No they don't. Maybe I do, but I'm a computer expert.
My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use. Most of our mothers probably don't even realize that IE is not "the Internet".
And therein lies the problem: Because no consumer oriented company (besides Lindows) pushes OSS on the consumer level, things like Mozilla are not widely know to "mom" and "Joe Whatever".
When you grow up perhaps you will learn which company gave a small corp from Washington state is't start because they didn't think the PC would take off.
Don't be an ass. The fact that IBM did not understand that the PC would take off, and let a small Redmond company win the OS war, has nothing at all to do with patents.
Until optical media surpasses them in storage capacity, ease of use, and reliability, I don't see tape technology going anywhere.
A very good point, especially for archival purposes. Even the most expensive CDs still do not age well, yet tapes 30 years old still have readable data with few errors. Now, the machines/software to read those tapes may not be around...
The "we" that you describe does not include all human beings on the planet. [...snip...]...but I'm not sure that describes the majority of people in Western Civilization.
But you have to agree it does account for a significant number. Can't please everyone. Anyway, for those that can't deal with hauling around a laptop, there is always... the Compaq iPaq PocketPC (runs SCREAMING.....).
Not to mention the side issue of batteries--maybe someday 12-hour laptop life will be the norm...
I'm waiting for small nuclear fuel cells, which will happen if only to satisfy the needs of "gamers".
Um, you DO know there are still plenty of people here in the USA (not to mention elsewhere inthe world) who can't even get better than 28.8 dialup speed, right?
Maybe, 50 years from now, everyone will have fiber
First, read what I wrote: Some day soon this will be common. While it is not "common" now, it is becomming more common.
Second, I seriously do not think it will be "50 years from now". This is not the same as "flying cars", this is real technology that is actually happening.
Also, starting a discussion / argument / statement with "um" immediately takes away half of the discussion / argument / statement's validity.
Maybe because you don't want to carry around the 15 inch lcd and keyboard required to do actual work?
You talk like a 15 inch laptop is the same as the tire from a mid-sized car. The truth is such things fit very nicely into things like briefcases and backpacks. Now, you could say that briefcases and backpacks are cumbersome also, but in truth, we will always have "stuff" we want to drag around with us, so we will always have briefcases and backpacks, which a 15 inch laptop will fit very nicely into.
Do real work in VNC/X/Remote Desktop over a 128 kbs DSL and you know the answer to that.
Yes, but assume (if the powers that be at the Internet providers decide to allow it...) conectivity imporves and bandwidth is not an issue? We are getting closer and closer to that every day. Some public utilities have started to bring fibre to the door of every house in their district. Some day soon this will be common. At that point your argument will nolonger be valid.
I don't know about all this science fiction whoop-tee-do, but I've been using removable hard drives (those nifty cassettes that you put hard drives in) for years. As little as 20 gigs, you have your OS and data ready to go in any machine that can take the cassette.
But what this really sounds like to me is the OLD model of thin clients being served from a mainframe some place, or good old VPN.
Funny that you say this, since the BSA study says that most (>75%) people think that private copying of software should not be persecuted.
There is a big difference between backing up your software / music and grabbing free music and software off the net / from friends, and you know it. Stop being silly, you only make a fool of yourself.
Ethics, unlike laws, are not enshrined in statute books. Everyone has their own set.
But by all means, if this is actually how you feel, please leave your front door open so that I may help myself to whatever is in your fridge... Please ve sure to by some cheap beer for me.
There are common ideas about ethics. Go to college and take a course, it's a subject that has been around for 1000's of years. This is not an undefined area.
We do not live in an Anarchy. If you do not feel that you have to abide by "societies" ethics, go live in the hills.
The ability to work the schedule you want, and be relatively independant is far more valuable to me than the money & time lost using my own resources for work-related projects.
Will you say that when you are 60 and have only a few thousend in you bank account? Sure,you can say you worked for first rate people who gave you time NOW AND THEN for personal things. Will that pay your bills? Will you have to work until 70 just to sit back and enjoy life? Consider that your "boss" retired years ago to a nice boathouse on Lumi Island to watch birds. You, however still have to work to pay your light bill.
You get the "freedom" to come in on the 4th of July to work on someone else's server.
You get the "freedom" to spend your money on work related Internet.
You get the "freedom" to spend your money on work related cell phone minutes.
And for what? To be treated like a professional? Wouldn't you rather be compensated like a professional?
Where I work, we have what's called "leave days", and when we need to take leave, we do, it's why they give them to us. When we are sick, we take "sick days", we don't have to ask, that's what they give them to us for. If work requires us to be on a pager, they supply it, common sense says it's their responsibility.
I'm very sure your boss "loves" you. But as for me, I don't own the company, I require compensation for my work. And, because I work for professionals, they treat me as a professional, without asking me to shell out a lot of cash for the privilege.
You know there are millions of people living in America who are completely in the Black, off the radar, invisible. I know people who call them "illegals" but they're just good people, most of them Mexican, making a decent living.
If only they were "illegals" where I live. Unfortunatly, here, they are red-neck nuts. Check it out: Freedom County. These people are the tin-foil hat and automatic weapon crowd.
IE doesn't support alpha transparency in PNGs, and that's substandard on their part, but I don't think the web would change much if it did unless everybody started bloating their sites with transparent effects where it is not needed.
Well, it might help get rid of some of the more pointless use of Flash... That's good enough for me.
On another point, there are many here who do not understand that web pages are no longer just ways to convey word information, that it has evolved, and now supports many of the ways the brain collects information. This includes visual information.
I suppose you could just use Lynx and forget about it... if you really want to be a Luddite.
Perhaps they should try and make blockbuster months EVERY month instead of just June (6/2003 was their previous single month record according to the article).
I think one of the mistakes the studios make is spending so damn much on a movie that it's a loser unless it makes $200 mill+. Not every movie HAS to be a blockbuster, but that's what they go for. If they must put out so many movies, how about more movies that cost less to make but still have a quality story?
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Nonsense. You do not have to be a citizen to get a clearence. BUT, it helps not to be a nut.
Another reason for the USA not to hire him: We already have cruise missles.
My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use. Most of our mothers probably don't even realize that IE is not "the Internet".
And therein lies the problem: Because no consumer oriented company (besides Lindows) pushes OSS on the consumer level, things like Mozilla are not widely know to "mom" and "Joe Whatever".
That's what you get for living in a Quad and majoring in poly sci. Go for it.
Don't be an ass. The fact that IBM did not understand that the PC would take off, and let a small Redmond company win the OS war, has nothing at all to do with patents.
Heretic, YOU MUST BURN!
A very good point, especially for archival purposes. Even the most expensive CDs still do not age well, yet tapes 30 years old still have readable data with few errors. Now, the machines/software to read those tapes may not be around...
Fans? Wipers? Vibrating panels? Why was nothing considered, given the huge price tag of these things?
But you have to agree it does account for a significant number. Can't please everyone. Anyway, for those that can't deal with hauling around a laptop, there is always... the Compaq iPaq PocketPC (runs SCREAMING.....).
Not to mention the side issue of batteries--maybe someday 12-hour laptop life will be the norm...
I'm waiting for small nuclear fuel cells, which will happen if only to satisfy the needs of "gamers".
Maybe, 50 years from now, everyone will have fiber
First, read what I wrote: Some day soon this will be common. While it is not "common" now, it is becomming more common.
Second, I seriously do not think it will be "50 years from now". This is not the same as "flying cars", this is real technology that is actually happening.
Also, starting a discussion / argument / statement with "um" immediately takes away half of the discussion / argument / statement's validity.
You talk like a 15 inch laptop is the same as the tire from a mid-sized car. The truth is such things fit very nicely into things like briefcases and backpacks. Now, you could say that briefcases and backpacks are cumbersome also, but in truth, we will always have "stuff" we want to drag around with us, so we will always have briefcases and backpacks, which a 15 inch laptop will fit very nicely into.
Yes, but assume (if the powers that be at the Internet providers decide to allow it...) conectivity imporves and bandwidth is not an issue? We are getting closer and closer to that every day. Some public utilities have started to bring fibre to the door of every house in their district. Some day soon this will be common. At that point your argument will nolonger be valid.
But what this really sounds like to me is the OLD model of thin clients being served from a mainframe some place, or good old VPN.
There is a big difference between backing up your software / music and grabbing free music and software off the net / from friends, and you know it. Stop being silly, you only make a fool of yourself.
People like you are called "sociopaths" and generally end up in jail or on court mandated drugs.
But by all means, if this is actually how you feel, please leave your front door open so that I may help myself to whatever is in your fridge... Please ve sure to by some cheap beer for me.
There are common ideas about ethics. Go to college and take a course, it's a subject that has been around for 1000's of years. This is not an undefined area.
We do not live in an Anarchy. If you do not feel that you have to abide by "societies" ethics, go live in the hills.
No.
Stealing in ALL context is unethical.
If you have ETHICS, you don't steal. You don't steal from a shop, you don't steal from Bill Gates. It's about ETHICS.
NOT Bill Gate's ethics (or lack there of), not the RAII / BSA's ethics (or lack there of), it's about YOUR ethics.
Stealing from The Donald is still stealing.
Will you say that when you are 60 and have only a few thousend in you bank account? Sure,you can say you worked for first rate people who gave you time NOW AND THEN for personal things. Will that pay your bills? Will you have to work until 70 just to sit back and enjoy life? Consider that your "boss" retired years ago to a nice boathouse on Lumi Island to watch birds. You, however still have to work to pay your light bill.
Yup, you sure do.
You get the "freedom" to come in on the 4th of July to work on someone else's server.
You get the "freedom" to spend your money on work related Internet.
You get the "freedom" to spend your money on work related cell phone minutes.
And for what? To be treated like a professional? Wouldn't you rather be compensated like a professional?
Where I work, we have what's called "leave days", and when we need to take leave, we do, it's why they give them to us. When we are sick, we take "sick days", we don't have to ask, that's what they give them to us for. If work requires us to be on a pager, they supply it, common sense says it's their responsibility.
I'm very sure your boss "loves" you. But as for me, I don't own the company, I require compensation for my work. And, because I work for professionals, they treat me as a professional, without asking me to shell out a lot of cash for the privilege.
If you had cancer, you would not care WHO had the cure. Been there, done that.
If only they were "illegals" where I live. Unfortunatly, here, they are red-neck nuts. Check it out: Freedom County. These people are the tin-foil hat and automatic weapon crowd.
Well, it might help get rid of some of the more pointless use of Flash... That's good enough for me.
On another point, there are many here who do not understand that web pages are no longer just ways to convey word information, that it has evolved, and now supports many of the ways the brain collects information. This includes visual information.
I suppose you could just use Lynx and forget about it... if you really want to be a Luddite.
I think one of the mistakes the studios make is spending so damn much on a movie that it's a loser unless it makes $200 mill+. Not every movie HAS to be a blockbuster, but that's what they go for. If they must put out so many movies, how about more movies that cost less to make but still have a quality story?