Why would anybody want to use a linux distro based on an old developers version of the kernel?
It's the only one that they had time to make sure that all their code was removed so that they wouldn't invalidate their desire to be distributing "their" code under the GPL.
That and it's a conversation piece (as you just made it). Who the fuck would care if they said, "we're going to release Caldera on 2.6?" Not many more people than would give a shit if they released it on 2.7 but at least it got our attention for a short time.
Now, the other question, asked in the blurb, does anyone really care? No, no one cares. No one cared when the first Caldera versions came out and no one cares now. Other distributions are way ahead of whatever SCO could come up with and the rest of us are still running what we've been running comfortably for years.
Right. The staggering number of sexual crimes against women and girls are because the victim is "stupid about sex" This MUST be why 1 in 5 female undergrads are sexually assulted sometime during their 4(+) years at university.
That's because they (and the person that sexually assaulted them) were undereducated about alcohol use/abuse.
The president and co-CEO of Research in Motion seems to think that wireless data services providing unlimited data traffic for a flat monthly rate will have a 'devastating effect on wireless innovation.' From the article: '"No matter how you slice it, bandwidth is not free," he said. "If we don't set up economic incentives now, research and innovation for new networks won't happen for the future. We want companies to be encouraged to make efficient use of the network, so we don't cross over and use up all the capacity of the networks." Counters Jeff Pulver, the founder of Pulver Media, saying that (FTA) "unlimited bandwidth use in the wireless world is needed because access to the network is what spurs innovation."'"
I went with T-mobile for two reasons. 1) They are the only carrier that has a viable portable device for Internet connectivity and 2) They have an unlimited data plan at a flat rate $20.00 with T-mobile mobile phone service or $29.99 without.
To claim that this somehow creates problems with innovation is insane! Hell, I certainly would NOT be paying per MB charges and I'm sure that many others would agree. People in the US are too used to "unlimited" connections (from the dialup days through today). Per MB/GB transfer charges would fall flat on their faces in areas with competition. Luckily, in the mobile market, there's plenty of that.
Not only that but look at all the free sites offering porn (sublimedirectory, elephantlist, thehun, etc, etc, etc). Porno sites want you to see their stuff and then get you more and more interested to buy. I *have* bought porn, looked at plenty of free porn, and even use empornium to get more porn.
Apple's successes lean heavily on not straying too far from their core market competencies - useable devices that people want.
I've never been a Nintendo fan (especially in recent years -- their games just aren't my cup of tea) but I do own a used N64 for FZeroX (only game I have). From what I have read here, and elsewhere, the latest generation of Nintendo's offerings are innovative, inexpensive, and "what consumers want".
I don't typically buy into the rumors that float around but your reasoning why we shouldn't believe this round doesn't exactly make sense.
The United States Government hasn't been justifying much of what its been doing lately. This is nothing more than a kickback from the New Aged GOP for putting the heat on the telcos for the NSA wiretaps.
Government issued smartcards, with a simple PKI (and revocation system) would be a perfect method for establishing identity.
And a perfect method for bringing us back into the dark ages of freedom. Wear that yellow star proud! You are an American!
Until the time when they start requiring you to use that smart card to start your car, log on to the Internet, pay for your groceries, and make phone calls. All data which will be funneled through the SmartCard Central Database located somewhere deep underground in Nevada.
I dont see the need for an online text editor. Why not use on your own machine? Its faster, and your thoughts are (mostly) private.
Because social networking and group collaboration are all the rage these days. Google buying up Dodgeball, using group accessable/editable calendars, and adding yet another piece to the Google All-Online OS puzzle.
Personally, I use the Google Calendars in a group setting for both the Minnesota Geocaching Association to offer people an easy way to have our events listed on their calendars while also allowing other people in our group to add their own (or other) events that I might have missed myself. My wife and I have a shared calendar that we use to keep track of our own events and that way I don't have to have 15 e-mails to her about any particular item I forgot from three months ago.
If only Markspace's Missing Sync would work properly w/all of my Google Calendars and get it onto my Sidekick. Then I'd be really set;)
The outbreak hit despite the school's immunization policy, which has always required proof of two vaccinations against MMR.
In Minnesota, an area that hasn't seen too many mumps cases but is very close to the 650+ cases in Iowa, students aren't required to show proof of immunizations if they attended a MN high-school after 1997.
I work in the college system in Minnesota and they generally don't have any problems accepting the word of students when they are admitted when they write in the month/year of their vaccinations.
I am going to assume that most people lie because you'll rarely see proof attached to their forms.
Oh give them some credit! They do think about things, just nothing really related to work.
These users hope that they don't create a program to open applications based on their thoughts or you'd have a lot of people either a) surfing porn "unintentionally" or b) on a Forum whining about how much work they have to do without every doing anything at all.
If no keyboard is what seperates a tablet from the rest of the exceptional mobile devices out there these days (including my Sidekick) then I'll stick with what I have and wait for EDGE/wifi support.
Oh - and rereading the review - it appears the reviewer's "biggest complaint" was the lack of keyboard.
I'll tell you what -- I use a fairly excellent mobile device for my daily needs (it has basically replaced my need for a laptop and I rarely use my desktop). The biggest draw is that it has a full Qwerty keyboard that, while being very small, I can easily use to communicate easily.
If I'm going to move to a device like the Nokia 770, I would *expect* that it have a hidden/retractable keyboard that I could easily use when I wasn't just pointing and clicking on links or scribbling a quick note.
If no keyboard is what seperates a tablet from the rest of the exceptional mobile devices out there these days (including my Sidekick) then I'll stick with what I have and wait for EDGE/wifi support.
Yes, coming from the Slashdot user that still hosts a Gopher server... Why again should I use a "solution" that brings me back into the stone age? I'm sure that remind is fantastic (I would like to see GMail allow me to repeat on Mon/Wed only -- something that wasn't available as of Friday) but I'm sure it also includes archaic commands.
Sorry but PS printing isn't something I need. Sync, group and web access, and sharing without extra coding is what I'm looking for.
I made $4500 by coaching, lifeguarding, giving private lessons, getting a tan, and spending time with my gf -- all outside.
I guess you could spend your "Summer of Code" doing it on a laptop, outside, but the interaction level is far more when you're actually dealing with people (in person) than sitting behind a computer screen.
The original comment stands. GO OUTSIDE. You have a lifetime to sit inside and work.
Disclaimer: I am no Microsoft fan and I use their software as well as OS X and Linux -- daily.
We should be farther ahead in the experiences of using a desktop computer, and Mac users know what it feels like to be there already.
I hate to disagree on Slashdot with the Macfans, but IMHO, the OS X is *so* far removed from what I'm comfortable using (Linux CLI and XP) that it's uncomfortable for me. I currently don't have an XP machine at home (due to the fan on one of the CPUs dying and being too cheap to get two new ones) so I've been using my Mac Mini for several months now.
I don't like the feeling that I don't have a general understanding of how the Mac works. I don't like the feeling that it does a whole lot of flashy shit but that I can lose all the icons on my desktop (they appear in the Desktop folder if I click on it in the window -- just not the desktop itself) and not know how to fix it (nor does my Macgeek friend).
Yeah, it works "fine" ("fine" meaning that it really doesn't work as well as IE on Windows) if I just have Safari and a Word processor open. But if me, being a geek, can't figure out what the fuck is going on after using Windows and Linux for so long, I have a feeling that the same can be said about anyone.
Anyone who uses Yahoo! for email gets what they pay for.
Same can be said for *any* e-mail service, even those that come with your dialup/broadband account. I know ATTBI used to tell its customers that credit was not permitted for mail server downtime because it was a "free" addition onto their broadband account.
GMail, after the introduction of integrated GTalk was unavailable and/or slow at times (it's mostly cleared but I still don't have it set to use the integrated client).
Whatever. It's e-mail, it's not the end of the world if you don't get it.
I use three computers in my office and I routinely have the same file open on at least two of the three. For this to be a viable application (even in this version's limited scope) it needs to have proper locking.
iFolder for Windows -- locking issues?!
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I haven't used iFolder (on Windows/Novell) since 2005 but that's because of horrible locking. We were using it to share a "log file" document for keeping track of what documents were mailed from our department across two campuses.
I was the main user of this document and would add 50 to 60 entries at any one time. iFolder wouldn't let me know that someone else had the file open and if I would save it with the other person's version open, I risked losing my work (which happened twice before I scrapped the idea and moved to another solution which included using a shared e-mail folder in Groupwise).
iFolder, at the time, was insecure, slow, and problematic. Hopefully with it going out to the community these issues will be resolved.
I've seen better pictures come out of a four megapixel (MP) camera with better lenses than those that come out of a seven MP camera with poorer quality optics.
I had an older Kodak 5MP camera that was replaced (by gift) in September with a 7.2 MP camera. While the Kodak was older, clunkier, and didn't have as many megapixels, it still took better photos than the new camera which had a great review on the Digital Photography Review. I've seriously thought about going back to the older camera:(
As far as phone cameras go, mine has quality that sucks, but I still take a ton of photos with it for my site (I think I'm at 3900 since 10/2004). It's not the quality that matters to me (I'm not looking for device consolidation really) it's just the fact that I can take a photo and immediately upload it to my gallery. It was especially useful while sitting on the beach in Maui and uploading photos of our honeymoon for those back home to check out.
Ubuntu has a huge bankroll behind it. It's great, I use it. But the bankroll helps.
Plenty of Linux distributions have money behind them. Doesn't make them any better than the next. In fact, Debian works just fine for me (and has for several years now).
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Why would anybody want to use a linux distro based on an old developers version of the kernel?
It's the only one that they had time to make sure that all their code was removed so that they wouldn't invalidate their desire to be distributing "their" code under the GPL.
That and it's a conversation piece (as you just made it). Who the fuck would care if they said, "we're going to release Caldera on 2.6?" Not many more people than would give a shit if they released it on 2.7 but at least it got our attention for a short time.
Now, the other question, asked in the blurb, does anyone really care? No, no one cares. No one cared when the first Caldera versions came out and no one cares now. Other distributions are way ahead of whatever SCO could come up with and the rest of us are still running what we've been running comfortably for years.
Right. The staggering number of sexual crimes against women and girls are because the victim is "stupid about sex" This MUST be why 1 in 5 female undergrads are sexually assulted sometime during their 4(+) years at university.
That's because they (and the person that sexually assaulted them) were undereducated about alcohol use/abuse.
The president and co-CEO of Research in Motion seems to think that wireless data services providing unlimited data traffic for a flat monthly rate will have a 'devastating effect on wireless innovation.' From the article: '"No matter how you slice it, bandwidth is not free," he said. "If we don't set up economic incentives now, research and innovation for new networks won't happen for the future. We want companies to be encouraged to make efficient use of the network, so we don't cross over and use up all the capacity of the networks." Counters Jeff Pulver, the founder of Pulver Media, saying that (FTA) "unlimited bandwidth use in the wireless world is needed because access to the network is what spurs innovation."'"
I went with T-mobile for two reasons. 1) They are the only carrier that has a viable portable device for Internet connectivity and 2) They have an unlimited data plan at a flat rate $20.00 with T-mobile mobile phone service or $29.99 without.
To claim that this somehow creates problems with innovation is insane! Hell, I certainly would NOT be paying per MB charges and I'm sure that many others would agree. People in the US are too used to "unlimited" connections (from the dialup days through today). Per MB/GB transfer charges would fall flat on their faces in areas with competition. Luckily, in the mobile market, there's plenty of that.
Not only that but look at all the free sites offering porn (sublimedirectory, elephantlist, thehun, etc, etc, etc). Porno sites want you to see their stuff and then get you more and more interested to buy. I *have* bought porn, looked at plenty of free porn, and even use empornium to get more porn.
Looks like that tactic worked for me.
Apple's successes lean heavily on not straying too far from their core market competencies - useable devices that people want.
I've never been a Nintendo fan (especially in recent years -- their games just aren't my cup of tea) but I do own a used N64 for FZeroX (only game I have). From what I have read here, and elsewhere, the latest generation of Nintendo's offerings are innovative, inexpensive, and "what consumers want".
I don't typically buy into the rumors that float around but your reasoning why we shouldn't believe this round doesn't exactly make sense.
It appears that a government of, for and by the people has actually already perished.
What, do you want a Constitutional Ban on Paper People too?! Paper People have feelings too you know!
The United States Government hasn't been justifying much of what its been doing lately. This is nothing more than a kickback from the New Aged GOP for putting the heat on the telcos for the NSA wiretaps.
Government issued smartcards, with a simple PKI (and revocation system) would be a perfect method for establishing identity.
And a perfect method for bringing us back into the dark ages of freedom. Wear that yellow star proud! You are an American!
Until the time when they start requiring you to use that smart card to start your car, log on to the Internet, pay for your groceries, and make phone calls. All data which will be funneled through the SmartCard Central Database located somewhere deep underground in Nevada.
No thanks.
I dont see the need for an online text editor. Why not use on your own machine? Its faster, and your thoughts are (mostly) private.
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Because social networking and group collaboration are all the rage these days. Google buying up Dodgeball, using group accessable/editable calendars, and adding yet another piece to the Google All-Online OS puzzle.
Personally, I use the Google Calendars in a group setting for both the Minnesota Geocaching Association to offer people an easy way to have our events listed on their calendars while also allowing other people in our group to add their own (or other) events that I might have missed myself. My wife and I have a shared calendar that we use to keep track of our own events and that way I don't have to have 15 e-mails to her about any particular item I forgot from three months ago.
If only Markspace's Missing Sync would work properly w/all of my Google Calendars and get it onto my Sidekick. Then I'd be really set
Umm, T-mobile's data plans (at least here in the US) include unlimited SMS. Perhaps it's different over in the UK but I can't imagine why.
The outbreak hit despite the school's immunization policy, which has always required proof of two vaccinations against MMR.
In Minnesota, an area that hasn't seen too many mumps cases but is very close to the 650+ cases in Iowa, students aren't required to show proof of immunizations if they attended a MN high-school after 1997.
I work in the college system in Minnesota and they generally don't have any problems accepting the word of students when they are admitted when they write in the month/year of their vaccinations.
I am going to assume that most people lie because you'll rarely see proof attached to their forms.
Oh give them some credit! They do think about things, just nothing really related to work.
These users hope that they don't create a program to open applications based on their thoughts or you'd have a lot of people either a) surfing porn "unintentionally" or b) on a Forum whining about how much work they have to do without every doing anything at all.
Woo for technology!
The Sidekick II is much better than the CSK, I have only had to replace my SK2 twice instead of monthly like the CSK.
If no keyboard is what seperates a tablet from the rest of the exceptional mobile devices out there these days (including my Sidekick) then I'll stick with what I have and wait for EDGE/wifi support.
Oh - and rereading the review - it appears the reviewer's "biggest complaint" was the lack of keyboard.
I'll tell you what -- I use a fairly excellent mobile device for my daily needs (it has basically replaced my need for a laptop and I rarely use my desktop). The biggest draw is that it has a full Qwerty keyboard that, while being very small, I can easily use to communicate easily.
If I'm going to move to a device like the Nokia 770, I would *expect* that it have a hidden/retractable keyboard that I could easily use when I wasn't just pointing and clicking on links or scribbling a quick note.
If no keyboard is what seperates a tablet from the rest of the exceptional mobile devices out there these days (including my Sidekick) then I'll stick with what I have and wait for EDGE/wifi support.
gopher://cramer.plaintext.cc
Yes, coming from the Slashdot user that still hosts a Gopher server... Why again should I use a "solution" that brings me back into the stone age? I'm sure that remind is fantastic (I would like to see GMail allow me to repeat on Mon/Wed only -- something that wasn't available as of Friday) but I'm sure it also includes archaic commands.
Sorry but PS printing isn't something I need. Sync, group and web access, and sharing without extra coding is what I'm looking for.
I made $4500 by coaching, lifeguarding, giving private lessons, getting a tan, and spending time with my gf -- all outside.
I guess you could spend your "Summer of Code" doing it on a laptop, outside, but the interaction level is far more when you're actually dealing with people (in person) than sitting behind a computer screen.
The original comment stands. GO OUTSIDE. You have a lifetime to sit inside and work.
Disclaimer: I am no Microsoft fan and I use their software as well as OS X and Linux -- daily.
We should be farther ahead in the experiences of using a desktop computer, and Mac users know what it feels like to be there already.
I hate to disagree on Slashdot with the Macfans, but IMHO, the OS X is *so* far removed from what I'm comfortable using (Linux CLI and XP) that it's uncomfortable for me. I currently don't have an XP machine at home (due to the fan on one of the CPUs dying and being too cheap to get two new ones) so I've been using my Mac Mini for several months now.
I don't like the feeling that I don't have a general understanding of how the Mac works. I don't like the feeling that it does a whole lot of flashy shit but that I can lose all the icons on my desktop (they appear in the Desktop folder if I click on it in the window -- just not the desktop itself) and not know how to fix it (nor does my Macgeek friend).
Yeah, it works "fine" ("fine" meaning that it really doesn't work as well as IE on Windows) if I just have Safari and a Word processor open. But if me, being a geek, can't figure out what the fuck is going on after using Windows and Linux for so long, I have a feeling that the same can be said about anyone.
Anyone who uses Yahoo! for email gets what they pay for.
Same can be said for *any* e-mail service, even those that come with your dialup/broadband account. I know ATTBI used to tell its customers that credit was not permitted for mail server downtime because it was a "free" addition onto their broadband account.
GMail, after the introduction of integrated GTalk was unavailable and/or slow at times (it's mostly cleared but I still don't have it set to use the integrated client).
Whatever. It's e-mail, it's not the end of the world if you don't get it.
I use three computers in my office and I routinely have the same file open on at least two of the three. For this to be a viable application (even in this version's limited scope) it needs to have proper locking.
I haven't used iFolder (on Windows/Novell) since 2005 but that's because of horrible locking. We were using it to share a "log file" document for keeping track of what documents were mailed from our department across two campuses.
I was the main user of this document and would add 50 to 60 entries at any one time. iFolder wouldn't let me know that someone else had the file open and if I would save it with the other person's version open, I risked losing my work (which happened twice before I scrapped the idea and moved to another solution which included using a shared e-mail folder in Groupwise).
iFolder, at the time, was insecure, slow, and problematic. Hopefully with it going out to the community these issues will be resolved.
I've seen better pictures come out of a four megapixel (MP) camera with better lenses than those that come out of a seven MP camera with poorer quality optics.
:(
I had an older Kodak 5MP camera that was replaced (by gift) in September with a 7.2 MP camera. While the Kodak was older, clunkier, and didn't have as many megapixels, it still took better photos than the new camera which had a great review on the Digital Photography Review. I've seriously thought about going back to the older camera
As far as phone cameras go, mine has quality that sucks, but I still take a ton of photos with it for my site (I think I'm at 3900 since 10/2004). It's not the quality that matters to me (I'm not looking for device consolidation really) it's just the fact that I can take a photo and immediately upload it to my gallery. It was especially useful while sitting on the beach in Maui and uploading photos of our honeymoon for those back home to check out.
Why is it that liberals are always so worried about everyone else's habits?
You're the one telling me not to go out to eat...
You should cook at home and save the environment, by not driving to restaurants.
I'm a *real* Republican (not one of the new-aged GOP members) and thus I don't believe that Global Warming makes a fucking shit of a difference.
But yay for your troll. You rule douchebag!
Me neither.
Yet you have the grammar skills of the typical Wal-Mart shopper...
Regardless of what the general Slashbotter feels about any number of retailers, a healthy majority of people buy too much of their shit at Wal-Mart.
Ubuntu has a huge bankroll behind it. It's great, I use it. But the bankroll helps.
Plenty of Linux distributions have money behind them. Doesn't make them any better than the next. In fact, Debian works just fine for me (and has for several years now).