is it really THAT hard to avoid human error? do like canada: have each polling place count the ballouts out loud in front of any voters that want to stay and watch.
i don't exactly think this article is talking about "e-voting" as we know it... my voting this year was on those big tablet PC's. my opinion on that is -- making something electronic doesnt make it better or more accurate. in the case of e-voting, it's a LOT more expensive than paper [those machiens are pricey, and the state is deep in debt], the results can't be verified afterwards, and it's harder to use. they wanted to computerize voting even though the entire computer science community said NO.
1. give the recording industry the finger
2. download whatever you want
artists get most of their money from the signing bonus, not from cd sales (unless they're platinum, in which case they're rich and the music probably sucks)
-m
..not to mention, it was quite some time after the G4 debuted before the G4 powerbook came out. yet roughly 20 minutes after the G5 debuts, we hear "cool, when can i get it in a powerbook?"
we don't have to plug in an external device to get a second mouse button.
not like you truly care, but this is a GREAT piece of software. check out sidetrack -- my left mouse button is touch-pad tap, my right-mouse button is the physical button. took about 2 hours to get used to, but is a godsend for one-handed REAL mousing.:-)
To give Eminem some credit, he doesnt endorse any commercial product.
...except his hip-pop.... commercial music just sucks. particularly in the hip-hop area. as far as i'm concerned, the real hip hop has all but died, barring a few undeground artists... but most of the innovation has moved on to newer, hip-hop influenced genres. generally in american pop culture, by the time the white folk stop hating a black-music trend and start to embrace it, the black folk have moved on (as with ragtime, jazz, rock-n-roll, disco....)
uh, there's deep sea craft that is subject to pressure like that, and it does just fine. they also bring them close to underwater volcanic activity which is pretty darn hot.
in any case, the atmosphere is full of electrical storms taking place in clouds of sulfuric acid... atmospheres allow for terrible wind storms and such too. i would think it easier to just put a "space station" on the surface of the moon or on mars, then to risk going to a planet with atmospheric conditions that may (but probably won't) be hospitable to humans...
If I were ( I am not) an IT manager I would simply not put any Linux systems in and prefer FreeBSD or Solarisx86 until dust has settled with the case.
Ah, but let's not forget that Darl has hinted at similar lawsuits with BSD variants... Personally, I would not even blink at this... Your IT business is not going to get sued by SCO even if they win this. You'll just get billed. IBM is not being sued for using Linux, they're being sued over a licensing/contract dispute.
in general, any time you run something that a lot of other people are running, you'll have issues... out-of-box linux x86 installs im sure will have difficulty... if you want to run linux, pick a different platform (PPC, Sparc, MIPS) and avoid skript kiddies who use pre-written x86 exploits:-P
as it is, i get internet, tv, and phone service all over my cable line. it'd be even nicer to get internet over power lines, VoIP and TVoIP (if such a thing existed...):-P
yeah, i whole-heartedly agree with everything you've said. my biggest complaint about bluetooth is that its just not used to it's full potential. it seems to me to be the PERFECT replacement for remote-controls for TV, VCR, DVD, etc... line-of-site just straight up sucks, bluetooth is cheap, and its range is less than ideal for a lot of computer applications (wireless printer, etc...)
...or go find an open wi-fi signal [my neighborhood alone has roughly one every 3-5 houses] and download on that. they'll trace it back to someone who hasn't a clue what they're talking about.
Biggest aesthetic triumph i can think of otherwise are the wavebird controllers for nintendo gamecube. the buttons are easy to identify by feel/shape, the layout in general just makes sense (heavily based on playstation, i know...) -- and most importantly, they don't make your hands uncomfortable even if you play for hours on end [and there's plenty of us who do.]
much love to linux, i LOVE it and use it on all the pc's at work and in my past (before i switched to mac). that said, i think OSX is a better choice right now for the macs. i'm very trained to use linux/oss and that same usage pattern i still use on my mac. i have to learn the darwin way of doing things, but it's usually pretty easy to pick up.
problem with linux/ppc for me is the java support. there simply is no 1.4 support out there and that straight up blows. OS X lags behind in their implementation enough as it is. it's also not uncommon to have difficulty with hardware, power management (laptops), etc. i think if you want to run X/KDE and whatnot to preserve your uniform UI, you may as well use opendarwin. it's just a better fit, at the moment.
besides running a few commercial apps, there's not much i do with my OS X install that i can't do on linux -- with a little effort. but i think more importantly, there's very little (nothing?) i do on a regular basis that i CAN do under linux and CAN'T do under OS X (&& fink). that realization, plus the ease of use of apple's stuff, pretty much closed the deal for me to use OS X on my hardwar.... but i do miss linux, and this 2.6 kernel looks fun -- maybe i'll build a little mini-itx/x86 box for it when i got some money to burn.:-)
let's be serious, palm pilots and such have had their hay-day, but come on.... they were useful when cell phones were just for making calls, and laptops were too heavy to be practical. my phone was $50 w/ service, 2 years ago... it holds 500 numbers, voice memos, to-do's, etc... and syncrhonizes with my mac via isync. why again is it a good idea to spend hundreds on a palm?
this is a bad idea on so many levels, let me just name a few:
1. 4 stories of people sharing a single net connection doesn't sound like broadband to me, unless it's a fibre line which is probably so expensive that you may as well just get individual cable/dsl services.
2. do you really trust your other users to "be good" ?? what if they're packet kiddies or making unauthorized logins to hosts or running child porn servers -- your isp could cancel service to the whole building just because one guy f*cked up.
3. it's been said before, but $7k is a nice chunk of change, don't waste it on people who wont give you anything in return.
there's more, i know... but come on, i'd rather read some articles about how cool linux is or how much SCO sucks.;)
So, why does Sun keep using their corporate muscle to prop up an IDE (Netbeans/Forte) that few people would bother with if it didn't have that kind of corporate backing?
well i thought we were talking in hindsight here... as in, before eclipse was even started -- netbeans/forte was pretty stable. as for me, i use netbeans not because of its corporate backing but because it has a gui designer, and eclipse doesn't (well, 3rd party but that doesn't count!) for eclipse to be the clear winner, i need a gui designer and the eclipse-framework apps need to look better on the OS X, cuz they currently look like butt. no joke.
yeah, i'd have to take sun's side on this one. i use netbeans and have for quite some time. eclipse has some really cool stuff in it (refactoring!), but let's be serious... if all that work was put into netbeans/forte, it would be one hell of an IDE.
in general just think this sort of competition is counter-productive in this type of setting. competition is useful in driving innovation, but in an open-source system, if the end users are pissed off about slow progress or missing features, they can always contribute to the development effort. after all, isn't that sorta the whole idea of this thing?
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...unless the system is fast enough to emulate the pc at reasonable speed...
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is it really THAT hard to avoid human error? do like canada: have each polling place count the ballouts out loud in front of any voters that want to stay and watch.
i don't exactly think this article is talking about "e-voting" as we know it... my voting this year was on those big tablet PC's. my opinion on that is -- making something electronic doesnt make it better or more accurate. in the case of e-voting, it's a LOT more expensive than paper [those machiens are pricey, and the state is deep in debt], the results can't be verified afterwards, and it's harder to use. they wanted to computerize voting even though the entire computer science community said NO.
-m
1. give the recording industry the finger 2. download whatever you want artists get most of their money from the signing bonus, not from cd sales (unless they're platinum, in which case they're rich and the music probably sucks) -m
mugging people on the streets?
people still use fax machines? does analog-over-digital-over-internet-over-digital seem dumb to anyone else?
because they would rather put the squeeze on MS with a viable product that could compete elsewhere in the world?
..not to mention, it was quite some time after the G4 debuted before the G4 powerbook came out. yet roughly 20 minutes after the G5 debuts, we hear "cool, when can i get it in a powerbook?"
we don't have to plug in an external device to get a second mouse button.
:-)
not like you truly care, but this is a GREAT piece of software. check out sidetrack -- my left mouse button is touch-pad tap, my right-mouse button is the physical button. took about 2 hours to get used to, but is a godsend for one-handed REAL mousing.
To give Eminem some credit, he doesnt endorse any commercial product.
...except his hip-pop.... commercial music just sucks. particularly in the hip-hop area. as far as i'm concerned, the real hip hop has all but died, barring a few undeground artists... but most of the innovation has moved on to newer, hip-hop influenced genres. generally in american pop culture, by the time the white folk stop hating a black-music trend and start to embrace it, the black folk have moved on (as with ragtime, jazz, rock-n-roll, disco....)
uh, there's deep sea craft that is subject to pressure like that, and it does just fine. they also bring them close to underwater volcanic activity which is pretty darn hot.
in any case, the atmosphere is full of electrical storms taking place in clouds of sulfuric acid... atmospheres allow for terrible wind storms and such too. i would think it easier to just put a "space station" on the surface of the moon or on mars, then to risk going to a planet with atmospheric conditions that may (but probably won't) be hospitable to humans...
If I were ( I am not) an IT manager I would simply not put any Linux systems in and prefer FreeBSD or Solarisx86 until dust has settled with the case.
Ah, but let's not forget that Darl has hinted at similar lawsuits with BSD variants... Personally, I would not even blink at this... Your IT business is not going to get sued by SCO even if they win this. You'll just get billed. IBM is not being sued for using Linux, they're being sued over a licensing/contract dispute.
in general, any time you run something that a lot of other people are running, you'll have issues... out-of-box linux x86 installs im sure will have difficulty... if you want to run linux, pick a different platform (PPC, Sparc, MIPS) and avoid skript kiddies who use pre-written x86 exploits :-P
as it is, i get internet, tv, and phone service all over my cable line. it'd be even nicer to get internet over power lines, VoIP and TVoIP (if such a thing existed...) :-P
Good thing cable and telephone lines are never knocked out by wind, earthquakes, or clumbsy construction crews.
yeah, i whole-heartedly agree with everything you've said. my biggest complaint about bluetooth is that its just not used to it's full potential. it seems to me to be the PERFECT replacement for remote-controls for TV, VCR, DVD, etc... line-of-site just straight up sucks, bluetooth is cheap, and its range is less than ideal for a lot of computer applications (wireless printer, etc...)
...or go find an open wi-fi signal [my neighborhood alone has roughly one every 3-5 houses] and download on that. they'll trace it back to someone who hasn't a clue what they're talking about.
of course Apple hardware goes without saying...
Biggest aesthetic triumph i can think of otherwise are the wavebird controllers for nintendo gamecube. the buttons are easy to identify by feel/shape, the layout in general just makes sense (heavily based on playstation, i know...) -- and most importantly, they don't make your hands uncomfortable even if you play for hours on end [and there's plenty of us who do.]
much love to linux, i LOVE it and use it on all the pc's at work and in my past (before i switched to mac). that said, i think OSX is a better choice right now for the macs. i'm very trained to use linux/oss and that same usage pattern i still use on my mac. i have to learn the darwin way of doing things, but it's usually pretty easy to pick up.
:-)
problem with linux/ppc for me is the java support. there simply is no 1.4 support out there and that straight up blows. OS X lags behind in their implementation enough as it is. it's also not uncommon to have difficulty with hardware, power management (laptops), etc. i think if you want to run X/KDE and whatnot to preserve your uniform UI, you may as well use opendarwin. it's just a better fit, at the moment.
besides running a few commercial apps, there's not much i do with my OS X install that i can't do on linux -- with a little effort. but i think more importantly, there's very little (nothing?) i do on a regular basis that i CAN do under linux and CAN'T do under OS X (&& fink). that realization, plus the ease of use of apple's stuff, pretty much closed the deal for me to use OS X on my hardwar.... but i do miss linux, and this 2.6 kernel looks fun -- maybe i'll build a little mini-itx/x86 box for it when i got some money to burn.
let's be serious, palm pilots and such have had their hay-day, but come on.... they were useful when cell phones were just for making calls, and laptops were too heavy to be practical. my phone was $50 w/ service, 2 years ago... it holds 500 numbers, voice memos, to-do's, etc... and syncrhonizes with my mac via isync. why again is it a good idea to spend hundreds on a palm?
you gotta have one to use while the other one's "in the shop" ;) ...and you can only use it on gigabit networks or it breaks down...
-m
this is a bad idea on so many levels, let me just name a few:
;)
1. 4 stories of people sharing a single net connection doesn't sound like broadband to me, unless it's a fibre line which is probably so expensive that you may as well just get individual cable/dsl services.
2. do you really trust your other users to "be good" ?? what if they're packet kiddies or making unauthorized logins to hosts or running child porn servers -- your isp could cancel service to the whole building just because one guy f*cked up.
3. it's been said before, but $7k is a nice chunk of change, don't waste it on people who wont give you anything in return.
there's more, i know... but come on, i'd rather read some articles about how cool linux is or how much SCO sucks.
So, why does Sun keep using their corporate muscle to prop up an IDE (Netbeans/Forte) that few people would bother with if it didn't have that kind of corporate backing?
well i thought we were talking in hindsight here... as in, before eclipse was even started -- netbeans/forte was pretty stable. as for me, i use netbeans not because of its corporate backing but because it has a gui designer, and eclipse doesn't (well, 3rd party but that doesn't count!) for eclipse to be the clear winner, i need a gui designer and the eclipse-framework apps need to look better on the OS X, cuz they currently look like butt. no joke.
except that GNU/Hurd wasn't mature when linux development started...
yeah, i'd have to take sun's side on this one. i use netbeans and have for quite some time. eclipse has some really cool stuff in it (refactoring!), but let's be serious... if all that work was put into netbeans/forte, it would be one hell of an IDE.
in general just think this sort of competition is counter-productive in this type of setting. competition is useful in driving innovation, but in an open-source system, if the end users are pissed off about slow progress or missing features, they can always contribute to the development effort. after all, isn't that sorta the whole idea of this thing?