I'm all for it; blacklist the term axa from google and their domain. Let's see how long they stay in business when their competitors are the only ones showing up on the internet.
AXA is a *huge* company. I doubt very much that any significant portion (or any at all, for that matter) of their income is derived as a result of traffic from google.
For instance, with 4 virtual desktops, they describe a scaled view where each desktop is essentially 1/4 of the screen.
I haven't fired up Enlightenment in a while, but doesn't Enlightenment show a scaled down image of the desktop on the pager?
Is there any constructive way of protesting/questioning this with the patent office while it's still in 'application' status?
I used to run a company that installed Fire Alarm systems (among other things). We had a job retrofitting a really, really old school building with a fire alarm system. At one point I was crawling underneath the school on my stomach with a bunch of wire in my teeth. It was a very long crawlspace that ran the entire length of the school and the sand and dirt was getting all in everywhere. Anyway, one of the guys thought it would be funny to start making bobcat noises when I was about in the middle of the thing . . .
You never saw a man crawl so fast in his life.
I entirely agree.
SuSE chooses to use KDE by default. Redhat uses Gnome by default. It's up to the individual projects to make thier interface consistent within their own environment, but to force everyone to use the same environment in the name of some 'Standardization' buzzword is just ridiculous.
I personally use Windowmaker, but I'm not about to force it upon everyone.
When I set up a system for a newbie, I set up KDE by default, tell them they have a choice to change it if they want to, and let them to it.
It's really less of a problem for most people then it's made out to be.
I guess it depends on what games you play. I play a lot of Day of Defeat and other Half-Life mods, and haven't had any problems. There are games that aren't supported real well. Battlefield 1942 for instance is just now starting to get support...
"*I couldn't find any tried and true instructions to get a game running under linux in their forums ( or anywhere else on their web site, for that matter"
winex game.exe. If that doesn't work, it's probably not supported.
"*Their forums are very disorganized, trying to search them is a lesson in futility. And when you do find some information, it's always a hodgepodge
of 'Joe User tried this' and Jane User tried that' , nothing like 'If you are running Mandrake Linux with WineX ver. X.X., then do this to get the game to work...'"
This I agree on. Their website is absolute crap. I actually brought this up on their forums a while back. Don't know if it got any replies, finding anything twice is too much of a chore.
You can make it as hard or as easy as you want it to be.
Install software? Use YAST. Burn a cd? Use Gtoaster, or any one of a hundred other front ends for cdrecord that happen to be distributed with any given linux distribution.
Linux simply IS NOT READY FOR THE DESKTOP YET.
Shrug. My wife isn't exactly a computer guru, but I switched her from Windows to Linux. She's using Suse 8.1 with Windowmaker as if she'd been using it all her life. Reads her email, uses OpenOffice, browses the web -- everything she needs to do.
So, I'm not buying this 'Linux isn't Ready!'line. It's just different.
I'm also not suggesting that Linux is the answer to everything. I don't run a college -- it's up to the people that DO run the college to decide if they can adequately perform their jobs with an alternate system.
Part of the draw to being in 'The Life' is the feeling of comaraderie you get from your peers. I saw your appearance on TechTV the other night and can't help but ask: Was there any particular event, person, or experience that you will draw upon to prevent you from going over to the 'Dark Side'?
When I was living in Gainesville, Florida we used to go to this bar that had this satellite trvia game. They'd plop a little console on your desk and you'd play it against other people in the bar or other bars, it was a blast.
Technology is such that if someone could devise a similiar portable wireless console type of device that could play Mech Warrior and the like, something like that might take off.
The only experience I've had with web hosting is my small personal website and a few associated mailing lists, nothing to the extent it sounds that you're looking for. I will say, however, that there is a lot of _bad_ hosts out there -- and once you get in with one they can cause you no end of grief. Ever try to fight someone for control of a domain name?
Two hosts that I've used (and am using currently) for my own small purposes are http://www.jatol.com and http://www.techark.com. There were cheaper hosts, but these both had packages that suited my purposes and have shown me good customer service.
I used to be a paperboy, and I would get the Thanksgiving ads at least a week in advance. This was standard practice since there were usually 2 or 3 'ad drops' leading up to the Thanksgiving paper.
The only possible way I could see these companies having a case is if the price data was not yet public. If it's not announced, and the prices are not yet current, then it's not factual data yet. It's a statement of intent (and something similar to a trade secret) at that point, in the form of a price. I can see how someone might consider that to be copyrightable.
This implies that possibly an employee of Walmart posted the information. Personally, I wouldn't want to be in the position of arguing in court that price information posted by an employee is copyright, even if it wasn't public information yet.
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I'm all for it; blacklist the term axa from google and their domain. Let's see how long they stay in business when their competitors are the only ones showing up on the internet.
AXA is a *huge* company. I doubt very much that any significant portion (or any at all, for that matter) of their income is derived as a result of traffic from google.
Debugging a TENCORE program written by a co-worker who thought GOTO was a perfectly reasonable command to use. A LOT.
I'm using StarOffice7 on an 800mhz Athlon WindowsXP machine here at work. It runs just as fast as MSOffice ever did.
I used to run a company that installed Fire Alarm systems (among other things). We had a job retrofitting a really, really old school building with a fire alarm system. At one point I was crawling underneath the school on my stomach with a bunch of wire in my teeth. It was a very long crawlspace that ran the entire length of the school and the sand and dirt was getting all in everywhere. Anyway, one of the guys thought it would be funny to start making bobcat noises when I was about in the middle of the thing . . . You never saw a man crawl so fast in his life.
I entirely agree. SuSE chooses to use KDE by default. Redhat uses Gnome by default. It's up to the individual projects to make thier interface consistent within their own environment, but to force everyone to use the same environment in the name of some 'Standardization' buzzword is just ridiculous. I personally use Windowmaker, but I'm not about to force it upon everyone. When I set up a system for a newbie, I set up KDE by default, tell them they have a choice to change it if they want to, and let them to it. It's really less of a problem for most people then it's made out to be.
You can make it as hard or as easy as you want it to be. Install software? Use YAST. Burn a cd? Use Gtoaster, or any one of a hundred other front ends for cdrecord that happen to be distributed with any given linux distribution.
Linux simply IS NOT READY FOR THE DESKTOP YET. Shrug. My wife isn't exactly a computer guru, but I switched her from Windows to Linux. She's using Suse 8.1 with Windowmaker as if she'd been using it all her life. Reads her email, uses OpenOffice, browses the web -- everything she needs to do. So, I'm not buying this 'Linux isn't Ready!'line. It's just different. I'm also not suggesting that Linux is the answer to everything. I don't run a college -- it's up to the people that DO run the college to decide if they can adequately perform their jobs with an alternate system.
Part of the draw to being in 'The Life' is the feeling of comaraderie you get from your peers. I saw your appearance on TechTV the other night and can't help but ask: Was there any particular event, person, or experience that you will draw upon to prevent you from going over to the 'Dark Side'?
When I was living in Gainesville, Florida we used to go to this bar that had this satellite trvia game. They'd plop a little console on your desk and you'd play it against other people in the bar or other bars, it was a blast. Technology is such that if someone could devise a similiar portable wireless console type of device that could play Mech Warrior and the like, something like that might take off.
I'll second this one -- webhostingtalk.com is a great resource.
The only experience I've had with web hosting is my small personal website and a few associated mailing lists, nothing to the extent it sounds that you're looking for. I will say, however, that there is a lot of _bad_ hosts out there -- and once you get in with one they can cause you no end of grief. Ever try to fight someone for control of a domain name? Two hosts that I've used (and am using currently) for my own small purposes are http://www.jatol.com and http://www.techark.com. There were cheaper hosts, but these both had packages that suited my purposes and have shown me good customer service.
I didn't think about that. Damn The Media!
This implies that possibly an employee of Walmart posted the information. Personally, I wouldn't want to be in the position of arguing in court that price information posted by an employee is copyright, even if it wasn't public information yet.