Look for some pictures of people with telephones before Bell. It quickly got ridiculous to run lines everywhere. Now imagine that problem today.
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If the widgets are not avialable on the remote machine, Windows sends it to the client. Use a Windows 2000 machine to remote connect to an XP box with the default styles, you can still see them. however, if you disable the XP styles (classic w2k styles instead), the performance is MUCH MUCH faster.
Well, yes, but thats also true if you disable the xp styles on the local (xp) machine too. It will render faster while you're physcially in front of that computer.
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VNC sucks. It consistantly doesn't redraw the screen properly, 'forgetting' to update most of it.
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It isn't that everyone loves X (although many do), it is that DFB is not currently a viable alternative for folks who need ready-made applications.
Now, its been a few years since i tried it, but the linux FB stuff was very very slow compared to having an X driver for my graphics card. Thats the reason i tried linux FB, was because my graphics card at the time wasn't supported by X. Has the speed of it improved greatly over the past few years?
Rendell seems to have cleaned the place up a bit. Drove through the 'slums' last time I was down there without issue, and South Street, even late at night, seemed perfectly safe.
You must have missed them. South street and Center city, as well as most other places are fine. But stay away from North philly; i take the train to the city sometimes, and you'll see row housing with people living in one house, and the one right next door is burned out. Also i've been told to never leave the train platform at temple.
But for the most part, the areas where the nightlife is are pretty safe.
I hear local taxes down there are pretty nasty
Currently, state tax is 2.8% The local tax for the borough i'm in is 1%. If you live in the city, xor work in the city, you'll be hit by the wage tax, which is 4%. Live AND work there, its more, but not double..i don't know the exact percetage in that case.
Its slower. At least here anyway, i'm sure in other parts of the country it may not be the case. But a friend at work tried both side by side, and he said that the DSL was slower. It took longer to respond, and the average DL rate was lower then cable. The only benifit was that the DL rate was stable; once it got to the max speed, it pretty much stayed there, wereas cable seemed to burst.
And when I see signs when I'm on the freeway saying there are once in a lifetime deals at a car dealer I get off the road right away.
This is a bit different. If you saw a sign that said 'Traffic advisery, use this route instead.' you may very well follow it, and would be quite pissed that it was a ploy to get you to look at new cars. I'm sure most computer users aren't savvy enough to tell that it was a fake ad, since it was designed to look just like a message box in windows.
I don't see why you think the FTC should handle it; they'd likely do nothing at all. A class action suit is more likely to get something done, and i for one wouldn't mind if it shut down double click forever.
For christs sake, its only since Rendell has been in the governors office that I now don't have to drive to NJ to buy booze on Sunday...
Heh..i live in the same area (not too far from KOP myself), but the liquor store down the road from me remains closed on sundays. Are beer distributers allowed to be open now? Must be some new fangled thinking on the part of the PALCB.
FYI, i hope you don't live outside the city and rent...your income taxes may be going up to 4 or 5% thanks to rendell, to benefit properties owners and residents of pa. I guess he wants everyone to experience the philly wage tax.
The tech industry in and around philly seems to be recovering well though. I know a few people that found a job pretty easily after being laid off from another.
Doesn't make it fun to ride a motorcycle around either. I don't enjoy dodging Buicks that change lanes and pull out with no signal (or a constant one) where the driver cannot see over the dashboard and has zero reaction time.:(
At least that silly helmet law was repealed.
FWIW, its not very fun to drive a car under those conditions either. The Turnpike, were traffic goes from 75mph to 15 in 1.5 seconds, for seemingly no reason whatsoever. And the people that feel they can drive in whatever lane they want at whatever speed they want. Yay!
Pennsylvania. The broadband sucks, the roads suck, the tech job market sucks, and we're swimming in old people(tm). Not that the latter's bad, but retirees don't make for a good economy.
I find the latter bad because they tend to drive alot. Plus, it may be why our state is so backwards compared to say, NY. If you ever want anything besides beer, you need to go to the state run liquor store, that drives up the price quite a bit, and then, if they card you, will record that so and so bought some wiskey.
And now we have a govener that seems more concerned about philly then the state. He wants to raise taxes on everyone, but more so on people that don't live in philly and don't own property, to give those two groups a break.
Their modifications must also be released as source to anyone they distribute binaries to. Since thier source is also released freely, others benifit besides the company that modified the code. Profit does not only include money you know.
Who knows, it's a wonder what exactly BSD code is doing right now as there is no obligation for the developers to release their modifications source.
Which is why i don't like the BSD license. Code released under it is essentally ending up as work done for free for corporations. So while the code may now be better, it doesn't benifit everyone, it simply benifits the company.
What's this got to do with freedom and liberty? They're talking about theft of copyrighted material.
See the bill of rights, specificly the one about cruel or unusual punishment. I'd say its pretty unusualy to count copyright infringment as a felonly that will land you in jail for 5 YEARS, as well as a quarter million dollar fine.
If you have a music (or other copyrighted work) file, and you didn't buy it, technically you stole it.
I think that depends on if the person would pay for it normally.
In communism, everyone shares everything equally. Public parks might be an example of something 'everyone' owns.
In Feudalism, one person (the Lord) owns the land. He allows people (vassals) to live on the land and farm it, in return for most of what they grow. The vassals are allowed to keep enough (hopefully) to survive, maybe a little more or less. Kind of like a madam would run a bordello.
Feudalism (from dictionary.com): A political and economic system of Europe from the 9th to about the 15th century, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture.
Communism: A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
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How the UI looks isn't covered under IP. Thats already been settled, twice.
Look for some pictures of people with telephones before Bell. It quickly got ridiculous to run lines everywhere. Now imagine that problem today.
If the widgets are not avialable on the remote machine, Windows sends it to the client. Use a Windows 2000 machine to remote connect to an XP box with the default styles, you can still see them. however, if you disable the XP styles (classic w2k styles instead), the performance is MUCH MUCH faster.
Well, yes, but thats also true if you disable the xp styles on the local (xp) machine too. It will render faster while you're physcially in front of that computer.
VNC sucks. It consistantly doesn't redraw the screen properly, 'forgetting' to update most of it.
It isn't that everyone loves X (although many do), it is that DFB is not currently a viable alternative for folks who need ready-made applications.
Now, its been a few years since i tried it, but the linux FB stuff was very very slow compared to having an X driver for my graphics card. Thats the reason i tried linux FB, was because my graphics card at the time wasn't supported by X. Has the speed of it improved greatly over the past few years?
No, i'm just going to continue using it.
IT may also bankrupt double click, which is what i'm hoping for. Thats worth more to me then a buck or two.
Rendell seems to have cleaned the place up a bit. Drove through the 'slums' last time I was down there without issue, and South Street, even late at night, seemed perfectly safe.
You must have missed them. South street and Center city, as well as most other places are fine. But stay away from North philly; i take the train to the city sometimes, and you'll see row housing with people living in one house, and the one right next door is burned out. Also i've been told to never leave the train platform at temple.
But for the most part, the areas where the nightlife is are pretty safe.
I hear local taxes down there are pretty nasty
Currently, state tax is 2.8% The local tax for the borough i'm in is 1%. If you live in the city, xor work in the city, you'll be hit by the wage tax, which is 4%. Live AND work there, its more, but not double..i don't know the exact percetage in that case.
Its slower. At least here anyway, i'm sure in other parts of the country it may not be the case. But a friend at work tried both side by side, and he said that the DSL was slower. It took longer to respond, and the average DL rate was lower then cable. The only benifit was that the DL rate was stable; once it got to the max speed, it pretty much stayed there, wereas cable seemed to burst.
And when I see signs when I'm on the freeway saying there are once in a lifetime deals at a car dealer I get off the road right away.
This is a bit different. If you saw a sign that said 'Traffic advisery, use this route instead.' you may very well follow it, and would be quite pissed that it was a ploy to get you to look at new cars. I'm sure most computer users aren't savvy enough to tell that it was a fake ad, since it was designed to look just like a message box in windows.
I don't see why you think the FTC should handle it; they'd likely do nothing at all. A class action suit is more likely to get something done, and i for one wouldn't mind if it shut down double click forever.
OK, for starters i don't think redhat is making millions in profits.
Secondly, it will most likely end up being much more then 5 lines of code, idiot.
2) increase gambling revenues
Increase? YOu mean create. No gambling here. And it looks like that bill may not pass now.
For christs sake, its only since Rendell has been in the governors office that I now don't have to drive to NJ to buy booze on Sunday...
Heh..i live in the same area (not too far from KOP myself), but the liquor store down the road from me remains closed on sundays. Are beer distributers allowed to be open now? Must be some new fangled thinking on the part of the PALCB.
FYI, i hope you don't live outside the city and rent...your income taxes may be going up to 4 or 5% thanks to rendell, to benefit properties owners and residents of pa. I guess he wants everyone to experience the philly wage tax.
The tech industry in and around philly seems to be recovering well though. I know a few people that found a job pretty easily after being laid off from another.
Doesn't make it fun to ride a motorcycle around either. I don't enjoy dodging Buicks that change lanes and pull out with no signal (or a constant one) where the driver cannot see over the dashboard and has zero reaction time. :(
At least that silly helmet law was repealed.
FWIW, its not very fun to drive a car under those conditions either. The Turnpike, were traffic goes from 75mph to 15 in 1.5 seconds, for seemingly no reason whatsoever. And the people that feel they can drive in whatever lane they want at whatever speed they want. Yay!
Pennsylvania. The broadband sucks, the roads suck, the tech job market sucks, and we're swimming in old people(tm). Not that the latter's bad, but retirees don't make for a good economy.
I find the latter bad because they tend to drive alot. Plus, it may be why our state is so backwards compared to say, NY. If you ever want anything besides beer, you need to go to the state run liquor store, that drives up the price quite a bit, and then, if they card you, will record that so and so bought some wiskey.
And now we have a govener that seems more concerned about philly then the state. He wants to raise taxes on everyone, but more so on people that don't live in philly and don't own property, to give those two groups a break.
Unfortuatly thier DSL sucks compared to cable modem.
And how exactly is that different from the GPL?
Their modifications must also be released as source to anyone they distribute binaries to. Since thier source is also released freely, others benifit besides the company that modified the code. Profit does not only include money you know.
Who knows, it's a wonder what exactly BSD code is doing right now as there is no obligation for the developers to release their modifications source.
Which is why i don't like the BSD license. Code released under it is essentally ending up as work done for free for corporations. So while the code may now be better, it doesn't benifit everyone, it simply benifits the company.
Only in the world of GPL zealots would placing restrictions on something make it more free than it would be without them.
"There are laws that enslave man, and there are laws that set him free." Think Constitution and Bill of Rights.
What's this got to do with freedom and liberty? They're talking about theft of copyrighted material.
See the bill of rights, specificly the one about cruel or unusual punishment. I'd say its pretty unusualy to count copyright infringment as a felonly that will land you in jail for 5 YEARS, as well as a quarter million dollar fine.
If you have a music (or other copyrighted work) file, and you didn't buy it, technically you stole it.
I think that depends on if the person would pay for it normally.
In communism, everyone shares everything equally. Public parks might be an example of something 'everyone' owns.
In Feudalism, one person (the Lord) owns the land. He allows people (vassals) to live on the land and farm it, in return for most of what they grow. The vassals are allowed to keep enough (hopefully) to survive, maybe a little more or less. Kind of like a madam would run a bordello.
They don't, but they do advertise the product can do certain things. If a bug prevents something, i'd say thats false advertising.
Feudalism (from dictionary.com): A political and economic system of Europe from the 9th to about the 15th century, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture.
Communism: A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
So in an anarchist society, i have freedom if someone can beat me up and force me to do something i don't want, like give up my food?
I think your definition of freedom needs more work then the poster you're replying too.