And razor blades. That's the reason for non-standardisation - printers are cheap now, and they make the money selling cartridges. Don't expect standardisation any time soon.
As a New Zealander, I just hope our government doesn't bend over for the US in hopes of getting better trade deals. Generally the people here are quite happy without deals that sign away our rights for the sniff of a few extra dollars for a select few.
The difference between Slashdot and most other "news" outlets is that at least here there can be some dissent, rebuttal, and opinion. Most news sites publish sensationalist crap without any way for differing opinion to be published. Heck, so many stories get submitted to Slashdot where the folks here tear it to pieces, but the original publisher lets it stand as-is.
The funny thing is that when approached about adding article forums, most cite legal liability as a problem - they see themselves publishing submitter's letters rather than the submitter being the "publisher", eg they own the comments rather then you? I guess.
If this device is used for general purpose computing, then it is in fact, "a computer" - in today's terms. Otherwise it's just a calculator/smart-paper/parking-ticket/whatever
BTW, can you tell us a bit about hackers, back in the '40s?
Every good manager (meening morally good and effective, not just effective) who I have known was a pleasure to work with, respected by his workers, hated by his superiours, and above all else, reluctantly in the position they were in (meaning that they were managing because they felt nobody else could do the job justice).
It's about then that you need to "fork the project". IMO, when your superiors hate you, it's time to go off and start a better company, and take your staff with you. Or maybe I've just seen Jerry McGuire one time too many...
How about Cell Phones? New face plate, ring tones, boot logos, but nothing actually changes except the aesthetics. They're trying to make cars even more "consumer" oriented. Which is a nice way to kill the non-OEM auto industry.
All that does is raise the question to, "Where did life on Mars come from?". I'm quite happy with the idea that we are descended from "aliens", but ultimately, life had to start somehow. The real question for me is how, not where.
So build a research station / ship in Earth orbit, and then fly it over to Mars orbit. Do the research remotely, but closer to allow real time interaction and to make sample collection manageable. Maybe we don't have to land people just yet, but we need to get more info and do more research. Doing it from Earth just takes too damn long.
Submit a feature request. This is probably the first anyone outside lawyerdom has heard of this, so tell them what you need and odds are it'll happen. Maybe OO.o 1.2 will be Lawyer Compatible(tm).
So a group of people working together internationally on a project that fulfills some very real needs, is somehow less real than your internal office politics? I don't think so mate. It's your "professional" world that's the imaginary one.
Don't get involved in strong-encryption anonymous peer-to-peer projects, particularly those with any sort of anti-DMCA capability, within the United States. And if I do this outside the United States, don't then visit the United States.
FreeAV (AntiVir) is another one. Wasn't Avast! one of Microsoft's takeovers? Free for home users makes sense if it's going to be included in a Service Pack later. I don't suppose they still have a Linux version? I think a lot of companies will have to move more into the Linux/xBSD server arena with their products...
Users like your grandma don't need to know about that stuff, and certainly wouldn't need to know about ports and routing. Defaults would work just fine for her, and it will protect her from much of the junk on the net. It'll also protect us from her, if she still manages to get infected.
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That would be fairly easy to set up. An ISP could provide a web interface to configure per user "pin holes". Default to blocking all traffic from the customer, and some traffic to the customer (smb traffic, for example), and let them enable things if they need to. Not hard to do at all, as long as arbitrary "thou shalt not use port X" policies aren't brought in along with it.
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True. I guess they were looking for marketshare and name recognition. However I tend to see it as a loss of credibility for SAP-DB.
Wouldn't SAP have something to say about that? I think they went into partnership with MySQL a while back.
And razor blades. That's the reason for non-standardisation - printers are cheap now, and they make the money selling cartridges. Don't expect standardisation any time soon.
That's funnier with a Sean Connery voice.
As a New Zealander, I just hope our government doesn't bend over for the US in hopes of getting better trade deals. Generally the people here are quite happy without deals that sign away our rights for the sniff of a few extra dollars for a select few.
SMART. Why the hell hasn't DC rolled out electric SMARTs yet? Their little roadster or a worked coupe would make a pretty sweet little EV.
The difference between Slashdot and most other "news" outlets is that at least here there can be some dissent, rebuttal, and opinion. Most news sites publish sensationalist crap without any way for differing opinion to be published. Heck, so many stories get submitted to Slashdot where the folks here tear it to pieces, but the original publisher lets it stand as-is.
The funny thing is that when approached about adding article forums, most cite legal liability as a problem - they see themselves publishing submitter's letters rather than the submitter being the "publisher", eg they own the comments rather then you? I guess.
How about...
If this device is used for general purpose computing, then it is in fact, "a computer" - in today's terms. Otherwise it's just a calculator/smart-paper/parking-ticket/whatever
BTW, can you tell us a bit about hackers, back in the '40s?
Corel used WINE for a while. Well, until they killed the whole project... but I don't think that was because of any technical issues....
A half-dead 90 year old man with no pockets, and an 800lb gorilla standing behind him.
With Slashdolts being computer geeks, I'd say if you're not "palatable" it's probably due to drinking too much coffee.
Every good manager (meening morally good and effective, not just effective) who I have known was a pleasure to work with, respected by his workers, hated by his superiours, and above all else, reluctantly in the position they were in (meaning that they were managing because they felt nobody else could do the job justice).
It's about then that you need to "fork the project". IMO, when your superiors hate you, it's time to go off and start a better company, and take your staff with you. Or maybe I've just seen Jerry McGuire one time too many...
How about Cell Phones? New face plate, ring tones, boot logos, but nothing actually changes except the aesthetics. They're trying to make cars even more "consumer" oriented. Which is a nice way to kill the non-OEM auto industry.
All that does is raise the question to, "Where did life on Mars come from?". I'm quite happy with the idea that we are descended from "aliens", but ultimately, life had to start somehow. The real question for me is how, not where.
Water, water, everywhere! But not a drop to drink!
So build a research station / ship in Earth orbit, and then fly it over to Mars orbit. Do the research remotely, but closer to allow real time interaction and to make sample collection manageable. Maybe we don't have to land people just yet, but we need to get more info and do more research. Doing it from Earth just takes too damn long.
Submit a feature request. This is probably the first anyone outside lawyerdom has heard of this, so tell them what you need and odds are it'll happen. Maybe OO.o 1.2 will be Lawyer Compatible(tm).
Good question. Pretty much everyone else at the time at one.
Completely different than the real world.
So a group of people working together internationally on a project that fulfills some very real needs, is somehow less real than your internal office politics? I don't think so mate. It's your "professional" world that's the imaginary one.
Don't get involved in strong-encryption anonymous peer-to-peer projects, particularly those with any sort of anti-DMCA capability, within the United States. And if I do this outside the United States, don't then visit the United States.
I've found Xi Graphics to have a very good X Server. Only real problem is that it doesn't handle Nvidia cards. It's very fast too.
Does Bush know about this? We could be invad^W er, liber^W um, landing sooner than you think!
FreeAV (AntiVir) is another one. Wasn't Avast! one of Microsoft's takeovers? Free for home users makes sense if it's going to be included in a Service Pack later. I don't suppose they still have a Linux version? I think a lot of companies will have to move more into the Linux/xBSD server arena with their products...
Users like your grandma don't need to know about that stuff, and certainly wouldn't need to know about ports and routing. Defaults would work just fine for her, and it will protect her from much of the junk on the net. It'll also protect us from her, if she still manages to get infected.
That would be fairly easy to set up. An ISP could provide a web interface to configure per user "pin holes". Default to blocking all traffic from the customer, and some traffic to the customer (smb traffic, for example), and let them enable things if they need to. Not hard to do at all, as long as arbitrary "thou shalt not use port X" policies aren't brought in along with it.