There was a boxing game for the Sega CD - can't recall the name, and no way will I spend my time googling for it, but it was pretty neat. The most enjoyed SegaCD game in my home...
Are you ACTUALLY arguing that it's impossible to plan for the future? Just curious. Here's an idea - get a job as a tech worker. Yeah, it's hard. No, it's not impossible. Not by a long shot. In the past year I've run about four jobs (three were just my own doing, for kicks...one was my full time job). Any of them could have paid my way through life. You and your girlfriend could easily get minimum wage jobs, work 60 hours a week a piece, and live like slightly-underprivileged kings. Would you be driving a BMW? No. Guess what: I drive a Ford Focus. Judging from your whining, I probably make more than you. I'm paying my way through college cash up front at the moment.
But hey, congratulations on your defeatist viewpoint. I'm sure it's just the way life works, and not your miserable view of it, that's the cause of your predicament. This is a nice comment to read in this particular thread: both you and the people in New Orleans need to learn to make better decisions. I'm not being heartless in the face of either predicament - I give time and money to those in need. However, it's time for the citizens of this fine nation to learn that there are consequences to every single action you take. As for your statement that "working hard will get you nowhere these days," it turns out working hard has gotten me at least one non-whining-day ahead of you...
As has been mentioned elsewhere (see the ars technica article), Pentium M is based on the P6 (PPro), so they simply mean that the P4 came after the PPro. Do read the ars article, explains this in detail.
"Democratizing Economy" sounds an awful lot like "the public having a say in privately held companies" in context here. I know it follows the internet trend, but this sounds like it's just a step towards communism. Google built its empire with its hands, not yours or mine. I don't think I should have a say even in whether they hire based on race (gasp! And for what it's worth, that's just an opinion, and is in no way associated with anything that has happened ever at Google to my knowledge, so no rumors.), much LESS in whether they talk to a CNet reporter.
The whole point is that yes, it's fine for you to use Google as you wish. But some things are either rude, or upsetting to people. They admit that Google can be used for these purposes, but the way the world should work is that individuals (and here I include privately held companies) should respond to things they dislike in manners like this. Which would you prefer: Google getting pissed and not talking to people for doing something they dislike, or the government regulating what you can and can't say about a private company?
Geez, there's always something to whine about. Google got mad, acted like people should when they get mad. They're acting manly, and everyone that's whining is acting like an enormous pussy.
I'm staying out of the conversation in general. However...
Credibility is a funny thing. Lots of incredulous ideas turned out right. Also, credibility of the sort you refer to seems to be a very fluid thing - remember how heliocentricity was a stupid idea? Yeah, the worst part is, there are things that we think of today as just as incredulous, and we're wrong. Very wrong. So I try to avoid people saying things like that within my hearing, because screw credibility. Just be right.
Bah, VB.NET removes (again) the compile cycle for VB.NET debugging, so the main flaw VB.NET has over previous versions (slightly less RAD) goes away. And VB.NET is WAY more powerful than VB6 was, so just sit tight and wait for the next version. It's no Rails, but it's much better than what those of us stuck coding in.NET have now....
I have a crappy GeForce in my computer...it's completely and totally hackish, it's a desktop case with a full size card poking up out of the top...1.8GHz Celeron. 1G RAM. I think it's a GF4, but I honestly couldn't tell you - it was given me by my roommate in trade for something, and my computer's so crappy in general that I just don't care, as long as it ran CS faster. Anyway, it's ugly but it works without a hitch (except the occasional choppiness)...so I can't see how your vidcard could possibly be older than mine...anyway, it's a graphically intensive game, just read the system reqs and don't buy it if yu can't run it. Much like the games for the XBox don't have the "flaw" that they won't run on a PSP...
As for your comment about joining up with friends and then finding a server - I would love to see that.
Well, because it'd be so much nicer not to have the governments stifling speech...I mean, it would work. But the internet can and has made the world a better place...I personally think it's worthwhile for the U.S. to continue offering all of the technology that they've developed re: the internet to the world, in exchange for some free forums for the people that use it. If other governments still want the internet but don't want it on our terms, they should build their own. Otherwise, we can offer their citizens some freedom of speech due to our awesomeness...
Yeah, but that implies that capitalism is a good idea, and loads of people will disagree with that claim (I like to call those people 'the people that don't understand the U.S.' dominance')
Just in case someone was browsing at score:0, and might think this comment has valid points, keep in mind that the U.S. put all the research into the internet (via the D.O.D., those big evil people). So it's not so much a God-given right as it is a purchased, sweated-for right.
DISCLAIMER: Yes, it's a plug, but it seems like it's worthwhile given the lack of useful tools listed in this thread.
I'm one of the programmers at http://www.inline.com/, and we developed an application called InTrac that we sell that does basically this. It's not as full-featured as our internet department (the router dealers-with) would/like/ it to be, but it's much better than what they had previously (spreadsheets, which proved to be entirely unscalable). It allows for asset types to be defined, which have specific criteria associated with them (various field types available). It also supports ticketing, with tickets assigned to assets. It was built with both ticketing and asset tracking in mind (tickets will have different fields based on the asset type, as well...this makes it easy to get those helldeskers to ask appropriate questions).
One big benefit I find when using InTrac (because it's used for all kinds of assets, not just routers - web sites, web hosting, SQL database information, etc.) is that I can oftentimes solve a problem quickly just by looking through the ticket history for the asset. It's obvious, and any ticketing system will allow you to do this, but we had HEAT previously, and that's why we built InTrac (that and a need for centralized asset management...but if HEAT's ticketing had worked as well as it should have, we wouldn't have developed the software most likely)...
Anyway, if anyone's interested in more information they can either contact myself or use the contact information listed on the website.
Actually, just reading the book would change your opinion significantly, I think. I've got a fair chunk of the O'Reilly library between my home (Open Source) and my work (Microsoft = love), so I think I'm familiar with some good programming books. I've also read the 'Microsoft' series of books on various things, and so I'm absurdly familiar with terrible programming books.
Books that are 'reference plus brief commentary' are terrible. Books that are nothing but a high level overview of a language are likewise terrible. I just bought this book about four days ago. I've read all of the non-reference bit, and most of the reference bit.
It's an excellent book. Easily one of the best programming books I've read. It introduces the framework rather well. It could have used the 'ruby conversation' style tutorials that are found on the internet to speed up the understanding of 'the Ruby way,' but these are minor quibbles. The book is just solid. My only other quibble is this: I would have loved to see some code detailing the whole "acts as tree" thing, because though I've got my database set up, actually implementing it is a little sketchy in my head still. But I'm learning.
I would suggest you play with Rails. I've been a web developer at a medium-sized outfit for about four years now, and I ran my own business doing it before I got here. It's excellent. I've used PHP (like it very much), VB.NET, C#, VB6, C, C++, Java, others on various projects. I can write proper OO code in VB.NET or C#, sure. It's even relatively fast to write it. But when you see how blindingly fast you can create a model in RoR, and functional testing for said model, and unit testing, you'll start to see the light. At some point, either before this revelation or after, you'll also realize that 'the light' exists only because Ruby makes it/so easy/ to do things the right way. There's no thought about it in a lot of cases. What you want to do just ends up being how you realize you should have done it. I can't explain it, but it definitely has made me happy. And I haven't finished my first app in Rails yet:)
However, I have plans on re-implementing an inhouse/retail Asset Management app that we currently sell for ~$15K in rails (currently in vb.net/c#). It took us something like 2 months to write the first (and current) version. It's pretty full featured, but all the things aren't objects the way I'd like them to be, and a lot of the display and logic gets intermingled not out of design, but just because. I've already planned out a much more complete hierarchy system in rails, and adding AJAX functionality via rails is easy.
As an example: I built a widget for the app (built the app about two and a half years ago, pre-Google Suggest to my knowledge) that does something very google suggest styled. Live search, but not the way Rails wants to do live search by default. Anyway, writing that code was about three hours longer because I had to set up all of the server-side roundtrip stuff on the page, etc. Using rails I can implement that portion in about 2 minutes. That's a very noticeable three hours saved. We bill out at $125/hour. Rails would have saved me at least $375 right there.
Do I think Rails is the win for all projects? Of course not. But it deserves every bit of praise I've seen on it. It will save me at least $375. If you found out how thousands of other geeks could make $375, wouldn't you tell them? If not, screw you. I want some money.
I'm sorry, this certainly seems as on-topic as ANY of the comments above this, all of them referring to global warming. This guy is on topic considering the discussion, the discussion is on topic considering the article, and no matter how much you dislike the comment it doesn't change the fact that 'Off-Topic' is just a dumb use of moderator points to attempt to censor someone that's, hrmm, 'On-Topic?'
There have been hundreds of 'new acts' to become fairly profitable this way, and receive plenty of playtime. Have a look at purevolume.com ever? Yeah, bands get played there, and sell their CDs there. To me, mentioning PV seems absurd, because it's a daily part of my life, but I've found that lots of people aren't aware of it yet.
The problem is, there are plenty of bands that can make a ton more money selling $7 CDs over the internet than they can selling $20 CDs in the store. U2 is not one of those bands. They can sell $40 CD/DVD sets for their new album. The internet is not the label killer that everyone wants it to be, yet. I believe that it will be. I just think the corner is a hell of a lot farther than slashdotters are willing to admit.
I'm not just speaking nonsense, either - my band is up on PV (our old recordings, no new stuff up really - http://www.purevolume.com/valign/ | http://www.valignisaband.com/). We could easily put a few more recordings up (our newer, better stuff), set up a CD on cdbaby, add a link, do some advertising, and make some money. I don't think that would be a huge problem. But making some money versus having someone pay for you to drive across the country in their van, with their fellow acts, playing shows live...they aren't really competing things. A label is about a heck of a lot more than selling CDs.
I have the same problem, only on a much faster machine. I have a 1.8GHz Celeron right now with a gig of RAM and a decent vidcard. Installed kubuntu from the iso. I have yet to get my nvidia driver installed properly (the kynaptic package with an nvidia driver still doesn't let me mod my xorg.conf away from the nv driver) and, though there is loads of attractive, fast-running eye candy, my applications are slow. Firefox runs much slower than under winxp on the same box, and I can't get the fonts in firefox to stop looking just terrible - like freetype isn't compiled in or something. The fonts throughout KDE look way better than fonts under winxp though, so that's a plus. It' sjust that under WinXP, no program has fonts as bad as firefox's default package under kubuntu.
The fact that I have to download a large list of things to even get to the point where I can start compiling firefox with freetype support myself is also a mark against the distro, imho.
Having said that, I've been away from Linux on the desktop for a couple of years now, and I can categorically say that this is better than it used to be. But where's the revolution? I've been hearing that it's ready for the desktop - then why doesn't firefox look good under it? Also, my kynaptic database gets locked frequently, and there's no recourse I can figure out to unlock it other than to reboot - I've killed any kynaptic-looking process, tore down X, and still there's a lock. I know that there's some way around it - why do I have to ask for a way around it? If linux were ready for the desktop, WinXP wouldn't run faster than this out of the box, and my install manager wouldn't lock me out of it.
For clarification for anyone that might read this and consider this conclusive, read this first, and understand that this just implies a POSSIBLE correlation, and in no way guarantees a correlation...this is also kind of implied in the story body, but I just wanted to make sure you all knew....
The company (an IT/CLEC) I previously worked full time at, and currently manage some projects for part time, is rolling out an Asterisk box over which they intend to begin sending an awful lot of long distance calls. We've been doing VoIP internally and for some customers for easily 1.5 years, and they have complete faith in open source software. This coming from a shop whose web servers are all windows-based, we're about to receive Microsoft Gold Partner Status, etc...you just do what works, and makes you the most money.
Actually the company I work at, InLine (http://www.InLine.com) is doing this currently. I'm developing the app right now (in.net), and we're almost live with it. We also tie to a customer database, which keeps track of various assets the customer has with us (an asset-tracking, trouble ticket system, basically). Rather robust, if I might say so. Alas, no chance of open-sourcing this project - we've spent a considerable amount of time refining it.
Anyway, point is, it can be done, and relatively easily. But it will take time to do it right.
I've used Starband satellite internet service for a little over a year now (ok, so six months of that I wasn't using it because I lived out of the country, but my family was). My experience is when it works, it rocks (as far as download times go...gaming is, as they say, completely impossible). Upload, download - great speeds. Those are the pros. Now, however, there are some caveats.
The service goes down fairly often. This was my experience at the beginning, but it seems to be doing much better. Now it only goes down when there's a big, nasty, thick storm (i.e. - when the satellite tv is down as well). This is okay, and it's not too often that it's down now. At first, however, they were just putting their service down for days at the time with no warning, no discounts (20 days out of 30 that we had internet access, and we paid the full amount. Sheesh.
Broken images I don't know if this has to do with my D-Link network switch or what (the old one had a corrupt table inside it on one of the PROMs, screwed up our network. I have a strong feeling this is the case again). All I know is most of the time I have 20-75% of webpages with broken images. I have to right click, h for show images (Internet Exploder), just to see the images. Again, YMMV.
Now, as for linux connectivity, I don't really see why it should be that hard. Maybe the USB side would only work with Windows, and maybe they only support Windows, but the newer version of their hardware (and I think the only one you can get, now) has both USB and ethernet (RJ-45). It should be a plug-and-play affair on any sort of router, but I can't vouch for this.
I'm fairly certain that what he meant to ask, using your own analogy, was "Where did the students come from?" Biology is happy saying "We need this much time for our theory to work out," whereas Physics says "Nature HAS to have had a beginning." Anything else is spiritual.
One thing that has concerned me is that according to my high school textbooks the earth has aged 40bn years since I was born. That is, it was 6bn years old around 1990, and it is currently (at least in my most recent book) 46bn years old. I am a Creationist that is not unwilling to accept that God chose to use Evolution to bring us around. However, it is quite disturbing to me a) that these scientists went to pains solely to discredit creationism, or at the very least the article writer did, and b) I frequently come across textbooks that still give credence to Lucy...textbooks published in the late '90's. That disturbs me. Bah.
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There was a boxing game for the Sega CD - can't recall the name, and no way will I spend my time googling for it, but it was pretty neat. The most enjoyed SegaCD game in my home...
Are you ACTUALLY arguing that it's impossible to plan for the future? Just curious. Here's an idea - get a job as a tech worker. Yeah, it's hard. No, it's not impossible. Not by a long shot. In the past year I've run about four jobs (three were just my own doing, for kicks...one was my full time job). Any of them could have paid my way through life. You and your girlfriend could easily get minimum wage jobs, work 60 hours a week a piece, and live like slightly-underprivileged kings. Would you be driving a BMW? No. Guess what: I drive a Ford Focus. Judging from your whining, I probably make more than you. I'm paying my way through college cash up front at the moment.
But hey, congratulations on your defeatist viewpoint. I'm sure it's just the way life works, and not your miserable view of it, that's the cause of your predicament. This is a nice comment to read in this particular thread: both you and the people in New Orleans need to learn to make better decisions. I'm not being heartless in the face of either predicament - I give time and money to those in need. However, it's time for the citizens of this fine nation to learn that there are consequences to every single action you take. As for your statement that "working hard will get you nowhere these days," it turns out working hard has gotten me at least one non-whining-day ahead of you...
I would absolutely second the print on demand of project gutenberg books...charge cost, print 'em out, everyone's happy, right?
How about before you use the "Ask Slashdot" feature you just do a little research?
l ashdot+users+want+at+libraries
http://www.google.com/search?q=what+new+tech+do+s
As has been mentioned elsewhere (see the ars technica article), Pentium M is based on the P6 (PPro), so they simply mean that the P4 came after the PPro. Do read the ars article, explains this in detail.
"Democratizing Economy" sounds an awful lot like "the public having a say in privately held companies" in context here. I know it follows the internet trend, but this sounds like it's just a step towards communism. Google built its empire with its hands, not yours or mine. I don't think I should have a say even in whether they hire based on race (gasp! And for what it's worth, that's just an opinion, and is in no way associated with anything that has happened ever at Google to my knowledge, so no rumors.), much LESS in whether they talk to a CNet reporter.
The whole point is that yes, it's fine for you to use Google as you wish. But some things are either rude, or upsetting to people. They admit that Google can be used for these purposes, but the way the world should work is that individuals (and here I include privately held companies) should respond to things they dislike in manners like this. Which would you prefer: Google getting pissed and not talking to people for doing something they dislike, or the government regulating what you can and can't say about a private company?
Geez, there's always something to whine about. Google got mad, acted like people should when they get mad. They're acting manly, and everyone that's whining is acting like an enormous pussy.
I'm staying out of the conversation in general. However...
Credibility is a funny thing. Lots of incredulous ideas turned out right. Also, credibility of the sort you refer to seems to be a very fluid thing - remember how heliocentricity was a stupid idea? Yeah, the worst part is, there are things that we think of today as just as incredulous, and we're wrong. Very wrong. So I try to avoid people saying things like that within my hearing, because screw credibility. Just be right.
Bah, VB.NET removes (again) the compile cycle for VB.NET debugging, so the main flaw VB.NET has over previous versions (slightly less RAD) goes away. And VB.NET is WAY more powerful than VB6 was, so just sit tight and wait for the next version. It's no Rails, but it's much better than what those of us stuck coding in .NET have now....
I have a crappy GeForce in my computer...it's completely and totally hackish, it's a desktop case with a full size card poking up out of the top...1.8GHz Celeron. 1G RAM. I think it's a GF4, but I honestly couldn't tell you - it was given me by my roommate in trade for something, and my computer's so crappy in general that I just don't care, as long as it ran CS faster. Anyway, it's ugly but it works without a hitch (except the occasional choppiness)...so I can't see how your vidcard could possibly be older than mine...anyway, it's a graphically intensive game, just read the system reqs and don't buy it if yu can't run it. Much like the games for the XBox don't have the "flaw" that they won't run on a PSP...
As for your comment about joining up with friends and then finding a server - I would love to see that.
Well, because it'd be so much nicer not to have the governments stifling speech...I mean, it would work. But the internet can and has made the world a better place...I personally think it's worthwhile for the U.S. to continue offering all of the technology that they've developed re: the internet to the world, in exchange for some free forums for the people that use it. If other governments still want the internet but don't want it on our terms, they should build their own. Otherwise, we can offer their citizens some freedom of speech due to our awesomeness...
Yeah, but that implies that capitalism is a good idea, and loads of people will disagree with that claim (I like to call those people 'the people that don't understand the U.S.' dominance')
Just in case someone was browsing at score:0, and might think this comment has valid points, keep in mind that the U.S. put all the research into the internet (via the D.O.D., those big evil people). So it's not so much a God-given right as it is a purchased, sweated-for right.
DISCLAIMER: Yes, it's a plug, but it seems like it's worthwhile given the lack of useful tools listed in this thread.
/like/ it to be, but it's much better than what they had previously (spreadsheets, which proved to be entirely unscalable). It allows for asset types to be defined, which have specific criteria associated with them (various field types available). It also supports ticketing, with tickets assigned to assets. It was built with both ticketing and asset tracking in mind (tickets will have different fields based on the asset type, as well...this makes it easy to get those helldeskers to ask appropriate questions).
I'm one of the programmers at http://www.inline.com/, and we developed an application called InTrac that we sell that does basically this. It's not as full-featured as our internet department (the router dealers-with) would
One big benefit I find when using InTrac (because it's used for all kinds of assets, not just routers - web sites, web hosting, SQL database information, etc.) is that I can oftentimes solve a problem quickly just by looking through the ticket history for the asset. It's obvious, and any ticketing system will allow you to do this, but we had HEAT previously, and that's why we built InTrac (that and a need for centralized asset management...but if HEAT's ticketing had worked as well as it should have, we wouldn't have developed the software most likely)...
Anyway, if anyone's interested in more information they can either contact myself or use the contact information listed on the website.
Actually, just reading the book would change your opinion significantly, I think. I've got a fair chunk of the O'Reilly library between my home (Open Source) and my work (Microsoft = love), so I think I'm familiar with some good programming books. I've also read the 'Microsoft' series of books on various things, and so I'm absurdly familiar with terrible programming books.
/so easy/ to do things the right way. There's no thought about it in a lot of cases. What you want to do just ends up being how you realize you should have done it. I can't explain it, but it definitely has made me happy. And I haven't finished my first app in Rails yet :)
Books that are 'reference plus brief commentary' are terrible. Books that are nothing but a high level overview of a language are likewise terrible. I just bought this book about four days ago. I've read all of the non-reference bit, and most of the reference bit.
It's an excellent book. Easily one of the best programming books I've read. It introduces the framework rather well. It could have used the 'ruby conversation' style tutorials that are found on the internet to speed up the understanding of 'the Ruby way,' but these are minor quibbles. The book is just solid. My only other quibble is this: I would have loved to see some code detailing the whole "acts as tree" thing, because though I've got my database set up, actually implementing it is a little sketchy in my head still. But I'm learning.
I would suggest you play with Rails. I've been a web developer at a medium-sized outfit for about four years now, and I ran my own business doing it before I got here. It's excellent. I've used PHP (like it very much), VB.NET, C#, VB6, C, C++, Java, others on various projects. I can write proper OO code in VB.NET or C#, sure. It's even relatively fast to write it. But when you see how blindingly fast you can create a model in RoR, and functional testing for said model, and unit testing, you'll start to see the light. At some point, either before this revelation or after, you'll also realize that 'the light' exists only because Ruby makes it
However, I have plans on re-implementing an inhouse/retail Asset Management app that we currently sell for ~$15K in rails (currently in vb.net/c#). It took us something like 2 months to write the first (and current) version. It's pretty full featured, but all the things aren't objects the way I'd like them to be, and a lot of the display and logic gets intermingled not out of design, but just because. I've already planned out a much more complete hierarchy system in rails, and adding AJAX functionality via rails is easy.
As an example: I built a widget for the app (built the app about two and a half years ago, pre-Google Suggest to my knowledge) that does something very google suggest styled. Live search, but not the way Rails wants to do live search by default. Anyway, writing that code was about three hours longer because I had to set up all of the server-side roundtrip stuff on the page, etc. Using rails I can implement that portion in about 2 minutes. That's a very noticeable three hours saved. We bill out at $125/hour. Rails would have saved me at least $375 right there.
Do I think Rails is the win for all projects? Of course not. But it deserves every bit of praise I've seen on it. It will save me at least $375. If you found out how thousands of other geeks could make $375, wouldn't you tell them? If not, screw you. I want some money.
of course by 'Off-Topic' I meant 'Troll'.
I am dumb. That is all.
I'm sorry, this certainly seems as on-topic as ANY of the comments above this, all of them referring to global warming. This guy is on topic considering the discussion, the discussion is on topic considering the article, and no matter how much you dislike the comment it doesn't change the fact that 'Off-Topic' is just a dumb use of moderator points to attempt to censor someone that's, hrmm, 'On-Topic?'
There have been hundreds of 'new acts' to become fairly profitable this way, and receive plenty of playtime. Have a look at purevolume.com ever? Yeah, bands get played there, and sell their CDs there. To me, mentioning PV seems absurd, because it's a daily part of my life, but I've found that lots of people aren't aware of it yet.
The problem is, there are plenty of bands that can make a ton more money selling $7 CDs over the internet than they can selling $20 CDs in the store. U2 is not one of those bands. They can sell $40 CD/DVD sets for their new album. The internet is not the label killer that everyone wants it to be, yet. I believe that it will be. I just think the corner is a hell of a lot farther than slashdotters are willing to admit.
I'm not just speaking nonsense, either - my band is up on PV (our old recordings, no new stuff up really - http://www.purevolume.com/valign/ | http://www.valignisaband.com/). We could easily put a few more recordings up (our newer, better stuff), set up a CD on cdbaby, add a link, do some advertising, and make some money. I don't think that would be a huge problem. But making some money versus having someone pay for you to drive across the country in their van, with their fellow acts, playing shows live...they aren't really competing things. A label is about a heck of a lot more than selling CDs.
I have the same problem, only on a much faster machine. I have a 1.8GHz Celeron right now with a gig of RAM and a decent vidcard. Installed kubuntu from the iso. I have yet to get my nvidia driver installed properly (the kynaptic package with an nvidia driver still doesn't let me mod my xorg.conf away from the nv driver) and, though there is loads of attractive, fast-running eye candy, my applications are slow. Firefox runs much slower than under winxp on the same box, and I can't get the fonts in firefox to stop looking just terrible - like freetype isn't compiled in or something. The fonts throughout KDE look way better than fonts under winxp though, so that's a plus. It' sjust that under WinXP, no program has fonts as bad as firefox's default package under kubuntu.
The fact that I have to download a large list of things to even get to the point where I can start compiling firefox with freetype support myself is also a mark against the distro, imho.
Having said that, I've been away from Linux on the desktop for a couple of years now, and I can categorically say that this is better than it used to be. But where's the revolution? I've been hearing that it's ready for the desktop - then why doesn't firefox look good under it? Also, my kynaptic database gets locked frequently, and there's no recourse I can figure out to unlock it other than to reboot - I've killed any kynaptic-looking process, tore down X, and still there's a lock. I know that there's some way around it - why do I have to ask for a way around it? If linux were ready for the desktop, WinXP wouldn't run faster than this out of the box, and my install manager wouldn't lock me out of it.
For clarification for anyone that might read this and consider this conclusive, read this first, and understand that this just implies a POSSIBLE correlation, and in no way guarantees a correlation...this is also kind of implied in the story body, but I just wanted to make sure you all knew....
The company (an IT/CLEC) I previously worked full time at, and currently manage some projects for part time, is rolling out an Asterisk box over which they intend to begin sending an awful lot of long distance calls. We've been doing VoIP internally and for some customers for easily 1.5 years, and they have complete faith in open source software. This coming from a shop whose web servers are all windows-based, we're about to receive Microsoft Gold Partner Status, etc...you just do what works, and makes you the most money.
Actually the company I work at, InLine (http://www.InLine.com) is doing this currently. I'm developing the app right now (in .net), and we're almost live with it. We also tie to a customer database, which keeps track of various assets the customer has with us (an asset-tracking, trouble ticket system, basically). Rather robust, if I might say so. Alas, no chance of open-sourcing this project - we've spent a considerable amount of time refining it.
Anyway, point is, it can be done, and relatively easily. But it will take time to do it right.
So does it also add to your punishment if you commit a crime while speaking a language that the judge can't understand? Come on, this is ridiculous...
Doing so before 1983 would have meant a couple million people would die.. :)
God I love humor. That one's almost as good as the one about babies in gas chambers!
Ok, so sometimes I think I'm funny.
I've used Starband satellite internet service for a little over a year now (ok, so six months of that I wasn't using it because I lived out of the country, but my family was). My experience is when it works, it rocks (as far as download times go...gaming is, as they say, completely impossible). Upload, download - great speeds. Those are the pros. Now, however, there are some caveats.
The service goes down fairly often.
This was my experience at the beginning, but it seems to be doing much better. Now it only goes down when there's a big, nasty, thick storm (i.e. - when the satellite tv is down as well). This is okay, and it's not too often that it's down now. At first, however, they were just putting their service down for days at the time with no warning, no discounts (20 days out of 30 that we had internet access, and we paid the full amount. Sheesh.
Broken images
I don't know if this has to do with my D-Link network switch or what (the old one had a corrupt table inside it on one of the PROMs, screwed up our network. I have a strong feeling this is the case again). All I know is most of the time I have 20-75% of webpages with broken images. I have to right click, h for show images (Internet Exploder), just to see the images. Again, YMMV.
Now, as for linux connectivity, I don't really see why it should be that hard. Maybe the USB side would only work with Windows, and maybe they only support Windows, but the newer version of their hardware (and I think the only one you can get, now) has both USB and ethernet (RJ-45). It should be a plug-and-play affair on any sort of router, but I can't vouch for this.
Hope I've been of some help,
I'm fairly certain that what he meant to ask, using your own analogy, was "Where did the students come from?" Biology is happy saying "We need this much time for our theory to work out," whereas Physics says "Nature HAS to have had a beginning." Anything else is spiritual.
One thing that has concerned me is that according to my high school textbooks the earth has aged 40bn years since I was born. That is, it was 6bn years old around 1990, and it is currently (at least in my most recent book) 46bn years old. I am a Creationist that is not unwilling to accept that God chose to use Evolution to bring us around. However, it is quite disturbing to me a) that these scientists went to pains solely to discredit creationism, or at the very least the article writer did, and b) I frequently come across textbooks that still give credence to Lucy...textbooks published in the late '90's. That disturbs me. Bah.