i can't say i've got a certain answer to your question, but here's a possible scenario (somewhat fudged) that might show wireless could have an advantage.
while the large equipment is stationary, there are certainly moving parts to it. some of these pieces are large and travel a lot (they're not rotating wheels). in hard disk manufacturing, there's a large stationary machine that picks up carts of unplated aluminum disks and sticks them into a tank of chemical solution for a time, pulls it out and sticks it into another chemical solution, and so on until the nickel plating process is complete.
while this cart doesn't really do much other than get stuck in chemicals, if one needed a 'smarter' cart for a certain purpose and so needed to be connected to a lan (for monitoring of plating process data etc.) wireless might be significantly easier than making sure the wires could travel where the cart is. especially since the carts are used to carry the disks for a number of steps in the process, i.e. through a number of machines. wireless would allow the cart itself to be 'smart' and not have to rely as much on connecting to whichever big machine it is currently in to hook up to and communicate with.
i'm assuming you've never worked in manufacturing, but the machines used in most plants almost never run completely unattended. much of the time they have an operator who's job is to watch over the machine to make sure it's operating. in addition they (or someone else) is almost always responsible for taking a sample of the product after the machine has done it's duty and running it through various tests to ensure certain conditions on the parts they are creating. this helps to guarantee both that if a machine is not functioning normally, it's caught as soon as possible and second that those parts that were manufactured while the machine was misbehaving don't get sent on for further processing.
any manufacturing company worth their salt (read in business) has these measures in place, IBM being one of these.
(and yes, i work for IBM, but no longer on the manufacturing side)
while i may have 500 objects in my house that had barcodes you can be rest assured that those products are mass produced and each instance of said product does not have a unique barcode. you can also make a reasonable estimate that well over 500 other people have these products (otherwise they're probably not real profitable to manufacture or sell). to me, this means that it's not nearly as obvious (that there are more barcoded products than people) as you would have us believe. IHBT
assuming that if you had two and the chords worked between both hands, then yes you have 2^16 'keys.' if the chords don't work between hands, then you've only got 2^9 different keys. i would think it very tough to learn the chords then not to mention that using one in each hand would make it relatively tough to use another device (read mouse, pencil, phone) quickly.
unless i read your original post wrong though you were suggesting that "pop-up ads" such as those used by iVillage and AOL may slowly be being phased out. It seems to me that this is the same as the "push" concept you speak of in your second post. And while I agree that TiVo and Replay could do this more than they may (or may not -- i don't own one) already do, as soon as it intrudes on the convenience currently afforded the user, i think it will die quickly. With the limited control of a TV (through a remote control) anything even resembling to what i have to deal with internet pop-ups would quickly incur my wrath.
product placement is almost useless as an advertising mechanism. sure you watch a movie or a tv show and you may see bond using a mac or driving a bmw and you think to yourself, i want one. but look at most commercials on tv. they are not of the "see this a bmw" or "see this is a mac" variety. certainly they show the product, but they also tell what it does and almost always how much you would pay for it (or that it's on sale and such) and usually where to get it. the bmw (and other car commercials) almost always give price information or financing information (if it's a dealer commercial), mac commercials also give prices and include technical specs, commercials for other tv shows give date and times, and almost all other commercials do the same. there is no way to alter product placement to provide these things without making tv the absolute worst entertainment medium in existence (in the process making it useless for advertising).
while it's certainly not the reason for all installations, it's likely that a large percentage of those places already had Oracle on site and not SAP-DB. and it takes a lot of effort and several really good reasons for most companies to switch databases. few have a database for this and a different database for that and a yet still different database for something else.
what are the damages? there is no profit being made. the EULAs are being attributed to the original authors. maybe you don't have to show damages or harm (or likelihood thereof) of any sort to show a copyright violation, but i would certainly think it would hurt the hell out an argument for a violation.
i might very well be missing something, but how would emusic's switch from mp3 to ogg give "listeners less reason to pirate and more reason to do legit consumer purchasing?"
the detail is appreciated. i actually don't use the normal gui(s) much at all because i find them relatively clumsy. instead, i normally use clearcase through the rational clearcase plugin for eclipse though there are some occasions when using clearcase explorer is more convenient. however, both of these seem to allow you delete a file (remove name i guess, but it's called delete) and make no indication that the directory is or will be checked out. they also don't seem to make any distinction on whether the file is checked out or not, they still allow the delete of a file.
well since i have never (and don't rally plan on) using the command line tool for my work, i can't say they're difficult to use. Since I'm not using the command line tool, the differentiation between rmelem and rmname (where the second presumably makes recovery easier) doesn't really matter as i can't see any equivalent distinction anywhere in the gui(s) (and that's what 95% of all normal users will be using). as for checking out directories, no it's not so much of a problem. however, i know of noone who has 'properly' deleted a file the first time they used clearcase. that's probably not a good thing, not because it's overly difficult to do, but because it's unintuitive. and while it possibly makes sense that updating one's own view (snapshot at least) after improperly deleting a file does not retrieve the file, while other people who update their view will get it, i find it annoying.
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suppose this was used in an xbox-like device. currently you can connect 2 xboxen together for 4x4 gaming. wouldn't two ethernet controllers allow it to connection both online and to another xbox? this is certainly a very good thing.
and suprisingly difficult to use to do simple little things (deleting files, etc.) while making it nearly impossible for a normal person (read non-rational expert) to recover a file that had been deleted, but is needed once again. the problem with clearcase is that it's not only really expensive, but it almost requires an admin devoted full-time to clearcase if even a single project is using it. and it's gobs of functionality are great until you realize that 90% of projects don't need some of that stuff (especially integration with all other Rational tools which doesn't seem to work nearly as well as anyone would like) and it ends up making what they do need more complicated than it should be.
kmfdm actually stands for 'kein mehrheit für die mitleid.' kein mitleid für die mehrheit means what you said.
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i can't imagine anyone actually using the celsius to kelvin conversions on the ti, but i'd not be surprised if it gives a negative kelvin temperature if you tried to convert something less than -273.15C. i'm unconvinced that that is not the appropriate thing to do.
older thinkpads (< 600) did have some 'wierd' hardware, usually having to do with the soundcard/(win)modem and occasionally the display though most still worked as well as most other equivalent laptop options. however, thinkpads since the 600 have had much better support helped, in part, by ibms release of the mwave modem drivers. the current Txx series has few linux compatibility issues. my T21 runs flawlessy with all devices (soundcard, modem (lucent winmodem), token-ring, etc.).
while ibm is dropping official linux support, i can't see them fundamentally changing how their thinkpads are constructed and would be very surprised if their linux compatibility gets worse.
and yes, i work for ibm (did the token-ring give it away?)
So, aside from swapping your entire music collection with a buddy -- why in the world would you care if you can take the drive out and replace it?
because a number of us have (yes, properly own) well more than the 100 cds that would fill up the ~thousand song estimate. so with the toshiba, i can take the player and 2 extra drives and have almost all of my cd collection (including the ones i hate) with me.
you're correct on the acroread, but only partly on the java runtime. depending on the runtime the source *could* be included. sun is now distributing the J2SE source under the SCSL (Sun Community Source License) and it's possible it could be included. maybe not likely. and certainly not under the gpl.
see http://wwws.sun.com/software/java2/index.html for more information about the J2SE source.
A quick correction -- eclipse is NOT based off netbeans. The eclipse source was developed entirely by IBM (before release to the community). The intent of both eclipse and netbeans is the same: to provide an open development platform. However there are some differences.
1. Netbeans is 100% pure java. Eclipse is not. Rather than using swing or awt, eclipse uses a custom Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) which uses native calls to windows api/motif/gnome2.
2. Eclipse is really a framework and set of apis to allow the easy creation of plugins to provide a complete (and not necessarily java) develipment environment. As provided in it's initial release it contained most of the plugins necessary to develop the whole gamut of java applications. Several companies (e.g. Rational) have created their own plugins to provide development environments with a variety of different goals (UML modeling and development). It is my understanding that netbeans is geared specifically towards java.
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on the other hand, notes does run quite well under wine.
i can't say i've got a certain answer to your question, but here's a possible scenario (somewhat fudged) that might show wireless could have an advantage.
while the large equipment is stationary, there are certainly moving parts to it. some of these pieces are large and travel a lot (they're not rotating wheels). in hard disk manufacturing, there's a large stationary machine that picks up carts of unplated aluminum disks and sticks them into a tank of chemical solution for a time, pulls it out and sticks it into another chemical solution, and so on until the nickel plating process is complete.
while this cart doesn't really do much other than get stuck in chemicals, if one needed a 'smarter' cart for a certain purpose and so needed to be connected to a lan (for monitoring of plating process data etc.) wireless might be significantly easier than making sure the wires could travel where the cart is. especially since the carts are used to carry the disks for a number of steps in the process, i.e. through a number of machines. wireless would allow the cart itself to be 'smart' and not have to rely as much on connecting to whichever big machine it is currently in to hook up to and communicate with.
i'm assuming you've never worked in manufacturing, but the machines used in most plants almost never run completely unattended. much of the time they have an operator who's job is to watch over the machine to make sure it's operating. in addition they (or someone else) is almost always responsible for taking a sample of the product after the machine has done it's duty and running it through various tests to ensure certain conditions on the parts they are creating. this helps to guarantee both that if a machine is not functioning normally, it's caught as soon as possible and second that those parts that were manufactured while the machine was misbehaving don't get sent on for further processing.
any manufacturing company worth their salt (read in business) has these measures in place, IBM being one of these.
(and yes, i work for IBM, but no longer on the manufacturing side)
while i may have 500 objects in my house that had barcodes you can be rest assured that those products are mass produced and each instance of said product does not have a unique barcode. you can also make a reasonable estimate that well over 500 other people have these products (otherwise they're probably not real profitable to manufacture or sell). to me, this means that it's not nearly as obvious (that there are more barcoded products than people) as you would have us believe. IHBT
assuming that if you had two and the chords worked between both hands, then yes you have 2^16 'keys.' if the chords don't work between hands, then you've only got 2^9 different keys. i would think it very tough to learn the chords then not to mention that using one in each hand would make it relatively tough to use another device (read mouse, pencil, phone) quickly.
unless i read your original post wrong though you were suggesting that "pop-up ads" such as those used by iVillage and AOL may slowly be being phased out. It seems to me that this is the same as the "push" concept you speak of in your second post. And while I agree that TiVo and Replay could do this more than they may (or may not -- i don't own one) already do, as soon as it intrudes on the convenience currently afforded the user, i think it will die quickly. With the limited control of a TV (through a remote control) anything even resembling to what i have to deal with internet pop-ups would quickly incur my wrath.
product placement is almost useless as an advertising mechanism. sure you watch a movie or a tv show and you may see bond using a mac or driving a bmw and you think to yourself, i want one. but look at most commercials on tv. they are not of the "see this a bmw" or "see this is a mac" variety. certainly they show the product, but they also tell what it does and almost always how much you would pay for it (or that it's on sale and such) and usually where to get it. the bmw (and other car commercials) almost always give price information or financing information (if it's a dealer commercial), mac commercials also give prices and include technical specs, commercials for other tv shows give date and times, and almost all other commercials do the same. there is no way to alter product placement to provide these things without making tv the absolute worst entertainment medium in existence (in the process making it useless for advertising).
what part of "or" don't you understand?
BTW, I am neither the original poster, the one who replied to that poster, nor the one who replied to that reply.
while it's certainly not the reason for all installations, it's likely that a large percentage of those places already had Oracle on site and not SAP-DB. and it takes a lot of effort and several really good reasons for most companies to switch databases. few have a database for this and a different database for that and a yet still different database for something else.
pretty much everyone knows a 'cracker' is a white guy....
what are the damages? there is no profit being made. the EULAs are being attributed to the original authors. maybe you don't have to show damages or harm (or likelihood thereof) of any sort to show a copyright violation, but i would certainly think it would hurt the hell out an argument for a violation.
i might very well be missing something, but how would emusic's switch from mp3 to ogg give "listeners less reason to pirate and more reason to do legit consumer purchasing?"
the detail is appreciated. i actually don't use the normal gui(s) much at all because i find them relatively clumsy. instead, i normally use clearcase through the rational clearcase plugin for eclipse though there are some occasions when using clearcase explorer is more convenient. however, both of these seem to allow you delete a file (remove name i guess, but it's called delete) and make no indication that the directory is or will be checked out. they also don't seem to make any distinction on whether the file is checked out or not, they still allow the delete of a file.
well since i have never (and don't rally plan on) using the command line tool for my work, i can't say they're difficult to use. Since I'm not using the command line tool, the differentiation between rmelem and rmname (where the second presumably makes recovery easier) doesn't really matter as i can't see any equivalent distinction anywhere in the gui(s) (and that's what 95% of all normal users will be using). as for checking out directories, no it's not so much of a problem. however, i know of noone who has 'properly' deleted a file the first time they used clearcase. that's probably not a good thing, not because it's overly difficult to do, but because it's unintuitive. and while it possibly makes sense that updating one's own view (snapshot at least) after improperly deleting a file does not retrieve the file, while other people who update their view will get it, i find it annoying.
suppose this was used in an xbox-like device. currently you can connect 2 xboxen together for 4x4 gaming. wouldn't two ethernet controllers allow it to connection both online and to another xbox? this is certainly a very good thing.
and suprisingly difficult to use to do simple little things (deleting files, etc.) while making it nearly impossible for a normal person (read non-rational expert) to recover a file that had been deleted, but is needed once again. the problem with clearcase is that it's not only really expensive, but it almost requires an admin devoted full-time to clearcase if even a single project is using it. and it's gobs of functionality are great until you realize that 90% of projects don't need some of that stuff (especially integration with all other Rational tools which doesn't seem to work nearly as well as anyone would like) and it ends up making what they do need more complicated than it should be.
kmfdm actually stands for 'kein mehrheit für die mitleid.' kein mitleid für die mehrheit means what you said.
i can't imagine anyone actually using the celsius to kelvin conversions on the ti, but i'd not be surprised if it gives a negative kelvin temperature if you tried to convert something less than -273.15C. i'm unconvinced that that is not the appropriate thing to do.
> Probably something to do with feeling insecure in their skills and knowledge.
it's the opposite -- we think we know more than we do
ibm support(ed) 4 distros: redhat, turbolinux, suse, and caldera
their main focus tends to be redhat...
and that should have said...
older thinkpads (< 600) did have some 'wierd' hardware, usually having to do with the soundcard/(win)modem and occasionally the display though most still worked as well as most other equivalent laptop options. however, thinkpads since the 600 have had much better support helped, in part, by ibms release of the mwave modem drivers. the current Txx series has few linux compatibility issues. my T21 runs flawlessy with all devices (soundcard, modem (lucent winmodem), token-ring, etc.).
while ibm is dropping official linux support, i can't see them fundamentally changing how their thinkpads are constructed and would be very surprised if their linux compatibility gets worse.
and yes, i work for ibm (did the token-ring give it away?)
older thinkpads (
and yes, i work for ibm (did the token-ring give it away?)
because a number of us have (yes, properly own) well more than the 100 cds that would fill up the ~thousand song estimate. so with the toshiba, i can take the player and 2 extra drives and have almost all of my cd collection (including the ones i hate) with me.
you're correct on the acroread, but only partly on the java runtime. depending on the runtime the source *could* be included. sun is now distributing the J2SE source under the SCSL (Sun Community Source License) and it's possible it could be included. maybe not likely. and certainly not under the gpl.
see http://wwws.sun.com/software/java2/index.html for more information about the J2SE source.
A quick correction -- eclipse is NOT based off netbeans. The eclipse source was developed entirely by IBM (before release to the community). The intent of both eclipse and netbeans is the same: to provide an open development platform. However there are some differences.
1. Netbeans is 100% pure java. Eclipse is not. Rather than using swing or awt, eclipse uses a custom Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) which uses native calls to windows api/motif/gnome2.
2. Eclipse is really a framework and set of apis to allow the easy creation of plugins to provide a complete (and not necessarily java) develipment environment. As provided in it's initial release it contained most of the plugins necessary to develop the whole gamut of java applications. Several companies (e.g. Rational) have created their own plugins to provide development environments with a variety of different goals (UML modeling and development). It is my understanding that netbeans is geared specifically towards java.