While what you're saying may be true on the coding side, I think that too much of that has spilled over into page layout and user interface design. All webpages are beginning to look exatly the same, there is no variety. I'm not someone to design a user interface that has no labels and all the text is super small, but there is something to be said for thinking outside of the box when designing a webpage's look and feel. There are many "pure programmers" that can't pull it off. You have to be able to think like "normal user", not a programmer.
While the underlying DOS is gone from new windows versions, the need and use of command lines is not gone from Windows. I assume that there is still an option to get to a command line in XP, just as there is in 2000. As much as MS has tried to make remote admining a Windows machine feasible, and Windows Terminal Server is close, nothing will beat the ability to run a lean and mean text only interface to a remote machine. Not to mention the ability to store scripts. I'm guesing there are a lot of key business processes that rely on batch files. I just hope that MS doesn't phase out the ability to execute commands from the command line.
All it does is not provide certain suggestions for certain words in certain circumstances - for the exact reason of political correctness.
You could very easily argue that "politcally correct" speach is one of the purest forms of a 1984ish thinkspeak. You don't wnat to call someone a mailman, that makes people think that all mail carriers are male. You instead call them a mailperson and eventually the old word drops out of the language along with the conotation of mail carriers being male.
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So, watch out for the "embrace and extend" approach to politcally correct speach from all corners. Least of all MS.
This could actually turn into a legal problem for MS down the road. You could see it as simialr to the debate about message boards censoring posts. If you censor one post, you have to censor them all. Well, if MS starts editing some dictionary/thesorus entries, then they will have to censor them all and become responsible for the end result. They now have to navigate the insane world of politically correct wordsmithing.
I think that's fine if you're clients are the type who will upgrade to the latest browser. But if you're selling something, and your customers don't know the browser from the OS, if your page stops working, they'll go somewhere else.
My view is that the best you can do is encourage the user to upgrade slowly with "Best Used" buttons and extras only available on newer browsers.
I have to disagree with you here. There are quite a lot of times that you have to change things on the server side in order to accomodate a certain client app. One example is when sending content to a handheld versus a regular browser, same thing with a WebTV browser. This has always beent the case for web developers. Unless you go the ALA route and just say screw the users, we're going straight standards.
Not that I agree with what MS did, but being able to see what client is requesting the page has legitimate uses.
From the article: Lindows hopes a broader software base will help boost the Linux operating system, a 10-year-old clone of Unix.
I'm torn about how to read this. Are they trying to say that Linux is outdated? Or are they trying to say that it is well established? Or am I overreading and they are just saying Linux is 10 years old?
Sony is not the only one with a jog dial. Handera has a great product. 240X320 display, 8MB, jog dial, digital audio recorder, 33MHz Dragonball, 2MB Flash, and it supports Compact Flash and Secure Digital. I've had mine since July, and love it! Handera used to be called TRGPro for those of you who haven't heard of them.
I don't really know anything about this sort of thing, but would it be possible/feasible to store the energy generated in space in batteries, then transport the batteries back to earth and plug them into the power grid? I image that you wouldn't be able to store enough power to make the return trip worth it, but if battery technology were to improve, maybe this approach would work better.
It would be accompanied by a major international aid effort using terrestrial photovoltaics. In areas where no power exists, village "life support systems" can be established to provide potable water, lights, modern communications, refrigeration, information, and perhaps a few sewing machines, he said.
Then Nike could set up a sweat shop any where on the globe!
The first is, will IT workers embrace this? I know quite a few Oracle DBAs who are none to happy about turning over the optimization of their database to the computer. Maybe these people are just afraid of change and having to learn a higher art than what they've got, but if they tell their manager that they can do much better than the computer can, who will the manager believe? For this to progress, you must find a way to not scare the geeks.
Secondly, how do we accomplish this without advancing machine tecnology too far? If a machine becomes self aware and protective of itself, what happens when we want to shut it down? What are you doing Dave? I know there are ways of preventing this, but will they work, and will we be able to find out if they work before it is too late, so to speak. I'm not trying to be paranoid, but this is something that is a real concern.
Another piece of this that someoneelse mentioned is if the computer is maintaning the basic stuff, what happens when the computer dies and no one knows exactly how it did what it did? A very real example is the ubiquitus (sp?) of calculators. How many of you can still do long division in your head? There was some story I read in High School where this guy who could do simple math without a computer was such an oddity that he became a king or something like that.
Cnet has an article that talks about some studios releasing the music in "protected" CD format and Windows Media format for those crazy people who want to play it on their (MS) computer.
I think that his use of jihad was a particularly bad choice of terms. To associate holding a newpaper accountable for false statements they printed is a far cry from the "holy war" that jihad implies. It attempts to put critisicim of a yellow press on the same level as the terrorist acts that caused this whole uproar. Maybe you don't understand the full implication of the word.
This law hands the power to imprison damn near anyone running Windows IIS over the US government, such that only a lawsuit (inevitably protracted) would get them out.
I think the reason they suggested this is important. It's not just that there are viruses that attack it, it's that it takes so much work to continuously apply the patches that are coming from MS.
Any politician worth his salt would take a look at the comments here and see how many people don't vote and say to hell with the whole lot of them. They can't hurt me.
I fail to understand your point. The article only talks about running a web server under NT Workstation. If you're going to run a web server, you'd want to do it under NT Server because it's tuned differently (Yes, these are just registry settings, but the fact remains that you're violating your license if you try to do this to NT WS).
So you're saying that we can't tune the software we buy for ourselves? Why shouldn't I be allowed to change the configuration of software that I paid good money for? Please, someone explain why people keep accepting this crap. The fact that you're thinking that way IS the point. Get a clue, have an independet thought and stop being complacent!
It's One stinking percent. I think you're over reacting a bit. You wouldn't even metion it if it were the other way around. Let's have some consistency.
I work for a consulting company of just under 100 people, most of whom are developers. The partners of our company having begun testing Star and Open Office themselves to see if we can move to them and get awway from the killer licensing costs.
From the article:
Security. Although a single system image is presented, data and computations may be in many different trust domains, with different rights and capabilities available to different security principals. Like the Internet, the system should allow non-hierarchical trust domains with no central authority necessary. My emphasis.
Doesn't this say that the whole Hailstorm concept is not needed. And with good reason!
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While what you're saying may be true on the coding side, I think that too much of that has spilled over into page layout and user interface design. All webpages are beginning to look exatly the same, there is no variety. I'm not someone to design a user interface that has no labels and all the text is super small, but there is something to be said for thinking outside of the box when designing a webpage's look and feel. There are many "pure programmers" that can't pull it off. You have to be able to think like "normal user", not a programmer.
While the underlying DOS is gone from new windows versions, the need and use of command lines is not gone from Windows. I assume that there is still an option to get to a command line in XP, just as there is in 2000. As much as MS has tried to make remote admining a Windows machine feasible, and Windows Terminal Server is close, nothing will beat the ability to run a lean and mean text only interface to a remote machine. Not to mention the ability to store scripts. I'm guesing there are a lot of key business processes that rely on batch files. I just hope that MS doesn't phase out the ability to execute commands from the command line.
All it does is not provide certain suggestions for certain words in certain circumstances - for the exact reason of political correctness.
You could very easily argue that "politcally correct" speach is one of the purest forms of a 1984ish thinkspeak. You don't wnat to call someone a mailman, that makes people think that all mail carriers are male. You instead call them a mailperson and eventually the old word drops out of the language along with the conotation of mail carriers being male.
</Slightly offtopic>
So, watch out for the "embrace and extend" approach to politcally correct speach from all corners. Least of all MS.
This could actually turn into a legal problem for MS down the road. You could see it as simialr to the debate about message boards censoring posts. If you censor one post, you have to censor them all. Well, if MS starts editing some dictionary/thesorus entries, then they will have to censor them all and become responsible for the end result. They now have to navigate the insane world of politically correct wordsmithing.
I think that's fine if you're clients are the type who will upgrade to the latest browser. But if you're selling something, and your customers don't know the browser from the OS, if your page stops working, they'll go somewhere else.
My view is that the best you can do is encourage the user to upgrade slowly with "Best Used" buttons and extras only available on newer browsers.
I have to disagree with you here. There are quite a lot of times that you have to change things on the server side in order to accomodate a certain client app. One example is when sending content to a handheld versus a regular browser, same thing with a WebTV browser. This has always beent the case for web developers. Unless you go the ALA route and just say screw the users, we're going straight standards.
Not that I agree with what MS did, but being able to see what client is requesting the page has legitimate uses.
Here Here! Mod this up!
From the article: Lindows hopes a broader software base will help boost the Linux operating system, a 10-year-old clone of Unix.
I'm torn about how to read this. Are they trying to say that Linux is outdated? Or are they trying to say that it is well established? Or am I overreading and they are just saying Linux is 10 years old?
You forgot to mention the laser death gun to blast off those little scavanger aliens!
Head over to http://www.bsd.org/
Sony is not the only one with a jog dial. Handera has a great product. 240X320 display, 8MB, jog dial, digital audio recorder, 33MHz Dragonball, 2MB Flash, and it supports Compact Flash and Secure Digital. I've had mine since July, and love it! Handera used to be called TRGPro for those of you who haven't heard of them.
I don't really know anything about this sort of thing, but would it be possible/feasible to store the energy generated in space in batteries, then transport the batteries back to earth and plug them into the power grid? I image that you wouldn't be able to store enough power to make the return trip worth it, but if battery technology were to improve, maybe this approach would work better.
It would be accompanied by a major international aid effort using terrestrial photovoltaics. In areas where no power exists, village "life support systems" can be established to provide potable water, lights, modern communications, refrigeration, information, and perhaps a few sewing machines, he said.
Then Nike could set up a sweat shop any where on the globe!
The first is, will IT workers embrace this? I know quite a few Oracle DBAs who are none to happy about turning over the optimization of their database to the computer. Maybe these people are just afraid of change and having to learn a higher art than what they've got, but if they tell their manager that they can do much better than the computer can, who will the manager believe? For this to progress, you must find a way to not scare the geeks.
Secondly, how do we accomplish this without advancing machine tecnology too far? If a machine becomes self aware and protective of itself, what happens when we want to shut it down? What are you doing Dave? I know there are ways of preventing this, but will they work, and will we be able to find out if they work before it is too late, so to speak. I'm not trying to be paranoid, but this is something that is a real concern.
Another piece of this that someoneelse mentioned is if the computer is maintaning the basic stuff, what happens when the computer dies and no one knows exactly how it did what it did? A very real example is the ubiquitus (sp?) of calculators. How many of you can still do long division in your head? There was some story I read in High School where this guy who could do simple math without a computer was such an oddity that he became a king or something like that.
Keep doing those math problems.
Cnet has an article that talks about some studios releasing the music in "protected" CD format and Windows Media format for those crazy people who want to play it on their (MS) computer.
There, see, problem solved.
I think that his use of jihad was a particularly bad choice of terms. To associate holding a newpaper accountable for false statements they printed is a far cry from the "holy war" that jihad implies. It attempts to put critisicim of a yellow press on the same level as the terrorist acts that caused this whole uproar. Maybe you don't understand the full implication of the word.
This law hands the power to imprison damn near anyone running Windows IIS over the US government, such that only a lawsuit (inevitably protracted) would get them out.
Maybe that's a good thing.
I think the reason they suggested this is important. It's not just that there are viruses that attack it, it's that it takes so much work to continuously apply the patches that are coming from MS.
Any politician worth his salt would take a look at the comments here and see how many people don't vote and say to hell with the whole lot of them. They can't hurt me.
I fail to understand your point. The article only talks about running a web server under NT Workstation. If you're going to run a web server, you'd want to do it under NT Server because it's tuned differently (Yes, these are just registry settings, but the fact remains that you're violating your license if you try to do this to NT WS).
So you're saying that we can't tune the software we buy for ourselves? Why shouldn't I be allowed to change the configuration of software that I paid good money for? Please, someone explain why people keep accepting this crap. The fact that you're thinking that way IS the point. Get a clue, have an independet thought and stop being complacent!
It's One stinking percent. I think you're over reacting a bit. You wouldn't even metion it if it were the other way around. Let's have some consistency.
Are you seaking some sort of remedy from the Post? A retraction, or a chance to submit a rebutal?
Now that they have been legally declared a monopoly, there are some definte strings attached to their open market-ness.
I work for a consulting company of just under 100 people, most of whom are developers. The partners of our company having begun testing Star and Open Office themselves to see if we can move to them and get awway from the killer licensing costs.
From the article:
Security. Although a single system image is presented, data and computations may be in many different trust domains, with different rights and capabilities available to different security principals. Like the Internet, the system should allow non-hierarchical trust domains with no central authority necessary. My emphasis.
Doesn't this say that the whole Hailstorm concept is not needed. And with good reason!