Nope. Hell, they don't even make sure the offshore offices aren't staffed with crooks. Sure, they have access to your credit history and medical records, but why worry?
Sure, that's what happened with OS/2. Why not use Win32s apps, once that was supported? Even once OS/2 had a Windows-ish API layer and even a registry it could use, why bother? The market just wasn't there. Any OS that becomes a "humorous way to run Windows applications" (Gates talking about OS/2) is dead to major ISVs in short order. Apple need to avoid that perception at all costs.
Now, not everyone is going to remeber Usenet in its heyday, but having a good faq maintained by a moderator or long-time contributors posted once a month, plus discussions worked well. Once dejanews (the archive Google ended up with) came along, it made it even easier to search. Nice combination of reference and discussion. Just as many crazies, but kill filters took care of those for you. And it's far easier to make sure you avoid seeing nothing but amazon front stores, price comparison sites, etc. when doing a search through Usenet than on the web in general.
Is it a reference? Not exactly. But it grew over time, changed, etc. Wikipedia will as well, but it launched as something grandiose, with a certain "Pay attention to me!" tone. Wikis are great - but need some sort of focus.
Yeah, because Consumer's Union is just a tool, right? They don't really cosy up to anyone. Whether or not you agree with their ratings, you've got to admit they'll take a bat to pretty much anyone. Only after figuring out which bat gives you the best value for the money, of course.
The thing is that those of us with Pentium M notebooks were already getting 4 to 6 hours of battery, depending on power settings (and whether wireless was on), and we've been doing that for years. So for those of us who were already using Centrino-based notebooks (I'm specifying because it implies things like power control for the wireless ethernet adapter, we might actually see a drop in battery life.
Microsoft needs Firefox, etc. to run on Vista. Why? They don't want to delay Vista adoption the way Windows 2000 and Windows XP adoption was delayed in various companies, schools, etc. One way to do that is to make sure that popular applications run on it. Firefox is just one, and a somewhat minor one. Think about Autocad, SPSS, Photoshop, ArcGIS etc. These are applications that people and organizations really depend on. They want to remove barriers to adoption, make no mistake about it.
Actually, the bigger problem at a lot of sites are splits between corporate divisions or departments on different platforms (or even within IT groups). Novell vs. Microsoft, Unix (Solaris, AIX, whatever) vs. Linux, Windows vs. Linux, whatever. It's dumb, and it wastes time and money. You use the right tool for the job. Your app will work with MS SQL, and you don't need Oracle? Fine, you just saved yourself a panel truck worth of money. Something else is easier to do on Linux? Great, use that.
1) On the way into the room check for plastic sheeting on the floor 2) Look for obvious signs of a trap door 3) Don't eat or drink anything 4) Don't sign anything 5) Arrange to be deprogrammed after leaving Redmond.
Yup - there's also a "salvage" feature on Novell's traditional Netware and NSS file systems. The nice thing? You can also (as an end user) *purge* your files, just as you can do a $ delete filename.ext;1 (or delete/erase if you're so inclined:) on an OpenVMS (current vintage) or VAX/VMS (original flavor) system to get rid of a specific version, or $ purge/erase filename.ext to get rid of all but the newest file. $ purge/keep=2 filename.ext would keep two versions of the file, etc.
At work, where our primary file storage is a Netware 6.5 cluster, we rarely have to go to backups when users blow away files -- they can usually salvage them on their own with no intervention from IT. And if you really need to purge something, you can purge it just as easily. Of course, the backups go back a bit, but nothing's perfect.
The labels treat downloads the same as a CD, although the cost is lower. They still take out the production costs, etc. that they would for physical media. The price is also lower, so artists lose.
However, on the other end, they claim that we're LICENSING the music, not buying it. So we have no right of first purchase, etc. No fair use, no transfering to other media, etc. If the labels treated it as licensing on the artists' end as well, the artists would make more money, like they do for a song used for a TV show theme, commercial, etc. The labels are putting digital sales in one category when dealing with artists, and another when dealing with consumers.
Well, you've got another big advantage over Houston - New Orleans isn't in Texas, which many outside of Texas see as a big plus. And the area right around Houston has terrible air quality problems.
the FCC may not have the right to make the rule. Frankly, it's not clear that they can ask a private or public school to put specific technology in place as part of their oversight on the phone system.
Now, on the other hand, Congress could withhold funding unless we do it, but that's a different story.
Libraries have to turn info over if asked, but they're not required to keep the records. Many don't keep past borrowing history, just who has what now.
It will help us identify the superior output of our Future Robot Overlords more easily. It's only fitting that we puny humans would need a computer to help us comprehend their genius.
This Register article has series of links documenting the early stages of the forthcoming overthrow of mankind:
They could probably mandate the signs and they have some authority over the operation of businesses, but if the place is offering free WiFi on (all together now) "unregulated spectrum", they can't do much about it. If your landlord, University, airport operator, etc. can't prevent someone from setting this up or doing it in a particular way, why the hell should Westchester? And, btw, the law doesn't just cover 802.11a/b/g - it would cover using a GSM/Edge/CDMA/whatever-based data service, the way I read it. It just refers to any company offering "wireless internet" as doing business in Westchester, and merely hooking up to the "internet" without cables as "wireless internet". Seems like that would cover Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T/Cingular, etc.
The bigger issue for Oracle isn't Linux, it's Novell's Identity Manager product - it's the best in the market. Oracle has been buying a lot of companies in the space, so they have 3 (or is it 4?) products, none integrated, with no clear future direction for folks buying a product.
Oracle has been going to a lot of trouble to shove Novell's IDM out of shops by pressuring sites to switch to their identity management product lately.
Of course, this could just be "Crazy Larry" trying to get IBM to blow a lot of cash buying Novell to prevent Oracle from controlling the intellectual property at issue in the SCO case.
So, Sony's going to start making DSLRs (since Konica Minotla is transferring it's camera business to them), and stop making robot dogs. I'd almost think they're trying to figure out what people actually like to buy.
Yup. Personally, I have a Dimage 7D DSLR, a Z5, and for film Maxxum/Dynax 7 and a Maxxum/Dynax 5. I'm happy as hell with them. My Maxxum 7 autofocuses faster than almost anything out there, and it's a nearly 6-year-old model. The 7D is a terrific camera. A friend of mine with a Nikon D200 even likes it:)
One question I have is the film scanners - the Dimage Elite 5400 II is really one of the better units on the market, and it's really not very expensive.
Frankly, the Linux community ought to pick one, focus on it, and actually make sure it functions (in terms of application interoperatbility, data exchange, etc) as well as other desktop OSes out there. The interface community seems to get bogged down in "well, ours is just better because it's our project". "Average" end users don't want to support more than one, and neither will enterprise support folks. Sure, have half a dozen, but they're likely to be enthusiast and/or hobbyist interfaces. No problem. But there is a point where a fractured effort leads to a lot of duplication and slows development.
As a side note, the bouncing pointer #*(@) in KDE really bugs the hell out of me. Of course, most of my Linux systems are servers set for runlevel 3, so honestly, I don't care what it came with.
The really interesting thing is the Mac stats that we're seeing -- 3%, 4%, etc. Makes me wonder if the Mac market share is really growing, or if there's been a bubble of existing customers replacing older machines. Certainly, the iPod isn't driving some huge increase in Mac users - unless they have a population that only uses their Mac to go to the iTunes site.
Yeah, but IBM's been doing it for years, and the Thinkpads are still built better (without really costing more for corporate and edu). Thinkpads just work. The only other company putting as much thought into Intel-based laptops is probably Sony, and they don't really have support for enterprise customers.
I think he ought to take a cue from the Python crowd and rework them as musicals. After all, they're only slightly less pretentious than your average Andrew Lloyd Weber schlockfest.
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Nope. Hell, they don't even make sure the offshore offices aren't staffed with crooks. Sure, they have access to your credit history and medical records, but why worry?
Sure, that's what happened with OS/2. Why not use Win32s apps, once that was supported? Even once OS/2 had a Windows-ish API layer and even a registry it could use, why bother? The market just wasn't there. Any OS that becomes a "humorous way to run Windows applications" (Gates talking about OS/2) is dead to major ISVs in short order. Apple need to avoid that perception at all costs.
Is it a reference? Not exactly. But it grew over time, changed, etc. Wikipedia will as well, but it launched as something grandiose, with a certain "Pay attention to me!" tone. Wikis are great - but need some sort of focus.
Yeah, because Consumer's Union is just a tool, right? They don't really cosy up to anyone. Whether or not you agree with their ratings, you've got to admit they'll take a bat to pretty much anyone. Only after figuring out which bat gives you the best value for the money, of course.
The thing is that those of us with Pentium M notebooks were already getting 4 to 6 hours of battery, depending on power settings (and whether wireless was on), and we've been doing that for years. So for those of us who were already using Centrino-based notebooks (I'm specifying because it implies things like power control for the wireless ethernet adapter, we might actually see a drop in battery life.
Microsoft needs Firefox, etc. to run on Vista. Why? They don't want to delay Vista adoption the way Windows 2000 and Windows XP adoption was delayed in various companies, schools, etc. One way to do that is to make sure that popular applications run on it. Firefox is just one, and a somewhat minor one. Think about Autocad, SPSS, Photoshop, ArcGIS etc. These are applications that people and organizations really depend on. They want to remove barriers to adoption, make no mistake about it.
Actually, the bigger problem at a lot of sites are splits between corporate divisions or departments on different platforms (or even within IT groups). Novell vs. Microsoft, Unix (Solaris, AIX, whatever) vs. Linux, Windows vs. Linux, whatever. It's dumb, and it wastes time and money. You use the right tool for the job. Your app will work with MS SQL, and you don't need Oracle? Fine, you just saved yourself a panel truck worth of money. Something else is easier to do on Linux? Great, use that.
1) On the way into the room check for plastic sheeting on the floor
2) Look for obvious signs of a trap door
3) Don't eat or drink anything
4) Don't sign anything
5) Arrange to be deprogrammed after leaving Redmond.
At work, where our primary file storage is a Netware 6.5 cluster, we rarely have to go to backups when users blow away files -- they can usually salvage them on their own with no intervention from IT. And if you really need to purge something, you can purge it just as easily. Of course, the backups go back a bit, but nothing's perfect.
So we're not going to have to worry about alien invasions, we're going to invent the Autons ourselves . . .
However, on the other end, they claim that we're LICENSING the music, not buying it. So we have no right of first purchase, etc. No fair use, no transfering to other media, etc. If the labels treated it as licensing on the artists' end as well, the artists would make more money, like they do for a song used for a TV show theme, commercial, etc. The labels are putting digital sales in one category when dealing with artists, and another when dealing with consumers.
A lot of buildings in downtown Toronto are being cooled by lake (bottom) water now, aren't they?
Well, you've got another big advantage over Houston - New Orleans isn't in Texas, which many outside of Texas see as a big plus. And the area right around Houston has terrible air quality problems.
Now, on the other hand, Congress could withhold funding unless we do it, but that's a different story.
Libraries have to turn info over if asked, but they're not required to keep the records. Many don't keep past borrowing history, just who has what now.
This Register article has series of links documenting the early stages of the forthcoming overthrow of mankind:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/25/bendy_bus_ attack/
They could probably mandate the signs and they have some authority over the operation of businesses, but if the place is offering free WiFi on (all together now) "unregulated spectrum", they can't do much about it. If your landlord, University, airport operator, etc. can't prevent someone from setting this up or doing it in a particular way, why the hell should Westchester? And, btw, the law doesn't just cover 802.11a/b/g - it would cover using a GSM/Edge/CDMA/whatever-based data service, the way I read it. It just refers to any company offering "wireless internet" as doing business in Westchester, and merely hooking up to the "internet" without cables as "wireless internet". Seems like that would cover Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T/Cingular, etc.
Oracle has been going to a lot of trouble to shove Novell's IDM out of shops by pressuring sites to switch to their identity management product lately.
Of course, this could just be "Crazy Larry" trying to get IBM to blow a lot of cash buying Novell to prevent Oracle from controlling the intellectual property at issue in the SCO case.
So, Sony's going to start making DSLRs (since Konica Minotla is transferring it's camera business to them), and stop making robot dogs. I'd almost think they're trying to figure out what people actually like to buy.
One question I have is the film scanners - the Dimage Elite 5400 II is really one of the better units on the market, and it's really not very expensive.
http://www.gophila.com/go/ben/
As a side note, the bouncing pointer #*(@) in KDE really bugs the hell out of me. Of course, most of my Linux systems are servers set for runlevel 3, so honestly, I don't care what it came with.
The really interesting thing is the Mac stats that we're seeing -- 3%, 4%, etc. Makes me wonder if the Mac market share is really growing, or if there's been a bubble of existing customers replacing older machines. Certainly, the iPod isn't driving some huge increase in Mac users - unless they have a population that only uses their Mac to go to the iTunes site.
Yeah, but IBM's been doing it for years, and the Thinkpads are still built better (without really costing more for corporate and edu). Thinkpads just work. The only other company putting as much thought into Intel-based laptops is probably Sony, and they don't really have support for enterprise customers.
I think he ought to take a cue from the Python crowd and rework them as musicals. After all, they're only slightly less pretentious than your average Andrew Lloyd Weber schlockfest.