Make them all use vi instead of pico. What a shame. I'm tired of typing vi commands in pine anyways:-)
When are they going to stop the nitpicking, anyway? Just because you find a small 'hole' in the OpenSource agreement doesn't mean it's the be-all-end-all of the program. In a lot of states, sodomy is illegal, but how many of you have gotten busted getting/giving 'moral and legal' head (I'm talking about consenting adults here). The rules are there to protect victims, not prosecute everyone (not until MSRules 2.0, that is). Ease up, pull out the coffee IV cause you look like a ferret on a double espresso there, and breathe. Now then, let's work on and/or fix this, K?
I think that this idea should be persued with the highest degree of intensity, but on a different level. Low powered notebooks are nice, however, what about low powered servers and desktop units? Shouldn't the rolling blackouts in Calafornia trigger to someone that we need to address the issue of power consumption in all industries and, lets admit here, that the Internet is possibly that giant sucking noise that the worlds' power suppliers hear. We keep trying for bigger and faster, but not more efficent. Forget the buggy 2GHz CPU chip that is on the drawing board. We *don't* need it (yet). It will give microsoft something to require -- that's all. New technology just makes old technology obsolete and less expensive. If you need all that CPU, check into a quad PII or something, which should be cheap enough now.
It's no longer a matter of hardware catching up to software needs but vice versa. We have so many idle CPU cycles (your welcome, SETI) but we're wasting electricty in CPU cycles, and then we waste just as much energy on cooling the heat that those CPU's generate.
I also agree that Intel will screw it up as they usually do. I mean, lets face it -- Every 1st generation Intel CPU release is about as reliable as an x.0 release of RedHat, so just work on making what already exists better and more efficent.
I think the Internet community would thank you for it.
"Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong"
There is an article at Reuters about how Microsoft is teaming up with Leggo to formulate games for MSN and Microsoft's upcoming Xbox video game console. The scariest part is at the end of the article.
"Microsoft's MSN has also recently struck deals with the Walt Disney Interactive Group, Viacom Inc.'s Nickelodeon kids cable television network, and espresso empire Starbucks Corp." Yeah, that's what we need. Gates Empire teaming up with Uncle Walt's Empire and Mega-Mega giant Starbucks to bring you 'MSN at Night' re-runs. Be afraid. Be very very afraid.
There is a quote from the movie Bob Roberts that I'm going to butcher.
It's the 'frog-in-boiling-water' syndrome happening. If you boil a pan of water and put a frog in, the frog is going to leap right back out again because, lets face it, the water is *HOT*. However, if you put a frog in a pan of cold water and then turn the heat on low, when the water is boiling, the frog will still be in there, boiled to death.
When you completley change something that many depend on (generic example...I wouldn't consider eBay a 'need'), they will go bollistic. If you slowly tweek it, they won't even notice. With the threat of a possible recession on the horizon and a drastic economic slowdown already upon us, you'd figure that a business which relies not only on people coming to them, but also is in the grouping with the most frail stock on the market would pimp their own sister or brother before even thinking about messing with customers.
It makes me want to scream.
No means NO!
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Make them all use vi instead of pico. What a shame. I'm tired of typing vi commands in pine anyways :-)
When are they going to stop the nitpicking, anyway? Just because you find a small 'hole' in the OpenSource agreement doesn't mean it's the be-all-end-all of the program. In a lot of states, sodomy is illegal, but how many of you have gotten busted getting/giving 'moral and legal' head (I'm talking about consenting adults here). The rules are there to protect victims, not prosecute everyone (not until MSRules 2.0, that is). Ease up, pull out the coffee IV cause you look like a ferret on a double espresso there, and breathe. Now then, let's work on and/or fix this, K?
It's no longer a matter of hardware catching up to software needs but vice versa. We have so many idle CPU cycles (your welcome, SETI) but we're wasting electricty in CPU cycles, and then we waste just as much energy on cooling the heat that those CPU's generate.
I also agree that Intel will screw it up as they usually do. I mean, lets face it -- Every 1st generation Intel CPU release is about as reliable as an x.0 release of RedHat, so just work on making what already exists better and more efficent.
I think the Internet community would thank you for it.
"Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong"
--Dennis Miller--Larry Reckner
larryr@linux.com
There is an article at Reuters about how Microsoft is teaming up with Leggo to formulate games for MSN and Microsoft's upcoming Xbox video game console. The scariest part is at the end of the article.
"Microsoft's MSN has also recently struck deals with the Walt Disney Interactive Group, Viacom Inc.'s Nickelodeon kids cable television network, and espresso empire Starbucks Corp."
Yeah, that's what we need. Gates Empire teaming up with Uncle Walt's Empire and Mega-Mega giant Starbucks to bring you 'MSN at Night' re-runs. Be afraid. Be very very afraid.
Larry Reckner
larryr@DAMN.HORMEL.linux.com