This technology is still about 10 years out there (at the very least). Electron beams have low tolerance to vibration, and are better for stationary media, at this point. But the same thing was said about laser in the 70's, so likely the media will be over built to support error correction, like laser disks were.
Not necessarily true. Technology in areas of electronic production that limited the development of the laser disk in the 70's has improved, it's just not the same world. Stability should not be as much as a problem. As to price, sure it will be spendy when it first comes out, but more often than not, that has little to do with actual production cost.
Well, I spent a lot of time in Asia, eating from the street stalls, drinking the water out of "clean" glasses... I don't catch much my Iron Gut can't handle...
Blaw, blaw, blaw, yap, yap, yap.... Enjoying you "free-as-in-stolen-as-in-a-mile-from-fair-use" music today?
Re:Can't recommend RHAT to customers these days...
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If you're a home user then they're pretty much telling you to go use some other distribution.
Yes and no. RHEL can be downloaded, but of course you pay for support. I think that RH decided that the idea the Linux Home User just was not going to happen, that Microsoft has the Home User sewn up. Personally, I think it's a great disappointment, and will come back to bite Red Hat.
With all due respect to all the various boutique distros (*BSD, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, and so on...), at this point, for the home user (sorry, I know a lot of "home users" and most of them would be offended by this "Joe Six-Pack" shit, even though they admit they are computer illiterate), a distro supported by real flesh and blood company (for example, Novell / SuSE) is the one that will win.
Actually, even the Evil Micro$oft has sweet deals for students. For example, back in the dtudent days, I bought VisualStudio for a sweet $35. Truthfully, got to wonder about a "student" who's never been to the "Student Store" and obtained the in-your-face-out there "student discounts". Of course some "students" don't need to buy software, what with wherez and p2p, 'cuz you know software's got to be free as in beer, blaw, blaw, blaw...
Yeah, and you aren't a student right now are you? $200 will be change later on in life for me, but not at this time. Consider other situations before running your mouth.Of course $179 is a bit for a student (although that does not seem to prevent "students" from purchasing iPods). For a business, even a small one, it's not a lot as far as the cost of business.
This is a bunch of crap. CS has never been the hot thing to enter if you want to be a big earner. Lawyers and Medical professionals have always made more than CS people.
The fact that lawyers and doctors have always made more than most CS majors does not support the argument that people didn't go into CS a few years back for the big bux. In fact, you yourself say:
alot of CS majors started to make relatively high salaries, and many were making these high salaries doing NOTHING.
Exactly.
$179? No problem.
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i'm going to have to upgrade my machines, but am NOT going to pay $179 to do it
I don't see any particular problem with paying for software I need and $179 really isn't that much. I'll end up paying it one way or the other to RH or Novell (SuSE). No, I have NO intention of moving to some boutique distro that requires a Linux Guru to manage.
By the way, I don't quite understand why people that will pay $200 plus on an iPod, big cash in the latest game toy / case mod / whoop-dee-doo / sushi bar excess, why $179 for an OS is a proble.
The saddest part is that this money goes to lawyers and only lawyers
Well, this is an interesting point. 10 or 15 years ago, CS was the hot thing to study in school. The Internet was new, the money was fantastic , now it's changed to law. All the kids will be going to law school, because it is now the hot thing, and the money was fantastic .
I love it when people spell "ignorant" wrong. Particularly when they're applying it to someone else in a condescending manner.
I love it when the spelling Nazis pipe up, it shows how sad they are that it makes their pathetic day to point out some technical error while unable to actually comment intelligently on the subject of the post...
"Shane M. Kluskowski, 16, leaned over the row of empty caffeine drink bottles that separated him from Victor and said that he was washing dishes 20 hours a week at a nearby diner to pay off his own $2,100 laptop.
"It's the best investment ever," Shane declared. "I am going to keep it for the rest of my life, probably, because I won't be able to afford another one."
Jesus. What more can be said! Except the second he unpacked it, it was only worth $900 or less... Especially with all that teen goo stuck to keyboard.
Gamers aren't geeks any more. That's what's changing.
What's not changing is that it's still a sad waste of time. Next time you see some slackers doods at the mall with their pants down around their knees showin' off their name brand panties while talkin' about the new "gaming laptop" daddy bought them, why don't you think about all the tech jobs going to India, a place where people take education a bit more seriously.
People, people, people. Gateway is not (as much as we wish they would) closing their retail stores, anymore than Google is giving away gigs of email. What day is it?
I think this will be a boon for smaller webmasters who run their own web sites. Often, the finantial aspect of getting equipment to upgrade your system is problematic. I think the GameBoy is the perfect lower to mid-range web server platform.
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Yeah, I'll add that to the 3 dead cars and assorted appliances in my front and back yard, I'll be the envy of my neighborhood!
This "sounds" fun!
Not necessarily true. Technology in areas of electronic production that limited the development of the laser disk in the 70's has improved, it's just not the same world. Stability should not be as much as a problem. As to price, sure it will be spendy when it first comes out, but more often than not, that has little to do with actual production cost.
Well, I spent a lot of time in Asia, eating from the street stalls, drinking the water out of "clean" glasses... I don't catch much my Iron Gut can't handle...
...US declares Canada a terrorist organization, says new copyright policy will cause Hell to freeze over...
I'm tellin' ya... People's perversions never sease to amaze me. Ought to be laws!
Yes, yes, thanks. But you make the mistaken assumption that anyone is actually reading the story. It's a visual thing, need the pics.
Well I run several *nix servers, my home and office machine are both Win XP. I ave *never* been infected by a virus. Never.
Blaw, blaw, blaw, yap, yap, yap.... Enjoying you "free-as-in-stolen-as-in-a-mile-from-fair-use" music today?
Yes and no. RHEL can be downloaded, but of course you pay for support. I think that RH decided that the idea the Linux Home User just was not going to happen, that Microsoft has the Home User sewn up. Personally, I think it's a great disappointment, and will come back to bite Red Hat.
With all due respect to all the various boutique distros (*BSD, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, and so on...), at this point, for the home user (sorry, I know a lot of "home users" and most of them would be offended by this "Joe Six-Pack" shit, even though they admit they are computer illiterate), a distro supported by real flesh and blood company (for example, Novell / SuSE) is the one that will win.
Actually, even the Evil Micro$oft has sweet deals for students. For example, back in the dtudent days, I bought VisualStudio for a sweet $35. Truthfully, got to wonder about a "student" who's never been to the "Student Store" and obtained the in-your-face-out there "student discounts". Of course some "students" don't need to buy software, what with wherez and p2p, 'cuz you know software's got to be free as in beer, blaw, blaw, blaw...
Yeah, and you aren't a student right now are you? $200 will be change later on in life for me, but not at this time. Consider other situations before running your mouth.Of course $179 is a bit for a student (although that does not seem to prevent "students" from purchasing iPods). For a business, even a small one, it's not a lot as far as the cost of business.
The fact that lawyers and doctors have always made more than most CS majors does not support the argument that people didn't go into CS a few years back for the big bux. In fact, you yourself say:
alot of CS majors started to make relatively high salaries, and many were making these high salaries doing NOTHING.
Exactly.
I don't see any particular problem with paying for software I need and $179 really isn't that much. I'll end up paying it one way or the other to RH or Novell (SuSE). No, I have NO intention of moving to some boutique distro that requires a Linux Guru to manage.
By the way, I don't quite understand why people that will pay $200 plus on an iPod, big cash in the latest game toy / case mod / whoop-dee-doo / sushi bar excess, why $179 for an OS is a proble.
Well, this is an interesting point. 10 or 15 years ago, CS was the hot thing to study in school. The Internet was new, the money was fantastic , now it's changed to law. All the kids will be going to law school, because it is now the hot thing, and the money was fantastic .
I think by "load of junk" they mean it's a Compaq/HP product.
Oh, this is just sad. Next, why don't you define "loser with no life at all" -- OH WAIT! it's "nametaken"!
I love it when the spelling Nazis pipe up, it shows how sad they are that it makes their pathetic day to point out some technical error while unable to actually comment intelligently on the subject of the post...
No, that's the kids in Thailand that make your shoes and GameBoy. Your comment shows that you are ignorent. Go back to your video game, "dude".
"It's the best investment ever," Shane declared. "I am going to keep it for the rest of my life, probably, because I won't be able to afford another one."
Jesus. What more can be said! Except the second he unpacked it, it was only worth $900 or less... Especially with all that teen goo stuck to keyboard.
What's not changing is that it's still a sad waste of time. Next time you see some slackers doods at the mall with their pants down around their knees showin' off their name brand panties while talkin' about the new "gaming laptop" daddy bought them, why don't you think about all the tech jobs going to India, a place where people take education a bit more seriously.
You don't get Karma points for "funny". What day is it?
People, people, people. Gateway is not (as much as we wish they would) closing their retail stores, anymore than Google is giving away gigs of email. What day is it?
The Air Force used to buy Gateways, now we buy Microns.
I think this will be a boon for smaller webmasters who run their own web sites. Often, the finantial aspect of getting equipment to upgrade your system is problematic. I think the GameBoy is the perfect lower to mid-range web server platform.