I don't know where you are from, but Time Warner, at least in my area, DOESN'T have a monopoly anymore in my area in broadband or Cable. There's another company in my area called Americast (whose was bought by someone other then Time-Warner). I can choose between those two anywhere in my area. The only exception to this is if you live in a apartment (this may have or will soon change). If your in an apartment, you have to accept whatever the apartment is wired for (be it warner or americast).
Also, Ameritech and several other companies all offer DSL and everywhere in the US can choose from SEVERAL Dss dish vendors.
My point is that AOL/Time-warner have NO monopoly. The only way they do is if you choose NOT to do any research and just accept them. I bet if you got out your phone book and started calling around you can get a all non AOL/Time Warner internet and cable setup.
DUH!!! Like this makes sense to me. It really surprises me that people can complain ahout something like this. AOL/Time Warner advertising for other providers is like asking Coke to advertise for Pepsi! I know, AOL/Time Warner is a huge comapany, but so are Coke and Pepsi. Also, if I were a medium sized ISP and I was offered to run ads for a smaller ISP what do you think I'd do? All companies in the same industry, big and small, compete with each other. How do you think that Microsoft was built? Do you think they were that big in one day?? Have you even seen Pirates of the Silicon Valley?? Asking the bigger one to advertise for a smaller one that can one day get as big or bigger then the bigger one would be suicide!
In think we are looking in the wrong place. Cable Companies have a chance to totally steal the business off of the LECS. Everyone might malign the cable companies, but one thing that they are doing is making it easy for you to connect (with self install or idiot install). DSL's run by the LECS basically, suck in my opinion, until you get it setup. The telephone companies are under this mass assumption that we will continue to pay ridiculous prices for Voice and Data and not look to others for service. I believe that everything will come into the hosue on one piece of cable, be it fiber or coaxial. Everyone will complain about Cable Modems, but with exception of a couple outages (for which I got credit for....try that with a LEC!), I am nothing but happy! I started out with a Legacy modem and moved to DOCSIS because of a problem. DSL has too many problems becuase it's all related to heavy duty business stuff like T-1's and T-3's and must be configured similarly. I ain't saying it's easy to setup a cable modem (for the company anyway) but they seem to have less bureaucratic horse manure to deal with unlike the too big for their britches LECS. The only other little problem I have with my cable modem just every once in a while (usually starts when a special on new accounts is going on) is that occasionally they outsell the avaulable IP's on the DHCP server and sometimes you can't get one, but this happens so rarely now I don't notice.
How come this thing reminds me of the EM-50 from Stripes?? I keep hearing Bill Murray saying razzle dazzle or seeing him doing the Aunt Jemima thing with that hot MP. It's still cool though.
Are...weird to say the least,at least in this century. I see no reason why you can't dress comfortably, but not sloppily. When I worked nights, t-shirts were the rigor. When I moved to days, I immediately switched to khakis and polos, or button down shirts. I don't wear a tie unless I am meeting with the president of the college, or when I am giving a tour of the computer/server room to colleagues, or students. My boss doesn't even wear a tie anymore. Shorts are a no no, and who'd want to wear shorts in a computer room (20 tons of AC working 365/24/7)?? My point is, sometimes dress codes are good. If everyone is coming in in Think Geek t-shirts, while your co-workers may think i't cool, the other people you work with might get the wrong impression. Solution? Get MEGA COMFORTABLE Think Geek Polo's. I get tons of comments, even at the grocery store, when I wear my tux polo!;) This is not a Think Geek commercial, just a satisfied customer.
While, I can't code just yet, I am learning. Right now I have no code worth submitting since I am just re-learning C. I still am VERY greatful for Red Hat, Debian and others and find nothing wrong with throwing a few bucks at my favorite distro, be it Red Hat or Debain or even Mandrake. I usually do this on my own by buying a CD every other release at least, and sometimes sooner if the new release is accompanied by useful software like the 4front sound drivers and maybe Star Office. I still think that they should offer at least the base distro for free. Personally, I think corporate users should ALWAYS buy at least one CD(from Red Hat that is and not Cheap Bytes), maybe a few. I mean come on you have got to admit that it's nice to have multiple copies of it. Acutually, if I were a coporate user, I'd set it up with Red Hat that I wouild pay for the support. Even the most experienced programmer can have trouble debugging the code if they are not in that specific code every day, unlike Red Hat or the hackers. So the support would be handy! Although, I have found most of the hackers are more then willing to help you with their code. I hope they stay that way, because it's a really cool way to be in the day where it seems money matters more. They don't HAVE to be that way, it's just real nice that they are. I have had hackers who have e-mailed me back (developer of x3270 did once or twice) and hackers that have never done it (Mandrake, from Enlightenment). Granted, the difference in popularity between the two is probably why Mandrake never e-mailed me. I imagine the x3270 developer probably gets 20-30 e-mails a day about x3270 versus about 300 a day for Enlightenment. I understand this. Some hackers are just downright money grubbing, but not most. I find the community is pretty good with this. I show Red Hat my gratitude for their code by buying the distro CD every once in a while instead of downooading it. Besides, it's nice to invest in a company that gives two squats about the users then give Microsoft money (they claim they care, but they don't...this I am SURE of.).
I think all distros should put up a online payment page, with no specific price. Let me throw what I think is the right amount at Red Hat and not some arbitrary figure (I'd say 10 bucks when I first download it and maybe more later if I like it). Also, make it optional.
Tracking devices isn't giving the parents more control, it's making them less liable to talk to their kids and the school a tool to use against them. I am so sick of parents who will utterly NOT believe what the administration says about their kids. How many parents go to Parent Teacher Conferences like my parents did? Very few. How many say two words to their kids that aren't "get down from there" or "don't do that"? How many parents tell their child that they love them everyday (even whilst administering punishment). I am afraid to say not very many. The first thing I do when I walk in the door is love on my son. I pick him up, (he's 2) and hug him, and take advantage of the time now, because once he's 18, I am out of it. It makes me so happy to see him growing, yet so sad that in 16 years, he will be 18 and off to college. The first thing I tell my son when I see him every afternoon (he's sleeping when I leave for work) is that I love him and the last thing I tell him as I put him to bed is that I love him. I will stand up for my kids, to a point. Have you ever watched shows where the parents said not my kid? Well, I believe kids can do anything, even if you believe you know them well. Even if you think you know them, yes, it's possible that it can be your kid.
Parents with NMK (not my kid) syndrome have taken the teeth from the teachers. I remember getting threatened with the paddle when I was in grade school. You will never see that now! Also, the first thing I will tell, my kids teachers and principals, is that they have permission to do whatever they want (within reason that is...they don't have permission to beat my kid black and blue) so long as they tell me. If I ever here my kid is acting up and the teacher did nothing, then I want to know why!
I agree with several others on there that posted that kids don't have rights and, to a certain extent, they don't, nor should they! During the formative years, if kids are treated like adults and are given the freedom to do what they want when they want, then this country is going to fall apart. Kids, we are hard on you because we are trying to teach you the right thing. My mom wanted me in by 9 pm every night I was out unless I was on a school activity, or had permission (prom night we were out most of the night). I never went to places to drink, because in my house, you followed my parents rules just like I expect my son to follow mine. They aren't draconian, but they are designed to teach me (and now my son) right from wrong. You get out of line, and well, you have to face the consequences. If I ever talked back to my parents or tried to blame someone else for my mistake, ooo I'd get in so much trouble. Kids are to respect their parents. How can they if they are left to walk all over the parents??
But this is not EMWIN. It's really adept at warning notifications. I do use the Gweather, which is the GNOME counter part to wmWeather. I do know of the Debian packages, but there for Debian. I want either source, or an RPM that I can install. Don't need software for a weather unit like the Oregon unit.
Because of the delays in the AM/FM broadcast world, you could get these warnings too late, or be unable to see the device that caused them to issue the warning (NEXRAD images). EMWIN can allow you to do this. Not only that, but the second a warning is issued by NWS, your computer is going off! I also know this stuff would not do anyone living outside fo the states any good, but there are a whole lot of people here that all they DO have is a AM/FM radio. This software could even be run by the AM/FM broadcaster. If that makes them issue a beware warning before the NWS (they may say there's no warning yet, but ye best take cover because this storm is nasty!). Anyway, it's amazing noone has yet done this kind of stuff on Linux. It's software that can be usable in serving the general public who can't or will not understand Linux.
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What if the table top was made out of metal and the duct tape was just used as a nice cleanable covering? That way they can stick their lunch trays to it. I bet they took those frames and duct taped them together. This way they can roll the table up. If you say this won't work, then look at camping tables now available. Those are made out of slats and they roll ontop of a frame that was originally folded together. In space, since gravity isn't available to hold the tabletop to the frame, they could either use velcro, or a nut and bolt contraption to hold the table top down. Since the slats taht made up the table are metal, the trays that have magnets on them will just hold to the table.
I don't mean this to sound like a flame, but you must be trippin! Nautilus is Open Source(GPL'd even). Unless Eazel's code REALLY blows, I see the GNOME project taking this over, and hopefully improving it. Then again, this all depends on the source and what it looks like. Heck the Eazel developers may still end up working on it.Unfortunately, noone will know until the Eazel speaks!
Why are they suing Roxio? They should be suing the Free DB folks if they are infringing on the patent. The reason their are suing Roxio is that if competing GPL'd software infringes on a trademark, who do you sue?? The webpage owners? The developers? The hosting company? There's no money in suing the developers. They have none, or it would be very hard to find everyone. Roxio is an easy target who has money. Also, Gracenote kind of reminds me of Apple in this situation. Suing everyone for no apparent reason after they shot themselves in the foot. Well, I dunno if Apple shot their foot, but they still like to sue or threaten everyone who has something or uses something that even looks like theirs.
You know, this really irks me. They (Gracenote) posted the whole spec and everything you need to write a app that would read and write from the CDDB. I even had downloaded intending to code a player in VB that used it. Now, if that was patented technology, then why were he specs on the web for all to see??? Makes no sense to me! Also, they make it sound like the paid hundreds of monkeys to put cd's in their drives and type in thousands of entries! Those monkeys were us! We did all of the work, all they did was write the DB code and documented how to write a client. Did gracenote ever release their own product using cddb?? Not the last time I checked!
Better yet, if Power Basic becomes available for Linux, you can port the code to Linux of you still have it. It was rumored on the Powerbasic sites that they were devloping a version for Linux. Not exactly sure, but that would sure make life easier!:) I have a coworker who swore by Powerbasic. He evn was going to buy a HP LX100 and move a app he created in powerbasic to it. The app he created was his own, personal DOS based PIM. It was programmed to HIS specs. You see, this guy is an albino, and his eyes suck (sorry Jim!:)). Console mode is the best for him to see, becase it's the clearest. He runs 640x480 because it's what he can see. He can't see the higher resolutions. Outlook, Groupwise and any other PIM was too hard for him to read under windows. Only thing that might make his program better is if he had Palm support, but he'd never do that because he can't read palms either.
I remember the Major BBS software that we used when logging on to Computrek BBS here in Columbus, OH. Their multi line teleconference was better than irc with canned emotions/actions, in conference gaming (Gunslinger RULED in chat!), and towards the end, right before the web hit, they had their own graphical interface! I talks to MANY people and arranged MANY parties when on that machine. I used to log in during a party trying to get folks to come over. Forums were where we voice our opinion before most of us had even heard of Usenet. One thing that IRC will NEVER have over Major BBS or any other software's multi line chat was the local flavor. I wish it was still there. Computrek, once connected to the internet, you could telnet into it. I would still telnet to it now, and even pay the fee (10 bucks every few months or every month depending on usage). Those where the days. I remember loggin in when I could not sleep and I got some folks together to go have breakfast. That's what made BBS's great was the local flavor and the internet pretty much doesn't have that.
They do have a new Space Invaders game. Atari's games were bought by Hasbro Interactive. You can play a shocked version of Centipede on their web site, as well as check out the new Space Invaders, Asteroids and Frogger 1 and 2. Your welcome.
Well I agree that PalmOS has it now, but I don't really see those who are poo pooing the Agenda now as having much of a point in the near future. Point being, Handspring, Sony, TRG and anyone else producing PalmOS devices all pay Palm. This is why Palm is slower on the features. Why take the risk when others will? Then you kill them after they have the bugs worked out. Case in point, the Palm m505. It's got color, expansion card and alot of what Handspring and some of what Sony had first, but maybe possibly done better.
The downside, I am afraid, for Handspring (not so much Sony...if the Clie flops no big deal to them) is that they have to PAY Palm to use the OS. Linux doesn't have the problem. Every other handheld OS has this problem, but Linux (well, maybe NetBSD too but let's not get into that battle again...). While the Agenda may not be very good now (at least they delayed it so they can debug it some more), with the devlopers who already have one writing stuff, it can only get better. And, so, the Agenda folks may not have everything figured out, at least someone out their can look at their code and see what's up with it. How may of you can do this with Palm? Yeah I thought so!
I know I am preaching to the chior but I really hate people knocking on what I consider is an unfinished product. To the whiners who bought one and are bitching.....they say right on the web page to not expect to do any important work on the things just yet and I agree. It's a developer handheld that may be able to do interesting things a lot sooner then Palm ever did. Once a better version of the handheld comes out, then you can lay into them (and yourself if your a programmer on the project). Besides, as we all know, people will go through some pretty serious hoops to get something for nothing (how many of us clog our cable modems downloading 650 meg iso's??). As Microsoft proved, it's pretty hard to compete with something available for free.
I imagine that with a Agenda and a wireless ethernet card, you could, theoretically, use one as a remote for your Linux based MP3 Jukebox, you can have the wireless do all of the updating for you (cron jobs run every 5 minutes when in range, and definitely at night). The Agenda is a platform that still developing. It will be quite exciting when these things are given more power.
After looking at the pages referring to the new Sony, I think it's a good looking handheld. I don't like that goofy stick thing hanging on the headphones. Looks like it just might pull the head phones off as you are running for a bus when downtown. I am afraid the bar has been raised a bit higher for Agenda, but eventually someone will bring out a Linux based PDA that will kill the proprietary ones...it's just a matter of time.
Why do you have these things??? Unless the company truely went belly up, then they should want them back. Like when this guy went from Houston to Atlanta, GA, should he have sent the thing back? I know with my cable modem, I don't own it. Now if you HAVE to purchase this thing to use DSL, I could understand this.
I can see some uses for this things. If another person who has one and his burns out they can use it, even if you can't. I personally can't believe that some of these have PowerPC chips in them. I'd rather have that chip in a RS/6000!:)
Ogg Vorbis has a good thing now. They may not be streaming yet (AFAIK), but OGG's rule! I was able to fit 15 albums on one CD-R with OGG. And the ogg's encoded at a lower rate sound just as good, if not a bit better then MP3, in my opinion. NO it's not as good as the CD, but it's close enough to the CD for me and my 30 year old ears. Seems to me that the Ogg Folks my have streaming RSN if they don't already.
You know, when I look at this situation, something makes me wonder....why was the teacher not questioned?? The teacher should know what's going on in their class room. If the teacher see's something going on, they should get involoved. I remember, not that long ago, I was going to a Jr. High School where being on the football team was more important to teachers then being smart. I would daily get slammed into lockers by football players directly in front of teachers. I would glare at the teacher and wonder why the idiot didn't do anything about it.
I was a band/computer geek. I played Alto Sax and messed with, at the time, Apple IIe's. I would purposely stay after school, just so I could get computer time. My family could not afford a ocmputer at the time, so school was the place I did. I caught flack with the other kids for that too.
Why do the smart get persecuted?? Is it because we can think for ourselves and don't follow the mainstream like kids who act like cows? Just because the herd likes Britney Spears, Destiny's Child and Nsync does it mean that I have to? Why is it considered not normal to like some of the stereotypical high school teeny bopper stuff?? Why do we have to like the same music or the same food or the same anything as the rest of the school?? I remember I had a shirt I would wear once or twice a week and I would get ridiculed just for that.
Why when kids get bullied in front of a teacher there is not something done about it? Let me tell you, if you can't handle a High Schooler, then why are you even a teacher???
I think the reason is they are afraid of the ACLU or the parents suing them for doing something that is not their responsiblity, yet the parent isn't even responsable enough to take time off work to attend Parent Teacher Conference night. Heck I used to BE at the conference when I was a kid, usually because the band played for the parents that night.
It's the bullies that should be punished. If my kid was bullying someone and a teacher or administrator knew about it and didn't tell me I'd be mad! The parents of these bullies never get involved in thier kids life because if they were, then they should know better. Personally, I think it came from too much of this time out stuff. Time out is not disciplining a kid, espcially if the time out space has Nintendo and cable. My kid will NOT have a TV, computer or phone in his room when he's in MY house.
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You know I here people say time and time again the poor people can't afford cell phones (so keep pay phones.....) and that's simply not as true as it used to be. I ride thru one of the not so nice sections (read poorer or more affordable.....) of town and guess what there's a MASS of there? Cell Phone and Pager companies. I can count of at least 6 different phone dealers in a one mile strech on my bus route. There's VoiceStream, PageAll, Wireless Tech and all kinds of names up and down this street. The most popular thing I see on the bus everyday is cell phones. The poor love em.
I want to make a prediction....as cellphones get cheaper and cheaper, not only will cell phones get more popular, but landlines will slowly start to not be the home phone. In fact, cable or some other data cable will replace your phone lines. There will be no home phone number, just your number. Telemarketers can now call you no matter where are!:) Serously folks, the home phone line will be history, it's just a matter of when. Public phone should not go away untilk there's a reliable and cheap global phone standard (thru satellites). When using a satellite, you can even be in a rural area with no dropped calls. (well, in the future anyway)
Sparc's been discontinued with 7.0 (try looking for a 7.0 iso for sparc...ain't no such thing). The latesr sparc iso (from redhat anyway) would be 6.2. Here's a link.
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Also, Ameritech and several other companies all offer DSL and everywhere in the US can choose from SEVERAL Dss dish vendors.
My point is that AOL/Time-warner have NO monopoly. The only way they do is if you choose NOT to do any research and just accept them. I bet if you got out your phone book and started calling around you can get a all non AOL/Time Warner internet and cable setup.
DUH!!! Like this makes sense to me. It really surprises me that people can complain ahout something like this. AOL/Time Warner advertising for other providers is like asking Coke to advertise for Pepsi! I know, AOL/Time Warner is a huge comapany, but so are Coke and Pepsi. Also, if I were a medium sized ISP and I was offered to run ads for a smaller ISP what do you think I'd do? All companies in the same industry, big and small, compete with each other. How do you think that Microsoft was built? Do you think they were that big in one day?? Have you even seen Pirates of the Silicon Valley?? Asking the bigger one to advertise for a smaller one that can one day get as big or bigger then the bigger one would be suicide!
In think we are looking in the wrong place. Cable Companies have a chance to totally steal the business off of the LECS. Everyone might malign the cable companies, but one thing that they are doing is making it easy for you to connect (with self install or idiot install). DSL's run by the LECS basically, suck in my opinion, until you get it setup. The telephone companies are under this mass assumption that we will continue to pay ridiculous prices for Voice and Data and not look to others for service. I believe that everything will come into the hosue on one piece of cable, be it fiber or coaxial. Everyone will complain about Cable Modems, but with exception of a couple outages (for which I got credit for....try that with a LEC!), I am nothing but happy! I started out with a Legacy modem and moved to DOCSIS because of a problem. DSL has too many problems becuase it's all related to heavy duty business stuff like T-1's and T-3's and must be configured similarly. I ain't saying it's easy to setup a cable modem (for the company anyway) but they seem to have less bureaucratic horse manure to deal with unlike the too big for their britches LECS. The only other little problem I have with my cable modem just every once in a while (usually starts when a special on new accounts is going on) is that occasionally they outsell the avaulable IP's on the DHCP server and sometimes you can't get one, but this happens so rarely now I don't notice.
How come this thing reminds me of the EM-50 from Stripes?? I keep hearing Bill Murray saying razzle dazzle or seeing him doing the Aunt Jemima thing with that hot MP. It's still cool though.
Are...weird to say the least,at least in this century. I see no reason why you can't dress comfortably, but not sloppily. When I worked nights, t-shirts were the rigor. When I moved to days, I immediately switched to khakis and polos, or button down shirts. I don't wear a tie unless I am meeting with the president of the college, or when I am giving a tour of the computer/server room to colleagues, or students. My boss doesn't even wear a tie anymore. Shorts are a no no, and who'd want to wear shorts in a computer room (20 tons of AC working 365/24/7)?? My point is, sometimes dress codes are good. If everyone is coming in in Think Geek t-shirts, while your co-workers may think i't cool, the other people you work with might get the wrong impression. Solution? Get MEGA COMFORTABLE Think Geek Polo's. I get tons of comments, even at the grocery store, when I wear my tux polo! ;) This is not a Think Geek commercial, just a satisfied customer.
I think all distros should put up a online payment page, with no specific price. Let me throw what I think is the right amount at Red Hat and not some arbitrary figure (I'd say 10 bucks when I first download it and maybe more later if I like it). Also, make it optional.
Parents with NMK (not my kid) syndrome have taken the teeth from the teachers. I remember getting threatened with the paddle when I was in grade school. You will never see that now! Also, the first thing I will tell, my kids teachers and principals, is that they have permission to do whatever they want (within reason that is...they don't have permission to beat my kid black and blue) so long as they tell me. If I ever here my kid is acting up and the teacher did nothing, then I want to know why!
I agree with several others on there that posted that kids don't have rights and, to a certain extent, they don't, nor should they! During the formative years, if kids are treated like adults and are given the freedom to do what they want when they want, then this country is going to fall apart. Kids, we are hard on you because we are trying to teach you the right thing. My mom wanted me in by 9 pm every night I was out unless I was on a school activity, or had permission (prom night we were out most of the night). I never went to places to drink, because in my house, you followed my parents rules just like I expect my son to follow mine. They aren't draconian, but they are designed to teach me (and now my son) right from wrong. You get out of line, and well, you have to face the consequences. If I ever talked back to my parents or tried to blame someone else for my mistake, ooo I'd get in so much trouble. Kids are to respect their parents. How can they if they are left to walk all over the parents??
Because of the delays in the AM/FM broadcast world, you could get these warnings too late, or be unable to see the device that caused them to issue the warning (NEXRAD images). EMWIN can allow you to do this. Not only that, but the second a warning is issued by NWS, your computer is going off! I also know this stuff would not do anyone living outside fo the states any good, but there are a whole lot of people here that all they DO have is a AM/FM radio. This software could even be run by the AM/FM broadcaster. If that makes them issue a beware warning before the NWS (they may say there's no warning yet, but ye best take cover because this storm is nasty!). Anyway, it's amazing noone has yet done this kind of stuff on Linux. It's software that can be usable in serving the general public who can't or will not understand Linux.
What if the table top was made out of metal and the duct tape was just used as a nice cleanable covering? That way they can stick their lunch trays to it. I bet they took those frames and duct taped them together. This way they can roll the table up. If you say this won't work, then look at camping tables now available. Those are made out of slats and they roll ontop of a frame that was originally folded together. In space, since gravity isn't available to hold the tabletop to the frame, they could either use velcro, or a nut and bolt contraption to hold the table top down. Since the slats taht made up the table are metal, the trays that have magnets on them will just hold to the table.
I don't mean this to sound like a flame, but you must be trippin! Nautilus is Open Source(GPL'd even). Unless Eazel's code REALLY blows, I see the GNOME project taking this over, and hopefully improving it. Then again, this all depends on the source and what it looks like. Heck the Eazel developers may still end up working on it.Unfortunately, noone will know until the Eazel speaks!
Also on the same page, a little later, they posted UPN may get the new Battlestar Galactica series! That show was cool!
Why are they suing Roxio? They should be suing the Free DB folks if they are infringing on the patent. The reason their are suing Roxio is that if competing GPL'd software infringes on a trademark, who do you sue?? The webpage owners? The developers? The hosting company? There's no money in suing the developers. They have none, or it would be very hard to find everyone. Roxio is an easy target who has money. Also, Gracenote kind of reminds me of Apple in this situation. Suing everyone for no apparent reason after they shot themselves in the foot. Well, I dunno if Apple shot their foot, but they still like to sue or threaten everyone who has something or uses something that even looks like theirs.
You know, this really irks me. They (Gracenote) posted the whole spec and everything you need to write a app that would read and write from the CDDB. I even had downloaded intending to code a player in VB that used it. Now, if that was patented technology, then why were he specs on the web for all to see??? Makes no sense to me! Also, they make it sound like the paid hundreds of monkeys to put cd's in their drives and type in thousands of entries! Those monkeys were us! We did all of the work, all they did was write the DB code and documented how to write a client. Did gracenote ever release their own product using cddb?? Not the last time I checked!
Better yet, if Power Basic becomes available for Linux, you can port the code to Linux of you still have it. It was rumored on the Powerbasic sites that they were devloping a version for Linux. Not exactly sure, but that would sure make life easier! :) I have a coworker who swore by Powerbasic. He evn was going to buy a HP LX100 and move a app he created in powerbasic to it. The app he created was his own, personal DOS based PIM. It was programmed to HIS specs. You see, this guy is an albino, and his eyes suck (sorry Jim! :)). Console mode is the best for him to see, becase it's the clearest. He runs 640x480 because it's what he can see. He can't see the higher resolutions. Outlook, Groupwise and any other PIM was too hard for him to read under windows. Only thing that might make his program better is if he had Palm support, but he'd never do that because he can't read palms either.
Um...DUH! II still use it....I add Chanc cuz I think there was a Gorkon on Slashdot a while ago.
I remember the Major BBS software that we used when logging on to Computrek BBS here in Columbus, OH. Their multi line teleconference was better than irc with canned emotions/actions, in conference gaming (Gunslinger RULED in chat!), and towards the end, right before the web hit, they had their own graphical interface! I talks to MANY people and arranged MANY parties when on that machine. I used to log in during a party trying to get folks to come over. Forums were where we voice our opinion before most of us had even heard of Usenet. One thing that IRC will NEVER have over Major BBS or any other software's multi line chat was the local flavor. I wish it was still there. Computrek, once connected to the internet, you could telnet into it. I would still telnet to it now, and even pay the fee (10 bucks every few months or every month depending on usage). Those where the days. I remember loggin in when I could not sleep and I got some folks together to go have breakfast. That's what made BBS's great was the local flavor and the internet pretty much doesn't have that.
Do they consider Linux PC's naked?? I would say no. They have an OS on them, just not Microsoft's!
They do have a new Space Invaders game. Atari's games were bought by Hasbro Interactive. You can play a shocked version of Centipede on their web site, as well as check out the new Space Invaders, Asteroids and Frogger 1 and 2. Your welcome.
The downside, I am afraid, for Handspring (not so much Sony...if the Clie flops no big deal to them) is that they have to PAY Palm to use the OS. Linux doesn't have the problem. Every other handheld OS has this problem, but Linux (well, maybe NetBSD too but let's not get into that battle again...). While the Agenda may not be very good now (at least they delayed it so they can debug it some more), with the devlopers who already have one writing stuff, it can only get better. And, so, the Agenda folks may not have everything figured out, at least someone out their can look at their code and see what's up with it. How may of you can do this with Palm? Yeah I thought so!
I know I am preaching to the chior but I really hate people knocking on what I consider is an unfinished product. To the whiners who bought one and are bitching.....they say right on the web page to not expect to do any important work on the things just yet and I agree. It's a developer handheld that may be able to do interesting things a lot sooner then Palm ever did. Once a better version of the handheld comes out, then you can lay into them (and yourself if your a programmer on the project). Besides, as we all know, people will go through some pretty serious hoops to get something for nothing (how many of us clog our cable modems downloading 650 meg iso's??). As Microsoft proved, it's pretty hard to compete with something available for free.
I imagine that with a Agenda and a wireless ethernet card, you could, theoretically, use one as a remote for your Linux based MP3 Jukebox, you can have the wireless do all of the updating for you (cron jobs run every 5 minutes when in range, and definitely at night). The Agenda is a platform that still developing. It will be quite exciting when these things are given more power.
After looking at the pages referring to the new Sony, I think it's a good looking handheld. I don't like that goofy stick thing hanging on the headphones. Looks like it just might pull the head phones off as you are running for a bus when downtown. I am afraid the bar has been raised a bit higher for Agenda, but eventually someone will bring out a Linux based PDA that will kill the proprietary ones...it's just a matter of time.
I can see some uses for this things. If another person who has one and his burns out they can use it, even if you can't. I personally can't believe that some of these have PowerPC chips in them. I'd rather have that chip in a RS/6000! :)
Ogg Vorbis has a good thing now. They may not be streaming yet (AFAIK), but OGG's rule! I was able to fit 15 albums on one CD-R with OGG. And the ogg's encoded at a lower rate sound just as good, if not a bit better then MP3, in my opinion. NO it's not as good as the CD, but it's close enough to the CD for me and my 30 year old ears. Seems to me that the Ogg Folks my have streaming RSN if they don't already.
I was a band/computer geek. I played Alto Sax and messed with, at the time, Apple IIe's. I would purposely stay after school, just so I could get computer time. My family could not afford a ocmputer at the time, so school was the place I did. I caught flack with the other kids for that too.
Why do the smart get persecuted?? Is it because we can think for ourselves and don't follow the mainstream like kids who act like cows? Just because the herd likes Britney Spears, Destiny's Child and Nsync does it mean that I have to? Why is it considered not normal to like some of the stereotypical high school teeny bopper stuff?? Why do we have to like the same music or the same food or the same anything as the rest of the school?? I remember I had a shirt I would wear once or twice a week and I would get ridiculed just for that.
Why when kids get bullied in front of a teacher there is not something done about it? Let me tell you, if you can't handle a High Schooler, then why are you even a teacher???
I think the reason is they are afraid of the ACLU or the parents suing them for doing something that is not their responsiblity, yet the parent isn't even responsable enough to take time off work to attend Parent Teacher Conference night. Heck I used to BE at the conference when I was a kid, usually because the band played for the parents that night.
It's the bullies that should be punished. If my kid was bullying someone and a teacher or administrator knew about it and didn't tell me I'd be mad! The parents of these bullies never get involved in thier kids life because if they were, then they should know better. Personally, I think it came from too much of this time out stuff. Time out is not disciplining a kid, espcially if the time out space has Nintendo and cable. My kid will NOT have a TV, computer or phone in his room when he's in MY house.
I want to make a prediction....as cellphones get cheaper and cheaper, not only will cell phones get more popular, but landlines will slowly start to not be the home phone. In fact, cable or some other data cable will replace your phone lines. There will be no home phone number, just your number. Telemarketers can now call you no matter where are! :) Serously folks, the home phone line will be history, it's just a matter of when. Public phone should not go away untilk there's a reliable and cheap global phone standard (thru satellites). When using a satellite, you can even be in a rural area with no dropped calls. (well, in the future anyway)
Sparc's been discontinued with 7.0 (try looking for a 7.0 iso for sparc...ain't no such thing). The latesr sparc iso (from redhat anyway) would be 6.2. Here's a link.