I've been using Gware. I've not had any stability problems, and I run on slackware-current. I checked out some of their build scripts, and they seems to be pretty sane.
Actually, the answer is yes. While it is difficult to prove, the Board of Directors MUST (legally) act in a fiduciary manner. That mean, they have to do what is in the best interest of the shareholders. However, if the Board takes a business risk, and it fails, then that is ok.
As to the point above about "maximizing profits," the shareholders (owners) of the company must decide what is "profitable" for them. For example, if a company is mostly employee owned, the oweners/employees may decide to pay employees more rather than pay out more to shareholders.
I actually used BeOS 4.5 and BeOS 5.0 for more than a week. I actually used it for over a year as my main OS. I could surf the web with Opera (no real stable Mozilla port back then), an AIM client (BeAIM), and an ICQ client (can't remember the name). I also had an mp3 player very similar to Winamp/XMMS, and it even supported Winamp skins. I never got into using the Gobe office suite. I also had a Hauppauge TV tuner card which I could watch TV with even in BeOS. If you wanted to do multimedia, BeOS could do it.
This was all while I was in college. I took an intro C programming course, and I did most of my labs in BeOS. I wrote, compiled, tested, debugged, and uploaded all of my work from BeOS.
BeOS was great. It booted in less than 15 seconds on my P3 500 MHz and 128 MB of RAM. It had services that were much simpler than Windows services. For example, if networking was misbehaving or sound stopped, just restart the sound server. No reason to reboot (as you would Windows 98, which was the standard home desktop OS back during this time).
So why did I stop using BeOS you ask? Well, my Dell had come with a Riva TNT2 video card, and I eventually upgraded to a GeForce 2. When I did that, there weren't any drivers other than VESA drivers to support the card, and 60 Hz refresh rates on a 17" monitor give me a major headache. Eventually the 2D drivers for GeForce boards were released, and I tried to go back to BeOS, but I had already moved back to Windows and was jumping into Linux more and more. School was picking up for me, and I didn't have as much time as I did during my freshman year.
Why don't I check out yellowTab or Zeta OS? Well, I'm pretty much Slackware at home and XP at work. I don't have the application choices for the new BeOS variants that I do with Windows and Linux. I also have a gut feeling that I'd have to worry more about hardware compatibility with newer hardware than I would with Windows or Linux.
In other news, China denied that Chinese society's emphasis on having male children was harmful to the future of the country. It's so obvious that PK'ing is so much more harmful to society than not having enough women for men to marry and reproduce with. I believe the last figures I saw put the male:female ratio at 4:1.
Letting the Chinese government dictate morality and what is best for children is like saying the engineers for the Yugo could teach all of the other car makers how to make a better car.
I actually just sold my Zaurus SL-5500 on eBay. I sold it with my Linksys WCF11 wireless card. I got about $125 for the combination, which is what I set the minimum to on eBay. I got rid of mine for a few reasons:
1. The battery life with the wireless card was horrible, and that was when the battery was new.
2. To have anything new, you had to use OpenZaurus. Not that OZ is bad, but it means that Sharp basically stopped updating anything for it. Trolltech was supposedly going to release an updated QT ROM for the 5500, but I never saw it materialize.
3. Back to the battery, it was a bit old, so it had a harder time holding a charge.
4. Getting it setup to communicate to the PC under Windows or Linux always seemed to a lot harder than it should have been. I always got it working, but it always took a while.
5. This was the big reason. I just stopped using it because of the other 4 reasons and because I almost always have my work laptop with me. I can pop my laptop out of suspend, fire up Outlook, and I have my Calendar, Address Book, e-mail, etc. just as fast. Yes, I would prefer to carry the Zaurus over the laptop, but since I always have the laptop for other work reasons, why do I need a PDA?
I always loved the games where you can shoot and leave damage to just about anything in the environment. If I can blow up the ad, I might not mind it too much.
Or even better...
In UT2004: Sales man in a suit walks up: "Are you tired of paying too much for car insurance on your Scorpion?"
Player whips out sniper rifle... Announcer: "HEAD SHOT!"
Though I'm not middle aged, I do have tons of fond memories of sitting in front of my Commodore 64 with my dad, learning to load programs and playing games with him. The two I remember the most are Threshold and Falcon Patrol.
What about new technology created due to science fiction? For example, I remember reading a few articles about how doctors thought the diagnostic beds they saw in ST: TOS were a great idea. They took an idea from science fiction and made into a very useful reality.
On another tangent, if you surveyed a large portion of scientists who like science fiction, you would probably see a lot of them having entered the sciences due to the influence of science fiction. So what if FTL is most likely impossible, does that mean all those guys at JPL who love Star Trek, Stargate, B5, etc. should stop watching since it isn't science fact?
My last tangent: What about programs that look very much like science fact but in reality are much more science fiction? The common example here is the "oh let's just enhance this image through our nifty little computer software, and viola, there's your murder suspect." I somewhat think that this type of fiction does a disservice to real science, not helping it.
I would suggest you contact Comcast. They might be able to help you out, especially if you think it's a problem on your end. I've never heard of a Linksys router being made into a bot, though.
On a side note, I've also go Comcast, and I've never run into anything like this. They do tend to have a lot of problems with their DNS servers, though.
Of course, there are all those people who claim that some royalty paid their great-great-great and so on grand father for some great work by giving them the moon.
I think it's less about the $199 for the software and more about the cost to actually roll an updated OS to every laptop and workstation. If you are a rather large company, like the one I work for, that has a lot of people who travel, getting everyone's data backedup, OS updated, and programs re-installed can be a nightmare.
Other issues to consider are things like Microsoft Java VM support. We have a few applications that require MS JVM (yes, I know it sucks and it probably very insecure), and getting it run under XP is difficult unless you find old copies of the JVM from Microsoft.
The only problem I've had with it is that it sometimes is slow to pull an address if I turn my wireless card on after startup. Other than that, I think it's fine.
The only problem I've had with it is that it sometimes is slow to pull an address if I turn my wireless card on after startup. Other than that, I think it's fine.
I just finished my own analysis. Here is the setup:
Dell Inspiron 8500 Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 512 MB RAM
I did a completely clean install of Windows XP SP2 last weekend, and I spend most of my time in Linux, so I haven't really touched it. I installed OO.o 1.1.14 and Office 2003 Professional. Office and Windows are fully patched.
Services running at Windows startup: Automatic Updates COM+ Event System Cryptographic Services DCOM Server Process Launcher DHCP Client DNS Client Event Log Help and Support HID Input Support Logical Disk Manager Network Connections Network Location Awareness (NLA) Plug and Play Print Spooler Protected Storage Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Security Accounts Manager Shell Hardware Detection System Event Notification System Restore Service Windows Audio Windows Installer Windows Management Instrumentation Windows User Mode Driver Framework Wireless Zero Configuration
Processes running at Windows startup: crss.exe EM_EXEC.EXE explorer.exe lsa ss.exe mmc.exe msiexec.exe Panorama.exe servic es.exe smss.exe spollsv.exe svchost.exe (x5) System taskmgr.exe TransText.exe wdfmgr.e xe winlogon.exe wuauclt.exe
Notice that neither Microsof Office or OO.o have their "quick launch" programs running.
Word 2003 starts up for me in 3.5 seconds after a fresh reboot.
OO.o Writer 1.1.14 starts up at 16 seconds after a fresh reboot.
Subsequent starts of the programs with components still in RAM have an immaterial time difference.
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I've been using Gware. I've not had any stability problems, and I run on slackware-current. I checked out some of their build scripts, and they seems to be pretty sane.
Actually, the answer is yes. While it is difficult to prove, the Board of Directors MUST (legally) act in a fiduciary manner. That mean, they have to do what is in the best interest of the shareholders. However, if the Board takes a business risk, and it fails, then that is ok.
As to the point above about "maximizing profits," the shareholders (owners) of the company must decide what is "profitable" for them. For example, if a company is mostly employee owned, the oweners/employees may decide to pay employees more rather than pay out more to shareholders.
I actually used BeOS 4.5 and BeOS 5.0 for more than a week. I actually used it for over a year as my main OS. I could surf the web with Opera (no real stable Mozilla port back then), an AIM client (BeAIM), and an ICQ client (can't remember the name). I also had an mp3 player very similar to Winamp/XMMS, and it even supported Winamp skins. I never got into using the Gobe office suite. I also had a Hauppauge TV tuner card which I could watch TV with even in BeOS. If you wanted to do multimedia, BeOS could do it.
This was all while I was in college. I took an intro C programming course, and I did most of my labs in BeOS. I wrote, compiled, tested, debugged, and uploaded all of my work from BeOS.
BeOS was great. It booted in less than 15 seconds on my P3 500 MHz and 128 MB of RAM. It had services that were much simpler than Windows services. For example, if networking was misbehaving or sound stopped, just restart the sound server. No reason to reboot (as you would Windows 98, which was the standard home desktop OS back during this time).
So why did I stop using BeOS you ask? Well, my Dell had come with a Riva TNT2 video card, and I eventually upgraded to a GeForce 2. When I did that, there weren't any drivers other than VESA drivers to support the card, and 60 Hz refresh rates on a 17" monitor give me a major headache. Eventually the 2D drivers for GeForce boards were released, and I tried to go back to BeOS, but I had already moved back to Windows and was jumping into Linux more and more. School was picking up for me, and I didn't have as much time as I did during my freshman year.
Why don't I check out yellowTab or Zeta OS? Well, I'm pretty much Slackware at home and XP at work. I don't have the application choices for the new BeOS variants that I do with Windows and Linux. I also have a gut feeling that I'd have to worry more about hardware compatibility with newer hardware than I would with Windows or Linux.
BeOS was fun, while it lasted.
In other news, China denied that Chinese society's emphasis on having male children was harmful to the future of the country. It's so obvious that PK'ing is so much more harmful to society than not having enough women for men to marry and reproduce with. I believe the last figures I saw put the male:female ratio at 4:1.
Letting the Chinese government dictate morality and what is best for children is like saying the engineers for the Yugo could teach all of the other car makers how to make a better car.
I actually just sold my Zaurus SL-5500 on eBay. I sold it with my Linksys WCF11 wireless card. I got about $125 for the combination, which is what I set the minimum to on eBay. I got rid of mine for a few reasons:
1. The battery life with the wireless card was horrible, and that was when the battery was new.
2. To have anything new, you had to use OpenZaurus. Not that OZ is bad, but it means that Sharp basically stopped updating anything for it. Trolltech was supposedly going to release an updated QT ROM for the 5500, but I never saw it materialize.
3. Back to the battery, it was a bit old, so it had a harder time holding a charge.
4. Getting it setup to communicate to the PC under Windows or Linux always seemed to a lot harder than it should have been. I always got it working, but it always took a while.
5. This was the big reason. I just stopped using it because of the other 4 reasons and because I almost always have my work laptop with me. I can pop my laptop out of suspend, fire up Outlook, and I have my Calendar, Address Book, e-mail, etc. just as fast. Yes, I would prefer to carry the Zaurus over the laptop, but since I always have the laptop for other work reasons, why do I need a PDA?
I always loved the games where you can shoot and leave damage to just about anything in the environment. If I can blow up the ad, I might not mind it too much.
Or even better...
In UT2004:
Sales man in a suit walks up: "Are you tired of paying too much for car insurance on your Scorpion?"
Player whips out sniper rifle...
Announcer: "HEAD SHOT!"
Though I'm not middle aged, I do have tons of fond memories of sitting in front of my Commodore 64 with my dad, learning to load programs and playing games with him. The two I remember the most are Threshold and Falcon Patrol.
or... Helm's Deep Space Nine!
voila
:-)
I can't spell.
What about new technology created due to science fiction? For example, I remember reading a few articles about how doctors thought the diagnostic beds they saw in ST: TOS were a great idea. They took an idea from science fiction and made into a very useful reality.
On another tangent, if you surveyed a large portion of scientists who like science fiction, you would probably see a lot of them having entered the sciences due to the influence of science fiction. So what if FTL is most likely impossible, does that mean all those guys at JPL who love Star Trek, Stargate, B5, etc. should stop watching since it isn't science fact?
My last tangent:
What about programs that look very much like science fact but in reality are much more science fiction? The common example here is the "oh let's just enhance this image through our nifty little computer software, and viola, there's your murder suspect." I somewhat think that this type of fiction does a disservice to real science, not helping it.
I would suggest you contact Comcast. They might be able to help you out, especially if you think it's a problem on your end. I've never heard of a Linksys router being made into a bot, though.
On a side note, I've also go Comcast, and I've never run into anything like this. They do tend to have a lot of problems with their DNS servers, though.
Don't you know who owns the moon? Anyone can buy a piece. ;-)
http://www.moonshop.com/
or
http://www.lunarregistry.com/
or
http://www.planetaryinvestments.com/
or yet still
http://www.moonestates.com/
Of course, there are all those people who claim that some royalty paid their great-great-great and so on grand father for some great work by giving them the moon.
I think it's less about the $199 for the software and more about the cost to actually roll an updated OS to every laptop and workstation. If you are a rather large company, like the one I work for, that has a lot of people who travel, getting everyone's data backedup, OS updated, and programs re-installed can be a nightmare.
Other issues to consider are things like Microsoft Java VM support. We have a few applications that require MS JVM (yes, I know it sucks and it probably very insecure), and getting it run under XP is difficult unless you find old copies of the JVM from Microsoft.
The only problem I've had with it is that it sometimes is slow to pull an address if I turn my wireless card on after startup. Other than that, I think it's fine.
The only problem I've had with it is that it sometimes is slow to pull an address if I turn my wireless card on after startup. Other than that, I think it's fine.
I also have Prefetching turned off and the C:\Windows\Prefetch directory is empty.
Whoops, got carried away with the 1's. Sorry about that.
I just finished my own analysis. Here is the setup:
a ss.exec es.exee xe
Dell Inspiron 8500
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
512 MB RAM
I did a completely clean install of Windows XP SP2 last weekend, and I spend most of my time in Linux, so I haven't really touched it. I installed OO.o 1.1.14 and Office 2003 Professional. Office and Windows are fully patched.
Services running at Windows startup:
Automatic Updates
COM+ Event System
Cryptographic Services
DCOM Server Process Launcher
DHCP Client
DNS Client
Event Log
Help and Support
HID Input Support
Logical Disk Manager
Network Connections
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
Plug and Play
Print Spooler
Protected Storage
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Security Accounts Manager
Shell Hardware Detection
System Event Notification
System Restore Service
Windows Audio
Windows Installer
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows User Mode Driver Framework
Wireless Zero Configuration
Processes running at Windows startup:
crss.exe
EM_EXEC.EXE
explorer.exe
ls
mmc.exe
msiexec.exe
Panorama.exe
servi
smss.exe
spollsv.exe
svchost.exe (x5)
System
taskmgr.exe
TransText.exe
wdfmgr.
winlogon.exe
wuauclt.exe
Notice that neither Microsof Office or OO.o have their "quick launch" programs running.
Word 2003 starts up for me in 3.5 seconds after a fresh reboot.
OO.o Writer 1.1.14 starts up at 16 seconds after a fresh reboot.
Subsequent starts of the programs with components still in RAM have an immaterial time difference.