the trouble is that most people claim they need a clustered XMLifyed dancing singing application server. when you try to find out what they really need from a business perspective and then try to offer something different than a clustered XMLifyed dancing singing application server you find your proposal in the file 13.
data centers that have a few E10000's sitting around and wish to diversify their basket will potentially be interested in other 64bit computing options. desktop, no. really big rdbms? most certainly.
it's been said all along that 64 bit isn't for the desktop. it's for the server room. the big ones with co2, disel generators, etc, etc.
that's quite a speculation. as someone from that java community, i'd personally speculate that a decade from now everyone will be writing to the javaX platform and all their applications will run on any platform that provides a JVM..NET development is expensive for most corporations to give it a second glance. the software tools for developers are expensive and license plagued. the entire java platform has a very low cost to entry. there are high quality free development tools available for many platforms (eclipse, netbeans). these products rival Borland's Jbuilder and other java development tools. there's also tons of opensource tools available for just about any job in this relm.
are there big applications such as quicken or even MS Office who have dedicated to making their products for the.NET platform? will we be able to run MS Office / Outlook on a linux platform?
linux can and will survive with quality software that is easy to configure and use. from a desktop perspective, both kde and gnome provide that. from a server standpoint, well linux is being used a lot for servers in budget datacenters. those that actually have a budget are running solaris, HP-UX, VMS, and plenty of other platforms that meet the business need.
yeah, our Dodge Caravan has a flex fuel system which lets it take E85/Gasoline or any mixture. the vehicle has probably never had much E85 in it and probably never will though. here in these parts of Ohio (Columbus), there's only one station that carries E85. We haven't been to that side of town since we bought the vehicle months ago to see what pricing is for the E85 but i hear that it's more expensieve per gallon and gets worse mileage. kinda makes me not so interested in using it as a fuel source...
The root password is the same on all the boxes and only I know it (it's in my passport in case I get hit by a bus).
um. you do know those are easily compromised via physical access to the box (ie boot material?). my brother installed RH on his dell box a year back or so. i asked him to give a 10 minutes with it and i'd have all the passwords changed. he heard how secure linux was so agreed to give it a go. nonetheless, grub goes into single user mode quite nicely.
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i have no problems fixing a family members pc when it's here. i live > 2 hrs away from family members and when i get the call that the computer is broken, i tell them i can fix it if they bring it to me. i once did a complete windows 98 install over the phone. checking bios settings and all that. complete waste of my life. bring it to me and i'll frix it when i get time.
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unfortunately, my school didn't have us writing compilers, just business applications. but from what i hear, the compilers written by undergraduates are "basic" compilers, often for a custom language that accepts a few keywords and can do a few basic tasks. i would feel fairly confident to say that developing a c compiler is not a trivial task.
nope, as the op mentioned, most games cost $1.00 or more. the only arcades are in bar type places (dave-n-busters) or in movie theaters. no such luck for.25$ games these days.
i've got to agree with you there. the responsibility of the US governement is NOT to police the world and to keep world economies flowing. the responsibility of the US governement, as outlined in that meaningless constitution, is to protect the borders of the nation. it doesn't cost 100Billion$ to protect the borders. before the US dropped that H-Bomb or whatever it was on Japan, and the rest of the world said "oh, shit", americans we just fine keeping to themselves. since then, well, we've gotten social security, income taxes, a nice lovely arms race, and a wonderfull few trips to the moon.
back to work..
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i'm just curious how within xml you denote that a word within a paragraph is to be bolded or in italics or whatever? an xml "document" in my mind looks something like: <document> <title>my title</title> <chapter> <paragraph> This is the first paragraph</paragraph> <paragraph> another</paragraph> <chapter/> </document>
what if the word first is needed to be bold? maybe there's another way to structure a document like this.
these have been target at the server market since inception. of course desktop use has no need for a 64bit machine. desktop use has a need for multi SMP machines that are quiet and small. one processor gets the job done, but two just smokes it all up.
programs have always been getting larger and larger requiring more and more memory. nothing will change that except for perhaps a complete stagnation of the hardware industry.
no, i don't think the farming subsidies are to keep the farming industry afloat. the farming industry can keep themselves afloat. they produce the raw materials NEEDED by all people everywhere. they can set their prices and control how much money they make. sure some smaller ones won't always be able to play the games needed in such a cut throat environment, but that's the way it goes.
this article sums it up nicely, hopefully google cache works good: http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:Z1pmur PHi8sC: www.wld.com/conbus/weal/wagricsb.htm+government+su bsidize+agriculture&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
the first paragraph sums it up good:
Agriculture subsidies are government programs providing benefits to farmers for the purpose of stabilizing food prices, ensuring plentiful food production, and guaranteeing farmers' basic incomes.
by the government controlling prices "at the pump" and feeding money to the raw producers to keep them going, they've effectively taken control over the intire food industry. what if wheat prices suddenly had doubled because of market forces. could McDonalds stand that economic change? what if beef prices rose to that of lobster? while prices of turkey suddenly dropped because of oversupply? would people still be mowing on burgers? would McDonalds and many many other fast food type resturants face economic disasters? not if they were able to quickly convert to the foods of the time.
in short, the guiding of the eating habits is a side effect of the governemnts agriculture price controls. america eats american food because that's what the government subsidises (also, the rich are paying to make sure the poor can afford food).
its about setting reasonable goals and giving a direction for the future. Mr. GWB is committed to spending 100Billion on the "war against terrorism" to eliminate "wepons of mass descruction".
isn't it possible that that 100Billion could provide all we need in homeland security as well as give a direction for future energey use of the country? the government already guides our eating habits by providing huge subsidises to the farming industry, why not kick the "drop your dependance on oil" in the ass and get it rolling? alterior motives perhaps in spending 100B? not in this great union.
10k (outside of cali where the state picks up 50%) isn't going to get you much in the way of solar power generation. it'll cover a standard family's daily electric use, with a small amount perhaps to spare back to the grid.
now, i don't know much about the power consumption of these electric vehicles, but i'm of the impression that they require LOTS of juice to go. your home generated solar power probably won't get you to the grocery store after you've dried your load of laundry, watched some tv and own a normal refridgerator.
i most certainly agree that all new houses should be built with solar systems if it makes sense. i would love to find someone in my area that would install one on my place. we currently heat with mostly wood in the winter and i'd love to get rid of the electric bills too. i don't think i'll give up city water/sewage though;).
yep, those dinosaurs certainly had posession of "wepons of mass destruction" and were unwilling to prove they were disarming said "wepons of mass destruction". they were suspected to harbor unidentified terrorists and when they could not produce a single terrorist they were harboring or a "wepon of mass destruction" (that phrase has long past the austin powers phase) they indeed needed to be eliminated!
has there ever been? pop music isn't about sultry songbirds. pop music is a babe dancing with a microphone. nothing more - nothing less.
looking for sultry songbird singers in pop music is like looking for honest, constitutionally upholding politicans in today's government. perhaps there once was a day when they were abundant, and perhaps there's one or two out there, but i wouldn't waste your extra cycles searching them out.
i test drove RH 8.0 too, and installed KDE. to my dismay, when i logged in, i saw what appeared to be a kde like desktop, but it wasn't kde. not kde as i've grown to know and like. where were all the quick launch icons that i was use to seeing? configure settings and such. the desktop icons, the menu bars, etc. i'm sure every distro probably configures a little bit of kde, but this just didn't look right to me and it was a quite a challenge to find where to go to change it.
lots of apps use those "operating system routines"; window gui widgets, networking calls, threading, etc.
this is one area that java got right. with java, most of that is all in the JRE/JDK, and anything else you need as a developer you pretty much include those jar files in your application. the j2ee application portability makes applications put all needed libraries into the WEB-INF\lib area. you might have redundant libraries on your system, but you'll know that your entire application can be jarred/warred/earred/ and put into any compliant j2ee app server and it should work. doesn't always happen, but usually that means there's something non-compliant about the application and not really the server itself.
um, sorry lumpy you got such a harsh deal there. these days it's better to have a job than not to have one (well for the most part, there's something to be said for a few weeks of unemployment, R&R!!)
my point was that "studies have shown that paying attention to people makes them feel good", "being nice to other people will improve their self-image". some companies pay attention to that more than others. some not at all.
some people have different "things" that they like to have to make them feel good. yours seems to be money and a high evaluation ranking. personally, i'd choose some high profile, high impact type project for 2/3rds the pay than to sit in a cube farm with some lame ass assignment that takes all your energy just to get motivated for it.
there were lots of studies about factory workers and those that were given some attention liked their job more. put windows into the factory and morale goes up, production goes up. treat people nicely, and they'll feel good about themselves. nice to see the old tried and true is still being shown today.
btw. i can't read the article, the link only went to NYT front page, and the link from there didn't give me an article. anyone willing to help a guy actually read the article ??? hint hint.
the homeland security is responsible for making us americans feel all warm and fuzzy inside that our government is doing something to protect its citizens on its soil.
they're responsible for releasing alert warnings every so often. placing the country on a level 3 or orange alert whatever that means, but it sure spikes the sales of bottled water, canned foods, batteries and duct tape for when the big bombs and chemical warfare comes our way.
to be honest this entire administration has been doing a complete knee-jerk reaction to the WTC and Pentagon events from 2001. they're molding those knee-jerk reactions into something they can use to bomb Iraq and overthrow Suddam because quite frankly there's some big roots in the big state of Texas where "all Your Oil are belong to us"
here's my favorite quote from the folowwing article: http://www.msnbc.com/news/872585.asp?0cl =c1
That warning regarding tape and three days of water is profoundly helpful to people who are choosing to go to war with Iraq and need to cause an environment of fear in order that the public will do anything to break the fear fever. It serves the administration for the public to be so afraid. When you are afraid enough, you'll get on any train that's leaving the station, even if it is not going where you want to go. That sentence says it all.
why do people have so many email addresses? because of spam it's easy, convient and rewarding to dump the old address and get a new one. i kinda doubt your whitelisted address would get changed much, but if it did, that could also be built into the system.
not only do the lists know about you, but you know about the lists you can mail to. therefor, when your address does change, it's your responsibility to send a change of address form to the lists you're on. weather or not the whitelist automatically lets you post from the new email address or wait for administrative confirmation, is in the details of the matter.
my point is that it can work, and would work if the ISP's would start providing a usefull product instead of half-assed service. make them work an honest day's work for a day's pay. pay them for the work. in this fat-happy country, it'll be hard to come by someone who'll step up to the plate and take the challenge, look at how easy it was for barry to dodge the whitelist issue.
what would it really cost for an ISP to implement a whitelist? what are the real savings? everyone tells me that spam email raises their ISP cost and costs lots of system resources, clock ticks, storage space, etc. if you're right, then a project such as this would have a fairly quick IRR for those bean counters to get all giddy about.
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the trouble is that most people claim they need a clustered XMLifyed dancing singing application server. when you try to find out what they really need from a business perspective and then try to offer something different than a clustered XMLifyed dancing singing application server you find your proposal in the file 13.
data centers that have a few E10000's sitting around and wish to diversify their basket will potentially be interested in other 64bit computing options. desktop, no. really big rdbms? most certainly.
it's been said all along that 64 bit isn't for the desktop. it's for the server room. the big ones with co2, disel generators, etc, etc.
that's quite a speculation. as someone from that java community, i'd personally speculate that a decade from now everyone will be writing to the javaX platform and all their applications will run on any platform that provides a JVM. .NET development is expensive for most corporations to give it a second glance. the software tools for developers are expensive and license plagued. the entire java platform has a very low cost to entry. there are high quality free development tools available for many platforms (eclipse, netbeans). these products rival Borland's Jbuilder and other java development tools. there's also tons of opensource tools available for just about any job in this relm.
.NET platform? will we be able to run MS Office / Outlook on a linux platform?
are there big applications such as quicken or even MS Office who have dedicated to making their products for the
linux can and will survive with quality software that is easy to configure and use. from a desktop perspective, both kde and gnome provide that. from a server standpoint, well linux is being used a lot for servers in budget datacenters. those that actually have a budget are running solaris, HP-UX, VMS, and plenty of other platforms that meet the business need.
yeah, our Dodge Caravan has a flex fuel system which lets it take E85/Gasoline or any mixture. the vehicle has probably never had much E85 in it and probably never will though. here in these parts of Ohio (Columbus), there's only one station that carries E85. We haven't been to that side of town since we bought the vehicle months ago to see what pricing is for the E85 but i hear that it's more expensieve per gallon and gets worse mileage. kinda makes me not so interested in using it as a fuel source...
The root password is the same on all the boxes and only I know it (it's in my passport in case I get hit by a bus).
um. you do know those are easily compromised via physical access to the box (ie boot material?). my brother installed RH on his dell box a year back or so. i asked him to give a 10 minutes with it and i'd have all the passwords changed. he heard how secure linux was so agreed to give it a go. nonetheless, grub goes into single user mode quite nicely.
i have no problems fixing a family members pc when it's here. i live > 2 hrs away from family members and when i get the call that the computer is broken, i tell them i can fix it if they bring it to me. i once did a complete windows 98 install over the phone. checking bios settings and all that. complete waste of my life. bring it to me and i'll frix it when i get time.
unfortunately, my school didn't have us writing compilers, just business applications. but from what i hear, the compilers written by undergraduates are "basic" compilers, often for a custom language that accepts a few keywords and can do a few basic tasks. i would feel fairly confident to say that developing a c compiler is not a trivial task.
nope, as the op mentioned, most games cost $1.00 or more. the only arcades are in bar type places (dave-n-busters) or in movie theaters. no such luck for .25$ games these days.
i've got to agree with you there. the responsibility of the US governement is NOT to police the world and to keep world economies flowing. the responsibility of the US governement, as outlined in that meaningless constitution, is to protect the borders of the nation. it doesn't cost 100Billion$ to protect the borders. before the US dropped that H-Bomb or whatever it was on Japan, and the rest of the world said "oh, shit", americans we just fine keeping to themselves. since then, well, we've gotten social security, income taxes, a nice lovely arms race, and a wonderfull few trips to the moon.
back to work..
i'm just curious how within xml you denote that a word within a paragraph is to be bolded or in italics or whatever? an xml "document" in my mind looks something like:
<document>
<title>my title</title>
<chapter>
<paragraph> This is the first paragraph</paragraph>
<paragraph> another</paragraph>
<chapter/>
</document>
what if the word first is needed to be bold? maybe there's another way to structure a document like this.
these have been target at the server market since inception. of course desktop use has no need for a 64bit machine. desktop use has a need for multi SMP machines that are quiet and small. one processor gets the job done, but two just smokes it all up.
programs have always been getting larger and larger requiring more and more memory. nothing will change that except for perhaps a complete stagnation of the hardware industry.
no, i don't think the farming subsidies are to keep the farming industry afloat. the farming industry can keep themselves afloat. they produce the raw materials NEEDED by all people everywhere. they can set their prices and control how much money they make. sure some smaller ones won't always be able to play the games needed in such a cut throat environment, but that's the way it goes.
r PHi8sC: www.wld.com/conbus/weal/wagricsb.htm+government+su bsidize+agriculture&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
this article sums it up nicely, hopefully google cache works good:
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:Z1pmu
the first paragraph sums it up good:
Agriculture subsidies are government programs providing benefits to farmers for the purpose of stabilizing food prices, ensuring plentiful food production, and guaranteeing farmers' basic incomes.
by the government controlling prices "at the pump" and feeding money to the raw producers to keep them going, they've effectively taken control over the intire food industry. what if wheat prices suddenly had doubled because of market forces. could McDonalds stand that economic change? what if beef prices rose to that of lobster? while prices of turkey suddenly dropped because of oversupply? would people still be mowing on burgers? would McDonalds and many many other fast food type resturants face economic disasters? not if they were able to quickly convert to the foods of the time.
in short, the guiding of the eating habits is a side effect of the governemnts agriculture price controls. america eats american food because that's what the government subsidises (also, the rich are paying to make sure the poor can afford food).
its about setting reasonable goals and giving a direction for the future. Mr. GWB is committed to spending 100Billion on the "war against terrorism" to eliminate "wepons of mass descruction".
isn't it possible that that 100Billion could provide all we need in homeland security as well as give a direction for future energey use of the country? the government already guides our eating habits by providing huge subsidises to the farming industry, why not kick the "drop your dependance on oil" in the ass and get it rolling? alterior motives perhaps in spending 100B? not in this great union.
10k (outside of cali where the state picks up 50%) isn't going to get you much in the way of solar power generation. it'll cover a standard family's daily electric use, with a small amount perhaps to spare back to the grid.
;).
now, i don't know much about the power consumption of these electric vehicles, but i'm of the impression that they require LOTS of juice to go. your home generated solar power probably won't get you to the grocery store after you've dried your load of laundry, watched some tv and own a normal refridgerator.
i most certainly agree that all new houses should be built with solar systems if it makes sense. i would love to find someone in my area that would install one on my place. we currently heat with mostly wood in the winter and i'd love to get rid of the electric bills too. i don't think i'll give up city water/sewage though
yep, those dinosaurs certainly had posession of "wepons of mass destruction" and were unwilling to prove they were disarming said "wepons of mass destruction". they were suspected to harbor unidentified terrorists and when they could not produce a single terrorist they were harboring or a "wepon of mass destruction" (that phrase has long past the austin powers phase) they indeed needed to be eliminated!
has there ever been? pop music isn't about sultry songbirds. pop music is a babe dancing with a microphone. nothing more - nothing less.
looking for sultry songbird singers in pop music is like looking for honest, constitutionally upholding politicans in today's government. perhaps there once was a day when they were abundant, and perhaps there's one or two out there, but i wouldn't waste your extra cycles searching them out.
i test drove RH 8.0 too, and installed KDE. to my dismay, when i logged in, i saw what appeared to be a kde like desktop, but it wasn't kde. not kde as i've grown to know and like. where were all the quick launch icons that i was use to seeing? configure settings and such. the desktop icons, the menu bars, etc. i'm sure every distro probably configures a little bit of kde, but this just didn't look right to me and it was a quite a challenge to find where to go to change it.
good by RH 8.0, welcome back gentoo.
lots of apps use those "operating system routines"; window gui widgets, networking calls, threading, etc.
this is one area that java got right. with java, most of that is all in the JRE/JDK, and anything else you need as a developer you pretty much include those jar files in your application. the j2ee application portability makes applications put all needed libraries into the WEB-INF\lib area. you might have redundant libraries on your system, but you'll know that your entire application can be jarred/warred/earred/ and put into any compliant j2ee app server and it should work. doesn't always happen, but usually that means there's something non-compliant about the application and not really the server itself.
um, sorry lumpy you got such a harsh deal there. these days it's better to have a job than not to have one (well for the most part, there's something to be said for a few weeks of unemployment, R&R!!)
my point was that "studies have shown that paying attention to people makes them feel good", "being nice to other people will improve their self-image". some companies pay attention to that more than others. some not at all.
some people have different "things" that they like to have to make them feel good. yours seems to be money and a high evaluation ranking. personally, i'd choose some high profile, high impact type project for 2/3rds the pay than to sit in a cube farm with some lame ass assignment that takes all your energy just to get motivated for it.
for those who would prefer to go to the FIRST PAGE of the article instead of the second page, here you go
there were lots of studies about factory workers and those that were given some attention liked their job more. put windows into the factory and morale goes up, production goes up. treat people nicely, and they'll feel good about themselves. nice to see the old tried and true is still being shown today.
btw. i can't read the article, the link only went to NYT front page, and the link from there didn't give me an article. anyone willing to help a guy actually read the article ??? hint hint.
the homeland security is responsible for making us americans feel all warm and fuzzy inside that our government is doing something to protect its citizens on its soil.
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they're responsible for releasing alert warnings every so often. placing the country on a level 3 or orange alert whatever that means, but it sure spikes the sales of bottled water, canned foods, batteries and duct tape for when the big bombs and chemical warfare comes our way.
to be honest this entire administration has been doing a complete knee-jerk reaction to the WTC and Pentagon events from 2001. they're molding those knee-jerk reactions into something they can use to bomb Iraq and overthrow Suddam because quite frankly there's some big roots in the big state of Texas where "all Your Oil are belong to us"
here's my favorite quote from the folowwing article:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/872585.asp?0c
That warning regarding tape and three days of water is profoundly helpful to people who are choosing to go to war with Iraq and need to cause an environment of fear in order that the public will do anything to break the fear fever. It serves the administration for the public to be so afraid. When you are afraid enough, you'll get on any train that's leaving the station, even if it is not going where you want to go. That sentence says it all.
why do people have so many email addresses? because of spam it's easy, convient and rewarding to dump the old address and get a new one. i kinda doubt your whitelisted address would get changed much, but if it did, that could also be built into the system.
not only do the lists know about you, but you know about the lists you can mail to. therefor, when your address does change, it's your responsibility to send a change of address form to the lists you're on. weather or not the whitelist automatically lets you post from the new email address or wait for administrative confirmation, is in the details of the matter.
my point is that it can work, and would work if the ISP's would start providing a usefull product instead of half-assed service. make them work an honest day's work for a day's pay. pay them for the work. in this fat-happy country, it'll be hard to come by someone who'll step up to the plate and take the challenge, look at how easy it was for barry to dodge the whitelist issue.
what would it really cost for an ISP to implement a whitelist? what are the real savings? everyone tells me that spam email raises their ISP cost and costs lots of system resources, clock ticks, storage space, etc. if you're right, then a project such as this would have a fairly quick IRR for those bean counters to get all giddy about.
why? because it would mean the mr. ISP would have to get up and provide a competitive, usefull proudct to consumers.
i believe the first few ISP's that step into this space will pave the way for the rest.