Americans who do not want Republican leadership need a better alternative, perhaps a new party, one that actually stands for something and has a platform that is not based solely on some inverse of the Republican platform. What was the Democrat platform? I still can't tell. Day One of a Kerry presidency would still see the US in Iraq and in debt and in hock to corporations with no change on the horizon.
Either of GNOME or KDE qualify. Both have "good enough" apps across the board. Both are well integrated. The real problem is that you still cannot plug your digital camera in and have something intelligent happen. Devices are the roadblock.
Mixing desktop environments, with the resulting incongruities, overlap, etc is exactly the wrong way to create a coherent environment. At that point I would tell an arbitrary user to use either KDE or GNOME, but not "both".
So basically you don't run software on your computer unless it is a function in Lotus Notes. Why the #$%# would you want to have a message board system provide viideoconferencing??? IM??? Heeellllooo, there are these networks called "Yahoo" and "MSN"...they have a slightly more scalable IM network than your backoffice. VOIP????? What next, HVAC control? Hey, we wanted to get heating in the office but Notes doesn't support HVAC until the next version.
(1) The wiki does not provide business process automation.
Why would a wiki want to perform the operations better provided by another piece of software? (perl, python, etc etc etc)
(2) The wiki does not provide e-mail or calendaring functions.
Why would a wiki want to perform the operations better provided by another piece of software? (name your calendaring app)
(4) Notes gives me the capability to set up my own private area (database) where I propose the security list, that resides on a server, without the intervention of an administrator or anyone technologically savvy. (Ours is called Database-oh-matic).
Why would a wiki want to perform the operations better provided by another piece of software? (Apache, MySQL, etc)
Programming close to the hardware merely means you are modeling the hardware and that model, rather than being compiled into code, is physically realized by hardware. Model theory is exactly what you need and predicate calculus is the way most mathematics express models.
Uh, no, and I am starting to think you have no idea what you are talking about.
The US has two free trade agreements with Canada, so get used to finding out what agreements Canada has with other nations..they will quickly become agreements with the US by transitivity.
Also please remember that the US has spent the last twenty five years literally ramming free trade down the world's collective throat (admittedly, an effort made on behalf of the financial elite, not workers).
Another, related, problem is that inheritance provides defaults without requiring a lot of thinking on the part of the computer. What I mean by "thinking" here is the sort of thing that is done by statistical imputation of missing data via algorithms like
This is a non-sequiter. The only logic applied to the failure case is that which the programmer codes. While I found the links interesting, they have nothing to do with the problem you are explaining.
You are also missing the core premise of systems coding - to be close to the hardware, which necessarily precludes prolog.
Give me lots of channels, time shifting, and the ability to buy (preferrably unencumbered) tracks out-of-band (i.e., I can browse for tracks, not just wait for them to be played) and I will sign up. This service is so almost there.
Doesn't everyone already have a digital camera that has "real" features, higher resolution, etc? If I just want a low res camera, practically every cellphone now features one.
I would rather have a smaller music player than a larger, more expensive unit that provides functionality already implemented better by other devices. Sorry Apple, you dropped the ball on this one.
The tipping point is coming. The point where enough late-adopters see news stories, tv segments, links on the web, and most importantly, other late-adopters using firefox. I actually think numbers like 25% or higher are achievable.
I can't believe it, nearly every comment is coming down on this incredible project. People on this site need to get over the very base notion that the contrarian viewpoint is inherently insightful.
If you really were an "expert" like you claim to be, you would know that financial services have been computerized for years. Do you use ATMs? LEt me guess, you'll lie in a response and say no just to stick to your party line, but it doesn't matter, going and dealing with the teller just means you strip off one layer of the digitization. It still happens upstream whether you like it or not.
Now let me guess you will tell me you keep it all under your mattress and don't deal with banks at all.
Your bank? Check. Your brokerage? Check? Your government? Check. Your doctor? No, but thats because your doctor is still using Win95 and Office 97. Once someone consolidates the IT operations of law offices and medical practices, this will happen too...the cost of handling paper records is killing these industries.
Because in the future the browser is your only app
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IM, Web, commerce, file sharing...these are all the apps of the future and they can all piggyback on a good browser codebase. Now I will preempt all of the people who tell me they actually spend 95% of the time on their computer using a spreadsheet or word processor....first of all, bullshit. Secondly, its only a matter of time before these are also embeddable browser thingies...via XAML, XUL or otherwise.
I can't think of a more bullshit-proof resume bulletpoint than to point to your commit log on a high profile project.
Anyone using Mozilla code as a basis for a product will pay out to people with a commit history.
Good luck, but it will never happen
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Just look at the adoption rates on IPv6. No one is going to touch a new protocol at this stage. Its not even clear that this is needed. Point me at a specific TCP pain point that is specifically and obviously reducing internet adoption...any takers?
We are weakening pollution restrictions on power plants via changes to Clean Air Act made by the Bush administration. What is the motivation to invest in new clean tech? Very little.
Not meaning to be gloomy, but industry will follow the path of least cost unless standards dictate otherwise. If not for "bleeding heart California liberals and environuts" you wouldn't even have the mileage standards we enjoy today in our vehicles - they were derided as "impossible" by the auto industry in the day.
That's funny. Here I thought someone with no life outside of work, no time for friends and family
You seem to equate low pay, low responsibility jobs with low hours. BZZT. These people have to work even longer hours to make ends meet. If you want to "have a life", first you need a job that pays decently...I say that precludes the entire class of "crap" jobs.
At least in those more normal jobs, you don't normally get:
Yeah you do, stop thinking you are the only one who gets static from above. Try commission-only sales work, for example, if you want to see office politics on a scale undreamt of by IT folks.
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Americans who do not want Republican leadership need a better alternative, perhaps a new party, one that actually stands for something and has a platform that is not based solely on some inverse of the Republican platform. What was the Democrat platform? I still can't tell. Day One of a Kerry presidency would still see the US in Iraq and in debt and in hock to corporations with no change on the horizon.
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Either of GNOME or KDE qualify. Both have "good enough" apps across the board. Both are well integrated. The real problem is that you still cannot plug your digital camera in and have something intelligent happen. Devices are the roadblock.
Mixing desktop environments, with the resulting incongruities, overlap, etc is exactly the wrong way to create a coherent environment. At that point I would tell an arbitrary user to use either KDE or GNOME, but not "both".
"The Web will likely be a novelty while serious research will remain on Gopher."
So basically you don't run software on your computer unless it is a function in Lotus Notes. Why the #$%# would you want to have a message board system provide viideoconferencing??? IM??? Heeellllooo, there are these networks called "Yahoo" and "MSN"...they have a slightly more scalable IM network than your backoffice. VOIP????? What next, HVAC control? Hey, we wanted to get heating in the office but Notes doesn't support HVAC until the next version.
Why would a wiki want to perform the operations better provided by another piece of software? (perl, python, etc etc etc)
(2) The wiki does not provide e-mail or calendaring functions.
Why would a wiki want to perform the operations better provided by another piece of software? (name your calendaring app)
(4) Notes gives me the capability to set up my own private area (database) where I propose the security list, that resides on a server, without the intervention of an administrator or anyone technologically savvy. (Ours is called Database-oh-matic).
Why would a wiki want to perform the operations better provided by another piece of software? (Apache, MySQL, etc)
Uh, no, and I am starting to think you have no idea what you are talking about.
Also please remember that the US has spent the last twenty five years literally ramming free trade down the world's collective throat (admittedly, an effort made on behalf of the financial elite, not workers).
This is a non-sequiter. The only logic applied to the failure case is that which the programmer codes. While I found the links interesting, they have nothing to do with the problem you are explaining.
You are also missing the core premise of systems coding - to be close to the hardware, which necessarily precludes prolog.
Give me lots of channels, time shifting, and the ability to buy (preferrably unencumbered) tracks out-of-band (i.e., I can browse for tracks, not just wait for them to be played) and I will sign up. This service is so almost there.
I would rather have a smaller music player than a larger, more expensive unit that provides functionality already implemented better by other devices. Sorry Apple, you dropped the ball on this one.
The tipping point is coming. The point where enough late-adopters see news stories, tv segments, links on the web, and most importantly, other late-adopters using firefox. I actually think numbers like 25% or higher are achievable.
And sharing the gecko engine will mean more and more software will be able to ship smaller binaries once gecko already resides on your system.
I can't believe it, nearly every comment is coming down on this incredible project. People on this site need to get over the very base notion that the contrarian viewpoint is inherently insightful.
Now let me guess you will tell me you keep it all under your mattress and don't deal with banks at all.
Your bank? Check. Your brokerage? Check? Your government? Check. Your doctor? No, but thats because your doctor is still using Win95 and Office 97. Once someone consolidates the IT operations of law offices and medical practices, this will happen too...the cost of handling paper records is killing these industries.
IM, Web, commerce, file sharing...these are all the apps of the future and they can all piggyback on a good browser codebase. Now I will preempt all of the people who tell me they actually spend 95% of the time on their computer using a spreadsheet or word processor....first of all, bullshit. Secondly, its only a matter of time before these are also embeddable browser thingies...via XAML, XUL or otherwise.
Anyone using Mozilla code as a basis for a product will pay out to people with a commit history.
Just look at the adoption rates on IPv6. No one is going to touch a new protocol at this stage. Its not even clear that this is needed. Point me at a specific TCP pain point that is specifically and obviously reducing internet adoption...any takers?
Not meaning to be gloomy, but industry will follow the path of least cost unless standards dictate otherwise. If not for "bleeding heart California liberals and environuts" you wouldn't even have the mileage standards we enjoy today in our vehicles - they were derided as "impossible" by the auto industry in the day.
SQL also has decades of optimizations in reliable code...no one will be dropping their Oracle license over this.
You seem to equate low pay, low responsibility jobs with low hours. BZZT. These people have to work even longer hours to make ends meet. If you want to "have a life", first you need a job that pays decently...I say that precludes the entire class of "crap" jobs.
Well, I manage programmers for a living and on average they work (I mean not foosballing or drinking coffee, but working), five hours a day average.
Now compare this to Walmart etc where you literally have to go off the clock to take a dump...
Yeah you do, stop thinking you are the only one who gets static from above. Try commission-only sales work, for example, if you want to see office politics on a scale undreamt of by IT folks.