No country in the world has ever attained prosperity by paying back it's debts. The USA is large enough to sustain the debt load that it has, and the amount of money that has been lent out is helping to offset interest costs. No worries. Fund NASA.
Sorry about that. Just another media-bred stereotype, it is... At least it's complimentary, which is more than can be said for other widely-held stereotypes.
I was going to rant at your comments, coming as they do from someone who has never in their life been left without the opulence of Western society, but there's no point.
Try this though - Without turning on your car, see if you can push it up a hill alone. Remember to take the parking brake off! Now, wasn't that hard? Did the car roll towards you, crushing your body underneath it? Now think of how easy that is with the help of a gasoline motor. Think of the 300 million people driving their cars around the USA. Think how much energy that is. We've been using energy created over millions of years at a rate which will not see us much further into the future.
Now go belittle the Indian some more, maybe he'll slaughter his cow today and die next year of hunger. Then he'll go to hell, right?
Nobody buys Win98. People just pirate it. So, one could commission a study to find out the ratio of illegaly obtained copies of Win* to the legally downloaded copies of *Linux...:)
The Japanese being more technologically-savvy as a whole, it's not surprising that they're embracing Linux and other alternative OS-es more so than North America.
Tell me, how disgusting is it when you turn on the TV one afternoon after getting back from work and every single channel has the same story on? Every major news channel had helicopters in the sky, looking down at the search and rescue boats, and reporters babbling "Well, folks, Kennedy's plane is still not located - In fact, we have absolutely no clue what's going on, and neither does anyone else, but things could change any minute, so don't turn us off. Now, a commercial break." And it continues into the next five days.
I fully support the Kennedy family in making their funeral and reception CLOSED to the media. It's really too bad that the public eats this stuff up. See Nielson Homes.
I'll bet Bill wakes up every day furious that the Internet uses/'s instead of \'s. All he needs are a few more Anti-Linux IPO articles and he'll be poised to propose a new standard of directory delineation and deliver the crippling blow to competition everywhere...:)
I was thinking of using the "webserver-on-a-chip" (that was slashdotted a week or so ago) to make a webcam with its own webserver included! No computer required! It could look a helluva lot like the old tennis-ball-webcams, though.
The only problem with a "correct" interface is that there are tons of people out there who have their own ideas as to what is "correct". Many of them are vehement about their beliefs. And, very few of them can agree. So, how about sacrifice a few milliseconds now and then and make the UI consistent?
Or, just use the command line - if that's your thing.
Why do you bother developing? The people who use your programs are only going to be experiencing a "canned interactive slideshow"! Besides, if they really wanted to do something, they'd write the program themselves in so cryptic a manner that it would be unusable to anyone but them.:P
Take a small solar cell, add a Wal-Mart(tm) pinhole camera. Connect a TCP/IP stack the size of a dime, do a little custom soldering with some PROMs, get yourself a case (the size of a tennis ball, you reckon?), run a little cable to a home router... Whee!
You'd have a self-contained webcam. With a little ingenuity, and some more power, maybe a wireless solution could be cooked up? Like a car-top webcam. Wouldn't that be nice. (My car is parked at 42nd and Vine. My car keys are on the roof in plain view of the camera)
"4 megabytes of SGRAM is ample memory for... running the most popular games."
- Sure it is.
"Q. Can you connect an external display to iBook? A. No. iBook does not support video output or mirroring to an external display. The computer's video architecture is designed to provide the best personal user experience. Thus, it uses the highest-quality 12.1-inch TFT screen for easy viewing and clarity."
- Easy viewing on a screen the size of an unfolded pocket organizer. Or slightly smaller than an overhead transparency (which is what you'll be using for your business presentations if you spend $2 thou on this).
Also, you're right, there's 10 references to 'school' or 'classes' sprinkled liberally around there... Maybe little johnny should get a two thousand dollar computer for his birthday! To match his gucci shoes! *vomit*
The Amiga had it all figured out. Fully integrated command line, and a nice easy GUI. Until WIMPs go out of style, I firmly believe that an operating system with a GUI must also have a command line which works.
Linux has a powerful command line with a shaky GUI on top, Win* has a big ol GUI without any command line functionality (really, a DOS window?), and Mac just plain ol' doesn't have one. Funny that when you get the Mac developer's kit, part of it is a bash shell. The only OS (asfarasIcansee) which has both is, *tada* BeOS! Oh well.
Yes, GPL, I hadn't noticed that - Well, perhaps there will be some effort put in from the public. I've been told it's hard to get ported programs working properly with threads and such, it's too bad there's such a scarcity of Be programmers.
I agree that Be did take money from the Wintel Cartel, but think about this: Be has been encouraging everyone who is upset about the lack of G3 support to email Apple and ask nicely for a release of the specifications. If what you say is true, wouldn't Apple start mailing back messages like "We'd love to give out the specs, but Be won't accept them"? I can't see why Apple won't let the specs go. People still will be buying their hardware.
This is great for Linux! It's very good to see creative software coming to the alternative-OS community. I'm just a little sad that Be hasn't attracted enough attention to deserve a port. I hope that the reception of jMax will be warm enough for them to consider porting to other platforms.
The graphics designers that Apple has working for them are really talented. I think these laptops look great, and I'd love to own one, except for one thing - I don't want to run MacOS. I wouldn't mind using Yellow Dog Linux, but I'd much, much rather put the BeOS on. But I can't! Why? Because Apple are being f*ckheads and are refusing to allow Be to port their system to G3 motherboards. So, half the userbase of the BeOS is left with obsolete hardware, and none of the new spiffy equipment from Apple can be used. Bastards.
Damn overprotective Apple. Just because their business is going down the tubes doesn't mean they have to drag Be along with 'em.
Come on, this isn't an ad to take out personal ads in the National Enquirer and get rich in thirty days. This is an very generous invitation to buy stock which may add a sizable chunk to your savings in a few years, from a company which has done a lot for the Open source community.
Let's face it, E-trade is one of the few ways Joe Bloes like us are going to get our hands on IPO stock. The big boys on Wall Street pick up most of it, and it's damn hard to get any when you only want to buy a hundred shares. I don't think you are justified in denouncing it as spam. Delete the email. Rant a bit. Sleep on it.
Also, how is Red Hat to know whether you are a non-US citizen? I use a NetForward address to (very primitively) protect my privacy, and there's no quick way to tell where the email ends up (as it turns out, I'm Canadian. Boo hoo, no IPO for me). Admittedly, they could simply not send email to anyone whos email address ends in a foreign country's suffix, but you might just be an American student working abroad.
I support their decision to offer IPO stock to everyone associated with the Open Source community. It's very generous of them. Think how much ranting would be going on if they only offered their IPO stock to Red Hat developers.
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Hear hear. The only thing that private industry wants from space is more satellites for TV, data, and cellphones.
No country in the world has ever attained prosperity by paying back it's debts. The USA is large enough to sustain the debt load that it has, and the amount of money that has been lent out is helping to offset interest costs. No worries. Fund NASA.
Once again, my apologies.
Try this though - Without turning on your car, see if you can push it up a hill alone. Remember to take the parking brake off! Now, wasn't that hard? Did the car roll towards you, crushing your body underneath it? Now think of how easy that is with the help of a gasoline motor. Think of the 300 million people driving their cars around the USA. Think how much energy that is. We've been using energy created over millions of years at a rate which will not see us much further into the future.
Now go belittle the Indian some more, maybe he'll slaughter his cow today and die next year of hunger. Then he'll go to hell, right?
The Japanese being more technologically-savvy as a whole, it's not surprising that they're embracing Linux and other alternative OS-es more so than North America.
Gimmick does what you're asking for
"No, really, I'm using it for... confidential information..."
I fully support the Kennedy family in making their funeral and reception CLOSED to the media. It's really too bad that the public eats this stuff up. See Nielson Homes.
I'll bet Bill wakes up every day furious that the Internet uses /'s instead of \'s. All he needs are a few more Anti-Linux IPO articles and he'll be poised to propose a new standard of directory delineation and deliver the crippling blow to competition everywhere... :)
I was thinking of using the "webserver-on-a-chip" (that was slashdotted a week or so ago) to make a webcam with its own webserver included! No computer required! It could look a helluva lot like the old tennis-ball-webcams, though.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Or, just use the command line - if that's your thing.
Why do you bother developing? The people who use your programs are only going to be experiencing a "canned interactive slideshow"! Besides, if they really wanted to do something, they'd write the program themselves in so cryptic a manner that it would be unusable to anyone but them. :P
Smallest webserver
You'd have a self-contained webcam. With a little ingenuity, and some more power, maybe a wireless solution could be cooked up? Like a car-top webcam. Wouldn't that be nice. (My car is parked at 42nd and Vine. My car keys are on the roof in plain view of the camera)
- Sure it is.
"Q. Can you connect an external display to iBook? A. No. iBook does not support video output or mirroring to an external display. The computer's video architecture is designed to provide the best personal user experience. Thus, it uses the highest-quality 12.1-inch TFT screen for easy viewing and clarity."
- Easy viewing on a screen the size of an unfolded pocket organizer. Or slightly smaller than an overhead transparency (which is what you'll be using for your business presentations if you spend $2 thou on this).
Also, you're right, there's 10 references to 'school' or 'classes' sprinkled liberally around there... Maybe little johnny should get a two thousand dollar computer for his birthday! To match his gucci shoes! *vomit*
There's nothing more deserving of praise than making something that's powerful and easy to use.
Linux has a powerful command line with a shaky GUI on top, Win* has a big ol GUI without any command line functionality (really, a DOS window?), and Mac just plain ol' doesn't have one. Funny that when you get the Mac developer's kit, part of it is a bash shell. The only OS (asfarasIcansee) which has both is, *tada* BeOS! Oh well.
Yes, GPL, I hadn't noticed that - Well, perhaps there will be some effort put in from the public. I've been told it's hard to get ported programs working properly with threads and such, it's too bad there's such a scarcity of Be programmers.
I agree that Be did take money from the Wintel Cartel, but think about this: Be has been encouraging everyone who is upset about the lack of G3 support to email Apple and ask nicely for a release of the specifications. If what you say is true, wouldn't Apple start mailing back messages like "We'd love to give out the specs, but Be won't accept them"? I can't see why Apple won't let the specs go. People still will be buying their hardware.
He installed it on his computer with a G3 upgrade card. Different story.
This is great for Linux! It's very good to see creative software coming to the alternative-OS community. I'm just a little sad that Be hasn't attracted enough attention to deserve a port. I hope that the reception of jMax will be warm enough for them to consider porting to other platforms.
Damn overprotective Apple. Just because their business is going down the tubes doesn't mean they have to drag Be along with 'em.
Hehe - If they'd researched your background, you'd have screamed - "PRIVACY INVASION!"
Let's face it, E-trade is one of the few ways Joe Bloes like us are going to get our hands on IPO stock. The big boys on Wall Street pick up most of it, and it's damn hard to get any when you only want to buy a hundred shares. I don't think you are justified in denouncing it as spam. Delete the email. Rant a bit. Sleep on it.
Also, how is Red Hat to know whether you are a non-US citizen? I use a NetForward address to (very primitively) protect my privacy, and there's no quick way to tell where the email ends up (as it turns out, I'm Canadian. Boo hoo, no IPO for me). Admittedly, they could simply not send email to anyone whos email address ends in a foreign country's suffix, but you might just be an American student working abroad.
I support their decision to offer IPO stock to everyone associated with the Open Source community. It's very generous of them. Think how much ranting would be going on if they only offered their IPO stock to Red Hat developers.