"...we, the OSS community, just get pissed off and branch."
And this is a bad thing how? In this business competition is almost always a good thing, especially when the source code is open. If the fork comes up with something better than the original, the original could incorporate it or mimic it. If either project dies, the stuff is still available for use or continued development.
I've tried to configure CUPS. I don't feel so bad about the lack of particular success now that I've heard of Eric Raymond's troubles. This is one project that might benefit from someone forking it and developing interface tools that allow it to work without being such a bane.
Am I required to carry the card with me when driving?
I will actually agree that this is fair. This allows the state, which has granted you the priviledge of driving a way to verify that you are indeed a licensed driver. The officer has no practical way of identifying you as being licensed if you don't have the license present. The FCC has similar rules for ham radio operators; technically a ham radio operator is to have a copy of their license on hand whenever they're operating. This isn't particularly enforced, but it is technically the rule.
As far as walking around goes, there is no reason to mandate ID to someone who isn't engaging in an activity that needs it. If I am going to buy alcohol, the barkeep has a mandate to verify that I am old enough to drink. He doesn't take down any information from my license, though, so I don't express much concern over that. Same goes for other age-controlled transactions. For regular stuff, though, there is no reason to have to present ID. None.
2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 1968 if memory serves, isn't Clarke getting a bit old?
Next they'll be conducting an interview with Philip K. Dick by Ouija Board. Not that this wouldn't be any weirder than The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Radio Free Ablemuth...
Alternate solutions have always filled niche markets. The only real special part of it today, as I have seen, is that Open Source offers a free or readily customizable solution to what used to be an expensive problem to deal with.
Mainstream software providers aren't generally interested in true niche markets. Growth isn't predictable and that doesn't look good to shareholders. Instead they concentrate on the masses, where their solution will work for a large enough population to make profit without having to work harder. It's simply better sense for them if they're market-driven rather than based around a central individual money-source.
I think that "Metallic Hydrogen" would sound really cool!
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It is, now. When they were new, they both had variants of the same cast-iron block. That changed when their displacements changed.
When the Viper roadster (and subsequent variations) came out, I was very impressed that Chrysler could build a supercar with much of the capability of the european high end cars while still using good ol' pushrod engine design. They're starting to get down to the $20,000 mark for the first year cars. It is tempting...
...that they haven't implemented some form of relay satellite over Mars already. I'd think that one satellite in space would remain viable longer than a ground craft, and since it's in space it wouldn't have the dust-on-the-solar-panels problem, the atmospheric barrier problem, or the temperature variance problem. The ground craft wouldn't need to be built to transmit to Earth, just to an orbiting Mars satellite, which would handle the rest, so the landing craft could have engineering to make it more suited to its task rather than concentrate on radioing home.
8088 processor, 128K RAM, dual 360K 5.25" floppy diskette drives (with belts between the motors and spindles!), an 8" display capable of displaying sixteen different shades of green at 80x25. It's a suitcase for sure. I think that my keychain has more usable computing power nowadays.
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"So you can get more horses if you sacrifice efficiency. Note also, the Dodge viper and the Dodge RAM shared versions of the same V12 engine. One tuned for high horses, other tuned for high torque."
Something else to keep in mind before making this assertion is that while the engines might be the same design, the implementations on other aspects might be wholly different. Specifically, Chrysler has a habit of using cast crankshafts in some applications and forged ones in others. The Cylinder Heads on the truck engine were probably not the same as the ones on the Viper's version. If different pistons were used, I wouldn't be surprised to find the viper using H-Beam rods with the truck using I-Beam rods, even if they are the exact same length. Pistons would probably be different too, so that the compression on the Viper is naturally higher than it can be in the truck.
So, while the LA-Derived V-10 might have the same block castings, dimensions, and some components, I wouldn't be surprised if the really important stuff is so different as to make it hard to make a stock truck engine turn a Viper's performance without risking ruining the engine.
"When you think about it, all those stupid, impulsive kids are outbreeding us smart folks who take precautions and have (maybe) one child."
Uh, that's always been the case. The Every Sperm is Sacred skit from "Monty Python: The Meaning of Life" isn't far off. My dad was the last of seventeen children, and most of his brothers and sisters aren't exactly doing any better than their parents. He didn't have to help raise more family members and was therefore able to go off to college, discontinuing the cycle for his progeny.
I know two girls who work at the Starbucks next to my work who are pregant. They just hired a third girl to find out that she's pregnant as well. These girls aren't exactly in the pinnacle of trained careers, and it actually makes sense that something like this would be more typical. It's not nice, but it's not surprising.
"...so rather than risking dnagerous human mission on the moon, they only sent robot, while astronauts stayed safely at home."
What's the point of exploring space if we don't go there? The Europeans (and unlucky Africans) that settled North and South America didn't send something to report back saying, "Oh, that's nice", they went there. The U.S., Canada, Mexico, and all of Central and South America as they are now is the result. Yes, negative ramifications abounded, but the collective we wouldn't be where we are today if it weren't for those circumstances. Humanity is stronger because we are spread out, and if we actually get the guts to try to go into space permanently we will be stronger still. I'd like to hope that all of the work we do isn't for nothing in the long haul. We're the most versatile living thing to come about in known history. Let's see what we can really do.
"Remember, these are the guys that think a "dot porn" and a "dot kids" TLD will actually fix anything."
I disagree with you to a point on the lack of merit to this idea. I think that a.kids or.students or some form of TLD that is managed would work well, especially if it were handled right. Right now, school districts are forced to try to filter the whole Internet to prevent pornographic materials (and I'm not talking art, I'm talking Tawnee Stone, god bless her soul:) from being easily accessible. If a heavily restricted.kids or.elem or the like domain were created, schools could trust the content of the domain. It'd be similar to the.museum domain. An organizational body could punish or retract domains based on abuses, and the body could work to establish actual guidelines for acceptibility. Granted, it'd be just as political as anything else bodies do, but at least there'd be a chance for it to work right.
The trouble with trying to make porn domains is that states could enact laws that prohibit ISPs from allowing traffic to sites that are so easily identified, which would be censorship. It would also be difficult to get pornographers to make use of the domain anyway, since a lot of content mirrored isn't exactly staying within copyright guidelines, and I would imagine that someone engaging in copyright violations wouldn't want to make themselves stand out that clearly.
Of all of the distributions I've used (Slackware (Walnut Creek '96 through 8.0), RedHat (5.1, 5.2, 6.0), SuSE (6.# through 7.0) and Debian (2.2 - Current Unstable)) I've found Debian's apt+dpkg combination to be the best built. It doesn't matter if I used Progeny, Storm, Knoppix, or any particular version of Debian Proper, I was always able to specify source servers and update the system. I was able to add third-party servers without much issue. The system just worked. RPM in the two distributions that I've experienced with it was a pain. It was hard to meet dependencies even with a particular package built for a particular distribution, and I ended up chasing my tail more than administering the box.
Of course, I liked Slackware due to the lack of general advanced packaging, since I didn't end up breaking a package management system with third party compiled-from-source software.
Microsoft will undoubtedly make their own search engine the default when the browser loads, or will integrate it with their msn.com portal page, but even if they do this, they still have typically created pages that are slow to load and so full of stuff as to make them difficult to use. Google has always had a clean interface and massively quick load times. This helps.
Google is a household word. It's also becoming accepted as a slang verb (to google for something), and has a reputation of delivering good results. Teachers like it, and their students are encouraged to use it. Professionals like it because it's quick. This also helps.
If Microsoft attempts to sabotage or hijack connections to google to redirect to MSN search via Internet Explorer, Google can cry foul to the courts (because Microsoft was ruled a monopoly) and get that removed, or possibly even get Microsoft barred from putting their own search engine in by default. This could prove interesting.
This worm appears to be a lot more functional than DR-DOS ever hoped to be. Of course, if Caldera claimed that the worm writer illegally expanded upon DR-DOS then they might just want the writer's identity so that they can sue him/her.
is that IBM has lots of patents on lots of things that they don't normally enforce. Lots of memory control and process control concepts are covered by their patents, yet they don't enforce them. SCO is giving them a reason to, though, as a defensive counterattack.
It might be possible that IBM is patenting this so that no one else *cough*SCO*Microsoft*cough* gets to the idea first. This is somewhat unlikely, but not impossible. Hopefully IBM's open source concepts will remain god for the public.
you miss the fact that the vast majority of people who buy these laptops don't care. When 95% of customers don't care, the 5% who do are ignored because of the profit that the majority brings.
Tech-savvy high-end linux users don't buy your product
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Profit???
Unfortunately, it's more like this:
Create new device that isn't very well implemented and give it a meaningless marketting name
Release Windows drivers so that your OEMs can use it in Windows.
Let OEMs market it to their sheep customers who just go with it without bothering to research things, not realising that it really isn't anything better than before but go "oooh! Intel!"
"Intel is hesitant to provide the information that will allow people to write a driver for Linux, because that information would necessarily provide 100% of the software engineering necessary for someone else to create a Centrino-like hardware solution."
Well, that sucks for them. Perhaps they should have built a real wireless device rather than taking away CPU time for something that is best handled by a seperate device.
This revealed, do most linux users even want a Centrino-based laptop?
...I won't buy a "Centrino" laptop. That's fine, since Apple's laptops are looking more appealing anyway, and still run Linux. Some of those new AMD offerings in mobile computing, as well as Tranmeta's installation in some of the Sony lines make them nice options as well.
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"...we, the OSS community, just get pissed off and branch."
And this is a bad thing how? In this business competition is almost always a good thing, especially when the source code is open. If the fork comes up with something better than the original, the original could incorporate it or mimic it. If either project dies, the stuff is still available for use or continued development.
I've tried to configure CUPS. I don't feel so bad about the lack of particular success now that I've heard of Eric Raymond's troubles. This is one project that might benefit from someone forking it and developing interface tools that allow it to work without being such a bane.
"XP Rebloated"
Seems like a good combination of "XP Reloaded" and "XP Rebooted", with a little slice of truth added for flavour...
None of the page redesigners proposed this:
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I mean, we could lighten the interface from graphics so that it loads quickly...
"*points one post down and giggles*
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Dude, you called that pefectly...
Yeah, I noticed that. Kind of caught me by surprise. That post is here for anyone not browsing at -1, where the comment was moderated to...
Richard Gere jokes in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
Am I required to carry the card with me when driving?
I will actually agree that this is fair. This allows the state, which has granted you the priviledge of driving a way to verify that you are indeed a licensed driver. The officer has no practical way of identifying you as being licensed if you don't have the license present. The FCC has similar rules for ham radio operators; technically a ham radio operator is to have a copy of their license on hand whenever they're operating. This isn't particularly enforced, but it is technically the rule.
As far as walking around goes, there is no reason to mandate ID to someone who isn't engaging in an activity that needs it. If I am going to buy alcohol, the barkeep has a mandate to verify that I am old enough to drink. He doesn't take down any information from my license, though, so I don't express much concern over that. Same goes for other age-controlled transactions. For regular stuff, though, there is no reason to have to present ID. None.
2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 1968 if memory serves, isn't Clarke getting a bit old?
Next they'll be conducting an interview with Philip K. Dick by Ouija Board. Not that this wouldn't be any weirder than The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Radio Free Ablemuth...
Alternate solutions have always filled niche markets. The only real special part of it today, as I have seen, is that Open Source offers a free or readily customizable solution to what used to be an expensive problem to deal with.
Mainstream software providers aren't generally interested in true niche markets. Growth isn't predictable and that doesn't look good to shareholders. Instead they concentrate on the masses, where their solution will work for a large enough population to make profit without having to work harder. It's simply better sense for them if they're market-driven rather than based around a central individual money-source.
I think that "Metallic Hydrogen" would sound really cool!
It is, now. When they were new, they both had variants of the same cast-iron block. That changed when their displacements changed.
When the Viper roadster (and subsequent variations) came out, I was very impressed that Chrysler could build a supercar with much of the capability of the european high end cars while still using good ol' pushrod engine design. They're starting to get down to the $20,000 mark for the first year cars. It is tempting...
...that they haven't implemented some form of relay satellite over Mars already. I'd think that one satellite in space would remain viable longer than a ground craft, and since it's in space it wouldn't have the dust-on-the-solar-panels problem, the atmospheric barrier problem, or the temperature variance problem. The ground craft wouldn't need to be built to transmit to Earth, just to an orbiting Mars satellite, which would handle the rest, so the landing craft could have engineering to make it more suited to its task rather than concentrate on radioing home.
I have one of those, you insensitive Clod!
8088 processor, 128K RAM, dual 360K 5.25" floppy diskette drives (with belts between the motors and spindles!), an 8" display capable of displaying sixteen different shades of green at 80x25. It's a suitcase for sure. I think that my keychain has more usable computing power nowadays.
"So you can get more horses if you sacrifice efficiency. Note also, the Dodge viper and the Dodge RAM shared versions of the same V12 engine. One tuned for high horses, other tuned for high torque."
Something else to keep in mind before making this assertion is that while the engines might be the same design, the implementations on other aspects might be wholly different. Specifically, Chrysler has a habit of using cast crankshafts in some applications and forged ones in others. The Cylinder Heads on the truck engine were probably not the same as the ones on the Viper's version. If different pistons were used, I wouldn't be surprised to find the viper using H-Beam rods with the truck using I-Beam rods, even if they are the exact same length. Pistons would probably be different too, so that the compression on the Viper is naturally higher than it can be in the truck.
So, while the LA-Derived V-10 might have the same block castings, dimensions, and some components, I wouldn't be surprised if the really important stuff is so different as to make it hard to make a stock truck engine turn a Viper's performance without risking ruining the engine.
"When you think about it, all those stupid, impulsive kids are outbreeding us smart folks who take precautions and have (maybe) one child."
Uh, that's always been the case. The Every Sperm is Sacred skit from "Monty Python: The Meaning of Life" isn't far off. My dad was the last of seventeen children, and most of his brothers and sisters aren't exactly doing any better than their parents. He didn't have to help raise more family members and was therefore able to go off to college, discontinuing the cycle for his progeny.
I know two girls who work at the Starbucks next to my work who are pregant. They just hired a third girl to find out that she's pregnant as well. These girls aren't exactly in the pinnacle of trained careers, and it actually makes sense that something like this would be more typical. It's not nice, but it's not surprising.
"...so rather than risking dnagerous human mission on the moon, they only sent robot, while astronauts stayed safely at home."
What's the point of exploring space if we don't go there? The Europeans (and unlucky Africans) that settled North and South America didn't send something to report back saying, "Oh, that's nice", they went there. The U.S., Canada, Mexico, and all of Central and South America as they are now is the result. Yes, negative ramifications abounded, but the collective we wouldn't be where we are today if it weren't for those circumstances. Humanity is stronger because we are spread out, and if we actually get the guts to try to go into space permanently we will be stronger still. I'd like to hope that all of the work we do isn't for nothing in the long haul. We're the most versatile living thing to come about in known history. Let's see what we can really do.
"Remember, these are the guys that think a "dot porn" and a "dot kids" TLD will actually fix anything."
.kids or .students or some form of TLD that is managed would work well, especially if it were handled right. Right now, school districts are forced to try to filter the whole Internet to prevent pornographic materials (and I'm not talking art, I'm talking Tawnee Stone, god bless her soul:) from being easily accessible. If a heavily restricted .kids or .elem or the like domain were created, schools could trust the content of the domain. It'd be similar to the .museum domain. An organizational body could punish or retract domains based on abuses, and the body could work to establish actual guidelines for acceptibility. Granted, it'd be just as political as anything else bodies do, but at least there'd be a chance for it to work right.
I disagree with you to a point on the lack of merit to this idea. I think that a
The trouble with trying to make porn domains is that states could enact laws that prohibit ISPs from allowing traffic to sites that are so easily identified, which would be censorship. It would also be difficult to get pornographers to make use of the domain anyway, since a lot of content mirrored isn't exactly staying within copyright guidelines, and I would imagine that someone engaging in copyright violations wouldn't want to make themselves stand out that clearly.
Of all of the distributions I've used (Slackware (Walnut Creek '96 through 8.0), RedHat (5.1, 5.2, 6.0), SuSE (6.# through 7.0) and Debian (2.2 - Current Unstable)) I've found Debian's apt+dpkg combination to be the best built. It doesn't matter if I used Progeny, Storm, Knoppix, or any particular version of Debian Proper, I was always able to specify source servers and update the system. I was able to add third-party servers without much issue. The system just worked. RPM in the two distributions that I've experienced with it was a pain. It was hard to meet dependencies even with a particular package built for a particular distribution, and I ended up chasing my tail more than administering the box.
Of course, I liked Slackware due to the lack of general advanced packaging, since I didn't end up breaking a package management system with third party compiled-from-source software.
Microsoft will undoubtedly make their own search engine the default when the browser loads, or will integrate it with their msn.com portal page, but even if they do this, they still have typically created pages that are slow to load and so full of stuff as to make them difficult to use. Google has always had a clean interface and massively quick load times. This helps.
Google is a household word. It's also becoming accepted as a slang verb (to google for something), and has a reputation of delivering good results. Teachers like it, and their students are encouraged to use it. Professionals like it because it's quick. This also helps.
If Microsoft attempts to sabotage or hijack connections to google to redirect to MSN search via Internet Explorer, Google can cry foul to the courts (because Microsoft was ruled a monopoly) and get that removed, or possibly even get Microsoft barred from putting their own search engine in by default. This could prove interesting.
This worm appears to be a lot more functional than DR-DOS ever hoped to be. Of course, if Caldera claimed that the worm writer illegally expanded upon DR-DOS then they might just want the writer's identity so that they can sue him/her.
"...to prevent the genetically modified weed from spreading in areas where it isn't wanted."
Like, the United States Drug Czar's office?
is that IBM has lots of patents on lots of things that they don't normally enforce. Lots of memory control and process control concepts are covered by their patents, yet they don't enforce them. SCO is giving them a reason to, though, as a defensive counterattack.
It might be possible that IBM is patenting this so that no one else *cough*SCO*Microsoft*cough* gets to the idea first. This is somewhat unlikely, but not impossible. Hopefully IBM's open source concepts will remain god for the public.
you miss the fact that the vast majority of people who buy these laptops don't care. When 95% of customers don't care, the 5% who do are ignored because of the profit that the majority brings.
"Intel is hesitant to provide the information that will allow people to write a driver for Linux, because that information would necessarily provide 100% of the software engineering necessary for someone else to create a Centrino-like hardware solution."
Well, that sucks for them. Perhaps they should have built a real wireless device rather than taking away CPU time for something that is best handled by a seperate device.
This revealed, do most linux users even want a Centrino-based laptop?
...I won't buy a "Centrino" laptop. That's fine, since Apple's laptops are looking more appealing anyway, and still run Linux. Some of those new AMD offerings in mobile computing, as well as Tranmeta's installation in some of the Sony lines make them nice options as well.