"it's the rural areas where the real problems are, telcos are simply not motivated to do anything at all about it."
I agree, but can you blame them? I look at my Mother's situation. She lives twenty miles from any incorporated city. They would have to run a line twenty miles with only one customer every mile or two. There is just no incentive for that.
As recently as 1984 she still had a party line, and even now she is a member of a rural cooperative for both water and power.
"Everyone wants to be the first at something and claim their spot in history; though being the first hacker tried for releasing a virus isn't exactly the sort of "first" Mom's going to brag about. In 1999, David Smith released the Melissa worm from a computer in New Jersey through a stolen AOL account."
A worm is not a virus. Neither is a trojan. It drives me nuts when the media uses these words interchangeably. I usually forgive the likes of ABC, but you would think PC Magazine would get it right.
[disclaimer]I love the Czech. I have family there and have been to the Czech Republic a couple of time.[/disclaimer]
I wonder why on a Czech web portal, that one news article was in English. I did a little looking around trying to see if I could find any other pages in English but that was the only one. It was also the only one that had a/. submit script on it. Even the Czech version of the story did not have the script.
I used to fish a lot as a kid. I come from a rural area and my uncle taught me to fish. We would always watch the cattle on the way to the lake to see if they were eating or lying around. As my uncle used to say, "If the cows are eating the fish will be too."
I also noticed that the cows in a herd all used to point the same direction. It might be north, or it might be south. The prevailing winds in this area tend to be from the north during the winter and the south during the winter. You can ask any rancher, and he will tell you that cows stand with their backs to the wind.
"Anything and everything fuels conflict in Africa. At most, this is throwing a match into a raging fire."
But what can we, as a world community, do about it? We can't just barge in a la Iraq and impose our own order. This is something the African people have to do for themselves.
"I think the news here is that the nouveau project is catching up, but that's hardly clear from the article."
I copied this from Wikipedia:
Gallium 3D will provide a unified API exposing standard hardware functions such as shader units found on modern hardware. Thus, 3D APIs such as OpenGL 1.x/2.x, OpenGL 3.x, OpenVG, GPGPU infrastructure or even Direct3D (as found in the Wine compatibility layer) will need only a single back-end, called state tracker, targeting Gallium 3D API. By contrast Mesa 3D requires a different backend for each hardware platform, and several other APIs need translation to OpenGL at the expense of further overhead.[1][2][3] In addition, using the modular structure of Gallium 3D, there are works underway to leverage the LLVM compiler suite and create a module to optimize shader code on the fly
I'm no expert, in fact this is a little out of my league, but I think it means that hardware drivers can expose a common implementation of system calls for 3d API's to use. It provides more standardization and allows more of the processing to be passed off to the GPU instead of handled by the CPU. If I missed the concept here, someone with better understanding please explain it to us "non-techies."
I have always thought the future of gaming was product placement. All in game items are sponsored in some way by a real world company who pays to have their item in the game.
Imagine a first person shooter with all the weapons having actual gun manufacturer names. Or maybe an RPG where the power up potion is a Coke or a Pepsi. A mount could be a Subaru or a Ferrari.
I hate to say this because I think Firefox rulze, but I am finding it to be a bit buggy. The right click and open in a new tab does not always produce a response. It seems that at some point there is a maximum number of tabs you can have open. Also, I hit a website yesterday with a bad security credential that just wiped out my browser. I am also finding that the 'back' history seems to have a limit. I cannot always go back to where I started.
All of that said, I am not uninstalling it. I am just anxiously awaiting the first patch.
"No anybody here that falls for every piece of government propaganda or patriotism needs to have their slashdot card revoked, because that's all the moon-race is"
It took me less than a minute to find this list. Below is a quote lifted from the page about ROI. If you choose to not believe it, that is your choice.
Out of a $2.4 trillion budget, less than 0.8% is spent on the entire space program! That's less than 1 penny for every dollar spent. The average American spends more of their budget on their cable bill, eating out or entertainment than this yet the benefits of space flight are remarkable. It has been conservatively estimated by U.S. space experts that for every dollar the U.S. spends on R and D in the space program, it receives $7 back in the form of corporate and personal income taxes from increased jobs and economic growth. Besides the obvious jobs created in the aerospace industry, thousands more are created by many other companies applying NASA technology in nonspace related areas that affect us daily. One cannot even begin to place a dollar value on the lives saved and improved lifestyles of the less fortunate. Space technology benefits everyone and a rising technological tide does raise all boats.
I know that was meant to be a joke, but that is my question. What is the OS? What is the Database engine? What is the web server? Are you using a load balancer? Details! I want details!
"If you are not considered a risk, you are allowed to work your final weeks with full access."
I worked for a company where it was policy that if any person in the IT department gave notice, a security officer watched them clean out their desk and escorted them from the building. They were still paid for the period of time they gave notice, but the company did not want to risk having them around.
When I gave my notice, I was looking forward to a couple of weeks off. Two days later I still had not been escorted out. I called my boss and asked when I would be sent home. He told me that I was trustworthy and would be allowed to work the full time. I worked right up till 5:00 on my final day.
"have found the roots of the capacity for tool use in the primate brain: the brain treats the tool as part of the body."
Wow! Where do I start? I think I'll just say that I have always considered my tool to be an extension of my body, but I do not think it's root is in my brain.
Problem #4: The cost of getting government involved is always greater than the amount of capitol paid out by the system.
In my government (the USA) it costs $40,000 to create a $16,000/Yr job (I am quoting 1992 statistics.) The bureaucrats get the lion's share of the money.
"Let's face facts, there is tons of software that is not on Linux that people want."
Can someone tell me what, other than games, is not available that the home user wants. I realize that there are some corporate apps, most notably outlook/exchange, but I cannot see what is missing for a home user. OK, dvd support and proprietary codec support, but the support is there, there are just laws in the way.
"Justin Steinman reveals that to market their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server against Red Hat they ask, "Do you want the Linux that works with Windows? Or the one that doesn't?""
Does anyone have a citation for this quote? There is no link to it from Groklaw. I searched Google for both the quote, and also for Justin Steinman to see if I could find it printed anywhere. I could not find anything. Other than Pamala Jones' I cannot find anyone elses reporting this statement. I do remember an article last week, but in it Mr Steinman does not say that Red Hat does not work with windows, only the Suse is reccomended by Microsoft. Saying he is dissing Red Hat is quite a jump from there.
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I agree, but can you blame them? I look at my Mother's situation. She lives twenty miles from any incorporated city. They would have to run a line twenty miles with only one customer every mile or two. There is just no incentive for that.
As recently as 1984 she still had a party line, and even now she is a member of a rural cooperative for both water and power.
When he tried for 69, he blew it.
A worm is not a virus. Neither is a trojan. It drives me nuts when the media uses these words interchangeably. I usually forgive the likes of ABC, but you would think PC Magazine would get it right.
I wonder why on a Czech web portal, that one news article was in English. I did a little looking around trying to see if I could find any other pages in English but that was the only one. It was also the only one that had a /. submit script on it. Even the Czech version of the story did not have the script.
I also noticed that the cows in a herd all used to point the same direction. It might be north, or it might be south. The prevailing winds in this area tend to be from the north during the winter and the south during the winter. You can ask any rancher, and he will tell you that cows stand with their backs to the wind.
It says nerdlympics not geeklympics. Please do not lump me in with a bunch of nerds.
I bet if Arnold said to raise everyone's pay it would happen overnight.
But what can we, as a world community, do about it? We can't just barge in a la Iraq and impose our own order. This is something the African people have to do for themselves.
A simple Amazon search turned up quite a few models. Some have optical out. One has an iPod dock.
The hand written motion is a nice touch, but it would have been better written on toilet paper.
What about a Sun workstation?
I copied this from Wikipedia:
I'm no expert, in fact this is a little out of my league, but I think it means that hardware drivers can expose a common implementation of system calls for 3d API's to use. It provides more standardization and allows more of the processing to be passed off to the GPU instead of handled by the CPU. If I missed the concept here, someone with better understanding please explain it to us "non-techies."
Imagine a first person shooter with all the weapons having actual gun manufacturer names. Or maybe an RPG where the power up potion is a Coke or a Pepsi. A mount could be a Subaru or a Ferrari.
The possibilities are endless.
All of that said, I am not uninstalling it. I am just anxiously awaiting the first patch.
What happens in the suit stays in the suit.
It took me less than a minute to find this list. Below is a quote lifted from the page about ROI. If you choose to not believe it, that is your choice.
I know that was meant to be a joke, but that is my question. What is the OS? What is the Database engine? What is the web server? Are you using a load balancer? Details! I want details!
I worked for a company where it was policy that if any person in the IT department gave notice, a security officer watched them clean out their desk and escorted them from the building. They were still paid for the period of time they gave notice, but the company did not want to risk having them around.
When I gave my notice, I was looking forward to a couple of weeks off. Two days later I still had not been escorted out. I called my boss and asked when I would be sent home. He told me that I was trustworthy and would be allowed to work the full time. I worked right up till 5:00 on my final day.
Nah, most of it will be taken up by Windows 2012.
Wow! Where do I start? I think I'll just say that I have always considered my tool to be an extension of my body, but I do not think it's root is in my brain.
Sorry, I just could not resist.
In my government (the USA) it costs $40,000 to create a $16,000/Yr job (I am quoting 1992 statistics.) The bureaucrats get the lion's share of the money.
Can someone tell me what, other than games, is not available that the home user wants. I realize that there are some corporate apps, most notably outlook/exchange, but I cannot see what is missing for a home user. OK, dvd support and proprietary codec support, but the support is there, there are just laws in the way.
I for one welcome our mind reading computer overlords.
Does anyone have a citation for this quote? There is no link to it from Groklaw. I searched Google for both the quote, and also for Justin Steinman to see if I could find it printed anywhere. I could not find anything. Other than Pamala Jones' I cannot find anyone elses reporting this statement. I do remember an article last week, but in it Mr Steinman does not say that Red Hat does not work with windows, only the Suse is reccomended by Microsoft. Saying he is dissing Red Hat is quite a jump from there.
The trouble with their trouble is they don't seem to trouble them.