You are right. For instance, you have a front door that is widely left unlocked because it's an open standard and I can easily just learn how to unlock it.
Nonsense analogy.
What makes index.htm magic? Or what permits me to visit www.nerdfarm.org? I didn't get your explicit permission to view it. Do I need it? It's agreed that no, by setting up something that will respond to my request, you have implicitly given me and everyone else permission to view it.
So why is www.nerdfarm.org/fatdrunkandstupid.jpg magically different? You've put it up there in directly accessible form. Don't want me to get it? Indicate that through the accepted protocol of HTTP_REFERRER; if I forge that, I'm misrepresenting myself, and that way lies fraud. Likewise, don't want spiders? Create a robot.txt file. If I spider you anyway, you've revoked the implicit yes for spiders, so by ignoring it I'm in the wrong.
But the default for web content is you can get what you can URL. Given that there are ways to indicate that you don't want that default, that's what should be done -- not a change to that default assumption.
Because I'm a poor college kid. $1-2 would be fine, but $5 for a rental cuts into beer money.:)
Why do you think they would charge less for this than they would for a rental? They actually have to make, package, and ship something for each pseudo-rental.
Forgive my ignorance, but do LaTeX files have the graphics built-in?
My office ended up standardizing on word documents because it was the most widely available editable format where the entire document was one file. PDFs aren't particularly editable, HTML has external links, etc.
Note that there is a free Word Viewer available from Microsoft. I don't know how well it works under Wine, however.
Though I don't use it enough as I should, I thought one of the benefits to Linux/(insert other Open Source OS here) was that once it was up and running, only needed minimal maintenance (as opposed to the bloated effect of Microsoft).
I think the idea is that they may do some of their own development or localization (translation into German) of open source software. I don't know that open source requires any less IT support than Windows, but it doesn't require paying licensing fees, and the money that might normally be spent for licenses could be spent to hire programmers instead.
Governments have large enough budgets that it often makes sense to roll their own, rather than pay licensing fees. This is especially true when open source programs already exist that can be modified for the government's needs, rather than them having to start from scratch.
Closed source software also creates jobs, but these often aren't in the country that is buying the software, and you're also paying for high executive salaries.
No link with this, but I am pretty sure that the last 2 Nvidia cards were first shown/announced at MacWorlds - at least the GF4 was.
The new Macs have the GF4MX. Hardware Central hated the G4MX, saying its performance wasn't worthy of being called a GeForce4, and indeed it's a signficantly different and less powerful core.
If you want to bring your work home with you, there's ZIP disks or CompactFlash cards.
What kind of work do you do, anyway? For me, it would take ~10 gigs to move apps and my work, and my home computer isn't nearly as capable as my work one. But my home monitor is good enough. This sort of device makes a great deal of sense for those of us who don't need to work everywhere, just a few specific places. I'd plug it into my KVM switch, and off I go.
Quick question: do any of the currently available capture systems and codecs do closed-captioning? My wife is hearing-impaired, so I would love to be able to have captioned digital video, but everything I've found so far has been caption-free.
Speaking of nanotech manipulations, if the technology existed to modify human egg DNA, would you want to give your child better memory, vision, etc., would you? And if so, with what limitations?
Note that viruses and bacteria don't actually "intentionally" kill people, it's just a side effect of their bindings, toxic emissions, etc. It's in the best interest of these critters' continued survival that we don't all drop dead. Now, that doesn't mean it's impossible that some ailment will turn out to be so contagious, deadly, and slow enough in its onset that it won't kill everyone, just that's not something they would generally evolve to do.
If there's a NASCAR or F-1 car out there with a Sony PlayStation logo on it, publishers can't remove or obscure the logo even if they're publishing the game for Xbox or GameCube.
..although the Sony Playstation version of FIFA 2001 did blank out Arsenal's Dreamcast logo...
It's something I haven't actually seen in a while, luckily because companies finally realized that people hate advertisments.
A good friend of mine is watching the Superbowl today just for the ads. People don't hate every ad. (The TiVo ad with Joe Montana and (Ronnie Lott?), for example, was worthy of showing to others.)
IMHO, anything that causes more conformity between distros is A Good Thing, though I am sure many would not agree with me.
The key is having conformity where there is no advantage to non-conformity. I wouldn't want Linux to adopt DOS-style drive letters, but the big-endian/little-endian difference between PCs and Macs helps no one and makes for a lot of file conversion work. Ditto difference end of line indicators for ASCII files.
The reason it's almost impossible for companies to support their software directly on linux is that there are so many versions of linux and so many revisions.
I don't see a big difference between the number of Windows versions and Linux versions. If anything, the former is bigger (NT/98/ME/XP, plus service packs) and far more varied.
Neither is worth keeping up with for a miniscule number of users.
It's not an issue of cost here, it's that Oracle's staff can diagnose and fix (or figure out workarounds for) Linux problems they encounter, something they can't do with Microsoft OSes.
Maybe, but for Oracle this is fine. Charge big money for support contracts, with real guarantees -- because there's no more "blame the OS/blame the app" situation. The people who use Oracle products typically are willing to put out the coin for that level of service.
Jeez, learn to read. I didn't say IBM had the first PCs.
No, but you did say "The "generic" computer existed before MS got into the OS business [...] it was called 'The IBM Personal Computer'."
That statement is clearly inaccurate, since the first IBM PCs came with PC-DOS (aka MS-DOS) as one of the possible operating systems. Microsoft was there from the beginning of the IBM PC era. (Before, really, but that was their first real foray into the OS part of the business.)
Hmm, if there are enough in the air for this imaginary device to detect, then wouldn't I be breathing them in?
Yes, but surface leptins are not hazardous even when inhaled (at least at typical doses). You need to inhale at least one entire bactirium or virus to get infected. The McWhortle leptinate detector thus detects the harmful materials before they can harm you.
Send $10 for a prospectus, or $100 for a distributor's kit, to:
McWhortle Industries
c/o I. P. Daily
123 Easy Street
Anytown USA 33333
[IBM] were, in other words, the Microsoft of the 60s and 70s. To survive, your product had to be compatible with the IBM PC at every level.
Say WHAT????!!!
The IBM PC was introduced in 1981, *not* the 60's and 70's. Microsoft's DOS was one of the OSes available for the original IBM PC. IBM had no PC before that, whereas Apple had been selling Apple Is and IIs for five years before that.
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You are right. For instance, you have a front door that is widely left unlocked because it's an open standard and I can easily just learn how to unlock it.
Nonsense analogy.
What makes index.htm magic? Or what permits me to visit www.nerdfarm.org? I didn't get your explicit permission to view it. Do I need it? It's agreed that no, by setting up something that will respond to my request, you have implicitly given me and everyone else permission to view it.
So why is www.nerdfarm.org/fatdrunkandstupid.jpg magically different? You've put it up there in directly accessible form. Don't want me to get it? Indicate that through the accepted protocol of HTTP_REFERRER; if I forge that, I'm misrepresenting myself, and that way lies fraud. Likewise, don't want spiders? Create a robot.txt file. If I spider you anyway, you've revoked the implicit yes for spiders, so by ignoring it I'm in the wrong.
But the default for web content is you can get what you can URL. Given that there are ways to indicate that you don't want that default, that's what should be done -- not a change to that default assumption.
Because I'm a poor college kid. $1-2 would be fine, but $5 for a rental cuts into beer money. :)
Why do you think they would charge less for this than they would for a rental? They actually have to make, package, and ship something for each pseudo-rental.
PDFs are editable you nutjob.
By what? Maybe you're thinking of RTF?
Perhaps you should have set up an auto-reply telling about your $100/hour consulting fee... the commercial company, at least, might even have paid.
I think he's on a date with ThanNotThenGirl.
LaTeX code perhaps?
Forgive my ignorance, but do LaTeX files have the graphics built-in?
My office ended up standardizing on word documents because it was the most widely available editable format where the entire document was one file. PDFs aren't particularly editable, HTML has external links, etc.
Note that there is a free Word Viewer available from Microsoft. I don't know how well it works under Wine, however.
Though I don't use it enough as I should, I thought one of the benefits to Linux/(insert other Open Source OS here) was that once it was up and running, only needed minimal maintenance (as opposed to the bloated effect of Microsoft).
I think the idea is that they may do some of their own development or localization (translation into German) of open source software. I don't know that open source requires any less IT support than Windows, but it doesn't require paying licensing fees, and the money that might normally be spent for licenses could be spent to hire programmers instead.
Governments have large enough budgets that it often makes sense to roll their own, rather than pay licensing fees. This is especially true when open source programs already exist that can be modified for the government's needs, rather than them having to start from scratch.
Closed source software also creates jobs, but these often aren't in the country that is buying the software, and you're also paying for high executive salaries.
No link with this, but I am pretty sure that the last 2 Nvidia cards were first shown/announced at MacWorlds - at least the GF4 was.
The new Macs have the GF4MX. Hardware Central hated the G4MX, saying its performance wasn't worthy of being called a GeForce4, and indeed it's a signficantly different and less powerful core.
If you want to bring your work home with you, there's ZIP disks or CompactFlash cards.
What kind of work do you do, anyway? For me, it would take ~10 gigs to move apps and my work, and my home computer isn't nearly as capable as my work one. But my home monitor is good enough. This sort of device makes a great deal of sense for those of us who don't need to work everywhere, just a few specific places. I'd plug it into my KVM switch, and off I go.
Quick question: do any of the currently available capture systems and codecs do closed-captioning? My wife is hearing-impaired, so I would love to be able to have captioned digital video, but everything I've found so far has been caption-free.
In case anyone is curious, there are actual laws in Japan prohibiting the selling of books, magazines, and other things at a lower-than-retail cost.
No wonder their economy is in the crapper. Selling at a loss beats not selling at all, especially if done promotionally.
Speaking of nanotech manipulations, if the technology existed to modify human egg DNA, would you want to give your child better memory, vision, etc., would you? And if so, with what limitations?
viruses? Bacteria?
Note that viruses and bacteria don't actually "intentionally" kill people, it's just a side effect of their bindings, toxic emissions, etc. It's in the best interest of these critters' continued survival that we don't all drop dead. Now, that doesn't mean it's impossible that some ailment will turn out to be so contagious, deadly, and slow enough in its onset that it won't kill everyone, just that's not something they would generally evolve to do.
If there's a NASCAR or F-1 car out there with a Sony PlayStation logo on it, publishers can't remove or obscure the logo even if they're publishing the game for Xbox or GameCube.
..although the Sony Playstation version of FIFA 2001 did blank out Arsenal's Dreamcast logo...
It's something I haven't actually seen in a while, luckily because companies finally realized that people hate advertisments.
A good friend of mine is watching the Superbowl today just for the ads. People don't hate every ad. (The TiVo ad with Joe Montana and (Ronnie Lott?), for example, was worthy of showing to others.)
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Well I think so, Brain, but if they called them Sad Meals no one would buy them...
IMHO, anything that causes more conformity between distros is A Good Thing, though I am sure many would not agree with me.
The key is having conformity where there is no advantage to non-conformity. I wouldn't want Linux to adopt DOS-style drive letters, but the big-endian/little-endian difference between PCs and Macs helps no one and makes for a lot of file conversion work. Ditto difference end of line indicators for ASCII files.
The reason it's almost impossible for companies to support their software directly on linux is that there are so many versions of linux and so many revisions.
I don't see a big difference between the number of Windows versions and Linux versions. If anything, the former is bigger (NT/98/ME/XP, plus service packs) and far more varied.
Neither is worth keeping up with for a miniscule number of users.
It's not an issue of cost here, it's that Oracle's staff can diagnose and fix (or figure out workarounds for) Linux problems they encounter, something they can't do with Microsoft OSes.
Hmmm, gonna be pulling some late nighters there.
Maybe, but for Oracle this is fine. Charge big money for support contracts, with real guarantees -- because there's no more "blame the OS/blame the app" situation. The people who use Oracle products typically are willing to put out the coin for that level of service.
The excitement of the LinuxWorld Expo simply cannot be expressed in words.
So instead, Michael will be expressing it in mime.
"But why Dorking?"
Sorry, we could only get sea bass.
They are mutant sea bass...
Jeez, learn to read. I didn't say IBM had the first PCs.
No, but you did say "The "generic" computer existed before MS got into the OS business [...] it was called 'The IBM Personal Computer'."
That statement is clearly inaccurate, since the first IBM PCs came with PC-DOS (aka MS-DOS) as one of the possible operating systems. Microsoft was there from the beginning of the IBM PC era. (Before, really, but that was their first real foray into the OS part of the business.)
Why not take this the step further, and build a dyson sphere?
No gravity inside a sphere. Ringworlds make more sense.
Hmm, if there are enough in the air for this imaginary device to detect, then wouldn't I be breathing them in?
Yes, but surface leptins are not hazardous even when inhaled (at least at typical doses). You need to inhale at least one entire bactirium or virus to get infected. The McWhortle leptinate detector thus detects the harmful materials before they can harm you.
Send $10 for a prospectus, or $100 for a distributor's kit, to:
McWhortle Industries
c/o I. P. Daily
123 Easy Street
Anytown USA 33333
[IBM] were, in other words, the Microsoft of the 60s and 70s. To survive, your product had to be compatible with the IBM PC at every level.
Say WHAT????!!!
The IBM PC was introduced in 1981, *not* the 60's and 70's. Microsoft's DOS was one of the OSes available for the original IBM PC. IBM had no PC before that, whereas Apple had been selling Apple Is and IIs for five years before that.