No problem, just submit your source to Microsoft for an audit with a check for 20 mil and we'll see what we can do...
Standard Microsoft Response: "We appreciate your submission, but we are sorry to announce that your software did not meet our criteria to run on the Palladium system. We however will be releasing a similar product in the near future. Stay tuned for release information in the coming months."
What if there were life forms on the sun? Or in the milky way. Maybe we, or anything else on earth could not exist in those regions but who's to say something else can't?
Scientists were suprised when they found life in the hot vents on the sea floor because they thought it was too hot for anything to survive there, yet there was something there. Humans couldn't survive there, but we were never designed to live there. If an organism was native there they would be formed in such a way to be able to withstand what it takes to live there. If they tried to come here maybe they'd die immediatly from something that makes the earth inhospitable to them.
Also organisms can adapt, and they might be able to adapt way beyond what we have witnessed thus far.
could be used to do an entire PPT work alike that would make PPT look like crap
I could create a presenation out of ASCII art that would make PPT look like crap. And I can't do ASCII art!:) Powerpoint makes the most unprofessional presentations I have ever seen!
My guess would be is that if you replaced the MS Office icon with an Open Office icon
Don't modify the shortcut, just change it's location. You can tell them it's MS Office 2003!
Seriously, if you change the name of Open Office to Microsoft Office people would have no fears about using it! Office 2000 is different from Office 97, yet no one that I know of had any qualms about upgrading. It's all about perception and fear of the unknown.
My mom has that Celine Dion CD, so I thought I'd give'r a whirl. It's not copy protected. What is the point of making only some of them protected? It seems like it is only making it harder for the casual user to use their own CD and the pirates get their music as they did before. It's the worst of both worlds.
Of course who would want to download Celine Dion anyway, right? In my opinion, Celine Dion has almost no talent, she can't sing, and she doesn't even write her own songs. But anyway, to each their own...
When we heard about BMW's telematics vision, we knew the exceptional quality in Microsoft technology would fit hand-in-hand," said Bob McKenzie, general manager of Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit.
I don't think a medical anaolgy is valid when it comes to stuff like this.
If someone wanted to learn how to program all they need is a computer and some software. Hack away at some code until you understand what you are doing and then you're all set.
However if someone wanted to learn how to do an operation on a human, first they'd have to find someone willing to risk their life so they could practise on them. Then they'd also have to have all the equipment needed to. So you start hacking away at your patient, and you screw up, it's too late. If you screw up a program, so what? It's not going to do anything (note: I'm not talking about professional apps, I'm talking just learning code).
I believe a fully compentent doctor could be self taught, but since the facilities are inaccessable without an education, we aren't going to be seeing many of them any time soon.
The fact of the matter is that people like books. Sure, I can read the entire PHP manual online, but there's just something comforting about having a big volume open in front of me.
I hate books and will read the digital equivalent where ever possible. Actaully I don't remember the last book I've read, I do know it back in my high school days! I do however read quite a bit of stuff off the Internet.
A friend of mine had one of those cameras. We hooked it up to his R/C car and drove it around with video. All we did to get was get one of those battery pack things that can be found at radio shack and hooked it up to the camera. It worked great. It may have been 8AA battries, I'm not sure now, but it's simple math to figure out what you need.
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I meant the functions of Slashdot itself on slashdot.org. Sure Slashcode is avaliable, but you only have access to your own data, not Slashdot's.
The only way right now to do what I proposed for a Slashdot application is to parse out all the HTML. This is a tedious task and will break as soon as something in the HTML page changes.
Web services are nothing new, RPC, Corba, it's all been done before. It doesn't have to be done in SOAP, but that seems to be the standard they want to push. But this is the first time I've ever seen remote functions avaliable to the general public and that right there is the value of it.
Not necessarily. You could have the file system so it can be accessed "the old fasioned way". And programs that support the new features will be able to take advantage of them as well.
For example: The file system has all the usual info about an MP3 and when a legacy application wants to read a file from it it can generate a filename on the fly like: <artist>-<song>.mp3 or whatever. And directories could also be created on the fly for/artist/album, etc.
Personally I don't see any advantages of a music filesystem over a regular file system, but I think the idea is an interesting one. Maybe there are other applications out there that would benifit with a unique file system, but instead are using a kludge on a regular file system. What if music was stored in a CDDA format allowing a simple copying of the data to a CD when you want to create a CD of your music? What if your regular file system was steganographed on top of your music collection? Twice the space for half the price!
We must not let our old ideals stifle innovation. Backwards compatability can usually be achived and a new format might have added benifits that have not even been explored yet.
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Web services is not a way to build applications which are never intended to be accessed by other applications directly.
While this is true, if you built your websites on top of web services then the web services could still be availble to all. This would allow your program (ie the program that creates your website on the fly), as well as anyone elses program to access the data. We need to think beyond formatting web pages. A lot of the information out there would be useful to machines. Why not let them have an easy way to obtain the data?
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I can think of many things I'd love to see exposed via web services (or another RPC type protocol).
What if all the functions of Slashdot were avaliable via SOAP? Then anyone could easily write a Slashdot application that looks more like a news reader, or whatever you want. The value of such a program is debatable, but at least it would be an option. How about weather information, traffic reports, interest rates, currency exchange rates, etc.
Interest rates and exchange rates are an excellent example of how web services could be used. If you are writing a financial application you could then always have up to date rates which would require no human input. Then a web service call could then be made to a bank to make the transaction. All automated from a single program. No human interaction needed.
Web services make perfect sense when someone has information that can be useful to someone else that would otherwise not be avaliable. It allows people to build applications that would not be otherwise possible due to lack of information. It gives computers access to the vast knowledge of the internet instead of just humans.
Of course if no one creates any useful web services then all of this technology will go to waste.
There is no hope. Evil reins when it comes to operating systems. There's Atheos, the FreeBSD devil, Darwin, as mentioned in the article, and Microsoft Windows.
While I can't pay attention to the monkey for an hour, I can easily lose track of time trying to work out a problem on my own.
I'm the same way. In school I'd always find myself learning something other than what was being taught. Math class was the worst since I had a calculator to play with. I'd figure out math calculations before we were even taught them by just playing with my calculator.
Unfortunately that meant not learning what was being taught.
I enjoy getting out on the snowmobile in the winter and fourwheeler in the summer. They don't give you the exercise level many other activities will give you, but it at least gets you out doors and seeing nature while having a blast and you would be suprised how much exercise you do actually get.
Both are very cost prohibitive though. You're looking into just under $10,000 (and even above) for a fourwheeler or a snowmobile. And that doesn't even include all the other stuff you need.
And the farmers will go home at night and work on the source code.
Sounds like a plan to me. I am considering actually taking up farming as my career. I grew up on a farm so I know all the ins and outs of farming. Right now I work in the tech industry, but I really don't see that it is for me, not long term anyway. I enjoy programming though and even if I was a farmer I would probably keep it up as a hobby.
It seems Microsoft is trying to make farming out as a bad thing. Lets not forget that farming is actually useful. We don't need a company supplying software! But we need food.
A Gnutella like network could be setup to search for computers that are a local call to where you are trying to call. Once you have found a host, it will take care of the land line communication and the rest will happen via the internet. Should the call happen to be dialing someone who is already on the network then they wouldn't even need to hit a land line connection.
This could already be done (albeit crudely) with existing hardware like voice modems and sound cards. Would be a neat project anyway...
You have to be relatively close to a central office to obtain adequate DSL service.
Non-sense I have DSL out in the middle of nowhere*, and by nowhere I mean on a farm, miles away from civilization. My ISP/Telco's central office has got to be at least 20 miles away. I don't know what they are doing differently from any other telco, but it can be done!
* that's 1.5Mbps down, 128Kbps up although talked to them about getting 8Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up and they said that would be no problem either.
They can sue until the cows come home, but that won't necessarily stop the development of Samba. The current developers might not continue to work on it, but what's to stop someone else from taking the riens? There is one reason for Microsoft's fear of the GPL.
There isn't much they can do once the code is out there. Much like the DeCSS code. The code was released and the MPAA took efforts to stop the distribution of it, but it really didn't stop it.
Slashdot Mirror
Standard Microsoft Response: "We appreciate your submission, but we are sorry to announce that your software did not meet our criteria to run on the Palladium system. We however will be releasing a similar product in the near future. Stay tuned for release information in the coming months."
What if there were life forms on the sun? Or in the milky way. Maybe we, or anything else on earth could not exist in those regions but who's to say something else can't?
Scientists were suprised when they found life in the hot vents on the sea floor because they thought it was too hot for anything to survive there, yet there was something there. Humans couldn't survive there, but we were never designed to live there. If an organism was native there they would be formed in such a way to be able to withstand what it takes to live there. If they tried to come here maybe they'd die immediatly from something that makes the earth inhospitable to them.
Also organisms can adapt, and they might be able to adapt way beyond what we have witnessed thus far.
could be used to do an entire PPT work alike that would make PPT look like crap
:) Powerpoint makes the most unprofessional presentations I have ever seen!
I could create a presenation out of ASCII art that would make PPT look like crap. And I can't do ASCII art!
My guess would be is that if you replaced the MS Office icon with an Open Office icon
Don't modify the shortcut, just change it's location. You can tell them it's MS Office 2003!
Seriously, if you change the name of Open Office to Microsoft Office people would have no fears about using it! Office 2000 is different from Office 97, yet no one that I know of had any qualms about upgrading. It's all about perception and fear of the unknown.
My mom has that Celine Dion CD, so I thought I'd give'r a whirl. It's not copy protected. What is the point of making only some of them protected? It seems like it is only making it harder for the casual user to use their own CD and the pirates get their music as they did before. It's the worst of both worlds.
Of course who would want to download Celine Dion anyway, right? In my opinion, Celine Dion has almost no talent, she can't sing, and she doesn't even write her own songs. But anyway, to each their own...
From: http://www.microsoft.com/insider/bmw7series.htm
I don't think a medical anaolgy is valid when it comes to stuff like this.
If someone wanted to learn how to program all they need is a computer and some software. Hack away at some code until you understand what you are doing and then you're all set.
However if someone wanted to learn how to do an operation on a human, first they'd have to find someone willing to risk their life so they could practise on them. Then they'd also have to have all the equipment needed to. So you start hacking away at your patient, and you screw up, it's too late. If you screw up a program, so what? It's not going to do anything (note: I'm not talking about professional apps, I'm talking just learning code).
I believe a fully compentent doctor could be self taught, but since the facilities are inaccessable without an education, we aren't going to be seeing many of them any time soon.
But there is a C/C++ interpreter.
The fact of the matter is that people like books. Sure, I can read the entire PHP manual online, but there's just something comforting about having a big volume open in front of me.
I hate books and will read the digital equivalent where ever possible. Actaully I don't remember the last book I've read, I do know it back in my high school days! I do however read quite a bit of stuff off the Internet.
A friend of mine had one of those cameras. We hooked it up to his R/C car and drove it around with video. All we did to get was get one of those battery pack things that can be found at radio shack and hooked it up to the camera. It worked great. It may have been 8AA battries, I'm not sure now, but it's simple math to figure out what you need.
I meant the functions of Slashdot itself on slashdot.org. Sure Slashcode is avaliable, but you only have access to your own data, not Slashdot's.
The only way right now to do what I proposed for a Slashdot application is to parse out all the HTML. This is a tedious task and will break as soon as something in the HTML page changes.
Web services are nothing new, RPC, Corba, it's all been done before. It doesn't have to be done in SOAP, but that seems to be the standard they want to push. But this is the first time I've ever seen remote functions avaliable to the general public and that right there is the value of it.
Not necessarily. You could have the file system so it can be accessed "the old fasioned way". And programs that support the new features will be able to take advantage of them as well.
/artist/album, etc.
For example: The file system has all the usual info about an MP3 and when a legacy application wants to read a file from it it can generate a filename on the fly like: <artist>-<song>.mp3 or whatever. And directories could also be created on the fly for
Personally I don't see any advantages of a music filesystem over a regular file system, but I think the idea is an interesting one. Maybe there are other applications out there that would benifit with a unique file system, but instead are using a kludge on a regular file system. What if music was stored in a CDDA format allowing a simple copying of the data to a CD when you want to create a CD of your music? What if your regular file system was steganographed on top of your music collection? Twice the space for half the price!
We must not let our old ideals stifle innovation. Backwards compatability can usually be achived and a new format might have added benifits that have not even been explored yet.
Web services is not a way to build applications which are never intended to be accessed by other applications directly.
While this is true, if you built your websites on top of web services then the web services could still be availble to all. This would allow your program (ie the program that creates your website on the fly), as well as anyone elses program to access the data. We need to think beyond formatting web pages. A lot of the information out there would be useful to machines. Why not let them have an easy way to obtain the data?
I can think of many things I'd love to see exposed via web services (or another RPC type protocol).
What if all the functions of Slashdot were avaliable via SOAP? Then anyone could easily write a Slashdot application that looks more like a news reader, or whatever you want. The value of such a program is debatable, but at least it would be an option. How about weather information, traffic reports, interest rates, currency exchange rates, etc.
Interest rates and exchange rates are an excellent example of how web services could be used. If you are writing a financial application you could then always have up to date rates which would require no human input. Then a web service call could then be made to a bank to make the transaction. All automated from a single program. No human interaction needed.
Web services make perfect sense when someone has information that can be useful to someone else that would otherwise not be avaliable. It allows people to build applications that would not be otherwise possible due to lack of information. It gives computers access to the vast knowledge of the internet instead of just humans.
Of course if no one creates any useful web services then all of this technology will go to waste.
And I am still waiting for Jesux to be released.
There is no hope. Evil reins when it comes to operating systems.
There's Atheos, the FreeBSD devil, Darwin, as mentioned in the article, and Microsoft Windows.
While I can't pay attention to the monkey for an hour, I can easily lose track of time trying to work out a problem on my own.
I'm the same way. In school I'd always find myself learning something other than what was being taught. Math class was the worst since I had a calculator to play with. I'd figure out math calculations before we were even taught them by just playing with my calculator.
Unfortunately that meant not learning what was being taught.
I enjoy getting out on the snowmobile in the winter and fourwheeler in the summer. They don't give you the exercise level many other activities will give you, but it at least gets you out doors and seeing nature while having a blast and you would be suprised how much exercise you do actually get.
Both are very cost prohibitive though. You're looking into just under $10,000 (and even above) for a fourwheeler or a snowmobile. And that doesn't even include all the other stuff you need.
And the farmers will go home at night and work on the source code.
Sounds like a plan to me. I am considering actually taking up farming as my career. I grew up on a farm so I know all the ins and outs of farming. Right now I work in the tech industry, but I really don't see that it is for me, not long term anyway. I enjoy programming though and even if I was a farmer I would probably keep it up as a hobby.
It seems Microsoft is trying to make farming out as a bad thing. Lets not forget that farming is actually useful. We don't need a company supplying software! But we need food.
You can retrieve cached pages from Google using their new SOAP API.
This would allow you to automate the process significantly.
This limits you to just Google, but it is a start.
How long until we see P2P VoIP solutions?
A Gnutella like network could be setup to search for computers that are a local call to where you are trying to call. Once you have found a host, it will take care of the land line communication and the rest will happen via the internet. Should the call happen to be dialing someone who is already on the network then they wouldn't even need to hit a land line connection.
This could already be done (albeit crudely) with existing hardware like voice modems and sound cards. Would be a neat project anyway...
Google has sections for various things.
Such as
Linux
BSD
Uncle Sam
And I'm sure there are plenty of others...
You have to be relatively close to a central office to obtain adequate DSL service.
Non-sense I have DSL out in the middle of nowhere*, and by nowhere I mean on a farm, miles away from civilization. My ISP/Telco's central office has got to be at least 20 miles away. I don't know what they are doing differently from any other telco, but it can be done!
* that's 1.5Mbps down, 128Kbps up although talked to them about getting 8Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up and they said that would be no problem either.
Wait a bit, then sue.
They can sue until the cows come home, but that won't necessarily stop the development of Samba. The current developers might not continue to work on it, but what's to stop someone else from taking the riens? There is one reason for Microsoft's fear of the GPL.
There isn't much they can do once the code is out there. Much like the DeCSS code. The code was released and the MPAA took efforts to stop the distribution of it, but it really didn't stop it.
First he creates his own operating system, now this...
He must be very busy...
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April fools is over!