however even if they do go bankrupt, that doesn't mean that can't be sued. Only if they fold completely, and SCO ceases to exist does that occur, and even then it is still sometimes possible to sue the owner of the company.
If I were the owner I would be very nervous right now..
not to flame, but you obviously missed the part where he said he needed a calculator because the class he is taking doesn't want people yanking out a laptop during the test.
That said, I agree that no calculator can match a decent computer, especially one with a good math package.
Just for the record:
Republicans (which is what I presume you mean by right-wing) levy and support taxes as much as left-wingers.
Tax-evading: nope! Just because I don't like it doesn't mean I break the law on this issue. I would rather change the law.
Neo-NAZI?: nope, but I'm not sure why this applies to my comment.
hick: well, now that you mention it...nope. I for one consider myself fairly well educated (of course I am assuming you mean that hicks are not educated, or some such tripe). In fact I'm not sure I see this relationship either.
All said, I don't think that all taxes need to be abolished, just the ones that the constitution didn't allow for, which is the vast majority (a school tax? oh come off it--the constitution does not guarantee education, and most of us would have a better one if we had gone through private schools).
The real question, tho, is why did I waste my time feeding the troll?
ACk! why use a qwerty based layout? QWERTY was designed to slow typists down, since old typewriters couldn't keep up with ultra-fast typists. Sure the concept of pc keyboarding helping is nice (technically this is called priming, borrowed from pouring water down a pump to start it going), but priming effects only go so far, and are frequently cancelled out by other cognitive and linguistic factors (such as letter frequency in any given set of words).
The layout you show in your link is interesting, but hardly the best imagineable. The real comparison would be to a dvorak layout, or something similar.
I imagine a fairly simple test of this--change only the layout and give the sorry things to 500 different people. You could either do this as a repeated measures expirement (where each subject gets both designs, with half getting one design first, and the other half getting the second design first), or as a independent measures (where everyone only gets one of the layouts).
Either design is valid, but shows slightly different things. Either way a simple statistical test would show you which layout was better, with your dependent variable being the number of words "typed" per minute, using a fairly lengthy set word set.
This is the kind of process real usability folks (frequently applied (human factors) psychologists) use. Until I see the hard data, I reserve judgement, but I don't know that I would predict one over the other just based on priming.
true, but since many of the comments on the thread were talking about taxes, I figure'd I'd address the topic. But this illustrates a point: we are so used to getting slapped with wild and uncontrolled taxes, that most people are rather unexcited about the whole thing, when they should be madder than a unwilling eunuch.
However, even with this "regulatory cost", they are still cheaper than most phone companies--and will remain so until they gain enough of the market to sustain monopoly-like practices, OR the management loses its collective head up it collective...ahem!
I disagree with the practice of making non-tax items appear as taxes, but since most do it, vote with your dollars and buy the cheapest or most ethical one--whichever is more important to you!
I don't want more taxes. Period. None. In as many ways as you can think of. Even if it means cutting certain non-essential services. Even if it means that the government must undergo radical change! (perhaps especially in that case)
That all said, if vonage must pay the tax, then it is fair that they pass on the EXACT amount of the tax to the consumer, unless it is a tax on PROFITS. Tax on revenue should be passed on to the consumer, PROVIDED THAT THEY WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE PASSING THIS ON TO ANOTHER BUSINESS (read: partner). I am in favor of this, but in general oppose all taxes. The government should be able to charge for all non-essential services, and maintain a low enough tax to provide for police and fire at the state/city level and military at the government level.
While we're at it, lets reorganize the military so that a wrench doesn't cost $500 (I may be exaggerating, but military spending budgets are out of control, and should be roped in).
I have to say that your post, along with numerous others, typifies the exact attitude that is allowing politicians to continually eat away at American paychecks. We are continually saying (we being Americans in general) to the government how much we hate taxes, but please, oh PLEASE, fix our problems. Give us more free stuff.
Except that its not free. It IS redistribution of wealth, or better yet, legalized theft. Yep that's right, you have here a believer in the idea of capitalism and personal liberty.
I personally believe that if the government would stay out of peoples lives except to provide certain basic services that the constitution calls for, such as police, fire and possibly ambulance, we would all be much better off.
We would all have more money in our pockets at the end of the day, and frankly , more people would feel able and willing to donate to special private charities that could easily take the place of the governments social welfare programs.
Mod up, mod me down, I don't really care. But I for one welcome any law that reduces the states' ability to pass new taxes. I don't necessarily agree with Bush's policy on spending--in the most essential ways, Republicans are the same as Democrats: they both love to spend American tax dollars like it is water.
In the end, we will only be saved when people decide to get rid of the money pigs and stand up for their rights.
According to some, the question is the answer...maybe sun sees java as what so many claim it is.. a bloated resource hog.
My self, I think java is useful, and interesting, and it fills a niche, but its certainly not good for running FPS games.
Re:I love the smell of maggots in the morning...
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PETA---People for the Eating of Tasty Animals...Right?
NAH, my mom doesn't use a computer. In fact, all jokes aside, she probably would be more comfortable with an abacus than a calculator.
Now, my brothers do ask for advice, but its usually something beyond my skill (what do you do when a laptop won't even post).
Oh, well.
Having not used ati's cards under linux--don't own one--I can't say exactly what their support or performance is like.
However, I can say that I strongly disagree, and feel that nVidias offering in linux arena has improved tremendously in the past year.
They are now releasing windows-equivalent versions, offering an easy to use installer, and run a massive forum for users. Can ATI say the same?
All that said, however, platform support is only a marginal issue to the real question of performance. An important question, but still not the issue of this article.
As for which one performs best, until I see a proven independent third party (which most hardware review sites are not), I will base my decision on what seems to be the consensus: nVidia rocks for the money! ATI is good, but from what I hear, no quite as good.
THat last part, though, has no grounding whatsoever in statistically (or otherwise) proven facts, because I simply do not have them (and from what I can tell, neither does anyone else, even ATI & nVidia)!
I have to disagree with you, and support the previous poster to some extent. With a child, especially a newborn, a large part of their sleeping habits are determined by the parent, but not all. This is not fully empirical, but think about this: I know people with several children who state that their first child slept through the night very soon after birth, but a subsequent child did not. That is the thing, for me at least, that will make you feel 20 years older in just 6 weeks--getting up three or four times every night. If you are doing this with your child (who I assume is now about 2 years old), and still feel younger, then you need to let us know what miracle drug/therapy you are using, because I need some of that. This, of course, from the perspective of someone who has a 19 month old, and a second one due in October. Sleeping next to a pregnant woman is not condusive to good, restful sleep.
There is a serious drawback to this: you can't directly access the BIOS. This, in turn, makes it easier for a nameless company in Redmond to make it impossible for you to replace their POS with a real OS. (Sorry for the flame wars this will ignite)
I am in favor of the idea of "instant boot", much like a TV, but there are drawbacks, and until someone guarantees a workaround (and a reasonable one at that), I am not all that interested. Sorry.
Your absolutely right, which is why you should never ! trust a study that does not inform you of sampling methods, research design, and agendas. If you ignore these, then you run the risk of being a fool. Further more, statistics can be manipulated, even if they are still mathematically correct, they may be theoretically in left field with some hooker (which is what I suspect is happening here).
If you want the truth, even those supposedly large and sizable companies with good reputations are not always very good at pulling of unbiased research. After all, if your boss tells you that you get a bonus to find a certain outcome (or the company will get 25 mil) you will tend to arrange your findings to support that outcome.
It happens in politics, corporations, and just about every setting you can imagine. Fortunately there are some principaled organizations that do this correctly, and let people know this up front. And I applaud them. and hope to work there once I finish my master's.
Also to say that they dont display talent on that album makes me think you arent that knowledgeable of music.
LOL.....
wait, I'm still laughing...
Okay...
All right, now I can type. Your assertion, rightfully done as AC, indicates that you don't really know musicians all that well either. Perhaps you know music, but not musicians. Stating that Kirk has run low on notes to play is like saying that a fish is suddenly tired of swimming or something.
When you play, you play because its what you are (let the flame wars begin), and to suggest that he has after all this time lost his desire or creativity is absurd--except for one tiny problem, the abulm is not that good. Certainly not like the days when they had bass god Burton around. I like Newsted, but he was not Burton. And the new guy? DEFINITELY NOT BURTON.
There in lies the problem. It's not that Metallica has lost their musical ability--but that they no longer have the raw edge that made them what they were (not are, that was something else). In the beginning they were about two things: music and fans. The money was great, I'm sure, but it certainly wasn't about "intellectual property".
Now, however, they whine about fans stealing music, and they harp about the evils of P2P, when they know that the whole idea of bands like theirs is to make music that people enjoy.
If you don't care if people like your music, then don't complain about not making money. But when people indicate that they like your music, let them see you, and have your music. Do a tour, and have some concerts. YOU WILL MAKE MUCH MORE MONEY THIS WAY!
Maybe, just maybe, you won't be able to sell albums, but really, does it hurt your bottom line? The only time that you are justified in being outraged about the use of your music is when someone else makes money of it without your consent or knowledge.
END RANT
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Interesting that you should mention Clemson, since I also know that they use a similar (though not exactly the same) setup for the driving lab in the Psych Department. They don't have them clustered quite the same, but essentially you have a control box (for the steering and pedals) connected to a relay, which converts the signal to 10/100, which then runs the signal out to 4 different computers that each run one screen for the "car". These are all linux boxes, and there is a final box running windows that is used for setting up scenarios and monitoring subjects' responses. It's really a sweet system.
LOL, Your only paranoid if the conspiracy isn't real, RIGHT?
Unfortunately you are probably correct in that this will be used to restrict individual freedom, rather than corporate misbehavior.
Re:Could be used on cellphones, too.
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Not really.
Cell phones, for various reasons, are not a good use of this. Partly for security purposes. If your cell phone packets are transmitted (or worse internet packets) to other phones, they can be tapped and utilized. This can be secured, but requires that we implement yet another level of complexity, making it that much harder to secure.
Secondly, as someone else mentioned replying to this idea, battery life is an issue.
Other problems, such as frequency, multiple carriers, and even the tech used to broadcast the signal. If you do wireless, as I am sure many here do more competently than I, you know that there are many methods of dealing with non-line-of-sight situations. While using the phones themselves would be nice, they typically have far less power to transmit than a tower.
In a recent news story I heard from Neal Boortz, he mentioned a guy from France trying to row across the Atlantic. This guy capsized, and used his cell phone to call his mother, who then contacted the coast guard. He was about 100 miles of the coast of New England.
Comparitively, my brother (who actually owns a business installing cell equipment on towers), can hardly get cell service at our mother's place, which is in the boonies, yes, but within about a mile of several towers. The problem is hills, which interfere with you frenel zone.
As for using nodes like you talk about, this is actually true in some cities. If you live in New York, then I doubt you'll see too many "towers", but most cell equipment will be on a building.
Out in the country, the houses are too far apart to be useful (this is why WISPS have trouble out of the city too). Outside of the suburbs, using tech in this manner is not practical, and inside the burbs, towers are tall enough to actually hit most houses.
Great idea, but in the end not very practical or useful. Sorry.
Actually, having just worked on building one, they do just fine. The issue is NOT building in all out of concrete, if so CA would not allow any concrete buildings. The way to deal with seismic activity is rooted in your foundation and whatnot. If you handle that correctly, then you don't need to worry about the concrete, which has much better structural integrity than wood, even the manufactured tgi's.
There are other advantages to ICF's though. You can build the entire walls and roof without any inside walls, and then do your inner wall structure. This means that you can change the layout if you want.
The ICF's also have much better insulation than is possible with a stick frame.
See my previous post, but the Tyan board I reference there has both 64bit PCI/PCI-X and AGP. IT also uses ECC memory, and is dual proc. holds 16GB RAM. You should really check it out. Much better than the nforce referenced models that I have seen. It is not Via, but rather AMD based, as is typical with Tyan.
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however even if they do go bankrupt, that doesn't mean that can't be sued. Only if they fold completely, and SCO ceases to exist does that occur, and even then it is still sometimes possible to sue the owner of the company.
If I were the owner I would be very nervous right now..
not to flame, but you obviously missed the part where he said he needed a calculator because the class he is taking doesn't want people yanking out a laptop during the test.
That said, I agree that no calculator can match a decent computer, especially one with a good math package.
clark who? If I am going vote him for pres, i need a full name.
but it should be...not that it can't be fixed with a physical access to the CPU, but hey...
Just for the record: Republicans (which is what I presume you mean by right-wing) levy and support taxes as much as left-wingers. Tax-evading: nope! Just because I don't like it doesn't mean I break the law on this issue. I would rather change the law. Neo-NAZI?: nope, but I'm not sure why this applies to my comment. hick: well, now that you mention it...nope. I for one consider myself fairly well educated (of course I am assuming you mean that hicks are not educated, or some such tripe). In fact I'm not sure I see this relationship either. All said, I don't think that all taxes need to be abolished, just the ones that the constitution didn't allow for, which is the vast majority (a school tax? oh come off it--the constitution does not guarantee education, and most of us would have a better one if we had gone through private schools). The real question, tho, is why did I waste my time feeding the troll?
ACk!
why use a qwerty based layout? QWERTY was designed to slow typists down, since old typewriters couldn't keep up with ultra-fast typists. Sure the concept of pc keyboarding helping is nice (technically this is called priming, borrowed from pouring water down a pump to start it going), but priming effects only go so far, and are frequently cancelled out by other cognitive and linguistic factors (such as letter frequency in any given set of words).
The layout you show in your link is interesting, but hardly the best imagineable. The real comparison would be to a dvorak layout, or something similar.
I imagine a fairly simple test of this--change only the layout and give the sorry things to 500 different people. You could either do this as a repeated measures expirement (where each subject gets both designs, with half getting one design first, and the other half getting the second design first), or as a independent measures (where everyone only gets one of the layouts).
Either design is valid, but shows slightly different things. Either way a simple statistical test would show you which layout was better, with your dependent variable being the number of words "typed" per minute, using a fairly lengthy set word set.
This is the kind of process real usability folks (frequently applied (human factors) psychologists) use. Until I see the hard data, I reserve judgement, but I don't know that I would predict one over the other just based on priming.
true, but since many of the comments on the thread were talking about taxes, I figure'd I'd address the topic.
But this illustrates a point: we are so used to getting slapped with wild and uncontrolled taxes, that most people are rather unexcited about the whole thing, when they should be madder than a unwilling eunuch.
However, even with this "regulatory cost", they are still cheaper than most phone companies--and will remain so until they gain enough of the market to sustain monopoly-like practices, OR the management loses its collective head up it collective...ahem!
I disagree with the practice of making non-tax items appear as taxes, but since most do it, vote with your dollars and buy the cheapest or most ethical one--whichever is more important to you!
I don't want more taxes. Period. None. In as many ways as you can think of. Even if it means cutting certain non-essential services. Even if it means that the government must undergo radical change! (perhaps especially in that case)
That all said, if vonage must pay the tax, then it is fair that they pass on the EXACT amount of the tax to the consumer, unless it is a tax on PROFITS. Tax on revenue should be passed on to the consumer, PROVIDED THAT THEY WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE PASSING THIS ON TO ANOTHER BUSINESS (read: partner). I am in favor of this, but in general oppose all taxes. The government should be able to charge for all non-essential services, and maintain a low enough tax to provide for police and fire at the state/city level and military at the government level.
While we're at it, lets reorganize the military so that a wrench doesn't cost $500 (I may be exaggerating, but military spending budgets are out of control, and should be roped in).
Any questions?
YIKES!
I have to say that your post, along with numerous others, typifies the exact attitude that is allowing politicians to continually eat away at American paychecks. We are continually saying (we being Americans in general) to the government how much we hate taxes, but please, oh PLEASE, fix our problems. Give us more free stuff.
Except that its not free. It IS redistribution of wealth, or better yet, legalized theft. Yep that's right, you have here a believer in the idea of capitalism and personal liberty.
I personally believe that if the government would stay out of peoples lives except to provide certain basic services that the constitution calls for, such as police, fire and possibly ambulance, we would all be much better off.
We would all have more money in our pockets at the end of the day, and frankly , more people would feel able and willing to donate to special private charities that could easily take the place of the governments social welfare programs.
Mod up, mod me down, I don't really care. But I for one welcome any law that reduces the states' ability to pass new taxes. I don't necessarily agree with Bush's policy on spending--in the most essential ways, Republicans are the same as Democrats: they both love to spend American tax dollars like it is water.
In the end, we will only be saved when people decide to get rid of the money pigs and stand up for their rights.
According to some, the question is the answer...maybe sun sees java as what so many claim it is.. a bloated resource hog. My self, I think java is useful, and interesting, and it fills a niche, but its certainly not good for running FPS games.
PETA---People for the Eating of Tasty Animals...Right?
NAH, my mom doesn't use a computer. In fact, all jokes aside, she probably would be more comfortable with an abacus than a calculator. Now, my brothers do ask for advice, but its usually something beyond my skill (what do you do when a laptop won't even post). Oh, well.
Having not used ati's cards under linux--don't own one--I can't say exactly what their support or performance is like. However, I can say that I strongly disagree, and feel that nVidias offering in linux arena has improved tremendously in the past year. They are now releasing windows-equivalent versions, offering an easy to use installer, and run a massive forum for users. Can ATI say the same? All that said, however, platform support is only a marginal issue to the real question of performance. An important question, but still not the issue of this article. As for which one performs best, until I see a proven independent third party (which most hardware review sites are not), I will base my decision on what seems to be the consensus: nVidia rocks for the money! ATI is good, but from what I hear, no quite as good. THat last part, though, has no grounding whatsoever in statistically (or otherwise) proven facts, because I simply do not have them (and from what I can tell, neither does anyone else, even ATI & nVidia)!
Have you not used SuSe linux? v7.1 (or whichever) has a 7 discs and one bootable DVD...
I have to disagree with you, and support the previous poster to some extent.
With a child, especially a newborn, a large part of their sleeping habits are determined by the parent, but not all. This is not fully empirical, but think about this: I know people with several children who state that their first child slept through the night very soon after birth, but a subsequent child did not.
That is the thing, for me at least, that will make you feel 20 years older in just 6 weeks--getting up three or four times every night.
If you are doing this with your child (who I assume is now about 2 years old), and still feel younger, then you need to let us know what miracle drug/therapy you are using, because I need some of that.
This, of course, from the perspective of someone who has a 19 month old, and a second one due in October. Sleeping next to a pregnant woman is not condusive to good, restful sleep.
There is a serious drawback to this: you can't directly access the BIOS. This, in turn, makes it easier for a nameless company in Redmond to make it impossible for you to replace their POS with a real OS. (Sorry for the flame wars this will ignite)
I am in favor of the idea of "instant boot", much like a TV, but there are drawbacks, and until someone guarantees a workaround (and a reasonable one at that), I am not all that interested. Sorry.
Your absolutely right, which is why you should never ! trust a study that does not inform you of sampling methods, research design, and agendas. If you ignore these, then you run the risk of being a fool. Further more, statistics can be manipulated, even if they are still mathematically correct, they may be theoretically in left field with some hooker (which is what I suspect is happening here).
If you want the truth, even those supposedly large and sizable companies with good reputations are not always very good at pulling of unbiased research. After all, if your boss tells you that you get a bonus to find a certain outcome (or the company will get 25 mil) you will tend to arrange your findings to support that outcome.
It happens in politics, corporations, and just about every setting you can imagine. Fortunately there are some principaled organizations that do this correctly, and let people know this up front. And I applaud them. and hope to work there once I finish my master's.
Also to say that they dont display talent on that album makes me think you arent that knowledgeable of music. LOL.....
wait, I'm still laughing...
Okay...
All right, now I can type. Your assertion, rightfully done as AC, indicates that you don't really know musicians all that well either. Perhaps you know music, but not musicians. Stating that Kirk has run low on notes to play is like saying that a fish is suddenly tired of swimming or something.
When you play, you play because its what you are (let the flame wars begin), and to suggest that he has after all this time lost his desire or creativity is absurd--except for one tiny problem, the abulm is not that good. Certainly not like the days when they had bass god Burton around. I like Newsted, but he was not Burton. And the new guy? DEFINITELY NOT BURTON.
There in lies the problem. It's not that Metallica has lost their musical ability--but that they no longer have the raw edge that made them what they were (not are, that was something else). In the beginning they were about two things: music and fans. The money was great, I'm sure, but it certainly wasn't about "intellectual property".
Now, however, they whine about fans stealing music, and they harp about the evils of P2P, when they know that the whole idea of bands like theirs is to make music that people enjoy.
If you don't care if people like your music, then don't complain about not making money. But when people indicate that they like your music, let them see you, and have your music. Do a tour, and have some concerts. YOU WILL MAKE MUCH MORE MONEY THIS WAY!
Maybe, just maybe, you won't be able to sell albums, but really, does it hurt your bottom line? The only time that you are justified in being outraged about the use of your music is when someone else makes money of it without your consent or knowledge.
END RANT
Interesting that you should mention Clemson, since I also know that they use a similar (though not exactly the same) setup for the driving lab in the Psych Department. They don't have them clustered quite the same, but essentially you have a control box (for the steering and pedals) connected to a relay, which converts the signal to 10/100, which then runs the signal out to 4 different computers that each run one screen for the "car". These are all linux boxes, and there is a final box running windows that is used for setting up scenarios and monitoring subjects' responses.
It's really a sweet system.
LOL, Your only paranoid if the conspiracy isn't real, RIGHT?
Unfortunately you are probably correct in that this will be used to restrict individual freedom, rather than corporate misbehavior.
Not really.
Cell phones, for various reasons, are not a good use of this. Partly for security purposes. If your cell phone packets are transmitted (or worse internet packets) to other phones, they can be tapped and utilized. This can be secured, but requires that we implement yet another level of complexity, making it that much harder to secure.
Secondly, as someone else mentioned replying to this idea, battery life is an issue.
Other problems, such as frequency, multiple carriers, and even the tech used to broadcast the signal. If you do wireless, as I am sure many here do more competently than I, you know that there are many methods of dealing with non-line-of-sight situations. While using the phones themselves would be nice, they typically have far less power to transmit than a tower.
In a recent news story I heard from Neal Boortz, he mentioned a guy from France trying to row across the Atlantic. This guy capsized, and used his cell phone to call his mother, who then contacted the coast guard. He was about 100 miles of the coast of New England.
Comparitively, my brother (who actually owns a business installing cell equipment on towers), can hardly get cell service at our mother's place, which is in the boonies, yes, but within about a mile of several towers. The problem is hills, which interfere with you frenel zone.
As for using nodes like you talk about, this is actually true in some cities. If you live in New York, then I doubt you'll see too many "towers", but most cell equipment will be on a building.
Out in the country, the houses are too far apart to be useful (this is why WISPS have trouble out of the city too). Outside of the suburbs, using tech in this manner is not practical, and inside the burbs, towers are tall enough to actually hit most houses.
Great idea, but in the end not very practical or useful. Sorry.
Actually, having just worked on building one, they do just fine. The issue is NOT building in all out of concrete, if so CA would not allow any concrete buildings. The way to deal with seismic activity is rooted in your foundation and whatnot. If you handle that correctly, then you don't need to worry about the concrete, which has much better structural integrity than wood, even the manufactured tgi's.
There are other advantages to ICF's though. You can build the entire walls and roof without any inside walls, and then do your inner wall structure. This means that you can change the layout if you want.
The ICF's also have much better insulation than is possible with a stick frame.
NO, there really is a free version. You can also get a paid version though.
See my previous post, but the Tyan board I reference there has both 64bit PCI/PCI-X and AGP. IT also uses ECC memory, and is dual proc. holds 16GB RAM. You should really check it out. Much better than the nforce referenced models that I have seen. It is not Via, but rather AMD based, as is typical with Tyan.
bah I use windowmaker with both gnome and kde apps. it starts up much faster, and I can live with the very few defincies that i have found.