er... the "fule" was actually a typo. But regardless, why don't you rather go to Hemos, Malda and Co. to bitch about these issues? Incidently, they misspell much more often, and have no clue how to use the apostrophe - and they are editors of a major Internet news-site.
The segway is a replacement for a bicicle, and a very poor replacement, at that. It forces you to stand all the time, sometimes even increasing the strain on your knees. It forces you to recharge the battery pack instead of just using your muscles to move around. It's slower than the bicicle. It's heavier and wider, apparently less manageable, too. Since batteries used in this manner decay relatively quickly, you'll have to change that a few times in segway's lifecycle, and these batteries are extremely non-environment-friendly.
Did I mention that a bicicle is much cheaper, too?
So, if you were really genuinely worried about the cars in the cities (I am, for one), you would advocate bicicles, not segways.
If they just stuck a seat on it everything would be different.
They just invented that: it's called bike and it's widely popular, fast and practical.
There's also something called bicicle, which doesn't use any fule, it's faster than the segway, and it's less dangerous to use. It's also narrower than the segway. I highly recommend it.
If I received a buck for every time that this has been proposed on/., I'd be filthy rich by now. No, this is not meant to say that you're rendundant, I completely agree with you and with the need to point this out. But since this has been proposed at least a couple of times (in various forms) every time there is a dupe, you would think they would have implemented it by now. The fact that they didn't shows they don't give a rath's ass about our suggestions.
Another example is the suggestions to expand the moderation categories with "uninformative", "untrue" etc., which people requested many a times, but by now they've gotten tired and gave up.
Look, I got 3 NESes, of which 2 were sold to me for a pittance, as "non-working". I got all three of them to work perfectly by using the bending procedure. Before that i did try cleaning the contacts both on the carts and on the connector on the NES with alcohol, filter paper impregnated with alcohol and ammonia etc. and it didn't help at all.
This method does usually NOT work, because the main problem isn't corrosion but the fact that the connector pins (the ones that get in touch with the cart) bend a bit, over the years. The solution is to use a very tiny screwdriver or a needle to (carefully) bend those pins in the correct position again, as this nice article explains.
But of corse, the best is to buy a new Nintendo-style edge connector, as someone noted above.
Well, dude, you're my genius for the day. I was trying to find a seller for such item for months (years?), and the Ars(e) Technica story was just totally disheartening.
Because mandating ahything like that, unless for internal (govt.) purposes, would be a dictatorial move. Let people chose what they like best. (of course, this principle is now skewed, when it comes to desktop OS, because of many unfortunate reasons that both of us know).
I did not see the document you have pointed me to, yet. I have read another one, that I guess has been updated since then, that implied a total lifecycle of 3 years (from GA to end of maint. support). According to the document you pointed to, it's indeed an interval of 5 years, and the following text spells that out most clearly:
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1: General Availability: May 17, 2002 Full Support (including hardware updates): May 17, 2002 -- November 30, 2004 Deployment Support: May 17, 2002 -- May 31, 2005 Maintenance Support: June 1, 2005 -- May 31, 2007
However, the Solaris lifecycle, in the same terms (general availability to end of maintenance support) is 10 years which is twice the joy.
I will admit that these terms look much more favourably on RHAS, though. Thanks for the link.
OH yes, I am using RedHat 6.2 and occasionally RH 7.1 every day for several hours, and I started using RedHat with RH 4.1.
Having managed both environments for several years, I came to the conclusion that Linux in general has a broken development. RHAS will hopfully stabilize that. As for RH Linux, I like Slackware much better.
(but I already said what I think re. Solaris vs. Linux)
I think it's unfair to compare RedHat AS to Solaris. First of all, Solaris has gobs of system management tools, a kernel with many tricks up it's sleeve and a full UNIX98 compliance. And second, Solaris has a lifecycle of 11.5 years, while RedHat AS has only 3 year lifecycle.
RH Advanced Server has generated some ill-will in our company when we realized the only way to "have a peek" was to shell out 800 buxors. We did that, but the venom dented some people's enthusiasm.
Is there a way to get the.iso image, under a non-commercial license of some sort? I mean, shit, even Solaris 9 is available for 20 bux as a non-commercial, and 100 bux for commercial license.
WTF are you talking about? Miramax is still committed to making artistic movies, unlike all the other labels. Just because they are also commercially viable DOES NOT change the fact that all of their movies are, in fact, original and inspired.
Two reasons I first noticed that Miramax is special: they published some of my all-time favorites "Princess Mononoke", "Il postino", "Chocolat", "Music of the heart" and the second is: none of their movies is Macrovision-protected. Yes, I do think this company has a lot of good vibes going for them. And no, "Shakespeare in love" didn't change them, except get them some well-deserved boxoffice success.
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Sorry to disappoint you: Haggar as in Haggar the Horrible. I guess I misspelled it the first time.
So, I am not the Haggai from HaArets, rather I am a guy living somewhere in HaTsafon, just like Haggar.
Sure, why not give credit where it's due. And btw, I'm trying to be fair about this at work, and everyday life, too.
er... the "fule" was actually a typo. But regardless, why don't you rather go to Hemos, Malda and Co. to bitch about these issues? Incidently, they misspell much more often, and have no clue how to use the apostrophe - and they are editors of a major Internet news-site.
Heh, nice one :o) you got some literacy talent, buddy! I'm going to look up your other posts...
The segway is a replacement for a bicicle, and a very poor replacement, at that. It forces you to stand all the time, sometimes even increasing the strain on your knees. It forces you to recharge the battery pack instead of just using your muscles to move around. It's slower than the bicicle. It's heavier and wider, apparently less manageable, too. Since batteries used in this manner decay relatively quickly, you'll have to change that a few times in segway's lifecycle, and these batteries are extremely non-environment-friendly.
Did I mention that a bicicle is much cheaper, too?
So, if you were really genuinely worried about the cars in the cities (I am, for one), you would advocate bicicles, not segways.
If they just stuck a seat on it everything would be different.
They just invented that: it's called bike and it's widely popular, fast and practical.
There's also something called bicicle, which doesn't use any fule, it's faster than the segway, and it's less dangerous to use. It's also narrower than the segway. I highly recommend it.
If I received a buck for every time that this has been proposed on /., I'd be filthy rich by now. No, this is not meant to say that you're rendundant, I completely agree with you and with the need to point this out. But since this has been proposed at least a couple of times (in various forms) every time there is a dupe, you would think they would have implemented it by now. The fact that they didn't shows they don't give a rath's ass about our suggestions.
Another example is the suggestions to expand the moderation categories with "uninformative", "untrue" etc., which people requested many a times, but by now they've gotten tired and gave up.
did you know that Google published the API to their search engine?
(FYI, if you didn't know, that's the only triplicate story on Slashdot, whre CmdrTaco himself posted two of them)
Yeah, really strange they wouldn't allow me to boot all the PCs in the store from that ripper-infected floppy.
Er... am I missing something here, or is this post completely off-topic? I thought the main point was about NOT paying for Windows.
Look, I got 3 NESes, of which 2 were sold to me for a pittance, as "non-working". I got all three of them to work perfectly by using the bending procedure. Before that i did try cleaning the contacts both on the carts and on the connector on the NES with alcohol, filter paper impregnated with alcohol and ammonia etc. and it didn't help at all.
This method does usually NOT work, because the main problem isn't corrosion but the fact that the connector pins (the ones that get in touch with the cart) bend a bit, over the years. The solution is to use a very tiny screwdriver or a needle to (carefully) bend those pins in the correct position again, as this nice article explains.
But of corse, the best is to buy a new Nintendo-style edge connector, as someone noted above.
Well, dude, you're my genius for the day. I was trying to find a seller for such item for months (years?), and the Ars(e) Technica story was just totally disheartening.
Thanks again!!
Because mandating ahything like that, unless for internal (govt.) purposes, would be a dictatorial move. Let people chose what they like best. (of course, this principle is now skewed, when it comes to desktop OS, because of many unfortunate reasons that both of us know).
I did not see the document you have pointed me to, yet. I have read another one, that I guess has been updated since then, that implied a total lifecycle of 3 years (from GA to end of maint. support). According to the document you pointed to, it's indeed an interval of 5 years, and the following text spells that out most clearly:
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1:
General Availability: May 17, 2002
Full Support (including hardware updates): May 17, 2002 -- November 30, 2004
Deployment Support: May 17, 2002 -- May 31, 2005
Maintenance Support: June 1, 2005 -- May 31, 2007
However, the Solaris lifecycle, in the same terms (general availability to end of maintenance support) is 10 years which is twice the joy.
I will admit that these terms look much more favourably on RHAS, though. Thanks for the link.
thank you, and thanks to the others that pointed me to this link.
I hope it's not too late to cancel our order.
I know I can download the SRPMs. Fuck that.
OH yes, I am using RedHat 6.2 and occasionally RH 7.1 every day for several hours, and I started using RedHat with RH 4.1.
Having managed both environments for several years, I came to the conclusion that Linux in general has a broken development. RHAS will hopfully stabilize that. As for RH Linux, I like Slackware much better.
(but I already said what I think re. Solaris vs. Linux)
I think it's unfair to compare RedHat AS to Solaris. First of all, Solaris has gobs of system management tools, a kernel with many tricks up it's sleeve and a full UNIX98 compliance. And second, Solaris has a lifecycle of 11.5 years, while RedHat AS has only 3 year lifecycle.
RH Advanced Server has generated some ill-will in our company when we realized the only way to "have a peek" was to shell out 800 buxors. We did that, but the venom dented some people's enthusiasm.
.iso image, under a non-commercial license of some sort? I mean, shit, even Solaris 9 is available for 20 bux as a non-commercial, and 100 bux for commercial license.
Is there a way to get the
WTF are you talking about? Miramax is still committed to making artistic movies, unlike all the other labels. Just because they are also commercially viable DOES NOT change the fact that all of their movies are, in fact, original and inspired.
Two reasons I first noticed that Miramax is special: they published some of my all-time favorites "Princess Mononoke", "Il postino", "Chocolat", "Music of the heart"
and the second is: none of their movies is Macrovision-protected. Yes, I do think this company has a lot of good vibes going for them. And no, "Shakespeare in love" didn't change them, except get them some well-deserved boxoffice success.
Damn right! Bubble Bobble rules - In fact, I played it recently, and it's still gobs of fun!
There are hybrid-design chips that generate truly stochastic processes, using thermal white noise.
OK, so on one hand MS "announces" something, on the other hand they go to the USPTO. Now, I wonder, which action is more relevant?
I remember MS announced Windows NT 5.0 to be ready at the beginning of 1997. They announced many other things, since then...
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