gLabels, a GNOME program that makes and prints all sorts of labels and business cards
From that, I think you can assume that it is an application, written for GNOME, that is somehow able to make and print labels and business cards. You know, labels, those sticky things you put on boxes and envelopes. LABELS.
RiceTec's 'basmati' is not GM rice, but just hybrid rice. It's available on most supermarket shelves, at least in the Houston area (home area for RiceTec). It's not Basmati, but they are happy to claim that it is.
On a side note, the US has strict rules on the sale of GMO foods, but no labelling restrictions exist. Once it's approved by the FDA for human consumption, I can put it in any sort of packaging I want, sell it in the produce department, whatever. I can't claim that it's not GMO, but I can do something like produce a GM rice and call it basmati.
While your comments may be correct, I wouldn't cite 'Mythbusters' as a source of factual information.
The episode with the microwave employed almost zero science, as do most of their experiments. I was surprised that they did not build a microwave out of ballistic gelatin and then say that it had almost exactly the same properties as a real microwave.
I'm a partner in a new venture designed to offer exactly what you're wanting. Peak Bias is a company dedicated to promoting new and original talent via the internet, including audio streams of unsigned artists.
We're not quite there yet, but we're well on our way. Just a few more customers and the stream can go live.
So, two repair centers tried to screw you. Sharp paid for the TV, court fees, and an extra $275 for your trouble. I'd blame the repair centers before I made it my duty to waste my life booing Sharp.
Next time, just return the damn thing to Best Buy. The only reason to buy from a big chain is the return policy.
On your webpage, your 05/30/2003 10:30 AM update stated "I consider this matter closed," but clearly you don't. Still bitter? It's just a damn TV. Why would anyone agree to take time off to get a TV picked up? That's your own stupidity.
Does noone else find this game to be terribly similar to Terminus? You know, Terminus, the persistent universe online space combat/trading game available for Win, Mac, and Linux?
I remember lots of Linux folks drooling over it and babbling about how they'd all buy it as soon as it shipped, because it would have Linux binaries on the CD.
Nobody did, of course. That's probably why nobody remembers the game.
> There are just as many OSS developers in Houston > who would have loved pitching their solutions to > the city, but they were locked out because they > didn't grease the right palms or have the right > regional pedigree.
For one, everyone has the ability to respond to a request for bids. Everyone.
Secondly, how many of these OSS developers have mature office suites that could be delivered within the timeframe required? I imagine we'd have heard of their project already if that were true.
Sure, they could invest time and fix the MS import/export filters for OpenOffice, and that would be great, but if they were capable of doing that, wouldn't they have already done that and started offering their products?
> Choosing OSS solution would have generated more > jobs and insured that the software would have > been supported in the future.
OK, I'll bite. How would it have created more jobs? How would a new OSS-based startup be assured to live longer than the guys who got the bid?
Seems to me that OSS-based companies are dropping like flies and have been ever since VCs stopped being willing to throw money at them.
I'm a fan of open source software, don't get me wrong. But I'm also a realist.
> I think this is just a case of price. The city of > Houston got a great deal from a Houston based > company. What's it called when a city practices > nepotism, except without the relatives? Oh yeah, > politics.;)
I'd say that it's just a case of a city supporting its own entrepreneurs, supporting its own tax generating companies, supporting its own residents.
It's like buying from your neighborhood hardware store, grocery store, or five and dime. Oh wait, they're all national chains now... Looks like folks didn't shop there enough to keep them alive.
As a Houstonian, I'm glad to see a Houston business getting support from the city.
I have two cellphones in front of me, both are no longer under service plans. NEITHER will complete a 911 call nor a 0 call. I was stranded once and my main cellphone's battery was dead. I had the other two in my car (was going to donate them, guess I really should get around to that) and tried to use them. No go.
So, even though there was plenty of signal, no emergency call capability was there. Sorry.
If anyone had bothered to actually CALL the mayor's office, they would have explained exactly what's going on and how it is NOT like anything in Minority Report, how they are NOT trying to catch 'future criminals' or anything like that. Even Amy Goodman of Democracy now made that terrible 'journalistic' mistake this morning and did not verify the facts before an interview.
Always check your facts.
They are patrolling street corners where crimes are regularly commited. When a sweep is made, all individuals there are photographed and IDed. The info is put into the case file database for future reference. That way if you always seem to find the same guy who 'is just passing through, never been here before,' you know that he's lying. The ACLU is involved due to concerns that it's not constitutional. Either way, it's not what was reported.
Doesn't sound fun, but it's about as invasive as the hundreds of cameras recording you on the highways of major cities.
Let's be a bit more rational when comparing this suit to the iMac and MS suits.
iMac: Apple pays money for a uniquely designed computer that puts aesthetics on a par with function for the first time since the NeXT Cube. While initially laughed at by the media and PC bigots, sales of the iMac boom, and PC folks experience aesthetic envy. e-Machines licenses a machine from a company that is producing clones that are amazingly similar to the iMac's design (which was a trademarked design, unique to the iMac). Apple sues.
Look & Feel: Apple uses PARC ideas to build a graphical OS. MS lambasts the products, then uses knowledge obtained under NDA to produce their own GUI-based products.
It's a bit different than basing something on a style or a feel, it's much more like theft. It's very much like having someone cheat off your physics final. You studied, you worked hard, they're getting a free ride and endangering your academic career by risking having you both thrown out.
However, I must realize that I'm posting this on slashdot, where many readers think stealing is better than paying, and IP means nothing.
> A comparable Celeron 300A machine runs for about half the price with beefier performance/specs.
Let's split this into two parts.
Performance: I have to assume you mean CPU specs. Having run very I/O intensive applications on both PC hardware (dual PII 450) and a RaQ, I'd pick the Qube or RaQ for such applications.
You see, a PC simply does NOT have the I/O throughput necessary for a lot of today's applications. A PC can't keep up in many respects. I set up BigBrother to watch all of the workstations at our site, and it drove a PII 266 to a load average of 27. CPU, disk, memory, and network performance were fine. The internal I/O was overloaded. I can set that same system up with TWO instances on a RaQ and drive the load up to a mere 1.7 - 2.0.
Apples to apples: Are you putting that Celeron into a rack mounted case? The cheapest I can find for a TWO rack unit high box is $550 for just the case. A Cobalt RaQ fits in ONE rack unit. How about into a 7.25" cube? That's darn small. Real estate is at a premium in most offices, that's one reason many folks work in cubes.
The Cobalt systems do not require a monitor, kb, etc, to be configured, maintained, etc. PCs do. BIG plus both in the modern datacenter and on the workgroup table.
> That means you're paying a real premium for convenience of setup which no self respecting > Linux guru is willing to do.
1, You're not paying very much at all for what you get. 2. They're not aimed at linux gurus. 3. I'm a professional UNIX sysadmin, and I LOVE the convenience of setup. I'm sorry, but I don't have a lot of free time at work, and anything that makes my life easier is cool by me.
> remember the NeXT, BeBox, Amiga, Atari ST, Go Book..?
All too well. I'm a former NeXT admin. However, these systems ran proprietary operating systems. The Cobalt systems run Linux. Do you want a copy of the kernel source for a Cobalt system? Snag it from their FTP site.
All in all, I understand your points, but I have to disagree.
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gLabels, a GNOME program that makes and prints all sorts of labels and business cards
From that, I think you can assume that it is an application, written for GNOME, that is somehow able to make and print labels and business cards. You know, labels, those sticky things you put on boxes and envelopes. LABELS.
RiceTec's 'basmati' is not GM rice, but just hybrid rice. It's available on most supermarket shelves, at least in the Houston area (home area for RiceTec). It's not Basmati, but they are happy to claim that it is.
On a side note, the US has strict rules on the sale of GMO foods, but no labelling restrictions exist. Once it's approved by the FDA for human consumption, I can put it in any sort of packaging I want, sell it in the produce department, whatever. I can't claim that it's not GMO, but I can do something like produce a GM rice and call it basmati.
While your comments may be correct, I wouldn't cite 'Mythbusters' as a source of factual information.
The episode with the microwave employed almost zero science, as do most of their experiments. I was surprised that they did not build a microwave out of ballistic gelatin and then say that it had almost exactly the same properties as a real microwave.
Anti-CAFTA Protest
Date/time: Tues. Oct. 21, 6 pm
Assemble: S. Post Oak & W. Alabama
March: to Westin Galleria Hotel, 5060 W. Alabama
http://www.nocaftahouston.org/
We're not quite there yet, but we're well on our way. Just a few more customers and the stream can go live.
So, two repair centers tried to screw you. Sharp paid for the TV, court fees, and an extra $275 for your trouble. I'd blame the repair centers before I made it my duty to waste my life booing Sharp.
Next time, just return the damn thing to Best Buy. The only reason to buy from a big chain is the return policy.
On your webpage, your 05/30/2003 10:30 AM update stated "I consider this matter closed," but clearly you don't. Still bitter? It's just a damn TV. Why would anyone agree to take time off to get a TV picked up? That's your own stupidity.
Does noone else find this game to be terribly similar to Terminus? You know, Terminus, the persistent universe online space combat/trading game available for Win, Mac, and Linux?
I remember lots of Linux folks drooling over it and babbling about how they'd all buy it as soon as it shipped, because it would have Linux binaries on the CD.
Nobody did, of course. That's probably why nobody remembers the game.
> There are just as many OSS developers in Houston
> who would have loved pitching their solutions to
> the city, but they were locked out because they
> didn't grease the right palms or have the right
> regional pedigree.
For one, everyone has the ability to respond to a request for bids. Everyone.
Secondly, how many of these OSS developers have mature office suites that could be delivered within the timeframe required? I imagine we'd have heard of their project already if that were true.
Sure, they could invest time and fix the MS import/export filters for OpenOffice, and that would be great, but if they were capable of doing that, wouldn't they have already done that and started offering their products?
> Choosing OSS solution would have generated more
> jobs and insured that the software would have
> been supported in the future.
OK, I'll bite. How would it have created more jobs? How would a new OSS-based startup be assured to live longer than the guys who got the bid?
Seems to me that OSS-based companies are dropping like flies and have been ever since VCs stopped being willing to throw money at them.
I'm a fan of open source software, don't get me wrong. But I'm also a realist.
I agree. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a free office replacement that has good enough compatability with MS document formats.
However, I know that the day will VERY soon arrive. I should look and see who else responded to the request for bids.
> I think this is just a case of price. The city of > Houston got a great deal from a Houston based ;)
> company. What's it called when a city practices
> nepotism, except without the relatives? Oh yeah,
> politics.
I'd say that it's just a case of a city supporting its own entrepreneurs, supporting its own tax generating companies, supporting its own residents.
It's like buying from your neighborhood hardware store, grocery store, or five and dime. Oh wait, they're all national chains now... Looks like folks didn't shop there enough to keep them alive.
As a Houstonian, I'm glad to see a Houston business getting support from the city.
BMC Software (www.bmc.com) has supported Linux with its monitoring and management products for a while, even including Linux/390.
I have two cellphones in front of me, both are no longer under service plans. NEITHER will complete a 911 call nor a 0 call. I was stranded once and my main cellphone's battery was dead. I had the other two in my car (was going to donate them, guess I really should get around to that) and tried to use them. No go.
So, even though there was plenty of signal, no emergency call capability was there. Sorry.
If anyone had bothered to actually CALL the mayor's office, they would have explained exactly what's going on and how it is NOT like anything in Minority Report, how they are NOT trying to catch 'future criminals' or anything like that. Even Amy Goodman of Democracy now made that terrible 'journalistic' mistake this morning and did not verify the facts before an interview.
Always check your facts.
They are patrolling street corners where crimes are regularly commited. When a sweep is made, all individuals there are photographed and IDed. The info is put into the case file database for future reference. That way if you always seem to find the same guy who 'is just passing through, never been here before,' you know that he's lying. The ACLU is involved due to concerns that it's not constitutional. Either way, it's not what was reported.
Doesn't sound fun, but it's about as invasive as the hundreds of cameras recording you on the highways of major cities.
You don't have to have linux on your PC to install to the Helio, you could use just about anything.
Pixar was purchased by Jobs AFTER he started NeXT. The cube may have predated the NeXTCube (no clue), but it wasn't Jobs' product.
Let's be a bit more rational when comparing this suit to the iMac and MS suits.
iMac: Apple pays money for a uniquely designed computer that puts aesthetics on a par with function for the first time since the NeXT Cube. While initially laughed at by the media and PC bigots, sales of the iMac boom, and PC folks experience aesthetic envy. e-Machines licenses a machine from a company that is producing clones that are amazingly similar to the iMac's design (which was a trademarked design, unique to the iMac). Apple sues.
Look & Feel: Apple uses PARC ideas to build a graphical OS. MS lambasts the products, then uses knowledge obtained under NDA to produce their own GUI-based products.
It's a bit different than basing something on a style or a feel, it's much more like theft. It's very much like having someone cheat off your physics final. You studied, you worked hard, they're getting a free ride and endangering your academic career by risking having you both thrown out.
However, I must realize that I'm posting this on slashdot, where many readers think stealing is better than paying, and IP means nothing.
Reagen
> A comparable Celeron 300A machine runs for about half the price with beefier performance/specs.
..?
Let's split this into two parts.
Performance:
I have to assume you mean CPU specs. Having run very I/O intensive applications on both PC hardware (dual PII 450) and a RaQ, I'd pick the Qube or RaQ for such applications.
You see, a PC simply does NOT have the I/O throughput necessary for a lot of today's applications. A PC can't keep up in many respects. I set up BigBrother to watch all of the workstations at our site, and it drove a PII 266 to a load average of 27. CPU, disk, memory, and network performance were fine. The internal I/O was overloaded. I can set that same system up with TWO instances on a RaQ and drive the load up to a mere 1.7 - 2.0.
Apples to apples:
Are you putting that Celeron into a rack mounted case? The cheapest I can find for a TWO rack unit high box is $550 for just the case. A Cobalt RaQ fits in ONE rack unit. How about into a 7.25" cube? That's darn small. Real estate is at a premium in most offices, that's one reason many folks work in cubes.
The Cobalt systems do not require a monitor, kb, etc, to be configured, maintained, etc. PCs do. BIG plus both in the modern datacenter and on the workgroup table.
> That means you're paying a real premium for convenience of setup which no self respecting
> Linux guru is willing to do.
1, You're not paying very much at all for what you get.
2. They're not aimed at linux gurus.
3. I'm a professional UNIX sysadmin, and I LOVE the convenience of setup. I'm sorry, but I don't have a lot of free time at work, and anything that makes my life easier is cool by me.
> remember the NeXT, BeBox, Amiga, Atari ST, Go Book
All too well. I'm a former NeXT admin. However, these systems ran proprietary operating systems. The Cobalt systems run Linux. Do you want a copy of the kernel source for a Cobalt system? Snag it from their FTP site.
All in all, I understand your points, but I have to disagree.
Reagen Ward