This whole air canada story sounds like a nightmare, but the simple fact is that that guy could have rented a car and drove home, he was in no way trapped into taking a flight, the fact that he submitted to the airlines demands seems very suspicious to me. It takes about a day or two to drive from St. John to T.O. and would probably have cost a couple of hundred dollars, much cheaper and easier than having you implants ripped out if you ask me.
I take this as an absolute license to copy what ever i want on to media that i've prepaid the royalties on. Hey maybe this is the solution to the record companies delemma. Let bands distribute their music directly to the net, we will all pay to a big royalty pot that gets evenly distributed to all artists. Oh by the way, i just started a new group called White Noise.
If i were a student and wanted to learn about operating systems, what does M$ have to offer me. Instead i'd get the Linux kernel and play. Who knows, a smart student that figures out a better way to do something, has an excellent shot at having it incorporated into the real thing.
Same goes for device drivers, if you are a student playing with a piece of hardware, are you going to create a device driver for nt? Not likely, linux, sure there is no barrier to entry.
The question that i would ask myself is what is it worth? The answer I'd give is between $20 and $50 per year. This sounds like about 50000 pages per year or 136/day, i'm in!
Please tell your advertisers, bigger is not better, associating a company or product with an in your face annoying experience does not help sales
What I did when trying to find a decent OS X book was figure out an advanced topic (in my case mounting NFS file systems) and then find a book that provides the best detail on this. In my case it was Unleashed. Obviously picking a couple of things to sample may give better results.
Now if one of those books would tell me how to lower a window i'd be dancing.
The new iMac is brilliant, not just in design but in positioning and in usability. OS X is what the public wants, it's slick, it's easy, it's powerful, it's stable, it's all the things that Windows isn't. The only reason that it's not on every desktop is that unfortunately something else is there. Hopefully striking designs like the iMac will draw enough attention that people will take a closer look, give it a try and see that there is a better world out there.
I repeat Katz is an idiot, the iMac is a great idea, even more so that the original. The way to make inroads in a market that is completely owned by someone else is to grab attention, the iMac will certainly do that.
Hmm Xwindows was around a long time before Windows, and there is only one letter differnce and the name Windows was chosen bacause it also is a windowing system. Who's calling the kettle black?
Like many other people here i've made many attempts to find a way to integrate UML into my development cycle. I'm a visual person, i want to see things, I want to be able to draw clear pictures of what i'm trying to build. Unfortunately I find this very hard to do, while I understand the symbols and concepts of a class diagram, i still have a hard time figuring out how to draw one that effecively shows information about something that I am trying to design. What someone needs to write is a UML cookbook that take a set of common examples and shows how to created good diagrams to illustrate them.
There _is_ confusion, between 'Windows' and 'Lindows', as the majority of the crowd will call both products. Ask an average joe in the street if he knows the OS 'Windows' and he probably will say 'yes'. It's also not up to YOU to decide that there is NO confusion. the 'dows' in your name IS refering to Windows, not to Dow Jones or anything else.
And please, stop the yadda yadda about 'if you want to help extend their monopoly'... you try to make a living out of the hard work of others as you also did with MP3.com. If there is ONE person that should be ashamed, it should be you.
This is one of the most stupid comments if ever read on/. By your own reasoning any name the contains a subset of the characters in windows is confusing and therefore should not be allowed.
I went to the store the other day and bought some window cleaner and brought it home and was confused because i couldn't run it on my PC. Those bastards should not be allowed to call their product Window cleaner if it does not have anything to do with microsoft products.
I haven't found anyone making one of these yet but what i'd like to see is a set of headphones that are usable both as a hands free set for a phone and for listening to music from my computer. It seems like an obvious device but so far I have not been able to find such an animal.
Alternatively a simple box that plugs into your handset jack on your phone and then lets you plug in a set of head phones, a mic (or combo of both) and line out from you pc, would do the trick. I could have a simple selector button on top to choose between phone and audio.
I also have a few of these tablets and looked around a couple of years ago for a driver. At that time there was a C file that claimed to be some sort of driver for it but it was largely uncommented and incomprehensible. I think there was some discussion on a list related to XInput about these devices but i don't know it anyone ever did any work on it.
this sounds much less painful and involved than various homebrewed TiVO upgrades.
Where is this guy coming from? I just upgraded my Tivo and was amazed at how painless the process was. Yes you do have to bless the new drive, but with the availability of utility boot disks and CD's it is trivial to do.
I'm thinking of signing up and probably will if i can use it to update all my linux machines with one subscription. $100/year is a little steep, I'd bet that they would get more than twice the number of subscribers at $50. It comes down to choosing to use them for free until they go the same way as Eazel et all. Or to pay to keep a decent good quality open source software house around.
To the people that compare the cost to the cost of M$ software, yes it is worth it.
I've also just re-read LOTR to avoid having my memory of it destroyed by the movie and was struck by a couple of things that make it somewhat different from it's copiers.
First is the fact that the evil lord plays almost no part in the story at all, and that there is not a confrontation with him as occurs in most if not all of the copies.
Other thing that i realized, (and this is completely off topic), is that Sam was the real hero of the story and Frodo really played a much more minor role.
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Nope, sorry I tried that one it sucked. All I got was this: chdir /root/.wine : No such file or directory
I love those books, download them from Project Gutenberg and read them on your palm!
This whole air canada story sounds like a nightmare, but the simple fact is that that guy could have rented a car and drove home, he was in no way trapped into taking a flight, the fact that he submitted to the airlines demands seems very suspicious to me. It takes about a day or two to drive from St. John to T.O. and would probably have cost a couple of hundred dollars, much cheaper and easier than having you implants ripped out if you ask me.
I take this as an absolute license to copy what ever i want on to media that i've prepaid the royalties on. Hey maybe this is the solution to the record companies delemma. Let bands distribute their music directly to the net, we will all pay to a big royalty pot that gets evenly distributed to all artists. Oh by the way, i just started a new group called White Noise.
I wonder what it would take for joe student to get and build a complete copy of nt/2000/xp. I'll bet it is a whole lot easier said than done.
If i were a student and wanted to learn about operating systems, what does M$ have to offer me. Instead i'd get the Linux kernel and play. Who knows, a smart student that figures out a better way to do something, has an excellent shot at having it incorporated into the real thing.
Same goes for device drivers, if you are a student playing with a piece of hardware, are you going to create a device driver for nt? Not likely, linux, sure there is no barrier to entry.
I sure wish they would have deleted the email addresses of the posters, what a gold mine for spammers.
The question that i would ask myself is what is it worth? The answer I'd give is between $20 and $50 per year. This sounds like about 50000 pages per year or 136/day, i'm in!
Please tell your advertisers, bigger is not better, associating a company or product with an in your face annoying experience does not help sales
Sorry, real operating systems only.
Tux Pez dispenser from Compaq
What I did when trying to find a decent OS X book was figure out an advanced topic (in my case mounting NFS file systems) and then find a book that provides the best detail on this. In my case it was Unleashed. Obviously picking a couple of things to sample may give better results.
Now if one of those books would tell me how to lower a window i'd be dancing.
There is or was a project to suspend the whole os to disk. Details are here: http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.htm l
The post office is crawling with viruses these days.
The new iMac is brilliant, not just in design but in positioning and in usability. OS X is what the public wants, it's slick, it's easy, it's powerful, it's stable, it's all the things that Windows isn't. The only reason that it's not on every desktop is that unfortunately something else is there. Hopefully striking designs like the iMac will draw enough attention that people will take a closer look, give it a try and see that there is a better world out there.
I repeat Katz is an idiot, the iMac is a great idea, even more so that the original. The way to make inroads in a market that is completely owned by someone else is to grab attention, the iMac will certainly do that.
Hmm Xwindows was around a long time before Windows, and there is only one letter differnce and the name Windows was chosen bacause it also is a windowing system. Who's calling the kettle black?
Like many other people here i've made many attempts to find a way to integrate UML into my development cycle. I'm a visual person, i want to see things, I want to be able to draw clear pictures of what i'm trying to build. Unfortunately I find this very hard to do, while I understand the symbols and concepts of a class diagram, i still have a hard time figuring out how to draw one that effecively shows information about something that I am trying to design. What someone needs to write is a UML cookbook that take a set of common examples and shows how to created good diagrams to illustrate them.
There _is_ confusion, between 'Windows' and 'Lindows', as the majority of the crowd will call both products. Ask an average joe in the street if he knows the OS 'Windows' and he probably will say 'yes'. It's also not up to YOU to decide that there is NO confusion. the 'dows' in your name IS refering to Windows, not to Dow Jones or anything else.
/. By your own reasoning any name the contains a subset of the characters in windows is confusing and therefore should not be allowed.
And please, stop the yadda yadda about 'if you want to help extend their monopoly'... you try to make a living out of the hard work of others as you also did with MP3.com. If there is ONE person that should be ashamed, it should be you.
This is one of the most stupid comments if ever read on
I went to the store the other day and bought some window cleaner and brought it home and was confused because i couldn't run it on my PC. Those bastards should not be allowed to call their product Window cleaner if it does not have anything to do with microsoft products.
Not sure about the second one but the plantronics thing looks like what I have in mind. Thanks!
I haven't found anyone making one of these yet but what i'd like to see is a set of headphones that are usable both as a hands free set for a phone and for listening to music from my computer. It seems like an obvious device but so far I have not been able to find such an animal.
Alternatively a simple box that plugs into your handset jack on your phone and then lets you plug in a set of head phones, a mic (or combo of both) and line out from you pc, would do the trick. I could have a simple selector button on top to choose between phone and audio.
I also have a few of these tablets and looked around a couple of years ago for a driver. At that time there was a C file that claimed to be some sort of driver for it but it was largely uncommented and incomprehensible. I think there was some discussion on a list related to XInput about these devices but i don't know it anyone ever did any work on it.
this sounds much less painful and involved than various homebrewed TiVO upgrades.
Where is this guy coming from? I just upgraded my Tivo and was amazed at how painless the process was. Yes you do have to bless the new drive, but with the availability of utility boot disks and CD's it is trivial to do.
let the evil bastards sue, it only makes them look bad
Maybe the current govt crack down is targeted at the wrong set of Internet wrong doers.
I'm thinking of signing up and probably will if i can use it to update all my linux machines with one subscription. $100/year is a little steep, I'd bet that they would get more than twice the number of subscribers at $50. It comes down to choosing to use them for free until they go the same way as Eazel et all. Or to pay to keep a decent good quality open source software house around.
To the people that compare the cost to the cost of M$ software, yes it is worth it.
I've also just re-read LOTR to avoid having my memory of it destroyed by the movie and was struck by a couple of things that make it somewhat different from it's copiers.
First is the fact that the evil lord plays almost no part in the story at all, and that there is not a confrontation with him as occurs in most if not all of the copies.
Other thing that i realized, (and this is completely off topic), is that Sam was the real hero of the story and Frodo really played a much more minor role.