So i'm shunning them. Keep your nasty GIF patents where the sun doesn't shine! Actually, they do keep the patents where the sun doesn't shine. It usually is a safe or filing cabinet somwhere (the hard copies) or in softcopy. So, there, They're already doing what you've asked!
C.S. Lewis actually answers this very question in his very good Cosmic Trilogy. The main character visits two planets: Venus and Mars. One is an ancient planet and the creatures look very different and there is no sin there (so they did not need Jesus), the other is a new creation. The creatures look like us because Jesus had already been born, so new beings will be like him(don't know why he had to make it like this). Just keep in mind that this is a work of fiction and not Christian doctrine. The books are actually called: "Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra" and "That Hideous Strength"
That may be the reason for the coding, but this does not mean that it is the wrong way of doing things. The whole idea of "web-enabled" is that it can be viewed by a web browser. the best way to do this is to conform to the web standards. They're actually quite good. In my books, they've taken the easy way out.
Here's mine in no particular order either: jed - It is the best lightweight editor out there. Does syntax highlighting and a lot of other nifty extras. ls - no explanation needed. much much faster than the GUI file managers. lynx - quick view of a web page ping - where can I go from here freeciv - that's how I start it from ICEWM
I agree that Teminals are much better suited to some tasks than stand-alone PCs. The company where I work has a lot of call centres. At the moment, many of their application use terminal clients running on Macs/PCs to access databases on Unix servers. The rest of their applications run over a Citrix server. These are much better served using thin clients. It is never clear why this never kicked off at all. Maybe other people can shed some light on this.
"Election Alliance" is usually called a coalition. You find that in most multi-party countries. Contries with a two-party system usually don't have such a thing. Anyway, from my own experience in Australia, eventhough we have a coalition (Liberals/Nationals) when we vote we have a choice to vote per group (party) r to vote for individuals (including the party members). Many if not most people vote on a part basis because it is easier than wading through a list of sometimes 50 names to select your candidates. The party/group list is usually much shorter.
On a side note, I think it is wrong to have the term "Christian" associated with a political part. It is bound to lead to people misrepresenting christianity, like in the recent bribery scandals they had in Germany.
And who would you have look after re-training required? Sun also has included some forms of training (and training for teachers as well) There's a story at ITBusiness.ca that has more information.
A couple of years ago, I purchased Mandrake (8 I think, just before they were about to go broke) from Mandrake's online store. I did not receive the package on the date it was supposed to be delivered. I waited a few more days, and then I contacted them. They did not reply to my emails. I had to send several emails, and the last one was a very angry email, asking them for a refund and really complaining about their lack of service. It was a really frustrating time, and from then on, I am not surprised that they have a problem with customer communications.
In some war torn country I lived in, for fun or whatever, there were a few of us who managed to mangle the spoken language (any) by adding "ZA" (or similar) sound after every syllable. It made it very hard for those not in the know to follow what we're talking about. eg. thaz is azan ezexazample azof wazat weze couzold dazo. (THis is an example of what we could do) In writing it's not elegant. After getting used to it, we could get it down pat. Some of us were able to substitute any letter other than Z. Some of the old folks told me (or I may be imagining this) that this was used long ago to fool one's enemeies especially those not very knowlegeable of the language. Ah... the memories
There seems to be a misconception in the west, mainly in the US, that Israel was created in a vacant block of land. There is no undersdtanding that Israel exists because many (all of the palestinian refugees) had to be driven from their homes. Most, if not many of them, are still alive. How can they not call it Palestine? Or "our Land"? It is very sad that, with the Palestinians agreeing to give up the hope of regaining their land in order to gain peace, Israel is still intent on land grabbing and enlarging their territory, at the expense of teh palestinians. This might explain the existence (not necessarily condone) of groups like HAMAS and Jihad.
In my state: NSW*, most if not all SAR team members are volunteers except for the Police officers. Technically, The Police is responsible for SAR. The grunt is usally done by trained members of the state emergency service (SES) who are volunteers. In some cases, knowledgeable members of the public (civilians) are asked to help, but always under the supervision of the Police. There are other volunteers such as the VRA (Volunteer Rescue Association). I can only speak for the SES because I'm a member, all "professional volunteers" should be trained in the minimum: First Aid, General Rescue, Communication, and also Land Search Team Member. NSW=New South Wales, which is in a country called: Australia.
Just because the headline is in the article doesn't make it lose it's status as the most appropriate headline for any story I saw on Slashdot for quite a while. I started programming at high school using BASIC. Way back in 1986 I think. We used monochrome computers. We also had some computer hooked to the TV screen, and that is how we used to learn colour graphics. Great fun. I also loved the GOTO command. It's the simplest way to learn CASE calls.
It is actually quite simple. When I started to use an SQL database, I did not "choose" the engine. That was chosen for my by ht eproject I wanted to do. Basically, I wanted a Problem tracking system. Did some searching and stumbled on the excellent: MantisBT at sourceforge. It needed MYSQL. So I started using MYSQL. If it said it needs POSTGRESQL, I would have used that. I think that is the main reason why MYSQL is more popular. It's not the "price" or the "licence". I knew both were "free". I started my DB development using FileMaker about 10 years ago. I wait eagerly for the day it is fully ported to Linux, not just the server.
The comment is pretty misleading. The ATO had a SOE policy wich explicitly excluded non-Microsoft products. What they are doing now is ditching this part of the SOE policy. In other words, they will still be a Microsoft shop, but in the future, non-Microsoft products have, in theory, and equal footing to be accepted as SOE. Don't get me wrong. It is a positive move, and hopefully, good will come out of it.
I used to do some flying in the good ol' days. Most of the planes I flew had analog guages, with green arcs for acceptable range. I flew once in a "fully digital" cockpit, and it was very disorienting. Everything was where it should be, but it displayed numbers instead. I wanted the engine at 2500 RPMs, I unconsoiusly tried to drop back when it went 2550 or increase it from 2490. On analog, just get it anywhere near 2500 and it's fine. Another thing, on our train stations (Sydney) they changed the standad board (which lists all stations with lights next to them. It was easy to find the station you're after, just look at the top left corner...) Now we have these computerised scrolling screens (they run on NT, seeing that they've BSODed a few times) where you have to wait to see if your station is showing up in the list. In other words, like the previous poster pointed out. The brain is quicke at interpreting pictures than numbers.
I've got a couple of comments to make regarding this analogy. I can't compare Word with Wordperfect. I prefer Wordperfect, especially in it's early incarnations and it's scripting language. Pity Corel didn't do enough for this program. Anyway I digress. I don't know much about Lotus, but I always thought that Excel is the only good program in the office suite. As for netscape and IE, there was a time when Netscape was better than IE (pre version 4). Since then the gap has gone in IE's favour.Don't get me wrong, but competition does come with quality. I am typing this in Netscape 7.1. I like it. It's fast, and it's got tabs. IE on my machine is fast but doesn't have tabs. My point is, Microsoft won some of their battles on being good enough in a market where they own the distribution channel. Now in this case, if their product (the serch engine) is good enough, they might win over google because they own the desktop (ie the default browser) market. At the moment, it's sriously not good enough. 1700 entries for Australia on MSN and 52million on google. someone's got a better index.
I pretty much agree to this comment about stability. In general, except in very rare situations, the monarchy does not interfere. I live in Australia where the queen of England is technically our queen as well. In the last referendum about becoming a republic, I voted against it. I like our system of a figurehead who is there "just in case". They don't do anything except sign laws passed by parliament. They do have the power to sack a government and request new elections though. This makes governments not go way overboard with people's wishes. However, the British system, and to a very large extent, all the other Westminister systems (Canada, Australia, NZ etc) are ruled by parties rather than individuals. A ruling party can change their leader and by default change the prime minister as a result. Also for those who don't already know, the UK does not have a constitution, so it can't be constitutional monarchy!
I agree that that one of the biggest problems with a "Desktop" Linux is software installation (the other being look-and-feel consistency). I see that most people mention apt-get or similar solutions to software install and dependency problems; however, not everyone is permamnently online, with most people still using dialup at home. One solution, as I see it, would be for applications to be self contained. They can use the libraries available in the system, if they need extra, they can install them in their own folders. I think that's how OSX does it. This, however, will require a major shift in the development model for Linux. This is not going to be easy unless there is standardation on a single distribution - how likely is that?
I hope you don't get mod down for this post. I am soo to go to a trip to Canada, and I would like to go to the US for a couple of days to visit a relative in Boston. My mum is trying to convince me not to go because I'm of middle eastern background and she worries I might be hassled when I get there. I try to convince her that that is not the case. People don't go around racial profiling any one. I certainly look middle eastern, and I have never been hassled (or singled out) because of the way I look. Certainly not at home in Australia. But hearing stories like these where people are classified according to a set criteria (which will most certainly include "looks") I begin to get second thoughts. The way things are going in regards to profiling, locking up people and general fear factor primarily in the US, but also in Australia and other places as well, shows that the terrorists have succeeded in their plots: to terrorise people. However, I look forward to a better day when wise world leaders especially in the US will work to fix the cause not the symptoms.
Try using Virtual PC (you can get a 45 day trial version from their site). It is great. I use it to run Windows 2000 server on my PIII PC with 256 Mb RAM. It works great and its features are great. Unfortunately it's not available for Linux (and most probably will never be now that they've been bought by MS)
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For those not in the know, this is what we call THONGS in the Land of Oz.
So i'm shunning them. Keep your nasty GIF patents where the sun doesn't shine!
Actually, they do keep the patents where the sun doesn't shine. It usually is a safe or filing cabinet somwhere (the hard copies) or in softcopy. So, there, They're already doing what you've asked!
C.S. Lewis actually answers this very question in his very good Cosmic Trilogy. The main character visits two planets: Venus and Mars. One is an ancient planet and the creatures look very different and there is no sin there (so they did not need Jesus), the other is a new creation. The creatures look like us because Jesus had already been born, so new beings will be like him(don't know why he had to make it like this). Just keep in mind that this is a work of fiction and not Christian doctrine.
The books are actually called: "Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra" and "That Hideous Strength"
That may be the reason for the coding, but this does not mean that it is the wrong way of doing things. The whole idea of "web-enabled" is that it can be viewed by a web browser. the best way to do this is to conform to the web standards. They're actually quite good.
In my books, they've taken the easy way out.
The source has the following interesting snippet:Notice the "disabling signup" comment for non-IE or Opera browsers.
I do not use Yahoo, but hope they change this silliness.
Here's mine in no particular order either:
jed - It is the best lightweight editor out there. Does syntax highlighting and a lot of other nifty extras.
ls - no explanation needed. much much faster than the GUI file managers.
lynx - quick view of a web page
ping - where can I go from here
freeciv - that's how I start it from ICEWM
I agree that Teminals are much better suited to some tasks than stand-alone PCs.
The company where I work has a lot of call centres. At the moment, many of their application use terminal clients running on Macs/PCs to access databases on Unix servers. The rest of their applications run over a Citrix server. These are much better served using thin clients.
It is never clear why this never kicked off at all.
Maybe other people can shed some light on this.
"Election Alliance" is usually called a coalition. You find that in most multi-party countries. Contries with a two-party system usually don't have such a thing.
Anyway, from my own experience in Australia, eventhough we have a coalition (Liberals/Nationals) when we vote we have a choice to vote per group (party) r to vote for individuals (including the party members). Many if not most people vote on a part basis because it is easier than wading through a list of sometimes 50 names to select your candidates. The party/group list is usually much shorter.
On a side note, I think it is wrong to have the term "Christian" associated with a political part. It is bound to lead to people misrepresenting christianity, like in the recent bribery scandals they had in Germany.
And who would you have look after re-training required?
Sun also has included some forms of training (and training for teachers as well)
There's a story at ITBusiness.ca that has more information.
A couple of years ago, I purchased Mandrake (8 I think, just before they were about to go broke) from Mandrake's online store. I did not receive the package on the date it was supposed to be delivered. I waited a few more days, and then I contacted them. They did not reply to my emails.
I had to send several emails, and the last one was a very angry email, asking them for a refund and really complaining about their lack of service. It was a really frustrating time, and from then on, I am not surprised that they have a problem with customer communications.
In some war torn country I lived in, for fun or whatever, there were a few of us who managed to mangle the spoken language (any) by adding "ZA" (or similar) sound after every syllable. It made it very hard for those not in the know to follow what we're talking about.
eg. thaz is azan ezexazample azof wazat weze couzold dazo. (THis is an example of what we could do) In writing it's not elegant.
After getting used to it, we could get it down pat. Some of us were able to substitute any letter other than Z.
Some of the old folks told me (or I may be imagining this) that this was used long ago to fool one's enemeies especially those not very knowlegeable of the language.
Ah... the memories
Thank you for this answer.
There seems to be a misconception in the west, mainly in the US, that Israel was created in a vacant block of land. There is no undersdtanding that Israel exists because many (all of the palestinian refugees) had to be driven from their homes. Most, if not many of them, are still alive. How can they not call it Palestine? Or "our Land"? It is very sad that, with the Palestinians agreeing to give up the hope of regaining their land in order to gain peace, Israel is still intent on land grabbing and enlarging their territory, at the expense of teh palestinians. This might explain the existence (not necessarily condone) of groups like HAMAS and Jihad.
In my state: NSW*, most if not all SAR team members are volunteers except for the Police officers. Technically, The Police is responsible for SAR. The grunt is usally done by trained members of the state emergency service (SES) who are volunteers. In some cases, knowledgeable members of the public (civilians) are asked to help, but always under the supervision of the Police. There are other volunteers such as the VRA (Volunteer Rescue Association). I can only speak for the SES because I'm a member, all "professional volunteers" should be trained in the minimum: First Aid, General Rescue, Communication, and also Land Search Team Member.
NSW=New South Wales, which is in a country called: Australia.
Just because the headline is in the article doesn't make it lose it's status as the most appropriate headline for any story I saw on Slashdot for quite a while.
I started programming at high school using BASIC. Way back in 1986 I think. We used monochrome computers. We also had some computer hooked to the TV screen, and that is how we used to learn colour graphics.
Great fun. I also loved the GOTO command. It's the simplest way to learn CASE calls.
It is actually quite simple. When I started to use an SQL database, I did not "choose" the engine. That was chosen for my by ht eproject I wanted to do.
Basically, I wanted a Problem tracking system. Did some searching and stumbled on the excellent: MantisBT at sourceforge. It needed MYSQL. So I started using MYSQL. If it said it needs POSTGRESQL, I would have used that.
I think that is the main reason why MYSQL is more popular. It's not the "price" or the "licence". I knew both were "free".
I started my DB development using FileMaker about 10 years ago. I wait eagerly for the day it is fully ported to Linux, not just the server.
We actually call it the Commonwealth of Australia (CofA)
The comment is pretty misleading. The ATO had a SOE policy wich explicitly excluded non-Microsoft products. What they are doing now is ditching this part of the SOE policy. In other words, they will still be a Microsoft shop, but in the future, non-Microsoft products have, in theory, and equal footing to be accepted as SOE.
Don't get me wrong. It is a positive move, and hopefully, good will come out of it.
I used to do some flying in the good ol' days. Most of the planes I flew had analog guages, with green arcs for acceptable range. I flew once in a "fully digital" cockpit, and it was very disorienting. Everything was where it should be, but it displayed numbers instead. I wanted the engine at 2500 RPMs, I unconsoiusly tried to drop back when it went 2550 or increase it from 2490. On analog, just get it anywhere near 2500 and it's fine.
Another thing, on our train stations (Sydney) they changed the standad board (which lists all stations with lights next to them. It was easy to find the station you're after, just look at the top left corner...) Now we have these computerised scrolling screens (they run on NT, seeing that they've BSODed a few times) where you have to wait to see if your station is showing up in the list.
In other words, like the previous poster pointed out. The brain is quicke at interpreting pictures than numbers.
I've got a couple of comments to make regarding this analogy. I can't compare Word with Wordperfect. I prefer Wordperfect, especially in it's early incarnations and it's scripting language. Pity Corel didn't do enough for this program. Anyway I digress. I don't know much about Lotus, but I always thought that Excel is the only good program in the office suite. As for netscape and IE, there was a time when Netscape was better than IE (pre version 4). Since then the gap has gone in IE's favour.Don't get me wrong, but competition does come with quality. I am typing this in Netscape 7.1. I like it. It's fast, and it's got tabs. IE on my machine is fast but doesn't have tabs. My point is, Microsoft won some of their battles on being good enough in a market where they own the distribution channel.
Now in this case, if their product (the serch engine) is good enough, they might win over google because they own the desktop (ie the default browser) market. At the moment, it's sriously not good enough. 1700 entries for Australia on MSN and 52million on google. someone's got a better index.
I pretty much agree to this comment about stability. In general, except in very rare situations, the monarchy does not interfere.
I live in Australia where the queen of England is technically our queen as well. In the last referendum about becoming a republic, I voted against it. I like our system of a figurehead who is there "just in case". They don't do anything except sign laws passed by parliament. They do have the power to sack a government and request new elections though. This makes governments not go way overboard with people's wishes.
However, the British system, and to a very large extent, all the other Westminister systems (Canada, Australia, NZ etc) are ruled by parties rather than individuals. A ruling party can change their leader and by default change the prime minister as a result.
Also for those who don't already know, the UK does not have a constitution, so it can't be constitutional monarchy!
I agree that that one of the biggest problems with a "Desktop" Linux is software installation (the other being look-and-feel consistency). I see that most people mention apt-get or similar solutions to software install and dependency problems; however, not everyone is permamnently online, with most people still using dialup at home.
One solution, as I see it, would be for applications to be self contained. They can use the libraries available in the system, if they need extra, they can install them in their own folders. I think that's how OSX does it.
This, however, will require a major shift in the development model for Linux.
This is not going to be easy unless there is standardation on a single distribution - how likely is that?
There might be a simple answer to this: Wholistic Support!
Sun makes the hardware and the software. They will be supporting both.
I hope you don't get mod down for this post. I am soo to go to a trip to Canada, and I would like to go to the US for a couple of days to visit a relative in Boston. My mum is trying to convince me not to go because I'm of middle eastern background and she worries I might be hassled when I get there. I try to convince her that that is not the case. People don't go around racial profiling any one. I certainly look middle eastern, and I have never been hassled (or singled out) because of the way I look. Certainly not at home in Australia. But hearing stories like these where people are classified according to a set criteria (which will most certainly include "looks") I begin to get second thoughts.
The way things are going in regards to profiling, locking up people and general fear factor primarily in the US, but also in Australia and other places as well, shows that the terrorists have succeeded in their plots: to terrorise people.
However, I look forward to a better day when wise world leaders especially in the US will work to fix the cause not the symptoms.
Funny, the Merriam-Webster definition of virus says that the "Sanskrit" origin is VISA. Sort of explains why I've hardly got any money left!
Try using Virtual PC (you can get a 45 day trial version from their site).
It is great. I use it to run Windows 2000 server on my PIII PC with 256 Mb RAM. It works great and its features are great. Unfortunately it's not available for Linux (and most probably will never be now that they've been bought by MS)