Bill Clinton had the luxury of presiding over the internet bubble, which provided the aforementioned booms in VC spending, salaries, infrastructure growth (all those Cisco routers and miles of fiber as the modern Internet was built), capital gains on inflated stock prices, and government tax revenue for 6 of his 8 years of office (figuring roughly 1995-2000 as the bubble years), all of which dissipated roughly 10 months before his successor was sworn in. All Clinton had to do was stay out of the way.
They are either The SCO Group, Inc., or Caldera Systems, Inc. The Santa Cruz Operation renamed itself to Tarantella, Inc. after selling whatever it sold to Caldera. The whole oldSCO / newSCO mishmash is one of Darl & Co's favorite bits of misinformation, so PLEASE keep them straight, even when being satirical!!!
I *hope* you meant that they are violating the GPL. "Violating the GNU" brings up a whole other set of connotations, some entailing a risk of contracting anthrax....
No, The SCO Group failed to understand the ramifications of the Asset Purchase Agreement that was signed between Novell and the Santa Cruz Operation, a separate company. Caldera bought the Operating Systems division of the latter, and then changed their name. Confusing the names is their First Line of Misdirection.
No they didn't. AT&T and CBS have both condensed their names, but according to their latest quarterly report, IBM are still officially "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION".
... the positioning of "/" on keyboards is way more consistent than the positioning of "\"
Which is presumably why they (or the original creators of QDOS) used the "/" for switches, given that the system as originally spec'd did not allow subdirectories.
There are still a lot of precincts in the US small enough to use hand-counted paper ballots, and in those (in my experience) the same procedure is used. Actually, it's also used in the precincts I've been to that use OpScan ballots (use a special marker to mark the ballot, the scanner reads the ballot and saves it), except that the scanner takes the place of having to count all the uncomplicated ballots. The nice thing about the scanner system is that the paper ballots are perserved.
>How many open-source developers go around interviewing end users?
I do. So thats one. How many closed source developers do this?
Any decent closed-source software development house writing programs for general consumption (as opposed to strictly in-house line-of-business programming) should have teams of people doing this during the requirements gathering phase. Perhaps not the actual developers, but it's likely that the actual developers may not even have been identified at that point.
>When the developer and product consumer is the same, open-source makes much more sense to me.
Hmm, sounds like the UNIX world to me. Built by developers and geeks for developers and geeks. Its working pretty well.
Working pretty well, if your desired audience is "developers and geeks." Perhaps not so well if your desired audience is people who do not fit that description.
Plus, the Grand Entrance of Darth Vader is the Big Payoff of the whole first trilogy. Face it, the moment we're all waiting to see is the one where he puts on the helmet and his voice changes from what-his-name to James Earl Jones.
Odds that his first words will be "Welcome to Verizon 411"?
I'm not sure if she jumped it then, or earlier, when she incorporated and sent out C&D orders to everyone who had unauthorized archives of her cam shots... especially the early ones from her college days.
Does anyone else remember when she was "sponsored" by some nudism library, and they solicited for beer donations?
The key difference there is that LG provides useful content, as opposed to/.. Also, I believe, that Rob and Jeff retained significant rights over the site when they initially sold to Andover.net.
I just tried it on Win2k Workstation, and it reflowed properly; I've never seen any different behavior on any other flavor of Windows, either, going back to 3.1 and Win/OS2.
OTOH, some versions of NT (At least 3.5(1), if not 4.0) had Notepad default to saving files in UTF-8, which could seriously bamboozle apps that were trying to read their config files. That happened to me several times when admining Netscape Enterprise Server.
First I'd heard that the AIP died. I used to be a member (actually, I was a member of the Internet Developers' Association (IDA), which rolled up into the AIP), but they seemed to lose focus after the AIP was born from the IDA, ISIP, and Webmasters' Guild. I wish I knew more about what happened.
Perhaps cricket is more suitable for webcasting because a 5fps refresh rate is faster than the pace of the live game (says the American with the baseball reference in his.sig;-) .
Innovative new features that WHO "really want"? Most end-users that I know of have no need for the items you mention (with the possible exception of SVG, and even that's still early-adopter in the home / consumer webspace). Most web developers, for all the talk of "standards", still wind up designing pages that work in IE first-and-foremost because they need to eat.
Most end-users and business decision-makers (read: PHBs) respond more readily to "marketing fluff" than acronym soup.
This may be my provincial bias, but I tend to use DeLorme's online service at http://www.earthamaps.com. Of course, I also carry a copy of their Maine Atlas in the car whenever I go anyplace > 10 miles from I-95....
There are two parts: the registrar business of signing up domain names (the same as what places like register.com do), which is what is being sold, and the registry business, which is the maintenance of the central.com database and the root server(s). They're keeping the registry side, so the submitter's comment about Siteminder is in error... they still have that side of the operation.
Second the nomination for Pegasus Mail for Windows, probably the most feature-rich gratis Windows mail client in existence (but I'll put in a plug for sending David money:). Check out the message sorting capabilities, the fact that it's natively a LAN-based multi-user client, the cool History and philosophical statements by the author in the Help menu.
In my state at least, cable franchises are non-exclusive; the town or city has the right to grant a competing franchise any time it wants to. The catch is, except for a very few extremely-high-density locations (e.g., Manhattan), there aren't enough potential customers per mile to support more than one network. Companies don't want to pay up front to build when the only result (barring complete incompetence on the part of the existing provider) will be a price war that keeps them from recouping the investment. So, except for those few high-density locations, or a few places where municipalities have built their own systems, cable tends to be a single-vendor situation.
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Then you probably didn't bother getting a Prada affinity card, did you?
Bill Clinton had the luxury of presiding over the internet bubble, which provided the aforementioned booms in VC spending, salaries, infrastructure growth (all those Cisco routers and miles of fiber as the modern Internet was built), capital gains on inflated stock prices, and government tax revenue for 6 of his 8 years of office (figuring roughly 1995-2000 as the bubble years), all of which dissipated roughly 10 months before his successor was sworn in. All Clinton had to do was stay out of the way.
They are either The SCO Group, Inc., or Caldera Systems, Inc. The Santa Cruz Operation renamed itself to Tarantella, Inc. after selling whatever it sold to Caldera. The whole oldSCO / newSCO mishmash is one of Darl & Co's favorite bits of misinformation, so PLEASE keep them straight, even when being satirical!!!
I *hope* you meant that they are violating the GPL. "Violating the GNU" brings up a whole other set of connotations, some entailing a risk of contracting anthrax....
No, The SCO Group failed to understand the ramifications of the Asset Purchase Agreement that was signed between Novell and the Santa Cruz Operation, a separate company. Caldera bought the Operating Systems division of the latter, and then changed their name. Confusing the names is their First Line of Misdirection.
No they didn't. AT&T and CBS have both condensed their names, but according to their latest quarterly report, IBM are still officially "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION".
Which is presumably why they (or the original creators of QDOS) used the "/" for switches, given that the system as originally spec'd did not allow subdirectories.
There are still a lot of precincts in the US small enough to use hand-counted paper ballots, and in those (in my experience) the same procedure is used. Actually, it's also used in the precincts I've been to that use OpScan ballots (use a special marker to mark the ballot, the scanner reads the ballot and saves it), except that the scanner takes the place of having to count all the uncomplicated ballots. The nice thing about the scanner system is that the paper ballots are perserved.
>How many open-source developers go around interviewing end users?
I do. So thats one. How many closed source developers do this?
Any decent closed-source software development house writing programs for general consumption (as opposed to strictly in-house line-of-business programming) should have teams of people doing this during the requirements gathering phase. Perhaps not the actual developers, but it's likely that the actual developers may not even have been identified at that point.
>When the developer and product consumer is the same, open-source makes much more sense to me.
Hmm, sounds like the UNIX world to me. Built by developers and geeks for developers and geeks. Its working pretty well.
Working pretty well, if your desired audience is "developers and geeks." Perhaps not so well if your desired audience is people who do not fit that description.
Almost... isn't it DRDoS they own?
Plus, the Grand Entrance of Darth Vader is the Big Payoff of the whole first trilogy. Face it, the moment we're all waiting to see is the one where he puts on the helmet and his voice changes from what-his-name to James Earl Jones.
Odds that his first words will be "Welcome to Verizon 411"?
I'm not sure if she jumped it then, or earlier, when she incorporated and sent out C&D orders to everyone who had unauthorized archives of her cam shots... especially the early ones from her college days.
Does anyone else remember when she was "sponsored" by some nudism library, and they solicited for beer donations?
I wasn't a fan, but in the NS 1.1 days, remember all the buzz about... The Spot?
The key difference there is that LG provides useful content, as opposed to /.. Also, I believe, that Rob and Jeff retained significant rights over the site when they initially sold to Andover.net.
I just tried it on Win2k Workstation, and it reflowed properly; I've never seen any different behavior on any other flavor of Windows, either, going back to 3.1 and Win/OS2.
OTOH, some versions of NT (At least 3.5(1), if not 4.0) had Notepad default to saving files in UTF-8, which could seriously bamboozle apps that were trying to read their config files. That happened to me several times when admining Netscape Enterprise Server.
First I'd heard that the AIP died. I used to be a member (actually, I was a member of the Internet Developers' Association (IDA), which rolled up into the AIP), but they seemed to lose focus after the AIP was born from the IDA, ISIP, and Webmasters' Guild. I wish I knew more about what happened.
I might actually consider adding an AOL account if it came with a soundbite of Catherine Z-J saying "You've Got Mail"!
Perhaps cricket is more suitable for webcasting because a 5fps refresh rate is faster than the pace of the live game (says the American with the baseball reference in his .sig ;-) .
This may be my provincial bias, but I tend to use DeLorme's online service at http://www.earthamaps.com. Of course, I also carry a copy of their Maine Atlas in the car whenever I go anyplace > 10 miles from I-95....
I'll bite... what's the issue with AIX? Can't you admin these things without going into smitty?
See my .sig...
(Incidentally, condolences to all the Cubs fans, and good luck to Steve Bartman, the newly-anointed Bill Buckner of the Midwest.)
There are two parts: the registrar business of signing up domain names (the same as what places like register.com do), which is what is being sold, and the registry business, which is the maintenance of the central .com database and the root server(s). They're keeping the registry side, so the submitter's comment about Siteminder is in error... they still have that side of the operation.
Second the nomination for Pegasus Mail for Windows, probably the most feature-rich gratis Windows mail client in existence (but I'll put in a plug for sending David money :). Check out the message sorting capabilities, the fact that it's natively a LAN-based multi-user client, the cool History and philosophical statements by the author in the Help menu.
In my state at least, cable franchises are non-exclusive; the town or city has the right to grant a competing franchise any time it wants to. The catch is, except for a very few extremely-high-density locations (e.g., Manhattan), there aren't enough potential customers per mile to support more than one network. Companies don't want to pay up front to build when the only result (barring complete incompetence on the part of the existing provider) will be a price war that keeps them from recouping the investment. So, except for those few high-density locations, or a few places where municipalities have built their own systems, cable tends to be a single-vendor situation.