This seems to be similar what the people who originally created the tripwire security monitor program had in mind.
I haven't look at it in years, but back in the day they used to say that they wanted a program that would show your network as a series of rooms in a building. Intrusions would show up on the display just as a physical intrusion would be indicated on the monitor of an alarm system.
Their idea was that the same flunky that watched the security desk could watch the monitor for intrusions since it would be 'virtually' the same display.
Nice to finally see someone make an attempt a the paradigm, since I don't think the Tripwire people ever did.
The windows only platform restriction and the tiered subscription pricing scream "amateur hour" to me.
I won't be interested until it can run on a more reasonable platform and can be had for a flat fee. I'm happy to pay for upgrades, but I'm not going to pay by the month.
ps: I'm writing this from a windows box, so I don't care if you think windows is a reasonable platform for this. I don't. But thanks for the thought.
Your "eBook" is the 12 inch iBook with the CDROM and an educational discount. At $950 you can't beat the price/feature/size ratio. Well, ok, I can't beat the price for the performance.
You can buy a no-name notebook for $500-$700 but you get what you pay for. A friend who sells them says that he has sometimes had the experience of having to return 2 or 3 DOA no-name units before he finds one that will work.
I think the design on the iBooks is superior to the cheaper notebooks, although the build quality may vary.
Also, some new mini-van with a glass roof has extra reinforced roof posts that my fire dept's hydraulic cutting tools cound't cut.
Then your fired department needs to get a better tool.
Do you have Hurst? When I was given the Hurst tool class, the first thing the instructor did was give us the list of things they can't cut.
When I was taught to use the Amkus system, the instructor handed me the cutters, pointed at the car, and said: "Go cut that up".
I never have figured out why fire departments settle for second class rescue tools.
Then again, I have found few things that a reciprocating saw (sawz-all) or even a hack saw won't cut.
The magic that captured us was that TNG wasn't about space or the technology but about the people.
The thing that puzzled me about TNG was that the crew of the Enterprise had so many personal problems, and had to spend so much time living a fantasy to work them out. It seems like there were whole seasons which took place on the holo-deck. If that was supposed to be an allegory on the fans, then it was a pretty ham-fisted one.
It did make me wonder about how emotionally stable people would be in the ST future. Look at it this way. They seem to be proud of all their eugenics programs on thier general population. Then they take the best and draft them into Star Fleet. The best of that are allegedly sent to the Enterprise. If the Enterprise crew in TNG was the best of the best, perhaps the future isn't so rosey after all.
Until relatively recently I was a windows client programmer, and worked with HTML etc only occasionally. Several times now, I've had a chance to start completely new website projects from scratch. Each time I've thought I'd give Dreamweaver a try and I have eventually always dumped it and used a cgi script to dynamically generate pages with Perl or PHP.
Once I'm past the prototyping phase, it seems easier to use Javascript and Perl (or something) to build dynamic pages rather than code static pages with Dreamweaver. (Besides I make better HTML than it does anyway! --- yeah right)
I'm wondering what boat I'm missing about Dreamweaver and similar sorts of tools. What should I be using them for? Is it a coincedence that my projects tend to involve content that changes frequently, and it would work better for content that is more constant?
How about... because it works? In this application it didn't. So use what works -- it's the right way to do it (tm).
More likely because the contractor had some under employeed windows programmers sitting around, and got a sweet deal from his local MS rep. on license fees and hardware.
It still plays DVDs just fine, and wouldn't have made your "investment" worthless if it had lived. On the contrary, I think if Divx had lived it would not have killed DVDs, but new release DVDs would still be $13 instead of $20. There is no reason why the two formats couldn't have coexisted and competed.
If Divx had succeeded, then new films would have been released as Divx's at a price point below the the going rate for an unrestricted DVD. The price would have doubled or tripled for unrestricted DVDs until there was no more demand for them.
Then there would have been no option for any formats to 'coexist'.
Maybe this has been mentioned and as usual I missed it.
I find myself thinking that if I were to decide to put all my important data in their vault, what might I do if they tell me I have to pay the $1000 upgrade fee for the next version of their software if I want to continue to have access to my data in their vault?
The person who catches a bad break and has their office building fall down upon them, their car crushed by a tractor trailer, or their bus explode on them are indeed people who have faced tragedy, but that in itself does not a hero make.
For the crew of STS 107, their 'office building' was travelling at Mach 18. I think the will to put yourself in that situation, for the advancement of human understanding, is a pretty heroic and noble calling.
You do not have to try to kill someone to be considered a 'hero'.
Oh yea...Heh. Maybe I shouldn't be ready/. at work...Thanks.
I always confused those too anyway.
Funny that I looked up Harry Mudd College but didn't track down the ST episode, isn't it?
Sadly, I'll admit that I first read "Harvey Mudd College" as "Harry Mudd College".
Harry Mudd helps himself to a few drinks from an automated bartender in the Touble With Tribbles episode of Star Trek.
Then I found that someone else thinks there should be a Harry Mudd College too. I won't post the URL so as not to/. an innocent bystander. Finding it will be an exercise for the student.
Just look at LA. If they don't find another way of getting water, there are going to be a lot of thirsty people in the near future.
No worries, when the sea level rises, I expect the people in the LA basin will have plenty of water.
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Perhaps I'm naive, but I was curious if I could get a free eval of StarOffice to test for my company. I also thought it would be interesting to run it side by side with OpenOffice to see how they work differently.
First I noted that there's no 'contact the StarOffice dev. team' button or something like it on the Sun StarOffice page. I ended up following Sun's "Contact Us" trail until I found myself staring at a page of toll free numbers (rather than a more efficient IMO email address). I called and explained what I wanted. The guy who answered the phone explained that it is included with Solaris. I explained (reading from their site) that I wanted the Windows version (yes I work in a windows shop, oddly enough). So, he called me back and explained that I could download it for free, by following the download link.
Well, I said, "It doesn't say anything about a free download, but it does say it costs $75, but I'll give it a whack". We followed the links, until I could to the credit card/purchase order/etc. page.
"Hmmm", he said, "the engineer said you could download it for free. I guess he was wrong."
So, my compaint isn't so much that I can't get a free eval copy, that's their call. My complaint is that they don't really seem to want to support it with any sort of dedicated customer support people.
Too bad. I had high hopes for moving my office away from MS Office and on to StarOffice. We would only have purchased maybe 100 copies if we'd liked it.
I have never found long articles (by anyone) to be a problem. I either keep reading, and learn something or I decide that I've learned enough for the moment, and then I just stop reading. That doesn't seem to be too difficult.
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This seems to be similar what the people who originally created the tripwire security monitor program had in mind.
I haven't look at it in years, but back in the day they used to say that they wanted a program that would show your network as a series of rooms in a building. Intrusions would show up on the display just as a physical intrusion would be indicated on the monitor of an alarm system.
Their idea was that the same flunky that watched the security desk could watch the monitor for intrusions since it would be 'virtually' the same display.
Nice to finally see someone make an attempt a the paradigm, since I don't think the Tripwire people ever did.
The windows only platform restriction and the tiered subscription pricing scream "amateur hour" to me.
I won't be interested until it can run on a more reasonable platform and can be had for a flat fee. I'm happy to pay for upgrades, but I'm not going to pay by the month.
ps: I'm writing this from a windows box, so I don't care if you think windows is a reasonable platform for this. I don't. But thanks for the thought.
/. has ads?
I seem to have trained myself to not notice them anymore.
You'd need a candle truck full of these to be useful.
Your "eBook" is the 12 inch iBook with the CDROM and an educational discount. At $950 you can't beat the price/feature/size ratio. Well, ok, I can't beat the price for the performance.
You can buy a no-name notebook for $500-$700 but you get what you pay for. A friend who sells them says that he has sometimes had the experience of having to return 2 or 3 DOA no-name units before he finds one that will work.
I think the design on the iBooks is superior to the cheaper notebooks, although the build quality may vary.
Also, some new mini-van with a glass roof has extra reinforced roof posts that my fire dept's hydraulic cutting tools cound't cut. Then your fired department needs to get a better tool.
Do you have Hurst? When I was given the Hurst tool class, the first thing the instructor did was give us the list of things they can't cut.
When I was taught to use the Amkus system, the instructor handed me the cutters, pointed at the car, and said: "Go cut that up".
I never have figured out why fire departments settle for second class rescue tools.
Then again, I have found few things that a reciprocating saw (sawz-all) or even a hack saw won't cut.
Bottom line, buy cheap media then you will suffer the consequences. Buy decent media; buy a reputable brand and you can expect reasonable lifespan.
Can you point me to a study that shows which brands are indeed reputable and high quality?
I have found that in most things paying more doesn't necessarily mean you're getting higher quality. It may be more likely, but not a given.
This is not quite true.
See Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm
And by the time Star Trek is off the air, /. might finally get a Star Trek topic image instead of using the TV logo... how ironic.
/. science fiction icon is a character from an old ST episode.
That is particularly ironic considering the
Anyone care for some Tranja?
The magic that captured us was that TNG wasn't about space or the technology but about the people.
The thing that puzzled me about TNG was that the crew of the Enterprise had so many personal problems, and had to spend so much time living a fantasy to work them out. It seems like there were whole seasons which took place on the holo-deck. If that was supposed to be an allegory on the fans, then it was a pretty ham-fisted one.
It did make me wonder about how emotionally stable people would be in the ST future. Look at it this way. They seem to be proud of all their eugenics programs on thier general population. Then they take the best and draft them into Star Fleet. The best of that are allegedly sent to the Enterprise. If the Enterprise crew in TNG was the best of the best, perhaps the future isn't so rosey after all.
Ok, here's a question.
Until relatively recently I was a windows client programmer, and worked with HTML etc only occasionally. Several times now, I've had a chance to start completely new website projects from scratch. Each time I've thought I'd give Dreamweaver a try and I have eventually always dumped it and used a cgi script to dynamically generate pages with Perl or PHP.
Once I'm past the prototyping phase, it seems easier to use Javascript and Perl (or something) to build dynamic pages rather than code static pages with Dreamweaver. (Besides I make better HTML than it does anyway! --- yeah right)
I'm wondering what boat I'm missing about Dreamweaver and similar sorts of tools. What should I be using them for? Is it a coincedence that my projects tend to involve content that changes frequently, and it would work better for content that is more constant?
How about... because it works? In this application it didn't. So use what works -- it's the right way to do it (tm).
More likely because the contractor had some under employeed windows programmers sitting around, and got a sweet deal from his local MS rep. on license fees and hardware.
It still plays DVDs just fine, and wouldn't have made your "investment" worthless if it had lived. On the contrary, I think if Divx had lived it would not have killed DVDs, but new release DVDs would still be $13 instead of $20. There is no reason why the two formats couldn't have coexisted and competed.
If Divx had succeeded, then new films would have been released as Divx's at a price point below the the going rate for an unrestricted DVD. The price would have doubled or tripled for unrestricted DVDs until there was no more demand for them.
Then there would have been no option for any formats to 'coexist'.
As discussed in an earlier
Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office
Maybe this has been mentioned and as usual I missed it.
I find myself thinking that if I were to decide to put all my important data in their vault, what might I do if they tell me I have to pay the $1000 upgrade fee for the next version of their software if I want to continue to have access to my data in their vault?
The person who catches a bad break and has their office building fall down upon them, their car crushed by a tractor trailer, or their bus explode on them are indeed people who have faced tragedy, but that in itself does not a hero make.
For the crew of STS 107, their 'office building' was travelling at Mach 18. I think the will to put yourself in that situation, for the advancement of human understanding, is a pretty heroic and noble calling.
You do not have to try to kill someone to be considered a 'hero'.
Oh yea...Heh. Maybe I shouldn't be ready /. at work...Thanks.
I always confused those too anyway.
Funny that I looked up Harry Mudd College but didn't track down the ST episode, isn't it?
Sadly, I'll admit that I first read "Harvey Mudd College" as "Harry Mudd College". /. an innocent bystander. Finding it will be an exercise for the student.
Harry Mudd helps himself to a few drinks from an automated bartender in the Touble With Tribbles episode of Star Trek.
Then I found that someone else thinks there should be a Harry Mudd College too. I won't post the URL so as not to
Just look at LA. If they don't find another way of getting water, there are going to be a lot of thirsty people in the near future.
No worries, when the sea level rises, I expect the people in the LA basin will have plenty of water.
Perhaps I'm naive, but I was curious if I could get a free eval of StarOffice to test for my company. I also thought it would be interesting to run it side by side with OpenOffice to see how they work differently.
First I noted that there's no 'contact the StarOffice dev. team' button or something like it on the Sun StarOffice page. I ended up following Sun's "Contact Us" trail until I found myself staring at a page of toll free numbers (rather than a more efficient IMO email address). I called and explained what I wanted. The guy who answered the phone explained that it is included with Solaris. I explained (reading from their site) that I wanted the Windows version (yes I work in a windows shop, oddly enough). So, he called me back and explained that I could download it for free, by following the download link.
Well, I said, "It doesn't say anything about a free download, but it does say it costs $75, but I'll give it a whack". We followed the links, until I could to the credit card/purchase order/etc. page.
"Hmmm", he said, "the engineer said you could download it for free. I guess he was wrong." So, my compaint isn't so much that I can't get a free eval copy, that's their call. My complaint is that they don't really seem to want to support it with any sort of dedicated customer support people.
Too bad. I had high hopes for moving my office away from MS Office and on to StarOffice. We would only have purchased maybe 100 copies if we'd liked it.
Slurms.
I often find his stuff worth reading.
I have never found long articles (by anyone) to be a problem. I either keep reading, and learn something or I decide that I've learned enough for the moment, and then I just stop reading. That doesn't seem to be too difficult.
I have learned to turn off my TV too.
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