I like, I've always liked it... as a US Windows user I'm not seeing any big differences, the 3d buildings were in my 3.x version too.
But I have two itty bitty complaints, the Hancock & the Smurfitt-Stone (The Vagina Building) buildings in Chicago... probably two of the most recognized buildings in our skyline (which is way up the list as one of the most recognizable skylines in the country) don't render anything remotely right... I couldn't even locate them based on the shapes the silly things rendered in that program.
Take a look at allofmp3.com... do people flock to it because of its questionable legality? No, they flock to it because they get the music the want easily, quickly, and in good quality with no DRM and lots of options. And people flock to iTunes for similar reasons.
Yes, there are 17 year old pirates who want to steal for the sake of stealing, but once they get jobs & make some real money their time becomes valuable, and they buy your product IF you offer it for a fair price.
I'd gladly spend $3 to download a one time rental movie that I can watch on my TV, or $.50 to buy a non-drmd losslessly compressed song (actually if it's lossless I'll even accept reasonable DRM... if it's already compressed, no way tho) if you can provide me the guarantee of quality & a convenient shopping experience & a promise that I'm not downloading some virus from whatever today's napster is... those features are a service that people will pay for, the problem is finding the price points people will accept. iTunes really seems to have done this, which dissapoints the piss outa me, cause it's way over what I think is fair.
That's really what it comes down to. People can debate the morality and legality all they want... but if people keep wanting something for nothing, there's going to be no more something eventually.
I'm more of the opinion that once the RIAA & MPAA come out with reasonably, affordable distribution schemes everyone can be happy... sure their industry may only generate multi-millionaires instead of billionaires, but I'm sure they can live with that. (And no, a buck a song for less than CD quality DRM'd music is not an affordable distrubtion scheme... go losless for 50 cents, and then maybe we're talking)
Unfortunately people like the grandparent post make a reasonable and affordable distribution scheme hard to implement since they basically just come out and say, hey, if you make it available I'm going to steal it! Which results in all sorts of DRM which doesn't stop them anyway, and turns me off from buying your goods (especially if they're already compressed since my player may not handle your DRM and to decode/re-encode is both time consuming and quality degrading)
yeah, if you have tech savy enough company take a modest machine, stick it near the break room, don't connect it to the network at all and let people use it for curious disks/thumbdrives/applications. Would be nice if you ghosted or vmwared it frequently so users didn't pass the trojans from one USB key to another as well.
Eh, don't imagine anyone really doing this, but it wouldn't be an awful idea.
Maybe that's part of the reason... I think it's just as much the segment installing it. It doesn't matter if my dad's computer is running Windows, OSX or Linux he's never going to upgrade the OS, end of story.
My guess to their logic is much simpler, even with their consumer lines Thinkpads are primarily business machines. Lenovo's comments probably raise a bit of a stink with a couple high dollar clients who said, if you're not going to support Linux on the 100 Linux laptops we order yearly we're going to stop ordering the 10,000 Window laptops from you as well and find another vendor. (Insert whatever numbers make it realistic to you)
But I'm just guessing... I didn't RTFA, I'm still on my first cup of coffee.
One difference between SQL and a conventional procedural programming language is that for SQL there's a bigger gap between what the code says and what the code does.
What? My SQL code tends to do exactly what the code says it will, are you trying to say that it's a high level language or am I missing something here?
Ubuntu isn't secretive about it all... anyone who knows even close to enough to do anything with the knowledge that Ubuntu et al are based on debian (and that includes financial donations as well as coding efforts/support/whatever) is more than well aware of the relationship.
I would rather spend $600 on much more useful things that would see use right now on pricewatch the video cards at $100 are: radeon x1300 256mb agp, radeon x1600 pro 256mb pci express, radeon x800 pci express 256mb, geforce 6600 gt pci-e 256mb
So spend your $600 on more useful things with the rest of us, and let the fanatics keep driving the very high end video card market so that we can all benefit from it when it's in the $100 bin in what, 2 or 3 years.
What gets the Intel Core DUO put at #1 & the AMD 64 X2 and #2?
Seriously? I have an AMD 64X2 system and I love it, so I'm just curious... all the research I did pre-purchase certainly put the AMD way ahead of Intel... true 64bit, shared memory space, better performance, and definitely better performance per purchase dollar as well as performance per electricity dollar.
Is this all the hub-bub I've been hearing about the last couple weeks about the brand new not yet out Intels that're supposed to be better yet?
Agreed... and especially in the world of web pages and search engines.
This is not installed software, they don't have a real hold on their users outside of delivering a quality product & having a recognizable name. Maybe they have their default home page of a handful of users, and there's the Firefox search box... but outside of that, switching from google.com to ask.com is trivial.
And ask.com has TV spots now, I saw one the other day, I gotta admit while I dismissed it as marketting cause I know a little bit about search engines, it was an intriguing add if I didn't, I would definitely have given it a try for my next search... heck I might anyway.
The only point of a third-party signed SSL certificate is so that you can say "OK, I am trying to connect to www.myfavoirtestore.com. Is the data actually coming from there, or am I actually getting data from www.hackersite.com that intercepted the transmission/hijacked the DNS/whatever?".
I wouldn't say that's the only point... if you really trust the issuer, it's also supposed to give you some factual information, usually the company name, department name, phone number & address of whoever the cert was created for. However, as stated earlier in the discussion (and verified by my personal experience), there's not a whole lot of research from the issuers that this data is correct.
Been about a year since I've tried it in Linux, maybe closer to 9 months... it was awful, in fact the overall cruddy battery life I experienced in Linux was one of my primary reasons for giving up on my last foray into desktop Linux and not just server Linux.
Your description sounds like you may have been bitten by the PIO/DMA bug in WindowsXP, it's exactly what happened to my laptop and I was ticked, thought I'd have to go through a huge re-install, and given what I have on my laptop that's a full day I can't afford to lose right now, especially considering I'd have to get all the re-install media from IBM that I don't have. Anyway, I found the information, fixed the HD settings, and the thing is back like day 1 for me, now about 400 days in.
My Acer laptop running WinXP has Stand By (draining the battery a little) and Hibernate (no drain) and both work like a charm. No problems whatsoever. Restarts are few and far in-between. Does this make my laptop unique?
No, it means two things... 1) Most windows gripers are still talking old versions of windows... even if they've gotten to griping about XP, they're probably not on a recently patched version of SP2... I also have had little to no problems using suspend and hibernate over the last 6 months, but before that I had constant lock up and crashes using it. 2) Windows users have a different level of acceptance of "Restarts are few and far in-between", once a week or month or whatever really seems trivial since if the OS doesn't crash it some crappy piece of software will, or some install will require a reboot or XYZ...
Altho, I've never used a Mac for an extended period of time I can say my Linux experiences are pretty much the same as Windows rebooting... altho Linux sleep/suspend has never worked for me on my laptops. (a couple different IBM T series and a Toshiba)
Last loosely related point, none of that holds true for server Windows/Linux setups... my Windows servers need an abnormal amount of reboots for a server, and I have more than a couple Linux servers doing dedicated tasks for which I've long ago lost the passwords because I haven't touched them and with the exception of a power outage (which didn't require any manual intervention) are on about 2 years of uptime.
Yeah, old. Lots of ma & pop computer repair shops will have old desktops for sale for a song... the only problem is you could also just go buy a brand new $300 dell, so you gotta kinda pick and choose. The key on these systems is not to get stuck on the "just upgrade this" mentality we computer folks are so fond of.
I'm running exactly what you're describing on old p3-500's without a hitch... they're free to the office they went in because they were decommisioned from service, and rather than donating away, we recycled.
I opted for the Sonata II myself... even with a Athlon 64X2 4200 & a 7900GT vid card I get away with just a single fan because of the weird little airflow pipe they put in it... Only problem I had was with with the front sound connectors, something got bent during assembly, but I'm willing to bet that was my fault as this is the first comp. I've built in years.
Anyway, from what I hear both great cases... just adding to the recommendation list.
Honestly curious... I've never delved into the OO XML, but I've done plenty of RTF dynamic generations, and it's just simple, cross platform, and effective.
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Well, if it doesn't work for you, they should just roll up shop and go home!
I like, I've always liked it... as a US Windows user I'm not seeing any big differences, the 3d buildings were in my 3.x version too.
But I have two itty bitty complaints, the Hancock & the Smurfitt-Stone (The Vagina Building) buildings in Chicago... probably two of the most recognized buildings in our skyline (which is way up the list as one of the most recognizable skylines in the country) don't render anything remotely right... I couldn't even locate them based on the shapes the silly things rendered in that program.
But at it's core, music should be free ;) - artists should make money through commissions and performances.
If they choose, fine... but why do you get to tell them how to make money in any way other than voting with your dollars?
no idea how good it is, but isn't this what movielink.com is trying to achieve?
BTW, I completely agree.
The alternative is convenience.
Take a look at allofmp3.com... do people flock to it because of its questionable legality? No, they flock to it because they get the music the want easily, quickly, and in good quality with no DRM and lots of options. And people flock to iTunes for similar reasons.
Yes, there are 17 year old pirates who want to steal for the sake of stealing, but once they get jobs & make some real money their time becomes valuable, and they buy your product IF you offer it for a fair price.
I'd gladly spend $3 to download a one time rental movie that I can watch on my TV, or $.50 to buy a non-drmd losslessly compressed song (actually if it's lossless I'll even accept reasonable DRM... if it's already compressed, no way tho) if you can provide me the guarantee of quality & a convenient shopping experience & a promise that I'm not downloading some virus from whatever today's napster is... those features are a service that people will pay for, the problem is finding the price points people will accept. iTunes really seems to have done this, which dissapoints the piss outa me, cause it's way over what I think is fair.
That's really what it comes down to. People can debate the morality and legality all they want... but if people keep wanting something for nothing, there's going to be no more something eventually.
I'm more of the opinion that once the RIAA & MPAA come out with reasonably, affordable distribution schemes everyone can be happy... sure their industry may only generate multi-millionaires instead of billionaires, but I'm sure they can live with that. (And no, a buck a song for less than CD quality DRM'd music is not an affordable distrubtion scheme... go losless for 50 cents, and then maybe we're talking)
Unfortunately people like the grandparent post make a reasonable and affordable distribution scheme hard to implement since they basically just come out and say, hey, if you make it available I'm going to steal it! Which results in all sorts of DRM which doesn't stop them anyway, and turns me off from buying your goods (especially if they're already compressed since my player may not handle your DRM and to decode/re-encode is both time consuming and quality degrading)
yeah, if you have tech savy enough company take a modest machine, stick it near the break room, don't connect it to the network at all and let people use it for curious disks/thumbdrives/applications. Would be nice if you ghosted or vmwared it frequently so users didn't pass the trojans from one USB key to another as well.
Eh, don't imagine anyone really doing this, but it wouldn't be an awful idea.
Maybe that's part of the reason... I think it's just as much the segment installing it. It doesn't matter if my dad's computer is running Windows, OSX or Linux he's never going to upgrade the OS, end of story.
I think you're over thinking this one, alot.
My guess to their logic is much simpler, even with their consumer lines Thinkpads are primarily business machines. Lenovo's comments probably raise a bit of a stink with a couple high dollar clients who said, if you're not going to support Linux on the 100 Linux laptops we order yearly we're going to stop ordering the 10,000 Window laptops from you as well and find another vendor. (Insert whatever numbers make it realistic to you)
But I'm just guessing... I didn't RTFA, I'm still on my first cup of coffee.
One difference between SQL and a conventional procedural programming language is that for SQL there's a bigger gap between what the code says and what the code does.
What? My SQL code tends to do exactly what the code says it will, are you trying to say that it's a high level language or am I missing something here?
Ubuntu isn't secretive about it all... anyone who knows even close to enough to do anything with the knowledge that Ubuntu et al are based on debian (and that includes financial donations as well as coding efforts/support/whatever) is more than well aware of the relationship.
Gee, I'm really glad they all switched away from the confusing notations like P3-667 or PM-2Ghz, this shit is much clearer.
I would rather spend $600 on much more useful things that would see use right now on pricewatch the video cards at $100 are: radeon x1300 256mb agp, radeon x1600 pro 256mb pci express, radeon x800 pci express 256mb, geforce 6600 gt pci-e 256mb
So spend your $600 on more useful things with the rest of us, and let the fanatics keep driving the very high end video card market so that we can all benefit from it when it's in the $100 bin in what, 2 or 3 years.
What gets the Intel Core DUO put at #1 & the AMD 64 X2 and #2?
Seriously? I have an AMD 64X2 system and I love it, so I'm just curious... all the research I did pre-purchase certainly put the AMD way ahead of Intel... true 64bit, shared memory space, better performance, and definitely better performance per purchase dollar as well as performance per electricity dollar.
Is this all the hub-bub I've been hearing about the last couple weeks about the brand new not yet out Intels that're supposed to be better yet?
Agreed... and especially in the world of web pages and search engines.
This is not installed software, they don't have a real hold on their users outside of delivering a quality product & having a recognizable name. Maybe they have their default home page of a handful of users, and there's the Firefox search box... but outside of that, switching from google.com to ask.com is trivial.
And ask.com has TV spots now, I saw one the other day, I gotta admit while I dismissed it as marketting cause I know a little bit about search engines, it was an intriguing add if I didn't, I would definitely have given it a try for my next search... heck I might anyway.
The only point of a third-party signed SSL certificate is so that you can say "OK, I am trying to connect to www.myfavoirtestore.com. Is the data actually coming from there, or am I actually getting data from www.hackersite.com that intercepted the transmission/hijacked the DNS/whatever?".
I wouldn't say that's the only point... if you really trust the issuer, it's also supposed to give you some factual information, usually the company name, department name, phone number & address of whoever the cert was created for. However, as stated earlier in the discussion (and verified by my personal experience), there's not a whole lot of research from the issuers that this data is correct.
Wow, that's a bargain... your posts made me curious and I did some research, they say the 30/5 plan starts at $177 a month... http://www22.verizon.com/FiOSForHome/channels/FiOS /root/package.aspx
How'd you swing that deal?
What's that go for?
I'm fine with my 1.5Mbps down... but I'd love me some greater than whatever this up crap that I have is.
Been about a year since I've tried it in Linux, maybe closer to 9 months... it was awful, in fact the overall cruddy battery life I experienced in Linux was one of my primary reasons for giving up on my last foray into desktop Linux and not just server Linux.
Your description sounds like you may have been bitten by the PIO/DMA bug in WindowsXP, it's exactly what happened to my laptop and I was ticked, thought I'd have to go through a huge re-install, and given what I have on my laptop that's a full day I can't afford to lose right now, especially considering I'd have to get all the re-install media from IBM that I don't have. Anyway, I found the information, fixed the HD settings, and the thing is back like day 1 for me, now about 400 days in.
Knowledge base article on the bug
My Acer laptop running WinXP has Stand By (draining the battery a little) and Hibernate (no drain) and both work like a charm. No problems whatsoever. Restarts are few and far in-between. Does this make my laptop unique?
No, it means two things...
1) Most windows gripers are still talking old versions of windows... even if they've gotten to griping about XP, they're probably not on a recently patched version of SP2... I also have had little to no problems using suspend and hibernate over the last 6 months, but before that I had constant lock up and crashes using it.
2) Windows users have a different level of acceptance of "Restarts are few and far in-between", once a week or month or whatever really seems trivial since if the OS doesn't crash it some crappy piece of software will, or some install will require a reboot or XYZ...
Altho, I've never used a Mac for an extended period of time I can say my Linux experiences are pretty much the same as Windows rebooting... altho Linux sleep/suspend has never worked for me on my laptops. (a couple different IBM T series and a Toshiba)
Last loosely related point, none of that holds true for server Windows/Linux setups... my Windows servers need an abnormal amount of reboots for a server, and I have more than a couple Linux servers doing dedicated tasks for which I've long ago lost the passwords because I haven't touched them and with the exception of a power outage (which didn't require any manual intervention) are on about 2 years of uptime.
Help me out here, how's this different than a VNC or RemoteDesktop setup?
Both allow you to share the clipboards & desktops and all of that... or am I really misunderstanding?
Yeah, old. Lots of ma & pop computer repair shops will have old desktops for sale for a song... the only problem is you could also just go buy a brand new $300 dell, so you gotta kinda pick and choose. The key on these systems is not to get stuck on the "just upgrade this" mentality we computer folks are so fond of.
I'm running exactly what you're describing on old p3-500's without a hitch... they're free to the office they went in because they were decommisioned from service, and rather than donating away, we recycled.
I opted for the Sonata II myself... even with a Athlon 64X2 4200 & a 7900GT vid card I get away with just a single fan because of the weird little airflow pipe they put in it... Only problem I had was with with the front sound connectors, something got bent during assembly, but I'm willing to bet that was my fault as this is the first comp. I've built in years.
Anyway, from what I hear both great cases... just adding to the recommendation list.
What's it have over RTF in that realm?
Honestly curious... I've never delved into the OO XML, but I've done plenty of RTF dynamic generations, and it's just simple, cross platform, and effective.