As for mobile phone access, I have my Blackberry 8800 working as a bluetooth modem on T-Mobile perfectly well with Kubuntu 8.04. It's not "plug and play", but it's not under Windows either. Both take some settings tweaking.
It does. It may cost more to get the laser carts, but you can get so many more prints out of them that it's worth it by far, doubly so if you only print intermittently. Dried ink makes you go through cleaning cycles and such with an inkjet, but you just don't have that problem with laser printers.
Let's see... the military finances a lot of neat techie things (ARPANET, Satellites, etc.), this is a blog about new techie things... is it really hard to make that connection?
Because you can't walk across the border from Haiti. You can get here legally, just like you can get music legally. It's just that the cost/benefit of one versus the other doesn't really pan out for Mexicans who can walk to the US, whereas if you have to brave trying to get a boat across to the US, the cost goes up a lot higher.
I'm not saying that it's RIGHT that they come across. I'm saying that they do it because it's easier and more beneficial to them than playing by the rules. Just like file sharing... I get the music legally, and I'm fucked with DRM keeping me from using it in any kind of sane way or have to rip a CD. I get it illegally? I have the music, and boom, it works and plays however I want. The cost/benefit is much higher for legal music than it is for illegal (which means piracy abounds).
Linux is not Windows. Being an Intermediate to Expert on Windows means you'll have more trouble adjusting than a newbie. You're thinking of things the way Windows does it. Do you also try to drive your car like you ride your bike?
It works fine with my wifi and laptop's sleep mode. Wait, what's that you say? Microsoft has a stranglehold on hardware manufacturers so that their specs and drivers are often only available to Windows? I say!
If you use well-supported hardware, Linux works very, very well. Or do you think that Vista needs to work on usability because it doesn't work right with Creative's X-Fi sound card, which works fine under Linux?
Bullshit. The US ADDS 614 square miles of forest per year. The old-growth forests are going down, true. But they're only old growth because they've been growing for a long time... we're starting the new old-growth forests now.
The problem is that we make it a pain in the ass to get over here legally, and Mexico compounds that. I know a database operator that had to go back and forth multiple times, never knowing if she'd get her passport back from the Mexican consulate, she spent a total of about 5 years trying to get in legally. And she was skilled and fluent in English.
The system to get here legally needs a change... it's like file sharing. When you can benefit more easily from doing the illegal thing, why do the legal one?
MySQL was bought for big bucks. But that does not take ANY of their open source software away from anyone. I can still use every bit of GPL code they gave out, and if I wanted to, I could get in an hack at it myself. No restrictions (past the GPL). Seems if a government became standardized on product X, and it was all of a sudden bought, they'd be in a MUCH better position as long as X was open sourced. If it was closed source, they'd be up a creek.
They're ultra-minimal compared to XP, too. I have to have an 8GB virtual disk if I want to do anything other than install WindowsXP with Office, and even then it's pretty tight.
A virus isn't really in the same class as this malware. They're calling it "greyware" because it doesn't try to fuck up your PC, it adds "services" which are dodgy and expose you to all kinds of interesting privacy and security exploitation. The first viruses were almost purely destructive or annoying, there were no "ulterior motives" like there is with this malware that DID start with the Internet getting popular.
I'm in the Foxmarks beta program, and it works fine. I think they're waiting for Firefox 3 to get out of beta, but I don't know. Just sign up... they'll probably get back to you in a couple of days with a passcode. It's worth it.
So... you're saying that he's upset that he can't just take software like he did with the BSD TCP/IP stack and wrap it up and sell it for his own profit? Poor guy.
The "viral nature" of the GPL ONLY takes effect if you want the benefits that come with getting the free step-up that the GPL software provides. By all means, use free software to develop your closed source stuff... that just means you have to develop it from the ground up and not try to take any shortcuts by including other people's code that they generously allowed you to use. Unless you want to be as generous as they are.
It's basically a legal stick saying "don't be a douchebag". Which is apparently necessary because there are so many douchebags like BillyG out there.
Generally the vendor is incompetent. Java won't prevent you from hard-coding "C:\Program Files" into any programs, and will work perfectly well with it under Windows. For most properly coded Java programs, cross-platform support is pretty much trivial though.
The mistake is relying on Google for your only business. I'm not gonna feel bad for someone that builds their house on a beach and a tide comes and wipes it out, either.
As soon as a year goes by without Microsoft doing something shady, I'll consider starting to trust them again. They've already fucked up this year with the ISO stuff, so the earliest I might consider trusting them is in the middle of 2009. Assuming they don't do anything stupid between now and then.
That's only when it gets later into manufacturing, and if AMD could clock things higher, they would. They are really hurting going against Intel right now, and any benefit would be amazing. In short, I wouldn't count on any AMD chips overclocking very well in the short term.
That wasn't due to the applications. It was due to the system not being designed to work that way... the single-core CPU wasn't made to be able to talk to the other CPU's. The 3-core AMD CPU works perfectly well under any load.
Hybrid GAS cost may be half that of a traditional vehicle, but did you factor in what you pay to charge the batteries up with electricity? No? Try again.
No, they don't teach each other things. Wild chimps only learn by watching other chimps... there is no active teaching going on, no slowing down of actions or "explaining" of steps to things. And yes, they do co-operate, but they are never altruistic through choice. If they get screwed out of a meal by a dominant chimp when cooperating, they'd rather just let the food go than cooperate to get it. Watch the National Geographic channel sometime;)
Look at chimpanzees vs. humans to see what the difference between naturally selfish and naturally sharing behavior is.
Chimps will take whatever they think they can get away with, and never actively teach and often try to hide things from each other. Humans may have a lot of the same tendencies, but not nearly to the same degree.
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As for mobile phone access, I have my Blackberry 8800 working as a bluetooth modem on T-Mobile perfectly well with Kubuntu 8.04. It's not "plug and play", but it's not under Windows either. Both take some settings tweaking.
It does. It may cost more to get the laser carts, but you can get so many more prints out of them that it's worth it by far, doubly so if you only print intermittently. Dried ink makes you go through cleaning cycles and such with an inkjet, but you just don't have that problem with laser printers.
Let's see... the military finances a lot of neat techie things (ARPANET, Satellites, etc.), this is a blog about new techie things... is it really hard to make that connection?
Because you can't walk across the border from Haiti. You can get here legally, just like you can get music legally. It's just that the cost/benefit of one versus the other doesn't really pan out for Mexicans who can walk to the US, whereas if you have to brave trying to get a boat across to the US, the cost goes up a lot higher.
I'm not saying that it's RIGHT that they come across. I'm saying that they do it because it's easier and more beneficial to them than playing by the rules. Just like file sharing... I get the music legally, and I'm fucked with DRM keeping me from using it in any kind of sane way or have to rip a CD. I get it illegally? I have the music, and boom, it works and plays however I want. The cost/benefit is much higher for legal music than it is for illegal (which means piracy abounds).
Linux is not Windows. Being an Intermediate to Expert on Windows means you'll have more trouble adjusting than a newbie. You're thinking of things the way Windows does it. Do you also try to drive your car like you ride your bike?
Discoverability != usability. vi isn't very discoverable, but damn if it ain't usable. It just has a very steep learning curve.
When did the idea that 15 mouse clicks to accomplish a simple task was a GOOD thing?
It works fine with my wifi and laptop's sleep mode. Wait, what's that you say? Microsoft has a stranglehold on hardware manufacturers so that their specs and drivers are often only available to Windows? I say!
If you use well-supported hardware, Linux works very, very well. Or do you think that Vista needs to work on usability because it doesn't work right with Creative's X-Fi sound card, which works fine under Linux?
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1115-forests.html
Bullshit. The US ADDS 614 square miles of forest per year. The old-growth forests are going down, true. But they're only old growth because they've been growing for a long time... we're starting the new old-growth forests now.
The problem is that we make it a pain in the ass to get over here legally, and Mexico compounds that. I know a database operator that had to go back and forth multiple times, never knowing if she'd get her passport back from the Mexican consulate, she spent a total of about 5 years trying to get in legally. And she was skilled and fluent in English.
The system to get here legally needs a change... it's like file sharing. When you can benefit more easily from doing the illegal thing, why do the legal one?
MySQL was bought for big bucks. But that does not take ANY of their open source software away from anyone. I can still use every bit of GPL code they gave out, and if I wanted to, I could get in an hack at it myself. No restrictions (past the GPL). Seems if a government became standardized on product X, and it was all of a sudden bought, they'd be in a MUCH better position as long as X was open sourced. If it was closed source, they'd be up a creek.
They're ultra-minimal compared to XP, too. I have to have an 8GB virtual disk if I want to do anything other than install WindowsXP with Office, and even then it's pretty tight.
If you don't know why you should mod the parent up, do yourself a favor and go watch Idiocracy
A virus isn't really in the same class as this malware. They're calling it "greyware" because it doesn't try to fuck up your PC, it adds "services" which are dodgy and expose you to all kinds of interesting privacy and security exploitation. The first viruses were almost purely destructive or annoying, there were no "ulterior motives" like there is with this malware that DID start with the Internet getting popular.
That's what Wine is for. Installing a program that would screw up Windows ;)
I'm in the Foxmarks beta program, and it works fine. I think they're waiting for Firefox 3 to get out of beta, but I don't know. Just sign up... they'll probably get back to you in a couple of days with a passcode. It's worth it.
So... you're saying that he's upset that he can't just take software like he did with the BSD TCP/IP stack and wrap it up and sell it for his own profit? Poor guy.
The "viral nature" of the GPL ONLY takes effect if you want the benefits that come with getting the free step-up that the GPL software provides. By all means, use free software to develop your closed source stuff... that just means you have to develop it from the ground up and not try to take any shortcuts by including other people's code that they generously allowed you to use. Unless you want to be as generous as they are.
It's basically a legal stick saying "don't be a douchebag". Which is apparently necessary because there are so many douchebags like BillyG out there.
Generally the vendor is incompetent. Java won't prevent you from hard-coding "C:\Program Files" into any programs, and will work perfectly well with it under Windows. For most properly coded Java programs, cross-platform support is pretty much trivial though.
The mistake is relying on Google for your only business. I'm not gonna feel bad for someone that builds their house on a beach and a tide comes and wipes it out, either.
As soon as a year goes by without Microsoft doing something shady, I'll consider starting to trust them again. They've already fucked up this year with the ISO stuff, so the earliest I might consider trusting them is in the middle of 2009. Assuming they don't do anything stupid between now and then.
But we all know what happens when we assume.
That's only when it gets later into manufacturing, and if AMD could clock things higher, they would. They are really hurting going against Intel right now, and any benefit would be amazing. In short, I wouldn't count on any AMD chips overclocking very well in the short term.
That wasn't due to the applications. It was due to the system not being designed to work that way... the single-core CPU wasn't made to be able to talk to the other CPU's. The 3-core AMD CPU works perfectly well under any load.
Hybrid GAS cost may be half that of a traditional vehicle, but did you factor in what you pay to charge the batteries up with electricity? No? Try again.
10% ain't much. It's a dime when you wanted a dollar.
No, they don't teach each other things. Wild chimps only learn by watching other chimps... there is no active teaching going on, no slowing down of actions or "explaining" of steps to things. And yes, they do co-operate, but they are never altruistic through choice. If they get screwed out of a meal by a dominant chimp when cooperating, they'd rather just let the food go than cooperate to get it. Watch the National Geographic channel sometime ;)
Look at chimpanzees vs. humans to see what the difference between naturally selfish and naturally sharing behavior is.
Chimps will take whatever they think they can get away with, and never actively teach and often try to hide things from each other. Humans may have a lot of the same tendencies, but not nearly to the same degree.