Haven't we had enough rudeness the last four years? I happen to be pleased by most of those results (though not, for example, that anyone still uses Windows).
But you're a cowardly troll for anonymously posting such off-topic flamebait.
- Get some stones and at least use a pseudonym
- Stay on topic
- Avoid calling people names like "Eurotrash"
- In short, show a little class
It's always struck me as odd that Adobe, known initially for Postscript and then its compressed offspring PDF, is not a big FOSS player. Their model for the free Acrobat Reader versus the full version of Acrobat was risky, but strangely enough Microsoft never included a PDF print driver in Windows, assuring Adobe of some revenue there.
They claim they don't see a market for Linux products, but what they really mean is they don't see a way to sell a Linux PhotoShop when the GIMP is Free. They've got good name recognition and well-developed good will with most computer users (ever since they quit making you register to download acroread:-).
I'm not a big graphics user, so under Windows I use PaintShopPro v4, which is uncrippled shareware, and the GIMP under Linux. For the casual user who just needs to crop an occasional picture from the family trip to Wallyworld, I don't see much difference in usage. I know the GIMP is scriptable and has an Open library, but I'll probably never use it that way.
Not to start a religious debate, but is there a huge gap in functionality between the GIMP and Adobe's PhotoShop? Would Adobe be able to take market share away from the GIMP, which is bundled with a lot of distributions?
A woman has sued state election officials on behalf of voters who claim they did not receive their absentee ballots on time.
The woman sued Tuesday in federal court in Toledo with the help of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, a San Francisco-based group. A closed hearing took place Tuesday morning.
Here is the LCCR link. At first glance they look to be a social justice group not directly affiliated with either the Reds or the Blues.
It should be obvious that a Useful and a Healthful product such as this would be of great Benefit to all people. Yet, it was not developed between the fair shores of the United States, but in a far off land.
And why, you ask? Because our Excellent companies live in Abject fear of litigation.
Friends and neighbors it's time, I say, High time we institute some manner of Sweeping reform to our legal system. We need Fine products such as this developed here! After all, our medical system is the envy of the world - no sense letting it go to waste.
Thank you, and remember to write in CmdrTaco for President.
Two lawsuits have been filed in connection with the malfunctioning machine.
The Republican National Committee is charging that many of the votes present before the polls opened were from convicted felons and illegal immigrants, and wants those thrown out. They say the others should be kept - it's not the voters' fault their ballots wound up in a malfunctioning machine.
The DNC also filed suit, charging the RNC with trying to disenfranchise the alleged felons and immigrants, which are disproportionately Black and Hispanic, according to Census data. They want a corresponding number of overseas absentee ballots to be thrown out, to make it fair.
Libertarian Michael Badnarik and Green Party candidate David Cobb protested outside the courthouse, asking why there were no ballots on the machine for either of them and demanding equal access to the machines before the polls opened next election.
Car bodies are subtly flexible, not rigid like a CD. Even the windshield glass has some flexibility, or it would shatter when you took your SUV over its first mesa.
This stuff will have applications, but it will be limited in the automotive arena. Some ideas:
Professor Tanenbaum has a lot of cred with me for his MINIX work. His OSDI book was the first real taste I had inside Unix, and I've been hooked ever since. Over the years he's also shown quite a bit of ivorytoweritis, which shows that we are all prisoners of the mental environment we construct for ourselves. For instance, from TFWS:
The U.S. media do a spectacularly bad job of informing Americans about what is going on in rest of the world.
But he apparently misses the obvious converse, that the world media do a spectacularly bad job of informing the rest of the world what's going on in the U.S.
The U.S. Presidential race this year comes down to who wins Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. He thinks Kerry will win.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but he's been wrong before.
The truck is basically a WiMax to WiFi router. It doesn't just act as a WiFi repeater, since WiMax and WiFi are different radio signals. From an Intel site:
An implementation of the IEEE 802.16 standard, WiMAX provides metropolitan area network connectivity at speeds of up to 75 Mb/sec. WiMAX systems can be used to transmit signal as far as 30 miles. However, on the average a WiMAX base-station installation will likely cover between three to five miles.
WiFi is IEEE standard 802.11, usually 802.11b or 802.11g. It operates over short distances, usually under a mile. You can get lots further with paired line-of-sight antennae, but most uses are short range.
The simplest way to add more coverage in your house is connect a second base station by wire.
I spent many nights in junior high "hacking" in the PLATO labs at the University of Illinois (UIUC). One of the grad students there at the time, the unspoken Hacker King, was one Rob Kolstad. We wrote (ok, so the other guys wrote and I pretended to write) software for student instruction, and were rewarded with computer time.
Anyway, back on topic: we used that time mostly to play a game called "moria" ("MOR-ee-uh" or "mor-EYE-uh"). It was a multiplayer, 3D action game drawn in bitmap graphics and text. Wireframe walls and corridors. You formed teams, managed your resources, fought battles to gain experience, and the rest.
Ah, nostalgia.
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In 1989 the Internet (all text : mail, telnet, ftp, news, etc) was growing at something like 8% per month. A coworker predicted that in 10 years everyone's toaster would be networked.
I said, "No, only geeks will ever use the Internet."
I realized how wrong that was when I saw my first URL on a billboard in about '95. I felt violated. They were taking over my network!
As in any bureaucracy, NASA has entrenched heavyweights. There is a lot of intertia on the side of the Shuttle program (and the whole reusability mindset). They do a study about feasibility of the Shuttle, but the decision is a probably based more on internal politics than the results of a study.
Fighting against the Shuttle intertia you have the build-it-cheap-and-trash-it crowd, who want to make $1000 vehicles that burn up on reentry (or maybe on Kansas, but that's neither here nor there [ok, so I guess it's there]).
I know that probably glosses a lot, but that's my outsider's model of what's going on.
Far more likely is leaving the ATM up and transmitting the cardswipe info back to the rat cave.
How about a dual-function worm that just spreads out from regular PC's, looking for ATMs. On finding ATM hardware, it would go into data transmission mode, but not try to spread (to avoid detection).
Verizon is offering these phone for free, if you sign up for their 16,000-month LaseyPay Plan. It's only $195/month, but you get a Lasik procedure tossed in no extra cost.
For $175 per single-CPU server annual maintenance subscription and $269 for a dual CPU subscription, Dell and Novell offer Linux customers additional choice on Dell's award-winning PowerEdge 1850, 2800 and 2850 servers.
I'm not sure understand the reasoning there. It'll cost Dell 54% more to support a dual-CPU box, is that it?
Oh, I see. Dual support desks, dual techs, dual phone bills (to India and Utah).
Maybe it was because the earliest adopters of the Internet were "fringe" people more interested in finding other "fringe" activities?
I refer to that as the Green Tennis Shoes Principle. Somewhere in your area there is someone whose very favorit thing is green tennis shoes. It's their life, but no one understands. The Internet makes it possible for these isolated folks to communicate and share their perspective with each other.
Seen across the entire spectrum of favorite things, you have a whole series of microcultures (and thus micromarkets) that didn't exist 10 years ago.
It used to be that the bulk of Internet content was computer-related, since you have to have a computer to get to the Internet. It was of universal interest, and within that you had everyone from the PDP-8-lovers list to people wanting recipe programs for their Mac.
As non-geeks got connected, sex became the least common denominator. Within that (I would guess) the principle still applies, as people approach that from different points of view as well.
As people are using computers and the Internet for everything, and searches are getting easier and more effective, all the most common interests are splintering and the microcultures are maturing.
What the ramifications are for society, and civilization, is more than I can wrap my little head around.
We're still in the infancy of the Network Age. It's fairly easy right now for programs to operate on text (including html/xml/et al), but operating on audio or video streams isn't done much yet. Gooogle News, for instance, uses algorithmic control to 'watch' the web for interesting stories. I suppose there are certain segments of the web that do that for video, but most video editing and selection is done by people.
It won't be long (a few years, maybe) before good audio is generated in real time from scripts. You'll feed in the text of a script, select good voices and such, and stream realistic audio programs.
How to do video is something else. Animations currently take a lot of work to develop. Someday maybe they can be script-generated on the fly too.
In 15 years (following Moore's Law) everything will be 1024 times faster than it is now, 1024 times more powerful. What will that bring? It'll be fun to watch.
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Haven't we had enough rudeness the last four years? I happen to be pleased by most of those results (though not, for example, that anyone still uses Windows). But you're a cowardly troll for anonymously posting such off-topic flamebait. - Get some stones and at least use a pseudonym - Stay on topic - Avoid calling people names like "Eurotrash" - In short, show a little class
It's always struck me as odd that Adobe, known initially for Postscript and then its compressed offspring PDF, is not a big FOSS player. Their model for the free Acrobat Reader versus the full version of Acrobat was risky, but strangely enough Microsoft never included a PDF print driver in Windows, assuring Adobe of some revenue there.
They claim they don't see a market for Linux products, but what they really mean is they don't see a way to sell a Linux PhotoShop when the GIMP is Free. They've got good name recognition and well-developed good will with most computer users (ever since they quit making you register to download acroread :-).
I'm not a big graphics user, so under Windows I use PaintShopPro v4, which is uncrippled shareware, and the GIMP under Linux. For the casual user who just needs to crop an occasional picture from the family trip to Wallyworld, I don't see much difference in usage. I know the GIMP is scriptable and has an Open library, but I'll probably never use it that way.
Not to start a religious debate, but is there a huge gap in functionality between the GIMP and Adobe's PhotoShop? Would Adobe be able to take market share away from the GIMP, which is bundled with a lot of distributions?
Presidential election?
Who's running?
Here is the LCCR link. At first glance they look to be a social justice group not directly affiliated with either the Reds or the Blues.
It should be obvious that a Useful and a Healthful product such as this would be of great Benefit to all people. Yet, it was not developed between the fair shores of the United States, but in a far off land.
And why, you ask? Because our Excellent companies live in Abject fear of litigation.
Friends and neighbors it's time, I say, High time we institute some manner of Sweeping reform to our legal system. We need Fine products such as this developed here! After all, our medical system is the envy of the world - no sense letting it go to waste.
Thank you, and remember to write in CmdrTaco for President.
Two lawsuits have been filed in connection with the malfunctioning machine.
The Republican National Committee is charging that many of the votes present before the polls opened were from convicted felons and illegal immigrants, and wants those thrown out. They say the others should be kept - it's not the voters' fault their ballots wound up in a malfunctioning machine.
The DNC also filed suit, charging the RNC with trying to disenfranchise the alleged felons and immigrants, which are disproportionately Black and Hispanic, according to Census data. They want a corresponding number of overseas absentee ballots to be thrown out, to make it fair.
Libertarian Michael Badnarik and Green Party candidate David Cobb protested outside the courthouse, asking why there were no ballots on the machine for either of them and demanding equal access to the machines before the polls opened next election.
Find a hotel lobby. They always have the talking-head news on.
For $5 or less at "the dollar store" you can usually find a nice AM/FM radio. For $20 you can usually find one with a suitable geek factor.
Find a bar, and threaten to bust up the joint unless they show the election returns.
Car bodies are subtly flexible, not rigid like a CD. Even the windshield glass has some flexibility, or it would shatter when you took your SUV over its first mesa.
This stuff will have applications, but it will be limited in the automotive arena. Some ideas:
Other kids just realize words give them more complete mastery over their parents.
Professor Tanenbaum has a lot of cred with me for his MINIX work. His OSDI book was the first real taste I had inside Unix, and I've been hooked ever since. Over the years he's also shown quite a bit of ivorytoweritis, which shows that we are all prisoners of the mental environment we construct for ourselves. For instance, from TFWS:
But he apparently misses the obvious converse, that the world media do a spectacularly bad job of informing the rest of the world what's going on in the U.S.
The U.S. Presidential race this year comes down to who wins Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. He thinks Kerry will win.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but he's been wrong before.
Staples has your motherboard. Guaranteed.
Maybe now the aftermarket refill kits will really start to sell.
The truck is basically a WiMax to WiFi router. It doesn't just act as a WiFi repeater, since WiMax and WiFi are different radio signals. From an Intel site:
WiFi is IEEE standard 802.11, usually 802.11b or 802.11g. It operates over short distances, usually under a mile. You can get lots further with paired line-of-sight antennae, but most uses are short range.
The simplest way to add more coverage in your house is connect a second base station by wire.
... do I have to live on salmon and wild berries? I like salmon well enough, but berries make my nether region itch.
Thanks for the info. Yes, I remember the battle screen, now that you mention it. My memory is bad for dates.
:-).
I think I'll sign up for a cyber1 account
I spent many nights in junior high "hacking" in the PLATO labs at the University of Illinois (UIUC). One of the grad students there at the time, the unspoken Hacker King, was one Rob Kolstad. We wrote (ok, so the other guys wrote and I pretended to write) software for student instruction, and were rewarded with computer time.
Anyway, back on topic: we used that time mostly to play a game called "moria" ("MOR-ee-uh" or "mor-EYE-uh"). It was a multiplayer, 3D action game drawn in bitmap graphics and text. Wireframe walls and corridors. You formed teams, managed your resources, fought battles to gain experience, and the rest.
Ah, nostalgia.
In 1989 the Internet (all text : mail, telnet, ftp, news, etc) was growing at something like 8% per month. A coworker predicted that in 10 years everyone's toaster would be networked.
I said, "No, only geeks will ever use the Internet."
I realized how wrong that was when I saw my first URL on a billboard in about '95. I felt violated. They were taking over my network!
[nods in agreement]
As in any bureaucracy, NASA has entrenched heavyweights. There is a lot of intertia on the side of the Shuttle program (and the whole reusability mindset). They do a study about feasibility of the Shuttle, but the decision is a probably based more on internal politics than the results of a study.
Fighting against the Shuttle intertia you have the build-it-cheap-and-trash-it crowd, who want to make $1000 vehicles that burn up on reentry (or maybe on Kansas, but that's neither here nor there [ok, so I guess it's there]).
I know that probably glosses a lot, but that's my outsider's model of what's going on.
Far more likely is leaving the ATM up and transmitting the cardswipe info back to the rat cave.
How about a dual-function worm that just spreads out from regular PC's, looking for ATMs. On finding ATM hardware, it would go into data transmission mode, but not try to spread (to avoid detection).
>people buying dual-processor systems...
Right. They charge that because they can.
I was really just trying to be funny.
Verizon is offering these phone for free, if you sign up for their 16,000-month LaseyPay Plan. It's only $195/month, but you get a Lasik procedure tossed in no extra cost.
I'm not sure understand the reasoning there. It'll cost Dell 54% more to support a dual-CPU box, is that it?
Oh, I see. Dual support desks, dual techs, dual phone bills (to India and Utah).
They mean their poll showed Bush won, but Gore sued them for an audit of their stores in Florida.
I refer to that as the Green Tennis Shoes Principle. Somewhere in your area there is someone whose very favorit thing is green tennis shoes. It's their life, but no one understands. The Internet makes it possible for these isolated folks to communicate and share their perspective with each other.
Seen across the entire spectrum of favorite things, you have a whole series of microcultures (and thus micromarkets) that didn't exist 10 years ago.
It used to be that the bulk of Internet content was computer-related, since you have to have a computer to get to the Internet. It was of universal interest, and within that you had everyone from the PDP-8-lovers list to people wanting recipe programs for their Mac.
As non-geeks got connected, sex became the least common denominator. Within that (I would guess) the principle still applies, as people approach that from different points of view as well.
As people are using computers and the Internet for everything, and searches are getting easier and more effective, all the most common interests are splintering and the microcultures are maturing.
What the ramifications are for society, and civilization, is more than I can wrap my little head around.
We're still in the infancy of the Network Age. It's fairly easy right now for programs to operate on text (including html/xml/et al), but operating on audio or video streams isn't done much yet. Gooogle News, for instance, uses algorithmic control to 'watch' the web for interesting stories. I suppose there are certain segments of the web that do that for video, but most video editing and selection is done by people.
It won't be long (a few years, maybe) before good audio is generated in real time from scripts. You'll feed in the text of a script, select good voices and such, and stream realistic audio programs.
How to do video is something else. Animations currently take a lot of work to develop. Someday maybe they can be script-generated on the fly too.
In 15 years (following Moore's Law) everything will be 1024 times faster than it is now, 1024 times more powerful. What will that bring? It'll be fun to watch.