For a moment I thought this was going to be a thread about digital photography and how Kodak was doing something innovative to increase picture quality or something like that. I guess I should have seen it when the word "embrace" was used.
I just had to point out that MS no longer uses BSD to run hotmail. You didn't really think that they were going to allow people to shove that in their faces forever did you? Hotmail is 100% Windows 2000.
The gratuitous use of the exclamation point in that article was annoying as well. I just come hear for the arguments anyway... Damn, that even makes me cringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is sad, but ever so true. Marketing geniuses and financial analysts care not about technical superiority. They care about who gets their product to market and makes the most noise in the process. In fact, with the right amount of spin, only a fraction of people will ever know about the technological superiority of a competing product. It's just the way things are. But ask yourself this question: if it were your money tied up in Microsoft, would you not act the same way?
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It is an analogy. Like all analogies, this one has its limitations on how far one can extend its premises through reasoning. I think it did a fairly good job of comparing the two within the realm which it did. At least the author bothered to check most of his facts, which is more than can be said for a lot of articles I've read online lately.
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If you think he is such an idiot, I guess then you will be returning your tax refund check back to the government when you get it because you feel guilty for having received money that your poor uncle could have used for countless more government programs.
The default installation of Mandrake 8.0 places mozilla in/usr/bin. If you install 0.9.1, it will detect the old installation and ask you to delete it. If you delete it, it will erase EVERYTHING in/usr/bin! This leaves the system in a fairly unuseable state. Just thought ya'll might like to know.
What I really want to know after all the news today is will the Nvidia chipset support SMP in the new AMD CPUs? If so, I'll be waiting for the goods. If not, I am still gonna pick me up a Palomino board in a couple of months. Everything I read and no mention of Dual processor support by the NForce. I guess that's a clue, but it is wishful thinking. In other wackiness, both AMD and Nvidia stock closed down today and into closed up! WTF? The market just doesn't make any damn sense to me.
I was beginning to think I was the only one who was able to figure that out. He actually did offer to help this guy, unlike the folks who simply state "Read the F______ Manual". Seriously, this is a complex issue; one that not too many people know how to tackle since it involves being open minded enough to actually understand how active directory works, as well as using other non-MS products. This may come as a shock, but a lot of people rely on Windoze to do their jobs. Yeah I know, sorry about their luck... It is just a shame some people feel the need to be holier than thou, instead of offering up some decent advice.
I guess I am just lucky, but I have never had any of my systems compromised. I take care of about 200 systems and have never had any problems. I know of people who do experience this type of thing, but I find if you even pay a little bit of attention to security, you generally won't have any problems.
They sold me out a while back like I am sure they did a lot of other folks. I highly anticipated the release of BeOS 4.5 because it was finally going to support my video and scsi controllers. Sadly, I was mistaken. They didn't end up making things work right until version five, but by that time, they decided they didn't want me to view Be as an OS with any kind of potential any longer. No, instead they went down the path that everyone seems to think is "my future". "The future of computing will be in internet appliances". I have news for the people who think internet appliances are the hottest new thing around: the market doesn't want them. People aren't going to spend hundreds of dollars on a machine with limitations placed upon its use, when for a slightly higher dollar value, you can buy a general purpose machine. Same thing goes for console systems. Ask Sega, they don't seem to be selling as well lately. I really had high hopes for BeOS. They left me standing there without a platform for the future though, not the other way around.
I find it interesting that Commander Taco has never been told that it is politically incorrect to refer to disabled persons as handicapped. If he actually cared, they are physically disabled or physically challenged. Just as a bit of history, handicap refers to an old term used to describe persons who were disabled and sat on the side of the street holding their hat out at arm's length begging for money. I haven't seen too many of those types lately. Someone tell CmdrTaco what he really means when he calls someone handicapped.
It is a word that has in many ways become embedded in our culture. Most persons just deal with it, but some do get offended by this usage. It doesn't hurt to be a bit sensitive about this kind of thing.
Been thinking of doing this as well. Just haven't gotten to it... I'm thinkin' trunk mount, FM-Antennna tie-in (like on some multi-CD player setups), and some sort of small, LCD touch screen to mount up front. (Know where I could get one of the last items?) Also, why not add a wireless NIC to the system, which would allow for WOL and other coolness when I pull into the driveway at night. I could schedule automatic updating of song library, delete and add titles as I see fit, even have the system recognize when someone else is around with a similar system, and notify the user, in case they wanted to "trade". If this could be pulled off for under say, $600, there is quite a bit of potential here. Anyone interested?
It has a separate partition. I have a new Thinkpad that came preconfigured with caldera's E-desktop 2.4, which allows hibernating just fine. However, it would appear to be supported by the bios on this machine as well, not just the os.
And a whole bunch of row boats... After all, there wouldn't be and navigation/guidance systems to bring their massive ships here. And certainly no sophisticated weaponry. I'd say a few thousand metric tons of c-4 buoys placed in the waters off the coast of the U.S. would keep them at bay for at least a little while...
That sounds like a very interesting approach.(I've already taken the humanity stuff anyhow...) But I've never heard of a University that didn't require some of the unnecesary bs. So here's my question: How far is that from Uniontown?;o)
Consider the argument that is used in the case for "free music". You know, the bit about "If I make a copy of your stuff, I do not deprive you of your original copy..." This logic follows that there has been created an artificial scarcity of a product, so as to make hoards of money from something that people want/need, when in fact anyone and everyone could have that copied music without paying a dime for it. Now take this same philosophy and apply it to software. Commercial software takes code and sells it to people in much the same way as music, keeping bad people from sharing their software. In fact commercial software companies go to great lengths to try and enforce these artificial scarcities of available software. Here is the basic problem with these two opposing views of the situation: one interested party seeks to ensure their rights to give and get something for free, the other seeks to ensure their rights to keep something for their own profit, and keep others from profiting from/ giving their product away. Both vantage points have viability. The solution is simple: figure out what side of the line you stand on and stay there. Don't be a hypocrite. Don't expect to get something for free and not be expected to give something back if you use that free code. If you think that commercial software is the way to go, buy all of your software, and be content to sell whatever software you produce. If you would rather share with others, then expect that they should share with you as well. And don't use commercial software, unless you are going to pay for it. (just as commercial software companies can't use GPL'd software unless they are going to give it away.) The choice is yours entirely. And by the way, neither point of view is Un-American. One is just distinctly Socialist, while the other is distinctly Capitalist. Remember that there isn't such a thing as 100% of either system, but rather a blending somewhere in the middle. In short, this is a controversy that has no perfect solution.
The thing I can't understand about all this is the fact that I saw, several weeks ago now, a dual Athlon pushing 1.5 Ghz+. It topped 8BIPS, which is easily twice what good 'ole Tom's "powerbox" can do. In fact, the benchmark may have actually been on Tom's site. Can't remember, but anyhow this certainly isn't a dream box. And cryogenic-like cooling costs don't exactly appeal to me.(especially with rising electric bills) Tom is going downhill.
And then, when you have non-writing teachers and professors writing about their field of expertise, textbooks will get even more boring and confusing than they already are. It takes some time and maybe just a wee bit of talent to write something that is concise, informative, not boring and uses language that is both not patronizing or beyond the reader. That's why good technical writers arguably can demand as high a salary as good network administrators.
The people who write the dissertations and the abstracts in the scholarly journals don't get paid--most of them are graduate students studying for their PhDs--and these pieces are some of the driest stuff you would ever want to spend time trying to understand.
I'm not against the idea of having textbooks for free with articles voluntarily published by scholars in the field. But you have to understand that the guys who cracked the code for the human genome might not be the most affluent writers in the whole world. It's hard enough to remain focused on your studies when your textbooks are written with fairly interesting language.
Just a thought.
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For a moment I thought this was going to be a thread about digital photography and how Kodak was doing something innovative to increase picture quality or something like that. I guess I should have seen it when the word "embrace" was used.
I just had to point out that MS no longer uses BSD to run hotmail. You didn't really think that they were going to allow people to shove that in their faces forever did you? Hotmail is 100% Windows 2000.
Where does one go about buying these items? I can find no applications of these technologies inside a computer case anywhere.
The gratuitous use of the exclamation point in that article was annoying as well. I just come hear for the arguments anyway... Damn, that even makes me cringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is sad, but ever so true. Marketing geniuses and financial analysts care not about technical superiority. They care about who gets their product to market and makes the most noise in the process. In fact, with the right amount of spin, only a fraction of people will ever know about the technological superiority of a competing product. It's just the way things are. But ask yourself this question: if it were your money tied up in Microsoft, would you not act the same way?
It is an analogy. Like all analogies, this one has its limitations on how far one can extend its premises through reasoning. I think it did a fairly good job of comparing the two within the realm which it did. At least the author bothered to check most of his facts, which is more than can be said for a lot of articles I've read online lately.
If you think he is such an idiot, I guess then you will be returning your tax refund check back to the government when you get it because you feel guilty for having received money that your poor uncle could have used for countless more government programs.
Tell that to the Indians.
The default installation of Mandrake 8.0 places mozilla in /usr/bin. If you install 0.9.1, it will detect the old installation and ask you to delete it. If you delete it, it will erase EVERYTHING in /usr/bin! This leaves the system in a fairly unuseable state. Just thought ya'll might like to know.
That last part was supposed to read "...Intel closed up." Just to clarify things.
What I really want to know after all the news today is will the Nvidia chipset support SMP in the new AMD CPUs? If so, I'll be waiting for the goods. If not, I am still gonna pick me up a Palomino board in a couple of months. Everything I read and no mention of Dual processor support by the NForce. I guess that's a clue, but it is wishful thinking. In other wackiness, both AMD and Nvidia stock closed down today and into closed up! WTF? The market just doesn't make any damn sense to me.
I was beginning to think I was the only one who was able to figure that out. He actually did offer to help this guy, unlike the folks who simply state "Read the F______ Manual". Seriously, this is a complex issue; one that not too many people know how to tackle since it involves being open minded enough to actually understand how active directory works, as well as using other non-MS products. This may come as a shock, but a lot of people rely on Windoze to do their jobs. Yeah I know, sorry about their luck... It is just a shame some people feel the need to be holier than thou, instead of offering up some decent advice.
Outstanding post! For a change we have someone who is an authority on a subject. Someone please mod this up.
I guess I am just lucky, but I have never had any of my systems compromised. I take care of about 200 systems and have never had any problems. I know of people who do experience this type of thing, but I find if you even pay a little bit of attention to security, you generally won't have any problems.
glad it's not just me.
They sold me out a while back like I am sure they did a lot of other folks. I highly anticipated the release of BeOS 4.5 because it was finally going to support my video and scsi controllers. Sadly, I was mistaken. They didn't end up making things work right until version five, but by that time, they decided they didn't want me to view Be as an OS with any kind of potential any longer. No, instead they went down the path that everyone seems to think is "my future". "The future of computing will be in internet appliances". I have news for the people who think internet appliances are the hottest new thing around: the market doesn't want them. People aren't going to spend hundreds of dollars on a machine with limitations placed upon its use, when for a slightly higher dollar value, you can buy a general purpose machine. Same thing goes for console systems. Ask Sega, they don't seem to be selling as well lately. I really had high hopes for BeOS. They left me standing there without a platform for the future though, not the other way around.
I find it interesting that Commander Taco has never been told that it is politically incorrect to refer to disabled persons as handicapped. If he actually cared, they are physically disabled or physically challenged. Just as a bit of history, handicap refers to an old term used to describe persons who were disabled and sat on the side of the street holding their hat out at arm's length begging for money. I haven't seen too many of those types lately. Someone tell CmdrTaco what he really means when he calls someone handicapped.
It is a word that has in many ways become embedded in our culture. Most persons just deal with it, but some do get offended by this usage. It doesn't hurt to be a bit sensitive about this kind of thing.
Been thinking of doing this as well. Just haven't gotten to it... I'm thinkin' trunk mount, FM-Antennna tie-in (like on some multi-CD player setups), and some sort of small, LCD touch screen to mount up front. (Know where I could get one of the last items?) Also, why not add a wireless NIC to the system, which would allow for WOL and other coolness when I pull into the driveway at night. I could schedule automatic updating of song library, delete and add titles as I see fit, even have the system recognize when someone else is around with a similar system, and notify the user, in case they wanted to "trade". If this could be pulled off for under say, $600, there is quite a bit of potential here. Anyone interested?
It has a separate partition. I have a new Thinkpad that came preconfigured with caldera's E-desktop 2.4, which allows hibernating just fine. However, it would appear to be supported by the bios on this machine as well, not just the os.
And a whole bunch of row boats... After all, there wouldn't be and navigation/guidance systems to bring their massive ships here. And certainly no sophisticated weaponry. I'd say a few thousand metric tons of c-4 buoys placed in the waters off the coast of the U.S. would keep them at bay for at least a little while...
That sounds like a very interesting approach.(I've already taken the humanity stuff anyhow...) But I've never heard of a University that didn't require some of the unnecesary bs. So here's my question: How far is that from Uniontown? ;o)
Consider the argument that is used in the case for "free music". You know, the bit about "If I make a copy of your stuff, I do not deprive you of your original copy..." This logic follows that there has been created an artificial scarcity of a product, so as to make hoards of money from something that people want/need, when in fact anyone and everyone could have that copied music without paying a dime for it. Now take this same philosophy and apply it to software. Commercial software takes code and sells it to people in much the same way as music, keeping bad people from sharing their software. In fact commercial software companies go to great lengths to try and enforce these artificial scarcities of available software. Here is the basic problem with these two opposing views of the situation: one interested party seeks to ensure their rights to give and get something for free, the other seeks to ensure their rights to keep something for their own profit, and keep others from profiting from/ giving their product away. Both vantage points have viability. The solution is simple: figure out what side of the line you stand on and stay there. Don't be a hypocrite. Don't expect to get something for free and not be expected to give something back if you use that free code. If you think that commercial software is the way to go, buy all of your software, and be content to sell whatever software you produce. If you would rather share with others, then expect that they should share with you as well. And don't use commercial software, unless you are going to pay for it. (just as commercial software companies can't use GPL'd software unless they are going to give it away.) The choice is yours entirely. And by the way, neither point of view is Un-American. One is just distinctly Socialist, while the other is distinctly Capitalist. Remember that there isn't such a thing as 100% of either system, but rather a blending somewhere in the middle. In short, this is a controversy that has no perfect solution.
The thing I can't understand about all this is the fact that I saw, several weeks ago now, a dual Athlon pushing 1.5 Ghz+. It topped 8BIPS, which is easily twice what good 'ole Tom's "powerbox" can do. In fact, the benchmark may have actually been on Tom's site. Can't remember, but anyhow this certainly isn't a dream box. And cryogenic-like cooling costs don't exactly appeal to me.(especially with rising electric bills) Tom is going downhill.
And then, when you have non-writing teachers and professors writing about their field of expertise, textbooks will get even more boring and confusing than they already are. It takes some time and maybe just a wee bit of talent to write something that is concise, informative, not boring and uses language that is both not patronizing or beyond the reader. That's why good technical writers arguably can demand as high a salary as good network administrators. The people who write the dissertations and the abstracts in the scholarly journals don't get paid--most of them are graduate students studying for their PhDs--and these pieces are some of the driest stuff you would ever want to spend time trying to understand. I'm not against the idea of having textbooks for free with articles voluntarily published by scholars in the field. But you have to understand that the guys who cracked the code for the human genome might not be the most affluent writers in the whole world. It's hard enough to remain focused on your studies when your textbooks are written with fairly interesting language. Just a thought.