well your personal views tragically do not coincide with the law. This isn't civil obedience but theft. Note the difference.
You are a criminal, like it or not. We live in a country where everyone is to some degree (Ever gone over the speed limit?), but you are potentially liable for some pretty hefty fines if/when you get caught.
Go Directly to Jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
It's not a crime for the company until it's convicted and the punishment for the crime is the punishment for the crime. Only Microsoft has been convicted of anything and they will have paid their retribution and everyone will get on with their lives. To continue to punish them after their government-sanctioned punishment is unjust, whether or not you view their punishment as just or whether you recognize the current regime as legitamate.
Of course, if you just want your music and M$ software then go forth and pirate, but don't claim righteousness in your pirating.
Now that we can have (massively?) increased storage capacity per square inch, shouldn't we start seeing hard disks in the 3.5" form factor that are really 4+ way RAID volumes with a builtin hardware driver to make it behave as a normal disk would? That way you'd get basically what you have now but MUCH more reliably and maybe even a little more capacity. (depending on the massiveness of the change this development can cause in size/data ratio)
Running a PC or a 1U web server on a single hard disk is making for an awfully large failure point if it dies--it's the least replaceable component cause of data loss and they die a lot. Introducing redundancy at this level could help a lot with that issue (and help high density multicomputer serving become more reliable and fault tolerant)
On average I spend $14.99 a month on online music (emusic.com--great if you're not into pop). I also probably spend about $30 on CDs (2 cds or so) and maybe buy a DVD.
now, on emusic I can download whatever I want (so long as it's available...lots is and lots isn't)--as much as I can fit through my (modest) pipe each month. I can sit down, Queue up a few hundred songs for download and have them by morning.
this is what we need...just with better selection. I'd pay $25 a month for that easily--if it meant I didn't have to buy CDs cause I could just get the stuff and burn it myself. I'd probably still buy a CD from time to time anyways.
They are too concentrated on gouging the user to think of something that simple.
I've been running Linux exclusively for years. I've rolled my own, I've tried more distributions than I can count on my fingers. I can assure you of one thing: For the average user, Linux isn't faster.
It has better stats in every area--bandwidth (disk/memory/etc), FS performance, and at server tasks (besides simple page serving) it seem to go far and beyond Windows.
I recently got a (free and legal) copy of winXP pro through work. I picked up another disk and decided to try it out (since I haven't had appreciable contact with Windows since 95/98). I am a composer and I have a need for finale (the only win software that I use). Up until now I had been using an antiquated win98 machine (p3-500, etc.) for it and it was useable, mostly since finale is so darn stable. Anyhow, I decided to install windows on my main workhorse (xp2100+,etc) as a dualboot to try it out.
User interface responsiveness is easily 100% better on windows. Same machine, same disk, etc.
for the record, I've compiled all my linux packages with quite the regimen of optimizations and no extra daemons/etc. that could be eating resources (yes, I'm a gentoo user--and I only compile what I intend to use).
Anyhow, that was longwinded, but the point is, the Linux is faster argument doesn't hold up on the desktop. The user interface is pitifully slow in comparison. Sure, windows is a heck of a lot messier to code in (makes me glad I use Linux at work), but for general ui tasks, windows is faster and better.
Right now I flip back and forth (on this box it takes about twenty seconds to reboot into one or the other) daily. Linux for DVDs and CD burning, email, etc....Windows for music software, and it's working out well.
Unfortunately, Windows is the best on the desktop. Maybe not for me or you, but for Grandma it is. I don't mind the little delays in Linux. At this point, I don't need Linux or Windows for anything, I could use either (this coming from a Linux user who said he'd never use Windows again a few years back)...Microsoft's improved upon itself
First of all, the inappropriate response is to continue stealing music (in larger quantities) in response to the fee. Like it or not, it is illegal and you're not helping yourself out any by doing that. The fee is not morally right and I doubt very much that it would stand up in court.
I do not steal music. I do not own a copy of kazaa, limewire, bearshare, etc. I pay $10 a mont h for a subscription to emusic.com and download my tunes *legally* there. If you're stealing the music then you really have no ground to stand on if you want to oppose the fee cause you're legally indebted to the RIAA for the stolen files. It is those who obtain music online legally or not at all who would be the true victims, not all you kazaa junkies who think it's morally different to allow one upload at a timerather than ten.
We have something like this in NY but there's improvements on the Turnpike concept here:
IIRC the NYS Thruway system includes the following:
the Thruway (Rt. 90) Bridges (In NYC and buffalo) The erie canal other highways (the 190,290,390,490,590,more?)
Only the bridges and the 90 are toll. They pay for the rest. Also, the 90 is not a toll road within the city of Buffalo and the first ring of suburbs (it doesn't go into NYC so things are different there)--sure there's some commuter backup at the last toll barrier but for the most part things stay clear and theres never more than a 30sec-2min wait at any given exit.
What we get for it are good rest stops every half hour or so, one of the safest and well maintained roads in the country (Wakeup bars, shiny reflectors on both sides of the road, big (hundreds of feet wide) medians)...and it always gets cleared quickly when the good ol snow hits.
I have an easypass cause I drive to rochester (from buffalo) a couple of times a week and dealing with coins is a major hassle (Paid the 1.30 toll with twenty pennies, a dime and a dollar once)...It really makes it convenient.
I usually don't like systems like that (my father refuses to use it), but then again he doesn't use the thruway 10% as much as I do...
I'm ok with all this cause the road is very very good and relatively safe too.
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Hold on...
It's one thing to celebrate the female body. There's nothign wrong with this. Viewing art or artistic photography of females in order to better appreciate their intrinsic beauty is not dishonorable at all by the word of the bible.
Unfortunately, most people who view such materials don't do it in that fashion. I'd like you to explain to me how a picture of a young woman wearing a (sad excuse for a) shirt that says "slut" or some similar deroguatory term while sticking a banana up her you know what has anything to do with art.
Essentially, if you engage in sexual self stimulation while imaging having rapturous intercourse (or other sexual activity) with the pictured woman, you are using it in the wrong way. Looking upon another man's wife in that fashion is "adultery" just as true anger (not righteous anger which is dealt with seperately) is "murder."
There's no biblical anything to justify viewing pornography the way 99% of the viewing populace does. Sure some people genuinely enjoy that stuff for the right reasons. They also buy the books (Which are available on amazon.com) of incredibly artisticly photographed nudes and enjoy it in that fashion.
Lets say the Linux kernel develops a vulnerability (noo, never). So they tell Linus. What happens next? All the developers related to the problem have to discuss the problem somehow, and lkml is very very public.
Ok so the kernel people might be able to keep quiet, but what about a smaller project that's more in the open and less critical? Sourceforge lists are public, so are CVS commits..
This really only works with closed software. Open source stuff has such a public development process that keeping it quiet is next to impossible.
A few months ago I bought a Clie N760 (before the NR70 or NX70 came out)...It was basically the top of the line from sony at the time and the mp3 functionality weas the prime motivator...
Basically now I have a very expensive MP3 player with a few addictive games. Yeah I throw addresses and such into it, but mostly because I don't have anything as convenient on my PC (though the thing lives near my pc unless i'm using it for mp3s, so the numbers could be there 95% of the time)...Besides, phone numbers live in the cell phone...
Occasionally when I get busy I'll use the todo list, but again, I tend to leave it around the PC so I may as well get a todo app for the PC.
Essentially It is a $400 device serving a $150 function. It's cool and fun to develop for and yada yada, but It isn't as useful as its price tag.
I'm not saying an OS should be idiot-proof, but I see most of the windows crashes I've caused are the result of concurrent actions...for example--changing screen resolution while starting an application, or when Windows is blocked, giving it lots of input to deal with (like clicking something a thousand times cause it doesn't respond, then watching windows deal with all thousand clicks)..
Why should this be a problem? I should be able to change the resolution/load a new soundfont/ start up any application whenever I want without jeapordizing the system. One application should be sufficiently isolated from the O/S so as not to bring down the whole system. Granted they've gotten better, but I have still (just cause i tend to give the computer a lot of orders fast) locked up systems with nothing more than Windows on them.
There shouldn't ever have to be a feeling that any action is riskier than another as far as maintaining system stability goes.
Open source programmers do some pretty stupid things in their code...but a badly written program has a very small chance of rendering the system unusable without a reboot (it's possible, just not as common).
Yeah I know how to not crash a win98 computer. It sometimes means closing all apps before changing resolution. It sometimes means rebooting "just to be safe"
But why? No matter how much I load this linux box I know that all I risk is a bug in the application closing that application. That's what makes it stable as an OS, not the fact that an "expert" at keeping it running okay can.
I crash win pc's more than other people I know do because I tend to put heavy demands on the computer from a multitasking standpoint.
Also what's with that "you must reboot your computer" crap. I reboot my box when the power goes out, and when I install a new kernel (once every few months) and that's it. Adding a device doesn't warrant a reboot (of course with XP home it does)...
I've only used Blender under Windows and Linux (mostly the latter) and yes it has the strangest and least intuitive user interface on it that I've ever seen.
It produces nice output if you know how to set it up--the defaults are really crappy because people like results. Start playing with the 7000 settings in the render pane and you can turn on handy things like antialiasing that make the output prettier.
It's very very powerful and versatile. Look at some of the images that have been created by it--I don't remember the site anymore (elysion.com perhaps?), but some of the stills were fantastic. They look like everything from cartoons to turn of the century art. It scales well with resolution.
It's free--can't beat that. If you're just using it on the side (as the poster seems to be), then is it worth n-thousand dollars?
At least on Linux, it's one of the most stable pieces of software I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with--along with finale 2000d on Windows, These two are probably the only applications that have never segfaulted, crashed out, or whatever.
The downsides:
- No Undo function (if you save frequent revisions you're ok. Being aware of the inverses of your actions is handy too.)
- Difficult UI (takes weeks to months to learn. Once you learn it it's like a bicycle and becomes very natural--even subconcious. Once you're used to it it's very good, but until then it's like swimming up niagara falls)
- Indeterminate state right now (the project is in a transition period)
It's up to you--If it's unstable on Mac then it may not be a choice anyhow, but I've used it with high levels of success for years and found it to be a very capable piece of software...if a little difficult to get around.
Because in many cases they still pay bythe gigabyte over a certain number. They are allocated xGB/month, with a potential burst of a full t1. If they make it so all their bandwidth is used all the time then they're gonna pay more.
With cable theft you're consuming copyrighted content without paying for it. This is not the case with modem uncapping. You have access to no more material...it just comes down faster.
You can make a copyright case for cable theft that can't be made here.
This is a breach of contract that affects the level of service that others recieve--cable theft has no such side effects.
So you see, this really isn't like cable theft at all...just that it's over the same wire
This is another modern day case of companies leaving the cookie jar outside and then complaining when the neighborhood kids take the cookies.
The difference is that they're considering it the FBI's problem and a criminal thing.
If they're going to put things in that are so easily uncapped then why should they complain? Why not just put in som QoS at the router to keep it fair or even limited?
Cause they'd rather do it this way and collect "damages."
In any case, they should make an attempt to protect themselves from thieves, not just make it easy then go cry to big brother. If I had a store and it was consistently being robbed when i wasn't there cause I didn't lock the doors, would the government care after the first few times? Probably not.
That's the mac philosophy--design the ahrdware to run the software. Only the latest technologies will we support yada yada yada...
Windows has to support anything wierd you throw at it, and it should be able to run without being tied to hardware for a particular version (though arguably it usually does require an upgrade). There are people installing it on "legacy" systems that must be supported.
Not everyone has the $$$ for a new PC every time a new piece of software comes out. I had my previous PC for four years before I replaced it a month ago. Not everyone can afford "the latest and the greatest" just to run recent software...
if it's a good (400W+) supply you might get away with it. There is voltage drop over diatance (as cables have natural resistence in ohms/ft). Also, there really isn't a point in "extremely well shielded" cables for this purpose. It's not like interference is a huge problem when all you're trying to do is provide about 12 (5) volts. Power doesn't seep out of unshielded cables last tiem I checked.
Of course, lots of motherboards are known to flake out when the voltages aren't good (Gigabyte 7vrxp for example), so ymmv.
Also, don't forget Qt Designer. It's one of the most capable interface designers I've ever had the pleasure to use.
For those who don't know, It outputs a.ui file (XML) containing a description of the class you've created. You edit code within designer (A major improvement) and then the user interface compiler (uic) and Meta-Object Compiler (moc) get their punches in and create source code/headers from the interface. Then your code can just use it like any other class.
Better yet, qmake handles all the dirty makefile generation from a project file format that one can learn in about four minutes (and that designer generates).
I wrote a fulle graphical and very functional remote services debugger in about eight hours total using designer (I had used Qt, but not designer before)
Best of all it's free and cross platform.
BTW, Access to files/sockets/threads and a host of other things (including GL) are included so you can do all of this cross-platform with just a source recompile.
the "spartan" install procedure is more than anything a rite of passage to keep total idiots away from the distribution.
Think how much less annoying their lives got. Sure you've got the idiots who couldn't cut it, but you can tell them to get Mandrake and they'll be off on their merry way. What you don't have is a bunch of people with working systems screwing them up in different ways.
Tech support people know that if you have a finite problem set then it's much easier--what can go wrong during installation is finite, what can go wrong later on is not.
It's by design. And if you can't type commands off of their *very* detailed install guide then there really is something wrong with you.
The debian package system sucks if the only mirror in your sources.list file goes down too.
There are a multitude of rsync servers and fileservers too. Also, if it can't find a file, try telling it to build one version back as sometimes the file mirrors don't get updated as fast as rsync.
If you set up your configuration right (as you have to for other distros such as debian), you are not dependent on any one server.
Read the docs before making stupid assumptions.
There have been little hitches with gentoo, but then again that's part of the fun of running it. Not only the raw speed, but the making everything work. This is why the more savvy people like it. I've never not been able to get something to work and I've been running it for half a year now.
It's not like I'm a pro either. It really isn't that bad to maintain, but as another poster said, until your comfortable with debian or slack, use a twelve foot pole.
or even a hybrid project with C++ DLL's linked to my VB GUI's
Yeah we did this. It turned what used to be a twenty man-year project into an eight man-month project.
Basically there were three pieces of code on two computers--a vb interface linked to vc++ dlls that spoke through a socket to a linux backend system. This gave the users maximum comfort with in the interface (win2kpro) while letting them enjoy the backend stability of linux (twas embedded...most users probably didn't know the linux was even there)
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well your personal views tragically do not coincide with the law. This isn't civil obedience but theft. Note the difference.
You are a criminal, like it or not. We live in a country where everyone is to some degree (Ever gone over the speed limit?), but you are potentially liable for some pretty hefty fines if/when you get caught.
Go Directly to Jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
It's not a crime for the company until it's convicted and the punishment for the crime is the punishment for the crime. Only Microsoft has been convicted of anything and they will have paid their retribution and everyone will get on with their lives. To continue to punish them after their government-sanctioned punishment is unjust, whether or not you view their punishment as just or whether you recognize the current regime as legitamate.
Of course, if you just want your music and M$ software then go forth and pirate, but don't claim righteousness in your pirating.
Brian
Now that we can have (massively?) increased storage capacity per square inch, shouldn't we start seeing hard disks in the 3.5" form factor that are really 4+ way RAID volumes with a builtin hardware driver to make it behave as a normal disk would? That way you'd get basically what you have now but MUCH more reliably and maybe even a little more capacity. (depending on the massiveness of the change this development can cause in size/data ratio)
Running a PC or a 1U web server on a single hard disk is making for an awfully large failure point if it dies--it's the least replaceable component cause of data loss and they die a lot. Introducing redundancy at this level could help a lot with that issue (and help high density multicomputer serving become more reliable and fault tolerant)
Brian
On average I spend $14.99 a month on online music (emusic.com--great if you're not into pop). I also probably spend about $30 on CDs (2 cds or so) and maybe buy a DVD.
now, on emusic I can download whatever I want (so long as it's available...lots is and lots isn't)--as much as I can fit through my (modest) pipe each month. I can sit down, Queue up a few hundred songs for download and have them by morning.
this is what we need...just with better selection. I'd pay $25 a month for that easily--if it meant I didn't have to buy CDs cause I could just get the stuff and burn it myself. I'd probably still buy a CD from time to time anyways.
They are too concentrated on gouging the user to think of something that simple.
Brian
This is not a troll!
I've been running Linux exclusively for years. I've rolled my own, I've tried more distributions than I can count on my fingers. I can assure you of one thing: For the average user, Linux isn't faster.
It has better stats in every area--bandwidth (disk/memory/etc), FS performance, and at server tasks (besides simple page serving) it seem to go far and beyond Windows.
I recently got a (free and legal) copy of winXP pro through work. I picked up another disk and decided to try it out (since I haven't had appreciable contact with Windows since 95/98). I am a composer and I have a need for finale (the only win software that I use). Up until now I had been using an antiquated win98 machine (p3-500, etc.) for it and it was useable, mostly since finale is so darn stable. Anyhow, I decided to install windows on my main workhorse (xp2100+,etc) as a dualboot to try it out.
User interface responsiveness is easily 100% better on windows. Same machine, same disk, etc.
for the record, I've compiled all my linux packages with quite the regimen of optimizations and no extra daemons/etc. that could be eating resources (yes, I'm a gentoo user--and I only compile what I intend to use).
Anyhow, that was longwinded, but the point is, the Linux is faster argument doesn't hold up on the desktop. The user interface is pitifully slow in comparison. Sure, windows is a heck of a lot messier to code in (makes me glad I use Linux at work), but for general ui tasks, windows is faster and better.
Right now I flip back and forth (on this box it takes about twenty seconds to reboot into one or the other) daily. Linux for DVDs and CD burning, email, etc....Windows for music software, and it's working out well.
Unfortunately, Windows is the best on the desktop. Maybe not for me or you, but for Grandma it is. I don't mind the little delays in Linux. At this point, I don't need Linux or Windows for anything, I could use either (this coming from a Linux user who said he'd never use Windows again a few years back)...Microsoft's improved upon itself
Brian
The first binding internet vote was the 2000 Democratic Primary in Arizona:
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Brian
First of all, the inappropriate response is to continue stealing music (in larger quantities) in response to the fee. Like it or not, it is illegal and you're not helping yourself out any by doing that. The fee is not morally right and I doubt very much that it would stand up in court.
I do not steal music. I do not own a copy of kazaa, limewire, bearshare, etc. I pay $10 a mont h for a subscription to emusic.com and download my tunes *legally* there. If you're stealing the music then you really have no ground to stand on if you want to oppose the fee cause you're legally indebted to the RIAA for the stolen files. It is those who obtain music online legally or not at all who would be the true victims, not all you kazaa junkies who think it's morally different to allow one upload at a timerather than ten.
Brian
We have something like this in NY but there's improvements on the Turnpike concept here:
IIRC the NYS Thruway system includes the following:
the Thruway (Rt. 90)
Bridges (In NYC and buffalo)
The erie canal
other highways (the 190,290,390,490,590,more?)
Only the bridges and the 90 are toll. They pay for the rest. Also, the 90 is not a toll road within the city of Buffalo and the first ring of suburbs (it doesn't go into NYC so things are different there)--sure there's some commuter backup at the last toll barrier but for the most part things stay clear and theres never more than a 30sec-2min wait at any given exit.
What we get for it are good rest stops every half hour or so, one of the safest and well maintained roads in the country (Wakeup bars, shiny reflectors on both sides of the road, big (hundreds of feet wide) medians)...and it always gets cleared quickly when the good ol snow hits.
I have an easypass cause I drive to rochester (from buffalo) a couple of times a week and dealing with coins is a major hassle (Paid the 1.30 toll with twenty pennies, a dime and a dollar once)...It really makes it convenient.
I usually don't like systems like that (my father refuses to use it), but then again he doesn't use the thruway 10% as much as I do...
I'm ok with all this cause the road is very very good and relatively safe too.
Of course this whole portland thing is rubbish...
Brian
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Hold on...
It's one thing to celebrate the female body. There's nothign wrong with this. Viewing art or artistic photography of females in order to better appreciate their intrinsic beauty is not dishonorable at all by the word of the bible.
Unfortunately, most people who view such materials don't do it in that fashion. I'd like you to explain to me how a picture of a young woman wearing a (sad excuse for a) shirt that says "slut" or some similar deroguatory term while sticking a banana up her you know what has anything to do with art.
Essentially, if you engage in sexual self stimulation while imaging having rapturous intercourse (or other sexual activity) with the pictured woman, you are using it in the wrong way. Looking upon another man's wife in that fashion is "adultery" just as true anger (not righteous anger which is dealt with seperately) is "murder."
There's no biblical anything to justify viewing pornography the way 99% of the viewing populace does. Sure some people genuinely enjoy that stuff for the right reasons. They also buy the books (Which are available on amazon.com) of incredibly artisticly photographed nudes and enjoy it in that fashion.
Brian
> Pretend you're a car.
So I should guzzle Petrol and strive to fart the ozone layer out of existence all while jogging at 70mph on the expressway?
Brian
Lets say the Linux kernel develops a vulnerability (noo, never). So they tell Linus. What happens next? All the developers related to the problem have to discuss the problem somehow, and lkml is very very public.
Ok so the kernel people might be able to keep quiet, but what about a smaller project that's more in the open and less critical? Sourceforge lists are public, so are CVS commits..
This really only works with closed software. Open source stuff has such a public development process that keeping it quiet is next to impossible.
Brian
A few months ago I bought a Clie N760 (before the NR70 or NX70 came out)...It was basically the top of the line from sony at the time and the mp3 functionality weas the prime motivator...
Basically now I have a very expensive MP3 player with a few addictive games. Yeah I throw addresses and such into it, but mostly because I don't have anything as convenient on my PC (though the thing lives near my pc unless i'm using it for mp3s, so the numbers could be there 95% of the time)...Besides, phone numbers live in the cell phone...
Occasionally when I get busy I'll use the todo list, but again, I tend to leave it around the PC so I may as well get a todo app for the PC.
Essentially It is a $400 device serving a $150 function. It's cool and fun to develop for and yada yada, but It isn't as useful as its price tag.
Brian
I'm not saying an OS should be idiot-proof, but I see most of the windows crashes I've caused are the result of concurrent actions...for example--changing screen resolution while starting an application, or when Windows is blocked, giving it lots of input to deal with (like clicking something a thousand times cause it doesn't respond, then watching windows deal with all thousand clicks)..
Why should this be a problem? I should be able to change the resolution/load a new soundfont/ start up any application whenever I want without jeapordizing the system. One application should be sufficiently isolated from the O/S so as not to bring down the whole system. Granted they've gotten better, but I have still (just cause i tend to give the computer a lot of orders fast) locked up systems with nothing more than Windows on them.
There shouldn't ever have to be a feeling that any action is riskier than another as far as maintaining system stability goes.
Open source programmers do some pretty stupid things in their code...but a badly written program has a very small chance of rendering the system unusable without a reboot (it's possible, just not as common).
Yeah I know how to not crash a win98 computer. It sometimes means closing all apps before changing resolution. It sometimes means rebooting "just to be safe"
But why? No matter how much I load this linux box I know that all I risk is a bug in the application closing that application. That's what makes it stable as an OS, not the fact that an "expert" at keeping it running okay can.
I crash win pc's more than other people I know do because I tend to put heavy demands on the computer from a multitasking standpoint.
Also what's with that "you must reboot your computer" crap. I reboot my box when the power goes out, and when I install a new kernel (once every few months) and that's it. Adding a device doesn't warrant a reboot (of course with XP home it does)...
Brian
I've only used Blender under Windows and Linux (mostly the latter) and yes it has the strangest and least intuitive user interface on it that I've ever seen.
It produces nice output if you know how to set it up--the defaults are really crappy because people like results. Start playing with the 7000 settings in the render pane and you can turn on handy things like antialiasing that make the output prettier.
It's very very powerful and versatile. Look at some of the images that have been created by it--I don't remember the site anymore (elysion.com perhaps?), but some of the stills were fantastic. They look like everything from cartoons to turn of the century art. It scales well with resolution.
It's free--can't beat that. If you're just using it on the side (as the poster seems to be), then is it worth n-thousand dollars?
At least on Linux, it's one of the most stable pieces of software I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with--along with finale 2000d on Windows, These two are probably the only applications that have never segfaulted, crashed out, or whatever.
The downsides:
- No Undo function (if you save frequent revisions you're ok. Being aware of the inverses of your actions is handy too.)
- Difficult UI (takes weeks to months to learn. Once you learn it it's like a bicycle and becomes very natural--even subconcious. Once you're used to it it's very good, but until then it's like swimming up niagara falls)
- Indeterminate state right now (the project is in a transition period)
It's up to you--If it's unstable on Mac then it may not be a choice anyhow, but I've used it with high levels of success for years and found it to be a very capable piece of software...if a little difficult to get around.
Brian
Because in many cases they still pay bythe gigabyte over a certain number. They are allocated xGB/month, with a potential burst of a full t1. If they make it so all their bandwidth is used all the time then they're gonna pay more.
Brian
Nope.
With cable theft you're consuming copyrighted content without paying for it. This is not the case with modem uncapping. You have access to no more material...it just comes down faster.
You can make a copyright case for cable theft that can't be made here.
This is a breach of contract that affects the level of service that others recieve--cable theft has no such side effects.
So you see, this really isn't like cable theft at all...just that it's over the same wire
Brian
This is another modern day case of companies leaving the cookie jar outside and then complaining when the neighborhood kids take the cookies.
The difference is that they're considering it the FBI's problem and a criminal thing.
If they're going to put things in that are so easily uncapped then why should they complain? Why not just put in som QoS at the router to keep it fair or even limited?
Cause they'd rather do it this way and collect "damages."
In any case, they should make an attempt to protect themselves from thieves, not just make it easy then go cry to big brother. If I had a store and it was consistently being robbed when i wasn't there cause I didn't lock the doors, would the government care after the first few times? Probably not.
Such is this
Brian
I think you mean mac.
That's the mac philosophy--design the ahrdware to run the software. Only the latest technologies will we support yada yada yada...
Windows has to support anything wierd you throw at it, and it should be able to run without being tied to hardware for a particular version (though arguably it usually does require an upgrade). There are people installing it on "legacy" systems that must be supported.
Not everyone has the $$$ for a new PC every time a new piece of software comes out. I had my previous PC for four years before I replaced it a month ago. Not everyone can afford "the latest and the greatest" just to run recent software...
Brian
if it's a good (400W+) supply you might get away with it. There is voltage drop over diatance (as cables have natural resistence in ohms/ft). Also, there really isn't a point in "extremely well shielded" cables for this purpose. It's not like interference is a huge problem when all you're trying to do is provide about 12 (5) volts. Power doesn't seep out of unshielded cables last tiem I checked.
Of course, lots of motherboards are known to flake out when the voltages aren't good (Gigabyte 7vrxp for example), so ymmv.
Brian
Also, don't forget Qt Designer. It's one of the most capable interface designers I've ever had the pleasure to use.
.ui file (XML) containing a description of the class you've created. You edit code within designer (A major improvement) and then the user interface compiler (uic) and Meta-Object Compiler (moc) get their punches in and create source code/headers from the interface. Then your code can just use it like any other class.
For those who don't know, It outputs a
Better yet, qmake handles all the dirty makefile generation from a project file format that one can learn in about four minutes (and that designer generates).
I wrote a fulle graphical and very functional remote services debugger in about eight hours total using designer (I had used Qt, but not designer before)
Best of all it's free and cross platform.
BTW, Access to files/sockets/threads and a host of other things (including GL) are included so you can do all of this cross-platform with just a source recompile.
Good stuff...
Brian
the "spartan" install procedure is more than anything a rite of passage to keep total idiots away from the distribution.
Think how much less annoying their lives got. Sure you've got the idiots who couldn't cut it, but you can tell them to get Mandrake and they'll be off on their merry way. What you don't have is a bunch of people with working systems screwing them up in different ways.
Tech support people know that if you have a finite problem set then it's much easier--what can go wrong during installation is finite, what can go wrong later on is not.
It's by design. And if you can't type commands off of their *very* detailed install guide then there really is something wrong with you.
you need an imac.
Brian
Guess what?
The debian package system sucks if the only mirror in your sources.list file goes down too.
There are a multitude of rsync servers and fileservers too. Also, if it can't find a file, try telling it to build one version back as sometimes the file mirrors don't get updated as fast as rsync.
If you set up your configuration right (as you have to for other distros such as debian), you are not dependent on any one server.
Read the docs before making stupid assumptions.
There have been little hitches with gentoo, but then again that's part of the fun of running it. Not only the raw speed, but the making everything work. This is why the more savvy people like it. I've never not been able to get something to work and I've been running it for half a year now.
It's not like I'm a pro either. It really isn't that bad to maintain, but as another poster said, until your comfortable with debian or slack, use a twelve foot pole.
Brian
0%
Gentoo Linux 1.2 apps
Openoffice
Blender
about 10Gig of MP3s that I have the CDs for or downloaded from www.emusic.com as a subscriber.
The MP3s from emusic are kept in one place, and the ones that I ripped in grip are sorted in a uniform fashion in another place.
If they confiscated the computer they would find nothing technically illegal...
doesn't mean i wouldn't be convicted of something or other, but I have rights to all that is there.
Brian
or even a hybrid project with C++ DLL's linked to my VB GUI's
Yeah we did this. It turned what used to be a twenty man-year project into an eight man-month project.
Basically there were three pieces of code on two computers--a vb interface linked to vc++ dlls that spoke through a socket to a linux backend system. This gave the users maximum comfort with in the interface (win2kpro) while letting them enjoy the backend stability of linux (twas embedded...most users probably didn't know the linux was even there)
Brian
...gattaca...gattaca...gattaca...
Besides that, how would they give you your genome? on a CD-ROM? no...too big...I don't even think a DVD would hold it...though I can't be sure.
What do they do, give you a hard disk? Give you a computer with the information embedded inside?
I think the distribution form factor would be an interesting problem here since it's so much data.
For $621,000 It had better be nice, though...
Maybe a numa with one of those $8000 IBM displays that's like 4000x2000 pixels or something like that...
Brian