And yes, before someone says it I know that Hitler was elected(atleast partially - was he every actually elected to be the President? or just the Chancellor or something?). And that he was elected largely because of his anti-semitic views. But its not like he detailed his Final Solution and how he would throw little kids into furnaces in his speeches. If leaders in Germany and around Europe had a little more foresight in the thirties, then maybe a lot of that could have been avoided.
Our government is "supposed" to be by the people, for the people, and of the people. The laws should be similar to people's opinions. If large numbers of people are breaking a law, then that "law" should absolutely not be a law. If we had reprsentitives that actually represented people, instead of companies then maybe things would be a little bit more like that now. If the representitives of the 17/1800's actually represented everyone instead of just the white males, then slavery probably wouldn't have been legal. What you are suggesting is that one person or group basically do whatever they feel is "right," irregardless of whatever the populace thinks. Terms such as dictatorship, totalitarianism, and despotism come to mind. "Rational thought" is totally subjective. Hitler thought exterminating the Jews was "rational." Evidently our President thinks spying on the public is rational. And Hilary Rosen thinks suing kids for thousands of dollars is rational.
You know, really, I think the government reactions to terrorism have and will hurt this country more than the destruction of two sky scrapers and the loss of thousands of lives. A good quote someone here on/. I think has in their sig, says something like "Terrorists can attack our freedom, but only Congress can destroy it." Isn't that the truth.
The more and more we limit people's freedoms, the more similar we become to the sick visions of people like Osama bin Laden. They want a world in which people have few if any freedoms, and where no one may dare diagree with Islam. We are moving in the direction of the first, and if you replace 'Islam' with 'our government', we might be headed towards that one as well.
What I'm saying is that, while terrorist attacks are horrible and despicable, having a "few" people die from terrorist attacks is far better IMHO than giving in to those terrorists who love to murder innocent civilians in cold blood and volunteering to give away our freedoms. Granted, this may be easy for me to say, as I have not been directly, personally affected(no one I know has been killed/injured/involved) by terrorism, but I would really like to think that I would still believe this even if I had been directly affected. I'm sure that probably wouldn't be the case though.
I would think that gun companies would be liable if they knowingly sold a gun to someone who was a convicted serial killer. Cisco knows exactly what China is going to do with the equipment they provide them with.
it's not crippling the OS...it's simply demanding stronger hardware specs
Nobody would have a problem with Apple having fairly high minimum requirements. What people are having a problem with is that it will only install on Apple hardware. They are going out of their way to cripple their product and add requirements that aren't really technical requirements.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if MS chooses to support ODF or lose a big customer. I think MS is being rather stubborn on this, I'd have to think that it would cost them less to implement ODF in Office 12 than they would lose if they lost Mass. as a customer(atleast for MS Office). Personally, I hope MS continues being stubborn on this. If someone big like the state of Mass. is using OOo(or are they considering Star Office?), then there could be a lot of improvements to make OOo more attractive to businesses. Especially as far as managability and stuff goes. I will have to say though, that the prerelease versions of Office 12 have some nice stuff in them. All the apps seem to have really nice integration with Sharepoint, especially Excel and Access(can import lists and such).
Now, I'm all for making things smaller if they can be, but how exactly is 80 megs a mammoth download? I mean the pre-beta of MS Office 12(really different interface btw, not sure that I like it), is like 1.2 GIGS. If anything I think OOo needs to start including clipart/multimedia/etc. Screw file size, features will be more important than that to most people. And if there's actually some poor guy out there will dial up he can just ask a friend for it.
At one point I was really excited about Mono. But I've got a little bit less excited about it in the last few months. MS is about to release VS.NET 2k5(along w/ SQL Server 2k5 and probably some other odds and ends), which will feature.NET 2.0. And, I don't think that VS.NET 2005 will be able to compile apps for.NET 1(atleast not out of the box). Mono doesn't even support everything for.NET 1.1 yet, and how long has that been promised. How many years will it take for Mono to catch up to.NET 2? I mean, I really like what the Mono project is trying to do, but I just don't see how it can really make it. I think it will eventually end up like WINE, that is always significantly behind MS's version of.NET and always slightly buggy or unstable. I wish Miguel and them the best of luck, but I just don't see how they can really expect to run.NET apps designed for Windows on Linux any better than WINE will run non-managed Windows apps. Now, I don't think its totally pointless, I mean it will be nice to be able to make C#.NET apps for Linux, but given that MonoDevelop doesn't support RAD(please, please, please, add support for this. I know it probably wouldn't make a big difference to people making huge, professional apps, but it would be really nice for people like me who aren't as familiar with C# or some of the graphics toolkits used(or who don't code for a living - for people who just make small "utility" apps here and there).
I would agree. I see no reason to work so much on Office 2k3(especially things like Word, Excel and Powerpoint). There are Linux apps that do those sorts of things reasonably well. I think it would be better to concentrate on getting apps(like the Adobe stuff) that don't have equiavalents that work reasonably well in Linux. I would rather see more effort go into getting Macromedia stuff(like Contribute, Dreamweaver, etc) and Adobe stuff working than MS office apps which have native Linux equivalents that work nearly as good if not better than the MS apps. OOo is a lot closer to MS Office than GIMP is to Photoshop or Nvu/Bluefish/Quanta is to Dreamweaver.
Yeah, but I have a hard time believing that more than a few people with iPod's are using like 60 or 40 gigs. I mean how many people have time to buy or download like 10 or 20 thousand songs. I have about a gig an a half or so that I've accumulated through two or three years, and I don't even listen to a lot of those that much. Though, I could see people using more space with video, but I don't think that that many people would view too many videos, and they could probably be heavily compressed since the screen would be fairly small. Unlike listening to songs, they couldn't really be doing anything else. Most people that I know with iPod's listen to them while their working or doing homework, etc.
I would agree with the submitter. I love my PDA. I can look view/send email, look at websites, take notes/contact/other data, view and edit document, etc. I can't see why people bitch so much about touch screens, and then go and use a little tiny screen on a cell phone that you have to control by just using a couple buttons. I can play music and videos on my PPC. I don't really see who would need 60 gigs of storage for just music. I mean, if you have that many songs, you might as well listen to the radio(disregarding sound quality, which personally isn't worth $400 or whatever iPods cost).
While not totally related to the subject, Palm just released a new PDA. It actually looks rather nice for them, it has bluetooth and wifi and isn't hideously expensive. If only they had this before I got my PocketPC, which doesn't easily-is a royal pain in the ass- sync with Linux, I really would have considered this. Maybe Palm has a little hope left.
Adobe's position in this does strike me as interesting as well. All of the other companies involved have major products for Linux(or have an interest in pushing Linux to sell servers/chips). Adobe has a free reader, that's it. Granted, I think there was an article on/. maybe a year or so ago about Adobe hiring a Linux marketing manager or something. And nothings happened, yet. At the least, I think this is Adobe trying to be "friends" with the Linux community so if/when Linux becomes big on the desktop, they will be in a good position to take so of the market.
I've used VMWare(Workstation and GSX) a lot for the last couple of years. I use VMware Workstation daily on my desktop at home. I have maybe 30 or so VM's(versions of Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, Netware, and OS X). I run Netware and Windows Sever in GSX on RHEL4. I couldn't live without VMware. Novell has recently started distributing some of their eval stuff via VMware images, I think Oracle has as well. I'm assuming that VMware is doing this to encourage other companies to start doing similar things. It's really a pretty neat idea, testing/learning about different OS's and software through VMware. I have also used Virtual PC, and I must say that VMware is much, much better that Virtual PC. The only think I use VPC for is to occasionally screw around in OS/2, and I'm probably going to try and install that in VMware sooner or later. I'll admit I haven't used Xen, but for me the best thing about VMware is that I can run different OS's. I don't think running Linux-on-Linux is nearly as amazing or revolutionary as running Netware-on-Linux, or Solaris-on-Windows, etc. I think that VMware Workstation 5.5(currently in beta I think, I've not tried it though), will supposely run x86_64 guests, on x86_64 hosts. VMware seems to be really moving forward a lot, each new release seems to add something that I will actually use unlike a lot of other software. I only wish they would offer updates to GSX a litte often. Right now GSX won't work with VMware Workstation 5 VM's(which support multiple snapshots). VMware Workstation 5 will run 4.5 style VM's, but you cannot use snapshots. Other than that, I can't say there's anything I don't like about VMware.
And no, I don't work for them, nor am I in any way associated with them. Just a very, very, happy customer.
And likely would take millions of deaths to defeat again if we don't learn anything about how it works/is similar to current bird flu's(whats the plural form of flu?). The CDC probably has enough viruses and diseases that something like this is the least of anybodies concern if something happened at the CDC and stuff got out.
I would agree about web interfaces sucking. Even Gmail and Sharepoint(in IE regretably), both of which have rather nice, dynamic, web interfaces, still can't do as much as regular apps. And I really like using regular apps better. Having shortcuts/better and faster feedback and such is rather nice.
The problem with a lot of the alternatives is that they aren't real easy to configure/integrate with Windows auth, and that a lot of the cost more when you factor in the price of Outlook extensions that work with them(and unless they have their own client like Groupwise, Outlook support is rather important-despite all its issues, its still probably the best groupware client for Windows). When they would cost more than Exchange, probably won't be as quick to set up, and probably won't have a lot of extensions and such from third parties(AV, antispam, backup, etc), there is no real advantage to use them.
Its been much better since they've purchased Ximian. SuSE and NLD both have (atleast IMO) pretty nice Gnome desktops. They feel a lot like Ximian Desktop.
Yeah, I couldn't live without VMware. I have probably maybe 30 OS's(Lin/Win/*nix/Netware) installed in VMWare Workstation, and I use GSX on a small server. IMO they are some of the most useful software apps out there. And being able to run it on Linux is really nice.:)
Link to satellite images of ANSTO
I _think_ that is where it is. I could be wrong, but that looks more like a nuclear facility than anything else in the area. Thanks to ANSTO for providing a map.:)
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OK, other than the "cool factor", WTF is the point of this? Its nice to know what IBM's people are spending their time on...
And yes, before someone says it I know that Hitler was elected(atleast partially - was he every actually elected to be the President? or just the Chancellor or something?). And that he was elected largely because of his anti-semitic views. But its not like he detailed his Final Solution and how he would throw little kids into furnaces in his speeches. If leaders in Germany and around Europe had a little more foresight in the thirties, then maybe a lot of that could have been avoided.
Our government is "supposed" to be by the people, for the people, and of the people. The laws should be similar to people's opinions. If large numbers of people are breaking a law, then that "law" should absolutely not be a law. If we had reprsentitives that actually represented people, instead of companies then maybe things would be a little bit more like that now. If the representitives of the 17/1800's actually represented everyone instead of just the white males, then slavery probably wouldn't have been legal. What you are suggesting is that one person or group basically do whatever they feel is "right," irregardless of whatever the populace thinks. Terms such as dictatorship, totalitarianism, and despotism come to mind. "Rational thought" is totally subjective. Hitler thought exterminating the Jews was "rational." Evidently our President thinks spying on the public is rational. And Hilary Rosen thinks suing kids for thousands of dollars is rational.
You know, really, I think the government reactions to terrorism have and will hurt this country more than the destruction of two sky scrapers and the loss of thousands of lives. A good quote someone here on /. I think has in their sig, says something like "Terrorists can attack our freedom, but only Congress can destroy it." Isn't that the truth.
The more and more we limit people's freedoms, the more similar we become to the sick visions of people like Osama bin Laden. They want a world in which people have few if any freedoms, and where no one may dare diagree with Islam. We are moving in the direction of the first, and if you replace 'Islam' with 'our government', we might be headed towards that one as well.
What I'm saying is that, while terrorist attacks are horrible and despicable, having a "few" people die from terrorist attacks is far better IMHO than giving in to those terrorists who love to murder innocent civilians in cold blood and volunteering to give away our freedoms. Granted, this may be easy for me to say, as I have not been directly, personally affected(no one I know has been killed/injured/involved) by terrorism, but I would really like to think that I would still believe this even if I had been directly affected. I'm sure that probably wouldn't be the case though.
I would think that gun companies would be liable if they knowingly sold a gun to someone who was a convicted serial killer. Cisco knows exactly what China is going to do with the equipment they provide them with.
it's not crippling the OS...it's simply demanding stronger hardware specs Nobody would have a problem with Apple having fairly high minimum requirements. What people are having a problem with is that it will only install on Apple hardware. They are going out of their way to cripple their product and add requirements that aren't really technical requirements.
The community version is what would be in Linux distros, most people would probably just get support from their Linux vendor, not MySQL.
Wireless Access Point.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if MS chooses to support ODF or lose a big customer. I think MS is being rather stubborn on this, I'd have to think that it would cost them less to implement ODF in Office 12 than they would lose if they lost Mass. as a customer(atleast for MS Office). Personally, I hope MS continues being stubborn on this. If someone big like the state of Mass. is using OOo(or are they considering Star Office?), then there could be a lot of improvements to make OOo more attractive to businesses. Especially as far as managability and stuff goes. I will have to say though, that the prerelease versions of Office 12 have some nice stuff in them. All the apps seem to have really nice integration with Sharepoint, especially Excel and Access(can import lists and such).
Now, I'm all for making things smaller if they can be, but how exactly is 80 megs a mammoth download? I mean the pre-beta of MS Office 12(really different interface btw, not sure that I like it), is like 1.2 GIGS. If anything I think OOo needs to start including clipart/multimedia/etc. Screw file size, features will be more important than that to most people. And if there's actually some poor guy out there will dial up he can just ask a friend for it.
At one point I was really excited about Mono. But I've got a little bit less excited about it in the last few months. MS is about to release VS.NET 2k5(along w/ SQL Server 2k5 and probably some other odds and ends), which will feature .NET 2.0. And, I don't think that VS.NET 2005 will be able to compile apps for .NET 1(atleast not out of the box). Mono doesn't even support everything for .NET 1.1 yet, and how long has that been promised. How many years will it take for Mono to catch up to .NET 2? I mean, I really like what the Mono project is trying to do, but I just don't see how it can really make it. I think it will eventually end up like WINE, that is always significantly behind MS's version of .NET and always slightly buggy or unstable. I wish Miguel and them the best of luck, but I just don't see how they can really expect to run .NET apps designed for Windows on Linux any better than WINE will run non-managed Windows apps. Now, I don't think its totally pointless, I mean it will be nice to be able to make C#.NET apps for Linux, but given that MonoDevelop doesn't support RAD(please, please, please, add support for this. I know it probably wouldn't make a big difference to people making huge, professional apps, but it would be really nice for people like me who aren't as familiar with C# or some of the graphics toolkits used(or who don't code for a living - for people who just make small "utility" apps here and there).
:)
OK, sorry, that's my rant of the week I guess.
I would agree. I see no reason to work so much on Office 2k3(especially things like Word, Excel and Powerpoint). There are Linux apps that do those sorts of things reasonably well. I think it would be better to concentrate on getting apps(like the Adobe stuff) that don't have equiavalents that work reasonably well in Linux. I would rather see more effort go into getting Macromedia stuff(like Contribute, Dreamweaver, etc) and Adobe stuff working than MS office apps which have native Linux equivalents that work nearly as good if not better than the MS apps. OOo is a lot closer to MS Office than GIMP is to Photoshop or Nvu/Bluefish/Quanta is to Dreamweaver.
No, but I did think European Space Administration when I read the article on the Entertainment Software Association.
Yeah, but I have a hard time believing that more than a few people with iPod's are using like 60 or 40 gigs. I mean how many people have time to buy or download like 10 or 20 thousand songs. I have about a gig an a half or so that I've accumulated through two or three years, and I don't even listen to a lot of those that much. Though, I could see people using more space with video, but I don't think that that many people would view too many videos, and they could probably be heavily compressed since the screen would be fairly small. Unlike listening to songs, they couldn't really be doing anything else. Most people that I know with iPod's listen to them while their working or doing homework, etc.
I would agree with the submitter. I love my PDA. I can look view/send email, look at websites, take notes/contact/other data, view and edit document, etc. I can't see why people bitch so much about touch screens, and then go and use a little tiny screen on a cell phone that you have to control by just using a couple buttons. I can play music and videos on my PPC. I don't really see who would need 60 gigs of storage for just music. I mean, if you have that many songs, you might as well listen to the radio(disregarding sound quality, which personally isn't worth $400 or whatever iPods cost).
While not totally related to the subject, Palm just released a new PDA. It actually looks rather nice for them, it has bluetooth and wifi and isn't hideously expensive. If only they had this before I got my PocketPC, which doesn't easily-is a royal pain in the ass- sync with Linux, I really would have considered this. Maybe Palm has a little hope left.
Cox doesn't actually block VPN? Cool, I thought they did. I might have to start using that instead of forwarding a dozen ports over SSH.
Adobe's position in this does strike me as interesting as well. All of the other companies involved have major products for Linux(or have an interest in pushing Linux to sell servers/chips). Adobe has a free reader, that's it. Granted, I think there was an article on /. maybe a year or so ago about Adobe hiring a Linux marketing manager or something. And nothings happened, yet. At the least, I think this is Adobe trying to be "friends" with the Linux community so if/when Linux becomes big on the desktop, they will be in a good position to take so of the market.
I've used VMWare(Workstation and GSX) a lot for the last couple of years. I use VMware Workstation daily on my desktop at home. I have maybe 30 or so VM's(versions of Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, Netware, and OS X). I run Netware and Windows Sever in GSX on RHEL4. I couldn't live without VMware. Novell has recently started distributing some of their eval stuff via VMware images, I think Oracle has as well. I'm assuming that VMware is doing this to encourage other companies to start doing similar things. It's really a pretty neat idea, testing/learning about different OS's and software through VMware. I have also used Virtual PC, and I must say that VMware is much, much better that Virtual PC. The only think I use VPC for is to occasionally screw around in OS/2, and I'm probably going to try and install that in VMware sooner or later. I'll admit I haven't used Xen, but for me the best thing about VMware is that I can run different OS's. I don't think running Linux-on-Linux is nearly as amazing or revolutionary as running Netware-on-Linux, or Solaris-on-Windows, etc. I think that VMware Workstation 5.5(currently in beta I think, I've not tried it though), will supposely run x86_64 guests, on x86_64 hosts. VMware seems to be really moving forward a lot, each new release seems to add something that I will actually use unlike a lot of other software. I only wish they would offer updates to GSX a litte often. Right now GSX won't work with VMware Workstation 5 VM's(which support multiple snapshots). VMware Workstation 5 will run 4.5 style VM's, but you cannot use snapshots. Other than that, I can't say there's anything I don't like about VMware. And no, I don't work for them, nor am I in any way associated with them. Just a very, very, happy customer.
No need to install, just download the standalone Putty executable and run.
And likely would take millions of deaths to defeat again if we don't learn anything about how it works/is similar to current bird flu's(whats the plural form of flu?). The CDC probably has enough viruses and diseases that something like this is the least of anybodies concern if something happened at the CDC and stuff got out.
I would agree about web interfaces sucking. Even Gmail and Sharepoint(in IE regretably), both of which have rather nice, dynamic, web interfaces, still can't do as much as regular apps. And I really like using regular apps better. Having shortcuts/better and faster feedback and such is rather nice.
The problem with a lot of the alternatives is that they aren't real easy to configure/integrate with Windows auth, and that a lot of the cost more when you factor in the price of Outlook extensions that work with them(and unless they have their own client like Groupwise, Outlook support is rather important-despite all its issues, its still probably the best groupware client for Windows). When they would cost more than Exchange, probably won't be as quick to set up, and probably won't have a lot of extensions and such from third parties(AV, antispam, backup, etc), there is no real advantage to use them.
Its been much better since they've purchased Ximian. SuSE and NLD both have (atleast IMO) pretty nice Gnome desktops. They feel a lot like Ximian Desktop.
Yeah, I couldn't live without VMware. I have probably maybe 30 OS's(Lin/Win/*nix/Netware) installed in VMWare Workstation, and I use GSX on a small server. IMO they are some of the most useful software apps out there. And being able to run it on Linux is really nice. :)
Link to satellite images of ANSTO I _think_ that is where it is. I could be wrong, but that looks more like a nuclear facility than anything else in the area. Thanks to ANSTO for providing a map. :)