It's interesting that you bring up the idea of less-integrated applications, since that's what openoffice originally did to the star office suite (as per Stardivision) in the first place. I remember using StarOffice back in the days before openoffice existed. Back then, I doubt many others had heard of the suite, but I needed a cross-platform office suite, and that wasn't available from anyone else. All of the office programs were one gigantic application that spanned the entire desktop and had even had its own start menu at the bottom of the screen. There were some cool benefits to this, but mostly the suite just lended itself to redundancy -- redoing what the desktop management system and OS already did. When Star Office was bought by Sun and subsiquently opensourced, OpenOffice.org and Sun's most important contributions in the first OOo version was, i feel, separating the applications out and re-inventing the office file format with XML. I agree that applications could be further separated (and looking at the 1.9m54 build, I would guess the dev team would like to move in that direction, too), and an simpler means of implementing "addons" or "plugins" would be great as well.
I'd like to know if it really is a full version of windows, with a little bit of crippling software to get in the way... you know, something that's easy to defeat.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if that was the case, because microsoft knows they stand to benefit more so long as windows proliferates -- even if they have to give it away. Making it cheap, and temporarily (because of it's defeatable nature) crippled, is just a way to justify giving away their own software. As a bonus, they're making a little bit of money as opposed to simply allowing others to pirate it or just giving windows away for free. Hell, anything to keep the tigers away from using oss or homebrew software, because then microsoft knows it's lost its market for good!!
once you've had your way with the libraries, check out the enlightenment apps that use, them.
all absolutely beautiful:
- evidence -- file browser
- entice -- image viewer
- iconbar -- a button-toolbar
- engage -- osx-like (in the default theme) toolbar
- equate -- calculator app
- erss -- a desktop rss viewer
(gentoo users, most of these apps are ~x86 ebuilds)
there are a lot of others, too. All with a remarkably logical and beautiful interface. Evidence has fully replaced all other file browsers on my computer, and is damn close to everything i want (although rendering directories with large numbers of files seems to take a while).
Also, i noticed that the new real helix player seems utilize some parts of the EFL -- probably the best move real programmers have ever made, in my opinion. Anywho, enlightenment really makes everyday computing a joyful experience; thanks e team!!!
let me get this straight......google is giving the kasners too much attention, but it is only profitting...
so to resolve this, the family wants to gain more attention (through a high-profile legal battle) and more profit (civil suit cash dollaz) ?
check out the agnula/DeMuDi (http://www.agnula.org/) collection of software; they have everything in that distribution! download the livecd iso, boot it, check out the software. everything from synths to drum trackers to recorders, the whole sha-bang.
oh, and the dynebolic (http://www.dynebolic.org/) project has a good livecd for audio, too!
they are using the internet relay services (http://www.sprintrelayonline.com, for example) to make phone calls. Right now, all you have to do is simply show up on the site and put in a phone number and dial it, but a password system would make it so you would have to sign up for an account before making a call with the online service. Those using a standard tty would not have to worry about the password issue, and that is great, because there has been no standard tty machine abuse so far as i am aware (I am a CA/Operator/Agent for a relay service).
I actually support the idea of a password system. It can be a very simple system -- just like when signing up for a free yahoo or hotmail account... but just something that can have a big effect at scaring people away, and, if it comes down to it, getting people who abuse the system stopped. This is just like email; most email systems have ways to detect and stop spammers who create or hijack temporary accounts, so can the online relay service. Heck, we could actually use the log ins to provide more features to customers. With a log in, users could build phonebooks for people they frequently call, for example.
No, i'm not trying take away privacy aspects, but there is a clear problem with the way relay is being abused. There would be no need to track calls (and indeed there should not be any tracking of any sort), but when a call comes up that is an abusive call (they are unmistakable), it could be marked down and after so many strikes, an account would be disabled. These callers are hurting many companies, reducing the overall legitimacy or the relay service, and worst of all, they are making it increasingly difficult for deaf citizens to communicate via relay. Businesses -- and even individuals -- who are receiving calls from seemingly legitimate deaf persons are now becoming increasingly suspicious (thanks in part to news articles like the aformentioned) and are gaining more of a tendency to simply hang up before the deaf person has had an opportunity to communicate -- this is not easy to get around as communication speeds and protocol that must be followed can make some aspects of the call very slow.
just my 2-3 cents.
I'm not exactly how sure how much "social capital" wifi networks really build, given that most definitions of social capital that I have seen involve personal, physical human interaction with a sense of meaning behind it. According to Robert Putnam's book "Bowling Alone":
The term social capital itself turns out to have been independently invented at least six times over the twentieth century, each time to call attention to the ways in which our lives are made more productive by social ties
Still, most of their definitions seem to include a sense of physical interaction, as this seems almost a prerequisite in forming close human bonds. I've heard a lot of tales of people who've gained very personal relationships through chat and email, but the value of the relationships are not the same as those of physical interaction; in every case I have ever heard (though I'm sure there are, as with everything, exceptions to the contrary) those relationships that have moved from online to personal tend to fail quickly when the participants realize they simply cannot sign out of the relationship whenever needed. Quite the contrary to building social capital, many credit the internet, email, telephones, and the convenience of mass technological communication of constructing an impersonal world which is rapidly destroying social capital.
To legally broadcast, you're going to have to pay some fees, I reckon. Royalties come to mind first, as the DO in fact apply as my college radio station program manager learned (in fact, royalty fees are being charged in what seems to me to be an ex post facto manner... or at least retro active as I'm not entirely sure on how royalty laws' explicitly applied internet streams), but there are other fees as well. Granted, earlier last year the royalty fees for College Radio were cut a bit, but they're still too much for our little non-for-profit to afford. Also, as we just learned, we cannot even legally broadcast our own athletic events (recorded by ourselves live) or unique, copyright-free content without paying some hideous fees. However, Icecast is a godsend to those of us who may eventually just barely scrape together the fee monies to get some nice audio streaming going.
I think the author is ready to, but (like me) doesn't know which manufacturer he can go to. I know my asus has a windows-flash-bios-update-system, too...and when I was shopping around last summer, I didn't come across anything that didn't.
I'd like to emphasize the question posed in the original post " Does anyone know of any motherboard maker that doesn't require a specific OS to flash a BIOS?"
Voting with your feet is great, but you gotta have a place to walk to.
What happened to three strikes? Where are the orange jumb suits and chains?
no, no, no... three strikes is strictly for baseball, bicycle thieves, and shoplifters. The second we start pushing serious three-strikes corporate crime laws is the moment we lose every transnational corporation with a U.S. home base. We got anyone manning the microsoft corporate-crime counter?
Slashdotters, being the concerned U.S. terror-level-alert-watchers we are, have no doubt studied up already on these informational diagrams from the united states website ready.gov http://www.houstonjusticenotwar.org/articles/terro rist_attack/
Because 3D virtual reality GUIs suck unless you live in a four dimensional universe
is that why no PSone or better has ever satisfied my gaming lust like the original NES ?
(by that I mean a universe with a proper fourth spatial dimension).
it really makes a guy to feel predictable when you've accounted for his attempts at witty time-dimensional or M-theory comments before he could even think them up.
The Xiaoping Dynasty is now putting action into their plans to electronically seal-off the nation...slowly moving towards the erection of The Great Firewall?
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It's interesting that you bring up the idea of less-integrated applications, since that's what openoffice originally did to the star office suite (as per Stardivision) in the first place. I remember using StarOffice back in the days before openoffice existed. Back then, I doubt many others had heard of the suite, but I needed a cross-platform office suite, and that wasn't available from anyone else. All of the office programs were one gigantic application that spanned the entire desktop and had even had its own start menu at the bottom of the screen. There were some cool benefits to this, but mostly the suite just lended itself to redundancy -- redoing what the desktop management system and OS already did. When Star Office was bought by Sun and subsiquently opensourced, OpenOffice.org and Sun's most important contributions in the first OOo version was, i feel, separating the applications out and re-inventing the office file format with XML. I agree that applications could be further separated (and looking at the 1.9m54 build, I would guess the dev team would like to move in that direction, too), and an simpler means of implementing "addons" or "plugins" would be great as well.
I'd like to know if it really is a full version of windows, with a little bit of crippling software to get in the way... you know, something that's easy to defeat. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if that was the case, because microsoft knows they stand to benefit more so long as windows proliferates -- even if they have to give it away. Making it cheap, and temporarily (because of it's defeatable nature) crippled, is just a way to justify giving away their own software. As a bonus, they're making a little bit of money as opposed to simply allowing others to pirate it or just giving windows away for free. Hell, anything to keep the tigers away from using oss or homebrew software, because then microsoft knows it's lost its market for good!!
once you've had your way with the libraries, check out the enlightenment apps that use, them. all absolutely beautiful: - evidence -- file browser - entice -- image viewer - iconbar -- a button-toolbar - engage -- osx-like (in the default theme) toolbar - equate -- calculator app - erss -- a desktop rss viewer (gentoo users, most of these apps are ~x86 ebuilds) there are a lot of others, too. All with a remarkably logical and beautiful interface. Evidence has fully replaced all other file browsers on my computer, and is damn close to everything i want (although rendering directories with large numbers of files seems to take a while). Also, i noticed that the new real helix player seems utilize some parts of the EFL -- probably the best move real programmers have ever made, in my opinion. Anywho, enlightenment really makes everyday computing a joyful experience; thanks e team!!!
somebody made a video game about me (even got the name right!)
let me get this straight... ...google is giving the kasners too much attention, but it is only profitting...
so to resolve this, the family wants to gain more attention (through a high-profile legal battle) and more profit (civil suit cash dollaz) ?
check out the agnula/DeMuDi (http://www.agnula.org/) collection of software; they have everything in that distribution! download the livecd iso, boot it, check out the software. everything from synths to drum trackers to recorders, the whole sha-bang. oh, and the dynebolic (http://www.dynebolic.org/) project has a good livecd for audio, too!
!!! that is my list exactly minus vim and plus gaim !!!
they are using the internet relay services (http://www.sprintrelayonline.com, for example) to make phone calls. Right now, all you have to do is simply show up on the site and put in a phone number and dial it, but a password system would make it so you would have to sign up for an account before making a call with the online service. Those using a standard tty would not have to worry about the password issue, and that is great, because there has been no standard tty machine abuse so far as i am aware (I am a CA/Operator/Agent for a relay service). I actually support the idea of a password system. It can be a very simple system -- just like when signing up for a free yahoo or hotmail account... but just something that can have a big effect at scaring people away, and, if it comes down to it, getting people who abuse the system stopped. This is just like email; most email systems have ways to detect and stop spammers who create or hijack temporary accounts, so can the online relay service. Heck, we could actually use the log ins to provide more features to customers. With a log in, users could build phonebooks for people they frequently call, for example. No, i'm not trying take away privacy aspects, but there is a clear problem with the way relay is being abused. There would be no need to track calls (and indeed there should not be any tracking of any sort), but when a call comes up that is an abusive call (they are unmistakable), it could be marked down and after so many strikes, an account would be disabled. These callers are hurting many companies, reducing the overall legitimacy or the relay service, and worst of all, they are making it increasingly difficult for deaf citizens to communicate via relay. Businesses -- and even individuals -- who are receiving calls from seemingly legitimate deaf persons are now becoming increasingly suspicious (thanks in part to news articles like the aformentioned) and are gaining more of a tendency to simply hang up before the deaf person has had an opportunity to communicate -- this is not easy to get around as communication speeds and protocol that must be followed can make some aspects of the call very slow. just my 2-3 cents.
there's something strangely comforting about having someone on slashdot bash my former congressman
To legally broadcast, you're going to have to pay some fees, I reckon. Royalties come to mind first, as the DO in fact apply as my college radio station program manager learned (in fact, royalty fees are being charged in what seems to me to be an ex post facto manner... or at least retro active as I'm not entirely sure on how royalty laws' explicitly applied internet streams), but there are other fees as well. Granted, earlier last year the royalty fees for College Radio were cut a bit, but they're still too much for our little non-for-profit to afford. Also, as we just learned, we cannot even legally broadcast our own athletic events (recorded by ourselves live) or unique, copyright-free content without paying some hideous fees. However, Icecast is a godsend to those of us who may eventually just barely scrape together the fee monies to get some nice audio streaming going.
I think the author is ready to, but (like me) doesn't know which manufacturer he can go to. I know my asus has a windows-flash-bios-update-system, too...and when I was shopping around last summer, I didn't come across anything that didn't.
I'd like to emphasize the question posed in the original post " Does anyone know of any motherboard maker that doesn't require a specific OS to flash a BIOS?"
Voting with your feet is great, but you gotta have a place to walk to.
consequences of breaking the 3-strikes-laws would be more like "no more government contracts for a while", etc.
Slashdotters, being the concerned U.S. terror-level-alert-watchers we are, have no doubt studied up already on these informational diagrams from the united states website ready.gov http://www.houstonjusticenotwar.org/articles/terro rist_attack/
The Xiaoping Dynasty is now putting action into their plans to electronically seal-off the nation...slowly moving towards the erection of The Great Firewall?