I'm not excluding the possibility. I think the native americans were more on the money when they realized that we're all organisms tied into one great ecosystem (or even Great Spirit). Just because the Bible implies that only humans has souls does not make that so. I think Buddhists have a concept of souls in non-humans as well.
It can be even simpler.. you're at work, you're suposed to be working, not downloading for personal benefit. I know people read/. and CNN while at work, purchase things from Amazon, IM their family and make personal calls all day long. Ok, fine those take limited resources, but now you're going to have a community that eats up a lot of your bandwith for personal enjoyment.
Very insightful.. what if there's something missing that we can't reproduce (like a soul). Like the whole debate of when a baby is born, is there any religious implications (maybe the birth process includes getting a "soul" and we can't clone that).
Just thinking out loud on the greater scheme of things...
There are still a bunch of applications that are only supported on Windows, especially if we're talking "portables". You can have a softphone (just like your office desk phone) on your handheld. Anyone with exchange and shared calendars also like to see their calendar available on the portable.
When I took an object oriented course a couple semesters ago, it used C++. I started out the course using gcc-2.96 on Redhat 7.3. Unfortunately, the teaching assitant was using MS visual studio 6. There were no compiler stipulations in the syllabus for the course either.. by the time the first project got graded, there was a ton of confusion.
0 compile errors on gcc, and like 50 in VS. I found out that where Linux let me to declare the std namespace in the main file where I had all my includes, VS wanted the namespace declared in every file to use anything from the STL. There was also other little stuff, but nothing tooo bad.
I couldn't spend all semester like this, so I picked up a copy of VS. After using it for the rest of the semester, my conclusion was: bleh. It was okay, but nothing to write home about and I missed the command line tools.
I asked Comcast about multiple computers and they didn't mind... they just wouldn't give me support when the router is plugged in (i.e. whenever the thing takes a crap, I have to plug it into a PC directly).
I found a nice old computer with 2 NICs and iptables is a sweet router.
The big players in VOIP, mainly Avaya, Nortell, Alcatel, Cisco, to name a few all started out with H.323 phones. Avaya (formerly the huge division of AT&T that did PBXs) is moving towards SIP. Though others are already there. It's probably not too important yet as most installations are still traditional analog and digital phones. That fact makes the small pure SIP players, like Pingtel have a huge disadvantage in market share/mind share. The next generation of Microsoft's RTC servers will be a SIP solution (this comes in addition to version 5.0 of Messenger). And hey, if you just want a SIP soft client on your desktop, why don't you surf over and grab linephone.
The lament makes an insightful point:
For a field accustomed to explaining human behavior through game-theoretic models of resource-distribution, the willingness of individuals to produce code for little or no monetary benefit is a glaring Achilles Heel. And so not surprisingly, some advocates of open source have gone so far as to paint the movement as a fundamentally new mode of industrial organization, a post-materialist one in which hackers code software simply for the pleasure of doing so. The empirical evidence speaks for itself, these critics assert, and in ways not at all favorable to classical economic theory.
It is a glaring Achilles heel. With layoffs in many of the tech companies, though that still do work find themselves bringing home work, leaving no time for visions of open source.
Yes, but getting old Sun users to change to Gnome is like getting Windows users to change to OSX or Gnome. They probably should, and we're boggled if they don't - but let's face it people like to use what they know.
What's another analogy, perhaps if you lived in the US and then moved to the UK and had to drive on the other side of the road. Still all the same functions, just another interface. Yikes.
Unfortunately we don't live in a technical utopia, managers love buzzwords. If they didn't, the MSCE, Cisco Certification, etc wouldn't be as valuable as they are.
Sure, you can learn all this stuff on your own, hey even learn it better - but how does management truely know that?
This is true, it almost breeds monoculture... a mono-techno-culture. On the other hand, usability concerns are real. If you're a technician assigned to debug/setup/repair some piece of equipment, you have billable hours. If you spend too much time going through a clumsy interface the client is loosing money.
Seconds saved for one task, for hundreds of technicians, for thousands of hours worked equates to big money.
The FAQ says his works are not public domain... but looking at his review of LoTR2 (the link in the story to what slashdot readers like)... who would want to use that in any way or form?!
In what way will the internet change daily life in the months and years to come - will we see an increasing amount of wireless access on phones with web content to follow? Online Voting? 3d porn? What are your predictions?
the Ocean area is under utilized. It is more than just a dumping ground for waste, and more than just a source of fancy foods. Maybe the recently reported new plane-like submarines will help us explore and find better ways of energy.
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It's just another check box in their increasing portfolio...
I'm not excluding the possibility. I think the native americans were more on the money when they realized that we're all organisms tied into one great ecosystem (or even Great Spirit). Just because the Bible implies that only humans has souls does not make that so. I think Buddhists have a concept of souls in non-humans as well.
It can be even simpler.. you're at work, you're suposed to be working, not downloading for personal benefit. I know people read /. and CNN while at work, purchase things from Amazon, IM their family and make personal calls all day long. Ok, fine those take limited resources, but now you're going to have a community that eats up a lot of your bandwith for personal enjoyment.
Very insightful.. what if there's something missing that we can't reproduce (like a soul). Like the whole debate of when a baby is born, is there any religious implications (maybe the birth process includes getting a "soul" and we can't clone that). Just thinking out loud on the greater scheme of things...
I have their latest phone.. the 720? Or 170? Something like that, it has the color screen and can download stuff to it and all.
The battery life is actually better then I'd thought, a couple hours of talk time and a couple days standby.
There are still a bunch of applications that are only supported on Windows, especially if we're talking "portables". You can have a softphone (just like your office desk phone) on your handheld. Anyone with exchange and shared calendars also like to see their calendar available on the portable.
But if Toys R Us is all out of the product you want? Ah-ah, you just wasted traveling time/expenses [gas], and still have to wait.
When I took an object oriented course a couple semesters ago, it used C++. I started out the course using gcc-2.96 on Redhat 7.3. Unfortunately, the teaching assitant was using MS visual studio 6. There were no compiler stipulations in the syllabus for the course either.. by the time the first project got graded, there was a ton of confusion.
0 compile errors on gcc, and like 50 in VS. I found out that where Linux let me to declare the std namespace in the main file where I had all my includes, VS wanted the namespace declared in every file to use anything from the STL. There was also other little stuff, but nothing tooo bad.
I couldn't spend all semester like this, so I picked up a copy of VS. After using it for the rest of the semester, my conclusion was: bleh. It was okay, but nothing to write home about and I missed the command line tools.
I asked Comcast about multiple computers and they didn't mind... they just wouldn't give me support when the router is plugged in (i.e. whenever the thing takes a crap, I have to plug it into a PC directly).
I found a nice old computer with 2 NICs and iptables is a sweet router.
The big players in VOIP, mainly Avaya, Nortell, Alcatel, Cisco, to name a few all started out with H.323 phones. Avaya (formerly the huge division of AT&T that did PBXs) is moving towards SIP. Though others are already there. It's probably not too important yet as most installations are still traditional analog and digital phones. That fact makes the small pure SIP players, like Pingtel have a huge disadvantage in market share/mind share. The next generation of Microsoft's RTC servers will be a SIP solution (this comes in addition to version 5.0 of Messenger). And hey, if you just want a SIP soft client on your desktop, why don't you surf over and grab linephone.
The lament makes an insightful point:
For a field accustomed to explaining human behavior through game-theoretic models of resource-distribution, the willingness of individuals to produce code for little or no monetary benefit is a glaring Achilles Heel. And so not surprisingly, some advocates of open source have gone so far as to paint the movement as a fundamentally new mode of industrial organization, a post-materialist one in which hackers code software simply for the pleasure of doing so. The empirical evidence speaks for itself, these critics assert, and in ways not at all favorable to classical economic theory.
It is a glaring Achilles heel. With layoffs in many of the tech companies, though that still do work find themselves bringing home work, leaving no time for visions of open source.
Yes, but getting old Sun users to change to Gnome is like getting Windows users to change to OSX or Gnome. They probably should, and we're boggled if they don't - but let's face it people like to use what they know.
What's another analogy, perhaps if you lived in the US and then moved to the UK and had to drive on the other side of the road. Still all the same functions, just another interface. Yikes.
Unfortunately we don't live in a technical utopia, managers love buzzwords. If they didn't, the MSCE, Cisco Certification, etc wouldn't be as valuable as they are.
Sure, you can learn all this stuff on your own, hey even learn it better - but how does management truely know that?
A co-worker of mine used to, and still likes, CDE. Quote him "Everything works perfectly, it's perfect, it's a Sun."
He's an older fellow, but I guess it's just like talking to a Windows user. Once they get used to something, they don't like to change.
Anyone's parents still use your old computer with Win95? *shiver*
I might not buy a web browser, but I would buy the creating apps with Mozilla book from O'Reilly!
Well OSX didn't take their software and straighten it out, like a teacher and the students.
This is true, it almost breeds monoculture... a mono-techno-culture. On the other hand, usability concerns are real. If you're a technician assigned to debug/setup/repair some piece of equipment, you have billable hours. If you spend too much time going through a clumsy interface the client is loosing money.
Seconds saved for one task, for hundreds of technicians, for thousands of hours worked equates to big money.
from RedHat 8.0.
The FAQ says his works are not public domain... but looking at his review of LoTR2 (the link in the story to what slashdot readers like)... who would want to use that in any way or form?!
God I hope so.. guess news is slow today.
In what way will the internet change daily life in the months and years to come - will we see an increasing amount of wireless access on phones with web content to follow? Online Voting? 3d porn? What are your predictions?
Are you inferring that we dump our oceans full of untreated waste rather then letting it decompose properly. We just reported on it!
Apparently the Bush family needs oil.
Don't forget to power your web server with potatoes!
the Ocean area is under utilized. It is more than just a dumping ground for waste, and more than just a source of fancy foods. Maybe the recently reported new plane-like submarines will help us explore and find better ways of energy.