No, technically Jet is not the database. That's a database driver. Wrong again. How about coordinates to the nearest bookstore so I can buy you "Computers for Dummies"?
I don't. Access is not a database at all. It can look at them and manipulate them, but it isn't one. Access is a database like Firefox is the internet.
People will NOT go to Linux unless Windows software makes the leap to that platform
That statement is ludicrous. By your logic there are no people and no companies currently using Linux exclusively. And also by that logic nobody uses any productive software that hasn't been ported from Windows. I think what you meant to say is that you personally will not switch to Linux unless you can run Quickbooks on it, not that nobody will ever use Linux unless they can run Windows software on it. Because we both know that simply isn't the case. Plenty of people and companies already use Linux.
some magical elf business model is simply absurd... but no one has any suggestions
Blew my mod points, but had to point this out. This has a very easy answer that Google has already solved. Advertisements need not be giant annoying banners, pop-ups, or Flash animations. Text. Simple and effective text. Enough said. If you don't agree, Eat at Joe's, try to filter the last 3 words with AdBlock. Google's AdWords, and using plain text in general to advertise, is not a "magical elf business model". Far from it.
I said "get porting". It was plainly visible right on the end of my very short post. As to the differences - "sort of looks like" isn't worth paying AOL 10 cents much less $100,000 or more. XMMS already has all of the core functionality plus. Core functionality that doesn't necessarily even need changing to compile on Windows. But, you know what they say about fools and their money - they're soon parted.
If you have no hardware or driver experience how do you know it's amazingly simple? What looks simple to a layman could actually be amazingly complex. The reason I point this out is because - as the sole programmer for one of my company's most critical systems - I'm constantly being bombarded with "amazingly simple" enhancement ideas from non-programmers. They'll even go so far as to write programming time into their proposals as "1 day", never haven spoken to me and having absolutely no idea what they're talking about. I'm sure this happens to the readership here as often as it happens to me. I'm just pointing out that it sounds highly probable that you are one of these people.
My advice is to pick up a few books and learn at least a little about the implementation of your idea. Who knows, you might even learn enough to develop a prototype on your own. Armed with even a very crude example, you'd have much more luck selling it. "I'll sit back in my house, spend no money, spout off ideas, and other people will throw cash at me." is a great dream, hell I've had it myself, but don't count on that happening. You are most likely going to need to do a lot of work, spend some money, and talk to a lot of people before you see a cent.
As for Matrox, sure, they're still in the market... but barely
Barely in your particular market maybe. But in their own market, multi-head ultra high-resolution graphics, they kick the crap out of everything else. They do have their own ultra-expensive 3D gaming card, Parhelia, but that's really not their bag anymore. I do want to try this card though now that I'm looking at it.
Getting the Linux demo is an experience. A BIN file by itself just appears as (45 MB of) text in Mozilla, what I'm sure the majority of us use here. To actually "Download Now!" you must right-click the link and "Save Link As...". But maybe it's just my set up, but I doubt it. I also didn't get a progress bar because of "File Size Unknown...". That's always annoying.
So I finally got it, and ran it. It complained about me not having such and such *.so file, and quit. Not before it conveniently changed my resolution to 640 x 480 though. After telinit 3/5, I rm -rf'ed it. I don't feel like struggling to get it to run tonight.
I'm using MDK 10 Official, with just about every bell/whistle, library, and all the latest updates installed. I'm sure the game itself is good, it looks good. Getting it, and then getting it to play is a problem for me however.
My sister-in-law emailed me about all the spyware on her laptop, making it unusable. After some links to Ad Aware and Spybot....
Me: You need to quit using Internet Explorer on your laptop to prevent getting more scumware than you already have. Get Firefox. http://www.mozilla.org
Her:...I did download Firefox and have it running instead of IE.
1 point for OSS, but here I come for the win...
Me: Of course you could put all this behind you and never have to worry again by installing Linux and not using Windows. I have a CD that boots Mandrake (without doing anything to your hard drive) directly from the CD-ROM drive. That way you can try it without deleting Windows. If everything works like you want it to, you can install it to the hard drive. Something to think about.
You're right. Like some earlier comments (regarding ATI drivers & GPL compliance) I assumed he was using the official ATI drivers from ATI and had all features working. Instead he's using the equivalent of the "nv" driver (for NVidia cards) for ATI. That explains it.
The hardware support is very nice. In fact, to me, the biggest "ooh!" about the most recent release is that it's the first Linux distribution that correctly identified and setup my Radeon 9600 card, with dual monitors.
Hey cool. But how is it that you got ATI support out-of-the-box when the Yoper development team says they haven't added it yet? From the article:
...(ATI support is not there yet), but after speaking with the development team I understand it is high on their To-Do list
...getting ATI was a bit of an adventure. It was fine in reasonable base resolutions and color depths, but it took me a good 30 min of fiddling in Sax2 to get 3D acceleration working. I ended up using the 9000 driver on my 8500.
Install Linux at home, then get Linux Pocket Guide by O'Reilly. It's a guide/command reference, but read it like a book cover to cover. It's written in a way that you'll stay interested. You won't be sorry, and it's a short 179 pages. You'll learn a lot. I have, and I've been using Linux exclusively for 2 years. In a perfect world it would come standard with every distro.
You could still copy, say, 300 GB of data onto an IDE hard drive. Or even copy the files locally onto the existing hard drive and walk out with it. And I'm supposing these machines had email/internet capabilities, meaning anything physically done to the computer is worthless anyway. And none of these machines are able to print I'm guessing? Anyone hell bent on stealing information, with physical access to the machine and credentials to see the information, is going to. Period. And easily. Sounds like a big waste of time to me.
completely new and different looking for the next release
I wouldn't say completely new. Mandrake does a lot of rearranging on each release, like categories in the Control Center and in the default menus. So if you get used to one release, you're right, you're sort of lost on the next release as far as finding what you're looking for. But, it's still there, somewhere. I happened to like the new menu categories and arrangment from 9.2 to 10.0. In a way, you could call that polishing it.
You can't accept only low-risk drivers as an insurer, because doing so breaks the risk-sharing concept that underlies the whole system
I call BS. I work in the life insurance industry. While it's true risk-sharing is a concept of insurance, it's not currently or ever will be the same blanket risk covering the whole industry. Everyone is underwritten based on their own personal risk to the insurance company and charged accordingly. If the insurance company does not offer a plan of coverage that meets your particular risk they can and do deny insurance to you. You're only sharing the risk with the people in your particular risk bracket. For example, a life insurance company may develop a plan for skinny non-smokers that have perfect cholesterol called the "Healthy Bastard" plan. Now, if this is the only plan of insurance the company offers this is perfectly legal, acceptable, and logical. Many companies may start off this way and then develop new plans for other types of risk. The company I work for started in the 50's with something called the "Fat Man's" policy. No lie, and it was marketed as such. The auto insurance industry would be doing the exact same thing with this based on where and how far you drive. It doesn't "break [any insurance] concept" in the least. Think about it this way: If you're a healthy person, do you want to pay the same premiums as someone that has had 2 bypasses with cholesterol of 500? Of course not, it's not fair to you. And if you buy life insurance you wouldn't. That would be breaking a concept, and might actually be illegal.
Yes I know truckers get special training, are supposedly "the safest drivers on the road", etc, but they are human and terrible accidents happen with them every day. In fact, many law firms specialize in and make a killing off of just those cases. The training they receive and the extra taxes they pay don't make them invisible either, so I'm not sure what your periscope argument is about. You can't see whether or not a stop light is red if you're behind a trailer. You can behind a Hummer. That goes double if it's raining hard, when tractor-trailers can *completely* blind you with water.
is bigger than it needs to be to do what it does...
I could say that about a lot of things.:) But I don't see what that has to do with the price of tea. Cars don't have to be painted red either, a nice thick coat of gray primer will keep them from rusting. I guess we as humans sometimes prefer style and individualism over 100% efficiency.
Let me give you a scenario and a question and see if you can answer it honestly: You are so rich money is never a thought. You have a 16-yr-old daughter that *must* (for whatever reason) drive cross-country to get back home to you. She got her license yesterday. Her only option is to travel the most notoriously accident-ridden roads in the country. Needless to say, you would shoot yourself in the head if it meant saving her life. You love her like a parent should. Now you have a choice, you can put her in a Yugo or a Hummer. Which do you choose? If you read between the lines the question really is, what do you value over your own daughter's safety? Gas money? Clean air? Some guy complaining about not liking your daughter driving a Hummer because it annoys him?
Maybe we should also ban the entire trucking industry. One 18-wheeler is perfectly capable of squashing at least ten of these cars at once. I mean it's many orders of magnitude a bigger threat than the relatively small minivan involved in this accident. On second thought - maybe we just shouldn't allow people to drive around in tiny, paper-thin, feather-weight, obviously unsafe vehicles in the first place. Or hey a third thought - maybe we should allow people to buy whatever they see fit based on their own wants, needs, and safety & environmental concerns.
Yes yes, but for my purposes (writing code) vi and Emacs both have too many bells and whistles. Real programmers pipe STDIN directly to their compiler.:)
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When Microsoft's Anti-Virus product is free...
Your whole post is about Anti-Virus products, while the story has nothing to do with Anti-Virus products. Yay moderators.
I am 9 years old.
No, technically Jet is not the database. That's a database driver. Wrong again. How about coordinates to the nearest bookstore so I can buy you "Computers for Dummies"?
I remember when those were called "databases."
I don't. Access is not a database at all. It can look at them and manipulate them, but it isn't one. Access is a database like Firefox is the internet.
Not at the level where Quickbook lives.
You're right. But that's not the point. Saying nobody will switch to Linux just isn't true.
People will NOT go to Linux unless Windows software makes the leap to that platform
That statement is ludicrous. By your logic there are no people and no companies currently using Linux exclusively. And also by that logic nobody uses any productive software that hasn't been ported from Windows. I think what you meant to say is that you personally will not switch to Linux unless you can run Quickbooks on it, not that nobody will ever use Linux unless they can run Windows software on it. Because we both know that simply isn't the case. Plenty of people and companies already use Linux.
some magical elf business model is simply absurd...
but no one has any suggestions
Blew my mod points, but had to point this out. This has a very easy answer that Google has already solved. Advertisements need not be giant annoying banners, pop-ups, or Flash animations. Text. Simple and effective text. Enough said. If you don't agree, Eat at Joe's, try to filter the last 3 words with AdBlock. Google's AdWords, and using plain text in general to advertise, is not a "magical elf business model". Far from it.
I said "get porting". It was plainly visible right on the end of my very short post. As to the differences - "sort of looks like" isn't worth paying AOL 10 cents much less $100,000 or more. XMMS already has all of the core functionality plus. Core functionality that doesn't necessarily even need changing to compile on Windows. But, you know what they say about fools and their money - they're soon parted.
XMMS is almost an exact duplicate of WinAmp (if not completely identical) for Linux. You have the XMMS source, no money involved. Get porting.
If you have no hardware or driver experience how do you know it's amazingly simple? What looks simple to a layman could actually be amazingly complex. The reason I point this out is because - as the sole programmer for one of my company's most critical systems - I'm constantly being bombarded with "amazingly simple" enhancement ideas from non-programmers. They'll even go so far as to write programming time into their proposals as "1 day", never haven spoken to me and having absolutely no idea what they're talking about. I'm sure this happens to the readership here as often as it happens to me. I'm just pointing out that it sounds highly probable that you are one of these people.
My advice is to pick up a few books and learn at least a little about the implementation of your idea. Who knows, you might even learn enough to develop a prototype on your own. Armed with even a very crude example, you'd have much more luck selling it. "I'll sit back in my house, spend no money, spout off ideas, and other people will throw cash at me." is a great dream, hell I've had it myself, but don't count on that happening. You are most likely going to need to do a lot of work, spend some money, and talk to a lot of people before you see a cent.
As for Matrox, sure, they're still in the market ... but barely
Barely in your particular market maybe. But in their own market, multi-head ultra high-resolution graphics, they kick the crap out of everything else. They do have their own ultra-expensive 3D gaming card, Parhelia, but that's really not their bag anymore. I do want to try this card though now that I'm looking at it.
Getting the Linux demo is an experience. A BIN file by itself just appears as (45 MB of) text in Mozilla, what I'm sure the majority of us use here. To actually "Download Now!" you must right-click the link and "Save Link As...". But maybe it's just my set up, but I doubt it. I also didn't get a progress bar because of "File Size Unknown...". That's always annoying.
So I finally got it, and ran it. It complained about me not having such and such *.so file, and quit. Not before it conveniently changed my resolution to 640 x 480 though. After telinit 3/5, I rm -rf'ed it. I don't feel like struggling to get it to run tonight.
I'm using MDK 10 Official, with just about every bell/whistle, library, and all the latest updates installed. I'm sure the game itself is good, it looks good. Getting it, and then getting it to play is a problem for me however.
My sister-in-law emailed me about all the spyware on her laptop, making it unusable. After some links to Ad Aware and Spybot....
Me: You need to quit using Internet Explorer on your laptop to prevent getting more scumware than you already have. Get Firefox. http://www.mozilla.org
Her: ...I did download Firefox and have it running instead of IE.
1 point for OSS, but here I come for the win...
Me: Of course you could put all this behind you and never have to worry again by installing Linux and not using Windows. I have a CD that boots Mandrake (without doing anything to your hard drive) directly from the CD-ROM drive. That way you can try it without deleting Windows. If everything works like you want it to, you can install it to the hard drive. Something to think about.
We'll see how that turns out. I've done my part: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
Both apply, but I think the author meant "Triple threat", as in this is a cage match with MS.
You're right. Like some earlier comments (regarding ATI drivers & GPL compliance) I assumed he was using the official ATI drivers from ATI and had all features working. Instead he's using the equivalent of the "nv" driver (for NVidia cards) for ATI. That explains it.
The hardware support is very nice. In fact, to me, the biggest "ooh!" about the most recent release is that it's the first Linux distribution that correctly identified and setup my Radeon 9600 card, with dual monitors.
Hey cool. But how is it that you got ATI support out-of-the-box when the Yoper development team says they haven't added it yet? From the article:
Install Linux at home, then get Linux Pocket Guide by O'Reilly. It's a guide/command reference, but read it like a book cover to cover. It's written in a way that you'll stay interested. You won't be sorry, and it's a short 179 pages. You'll learn a lot. I have, and I've been using Linux exclusively for 2 years. In a perfect world it would come standard with every distro.
You could still copy, say, 300 GB of data onto an IDE hard drive. Or even copy the files locally onto the existing hard drive and walk out with it. And I'm supposing these machines had email/internet capabilities, meaning anything physically done to the computer is worthless anyway. And none of these machines are able to print I'm guessing? Anyone hell bent on stealing information, with physical access to the machine and credentials to see the information, is going to. Period. And easily. Sounds like a big waste of time to me.
Looks like I'm currently in the lead for the "How Wrong is the Author" award with: 8028K
completely new and different looking for the next release
I wouldn't say completely new. Mandrake does a lot of rearranging on each release, like categories in the Control Center and in the default menus. So if you get used to one release, you're right, you're sort of lost on the next release as far as finding what you're looking for. But, it's still there, somewhere. I happened to like the new menu categories and arrangment from 9.2 to 10.0. In a way, you could call that polishing it.
You can't accept only low-risk drivers as an insurer, because doing so breaks the risk-sharing concept that underlies the whole system
I call BS. I work in the life insurance industry. While it's true risk-sharing is a concept of insurance, it's not currently or ever will be the same blanket risk covering the whole industry. Everyone is underwritten based on their own personal risk to the insurance company and charged accordingly. If the insurance company does not offer a plan of coverage that meets your particular risk they can and do deny insurance to you. You're only sharing the risk with the people in your particular risk bracket. For example, a life insurance company may develop a plan for skinny non-smokers that have perfect cholesterol called the "Healthy Bastard" plan. Now, if this is the only plan of insurance the company offers this is perfectly legal, acceptable, and logical. Many companies may start off this way and then develop new plans for other types of risk. The company I work for started in the 50's with something called the "Fat Man's" policy. No lie, and it was marketed as such. The auto insurance industry would be doing the exact same thing with this based on where and how far you drive. It doesn't "break [any insurance] concept" in the least. Think about it this way: If you're a healthy person, do you want to pay the same premiums as someone that has had 2 bypasses with cholesterol of 500? Of course not, it's not fair to you. And if you buy life insurance you wouldn't. That would be breaking a concept, and might actually be illegal.
Yes I know truckers get special training, are supposedly "the safest drivers on the road", etc, but they are human and terrible accidents happen with them every day. In fact, many law firms specialize in and make a killing off of just those cases. The training they receive and the extra taxes they pay don't make them invisible either, so I'm not sure what your periscope argument is about. You can't see whether or not a stop light is red if you're behind a trailer. You can behind a Hummer. That goes double if it's raining hard, when tractor-trailers can *completely* blind you with water.
is bigger than it needs to be to do what it does...
I could say that about a lot of things. :) But I don't see what that has to do with the price of tea. Cars don't have to be painted red either, a nice thick coat of gray primer will keep them from rusting. I guess we as humans sometimes prefer style and individualism over 100% efficiency.
Let me give you a scenario and a question and see if you can answer it honestly: You are so rich money is never a thought. You have a 16-yr-old daughter that *must* (for whatever reason) drive cross-country to get back home to you. She got her license yesterday. Her only option is to travel the most notoriously accident-ridden roads in the country. Needless to say, you would shoot yourself in the head if it meant saving her life. You love her like a parent should. Now you have a choice, you can put her in a Yugo or a Hummer. Which do you choose? If you read between the lines the question really is, what do you value over your own daughter's safety? Gas money? Clean air? Some guy complaining about not liking your daughter driving a Hummer because it annoys him?
Maybe we should also ban the entire trucking industry. One 18-wheeler is perfectly capable of squashing at least ten of these cars at once. I mean it's many orders of magnitude a bigger threat than the relatively small minivan involved in this accident. On second thought - maybe we just shouldn't allow people to drive around in tiny, paper-thin, feather-weight, obviously unsafe vehicles in the first place. Or hey a third thought - maybe we should allow people to buy whatever they see fit based on their own wants, needs, and safety & environmental concerns.
Regarding your sig - http;//slashdot.org in Firefox takes me to http://www.microsoft.com. Interesting.
Yes yes, but for my purposes (writing code) vi and Emacs both have too many bells and whistles. Real programmers pipe STDIN directly to their compiler. :)