I have 2 words for Windows 8. "New Coke."
I'm sure on the laptop and desktop market it will be even less popular than Coca-Cola's forray into reformulating a new taste.
For me, it is using my computer as a tool to do what I want to do, rather than spending time trying to get things to work.
Linux is a wonderful OS. It is great for servers, and a pretty good workstation OS as well. It just can be frustrating to some who are not as technically motivated as some, to get everything working correctly. Some issues, like driver availability, are outside of the OS programmers abilities. If a company does not wish to put effort into creating drivers for an OS that is in use in maybe 0.5% of desktops & laptops, then that is their prerogative. I know if I were creating a device that required drivers, I would not waste time and effort to support operating systems that the vast majority of people do not use. This puts people in a bind who actually just want to get things done. My sister has a Kodak printer. Kodak does not make Linux drivers for their multipurpose printers. So I was out of luck. Either I could waste more space in our small living space and set up my HP DeskJet, or not printer/scan.
Recently I bought a new laptop that has Windows 7 Home on it. I have Solaris 11 Express installed in a Virtualbox virtual machine. This gives me the option of tinkering with "geeky" things, and still being able to get things done. I play a few games on my laptop, but that is not a biggie for me. IMHO, KMahjongg is THE BEST version a mahjongg that is out there. But if I really want to play it, I can install KDE on my laptop and play KMahjongg. I love choice. Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX are great--just not as the primary OS on my machine that I use to do everything.
Just my 2 worth.
"She says that while we live in a culture saturated with sexual images, the blind have been 'left out.'""
Gee, could it be because they are BLIND? Images are, by definition, visual. There is a reason they call blindness a handicap. It is not just that they are too lazy to open their eyes. I can't see three dimensions. I get by quite well, but I don't go to see 3D movies because then I feel handicapped. It is just one thing that one learns to live without.
If I remember correctly, the first portable mp3 players were portable CD players that could play CDs and mp3-encoded CD-ROMs. I am not sure which company first came out with them, but I remember purchasing the first brand named player (Phillips Expanium) in 1998. I still have it today. It works fine. I use my Archos 404 now, but still keep the old gal around, just in case. http://www99.epinions.com/content_6881185412
Now, if only the robot pushed back, that might be a giant step for artificial intelligence. So little progress has come from android research since the promise of home helpers that was made back in the 1950s.
Fifty years ago it was 1957. What would have been on TV? One show would have been the Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason. That signal went into space during broadcast. So, a planet 50 light years away from Earth will be receiving the Honeymooners live tonight. But it would not make sense. Consider the TV transmitter. It is inadvertently broadcasting line of sight into space. To keep the signal steady one would have to be on the approximate same line-of-sight with that transmitter. The further out one goes from the Earth, the faster a space ship would have to travel to maintain the line-of-sight with the transmitter. So a space ship at 50 light years away from Earth would have to be traveling at the speed of 327.2492 light years per hour in order to maintain the circumference and keep the line of sight with the transmitter. In other words, the space ship would need to be traveling 1,920,859,079,829,120 (1.921 quadrillion) miles per hour in order to maintain signal.
Now consider how quickly that signal would pass by a stationary antenna 50 light years away. Even with Star Trek technology, I doubt that it could be discerned from the background noise of space.
If I remember correctly, the first thing Ubuntu does after it is installed is to go out and look for updates. Almost a year ago a friend of mine came home to find that his Ubuntu computer had installed an automatic update and X-Windows would no longer work.
That's the proprietary software world for you. The solution is simple, install Ubuntu.
The only way that I could see where software would void a hardware warranty is if the software in question performed operations that would directly contribute to the hardware failure (e.g. writing to the same sectors of a hard drive, thousands of time). I think the real question is:
Does the HP warranty explicitly state that installing Linux (or any other operating system) voids the warranty? If it does, then it is unfortunate, but there is not much that she can do. I think the explanation for the action would be very interesting. If she would have somehow legally installed HP-UX, would it have also voided said warranty? Looks like a job for the EFF.
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
Actually, if you would have listened to his whole lecture, you would have heard the "out of nothing" quote in his response to a question. Listening to his lecture, he seems to be getting quite close to the Catholic position regarding the beginning of the Universe. Christian theology teaches that God made the universe ex nihilo "out of nothing"
As I remember, back when CDs first came out, the recording industry justified the high cost of CDs ($13-17 per album) due to retooling costs associated with switching from vinyl records to CDs. The cost of making the Compact Disc was actually much less than the cost of the vinyl record. They said that once those retooling costs were recovered, the price of the CD album would drop to around $6 per disc. At the time I knew that that would never happen, and it did not. So for all of these years the record companies have been pulling in pure profit from keeping the CD costs artificially high. Now they say that we should be grateful to them. Ha! They should have been hauled on the carpet years ago for price fixing.
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
So what is her problem? If she were a paying customer she would have some ground to stand on. But since she had the basic account, she needed to follow the terms of service. It costs a lot of time and money to restore e-mails from a backup (especially if it is a tape backup). Companies that offer free e-mail as a service to people with the only compensation to them being ad revenue do not have the time nor the resources to store people's mail indefinitely.
It seems to me that Lycos was being more than reasonable.
My suggestion is a live CD of a distribution that is tailor-made for Linux newcomers. I would suggest Freespire. It comes in a LiveCD, is very easy and intuitive, installs proprietary drivers for video cards, works with virtually all hardware, and installing/deinstalling applications is super easy.
I remember back in '98-'99 when I was a systems admin at a company in Phoenix that we had two Macs (OS 8.6 I think) that needed to use network storage and printer shares on our NT network. Originally I hooked them up through Linux, but then our graphic artists found a software program called "Dave" that allowed the Macs to work seamlessly with Windows networks. This new "Dave" sounds like the old "Dave" in new clothes.
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
Your plan has one flaw--if one tried to record data in gold, it might just happen that people in the future would find the medium (gold) much more valuable than the message.
One only needs to look at ancient civilizations for historical president.
Alas, one man's gold is another man's date with a prostitute.
Of course one would be considered for management quicker if one was in the office. How else can one kiss a$$ if one is not there? It is much more difficult (though not impossible) to kiss a$$ remotely than it is shmooze the boss in person. Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
I have heard that the most permanent way of preserving data for long, LONG time is to write your data in stone. Granite being one of the best. Aside from that, computer data will lost a much shorter time than even the printed word. So buy some acid-free, archival quality paper and print those bits out!
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
Wal-mart is working to be the retailing leader in all things "green."
Late last year we had former VP Al Gore here in Bentonville to personally screen his moive An Inconvenient Truth to those of us who work at Wal-mart. The presentation was carried over the Wal-mart Video Network.
Since last year I've replaced 5 bulbs so far with CFLs. They are great for places where you might leave the light on for awhile. In my case, it is the light above the sink in the kitchen. I have an outdoor CFL bug light (yellow tint) that does take sometimes 3-4 minutes to get up to full brightness if it is cold outside (below 30 degress F). I don't even have to pay for electric (included in rent), but I still buy them to help do my part to help out the world.
I think Wal-mart should be applauded for its efforts. They also have pledged to cut fuel consumption on their fleet of trucks, and they are building new stores with environmental impact and friendliness in mind.
Mark
And you were hired as a software engineer? One would think a software engineer would know the answers to those questions.
Me thinks you might have padded your resume.
"Then again, if you could hear artifacts with maximum quality ogg, there was almost certainly something wrong with the setup... "
No, some people just have better ears. I've encoded songs at 320kbps in WMA, mp3, AAC, and I can still tell the difference between compressed and the original. The original has a brilliance and a transparency that gets lost in translation. The only compression formats that keep that brilliance are the lossless ones.
I mean, really? Business doesn't care. The general public doesn't care. Most Linux users do not care. I truly feel that Linux will not ever be a viable replacement for Windows until it unifies on one distribution and one desktop. Commercial {gasp} software designers are not going to create a program and then port it to every distribution and desktop manager. And to think that Linux will flourish on the desktop and replace Windows with only open source software is not being realistic.
I am no Microsoft fan, and I am not a big Linux fan either. I, like billions of other people, just want our computers to do what we want them to do--no tweaking, no compiling programs, no missing dependencies, no virii. We want them to do the work (or play) that we want them to do as inintrusively as possible. Of course there will always be the tweakers and the geeks, but catering to that croud is not going to put food on people's tables who create the software.
Personally, I would like to see Linux succeed on the desktop, but it never will. Not until the Linux advocates stop the forking and fracturing and unite. I see the hermits of the world uniting more likely than that happening.
Go outside at night and look up in the clear night sky. Ponder at the miracle that is the human body. Further, consider the wonder that is the human brain (or even the brain of a gnat). Consider the miracle of Life.
"The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."
Psalm 14:1a NIV
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Really?? Wow! Where's this incredible undeniable proof of the existance of god?? It's going to change everything!!
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I have 2 words for Windows 8. "New Coke." I'm sure on the laptop and desktop market it will be even less popular than Coca-Cola's forray into reformulating a new taste.
For me, it is using my computer as a tool to do what I want to do, rather than spending time trying to get things to work. Linux is a wonderful OS. It is great for servers, and a pretty good workstation OS as well. It just can be frustrating to some who are not as technically motivated as some, to get everything working correctly. Some issues, like driver availability, are outside of the OS programmers abilities. If a company does not wish to put effort into creating drivers for an OS that is in use in maybe 0.5% of desktops & laptops, then that is their prerogative. I know if I were creating a device that required drivers, I would not waste time and effort to support operating systems that the vast majority of people do not use. This puts people in a bind who actually just want to get things done. My sister has a Kodak printer. Kodak does not make Linux drivers for their multipurpose printers. So I was out of luck. Either I could waste more space in our small living space and set up my HP DeskJet, or not printer/scan. Recently I bought a new laptop that has Windows 7 Home on it. I have Solaris 11 Express installed in a Virtualbox virtual machine. This gives me the option of tinkering with "geeky" things, and still being able to get things done. I play a few games on my laptop, but that is not a biggie for me. IMHO, KMahjongg is THE BEST version a mahjongg that is out there. But if I really want to play it, I can install KDE on my laptop and play KMahjongg. I love choice. Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX are great--just not as the primary OS on my machine that I use to do everything. Just my 2 worth.
"She says that while we live in a culture saturated with sexual images, the blind have been 'left out.'"" Gee, could it be because they are BLIND? Images are, by definition, visual. There is a reason they call blindness a handicap. It is not just that they are too lazy to open their eyes. I can't see three dimensions. I get by quite well, but I don't go to see 3D movies because then I feel handicapped. It is just one thing that one learns to live without.
If I remember correctly, the first portable mp3 players were portable CD players that could play CDs and mp3-encoded CD-ROMs. I am not sure which company first came out with them, but I remember purchasing the first brand named player (Phillips Expanium) in 1998. I still have it today. It works fine. I use my Archos 404 now, but still keep the old gal around, just in case. http://www99.epinions.com/content_6881185412
Now, if only the robot pushed back, that might be a giant step for artificial intelligence. So little progress has come from android research since the promise of home helpers that was made back in the 1950s.
It will never work. Think about it:
Fifty years ago it was 1957. What would have been on TV? One show would have been the Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason. That signal went into space during broadcast. So, a planet 50 light years away from Earth will be receiving the Honeymooners live tonight. But it would not make sense. Consider the TV transmitter. It is inadvertently broadcasting line of sight into space. To keep the signal steady one would have to be on the approximate same line-of-sight with that transmitter. The further out one goes from the Earth, the faster a space ship would have to travel to maintain the line-of-sight with the transmitter. So a space ship at 50 light years away from Earth would have to be traveling at the speed of 327.2492 light years per hour in order to maintain the circumference and keep the line of sight with the transmitter. In other words, the space ship would need to be traveling 1,920,859,079,829,120 (1.921 quadrillion) miles per hour in order to maintain signal. Now consider how quickly that signal would pass by a stationary antenna 50 light years away. Even with Star Trek technology, I doubt that it could be discerned from the background noise of space.
If I remember correctly, the first thing Ubuntu does after it is installed is to go out and look for updates. Almost a year ago a friend of mine came home to find that his Ubuntu computer had installed an automatic update and X-Windows would no longer work.
That's the proprietary software world for you. The solution is simple, install Ubuntu.
The only way that I could see where software would void a hardware warranty is if the software in question performed operations that would directly contribute to the hardware failure (e.g. writing to the same sectors of a hard drive, thousands of time). I think the real question is:
Does the HP warranty explicitly state that installing Linux (or any other operating system) voids the warranty? If it does, then it is unfortunate, but there is not much that she can do. I think the explanation for the action would be very interesting. If she would have somehow legally installed HP-UX, would it have also voided said warranty? Looks like a job for the EFF.
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
Actually, if you would have listened to his whole lecture, you would have heard the "out of nothing" quote in his response to a question. Listening to his lecture, he seems to be getting quite close to the Catholic position regarding the beginning of the Universe. Christian theology teaches that God made the universe ex nihilo "out of nothing"
As I remember, back when CDs first came out, the recording industry justified the high cost of CDs ($13-17 per album) due to retooling costs associated with switching from vinyl records to CDs. The cost of making the Compact Disc was actually much less than the cost of the vinyl record. They said that once those retooling costs were recovered, the price of the CD album would drop to around $6 per disc. At the time I knew that that would never happen, and it did not. So for all of these years the record companies have been pulling in pure profit from keeping the CD costs artificially high. Now they say that we should be grateful to them. Ha! They should have been hauled on the carpet years ago for price fixing.
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.So what is her problem? If she were a paying customer she would have some ground to stand on. But since she had the basic account, she needed to follow the terms of service. It costs a lot of time and money to restore e-mails from a backup (especially if it is a tape backup). Companies that offer free e-mail as a service to people with the only compensation to them being ad revenue do not have the time nor the resources to store people's mail indefinitely.
It seems to me that Lycos was being more than reasonable.
My suggestion is a live CD of a distribution that is tailor-made for Linux newcomers. I would suggest Freespire. It comes in a LiveCD, is very easy and intuitive, installs proprietary drivers for video cards, works with virtually all hardware, and installing/deinstalling applications is super easy.
I remember back in '98-'99 when I was a systems admin at a company in Phoenix that we had two Macs (OS 8.6 I think) that needed to use network storage and printer shares on our NT network. Originally I hooked them up through Linux, but then our graphic artists found a software program called "Dave" that allowed the Macs to work seamlessly with Windows networks. This new "Dave" sounds like the old "Dave" in new clothes.
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
Your plan has one flaw--if one tried to record data in gold, it might just happen that people in the future would find the medium (gold) much more valuable than the message.
One only needs to look at ancient civilizations for historical president.Alas, one man's gold is another man's date with a prostitute.
Of course one would be considered for management quicker if one was in the office. How else can one kiss a$$ if one is not there? It is much more difficult (though not impossible) to kiss a$$ remotely than it is shmooze the boss in person.
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
Of course, that's just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
Wal-mart is working to be the retailing leader in all things "green." Late last year we had former VP Al Gore here in Bentonville to personally screen his moive An Inconvenient Truth to those of us who work at Wal-mart. The presentation was carried over the Wal-mart Video Network. Since last year I've replaced 5 bulbs so far with CFLs. They are great for places where you might leave the light on for awhile. In my case, it is the light above the sink in the kitchen. I have an outdoor CFL bug light (yellow tint) that does take sometimes 3-4 minutes to get up to full brightness if it is cold outside (below 30 degress F). I don't even have to pay for electric (included in rent), but I still buy them to help do my part to help out the world. I think Wal-mart should be applauded for its efforts. They also have pledged to cut fuel consumption on their fleet of trucks, and they are building new stores with environmental impact and friendliness in mind. Mark
And you were hired as a software engineer? One would think a software engineer would know the answers to those questions. Me thinks you might have padded your resume.
While your out "bying," please make sure to "by" a grammer checker. Those do come in handy.
Well if you make ubuntu work on this setup i am of to by a mac. Anybody knows?
I love all of these "brave" Anonymous Coward posters. They are like the jihadists who wear ski masks to hide their faces--very brave indeed.
Well, I guess this could work in a server cabinet if your server was a mechanical adding machine.
No, some people just have better ears. I've encoded songs at 320kbps in WMA, mp3, AAC, and I can still tell the difference between compressed and the original. The original has a brilliance and a transparency that gets lost in translation. The only compression formats that keep that brilliance are the lossless ones.
Though the HAL9000 had complicated emotional issues, interfacing with him wasn't complicated. And he was made back in 1997. So there!
I mean, really? Business doesn't care. The general public doesn't care. Most Linux users do not care. I truly feel that Linux will not ever be a viable replacement for Windows until it unifies on one distribution and one desktop. Commercial {gasp} software designers are not going to create a program and then port it to every distribution and desktop manager. And to think that Linux will flourish on the desktop and replace Windows with only open source software is not being realistic.
I am no Microsoft fan, and I am not a big Linux fan either. I, like billions of other people, just want our computers to do what we want them to do--no tweaking, no compiling programs, no missing dependencies, no virii. We want them to do the work (or play) that we want them to do as inintrusively as possible. Of course there will always be the tweakers and the geeks, but catering to that croud is not going to put food on people's tables who create the software.
Personally, I would like to see Linux succeed on the desktop, but it never will. Not until the Linux advocates stop the forking and fracturing and unite. I see the hermits of the world uniting more likely than that happening.
Go outside at night and look up in the clear night sky. Ponder at the miracle that is the human body. Further, consider the wonder that is the human brain (or even the brain of a gnat). Consider the miracle of Life. "The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." Psalm 14:1a NIV
________________________________________________
"God definitely does exist" Really?? Wow! Where's this incredible undeniable proof of the existance of god?? It's going to change everything!!