Expect the world to end a couple of days before that. There must be at least one scientist who cannot controls his patience, breaks, and quietly switches it on. "I could not wait, I wanted to see how it worked, if only for a couple of seconds...").
It is pushed in front because the revenue is bigger. Simple economics.
Now, one thing I have learned in my life that at some point you do not need the best, biggest and hippest to [do your job|be happy]. Commercialism is for businesses not for consumers.
I was under the impression that Sarbanes Oxley would take care of this. If you are doing something you should not be doing according to your guidelines and policies, the CEO/CFO go to jail.
This is true if you mislead your investors, apparently not if you mess with your customers.
Processing is indeed a great option. Instant graphical feedback on what you do. It will even let them write some simple games or convert their little handiwork into a screensaver.
I was amazed by this myself a while ago, just to kill some time I did some animation magic myself.
There is also another effect. In the (IT consulting) company I work for it is just a pain in the behind to get paid for licenses on tools I may use on one project. Now, don't get me wrong here, if there is a valid reason, I can get it.
However, for many tools I do not think there is any valid reason to go and purchase something. Either stuff comes with a developer license (Oracle's SQL Developer vs. Toad; [note: I am not saying the one is better than the other]) or you pull it out of the open source community. Works for me, keeps my conscience clean and keeps the license checking folks of my back.
So again, license fees that -eventually- pays for police offices and DMV personnel are down for a good reason.
Now I did quick mental check of the non-licensed software and must say that i can only think of three products. I could do without it, I am hardly using it. The other hundereds of software are validly licensed and not paid for in dollars and cents.
Regarding the economic principles, money can only be spent once. If people are not spending their money on software, they are spending it on food, clothes, ipods etc. Which would produce tax income for the states.
Unless everyone who does not pay for some software product puts the equivalent in the bank, the assumption that it would generate heaps of additional cash for the states is simply False. Check the current balance on the average persons credit card.
So this person(s) who produced this report have tunnel vision, have different interests or are copying the things they see daily on tv (political tunnel vision).
Need to understand business processes and how it technically would fall altogether, you provide/manage the holistic view of the enterprise systems as opposed to detailed system by system knowledge.
The problem is not that it can be compiled from the source, I get that...
The problem is that this is a Beta version. How Beta can you be for PPC Macs if you do not offer such a build (you would not receive any bug reports for the PPC macs). So, I get the impression that there will be no Mac PPC version when we go beyond Beta.
Wouldn't these processors have a tendency to warp if only 3 out of 4 cores could get hot while the defunct core remains cold? Depending on how much they warp, the cooling efficiency may go down (less contact between processor and cooling block).
I don't know... I just code, but, maybe someone else may know.
Does that mean it will be illegal to take a picture of me and my car when I run a red light or when I am speeding? Interesting marketing tactic. That would increase interest in Ford automobiles.
it's been around for a long time and is commonplace in other areas of internet crime.
This just sounds like encryption is something only the mob uses and needs to be banned. If they want to know what happens in encrypted stream they need to find a way how to do so, until then, encryption is here to stay. In this day, there is no reason to send unencrypted data from point to point, it does not matter if my streams contain legal or illegal content.
"No-one is stopping people of doing weird stuff to each other but they would be strongly advised not to put it on the internet. At the end of the day it is all too easy for this stuff to trigger an unbalanced mind."
or...
"No-one is stopping people of communicating weird stuff to each other but they would be strongly advised not to put it on the internet. At the end of the day it is all too easy for this stuff to trigger an unbalanced mind."
Whether we are talking about pron, microsoft, music, politics or My Little Pony; it can all trigger and unbalanced mind.
I guess you haven't tried Linux in quite a while. Ubuntu is the obvious choice of a distro that just works for 70% of world's population. And that may not include you.
People, please understand that not everybody has a need for MS Word, Excel and EA Sports titles. Two years a go I built a Ubuntu box for my father in law. He has been using it since without serious issues for the things he uses it for... Internet, Email and playing card games.
You are wrong with the suggestion that Microsoft created the MSX platform and sold MSX hardware.
MSX was primarily a generic hardware platform that a lot of Japanese hardware makers followed and build a reasonable user base in Asia and Europe. The Wiki link that you included explains that fairly clearly. Although Microsoft created the OS, they did not produce or sold the hardware. The reason they produced the MSX OS was to make sure people were comfortable with a CP/M like OS at home so they would embrace it at work (MS-DOS).
If I create perfect voting code but use proprietary code (and therefore closed) for trivial things like multi-user data storage. Under these rules that would suffice. However, the Microsoft code that I use may not be up to the task of having thousands of concurrent connections.
What do we do then?
Maybe certify based on specific conditions like: number of voting stations connected, number of votes per hour.
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Expect the world to end a couple of days before that. There must be at least one scientist who cannot controls his patience, breaks, and quietly switches it on.
"I could not wait, I wanted to see how it worked, if only for a couple of seconds...").
Hummmmmm...whop!, and the world is gone.
It is pushed in front because the revenue is bigger. Simple economics.
Now, one thing I have learned in my life that at some point you do not need the best, biggest and hippest to [do your job|be happy].
Commercialism is for businesses not for consumers.
I was under the impression that Sarbanes Oxley would take care of this. If you are doing something you should not be doing according to your guidelines and policies, the CEO/CFO go to jail.
This is true if you mislead your investors, apparently not if you mess with your customers.
I see no difference...
For web based prototyping iRise is pretty good.
It will let you do some quick html and build the workflow. The outcoming is a semi functional thing that you can put in front of users.
Processing is indeed a great option. Instant graphical feedback on what you do. It will even let them write some simple games or convert their little handiwork into a screensaver.
I was amazed by this myself a while ago, just to kill some time I did some animation magic myself.
Heck, even the A-team could be in a valid paying job.
There is also another effect. In the (IT consulting) company I work for it is just a pain in the behind to get paid for licenses on tools I may use on one project. Now, don't get me wrong here, if there is a valid reason, I can get it.
However, for many tools I do not think there is any valid reason to go and purchase something. Either stuff comes with a developer license (Oracle's SQL Developer vs. Toad; [note: I am not saying the one is better than the other]) or you pull it out of the open source community. Works for me, keeps my conscience clean and keeps the license checking folks of my back.
So again, license fees that -eventually- pays for police offices and DMV personnel are down for a good reason.
Now I did quick mental check of the non-licensed software and must say that i can only think of three products. I could do without it, I am hardly using it. The other hundereds of software are validly licensed and not paid for in dollars and cents.
Regarding the economic principles, money can only be spent once. If people are not spending their money on software, they are spending it on food, clothes, ipods etc. Which would produce tax income for the states.
Unless everyone who does not pay for some software product puts the equivalent in the bank, the assumption that it would generate heaps of additional cash for the states is simply False. Check the current balance on the average persons credit card.
So this person(s) who produced this report have tunnel vision, have different interests or are copying the things they see daily on tv (political tunnel vision).
Need to understand business processes and how it technically would fall altogether, you provide/manage the holistic view of the enterprise systems as opposed to detailed system by system knowledge.
1. Jesus seemed to have been a pretty common name back then.
Jesus... Jesus? His name is Brian...The problem is not that it can be compiled from the source, I get that...
The problem is that this is a Beta version. How Beta can you be for PPC Macs if you do not offer such a build (you would not receive any bug reports for the PPC macs). So, I get the impression that there will be no Mac PPC version when we go beyond Beta.
Anybody spotted the PPC version of this?
Looks like there is only an Intel version, no universal binary.
Wouldn't these processors have a tendency to warp if only 3 out of 4 cores could get hot while the defunct core remains cold? Depending on how much they warp, the cooling efficiency may go down (less contact between processor and cooling block).
I don't know... I just code, but, maybe someone else may know.
That was Michigan...
Does that mean it will be illegal to take a picture of me and my car when I run a red light or when I am speeding? Interesting marketing tactic. That would increase interest in Ford automobiles.
You can actually start with the four letter acronyms... .com were taken years ago.
As far as I remember all TLA's in
This just sounds like encryption is something only the mob uses and needs to be banned. If they want to know what happens in encrypted stream they need to find a way how to do so, until then, encryption is here to stay. In this day, there is no reason to send unencrypted data from point to point, it does not matter if my streams contain legal or illegal content.
..when Duke Nukem Forever will be released.
And to be honest, this alone is worth the expense.
I feel bad for all those commuters who have to use the Fargo airport. Apparently, they are all without connection to the outside world.
A quick Google maps to FAR, showed me where 'far' is http://maps.google.com/maps?q=far.
Does Anybody know if the 64 bit Linux version is also affected?
Oh wait...
MvE
or...
"No-one is stopping people of communicating weird stuff to each other but they would be strongly advised not to put it on the internet. At the end of the day it is all too easy for this stuff to trigger an unbalanced mind."
Whether we are talking about pron, microsoft, music, politics or My Little Pony; it can all trigger and unbalanced mind.
I guess you haven't tried Linux in quite a while. Ubuntu is the obvious choice of a distro that just works for 70% of world's population. And that may not include you.
People, please understand that not everybody has a need for MS Word, Excel and EA Sports titles. Two years a go I built a Ubuntu box for my father in law. He has been using it since without serious issues for the things he uses it for... Internet, Email and playing card games.
...if your bank can take a peek?
You are wrong with the suggestion that Microsoft created the MSX platform and sold MSX hardware.
MSX was primarily a generic hardware platform that a lot of Japanese hardware makers followed and build a reasonable user base in Asia and Europe. The Wiki link that you included explains that fairly clearly. Although Microsoft created the OS, they did not produce or sold the hardware. The reason they produced the MSX OS was to make sure people were comfortable with a CP/M like OS at home so they would embrace it at work (MS-DOS).
MvE
If I create perfect voting code but use proprietary code (and therefore closed) for trivial things like multi-user data storage. Under these rules that would suffice. However, the Microsoft code that I use may not be up to the task of having thousands of concurrent connections.
What do we do then?
Maybe certify based on specific conditions like: number of voting stations connected, number of votes per hour.
MvE