Great if it works. But if it turns out more over-enthusiastic rookies with unrealistic simulator expectations, people are going to get killed.
Umm, how would that be different to any other war?
The US troops have had unrealistic expectations of what sort of war they are fighting for decades. They all thought they were going off into some glorious John Wayne movie where they'd all be heroes. At least with a simulator they can adjust it to what the on-the-ground fight is like and give the next batch of cannon fodder a little more realistic training before they get their asses handed to them. A good simulator can and will hand their asses to them on every mistake they make. Then they'll learn not to make mistakes.
Some friends of mine have a son who's been diagnosed with having ADD. The only deficit I see is in the amount of attention they give him.
When I'm there, they'd try to keep him locked in another room (using a barrier across the doorway) with his toys and only give him any attention when they feel the need to shout at him.
When he is let out, the #1 thing he wants is to hug his parents, sit on their lap and be held by them. But they continually push him off.
Perhaps if they could be intimate with their son, he wouldn't feel the need to do stuff to get thier attention. I doubt chemicals or any form of psychotherapy (unless it's the parents that undertake it) will make any difference there. I just wish I could get them to read some of Steve Bidulph's books.
should be restricted to.com domains. That's what the TLD was supposed to mean. Any other TLD should be first-come, first-served
That's what we do here with.com.au domains. You must have a registered business name that your selected domain name can be derived from. Of course, there were many people who thought that was too restrictive. In particular, the moron who writes for The Age and wanted property.com.au for a side venture of his. He gave Melbourne IT flack at every turn for not giving that domain to him (even though they weren't the ones who put the rules into place).
AFAIK we also have similar rules for.org.au domains.
Umm... Wouldn't it be aproximately the same speed that the motercycle was going when it crashed?
Somebody here (Melb, Aust) hit a car and flew over the railing to fall on a freeway below. At that point, I think they were going just a little faster than the speed of the bike. Until they suddenly stopped.
The real disturbing data would be on g-forces at the time of impact.
Windows would actually be a decent product if Microsoft could successfully copy the good unix stuff instead of doing perfect copies of it's flaws and flawed copies of the stuff that works.
Having recently been a victim of having my addresses spoofed by spammers, I don't think this is a good idea. Only if the SPAM actually says to reply for more information (or to make a purchase) would this work; in other words, only if you have a reason to believe that the address is in fact going to reach the spammer.
Absolutely. This will only work (as per the original poster's suggestion) if there is a valid reply-to address.
Add all the spammers to an e-mail list and automatically forward any spam I get (using an address I use only for this purpose) to everyone on that list.
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I've been using Delphi since one of the beta versions of Delphi 1.0 (when they were still considering calling it AppBuilder). I've developed in Java for a number of years, and recently have been doing a little Delphi work.
AFAIC Delphi is a great product. As said before, the only problems with it were: It's not Microsoft. It's not C++. And it's not VB. I've worked on government tenders that had a 3rd party company endorse our design and product recommendations. Then the customer's IT department ignored the product recommendation for using Delphi and Oracle and demanded it was done in VB and SQL Server. Why? Because they were products they knew (even though VB apps caused most of their support problems).
Delphi is a great product for producing gui and database apps. The language has a lot of power and flexibility. Kylix was designed to produce similar apps on Linux, but nobody wants them. Linux is a server OS, not a desktop OS. So customers want server applications, not gui applications. I've also written server-side stuff in Delphi (using Corba), and from that experience it's not suited to that sort of work either.
And since Kylix hasn't been as extensively used as Delphi, it also hasn't been as extensively tested. That's why the compatibility isn't there and the stability isn't there.
In summary, I think there are three reasons for the non-take up of Kylix. Price, stability and suitability. Personally, I'd like to see them do what they did with Interbase. But I doubt they'll do that.
Check out http://www.nyngan.com/ for some real funny stuff. I especially love the fact that it's in the "Bogan" shire (Aussie joke). I visited a friend there a few weeks ago and gave him heaps about it. Especially the "Bogan Catchment Area". He never did tell me how many bogans they caught there.
Anyway, $1.5M is probably many times the combined income of all residents of Nyngan. I have no idea why it's called the "Central West" in the article. Nyngan IS the "Dead Centre" of NSW. I'm surprised they even have the bandwidth to send out e-mails from there.
The human body was designed to survive on scarcity, and it has served us well over the past 50,000-plus years. On those rare occasions when food was abundant it was stored as fat in advance of future scarcity. Today we are surrounded by an excess of food and the body continues to follow a proven survival strategy -- it stores energy in fat for lean days which no longer arrive.
Hmm, there are a lot more "survivalists" than I thought there was.
But I'll make sure it's removed from any car I own. If there was a law that said the records could only be retreived from the previous 5 minutes, then I'd say it's a good thing. Otherwise, there will be people who are wrongly convicted of speeding.
In my state we have a lower "unrestricted" speed limit to other states of Australia. The Northern Territory has no speed limit in "unrestricted" areas. I would be well within my rights to drive on those roads at >200km/h and I could safely do so (I have a racing license to prove it).
I also regularly participate in motor racing using my daily driver (a 1986 Lotus). I get that car up to ~200km/h while operating well within the law.
But if I was involved in an accident and it came to a court case. I doubt I'd have any chance of winning if it came to the court's attention that I had driven at those speeds (even if in a place where it was legal) regardless of whether I was in the wrong or not.
The approval, expected as early as next week, would be another step along the long road to the higher-quality, crisper digital signals, which have been slowed because of worries about piracy, high-priced equipment and limited available programming.
I doubt piracy has slowed it at all. The few movies I've downloaded from the internet, I could have saved myself a lot of time and bandwidth by just seeing them at the movies or waiting until they were available for hire. Even the movies ripped from DVD screeners aren't that great in quality and it usually takes up to a week to get one via any file sharing program.
As for the slow takeup of digital TV? Try the insane prices, lack of digital programs and just plain old shit programs for the cause. For a basic HDTV I'm looking at nearly 20% of my annual gross salary in this country. And I get an above "average" wage. I won't be upgrading until I have zero choice. Even then, I'll probably wait a while as I watch a maximum of 1-2 hours per week (even Star Trek isn't worth watching these days) and most of that is DVDs.
If they "break" all the DVD players out there, I think you'll find a large number of people will just go back to using tapes. Most people here probably wouldn't blink before buying a new DVD player, but most of the Real World just can't afford to go replacing their equipment on the MPAA's whim.
I joined this company about 6 months ago and old projects were being archived on disk. At least until we needed to restore something from 12 months ago and we couldn't read the disk (or it's off-site copy).
Disks are cheap, but totally unreliable in the long term. At least until the technology of disks gets better, tapes will still be used. We have a shiny new tape changer to prove it.
Eolas: "That might change in the future, if they continue to refuse the deal," he said. "The quid pro quo would be settle it now--not force us to litigate for two, three, four years or whatever it is that they have in mind."
Evil Adrian: "Once again, prior art popping up. So, this whole thing will probably get turned on its head after about 3 more years of litigation.
Ispel: "A long time ago, when people were using Mosaic, the proprietor of Eolas invented the plugin technology. He showed this technology to Microsoft who poo-pooed it. Fast-forward several months and Microsoft's adds plugins in IE. Microsoft gets sued, litigation ensures while the browser wars and Y2K come and go. Whether or not you agree with software patents, there is no doubt Microsoft screwed this guy. I highly doubt the jury would have given Eolas the case if MS had not done this."
IOW: You screwed us and we're pissed so we want you to hand over a big fat wad of cash. But it'd be much easier for us if did it before the jury grows a brain and realises we didn't really invent this technology.
I'd love to see something like this happen here in Australia. You'd have some pretty interesting things happening with Bigpond and Optus customers. Bigpond cable customers would be jumping enmasse to Optus for the better bandwidth policies. Since Bigpond and Optus also run different speeds, it would also be possible for people to use Bigpond on Optus' higher speed cable (and use their bandwidth limits faster).
The biggest benefit though would be for the small ISP's who can't afford to lay cable. They could piggyback onto the cable network and reach more users. Personally, I'd love to use suck my pipe (unlimited bandwidth) on Optus' high speed cable.:)
What's going on is that the Internet has dramatically cut the costs and enhanced the efficiency of distribution and promotion mechanisms, in the process is making obsolete many of the core business processes of record companies.
Yup, it costs me nothin' except for the time and bandwidth to download a CD of MP3's. The efficiency of file sharing still has a looong way to go. The number of bogus files, or files that you will never see complete after you initially start downloading them make it so hard to download a CD of music that I've resorted to buying CD's again. Some times it takes so long to download a CD, that the bandwidth costs of the uploading (I'm not a leech) is competitive with the cost of a second hand CD.
So for the CD's I absolutely must have, I buy them second hand just to make sure the RIAA still get screwed. Then I can still rip them to MP3's, listen to them in the car, on my mp3 player, computer, etc.
"The success of our SCOsource licensing initiative, at least initially, will depend to a great extent on the perceived strength of our intellectual property and contractual claims and our willingness to enforce our rights."
If only their survival was dependent on the "perceived strength of their intellectual prowess". Then they'd already be dead and we could get back to posting stuff that actually matters.
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Great if it works. But if it turns out more over-enthusiastic rookies with unrealistic simulator expectations, people are going to get killed.
Umm, how would that be different to any other war?
The US troops have had unrealistic expectations of what sort of war they are fighting for decades. They all thought they were going off into some glorious John Wayne movie where they'd all be heroes. At least with a simulator they can adjust it to what the on-the-ground fight is like and give the next batch of cannon fodder a little more realistic training before they get their asses handed to them. A good simulator can and will hand their asses to them on every mistake they make. Then they'll learn not to make mistakes.
Adelaide as street lights now?
Damn, next thing they'll have drinkable water.
Some friends of mine have a son who's been diagnosed with having ADD. The only deficit I see is in the amount of attention they give him.
When I'm there, they'd try to keep him locked in another room (using a barrier across the doorway) with his toys and only give him any attention when they feel the need to shout at him.
When he is let out, the #1 thing he wants is to hug his parents, sit on their lap and be held by them. But they continually push him off.
Perhaps if they could be intimate with their son, he wouldn't feel the need to do stuff to get thier attention. I doubt chemicals or any form of psychotherapy (unless it's the parents that undertake it) will make any difference there. I just wish I could get them to read some of Steve Bidulph's books.
should be restricted to .com domains. That's what the TLD was supposed to mean. Any other TLD should be first-come, first-served
.com.au domains. You must have a registered business name that your selected domain name can be derived from. Of course, there were many people who thought that was too restrictive. In particular, the moron who writes for The Age and wanted property.com.au for a side venture of his. He gave Melbourne IT flack at every turn for not giving that domain to him (even though they weren't the ones who put the rules into place).
AFAIK we also have similar rules for .org.au domains.
That's what we do here with
No cost increase for me.
--Scrooge
Umm... Wouldn't it be aproximately the same speed that the motercycle was going when it crashed?
Somebody here (Melb, Aust) hit a car and flew over the railing to fall on a freeway below. At that point, I think they were going just a little faster than the speed of the bike. Until they suddenly stopped.
The real disturbing data would be on g-forces at the time of impact.
They had a 3rd person connect to their 2 user version of SCO Unix?
A spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
They probably had to get a couple of people in to help them off the floor after they fell out of their chair laughing.
Windows becomes more like *nix every day!
Windows would actually be a decent product if Microsoft could successfully copy the good unix stuff instead of doing perfect copies of it's flaws and flawed copies of the stuff that works.
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Having recently been a victim of having my addresses spoofed by spammers, I don't think this is a good idea. Only if the SPAM actually says to reply for more information (or to make a purchase) would this work; in other words, only if you have a reason to believe that the address is in fact going to reach the spammer.
Absolutely. This will only work (as per the original poster's suggestion) if there is a valid reply-to address.
You could always do what I do.
Add all the spammers to an e-mail list and automatically forward any spam I get (using an address I use only for this purpose) to everyone on that list.
I've been using Delphi since one of the beta versions of Delphi 1.0 (when they were still considering calling it AppBuilder). I've developed in Java for a number of years, and recently have been doing a little Delphi work.
AFAIC Delphi is a great product. As said before, the only problems with it were: It's not Microsoft. It's not C++. And it's not VB. I've worked on government tenders that had a 3rd party company endorse our design and product recommendations. Then the customer's IT department ignored the product recommendation for using Delphi and Oracle and demanded it was done in VB and SQL Server. Why? Because they were products they knew (even though VB apps caused most of their support problems).
Delphi is a great product for producing gui and database apps. The language has a lot of power and flexibility. Kylix was designed to produce similar apps on Linux, but nobody wants them. Linux is a server OS, not a desktop OS. So customers want server applications, not gui applications. I've also written server-side stuff in Delphi (using Corba), and from that experience it's not suited to that sort of work either.
And since Kylix hasn't been as extensively used as Delphi, it also hasn't been as extensively tested. That's why the compatibility isn't there and the stability isn't there.
In summary, I think there are three reasons for the non-take up of Kylix. Price, stability and suitability. Personally, I'd like to see them do what they did with Interbase. But I doubt they'll do that.
Check out http://www.nyngan.com/ for some real funny stuff. I especially love the fact that it's in the "Bogan" shire (Aussie joke). I visited a friend there a few weeks ago and gave him heaps about it. Especially the "Bogan Catchment Area". He never did tell me how many bogans they caught there.
Anyway, $1.5M is probably many times the combined income of all residents of Nyngan. I have no idea why it's called the "Central West" in the article. Nyngan IS the "Dead Centre" of NSW. I'm surprised they even have the bandwidth to send out e-mails from there.
The human body was designed to survive on scarcity, and it has served us well over the past 50,000-plus years. On those rare occasions when food was abundant it was stored as fat in advance of future scarcity. Today we are surrounded by an excess of food and the body continues to follow a proven survival strategy -- it stores energy in fat for lean days which no longer arrive.
Hmm, there are a lot more "survivalists" than I thought there was.
But I'll make sure it's removed from any car I own. If there was a law that said the records could only be retreived from the previous 5 minutes, then I'd say it's a good thing. Otherwise, there will be people who are wrongly convicted of speeding.
In my state we have a lower "unrestricted" speed limit to other states of Australia. The Northern Territory has no speed limit in "unrestricted" areas. I would be well within my rights to drive on those roads at >200km/h and I could safely do so (I have a racing license to prove it).
I also regularly participate in motor racing using my daily driver (a 1986 Lotus). I get that car up to ~200km/h while operating well within the law.
But if I was involved in an accident and it came to a court case. I doubt I'd have any chance of winning if it came to the court's attention that I had driven at those speeds (even if in a place where it was legal) regardless of whether I was in the wrong or not.
Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum
In the morning laughing happy fish heads
In the evening floating in the soup
Ask a fish head anything you want to
They won't answer they can't talk
I took a fish head out to see a movie
Didn't have to pay to get it in
They can't play baseball they don't wear sweaters
They're not good dancers they don't play drums
Roly poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino
In Italian restaurants with oriental women yeah
The approval, expected as early as next week, would be another step along the long road to the higher-quality, crisper digital signals, which have been slowed because of worries about piracy, high-priced equipment and limited available programming.
I doubt piracy has slowed it at all. The few movies I've downloaded from the internet, I could have saved myself a lot of time and bandwidth by just seeing them at the movies or waiting until they were available for hire. Even the movies ripped from DVD screeners aren't that great in quality and it usually takes up to a week to get one via any file sharing program.
As for the slow takeup of digital TV? Try the insane prices, lack of digital programs and just plain old shit programs for the cause. For a basic HDTV I'm looking at nearly 20% of my annual gross salary in this country. And I get an above "average" wage. I won't be upgrading until I have zero choice. Even then, I'll probably wait a while as I watch a maximum of 1-2 hours per week (even Star Trek isn't worth watching these days) and most of that is DVDs.
If they "break" all the DVD players out there, I think you'll find a large number of people will just go back to using tapes. Most people here probably wouldn't blink before buying a new DVD player, but most of the Real World just can't afford to go replacing their equipment on the MPAA's whim.
Tape is certainly not gone.
I joined this company about 6 months ago and old projects were being archived on disk. At least until we needed to restore something from 12 months ago and we couldn't read the disk (or it's off-site copy).
Disks are cheap, but totally unreliable in the long term. At least until the technology of disks gets better, tapes will still be used. We have a shiny new tape changer to prove it.
Eolas: "That might change in the future, if they continue to refuse the deal," he said. "The quid pro quo would be settle it now--not force us to litigate for two, three, four years or whatever it is that they have in mind."
Evil Adrian: "Once again, prior art popping up. So, this whole thing will probably get turned on its head after about 3 more years of litigation.
Ispel: "A long time ago, when people were using Mosaic, the proprietor of Eolas invented the plugin technology. He showed this technology to Microsoft who poo-pooed it. Fast-forward several months and Microsoft's adds plugins in IE. Microsoft gets sued, litigation ensures while the browser wars and Y2K come and go. Whether or not you agree with software patents, there is no doubt Microsoft screwed this guy. I highly doubt the jury would have given Eolas the case if MS had not done this."
IOW: You screwed us and we're pissed so we want you to hand over a big fat wad of cash. But it'd be much easier for us if did it before the jury grows a brain and realises we didn't really invent this technology.
Hey, I'm for me buddy! ;P
I'd like some cable modem competition here.
:)
I'd love to see something like this happen here in Australia. You'd have some pretty interesting things happening with Bigpond and Optus customers. Bigpond cable customers would be jumping enmasse to Optus for the better bandwidth policies. Since Bigpond and Optus also run different speeds, it would also be possible for people to use Bigpond on Optus' higher speed cable (and use their bandwidth limits faster).
The biggest benefit though would be for the small ISP's who can't afford to lay cable. They could piggyback onto the cable network and reach more users. Personally, I'd love to use suck my pipe (unlimited bandwidth) on Optus' high speed cable.
This sort of philanthropy is very rare in Australia. Does this happen elsewhere in the world?
What's going on is that the Internet has dramatically cut the costs and enhanced the efficiency of distribution and promotion mechanisms, in the process is making obsolete many of the core business processes of record companies.
Yup, it costs me nothin' except for the time and bandwidth to download a CD of MP3's. The efficiency of file sharing still has a looong way to go. The number of bogus files, or files that you will never see complete after you initially start downloading them make it so hard to download a CD of music that I've resorted to buying CD's again. Some times it takes so long to download a CD, that the bandwidth costs of the uploading (I'm not a leech) is competitive with the cost of a second hand CD.
So for the CD's I absolutely must have, I buy them second hand just to make sure the RIAA still get screwed. Then I can still rip them to MP3's, listen to them in the car, on my mp3 player, computer, etc.
"The success of our SCOsource licensing initiative, at least initially, will depend to a great extent on the perceived strength of our intellectual property and contractual claims and our willingness to enforce our rights."
If only their survival was dependent on the "perceived strength of their intellectual prowess". Then they'd already be dead and we could get back to posting stuff that actually matters.