IIRC, the word on the tribute shows and fan sites has always been that damn near everything in the apartment was there because Seinfeld had one just like it at home.
$10M would make me a big fan of Vista too. Bill, you know where to send that check...
Then again, my coffee cup does none of those things either - it doesn't even browse Web pages. Now *that*'s privacy...
Your coffee cup is offline? Not even bluetooth? How do your temp and level sensors function? Is it a maintenance issue or is this one of those retro 'china' cups?
HP's entire business model amounts to selling ink for gold prices and spending the money as well as all they can beg (issue stock) or borrow (issue bonds) buying competitors.
Really, you're not displaying your informed opinion here, no matter what you might think.
I'll agree Agilent is good gear. HP spun Agilent off some time ago. Spendy, and well worth the money if the instrument measures something important to you.
Once I do that I can effectively use my usb-to-serial adapter.
Many USB-to-serial adapters use the cheap (FTDI) chips from Parallax : controller chip. Also many USB powered tools like the Stingray USB Oscilloscope and the Parallax USB servo controller, both of which are sweet pieces of gear. Parallax is not Linux friendly. FTDI drivers are not Open. Work on this is underway, I believe.
The solution really is simpler: "The term of copyright shall be one year from date of issue. Copyrights shall not be renewed or extended."
That's all it takes really. Then the bastards won't have the money to break into your home server fishing for perceived transgressions. They also won't have time -- they'll be too busy signing new acts, organizing concerts and otherwise generating new content instead of milking their dreary back catalog.
Get this -- when the terms of copyright and the behavior of rights holders are perceived to be fair, breach of copyright will drop once again to only those so reprobate they would cheat at solitaire. We get more art, artists are compensated, we can return to a culture where arts and sciences flow inexorably towards the commons for the enrichment of us all. Everybody wins.
A once great American company run into the ground by MBAs.
Don't give up yet. Carly's gone. They ship a linux diagnostic CD with every PC (and have for 10 years). All of their printers are supported because they contribute to the drivers under the GPL. Their website is "Gifted" but there's hope yet. AFAIK they're not shipping any "Microsoft software required" hardware yet. It looks like they know their friend in Redmond is one of many, and maybe not the most important one.
Look, you can read my comment history in case you're curious about whether or not I'm some Microsoft apologist. I'm not.
Some of those XP ISOs downloaded from Kazaa contain some unpleasant surprises. Just like Ubuntu, you need to get your installation media from a reliable source.
Knowing that that extra 10% goes towards things like superfetch (instantly launching applications is nice), or file indexing (I think it's pretty cool being able to instantly search music and photos by tag and queue up a playlist from within a naked explorer window), or shiny things like generating proper icons for video clips, or defragging my disk - and not gowing towards "nothing" - is pretty nifty. Also, little things like the new "background" task priority, or that "save" dialog boxes remember the original file name after typing in a path, are pretty cool.
You know, if it was just 10% I could get behind you here. Unfortunately it appears it's more like 98% and that's a different kettle of penguins entirely.
The two purposes of an operating system are to manage system resources and to provide an abstraction for programs to access the hardware called an API. The purpose of an operating system is not to consume system resources. The purpose of an operating system's API is not to occult the functioning of the operating system in preference for one vendor's applications over another's. Since Vista fails two of two here, I'm giving it a "no go" in the "operating systems" category.
Sorry your honor, I have friends who use my network...
Was my wireless router sharing my Internet with the whole neighborhood? I had no idea! It just came that way. I plugged it in and it worked. Somebody should do something about that.
Why is everyone so eager to use NAT? I've never quite understood this, once NAT use became widespread...
Do you really want to try and use an Internet where every Windows user who bought his shiny laptop at Costco has a publicly addressable PC, rather than one that's behind a home NAT router? Really? Be careful what you wish for.
Because it's work. Work takes time. Time is money.
People who think like this are going to wait two years and then hire a consulting company to do a $250k study on the issue about whether or not it's time. Then in a nice catered meeting they'll discuss the powerpoint slides - with pie charts and bar charts made from numbers the consultants just made up. Knowledgeable organic employees will express an eager desire to move forward. They'll decide to wait. They'll do that every two years until the consultants explain "if you don't do it, your company will fail." At that point, there'll be a huge rip and replace operation that intermittently shuts down the business for six months and costs ten times what it should have.
<sigh>I wish I weren't speaking from experience here.</sigh>
If your company doesn't have a huge IP block, I recommend showing up at the SCO liquidation auction. Rumor has it they have a three-letter.com address and a HUGE block of IP addresses. For the.com I would recommend a pornsite. It'll be a while before the stink is worn off it.
Between Earth and Mars, you can't FTP - the RTT is so long that the protocol-specified maximum timeout expires before a response can be returned to you. Obviously loading up a web page would be a senseless waste of time. We would need a way of transporting or requesting information in batches in order to effectively communicate things like news between planets.
NASA, oddly enough, already has an interplanetary network protocol. It seems to be working pretty well. Since it's a work of the US government licensing shouldn't be an issue. I don't know if it scales to billions of nodes yet, but then the Internet was once ten computers connected via serial cable. Anyhow, they've solved most of the issues of concern in your post.
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When this is the Vista that greets customers at BestBuy, they're going to have problems with that.
$10M would make me a big fan of Vista too. Bill, you know where to send that check...
OK, it was funny twice. This is a little over the top.
Now that was a good click there. Maybe there'll be a "Road to Longhorn" movie someday.
Your coffee cup is offline? Not even bluetooth? How do your temp and level sensors function? Is it a maintenance issue or is this one of those retro 'china' cups?
The fix for this is called DBAN.
Really, you're not displaying your informed opinion here, no matter what you might think.
I'll agree Agilent is good gear. HP spun Agilent off some time ago. Spendy, and well worth the money if the instrument measures something important to you.
Many USB-to-serial adapters use the cheap (FTDI) chips from Parallax : controller chip. Also many USB powered tools like the Stingray USB Oscilloscope and the Parallax USB servo controller, both of which are sweet pieces of gear. Parallax is not Linux friendly. FTDI drivers are not Open. Work on this is underway, I believe.
The solution really is simpler: "The term of copyright shall be one year from date of issue. Copyrights shall not be renewed or extended."
That's all it takes really. Then the bastards won't have the money to break into your home server fishing for perceived transgressions. They also won't have time -- they'll be too busy signing new acts, organizing concerts and otherwise generating new content instead of milking their dreary back catalog.
Get this -- when the terms of copyright and the behavior of rights holders are perceived to be fair, breach of copyright will drop once again to only those so reprobate they would cheat at solitaire. We get more art, artists are compensated, we can return to a culture where arts and sciences flow inexorably towards the commons for the enrichment of us all. Everybody wins.
Don't give up yet. Carly's gone. They ship a linux diagnostic CD with every PC (and have for 10 years). All of their printers are supported because they contribute to the drivers under the GPL. Their website is "Gifted" but there's hope yet. AFAIK they're not shipping any "Microsoft software required" hardware yet. It looks like they know their friend in Redmond is one of many, and maybe not the most important one.
Thanks, Steve. We really didn't need another reminder that you're fucking us. Could you go throw a chair now or something?
Apparently, not so much.
Cute troll though... I see you got two Insightful out of it.
Look, you can read my comment history in case you're curious about whether or not I'm some Microsoft apologist. I'm not.
Some of those XP ISOs downloaded from Kazaa contain some unpleasant surprises. Just like Ubuntu, you need to get your installation media from a reliable source.
You know, if it was just 10% I could get behind you here. Unfortunately it appears it's more like 98% and that's a different kettle of penguins entirely.
The two purposes of an operating system are to manage system resources and to provide an abstraction for programs to access the hardware called an API. The purpose of an operating system is not to consume system resources. The purpose of an operating system's API is not to occult the functioning of the operating system in preference for one vendor's applications over another's. Since Vista fails two of two here, I'm giving it a "no go" in the "operating systems" category.
/Rating OS's since SVR3
//Stealing a Fark slashies meme
So if this was slashdot and you had a car analogy to compare operating systems, it would be a canary? Wait... you lost me.
Then you're really going to like Mojave Linux!
Grandma said it. Wikinonsense disagrees. Maybe it was allegory or parable. I'm going with Grandma here.
Sometimes the desired result of a bonfire is not thermal energy. So it is with fusion. There are byproducts and some are useful.
Actually, yes, he did. He managed to accomplish quite a lot. It's really amazing how much he achieved with his limited understanding. Scary even.
And the feeling (and the routing) is mutual.
Was my wireless router sharing my Internet with the whole neighborhood? I had no idea! It just came that way. I plugged it in and it worked. Somebody should do something about that.
Do you really want to try and use an Internet where every Windows user who bought his shiny laptop at Costco has a publicly addressable PC, rather than one that's behind a home NAT router? Really? Be careful what you wish for.
People who think like this are going to wait two years and then hire a consulting company to do a $250k study on the issue about whether or not it's time. Then in a nice catered meeting they'll discuss the powerpoint slides - with pie charts and bar charts made from numbers the consultants just made up. Knowledgeable organic employees will express an eager desire to move forward. They'll decide to wait. They'll do that every two years until the consultants explain "if you don't do it, your company will fail." At that point, there'll be a huge rip and replace operation that intermittently shuts down the business for six months and costs ten times what it should have.
<sigh>I wish I weren't speaking from experience here.</sigh>
If your company doesn't have a huge IP block, I recommend showing up at the SCO liquidation auction. Rumor has it they have a three-letter .com address and a HUGE block of IP addresses. For the .com I would recommend a pornsite. It'll be a while before the stink is worn off it.
NASA, oddly enough, already has an interplanetary network protocol. It seems to be working pretty well. Since it's a work of the US government licensing shouldn't be an issue. I don't know if it scales to billions of nodes yet, but then the Internet was once ten computers connected via serial cable. Anyhow, they've solved most of the issues of concern in your post.