I first thought of Civilization (Sid Meier's) where you have to acquire city walls to protect your fellow citizens from invaders... Once you get a proper air defense system, these become obsolete. But no, it just looks to be more about the demise of ruralship and the slow disappearing of intermediate management : info no gets directly from the ground up and vice versa.
Of course, it's only a phone, but it's a good tool aimed at taking both vocal and video notes. I use mine to take VGA pics and I am very happy with their imperfections...
10 years ago, Doom was supposed to be a virtual trip on Mars, now it looks a little old, I guess it will soon happen to be the same with this. Hence my question : why not making it a game rather than funding it with public money ?
3 Nov 2004, 09:46 GMT -
Ballmer's memo was sent to Microsoft customers and partners last week, and criticized Linux's record on security, total cost of ownership and indemnification, among other things. Ballmer referenced a number of analyst reports that have long been the weapons in its Get The Facts campaign against Linux.
Now Waltham, Massachusetts-based Novell has accused Ballmer of being selective with the truth. "The points made by Mr Ballmer leverage only those statements in its commissioned studies that reflect most positively on Microsoft," Novell said in its response. "A broader look paints a much more objective picture, one more favorable to Linux."
The Linux and identity management software vendor continued to list a number of areas in which Ballmer had been selective in his choice of references from these reports.
For example, referring to a Yankee Group report called 'Linux, Unix and Windows TCO comparison', Ballmer noted: "Yankee's study concluded that, in large enterprises, a significant Linux deployment or total switch from Windows to Linux would be three to four times more expensive - and take three times as long to deploy - as an upgrade from one version of Windows to a newer release".
What he failed to point out, according to Novell, was Yankee's statement: "In summary, the Yankee Group's TCO survey found that Linux does offer compelling cost savings, economies of scale and technical advantages, as many a satisfied user will attest...Ultimately, the TCO and ROI of Linux may be less than, comparable to, or more expensive than Unix or Windows depending on the individual corporate deployment circumstances."
Novell's response also tackles once again a report from Forrester entitled "Is Linux More Secure than Windows" that has already been chewed over several times by the open source and security communities, pointing out that Ballmer failed to note that the report attributed Windows with the highest number of critical flaws compared to Novell's SuSE, Red Hat, Debian, and MandrakeSoft.
With regards to indemnification, Novell notes that while Ballmer stated that "it is rare for open source software to provide customers with any indemnification at all", if he were to check his own slides used in an address to the Massachusetts Software Council in September, he would see that Novell was attributed with offering indemnification.
The response also goes on to tackle Ballmer's statements regarding benchmark tests, training requirements, and migration costs, comparing each with publicly available research reports and surveys.
Finally, Novell dismisses Ballmer's conclusion that "It's pretty clear that the facts show that Windows provides a lower total cost of ownership than Linux; the number of security vulnerabilities is lower on Windows, and Windows' responsiveness on security is better than Linux; and Microsoft provides uncapped IP indemnification of their products, while no such comprehensive offering is available for Linux or open source."
"The facts do not show this at all," Novell retorts, "read the complete reports on Microsoft's site, not just Microsoft's chosen sound bites. Given the increased adoption rates of Linux by customers, many of them also appear to disagree with Mr Ballmer's negative assessment of Linux."
Check Yamaha's 01X. It uses Yamaha's new protocol : mLan which consists of MIDI with audio over Firewire. I guess this is the future : isochronous audio over an heterogeneous network.
Maybe it's just that Aspyr found out it would use 83% of a 1,8GHz G5...
Anyway, IIRC, "they" said UT2003 required a G4 while I could happily play it on a G3 800 iBook, so, don't believe all what they say, sometime, it just work like you want and Doom 3 might play well on your Sunflower iMac...
I proof read the article and they didn't specifically name Kasperski as the author of these virii, they just mentioned some connections and my imagination did the rest. I guess the name given in this article is much more accurate.
A French magazine named Kasperski, a former KGB agent and now an antivirus publisher. They said he happened to develop such things and then ask the major AV editors to bid in order to get the virus specs first... Not sure if it's that accurate but it will sure raise some tin-foil-heads interest...
The Bulgarian Mafia popularity grew more and more since the Iron Curtain fall. Now, as their country is about to enter the EEC, I guess this will amplify their actions before shutting them up.
This denotes highly skilled technician, I am sure there'd be some good programmers to hire.
Well, Apache 2 doesn't support all the mods at this moment, for example, it is still impossible to use some auth_tk (not sure about the name, to autologin in our Intranet.
I agree : in the few cases where I can see my employer using Linux, it'll only be in order to deploy SuSe or RedHat distroes because they are officially supporting Oracle so it's not that they are endorsing the Open movement but rather that they are just deploying gratis certified software onto cheap hardware.
could this directly exploit optical fiber carried data ? at this moment, we still need some converter in between, otherwise, we'd make it even faster than now.
Anyway, it might open us to new perspective... optical logics would be one, where we'd have "red", "green" and "blue" components which would be combined in some ternary/quaternary way (don't know which, yet).
Finally, this "color approach" also reminds me of some subparticle-related theory where color are also suggested...
I understand how geeky this is but what would its uses be ? Especially when it's now become possible to boot a full featured Linux distro from an USB key ?
How often do you fast forward when you use an iPod ? BTW, besides Mike Oldfield Amarok, and a few Magma, Christian Vander or Offering songs, I do not have that much one hour long audio files. I guess the reviewer wanted to say something bad about these because he felt so good about his iPod. I understand this as I also am an happy iPod user but I do not have a problem with other's owning another potentially better player.
They should have innovated by putting fuel cell in these. we'd have a first ever fuel cell powered palm top device and this would have added to the geek factor. I guess it's called missing an occasion.
Exactly my point, I think it's just providing an encrypted mean of reading a passport a quicker way without even having to open it, then ensure it's real. The real issue is to know whether we need passports as a single RFID could store it all, each of the element being encrypted for a specific usage only...
Google has region-based advertising:if I am looking for Korg from Switzerland, I'll get links to the music shops around me. (This is the difference with many sites, incl. Slashdot who propose me some US-centric ads which I do not even care to read anyway because I am just so untargetted that it almost sounds unwelcoming.) Anyway, it doesn't work that bad though I have one issue : people who buy advertising for their oiwn "search engines". At the end, you get their add for unrelated products and this is just polluting.
Is it really necessary to keep with those. I am not sure I want to see Superman again. Concerning Batman, I also thought so but at least, they could convince me to go to the theater if it was made after the Dark Knight story (which sequel is also VERY impressive).
So, well, could someone indicate me a PERFECT Superman story that'd made me change my mind about this caricatural hero (IMHO) ?
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Excel has become a defacto standardf, having other soft bearing its name as a part of theirs is advertising.
I first thought of Civilization (Sid Meier's) where you have to acquire city walls to protect your fellow citizens from invaders...
Once you get a proper air defense system, these become obsolete.
But no, it just looks to be more about the demise of ruralship and the slow disappearing of intermediate management : info no gets directly from the ground up and vice versa.
Of course, it's only a phone, but it's a good tool aimed at taking both vocal and video notes.
I use mine to take VGA pics and I am very happy with their imperfections...
10 years ago, Doom was supposed to be a virtual trip on Mars, now it looks a little old, I guess it will soon happen to be the same with this.
Hence my question : why not making it a game rather than funding it with public money ?
Cutting off the baddy's hand has already been done in Die Another Day, I'm afraid...
Prisonner in a car, he's taken to Dr Evil's secret base.
He escapes by entering the secret ******** passphrase.
Check Yamaha's 01X. It uses Yamaha's new protocol : mLan which consists of MIDI with audio over Firewire.
I guess this is the future : isochronous audio over an heterogeneous network.
Maybe it's just that Aspyr found out it would use 83% of a 1,8GHz G5...
Anyway, IIRC, "they" said UT2003 required a G4 while I could happily play it on a G3 800 iBook, so, don't believe all what they say, sometime, it just work like you want and Doom 3 might play well on your Sunflower iMac...
I proof read the article and they didn't specifically name Kasperski as the author of these virii, they just mentioned some connections and my imagination did the rest.
I guess the name given in this article is much more accurate.
A French magazine named Kasperski, a former KGB agent and now an antivirus publisher.
They said he happened to develop such things and then ask the major AV editors to bid in order to get the virus specs first...
Not sure if it's that accurate but it will sure raise some tin-foil-heads interest...
Well, Apache 2 doesn't support all the mods at this moment, for example, it is still impossible to use some auth_tk (not sure about the name, to autologin in our Intranet.
I agree : in the few cases where I can see my employer using Linux, it'll only be in order to deploy SuSe or RedHat distroes because they are officially supporting Oracle so it's not that they are endorsing the Open movement but rather that they are just deploying gratis certified software onto cheap hardware.
could this directly exploit optical fiber carried data ?
at this moment, we still need some converter in between, otherwise, we'd make it even faster than now.
Anyway, it might open us to new perspective... optical logics would be one, where we'd have "red", "green" and "blue" components which would be combined in some ternary/quaternary way (don't know which, yet).
Finally, this "color approach" also reminds me of some subparticle-related theory where color are also suggested...
I understand how geeky this is but what would its uses be ? Especially when it's now become possible to boot a full featured Linux distro from an USB key ?
How often do you fast forward when you use an iPod ?
BTW, besides Mike Oldfield Amarok, and a few Magma, Christian Vander or Offering songs, I do not have that much one hour long audio files.
I guess the reviewer wanted to say something bad about these because he felt so good about his iPod.
I understand this as I also am an happy iPod user but I do not have a problem with other's owning another potentially better player.
What's a FFW ?
And have these 6 minutes something to do with the 17-minute file copying troll ?
They should have innovated by putting fuel cell in these.
we'd have a first ever fuel cell powered palm top device and this would have added to the geek factor.
I guess it's called missing an occasion.
I am afraid that in this case you can not authentify that the holder is genuine, hence my multiple public/private encryption scheme.
Exactly my point, I think it's just providing an encrypted mean of reading a passport a quicker way without even having to open it, then ensure it's real.
The real issue is to know whether we need passports as a single RFID could store it all, each of the element being encrypted for a specific usage only...
Google has region-based advertising :if I am looking for Korg from Switzerland, I'll get links to the music shops around me.
(This is the difference with many sites, incl. Slashdot who propose me some US-centric ads which I do not even care to read anyway because I am just so untargetted that it almost sounds unwelcoming.)
Anyway, it doesn't work that bad though I have one issue : people who buy advertising for their oiwn "search engines". At the end, you get their add for unrelated products and this is just polluting.
This'd have to be a monologue ;)
Is it really necessary to keep with those.
I am not sure I want to see Superman again.
Concerning Batman, I also thought so but at least, they could convince me to go to the theater if it was made after the Dark Knight story (which sequel is also VERY impressive).
So, well, could someone indicate me a PERFECT Superman story that'd made me change my mind about this caricatural hero (IMHO) ?