I'll second sobiloff in that the most recent version of SYNC still blows. I have a 2013 Escape SEL with the My Touch SYNC system. I've updated to v3.5.1 last June, and to v3.6.2 in September. The audio portion still randomly completely freezes, the volume knob on the dash stops working while the volume button on the wheel still works, the system spontaneously spontaneously reboots at random times. The last time the system froze I had to resort to a factory reset to get it to work again.
Heck, I'd take Ubuntu's Unity interface over this crap any day - which would make sense since Unity is really a touch interface and not really a mouse-driven desktop...
Reminds me of a passage in the book "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins. There's an Irish character in the book who talks about the effects of alcohol on the human brains. He essentially likens the effects to the pruning a gardener does. You prune out the overgrowth, and the garden flourishes. Likewise with the synapses destroyed by alcohol. It removes all the tangles and unproductive regions, and lets the pruned-back brain function more efficiently.
Drink up,/.ers!!!
I was going to agree with you, but then I went to NewsCorp's website, and can't find any reference to any tier-1 or tier-2 ISP there. Which one am I not seeing?
Well, Microsoft's gross income for 2008/09 was $58.4B US, IBM's was $103B, HP's was $118B, Oracle's was $23B, SAP's was $16B. That's $318B (admittedly it contains some hardware dollars). You've got to estimate that total is only a small percentage of the total software services marketplace - you know, all those ISVs and consultancies which install, maintain, and support the software sold by the big guys. $1 trillion = 1000 billion in the US. I'd say $1T US is probably underestimating things...
Just because "Linux is winning", it doesn't necessarily mean Sun or Microsoft are losing (although I'd love to see Balmer out on the street as a victim of the current downturn...).
Inevitably, the economy will resume expansion. In that case, you don't necessarily replace one with another - you can add to the existing server base as you grow. Then you slowly retire the old systems. You are implying - perhaps unintentionally - that when a Linux system is installed, it replaces an existing Sun or MS server. That ain't nearly always the case...
Are they purposely referring to priority traffic as "time sensitive" as opposed to "delay sensitive" just to make the average joe think this is better?
Don't get me wrong - as a network design engineer I'm all for prioritizing latency sensitive traffic like VoIP or streaming video. Just don't treat Cox's VoIP any better than Skype's or Vonages...
This whole Net Neutrality thing is a bummer. I like the idea of democratizing traffic - but only of the same type. No way in hell should FTP or BitTorrent have the same priority as VoIP.
Yes, but I'm sure that saying "MS Office 2007 will implement MSOOXML, which we've admitted may not be technically possible" will be enough to justify it's continued use.
Sorry, I forgot to include that little point in my previous posting. ECMA 376, which based on the OOXML which Office 2007 uses, is not ISO/IEC 29500. Why do you think MS will implement ODF before '29500? "Oh, let's do ODF first! It's harder to implement than OOXML - we can just whip that out when we feel like it!"
"No implementation of OOXML exists. No implementation of OOXML exists. No implementation of OOXML exists."
Did you understand that? Not even Microsoft has any product which implements the standard. docx, pptx, xlsx - none are compatible with OOXML as approved by ISO.
Even Microsoft has admitted that it will implement ODF before OOXML.
What stands out most to me is, after reading up on Ed Walsh's background, that he is extremely biased: His background, before getting his law degree, was in systems and software development. In his narrow view of the world, the only
for-profit companies are those that sell proprietary software. Any other "company" is just an end-user of software. So Walmart, Sears, Barnes & Noble, General Motors, Ford - all these companies, which may or may not use Open Source software for internal business
use which gives them an edge over their competition - simply aren't for-profit companies.
And the final straw? I had NoScript enabled in Firefox, and when I first went to Law.com to read the article, I got a 404 error message because scripting was blocked. The kicker? Law.com uses Apache Tomcat server - open source software
(albeit not GPL). Either Law.com knows better than Mr. Walsh, or is just too cheap to pay for a proprietary web server - can't afford their own dog food, eh?
I would, if the new crackdown on our borders didn't make it incredibly difficult to get a visa to move out of the country.
Since when do you need a visa from the US Government to move out of the country?
And to think that before I read your post, I was wondering what your id really meant: Cognitive Dissonance.
From LearningandTeaching.info: Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may be necessary for it to develop so that we become "open" to them.
Neighbour (1992) makes the generation of appropriate dissonance into a major feature of tutorial (and other) teaching: he shows how to drive this kind of intellectual wedge between learners' current beliefs and "reality".
Beyond this benign if uncomfortable aspect, however, dissonance can go "over the top", leading to two interesting side-effects for learning:
* if someone is called upon to learn something which contradicts what they already think they know - particularly if they are committed to that prior knowledge - they are likely to resist the new learning. Even Carl Rogers recognised(sic) this. Accommodation is more difficult than Assimilation, in Piaget's terms.
* and-counter-intuitively, perhaps-if learning something has been difficult, uncomfortable, or even humiliating enough, people are less likely to concede that the content of what has been learned is useless, pointless or valueless. To do so would be to admit that one has been "had", or "conned".
Kinda explains the reaction of the American public, don't it?
But then again, I'm pretty sure there's a little sarcasm hidden in your id. Er, at least I'm pretty sure?
The F-117A was first used in Panama, not in Desert Storm.
Right, and that was in 1989, 2 years before the first Gulf War. But as far as public "unveiling", the Pentagon formally announced the existence of the F-117 in November of 1988. It wasn't shown in public until 1990. I first saw it at an air show in Dallas around 1992 or so. Even then, the engine exhausts were covered, and unlike all the other aircraft on display, there was an armed perimeter guard around it. Look, but don't touch.
Your heart's in the right place, but it would not and cannot work.
Why? Simply - an excess of demand and a shortage of resources. There is simply too much demand for software development and there aren't enough Computer Science curricula in existence to meet that demand.
And this is coming from a degreed engineer. Not a licensed professional, however. Yeah, I took and passed the EIT, but never went for the PE. Why? In my original field, telecommunications, there never was any requirement at any of my employers to be a registered PE.
Granted, there are tons of people out there who confuse an MIS degree with a Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree. And if you hire an MIS grad to help develop the next whiz bang OS, well, chances are it won't work out. It might, but the odds are against you...
If that's the case then Intel should have never accepted a seat on the Board of Directors (or Trustees?) of the OLPC project. How can you be on the Board of a company when you directly compete with them? Fiduciary responsibility and ethics says, no - you don't.
And to address those seem not to know what the XO can do: Sure, a $300 Intel Classmate with Windows may be able to be used as is to write book reports and create powerpoint presentations, but will it come with a development/programming environment designed for kids so that they can write their own software? Will it contain any usable software beyond a word processor, e-mail client, and web browser? Will a Classmate actually be able to be used for anything like a collaborative effort by school kids to do anything other than prepare them for a later purchase of a "real" PC?
No. The format is not insecure. The most you could argue is that the software program which produced the data and allowed the user to embed code which require root privileges to execute is insecure. But wait! Didn't Microsoft code the application that produced the data?
Is the bash shell, or the Windows command interpreter for that matter, insecure because it allows me to write scripts that only function if I'm running it as root or administrator?
I represent the 3rd district court of Cleveland, OH. Mr. Springer, after consulting with his attorneys, is suing you for libel. It's really a shame has to defend his good name. Imagine! Good God! Couldn't you have been a little less harsh? OJ Simpson, perhaps - but Dvorak?
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I should state that the integration with my Android smart phone does work pretty well...
I'll second sobiloff in that the most recent version of SYNC still blows. I have a 2013 Escape SEL with the My Touch SYNC system. I've updated to v3.5.1 last June, and to v3.6.2 in September. The audio portion still randomly completely freezes, the volume knob on the dash stops working while the volume button on the wheel still works, the system spontaneously spontaneously reboots at random times. The last time the system froze I had to resort to a factory reset to get it to work again. Heck, I'd take Ubuntu's Unity interface over this crap any day - which would make sense since Unity is really a touch interface and not really a mouse-driven desktop...
Reminds me of a passage in the book "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins. There's an Irish character in the book who talks about the effects of alcohol on the human brains. He essentially likens the effects to the pruning a gardener does. You prune out the overgrowth, and the garden flourishes. Likewise with the synapses destroyed by alcohol. It removes all the tangles and unproductive regions, and lets the pruned-back brain function more efficiently. Drink up, /.ers!!!
I was going to agree with you, but then I went to NewsCorp's website, and can't find any reference to any tier-1 or tier-2 ISP there. Which one am I not seeing?
Well, Microsoft's gross income for 2008/09 was $58.4B US, IBM's was $103B, HP's was $118B, Oracle's was $23B, SAP's was $16B. That's $318B (admittedly it contains some hardware dollars). You've got to estimate that total is only a small percentage of the total software services marketplace - you know, all those ISVs and consultancies which install, maintain, and support the software sold by the big guys. $1 trillion = 1000 billion in the US. I'd say $1T US is probably underestimating things...
Just because "Linux is winning", it doesn't necessarily mean Sun or Microsoft are losing (although I'd love to see Balmer out on the street as a victim of the current downturn...). Inevitably, the economy will resume expansion. In that case, you don't necessarily replace one with another - you can add to the existing server base as you grow. Then you slowly retire the old systems. You are implying - perhaps unintentionally - that when a Linux system is installed, it replaces an existing Sun or MS server. That ain't nearly always the case...
Are they purposely referring to priority traffic as "time sensitive" as opposed to "delay sensitive" just to make the average joe think this is better? Don't get me wrong - as a network design engineer I'm all for prioritizing latency sensitive traffic like VoIP or streaming video. Just don't treat Cox's VoIP any better than Skype's or Vonages... This whole Net Neutrality thing is a bummer. I like the idea of democratizing traffic - but only of the same type. No way in hell should FTP or BitTorrent have the same priority as VoIP.
Here, let me fix that for ya:
Yes, but I'm sure that saying "MS Office 2007 will implement MSOOXML, which we've admitted may not be technically possible" will be enough to justify it's continued use.
Sorry, I forgot to include that little point in my previous posting. ECMA 376, which based on the OOXML which Office 2007 uses, is not ISO/IEC 29500. Why do you think MS will implement ODF before '29500? "Oh, let's do ODF first! It's harder to implement than OOXML - we can just whip that out when we feel like it!"
Don't you think the "man behind the curtaion" had a problem with this?
We can't have Comcast resetting P2P sessions between terrorists! How can we catch them if you guys keep mucking with our covert surveillance efforts?
"No implementation of OOXML exists. No implementation of OOXML exists. No implementation of OOXML exists."
Did you understand that? Not even Microsoft has any product which implements the standard. docx, pptx, xlsx - none are compatible with OOXML as approved by ISO.
Even Microsoft has admitted that it will implement ODF before OOXML.
And the final straw? I had NoScript enabled in Firefox, and when I first went to Law.com to read the article, I got a 404 error message because scripting was blocked. The kicker? Law.com uses Apache Tomcat server - open source software (albeit not GPL). Either Law.com knows better than Mr. Walsh, or is just too cheap to pay for a proprietary web server - can't afford their own dog food, eh?
My NSA handlers have just advised me that it's SCA-compliant, and is good to go. Never question those government types, you know...
Since when do you need a visa from the US Government to move out of the country?
And to think that before I read your post, I was wondering what your id really meant: Cognitive Dissonance.
From LearningandTeaching.info:
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may be necessary for it to develop so that we become "open" to them.
Neighbour (1992) makes the generation of appropriate dissonance into a major feature of tutorial (and other) teaching: he shows how to drive this kind of intellectual wedge between learners' current beliefs and "reality".
Beyond this benign if uncomfortable aspect, however, dissonance can go "over the top", leading to two interesting side-effects for learning:
* if someone is called upon to learn something which contradicts what they already think they know - particularly if they are committed to that prior knowledge - they are likely to resist the new learning. Even Carl Rogers recognised(sic) this. Accommodation is more difficult than Assimilation, in Piaget's terms.
* and-counter-intuitively, perhaps-if learning something has been difficult, uncomfortable, or even humiliating enough, people are less likely to concede that the content of what has been learned is useless, pointless or valueless. To do so would be to admit that one has been "had", or "conned".
Kinda explains the reaction of the American public, don't it?
But then again, I'm pretty sure there's a little sarcasm hidden in your id. Er, at least I'm pretty sure?
Let's not paint every American with the same brush - there's a hell of a lot of us whom are appalled at the state of things here...
Right, and that was in 1989, 2 years before the first Gulf War. But as far as public "unveiling", the Pentagon formally announced the existence of the F-117 in November of 1988. It wasn't shown in public until 1990. I first saw it at an air show in Dallas around 1992 or so. Even then, the engine exhausts were covered, and unlike all the other aircraft on display, there was an armed perimeter guard around it. Look, but don't touch.
Your heart's in the right place, but it would not and cannot work.
Why? Simply - an excess of demand and a shortage of resources. There is simply too much demand for software development and there aren't enough Computer Science curricula in existence to meet that demand.
And this is coming from a degreed engineer. Not a licensed professional, however. Yeah, I took and passed the EIT, but never went for the PE. Why? In my original field, telecommunications, there never was any requirement at any of my employers to be a registered PE.
Granted, there are tons of people out there who confuse an MIS degree with a Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree. And if you hire an MIS grad to help develop the next whiz bang OS, well, chances are it won't work out. It might, but the odds are against you...
"Give a man a match and he'll be warm for a minute. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life."
No - arivanov's referring to 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) - IEEE 802.3an (among others) 100GbE is just around the pike (IEEE 802.3ba - in development)
If that's the case then Intel should have never accepted a seat on the Board of Directors (or Trustees?) of the OLPC project. How can you be on the Board of a company when you directly compete with them? Fiduciary responsibility and ethics says, no - you don't.
And to address those seem not to know what the XO can do: Sure, a $300 Intel Classmate with Windows may be able to be used as is to write book reports and create powerpoint presentations, but will it come with a development/programming environment designed for kids so that they can write their own software? Will it contain any usable software beyond a word processor, e-mail client, and web browser? Will a Classmate actually be able to be used for anything like a collaborative effort by school kids to do anything other than prepare them for a later purchase of a "real" PC?
Go ahead. Click 'OK'. I dare you.
No. The format is not insecure. The most you could argue is that the software program which produced the data and allowed the user to embed code which require root privileges to execute is insecure. But wait! Didn't Microsoft code the application that produced the data?
Is the bash shell, or the Windows command interpreter for that matter, insecure because it allows me to write scripts that only function if I'm running it as root or administrator?
Submit a SBIR proposal to the Department of the Interior. Check will be in the mail...
"gauge my eyes out"? See reference to "teutonic plate" theory above. You were dwarfed by a master there, bud!
I represent the 3rd district court of Cleveland, OH. Mr. Springer, after consulting with his attorneys, is suing you for libel. It's really a shame has to defend his good name. Imagine! Good God! Couldn't you have been a little less harsh? OJ Simpson, perhaps - but Dvorak?
Now some open source zealot is going to read this and claim it's Vista causing AIDS... Or is that a Windows zealot saying Linux causes AIDS...
/., I'm so confused!!!
Great
I'm still waiting for the IMAP option to appear on my gmail account's settings page. And, yes, my language is set to English(US)