I think you touch on an interesting point...
The underlying theme it seems would be greed. If a small inventor was concerned only with servicing a particular need, than they shouldn't have much issue. Thier motivation to be a basement company one night, and something the size of Google the next seems to cloud their judgement.
Many people these days just want to 'get rich and quick'. This mentality is in direct conflict with the mindset of small business. Small business is all about community and the network of clientele and respect you build up by servicing your clients with respect and expectation. (do what you say, it goes farther than most people think!)
When you hold the 'rights' to your idea too high, they inflate in proportion with one's ego and the rise / fall of the almighty ruler (the dollar).
Didn't the dot com bust teach people about the devaluation of an idea?
I live in Canada and when I was a kid my parents used to get us to write letters to Santa, and they were sent to 1 Candy Cane Lane, North Pole, H0H 0H0.
Back in the day when people wrote letters to santa instead of just calling him
I'll disagree with that.
As a Canadian working in IT, i've found the game to be more popular now than it was in my father's era. Players like Tiger Woods have done plenty to attract the average joe to the game, and for business-types, it's a great way to get outdoors, network, be out with 'the guys' and away from the 'wife and kids' for a bit.
I've gone numerous times with my employers and their friends, and I tell ya that's where deals happen and great ideas can be born. Plus, if your boss is well-to-do, you can network with some pretty influential people. It's always interesting talking to various levels of multi-millionaire outside of work.
Being able to 'hold your own' and play the 'gentleman's game' on the course says a lot to them about your ability to do the same in life, and thus they begin to accept you as more of a peer than a subordinate.
And, of course, it all comes back to having the people skills for such a situation.
would using Squid offer any advantages over using, Little Snitch for such purposes?
I've never thought of using squid like that, and have never looked into what can be done with a web proxy, but i'm curious if it would be more valuable than Little Snitch alone.
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Hm, interesting... when I check the GPS status in my options, it says it's disabled and the coordinates are all 0's, so I was always baffled when I got a blue dot on google maps.
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I've used the service on my Blackberry 8800 in downtown toronto, and in my experience I was able to narrow my location down to within 10 meters or so on any given downtown street.
It even points in the direction you're moving
Pretty neet to have it using the satelite view as well. Very quick and responsive, and you can always just press '0' to go to 'my location'
Works well using directions too... you just tell it to use 'my location' as a starting or destination point.
Of course nobody's running 64-bit applications at home on at the office. Because the dominant player there is Microsoft
Agreed. The single quotes were meant to emphasize the difference between a 'need' and a 'want'. All 64 bit apps have a 32 bit counterpart, however not all 32 bit apps have a 16 bit counterpart.
All that tells us is that Gentoo 64-bit support sucks and that you're not supporting any high-end applications.
I can't say the issue was a problem with Gentoo's 64bit support, as I'm certain the issues were most certainly user related. Hence the 'PITA' comment. No, we're not supporting 'high-end' applications, just basic web presence with a few thousand hits per client per day.
What have you got, some low volume commerce and web presence sites?
Yes, we don't run anything crazy. Not everyone runs websites that generate millions of hits a day. I'm sure a large market percentage is in the medium, with only a few in need of more than 1 server to run a web infrastructure.
Which is why the big boys run serious 64-bit OSs
Not everyone is a big boy, nor has the need to compete with them. They may guide and shape the marketplace, but they arn't the market itself. I thikn you under estimate the little guys and how many there are.
In my post i did forget about virtualization. We run a number of VDS servers, and the dual cores definitely help keep the costs down, and allow us to maximize the revenue to server ratio.
My is simply that not everyone needs a quad core, so not being first to market isn't that big a deal. When Intel finally came to market with their 64bit compatibility, it didn't matter that they were later than AMD, because their products were simply better than the competitor.
I recall Intel was up in a fuss when AMD released the 64 bit chips. The market 'ooh'd and 'aahd' in delight of the new architecture, supposing that it would herald in a new era of computing in a similar way that the jump from 16 to 32 did.
The reality of the situation became that the great majority of Athlon64 users were running 32 bit apps, and continue to do so.
There has yet to be a dire 'need' for 64 bit processing, much to the similar way that there isn't a dire need for more than 4 GB of ram in a desktop machine.
At work, I'm the Sysadmin for a dedicated hosting company (Linux, mostly Gentoo), and even in that market I don't know of any of my users running 64bit. any performance advantages are outweighed by incompatibilities and plain old PITA to get things working.
That said, the delay in developing these quad core procs shouldn't put that big a dent in the pocket / market share of AMD simply because it's a niche market that has yet to be widely adopted.
Not at all, imho.
PC Gaming can exist on portables. My laptop performs better than my desktop for that sort of thing. If a gamer is picking out a laptop, surely they'll make note of which video card is in it.
Added to that, the only thing really stopping that from mass adoption now (aside from the small screen which is easily corrected by plugging into an external monitor), is the heat issue and relative cost factor.
Not too far from now, graphics chips will be much colder in temp and able to still keep up with their equivalent desktop counterparts. I have a Radeon x1600 in my laptop, and it plays the latest games at enjoyable framerates and quality settings, but I can't do it on my lap because of the heat issue. There's nifty devices out that take care of that, but who feels like lugging that around wit them all the time anyways.
Console gaming, otoh, is restricted to a single place of use: in front of a TV set, and is not only un-upgradable (besides more HD space), but is also restricted into what else it can do. Sure a console plays games well, but a laptop can send email, play games, watch movies, download torrents, watch youtube, video-conference with your mom and create art and movies and music.
... it's said 'is XXXX the year for the Linux Desktop'?
What would make it so? At what point would it be possible to quantify that 'yes, this IS the year!'... when there is 100,000 users? 500,000 users? 10,000,000 users?
slashdot, of ALL places should understand that Linux is making better ground each year in a number of markets, including the desktop. To say that 'this is the year' we might as well say 'this is the century'. It's impossible to quantify.
Another consideration is that you could upgrade most of the guts, but keep your case and drives
I _could_, however I only use the PC now for watching movies, so it's a non-issue for me really.
The point i was trying to illustrate was about vendor lock in and the presupposition that Apple is the only company guilty of this, which is not the case. Vendors have and will do this all the time.
Quit spewing bogus sh*t.
You obviously don't do this sort of upgrade or haven't bothered
to actually verify any of these assumptions of yours.
I'm a systems admin. I upgrade hardware every day. I'm only speaking from a desktop user's perspective in this light, however.
An AMD 3000 is still perfectly usable
Sure it is, I use it regularly. Try and find something faster than that in a Socket A, however.
You more than likely can recycle your current RAM if you are bothering to buy your own board. By recycle, do you mean trade in for exchange, or just re-use?
You can still get AGP boards. These haven't gone away yet.
Of course they havn't. Who's claiming they did? My point was that if I want to upgrade my CPU, I need a whole new chipset. This new chipset may, of course, be AGP/DDR based, but that, to me, just seems like more of a side-step than an upgrade as I've pretty much maxed out that generation of technology.
You can still get AGP vidcards. These haven't quite gone away yet. Certainly. I could get a 9800 or something, but I personally have no need, otherwise I would have shelled out the extra cash when i bought the card in the first place. My point was that if I upgrade my chipset to support the latest processor, I have to upgrade my ram and video along with it.
$300 for a fancy warranty is p*ssing money down the drain
What's so fancy about it? If your hardware breaks, for any reason, within 3 years, they will replace it for no additional cost.
It's only pissing money away if you never break anything. I can't speak for anyone else, but I use my laptop everywhere, so it's vulnerable to _life_ more than my desktop is.
This is PC's we're talking about here. They don't turn on a dime and leave you out in the cold just because Jobs told everyone to abandon all the old users. But when Gates & Ballmer tell everyone that their former flagship OS is unsupported, this is different somehow?
At $300, you're close to being able to just buy a replacement Dell for your old AMD machine Where's the DIY fun in buying a used Dell?
I own a MacBook Pro and a DIY PC that I built 3 years ago.
The PC is an AMD 3000 with 1GB DDR and a Radeon 9600 with 2 80GB ATA drives.
If I want to upgrade, I can add more ram, but that's entirely useless with my lack of processing.
If I want to upgrade the processor, I have to also upgrade the motherboard, and of course RAM along with it.
Since AGP isn't the rage anymore, I'll have to get a new video card too, or suffer one of those onboard types.
So, when talking about vendor lock in, let's not forget the lock-in from the way that each generation of technology on the PC builds their products to be 'forward moving'.
Now, I'm all for progress (which is why i bought a MBP), but vendors are vendors, and _of course_ they're gonig to try to lock everyone in. It's in their interests to do so.
And the clincher... with my DIY hardware, if a component broke, i had to either take it in or buy a new part myself (or get one from the component warrenty assuming it's still valid).
With the MBP, I just call Apple and they fix it under my Apple Care. The $300 spent there is well worth the return when something borks. Worry free =)
Either way, everyone's got a different style, and there is no 'one computer fits all', ever.
The process for getting v4 IP's directly from ARIN complicates that a bit...
The minimum allotment is a/20, which is 4096 IP's, and for a 'little guy' it'd be pretty hard to fill up.
ARIN also demands that before you can qualify, you must use 75% of the allocation within 90 days of it being assigned to you, otherwise you run the risk of having the IP's revoked.
If you're Multi-Homed (multiple carriers terminating at the same endpoint [your network] using BGP) than the minimal is a/22, which is 1024 IP's, but it's the same deal with regards to allocating 75% of them within 90 days.
In my experience, NeoOffice is terrible at startup.
The App is great once it loads, but because I'm impatient (as well as my bosses, I have 8, did you get the memo?:p ), I find myself actually using Google Docs for everything.
The sharing features for GDocs are awesome, and it's a quick bookmark click to open up. It's not as smooth as NO once GD is running, but it's great for quick revisions and sharing to whomever else.
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perhaps just replace old modules with new ones, following ye olde Moore's law cycle?
seems obvious
I think you touch on an interesting point...
The underlying theme it seems would be greed. If a small inventor was concerned only with servicing a particular need, than they shouldn't have much issue. Thier motivation to be a basement company one night, and something the size of Google the next seems to cloud their judgement.
Many people these days just want to 'get rich and quick'. This mentality is in direct conflict with the mindset of small business. Small business is all about community and the network of clientele and respect you build up by servicing your clients with respect and expectation. (do what you say, it goes farther than most people think!)
When you hold the 'rights' to your idea too high, they inflate in proportion with one's ego and the rise / fall of the almighty ruler (the dollar).
Didn't the dot com bust teach people about the devaluation of an idea?
But this is /., i didn't RTFS beyond what I copied and pasted to try and make a lame joke, let alone TFA =)
well, it was more an attempt at a bad joke than a criticism.
But thanks for the response!
"The Tree of Life is an expression first used by Charles Darwin"
So Charles Darwin, born in the 1809, predates the Kabbalah?
you live in the north pole?
I live in Canada and when I was a kid my parents used to get us to write letters to Santa, and they were sent to 1 Candy Cane Lane, North Pole, H0H 0H0.
Back in the day when people wrote letters to santa instead of just calling him
I'll disagree with that.
As a Canadian working in IT, i've found the game to be more popular now than it was in my father's era. Players like Tiger Woods have done plenty to attract the average joe to the game, and for business-types, it's a great way to get outdoors, network, be out with 'the guys' and away from the 'wife and kids' for a bit.
I've gone numerous times with my employers and their friends, and I tell ya that's where deals happen and great ideas can be born. Plus, if your boss is well-to-do, you can network with some pretty influential people. It's always interesting talking to various levels of multi-millionaire outside of work.
Being able to 'hold your own' and play the 'gentleman's game' on the course says a lot to them about your ability to do the same in life, and thus they begin to accept you as more of a peer than a subordinate.
And, of course, it all comes back to having the people skills for such a situation.
would using Squid offer any advantages over using, Little Snitch for such purposes?
I've never thought of using squid like that, and have never looked into what can be done with a web proxy, but i'm curious if it would be more valuable than Little Snitch alone.
in Soviet Cupertino, iPod owns you!
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i know, i know... i just couldn't resist
Hm, interesting... when I check the GPS status in my options, it says it's disabled and the coordinates are all 0's, so I was always baffled when I got a blue dot on google maps.
I've used the service on my Blackberry 8800 in downtown toronto, and in my experience I was able to narrow my location down to within 10 meters or so on any given downtown street.
It even points in the direction you're moving
Pretty neet to have it using the satelite view as well. Very quick and responsive, and you can always just press '0' to go to 'my location'
Works well using directions too... you just tell it to use 'my location' as a starting or destination point.
Tho it doesn't work indoors... at all.
ymmv =)
...Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years!
It's unfortunate too tho, considering that OpenBSD is heralded as one of the most secure *nix's around. Looks like it's patch time for many.
I can't say the issue was a problem with Gentoo's 64bit support, as I'm certain the issues were most certainly user related. Hence the 'PITA' comment. No, we're not supporting 'high-end' applications, just basic web presence with a few thousand hits per client per day. Yes, we don't run anything crazy. Not everyone runs websites that generate millions of hits a day. I'm sure a large market percentage is in the medium, with only a few in need of more than 1 server to run a web infrastructure. Not everyone is a big boy, nor has the need to compete with them. They may guide and shape the marketplace, but they arn't the market itself. I thikn you under estimate the little guys and how many there are.
In my post i did forget about virtualization. We run a number of VDS servers, and the dual cores definitely help keep the costs down, and allow us to maximize the revenue to server ratio.
My is simply that not everyone needs a quad core, so not being first to market isn't that big a deal. When Intel finally came to market with their 64bit compatibility, it didn't matter that they were later than AMD, because their products were simply better than the competitor.
I recall Intel was up in a fuss when AMD released the 64 bit chips. The market 'ooh'd and 'aahd' in delight of the new architecture, supposing that it would herald in a new era of computing in a similar way that the jump from 16 to 32 did.
The reality of the situation became that the great majority of Athlon64 users were running 32 bit apps, and continue to do so.
There has yet to be a dire 'need' for 64 bit processing, much to the similar way that there isn't a dire need for more than 4 GB of ram in a desktop machine.
At work, I'm the Sysadmin for a dedicated hosting company (Linux, mostly Gentoo), and even in that market I don't know of any of my users running 64bit. any performance advantages are outweighed by incompatibilities and plain old PITA to get things working.
That said, the delay in developing these quad core procs shouldn't put that big a dent in the pocket / market share of AMD simply because it's a niche market that has yet to be widely adopted.
Not at all, imho.
PC Gaming can exist on portables. My laptop performs better than my desktop for that sort of thing. If a gamer is picking out a laptop, surely they'll make note of which video card is in it.
Added to that, the only thing really stopping that from mass adoption now (aside from the small screen which is easily corrected by plugging into an external monitor), is the heat issue and relative cost factor.
Not too far from now, graphics chips will be much colder in temp and able to still keep up with their equivalent desktop counterparts. I have a Radeon x1600 in my laptop, and it plays the latest games at enjoyable framerates and quality settings, but I can't do it on my lap because of the heat issue. There's nifty devices out that take care of that, but who feels like lugging that around wit them all the time anyways.
Console gaming, otoh, is restricted to a single place of use: in front of a TV set, and is not only un-upgradable (besides more HD space), but is also restricted into what else it can do. Sure a console plays games well, but a laptop can send email, play games, watch movies, download torrents, watch youtube, video-conference with your mom and create art and movies and music.
... 5 good friends over 100+ 'Facebook' friends anyday.
... it's said 'is XXXX the year for the Linux Desktop'?
What would make it so? At what point would it be possible to quantify that 'yes, this IS the year!'... when there is 100,000 users? 500,000 users? 10,000,000 users?
slashdot, of ALL places should understand that Linux is making better ground each year in a number of markets, including the desktop. To say that 'this is the year' we might as well say 'this is the century'. It's impossible to quantify.
I agree with everything you've written.
Another consideration is that you could upgrade most of the guts, but keep your case and drives
I _could_, however I only use the PC now for watching movies, so it's a non-issue for me really.
The point i was trying to illustrate was about vendor lock in and the presupposition that Apple is the only company guilty of this, which is not the case. Vendors have and will do this all the time.
Thanks for the input =)
Quit spewing bogus sh*t.
You obviously don't do this sort of upgrade or haven't bothered to actually verify any of these assumptions of yours.
I'm a systems admin. I upgrade hardware every day. I'm only speaking from a desktop user's perspective in this light, however.
An AMD 3000 is still perfectly usable
Sure it is, I use it regularly. Try and find something faster than that in a Socket A, however.
You more than likely can recycle your current RAM if you are bothering to buy your own board.
By recycle, do you mean trade in for exchange, or just re-use?
You can still get AGP boards. These haven't gone away yet.
Of course they havn't. Who's claiming they did? My point was that if I want to upgrade my CPU, I need a whole new chipset. This new chipset may, of course, be AGP/DDR based, but that, to me, just seems like more of a side-step than an upgrade as I've pretty much maxed out that generation of technology.
You can still get AGP vidcards. These haven't quite gone away yet.
Certainly. I could get a 9800 or something, but I personally have no need, otherwise I would have shelled out the extra cash when i bought the card in the first place. My point was that if I upgrade my chipset to support the latest processor, I have to upgrade my ram and video along with it.
$300 for a fancy warranty is p*ssing money down the drain
What's so fancy about it? If your hardware breaks, for any reason, within 3 years, they will replace it for no additional cost.
It's only pissing money away if you never break anything. I can't speak for anyone else, but I use my laptop everywhere, so it's vulnerable to _life_ more than my desktop is.
This is PC's we're talking about here. They don't turn on a dime and leave you out in the cold just because Jobs told everyone to abandon all the old users.
But when Gates & Ballmer tell everyone that their former flagship OS is unsupported, this is different somehow?
At $300, you're close to being able to just buy a replacement Dell for your old AMD machine
Where's the DIY fun in buying a used Dell?
Hardware lock in is an interesting thing...
I own a MacBook Pro and a DIY PC that I built 3 years ago.
The PC is an AMD 3000 with 1GB DDR and a Radeon 9600 with 2 80GB ATA drives.
If I want to upgrade, I can add more ram, but that's entirely useless with my lack of processing.
If I want to upgrade the processor, I have to also upgrade the motherboard, and of course RAM along with it.
Since AGP isn't the rage anymore, I'll have to get a new video card too, or suffer one of those onboard types.
So, when talking about vendor lock in, let's not forget the lock-in from the way that each generation of technology on the PC builds their products to be 'forward moving'.
Now, I'm all for progress (which is why i bought a MBP), but vendors are vendors, and _of course_ they're gonig to try to lock everyone in. It's in their interests to do so.
And the clincher... with my DIY hardware, if a component broke, i had to either take it in or buy a new part myself (or get one from the component warrenty assuming it's still valid).
With the MBP, I just call Apple and they fix it under my Apple Care. The $300 spent there is well worth the return when something borks. Worry free =)
Either way, everyone's got a different style, and there is no 'one computer fits all', ever.
...force the little guy to use IPv4...
/20, which is 4096 IP's, and for a 'little guy' it'd be pretty hard to fill up.
/22, which is 1024 IP's, but it's the same deal with regards to allocating 75% of them within 90 days.
The process for getting v4 IP's directly from ARIN complicates that a bit...
The minimum allotment is a
ARIN also demands that before you can qualify, you must use 75% of the allocation within 90 days of it being assigned to you, otherwise you run the risk of having the IP's revoked.
If you're Multi-Homed (multiple carriers terminating at the same endpoint [your network] using BGP) than the minimal is a
So how come these projects don't get the level of support they deserve?
/. until now.
Because the issue hasn't been posted to the front page of
From the article you linked:
Both changes involve going into the Tools and then options management sections.
I just tried it out and it changed my NeoOffice startup time from about 20 seconds down to about 5 (MacBook Pro 2.16 Core 2 Duo 1GB ram)
A significant difference, this actually makes the program useable for me =)
I havn't checked to see how many features are disabled, but I suggest folks interested try it out and see what breaks for them.
Thanks =)
In my experience, NeoOffice is terrible at startup.
:p ), I find myself actually using Google Docs for everything.
The App is great once it loads, but because I'm impatient (as well as my bosses, I have 8, did you get the memo?
The sharing features for GDocs are awesome, and it's a quick bookmark click to open up. It's not as smooth as NO once GD is running, but it's great for quick revisions and sharing to whomever else.