You can buy pretty damned quiet PC fans, however, you're right that today's hard drives are louder than hell. Also, I'd bet that they generate a lot more case heat than they let on. That said, am I losing my mind or didn't I read back in 1993 that we'd all be using solid state hard drives by now??? Guess that was a sure thing in the days of $600 hard drives.
Ok, looking back at my post I didn't mention the "single and childless" status I used to get that number. The fact remains that if you're single and childless, you start owing taxes on income over $9300 and that's with the EIC factored in.
Off the top of my head OpenAL, I know it's used by NWN and some of the old Loki games. Whether that makes it a standard or not is a whole other question.
Forget that, hurry up and get a file a patent on this before Amazon, eBay, MS, HP, IBM, SCO, etc beats you to it!:D
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Were you using ALSA or OSS? OSS is pretty much dead and I haven't used it in years. That said, I've never NOT been able to get a soundcard working with ALSA. I'm not saying full functionality 100% of the time, but basic sound has never been a problem. I'm not sure which distros you used but I can almost guarantee that SuSE 9.0 would have picked up and configured that card for you. SB Audigy support has been in ALSA since the 0.9 series which I know is included in SuSE 9.0.
I haven't heard about any popular commercial GTK-software...
Off the top of my head, the "current" commerical GTK apps include Applixware, Gobe Productive, Yahoo Messenger, Sentry BullDog, Netscape, and Eclipse's SWT. The gist of your post is right though, there are more commercial apps using QT than GTK on Linux. However, forget about those two because the current king of commericial GUIs on Linux is (still) boring old Motif!
Come on now, that's not true. The current minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. Assuming you work full-time, that should translate to $10,712 a year and $286 in federal income tax. Granted, it's not going to buy more than a bag of bolts and some wire to go towards a cruise missle but it's still income tax. The only way to pay no income tax is to toss a dependent in there or drop to part-time work. That said, that is an incredibly small amount of money to work with.
That's an interesting article. However, I would debate the author's implied direct 1:1 correlation between the price of steel and the level of unemployment experienced by consumers of steel. There are certainly other factors that contributed to the increase in unemployment in steel users, ironically, in this context at least, outsourcing of local jobs and/or competition from lower labor cost offshore manufacturers. I think Mr. Bartlett is correct that steel manufacturers benefitted from the tariffs. However, I'd argue with him that steel users were impacted by competitive pressures beyond higher steel prices and a "slow economy", namely low unit labor cost countries like Taiwan and China.
The entire point of iTunes, the entire reason they are suffering the losses they are, is that every customer that purchases even one song from them must have either Apple licensed software or hardware to 'play fair' with the DRM.
... and exactly how is this is different from WMA other than s/Apple/Microsoft?
That depends on how you define hardware. You can piece together some pretty powerful Linux based boxes dedicated to networking. There are also several Linux based net products advertised in Linux Magazine and Linux Journal. Also, Cisco (ahem) has the low-low-low-end WRT54G (aka Linksys) router for which you can compile and install the firmware yourself, well, minus the wireless part at least.
Well, that's because there's a CLIPBOARD -and- a PRIMARY. KDE focuses on the PRIMARY while Gnome focuses on the CLIPBOARD. The problem is that the CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY are not exactly the same. The CLIPBOARD is supposed to be for explicit cut-and-paste ops while the PRIMARY is what's used for mouse highlighting, at least in theory. Beyond that theory, it's app specific which is used in preference.
That's not right. It is how capitalism works IN THE ABSENCE OF A FREE MARKET. We don't live in a free market economy (see oligopolies), so the ability for local labor to compete is diminished. In order restore some semblance of competition to the playing field for labor, we need some kind of significant tariff or duty on imported services (ie. outsourced work). After all, if India was dumping cheap steel into the US market, you can bet we'd slap a tariff on it, why should labor be any different.
Doesn't anybody else think that this kind of software should be developed by the government in an open source fashion? I don't like the idea of a closed 3rd party system being responsible for electing my next government. The election process is supposed to be transparent.
It must include representatives from both open and semi-open companies - Red Hat, the KDE and Gnome teams, present X developers, Apple, IBM, Sun, and possibly even Microsoft.
Comments on suggested representatives:
RedHat - Good choice.
KDE - Why? They only deal with QT, not X. Trolltech might be a good choice.
Gnome - Why? They only deal with GTK, not X. Maybe you mean the GTK devs.
Present X devs - The core XF86 team is the reason this mess started in the first place. They shouldn't be brought in to f--- any new standard up.
Apple - Why? Apple uses Quartz, they could care less about X and might even have an incentive to see it fail.
IBM - Good choice.
Sun - Good choice -but- I am starting to have trouble trusting Sun, it's still a stretch but I'm seeing the beginnings of the next SCO in them.
Microsoft - Never. They only have a vested interest in seeing X fail. Look at all the good work they did with OpenGL as an example.
... the GPL permits things that the XF86 license does not.
That's true but you're hiding the reason. The crux of the matter is the new XF86 license imposes a new advertising clause that *imposes restrictions beyond* the scope of the GPL. The GPL forbids additional restrictions (sec 6) and, in 50 words or less, that's why the licenses are considered incompatible.
WTH are you talking about? He's not blaming the OS for anything other than it's inability to survive an application crash. Any advanced operating system should have two runtime "spaces", application space and kernel space. Stuff in application space is by definition supposed to be protected so that the OS can handle an application crash cleanly. Stuff in kernel space has access to the kernel memory space and it can really mess things up if things go wrong. Windows has this concept but chose to run the GDI in kernel space so there's a path into kernel space memory for applications to fuck things up. Yes, the application crash is a FireFox problem but the resulting kernel crash is an OS problem, namely poor design.
As a sign of the times, do you remember when WalMart (then under Sam) had a "Made in the USA" policy? I challenge anyone to find 10 or more non-food items in WalMart that would still fall under that policy.
About ActiveX controls, ironically, I have actually started seeing a few *applets* starting to pop up here and there, most notably on Yahoo. The latest one I've seen was an advert for RedBull. Okay, it's an advertisment, but ignoring that it's interesting to see some signs of life with applets again!
Java's strength, both on the functional and marketable fronts, is on the server-side.
That's true but you have to admit that Java has significantly improved as a desktop application platform since it's 1.1 and 1.2 days. The memory loads are way down and performance improves with each point release. The best thing Sun could do to drive client side adoption would be to offer a Swing compatible SWT-like layer. SWT is nice but nobody wants to port code to a layer that's not part of the "standard" Java install.
I want to expand a bit on economic markets as they existed at the time of Adam Smith. I'd wager that 99% of people don't realize that Mr. Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776. Why is this significant? Because corporations as a legal entity did not exist until around 1865. Mr. Smith's vision of a free market did not factor in the existence, much less the ability, of corporations to skew the marketplace. So, it's not that we don't have capitalism, it's that we do not have free markets. What we do have is a marketplace dominated by oligopolies and a few monopolies.
During my college exams, one of the girls in my math classes suffered an overdose of caffeine. Mind you, I'm told she was using caffeine pills, not coffee. Even though a fatal dose is 10g is fatal, it looks like you can start getting into trouble at around 4g. There's 250mg of caffeine in each pill so snarfing 16 pills (8 doses) should get you a trip on an ECNALUBMA.
You know it's just a rebadged SuSE 8.2 Linux distro right? Sun basically added their own JVM, StarOffice, and a GNOME theme. The kernel and runtime libs are all SuSE though.
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You can buy pretty damned quiet PC fans, however, you're right that today's hard drives are louder than hell. Also, I'd bet that they generate a lot more case heat than they let on. That said, am I losing my mind or didn't I read back in 1993 that we'd all be using solid state hard drives by now??? Guess that was a sure thing in the days of $600 hard drives.
Ok, looking back at my post I didn't mention the "single and childless" status I used to get that number. The fact remains that if you're single and childless, you start owing taxes on income over $9300 and that's with the EIC factored in.
Wow, I guess things really do eventually come full circle! Do we have to maintain the paper disks in an ordered stack too? ;-)
Off the top of my head OpenAL, I know it's used by NWN and some of the old Loki games. Whether that makes it a standard or not is a whole other question.
Forget that, hurry up and get a file a patent on this before Amazon, eBay, MS, HP, IBM, SCO, etc beats you to it! :D
Were you using ALSA or OSS? OSS is pretty much dead and I haven't used it in years. That said, I've never NOT been able to get a soundcard working with ALSA. I'm not saying full functionality 100% of the time, but basic sound has never been a problem. I'm not sure which distros you used but I can almost guarantee that SuSE 9.0 would have picked up and configured that card for you. SB Audigy support has been in ALSA since the 0.9 series which I know is included in SuSE 9.0.
I haven't heard about any popular commercial GTK-software...
Off the top of my head, the "current" commerical GTK apps include Applixware, Gobe Productive, Yahoo Messenger, Sentry BullDog, Netscape, and Eclipse's SWT. The gist of your post is right though, there are more commercial apps using QT than GTK on Linux. However, forget about those two because the current king of commericial GUIs on Linux is (still) boring old Motif!
Come on now, that's not true. The current minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. Assuming you work full-time, that should translate to $10,712 a year and $286 in federal income tax. Granted, it's not going to buy more than a bag of bolts and some wire to go towards a cruise missle but it's still income tax. The only way to pay no income tax is to toss a dependent in there or drop to part-time work. That said, that is an incredibly small amount of money to work with.
That's an interesting article. However, I would debate the author's implied direct 1:1 correlation between the price of steel and the level of unemployment experienced by consumers of steel. There are certainly other factors that contributed to the increase in unemployment in steel users, ironically, in this context at least, outsourcing of local jobs and/or competition from lower labor cost offshore manufacturers. I think Mr. Bartlett is correct that steel manufacturers benefitted from the tariffs. However, I'd argue with him that steel users were impacted by competitive pressures beyond higher steel prices and a "slow economy", namely low unit labor cost countries like Taiwan and China.
The entire point of iTunes, the entire reason they are suffering the losses they are, is that every customer that purchases even one song from them must have either Apple licensed software or hardware to 'play fair' with the DRM.
... and exactly how is this is different from WMA other than s/Apple/Microsoft?
That depends on how you define hardware. You can piece together some pretty powerful Linux based boxes dedicated to networking. There are also several Linux based net products advertised in Linux Magazine and Linux Journal. Also, Cisco (ahem) has the low-low-low-end WRT54G (aka Linksys) router for which you can compile and install the firmware yourself, well, minus the wireless part at least.
Well, that's because there's a CLIPBOARD -and- a PRIMARY. KDE focuses on the PRIMARY while Gnome focuses on the CLIPBOARD. The problem is that the CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY are not exactly the same. The CLIPBOARD is supposed to be for explicit cut-and-paste ops while the PRIMARY is what's used for mouse highlighting, at least in theory. Beyond that theory, it's app specific which is used in preference.
This is NOT how capitalism works...
That's not right. It is how capitalism works IN THE ABSENCE OF A FREE MARKET. We don't live in a free market economy (see oligopolies), so the ability for local labor to compete is diminished. In order restore some semblance of competition to the playing field for labor, we need some kind of significant tariff or duty on imported services (ie. outsourced work). After all, if India was dumping cheap steel into the US market, you can bet we'd slap a tariff on it, why should labor be any different.
Doesn't anybody else think that this kind of software should be developed by the government in an open source fashion? I don't like the idea of a closed 3rd party system being responsible for electing my next government. The election process is supposed to be transparent.
... the SCO comparison is probably uncalled for but I am starting to get concerned with the messages management is sending out.
CRAP!!! I forgot all about window managers. My bad, need to get another cup of coffee in me before I say any more stupid things today.
It must include representatives from both open and semi-open companies - Red Hat, the KDE and Gnome teams, present X developers, Apple, IBM, Sun, and possibly even Microsoft.
Comments on suggested representatives:
RedHat - Good choice.
KDE - Why? They only deal with QT, not X. Trolltech might be a good choice.
Gnome - Why? They only deal with GTK, not X. Maybe you mean the GTK devs.
Present X devs - The core XF86 team is the reason this mess started in the first place. They shouldn't be brought in to f--- any new standard up.
Apple - Why? Apple uses Quartz, they could care less about X and might even have an incentive to see it fail.
IBM - Good choice.
Sun - Good choice -but- I am starting to have trouble trusting Sun, it's still a stretch but I'm seeing the beginnings of the next SCO in them.
Microsoft - Never. They only have a vested interest in seeing X fail. Look at all the good work they did with OpenGL as an example.
That's true but you're hiding the reason. The crux of the matter is the new XF86 license imposes a new advertising clause that *imposes restrictions beyond* the scope of the GPL. The GPL forbids additional restrictions (sec 6) and, in 50 words or less, that's why the licenses are considered incompatible.
WTH are you talking about? He's not blaming the OS for anything other than it's inability to survive an application crash. Any advanced operating system should have two runtime "spaces", application space and kernel space. Stuff in application space is by definition supposed to be protected so that the OS can handle an application crash cleanly. Stuff in kernel space has access to the kernel memory space and it can really mess things up if things go wrong. Windows has this concept but chose to run the GDI in kernel space so there's a path into kernel space memory for applications to fuck things up. Yes, the application crash is a FireFox problem but the resulting kernel crash is an OS problem, namely poor design.
As a sign of the times, do you remember when WalMart (then under Sam) had a "Made in the USA" policy? I challenge anyone to find 10 or more non-food items in WalMart that would still fall under that policy.
About ActiveX controls, ironically, I have actually started seeing a few *applets* starting to pop up here and there, most notably on Yahoo. The latest one I've seen was an advert for RedBull. Okay, it's an advertisment, but ignoring that it's interesting to see some signs of life with applets again!
Java's strength, both on the functional and marketable fronts, is on the server-side.
That's true but you have to admit that Java has significantly improved as a desktop application platform since it's 1.1 and 1.2 days. The memory loads are way down and performance improves with each point release. The best thing Sun could do to drive client side adoption would be to offer a Swing compatible SWT-like layer. SWT is nice but nobody wants to port code to a layer that's not part of the "standard" Java install.
First, great post, you're almost 100% bang on.
I want to expand a bit on economic markets as they existed at the time of Adam Smith. I'd wager that 99% of people don't realize that Mr. Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776. Why is this significant? Because corporations as a legal entity did not exist until around 1865. Mr. Smith's vision of a free market did not factor in the existence, much less the ability, of corporations to skew the marketplace. So, it's not that we don't have capitalism, it's that we do not have free markets. What we do have is a marketplace dominated by oligopolies and a few monopolies.
True story:
During my college exams, one of the girls in my math classes suffered an overdose of caffeine. Mind you, I'm told she was using caffeine pills, not coffee. Even though a fatal dose is 10g is fatal, it looks like you can start getting into trouble at around 4g. There's 250mg of caffeine in each pill so snarfing 16 pills (8 doses) should get you a trip on an ECNALUBMA.
You know it's just a rebadged SuSE 8.2 Linux distro right? Sun basically added their own JVM, StarOffice, and a GNOME theme. The kernel and runtime libs are all SuSE though.