Yeah- the idea is that you don't have to interact with a person.
Heh -- I suppose they'll buy the phones to interact exclusively with machines.
We now have a generation or two of people who are perfectly content to talk to an inanimate object. This is just the next step -- people who only talk to inanimate objects
My grandmother died at 106, and everybody agrees it was the whiskey and tobacco that killed her. When the grizzly got into her backpack to get at them, she couldn't get at the ammunition for her octagonal-barrel 44 special lever action rifle that she always carried in Montana, where she lived. Damn she was tough.
Sorry, got very sick off the guilt sandwich and chucked it.
People, this is anthropology. Paint a lead monkey green to see if the tribe is colourblind, and you'll get the lead monkey torn into bits. People lie about their tastes to survive, and the result is a very average list of what's tasteful. Trust your feelings -- you're better off listening to Obi-Wan.
Fallen men? Geez, nobody's infallible, not even the Angels (check their record
Heathkit dual-trace scope and an ADM-3A clone terminal. Rocked!! Others at work were stuck with Decwriters, I had my own, genuwine, 9600 terminal to beat up the Jumbo GA with.
GA 16/440 (or was it 440/16? IAVO) Now there was a machine, something worthy of the finest programming talents to make it go, and entirely deserving to be crushed with a large hydraulic press.
Nowdays people are moving to velcro cable ties -- the nylon ones are strong and cheap, but they hurt when you run them past your hands, and people are always losing the cable tie guns. Velcro is reusable, strong enough, and doesn't leave little nylon bits on the ground.
The application I had in mind is a telco I contracted to recently, who has 40,000 dying windows PC's. They can't afford to replace the lot, so they're buying heavily into Citrix to preserve their investment as long as they can. To provide a stable platform on the old PC's (a proportion of which are Pentium 1's) they have to blow away the Windows installation and re-install something, which (if you read Microsoft's EULA) means you'd need another license to install if you want Windows (you can't re-use the OEM license). And they don't sell or support the old stuff that ran on that hardware any more anyway, so where does that leave them? Bingo, you got it, they're totally stuffed. I'm suggesting you could shrink wrap a Linux system that boots up into a Citrix client and start printing money.
Well, apologies, I'm only an occasional Linux user (I have to hide the VM's at work) so I don't really know all the alternatives -- thus my naiive question. Thank you for making me feel welcome;P
But the question isn't what Citrix solved vs X Windows or VNC, the question is how to get use out of old corporate desktops that can't be economically upgraded to XP or Vista, moved across to a Linux-based solution. It's cheaper and more stable, and the users can live on unaware of its presence. Pre-configuring a distribution and marketing it as a "Citrix client solution" has the potential to move Linux systems out to the corporate desktop in bulk. The greater the share of Linux-based Citrix clients out there on the desktop, the faster the FUD will evaporate. And there is a lot of FUD, on both sides. It would be something of a coup to see Linux/Citrix to be the preferred option over Win/Citrix clients in the view of the people who buy these puppies rather than restricting it to a geek-cred-only world. For that, you need marketing. To market it, you need a simple appealing package that (a) works, (b) zero config, (c) costs less than a Windows version (capital plus TCO) and (d) is so simple even an MCSE could install it.
CAT5 is the debbil. Krone Hi-Band 25's is what we're using to the wall (grocery retail chain). Great stuff. Nothing worse than two or three hundred CAT5 cables coming out of a rack.
Old story -- Long time ago a Vax 785 / RS232x9600 installation in Tasmania had a problem with perfect crosstalk -- one VT220 terminal was displaying & accepting keypresses identical to the one on a desk near it, with the latter terminal being unplugged from the computer. Turned out the cables were bound together neatly along their entire length, and the bits just jumped across inductively.
Whether we like the solution or not, a lot of old PC's will be running a Citrix front end to save changing the corporate desktop hardware, because their user base is married to Windows.
Is there a decent Citrix client for Linux we could suggest? Is it time for a new one? I wouldn't recommend Tarantella, given the SCO tie-in. But if someone built a Linux box that could natively handle Citrix, enterprise customers could save big bucks at the client end by not worrying about Windows licenses or hardware upgrade just to handle what amounts to a juiced up browser. A simple Linux implementation that supports a Citrix client, all packaged and ready to go, zero to minimum config. Think about it.
If the banks don't pay for phishing damages, are they going to lose more money than they save?" I think the answer to that is yes
Aye, same idea as chumming the waters when fishing (throwing a bit of bait overboard to draw the fish) or maybe a better example is unchained shopping carts when you're after the groceries. You lose a few carts to theft and wheelie joyrides, but when you chain them up people don't fill them, they use the little baskets instead. Cost of doing business in a sad, sad world. Banks are no different -- if they want the market share, they have to lose a few to keep the interest up.
Cultivated rice in the wild cannot survive without separation and replanting. It's *all* GM. It's just that the mods were done by specific selection, and has happened by so many farmers over so many years that we've lost the original stock. The only difference for Bayer is that selection was sped up a bit in a labortory setting.
Aye. I got stuck into EQ just so I could talk to my wife once in a while.
Two L70 characters later, we're still talking. It helps. But she still won't rez me if she's not logged on & I do something stupid, like carrying on a nice long chat session with friends across the world while sitting in Harbinger's Spire when my invis pops.
Have several friends in various spots in the world (being in Australia it's nice to keep in touch).
Precisely. If you or I had done what has happened here, we'd most likely be having a friendly chat with the FBI and hiring an attorney to defend us against the identity theft charges that would be being levelled against us.
It should be front page news. It's way more difficult to call people in high places to task than it is for the rest of us. The media, the public outcry is there to balance the incredible power to suppress that such people possess.
I'm pretty sure this is covered in Madison's commentaries on the language of the First Amendment, where he discusses the alternatives to a free press http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment01/06.html; I refer to the quote "the disseminating, or making public, of bad sentiments, destructive to the ends of society, is the crime which society corrects" as being particularly interesting; I interpret it to mean poor ethics in high places should give you the boot, and the free press will help achieve it.
The alternative to a free press is often painful revolution. The fact that the American public has had it for so long is one reason for the country's incredible stability over two centuries. Count yourselves lucky you have it; the alternative is a torchlight parade, with pitchforks.
Keep in mind that credit was invented specifically to allow consumers to buy things right away that they would otherwise have to save up for
If I remember correctly, it was Singer who introduced the $10 down, $10/month "time payment plan" to the American public. They sold a *lot* of sewing machines as a result. Large families, cost of making clothes (cloth + pattern + thread) vs buying clothes (Buy from the fashion industry? for a family with 6 kids?) made it an economically viable transaction.
Singer didn't invent debt, by a long shot -- but consumer debt, they had a hand in it. Wasn't a bad thing at first, took years for General Motors to pick up the idea.
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Yeah- the idea is that you don't have to interact with a person.
Heh -- I suppose they'll buy the phones to interact exclusively with machines.
We now have a generation or two of people who are perfectly content to talk to an inanimate object. This is just the next step -- people who only talk to inanimate objects
English -> Chinese -> English
"Invisible idiot"
There was an osteopath in Redondo Beach named Ira Bonecutter.
My grandmother died at 106, and everybody agrees it was the whiskey and tobacco that killed her. When the grizzly got into her backpack to get at them, she couldn't get at the ammunition for her octagonal-barrel 44 special lever action rifle that she always carried in Montana, where she lived. Damn she was tough.
Good idea, excellent SF treatment in Methuselah's Children, R.A.Heinlein. Look up your own link ;-)
People, this is anthropology. Paint a lead monkey green to see if the tribe is colourblind, and you'll get the lead monkey torn into bits. People lie about their tastes to survive, and the result is a very average list of what's tasteful. Trust your feelings -- you're better off listening to Obi-Wan.
Fallen men? Geez, nobody's infallible, not even the Angels (check their record
Gosh, I'm so worried about my karma...
University is a place to stuff your head with alcohol and ideas, in the hopes that the two hangovers will cancel each other out.
If you took all the economists in the world and laid them out end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.
It's called double-dummy bridge, which ... kind of doesn't apply here, I think.
If he's cool as well as bright he could give PJ a hand.
What about making a little removable USB cap that fits over the rechargeable AA? Don't know how you'd hit the bottom electrode though.
Just...don't buy an electric car from Dell.
GA 16/440 (or was it 440/16? IAVO) Now there was a machine, something worthy of the finest programming talents to make it go, and entirely deserving to be crushed with a large hydraulic press.
Untrue? Bloody oath, I was there. It happened to *me*. Hydro-Electric Commission, Tasmania. Mid-80's.
Nowdays people are moving to velcro cable ties -- the nylon ones are strong and cheap, but they hurt when you run them past your hands, and people are always losing the cable tie guns. Velcro is reusable, strong enough, and doesn't leave little nylon bits on the ground.
The application I had in mind is a telco I contracted to recently, who has 40,000 dying windows PC's. They can't afford to replace the lot, so they're buying heavily into Citrix to preserve their investment as long as they can. To provide a stable platform on the old PC's (a proportion of which are Pentium 1's) they have to blow away the Windows installation and re-install something, which (if you read Microsoft's EULA) means you'd need another license to install if you want Windows (you can't re-use the OEM license). And they don't sell or support the old stuff that ran on that hardware any more anyway, so where does that leave them? Bingo, you got it, they're totally stuffed. I'm suggesting you could shrink wrap a Linux system that boots up into a Citrix client and start printing money.
But the question isn't what Citrix solved vs X Windows or VNC, the question is how to get use out of old corporate desktops that can't be economically upgraded to XP or Vista, moved across to a Linux-based solution. It's cheaper and more stable, and the users can live on unaware of its presence. Pre-configuring a distribution and marketing it as a "Citrix client solution" has the potential to move Linux systems out to the corporate desktop in bulk. The greater the share of Linux-based Citrix clients out there on the desktop, the faster the FUD will evaporate. And there is a lot of FUD, on both sides. It would be something of a coup to see Linux/Citrix to be the preferred option over Win/Citrix clients in the view of the people who buy these puppies rather than restricting it to a geek-cred-only world. For that, you need marketing. To market it, you need a simple appealing package that (a) works, (b) zero config, (c) costs less than a Windows version (capital plus TCO) and (d) is so simple even an MCSE could install it.
Old story -- Long time ago a Vax 785 / RS232x9600 installation in Tasmania had a problem with perfect crosstalk -- one VT220 terminal was displaying & accepting keypresses identical to the one on a desk near it, with the latter terminal being unplugged from the computer. Turned out the cables were bound together neatly along their entire length, and the bits just jumped across inductively.
Is there a decent Citrix client for Linux we could suggest? Is it time for a new one? I wouldn't recommend Tarantella, given the SCO tie-in. But if someone built a Linux box that could natively handle Citrix, enterprise customers could save big bucks at the client end by not worrying about Windows licenses or hardware upgrade just to handle what amounts to a juiced up browser. A simple Linux implementation that supports a Citrix client, all packaged and ready to go, zero to minimum config. Think about it.
Aye, same idea as chumming the waters when fishing (throwing a bit of bait overboard to draw the fish) or maybe a better example is unchained shopping carts when you're after the groceries. You lose a few carts to theft and wheelie joyrides, but when you chain them up people don't fill them, they use the little baskets instead. Cost of doing business in a sad, sad world. Banks are no different -- if they want the market share, they have to lose a few to keep the interest up.
Cultivated rice in the wild cannot survive without separation and replanting. It's *all* GM. It's just that the mods were done by specific selection, and has happened by so many farmers over so many years that we've lost the original stock. The only difference for Bayer is that selection was sped up a bit in a labortory setting.
Aye. I got stuck into EQ just so I could talk to my wife once in a while.
Two L70 characters later, we're still talking. It helps. But she still won't rez me if she's not logged on & I do something stupid, like carrying on a nice long chat session with friends across the world while sitting in Harbinger's Spire when my invis pops.
Have several friends in various spots in the world (being in Australia it's nice to keep in touch).
It should be front page news. It's way more difficult to call people in high places to task than it is for the rest of us. The media, the public outcry is there to balance the incredible power to suppress that such people possess.
I'm pretty sure this is covered in Madison's commentaries on the language of the First Amendment, where he discusses the alternatives to a free press http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment01/06.html; I refer to the quote "the disseminating, or making public, of bad sentiments, destructive to the ends of society, is the crime which society corrects" as being particularly interesting; I interpret it to mean poor ethics in high places should give you the boot, and the free press will help achieve it.
The alternative to a free press is often painful revolution. The fact that the American public has had it for so long is one reason for the country's incredible stability over two centuries. Count yourselves lucky you have it; the alternative is a torchlight parade, with pitchforks.
If I remember correctly, it was Singer who introduced the $10 down, $10/month "time payment plan" to the American public. They sold a *lot* of sewing machines as a result. Large families, cost of making clothes (cloth + pattern + thread) vs buying clothes (Buy from the fashion industry? for a family with 6 kids?) made it an economically viable transaction.
Singer didn't invent debt, by a long shot -- but consumer debt, they had a hand in it. Wasn't a bad thing at first, took years for General Motors to pick up the idea.
Well-spoken, and you're absolutely correct, I disagree.
Every single country that has historically given in to fear has gone to the next step, tyranny.