Any chance of the DB going Open Source? Or is Sybase holding that too close? I think that would be a great tool to have in Windows. Give MySQL a run for its money and could kill Access on the desktop.
FWIW, 'American' has taken a standard meaning of an inhabitant of the US of A. You wouldn't call a citizen of an EU country a 'Unioner', would you? They're 'European', even if there are other peoples in Europe who are not members of the EU. Americans don't identify themselves that closely with the gubmint, rather with who and where they are.
BTW, did you realize the founding of Australia (yes, as a penal colony) was directly tied to the American Revolution? Once the Brits could no longer send prisoners to Georgia, they had to go somewhere. Thus the first expedition was sent. 'Fatal Shore' by Hughes is a great book concerning the founding and settling of Australia.
I think you're right about being closer to a desktop. And I think Gnome has the edge. I think it won't matter because right now, you can have two very good alternatives. (and why not two desktops?)
If you think about it, users would probably define their 'Linux' use into either KDE or Gnome. Either way, who cares? Better to get them focused on eye candy and work on the strata beneath.
You know, there are more than one time of gas station out there.
As for Lindows, I don't know it because I haven't tried it. So I can't comment on it. To me, the claims seem rather far fetched, but that's cool. I ain't spending $$$ to try it out. That's because I'm cheap, not because I'm a Stallman or Raymond acolyte.
Seriously, though, why do languages take on any nuances? Spit is just as acceptable as spat, although there's a future perfect implied, as in, "I would have spit" versus the standard perfect "I almost spat".
Americans typically like to talk present tense so it would sound odd to use a present tense form of a verb in the past tense, completed sense.
As for petting vs. patting, petting connotes a caring, loving manner (http://m-w.com) while patting connotes merely showing approval. Again, cultural interpretations put a broader sense on these nuances, however slight.
Do return the favor and tell me why you use the form 'USians'. US is not a geographical area, nor is it a regional declaration. It is a political delineation, however, its principle stands on the unification of distinct and disparate elements. (Remember, the US was and is conceived of nations forgoing sovereignty to better guarantee their liberties.)
Personally, I find the term a show of ignorance and derision, but I'm sure you have better reasoning you could provide. Thanks.
Also, for a while they'd fawn over Eazel but then it disappeared.
Ah, yes, remember when Eazel was the snizzle? Too funny.
I actually saw a great post that went into some of the internals and pointed out how Gnome was a better deal than KDE for development and deployment. I'm using Gnome 2.2 and Nautilus is definitely slicker than some of its early iterations.
Fact is, none of them will ever 'replace' windows. And the best chance to grab market share will be to provde the same services as Windows, create an easy way for users to configure the system to interoperate and to create a pain free way to get developers ramped up. I don't know that Glade or Quanta or KDevelop are the answer here.
Sorry for the long response. Eazel, though. Almost spit my drink on the keyboard.
IBM seems to be content NOT having an OS. And face it, the only thing that could kill Suse quicker than Novell would be IBM marketing.
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It seems that when companies go public and join the "big league" their ability to interface to any non-corporate entity in any meaningful way is lost. I'm looking at their recent product developments and announcements, and I have no clue where they're planning on going. Some of the products are just plain wrong-headed (why bother competing with a C# IDE when every corporate IS shop pretty much gets all their tools through the MSDN?), and others are shrouded in such marketing mumbo-jumbo that I have no clue what they're about.
For a second, I thought you were talking about Lotus.
Does this say something about the application or about the difficulties of marketing a commercial Linux application?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the problem may lie with Delphi, dontcha think?
By comparison, even if you could port a Windows app over to Linux tomorrow, that doesn't mean that every company out there is going to do it.
Is that users are fucking idiots. Some user just posted an item how she highlighted her work and then hit 'backspace' and deleted everything. She wanted to know what we could do for her. 'Feel bad' was about all we could come up with. 'Laugh' was another, but we didn't think she'd like that.
In that the Constitution is law determining the fundimental principles of government it does promise exactly what I claim. I use the word "promise" because, as you seem well aware, the government in the U.S. often fails to live up to that promise.
Rights are God-given. Nothing is promised. It's an agreement, along the lines of and styled after the Mayflower Compact. It is a promise only as long as all citizens promise to abide by it. (Which you are effectively saying you're not doing.)
The Constitution, penned by the same man as the Declaration of independence, supercedes the Declaration, and was enacted into law but the Declaration was not.
The Constitution was written by committee. Although there was a committee for the Declaration, only Jefferson wrote the draft. The basis for the Constitution was the Declaration and the Constitution was not passed 'as law' but rather ratified by the Consitutional Convention. They had no authority to 'pass laws'. That authority was in the document.
The reason Jefferson felt that the wording should be changed, against the wishes of John Adams, was that he believed (as I do) that the pursuit of property is insufficient to garauntee a happy and free life, but that the freedom to better oneself through other means must be garaunteed as well (although the pursuit of property is clearly a part of this. The first ten amendments were added to clarify what these garaunteed rights are intended to be included as a minimum.
The Bill of Rights guarantees NOTHING. It outlines basic rights as recognized by the Founding Fathers. I agree that pursuing property is not an end unto itself, however, it was not a legally viable option for everyone under the rule of George III.
If that were so, then why is it necessary to have the judiciary test laws passed by our legislators for adherence to the wording and spirit of the Constitution. The courts are charged with the responsibility to see that the rights of any individual are not impinged upon by the law, or by groups of individuals. If the majoriy votes to take away your house (or other property), tough, they have no right to do so. Democracy is not mob rule.
What utter bull. The criminal courts are designed to uphold the law. The civil courts uphold the spirit of the law. Appeals courts are there for redress of grievances, including the first two items. If you break the law, you lose your vote and quite possibly, your possessions (see O.J. Simpson if you have doubts). This doesn't even get into eminent domain.
I don't kow what color skies are in your world, but you should check out how things really work. If the gov decided they're building a highway where your house is, it's gone. Ever heard of eminent domain?
I payed intention in class, plus I have this odd habit of reading the writings of individuals such as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and some much earlier stuff by some people who lived in a democracy around 2500 years ago.
While I'm sure Mom is proud of you, it sounds like you need to read Locke's Second Treatise on Government and The Republic by Plato. I know you think you're well read, but I can guarantee that 1.) I've read more of the ancients and the modern political philosophers than you have and 2.) you didn't understand them. This much is evident from your writing.
Don't act so damn surprised, the Greek Demacracy lasted only a few hundred years, the Roman Republic lasted only 250, it seems that we are right on schedule to have ours tested. Lets just hope that enough of us have been (and are) paying attention.
The Greek Democracy didn't last 30 years. The Republic didn't last 100 years. Look up the rule of the 30 tyrants in Greece and Caeser for Rome.
If you think you're one of the solutions to preserving our Republic than God help us.
The greed is not coming from corporations. They're just people working to make money. The greed is from g
We live in a Constitutional Democracy and the Constitution promises us that the majority cannot always have it's way,
You really don't have the slightest fucking idea what you're talking about, do you?
We live in a Democratic Republic. The Constitution outlines the form of government. It doesn't promise shit.
The Declaration of Independence posited that we can form and change governments as a group when (and only when) they are impeding our God-given (their words) rights to life, liberty and ability to own property (that's what 'pursuit of happiness' means and how the original draft read).
One of the tenets of our form of government is that the majority will ALWAYS have its way. That's really the point. You need one half plus one in both chambers of the legislature to enact a law. That's a simple majority.
Now, I don't know where you learned so much about fucking government, but you should SUE the BALLS off of them, because they didn't do their job.
Nobody patented or restricted the use of hammers and nails in construction. So why in the hell are algorithms considered 'patentable'? I can understand if they emulate a proprietary business methodology. Or an entire application (which really should fall under copyright law). But patents? Shakespeare was right. We should kill all the lawyers.
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Any chance of the DB going Open Source? Or is Sybase holding that too close?
I think that would be a great tool to have in Windows. Give MySQL a run for its money and could kill Access on the desktop.
I'm thinking of a number between one and ten, guess what it is...
What OS will it run on?
But I can't get it to work in Mozilla.
So how do I know it's real?
ARPANET was developed before Gore even graduated college.
Where are you going with this?
Because it sure ain't toward the truth.
FWIW, 'American' has taken a standard meaning of an inhabitant of the US of A.
You wouldn't call a citizen of an EU country a 'Unioner', would you? They're 'European', even if there are other peoples in Europe who are not members of the EU.
Americans don't identify themselves that closely with the gubmint, rather with who and where they are.
BTW, did you realize the founding of Australia (yes, as a penal colony) was directly tied to the American Revolution? Once the Brits could no longer send prisoners to Georgia, they had to go somewhere. Thus the first expedition was sent.
'Fatal Shore' by Hughes is a great book concerning the founding and settling of Australia.
I think you're right about being closer to a desktop. And I think Gnome has the edge. I think it won't matter because right now, you can have two very good alternatives. (and why not two desktops?)
If you think about it, users would probably define their 'Linux' use into either KDE or Gnome. Either way, who cares? Better to get them focused on eye candy and work on the strata beneath.
You know, there are more than one time of gas station out there.
As for Lindows, I don't know it because I haven't tried it. So I can't comment on it.
To me, the claims seem rather far fetched, but that's cool. I ain't spending $$$ to try it out. That's because I'm cheap, not because I'm a Stallman or Raymond acolyte.
No.
We don't respond to foreign inquiries.
Seriously, though, why do languages take on any nuances? Spit is just as acceptable as spat, although there's a future perfect implied, as in, "I would have spit" versus the standard perfect "I almost spat".
Americans typically like to talk present tense so it would sound odd to use a present tense form of a verb in the past tense, completed sense.
As for petting vs. patting, petting connotes a caring, loving manner (http://m-w.com) while patting connotes merely showing approval. Again, cultural interpretations put a broader sense on these nuances, however slight.
Do return the favor and tell me why you use the form 'USians'. US is not a geographical area, nor is it a regional declaration. It is a political delineation, however, its principle stands on the unification of distinct and disparate elements. (Remember, the US was and is conceived of nations forgoing sovereignty to better guarantee their liberties.)
Personally, I find the term a show of ignorance and derision, but I'm sure you have better reasoning you could provide.
Thanks.
Also, for a while they'd fawn over Eazel but then it disappeared.
Ah, yes, remember when Eazel was the snizzle? Too funny.
I actually saw a great post that went into some of the internals and pointed out how Gnome was a better deal than KDE for development and deployment. I'm using Gnome 2.2 and Nautilus is definitely slicker than some of its early iterations.
Fact is, none of them will ever 'replace' windows. And the best chance to grab market share will be to provde the same services as Windows, create an easy way for users to configure the system to interoperate and to create a pain free way to get developers ramped up. I don't know that Glade or Quanta or KDevelop are the answer here.
Sorry for the long response. Eazel, though. Almost spit my drink on the keyboard.
Alright, how about 'desktop OS'?
I was referring to OS/2. (Sorry I didn't point that out more explicitly.)
IBM seems to be content NOT having an OS.
And face it, the only thing that could kill Suse quicker than Novell would be IBM marketing.
It seems that when companies go public and join the "big league" their ability to interface to any non-corporate entity in any meaningful way is lost. I'm looking at their recent product developments and announcements, and I have no clue where they're planning on going. Some of the products are just plain wrong-headed (why bother competing with a C# IDE when every corporate IS shop pretty much gets all their tools through the MSDN?), and others are shrouded in such marketing mumbo-jumbo that I have no clue what they're about.
For a second, I thought you were talking about Lotus.
Like this?
Or this?
Google is your friend.
Does this say something about the application or about the difficulties of marketing a commercial Linux application?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the problem may lie with Delphi, dontcha think?
By comparison, even if you could port a Windows app over to Linux tomorrow, that doesn't mean that every company out there is going to do it.
It's a Web App. We're constrained by the browser.
Insightful comment, though.
Is that users are fucking idiots.
Some user just posted an item how she highlighted her work and then hit 'backspace' and deleted everything.
She wanted to know what we could do for her.
'Feel bad' was about all we could come up with. 'Laugh' was another, but we didn't think she'd like that.
In that the Constitution is law determining the fundimental principles of government it does promise exactly what I claim. I use the word "promise" because, as you seem well aware, the government in the U.S. often fails to live up to that promise.
Rights are God-given. Nothing is promised. It's an agreement, along the lines of and styled after the Mayflower Compact. It is a promise only as long as all citizens promise to abide by it. (Which you are effectively saying you're not doing.)
The Constitution, penned by the same man as the Declaration of independence, supercedes the Declaration, and was enacted into law but the Declaration was not.
The Constitution was written by committee. Although there was a committee for the Declaration, only Jefferson wrote the draft. The basis for the Constitution was the Declaration and the Constitution was not passed 'as law' but rather ratified by the Consitutional Convention. They had no authority to 'pass laws'. That authority was in the document.
The reason Jefferson felt that the wording should be changed, against the wishes of John Adams, was that he believed (as I do) that the pursuit of property is insufficient to garauntee a happy and free life, but that the freedom to better oneself through other means must be garaunteed as well (although the pursuit of property is clearly a part of this. The first ten amendments were added to clarify what these garaunteed rights are intended to be included as a minimum.
The Bill of Rights guarantees NOTHING. It outlines basic rights as recognized by the Founding Fathers. I agree that pursuing property is not an end unto itself, however, it was not a legally viable option for everyone under the rule of George III.
If that were so, then why is it necessary to have the judiciary test laws passed by our legislators for adherence to the wording and spirit of the Constitution. The courts are charged with the responsibility to see that the rights of any individual are not impinged upon by the law, or by groups of individuals. If the majoriy votes to take away your house (or other property), tough, they have no right to do so. Democracy is not mob rule.
What utter bull. The criminal courts are designed to uphold the law. The civil courts uphold the spirit of the law. Appeals courts are there for redress of grievances, including the first two items. If you break the law, you lose your vote and quite possibly, your possessions (see O.J. Simpson if you have doubts). This doesn't even get into eminent domain.
I don't kow what color skies are in your world, but you should check out how things really work. If the gov decided they're building a highway where your house is, it's gone. Ever heard of eminent domain?
I payed intention in class, plus I have this odd habit of reading the writings of individuals such as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and some much earlier stuff by some people who lived in a democracy around 2500 years ago.
While I'm sure Mom is proud of you, it sounds like you need to read Locke's Second Treatise on Government and The Republic by Plato. I know you think you're well read, but I can guarantee that 1.) I've read more of the ancients and the modern political philosophers than you have and 2.) you didn't understand them. This much is evident from your writing.
Don't act so damn surprised, the Greek Demacracy lasted only a few hundred years, the Roman Republic lasted only 250, it seems that we are right on schedule to have ours tested. Lets just hope that enough of us have been (and are) paying attention.
The Greek Democracy didn't last 30 years. The Republic didn't last 100 years. Look up the rule of the 30 tyrants in Greece and Caeser for Rome.
If you think you're one of the solutions to preserving our Republic than God help us.
The greed is not coming from corporations. They're just people working to make money. The greed is from g
We live in a Constitutional Democracy and the Constitution promises us that the majority cannot always have it's way,
You really don't have the slightest fucking idea what you're talking about, do you?
We live in a Democratic Republic. The Constitution outlines the form of government. It doesn't promise shit.
The Declaration of Independence posited that we can form and change governments as a group when (and only when) they are impeding our God-given (their words) rights to life, liberty and ability to own property (that's what 'pursuit of happiness' means and how the original draft read).
One of the tenets of our form of government is that the majority will ALWAYS have its way. That's really the point. You need one half plus one in both chambers of the legislature to enact a law. That's a simple majority.
Now, I don't know where you learned so much about fucking government, but you should SUE the BALLS off of them, because they didn't do their job.
I was searching for a non-slashdotted version near me when it borked.
Nobody patented or restricted the use of hammers and nails in construction.
So why in the hell are algorithms considered 'patentable'?
I can understand if they emulate a proprietary business methodology. Or an entire application (which really should fall under copyright law).
But patents?
Shakespeare was right. We should kill all the lawyers.
Dyslexics of the world: Untie!
Get it at bookpool.com for $24.50 and don't give business to the AC.
ever heard of Nevada? Gambling and prostitution are both legal and regulated.
Nevada? Is that the new Mac browser? I hear they do things differently over there.
Where they asked Hollywood for advice.
Those idiots think Sean Penn can play a cop, for Christ's sake.
Idiots.
Whether I fail it or not, it was fun to play the game.