i'm american, but i don't see the point of putting the dollar sign in front of the amount. it's clearly read as 10 billion dollars, so it should be written that way (10,000,000,000$). are there other symbols that are placed at the end like that?
where in mexico are you living? i've seriously considered taking my family there for a few years, but have concerns about: 1. establishing income (finding even IT work that will allow you to work remotely seems challenging), and 2. renting my current house (my wife would never let us sell it). is there IT work there for americans?
disk 3 seemed to be doc type stuff from what i recall. i did s slim install, and almost got by with only disk one. needed 2 for a few rpms, now i'm regretting selecting the "install everytyhing" button.
jsp on the UI side of J2EE does all but replace server side scripting. it allows developers to develop applications, and leaves gui designers to build the ui.
what exactly are the advantages you see that.NET has over the J2EE architecture?
the office employees aren't buying the drives, the networking folks are. and they're only buying what's available. faster is always better. if my machine is faster to respond to input, i can input more. sure 30 gb sounds large, until m$ office is loaded, outlook, personal mail folders, and tons of mp3's needed for everyday work.
I think PHP or another webside language/scripting language would be more beneficial at this point than using Java...
sure, if most web "sites" needed only to use server side scripting, that would work great. infact, serverside javascript works great, and maybe asp does as well. the fact is though, many companies are building web applications, not web sites. these web applications need to communicate with other web and legacy applications (that's where the ejb app server and xml bring it all together). jsp, with all it's ease of use is just icing on the cake. also, these applications need to be scalable, redundant and failover safe. is the architecture bloated? possibly. is it a LOT to learn? seems that way. right tool for the job? most often, yes.
not that i'm a big fan of web applications in and of themselves, but lots of companies are moving in that direction. the user interface is extremely limited, the protocol is stagnant, and forced upgrades (re-trainning staff to use the new applicatoin) are aren't an issue, they are mandatory.
regarding processor speed... i'll guess that within 3-4 years, she won't still have that machine. i'm just guessing here, but lots of computers are used in the business world. they're on a 2-3 year plan. using a 3 year old machine at work myself right now (p2 366), i realize why those cycles are in place. you can get more work done when you're not spending time waiting for the system to respond to your input. when you're at home typing a document, sure a P-166 will handle that fine, but business just don't work that way.
back to bandwidth speed, of course you're not complaining with your SDLSL, most people don't really dent the throughput on those systems on average. there's a reason you're not on 56k dial up. it takes time to connect each time, and though it's usable for browsing, it's not lightning, and any use other than simple browsing is SLOW.
please, 10 years ago, the common home users was on a 2400 baud modem, possibly some had the super high speed 9600 baud modems.. today, the highly outdated modems are 56k, most users prefering DSL and or cable modem. in 10 years i would expect common "bandwidth" to be 10x todays standard of cable modem. we'll need that bandwidth to send live holographic images of ourselves to other places...
i stand corrected, they're fairly liberal with their code use:
"PostgreSQL is subject to the following COPYRIGHT:
PostgreSQL Data Base Management System
Portions copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group Portions Copyright (c) 1994-6 Regents of the University of California
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies. ...
hacks or bandages, whatever. there are pros and cons to each dbms, but the reasons for now choosing MySQL are changing. similar to the IE/Mozilla story, but I really hope Mozilla fares better. Mozilla was architected from the ground up with standards and flexability in mind. IE was designed to be good/quick, feature rich and whatever else M$ decided to give. now we're seeing how quickly Moz can close the on speed while still maintaining standard compliance and as an added bonus adding features that users want! tabbed browsing rocks! no-pop up messages rock. it's all about providing ease of use for the user. as a user of a database (application developer) i want something that's easy to use and adheres to the standards.
ultimately, it depends on how tight your app is with the database. if you're app doesn't function properly without that database, then you've gotta release the source, under the GPL.
typically, you've gotta have some functions in your app that are calling the database. those functions are what communicate to the database. weather those are staticly linked, or dynamically allocated at run time makes no difference. I believe the PostgreSQL libs (for accessing via other languages) are LGPL, so you don't have to realease your source for those.
alternatively, you could use an abstraction layer, ( i'm familiar with ADOdb for PHP) which gives your application database access which can be configured through config files. plug in any database and it should work. under that kind of relationship, you're under the hold still of the libs you're using and maybe you can find one that doesn't force you to release your code.
weather or not the server is on a separate machine, communicating via a port makes no difference. x11 communicates over ports over separate machines, but if my application uses x11 libs, i've got to abide by their licensing scheme.
PostgreSQL has really tightened the speed gap to where it is almost non-existant. The feature gap that is still there (albeit there are some "cleaver" work arounds) are a major reason to stick with PostgreSQL. Somehow the former speed issue did cause many many tools to be developed around and for MySQL, so in that respect it might be a favor. It's also available more easily on the win32 platforms.
maybe/. is trying to off load some daily traffic to other news sites. i know my browser could stand a new homepage, gives the firewall logs something new to chew on.
there can't be anything stopping a third party to create games to run on their hardware. i like the auto aftermarket parts analogy used in earlier posts. the company needs to sell each item to cover its costs and not worry about other products (licensing for game manufacturers) to pick up the pieces.
some times you're solving a similar problem in different problem space. completely different business models, and only leaning on the software development patterns learned in prior experience ( using j2ee/xml architecture to communicate with external clients).
i've never really used matrox products, but they sound like they've borrowed software practices from ATI.
if you want something that works good, out of the box quickly, get nvidia. if open source is your game, then roll the dice with ati, but do your research on the chipset first. anything else, and you're probably stuck using mame to play asteroids.
i'll second that motion, and add a few pennies. it does cost a lot to properly market on the internet, but also, most marktedroids don't know how to do it effectively yet. bandwidth is expensive, and so is web/content development, but that's a mute point as general marketing on the web hasn't caught on yet. i think it's because the marketdroids don't have the exhaustive data they they have in other markets.
tv... they've got terabytes and terabytes of neilson data at their disposal. they know who will be watching, and where they live (genrally). there's also 4 or so major network tv stations in any given area, and advertising there definately windens the impressions.
radio... there's probably 2 maybe 3 radio channels for any given format in an area. again, if your market is pop rock, you know right where to go to market.
print... the newspapers know who reads the paper, what sections, etc. different areas of town will get different ads in the same paper. targeted marketing.
internet... until microsoft finished developing and releases this longhorn (ok, they'll release long before development has finished, and they'll sell it long before beta testing it but that's another story) there's really not good places to market on the internet. how do i use the internet to get an ad out and have it impress 14-19 year olds for the latest-and-greatest one-hit-wonder-band that they must hear and waste their money on? better yet, how about if my target audience is 8-12 year olds?
where does it say that "related" crimes must be tried together? most prosecutors lump crimes into one trial in order to expidite the process and to get a hefty sentence.
if two people commit a crime together, they are tried together or separately depending on how the prosecutors think the outcome might be. maybe one will squeel on the other and as a result might be tried separately under lesser charges.
it might work to make some people feel safer in their own country, but really this whole airline security thing is getting out of control. there's a couple of really easy solutions that will not interfer with my rights to privacy:
1. put armed soldiers on every flight. you want to secure the air traffic, soldiers will get the job done.
2. here's a wacky one... let passengers carry guns on the planes. guns, knives, whatever. who's going to try to overtake the controls of a plane when there is a good possibility that others on the plane have guns and will use them against you. you can take firearms on a grayhound bus, or an amtrack train, why not the airlines?
3. remove access from the cockpit to the cabin. why does the pilot need to get into the back of hte plane, and conversly, why do passengers (or coffee deliverers) need direct access to the controls?
this whole national id system, retina scans, etc, etc in the wake of 9/11 is really really getting out of control. i think what we need to do is to take one step back in order to get 4 steps ahead.
sure, but it's relatively cheap as far a software in general goes. it's gotta be the cheapest non-free ($$, speach) semi-cross platform alternative to IE on the market today.
Why dont they just start working on Linux for Laptops?
if only the corporate world really worked that way. i've heard rumors of places where people can get their job done, work on meaningfull projects and still have side responsibilities. in practice it sometimes seems that you can't discuss ideas with people on different projects without having prior approval from their manager's manager's VP. if it's related to the project, we've got to track the cost. how much time was spent on that? arrgggg!!!!
I wonder how many people are running Internet Explorer on Linux?
0.00523%. really, considering that 1% of the users are linux, and most linux users would rather boycot a site that requires IE (or just walk over to the machine that does have ie), it's gotta be a really low number.
most corporate computers have win/IE configurations. most people surf the web at work. (not that i know that first hand mind you, but i've heard rumors)
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i'm american, but i don't see the point of putting the dollar sign in front of the amount. it's clearly read as 10 billion dollars, so it should be written that way (10,000,000,000$). are there other symbols that are placed at the end like that?
where in mexico are you living? i've seriously considered taking my family there for a few years, but have concerns about: 1. establishing income (finding even IT work that will allow you to work remotely seems challenging), and 2. renting my current house (my wife would never let us sell it). is there IT work there for americans?
disk 3 seemed to be doc type stuff from what i recall. i did s slim install, and almost got by with only disk one. needed 2 for a few rpms, now i'm regretting selecting the "install everytyhing" button.
jsp on the UI side of J2EE does all but replace server side scripting. it allows developers to develop applications, and leaves gui designers to build the ui.
.NET has over the J2EE architecture?
what exactly are the advantages you see that
the office employees aren't buying the drives, the networking folks are. and they're only buying what's available. faster is always better. if my machine is faster to respond to input, i can input more. sure 30 gb sounds large, until m$ office is loaded, outlook, personal mail folders, and tons of mp3's needed for everyday work.
I think PHP or another webside language/scripting language would be more beneficial at this point than using Java...
sure, if most web "sites" needed only to use server side scripting, that would work great. infact, serverside javascript works great, and maybe asp does as well. the fact is though, many companies are building web applications, not web sites. these web applications need to communicate with other web and legacy applications (that's where the ejb app server and xml bring it all together). jsp, with all it's ease of use is just icing on the cake. also, these applications need to be scalable, redundant and failover safe. is the architecture bloated? possibly. is it a LOT to learn? seems that way. right tool for the job? most often, yes.
not that i'm a big fan of web applications in and of themselves, but lots of companies are moving in that direction. the user interface is extremely limited, the protocol is stagnant, and forced upgrades (re-trainning staff to use the new applicatoin) are aren't an issue, they are mandatory.
regarding processor speed... i'll guess that within 3-4 years, she won't still have that machine. i'm just guessing here, but lots of computers are used in the business world. they're on a 2-3 year plan. using a 3 year old machine at work myself right now (p2 366), i realize why those cycles are in place. you can get more work done when you're not spending time waiting for the system to respond to your input. when you're at home typing a document, sure a P-166 will handle that fine, but business just don't work that way.
back to bandwidth speed, of course you're not complaining with your SDLSL, most people don't really dent the throughput on those systems on average. there's a reason you're not on 56k dial up. it takes time to connect each time, and though it's usable for browsing, it's not lightning, and any use other than simple browsing is SLOW.
and 256k is enough for anyone right?
please, 10 years ago, the common home users was on a 2400 baud modem, possibly some had the super high speed 9600 baud modems.. today, the highly outdated modems are 56k, most users prefering DSL and or cable modem. in 10 years i would expect common "bandwidth" to be 10x todays standard of cable modem. we'll need that bandwidth to send live holographic images of ourselves to other places...
i stand corrected, they're fairly liberal with their code use:
"PostgreSQL is subject to the following COPYRIGHT:
PostgreSQL Data Base Management System
Portions copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group Portions Copyright (c) 1994-6 Regents of the University of California
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies.
...
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hacks or bandages, whatever. there are pros and cons to each dbms, but the reasons for now choosing MySQL are changing. similar to the IE/Mozilla story, but I really hope Mozilla fares better. Mozilla was architected from the ground up with standards and flexability in mind. IE was designed to be good/quick, feature rich and whatever else M$ decided to give. now we're seeing how quickly Moz can close the on speed while still maintaining standard compliance and as an added bonus adding features that users want! tabbed browsing rocks! no-pop up messages rock. it's all about providing ease of use for the user. as a user of a database (application developer) i want something that's easy to use and adheres to the standards.
ultimately, it depends on how tight your app is with the database. if you're app doesn't function properly without that database, then you've gotta release the source, under the GPL.
typically, you've gotta have some functions in your app that are calling the database. those functions are what communicate to the database. weather those are staticly linked, or dynamically allocated at run time makes no difference. I believe the PostgreSQL libs (for accessing via other languages) are LGPL, so you don't have to realease your source for those.
alternatively, you could use an abstraction layer, ( i'm familiar with ADOdb for PHP) which gives your application database access which can be configured through config files. plug in any database and it should work. under that kind of relationship, you're under the hold still of the libs you're using and maybe you can find one that doesn't force you to release your code.
weather or not the server is on a separate machine, communicating via a port makes no difference. x11 communicates over ports over separate machines, but if my application uses x11 libs, i've got to abide by their licensing scheme.
PostgreSQL has really tightened the speed gap to where it is almost non-existant. The feature gap that is still there (albeit there are some "cleaver" work arounds) are a major reason to stick with PostgreSQL. Somehow the former speed issue did cause many many tools to be developed around and for MySQL, so in that respect it might be a favor. It's also available more easily on the win32 platforms.
maybe /. is trying to off load some daily traffic to other news sites. i know my browser could stand a new homepage, gives the firewall logs something new to chew on.
most of the . bombs didn't have a business plan. that's what made them go from having tons of VC in the bank to a bust on wall street.
that's a major flaw in their business plan.
there can't be anything stopping a third party to create games to run on their hardware. i like the auto aftermarket parts analogy used in earlier posts. the company needs to sell each item to cover its costs and not worry about other products (licensing for game manufacturers) to pick up the pieces.
you can wait till oct/nov when RH 8.0 gets here. that will be much eaiser.
./configure && make
otherwise you might try the following about 15 times:
$
$ su
$ make install
some times you're solving a similar problem in different problem space. completely different business models, and only leaning on the software development patterns learned in prior experience ( using j2ee/xml architecture to communicate with external clients).
i've never really used matrox products, but they sound like they've borrowed software practices from ATI.
if you want something that works good, out of the box quickly, get nvidia. if open source is your game, then roll the dice with ati, but do your research on the chipset first. anything else, and you're probably stuck using mame to play asteroids.
i'll second that motion, and add a few pennies. it does cost a lot to properly market on the internet, but also, most marktedroids don't know how to do it effectively yet. bandwidth is expensive, and so is web/content development, but that's a mute point as general marketing on the web hasn't caught on yet. i think it's because the marketdroids don't have the exhaustive data they they have in other markets.
tv... they've got terabytes and terabytes of neilson data at their disposal. they know who will be watching, and where they live (genrally). there's also 4 or so major network tv stations in any given area, and advertising there definately windens the impressions.
radio... there's probably 2 maybe 3 radio channels for any given format in an area. again, if your market is pop rock, you know right where to go to market.
print... the newspapers know who reads the paper, what sections, etc. different areas of town will get different ads in the same paper. targeted marketing.
internet... until microsoft finished developing and releases this longhorn (ok, they'll release long before development has finished, and they'll sell it long before beta testing it but that's another story) there's really not good places to market on the internet. how do i use the internet to get an ad out and have it impress 14-19 year olds for the latest-and-greatest one-hit-wonder-band that they must hear and waste their money on? better yet, how about if my target audience is 8-12 year olds?
where does it say that "related" crimes must be tried together? most prosecutors lump crimes into one trial in order to expidite the process and to get a hefty sentence.
if two people commit a crime together, they are tried together or separately depending on how the prosecutors think the outcome might be. maybe one will squeel on the other and as a result might be tried separately under lesser charges.
i recently saw a command line MP3 player in my distro, they called it mpg123... the command line mpe g 2 app was, mpg321
it might work to make some people feel safer in their own country, but really this whole airline security thing is getting out of control. there's a couple of really easy solutions that will not interfer with my rights to privacy:
1. put armed soldiers on every flight. you want to secure the air traffic, soldiers will get the job done.
2. here's a wacky one... let passengers carry guns on the planes. guns, knives, whatever. who's going to try to overtake the controls of a plane when there is a good possibility that others on the plane have guns and will use them against you. you can take firearms on a grayhound bus, or an amtrack train, why not the airlines?
3. remove access from the cockpit to the cabin. why does the pilot need to get into the back of hte plane, and conversly, why do passengers (or coffee deliverers) need direct access to the controls?
this whole national id system, retina scans, etc, etc in the wake of 9/11 is really really getting out of control. i think what we need to do is to take one step back in order to get 4 steps ahead.
sure, but it's relatively cheap as far a software in general goes. it's gotta be the cheapest non-free ($$, speach) semi-cross platform alternative to IE on the market today.
Why dont they just start working on Linux for Laptops?
if only the corporate world really worked that way. i've heard rumors of places where people can get their job done, work on meaningfull projects and still have side responsibilities. in practice it sometimes seems that you can't discuss ideas with people on different projects without having prior approval from their manager's manager's VP. if it's related to the project, we've got to track the cost. how much time was spent on that? arrgggg!!!!
I wonder how many people are running Internet Explorer on Linux?
0.00523%. really, considering that 1% of the users are linux, and most linux users would rather boycot a site that requires IE (or just walk over to the machine that does have ie), it's gotta be a really low number.
most corporate computers have win/IE configurations. most people surf the web at work. (not that i know that first hand mind you, but i've heard rumors)