patent.
Cookies were intended to either store site preferences, or enough data to recover those preferences. This will fall when challenged by a company with enough cash, or when someone like EFF stands up for a little guy.
I can't believe that was modded as insightful. UNIX tends to use a single configuration file for a single purpose. You rarely see a 100+ files to manage an application. The bookmark file for a browser is just a configuration file. When MS moved to make the web browser the file manager, they decided to cut out the code for managing bookmarks, and let the file management portion of the code do the work. The windows registry is not a unique concept. Just check out AIX, and you will see the ODM database is very similiar(don't I remember an old partnership between IBM and MS. They couldn't have stolen the idea, could they have?). The difference is a corrupt ODM will not prevent me from booting the machine. It can be rebuilt in single user mode at the very least, and the applications still store thier own settings. A horked windows registry equates to a useless windows system.
Younger minds work faster but older minds work smarter.
I don't agree. I have played the programming game for close 20 years, and have done it professionally for half that. My mind is faster and sharper than it ever was. The difference is when I am presented with a problem now, I draw out the problem and an attack plan. When I was younger I just started coding. When the boss comes by now I show him a piece of paper full of unreadable crap, and when I was younger I showd how my code didn't quite work yet. The other difference is that I meet my deadlines now.
North Korea still has the potential to be dealt with economically.
The point would be he didn't have to with RedHat. They were there.
Finish Daddy's business my ass. Bush 41 did exactly what the UN resolutions said. Got Sadam out of Kuwait. Bush 43 is simply trying to enforce the agreements Sudam made after losing.
You worked on helicopters too? I can't hear anything below 20 Db either.
Lets see, there are any number of Easter Eggs in MS products like the "Mars Flyer" There were so many easter eggs in one version of excel that it was estimated to increase the memory footprint by 10-15%
You are aware that DHCP servers have logs that can map a particular computer to an IP address? I suspect I am more aware than you. My argument still stands. Why would I say keep logs for a short time, if I meant keep all but the DHCP logs for a short time. The provider could throw out the logs hourly, or daily. The RIAA and the likes would have to act pretty fast to get an injunction to save those logs. Shoot, use shred to delete them, store them on a non journaled filesystem, and exclude the filesystem from the backup processes. Now an ISP can claim truthfully that they do not have a means to supply the information. There may be some exceptions, but they could protect most users this way.
This is a good reason for all ISPs to only keep logs of user connections for a reasonable amount of time to do analysis of thier networks, and to assist the user in technical issues. This is also a good argument for being a DHCP user, because without logs as I just stated, and no static asignments Verizon or any other ISP likely will not have the data to give to the court/plaintif as requested by the subpoena.
Its been a long time since MS and Apple were enemies. I think that stopped about the time MS bought a large, but not controlling chunk of Apple
Collaboration should be easy. Why aren't more people making moves like horde.org, and building web solutions. Then you don't need anything but a standards compliant browser to do the job.