It has to be Superman, since Batman could only win using Cryptonite. And Cryptonite, alas, is only available in Bagdad, where not even Bruce "Inspectorman" Wayne has access.
He praises companies like Oracle and Sun because the founder still runs the company
The founder's presence is not a guarantee at all for the flourishing of a company - how many companies (ok, most of them are the usual derelict dotcoms) have evaporated into thin air in the last two years despite the founder still leading the company ?
And what about cases like CMGI, where it would've probably a better idea to get rid of the founder (David Wetherell) a long time ago ?
It allready exists, also from Ready-to-Run: http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/ - note that Digital Unix, FreeBSD, BSDI, Linux (RedHat), Solaris, HPUX and IRIX are supported.
One of the best examples to explain "usability" is the comparison of the Newton and Palm "graffitis": whilst Newton required the machine to learn from the user, the Palm handled it the other way round.
Not surprisingly man is better at learning stuff than a machine - therefore even grandmothers can cope with the Palm input method after ten minutes, whilst a lot of experienced users simply gave it up with the Newton.
The difference of evolution of the visual apperance Browser and the Creator (the former from sleak to bulky, the latter from round-faced to lean) explains pretty much the difference in perspectives. Netscape's doomed, and Mark is well off.
I must admit that I am extremely disappointed by this article.
After I've discovered Napster in August 1999, and have known for MP3 for some time, I started immediately to convert all my CDs - by hand (the downloads from Napster convinced me that it was actually feasible to have all my music in MP3-format).
The disappointement is that such a question surfaces 2 (two !) years too late - at least on my timescale that is. Call me a troll, but since I'm on the road most of the time, I can't afford to bring unnecessary hardware with me, and have therefore eradicated the problem at the root.
As a matter of fact Heise misquoted the product name - it should read Standard Anwendung Meldewesen Banken (cv. CMG), which more or less translates to Standard Application for Reporting between banks. It really looks like it is something german and proprietary.
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I think the sig read:
A nerd is a person who's life is dominated by computers. A geek is a person who's life is dominated by computers and who enjoys it.
We all hated Sun for their embracing policy on Java. We all loved NSCP for their courage, although it was ambiguous (http://language.perl.com/versus/hats.html).
This situation looks like a half-heresy; slowly backing away from a OSS scheme we're approaching Microsofts licensing scheme.
Sounds like a compromise to me. Not a good one, not a bad one. But exactly what compromises are all about.
Anybody thinking about not having corporations setting the rules ?
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The assumption that you have to already own stock to buy put options is incorrect.
That D-Air is pronounced like "dare" is probably just a coincident, right ?
Is it likely to come with a warning "The usage of D-Air does not substitute driving with due care ?"
Oh my....
IANAL too, but I've seen this kind of thing happen in court (was in Europe though), and it held.
What freaks me out is the possibility that this very clause is deemed illegal by a court - now that's where it gets really interesting :)
It has to be Superman, since Batman could only win using Cryptonite. And Cryptonite, alas, is only available in Bagdad, where not even Bruce "Inspectorman" Wayne has access.
He praises companies like Oracle and Sun because the founder still runs the company
The founder's presence is not a guarantee at all for the flourishing of a company - how many companies (ok, most of them are the usual derelict dotcoms) have evaporated into thin air in the last two years despite the founder still leading the company ?
And what about cases like CMGI, where it would've probably a better idea to get rid of the founder (David Wetherell) a long time ago ?
Just my $0.02...
any programmer with a Perl script and a bit of intelligence
and I thought intelligence was a prerequisite to be able to handle perl ? :)
It allready exists, also from Ready-to-Run: http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/ - note that Digital Unix, FreeBSD, BSDI, Linux (RedHat), Solaris, HPUX and IRIX are supported.
One of the best examples to explain "usability" is the comparison of the Newton and Palm "graffitis": whilst Newton required the machine to learn from the user, the Palm handled it the other way round.
Not surprisingly man is better at learning stuff than a machine - therefore even grandmothers can cope with the Palm input method after ten minutes, whilst a lot of experienced users simply gave it up with the Newton.
The difference of evolution of the visual apperance Browser and the Creator (the former from sleak to bulky, the latter from round-faced to lean) explains pretty much the difference in perspectives. Netscape's doomed, and Mark is well off.
I must admit that I am extremely disappointed by this article.
After I've discovered Napster in August 1999, and have known for MP3 for some time, I started immediately to convert all my CDs - by hand (the downloads from Napster convinced me that it was actually feasible to have all my music in MP3-format).
The disappointement is that such a question surfaces 2 (two !) years too late - at least on my timescale that is. Call me a troll, but since I'm on the road most of the time, I can't afford to bring unnecessary hardware with me, and have therefore eradicated the problem at the root.
Michael Goldhaber came up with this back in '97, or at least his story in Wired 5.12 indicates that.
Just as a sideline: Daniel Gordon (who maintains the current cam) is also the author of the most retro webpage ever, as mentioned in the most recent quickies.
Although it's not a major player yet, it definitely has potential: Webbased IM, entirely over http. Check it out at http://www.sofunky.com.
As a matter of fact Heise misquoted the product name - it should read Standard Anwendung Meldewesen Banken (cv. CMG), which more or less translates to Standard Application for Reporting between banks. It really looks like it is something german and proprietary.
A nerd is a person who's life is dominated by computers.
A geek is a person who's life is dominated by computers and who enjoys it.
What about another paradigm shift ?
We all hated Sun for their embracing policy on Java. We all loved NSCP for their courage, although it was ambiguous (http://language.perl.com/versus/hats.html).
This situation looks like a half-heresy; slowly backing away from a OSS scheme we're approaching Microsofts licensing scheme.
Sounds like a compromise to me. Not a good one, not a bad one. But exactly what compromises are all about.
Anybody thinking about not having corporations setting the rules ?