In my opinion, todays' electronic gadgets are to blame, though they do not take 100% of the blame. When I take a look at my own siblings, they are more interested in MP3 players and iPODS, and in fact, they listen and play these gadgets on their way to school and back home. They hardly think about last night's homework...or how to best solve problem they might have encountered. They also spend most of their time on cell phones.
Rappers have not helped in this for they even sing (in their songs) things like..."I live a good life, have millions in de bank...and have no degree..."..."So tell me skipping school was a bad decision..."! Youngsters listen to this and believe that they too, can make it without taking school serious.
Parents too, are busy, for they now need two or more jobs just to get by! In societies where these gadgets are missing, kids are doing wonders. I once taught some eleven kids from Africa where I thought things were so bad. I was supprised at how these kids solved maths and chemistry problems. The only issue they had was trouble understanding my accent. But this is understandable, and was solved in 2 months.
Instead of carrying cellphones and gameboys in their back-packs, these kids would simply meditate on how to solve problems in homework on their way home. They were just different in a good was as compared to their American counterparts.
Where does Skype fit in this environment? It's already working [for me and my buddies]. I doubt the Canadian government will get anywhere on this. The bureaucracy is just too much...and technology is just too fast. We are already operating under "out-dated" telecom laws.
I ask for common sense, and no greed so that the whole of humanity can benefit. It amazes me that many of the parties that push for what has been seen to be unfair at present, want to be seen as fair.
To make matters worse, we have pundits who know so little about the issues at stake, but do not know that they know next to nothing at all! Yet they (these pundits) continue to "write" on the issues authoritatively.
Yes, watchout! I wonder whether Motorola will do the needful and end up more visible in the home entertainment scene. The Asians (read Japanese, Koreans and Chinese), will catch-up and be seen in the world, to have "created" this technology. It has happened before and it surely might happen again.
When I look arround my living room, all I see are Japanese/Korean electronics. Nothing is made in my own USA! But I know that as Americans, we invented the transistor that enbles all the magic arround us to happen.
This "study" really, is very unscientific and somewhat disturbing to a statistian like me. Do people believe in these numbers? Sometimes, it reminds me of pundits (especially in the computer world), who might know so little to even know that they do not know anything.
Overall, it does not look so bad for Linux. I wish you all a great week ahead.
This might be off topic, but I am of the opinion that Firefox launches a new icon. In many cases, I have been asked what it currently is but all my responses have been met with: "It would be better for Firefox to adapt a new identifiable icon". I tend to agree because all other major browsers have the famous "e" and the "N" and the "O". They should also find a way to help users spell check just like in Konqueror. Just my $CAD 0.02.
"That M$ will not agree to this notion". They will point to Equifax and some other customers including some city in Britain, that opted for Microsoft products instead of the so called free software.
When it comes to slashdot, there will be so many opinions, including those from posters who think they know, but who in effect, know so little to know that they know nothing.
Call me a devil's advocate but to me, the title "Firefox and Thunderbird Garage" is not good enough. It sounds geekish. Having read the submitter's summary, I see that a better title would be "Getting the most out of Firefox and Thunderbird" or "The insides of Firefox and Thunderbird".
Isn't India a 3rd world nation, which even gets aid from my government (US)? This sound like a pretty big achievement. If this is all as a result of Indian input, I will from now on look at it in a different light.
-- but most of our clients are now asking questions that require approximate or probabilistic answers.
Not when my credit rating is at stake! OR, When an airline agent is mistaking me to be a member of Al Qaida, and therefore denying me a seat on the plane.
In these cases I want *exact* answers to everything time related.
> WTF do you want to launch an interactive gui mail program in a script for?
Because with Kmail for example, I could specify which domain to reply to. I do not know/see how I could change the "reply-to" email address if I use the mail command. Got it?
...is that launchd might be better than cron. I'd like to have a system for example, start KMAIL and have this KMAIL send a customized message to my contacts depending on various metrics. As it stands now, achieving this is a bit geeky and I have no expertise to write the script to do it.
To make matters worse, current frontends to cron specifically require an executable. If this executable needs to have some input, matters become kind-of complex, at least for me.
If launchd can save me this misery, that would be a very good thing. The problem though is that I can hardly afford a Mac but I recognize that this is a nother matter altogether.
With all the problems at NASA, I have a feeling that NASA is chewing more than it can swallow. They have too many problems at present. If they cooperated with the Russians, things might be OK.
Do not mod me down...this is just a feeling, and not backed by any [credible] source except for bloggers and pundits.
>And even if they did, the JVM, class libraries and whatnot all have publicly available specifications, so it's not like compatible replacements couldn't be produced.
If this is the case, why won't some parts of OO.o run with IBM's java implementation? IBM has tried to make its implementation work but things are not as smooth as the real java.
The system runs Ubuntu Linux with a Gnome/KDE deskto and OpenOffice. From the article:...
Pay attention to the beef which is OpenOffice. I am afraid that SUN may pull the plug on java, which OO.o has come to heavily rely on of late. SUN could simply change its license. Let's remember that SUN is practically in bed with M$ after having received some big cash ftom M$, and has never criticized SCO for its actions.
I personally advocate the forking of OO.o portions that are GPLed so that we can finally be free. How about that?
Unfortunately, this kind us situation is Business as Usual in American policies! Who does not know about illegal immigtation, and the procrastination our government is engaged in when it comes to outsourcing American jobs? I am afraid that very soon, we as Americans, will have no industial base and that is when our politicians will come to their senses.
Heck, even the problems the shuttle is having now were outlined more than seven years ago and because it was business as usual, nothing was done till lives were lost!
It's sad that the mighty USA now relies on a country with a "third world" economy to put it's very intelligent sceintists into orbit. (These are economist's words).
Borland finally figures it out, and realizes that old saying "if you cannot beat them, join them". I wonder where we'll be on the software front 10 years down the raod, and hope it's not too late for them. One thing is for sure: The software front will be very interesting. Now, let them release Delphi and Kylix.
Unfortunately for me, though I know that the real database is the engine that does the work, my appreciation of a database only comes when I can in very specific and short iterations, install one just like I used to install JET with the access frontend. In fact most people refer to the Access frontend as the database forgetting that the database is JET. Question is: When will MySQL slap a functional (read programmable) front end to MySQL?
I know there are many frontends available (KEXI, PHPMYADMIN, SQLNAVIGATOR etc) but none is as flexible and functional as Access from M$. This is where the competition lies.
They have agreed, but as we all know, there could be some other conditionalities to be met in the "lawyer language". Besides, I wonder whether there will be a mechanism put in place to prevent this from ever happening again. What those companies will do [down the raod], is to hike the price of chips in some way in order to cover these fines.
I am sure there is gonna be an individual hired to do precisely this. These companies NEVER lose...after all where else will we get RAM from?
Now M$ is encroaching on DisKeeper's Windows defragmenting lunch. Next will be Adobe. I am really worried. I am sure M$ will chip in some incompatibilities as it continues its past ways. Let's wait.
For some of us, who live in romote America (USA), and still use old telephone lines, which are on many cases not as clear as the "standard", are doomed if we are to attempt transact business on the telephone. Imagine trying to identify yourself with that crackling sound in the background...What shall we do?
Just look at Google's email service (still in beta). It works like a charm. The same applied to Adobe's Linux PDF reader...even the [Linux] kernel itself, in most cases works, without any serious problems.
The guy has a serious problem but no one seems to be providing him a solution! Slashdotters...bet on the go, and provide real answers to what he might be doing wrong. As for me, I have no clue! All I know is that there is some kind of conspiracy with all electronic vendors. They all seem to agree on one thing -- Vendor Lock-in, for as long as it's possible.
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Rappers have not helped in this for they even sing (in their songs) things like..."I live a good life, have millions in de bank...and have no degree..."..."So tell me skipping school was a bad decision..."! Youngsters listen to this and believe that they too, can make it without taking school serious.
Parents too, are busy, for they now need two or more jobs just to get by! In societies where these gadgets are missing, kids are doing wonders. I once taught some eleven kids from Africa where I thought things were so bad. I was supprised at how these kids solved maths and chemistry problems. The only issue they had was trouble understanding my accent. But this is understandable, and was solved in 2 months.
Instead of carrying cellphones and gameboys in their back-packs, these kids would simply meditate on how to solve problems in homework on their way home. They were just different in a good was as compared to their American counterparts.
Where does Skype fit in this environment? It's already working [for me and my buddies]. I doubt the Canadian government will get anywhere on this. The bureaucracy is just too much...and technology is just too fast. We are already operating under "out-dated" telecom laws.
To make matters worse, we have pundits who know so little about the issues at stake, but do not know that they know next to nothing at all! Yet they (these pundits) continue to "write" on the issues authoritatively.
When I look arround my living room, all I see are Japanese/Korean electronics. Nothing is made in my own USA! But I know that as Americans, we invented the transistor that enbles all the magic arround us to happen.
Overall, it does not look so bad for Linux. I wish you all a great week ahead.
This might be off topic, but I am of the opinion that Firefox launches a new icon. In many cases, I have been asked what it currently is but all my responses have been met with: "It would be better for Firefox to adapt a new identifiable icon". I tend to agree because all other major browsers have the famous "e" and the "N" and the "O". They should also find a way to help users spell check just like in Konqueror. Just my $CAD 0.02.
When it comes to slashdot, there will be so many opinions, including those from posters who think they know, but who in effect, know so little to know that they know nothing.
Have a good weekend guys.
Which stolen code? As far as I now, nothing has been decided/proven yet. That word "stolen" should have been written in double quotes. Right?
How about that?
Isn't India a 3rd world nation, which even gets aid from my government (US)? This sound like a pretty big achievement. If this is all as a result of Indian input, I will from now on look at it in a different light.
Not when my credit rating is at stake! OR, When an airline agent is mistaking me to be a member of Al Qaida, and therefore denying me a seat on the plane.
In these cases I want *exact* answers to everything time related.
Because with Kmail for example, I could specify which domain to reply to. I do not know/see how I could change the "reply-to" email address if I use the mail command. Got it?
To make matters worse, current frontends to cron specifically require an executable. If this executable needs to have some input, matters become kind-of complex, at least for me.
If launchd can save me this misery, that would be a very good thing. The problem though is that I can hardly afford a Mac but I recognize that this is a nother matter altogether.
Do not mod me down...this is just a feeling, and not backed by any [credible] source except for bloggers and pundits.
If this is the case, why won't some parts of OO.o run with IBM's java implementation? IBM has tried to make its implementation work but things are not as smooth as the real java.
Pay attention to the beef which is OpenOffice. I am afraid that SUN may pull the plug on java, which OO.o has come to heavily rely on of late. SUN could simply change its license. Let's remember that SUN is practically in bed with M$ after having received some big cash ftom M$, and has never criticized SCO for its actions.
I personally advocate the forking of OO.o portions that are GPLed so that we can finally be free. How about that?
Let a kind slashdotter paste a link. The author "does not feel like testing out his server's capabilities!"
Heck, even the problems the shuttle is having now were outlined more than seven years ago and because it was business as usual, nothing was done till lives were lost!
It's sad that the mighty USA now relies on a country with a "third world" economy to put it's very intelligent sceintists into orbit. (These are economist's words).
Borland finally figures it out, and realizes that old saying "if you cannot beat them, join them". I wonder where we'll be on the software front 10 years down the raod, and hope it's not too late for them. One thing is for sure: The software front will be very interesting. Now, let them release Delphi and Kylix.
I know there are many frontends available (KEXI, PHPMYADMIN, SQLNAVIGATOR etc) but none is as flexible and functional as Access from M$. This is where the competition lies.
I am sure there is gonna be an individual hired to do precisely this. These companies NEVER lose...after all where else will we get RAM from?
Now M$ is encroaching on DisKeeper's Windows defragmenting lunch. Next will be Adobe. I am really worried. I am sure M$ will chip in some incompatibilities as it continues its past ways. Let's wait.
For some of us, who live in romote America (USA), and still use old telephone lines, which are on many cases not as clear as the "standard", are doomed if we are to attempt transact business on the telephone. Imagine trying to identify yourself with that crackling sound in the background...What shall we do?
Just look at Google's email service (still in beta). It works like a charm. The same applied to Adobe's Linux PDF reader...even the [Linux] kernel itself, in most cases works, without any serious problems.
The guy has a serious problem but no one seems to be providing him a solution! Slashdotters...bet on the go, and provide real answers to what he might be doing wrong. As for me, I have no clue! All I know is that there is some kind of conspiracy with all electronic vendors. They all seem to agree on one thing -- Vendor Lock-in, for as long as it's possible.