Alot of people are wondering what the point of this, talking about carrying the printer around, etc. The point of IR and / or Bluetooth on a printer, is now anyone can walk into the office with his laptop/pda/cell/whatever, and print instantly. No need to dock it, hook up a cable, install drivers (cause they'd already be instealled), etc. This is a godsend for people who do most of their work on the road. This is the reason printers have been IR compatable for some time.
Go to sourceforge and look int he "help Wanted" needed. There are always tons of projects there that need developers, Doc writers, Web Developers, QA perople, everything!
One is on Win2k and one is on Win95??? 95??? Win95 takes way less RAM than even 98, and we all know how much more RAM hungry Win2k is than 98. You're comparing apples to oranges. I am comparing startup times on the SAME MACHINE, which is one I use at school, all the time. Its a P3 something, unsure about ram. MS Office has always performed WP Office / Corel Office in startup times.
I'm not trying to be pro-M$ here, but I'd just like to point out that Word has always loaded VERY fast for me, at least 5x faster than WordPerfect ever did on its best days, and at least as fast as even the slimmed down abiword or Kword, which only have a subset of the features.
I live in the Maritimes of Canada, and work for the local telco here (Aliant Telecom). We do all the telecom for the Maritimes. Upon recieving some 25 or 30 Airliners originally intended for NY, our company donated literally hundreds of cell phones with unlimted airtime and long distance in all our relief centres. They also installed some 140 landlines with 0-area code long distance and installed some 20 or so DSL internet access sites so the people could get in touch with relatives. The company is saying they are experiencing traffic volumes over 2.5 times the amount they see on Monther's day (the busiest day of the year).
So you're saying that if I buy something online and they only take credit card / money order, and refuse to accept cash, I can take them to court???? I don't think so there Jonsey...
Am I mistaken, or wasn't Broadcast 2000 GPL'ed? If so, why all the hubabaloo? So he doesn't want to do development anymore, I don't blame him. But anyone who is interested can always pick up where he left off.
I can tell because when you read a webpage, you do one of a couple of things. You either shovel the mouse off to the right so that it is out of the way, or you will walk down the page with your mouse," he told the BBC's Go Digital programme.
Hasn't this guy ever seen a scrollwheel? I rarely move my mouse around a page. I sit it somewhere in the midle, and scroll. I also wonder where he gets this idea of "wanting to click a link, but you don't". Who does that? If I want to click it, then I will. Whose stopping me???
It would also be strong evidence that the guy had the grace of God working for him, as I can hardly ever find blue LED's in stock at my Radio Shack, let alone parts to build an Apple II. All they like to carry nowadays are Cell phones and RC's.
Did you even look at the website? It si NOT a joke. I just downloaded and compiled the spl2c interperter myself, and then coverted to C and compiled a sample program. it works!
I am also curious. I was always under the impression that if you broke the law in another country, the worst that could happen is you just could never go there, or else be arrested. Since this is a US based company, who is going to force them to pay up? It makes no sense to me...
Man, do you guys even read the articles anymore? If you did, you might notice the guy specifically says that we won't notice any significant impact for at least 100 years.
For all those who keep saying "Who cares when 1.0 is coming out when 0.93 is out now", and you are somewhat right, don't forget that RedHat has said (and I believe other distros will follow suit) that when mozilla reaches 1.0, it will stop carrying the horrid Netscape 4.7x altogether, in the distro, and focus on Mozilla as the default browser. This support alone will help Mozilla greatly.
I'm getting sick of reading about this smartlinks stuff like it's something new... Hasn't anyone seen those ads NBC was running about 6 months ago for that "QuickClick" program? "Click any word, find information!" Well anyone try it? Its Smarttags. Anyone ever install the program FlyCast in the past 2 years, by accident or otherwise? Smarttags. Flycast has been doing this for a LONG time, way before Microsoft. And from the looks of those screenshos, those products are using Flycast technology. Maybe if you were so concerned about this (which I don't see why you should be... On the web, its up to the user how the content gets displayed, not the publisher.. And it is very easy to distiguish what are Smart tags and what aren't) you should have spoke up long ago.
Cost of installing locked glass doors in every Wal-mart: Millions.
Cose of taking 20 mins to write a script that doesn't allow access throught the archive URL for new stories: 20 mins = Around 20 bucks, assuming the guy makes 60 bucks / hour.
They don't want to invest 20 bucks for reasonable control measures, thats their fucking problem, not mine.
Why should I have to register on their site??? I can still be subjected to their ads without them knowing my Name, phone number, address, yearly income, and favorite lunchmeat!
This reminds me of a rant I love to get off on... Mountain Dew in Canada isn't caffinated! Why you ask? Some arcane Canadian law that says clear beverages cannot be caffinated.... pisses me off.
Postgres is much better than MySQL for MANY reasons, so many in fact I fail to see why people still champion MySQL...
1)Postgres is SQL-92 compliant, and supports normal DB syntax like nested selects, transactions, etc. MySQL doesn't.
2)Postgres has a much more robust API for devolpers
Postgres is ENTIRELY Free software, and is only licensed under the GPL, unlike MySQL, which has a commercial version, and the GPL version, and the closed source version, of which the GPL version is always behind.
Sure, MySQL may have a bit of an edge on speed, but not by much. And when you take into account all the functionality it lacks, I don't know why anyone would shoose to limit themselves so much by using it.
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Alot of people are wondering what the point of this, talking about carrying the printer around, etc. The point of IR and / or Bluetooth on a printer, is now anyone can walk into the office with his laptop/pda/cell/whatever, and print instantly. No need to dock it, hook up a cable, install drivers (cause they'd already be instealled), etc. This is a godsend for people who do most of their work on the road. This is the reason printers have been IR compatable for some time.
Go to sourceforge and look int he "help Wanted" needed. There are always tons of projects there that need developers, Doc writers, Web Developers, QA perople, everything!
Ok...
One is on Win2k and one is on Win95??? 95??? Win95 takes way less RAM than even 98, and we all know how much more RAM hungry Win2k is than 98. You're comparing apples to oranges. I am comparing startup times on the SAME MACHINE, which is one I use at school, all the time. Its a P3 something, unsure about ram. MS Office has always performed WP Office / Corel Office in startup times.
There is a BroadCast2000 source RPM on any Mandrake mirror.
I'm not trying to be pro-M$ here, but I'd just like to point out that Word has always loaded VERY fast for me, at least 5x faster than WordPerfect ever did on its best days, and at least as fast as even the slimmed down abiword or Kword, which only have a subset of the features.
I live in the Maritimes of Canada, and work for the local telco here (Aliant Telecom). We do all the telecom for the Maritimes. Upon recieving some 25 or 30 Airliners originally intended for NY, our company donated literally hundreds of cell phones with unlimted airtime and long distance in all our relief centres. They also installed some 140 landlines with 0-area code long distance and installed some 20 or so DSL internet access sites so the people could get in touch with relatives. The company is saying they are experiencing traffic volumes over 2.5 times the amount they see on Monther's day (the busiest day of the year).
So you're saying that if I buy something online and they only take credit card / money order, and refuse to accept cash, I can take them to court???? I don't think so there Jonsey...
Stop talking out your ass.
Am I mistaken, or wasn't Broadcast 2000 GPL'ed? If so, why all the hubabaloo? So he doesn't want to do development anymore, I don't blame him. But anyone who is interested can always pick up where he left off.
It's not too difficult to look into your statusbar as you hover over a link.
I can tell because when you read a webpage, you do one of a couple of things. You either shovel the mouse off to the right so that it is out of the way, or you will walk down the page with your mouse," he told the BBC's Go Digital programme.
Hasn't this guy ever seen a scrollwheel? I rarely move my mouse around a page. I sit it somewhere in the midle, and scroll. I also wonder where he gets this idea of "wanting to click a link, but you don't". Who does that? If I want to click it, then I will. Whose stopping me???
It would also be strong evidence that the guy had the grace of God working for him, as I can hardly ever find blue LED's in stock at my Radio Shack, let alone parts to build an Apple II. All they like to carry nowadays are Cell phones and RC's.
Did you even look at the website? It si NOT a joke. I just downloaded and compiled the spl2c interperter myself, and then coverted to C and compiled a sample program. it works!
That case, although just as wrong, is different though. Skylarov (is that spelled right?) CAME to the US, this company never set foot in Australia.
I am also curious. I was always under the impression that if you broke the law in another country, the worst that could happen is you just could never go there, or else be arrested. Since this is a US based company, who is going to force them to pay up? It makes no sense to me...
What good is being able to disable Anime in my prefs if you keep spitting it out in different topics?
Man, do you guys even read the articles anymore? If you did, you might notice the guy specifically says that we won't notice any significant impact for at least 100 years.
For all those who keep saying "Who cares when 1.0 is coming out when 0.93 is out now", and you are somewhat right, don't forget that RedHat has said (and I believe other distros will follow suit) that when mozilla reaches 1.0, it will stop carrying the horrid Netscape 4.7x altogether, in the distro, and focus on Mozilla as the default browser. This support alone will help Mozilla greatly.
Non-reg link: http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/technology/2 6ONLI.html
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up, because I wasn?t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up, because I wasn?t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
I'm getting sick of reading about this smartlinks stuff like it's something new... Hasn't anyone seen those ads NBC was running about 6 months ago for that "QuickClick" program? "Click any word, find information!" Well anyone try it? Its Smarttags. Anyone ever install the program FlyCast in the past 2 years, by accident or otherwise? Smarttags. Flycast has been doing this for a LONG time, way before Microsoft. And from the looks of those screenshos, those products are using Flycast technology. Maybe if you were so concerned about this (which I don't see why you should be... On the web, its up to the user how the content gets displayed, not the publisher.. And it is very easy to distiguish what are Smart tags and what aren't) you should have spoke up long ago.
Cost of installing locked glass doors in every Wal-mart: Millions.
Cose of taking 20 mins to write a script that doesn't allow access throught the archive URL for new stories: 20 mins = Around 20 bucks, assuming the guy makes 60 bucks / hour.
They don't want to invest 20 bucks for reasonable control measures, thats their fucking problem, not mine.
Why should I have to register on their site??? I can still be subjected to their ads without them knowing my Name, phone number, address, yearly income, and favorite lunchmeat!
Just replace the "www" in the link with "archive".
For this link, it is
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/technolog
It
a) Saves all the "No reg link" posts, and
b) Saves all the "Anonymous login" posts, and
c) just makes the world a better place in general.
Thanks!
This reminds me of a rant I love to get off on... Mountain Dew in Canada isn't caffinated! Why you ask? Some arcane Canadian law that says clear beverages cannot be caffinated.... pisses me off.
Postgres is much better than MySQL for MANY reasons, so many in fact I fail to see why people still champion MySQL...
1)Postgres is SQL-92 compliant, and supports normal DB syntax like nested selects, transactions, etc. MySQL doesn't.
2)Postgres has a much more robust API for devolpers
Postgres is ENTIRELY Free software, and is only licensed under the GPL, unlike MySQL, which has a commercial version, and the GPL version, and the closed source version, of which the GPL version is always behind.
Sure, MySQL may have a bit of an edge on speed, but not by much. And when you take into account all the functionality it lacks, I don't know why anyone would shoose to limit themselves so much by using it.