What could possibly be more counter-productive and stifling of software innovation. Sheesh!! It's time to march on the PTO with flaming torches and pitchforks.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Back in that day calculators were a lot more complex and used heavy ni-cad batteries with lots of mass to contend with when exposed to high-G situations. The original TI-2500 "Datamath" basic 4 fundtion calculator had three circuit boards in it with a lot of interconnecting wiring. There was simply a lot more to go wrong with it than the very simple, highly integrated, designs nowadays. BTW, I still have some of the calculators from that era in working condition.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Back in 1973 I worked for T.I. as a calculator design engineer. The manager of the consumer division had a final test for new models that consisted of him throwing the prototype against the brick wall by his desk and allowing it to fall to the tile floor below. Dents and scratches were OK, but the case had to stay intact and the unit had to work. We made sure that we ran a similar test well before the prototype got in his hands.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
When will the xxAA's and their buddies like NFL, MLB, etc. realize that the paradigm has already shifted? All they are doing is delay tactics against the inevitable with these innovation inhibiting (illegal) actions. We all have rights to *Fair Use* copies of any media that we've bought so their actions to stop that are illegal, IMO. IP that is broadcast is, again IMO, in the public domain as soon as it leaves the transmitting antenna/cable head-end. It's time for them to shift the efforts they are putting into these rear guard actions into efforts to adjust their business model to the 21st Century.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
boxes and it's not bad at all. I've used both the 4.0 and 4.5 versions. The click and run warehouse is exactly that. Click on the software you want to install and that's it.. the aps download and install without a hitch. I'm impressed. It's as close to a consumer Linux as I've seen.
Disclaimer, though, I'm running SuSE 9.1 and loving it for the main machine at my desk at home. The day job office main desktop dual boots 98SE and Lindows 4.0. The 98 is for legacy DOS programs that won't run under XP or Wine.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Seriously, as others have said, it's a lot more important how you handle recovering from the error than the fact you made an error. Everyone makes errors, not everyone is able to follow up appropriately and with grace.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
who has the most patents and money to ram them down everyone else's throat instead of who has the best product. Our whole system of Intellectual Property needs a serious rethinking and revision. The paradigm is broken. Litigiousness is choking innovation instead of encouraging it. Let's get behind organizations like Pubpat and
Electronic Frontier Foundation to move forward.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
a lot to learn. I appreciate the input. While I've been running several websites for several years, my use of e-mail has not involved setting up mail servers, but rather using what the hosting services provided. What you say makes sense. One of the important things I come to/. for is to learn.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
It's not possible, AFAIK, to give the sender an error message before the message is sent. All mail for a domain comes to the server, whether it's misaddressed or not. It's what is done with it that makes the difference. Blackholing misaddressed mail definitely saves bandwidth and server resources since there is no reply generated and nothing gets stored. Setting the server to generate a fail message is a courtesy and may be worth it for places where you might get messages that are important. As with blackholing, nothing is stored on the server and the failure message is quite small, AKA little in the way of bandwidth used.
I have a domain where there is a local ISP in Iowa that has the same name, but with a.net TLD instead of our.com TLD. There was all sorts of misaddressed mail, incorrect only with respect to the TLD, so it was fairly easy, back in 1999 to manually reroute those to the.net address and send a note back to the sender explaining their mistake, but it eventually got out of hand since it was a manual process on my part and I finally had to quit doing it.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I run several domains where I have e-mail servers. Years ago I would forward the catchall to my main mailbox so I could see what was getting misaddressed and handle it appropriately, often forwarding it to the correct address if I could figure it out. Obviously that doesn't work nowadays. I've set some of my catchall defaults to reply with a failure message and delete the message. You know, "No such address here." Some other domains, where the traffic is heavier, are set to send catchall mail to the "Blackhole" AKA bit bucket. In most cases misaddressed mail to my domains gets the failure message and, if they really want to get through to me, they figure out what they did wrong and I eventually get the message.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Yes, I readily admit I did use a pretty broad brush since I didn't want to get into a long dissertation here. I stand by my personal observations, but it's only my own opinion and worth what you paid for it.
My wife is one of those people who is both an artist and a professional writer. She switched from a Mac to a PC around 1997 so I won't disagree with you a bit that there are plenty of exceptions in both directions.
Oh, about that Mark Twain fellow, he didn't use a Mac either, he did use a typewriter, though. Well, after 1874 anyway.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"..for the most part,..". I know people that are as you describe, musicians, artists and techno geeks at the same time, but they are, in my observations, a small minority. There are always exceptions. Oh, and the prime example that I am thinking of has definitely less than sterling grammar, spelling and punctuation.
I also agree that often the cost of a Mac relates to the economic and thus often the educational status of the user. PC's are cheap in relationship to Macs.
Please note that the only Mac I've ever had was the very first one that came with a single floppy and no HD, but I've played with a dual processor G5 with the big flat panel and thought it quite slick.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Simply put, Mac users are, for the most part, academics, artsy or literary types who have spent a lot more time in rhetoric and literature classes while slashdotters spent their time in geeky technical (useful) pursuits. Writing style is not the main interest of the/. crew, although some argument could be made that better style can result in better communication.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
So many laws are plagued with them. This is a case in point. The lawmakers seem incapable of making legislation dealing with technical matters, especially where the Internet and computers are involved. We all see how well the Can Spam act is working.
The concept of this "paid for by big media legislation" is carrying things to extremes and shows their desperation. There are all sorts of analogies that relate to this, but one of the most simplistic that comes to my mind is that a hammer can be used to commit a crime, even murder, therefore the possession, manufacture or sale of hammers must be made illegal as well as the use of blunt objects like rocks that could be used as a hammer. This proposed legislation makes as much sense.
Recent news articles say that the BSA claims that software "piracy" has cost the industry $29 billion. I call BS. The vast majority of such copyright infringement is by people who cannot afford the ridiculous prices of M$ software and would not otherwise use the software if they had to pay the full retail price. I suspect that the buggy whip industry did everything they could think of to discourage the use of automobiles. Our current IP situation leaves the "AA" associations in the same position. They have to find a new paradigm because this one just isn't working. All they are doing is pissing off their customers. I think that the success of iTunes shows that alternatives can work if they will just move their thinking into the 21st Century.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
and found it pretty easy to get going and easy to use in all but one particular installation where I had display configuration issues. Their "Warehouse" by subscription has worked seamlessly for installing new aps. Obviously it's not for the numerous OS geeks that hang out here, but a lot of "average" users could make good use of it very easily.
As a number of folks here have pointed out, it's not really Dell that is selling preinstalled Linpire, but rather one of their resellers, but I think it's a very good sign.
I've tried several distro's and it seems to me that there are several very good ones available. I've used Lindows/Linspire which I found very easy to use and RedHat 9.0 was easy to get running well. I've had trouble with Fedora 1&2 and so have moved on. I carry a Knoppix Live CD with me and like that one very well, too. At home, I'm currently using SuSE 9.1 Pro and it's the best yet as far as performance and ease of use for my desktop applications. Yast seems to work well. I was easily able to d/l and install Opera, which is still my browser of choice. Now if I can just get my mom to quit using AOL!!
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
It helps to be a fast reader, but I'd think most slashdotters would qualify in that respect. It's not a bad place to spend a little time every now and then and closer than the library for me.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I've got several books stacked up to read, but I just don't seem to get around to them as interesting as they are. It's not that I don't read a LOT, but the majority of it is on this little screen that I'm looking at now. The immediacy and interactivity of the Internet much more easily grabs my attention. The times when I do get some significant reading done are those times when I don't have easy Internet access, like sometimes when I'm traveling or if I'm stuck in waiting rooms like the doctor's office.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
If it's anything they require that you have it, then I'd say they should pay for it.
Regarding the cell phone, I pay for my own and bill them on my expense account for a prorated part of the minutes that represent business use. I'd have the cell phone anyway. They do supply a pager at their cost.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I thought that the idea was that eventually we'd select the content that we wanted which would then be delivered via broadband technology to each user at the time that we wanted to see it. No more of this lousey, "what's on at 8:00?" stuff and if you wanted to see episode 34 of some show you'd just call it up.
Honestly, there's so little on TV that I want to watch anymore. I get my news via Internet so I can select which stories I am interested in and I can get a lot more detail than the 30 second spot news items that seems so prevalent nowadays. For movies, I go to the theater or rent/buy a DVD. The latter allow me to watch when I want and even pause if I need a break for an incoming phone call or to go to the toilet or refrigerator.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
to track my financials. I can customize it to my needs. It's my check register and my forecasting tool. The top item on the first sheet is a projected graph of the next 6 month's income and expenses so I really know where I stand. I've got a sheet for my stocks and mutual funds and stocks, one for my credit cards, all tied to the main page. Yes, it's more work since I can't just download from my online banking, but it keeps me very aware of what's going on and I like that. Yes, I use OpenOffice.Org.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
No, I'm not worried about zapping floppies. Your ideas are, for the most part very good ones, but zinc is paramagnetic, if I recall right, and is not attracted to the magnets. Same for tinfoil, BTW. The magnets would be effective in catching iron filings and related ferromagnetic particles, though, but that didn't seem to be the reported problem in this case.
Your friction hypothesis has merit, too, but growth of whiskers, more scientifically known as dendrites is actually quite common, especially where electric fields exist between conductors. I ran into that in a flexible touch keyboard we had designed using a silver alloy that was screened on as the conductors. Durn things would develop shorts after a while in the field, literally since it was on agricultural equipment. You couldn't see the shorts, but examination under a microscope revealed those nasty little whiskers. A metalurgist was consulted and provided a different alloy that solved the problem.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Now there will be a great market for a new sort of radar detector. Not to mention that stealth wallpaper mentioned here a few days ago. Tinfoil company stocks sound like a great buy, too.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Slashdot Mirror
What could possibly be more counter-productive and stifling of software innovation. Sheesh!!
It's time to march on the PTO with flaming torches and pitchforks.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Back in that day calculators were a lot more complex and used heavy ni-cad batteries with lots of mass to contend with when exposed to high-G situations. The original TI-2500 "Datamath" basic 4 fundtion calculator had three circuit boards in it with a lot of interconnecting wiring. There was simply a lot more to go wrong with it than the very simple, highly integrated, designs nowadays. BTW, I still have some of the calculators from that era in working condition.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Back in 1973 I worked for T.I. as a calculator design engineer. The manager of the consumer division had a final test for new models that consisted of him throwing the prototype against the brick wall by his desk and allowing it to fall to the tile floor below. Dents and scratches were OK, but the case had to stay intact and the unit had to work. We made sure that we ran a similar test well before the prototype got in his hands.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
When will the xxAA's and their buddies like NFL, MLB, etc. realize that the paradigm has already shifted? All they are doing is delay tactics against the inevitable with these innovation inhibiting (illegal) actions. We all have rights to *Fair Use* copies of any media that we've bought so their actions to stop that are illegal, IMO. IP that is broadcast is, again IMO, in the public domain as soon as it leaves the transmitting antenna/cable head-end. It's time for them to shift the efforts they are putting into these rear guard actions into efforts to adjust their business model to the 21st Century.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
boxes and it's not bad at all. I've used both the 4.0 and 4.5 versions. The click and run warehouse is exactly that. Click on the software you want to install and that's it.. the aps download and install without a hitch. I'm impressed. It's as close to a consumer Linux as I've seen.
Disclaimer, though, I'm running SuSE 9.1 and loving it for the main machine at my desk at home. The day job office main desktop dual boots 98SE and Lindows 4.0. The 98 is for legacy DOS programs that won't run under XP or Wine.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Set bios to boot from CD and restart.
Seriously, as others have said, it's a lot more important how you handle recovering from the error than the fact you made an error. Everyone makes errors, not everyone is able to follow up appropriately and with grace.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
who has the most patents and money to ram them down everyone else's throat instead of who has the best product. Our whole system of Intellectual Property needs a serious rethinking and revision. The paradigm is broken. Litigiousness is choking innovation instead of encouraging it. Let's get behind organizations like Pubpat and Electronic Frontier Foundation to move forward.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
a lot to learn. I appreciate the input. While I've been running several websites for several years, my use of e-mail has not involved setting up mail servers, but rather using what the hosting services provided. What you say makes sense. One of the important things I come to /. for is to learn.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
It's not possible, AFAIK, to give the sender an error message before the message is sent. All mail for a domain comes to the server, whether it's misaddressed or not. It's what is done with it that makes the difference. Blackholing misaddressed mail definitely saves bandwidth and server resources since there is no reply generated and nothing gets stored. Setting the server to generate a fail message is a courtesy and may be worth it for places where you might get messages that are important. As with blackholing, nothing is stored on the server and the failure message is quite small, AKA little in the way of bandwidth used.
.net TLD instead of our .com TLD. There was all sorts of misaddressed mail, incorrect only with respect to the TLD, so it was fairly easy, back in 1999 to manually reroute those to the .net address and send a note back to the sender explaining their mistake, but it eventually got out of hand since it was a manual process on my part and I finally had to quit doing it.
I have a domain where there is a local ISP in Iowa that has the same name, but with a
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I run several domains where I have e-mail servers. Years ago I would forward the catchall to my main mailbox so I could see what was getting misaddressed and handle it appropriately, often forwarding it to the correct address if I could figure it out. Obviously that doesn't work nowadays. I've set some of my catchall defaults to reply with a failure message and delete the message. You know, "No such address here." Some other domains, where the traffic is heavier, are set to send catchall mail to the "Blackhole" AKA bit bucket. In most cases misaddressed mail to my domains gets the failure message and, if they really want to get through to me, they figure out what they did wrong and I eventually get the message.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Yes, I readily admit I did use a pretty broad brush since I didn't want to get into a long dissertation here. I stand by my personal observations, but it's only my own opinion and worth what you paid for it.
My wife is one of those people who is both an artist and a professional writer. She switched from a Mac to a PC around 1997 so I won't disagree with you a bit that there are plenty of exceptions in both directions.
Oh, about that Mark Twain fellow, he didn't use a Mac either, he did use a typewriter, though. Well, after 1874 anyway.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"..for the most part,..". I know people that are as you describe, musicians, artists and techno geeks at the same time, but they are, in my observations, a small minority. There are always exceptions. Oh, and the prime example that I am thinking of has definitely less than sterling grammar, spelling and punctuation.
I also agree that often the cost of a Mac relates to the economic and thus often the educational status of the user. PC's are cheap in relationship to Macs.
Please note that the only Mac I've ever had was the very first one that came with a single floppy and no HD, but I've played with a dual processor G5 with the big flat panel and thought it quite slick.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Simply put, Mac users are, for the most part, academics, artsy or literary types who have spent a lot more time in rhetoric and literature classes while slashdotters spent their time in geeky technical (useful) pursuits. Writing style is not the main interest of the /. crew, although some argument could be made that better style can result in better communication.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
So many laws are plagued with them. This is a case in point. The lawmakers seem incapable of making legislation dealing with technical matters, especially where the Internet and computers are involved. We all see how well the Can Spam act is working.
The concept of this "paid for by big media legislation" is carrying things to extremes and shows their desperation. There are all sorts of analogies that relate to this, but one of the most simplistic that comes to my mind is that a hammer can be used to commit a crime, even murder, therefore the possession, manufacture or sale of hammers must be made illegal as well as the use of blunt objects like rocks that could be used as a hammer. This proposed legislation makes as much sense.
Recent news articles say that the BSA claims that software "piracy" has cost the industry $29 billion. I call BS. The vast majority of such copyright infringement is by people who cannot afford the ridiculous prices of M$ software and would not otherwise use the software if they had to pay the full retail price. I suspect that the buggy whip industry did everything they could think of to discourage the use of automobiles. Our current IP situation leaves the "AA" associations in the same position. They have to find a new paradigm because this one just isn't working. All they are doing is pissing off their customers. I think that the success of iTunes shows that alternatives can work if they will just move their thinking into the 21st Century.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
and found it pretty easy to get going and easy to use in all but one particular installation where I had display configuration issues. Their "Warehouse" by subscription has worked seamlessly for installing new aps. Obviously it's not for the numerous OS geeks that hang out here, but a lot of "average" users could make good use of it very easily.
As a number of folks here have pointed out, it's not really Dell that is selling preinstalled Linpire, but rather one of their resellers, but I think it's a very good sign.
I lost my sig. No reward if found, though.
I've tried several distro's and it seems to me that there are several very good ones available. I've used Lindows/Linspire which I found very easy to use and RedHat 9.0 was easy to get running well. I've had trouble with Fedora 1&2 and so have moved on. I carry a Knoppix Live CD with me and like that one very well, too. At home, I'm currently using SuSE 9.1 Pro and it's the best yet as far as performance and ease of use for my desktop applications. Yast seems to work well. I was easily able to d/l and install Opera, which is still my browser of choice. Now if I can just get my mom to quit using AOL!!
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
It helps to be a fast reader, but I'd think most slashdotters would qualify in that respect. It's not a bad place to spend a little time every now and then and closer than the library for me.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I've got several books stacked up to read, but I just don't seem to get around to them as interesting as they are. It's not that I don't read a LOT, but the majority of it is on this little screen that I'm looking at now. The immediacy and interactivity of the Internet much more easily grabs my attention. The times when I do get some significant reading done are those times when I don't have easy Internet access, like sometimes when I'm traveling or if I'm stuck in waiting rooms like the doctor's office.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Can't you already do basically that same thing with GoToMyPC?
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
If it's anything they require that you have it, then I'd say they should pay for it.
Regarding the cell phone, I pay for my own and bill them on my expense account for a prorated part of the minutes that represent business use. I'd have the cell phone anyway. They do supply a pager at their cost.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I thought that the idea was that eventually we'd select the content that we wanted which would then be delivered via broadband technology to each user at the time that we wanted to see it. No more of this lousey, "what's on at 8:00?" stuff and if you wanted to see episode 34 of some show you'd just call it up.
Honestly, there's so little on TV that I want to watch anymore. I get my news via Internet so I can select which stories I am interested in and I can get a lot more detail than the 30 second spot news items that seems so prevalent nowadays. For movies, I go to the theater or rent/buy a DVD. The latter allow me to watch when I want and even pause if I need a break for an incoming phone call or to go to the toilet or refrigerator.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
to track my financials. I can customize it to my needs. It's my check register and my forecasting tool. The top item on the first sheet is a projected graph of the next 6 month's income and expenses so I really know where I stand. I've got a sheet for my stocks and mutual funds and stocks, one for my credit cards, all tied to the main page. Yes, it's more work since I can't just download from my online banking, but it keeps me very aware of what's going on and I like that. Yes, I use OpenOffice.Org.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
No, I'm not worried about zapping floppies. Your ideas are, for the most part very good ones, but zinc is paramagnetic, if I recall right, and is not attracted to the magnets. Same for tinfoil, BTW. The magnets would be effective in catching iron filings and related ferromagnetic particles, though, but that didn't seem to be the reported problem in this case.
Your friction hypothesis has merit, too, but growth of whiskers, more scientifically known as dendrites is actually quite common, especially where electric fields exist between conductors. I ran into that in a flexible touch keyboard we had designed using a silver alloy that was screened on as the conductors. Durn things would develop shorts after a while in the field, literally since it was on agricultural equipment. You couldn't see the shorts, but examination under a microscope revealed those nasty little whiskers. A metalurgist was consulted and provided a different alloy that solved the problem.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
The metal frames for the raised floor are where the zinc whiskers are coming from. They get sucked into the power supplies and short them out.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Now there will be a great market for a new sort of radar detector. Not to mention that stealth wallpaper mentioned here a few days ago. Tinfoil company stocks sound like a great buy, too.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain