My biggest fear is that the children that receive these laptops won't be able to use them as they wish to because of all the proprietary, undocumented hardware used in these systems.
Except for hardware problems one shouldn't need some Uber guru to maintain a system, you configure them properly and they run until a hardware failure. We're currently experiencing major outages with our Redhat clustering solution and the best minds at Redhat are still stumped. That's probably why our mission critical apps still run on AIX.
Well, I'm paying much less than that but I get your point, it's a subscription plan rather than a buy as you please plan. But it works for me and since I have a grandfathered plan and I never fail to download my monthly allotment it's actually 20 cents a track. I forgot what the deal was and just threw something lower than 25 cents out there. I bought a year subscription so that provides a 20% discount off of the old 25 cents per track. Oh, yeah, it's $8 a month for 40 tracks for me.
One of the big points is that it's a start and it gives people options for DRM-free tunes. I'm currently paying 23 cents a track on eMusic and have 80 albums waiting to be downloaded so won't be running out of things to download there for, probably, ever. If I really need something like the Stooges latest I find a used promo CD for cheap. I doubt I'll be filling in with DRM-free iTunes/EMI songs at $1.29 per track.
You have a serious misunderstanding of the GPL. OpenBSD has been getting rid of GPL code over the years but still has gcc and a few other GPL utilities in its codebase. The rest of the project is licensed under the BSD license, the "whole thing" does not have to be GPLed. Apple could do the same but there's no reason to since they get what they need from FreeBSD and the BSD license is free.
OS X is not a BSD, it's a Mach kernel with a BSD userspace, a proprietary GUI, and proprietary applications. The kernel and BSD userspace are free for end-users to modify and redistribute, the GUI and applications are not as they are closed source.
My main reason for using music to judge compatability, and it's mostly related to your number 3, is to gauge adventurousness of the other person. If their iPod is full of only top 40 stuff they probably eat at chain restaurants, see only top 5 movies, never explore beyond their city limits, and never try any new experiences.
I didn't log into my Yahoo account for a year or so and lost everything. Not that it mattered because it was 99.9% spam and.1% legitimate marketing materials. Nothing important.
My personal experience: I used to live 1 1/2 miles from work, while living there I started walking to work and slowly started losing weight, I had to move 18 months ago due to the townhouse I was renting being sold, I ended up moving farther out into the suburbs where I drove most of the time and every once in awhile rode my bicycle to work, I've gained about 4% in the last 18 months.
I was recently asked to move from my current place and my major criterion for a new place was that it be between a 20 minute and 40 minute walk to work. I found such a place on the close side but basically I can make detours to the supermarket and stuff on the way home to add to the walk time. I'll walk every day if it's not a hurricane and on the rare days when there is an emergency at work I'll ride my bike. I can actually ride to work faster than I can drive due to our parking situation at work.
#1, SMTP isn't a File Transfer Protocol. #2, can you spell DOS?
Every company, from small to large, that I've worked for that has provided Internet email access has had a limit on attachment size between 4MB and 8MB. And only one of them, my current company, uses Exchange.
I wasn't talking about quality. I'd rather watch a poor quality tape all the way through than watch an excellent quality DVD that stops half way through. At best I can skip to the next scene on a bad DVD, at worst it's unplayable. I've definitely had technical difficulties with tape (usually with homegrown tapes, never with a rental) but I've always been able to watch the complete tape. There are too many ways a DVD can get abused when it's not in it's case.
...is that I NEVER had a bad rental tape. More than half the DVDs I've rented have had problems of varying impact. If VHS is dying please bring on convenient downloads because I don't think I'll ever rent a DVD again.
"Feisty"? Political fallout over art work? My goodness I'm glad I left Linux behind for OpenBSD last millenium. Nothing sounds better to me than -current and -stable. And the art and tunes of OpenBSD consistently rock:
I'm with you. I have been avoiding Sony products ever since the rootkit debacle, unfortunately I haven't gained any traction here at work where we just inked a deal to go with Sony cameras rather than Panasonic.
I work for a GE subsidiary and because of recent laptop losses that have garnered us lots of bad karma we have to install SafeBoot on all laptops. I hope the helpdesk aren't pushovers when receiving calls to reset keys.
Wow. That's pretty f'ed up. This article is quite timely since my niece just broke her arm playing dodgeball last Friday. Are my brother and sister-in-law suing the school? NO. Shit happens. Unless the school provided a cannon to shoot the ball out of I hardly see that they're liable.
...along with all the other bureaucratically bloated organizations like most of the governments around the world. No wonder smaller projects get more done and ahead of schedule, their contributors aren't wasting time writing "constitutions" and dealing with politics.
I got it with my Xterra. My needs are minimal so it suits me fine.
Here are my wishes:
#1 - I wish I had more control from the steering wheel. I can't scan through playlists or artists or whatever with the steering wheel, I have to lean over and use one of the knobs or arrow buttons.
#2 - I wish I could navigate into Artist then Album. You only have one level of navigation. However, in my case I long ago had set up a playlist for every album I have on my iPod. I did it because there were way too many albums and artists to scan through because of all the one or two tracks I downloaded from some artists. So this isn't a big issue for me.
#3 - I wish that it didn't default to random off when turning off the car. This is a drag because I'm constantly starting playlists over randomly and it's a different order each time so I end up having to skip tracks I just listened to.
#4 - I wish there were more characters than 9 displayed when scanning through playlists. The display does show way more characters when playing so I don't know why they limit it to 9 while looking through playlists or artists or albums.
Cool things:
#1 - I can skip tracks from the steering wheel (I wish I could fast forward them from the steering wheel, I can fast forward from the head unit but no rewind).
#2 - By default I have the track name displayed but with a push of the DISP button I can see the artist name.
It's much more integrated than the Honda one we looked at for my girlfriend. I think because it connects to the satellite radio port rather than a 6 CD changer port.
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Except for hardware problems one shouldn't need some Uber guru to maintain a system, you configure them properly and they run until a hardware failure. We're currently experiencing major outages with our Redhat clustering solution and the best minds at Redhat are still stumped. That's probably why our mission critical apps still run on AIX.
Who cares if OLPC will run on it when OpenBSD will run fine on it?
Well, I'm paying much less than that but I get your point, it's a subscription plan rather than a buy as you please plan. But it works for me and since I have a grandfathered plan and I never fail to download my monthly allotment it's actually 20 cents a track. I forgot what the deal was and just threw something lower than 25 cents out there. I bought a year subscription so that provides a 20% discount off of the old 25 cents per track. Oh, yeah, it's $8 a month for 40 tracks for me.
One of the big points is that it's a start and it gives people options for DRM-free tunes. I'm currently paying 23 cents a track on eMusic and have 80 albums waiting to be downloaded so won't be running out of things to download there for, probably, ever. If I really need something like the Stooges latest I find a used promo CD for cheap. I doubt I'll be filling in with DRM-free iTunes/EMI songs at $1.29 per track.
So the paper is worth the same then. And I don't see many articles claiming that a lost box of papers is worth $38 kazillion.
You have a serious misunderstanding of the GPL. OpenBSD has been getting rid of GPL code over the years but still has gcc and a few other GPL utilities in its codebase. The rest of the project is licensed under the BSD license, the "whole thing" does not have to be GPLed. Apple could do the same but there's no reason to since they get what they need from FreeBSD and the BSD license is free.
OS X is not a BSD, it's a Mach kernel with a BSD userspace, a proprietary GUI, and proprietary applications. The kernel and BSD userspace are free for end-users to modify and redistribute, the GUI and applications are not as they are closed source.
My main reason for using music to judge compatability, and it's mostly related to your number 3, is to gauge adventurousness of the other person. If their iPod is full of only top 40 stuff they probably eat at chain restaurants, see only top 5 movies, never explore beyond their city limits, and never try any new experiences.
I didn't log into my Yahoo account for a year or so and lost everything. Not that it mattered because it was 99.9% spam and .1% legitimate marketing materials. Nothing important.
A funny first post. Will wonders never cease!!!
...I've considered those effects ever since these type of ads started running. Glad to see someone is studying them.
I still don't get it.
I was recently asked to move from my current place and my major criterion for a new place was that it be between a 20 minute and 40 minute walk to work. I found such a place on the close side but basically I can make detours to the supermarket and stuff on the way home to add to the walk time. I'll walk every day if it's not a hurricane and on the rare days when there is an emergency at work I'll ride my bike. I can actually ride to work faster than I can drive due to our parking situation at work.
I can confirm the BlueMountain.com listing. Worse than AOL IMNSHO.
Every company, from small to large, that I've worked for that has provided Internet email access has had a limit on attachment size between 4MB and 8MB. And only one of them, my current company, uses Exchange.
I wasn't talking about quality. I'd rather watch a poor quality tape all the way through than watch an excellent quality DVD that stops half way through. At best I can skip to the next scene on a bad DVD, at worst it's unplayable. I've definitely had technical difficulties with tape (usually with homegrown tapes, never with a rental) but I've always been able to watch the complete tape. There are too many ways a DVD can get abused when it's not in it's case.
...is that I NEVER had a bad rental tape. More than half the DVDs I've rented have had problems of varying impact. If VHS is dying please bring on convenient downloads because I don't think I'll ever rent a DVD again.
Damn, I forgot about the lack of a -useful branch. Although I don't know why IPX is marked as a big fat no: IPX on OpenBSD.
http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html
I'm with you. I have been avoiding Sony products ever since the rootkit debacle, unfortunately I haven't gained any traction here at work where we just inked a deal to go with Sony cameras rather than Panasonic.
I work for a GE subsidiary and because of recent laptop losses that have garnered us lots of bad karma we have to install SafeBoot on all laptops. I hope the helpdesk aren't pushovers when receiving calls to reset keys.
Wow. That's pretty f'ed up. This article is quite timely since my niece just broke her arm playing dodgeball last Friday. Are my brother and sister-in-law suing the school? NO. Shit happens. Unless the school provided a cannon to shoot the ball out of I hardly see that they're liable.
...along with all the other bureaucratically bloated organizations like most of the governments around the world. No wonder smaller projects get more done and ahead of schedule, their contributors aren't wasting time writing "constitutions" and dealing with politics.
Here are my wishes:
#1 - I wish I had more control from the steering wheel. I can't scan through playlists or artists or whatever with the steering wheel, I have to lean over and use one of the knobs or arrow buttons.
#2 - I wish I could navigate into Artist then Album. You only have one level of navigation. However, in my case I long ago had set up a playlist for every album I have on my iPod. I did it because there were way too many albums and artists to scan through because of all the one or two tracks I downloaded from some artists. So this isn't a big issue for me.
#3 - I wish that it didn't default to random off when turning off the car. This is a drag because I'm constantly starting playlists over randomly and it's a different order each time so I end up having to skip tracks I just listened to.
#4 - I wish there were more characters than 9 displayed when scanning through playlists. The display does show way more characters when playing so I don't know why they limit it to 9 while looking through playlists or artists or albums.
Cool things:
#1 - I can skip tracks from the steering wheel (I wish I could fast forward them from the steering wheel, I can fast forward from the head unit but no rewind).
#2 - By default I have the track name displayed but with a push of the DISP button I can see the artist name.
It's much more integrated than the Honda one we looked at for my girlfriend. I think because it connects to the satellite radio port rather than a 6 CD changer port.