I'd love to see Konqueror on Windows. That might make using Windows a little better as you could finally put explorer.exe behind the digital barn and shoot it for good. Explorer sucks even more than IE, but there's not much people can do about it other than really hacking at the Windows UI. Konqueror is a simple app, so you would not need to put in a whole new shell for Windows to get the advantages of having another file manager.
What about aluminum? A lot of copper goes into home wiring and that could all be replaced with aluminum pretty easily. 1/8 of the mass of about any soil you happen to dig up is aluminum oxide. Or you could even use iron or steel in wires, but it would not be nearly as easy to handle as Al or Cu (heavier and stiffer). But it would work just fine once it was installed.
Heck, if metals got THAT scarce, you could use plastic pipes filled with brine, weak acids, or anything that dissolves well in water and yields ions in solution to transmit electricity. You'd just have a metal electrode at one point in the pipe to touch the liquid and you have a "wire."
That is a good idea on the abolishment of the penny. It been done before. In military PXes, prices that are $x.x1 and $x.x2 are rounded down to $x.x0, prices of $x.x3, $x.x4, $x.x6, $x.x7 are rounded to $x.x5, and prices of $x.x8 and $x.x9 are rounded to $x.(x+1)0, effectively getting rid of pennies. This is done on the final total after taxes have been applied.
Dollar coins are a very good idea but have been met with limited enthusiasm here. The problem is that the biggest uses for coins are vending machines of some sort and the owners of the machines do not want to spend a lot of money to retrofit their machines to accept the coins. So, dollar coins flop as you can't really use them anywhere except in stores. And you generally buy more than a buck's worth of stuff in a store.
XP Professional full version: $299 XP Home full version: $199 XP Professional upgrade (from Windows >= 98): $199 XP Home upgrade: $99
The OEM copies vary, but XP Pro OEM is about $130 and XP Home OEM is about $80. Educational versions are generally XP Pro and vary from about a little over $100 to free, dependent on the agreement that Microsoft has with the institution. Here at the University of Missouri, we pay $67 for Office 2003 and Windows XP Pro, if one would choose to buy those programs.
It's the same here- anything above 64k ISDN is "broadband," but usually DSL here starts at 256k, not 128k. I personally don't consider anything broadband unless it is a T1 or equivalent in download speed.
I bet that if a company has even one Linux e-mail, file, or Web server, they are "using Linux." And I would bet that most companies do as the vast majority of Web servers are Linux or UNIX running Apache. However, when most of us here read the "50% are using Linux" we think that it means that the company uses almost all Linux machines and few Windows machines. This is another case where the statistics are a little misleading.
My university rolled out Firefox for installation (from the central app server- there are several thousand computers on campus!!) when it hit 1.0 due to popular demand. Same with Thunderbird. They have OpenOffice available on some machines and put it there after it hit 2.0. So at least in my school, if enough people want something that's freely available (GPL or similar license) on the machines, the IT guys say okay- there's not much of a reason *not* to.
You're only irritated that ordinary Homer Simpson'ish people are allowed to be cops because they get free donuts. Mmmmm...do-nuts.....garrrrrrrrrllllll...
It is sad to say that Comcast is actually playing fairer than somebody else in the market, but I guess now BellSouth is the new standard of how low the bar can go. Thank goodness I do not have to buy Internet in the South.
Maybe I am an anomaly, but NONE of the IBM Deathstars I have had have ever failed. 30MB (no typo), 400MB, 120GB. All fine. I have had two Quantum Fireballs flame out- a 40MB and a 10GB, and a Toshiba 60GB notebook drive issued the Bleating Squeal of Death. And what did I replace it with? A 100-gig Hitachi Travelstar:) BTW, I have had a Maxtor 20GB and 80GB do okay too.
People have known Intel for a very long time. They have made few big blunders that would shoot their reputation for quality in the foot- the FDIV bug and a few overheating PIIIs of about 600MHz come to mind. They do make a solid product.
AMD also makes a solid product, but they have been virtually unknown for a long time. It wasn't really until the Athlon beat the PIII to 1GHz that anybody heard of AMD because few knew of the 40MHz 386 that led AMD to break their agreement to make Intel's chips. The K5 and K6 line were good chips, but not many outside of the tech circles knew that they were any good. The average Joes all heard Intel's buh-bum-buh-bum! on the TV and bought Pentium MMX and Pentium II chips instead. They are starting to lose their "budget" and "cheap" connotation with most consumers with the Athlon 64 range, but that is a handful of years, not the 20-some-odd that people have known Intel as making reasonably good stuff.
1. Pentium chips that are not up to snuff (such as some L2 cache being bad) and the flawed things are turned off. This is most Celeron chips. 2. New chips made on older architectures, ex. the 533FSB Celeron desktop chips are very similar to the 533 Northwoods. 3. Old-stock Pentiums that are rebadged.
I secure mine, and about 8 out of the 14 I see (incl. mine) are secure. I use Linux, so my card will only connect to the SSID I tell it to- it will never scan. And since I have it set on DHCP, the interface will never become activated unless it manages to find a network with the same SSID and WEP key as mine and gets a DHCP address. It will not give itself an IP automatically like the Windows machines.
Every computer can support halting of network traffic. Just right-click on the interface's monitor in the taskbar and hit "Disable" in Windows. In OS X, click on the wireless icon and select "Disable." In Linux, if you have Gnome's netapplet or network-selector installed, hit "Disconnect." If you have KIntenet, right click and select "Hang Up." If you have none of those, type "sudo/sbin/ifdown eth*" where * is the number of your wireless, usually 0 or 1. You don't need any third-party program.
You raise some very true points, but why not enforce the connection to only get an address assigned by DHCP if that is how the interface is set up? That way, if there are no APs out there, the NIC will not give itself an IP and ad-hoc on its own accord. I'd also make it easy to give yourself a temporary static IP for when you want to ad-hoc- but it would require the user to do it by clicking a button or selecting a right-click menu item. That should not inconvenience the users very much but would fix this problem.
You mean like this: user@machine:~> gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
China is best described as a quasi-socialist dictatorship. They are not communist because there are lots of capitalistic ventures. They are not fully capitalist because the state still controls a lot of things. So they are a mixture of the two, which is socialism.
Well, you should thank Firefox for being around because I remember the Really Bad Days when the content was IE-only. Trying to render Firefox-compliant code in Safari or KDE Konqueror (they have the same KHTML rendering engine) is a lot better than trying to render IE-specific code in any other browser. Also, most developers have to try to make actual good HTML these days rather than hack stuff so it will show up well on only one or two browsers.
Well, in a loose sense, there is a version of Safari on the Windows desktop. Safari is heavily based on KDE's KHTML framework that KDE developed for the Konqueror browser. And KHTML is based on Mozilla's Gecko Rendering Engine which is used in Firefox. And Firefox does more running on Windows than on any other platform.
At my school, the University of Missouri, full copies of Office 2003, Mac Office 2004, and Windows XP Professional all can be had for $67 each. Other titles from other vendors are sold at steeply discounted prices too.
Actually, OpenOffice DOES have support for this. In fact, I got a document that I made with OOo 2.0, sent it to a Word 2003 user, who edited it with "Track Changes." I opened it up with OOo 2.0 and was able to accept/reject them perfectly. What you have to do is go to Edit -> Changes and there are the track changes options.
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I'd love to see Konqueror on Windows. That might make using Windows a little better as you could finally put explorer.exe behind the digital barn and shoot it for good. Explorer sucks even more than IE, but there's not much people can do about it other than really hacking at the Windows UI. Konqueror is a simple app, so you would not need to put in a whole new shell for Windows to get the advantages of having another file manager.
What about aluminum? A lot of copper goes into home wiring and that could all be replaced with aluminum pretty easily. 1/8 of the mass of about any soil you happen to dig up is aluminum oxide. Or you could even use iron or steel in wires, but it would not be nearly as easy to handle as Al or Cu (heavier and stiffer). But it would work just fine once it was installed.
Heck, if metals got THAT scarce, you could use plastic pipes filled with brine, weak acids, or anything that dissolves well in water and yields ions in solution to transmit electricity. You'd just have a metal electrode at one point in the pipe to touch the liquid and you have a "wire."
That is a good idea on the abolishment of the penny. It been done before. In military PXes, prices that are $x.x1 and $x.x2 are rounded down to $x.x0, prices of $x.x3, $x.x4, $x.x6, $x.x7 are rounded to $x.x5, and prices of $x.x8 and $x.x9 are rounded to $x.(x+1)0, effectively getting rid of pennies. This is done on the final total after taxes have been applied.
Dollar coins are a very good idea but have been met with limited enthusiasm here. The problem is that the biggest uses for coins are vending machines of some sort and the owners of the machines do not want to spend a lot of money to retrofit their machines to accept the coins. So, dollar coins flop as you can't really use them anywhere except in stores. And you generally buy more than a buck's worth of stuff in a store.
Can we have a story about how australia is better than the rest of the world? :)
Your beers are bigger than ours
Windows retail box license fees:
XP Professional full version: $299
XP Home full version: $199
XP Professional upgrade (from Windows >= 98): $199
XP Home upgrade: $99
The OEM copies vary, but XP Pro OEM is about $130 and XP Home OEM is about $80. Educational versions are generally XP Pro and vary from about a little over $100 to free, dependent on the agreement that Microsoft has with the institution. Here at the University of Missouri, we pay $67 for Office 2003 and Windows XP Pro, if one would choose to buy those programs.
It's the same here- anything above 64k ISDN is "broadband," but usually DSL here starts at 256k, not 128k. I personally don't consider anything broadband unless it is a T1 or equivalent in download speed.
I bet that if a company has even one Linux e-mail, file, or Web server, they are "using Linux." And I would bet that most companies do as the vast majority of Web servers are Linux or UNIX running Apache. However, when most of us here read the "50% are using Linux" we think that it means that the company uses almost all Linux machines and few Windows machines. This is another case where the statistics are a little misleading.
My university rolled out Firefox for installation (from the central app server- there are several thousand computers on campus!!) when it hit 1.0 due to popular demand. Same with Thunderbird. They have OpenOffice available on some machines and put it there after it hit 2.0. So at least in my school, if enough people want something that's freely available (GPL or similar license) on the machines, the IT guys say okay- there's not much of a reason *not* to.
All of Intel's Core chips are 32-bit. The *next* generation (a.k.a. Merom) will be 64-bits and comes out in September. I hope this helps.
You're only irritated that ordinary Homer Simpson'ish people are allowed to be cops because they get free donuts. Mmmmm...do-nuts.....garrrrrrrrrllllll...
It is sad to say that Comcast is actually playing fairer than somebody else in the market, but I guess now BellSouth is the new standard of how low the bar can go. Thank goodness I do not have to buy Internet in the South.
Maybe I am an anomaly, but NONE of the IBM Deathstars I have had have ever failed. 30MB (no typo), 400MB, 120GB. All fine. I have had two Quantum Fireballs flame out- a 40MB and a 10GB, and a Toshiba 60GB notebook drive issued the Bleating Squeal of Death. And what did I replace it with? A 100-gig Hitachi Travelstar :) BTW, I have had a Maxtor 20GB and 80GB do okay too.
People have known Intel for a very long time. They have made few big blunders that would shoot their reputation for quality in the foot- the FDIV bug and a few overheating PIIIs of about 600MHz come to mind. They do make a solid product.
AMD also makes a solid product, but they have been virtually unknown for a long time. It wasn't really until the Athlon beat the PIII to 1GHz that anybody heard of AMD because few knew of the 40MHz 386 that led AMD to break their agreement to make Intel's chips. The K5 and K6 line were good chips, but not many outside of the tech circles knew that they were any good. The average Joes all heard Intel's buh-bum-buh-bum! on the TV and bought Pentium MMX and Pentium II chips instead. They are starting to lose their "budget" and "cheap" connotation with most consumers with the Athlon 64 range, but that is a handful of years, not the 20-some-odd that people have known Intel as making reasonably good stuff.
Celerons are one of a few things:
1. Pentium chips that are not up to snuff (such as some L2 cache being bad) and the flawed things are turned off. This is most Celeron chips.
2. New chips made on older architectures, ex. the 533FSB Celeron desktop chips are very similar to the 533 Northwoods.
3. Old-stock Pentiums that are rebadged.
I secure mine, and about 8 out of the 14 I see (incl. mine) are secure. I use Linux, so my card will only connect to the SSID I tell it to- it will never scan. And since I have it set on DHCP, the interface will never become activated unless it manages to find a network with the same SSID and WEP key as mine and gets a DHCP address. It will not give itself an IP automatically like the Windows machines.
Every computer can support halting of network traffic. Just right-click on the interface's monitor in the taskbar and hit "Disable" in Windows. In OS X, click on the wireless icon and select "Disable." In Linux, if you have Gnome's netapplet or network-selector installed, hit "Disconnect." If you have KIntenet, right click and select "Hang Up." If you have none of those, type "sudo /sbin/ifdown eth*" where * is the number of your wireless, usually 0 or 1. You don't need any third-party program.
You raise some very true points, but why not enforce the connection to only get an address assigned by DHCP if that is how the interface is set up? That way, if there are no APs out there, the NIC will not give itself an IP and ad-hoc on its own accord. I'd also make it easy to give yourself a temporary static IP for when you want to ad-hoc- but it would require the user to do it by clicking a button or selecting a right-click menu item. That should not inconvenience the users very much but would fix this problem.
You mean like this:
user@machine:~> gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
China is best described as a quasi-socialist dictatorship. They are not communist because there are lots of capitalistic ventures. They are not fully capitalist because the state still controls a lot of things. So they are a mixture of the two, which is socialism.
Well, you should thank Firefox for being around because I remember the Really Bad Days when the content was IE-only. Trying to render Firefox-compliant code in Safari or KDE Konqueror (they have the same KHTML rendering engine) is a lot better than trying to render IE-specific code in any other browser. Also, most developers have to try to make actual good HTML these days rather than hack stuff so it will show up well on only one or two browsers.
Well, in a loose sense, there is a version of Safari on the Windows desktop. Safari is heavily based on KDE's KHTML framework that KDE developed for the Konqueror browser. And KHTML is based on Mozilla's Gecko Rendering Engine which is used in Firefox. And Firefox does more running on Windows than on any other platform.
If MS *really* wanted a chip, it would release Office and most of the rest of their products for Linux.
I know of several:
Office Suite
Operating system
Software
At my school, the University of Missouri, full copies of Office 2003, Mac Office 2004, and Windows XP Professional all can be had for $67 each. Other titles from other vendors are sold at steeply discounted prices too.
Actually, OpenOffice DOES have support for this. In fact, I got a document that I made with OOo 2.0, sent it to a Word 2003 user, who edited it with "Track Changes." I opened it up with OOo 2.0 and was able to accept/reject them perfectly. What you have to do is go to Edit -> Changes and there are the track changes options.