If your goal is cheap international calling (mobile or otherwise), one thing Vonage can do is forward calls from your number to any other number by simultaneously ringing your Vonage phone and the other number. Another thing you can do is bring your Vonage router with you when you go to another country, say China. As long as you have a high-speed Internet connection, it'll work and calls to your home phone number are just like you were at home. Combine the two features -- get a cheap, throw away Chinese cell phone and you can also have the Vonage # forward to the Chinese cell phone number. Now, you'll pay Vonage's international calling rates, but these are much cheaper than paying the exorbitant rates charged by your mobile phone service when you take your GSM phone with you to another country, and with some plans certain countries are even free.
This is about as enforceable as the.xxx TLD. No matter what you do, you're not going to be able segregate the pr0n from other content. Unless you're SCO, I guess, then maybe you could sue those who don't comply by claiming that your intellectual property is on port 80, therefore you own all of the content on port 80 -- millions of lines of HTML!
I think for most people using WiFi for Web surfing, G is plenty good enough. Most uplink speeds aren't anything close to what G offers anyway, and most people would be hard-pressed to flood a 54Mbps WiFi connection with Web traffic.
Even for gamers, where the multiplayer gaming protocols are optimized for ordinary cablemodem connections (and even dialup still for some), you're still not going to flood that 54 Mbps connection.
Even most corporate users don't require more than G and if they do, there's plenty of places to patch in.
Okay, so how many folks have you seen picking their nose while driving? Okay, well I've just done a study that says that picking your nose while driving is more dangerous than using a cell phone while driving.
Are you now prepared to outlaw picking your nose while driving?
That doesn't really get to the root of the problem. We need to start punishing stupidity more harshly. Yes. I figure we should just remove all of the warning labels off of everything. That way, the stupid people will just kill themselves off! Remove stupidity from the gene pool altogether!
Is it too late yet to submit my application for the U.S. presidential election in 2008?
Why do we need all of these new laws? Isn't driving carelessly already illegal? And how are we going to enforce all of these new laws anyway? Force auto makers to equip cars with built-in spy cams with wireless transmissions to the police?
So if the ultimate solution is nuclear power, the question then becomes: How do you make nuclear reactors that are safe enough to be owned and operated by the average American, whose intelligence is barely adequate to work a 9-5, come home, drink beer, eat pizza and go bowling on Wednesday nights? And how do you keep this average American simian safe from terrorists if all of his power is coming from said reactors? I ask this because even centralized nuclear power is risky, and for the average American to maintain his/her current lifestyle, nuclear powered vehicles will probably have to have their own reactors.
1) Google will be buying Slashdot. G-Dot's search technology will make finding dupes a snap! 2) Google will be buying Ubuntu. GUbuntu will be setup to use GMail as the default mail client and Google Docs will be available from the Applications menu. 3) Google will by buying PornoTube. Finding porn has never been easier!
The main problems I've seen with printing in Fedora Core (now, I haven't used FC6, only FC5) are that system-config-printer doesn't always work right (because it's very outdated), GIMP-Print is very out of date at 4.2.7 (it isn't even called GIMP-Print anymore as of the 5.x series, it's now gutenprint), and CUPS is very out of date (1.2.4 in FC6, vs. 1.2.8 in many other distros). The PPDs they distribute are typically very out of date as well, and I usually end up having to download new ones from linuxprinting.org.
But seriously, isn't this already addressed well through OpenDNS [opendns.org]? Not everyone can use OpenDNS, for one. For another, OpenDNS works by not exactly following the RFC, attempting to correct mistakes made by users instead of directing them to the appropriate error page. OpenDNS is DWIM (do what I mean) and well, DWIM (as any regular user of zsh can testify to) has never quite worked right.
I've seen this and the MetroPCS service, and the one thing I've noticed about both is the limited coverage area. They only seem to have service in the big cities, and nothing even just outside. For example, here's MetroPCS' coverage for Detroit. Look in the northwest part of the coverage area and note that if you go out to Howell, you're covered, but not in Pinckney, which is just as populated as Howell. Now compare the coverage map for Sprint. Notice that just about the entire freakin' state of Michigan is covered. The MetroPCS map looks like Sprint's coverage map ca. 1992. Ditto for Cricket in its coverage areas.
I still have a hard time as an administrator to get things like HP Printers to work with Linux. When I do get them working, I run into strange things like not being able to print out a landscape PDF in portrait. Either you're using very, very outdated printer software (*ahem*redhat*ahem), or you're using applications that aren't designed to work with modern Linux printing software like CUPS, hpijs, gnome-cups and KDE printing support. Whether inkjet or laser, I haven't had such problems with any HP printers in a very, very long time.
"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." -- Bill Gates at University of Washington "town hall" meeting in 1998
So, no, despite what TFA says, it is not the case that Raikes' words "do not appear to echo the sentiments of his company..."
Right. The term 'computer science' has become so muddled because people confuse applied computer science (computer information systems) with actual computer science.
Computer science is pure science -- solving the hard problems to advance computing technology. People who have programming or computer engineering jobs are NOT computer scientists any more than mechanical engineers are physicists or pharmacists are chemists.
Not that CS majors don't get jobs in the computer information systems arena, just as many physics majors go off and do engineering jobs. But the work of a software engineer just ain't science.
There's actually a wealth of mobile telephony and PDA APIs and applications available for Linux. Check out the software page on TuxMobil -- this kind of software is still somewhat in its infancy, but if you're interested in Linux on embedded devices -- heck, why not join in the development process and help out?
Hypothosis 4: The drug gave them super powers. Electricity makes them stronger Super RAT powers? Will 'apt-get squeal' draw a GIANT ASCII PICTURE of a SUPER RAT? I'm scared. Really scared.
Say what you will about Windows on the desktop, but the homogenization of the desktop OS is one of the main things that accelerated the growth of the PC. I'm not saying that it would be good for the mobile market by any stretch of the imagination -- one of the reasons we have so many OSes is that we have so many devices, each targeted at different tasks.
However, in my mind only one OS could possibly fill the bill for all mobile devices, and that's Linux. Linux is easily and readily modifiable, not just by license, but by the way it's grown into a modular kernel that's fairly platform agnostic these days, one that can be stripped down to the tiniest sizes if necessary.
If I had one mobile OS to choose from -- well, Linux would be it. And it's not just because I'm a Linux-using geek, but because it really is the best tool for the job.
Yeah, I mean, screw it. Who cares about security vulnerabilities, viruses and spyware? If we did, none of us would be using Windows, that's for sure...;)
4GB is the max size for a FAT16 drive. 2GB is the max file size for FAT32. (Trust me, I know from practical experience in trying to move large Oracle dumps via a FAT32-formatted USB drive, and I was there for the 4 GB FAT16 limit.)
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Well, heck. If that's the case, does anyone know how to remove the activation key from Vista?
There are 3 degrees of the severity of lies:
Lies,
Damned Lies,
and TCO reports
-- Greywolf's Law of TCO
If your goal is cheap international calling (mobile or otherwise), one thing Vonage can do is forward calls from your number to any other number by simultaneously ringing your Vonage phone and the other number. Another thing you can do is bring your Vonage router with you when you go to another country, say China. As long as you have a high-speed Internet connection, it'll work and calls to your home phone number are just like you were at home. Combine the two features -- get a cheap, throw away Chinese cell phone and you can also have the Vonage # forward to the Chinese cell phone number. Now, you'll pay Vonage's international calling rates, but these are much cheaper than paying the exorbitant rates charged by your mobile phone service when you take your GSM phone with you to another country, and with some plans certain countries are even free.
HEY! Don't click the Pi symbol in the corner!
This is about as enforceable as the .xxx TLD. No matter what you do, you're not going to be able segregate the pr0n from other content. Unless you're SCO, I guess, then maybe you could sue those who don't comply by claiming that your intellectual property is on port 80, therefore you own all of the content on port 80 -- millions of lines of HTML!
I think for most people using WiFi for Web surfing, G is plenty good enough. Most uplink speeds aren't anything close to what G offers anyway, and most people would be hard-pressed to flood a 54Mbps WiFi connection with Web traffic.
Even for gamers, where the multiplayer gaming protocols are optimized for ordinary cablemodem connections (and even dialup still for some), you're still not going to flood that 54 Mbps connection.
Even most corporate users don't require more than G and if they do, there's plenty of places to patch in.
Okay, so how many folks have you seen picking their nose while driving? Okay, well I've just done a study that says that picking your nose while driving is more dangerous than using a cell phone while driving.
Are you now prepared to outlaw picking your nose while driving?
Is it too late yet to submit my application for the U.S. presidential election in 2008?
Why do we need all of these new laws? Isn't driving carelessly already illegal? And how are we going to enforce all of these new laws anyway? Force auto makers to equip cars with built-in spy cams with wireless transmissions to the police?
So if the ultimate solution is nuclear power, the question then becomes: How do you make nuclear reactors that are safe enough to be owned and operated by the average American, whose intelligence is barely adequate to work a 9-5, come home, drink beer, eat pizza and go bowling on Wednesday nights? And how do you keep this average American simian safe from terrorists if all of his power is coming from said reactors? I ask this because even centralized nuclear power is risky, and for the average American to maintain his/her current lifestyle, nuclear powered vehicles will probably have to have their own reactors.
Hydrogen would normally be H(2) in stable form. Water is H(2)O. How would adding water to 'powdered hydrogen' produce water?
1) Google will be buying Slashdot. G-Dot's search technology will make finding dupes a snap!
2) Google will be buying Ubuntu. GUbuntu will be setup to use GMail as the default mail client and Google Docs will be available from the Applications menu.
3) Google will by buying PornoTube. Finding porn has never been easier!
Right, perfect for replacing a landline, but a poor replacement for 'real' cellular service from one of the big networks.
The main problems I've seen with printing in Fedora Core (now, I haven't used FC6, only FC5) are that system-config-printer doesn't always work right (because it's very outdated), GIMP-Print is very out of date at 4.2.7 (it isn't even called GIMP-Print anymore as of the 5.x series, it's now gutenprint), and CUPS is very out of date (1.2.4 in FC6, vs. 1.2.8 in many other distros). The PPDs they distribute are typically very out of date as well, and I usually end up having to download new ones from linuxprinting.org.
I've seen this and the MetroPCS service, and the one thing I've noticed about both is the limited coverage area. They only seem to have service in the big cities, and nothing even just outside. For example, here's MetroPCS' coverage for Detroit. Look in the northwest part of the coverage area and note that if you go out to Howell, you're covered, but not in Pinckney, which is just as populated as Howell. Now compare the coverage map for Sprint. Notice that just about the entire freakin' state of Michigan is covered. The MetroPCS map looks like Sprint's coverage map ca. 1992. Ditto for Cricket in its coverage areas.
Not only is not news, it hasn't been news for a long time. Here's what Bill Gates said in 1998 about software piracy (about 9 years ago):
"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." -- Bill Gates at University of Washington "town hall" meeting in 1998
So, no, despite what TFA says, it is not the case that Raikes' words "do not appear to echo the sentiments of his company..."
Right. The term 'computer science' has become so muddled because people confuse applied computer science (computer information systems) with actual computer science. Computer science is pure science -- solving the hard problems to advance computing technology. People who have programming or computer engineering jobs are NOT computer scientists any more than mechanical engineers are physicists or pharmacists are chemists. Not that CS majors don't get jobs in the computer information systems arena, just as many physics majors go off and do engineering jobs. But the work of a software engineer just ain't science.
There's actually a wealth of mobile telephony and PDA APIs and applications available for Linux. Check out the software page on TuxMobil -- this kind of software is still somewhat in its infancy, but if you're interested in Linux on embedded devices -- heck, why not join in the development process and help out?
Say what you will about Windows on the desktop, but the homogenization of the desktop OS is one of the main things that accelerated the growth of the PC. I'm not saying that it would be good for the mobile market by any stretch of the imagination -- one of the reasons we have so many OSes is that we have so many devices, each targeted at different tasks.
However, in my mind only one OS could possibly fill the bill for all mobile devices, and that's Linux. Linux is easily and readily modifiable, not just by license, but by the way it's grown into a modular kernel that's fairly platform agnostic these days, one that can be stripped down to the tiniest sizes if necessary.
If I had one mobile OS to choose from -- well, Linux would be it. And it's not just because I'm a Linux-using geek, but because it really is the best tool for the job.
Yeah, I mean, screw it. Who cares about security vulnerabilities, viruses and spyware? If we did, none of us would be using Windows, that's for sure... ;)
Not quite.
4GB is the max size for a FAT16 drive. 2GB is the max file size for FAT32. (Trust me, I know from practical experience in trying to move large Oracle dumps via a FAT32-formatted USB drive, and I was there for the 4 GB FAT16 limit.)