There's a big difference between 'having all the data in computers' and 'having all the data in computers with systems that can actually talk to one another.'
If your accounting system, order tracking system, warehouse system, and shipping system can't trade data easily, you can't use the data together very well, can you? And things like data warehouses are big big big expenses in both time, money and expertise.
Repeat after me:
Distributing books is the concept of keeping a large store of books somewhere in the central US, or keeping several 'satellite' warehouses with smaller supply, but faster time to destination, or keeping very little stock on hand and trying to do JIT from publisher warehouses.
Shipping and delivery of books is the business of Federal Express.
Selling books and arranging for shipping and delivery from distribution points to customer is the business of Amazon.com
My playstation crashes. My Super Nintendo crashes. My NES crashed. My Linux box crashes. My windows box crashes. My ACD system running on os/2 warp crashes. Christ, I've had my DD reciever crash on days with lots of static electricity kicking around.
Actually, most comprimises are done by an employee.
Besides, the only box you have public should be your firewall/gateway, and it should be proxying connections to anything you actually need to be public, right?
System security covers just that; systems. Not software.
Do your users know what to do if somebody claiming to be 'Bob from IT' calls up asking for a password?
Could a nice looking person in a suit, with a laptop, stroll into your office, sit at an unused cubicle, claiming to be a consultant, and plug into a live network drop?
Do developers or other non-IT people have the ability to put up live systems, say, for development work, testing, or just because they happen to know where they can find a network drop with external access is?
Do you have a disaster recovery plan? A hacker or an earthquake will destroy your data all the same.
In a similar vein, what sort of locks are on your electrical closet?
Can some idiot with a Linux boot floppy with a whack of filesystem drivers get to any machine with data on it?
Go read up on the "Orange Book" computer security rating system. Honestly, software is the least of your worries.
No, he's right. Palmtop computers are unnecessary.
However, the Palm is NOT a palmtop computer. It's expressly designed not to BE a palmtop computer. It's designed to be a mobile extention of your desktop. Data retrieval and access, not data entry.
And as to all the posts saying that the Wince devices can do all and sundry, well, I prefer the UNIX way; several small bits, each doing one thing, and doing it well. I want to listen to MP3s, I have an MP3 player. Want to watch DVDs, I have a portable DVD player. Want to call somebody, I have a cell phone. Guess what; if one breaks, the others all still work. Useful, that.
I'm surprised that you admit to being a programmer for CTP; it was bad. I bought it, played it for twenty minutes, then put it back in the box and hid it. I was too ashamed to even take it back to the store.
"Phalanxes with Hypnosis powers causing sleepy pilots to crash jets" indeed.
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It is designed to create a *negative* first impression of the GPL.
Why do you think that so many of the more successful 'open' apps use variants of the BSD license?
Can't speak as to veracity or not, but one interview with the Shrek people said that they were going for a cartoony look; they had, at one point, the princess looking quite life like, but that wasn't the style they were going for.
Your Honor, my client could never have commited the murders of which he is accused. My client is a peaceful man. He loves families and children, like, for example, your children, who currently go to school at 123 Maple Street....
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, as you know, I cannot legally offer you large cash kickbacks in exchange for finding my client innocent. However, I'd like you all to take a moment to address the stamped, sealed envelopes to yourselves....
And, arguably, Christianity is a fictional way of life from a 2000 year old set of scrolls written by some people who had a real fondness for mushrooms and wine. What's your point?
In other words, prove to me that Jesus was ressurected, and I'll prove to you that these aren't the droids you're looking for.
Lordy God, you know people are getting jaded when they think Ethernet switches are a foregone conclusion.
Knowing how to set up a network to reduce collisions, are knowing what a bus topology reeeeealy dates you these days.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000plat form/sp/sp2/nt5/en-us/w2ksp2.exe
But the Windows 2000 Service Pack page hasn't been updated yet.
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Ok, lets take a look at Windows. People don't want HTML rendering engines and stuff built in.
Fine, so you take out high-level network stuff. What about low-level? Remember the days of Trumpet Winsock, and how you needed third party software to even get onto the Internet? Ok, so we take that out, because it's unfair bundling.
What about device drivers? Remember the old days in DOS when you'd install a game, and you'd pick your soundcard and video card from a list? Gravis Ultrasound Max, Sound Blaster Pro or compatible, ATI, S3, Trident, all that?
What about windowing environments? In the PC world, they started out as third party addons for DOS; Desqview and the like. So out they go.
What about memory management? Quarterdeck got pretty pissed when EMM386 got bundled in with DOS.
Hell, what about filesystems? Do you honestly think Sun's incapable of making a filesystem worth having? Of course not. But Veritas would get pretty pissed.
Operating systems are including more and more stuff as time goes on, and I, for one, think it's a good thing. I like the fact that I don't have to tweak TSRs and IRQs in Windows the way I had to in DOS. I like the idea of buying a network card and having it work with the OS, and not needing to get a third party TCP/IP stack. I like the idea of software being able to say 'Requires DirectX 7' and that being the end of it.
Nice try, but no. Nietzchieans consider the most important thing in life to be passing on their genes through procreation; the coveted title of 'Husband and Father.' They also regard self-preservation as very important.
Trueborn Clanspeople, on the other hand, regard the idea of sexual procreation as disgusting. Also, they generally put Clan success over self-preservation.
And Keith Hamilton Cobb (I think I got those names in the right order) who plays the very intriguing Tyr Anasasi played Noah on the daytime soap All My Children, best known for always speaking in third person ("Hey, Noah don't need your help!") and banging Julia, who was literally, both in height and weight, half his size.
The other problem being that if the Fat32 test was run under Linux as well, all it's showing is how good the Linux driver is, not the filesystem itself.
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There's a big difference between 'having all the data in computers' and 'having all the data in computers with systems that can actually talk to one another.' If your accounting system, order tracking system, warehouse system, and shipping system can't trade data easily, you can't use the data together very well, can you? And things like data warehouses are big big big expenses in both time, money and expertise.
Repeat after me: Distributing books is the concept of keeping a large store of books somewhere in the central US, or keeping several 'satellite' warehouses with smaller supply, but faster time to destination, or keeping very little stock on hand and trying to do JIT from publisher warehouses. Shipping and delivery of books is the business of Federal Express. Selling books and arranging for shipping and delivery from distribution points to customer is the business of Amazon.com
My playstation crashes. My Super Nintendo crashes. My NES crashed. My Linux box crashes. My windows box crashes. My ACD system running on os/2 warp crashes. Christ, I've had my DD reciever crash on days with lots of static electricity kicking around.
System security covers just that; systems. Not software. Do your users know what to do if somebody claiming to be 'Bob from IT' calls up asking for a password? Could a nice looking person in a suit, with a laptop, stroll into your office, sit at an unused cubicle, claiming to be a consultant, and plug into a live network drop? Do developers or other non-IT people have the ability to put up live systems, say, for development work, testing, or just because they happen to know where they can find a network drop with external access is? Do you have a disaster recovery plan? A hacker or an earthquake will destroy your data all the same. In a similar vein, what sort of locks are on your electrical closet? Can some idiot with a Linux boot floppy with a whack of filesystem drivers get to any machine with data on it? Go read up on the "Orange Book" computer security rating system. Honestly, software is the least of your worries.
No, he's right. Palmtop computers are unnecessary. However, the Palm is NOT a palmtop computer. It's expressly designed not to BE a palmtop computer. It's designed to be a mobile extention of your desktop. Data retrieval and access, not data entry. And as to all the posts saying that the Wince devices can do all and sundry, well, I prefer the UNIX way; several small bits, each doing one thing, and doing it well. I want to listen to MP3s, I have an MP3 player. Want to watch DVDs, I have a portable DVD player. Want to call somebody, I have a cell phone. Guess what; if one breaks, the others all still work. Useful, that.
I'm surprised that you admit to being a programmer for CTP; it was bad. I bought it, played it for twenty minutes, then put it back in the box and hid it. I was too ashamed to even take it back to the store. "Phalanxes with Hypnosis powers causing sleepy pilots to crash jets" indeed.
Can't speak as to veracity or not, but one interview with the Shrek people said that they were going for a cartoony look; they had, at one point, the princess looking quite life like, but that wasn't the style they were going for.
..that saying 'all your base are belong to us' is illegal under the law mentioned in the article above?
Your Honor, my client could never have commited the murders of which he is accused. My client is a peaceful man. He loves families and children, like, for example, your children, who currently go to school at 123 Maple Street.... Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, as you know, I cannot legally offer you large cash kickbacks in exchange for finding my client innocent. However, I'd like you all to take a moment to address the stamped, sealed envelopes to yourselves....
And, arguably, Christianity is a fictional way of life from a 2000 year old set of scrolls written by some people who had a real fondness for mushrooms and wine. What's your point? In other words, prove to me that Jesus was ressurected, and I'll prove to you that these aren't the droids you're looking for.
Oooh good idea. I know what I'm coding up tomorrow.
Lordy God, you know people are getting jaded when they think Ethernet switches are a foregone conclusion. Knowing how to set up a network to reduce collisions, are knowing what a bus topology reeeeealy dates you these days.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000plat form/sp/sp2/nt5/en-us/w2ksp2.exe
But the Windows 2000 Service Pack page hasn't been updated yet.
Also available at http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=9896 09341
Ok, lets take a look at Windows. People don't want HTML rendering engines and stuff built in. Fine, so you take out high-level network stuff. What about low-level? Remember the days of Trumpet Winsock, and how you needed third party software to even get onto the Internet? Ok, so we take that out, because it's unfair bundling. What about device drivers? Remember the old days in DOS when you'd install a game, and you'd pick your soundcard and video card from a list? Gravis Ultrasound Max, Sound Blaster Pro or compatible, ATI, S3, Trident, all that? What about windowing environments? In the PC world, they started out as third party addons for DOS; Desqview and the like. So out they go. What about memory management? Quarterdeck got pretty pissed when EMM386 got bundled in with DOS. Hell, what about filesystems? Do you honestly think Sun's incapable of making a filesystem worth having? Of course not. But Veritas would get pretty pissed. Operating systems are including more and more stuff as time goes on, and I, for one, think it's a good thing. I like the fact that I don't have to tweak TSRs and IRQs in Windows the way I had to in DOS. I like the idea of buying a network card and having it work with the OS, and not needing to get a third party TCP/IP stack. I like the idea of software being able to say 'Requires DirectX 7' and that being the end of it.
Nice try, but no. Nietzchieans consider the most important thing in life to be passing on their genes through procreation; the coveted title of 'Husband and Father.' They also regard self-preservation as very important. Trueborn Clanspeople, on the other hand, regard the idea of sexual procreation as disgusting. Also, they generally put Clan success over self-preservation.
And Keith Hamilton Cobb (I think I got those names in the right order) who plays the very intriguing Tyr Anasasi played Noah on the daytime soap All My Children, best known for always speaking in third person ("Hey, Noah don't need your help!") and banging Julia, who was literally, both in height and weight, half his size.
Ah, but don't forget, this series is set before Starfleet and the UFP even exist....think more or less right after First Contact.
Behold the link! http://www.shockwave.org/~mdb/ql-archive/dos-aqc/L EAPTREK/
It's an allusion to Quantum Leap, also staring Scott Bakula. Kids today....
Read the anonymous post above; it's good.
That's like saying the VMS operating system owns x86 server markets, because Windows NT is VMS at it's core.
The other problem being that if the Fat32 test was run under Linux as well, all it's showing is how good the Linux driver is, not the filesystem itself.