I bet the real motivation is to save the Bush campaign millions of dollars in registering various combinations of 2004, george, dubbya, bush, sucks,.com, etc.
HP Kayak is HP's entry in the personal water transportation market. It's compelling feature is RPM - Reverse Paddling Motivation. You stroke the paddle backwards only on the right side of the Kayak, and it moves forward. Skilled HP Kayakers (mostly engineers and other tech weenies) generally claimed they could get downstream much more efficiently this way, but some privately admit that the real benefit was the ego boost from the knowledge that the average weekend warrior couldn't figure out how to paddle it.
How many inexperienced people will read that snippet (and other snippets) and forever think of Microsoft as an EVIL EVIL SCUM with no mind for security at all?
I don't know about you guys, but I'm losing interest in "digital entertainment content". I used to listen to music and watch movies all the time. Now, I'm so annoyed by all the blatant moneygrabbing that I don't find any of it entertaining any more. I would really rather write someone an email, or have a drink with friends, or exercise, or watch a sunset, or something -*anything*- that doesn't involve putting more of my hard-earned into the grubbies of some media-monster.
Microsoft put the clamps on PC users so tightly that it changed what a lot of people wanted from a PC (then Linux took off). RIAA, MPAA, and (um) Microsoft are putting the clamps on digital entertainment so tightly that it seems to be changing what a lot of people (well ok, maybe just "I") want for entertainment.
the Mac. Even UPS drones know that a Mac POS deserves no better than drop kick to the back of the truck! UPS should at least give you a nickle, as in "here's a nickle kid, go buy yourself a real computer."
This strategy has worked quite well for us. We put everything we could into servers that are fairly cross-platform: stl & iostreams, pthreads, gcc, etc. Some parts *have* to run on the desktop to show the users what's happening and get their input. All our users have Windows desktops, so we wrote the Windows clients first using Visual C++. It sucked less than we expected.
We have Java clients on the drawing board, but so far all our desktops are Windows. We have our doubts about whether a Java client implementation could make the performance cut. Java performance is ok for most systems, but this system has a *lot* of graphic and network i/o. Can you imagine Quake3 written in Java.
What holds everything together is the middleware from Tibco. We use their Rendezvous system and it kicks a lot of butt. It uses UDP broadcasting or multicasting to send out subject-based Observer pattern updates. It's:
fast: 10000 msg/sec
mature: developed over 15 years
fault-tolerant: process pairs/distributed queues
language-independent:C,C++,Java,Perl and Cobol!
cross-platform: NT/2K/XP,Solaris,HPUX,Linux
Sorry to sound like a commercial. The downsides are that it's expensive and closed-source.
I also recommend using Cygwin, cvs, gnu emacs, samba, rsync and anything else you can find to make Windows as blissfully unix-like as possible.
Unfortunately, the key word in your subject is "was". The HP company that whose products we loved is no longer around. It's been homogenized, downsized and chipped away by "management teams" like the current one. They have lived up to their titles:they've "managed". The company isn't closed; it has "managed" to survive.
HP was founded by engineers. Engineering is what they knew, and that's how they competed. Today, HP is run by b-schoolers; engineering really isn't their forte. But they know advertising and finance and marketing. So that's what they rely on; that's how they compete. They leave the real innovation to their "partners" (guess who I'm talking about) who promise them success in terms they can understand: market share and intrinsic stock option value. Meanwhile, the company dissolves from the inside into yet another sales staff and yet another brand for the same old Same Old.
The Hewletts and the Packards might stop the Compaq deal, but all the rats together still can't stop their sinking ship from taking them under. It will take great innovation, not great speeches about "innovation". Good luck HP, you're gonna need it.
Why is everyone arguing *against* Passport? A "service" like Passport is the best promotion for Free and Open Source software Microsoft can offer? "If you use our products, we'll arrange for someone to steal your credit card number!" With a deal like that, who wouldn't want to try Linux instead?
I ran the JPL simulator forward to 9/20/2018 to find that Earth will tailgate the comet for several hours at a distance of about 0.25 AU. IANAA, but it seems that will make for quite a shower (if you believe in the accuracy of this simulator over 2 decades).
Ok, how about a point of sale (POS) system based on LAMP (Linux & Apache & MySQL & Perl/PHP/Python)? Seems to me that a lot of businesses could afford and benefit from such a setup. Use whatever you want to run the browsers for data entry and reporting. At some point maybe Sony PS2s could be used for terminals!
Re:Wow...score one more HUGE client for IBM.
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It might have had something to do with basic finance. Hardware vendors "sold" servers, network equipment, and services to ISPs on *credit*. ISPs in turn sold hosting and services to site builders. They in turn sold page space and services to advertisers. When the advertisers couldn't or wouldn't pay their bills, securities analysts revalued receivable accounts all the way up the credit chain at *zilch*. And of course, zero times future revenue growth rates is still *zilch*. Bye bye bubble.
Re:Presumably, its all custom trading software any
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Well, you're right... but it's not that relevant. Open-outcry exchange systems record and report quotes and sales that occur on the trading floor. These records are forwarded to clearing firms for account settlement (cash to the seller's account, stock to the buyer's account) and to companies like Reuters for price dissemination. About the only opinion you can count on from floor traders is that most of them hate the computers regardless of the OS they're running. Every time the computers become more important, the significance of traders and their human support staff diminishes. Computers force them to be more fair to the customers - that means lower profit margins for them. Computers make online brokers and ECNs possible - loyalty to floor brokers has been destroyed. Naturally the exchange floor denizens resent this encroachment and have fought it vigorously every step of the way. For an example of this, look for references to Pat Arbor, former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade. Days after he hinted that computerization of the exchange might be inevitable, he was ousted in favor of a floor trader who swore to the membership that he would never allow computerization.
Eventually, digital exchanges like Nasdaq and ISE will replace the open-outcry trading floors completely. This has already happened at the rest of the world's exchanges. To take on the task of running an exchange, the computer system must have great messaging throughput and great reliability. Windows NT in its various incarnations has not proven itself to be up to this task. Solaris and HP-UX are up to it. IBM and many other believe that Linux is also up it, and IBM is going to prove it.
One post's subject was "only one battle". This is true, but every war has a decisive battle that turns the tide in the favor of the victors. This deal could decide for years to come the OS to use for financial transaction servers. IBM is wisely positioning themselves to profit greatly if this happens by providing support and middleware. The importance of support and middleware for this kind of application cannot be overstated. A brilliant maneuver that beats Microsoft at their own game.
Electronic trading workstations are another story. Web browsers and Java simply do not have the power needed to make those platform independent. Almost all electronic trading software and other useful tools (like Excel) run on Windows. These workstations will be in Microsoft's hands until some group mounts a serious effort to supplant that software with superior Linux-based replacements.
I have much more to say on this matter, but I've probably bored you enough. Too bad I can't get a "+1:Long-winded" mod.
What's the difference? Microsoft employees and customers will mistake this for enthusiasm (which they like). No one will mistake pointless bickering for *anything* positive.
Balmer acts like fool and Microsoft wins. Stallman et al. act like fools and everyone but Microsoft loses.
Steve Balmer and his minions must be rolling on the executive suite floor laughing at the reports of this silliness. Every minute spent on this nonsense is another minute in which Microsoft's tyranny worsens. [evocate throws a bucket of ice water on the arguing parties.] Take a break, get some perspective, and get back to real work.
Re:Mozilla ... Netscape ... what't the difference?
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By almost any technical measure, IE is a better browser than Netscape/Mozilla (N/M). Opening the source has not obviated the need to program better than Microsoft's IE engineers. Some open-source projects are *going to fail*. If you believe that the mark for which N/M must shoot is IE, then you must also believe that N/M is a failed project. It is also the first high-profile open source project failure
Open source projects usually have simple beginnings and humble aspirations. Most start as hack jobs to "scratch an itch" and grow incrementally to become powerhouses. Linux is a prime example. There are many many others. Mostly, these projects set their own bars. Success is defined from within the community, not by comparison to some commercial competitor. Linux was to be the best kernel Torvalds could write, not a better kernel than NT. Apache was to be the best web server, not a better server than IIS. Perl... well, what are you going to compare Perl to? The point is these projects defined their own success. They didn't let Microsoft define it for them.
The open source N/M project has never defined success for itself. It has been chasing Microsoft the whole way - matching bullet points and comparing market shares. Successful open source projects don't usually work this way. A successful open source web browser will start simply, iterate constantly, have fantastic leadership (like Torvalds, Cox, Behlendorf, Wall, etc.), remain *solid*, and define success on *its* terms, not terms set by CNET or MSNBC or even Slashdot. And what should those terms be? Easy: happy, loyal, rabidly fanatic users. Users who will only give up the product when someone pries it from their cold dead fingers. I mean... isn't that how you feel about the successful open source products you love?
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I bet the real motivation is to save the Bush campaign millions of dollars in registering various combinations of 2004, george, dubbya, .com, etc.
bush, sucks,
Amazon(!) is selling the whole 16-song fair-usable album for $14. H.S.A.
HP Kayak is HP's entry in the personal water transportation market. It's compelling feature is RPM - Reverse Paddling Motivation. You stroke the paddle backwards only on the right side of the Kayak, and it moves forward. Skilled HP Kayakers (mostly engineers and other tech weenies) generally claimed they could get downstream much more efficiently this way, but some privately admit that the real benefit was the ego boost from the knowledge that the average weekend warrior couldn't figure out how to paddle it.
Just make sure you're wearing rubber-soled shoes.
Actually, I think that a pear-shaped computer would be a better fit for most geeks trying to get into it. I know, I know, I just couldn't resist.
They have to learn the truth some time. :/
Sure, what's it's URL?
Microsoft put the clamps on PC users so tightly that it changed what a lot of people wanted from a PC (then Linux took off). RIAA, MPAA, and (um) Microsoft are putting the clamps on digital entertainment so tightly that it seems to be changing what a lot of people (well ok, maybe just "I") want for entertainment.
the Mac. Even UPS drones know that a Mac POS deserves no better than drop kick to the back of the truck! UPS should at least give you a nickle, as in "here's a nickle kid, go buy yourself a real computer."
Why didn't you just log the car data in vi?
We have Java clients on the drawing board, but so far all our desktops are Windows. We have our doubts about whether a Java client implementation could make the performance cut. Java performance is ok for most systems, but this system has a *lot* of graphic and network i/o. Can you imagine Quake3 written in Java.
What holds everything together is the middleware from Tibco. We use their Rendezvous system and it kicks a lot of butt. It uses UDP broadcasting or multicasting to send out subject-based Observer pattern updates. It's:
- fast: 10000 msg/sec
- mature: developed over 15 years
- fault-tolerant: process pairs/distributed queues
- language-independent:C,C++,Java,Perl and Cobol!
- cross-platform: NT/2K/XP,Solaris,HPUX,Linux
Sorry to sound like a commercial. The downsides are that it's expensive and closed-source.I also recommend using Cygwin, cvs, gnu emacs, samba, rsync and anything else you can find to make Windows as blissfully unix-like as possible.
Unfortunately, the key word in your subject is "was". The HP company that whose products we loved is no longer around. It's been homogenized, downsized and chipped away by "management teams" like the current one. They have lived up to their titles:they've "managed". The company isn't closed; it has "managed" to survive.
HP was founded by engineers. Engineering is what they knew, and that's how they competed. Today, HP is run by b-schoolers; engineering really isn't their forte. But they know advertising and finance and marketing. So that's what they rely on; that's how they compete. They leave the real innovation to their "partners" (guess who I'm talking about) who promise them success in terms they can understand: market share and intrinsic stock option value. Meanwhile, the company dissolves from the inside into yet another sales staff and yet another brand for the same old Same Old.
The Hewletts and the Packards might stop the Compaq deal, but all the rats together still can't stop their sinking ship from taking them under. It will take great innovation, not great speeches about "innovation". Good luck HP, you're gonna need it.
Why is everyone arguing *against* Passport? A "service" like Passport is the best promotion for Free and Open Source software Microsoft can offer? "If you use our products, we'll arrange for someone to steal your credit card number!" With a deal like that, who wouldn't want to try Linux instead?
Geometry modification & a rocket launcher will bring a swift end to camping.
I ran the JPL simulator forward to 9/20/2018 to find that Earth will tailgate the comet for several hours at a distance of about 0.25 AU. IANAA, but it seems that will make for quite a shower (if you believe in the accuracy of this simulator over 2 decades).
I suspect that laptops with wireless cards are filling the role that web appliances were supposed to fill.
:-O, etc. And Slashdot makes great bathroom reading.
Yep, an old dell laptop with a wireless card. Kitchen, dining room, bedroom
If DB2 does the transaction processing controlled by tuxedo, what does that have to do with Linux?
Tennessee Tuxedo -> penguin
Linux -> penguin
Got it?
Ok, how about a point of sale (POS) system based on LAMP (Linux & Apache & MySQL & Perl/PHP/Python)? Seems to me that a lot of businesses could afford and benefit from such a setup. Use whatever you want to run the browsers for data entry and reporting. At some point maybe Sony PS2s could be used for terminals!
It might have had something to do with basic finance. Hardware vendors "sold" servers, network equipment, and services to ISPs on *credit*. ISPs in turn sold hosting and services to site builders. They in turn sold page space and services to advertisers. When the advertisers couldn't or wouldn't pay their bills, securities analysts revalued receivable accounts all the way up the credit chain at *zilch*. And of course, zero times future revenue growth rates is still *zilch*. Bye bye bubble.
Eventually, digital exchanges like Nasdaq and ISE will replace the open-outcry trading floors completely. This has already happened at the rest of the world's exchanges. To take on the task of running an exchange, the computer system must have great messaging throughput and great reliability. Windows NT in its various incarnations has not proven itself to be up to this task. Solaris and HP-UX are up to it. IBM and many other believe that Linux is also up it, and IBM is going to prove it.
One post's subject was "only one battle". This is true, but every war has a decisive battle that turns the tide in the favor of the victors. This deal could decide for years to come the OS to use for financial transaction servers. IBM is wisely positioning themselves to profit greatly if this happens by providing support and middleware. The importance of support and middleware for this kind of application cannot be overstated. A brilliant maneuver that beats Microsoft at their own game.
Electronic trading workstations are another story. Web browsers and Java simply do not have the power needed to make those platform independent. Almost all electronic trading software and other useful tools (like Excel) run on Windows. These workstations will be in Microsoft's hands until some group mounts a serious effort to supplant that software with superior Linux-based replacements.
I have much more to say on this matter, but I've probably bored you enough. Too bad I can't get a "+1:Long-winded" mod.
plenty of books. no video cameras.
Balmer acts like fool and Microsoft wins. Stallman et al. act like fools and everyone but Microsoft loses.
Open source projects usually have simple beginnings and humble aspirations. Most start as hack jobs to "scratch an itch" and grow incrementally to become powerhouses. Linux is a prime example. There are many many others. Mostly, these projects set their own bars. Success is defined from within the community, not by comparison to some commercial competitor. Linux was to be the best kernel Torvalds could write, not a better kernel than NT. Apache was to be the best web server, not a better server than IIS. Perl... well, what are you going to compare Perl to? The point is these projects defined their own success. They didn't let Microsoft define it for them.
The open source N/M project has never defined success for itself. It has been chasing Microsoft the whole way - matching bullet points and comparing market shares. Successful open source projects don't usually work this way. A successful open source web browser will start simply, iterate constantly, have fantastic leadership (like Torvalds, Cox, Behlendorf, Wall, etc.), remain *solid*, and define success on *its* terms, not terms set by CNET or MSNBC or even Slashdot. And what should those terms be? Easy: happy, loyal, rabidly fanatic users. Users who will only give up the product when someone pries it from their cold dead fingers. I mean... isn't that how you feel about the successful open source products you love?
"640K of memory should be enough for anybody."