So there's no reason to even care about time in this equation. What they should be looking at is how severe and how many severe bugs are found and possibly the rate at which they are discovered, but the code could have been written years ago.
My point is as soon as the developer releases the code and says its production quality it is their fault if there is a bug in that software. Microsoft should not have any bugs because they have well-paid professional code monkeys and QA before their products are released. Linux does not.
Same reasons I chose 5400 rpm drives. I got 4x200GB 5400 rpm Maxtors in a AthlonXP 2600+ system I built last year. 550GB of software RAID 5 encrypted storage online for less than $2000. It can easily stream DVD quality video to every room in my apartment at the same time with its 12MB/s network bandwidth. More than enough bandwidth for the average home. But I'm starting to look for more storage capacity since it overflowed last month. Now that I've tasted the fruit I have over 700GB of important data.:P
I'm thinking I need around 2TB to make it through next year. That's probably a conservative estimate.
You can install a simple personal desktop system with Gnome and the basics, then install the rest of the software, KDE, server and dev tools, etc. through their package management system. Its rpm based, but they also support apt-get in their latest Fedora Core. And freshrpms has apt-get rpms available.
So what can Debian do that Redhat, Gentoo, Slackware and the others can't? None of them can be easy multimedia desktop replacements, yet. Not for the average user anyways.
Not to mention that no chip manufacturer makes their chips as fast as possible because of financial concerns. Everything gets done because it makes money. Its just not profitable to make things too fast, since you need to make them faster to encourage people to upgrade, replace and buy more stuff.
If only we could work on all this technology for the technology instead of the money. But that's impossible. Humans aren't intelligent enough to create a system that works without money. This has been proven.
but hell I don't see what your problem with X11 is????
I'm sorry you don't use Linux for anything more than 2D graphics. I use it for everything.
I also have a Toshiba Satellite running Slackware. Works just fine until it crashes trying to play a video. Never have this problem on any desktop system using any video cards from Nvidia, Matrox or ATI.
So I just won't be buying another Toshiba or Trident anytime soon. If they want my money they'll figure it out.
If this is Trident X11 support is going to suck for these cards. I have a Trident CyberBlade in my laptop that sucks ass. Avoid these unless you only use Windows.
7 Clip on the remote is designed in such a way that the controls face outside only when clipped to a shirt with buttons on the left- ladies style.Does it confirm a popular Slashdot opinion that Apple is for gays?
WTF?!? Maybe someday you'd like to visit the planet Earth. I hear its really nice and friendly there.
Well obviously the transistor will be replaced by something far more efficient by then. What Moore's Law shows in the real world is that technology does advance at a remarkable rate. And that rate is increasing.
How is anyone going to decide for themselves to adopt an alternative OS if the FTC keeps playing the role of the protective parent. Its a dangerous spam-filled world out there and I want Microsoft to be right smack dab in the middle of it.
I'm sorry about all the confusion. I deleted millions of songs off my computer. I work for Time Warner, so I guess some of my coworkers might have noticed. Sorry about that.
Until the voting public understands psychology thoroughly and how it can be used to divide and conquer the voting public I see no reason to ever vote again.
We are not making any progress here. Even if we have a completely fair and non-corrupt voting system we'll still have a completely unfair media system backed by lots of people with money and power.
Ever heard of psychological operations? The US government wrote the book on the subject. Think about it.
Who tells you what the issues are? Have you ever voted for anyone not from the 2 main political parties? Have you ever wondered why?
My parents gave me "the gift of existence", as you put it, but that does not give them the right to brainwash me. They have the right to teach me, but that is very different than censorship.
And merely existing is not a gift, not when my existence requires me to work to earn money so I can afford food and shelter. This world is far from the dreamy perfect existence you think your kids wanted to be brought into. And I think most parents are selfish, having kids for their own amusement instead of being responsible enough to actually make the decision to procreate and then provide the proper environment and education for their offspring.
Censoring yourself or censoring your kids is still censorship.
I'm glad my parents never censored me. I'd hate them if they did. I hate anyone who attempts to impose their system of beliefs on me as if they have some right to do that. I am a free thinking individual. I don't mind being shown the facts, but don't ever attempt to take them away from me.
I think its more appropriate to ask, "Is this political slant common in popular media." Since that would have a far greater affect on our laws and civil liberties, don't you think?
But if it is what can be done about it? Boycott the News? Yeah, like that will ever happen.
But I can always blame it on the capitalists, since just about everything is done for the sole purpose of generating revenue without thinking about the consequences of their actions.
Buts its nice how we keep giving them millions to continue their search. Its so blissful living in such a faith based country that we'll pay to make any reality the truth, even if it takes covering up all those annoying little facts and painting over them with distraction after horribly fearsome distraction.
Its a good thing God exists. If he doesn't there are a lot of delusional people in this country who are prime targets for intesive psychotherapy.
If you have more money to blow, then I would suggest that you invest in an honest-to-dog hardware RAID card and some good drives and put them into a server, then do everything across the network (put the/home tree and My Documents folders on the server).
Why? You're not servicing an office of users, just yourself. All you need is cheap and slow (I'm using 5400 RPM) IDE drives. Software RAID 5 is more than fast enough, even over cheap $30 100Mb switches, to serve 4 Star Trek TNG episodes to my screen, at the same time. That's some funny shit, try watching 4 shows at the same time, hearing their dramatic peaks goin off, seeing the various characters in different windows. It cracks me up! Anyway, there's MASS bandwidth available dirt cheap and almost noone knows how to make use of it.
I suggest you start small. Get a cheap PC for your server with a good large case running at least 1 Ghz with a single 120+ GB harddrive. Configure Samba and your network software how you like it. Then add in 4 IDE disks and configure a Linux software RAID when you run out of disk space or want the redundancy. Swappable IDE drive bays like InClose designs are very good for backups, too.
Once you have it setup if ANYTHING goes wrong, your data is still safe. You can easily move those drives to any other Linux system and it will probably autodetect the RAID and rebuild it, assuming you have at least 3 working disks. I replaced the motherboard of my system without a reinstall and everything mounted perfectly. It was serving my network before I knew it had even booted successfully.
Linux rocks!
My point is don't spend money on quality hardware. Use Linux and plan for failure. That way you can save money for more hardware later. My 550GB file server is completely full, so now it looks like it'll cost me another $1000 in disks to upgrade it again. But the network transparency of my data is so worth it, to me. I don't have a DVD collection or a CD collection. I got a fileserver in my closet!
The point of having a tablet PC is not to have a $3000 laptop replacement, but instead, a cheap, portable, wireless display device. It should cost no more than $1000, be able to stream music and video across the network, although it probably wouldn't have the best speakers. But what it can do is interface with your home entertainment center, browse your files over the wireless LAN and provide an efficient and easy way to input data.
They went for the laptop replacement and found out most people would rather have laptops. Duh!
What they need to go for is a very slim, less than 1" thick, coffee table addition. That's cheap enough we don't have to worry about breaking it, strong enough we can toss it around, but fast enough to play streaming video with a resolution of at least 1024x768. I would expect 1280x1024 in a 8"x11" format to do well, sub $1000, of course.
I'm affraid a lot of American parents treat their kids like any other material object.
Do they learn that what's important is taking care of eachother? Or do they learn how to send 'em off to school quicker so they can get back their time?
If you all love your kids so much why do you hate communism.. why do you care for money? Isn't what is really important our environment, since it makes up over half of our personality. Psychology tells us this much at least. Education I would put up there with environment.
What is our environment? Its the radio and what's playing on the TV. Its everything we see, hear, feel, smell and taste. Its everything around us all the time while we go on living. Its the people we hang out with. Our environment provides us with most of our experiences.
Our personality is made up of many things, the superego (everyone else and their biases), the ego (you), our experiences, our genetics and the environment that we are sensing around us. Its imperative, for our mental health, to repair the damage we do to our environment and create a world our kids can live with. Post 911 America is not that world.
Part of creating that world is devaluing material objects and recognizing and each and every human being is worth more than those objects. NASA is learning this, but as you can see sometimes it takes a few decades for these concepts to sink in. The recomendation has already been laid out. We need to change our culture.
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So there's no reason to even care about time in this equation. What they should be looking at is how severe and how many severe bugs are found and possibly the rate at which they are discovered, but the code could have been written years ago.
My point is as soon as the developer releases the code and says its production quality it is their fault if there is a bug in that software. Microsoft should not have any bugs because they have well-paid professional code monkeys and QA before their products are released. Linux does not.
Same reasons I chose 5400 rpm drives. I got 4x200GB 5400 rpm Maxtors in a AthlonXP 2600+ system I built last year. 550GB of software RAID 5 encrypted storage online for less than $2000. It can easily stream DVD quality video to every room in my apartment at the same time with its 12MB/s network bandwidth. More than enough bandwidth for the average home. But I'm starting to look for more storage capacity since it overflowed last month. Now that I've tasted the fruit I have over 700GB of important data. :P
I'm thinking I need around 2TB to make it through next year. That's probably a conservative estimate.
Ever tried RedHat?
You can install a simple personal desktop system with Gnome and the basics, then install the rest of the software, KDE, server and dev tools, etc. through their package management system. Its rpm based, but they also support apt-get in their latest Fedora Core. And freshrpms has apt-get rpms available.
So what can Debian do that Redhat, Gentoo, Slackware and the others can't? None of them can be easy multimedia desktop replacements, yet. Not for the average user anyways.
Fedora Core?
Gentoo?
Slackware?
There are many good Linux distros out there. Why unite behind one? United Linux flopped big time. Perhaps what we need is diversity!
Not to mention that no chip manufacturer makes their chips as fast as possible because of financial concerns. Everything gets done because it makes money. Its just not profitable to make things too fast, since you need to make them faster to encourage people to upgrade, replace and buy more stuff.
If only we could work on all this technology for the technology instead of the money. But that's impossible. Humans aren't intelligent enough to create a system that works without money. This has been proven.
but hell I don't see what your problem with X11 is????
I'm sorry you don't use Linux for anything more than 2D graphics. I use it for everything.
I also have a Toshiba Satellite running Slackware. Works just fine until it crashes trying to play a video. Never have this problem on any desktop system using any video cards from Nvidia, Matrox or ATI.
So I just won't be buying another Toshiba or Trident anytime soon. If they want my money they'll figure it out.
If this is Trident X11 support is going to suck for these cards. I have a Trident CyberBlade in my laptop that sucks ass. Avoid these unless you only use Windows.
Macs are for potheads, like me. Everyone knows this.
But maybe you're on to something. Do Macs turn you into the gay?
7 Clip on the remote is designed in such a way that the controls face outside only when clipped to a shirt with buttons on the left- ladies style.Does it confirm a popular Slashdot opinion that Apple is for gays?
WTF?!? Maybe someday you'd like to visit the planet Earth. I hear its really nice and friendly there.
Well obviously the transistor will be replaced by something far more efficient by then. What Moore's Law shows in the real world is that technology does advance at a remarkable rate. And that rate is increasing.
Awesome! :)
How is anyone going to decide for themselves to adopt an alternative OS if the FTC keeps playing the role of the protective parent. Its a dangerous spam-filled world out there and I want Microsoft to be right smack dab in the middle of it.
I'm sorry about all the confusion. I deleted millions of songs off my computer. I work for Time Warner, so I guess some of my coworkers might have noticed. Sorry about that.
Until the voting public understands psychology thoroughly and how it can be used to divide and conquer the voting public I see no reason to ever vote again.
We are not making any progress here. Even if we have a completely fair and non-corrupt voting system we'll still have a completely unfair media system backed by lots of people with money and power.
Ever heard of psychological operations? The US government wrote the book on the subject. Think about it.
Who tells you what the issues are? Have you ever voted for anyone not from the 2 main political parties? Have you ever wondered why?
I would have all parents read a psychology book before having kids. We are different than any other species on this planet. We have psychology books.
I only subscribe to that notion because of our potential. Currently we are not acting any different than the rest of the animals.
My parents gave me "the gift of existence", as you put it, but that does not give them the right to brainwash me. They have the right to teach me, but that is very different than censorship.
And merely existing is not a gift, not when my existence requires me to work to earn money so I can afford food and shelter. This world is far from the dreamy perfect existence you think your kids wanted to be brought into. And I think most parents are selfish, having kids for their own amusement instead of being responsible enough to actually make the decision to procreate and then provide the proper environment and education for their offspring.
Censoring yourself or censoring your kids is still censorship.
I'm glad my parents never censored me. I'd hate them if they did. I hate anyone who attempts to impose their system of beliefs on me as if they have some right to do that. I am a free thinking individual. I don't mind being shown the facts, but don't ever attempt to take them away from me.
I think its more appropriate to ask, "Is this political slant common in popular media." Since that would have a far greater affect on our laws and civil liberties, don't you think?
But if it is what can be done about it? Boycott the News? Yeah, like that will ever happen.
But I can always blame it on the capitalists, since just about everything is done for the sole purpose of generating revenue without thinking about the consequences of their actions.
That's because there are no WMD.
Buts its nice how we keep giving them millions to continue their search. Its so blissful living in such a faith based country that we'll pay to make any reality the truth, even if it takes covering up all those annoying little facts and painting over them with distraction after horribly fearsome distraction.
Its a good thing God exists. If he doesn't there are a lot of delusional people in this country who are prime targets for intesive psychotherapy.
If you have more money to blow, then I would suggest that you invest in an honest-to-dog hardware RAID card and some good drives and put them into a server, then do everything across the network (put the /home tree and My Documents folders on the server).
Why? You're not servicing an office of users, just yourself. All you need is cheap and slow (I'm using 5400 RPM) IDE drives. Software RAID 5 is more than fast enough, even over cheap $30 100Mb switches, to serve 4 Star Trek TNG episodes to my screen, at the same time. That's some funny shit, try watching 4 shows at the same time, hearing their dramatic peaks goin off, seeing the various characters in different windows. It cracks me up! Anyway, there's MASS bandwidth available dirt cheap and almost noone knows how to make use of it.
I suggest you start small. Get a cheap PC for your server with a good large case running at least 1 Ghz with a single 120+ GB harddrive. Configure Samba and your network software how you like it. Then add in 4 IDE disks and configure a Linux software RAID when you run out of disk space or want the redundancy. Swappable IDE drive bays like InClose designs are very good for backups, too.
Once you have it setup if ANYTHING goes wrong, your data is still safe. You can easily move those drives to any other Linux system and it will probably autodetect the RAID and rebuild it, assuming you have at least 3 working disks. I replaced the motherboard of my system without a reinstall and everything mounted perfectly. It was serving my network before I knew it had even booted successfully.
Linux rocks!
My point is don't spend money on quality hardware. Use Linux and plan for failure. That way you can save money for more hardware later. My 550GB file server is completely full, so now it looks like it'll cost me another $1000 in disks to upgrade it again. But the network transparency of my data is so worth it, to me. I don't have a DVD collection or a CD collection. I got a fileserver in my closet!
See, Kazaa is a perfectly legitimate technology, if only the RIAA and MPAA could stop polluting it with their copyrighted commercial garbage.
I blame Jack Valenti for this whole mess.
OF COURSE the Enterprise isn't designed to enter atmosphere. Its also a fictional vehicle.
Voyager would have been a better test.
The point of having a tablet PC is not to have a $3000 laptop replacement, but instead, a cheap, portable, wireless display device. It should cost no more than $1000, be able to stream music and video across the network, although it probably wouldn't have the best speakers. But what it can do is interface with your home entertainment center, browse your files over the wireless LAN and provide an efficient and easy way to input data.
They went for the laptop replacement and found out most people would rather have laptops. Duh!
What they need to go for is a very slim, less than 1" thick, coffee table addition. That's cheap enough we don't have to worry about breaking it, strong enough we can toss it around, but fast enough to play streaming video with a resolution of at least 1024x768. I would expect 1280x1024 in a 8"x11" format to do well, sub $1000, of course.
I'm affraid a lot of American parents treat their kids like any other material object.
Do they learn that what's important is taking care of eachother? Or do they learn how to send 'em off to school quicker so they can get back their time?
If you all love your kids so much why do you hate communism.. why do you care for money? Isn't what is really important our environment, since it makes up over half of our personality. Psychology tells us this much at least. Education I would put up there with environment.
What is our environment? Its the radio and what's playing on the TV. Its everything we see, hear, feel, smell and taste. Its everything around us all the time while we go on living. Its the people we hang out with. Our environment provides us with most of our experiences.
Our personality is made up of many things, the superego (everyone else and their biases), the ego (you), our experiences, our genetics and the environment that we are sensing around us. Its imperative, for our mental health, to repair the damage we do to our environment and create a world our kids can live with. Post 911 America is not that world.
Part of creating that world is devaluing material objects and recognizing and each and every human being is worth more than those objects. NASA is learning this, but as you can see sometimes it takes a few decades for these concepts to sink in. The recomendation has already been laid out. We need to change our culture.
Our culture is capitalism.
GPL != OSS
OSS refers to BSD and stuff. Microsoft uses BSD code in Windows.
But they do avoid GNU/FOSS/GPL code for obvious reasons. Its a shame the average joe doesn't understand them, tho.