OpenOffice is cross-platform. No other office software solution that I know of makes sure training is so relevant should the IT staff change the operating system.
Frankly, if it works nicely and easily but looks ugly, people will put up with the look. People still run on NT4, simply because it just works.
Really. Won't be very long 'till they come with some sort of VR equipment - aren't there some slick VR glasses that have (soft) lasers beaming directly onto your retina? If you can have a handheld unit that does the same as your xbox or ps2, who stick with the bulkier one? Remember, there's a wireless revolution going on..
So - I think this Helix thing will be the best thing since sliced bread;)
Re:Okay, but what about heating?
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Hmm. Can't you wrap some film/material around it that produces heat when you run electricity through it? It you're very brave, replace the mouse cable with one with two extra leads that draws electricity from one of those mini-transformers we use on our laptops etc. I'm not sure if you can puncture the film in order to accomodate the mouse wheel, though..
I thought all nations were going to chip in on space exploration? Now, it seems like we'll have another race. That's a lot of wasted resources. Imagine the amount of double work that will need to be performed!
There have been numerous patches to the kernel in 450 days since then. Are you sure you weren't vulnerable? Unless you're willing to reboot on a regular basis, keeping the rest of the system patched is close to kidding yourself.
You probably don't work in big business? If they can get a support contract, they often take it. The IT dept definitely think it's worth the cost to get a bit of assurance about the product and that they'll get help if they're in deep sh*t. Also, they probably want to chip in a moderate amount of buck to ensure the product they've invested in will continue to be improved and patched for bugs. All that sums up to "support contract".
It is worth the effort to port Linux if you are in it for the long haul. Embedded Linux has a lot of available brainpower, and it will likely continue to swell as Linux developers are now becoming commodity. Choosing the "right" technology can be rather useless if your developers require a full year of training before they approach productivity.
Sounds like the guy didn't have enough business sense. You can certainly make money off GPL stuff. Just offer a support contract. If you make a great product, you won't even spend much time supporting the product.
If he could offer something extra to these companies that his software alone couldn't, I bet they would pay him (quite) a few bucks.
I am seriously considering becoming the next Hitler. When people with your kind of ability to see things from a different perspective vote for who will be the most powerful person in the world, I think I'll just become a benevolent dictator - except that I will wipe out all Americanism with a vengeance.
I tried to run debian on our servers. Unfortunately, getting debian to run on server hardware can be challenging compared to red hat. It is also more time consuming to track down the relevant patches than it is with Red Hat, which in my experience has extensive support for server hardware.
I certainly am glad I studied in the states. Made me realize that the common American doesn't really exist. It also made me realize a few hard truths about how democracy doesn't work in the states. Of course, you've shed that idea of "democracy" and "freedom" long ago. That makes you a lot more honest about your motives than the Bush administration. Well done on that part!
The problem with a rule of brutality is that the brutal don't generate anything. You'll weed out those with brains but no muscle. Unless you long for beating up your enemies with pieces of wood in cold caves (alternating between yours and theirs, as the battle rages on), you'll be sorry if you apply your rule of brutality as you indicate you want to.
(Of course, I much admire the effectiveness of the military campaigns against Iraq and Afghanistan. The trouble with paying your enemy not to fight you is that he'll stick around for a long time - with improved resources. If you want to terminate the threat, funding it is not a wise choice. If you wish to reduce the imminent threat, but keep the threat along to keep people at home scared, then buying them off is a great proposition )
Solitaire did not teach people how to use a word processor. It taught them how to use a mouse in windows. Playing games for soldiers is roughly analogous, if I understand correctly.
You obviously don't know a lot about population biology. When the population uses too many resources, the population usually ends up extinct or near-extinct. Nature handles this in various ways. Predator population growth, disease or plain starvation.
My problem with you is that we both end up dead because if YOUR lack of vision, and inability to see your shortcomings clearly.
(I studied in the states for 3.5 years, btw, so don't say I don't know America;)
There will be a rude awakening for people of your kind - self-righteous and nationalistic. You got a rude awakening with Vietnam and Watergate. Sadly, people so blinded by dogma rarely remember the lessons learned. So there will be another one coming in the next few years. Bush will not be remembered as a great president. He will be remembered as one of the greatest fuckups in power of all time.
What are his achievements? Look at what he has promised, and what he has achieved. The economy is dragging, the peace in Iraq and Afghanistan is being lost. He most likely lied to you about the urgency of action in Iraq. Saddam and bin Laden both live, and are not in US custody. I'm just amazed at how blind you get when someone waves the star-spangled banner in front of you while saying something to the effect of "the us is great. i lead america, so i must be great too". It's like all chains of logic disappear in the face of patriotism and pride.
If the US can turn off GPS for anyone but the US military, we certainly need Galileo. That will at least ensure the US does not turn off GPS for the rest of us.
Sure, there were lots of designs for gears early on. If we had standardized early, we might have ended up wasting time on substandard gears because the standard was immature. A bit of competition between possible standards is a good thing during the early adoption phase.
When you start building "fault tolerant" programs, you also risk having subtle bugs live for a long time and then all of a sudden explode in your face.
If we want to reduce the error rate, we should do it the right way: Spend more time in the design and fault detection/correction phases. That is boring, and it produces less revenue. But it works according to everything I've read about the subject.
The market has been (foolishly to some degree) accepting features over correctness.
What we need is for the major OS and application vendors to spend a few years doing nothing more than fixing bugs and finding security holes. As long as we have such a sloppy baseline, continued development will accidentally expose underlying bugs in unpredictable ways. Get your Finite State Machine books out, folks!
I want access to my own data. No more forgetting faces and names! Wouldn't that totally rock? And go to the bathroom to get a playback of what the chick told you the last time, so that you can fake caring? Yay!
More than that, they will go out of business. Customers tell you what's wrong/suboptimal with your product, and suggest enhancements. For free. Customer service thus can contribute to customer service/safisfaction, market research and R&D.
But since the folks sitting on the phone don't have a fancy degree, no-one will listen to them. And we wonder why the economy is in trouble?
French high-tech is rather good
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The French have a pretty impressive list of high-tech ventures in recent times. They have implemented chip technology in their credit cards (since the fraud was getting out of hand). They made the Concorde with the British. They created TGV - high-speed trains that compete with airline traffic on short- to mid-range flights. The Minitel is old tech now, but I bet it was an inspiration to AOL.
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OpenOffice is cross-platform. No other office software solution that I know of makes sure training is so relevant should the IT staff change the operating system.
Frankly, if it works nicely and easily but looks ugly, people will put up with the look. People still run on NT4, simply because it just works.
Really. Won't be very long 'till they come with some sort of VR equipment - aren't there some slick VR glasses that have (soft) lasers beaming directly onto your retina? If you can have a handheld unit that does the same as your xbox or ps2, who stick with the bulkier one? Remember, there's a wireless revolution going on..
;)
So - I think this Helix thing will be the best thing since sliced bread
Hmm. Can't you wrap some film/material around it that produces heat when you run electricity through it? It you're very brave, replace the mouse cable with one with two extra leads that draws electricity from one of those mini-transformers we use on our laptops etc. I'm not sure if you can puncture the film in order to accomodate the mouse wheel, though..
If you reboot the machines as you leave, you can have an everyday wipe with no hassle (but extra power consumption)
I thought all nations were going to chip in on space exploration? Now, it seems like we'll have another race. That's a lot of wasted resources. Imagine the amount of double work that will need to be performed!
There have been numerous patches to the kernel in 450 days since then. Are you sure you weren't vulnerable? Unless you're willing to reboot on a regular basis, keeping the rest of the system patched is close to kidding yourself.
You probably don't work in big business? If they can get a support contract, they often take it. The IT dept definitely think it's worth the cost to get a bit of assurance about the product and that they'll get help if they're in deep sh*t. Also, they probably want to chip in a moderate amount of buck to ensure the product they've invested in will continue to be improved and patched for bugs. All that sums up to "support contract".
It is worth the effort to port Linux if you are in it for the long haul. Embedded Linux has a lot of available brainpower, and it will likely continue to swell as Linux developers are now becoming commodity. Choosing the "right" technology can be rather useless if your developers require a full year of training before they approach productivity.
Sounds like the guy didn't have enough business sense. You can certainly make money off GPL stuff. Just offer a support contract. If you make a great product, you won't even spend much time supporting the product.
If he could offer something extra to these companies that his software alone couldn't, I bet they would pay him (quite) a few bucks.
After 911, it seems politicians feel more comfortable .. sidestepping .. such principles if they feel the offense is grave enough.
I am seriously considering becoming the next Hitler. When people with your kind of ability to see things from a different perspective vote for who will be the most powerful person in the world, I think I'll just become a benevolent dictator - except that I will wipe out all Americanism with a vengeance.
I tried to run debian on our servers. Unfortunately, getting debian to run on server hardware can be challenging compared to red hat. It is also more time consuming to track down the relevant patches than it is with Red Hat, which in my experience has extensive support for server hardware.
:)
Other than that, debian rocks
I certainly am glad I studied in the states. Made me realize that the common American doesn't really exist. It also made me realize a few hard truths about how democracy doesn't work in the states. Of course, you've shed that idea of "democracy" and "freedom" long ago. That makes you a lot more honest about your motives than the Bush administration. Well done on that part!
The problem with a rule of brutality is that the brutal don't generate anything. You'll weed out those with brains but no muscle. Unless you long for beating up your enemies with pieces of wood in cold caves (alternating between yours and theirs, as the battle rages on), you'll be sorry if you apply your rule of brutality as you indicate you want to.
(Of course, I much admire the effectiveness of the military campaigns against Iraq and Afghanistan. The trouble with paying your enemy not to fight you is that he'll stick around for a long time - with improved resources. If you want to terminate the threat, funding it is not a wise choice. If you wish to reduce the imminent threat, but keep the threat along to keep people at home scared, then buying them off is a great proposition )
Solitaire did not teach people how to use a word processor. It taught them how to use a mouse in windows. Playing games for soldiers is roughly analogous, if I understand correctly.
You obviously don't know a lot about population biology. When the population uses too many resources, the population usually ends up extinct or near-extinct. Nature handles this in various ways. Predator population growth, disease or plain starvation.
;)
My problem with you is that we both end up dead because if YOUR lack of vision, and inability to see your shortcomings clearly.
(I studied in the states for 3.5 years, btw, so don't say I don't know America
There will be a rude awakening for people of your kind - self-righteous and nationalistic. You got a rude awakening with Vietnam and Watergate. Sadly, people so blinded by dogma rarely remember the lessons learned. So there will be another one coming in the next few years. Bush will not be remembered as a great president. He will be remembered as one of the greatest fuckups in power of all time.
What are his achievements? Look at what he has promised, and what he has achieved. The economy is dragging, the peace in Iraq and Afghanistan is being lost. He most likely lied to you about the urgency of action in Iraq. Saddam and bin Laden both live, and are not in US custody. I'm just amazed at how blind you get when someone waves the star-spangled banner in front of you while saying something to the effect of "the us is great. i lead america, so i must be great too". It's like all chains of logic disappear in the face of patriotism and pride.
If the US can turn off GPS for anyone but the US military, we certainly need Galileo. That will at least ensure the US does not turn off GPS for the rest of us.
Sure, there were lots of designs for gears early on. If we had standardized early, we might have ended up wasting time on substandard gears because the standard was immature. A bit of competition between possible standards is a good thing during the early adoption phase.
How many of the effects that will limit the possibility of the black hole gaining mass have been verified?
When you start building "fault tolerant" programs, you also risk having subtle bugs live for a long time and then all of a sudden explode in your face.
If we want to reduce the error rate, we should do it the right way: Spend more time in the design and fault detection/correction phases. That is boring, and it produces less revenue. But it works according to everything I've read about the subject.
America's army.. Loyal. Proud. Brave. Shooting Arabs.
The market has been (foolishly to some degree) accepting features over correctness.
What we need is for the major OS and application vendors to spend a few years doing nothing more than fixing bugs and finding security holes. As long as we have such a sloppy baseline, continued development will accidentally expose underlying bugs in unpredictable ways. Get your Finite State Machine books out, folks!
I want access to my own data. No more forgetting faces and names! Wouldn't that totally rock? And go to the bathroom to get a playback of what the chick told you the last time, so that you can fake caring? Yay!
More than that, they will go out of business. Customers tell you what's wrong/suboptimal with your product, and suggest enhancements. For free. Customer service thus can contribute to customer service/safisfaction, market research and R&D.
But since the folks sitting on the phone don't have a fancy degree, no-one will listen to them. And we wonder why the economy is in trouble?
The French have a pretty impressive list of high-tech ventures in recent times. They have implemented chip technology in their credit cards (since the fraud was getting out of hand). They made the Concorde with the British. They created TGV - high-speed trains that compete with airline traffic on short- to mid-range flights. The Minitel is old tech now, but I bet it was an inspiration to AOL.
;)
Not bad for a bunch of frog-eaters