What nutter voted this down as offtopic? It is totally relevant to subject at hand. I was thinking exactly the same thing and scanned down to see if someone had already covered it before posting the same comments myself.
The volume of data this would generate is enormous and just who do the egg heads in the EU think is going to foot the bill for all this extra hardware? The Telcos? They already have their backs against the wall cash flow wise and many are up their eyeballs in debt.
This proposal is sheer stupidity.
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I popped into PC World and tried a 500Mhz iBook some months ago. I wasn't impressed with the speed and walked away. A couple of weeks back I did the same with a new 700Mhz iBook. The difference was amazing. I'm now waiting, cheque book in hand, for the new iBook to ship with 10.2. I need some of the features that 10.2 will provide. Can't wait!
If you can get the press to be, 1) interested, and 2) on your side (as they were WRT your second point) then you'll stand a chance. Without that support you can forget it. The currently UK government have proven time and again that they assume they know better than the man on the street, and are quite willing to ride rough shod over or completely ignore anyone who doesn't hold any power over them. Between elections, we don't.
Case in point: the petrol strikes that threatened to bring the country to its knees (last year?). The government initially responded with a smear campain - then dug in and sat it out, knowing that public opinion would evapourate when public fear for the future eclipsed sympathy. Today, nothing has changed, and the only powers capable of taking on government and winning, are the press.
> Is it me or does this look too much like OS X Aqua??
It's you. Go buy a pair of glasses.
This new theme looks nothing like Aqua. It is finally a comprehensive window & widget theme that matches WinXP and Aqua for looks, but is uniquely identifiable as being KDE.
I've got an Ericsson T68m with GPRS from Orange. I only use the GPRS sparingly, because on a cost/MB tariff, it's quite expensive, but it's a god send when I'm on customer site and I want to email, or catch up on the latest Slashdot stories over lunch. Last week I was in France for the week. Guess what, GPRS was available there too, and I didn't even need to change the dial up number (which isn't really a phone number at all as it starts with a '*') it just connected me to the local French net. There was none of this messing around with strange telephone sockets either. What a relief that was.
Actually, the best use I've found for GPRS when I'm away from home, is for internet chat services (MSN, Yahoo, etc). Because they are low bandwidth, you yak to friends and family for hours and it hardly costs anything.
It should be obvious that to burry copper is completely obsolete.
Are you guys nuts? Working with copper is so much easier than with fibre. Fibre is fragile (fixed bend radius to avoid cracking) and comes in fixed sizes so it's more awkward to do a neat and tidy job because you have to loose the excess somewhere. Then there's the extra cost of the GBIC's and higher cost of the hardware it connects into. Copper cables on the other hand you can make yourself, customising the size to your exact requirements. It's so much more durable, and you can mix and match the same patch panels with 100Mbit and 10Mbit networks.
If you think that copper is undesirable, you've obviously not had any experience with sizable projects in this area.
Great! And you've independently replicated all of their experiments, right? Right?
The man suggested you read the article. Had you listened to him, you'd have seen this sentence!
".. and they've been pretty good about letting others outside verify their excess energy -- there are some things going on that people are having trouble understanding."
What makes the batteries even more remarkable, according to an investor in the company that developed them, is that they can be recharged by radio waves that pass harmlessly through body tissues.
Great! Now we can have mobile phones that recharge themselves.
==[ This would be sort of like forcing everyone who hacks the linux kernel to send in patches, which could be a useful thing to do. ]==
Why? I thought Linus had enough problems processing the number of 'functionality patches' he already receives. Don't the majority of them get dropped already?
==[ Why are people so intent on merging PDA/Phones? ]==
Because it's a pain in the butt having to carry around 2 devices, especially when generally a PDA is much bigger. I recently brought a T68m, solely on the strength of its calendaring features. I keep its calendar and phone number list in sync with my PC organizer and consequently my Palm is now collecting dust. I doubt I'll ever use it again.
Having my diary entries for the next year and all my phone numbers to hand all the time, has turned out to be a god send. I doubt I'll ever use seperate devices again.
In addition, we expect Darwin to become the foundation for a complete, stand-alone open source operating system distribution, similar to FreeBSD or Linux.
Maybe this is Jordan's goal when x86 Darwin reaches feature/driver parity with FreeBSD. I would personally find that quite a compelling business model to deliver to customers - iMac's on the desktop and x86 Darwin in the computer room. Hmmm...
Yeah, this has been my experience too. Turnng on AA sends memory usage through the roof and also slows down application start time. Go mad and stick 1,000 TT fonts on your system, and it takes between 30 secs and 1 min to start any apps at all. KDE has some serious problems to work out with anti-aliasing.
Btw, using TT fonts also makes a pigs-ear of "Print to PDF" (which uses ps2pdf) producing very ratty looking output. I imaging that Gnome users will run into this problem too, as that's a Ghostscript issue.
While I think it would be a brilliant idea to force MS to open their file formats, I would like to point an accusing finger at the non-MS Office suites. Every one of them have their own 'proprietory' file formats. Why? We're shooting our own feet off where we could be directly competing with MS Office and really putting the squeeze on MS.
Just imagine how different the world would be, if KOffice, StarOffice, HancomOffice, AppleWorks, etc, all used the same file formats. To be able to write a document in AppleWorks and share it with someone using KOffice, what a joy.
Further more, it would create a second standard of sufficient importance that through market pressure, Microsoft would eventually be forced to build import/export filters for it into MS Office.
Users would choose to use the Industry standard, platform agnostic file formats because of the security and platform choice it would give them.
And competition amongst the Office suites would take place where it should be. i.e. in the quality of the code, the elegance of the UI design, and the integration with the toolkit/platform of choice.
The point I'm making is that we don't need MS to open its file formats if we actually have the will to stand together instead of doing our own individual thing all the time.
United we stand, divided we fall. Time worn, basic common sense.
What you conveniently skip over is the usefulness of CCTV in combating terrorism. CCTV has been used very effectively for this roll in London. For instance take this report - Bomb suspect caught on CCTV - where CCTV was used to show the bomber and jog the memory of people in the area. And this report where you can clearly see the face of the nail bomber (in the picture further down).
I personally feel safer with CCTV than without, and when I cycle into town deliberatly lock up my bike at safe locations that are under the visible gaze of the CCTV poles.
The majority of people in the UK see CCTV as a beneficial thing to have, as do I.
Because there are lots and lots and lots of people like *me* who are pleased that Slashdot keep track of the kernel releases.
What's your problem? If you don't see the point in it, don't open up the bloody article. If costs you what... 2 seconds of your life to skip onto the next one!
You're in the minority here pal, accept it and move on. Better still, edit your preferences and screen out the stuff you don't like. That's why they are there!
I agree that it's consistant to have one or two directories that your path consults to find programs to run, like/usr/bin and/usr/local/bin, but I don't agreee with your assertion that all programs should actually live in those directories themselves.
It is neater, cleaner and more easy to manage when applications are given their own dir tree under/opt or/usr/opt and are then sym linked into/usr/bin or/usr/local/bin.
The korn shell is supposed to be 'the' POSIX compliant shell and ships with all commercial unix systems. So if cross platform compatability is required, korn is the logical choice.
Why would anyone choose to write scripts in sh anyway, it's like writing using a chisel a stone. Ksh at least has 2D arrays, and some pretty decent builting functions for pattern matching.
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What nutter voted this down as offtopic? It is totally relevant to subject at hand. I was thinking exactly the same thing and scanned down to see if someone had already covered it before posting the same comments myself.
The volume of data this would generate is enormous and just who do the egg heads in the EU think is going to foot the bill for all this extra hardware? The Telcos? They already have their backs against the wall cash flow wise and many are up their eyeballs in debt.
This proposal is sheer stupidity.
I popped into PC World and tried a 500Mhz iBook some months ago. I wasn't impressed with the speed and walked away. A couple of weeks back I did the same with a new 700Mhz iBook. The difference was amazing. I'm now waiting, cheque book in hand, for the new iBook to ship with 10.2. I need some of the features that 10.2 will provide. Can't wait!
If you can get the press to be, 1) interested, and 2) on your side (as they were WRT your second point) then you'll stand a chance. Without that support you can forget it. The currently UK government have proven time and again that they assume they know better than the man on the street, and are quite willing to ride rough shod over or completely ignore anyone who doesn't hold any power over them. Between elections, we don't.
Case in point: the petrol strikes that threatened to bring the country to its knees (last year?). The government initially responded with a smear campain - then dug in and sat it out, knowing that public opinion would evapourate when public fear for the future eclipsed sympathy. Today, nothing has changed, and the only powers capable of taking on government and winning, are the press.
A bad idea for whom?
Hear hear !!
> Is it me or does this look too much like OS X Aqua??
It's you. Go buy a pair of glasses.
This new theme looks nothing like Aqua. It is finally a comprehensive window & widget theme that matches WinXP and Aqua for looks, but is uniquely identifiable as being KDE.
What do you have then?
I've got an Ericsson T68m with GPRS from Orange. I only use the GPRS sparingly, because on a cost/MB tariff, it's quite expensive, but it's a god send when I'm on customer site and I want to email, or catch up on the latest Slashdot stories over lunch. Last week I was in France for the week. Guess what, GPRS was available there too, and I didn't even need to change the dial up number (which isn't really a phone number at all as it starts with a '*') it just connected me to the local French net. There was none of this messing around with strange telephone sockets either. What a relief that was.
Actually, the best use I've found for GPRS when I'm away from home, is for internet chat services (MSN, Yahoo, etc). Because they are low bandwidth, you yak to friends and family for hours and it hardly costs anything.
Macka
But for Gigabit copper you use Cat5 cables, and you'd have to be deliberatly aggressive over a period of time to damage one through bending.
The base note said:
And you said:
Are you guys nuts? Working with copper is so much easier than with fibre. Fibre is fragile (fixed bend radius to avoid cracking) and comes in fixed sizes so it's more awkward to do a neat and tidy job because you have to loose the excess somewhere. Then there's the extra cost of the GBIC's and higher cost of the hardware it connects into. Copper cables on the other hand you can make yourself, customising the size to your exact requirements. It's so much more durable, and you can mix and match the same patch panels with 100Mbit and 10Mbit networks.
If you think that copper is undesirable, you've obviously not had any experience with sizable projects in this area.
I'd choose copper Gigabit over Fibre any time.
The man suggested you read the article. Had you listened to him, you'd have seen this sentence!
So there you go!
Great! Now we can have mobile phones that recharge themselves.
Macka
==[ This would be sort of like forcing everyone who hacks the linux kernel to send in patches, which could be a useful thing to do. ]==
Why? I thought Linus had enough problems processing the number of 'functionality patches' he already receives. Don't the majority of them get dropped already?
==[ Why are people so intent on merging PDA/Phones? ]==
Because it's a pain in the butt having to carry around 2 devices, especially when generally a PDA is much bigger. I recently brought a T68m, solely on the strength of its calendaring features. I keep its calendar and phone number list in sync with my PC organizer and consequently my Palm is now collecting dust. I doubt I'll ever use it again.
Having my diary entries for the next year and all my phone numbers to hand all the time, has turned out to be a god send. I doubt I'll ever use seperate devices again.
... the news is still going to be around on April 2nd. Don't be a victim to "now" culture. Cultivate some patience.
Rats, I just used up all my moderator points elsewhere.
.. has a price tag?
Why should how much you get paid change what is right, and what is wrong? That sux!
Or maybe I'll finally get so pissed off I withdraw from all corporate entertainment consumption.
You read my mind. This actually might be a good thing. I'll be more inclined to get out more. Well, perhaps as far as the local pub anyway
to run it at both resolutions? That way you don't leave anyone out.
It's not rocket science.
The Open Source Darwin FAQ says:
Maybe this is Jordan's goal when x86 Darwin reaches feature/driver parity with FreeBSD. I would personally find that quite a compelling business model to deliver to customers - iMac's on the desktop and x86 Darwin in the computer room. Hmmm
Macka
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Yeah, this has been my experience too. Turnng on AA sends memory usage through the roof and also slows down application start time. Go mad and stick 1,000 TT fonts on your system, and it takes between 30 secs and 1 min to start any apps at all. KDE has some serious problems to work out with anti-aliasing.
Btw, using TT fonts also makes a pigs-ear of "Print to PDF" (which uses ps2pdf) producing very ratty looking output. I imaging that Gnome users will run into this problem too, as that's a Ghostscript issue.
While I think it would be a brilliant idea to force MS to open their file formats, I would like to point an accusing finger at the non-MS Office suites. Every one of them have their own 'proprietory' file formats. Why? We're shooting our own feet off where we could be directly competing with MS Office and really putting the squeeze on MS.
Just imagine how different the world would be, if KOffice, StarOffice, HancomOffice, AppleWorks, etc, all used the same file formats. To be able to write a document in AppleWorks and share it with someone using KOffice, what a joy.
Further more, it would create a second standard of sufficient importance that through market pressure, Microsoft would eventually be forced to build import/export filters for it into MS Office.
Users would choose to use the Industry standard, platform agnostic file formats because of the security and platform choice it would give them.
And competition amongst the Office suites would take place where it should be. i.e. in the quality of the code, the elegance of the UI design, and the integration with the toolkit/platform of choice.
The point I'm making is that we don't need MS to open its file formats if we actually have the will to stand together instead of doing our own individual thing all the time.
United we stand, divided we fall. Time worn, basic common sense.
What you conveniently skip over is the usefulness of CCTV in combating terrorism. CCTV has been used very effectively for this roll in London. For instance take this report - Bomb suspect caught on CCTV - where CCTV was used to show the bomber and jog the memory of people in the area. And this report where you can clearly see the face of the nail bomber (in the picture further down).
I personally feel safer with CCTV than without, and when I cycle into town deliberatly lock up my bike at safe locations that are under the visible gaze of the CCTV poles.
The majority of people in the UK see CCTV as a beneficial thing to have, as do I.
Because there are lots and lots and lots of people like *me* who are pleased that Slashdot keep track of the kernel releases.
What's your problem? If you don't see the point in it, don't open up the bloody article. If costs you what
You're in the minority here pal, accept it and move on. Better still, edit your preferences and screen out the stuff you don't like. That's why they are there!
I agree that it's consistant to have one or two directories that your path consults to find programs to run, like
It is neater, cleaner and more easy to manage when applications are given their own dir tree under
The korn shell is supposed to be 'the' POSIX compliant shell and ships with all commercial unix systems. So if cross platform compatability is required, korn is the logical choice.
Why would anyone choose to write scripts in sh anyway, it's like writing using a chisel a stone. Ksh at least has 2D arrays, and some pretty decent builting functions for pattern matching.