-Connectivity. Are you going to put $1000 T1s into each record stores (1.5mbit is probably needed for a process that takes less than 10 minutes), or are you going to use DSL or cable - if you use those, they may go down and you'll be left high and dry for hours, or even days, with no records to sell.
It's not as simple as the photo kiosk you mention. Without a big, complex hard drive caching system, you will be their for 10-15 minutes while you download each track, burn them onto CD or DVD and pay. That's assuming that you are downloading smaller compressed files and not huge wave files...
Not really. Even though some newspapers would like to make out there is an epidemic of crime, there really isn't. Crime has been decreasing for about 5 years overall (however, the ratio of violent crime has been increasing).
The main trouble is 'yobs' who are around 15-20. They will have been kicked out of school and they terrorize the 'working class' areas - throwing bricks, riding motorbikes around, stealing cars and basically destroying everything they can get their hands on.
However, the govt. has been working on this and now have 'anti-social behavior orders' which can be used to arrest these people who would usually be hard to arrest because of the petty nature of the crime.
I live in a middle class area, and in the 7 years I've been here, there has been about 2 burglaries in the whole area. That's the only crime that I can think of...
But Gnome + GTK is adding a far, far better file selector to GTK2.4. KDE is going to have more problems persuading QT to stop its current business model...
But that works both ways. If inflation reached very high levels - for example 10% (which could happen with all the jobs moving to china and india and noone in the US and europe to buy them because people don have jobs), and you were on a fixed rate mortgage, you'd find that your morgage would be paid off very easily indeed, whereas with an apartment the landlord would just put up the rent...
Most kids buy their cellphones over the counter at electronics stores, using pay as you go cards. Some of the stores require you to give address etc but you can refuse under the data protection act and usually since it's only for returns they'll sell you the phone anyway.
You can then go into any service station, newsagents and supermarkets and buy topup cards for 10GBP or more and spend it as you make your calls. You just type a number on the back of the card into the phone and you've got anonymous internet action.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Obviously my interoperation of history is wrong. I thought it was millions of Stalin's 'comrades' that won it, not leafleting and the odd train track being vandalized. Maybe those leaflets caused nasty paper cuts?
First of all, a laptop doesn't take as much space as a desktop; just try to fit a desktop computer into a dining room or a living room, or even a bedroom, it's just damn unsightly and unweilding, let alone unportable, a laptop will fit into these with no trouble at all, and if you wish to you can unplug it in throw it into the drawer.
Well I can fit my midi case and my TFT monitor in just fine to most desk areas... also, all I need is a lead to my monitor, keyboard, mouse (both of these could be done via Bluetooth) and speakers and I'm set. A 802.11g PCI card handles networking.
The best thing that has happened is stuff being integrated properly into motherboards. Most motherboards now have a good sound card, networking and modem built right in them... most people I've built computers for only have the AGP slot used up in them, and the nForce 2 with it's built in Geforce4 MX can handle 2D and some 3D work well...
Well this is because generally Nvidia cards are better when it comes to openGL, and the 9700 pro absolutley owns the 5900 when it comes to DirectX. Since there is no DirectX apart from WINE on Linux, there isn't a proper DirectX implementation.
Not true.
ISPs in the UK seem to care a LOT more than ISPs in the US about QoS and that means you will expect to get full speed all the time, regardless of peak times. This is probably the reason the high speeds are not forthcoming...
IMO, it's only the US that provides flat fee calls, until recently (2-3years)
However, BT here in the UK started offering flat rate phone calls for 6.50GBP/month ontop of line rental for evening and weekends, and all day for 10GBP/month.
Now that voice calls have became so cheap, BT charges 6p/hour (11cents or something?) on the normal package for local calls so it's not much of an issue now, at least in the UK
"There's a reason we've been hearing since 1998 that Linux will "overtake Windows on the desktop," but it's never happened and never will with its current mindset."
The reason is that in 1998 the linux desktop sucked.
Look at it.
Now, only 5-6 years on, we have much much nicer desktop solution. When we have KDE4 and Gnome3 I think most people's problems with Linux will have gone.
I mean in 1998 there wasn't a usable office suite (StarOffice or a buggy, buggy version of KOffice) and things like audio and video players and even web browsers were lacking (netscape 4.7 was a bad browser for the time, and Mozilla had only started). Again, now we have OpenOffice, KOffice and Gnumeric/Abiword (my favourite) and Mozilla Firebird.
Things are starting to change and hopefully KDE and Gnome will continue to work together even more...
The only trouble is that power usage inside computers is skyrocketing lately.
150 Watts CPU, a 100 Watts graphics card and then you have all the fans to cool it, and you'll be lucky if you are under 300W and that doesn't even factor in storage, optical drives, motherboard, audio, communication devices.
I mean you will need a hell of a power supply unit to provide that sort of power reliably.
Apple uses 'commodity' components because they are far far cheaper. I mean it's the choice between ordering 1 million 56k modem chips for $1 or designing, testing and making a fab to produce them which will cost a lot more.
Also, all of Apple's logic boards (motherboards) are all custom designed. They have a circular (!) board for the TFT iMac's...
Apple just uses rebadged Pioneer 105 drives - -R only. The 106 can do both, and the 107 can burn at 8x on +R IIRC.
I also believe Apple added some DVD+R support into Panther... so I expect that the next revision of the Superdrives will probably be rebadged 106's or 107's.
No, he's thinking of Fission. Fission is VERY expensive. Mainly due to security and safety.
BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels) or British Energy as they have been renamed too are stupidly loss making, with them loosing £2billion (around $4billion) in 2002 and £500million in 2003 ($1.2billion?).
It's becoming ever more expensive with the decommissioning of old plants and terrorism.
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It's a great idea -- but:
-Connectivity. Are you going to put $1000 T1s into each record stores (1.5mbit is probably needed for a process that takes less than 10 minutes), or are you going to use DSL or cable - if you use those, they may go down and you'll be left high and dry for hours, or even days, with no records to sell.
It's not as simple as the photo kiosk you mention. Without a big, complex hard drive caching system, you will be their for 10-15 minutes while you download each track, burn them onto CD or DVD and pay. That's assuming that you are downloading smaller compressed files and not huge wave files...
Indeed, I hate the EU. It is very badly run and managed and provides very little benefits to anyone...
Not really. Even though some newspapers would like to make out there is an epidemic of crime, there really isn't. Crime has been decreasing for about 5 years overall (however, the ratio of violent crime has been increasing). The main trouble is 'yobs' who are around 15-20. They will have been kicked out of school and they terrorize the 'working class' areas - throwing bricks, riding motorbikes around, stealing cars and basically destroying everything they can get their hands on. However, the govt. has been working on this and now have 'anti-social behavior orders' which can be used to arrest these people who would usually be hard to arrest because of the petty nature of the crime. I live in a middle class area, and in the 7 years I've been here, there has been about 2 burglaries in the whole area. That's the only crime that I can think of...
But Gnome + GTK is adding a far, far better file selector to GTK2.4. KDE is going to have more problems persuading QT to stop its current business model...
But that works both ways. If inflation reached very high levels - for example 10% (which could happen with all the jobs moving to china and india and noone in the US and europe to buy them because people don have jobs), and you were on a fixed rate mortgage, you'd find that your morgage would be paid off very easily indeed, whereas with an apartment the landlord would just put up the rent...
No.
PC133 RAM works fine in PC100 mobos - it just runs at the speed of the slowest denominator (in this case, the motherboard)...
While I agree with you, I think that Office 97 (not so much 95) support is still useful. A lot of small business's still use it.
If they can be switched to Linux, they will need some way of converting their old documents over to the new KOffice formats.
It's different in the UK.
Most kids buy their cellphones over the counter at electronics stores, using pay as you go cards. Some of the stores require you to give address etc but you can refuse under the data protection act and usually since it's only for returns they'll sell you the phone anyway.
You can then go into any service station, newsagents and supermarkets and buy topup cards for 10GBP or more and spend it as you make your calls. You just type a number on the back of the card into the phone and you've got anonymous internet action.
The best thing is that you can use your upstream capacity to help other people get the files.
It's like running your own Linux FTP mirror but without any of the hassle....
Ha. Ha. Ha. Obviously my interoperation of history is wrong. I thought it was millions of Stalin's 'comrades' that won it, not leafleting and the odd train track being vandalized. Maybe those leaflets caused nasty paper cuts?
Well I can fit my midi case and my TFT monitor in just fine to most desk areas... also, all I need is a lead to my monitor, keyboard, mouse (both of these could be done via Bluetooth) and speakers and I'm set. A 802.11g PCI card handles networking.
The best thing that has happened is stuff being integrated properly into motherboards. Most motherboards now have a good sound card, networking and modem built right in them... most people I've built computers for only have the AGP slot used up in them, and the nForce 2 with it's built in Geforce4 MX can handle 2D and some 3D work well...
Well this is because generally Nvidia cards are better when it comes to openGL, and the 9700 pro absolutley owns the 5900 when it comes to DirectX. Since there is no DirectX apart from WINE on Linux, there isn't a proper DirectX implementation.
Not true. ISPs in the UK seem to care a LOT more than ISPs in the US about QoS and that means you will expect to get full speed all the time, regardless of peak times. This is probably the reason the high speeds are not forthcoming...
Ouch. Does anyone know what sort of pipes NZ has to Australia? Surely Aus doesn't have those sorts of rates for international traffic...
IMO, it's only the US that provides flat fee calls, until recently (2-3years)
However, BT here in the UK started offering flat rate phone calls for 6.50GBP/month ontop of line rental for evening and weekends, and all day for 10GBP/month.
Now that voice calls have became so cheap, BT charges 6p/hour (11cents or something?) on the normal package for local calls so it's not much of an issue now, at least in the UK
"There's a reason we've been hearing since 1998 that Linux will "overtake Windows on the desktop," but it's never happened and never will with its current mindset."
The reason is that in 1998 the linux desktop sucked. Look at it.
Now, only 5-6 years on, we have much much nicer desktop solution. When we have KDE4 and Gnome3 I think most people's problems with Linux will have gone.
I mean in 1998 there wasn't a usable office suite (StarOffice or a buggy, buggy version of KOffice) and things like audio and video players and even web browsers were lacking (netscape 4.7 was a bad browser for the time, and Mozilla had only started). Again, now we have OpenOffice, KOffice and Gnumeric/Abiword (my favourite) and Mozilla Firebird.
Things are starting to change and hopefully KDE and Gnome will continue to work together even more...
The only trouble is that power usage inside computers is skyrocketing lately.
150 Watts CPU, a 100 Watts graphics card and then you have all the fans to cool it, and you'll be lucky if you are under 300W and that doesn't even factor in storage, optical drives, motherboard, audio, communication devices.
I mean you will need a hell of a power supply unit to provide that sort of power reliably.
Apple uses 'commodity' components because they are far far cheaper. I mean it's the choice between ordering 1 million 56k modem chips for $1 or designing, testing and making a fab to produce them which will cost a lot more.
Also, all of Apple's logic boards (motherboards) are all custom designed. They have a circular (!) board for the TFT iMac's...
I don't understand. TrollTech does not get 1 cent from KDE because KDE uses the GPL license and not the commercial one.
The only way you would be supporting this is by using it as a demo to pursue developers to develop QT commercial apps.
Also, it's a very indirect chain so probably only a small amount of the money you would spend on a commercial license goes upstream to SCO.
Also, does anyone think SCO will be around along enough to really make any impact =)...
Because X is the roman numeral for 10. The last major release was numbered... 9.
Also, 'Panther' or OSX 10.3 contains X11 as a default install.
Apple just uses rebadged Pioneer 105 drives - -R only. The 106 can do both, and the 107 can burn at 8x on +R IIRC.
I also believe Apple added some DVD+R support into Panther... so I expect that the next revision of the Superdrives will probably be rebadged 106's or 107's.
I think it may be the case that he wants them to show up in imported .ppt files...
Yes, but do you think Bush would be where he was now if it wasn't for Bush Sr.
The Queen is just a tourist attraction now really. She has very little power and pretty much anything she does can be overruled in parliment, anway.
I do agree with you on principal, however.
No, he's thinking of Fission. Fission is VERY expensive. Mainly due to security and safety.
BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels) or British Energy as they have been renamed too are stupidly loss making, with them loosing £2billion (around $4billion) in 2002 and £500million in 2003 ($1.2billion?).
It's becoming ever more expensive with the decommissioning of old plants and terrorism.