I currently have several issues with electronic documents that cannot be addressed with paper yet.
1) Electronic documents are far too easily modified and destroyed. I think this is the biggest issue I have with electronic data so far. I personally have accidentally blown away important docs by accident, and I think of myself as a pretty computer-savvy user.
Think about the FDA and thier regulation of bio-med companies. They still require all document control systems to be paper-based, since electronic document control systems have yet to prove themselves and viable alternatives.
2) Its not as convienent to use as paper... As listed in a previous post, you cannot scribble on an electronic doc like you can on paper. You cant take it with you in a convienent manner. PDAs are still not as simple and fast as a book or paper documents.
3) Believe it or not, electronic devices (such as computers) are not ubiquitous enough for handling electronic docs efficiently. There is nothing about a Windows PC, or any PC for that matter that makes it as easy to store and transfer documents like paper. I can tear off a piece of paper and stick it in my pocket if I need to write down some directions to get somewhere. I don't have a internet terminal in my car when Im driving places (yet).
To make it easy for me to get rid of paper documents, this is what I would need:
1. A ROCK-SOLID extremely easy-to-use document control system. Making it difficult to accidentlly blow away files... 2. an easy to use sort of PDA that allows quick access, editing, mark up and viewing of documents. 3. Access to my docs from anywhere.. I should be able to click a button at work and grab some documents off my computer at home securely. I realize that it is not possible to do this with paper, but it would be more incentive to rid ourseleves of it if we had these obvious atvantages of electronic documents. A secure NFS share from my computer at home (connected to the internet via always on high-bandwidth connection) and internet terminals at every corner, every store, every car would make this possible.
When Redhat becomes a public company, the CEO must do what is in the best interest of the stockholders... If he does not, he can go to jail and be sued... That means, he may have to do things that a contradictory from the general way that the community operates...
I hope that it isnt true, but it may turn out that way.
Whatever you do, dont install it... I installed IE for solaris once, and it completely hosed my Netscape installation... And anyone who does any UNIX programming knows that you have to purposely tell a program to write to disk and things dont happen by "accident" like it does with IE and netscape... I for one, will never install it on my computer if they do make it for linux.
I honestly believe that most large companies such as IBM are just using open-source as a method to gain publicity and free development out of the open-source community.
The only companies truly doing open-source development in my opinion would be SGI and Redhat. The are giving things to the community and not asking for control over the source like Netscape has.
How are they going to be able to do this? Bandwidth is sort of a fixed item... You cant just sell it to someone else and hand it over in a box... I suppose I could sell my driveway as a commodity, but no one would want it unless it was in front of thier house...
Excellent! Now it truly wont be long until we can have lightweight 3d Goggles for playing Quake with... That would be awesome...
What I REALLY cant wait for is 3d cards that can handle multiple monitors... That way I can have perherpheral vision when playing quake... 3 monitors side by side to look around without having to use the mouse!
Maybe if they dedicated the Amiga to be the first Linux dedicated hardware, then it might gain a larger following... Maybe they should change the name due to its poor reputation...
Hardware built from the ground up to run Linux would be awesome... (My pc at home was built for linux, but thats not what I mean)
If man was a hunter for millions of years, then the logical extension of that would be that he would go out and kill his fellow man, to prove his superiority... right?
I dont know... I play quake3, and enjoy it... but I still have this feeling that younger kids that play games like this constantly will have thier minds skewed somewhat....
Which one of the two systems is more useful? Distributed.net or Seti? I think Seti wins between those two... Though, isnt there another one of these types of things that looks for extremely large prime numbers? That one is probably the most useful out of them all.
That would be kinda like Solaris
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Solaris/tmp is shared between disk and ram. It does that so things that would be in ram are moved to disk if they arent used very often so that you dont waste memory.... It uses all available memory as cache...(im sure linux does too)
I wonder if there will be a divide between those who want EXT3 to become the new standard or XFS (assuming it becomes a decent open-source alternative)... I personally think XFS is great and hopefully SGI will release it under a pretty liberal license.
NO infrared??? I can't believe that... that was the best thing about the 48.... It would have been interesting to see if you could make a failover cluster between the two... (of course, when was the last time you saw a calculator crash?)... Then again, when was the last time you saw a calculator running a microsoft operating system??
Finally.... The last OS and programming environment in the 48 was horrible... It was extrememly difficult to be productive with that backward programming environment.
This is probably something laying around from the old bbs days. I remember all sorts of ANSI animated garbage and such on the BBSes. He has probably had this sitting around on his hard drive for 10 years or so waiting for its day...
If you were to put two of these screens into a set of goggles, and wrote a specialized video card that output the 3d data for two screens - each slightly skewed from each other, you could make one awesome set of 3d googles. That would be perfect for Quake 3 arena!! 800x600 is just about enough (for now) to play quake adequately!
Who in thier right mind thinks this way? The only other people that I see thinking in that sort of convoluted logic is Microsoft. Theyve convinced themselves that they DESERVE 40% of profit of music... just because they always have. Thats rediculous. The landscape is changing and they arent in the picture in the same way anymore.
The biggest problem is that people view linux as a supplement to their system... not as a replacement for windows... I guess they have too many applications on windows to let go. People need to start viewing linux as a total replacement for windows, and therefore installing directly over the win partition. What would help the most would be an freeware version of Partition magic. That way, every installation could include it with thier software and automatically install itself as you go.... Even if it were run directly from the cd (so you wouldnt have to install anything into windows) that would be great.
I dont think there is a way to keep microsoft fighting fair. Chances are, there never will be... The only thing you can do is beat them at thier own game. They will do anything in thier power to stop the Linux juggernaut... All we can do is keep working and keeping the vision of open-source in front of us... If we loose that vision, there is nothing that keeps Microsoft from crushing linux... in fact, the only thing that makes linux great, in my opinion, is the fact that it is opensource and uses the GPL. I think that is what kept people from using the BSD licensed systems to the extent that Linux has gotten use.
Its funny to see the review, which is generally spoiler free, and then reading the posts in the forum, which basically tell you everything you didn't want to know about the movie before you see it. (grin)
Unfortunately, no one has been able to write a free version of Realplayer. If shoutcast was a compatible format, that sure would be nice. Really, what keeps Real networks from releasing the source to Realplayer and the server? I suppose the server is their only real form of income....
I think its somewhat the other way around... Now, companies and those in power have MORE access to information about us... Since there really is no good anonymous way to purchase things over the internet, we are headed for trouble. Eventually, most companies will push to do all business on the net... (as Oracle has recently). Its cheaper for them and they can do easy market research.
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Gary
I currently have several issues with electronic documents that cannot be addressed with paper yet.
1) Electronic documents are far too easily modified and destroyed. I think this is the biggest issue I have with electronic data so far. I personally have accidentally blown away important docs by accident, and I think of myself as a pretty computer-savvy user.
Think about the FDA and thier regulation of bio-med companies. They still require all document control systems to be paper-based, since electronic document control systems have yet to prove themselves and viable alternatives.
2) Its not as convienent to use as paper... As listed in a previous post, you cannot scribble on an electronic doc like you can on paper. You cant take it with you in a convienent manner. PDAs are still not as simple and fast as a book or paper documents.
3) Believe it or not, electronic devices (such as computers) are not ubiquitous enough for handling electronic docs efficiently. There is nothing about a Windows PC, or any PC for that matter that makes it as easy to store and transfer documents like paper. I can tear off a piece of paper and stick it in my pocket if I need to write down some directions to get somewhere. I don't have a internet terminal in my car when Im driving places (yet).
To make it easy for me to get rid of paper documents, this is what I would need:
1. A ROCK-SOLID extremely easy-to-use document control system. Making it difficult to accidentlly blow away files...
2. an easy to use sort of PDA that allows quick access, editing, mark up and viewing of documents.
3. Access to my docs from anywhere.. I should be able to click a button at work and grab some documents off my computer at home securely. I realize that it is not possible to do this with paper, but it would be more incentive to rid ourseleves of it if we had these obvious atvantages of electronic documents. A secure NFS share from my computer at home (connected to the internet via always on high-bandwidth connection) and internet terminals at every corner, every store, every car would make this possible.
Gary Franczyk
When Redhat becomes a public company, the CEO must do what is in the best interest of the stockholders... If he does not, he can go to jail and be sued... That means, he may have to do things that a contradictory from the general way that the community operates...
I hope that it isnt true, but it may turn out that way.
Whatever you do, dont install it... I installed IE for solaris once, and it completely hosed my Netscape installation... And anyone who does any UNIX programming knows that you have to purposely tell a program to write to disk and things dont happen by "accident" like it does with IE and netscape... I for one, will never install it on my computer if they do make it for linux.
I honestly believe that most large companies such as IBM are just using open-source as a method to gain publicity and free development out of the open-source community.
The only companies truly doing open-source development in my opinion would be SGI and Redhat. The are giving things to the community and not asking for control over the source like Netscape has.
He is a pretty smart kid.
Now that I have my new G2 realplayer, I can view the interview no problem! Cool!
How are they going to be able to do this? Bandwidth is sort of a fixed item... You cant just sell it to someone else and hand it over in a box... I suppose I could sell my driveway as a commodity, but no one would want it unless it was in front of thier house...
Excellent! Now it truly wont be long until we can have lightweight 3d Goggles for playing Quake with... That would be awesome...
What I REALLY cant wait for is 3d cards that can handle multiple monitors... That way I can have perherpheral vision when playing quake... 3 monitors side by side to look around without having to use the mouse!
Maybe if they dedicated the Amiga to be the first Linux dedicated hardware, then it might gain a larger following... Maybe they should change the name due to its poor reputation...
Hardware built from the ground up to run Linux would be awesome... (My pc at home was built for linux, but thats not what I mean)
If man was a hunter for millions of years, then the logical extension of that would be that he would go out and kill his fellow man, to prove his superiority... right?
I dont know... I play quake3, and enjoy it... but I still have this feeling that younger kids that play games like this constantly will have thier minds skewed somewhat....
I wouldnt let my kids play these (if I had kids)
Which one of the two systems is more useful? Distributed.net or Seti? I think Seti wins between those two... Though, isnt there another one of these types of things that looks for extremely large prime numbers? That one is probably the most useful out of them all.
Solaris /tmp is shared between disk and ram. It does that so things that would be in ram are moved to disk if they arent used very often so that you dont waste memory.... It uses all available memory as cache...(im sure linux does too)
I wonder if there will be a divide between those who want EXT3 to become the new standard or XFS (assuming it becomes a decent open-source alternative)...
I personally think XFS is great and hopefully SGI will release it under a pretty liberal license.
NO infrared??? I can't believe that... that was the best thing about the 48.... It would have been interesting to see if you could make a failover cluster between the two... (of course, when was the last time you saw a calculator crash?)...
Then again, when was the last time you saw a calculator running a microsoft operating system??
Finally.... The last OS and programming environment in the 48 was horrible... It was extrememly difficult to be productive with that backward programming environment.
This is very cool, though it has been a long time since I have seen anyone use this distribution....
This is probably something laying around from the old bbs days. I remember all sorts of ANSI animated garbage and such on the BBSes. He has probably had this sitting around on his hard drive for 10 years or so waiting for its day...
If you were to put two of these screens into a set of goggles, and wrote a specialized video card that output the 3d data for two screens - each slightly skewed from each other, you could make one awesome set of 3d googles. That would be perfect for Quake 3 arena!! 800x600 is just about enough (for now) to play quake adequately!
Who in thier right mind thinks this way? The only other people that I see thinking in that sort of convoluted logic is Microsoft. Theyve convinced themselves that they DESERVE 40% of profit of music... just because they always have. Thats rediculous. The landscape is changing and they arent in the picture in the same way anymore.
The biggest problem is that people view linux as a supplement to their system... not as a replacement for windows... I guess they have too many applications on windows to let go. People need to start viewing linux as a total replacement for windows, and therefore installing directly over the win partition. What would help the most would be an freeware version of Partition magic. That way, every installation could include it with thier software and automatically install itself as you go.... Even if it were run directly from the cd (so you wouldnt have to install anything into windows) that would be great.
I dont think there is a way to keep microsoft fighting fair. Chances are, there never will be... The only thing you can do is beat them at thier own game. They will do anything in thier power to stop the Linux juggernaut... All we can do is keep working and keeping the vision of open-source in front of us... If we loose that vision, there is nothing that keeps Microsoft from crushing linux... in fact, the only thing that makes linux great, in my opinion, is the fact that it is opensource and uses the GPL. I think that is what kept people from using the BSD licensed systems to the extent that Linux has gotten use.
Its funny to see the review, which is generally spoiler free, and then reading the posts in the forum, which basically tell you everything you didn't want to know about the movie before you see it. (grin)
Yet ANOTHER reason why realplayer should become open-source... (GPL in particular would be nice)
Unfortunately, no one has been able to write a free version of Realplayer. If shoutcast was a compatible format, that sure would be nice. Really, what keeps Real networks from releasing the source to Realplayer and the server? I suppose the server is their only real form of income....
I think its somewhat the other way around... Now, companies and those in power have MORE access to information about us... Since there really is no good anonymous way to purchase things over the internet, we are headed for trouble. Eventually, most companies will push to do all business on the net... (as Oracle has recently). Its cheaper for them and they can do easy market research.