The problem with Communism is the Soviet Union and China (*neither* of which are/were communist states for the vast latter part of their existance) gave it a bad rap.
Only when you give absolute power to a minority elite do you end up with the Soviet/Orwellian paradigm. A truely democratic communist state would not have those problems.
The thing I remember about Caldera, was the installer. While it was copying the files to disk (a process which at that time could take 20 minutes or longer - hell actually with today's DVD distros it can still take that long), it let you play a tetris clone.
To this day I miss this feature. I mean, you can only watch the marketing "This OS Rules!" crap all over the screen for so many installs before you want to drill your eyes out.
Can we get this added in to the Ubuntu installer? *PLEASE* ?
Get a bunch of old surplus laptops - any P300 or higher would be fine. Turn off hibernation on the laptops so they stay on when closed. Get some flatbed scanners, place them on top of the laptops.
With any number of software packages, or some simple shell scripting in Linux, automate the scanning so that when they put in a document and press the 'Scan' button, it will do whatever you want. So, just make it scan into a format and copy it to the FTP server.
It shouldn't cost you more than $500 for every Laptop / Flatbed station you need.
b) Firefox had no direct competition on Windows. For someone who wanted a free browser that was not IE, or better than IE, Firefox was the only real choice.
Neither of these are true for Ekiga. It is not a Windows app, and even if it did port to Windows smoothly, it would be competing againsta zillion other free Windows VOIP apps that do H.323 and SIP, as well as the apps that ship with Cisco and the like's VOIP hardware.
Oh - and it is not hard to be better than kcall or kphone - neither of those apps were ever up to production quality standards. GnomeMeeting has always been a very solid robust app, and I am sure Ekiga is too, since it is based on a mature codebase. This will I am sure make it a very popular app in the Linux/*NIX world for VOIP, because it will be come the de-facto standard for VOIP, much like Gimp is the de-facto standard for image editing.
But none of that has to do with the name "Ekiga", in a positive or negative sense. Just like the Gimp - in the OSS world you become popular and successful based on your merits, not branding.
What are you smoking? Ekiga is not a player in any market. It is a Gnome-only app. It is not a Windows application. Sure, in theory someone could write a Windows port, but A) why would you, and B), if you did no one but OS freaks would use it anyways.
Ekiga is not competing against anyone else. They will already have the leading market share.
.... but half of them don't have much of a business model.
Take Meebo for example. Sure, it's cool, but what's their model? Ads on the site? What?
Plus they are going to have the problem of competing with the IM networks themselves. I mean, GTalk already has a web client. So do ICQ and Yahoo!, although they are Java based. And if you are , you really think it woul dbe a big deal to whip up an AJAX IM client? I think not.
I had high hopes for this "Origami", I thought it would finally be the integration device we'vbe bene waiting for (cell phone, PDA, MP3 player, games machine, digital camera, all in an easy to use functional package), but I am very disappointed by this "brick" machine.
Sure, this may serve a neiche of people who want something smalelr and cheaper than a laptop but more powerful than a PDA, but how large is that neiche? PDAs and smartphones are getting better all the time, and like the parent said, if it is bigger than a PDA it might as well be a small laptop.
There is a big difference between screwing around with electricity and mechanics, and messing with the fundamental sub-atomic structure of the universe, and genetically enginerring super-organisms and releasing them into the wild.
Also, because of the "irrational fear" you describe, back then people trated this stuff with kid gloves. Nowadays we are so full of ourselves that we never seem to think of the potential ramifications of what we are doing before we do it.
Indeed. I love science, and in general I have tremendous faith in most scientists and physiscists. But science has progressed to a state where we are starting to venture into areas where there are huge swaths of unknowns, in physics, genetics, and nanotechnology.
I mean, this quote sums it up for me......some unknown energy source is involved.... Wow, so basically, they did this experiment, which resulted in a breaking of one of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, and resulted in a gas billions of degrees higher than expected?
GMO crops, artifical black holes, supercolliding particles ( of which sometimes we don't even know what will happen until we do it)... I mean, I am beginning to think man is not going to be obliterated through war, or disease, or a nuclear holocost, but just in an instant flash of some experiment gone wrong.
We need to be very careful, the forces we are starting to toy with are both potent and dangerous, as well as increasingly misunderstood.
Yeah, it would be a nightmare. In fact, imagine if bacteria, mold, and fungii evolved the ability to break down food... with no food supply, we would die within days!
See how ridiculous this sounds now? Bacteria and mold don't instantly eat anything. They are slow working organisms that cause no noticeable damage until their numbers build up.
Mold can eat right through the drywall in your house, but it doesn't. That is because you keep it in check via cleaning and maintenence (at least I hope) and keeping it an inhospitable area (dry). No reason the same would not hold true for plastics.
It's a new UI paradigm I have not seen before. It's a dragbar that takes you through the search results, which are streamed from the server in real time as you drag. No more paging through search results. I think it is a novel idea.
PS the Page Up / Down and Home keys work too, as well as your scrollwheel.
Once you realize it is not a scrollbar and actually try it a bit you'll see hwo cool it is.
Also try the 'Add To My Live" button, tres cool. The image search is also blowing Google's away.
In Windows there is little reason to use suspend to ram, because suspend to disk is so damn fast (10 seconds down, 15-20 seconds up), and while suspended the laptop uses *0* power.
Like the parent said - suspend to disk in Linux is not in a good state right now. When it *does* work, it does so very slowly. When it *doesn't* work, it's a disaster and sometimes leaves your system in such a weird state you need to hard reboot and fsck your drives.
And don't even think about using it if you use the NVidia drivers.
The service works with a small software program Verizon Wireless customers can download to their handsets that will communicate back to their TiVo digital-video recorders.
Has nothing to do with SMS at all.
And anyone who can download apps to their phone has WAP.
A statement from Microsoft also describes 'A portal such as a Web site to access spectator-related services such as schedules and information on multiple games and events as well as the number of spectators and participants in each. The portal allows the spectator to find the most popular games to watch, preview the action, and then connect to the desired game or event.'"
I can already do any and all of these things via any of the numerous online poker sites I visit.
Digital signals are a little more sensitive actually, but audio in general is extremely independant of wire characteristics.
This is somehwat true, but there are two important factors here:
- In home audio at least, all the digital codecs ship with some levels of ECC. So any minor data lost is irrelevant.
- Because it is a digital signal and not analog, it is therefore either a perfect transmission, or a flawed transmission. There is no middle ground. If your reciever gets an uninturrupted data stream without obvious bleeps with your crappy 0.99 RCA SPDIF cable, then buying a $40 monster gold plated cable will make no difference whatsoever. If it did, then you would be hearing the interference as very obvious bleeps and bops, or your reciever would be cutting in and out. Digital audio codecs do not gracefully degrade as bits randomly vanish.
Then don't tell them it's free, and take their license fee they pay you as their consultant and send it off to the project maintainers / support group / FSF / Whoever.
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Socialism/Communism/Marxism are not Orwellian.
The problem with Communism is the Soviet Union and China (*neither* of which are/were communist states for the vast latter part of their existance) gave it a bad rap.
Only when you give absolute power to a minority elite do you end up with the Soviet/Orwellian paradigm. A truely democratic communist state would not have those problems.
The thing I remember about Caldera, was the installer. While it was copying the files to disk (a process which at that time could take 20 minutes or longer - hell actually with today's DVD distros it can still take that long), it let you play a tetris clone.
To this day I miss this feature. I mean, you can only watch the marketing "This OS Rules!" crap all over the screen for so many installs before you want to drill your eyes out.
Can we get this added in to the Ubuntu installer? *PLEASE* ?
Get a bunch of old surplus laptops - any P300 or higher would be fine. Turn off hibernation on the laptops so they stay on when closed. Get some flatbed scanners, place them on top of the laptops.
With any number of software packages, or some simple shell scripting in Linux, automate the scanning so that when they put in a document and press the 'Scan' button, it will do whatever you want. So, just make it scan into a format and copy it to the FTP server.
It shouldn't cost you more than $500 for every Laptop / Flatbed station you need.
a) Firefox runs on Windows, and always has
b) Firefox had no direct competition on Windows. For someone who wanted a free browser that was not IE, or better than IE, Firefox was the only real choice.
Neither of these are true for Ekiga. It is not a Windows app, and even if it did port to Windows smoothly, it would be competing againsta zillion other free Windows VOIP apps that do H.323 and SIP, as well as the apps that ship with Cisco and the like's VOIP hardware.
Oh - and it is not hard to be better than kcall or kphone - neither of those apps were ever up to production quality standards. GnomeMeeting has always been a very solid robust app, and I am sure Ekiga is too, since it is based on a mature codebase. This will I am sure make it a very popular app in the Linux/*NIX world for VOIP, because it will be come the de-facto standard for VOIP, much like Gimp is the de-facto standard for image editing.
But none of that has to do with the name "Ekiga", in a positive or negative sense. Just like the Gimp - in the OSS world you become popular and successful based on your merits, not branding.
What are you smoking? Ekiga is not a player in any market. It is a Gnome-only app. It is not a Windows application. Sure, in theory someone could write a Windows port, but A) why would you, and B), if you did no one but OS freaks would use it anyways.
Ekiga is not competing against anyone else. They will already have the leading market share.
.... but half of them don't have much of a business model.
Take Meebo for example. Sure, it's cool, but what's their model? Ads on the site? What?
Plus they are going to have the problem of competing with the IM networks themselves. I mean, GTalk already has a web client. So do ICQ and Yahoo!, although they are Java based. And if you are , you really think it woul dbe a big deal to whip up an AJAX IM client? I think not.
Yeah, and Adobe Acrobat is really inidicative of the fact that it is a portable document viewer.
God I am sick of this BS.
I had high hopes for this "Origami", I thought it would finally be the integration device we'vbe bene waiting for (cell phone, PDA, MP3 player, games machine, digital camera, all in an easy to use functional package), but I am very disappointed by this "brick" machine.
Sure, this may serve a neiche of people who want something smalelr and cheaper than a laptop but more powerful than a PDA, but how large is that neiche? PDAs and smartphones are getting better all the time, and like the parent said, if it is bigger than a PDA it might as well be a small laptop.
There is a big difference between screwing around with electricity and mechanics, and messing with the fundamental sub-atomic structure of the universe, and genetically enginerring super-organisms and releasing them into the wild.
Also, because of the "irrational fear" you describe, back then people trated this stuff with kid gloves. Nowadays we are so full of ourselves that we never seem to think of the potential ramifications of what we are doing before we do it.
Do we want anything that hot on our planet?"
Indeed. I love science, and in general I have tremendous faith in most scientists and physiscists. But science has progressed to a state where we are starting to venture into areas where there are huge swaths of unknowns, in physics, genetics, and nanotechnology.
I mean, this quote sums it up for me......some unknown energy source is involved.... Wow, so basically, they did this experiment, which resulted in a breaking of one of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, and resulted in a gas billions of degrees higher than expected?
GMO crops, artifical black holes, supercolliding particles ( of which sometimes we don't even know what will happen until we do it)... I mean, I am beginning to think man is not going to be obliterated through war, or disease, or a nuclear holocost, but just in an instant flash of some experiment gone wrong.
We need to be very careful, the forces we are starting to toy with are both potent and dangerous, as well as increasingly misunderstood.
I am not running Gentoo currently as I have switched to ubuntu, and I can not remember the exact name of the ebuild.
If you have even used Gentoo before you'd know it doesn't matter - just emerge -s vmware, it will come up.
Works fine for me... Firefox 1.5
Yeah, it would be a nightmare. In fact, imagine if bacteria, mold, and fungii evolved the ability to break down food... with no food supply, we would die within days!
See how ridiculous this sounds now? Bacteria and mold don't instantly eat anything. They are slow working organisms that cause no noticeable damage until their numbers build up.
Mold can eat right through the drywall in your house, but it doesn't. That is because you keep it in check via cleaning and maintenence (at least I hope) and keeping it an inhospitable area (dry). No reason the same would not hold true for plastics.
It's a new UI paradigm I have not seen before. It's a dragbar that takes you through the search results, which are streamed from the server in real time as you drag. No more paging through search results. I think it is a novel idea.
PS the Page Up / Down and Home keys work too, as well as your scrollwheel.
Once you realize it is not a scrollbar and actually try it a bit you'll see hwo cool it is.
Also try the 'Add To My Live" button, tres cool. The image search is also blowing Google's away.
... because I have run VMWare without *any issue whatsoever* on Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake, you name it.
Hell in Gentoo you just have to 'emerge VMWareWorkstation' or something as such.
Hibernate is suspend to disk.
In Windows there is little reason to use suspend to ram, because suspend to disk is so damn fast (10 seconds down, 15-20 seconds up), and while suspended the laptop uses *0* power.
Like the parent said - suspend to disk in Linux is not in a good state right now. When it *does* work, it does so very slowly. When it *doesn't* work, it's a disaster and sometimes leaves your system in such a weird state you need to hard reboot and fsck your drives.
And don't even think about using it if you use the NVidia drivers.
The service works with a small software program Verizon Wireless customers can download to their handsets that will communicate back to their TiVo digital-video recorders.
Has nothing to do with SMS at all.
And anyone who can download apps to their phone has WAP.
You can do this for free with MythTV via MythWeb.
You can also do it for free at tivo.com
Totally ridiculous.
You don't understand.. he is a resident.. he lives there.
A statement from Microsoft also describes 'A portal such as a Web site to access spectator-related services such as schedules and information on multiple games and events as well as the number of spectators and participants in each. The portal allows the spectator to find the most popular games to watch, preview the action, and then connect to the desired game or event.'"
I can already do any and all of these things via any of the numerous online poker sites I visit.
All of this only matters if you are tlaking about raw PCM data from a SPDIF connection to a CD player or DVD AUDIO player.
When most people are talking about HiFi, they are talking about Dolby Digital or DTS surround sound, like the GP with his 5.1 setup.
Both of these binary codecs include ECC and don't care about discrete clock timings any more than an MP3 player would.
When you're talking surround sound (as the GP was), you're talking about Dolby Digital or DTS, both of which include ECC.
Digital signals are a little more sensitive actually, but audio in general is extremely independant of wire characteristics.
This is somehwat true, but there are two important factors here:
- In home audio at least, all the digital codecs ship with some levels of ECC. So any minor data lost is irrelevant.
- Because it is a digital signal and not analog, it is therefore either a perfect transmission, or a flawed transmission. There is no middle ground. If your reciever gets an uninturrupted data stream without obvious bleeps with your crappy 0.99 RCA SPDIF cable, then buying a $40 monster gold plated cable will make no difference whatsoever. If it did, then you would be hearing the interference as very obvious bleeps and bops, or your reciever would be cutting in and out. Digital audio codecs do not gracefully degrade as bits randomly vanish.
Then don't tell them it's free, and take their license fee they pay you as their consultant and send it off to the project maintainers / support group / FSF / Whoever.
You can bet if a company ever does start producing and selling these things, they will offer support contracts.
Even if not - someone would. You can get commercial support contracts for just about any piece of Open Source software you can think of.
Just because it doesn't come from a company does not mean you can't pay someone to stand behind it.