In a faux living room, Gruver shows how documents on a computer at work can be accessed easily at home. . . . or in the air or in a car, thanks to two mocked-up first-class plane seats and complete, touch-screen-equipped Toyota Prius dashboard.
"The lines between home and office are blurring," he says.
Please allow the grammar nazi to ask the following question... How in the heck do mock-up plane seats and a car dashboard allow me to easily access work documents? Because of this guy's grammatical continuity error, it sounds as though the lines between home and mock-up junk are blurring.
One needs to thank the futuristic technology for allowing easy document access, not the mock-up junk.
Rather than see the lines between home and office blur, I'd rather see the lines between personal electronics blur. Apple has the right idea with iSync, but why should it stop with Celular phones and PDAs. Why can't one sync up an PDA addressbook with officephone. I shouldn't have to read some number off of a display and then manually type it into a telephone. That's not syncing the most important thing to sync to. Futhermore, addressbooks could be synced to fedex/mail drops so you never write an address, or synced through the phone, so that you never have to give an address to a flower-delivery or pizza delivery person. My appointments sync with my doctor's/hair stylists. Get the idea?
I find it amazing verizon goes through all the trouble to put there service in the Holland Tunnel (NYC), yet from my apartment in midtown manhattan (31st floor) I get a shitty connection. From my work in midtown manhattan, the connection is so weak that I can't even use the phone.
Boy, I'm glad that I can make a call for the 10 minutes that I'm stuck in traffic in the Holland tunnel. I can't seem to make/receive calls from anywhere else.
It is a GPLed course setup, developed and used by many universities accross the country. It stresses the "nonlinear" flow of a course, although it is easy to create linear "textbook" courses as well.
The entire loncapa is built upon Redhat 6.2 and is designed to scale my simply adding more servers.
Courses can be created within loncapa or they can be set up separetely and imported in. Each component of a course can be an HTML page, a multimedia clip, a Java applet, a problem or assignment. These components are combined into the course.
"Does anyone know of a project to do monitoring/alerting coupled with some artificial intelligence that can learn that I don't care about particular servers after a certain time of day?"
What about crond? It comes installed on most systems and if integrated with your scripts, it will work wonders.
I wouldn't be the grammar nazi if I didn't take point out that: "Is this striking any cords with anyone?" (line from original story) is incorrect. The proper homonym is chord, not cord; "to strike a chord"
The first paragraph makes the following hypothesis: "...the study of HOW entropy changes in any given system is the study of intelligence itself...?" That seems to be the main question in this ask slashdot.
In the second paragraph, he shows us how little he knows about neural networks (or grammar). It is not the storage of the weights in a neural network that determines the networks "intellectual" ability, but rather the value of the weights (I would argue it's the training method, network structure, rather than the actual weights). Furthermore, this sentence about the storage of the weights does not lead to the next sentence: "Therefore, studying the "entropy" of these weights... is to study intelligence". One point does not imply the other point. I'm not sure what he/she is trying to say here. As a side point, there is little entropy to the neural network nodes anyways. Similar networks, performing similar but different functions, have similar node weights (I know this from working developing an OCR system for 2 years at Lockheed Martin).
The author's third paragraph is to study the entropic nature of Genetic Algorithms. However, the entropy derived in each generation of a genetic algorithm is directly derived from a random number generator. All GA entropy is derived from randomness in the selection. To study each generation is equivalent to studying random number generation, nothing more.
Finally, I wouldn't be doing my Mathematics degree justice if I didn't point out that CHAOS IS NOT ENTROPY. Chaos is marked by having a complicated, seemingly random, system described by a simple structure or order (Period 3 implies Chaos, York, Lee, et al). Entropy is a random system having NO simple structure or order.
Does the original author still have a valid question? Probably. Little understanding of intelligence is to be gained from studying randomness and entropy in GAs and Neural Networks. Perhaps, the time would be better spent studying entropy XOR GAs and NNs. Or learning a little bit more about any of these things and then reposing the question.
The grammar nazi just *had* to post this Engrish translation from the Red Flag Linux website. The grammar nazi can't help but grimace upon reading this:
Regarding Red Flag Desktop 3.0
Span application obstacle and move to a new easiness-to-use magnitude
Redflag Linux desktop 3.0 unveiled Recently, CAS Redflag Software Technologies Co., Ltd. unveiled in Beijing its latest desktop operating system (OS), i.e., Redflag Desktop 3.0.
While maintaining the inherent stability and high-performance of Linux system, the product, leveraging the cutting-edge Linux 2.4.7 core, remarkably overcomes the deficiencies of the former versions of Linux in terms of operability and gives prominence to OS' humanization and affinity, pushing the easy-to-use and applicability of desktop OS to a new frontier and moving a solid step forward in the application-oriented evolution road.
In December of 2001, CAS Redflag Software Technologies Co., Ltd. differentiated itself among legions of renowned vendors at home and abroad in the fierce competition for Beijing Government contract for OA software package. Redflag Linux Desktop OS featuring high availability and high performance-price ratio has won recognition from the general users and government users alike. The newly-released Redflag Desktop 3.0, while inheriting advantages from the older versions, made a shining debut with humanization and affinity, demonstrating to people once again the promising future of Chinese software industry.
An important index for the genuine maturation of a desktop OS is that whether the system itself is designed on the basis of user care. In this perspective, Redflag Linux Desktop 3.0 makes significant headway in comparison with the older versions. Redflag Linux moves even closer to the users' operating habits and makes reference to the strong-points of some proven OS' regarding system appearance, structure and operation etc., enabling users accustomed to using other OS' and multi-system users to acquaint it very soon.
Redflag optimizes the hardware drivers supported by Redflag Linux Desktop 3.0, significantly improving its applicability and enabling convenient and quick installation on PCs with different configurations. By leveraging simple and intuitive menu installation wizard, common users are able to finish the whole setup process within half an hour. The powerful control panel available seamlessly combines the easiness-of-use with the functionality. The system re-categorizes KDE setting, enabling compliance with operating habits of Windows users.
A performance-price ratio conforming to China's actual situation has been Redflag offerings' advantage all the time. Likewise, the Redflag Desktop 3.0 affordably priced provides complete system functions with user-friendly graphic interface. Taking users' demands into consideration, the system pays close attention to applicability and easy-to-use features. The installation process of the system is very simple and all components feature plug-and-play. Upon completion of installation, the system is capable of operating under the default mode, consequently, whether experienced users or green hands with Linux can use the system skillfully. According to related marketing personnel of Redflag, the story doesn't end here, Redflag Desktop 3.0 accomplishes high-availability while exhibiting very high performance-price ratio. This OS is designed not only for consumers but also for government offices. While the Linux version of office packages to be released by Kingsoft Software, Sun and Chinese 2000 will without doubt accelerate the time-to-market of Linux desktop. As a result, the principles of stability, reliability and security are given prominence by Redflag when designing this OS. The sending/receiving of official documents and smooth headway of government work are the basis of the steady running of the society as a whole, while introducing homemade OS will provide reliable safeguard for the security of government transactions.
That reminds me of the Limerick that I sent into the BBSpot Geek limerick contest. The title is Mainstream:
Best OS? Linux is the one.
Help is online by the ton.
"Can't detect network?
RTFM Jerk!"
Why hasn't Linux caught on?
I think that this is very applicable to the *nix community. Hopefully it will change in the future. I've always gone out of my way to help people with their problems.
I third this. I successfully ran MkLinux on a PowerMac 7100/80 from late 1996 (an early version) until just early 2001. Granted, that I only used the PowerPC as a fileserver the last few years, it never failed me.
During the first 3-4 years, MkLinux was my XServer to Solaris workstations in my schools engineering building. I would even run Motif from the engineering building, displaying itself on X in my dorm.
One impressive point is that enventually, when I gave the Mac away (Summer 2001), my friend noticed a few h4xx0red programs running in the background. Apparently, all of those years as a file server allowed somebody to hack in. I even reinstalled in the newer version of MkLinux 2000.
The coolest thing about the Mac is that I still needed the Mac OS 7.6 to boot MkLinux. I was able to install the entire Mac OS 7.6 + CD reading extensions + MkLinux booter + SimpleText onto an 8 MB partition!
Instant messaging isn't all bad in the business workplace. I can count 5 great uses without even thinking about it. The problem is that, currently, people only use them to IM their friends and not use them work related uses.
What needs to happen is to get a large business software company (read: Microsoft) to integrate IM into their next Office suite. This would be useful and might gain more acceptance for IM from all the PHBs (such as the one who submitted this article). Notice that I said for IM to be integrated with the business/productivity software, not the OS. Business/Productivity (media players, IM) belong in one suite while, memory managers, task schedulers belong in the OS (NOT IM, media players_.
Some days, 90% of my work email messages could have been accomplished with a few IMs to whomever I'm sending messages to.
I tried gnumeric for a while. I planned on using that or Staroffice or some combination of both. Although gnumeric and Staroffice are mature, they both don't compare to Excel in efficiency (solver convergence speed), keyboard shortcuts (sorry, I'm used to Excel's keyboard shortcuts), VBA scripting (Python in gnumeric is way cooler, but none of my coworkers or classmates know Python). This leaves little choice for me.
I use very complicated spreadsheet financial modeling programs at work, and I need to be able to read complex spreadsheets. For school, my professors need to be able to test my spreadsheet models.
Don't worry, though. I use Octave and Perl/Python whenever I can get away with it in school and in work. Recently, however, I am being forced to use MS.Net to develop a web application at work.;-(
I'm going to approach it with an open mind and see if it is actually cool or not.
WRT emacs as a calendar program... Yeah right! (sarcasm). I didn't play umpteen thousand dollars for a Powerbook in order to use a program that clashes with aqua. I don't care if it's an aquafied emacs. I want something pretty!
Actually, I have always hated MS, used Mac's, switched to Linux on Intel, switched back to Mac (with the ti powerbooks).
I use MS Office vX on my TiBook for work and school related things (no other program even approaches Excel in maturity and performance for my work and school applications). Anyways, after a searching the internet in vane for an OSX calendar/scheduling program, I came up empty handed. I was tempted by the dark side (MS) and installed Entourage off of my Office CD. It didn't work, giving me a funny error message and then crashing every time I tried to start it.
After checking online, searching for this error message for ~10 minutes, I decided to give the MS Customer support line a call. I didn't have to stay on hold for more than 10 seconds throughout the entire call. After a few voicemail selections, I was dumped to one support guy who, after asking a few questions, referred me to a Mac support guy. The Mac support guy stepped through a few troubleshooting hoops with me, figured out what the problem was and fixed it.
The entire phone call took less than 10 minutes and I was entouraging away. The tech support even told me how to use entourage as a calendar program and *not* an email program.
The point is, MS is a large company. They might break a few antitrust laws and stifle a little innovation here and there, but don't forget that this is capitalism. The consumer rules! Take advantage of what MS does offer. In my case it's good phone support and reasonable software. In the case related to this story, it's IE for Mac. Use IE for the Mac. Use Mozilla for the Mac. Make an educated decision about which is better. Use one or the other, both or neither. The educated consumer is the best thing to be in a capitalistic society.
You are already using a Mac, so you aren't forced to use one thing over another. MS will work hard making good apps for the Apple if they will be rewarded by consumers buying/using them.
"Do you, as Slashdot users, think a local Slashdot style newspaper would be successfull?"
No. As a Slashdot user I would say that a PostNuke (PHP based) site would be successful rather than a SlashCode site.
It doesn't even matter what your content is or who your community is. PostNuke = Success! I used PostNuke to successfully receive a PhD in English from a top University. My friend tried that with SlashCode and failed out after 2 semesters.
If you would like some hard numbers, my friend runs a PostNuke site for Gay RubberBand manufacturers. He receives 20 times the number of visitors as my other friend's SlashCode based Sports website. The friend with the Sports based site also had problems paying his ISP each month, whereas my gay Rubberband manufacturer friend always paid each ISP bill early.
Although, my comment doesn't clearly state that a Slashcode based site will be successful, it does tell you that you will have *more* success with a PostNuke. So why would you go with a Slashcode site?? Sarcasm aside, since a website's success has nothing to do with its audience and content, it clearly doesn't matter which content management system you use. What you are asking sounds like the following: I have a band. If we distribute MP3 songs, will be successful? If we distribute Ogg songs will we be more successful?
This is CmdrTaco we're talking about! He's not going to be able to talk about that kind of stuff, he can barely form complete sentences.
CmdrTaco, if you are reading this, stick to talking about Japanese Anime. At least, the audience might think that English is your second language.
Just kidding. I grew up in MI with Michigan grammar, too. Seriously, CmdrTaco, you should discuss the sense of community in the Apple world and the sense of community in the Linux world.
Don't talk about Linux changing Unix and Apple changing Unix. I consider you an expert in neither of these, and it is doubtful that audience would be interested, anyways. You are, on the other hand, an expert in the Linux/Nerd community. Talk about merging the Linux/Nerds with the Apple/nerd community. Tell those Apple hackers that *shareware* is annoying and limits their project's potential. Give them faith that large masses can accomplish major pieces of software, that individual hackers can't. Tell funny stories of things that happened on Slashdot. Talk about the wildly (soon to be wildly?) successful apple.slashdot.org. Ask Pudge for ideas. He seems to be a Mac d00d.
I wish I was going to be in MI that weekend. I would have loved to see the show and hear your speech. Good luck. Have somebody doublecheck the grammar of your speech!
Mr. Tunah. You use this too many times in your comment. Furthermore, please capitalize your proper nouns (e.g. Macromedia, Java, Microsoft).
Normally I wouldn't point grammar mistakes out (okay, I would), but it's ironic that you comment that original story is not clear about whose code to debug, and then you follow it up with 3 unclear thises in a row.
Please put more effort into the grammar of your posts and make/. a happy place.
Has anybody ever played Acrophobia? I don't know if this game is still around or not, but they would give you a series of letters and everybody would come up with an acronym for the letters. Afterwords, everyone would vote on the best acronym that somebody would come up with.
I worked on a project by the name SCARFACE for a while. This sounds like a cool acronym, until you figure out that it's just a Schopping Cart And Register For Automated Credit Exchanges.
I got a little news for all you supposed stockholders. If Be is in the current state which they seem to be in right now, then they owe NOTHING to stockholders. The debtholders make the calls for the company now. Stockholders are typically LAST to recieve anything when it comes to profits or paying off debts for an distressed company. Typically, especially if the company has filed Chapter 11, the shareholders lose all of their voting rights. The Debt holders (Bond holders, Asset owners, Leasers, Banks) come in and literally make the calls.
If they feel that the company is worth more being liquidated (which is typical with software companies, which Be has been for the last few years) as opposed to rebuilt, then they will make that decision and recover whatever they can. Since Be has sold it's assets to Palm and auctioned off eveyrthing else, I think that the debt holders have already been making the calls.
As far as a lawsuit goes, it seems to be a good idea. You lose and get $0 or you win and get $2 Billion of computers that were going to be put in public schools with WindowsME (wait.. different lawsuit).
The potential gains from a lawsuit will go to the debt holders. I would be surprised if the stockholders see any of it.
Since Be has already sold it's IP to Palm, there is 0% chance that they would ever go back into OS business and frankly, everybody else is gone.
The debt holders will reap the rewards of the lawsuit. This is how it is done. I do wonder who is paying for the attornies, since I doubt the debt holders would do that. It's probably a contigency case that somebody else already mentioned.
I worked at a distressed securities hedge fund in Manhattan for a few years, although, I mainly stuck to IT activities.
It's amazing how easy it is for companies to work together when their entire industry is at stake. Hopefully they will use some kind of secure encryption that little boys can't decypher and continue to charge way-too-much $$$$ for each video. I'll continue to not pay that amount for the videos and then everybody will be happy.
BTW, has anybody been keeping up WRT to the artists suing the RIAA and individual labels over royalties from streaming media/mp3s. From what I read in the NYT (free registration req.), an artist/band will make $0.01 for every 4 songs of theirs that I download. The artists are saying that if they are not going to make any money off of their music being online, then they will just release it online for free to begin with.
Anyways, I was just checking with if anybody else read this. Can anybody help me with my Interest Rate Swaps homework. It's due later today and I'm stuck.
Sending up weather balloons to cover large rural areas rather than putting up towers?
To answer this question, we have to look deeply into the psychie of the average rural-area yokel. Does he prefer shooting up towers with buckshot or shooting down balloons with a high-caliber rifle. Which is more economic for the redneck? Will ammunition sales at WalMart effect this decision.
Is it cheaper for the phone companies to patch holes in balloons or replate a tower.
I didn't see any mention of this in their story. One can only hope that they took this into account.
The itanium already has not-an-instruction bits attached to each operation. Perhaps, they need not-a-thread bits for processes and not-a-bug bits for features.
In paragraph specifically mentions that the security model is overly complicated. For comparison...
Microsoft's argument for a long time was that Java's security model was overly complicated. ASP, by contrast, had a simplified security model. Either an ASP executes scripts locally, or it doesn't. Thus ASP does have a simple security model.
Now... which security model will be suitable for your projects? Which security model is potentially better for the client browsers?
I am extremely familiar with freenet and I can tell you that the current security model is very *robust* yet I feel that it is very streamlined. By contrast, napster's security model was simple. So Mr. MP3 Pirate, which security model would you prefer? Do you want to continue to enjoy music or would you rather get nasty letters from the MPAA/RIAA and get your cablemodem shut off.
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This is the funniest thing which I have ever read. Please post no more of your funny jokes or else I will die. You are a bitch.
Grade: D-
Far too many grammar errors and sentence fragments.
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Please allow the grammar nazi to ask the following question... How in the heck do mock-up plane seats and a car dashboard allow me to easily access work documents? Because of this guy's grammatical continuity error, it sounds as though the lines between home and mock-up junk are blurring.
One needs to thank the futuristic technology for allowing easy document access, not the mock-up junk.
Rather than see the lines between home and office blur, I'd rather see the lines between personal electronics blur. Apple has the right idea with iSync, but why should it stop with Celular phones and PDAs. Why can't one sync up an PDA addressbook with officephone. I shouldn't have to read some number off of a display and then manually type it into a telephone. That's not syncing the most important thing to sync to. Futhermore, addressbooks could be synced to fedex/mail drops so you never write an address, or synced through the phone, so that you never have to give an address to a flower-delivery or pizza delivery person. My appointments sync with my doctor's/hair stylists. Get the idea?
Boy, I'm glad that I can make a call for the 10 minutes that I'm stuck in traffic in the Holland tunnel. I can't seem to make/receive calls from anywhere else.
It is a GPLed course setup, developed and used by many universities accross the country. It stresses the "nonlinear" flow of a course, although it is easy to create linear "textbook" courses as well.
The entire loncapa is built upon Redhat 6.2 and is designed to scale my simply adding more servers.
Courses can be created within loncapa or they can be set up separetely and imported in. Each component of a course can be an HTML page, a multimedia clip, a Java applet, a problem or assignment. These components are combined into the course.
What about crond? It comes installed on most systems and if integrated with your scripts, it will work wonders.
This one deserve a +6.
The first paragraph makes the following hypothesis: "...the study of HOW entropy changes in any given system is the study of intelligence itself...?" That seems to be the main question in this ask slashdot.
In the second paragraph, he shows us how little he knows about neural networks (or grammar). It is not the storage of the weights in a neural network that determines the networks "intellectual" ability, but rather the value of the weights (I would argue it's the training method, network structure, rather than the actual weights). Furthermore, this sentence about the storage of the weights does not lead to the next sentence: "Therefore, studying the "entropy" of these weights... is to study intelligence". One point does not imply the other point. I'm not sure what he/she is trying to say here. As a side point, there is little entropy to the neural network nodes anyways. Similar networks, performing similar but different functions, have similar node weights (I know this from working developing an OCR system for 2 years at Lockheed Martin).
The author's third paragraph is to study the entropic nature of Genetic Algorithms. However, the entropy derived in each generation of a genetic algorithm is directly derived from a random number generator. All GA entropy is derived from randomness in the selection. To study each generation is equivalent to studying random number generation, nothing more.
Finally, I wouldn't be doing my Mathematics degree justice if I didn't point out that CHAOS IS NOT ENTROPY. Chaos is marked by having a complicated, seemingly random, system described by a simple structure or order (Period 3 implies Chaos, York, Lee, et al). Entropy is a random system having NO simple structure or order.
Does the original author still have a valid question? Probably. Little understanding of intelligence is to be gained from studying randomness and entropy in GAs and Neural Networks. Perhaps, the time would be better spent studying entropy XOR GAs and NNs. Or learning a little bit more about any of these things and then reposing the question.
Regarding Red Flag Desktop 3.0
Span application obstacle and move to a new easiness-to-use magnitude
Redflag Linux desktop 3.0 unveiled
Recently, CAS Redflag Software Technologies Co., Ltd. unveiled in Beijing its latest desktop operating system (OS), i.e., Redflag Desktop 3.0.
While maintaining the inherent stability and high-performance of Linux system, the product, leveraging the cutting-edge Linux 2.4.7 core, remarkably overcomes the deficiencies of the former versions of Linux in terms of operability and gives prominence to OS' humanization and affinity, pushing the easy-to-use and applicability of desktop OS to a new frontier and moving a solid step forward in the application-oriented evolution road.
In December of 2001, CAS Redflag Software Technologies Co., Ltd. differentiated itself among legions of renowned vendors at home and abroad in the fierce competition for Beijing Government contract for OA software package. Redflag Linux Desktop OS featuring high availability and high performance-price ratio has won recognition from the general users and government users alike. The newly-released Redflag Desktop 3.0, while inheriting advantages from the older versions, made a shining debut with humanization and affinity, demonstrating to people once again the promising future of Chinese software industry.
An important index for the genuine maturation of a desktop OS is that whether the system itself is designed on the basis of user care. In this perspective, Redflag Linux Desktop 3.0 makes significant headway in comparison with the older versions. Redflag Linux moves even closer to the users' operating habits and makes reference to the strong-points of some proven OS' regarding system appearance, structure and operation etc., enabling users accustomed to using other OS' and multi-system users to acquaint it very soon.
Redflag optimizes the hardware drivers supported by Redflag Linux Desktop 3.0, significantly improving its applicability and enabling convenient and quick installation on PCs with different configurations. By leveraging simple and intuitive menu installation wizard, common users are able to finish the whole setup process within half an hour. The powerful control panel available seamlessly combines the easiness-of-use with the functionality. The system re-categorizes KDE setting, enabling compliance with operating habits of Windows users.
A performance-price ratio conforming to China's actual situation has been Redflag offerings' advantage all the time. Likewise, the Redflag Desktop 3.0 affordably priced provides complete system functions with user-friendly graphic interface. Taking users' demands into consideration, the system pays close attention to applicability and easy-to-use features. The installation process of the system is very simple and all components feature plug-and-play. Upon completion of installation, the system is capable of operating under the default mode, consequently, whether experienced users or green hands with Linux can use the system skillfully. According to related marketing personnel of Redflag, the story doesn't end here, Redflag Desktop 3.0 accomplishes high-availability while exhibiting very high performance-price ratio. This OS is designed not only for consumers but also for government offices. While the Linux version of office packages to be released by Kingsoft Software, Sun and Chinese 2000 will without doubt accelerate the time-to-market of Linux desktop. As a result, the principles of stability, reliability and security are given prominence by Redflag when designing this OS. The sending/receiving of official documents and smooth headway of government work are the basis of the steady running of the society as a whole, while introducing homemade OS will provide reliable safeguard for the security of government transactions.
End of quote. Ouch!
RTFM.
Just a joke.
Best OS? Linux is the one.
Help is online by the ton.
"Can't detect network?
RTFM Jerk!"
Why hasn't Linux caught on?
I think that this is very applicable to the *nix community. Hopefully it will change in the future. I've always gone out of my way to help people with their problems.
During the first 3-4 years, MkLinux was my XServer to Solaris workstations in my schools engineering building. I would even run Motif from the engineering building, displaying itself on X in my dorm.
One impressive point is that enventually, when I gave the Mac away (Summer 2001), my friend noticed a few h4xx0red programs running in the background. Apparently, all of those years as a file server allowed somebody to hack in. I even reinstalled in the newer version of MkLinux 2000.
The coolest thing about the Mac is that I still needed the Mac OS 7.6 to boot MkLinux. I was able to install the entire Mac OS 7.6 + CD reading extensions + MkLinux booter + SimpleText onto an 8 MB partition!
'grafitti' is a noun, not a verb. Also, in your last sentence, s/would be/is/; to clear things up.
BTW, this is the grammar nazi's 500th grammar correcting post!! Everybody doublecheck his/her grammar before posting in honor of the grammar nazi.
What needs to happen is to get a large business software company (read: Microsoft) to integrate IM into their next Office suite. This would be useful and might gain more acceptance for IM from all the PHBs (such as the one who submitted this article). Notice that I said for IM to be integrated with the business/productivity software, not the OS. Business/Productivity (media players, IM) belong in one suite while, memory managers, task schedulers belong in the OS (NOT IM, media players_.
Some days, 90% of my work email messages could have been accomplished with a few IMs to whomever I'm sending messages to.
I use very complicated spreadsheet financial modeling programs at work, and I need to be able to read complex spreadsheets. For school, my professors need to be able to test my spreadsheet models.
Don't worry, though. I use Octave and Perl/Python whenever I can get away with it in school and in work. Recently, however, I am being forced to use MS .Net to develop a web application at work. ;-(
I'm going to approach it with an open mind and see if it is actually cool or not.
WRT emacs as a calendar program... Yeah right! (sarcasm). I didn't play umpteen thousand dollars for a Powerbook in order to use a program that clashes with aqua. I don't care if it's an aquafied emacs. I want something pretty!
I use MS Office vX on my TiBook for work and school related things (no other program even approaches Excel in maturity and performance for my work and school applications). Anyways, after a searching the internet in vane for an OSX calendar/scheduling program, I came up empty handed. I was tempted by the dark side (MS) and installed Entourage off of my Office CD. It didn't work, giving me a funny error message and then crashing every time I tried to start it.
After checking online, searching for this error message for ~10 minutes, I decided to give the MS Customer support line a call. I didn't have to stay on hold for more than 10 seconds throughout the entire call. After a few voicemail selections, I was dumped to one support guy who, after asking a few questions, referred me to a Mac support guy. The Mac support guy stepped through a few troubleshooting hoops with me, figured out what the problem was and fixed it.
The entire phone call took less than 10 minutes and I was entouraging away. The tech support even told me how to use entourage as a calendar program and *not* an email program.
The point is, MS is a large company. They might break a few antitrust laws and stifle a little innovation here and there, but don't forget that this is capitalism. The consumer rules! Take advantage of what MS does offer. In my case it's good phone support and reasonable software. In the case related to this story, it's IE for Mac. Use IE for the Mac. Use Mozilla for the Mac. Make an educated decision about which is better. Use one or the other, both or neither. The educated consumer is the best thing to be in a capitalistic society.
You are already using a Mac, so you aren't forced to use one thing over another. MS will work hard making good apps for the Apple if they will be rewarded by consumers buying/using them.
No. As a Slashdot user I would say that a PostNuke (PHP based) site would be successful rather than a SlashCode site.
It doesn't even matter what your content is or who your community is. PostNuke = Success! I used PostNuke to successfully receive a PhD in English from a top University. My friend tried that with SlashCode and failed out after 2 semesters.
If you would like some hard numbers, my friend runs a PostNuke site for Gay RubberBand manufacturers. He receives 20 times the number of visitors as my other friend's SlashCode based Sports website. The friend with the Sports based site also had problems paying his ISP each month, whereas my gay Rubberband manufacturer friend always paid each ISP bill early.
Although, my comment doesn't clearly state that a Slashcode based site will be successful, it does tell you that you will have *more* success with a PostNuke. So why would you go with a Slashcode site?? Sarcasm aside, since a website's success has nothing to do with its audience and content, it clearly doesn't matter which content management system you use. What you are asking sounds like the following: I have a band. If we distribute MP3 songs, will be successful? If we distribute Ogg songs will we be more successful?
Yeah!!
CmdrTaco, if you are reading this, stick to talking about Japanese Anime. At least, the audience might think that English is your second language.
Just kidding. I grew up in MI with Michigan grammar, too. Seriously, CmdrTaco, you should discuss the sense of community in the Apple world and the sense of community in the Linux world.
Don't talk about Linux changing Unix and Apple changing Unix. I consider you an expert in neither of these, and it is doubtful that audience would be interested, anyways. You are, on the other hand, an expert in the Linux/Nerd community. Talk about merging the Linux/Nerds with the Apple/nerd community. Tell those Apple hackers that *shareware* is annoying and limits their project's potential. Give them faith that large masses can accomplish major pieces of software, that individual hackers can't. Tell funny stories of things that happened on Slashdot. Talk about the wildly (soon to be wildly?) successful apple.slashdot.org. Ask Pudge for ideas. He seems to be a Mac d00d.
I wish I was going to be in MI that weekend. I would have loved to see the show and hear your speech. Good luck. Have somebody doublecheck the grammar of your speech!
Normally I wouldn't point grammar mistakes out (okay, I would), but it's ironic that you comment that original story is not clear about whose code to debug, and then you follow it up with 3 unclear thises in a row.
Please put more effort into the grammar of your posts and make /. a happy place.
I worked on a project by the name SCARFACE for a while. This sounds like a cool acronym, until you figure out that it's just a Schopping Cart And Register For Automated Credit Exchanges.
If they feel that the company is worth more being liquidated (which is typical with software companies, which Be has been for the last few years) as opposed to rebuilt, then they will make that decision and recover whatever they can. Since Be has sold it's assets to Palm and auctioned off eveyrthing else, I think that the debt holders have already been making the calls.
As far as a lawsuit goes, it seems to be a good idea. You lose and get $0 or you win and get $2 Billion of computers that were going to be put in public schools with WindowsME (wait.. different lawsuit).
The potential gains from a lawsuit will go to the debt holders. I would be surprised if the stockholders see any of it.
Since Be has already sold it's IP to Palm, there is 0% chance that they would ever go back into OS business and frankly, everybody else is gone.
The debt holders will reap the rewards of the lawsuit. This is how it is done. I do wonder who is paying for the attornies, since I doubt the debt holders would do that. It's probably a contigency case that somebody else already mentioned.
I worked at a distressed securities hedge fund in Manhattan for a few years, although, I mainly stuck to IT activities.
BTW, has anybody been keeping up WRT to the artists suing the RIAA and individual labels over royalties from streaming media/mp3s. From what I read in the NYT (free registration req.), an artist/band will make $0.01 for every 4 songs of theirs that I download. The artists are saying that if they are not going to make any money off of their music being online, then they will just release it online for free to begin with.
Anyways, I was just checking with if anybody else read this. Can anybody help me with my Interest Rate Swaps homework. It's due later today and I'm stuck.
Sending up weather balloons to cover large rural areas rather than putting up towers?
To answer this question, we have to look deeply into the psychie of the average rural-area yokel. Does he prefer shooting up towers with buckshot or shooting down balloons with a high-caliber rifle. Which is more economic for the redneck? Will ammunition sales at WalMart effect this decision.
Is it cheaper for the phone companies to patch holes in balloons or replate a tower.
I didn't see any mention of this in their story. One can only hope that they took this into account.
The itanium already has not-an-instruction bits attached to each operation. Perhaps, they need not-a-thread bits for processes and not-a-bug bits for features.
Microsoft's argument for a long time was that Java's security model was overly complicated. ASP, by contrast, had a simplified security model. Either an ASP executes scripts locally, or it doesn't. Thus ASP does have a simple security model.
Now... which security model will be suitable for your projects? Which security model is potentially better for the client browsers?
I am extremely familiar with freenet and I can tell you that the current security model is very *robust* yet I feel that it is very streamlined. By contrast, napster's security model was simple. So Mr. MP3 Pirate, which security model would you prefer? Do you want to continue to enjoy music or would you rather get nasty letters from the MPAA/RIAA and get your cablemodem shut off.
Far too many grammar errors and sentence fragments.