Now more and more laptops seem to have both a nipple and a trackpad, like Dell ones (presumably so that they can pick up more sales from both camps).
Personally I like my NEC, with a trackpad + a scroll slider between the L and R buttons. Indespensable once you get used to it. (Just like a wheel mouse, who wants to go back now?)
"Now assuming this will be successful, spammers would have to move their bases offshore. How will we deal with that? I don't know."
Hell, as long as they move them somewhere with no due process of law and a $50 fine for executing a dirty worthless spammer, I think that we will win big time;o)
"Have you ever shot any modern automatic assault rifle?"
We are talking about a AK47, not a modern rifle.
The SA80 (which is a modern rifle) had full auto removed because no one ever hit anything with it. You get three round burst mode only. ISTR that the M16 is the same.
"Look at the AK-47. Name a particularly good reason why you need a fully automatic (automagic) weapon. Having a firearm is enough, no?
Because I want to. Now, name a particularly good reason why I shouldn't. I'm trained in handling, marksmanship, and am not a felon."
Obviously not well trained enough to know that most AK47s are not fully automatic weapons (without modification) and that fully auto is fucking stupid anyway unless you have a decent mounting and/or biceps the size of a small city.
ITYM if they stopped forking over ever competition to Boeing and/or Lockheed and started giving them to people who knew how to build things on time and to budget.
The so called technology consists basically of two key inovations:
1) Use a pointy tip made of somethign hard. 2) Throw it faster.
In related news it has been announced that the US military has patented their new technology 'the wheel'. A spokesman said 'we couldn't believe, like, that this thing hadn't been thought of before'.
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You get to use the code without restriction. This is good for you.
The code gets the contributions* you make without restriction. This is good for the code.
The GPL is a symbiotic relationship that is fair, promotes development and makes sure that no one is taken advantage of.
IMO the BSDL is perfect for a perfect world, and the GPL is perfect for the world we live in.
*Even just using it is a contribution, as high usage can inspire developers etc.
DSL is about the same as cable, but unquestionably better for most people who have a choice.
DSL is capped at 512 down 256 up, cable 600/128 (for most home users).
The extra upload bandwidth for DSL users it a boon for geeky types, as it makes saturation harder, but 128 is ok for home use.
Cable in the UK however is almost without exception:
Servers restricted or banned. Download caps of 1gb/day. Horrible contention at peak times. For many users, when the 201st person logs onto their cable section all the users get booted off. Bad news and mail service. Trasparent (slow) proxy/cache for http. Single dynamic IP. SMTP capture/redirects. 24 hour (in the phone queue) tech support. Crap modems which need rebooting once a day. MAC address locking, one host connected only.
For the same price as cable on DSL you get (this exculdes users of BT Openwoe, but with DSL you can choose your ISP):
Servers ok. Almost no contention (avg rates at peak time are 460k/sec). 1 static IP address. Good mail and news service. No SMTP or HTTP proxy. No download caps. Very high reliability. Choose your own modem, which works. No MAC address locking and positive support for NAT DSL gateway users.
And for less than £5/mth more than cable you get (in addition):
8 static IP addresses (/29). Decent technical support 9-5.
And if you live in London, for an additional £10/mth you get 2mb down during off peak hours. Sweet!
Which ones suck so badly?
Hancom office is pretty good, and Opera is excellent. Good enough that I took them with me when I moved to OZ3.2 anyway.
Handwriting recognition is, IMO, better than the palms and there are no serious gaps in the software library.
Show me another palm top on which I can run octave, qplot (or similar) and everything else covered by Opie* and then something else I need and you may have a point, but I doubt that you can.
175? My Zaurus has a 200mhz arm, and the new one has a 400mhz xscale.
The next version (2004) is going to have an 800mhz xscale in it, as well as 256mb of ram! That would have significantly outperformed most computers in use in 2002 and been a top end spec in 2000.
(And the screen is better (on the xscale400 model) than that on many current laptops as well, smaller, but you can still get more information onto it in a readable format.)
"That's not the deal they signed with Microsoft. The deal says that the company pays Microsoft a ton of money in exchange for using their software and technical support of that software. It would be nice if MS gave them a break for all the time the support staff spent dealing with bugs, but that wasn't the deal. If you even proposed that deal I would bet that MS would tell you to get lost. "What are you going to do? Not use Office?""
And there we have the exact reason that Microsoft should be broken up and some sanity returned to the market.
The software industry is fundamentally broken, and needs fixing.
"Businesses like fire and forget solutions, they don't care about the politics of it. And for all its flaws, Windows is quick and easy to get going."
It is also quick and easy to stop as well - _one_ virus got into our network at work last week, causing a security clampdown (no transfers in to the secret ares, which were unaffected thank god). 10,000 workstations were rendered useless for over 10 days while a large number of IT staff worked on the issue. (The PDC and other core services were hit.)
The same effort put in developing a Linux solution would have stopped this happenind, and IMP unplanned downtime is a lot worse than planned downtime.
"Don't get me wrong, I run several FreeBSD servers and prefer the ports system over RPM."
Linux has now stolen the ports system and done a pretty good job of it becuase RPM does indeed fellate not only donkeys, but dead donkeys.
I will not be kicking BSD off my server any time soon, but for a desktop Gentoo (and indeed Source Mage, Lunar Linux, the no-longer-GPL Sourcery, and to a lesser extent Debian) is pretty polished.
"This isn't the first time. Microsoft offers its technologies on other platforms when they don't have a monopoly. FrontPage server extensions have been available for Apache for quite some time, for example."
Indeed - there seems to be something of a pattern here. When you cannot dominate a market, subvert it to support your monoploy somewhere else. When IIS flunked, they needed to make sure that Frontpage users could carry on as promised - so they didn't loose market to Macromedia or others, forcing them to support Apache to protect their desktop monopoly.
Now that they have failed in the embedded market they are forced to supply their player for Linux (in the most restrictive way they can get away with no doubt) to retain their desktop monopoly and help them get even more lock in for DRM in the near future.
"Realplayer is a horrible piece of software, with an applaing UI, sneaky terms and conditions and worst of all poor quality playback."
On the contrary, for Linux at least, RealOne is pretty good - with no spyware, good video for the filesize, excellent audio over DSL and they seem to be moving the way of opening up the system slowly.
I still prefer ogg, but real is ok where it isn't available.
I brought my monitors sight unsees (holding my breath - as it was around £700 worth) and when they turned up both were in perfect condition with no dead pixels:o)
Just for reference they were GNR ones, with Samsung innards.
However, if roulette is not your game, try buying from CTX, Apple or IBM, all of whom will keep exchanging your TFTs until you get perfect ones - especially good is the Apple refurb store as you get the same gaurentee as a new one on a £600, 23" TFT. The gotcha is the fact that you will have to buy a £75 DVI-ADC converter which only Apple sell.
Only in America - in the civilised world we lust after the TVR Tuscan S (http://www.tvr.co.uk/ - needs flash - or http://www.b-link.co.uk/talkingtvr/gallery/tuscanp age01.htm - which does not).
It goes fast and doesn't consume more fuel than a supersonic fighter w/reheat:o)
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Then anyone could have harvested and used those addresses, diluting the value of the investment.
Maxis really should have slapped a patent on this idea when they thought it up for SSim City 2000...
Didn't Toshiba do it first?
Now more and more laptops seem to have both a nipple and a trackpad, like Dell ones (presumably so that they can pick up more sales from both camps).
Personally I like my NEC, with a trackpad + a scroll slider between the L and R buttons. Indespensable once you get used to it. (Just like a wheel mouse, who wants to go back now?)
"Now assuming this will be successful, spammers would have to move their bases offshore. How will we deal with that? I don't know."
;o)
Hell, as long as they move them somewhere with no due process of law and a $50 fine for executing a dirty worthless spammer, I think that we will win big time
"Have you ever shot any modern automatic assault rifle?"
We are talking about a AK47, not a modern rifle.
The SA80 (which is a modern rifle) had full auto removed because no one ever hit anything with it. You get three round burst mode only. ISTR that the M16 is the same.
"Look at the AK-47. Name a particularly good reason why you need a fully automatic (automagic) weapon. Having a firearm is enough, no?
Because I want to. Now, name a particularly good reason why I shouldn't. I'm trained in handling, marksmanship, and am not a felon."
Obviously not well trained enough to know that most AK47s are not fully automatic weapons (without modification) and that fully auto is fucking stupid anyway unless you have a decent mounting and/or biceps the size of a small city.
ITYM if they stopped forking over ever competition to Boeing and/or Lockheed and started giving them to people who knew how to build things on time and to budget.
The so called technology consists basically of two key inovations:
1) Use a pointy tip made of somethign hard.
2) Throw it faster.
In related news it has been announced that the US military has patented their new technology 'the wheel'. A spokesman said 'we couldn't believe, like, that this thing hadn't been thought of before'.
You get to use the code without restriction. This is good for you.
The code gets the contributions* you make without restriction. This is good for the code.
The GPL is a symbiotic relationship that is fair, promotes development and makes sure that no one is taken advantage of.
IMO the BSDL is perfect for a perfect world, and the GPL is perfect for the world we live in.
*Even just using it is a contribution, as high usage can inspire developers etc.
DSL is about the same as cable, but unquestionably better for most people who have a choice.
:o)
DSL is capped at 512 down 256 up, cable 600/128 (for most home users).
The extra upload bandwidth for DSL users it a boon for geeky types, as it makes saturation harder, but 128 is ok for home use.
Cable in the UK however is almost without exception:
Servers restricted or banned.
Download caps of 1gb/day.
Horrible contention at peak times.
For many users, when the 201st person logs onto their cable section all the users get booted off.
Bad news and mail service.
Trasparent (slow) proxy/cache for http.
Single dynamic IP.
SMTP capture/redirects.
24 hour (in the phone queue) tech support.
Crap modems which need rebooting once a day.
MAC address locking, one host connected only.
For the same price as cable on DSL you get (this exculdes users of BT Openwoe, but with DSL you can choose your ISP):
Servers ok.
Almost no contention (avg rates at peak time are 460k/sec).
1 static IP address.
Good mail and news service.
No SMTP or HTTP proxy.
No download caps.
Very high reliability.
Choose your own modem, which works.
No MAC address locking and positive support for NAT DSL gateway users.
And for less than £5/mth more than cable you get (in addition):
8 static IP addresses (/29).
Decent technical support 9-5.
And if you live in London, for an additional £10/mth you get 2mb down during off peak hours. Sweet!
I will never change to cable
So any Linux using peadophiles are going to jail then? After all, they can't plead trojan.
That might well happen... when McDs lobbies for it and gets themselves an excemption via a specially paid for loop hole.
Got to love the land of the free.
You forgot that they need to make all transactions anonymous, so that we can carry on using P2P in peace :o)
Which ones suck so badly? Hancom office is pretty good, and Opera is excellent. Good enough that I took them with me when I moved to OZ3.2 anyway. Handwriting recognition is, IMO, better than the palms and there are no serious gaps in the software library. Show me another palm top on which I can run octave, qplot (or similar) and everything else covered by Opie* and then something else I need and you may have a point, but I doubt that you can.
175? My Zaurus has a 200mhz arm, and the new one has a 400mhz xscale.
The next version (2004) is going to have an 800mhz xscale in it, as well as 256mb of ram! That would have significantly outperformed most computers in use in 2002 and been a top end spec in 2000.
(And the screen is better (on the xscale400 model) than that on many current laptops as well, smaller, but you can still get more information onto it in a readable format.)
"I bet if you talk to most people and ask what they associate Phoenix with, it will be the mythical bird or the city, not the browser."
;o)
That probably changed after Harry Potter 2 - now what most people will assossciate it with is probably Fawkes
"That's not the deal they signed with Microsoft. The deal says that the company pays Microsoft a ton of money in exchange for using their software and technical support of that software. It would be nice if MS gave them a break for all the time the support staff spent dealing with bugs, but that wasn't the deal. If you even proposed that deal I would bet that MS would tell you to get lost. "What are you going to do? Not use Office?""
And there we have the exact reason that Microsoft should be broken up and some sanity returned to the market.
The software industry is fundamentally broken, and needs fixing.
"Businesses like fire and forget solutions, they don't care about the politics of it. And for all its flaws, Windows is quick and easy to get going."
It is also quick and easy to stop as well - _one_ virus got into our network at work last week, causing a security clampdown (no transfers in to the secret ares, which were unaffected thank god). 10,000 workstations were rendered useless for over 10 days while a large number of IT staff worked on the issue. (The PDC and other core services were hit.)
The same effort put in developing a Linux solution would have stopped this happenind, and IMP unplanned downtime is a lot worse than planned downtime.
"Don't get me wrong, I run several FreeBSD servers and prefer the ports system over RPM."
Linux has now stolen the ports system and done a pretty good job of it becuase RPM does indeed fellate not only donkeys, but dead donkeys.
I will not be kicking BSD off my server any time soon, but for a desktop Gentoo (and indeed Source Mage, Lunar Linux, the no-longer-GPL Sourcery, and to a lesser extent Debian) is pretty polished.
"This isn't the first time. Microsoft offers its technologies on other platforms when they don't have a monopoly. FrontPage server extensions have been available for Apache for quite some time, for example."
Indeed - there seems to be something of a pattern here. When you cannot dominate a market, subvert it to support your monoploy somewhere else. When IIS flunked, they needed to make sure that Frontpage users could carry on as promised - so they didn't loose market to Macromedia or others, forcing them to support Apache to protect their desktop monopoly.
Now that they have failed in the embedded market they are forced to supply their player for Linux (in the most restrictive way they can get away with no doubt) to retain their desktop monopoly and help them get even more lock in for DRM in the near future.
"Realplayer is a horrible piece of software, with an applaing UI, sneaky terms and conditions and worst of all poor quality playback."
On the contrary, for Linux at least, RealOne is pretty good - with no spyware, good video for the filesize, excellent audio over DSL and they seem to be moving the way of opening up the system slowly.
I still prefer ogg, but real is ok where it isn't available.
I brought my monitors sight unsees (holding my breath - as it was around £700 worth) and when they turned up both were in perfect condition with no dead pixels :o)
Just for reference they were GNR ones, with Samsung innards.
However, if roulette is not your game, try buying from CTX, Apple or IBM, all of whom will keep exchanging your TFTs until you get perfect ones - especially good is the Apple refurb store as you get the same gaurentee as a new one on a £600, 23" TFT. The gotcha is the fact that you will have to buy a £75 DVI-ADC converter which only Apple sell.
I beg to differ - the DRI drivers are open source (although the official ATI drivers are binary, they do support the DRI project).
http://dri.sourceforge.net/
This differes from NVidia, who don't even release the API information.
The new (free) ATI drivers now work fine AFAICT - ut2003 works as well on my ATI 9700 as it does on my GF4 4800.
My new cards will all be ATI from now on, unless NV make their driver open source soon.
Only in America - in the civilised world we lust after the TVR Tuscan S (http://www.tvr.co.uk/ - needs flash - or http://www.b-link.co.uk/talkingtvr/gallery/tuscanp age01.htm - which does not).
:o)
It goes fast and doesn't consume more fuel than a supersonic fighter w/reheat