I believe I read somewhere that there are, at any given moment, 60,000 people in the air over the United States alone. That's a tremendous amount of information and more accumulates every day, so much that I cannot imagine how anybody or any software could sift through all of it effectively.
I accuse everyone in New Zealand of file Sharing, including the government departments and the police.
Welcome back to the mid 20th Century New Zealand, you are all going to be disconnected.
What Stallman needs to do is catch up with the biggest development in the computing world of the past 25 years: the growth of computer users who do not know anything about their computers, and do not care to know.
Anyone below 30 who even knows what it was like at the time?
I'm 20, the first computers I ever saw would have probably been an Apple II lab my school had. I can't quite remember what we did with them, I think there was a math or typing game that we loaded from those massive floppies.
Sounds like a lot (maybe half?) of allocated addresses are not in use. I wonder how the cost of turning/23s into/24s compares with going IPV6 everywhere?
The main thing that has kept the last couple of companies I've worked at from switching from Windows to FOSS is the lack of an integrated mail/contacts/calendar/tasks app that runs on our own servers. For us, this was a show-stopper.
I haven't been keeping tabs on the latest FOSS offerings, so nowadays are there any replacements for Outlook and Exchange?
My site moved to Exchange so I replaced my suse desktop with ubuntu and used Evolution to talk to Exchange. It was working well until just before christmas when my windows password expired. I set a new password then evolution refused to work. I will have another look when I go back on monday.
About a year ago I read about a flight which had to be abandoned because a passenger found the word Bomb written on one of the safety instruction sheets inside the aircraft. I think pretty much any conversation could be misconstrued in that way.
It's like signs at malls saying "no guns". Like some nutjob is going to see that and decide not to go kill a bunch of people.
In a place like the USA or Afghanistan where people do tend to carry guns, signs like that make it easier to distinguish between gun carriers who are not going to cause trouble and those who are.
There is a debate somewhere in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal about the way US and Russian engineers built user interfaces for space craft. The Americans tended to have (say) ten thousand functions, and a switch for each one. Configuring the vehicle requires you to go through a check list turning things off and on in the right sequence. The Russians took a more modal approach. Their space craft had a launch mode and a landing mode, etc.
The Russian approach is faster for normal operations but terrible for abnormal operations. The American approach is the reverse. The non modal approach gives the pilot more control over the system, which is presumably why engineers dislike modal (or agent based) UIs.
When Windows collapses menus, why does it allow them to collapse to two items, one of which is the Expand function? Collapsing to a core set of functions is a reasonable idea, broken in the end by allowing it to collapse to almost nothing.
My first computer had a 6502 CPU with BASIC and a machine code monitor in ROM. I found that the cassette interface could be used as a sound card if I configured a tape player to record and play back at the same time. For the output channel any AM radio would do because the CPU only ran a 1Mhz and it was leaky as hell.
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I believe I read somewhere that there are, at any given moment, 60,000 people in the air over the United States alone. That's a tremendous amount of information and more accumulates every day, so much that I cannot imagine how anybody or any software could sift through all of it effectively.
Why not? grep for name, grep for ip address, etc.
airlines do not offer a Muslim meal
There is always a vegitarian option.
I accuse everyone in New Zealand of file Sharing, including the government departments and the police. Welcome back to the mid 20th Century New Zealand, you are all going to be disconnected.
I must remember to snap up their TLD.
Plus, if you still have your wisdom teeth
I don't have them ... my dentist finally convinced me to have them removed a couple years ago.
Wasn't there something recently about making stem cells from normal (I think) tissue in the reproductive system?
My parents were good to me, they adjusted the 25-cents a tooth they got for inflation... wonder what I'll have to pay my kids?
My six year old son says two dollars. But then he has a DS game buying habit to suppport.
I apologise in advance if this is a dumb question. But what exactly is Job's speciality that makes him so important to the company?
Funnily enough it was Bill Gates who said it best. Steve Jobs has taste.
The sad part is it was the first medium to be reproduced and copied easily. Heck 100 years is a good run. :)
For music, I am sure that is true. But the printing press seems to have been in use in the 1700s.
There goes my backup strategy.
What Stallman needs to do is catch up with the biggest development in the computing world of the past 25 years: the growth of computer users who do not know anything about their computers, and do not care to know.
Okay: how?
Anyone below 30 who even knows what it was like at the time?
I'm 20, the first computers I ever saw would have probably been an Apple II lab my school had. I can't quite remember what we did with them, I think there was a math or typing game that we loaded from those massive floppies.
At the time, they were the small floppies.
I had a voice synthesiser for the Apple ][
If the tunnel exit is outside the Great Australian Firewall then you can count me in.
NAT is fine for a typical workstation now but I think it is a bad idea to build assumptions about the way applications work into network architecture.
I want to move to Mars because my brain is too small to remember my Earth latitude and longitude.
Sounds like a lot (maybe half?) of allocated addresses are not in use. I wonder how the cost of turning /23s into /24s compares with going IPV6 everywhere?
The main thing that has kept the last couple of companies I've worked at from switching from Windows to FOSS is the lack of an integrated mail/contacts/calendar/tasks app that runs on our own servers. For us, this was a show-stopper.
I haven't been keeping tabs on the latest FOSS offerings, so nowadays are there any replacements for Outlook and Exchange?
My site moved to Exchange so I replaced my suse desktop with ubuntu and used Evolution to talk to Exchange. It was working well until just before christmas when my windows password expired. I set a new password then evolution refused to work. I will have another look when I go back on monday.
In short: its a bit brittle.
Nobody got fired for buying IBM.
Very true. I recently got "reassigned" for opposing a purchase from IBM.
Yeah I hear a lot of people do that when they move into the retirement home. Helps pay for the funeral down the track.
About a year ago I read about a flight which had to be abandoned because a passenger found the word Bomb written on one of the safety instruction sheets inside the aircraft. I think pretty much any conversation could be misconstrued in that way.
It's like signs at malls saying "no guns". Like some nutjob is going to see that and decide not to go kill a bunch of people.
In a place like the USA or Afghanistan where people do tend to carry guns, signs like that make it easier to distinguish between gun carriers who are not going to cause trouble and those who are.
There is a debate somewhere in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal about the way US and Russian engineers built user interfaces for space craft. The Americans tended to have (say) ten thousand functions, and a switch for each one. Configuring the vehicle requires you to go through a check list turning things off and on in the right sequence. The Russians took a more modal approach. Their space craft had a launch mode and a landing mode, etc.
The Russian approach is faster for normal operations but terrible for abnormal operations. The American approach is the reverse. The non modal approach gives the pilot more control over the system, which is presumably why engineers dislike modal (or agent based) UIs.
Its just a throw of the dice. A bet that the first hit will be the right one.
Geeks probably like it because it is just a button. It doesn't try to make friends with you.
When Windows collapses menus, why does it allow them to collapse to two items, one of which is the Expand function? Collapsing to a core set of functions is a reasonable idea, broken in the end by allowing it to collapse to almost nothing.
My first computer had a 6502 CPU with BASIC and a machine code monitor in ROM. I found that the cassette interface could be used as a sound card if I configured a tape player to record and play back at the same time. For the output channel any AM radio would do because the CPU only ran a 1Mhz and it was leaky as hell.
50 years of design and the best shape that rocket scientists can come up with is penis shaped?
There is a reason for that.