now, i do not know that bit rate it uses to record FM. assuming it uses 48kps or something reasonable, you can record a lot of FM radio on a 512MB card.
it sounds like a lot of the complaints here have to do with folks trying to go from Word to OO. i regularly write large complex technical documents with Sun's StarOffice and it works flawlessly. it may not have all of the bells and whistles of Word but who cares? i don't use all that crud anyway.
note that i have mostly used StarOffice on Solaris, but it seems unlikely tha the Solaris binaries are more stable than linux.
if you have too much $ and need some way to get rid of it, or if you're looking for an inventive manner to create some future (potentially toxic) landfill... then this is a idea.
bikes do not need to be high tech. use your muscles. kill two birds... get some exercise, commute to work, reduce vehicle costs, cut down on traffic, reduce global warming... all at the same time!
gee let's post another predictable anti-ms article, and get lots of feedback that our anti-ms stance is valid and that we are right-thinking.
folks who are truly interested in being informed do more than tune into things that validate their positions. i've been reading/. for about 2 months... there is some good stuff, but the theme is always:
if it can be construed to be anti-linux, bash it
if it's in any way anti-oss, bash it
java? bash it
sunw? bash it
ibm? we love you.
i compare this to right-wing AM radio. the topics are never focused around two-way discussion on issues. it's about getting confirmation of what you already believe.
guess what? oss isn't the answer for everything. there are lots of good things about java. linux isn't for everyone. sunw isn't the devil. ibm is just trying to make $ like everyone else.
i have been using a solaris desktop for software development for 6 years. i have had a sparc 5, sparc 10, sparc 20, ultra 1, ultra 5, ultra 10, ultra 60, and blade 2500. all of this on solaris 2.4 to 2.9.
these machines have been incredibly stable. doing all sort of crazy developer, root access stuff, uptime still reports between 6 months and a year, always. and when i do take it down, it's because of a forced power outage. the machines *never* freeze up. ya i mean never.
sure, sun like anyone can have bad hardware. i've seen graphics boards go, disks, mice, etc. but everyone has hardware failures. what solaris does not have is hardware that is incompatible and
causes the machine to hang.
linux can never be this reliable. why? because there will always be new hardware that requires new drivers. those drivers will be hacked together and will have problems (initially, at least). it is impossible for this to not be the case. when a piece of hardware becomes well supported, there will just be new hardware with new drivers. linux desktops don't live in a world where the PCI card i plug in is tightly controlled and certified on the hardware. what you seem not to get that this is *by design*. sun has made a choice between many drivers that are not so well supported, and rock solid super reliable driver support for a limited set of hardware. sun is okay with this, why does it bother everyone so much? if you don't want to buy a sun box... don't. let your employer purchase it.
here's an example: my desktop at home has a compatability problem between my PCI wireless card and the motherboard. it freezes every day. no fix in sight. the hardware manufacturer won't even admit the problem, although it is well documented in several online forums. this would simply not happen on a sun box.
would i buy a sun box for my home? no of course not. i can live such incompatibilities in return for 5x less $$$ for the system.
what/.s need to realize is that you do not represent the typical person that purchases millions on $$$'s in computer hardware and software. you have different priorities.
sun does use AMD procs. http://www.channeltimes.com/channeltimes/jsp/index.jsp?section=News&subsection=Storage&subsection_co de=6&file=template0.jsp&storyid=904268
2) Sold their soul to the devil (Microsoft) in return for temporary bankrucpy prevention.
sun received a large sum of money because they stood up to MS, by SUEING them. how is this selling their soul? geeze. i can't believe your post got mod'd up.
sun's message is that using linux does not mean compatibility with everything that has "linux" in it's name. this is true. i really don't think a lot of non-technical people, the ones that make purchasing decisions in the enterprise, realize this.
sun isn't trying to kill linux, that's why they have their own dist of it... duh! they've embraced it. solaris 10 runs all redhat binaries for christ sake. that's pretty cool.
redhat is COMPETITION for sun. competition for both sun's linux dist and solaris. what do you expect? just because sun challenges it's competitors doesn't mean they are bad mouthing linux.
why would one download freeware from p2p? just google for it and download from the web. much faster. i don't know much about ed2k, but are you doing this to build up credits (so you can download non-freeware)?:)
kryptonite has some sort of offer where they'll give you up to N dollars if someone steals your bike while secured with their lock (N depends on what model lock you have, but it's at least $1000).
has anyone out there collected on this? my understanding is that the fine print makes it next to impossible to collect.
sorry, this is redundant but i must second it. i own several locks, all of which are next to worthless now especially since this made headlines and everyone now knows the trick.
kyptonite locks are not cheap. they are one of the most expensive bike locks. the whole deal with their marketing scheme is that they are so safe that they insure your bike when you use their lock. of course i realize that all locks are pickable / breakable, but it should be the case that the average hooligan can't bust it in 20 seconds.
Of course, all of the bidding nurses are employees already, and this shouldn't affect the quality of care.
employees should be rewarded with the option of pulling extra / preferential shifts by their quality of work, not their ability to survive on a lower wage.
right, this does not necessarily mean a lower quality of care, but it certainly does not encourage a better one.
Common sense says to me that if I've purchased a copy of Windows XP Professional then I've bought a right to use Windows XP Professional, so therefore I should be able to install Windows XP Professional from any install CD, whether it is mine or not, and still be perfectly within my rights as a holder of a licence to use Windows XP Professional.
who's common sense? i don't know any software licenses that work this way. that makes it rather uncommon.
my windows XP box was extemely stable. i can't remember it ever crashing. now, many of the apps crashed, but they did not cause the OS to barf.
i say *was* because that was before i installed the drivers for my netgear wg311t PCI wireless card. now it crashes with a full on lockup almost every day.
anyone know what sort of control windows exercises over companies that build drivers? seems like MS should be really pissed at netgear (and atheros, who built the drivers) for making their OS unstable.
the problem with the netgear (atheros) drivers is well discussed in various online forums, but netgear refuses to ack it as a problem. there is no reference to it on their site. anyone that has an AMD athlon processor is screwed.
every computer i've bought has come with a windows OS. now, i realize that some people build their own systems from scratch, but by far the majority of folks purchase pre-built mass produced systems with windows included.
now, for every one of those systems, the hardware in the pre-built box was inadequate to run any higher version of windows other than what shipped with the system. i tried it in several cases (probably because i had too much time on my hands)... and invariably the result was at best slow and klunky and at worst unusable.
sure, some people do serious system upgrades, but unless you're upgrading the processor + graphics + memory +... you're still in for a poor experience. i personally tend to do limited upgrades and instead save for a better system somewhere down the road. i think this is the path what most people follow.
maybe if you build your own system then your also the type of person that doesn't run windows.
Maybe it won't be too long before we're asking if interstellar travel is really that much more difficult than flying to Mars.
ummm. i don't think we'll ever ask that. developing a faster than light spacecraft, OR a method to suspended biological process in humans for tens, hundreds, or thousands of years will be many orders of magnitude more complex than spending a few months in an intra stellar spacecraft destined for mars. not that we are in the ballpark in on that one either. "simply" going to the moon again would be a monumental task.
Also, there will be the issue of 'controlled innovation', Sun's way or the highway. This has good parts and bad parts, as does anything, but it will not fit everybody's teacup - just as Linux does not right now.
just to expand on that a bit, this is a key point. sun is obviously taking a different tactic. being 100% open is mutually exclusive to being 100% compatible. sun wants to control the dists tighter so they can have 100% compatibility across all sunos dists... linux has taken the other side of things, being 100% open, but we are left with different, incompatible dists.
i think sun's approach is a good compromise. any of the major dists of linux today are proprietary. they are not binary compatible with other linux dists. so what's the point? you might as well call it red hat unix.
viable fusion reactors are a way off. although, i will go so far as to say that if we don't figure fusion out in the next century we will be spiraling into a new dark age. it doesn't take much to predict this. even if we figure out new great new ways to extract crude, or to convert coal to cleaner fuel, or to build more efficient solar... none of this is going to be as cheap as oil is today. considering how fragile our economy is presently, the future seems fairly obvious.
it's possible that we might be living in a time where energy is more plentiful and cheap than it will be for thousands of years, if we last that long.
by the way, i agree fission is a good alternative for the short (next 100 years) term. i was watching an old episode of Lassie (60's?) (okay that's a little embarassing) and there was a little bit of pro-nuclear propaganda in there. this sounds really bad, but i think it would be smart for the US government to start a re-education effort in regards to fission. i really think it got a bad bad wrap... all because of a few isolated (preventable) incidents, and the unfortunate coincidence that nuclear fission can also be used to create bombs.
fission waste is at least localized. it is feasible to enforce high standards for disposable of fission waste. on the other hand, consider fossil fuels. since they are emitted from hundreds of millions (billions?) of individual devices, it is impossible to enforce any sort of standard.
i don't think it's unreasonable to ask you to hang onto the CD and CD key. that's part of the deal.
suppose you bought tix to a sporting event, and lost them. would it be okay if you broke into the venue through a back entrance? no problem right? you paid for the tickets right? or maybe they should just have an "i forget / lost my tickets" entrance you people like you.
if you could ensure that everyone that enters in such a manner actually purchased tickets, then this really would not be a problem. the point is that THE TICKET IS THE ENSURANCE. the ticket how they verify that you paid for the event. by the same token, the software key is the ensurance that you actually purchased the software.
by your reasoning, all software should be registration-less, key-less and based on the honor system. i'm guessing that won't work. nice idea though.
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the point is that new technologies are adopted when they improve on an existing method. we already have super-fast, super robust, complete search technologies that are not p2p... so what problem are they trying to solve? an academic exercise? well, that's okay... but let's call it what it is.
google is already so fast as i would not notice it is if were any faster. the best a p2p search technology could achieve would be equivalent speed with the addition of the consumption of my bandwidth.
considering that homo sapiens has had the ability to listen + transmit for a very short period of time, it is much more likely to find more advanced civilizations.
for example, if we say the average technological civilization with the ability to transmit + receive signals would last 1 million years, from the time they obtain such an ability, it is much more likely to find civilizations that are between 100 and 1 million years old, than between 0 and 100 (i am stating that we are around 100 years old).
that is, unless you think that the average technological civilization will last a much shorter time, but i think that is unlikely. anyone have any guesstimates on that?
i guess i am also assuming a rate of technological advancement similar to our own. perhaps that is invalid. maybe the ETs have been around for a billion years, but only figured out radio in the last 100. hmph.
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i always feel better when i see a splash screen. if FF had this, then people would not be tempted to re-click.
for $99, you can get a TDK mojo RAM-based MP3 player. it has an FM tuner and can record. it has 256MB built in and has an SDC, MMC slot.
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now, i do not know that bit rate it uses to record FM. assuming it uses 48kps or something reasonable, you can record a lot of FM radio on a 512MB card.
it sounds like a lot of the complaints here have to do with folks trying to go from Word to OO. i regularly write large complex technical documents with Sun's StarOffice and it works flawlessly. it may not have all of the bells and whistles of Word but who cares? i don't use all that crud anyway.
note that i have mostly used StarOffice on Solaris, but it seems unlikely tha the Solaris binaries are more stable than linux.
if you have too much $ and need some way to get rid of it, or if you're looking for an inventive manner to create some future (potentially toxic) landfill ... then this is a idea.
... get some exercise, commute to work, reduce vehicle costs, cut down on traffic, reduce global warming ... all at the same time!
bikes do not need to be high tech. use your muscles. kill two birds
folks who are truly interested in being informed do more than tune into things that validate their positions. i've been reading
i compare this to right-wing AM radio. the topics are never focused around two-way discussion on issues. it's about getting confirmation of what you already believe.
guess what? oss isn't the answer for everything. there are lots of good things about java. linux isn't for everyone. sunw isn't the devil. ibm is just trying to make $ like everyone else.
i have been using a solaris desktop for software development for 6 years. i have had a sparc 5, sparc 10, sparc 20, ultra 1, ultra 5, ultra 10, ultra 60, and blade 2500. all of this on solaris 2.4 to 2.9.
... don't. let your employer purchase it.
/.s need to realize is that you do not represent the typical person that purchases millions on $$$'s in computer hardware and software. you have different priorities.
these machines have been incredibly stable. doing all sort of crazy developer, root access stuff, uptime still reports between 6 months and a year, always. and when i do take it down, it's because of a forced power outage. the machines *never* freeze up. ya i mean never.
sure, sun like anyone can have bad hardware. i've seen graphics boards go, disks, mice, etc. but everyone has hardware failures. what solaris does not have is hardware that is incompatible and causes the machine to hang.
linux can never be this reliable. why? because there will always be new hardware that requires new drivers. those drivers will be hacked together and will have problems (initially, at least). it is impossible for this to not be the case. when a piece of hardware becomes well supported, there will just be new hardware with new drivers. linux desktops don't live in a world where the PCI card i plug in is tightly controlled and certified on the hardware. what you seem not to get that this is *by design*. sun has made a choice between many drivers that are not so well supported, and rock solid super reliable driver support for a limited set of hardware. sun is okay with this, why does it bother everyone so much? if you don't want to buy a sun box
here's an example: my desktop at home has a compatability problem between my PCI wireless card and the motherboard. it freezes every day. no fix in sight. the hardware manufacturer won't even admit the problem, although it is well documented in several online forums. this would simply not happen on a sun box.
would i buy a sun box for my home? no of course not. i can live such incompatibilities in return for 5x less $$$ for the system.
what
sun does use AMD procs. http://www.channeltimes.com/channeltimes/jsp/index .jsp?section=News&subsection=Storage&subsection_co de=6&file=template0.jsp&storyid=904268
duh.
2) Sold their soul to the devil (Microsoft) in return for temporary bankrucpy prevention.
sun received a large sum of money because they stood up to MS, by SUEING them. how is this selling their soul? geeze. i can't believe your post got mod'd up.
sun's message is that using linux does not mean compatibility with everything that has "linux" in it's name. this is true. i really don't think a lot of non-technical people, the ones that make purchasing decisions in the enterprise, realize this.
... duh! they've embraced it. solaris 10 runs all redhat binaries for christ sake. that's pretty cool.
sun isn't trying to kill linux, that's why they have their own dist of it
redhat is COMPETITION for sun. competition for both sun's linux dist and solaris. what do you expect? just because sun challenges it's competitors doesn't mean they are bad mouthing linux.
btw, i run eMule 24/7 serving freeware files
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why would one download freeware from p2p? just google for it and download from the web. much faster. i don't know much about ed2k, but are you doing this to build up credits (so you can download non-freeware)?
kryptonite has some sort of offer where they'll give you up to N dollars if someone steals your bike while secured with their lock (N depends on what model lock you have, but it's at least $1000).
has anyone out there collected on this? my understanding is that the fine print makes it next to impossible to collect.
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sorry, this is redundant but i must second it. i own several locks, all of which are next to worthless now especially since this made headlines and everyone now knows the trick.
kyptonite locks are not cheap. they are one of the most expensive bike locks. the whole deal with their marketing scheme is that they are so safe that they insure your bike when you use their lock. of course i realize that all locks are pickable / breakable, but it should be the case that the average hooligan can't bust it in 20 seconds.
For the record: the number of bicycle thefts per 100 people in America in the year 2000: 2.7. In Sweden: 9.4.
you should be quoting per 100 people THAT OWN BICYCLES. is that what you meant? if not, your stats are misleading (at best).
Of course, all of the bidding nurses are employees already, and this shouldn't affect the quality of care.
employees should be rewarded with the option of pulling extra / preferential shifts by their quality of work, not their ability to survive on a lower wage.
right, this does not necessarily mean a lower quality of care, but it certainly does not encourage a better one.
Well mine, obviously. Duh.
common sense is not the sense of an individual. note the "common" in common sense. duh.
Common sense says to me that if I've purchased a copy of Windows XP Professional then I've bought a right to use Windows XP Professional, so therefore I should be able to install Windows XP Professional from any install CD, whether it is mine or not, and still be perfectly within my rights as a holder of a licence to use Windows XP Professional.
who's common sense? i don't know any software licenses that work this way. that makes it rather uncommon.
my windows XP box was extemely stable. i can't remember it ever crashing. now, many of the apps crashed, but they did not cause the OS to barf.
i say *was* because that was before i installed the drivers for my netgear wg311t PCI wireless card. now it crashes with a full on lockup almost every day.
anyone know what sort of control windows exercises over companies that build drivers? seems like MS should be really pissed at netgear (and atheros, who built the drivers) for making their OS unstable.
the problem with the netgear (atheros) drivers is well discussed in various online forums, but netgear refuses to ack it as a problem. there is no reference to it on their site. anyone that has an AMD athlon processor is screwed.
every computer i've bought has come with a windows OS. now, i realize that some people build their own systems from scratch, but by far the majority of folks purchase pre-built mass produced systems with windows included.
... and invariably the result was at best slow and klunky and at worst unusable.
... you're still in for a poor experience. i personally tend to do limited upgrades and instead save for a better system somewhere down the road. i think this is the path what most people follow.
now, for every one of those systems, the hardware in the pre-built box was inadequate to run any higher version of windows other than what shipped with the system. i tried it in several cases (probably because i had too much time on my hands)
sure, some people do serious system upgrades, but unless you're upgrading the processor + graphics + memory +
maybe if you build your own system then your also the type of person that doesn't run windows.
Maybe it won't be too long before we're asking if interstellar travel is really that much more difficult than flying to Mars.
ummm. i don't think we'll ever ask that. developing a faster than light spacecraft, OR a method to suspended biological process in humans for tens, hundreds, or thousands of years will be many orders of magnitude more complex than spending a few months in an intra stellar spacecraft destined for mars. not that we are in the ballpark in on that one either. "simply" going to the moon again would be a monumental task.
Also, there will be the issue of 'controlled innovation', Sun's way or the highway. This has good parts and bad parts, as does anything, but it will not fit everybody's teacup - just as Linux does not right now.
... linux has taken the other side of things, being 100% open, but we are left with different, incompatible dists.
just to expand on that a bit, this is a key point. sun is obviously taking a different tactic. being 100% open is mutually exclusive to being 100% compatible. sun wants to control the dists tighter so they can have 100% compatibility across all sunos dists
i think sun's approach is a good compromise. any of the major dists of linux today are proprietary. they are not binary compatible with other linux dists. so what's the point? you might as well call it red hat unix.
viable fusion reactors are a way off. although, i will go so far as to say that if we don't figure fusion out in the next century we will be spiraling into a new dark age. it doesn't take much to predict this. even if we figure out new great new ways to extract crude, or to convert coal to cleaner fuel, or to build more efficient solar ... none of this is going to be as cheap as oil is today. considering how fragile our economy is presently, the future seems fairly obvious.
... all because of a few isolated (preventable) incidents, and the unfortunate coincidence that nuclear fission can also be used to create bombs.
it's possible that we might be living in a time where energy is more plentiful and cheap than it will be for thousands of years, if we last that long.
by the way, i agree fission is a good alternative for the short (next 100 years) term. i was watching an old episode of Lassie (60's?) (okay that's a little embarassing) and there was a little bit of pro-nuclear propaganda in there. this sounds really bad, but i think it would be smart for the US government to start a re-education effort in regards to fission. i really think it got a bad bad wrap
fission waste is at least localized. it is feasible to enforce high standards for disposable of fission waste. on the other hand, consider fossil fuels. since they are emitted from hundreds of millions (billions?) of individual devices, it is impossible to enforce any sort of standard.
i don't think it's unreasonable to ask you to hang onto the CD and CD key. that's part of the deal.
suppose you bought tix to a sporting event, and lost them. would it be okay if you broke into the venue through a back entrance? no problem right? you paid for the tickets right? or maybe they should just have an "i forget / lost my tickets" entrance you people like you.
if you could ensure that everyone that enters in such a manner actually purchased tickets, then this really would not be a problem. the point is that THE TICKET IS THE ENSURANCE. the ticket how they verify that you paid for the event. by the same token, the software key is the ensurance that you actually purchased the software.
by your reasoning, all software should be registration-less, key-less and based on the honor system. i'm guessing that won't work. nice idea though.
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... so what problem are they trying to solve? an academic exercise? well, that's okay ... but let's call it what it is.
the point is that new technologies are adopted when they improve on an existing method. we already have super-fast, super robust, complete search technologies that are not p2p
google is already so fast as i would not notice it is if were any faster. the best a p2p search technology could achieve would be equivalent speed with the addition of the consumption of my bandwidth.
1000:1 ... actually, i'd think those odds would warrant another look.
considering that homo sapiens has had the ability to listen + transmit for a very short period of time, it is much more likely to find more advanced civilizations.
for example, if we say the average technological civilization with the ability to transmit + receive signals would last 1 million years, from the time they obtain such an ability, it is much more likely to find civilizations that are between 100 and 1 million years old, than between 0 and 100 (i am stating that we are around 100 years old).
that is, unless you think that the average technological civilization will last a much shorter time, but i think that is unlikely. anyone have any guesstimates on that?
i guess i am also assuming a rate of technological advancement similar to our own. perhaps that is invalid. maybe the ETs have been around for a billion years, but only figured out radio in the last 100. hmph.