Sheesh. If you want help, e-mail me. I've had no problem getting any Linksys wifi cards working on Ubuntu 7.04, although I haven't tried the 'N' cards yet.
You should be able to figure out how to send me mail.
How many people were forced to pay top dollar while Intel sat back and quietly raked in the cash, knowing that they were selling an inferior product marketed as "the best we can do", when, quite frankly, it wasn't. That's exactly it. Intel makes more money by waiting because they don't cut into their existing product line...IOW, they can keep their existing chips at the same price for a longer period of time. Why release 45 nm when they can just wait until AMD pops out 65 nm? It makes AMD look stupid AND it lets them keep selling their existing chips at inflated prices.
BTW-- is anyone from the Justice Department paying attention here? Oh, yeah, I forgot, you're the guys who let Microsoft go without facing sentencing.
The big deal about X11 is that it's as slow as hell (Inkscape takes 3-5 minutes to boot on my system, What kind of system? Older systems might take a bit. Plus, is that with or without X11 started? If it's without, that's kinda unfair.Inkscape loads up nice and fast on a Windows or a Linux box. Faster than Illustrator, Corel Draw, Xara, or any other graphic design/layout app I've used.
Inkscape has SOME floating palettes, yes. But it needs floating palettes for colour, gradients and layers. It would also be nice if they didn't take up half the screen. Inkscape has floating palettes for all of the above. What version are you on?
If none that stuff bothers you, I can guarantee you've never worked on images/design professionally, nor even as a serious hobby. This stuff needs to be fixed, or Inkscape is heading to GIMPsville. Surprise! I once made my living for more than 5 years as a professional graphic designer.
The specially-designed nanoparticles seek out hydrogen peroxide (thought to be overproduced in trace amounts in the early stages of most diseases that involve some sort of chronic inflammation in the body), and emit light when they encounter it. No good. I just can't see how this going to work at all for Paris Hilton.
Bingo. Patch Tuesday happens once a month and has for at least as long as Skype has been around.
Also, I would think that if a bunch of computers rebooting at the same time brings down Skype's network, Patch Tuesday would be the least of their problems.
Now I haven't used Skype at all, but I'm willing to bet that they have some serious scalability problems and that there have been multiple complaints in the performance department lately.
Even if everyone supports one standard, the bottom line here is that the data has to centralized somewhere in order to maintain data consistency. Facebook might think that "Bob" on LJ is "Alice's" friend while LJ might not agree. That would be highly confusing to the end-user. Without centralized data, there's no way to make this thing workable.
Yet another article about how all social networks should be standardized and have centralized user management. This is the Internet, folks. Decentralization is the name of the game. Get used to it.
The original cost of building the Internet was doubtlessly in the billions, maybe in the trillions of dollars. But such cost wasn't spent by one entity. The Internet was built with private/public partnerships and building it was a boon to the early computing industry. Entire empires were built with Internet dollars -- think UUNet, BBN, AT&T, Al Gore (kidding!) and others who created the Internet.
My point is that the cost is shared throughout the economy and actually builds wealth instead of destroying it.
Inkscape doesn't have floating palettes? That's news to me. And it doesn't have a Mac OS X version? Oh, you probably mean a package that doesn't require X. I don't see what the big deal is about supporting native Cocoa widgets anyway. It's not like packages like Photoshop and Illustrator haven't veered away from the system standard widgets for years anyway (those palettes are Adobe's proprietary widgets, not native Mac OS widgets). If it's really that big a deal, then why doesn't someone take the source and write a Cocoa version?
That's just it. You'd think that given the importance of networking these days that Microsoft would have spent extra time trying to get this stuff right. When it comes to networking literacy, you just can't beat Linux. It's an OS that was designed from the ground up around a very usable and high-performance network infrastructure because the people writing the kernel and the software that runs the system needed it to be that way for themselves.
My point is that still, most new computers are sold with Vista installed these days, so saying that it has a low adoption rate is dangerous.
Except that there are obvious problems selling Vista-based computers, even with 'clueless users' supposedly 'don't even know what OS is on their computer'. Otherwise, why would all of the major PC manufacturers still be giving customers an option to have XP, and why would some of the biggest ones like Dell and Lenovo begin offering Linux-based PCs?
Let's face it -- Vista's days are numbered and, thus, so are Microsoft's. Even Microsoft knows it, that's why the fancy dancing with Linux, open source, and Linux-based companies (including Novell) lately, whatever their true motives.
Call me a Microsoft hater, call me a slashbot, call me whatever you want... but mark my words: the end of the Microsoft monopoly is nigh.
As a free software/open source software author, I say Microsoft can keep their fscking code. I don't want one lousy stinking piece of it, no matter what it can do. It is tainted by their GPL-incompatible license, it is tainted by their patents, and it is tainted by their desire to remove Linux and free/open source software as a competitor.
Hey, Microsoft! Take your olive branch and shove it up yer ass!
Really, though, what should also be added are antitrust violations. The RIAA has used deceptive and illegal practices to ensure that their music is all that is played on the radio, all that is shown on television, and all that is sold in record stores.
Look, any scientific model for any scientific hypothesis has some margin for error, by definition. A scientific hypothesis is something to be tested. Very, very little in science has been proven 100%, not even gravity or relativity. A hypothesis with only a a 20% margin for error on something as complex as global climate change is very, very good. In 2001, the IPCC could only make the same statement with 66% certainty. A jump of 14% is quite significant.
The bigger issue is the cloak of secrecy around the data and the algorithms used to generate the outputs. I do not understand why all data wouldn't be publicly available. Is there one place to go to see the data used to make the dire predictions I hear all over the place? I generally accept global warming as a fact, but when I see the amount of contortions one person had to go through to figure out there was a problem in the first place, I start to get suspicious. Yes. Check out the Publications section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Web site.
According to this article in Scientific American ($), they've come to the conclusion with 80% certainty that global climate change is not only real, but is caused by human activities. They're new 2007 assessment report isn't on the website yet, but it is discussed in SciAm, so it should be there shortly, I believe. Methodologies are discussed pretty well in the SciAm piece.
Heh. Flash is full-blown application platform these days, though seeing as how people tend to use it, you'd almost never know that. But think about all these newer Flash games and Flash media players (think Youtube, only I've seen better) and you might get an inkling of how powerful an application platform that Flash can be.
Now check out the screenshots from Buzzword and read their page. This is likely what the Adobe Office suite will look like, since Adobe is a major investor in Virtual Ubiquity, the company that created it. Yes, that's Flash. There's an Adobe runtime called AIR which will even allow Flash apps to have the look and feel of native apps and run them locally on the box whilst offline.
The previous company I worked for, which laid me off, routinely had "Dilbert" comic strip photocopies on people's doors. Can I turn them in and get six grand? -- All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings) That's even funnier when you take into account your.sig.
At various companies I've worked for, including some Detroit car company that starts with F, photocopies of automotive industry-related articles were often passed around at meetings. Where's my six grand?
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Sheesh. If you want help, e-mail me. I've had no problem getting any Linksys wifi cards working on Ubuntu 7.04, although I haven't tried the 'N' cards yet.
You should be able to figure out how to send me mail.
Did any of you RTFA? He's gay.
BTW-- is anyone from the Justice Department paying attention here? Oh, yeah, I forgot, you're the guys who let Microsoft go without facing sentencing.
Bingo. Patch Tuesday happens once a month and has for at least as long as Skype has been around.
Also, I would think that if a bunch of computers rebooting at the same time brings down Skype's network, Patch Tuesday would be the least of their problems.
Now I haven't used Skype at all, but I'm willing to bet that they have some serious scalability problems and that there have been multiple complaints in the performance department lately.
Even if everyone supports one standard, the bottom line here is that the data has to centralized somewhere in order to maintain data consistency. Facebook might think that "Bob" on LJ is "Alice's" friend while LJ might not agree. That would be highly confusing to the end-user. Without centralized data, there's no way to make this thing workable.
(sorry, had to do it, couldn't be helped.)
Yet another article about how all social networks should be standardized and have centralized user management. This is the Internet, folks. Decentralization is the name of the game. Get used to it.
The original cost of building the Internet was doubtlessly in the billions, maybe in the trillions of dollars. But such cost wasn't spent by one entity. The Internet was built with private/public partnerships and building it was a boon to the early computing industry. Entire empires were built with Internet dollars -- think UUNet, BBN, AT&T, Al Gore (kidding!) and others who created the Internet.
My point is that the cost is shared throughout the economy and actually builds wealth instead of destroying it.
Doesn't this already exist? I mean, seriously, how many parallel projects do we need to do the same thing?
Inkscape doesn't have floating palettes? That's news to me. And it doesn't have a Mac OS X version? Oh, you probably mean a package that doesn't require X. I don't see what the big deal is about supporting native Cocoa widgets anyway. It's not like packages like Photoshop and Illustrator haven't veered away from the system standard widgets for years anyway (those palettes are Adobe's proprietary widgets, not native Mac OS widgets). If it's really that big a deal, then why doesn't someone take the source and write a Cocoa version?
That's just it. You'd think that given the importance of networking these days that Microsoft would have spent extra time trying to get this stuff right. When it comes to networking literacy, you just can't beat Linux. It's an OS that was designed from the ground up around a very usable and high-performance network infrastructure because the people writing the kernel and the software that runs the system needed it to be that way for themselves.
Except that there are obvious problems selling Vista-based computers, even with 'clueless users' supposedly 'don't even know what OS is on their computer'. Otherwise, why would all of the major PC manufacturers still be giving customers an option to have XP, and why would some of the biggest ones like Dell and Lenovo begin offering Linux-based PCs?
Let's face it -- Vista's days are numbered and, thus, so are Microsoft's. Even Microsoft knows it, that's why the fancy dancing with Linux, open source, and Linux-based companies (including Novell) lately, whatever their true motives.
Call me a Microsoft hater, call me a slashbot, call me whatever you want
As a free software/open source software author, I say Microsoft can keep their fscking code. I don't want one lousy stinking piece of it, no matter what it can do. It is tainted by their GPL-incompatible license, it is tainted by their patents, and it is tainted by their desire to remove Linux and free/open source software as a competitor.
Hey, Microsoft! Take your olive branch and shove it up yer ass!
Yes. What's on the Alfresco website is indeed demoware. You can get the open source edition from their dev site here.
Reverse phrenology.
Not necessarily 'competing'. It just has to be that their business or potential business was hurt by it. This would include all recording artists.
Really, though, what should also be added are antitrust violations. The RIAA has used deceptive and illegal practices to ensure that their music is all that is played on the radio, all that is shown on television, and all that is sold in record stores.
Look, any scientific model for any scientific hypothesis has some margin for error, by definition. A scientific hypothesis is something to be tested. Very, very little in science has been proven 100%, not even gravity or relativity. A hypothesis with only a a 20% margin for error on something as complex as global climate change is very, very good. In 2001, the IPCC could only make the same statement with 66% certainty. A jump of 14% is quite significant.
Oops.
Link to the SciAm piece.
According to this article in Scientific American ($), they've come to the conclusion with 80% certainty that global climate change is not only real, but is caused by human activities. They're new 2007 assessment report isn't on the website yet, but it is discussed in SciAm, so it should be there shortly, I believe. Methodologies are discussed pretty well in the SciAm piece.
Yeah, but something tells me you'd settle for even $50 million. ;)
Heh. Flash is full-blown application platform these days, though seeing as how people tend to use it, you'd almost never know that. But think about all these newer Flash games and Flash media players (think Youtube, only I've seen better) and you might get an inkling of how powerful an application platform that Flash can be.
Now check out the screenshots from Buzzword and read their page. This is likely what the Adobe Office suite will look like, since Adobe is a major investor in Virtual Ubiquity, the company that created it. Yes, that's Flash. There's an Adobe runtime called AIR which will even allow Flash apps to have the look and feel of native apps and run them locally on the box whilst offline.
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All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings) That's even funnier when you take into account your
At various companies I've worked for, including some Detroit car company that starts with F, photocopies of automotive industry-related articles were often passed around at meetings. Where's my six grand?
Oh wait, Maximum Prophet, don't sue me!!!