Does it work out of the box? Meaning, can you install it and it "just works" ? If so, then it seems like it's time to start including this in distros by default.
What we really need is standardized low voltage supplies, target devices and connectors. Then the "outlet" strip could have a single, high efficiency converter with multiple outputs.
It's a great idea and was tried before in the audio industry. Not everyone wants to participate. I don't think it would go over any better than it did for Rane.
they already have winter, spring, and fall. MS allows free (as in no cost, not five finger discount) downloads of all their programming/OS/Server software at my uni. (This is something MS "donated", they aren't getting paid for it).
It isn't about donating software. Software is cheap. Those same students can get free operating systems and development software that's non-Microsoft too. What Google is doing is donating the organizational skills to help students. They get to work on something that's larger than just a small personal project. They learn how to work within a larger team structure that may have established rules for code style, structure, documentation, etc. Most importantly, they are assigned a mentor who can help them navigate this new environment and help them to become better programmers. The financial reward isn't bad either. Microsoft isn't doing anything like that.
I can assure you, you don't want this. You assume that the ISP's are going to give you a "reasonable" block of data to transfer on a monthly basis and a reasonable price - they are not. They will use this pricing scheme to "extract value" from their customer base in the form of quotas that are properly tiered so as to be just below the common usage tier. The result will be many customers need to go a step higher, and are charged more, for considerably less than they had access to before. Do you really want to worry about whether the next movie you get off of iTunes is going to pop your quota? Or the next stream you setup?
Mobile phone plans are already using this approach and customers accept it. I don't see why it wouldn't be successful when implemented for Internet connectivity.
Whoever tagged this article "whogivesafuck" should turn in their human card at the door.
Get over yourself already. Tags are for personal use. Slashdot happens to randomly show some of the tags people have used. Who are you to question the tags they have chosen to apply to this article?
However saying that it is your own work is quite different.
No Ubuntu developers have claimed someone else's work as their own. The GP is just upset for some strange reason that Ubuntu, like all other distros, incorporates code from other distributions into its own. All distros do this, and most companies that release Linux distros employ developers to work on existing and new projects.
My objection is that it's verging on the dishonest and that seems to permeate much of the enthusiasm behind Ubuntu.
Get over yourself already. It's not like Ubuntu developers are removing credits or the "About" menu item from programs. I haven't seen a free-software or open-source license that says one must trumpet the names of developers. Have you?
It is, however, Windows' fault that for a long time in the late '90s and early '00s Windows was a festering pit of security holes that practically begged spammers and other maltards to abuse it.
That may be true, but we aren't talking about the distant past. Windows may still have security issues but that doesn't mean that a person can make it reasonably secure: keeping up to date with patches, using anti-virus, avoiding insecure software such as Internet Explorer, etc. Plenty of people use Windows without it getting infected. And my point still stands. The fact that he allowed his brother to connect an infected machine to his network isn't the fault of the OS.
I'd say the moral is don't let people to connect devices to your network without your approval and possible oversight. It's not Windows' fault that your brother connected his infected machine to your network.
Why Sun has bought MySQL when a database of that quality is already out there in the open source world, I don't know.
Because there's no one to buy. There is no central company behind Postgres that owns it. Therefore there are no existing customers to be gained. At best, Sun could attempt to hire all of the core Postgres developers.
Well I've used Windows and Macs and Linux (and other UNIXes) daily for decades now (Well, the Mac for only about ten years or so), it's nice of you to admit your ignorance in these matters.
We're having a discussion of the merits (or lack thereof) of scrolling with an eraser nub input device. Claiming that you have decades of experience in various operating systems has little to no bearing on the usefulness or history of a particular hardware device.
Perhaps next time you'll listen when someone that actually has more experience speaks.
That would be me. No one has more experience with, and deeper knowledge of, my personal preferences and the way I interact with the world than myself. Therefore, I'm the only one qualified to make judgments on what things I find easiest to use. I imagine that you make the same sort of decisions regarding your own life. I find the trackpoint works best for me, and I've never felt I've been missing a critical feature. I take it that you find the touchpad to work best for you. Isn't it great that we have choices?
Ahh, so he wasn't saying that ASP.NET only works with IE6. He was saying that the applications written in ASP.NET at the location where he works only work properly in IE6. That's something entirely different from what you're complaining about.
Then you've obviously never used variable speed two finger scrolling (horizontal AND vertical at the same time, thanks) on a Macbook.
I've used variable speed two finger scrolling (horizontal and vertical at the same time) on my Thinkpad since I bought it in 2002. But you're right, I haven't yet done that on a Macbook. The last time I used a Mac was in 1998.
Like someone who grew up using an outhouse, you don't know what you're missing.
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Does anyone know what the status of any opportunistic encryption packages for Windows or Linux? Can this stuff be set up easily now?
Touché.
That already exists: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB
Wow. I've heard of not reading the article but you didn't even read the summary. You must be old here.
"Where I work, the ASP.Net apps work only with IE6 with ActiveX enabled."
Ahh, so he wasn't saying that ASP.NET only works with IE6. He was saying that the applications written in ASP.NET at the location where he works only work properly in IE6. That's something entirely different from what you're complaining about.