I remember reading something a while back suggesting that these points may collect dust, space debris, old alien space scraft, etc. Can anybody confirm this? If true, wouldn't it be hazardous to send space craft into such a zone?
I remember the old days when less expensive "X Terminals" were used to connect to very expensive computers. (Now, which was the client and which was the server?) This model does not apply anymore. Maybe what is needed is to re-think, re-invent and re-do the entire user interface/renderer. And those who believe this is not possible "because every body uses X" - welcome to Microsoft's world. But I don't think this inovation could happen without a major corporate sponser.
I assume you are not asking how to do this, for that you need a lawyer, but asking if it is doable. The company I work for develops custom software and provides source licences.
In one case, client has the source, but the company owns the rights and if the client modifies it, all warranties are void.
In another case the client has the rights to use the code, but pays a license fee for each instance. Yes, you can have your cake and eat it too.
Much of the southwest land is under the control of the "Bureau of Logging and Mining" (BLM) and used for cattle/sheep grazing. Maybe they are counting all that BLM land.
There are a lot of factories out running FORTRAN, usually on DEC/COMPAQ/HP OpenVMS systems to do plant floor control. I just ported an OpenVMS system to Windows 2000, about 1/3 of the code is FORTRAN. (Why not Linux you ask, because Linux does not have "events" like OpenVMS and Windows 2000 have. Given the extra time it would have taken to change the structure of the code, it was cheaper to buy Windows. Actually my customer would have prefered Linux.)
Go to a hospital, checkout the nurses, see how many are wearing glasses. If you know any nurses, ask them how many of his/her nurse friends wear contacts, or have had LASER surgery. These people see a lot of eye problems from contacts/surgery and elect to wear glasses.
Don't worry about it - nobody else does. Microsoft dosen't and they have been moderately successfull!. Today I took my 10-month old cell phone in for repair - the antenna broke off. They don't make that model anymore - so they gave me a newer (and better) phone. The one thing that should be done is to offer the user a painless upgrade path, automatically update any data or script files, give them simple "quick start" documents.
Hmmmmm, how many times have you read a favorable review in a PC mag for a product. And then find an (expensive) full page ad for that product in the same issue? Everybody "buys" reviews - but most readers are smart enough to know whats going on.
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I remember reading something a while back suggesting that these points may collect dust, space debris, old alien space scraft, etc. Can anybody confirm this? If true, wouldn't it be hazardous to send space craft into such a zone?
Maybe there could be a contest!
Isn't that where they are moving all the jobs?
The subject says it all.
I remember the old days when less expensive "X Terminals" were used to connect to very expensive computers. (Now, which was the client and which was the server?) This model does not apply anymore. Maybe what is needed is to re-think, re-invent and re-do the entire user interface/renderer. And those who believe this is not possible "because every body uses X" - welcome to Microsoft's world. But I don't think this inovation could happen without a major corporate sponser.
Let's see, they hooked up a packet analyzer, examined SSL trafic - yup look's like a DMCA violation to me! Somebody is in deep doo-doo.
(For the ironc impared - this is irony.)
Yup, same thing where I work, a long while back they but in a buch of consultants to work on a OO/C++ project for an OpenVMS system.
They did a lot of work in REXX (OS/2) - they left, code got thrown out and rewritten.
And Captain Kirk had to disable the computer after it destroyed a number of starships!
I assume you are not asking how to do this, for that you need a lawyer, but asking if it is doable. The company I work for develops custom software and provides source licences.
In one case, client has the source, but the company owns the rights and if the client modifies it, all warranties are void.
In another case the client has the rights to use the code, but pays a license fee for each instance. Yes, you can have your cake and eat it too.
Much of the southwest land is under the control of the "Bureau of Logging and Mining" (BLM) and used for cattle/sheep grazing. Maybe they are counting all that BLM land.
There are a lot of factories out running FORTRAN, usually on DEC/COMPAQ/HP OpenVMS systems to do plant floor control. I just ported an OpenVMS system to Windows 2000, about 1/3 of the code is FORTRAN. (Why not Linux you ask, because Linux does not have "events" like OpenVMS and Windows 2000 have. Given the extra time it would have taken to change the structure of the code, it was cheaper to buy Windows. Actually my customer would have prefered Linux.)
A certification that doesn't mean anything? I am shocked, really shocked?!?! A goverment standard that is useless? Again I am shocked!?!?
Not one mention of Linux in the article...
Go to a hospital, checkout the nurses, see how many are wearing glasses. If you know any nurses, ask them how many of his/her nurse friends wear contacts, or have had LASER surgery. These people see a lot of eye problems from contacts/surgery and elect to wear glasses.
Don't worry about it - nobody else does. Microsoft dosen't and they have been moderately successfull!. Today I took my 10-month old cell phone in for repair - the antenna broke off. They don't make that model anymore - so they gave me a newer (and better) phone. The one thing that should be done is to offer the user a painless upgrade path, automatically update any data or script files, give them simple "quick start" documents.
Hmmmmm, how many times have you read a favorable review in a PC mag for a product. And then find an (expensive) full page ad for that product in the same issue? Everybody "buys" reviews - but most readers are smart enough to know whats going on.
You can't take a CD into the john and read it. (Unless you take your notebook comuter also!)