Actually the rules are based on Wattage, not distance. Distance tends to depend more on line of sight than anything else.
I believe the unlicensed limit at a given frequency is 1-watt....
Whereas a local station here in Buffalo, NY (WGR) broadcasts at 50,000 Watts (though it can be picked up in Rochester, seventy miles away with a decent antenna).
Well this is probably less economically sensible than you think. Why?
Well quite frankly unless you need to fit your cluster in the trunk of your car, it's expensive processing power. Sure it has its benefits for industry applications (no moving parts, PC104, etc.), but really, you're looking at a weak system for database purposes.
For ~$279 or so I can get a box that runs linux great with similar specs, but 3-4 times the processing power (Duron 1200Mhz). Also, RAM is essential for any sort of volume database serving. Fast RAM is better. These are really quite terrible with only 128 @ 100 or 133 Mhz.
Now aside from this. 32 of these would cost $10k or so. A Few very fast $1500 machines (say four them) would undoubtedly and every time beat these little boxen for 60% of the price in a clustering arrangement (Think T-Bred/Whatever-the-newest-P4 arch is, 1gig DDR333/RDRAM, ATA133 Disks)...
Who the heck would run a database on 4200RPM laptop drives or (even worse) CompactFlash anyhow?
what onslaught of DRM? you'd be hard pressed to find a processor with DRM today or even next year (unless you count a P3 with the ID disabled).
I've been building computers for eight or nine years now and nave never used one. I've never blown a component by not using one either. In fact, the only way I've ever had a component die is from overheating or bad set up (I killed a CPU once upon a time on a motherboard with jumpers by setting it up _very_ badly.
Instead of the strap, I keep a running computer nearby and touch the metal part of the case every two minutes or so to dissipate static discharge. I also do this whenever dealing with particularly sensitive components (memory, cpu, motherboard).
I think 75% of the banner ads I have clicked on have been leading me to thinkgeek.
Some of them have even resulted in purchases. The difference between that and 95% of what's out there is that I know thinkgeek and what it is. I'm not being attracted to the company but to the product advertised. I know the company is reputable and that if I really want the product, I've just found a good place to get it from.
This is very different than click the money and similar scams of that nature. Unfortunately these people can still afford to do it so they must be doing something right.
Targeted, targeted at past customers is even better. If the coke ad makes me go get a coke then I'm gonna need one to go replace it. Ads don't attract new customers in the real world, they jsut enhance familiarity with a brand name.
Why would they switch when Jabber offers little or no apparent advantage?
These are not generally the type of people who think choice is good in software. They'd rather have the "Official Jabber Client" than any of the dozen or so viable ones out there.
And why the heck would someone who dials up AOL for their net access use anything else?
It's one thing to being people to instant messaging, but it's quite another to advocate a switch in systems when they're all comparable...
again choice and openness aren't arguments for these people. Sure I care, but they don't. Jabber really has nothing to offer them over AIM.
Sure, it's open, technically sound, and having some rockin features for certain users (such as multiple locations), but these aren't the type of people i'm talking about. Jabber isn't easy enough yet and the switch wouldn't be worth the effort for them...
The switch would't be worth the effort for me. I'd have no use for the client once emerged. Noone to talk to. Round and Round we go.
Still you're comparing apples and oranges as the parent to my previous post was. Getting people to come to instant messaging by offering a specific client is not the same as saying "ok. you're already in instant messaging, now switch clients."
People. WinGaim is ALPHA. That means it's less stable/robust/tested than even BETA which is less stable/robust/tested then a production release.
It can't be compared to Trillian or AIM or anything else because it's a pre-pre-pre-pre-release.
A comparison of gAIM for Linux to Trillian would be fair..but complaining about the ugliness of the interface is unreasonable--are you too stupid to realize that GUI issues are the biggest problem in a port?
Come on. There's a good three dozen posts here saying WinGaim is bad because it doesn't do this well. If you downloaded it expecting to use it then you were wrong in downloading it.
Doesn't everyone know that alpha releases aren't actually meant to be used in the RealWorld(tm)?
It's an unfair comparison. GAIM is a piece of software and jabber is a spec.
Either you're asking how's gaim better than or you're asking how is the oscar spec better than the jabber spec.
Personally, I am one with many non-tech friends and relatives who are already on AOL or AIM. If I use jabber only, then how do I communicate with them? I know *not a single person* (whom I've met in person that is--internet people don't count) who uses jabber and only know a few who even know what it is.
An IM system is pretty pointless when there's noone to talk to, at least from a personal perspective. If everyone I knew was on MSN I'd be firing up an MSN messenger client. AIM is easier for my windows-bound friends so It's what I use too.
Patents serve an important purpose though they are misused for software. If it weren't for patents, a company with a unique idea wouldn't have the legal footing to manufacture it and grow before a conglomerate with money to spare would reverse-engineer the product and develop an improved version in half time time, squashing the company and inventor. This grows monopolies which is bad.
Also, if it weren't for patents, certain things that are possibly not so easy to reverse engineer would all remain trade secrets. Why give away your methods when you can just keep them secret? You're publicising the information in return for exclusive rights for seventeen or twenty years. Sure, in the short run, you have control, but in the long term more knowledge becomes more public.
The reasons that they don't work for software is because first of all the turnover time in the software industry is so much faster than anywhere else. In the personal computer industry that's barely thirty years old, a twenty year patent is a long time.
The vast majority of coding is not dealing with library interfaces. Actually, in project I'm currently working on, only one module actually calls any system functions and that module was written in a matter of eight hours or so. Once it froze, no more system/library calls. Everything to be done is added functionality.
I can't think of an area where it's more neccesary to be alert as GUI (I only mention this because of the mention of the gecko engine). When working with a GUI, the first thing that happens when I get tired is that my interfaces get less robust. I stop writing tooltips, figuring I can do it later even though I best understand it now, I decide on a few extra buttons instead of doinga menu the right way, etc.
Easy coding? Well the real world isn't like programming class. Yes it's fairly trivial to write an ftp client (especially with a library to help), but then again it doesn't take twelve hours either, so how are you going to even come close to overtiredness doing it. If it's a big ftp client then there's obviously aded functionality to make it a nontrivial task so it isn't easy coding anymore.
What's the use of citing mozilla to make a weak point? The poor speling and grammar doesn't help either. The weak assumption that "they are all written the same way" is equally unbearable.
Real coding requires hours of rest. If I work a 13+ hour day, I won't be doing it tomorrow. Breaks help, lunch helps, going for a walk helps (x+x=walking to lunch). The code is better and you make fewer syntax/silly errors. When well rested I make none. When I get tired, the semicolons strt escaping me. This happens much more when I am going back and forth between languages (py/c)....
but we're not doing hundreds of times, just reencoding once, which IMHO doesn't sound too bad if you've already accepted the shortcomings of mp3 compared to PCM or LP....
Jpeg is considerably worse if you really think about it. How many encodings does it take to reduce to an all white or all black pane again?
Because it introduces distortion. even though both are lossy, mp3 is theoretically at least not introducing loss by design, but by space compromise.
If you like your 3db gain then go download sox and add it to your encode path (a simple shell script should be able to pipe data around to make you a super mp3 encoder)
Tis fairly uncommon for large, high profile sites to experience a hiccup when slashdot hits. Even most virtually hosted sites seem to eb able to take it.
The slashdot effect is getting rarer and rarer as bandwidth goes up and the slashdot user base doesn't grow proportionally.
What was that about only selling to "responsible, funny, talented people."
Clearly he doesn't want to tarnish the site with weak humor so it won't be accepting submissions. It also seems as if he'd rather not be doing any maintenence.
looks like it ain't happening. Why don't YOU make an open humor site? easy enough to do...
Seconding that, Steak'n'Shake has great Vanilla syrup for their fountain drinks--have them add a pump of it to coke or root beer and you'll be glad you did.
Vanilla coke tastes similar to that but more subdued, slimy, and chemical. I don't reccomend it...it's too sweet too.
It depends more on who bottles it locally whether you can get it locally. It's strange but some products bottled by Pepsi in one place are bottled by Coke in another. This means that if your local bottling plant drops a flavor you won't be able to get it, but whoever makes surge is still filling tanker trucks...
Brian
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Uh...It almost seems like that's a porting direction, not something that the manager of a huge multi-OS project should even need to know about. If a porting team wishes to do a kernel module-ized perl interpreter, then so be it (though the technical limitations of kernel modules, as well as the whole running in kernel space thing makes it nearly impossible and hardly stable, not to mention memory inefficient).
It's pretty clear by your post that you've never actually written a kernel module and don't understand the kernel-space/user-space division clearly enough. There's good O'Reilly books on kernel module writing. I suggest you read one, they really did a lot for me.
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I highly doubt that. He's married with kids AND a faithful christian. It's hard to do that when you're gay, especially the last one (note that I didn't say *catholic*)
I'd really like to know Larry's answer to this one (MOD PARENT UP). I am a Christian and a technological person myself so perhaps I can shed some light, though I'd still like to see what he has to say about it.
What are the requisites for a technical mind? Well, first one must at least for the most part operate on logic. This is where people often eliminate the Bible. the Bible says many things, some of them supported by science, and some that science has theorized to disprove.
Many of these things seem too much to be true. Assuming physics is 100% accurate (as much of a mistake as assuming chemistry is 100% accurate or any other science for that matter), then these things don't quite line up. Certain biblical occurences just don't add up with physics. Of course, phyhsicists are always revising their observations, and most laws assume ideal conditions to begin with. Our knowledge is not as developed in these fields as we seem to think it is, though it enables us to do incredible things.
Note: I'm not attempting to make an argument here...primarily just showing my path of logic between, well, logic and faith.
Now. With faith in God, I can accept any occurence. Physics has exceptions just as everything else has exceptions.
The thing is that I know I won't be able to make a clean path of logic between the two sides of me. That's where faith jumps in. Personally, I know that there is a God. I know it because I've felt his presence and his power, have seen his work in/through others. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you're not going to logic your way to God, only God your way to logic.
God is the assumed condition. Once I had reasonable reason to believe that he exists, I sought out more reasons to believe and eventually that belief became solid, then I worked from him to fill the gaps.
Hard to understand if you haven't done it. I'm in a strange position as I wasn't brought up christian, but found faith during high school, so I know lind of where you're coming from. I used to think God impossible, but now I'm as steadfast as ever.
People change. I did...I'm still very logical, very literal, somewhat rigid even. I am still very technically capable. There were no negative effects I can assure you that. I still read things that I disagree with because I like following the logic and like seeing opposing viewpoints. I'm always challenging my faith and it always comes out on top. It proves itself to this day.
Please PLEASE don't mod this flamebait. I'm trying to provide insight to the question and these moderators have this tendency to see the word God and scream flamebait.
Apple is really trying to satisfy two groups of people with OSX. The first is the OS9 people, and the second is unix people. OSX is lightyears ahead of KDE (which is what I'm using now). I'm also not against compiling apps I need that are written sufficiently unix-y for FreeBSD (even if I have to run an X server). That makes OSX very attractive. Unix OS with a nice GUI. This is something that hasn't happened in a while.
The OS9 people are in love with, what I have found to be, an inferior and dated Operating System. I worked as a support tech at a school full of iMacs for a year and everything about troubleshooing them was a pain. They didn't play nice on the network, wouldn't fileshare with the windows server (though this is theoretically supported) and when something went wrong with networking, It was gonna be a few hours of switching settings around or finding out which new iMac decided to steal this IP or whatever. They would freeze up in netscape all the time. Heck, printing didn't even work right (they were talking to PostScript print servers. How hard can it be?). They're clinging to the idiosyncrasies of a system that's twenty years old and that they've been using that long. Just like people will always cling to their start menu.
For those of us that are more accustomed to switching GUIs and those of us who have a very wide range of work habits (i.e. more than Word/Excel/IE/Outlook/Kazaa) are going to welcome a cleaner GUI on top of the same unix we know and love.
If you're satisfied with OS9 and it's shortcomings then USE OS9. Nothing's stopping you. For those of us who want a more modern core and a true unix environment, this is the right way to go...
as to the hardware cost (the ONLY reason I have no macosx box), The controlled nature of Mac's hardware is part of why the OS is so stable. PCs are so different. Some hardware does funny things and a lot of time an inherently unstable system can be caused by the hardware. My MB Chipset and GFX card don't play nice. I know this. It hardfreezes. Noone tested the config I picked when I built by system (And subsequently upgraded it). Who knows if it's all stable? Mac knows all their hardware is going to play nice.
I think the premium is a bit much to pay for that. I would gladly accept a mac with lower specs and no support if it meant a significant drop in price and it could be easily upgraded later...but this whole single SDRAM expansion slot means you need lots of built in RAM, making that course impractical. There should be a cheaper way to get performance out of a mac (since for ~$1500 I can build a screaming fast PC complete with RAID and DVD burning. Tack on a few $ for the monitor and I'm looking at a computer five times as fast as their highest level iMac--and I don't even want a DVD burner).
and what's with the SDRAM? why not something faster...some PPC architecture analog to DDR or at that price...rambus
I know that many ads for food depend on the fact that many people already have some in the house. Face it, if that lays add causes you to go grab some chips out of the pantry then you'll have to buy more and will be eating it at a higher rate. Advertisers advertise both to get new customers and to make the old customers more profitable...
Why do you think wine was so popular back in more ancient times?
Alcohol makes water safe. If your liquid has alcohol then it's not going to kill you (well. not exactly true, but you get the point, from a medevil point of view anyways)...
Same goes in other countries. Asians drink tea for the same reason...
According to This Site, Ximian Connector allows Evolution to be a client to an MS exchange server...there's half the battle....Evolution is great IMHO. I use it as my primary business email/contact/calander/palm sync program and it does it all very well...
Connector is $69 a seat, which is considerably cheaper than Outlook (Office)...so Evolution+Openoffice+$69 could actually mean Office/Exchange Capability and lower costs.
Granted it's not free, but at least it's cheap(er). and it supports Gnome development (which is a good thing, even though I'm a KDEer myself)...
You *can* give root ownership of said file and remove global write access.
You can do this recursively.
You can do this for directories.
root doesn't need to own guest directory just files within. Try it
man chown man chmod
and see what I mean. Believe me. What you think is a problem is *completely* dealt with by anything with a POSIX set of utilities (chmod,chown)
as to Mozilla, there's a plugins directory. There's a skins directory. Disallow write permissions to them, but leave cache open. Or even better, disallow read and write to everything (including mozilla) except for cache that way all they can get to is cache and only if they specifically request it.
yes and lets see what's involved in keeping the system updated on a day-to-day basis...in debian
well, run an APT machine at the office that keeps itself updated daily a few hours ahead of the rest of the office...serve Packages.gz and the tarballs themselves to the rest of them so they can do update/upgrade every night at 1am or something...
similarly with gentoo, use a head server to do the downloading first so you don't hit a bandwidth crunch when they all try and get the same packages at the same time. Then do an update at night of whatever is needed (world may not even be that bad if you keep up on a nightly basis, but it would be wiser to do something more security oriented, which is probably already implemented somewhere in emerge).
Voila, all your systems update *themselves* automatically...
It's not without its flaws, but it solves your immediate problem. urpmi could be made to do the same thing I'm pretty sure (though I've never had contact with it), and so could apt-rpm. The user doesn't even have to know their system is being updated or reboot.
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Actually the rules are based on Wattage, not distance. Distance tends to depend more on line of sight than anything else.
I believe the unlicensed limit at a given frequency is 1-watt....
Whereas a local station here in Buffalo, NY (WGR) broadcasts at 50,000 Watts (though it can be picked up in Rochester, seventy miles away with a decent antenna).
Brian
uhmm...
Well this is probably less economically sensible than you think. Why?
Well quite frankly unless you need to fit your cluster in the trunk of your car, it's expensive processing power. Sure it has its benefits for industry applications (no moving parts, PC104, etc.), but really, you're looking at a weak system for database purposes.
For ~$279 or so I can get a box that runs linux great with similar specs, but 3-4 times the processing power (Duron 1200Mhz). Also, RAM is essential for any sort of volume database serving. Fast RAM is better. These are really quite terrible with only 128 @ 100 or 133 Mhz.
Now aside from this. 32 of these would cost $10k or so. A Few very fast $1500 machines (say four them) would undoubtedly and every time beat these little boxen for 60% of the price in a clustering arrangement (Think T-Bred/Whatever-the-newest-P4 arch is, 1gig DDR333/RDRAM, ATA133 Disks)...
Who the heck would run a database on 4200RPM laptop drives or (even worse) CompactFlash anyhow?
what onslaught of DRM? you'd be hard pressed to find a processor with DRM today or even next year (unless you count a P3 with the ID disabled).
Brian
you VASTLY overestimate the average slashdotter...
Brian
I've been building computers for eight or nine years now and nave never used one. I've never blown a component by not using one either. In fact, the only way I've ever had a component die is from overheating or bad set up (I killed a CPU once upon a time on a motherboard with jumpers by setting it up _very_ badly.
Instead of the strap, I keep a running computer nearby and touch the metal part of the case every two minutes or so to dissipate static discharge. I also do this whenever dealing with particularly sensitive components (memory, cpu, motherboard).
This has always worked. So what's with the strap?
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I think 75% of the banner ads I have clicked on have been leading me to thinkgeek.
Some of them have even resulted in purchases. The difference between that and 95% of what's out there is that I know thinkgeek and what it is. I'm not being attracted to the company but to the product advertised. I know the company is reputable and that if I really want the product, I've just found a good place to get it from.
This is very different than click the money and similar scams of that nature. Unfortunately these people can still afford to do it so they must be doing something right.
Targeted, targeted at past customers is even better. If the coke ad makes me go get a coke then I'm gonna need one to go replace it. Ads don't attract new customers in the real world, they jsut enhance familiarity with a brand name.
Why should it be any different online?
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Why would they switch when Jabber offers little or no apparent advantage?
These are not generally the type of people who think choice is good in software. They'd rather have the "Official Jabber Client" than any of the dozen or so viable ones out there.
And why the heck would someone who dials up AOL for their net access use anything else?
It's one thing to being people to instant messaging, but it's quite another to advocate a switch in systems when they're all comparable...
again choice and openness aren't arguments for these people. Sure I care, but they don't. Jabber really has nothing to offer them over AIM.
Sure, it's open, technically sound, and having some rockin features for certain users (such as multiple locations), but these aren't the type of people i'm talking about. Jabber isn't easy enough yet and the switch wouldn't be worth the effort for them...
The switch would't be worth the effort for me. I'd have no use for the client once emerged. Noone to talk to. Round and Round we go.
Still you're comparing apples and oranges as the parent to my previous post was. Getting people to come to instant messaging by offering a specific client is not the same as saying "ok. you're already in instant messaging, now switch clients."
Brian
People. WinGaim is ALPHA. That means it's less stable/robust/tested than even BETA which is less stable/robust/tested then a production release.
It can't be compared to Trillian or AIM or anything else because it's a pre-pre-pre-pre-release.
A comparison of gAIM for Linux to Trillian would be fair..but complaining about the ugliness of the interface is unreasonable--are you too stupid to realize that GUI issues are the biggest problem in a port?
Come on. There's a good three dozen posts here saying WinGaim is bad because it doesn't do this well. If you downloaded it expecting to use it then you were wrong in downloading it.
Doesn't everyone know that alpha releases aren't actually meant to be used in the RealWorld(tm)?
Brian
It's an unfair comparison. GAIM is a piece of software and jabber is a spec.
Either you're asking how's gaim better than or you're asking how is the oscar spec better than the jabber spec.
Personally, I am one with many non-tech friends and relatives who are already on AOL or AIM. If I use jabber only, then how do I communicate with them? I know *not a single person* (whom I've met in person that is--internet people don't count) who uses jabber and only know a few who even know what it is.
An IM system is pretty pointless when there's noone to talk to, at least from a personal perspective. If everyone I knew was on MSN I'd be firing up an MSN messenger client. AIM is easier for my windows-bound friends so It's what I use too.
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dont' know why i'm wasting time on an AC
Patents serve an important purpose though they are misused for software. If it weren't for patents, a company with a unique idea wouldn't have the legal footing to manufacture it and grow before a conglomerate with money to spare would reverse-engineer the product and develop an improved version in half time time, squashing the company and inventor. This grows monopolies which is bad.
Also, if it weren't for patents, certain things that are possibly not so easy to reverse engineer would all remain trade secrets. Why give away your methods when you can just keep them secret? You're publicising the information in return for exclusive rights for seventeen or twenty years. Sure, in the short run, you have control, but in the long term more knowledge becomes more public.
The reasons that they don't work for software is because first of all the turnover time in the software industry is so much faster than anywhere else. In the personal computer industry that's barely thirty years old, a twenty year patent is a long time.
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The vast majority of coding is not dealing with library interfaces. Actually, in project I'm currently working on, only one module actually calls any system functions and that module was written in a matter of eight hours or so. Once it froze, no more system/library calls. Everything to be done is added functionality.
I can't think of an area where it's more neccesary to be alert as GUI (I only mention this because of the mention of the gecko engine). When working with a GUI, the first thing that happens when I get tired is that my interfaces get less robust. I stop writing tooltips, figuring I can do it later even though I best understand it now, I decide on a few extra buttons instead of doinga menu the right way, etc.
Easy coding? Well the real world isn't like programming class. Yes it's fairly trivial to write an ftp client (especially with a library to help), but then again it doesn't take twelve hours either, so how are you going to even come close to overtiredness doing it. If it's a big ftp client then there's obviously aded functionality to make it a nontrivial task so it isn't easy coding anymore.
What's the use of citing mozilla to make a weak point? The poor speling and grammar doesn't help either. The weak assumption that "they are all written the same way" is equally unbearable.
Real coding requires hours of rest. If I work a 13+ hour day, I won't be doing it tomorrow. Breaks help, lunch helps, going for a walk helps (x+x=walking to lunch). The code is better and you make fewer syntax/silly errors. When well rested I make none. When I get tired, the semicolons strt escaping me. This happens much more when I am going back and forth between languages (py/c)....
Again, this is a silly set of points....
why isn't there a -1,Moronic?
Brian
but we're not doing hundreds of times, just reencoding once, which IMHO doesn't sound too bad if you've already accepted the shortcomings of mp3 compared to PCM or LP....
Jpeg is considerably worse if you really think about it. How many encodings does it take to reduce to an all white or all black pane again?
Brian
Because it introduces distortion. even though both are lossy, mp3 is theoretically at least not introducing loss by design, but by space compromise.
If you like your 3db gain then go download sox and add it to your encode path (a simple shell script should be able to pipe data around to make you a super mp3 encoder)
Brian
Tis fairly uncommon for large, high profile sites to experience a hiccup when slashdot hits. Even most virtually hosted sites seem to eb able to take it.
The slashdot effect is getting rarer and rarer as bandwidth goes up and the slashdot user base doesn't grow proportionally.
Silly redundancy...
Brian
What was that about only selling to "responsible, funny, talented people."
Clearly he doesn't want to tarnish the site with weak humor so it won't be accepting submissions. It also seems as if he'd rather not be doing any maintenence.
looks like it ain't happening. Why don't YOU make an open humor site? easy enough to do...
Brian
Seconding that, Steak'n'Shake has great Vanilla syrup for their fountain drinks--have them add a pump of it to coke or root beer and you'll be glad you did.
Vanilla coke tastes similar to that but more subdued, slimy, and chemical. I don't reccomend it...it's too sweet too.
Brian
It depends more on who bottles it locally whether you can get it locally. It's strange but some products bottled by Pepsi in one place are bottled by Coke in another. This means that if your local bottling plant drops a flavor you won't be able to get it, but whoever makes surge is still filling tanker trucks...
Brian
Uh...It almost seems like that's a porting direction, not something that the manager of a huge multi-OS project should even need to know about. If a porting team wishes to do a kernel module-ized perl interpreter, then so be it (though the technical limitations of kernel modules, as well as the whole running in kernel space thing makes it nearly impossible and hardly stable, not to mention memory inefficient).
It's pretty clear by your post that you've never actually written a kernel module and don't understand the kernel-space/user-space division clearly enough. There's good O'Reilly books on kernel module writing. I suggest you read one, they really did a lot for me.
Brian
I highly doubt that. He's married with kids AND a faithful christian. It's hard to do that when you're gay, especially the last one (note that I didn't say *catholic*)
Brian
I'd really like to know Larry's answer to this one (MOD PARENT UP). I am a Christian and a technological person myself so perhaps I can shed some light, though I'd still like to see what he has to say about it.
What are the requisites for a technical mind? Well, first one must at least for the most part operate on logic. This is where people often eliminate the Bible. the Bible says many things, some of them supported by science, and some that science has theorized to disprove.
Many of these things seem too much to be true. Assuming physics is 100% accurate (as much of a mistake as assuming chemistry is 100% accurate or any other science for that matter), then these things don't quite line up. Certain biblical occurences just don't add up with physics. Of course, phyhsicists are always revising their observations, and most laws assume ideal conditions to begin with. Our knowledge is not as developed in these fields as we seem to think it is, though it enables us to do incredible things.
Note: I'm not attempting to make an argument here...primarily just showing my path of logic between, well, logic and faith.
Now. With faith in God, I can accept any occurence. Physics has exceptions just as everything else has exceptions.
The thing is that I know I won't be able to make a clean path of logic between the two sides of me. That's where faith jumps in. Personally, I know that there is a God. I know it because I've felt his presence and his power, have seen his work in/through others. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you're not going to logic your way to God, only God your way to logic.
God is the assumed condition. Once I had reasonable reason to believe that he exists, I sought out more reasons to believe and eventually that belief became solid, then I worked from him to fill the gaps.
Hard to understand if you haven't done it. I'm in a strange position as I wasn't brought up christian, but found faith during high school, so I know lind of where you're coming from. I used to think God impossible, but now I'm as steadfast as ever.
People change. I did...I'm still very logical, very literal, somewhat rigid even. I am still very technically capable. There were no negative effects I can assure you that. I still read things that I disagree with because I like following the logic and like seeing opposing viewpoints. I'm always challenging my faith and it always comes out on top. It proves itself to this day.
Please PLEASE don't mod this flamebait. I'm trying to provide insight to the question and these moderators have this tendency to see the word God and scream flamebait.
Brian
Apple is really trying to satisfy two groups of people with OSX. The first is the OS9 people, and the second is unix people. OSX is lightyears ahead of KDE (which is what I'm using now). I'm also not against compiling apps I need that are written sufficiently unix-y for FreeBSD (even if I have to run an X server). That makes OSX very attractive. Unix OS with a nice GUI. This is something that hasn't happened in a while.
The OS9 people are in love with, what I have found to be, an inferior and dated Operating System. I worked as a support tech at a school full of iMacs for a year and everything about troubleshooing them was a pain. They didn't play nice on the network, wouldn't fileshare with the windows server (though this is theoretically supported) and when something went wrong with networking, It was gonna be a few hours of switching settings around or finding out which new iMac decided to steal this IP or whatever. They would freeze up in netscape all the time. Heck, printing didn't even work right (they were talking to PostScript print servers. How hard can it be?). They're clinging to the idiosyncrasies of a system that's twenty years old and that they've been using that long. Just like people will always cling to their start menu.
For those of us that are more accustomed to switching GUIs and those of us who have a very wide range of work habits (i.e. more than Word/Excel/IE/Outlook/Kazaa) are going to welcome a cleaner GUI on top of the same unix we know and love.
If you're satisfied with OS9 and it's shortcomings then USE OS9. Nothing's stopping you. For those of us who want a more modern core and a true unix environment, this is the right way to go...
as to the hardware cost (the ONLY reason I have no macosx box), The controlled nature of Mac's hardware is part of why the OS is so stable. PCs are so different. Some hardware does funny things and a lot of time an inherently unstable system can be caused by the hardware. My MB Chipset and GFX card don't play nice. I know this. It hardfreezes. Noone tested the config I picked when I built by system (And subsequently upgraded it). Who knows if it's all stable? Mac knows all their hardware is going to play nice.
I think the premium is a bit much to pay for that. I would gladly accept a mac with lower specs and no support if it meant a significant drop in price and it could be easily upgraded later...but this whole single SDRAM expansion slot means you need lots of built in RAM, making that course impractical. There should be a cheaper way to get performance out of a mac (since for ~$1500 I can build a screaming fast PC complete with RAID and DVD burning. Tack on a few $ for the monitor and I'm looking at a computer five times as fast as their highest level iMac--and I don't even want a DVD burner).
and what's with the SDRAM? why not something faster...some PPC architecture analog to DDR or at that price...rambus
Brian
I know that many ads for food depend on the fact that many people already have some in the house. Face it, if that lays add causes you to go grab some chips out of the pantry then you'll have to buy more and will be eating it at a higher rate. Advertisers advertise both to get new customers and to make the old customers more profitable...
Brian
Why do you think wine was so popular back in more ancient times?
Alcohol makes water safe. If your liquid has alcohol then it's not going to kill you (well. not exactly true, but you get the point, from a medevil point of view anyways)...
Same goes in other countries. Asians drink tea for the same reason...
Brian
According to This Site, Ximian Connector allows Evolution to be a client to an MS exchange server...there's half the battle....Evolution is great IMHO. I use it as my primary business email/contact/calander/palm sync program and it does it all very well...
Connector is $69 a seat, which is considerably cheaper than Outlook (Office)...so Evolution+Openoffice+$69 could actually mean Office/Exchange Capability and lower costs.
Granted it's not free, but at least it's cheap(er). and it supports Gnome development (which is a good thing, even though I'm a KDEer myself)...
Brian
Uh still wrong.
You *can* give root ownership of said file and remove global write access.
You can do this recursively.
You can do this for directories.
root doesn't need to own guest directory just files within. Try it
man chown
man chmod
and see what I mean. Believe me. What you think is a problem is *completely* dealt with by anything with a POSIX set of utilities (chmod,chown)
as to Mozilla, there's a plugins directory. There's a skins directory. Disallow write permissions to them, but leave cache open. Or even better, disallow read and write to everything (including mozilla) except for cache that way all they can get to is cache and only if they specifically request it.
Again, this is a non-issue.
Brian
yes and lets see what's involved in keeping the system updated on a day-to-day basis...in debian
well, run an APT machine at the office that keeps itself updated daily a few hours ahead of the rest of the office...serve Packages.gz and the tarballs themselves to the rest of them so they can do update/upgrade every night at 1am or something...
similarly with gentoo, use a head server to do the downloading first so you don't hit a bandwidth crunch when they all try and get the same packages at the same time. Then do an update at night of whatever is needed (world may not even be that bad if you keep up on a nightly basis, but it would be wiser to do something more security oriented, which is probably already implemented somewhere in emerge).
Voila, all your systems update *themselves* automatically...
It's not without its flaws, but it solves your immediate problem. urpmi could be made to do the same thing I'm pretty sure (though I've never had contact with it), and so could apt-rpm. The user doesn't even have to know their system is being updated or reboot.
Brian