>No -- the velcro ones stick to each other in the wash and cause damage.
We used to turn them inside out and fasten the velcro tabs (now on the inside) worked OK with us for a couple of years per child.
I prefer the ones with plastic snaps. We've been using FuzziBunz on our daughter for 2 months now (she's 10 weeks old), and absolutely love them.
-- not seen those in the UK. You may find the disposable get an 'edge' as your child gets older - two-year-olds can let go an enormous amount of urine in the night!
Took the words out of my mouth, except I think the first iteration(s) of Unix were on the PDP-7, the '11 was used for the first 'production' use of Unix (1971 in the Bell Labs Patents Dept, for writing documents).
Get modern washable nappies (e.g. Kooshies (sp?) ) They're cotton, but shaped and with velcro tabs just like the disposable ones. no need to pin or fold.
'course Microsoft understand this now - why do you think they just bought VirtualPC? (Actually they said why in press releases - so that people could run different (older) MS windows images on a standard XP box)
>This is in the UK. Why would anyone care what had >been found in some US case? If anything that's >likely to encourage a court towards the opposite >opinion; we've seen your legal system.
And anyway, they would have to honour the price, not honor it.
>OS X recognizes 2 button USB mice out of the box. Is your > issue that Apple doesn't *ship* the mouse?
Too 'king right - I can stick a logitech two button/scroller mouse on my cube, but it is a pain having to plug in a two button mouse on my Apple laptop when I am using it on the train, when they could just split hte current button in two.
SOON cars? Ha ha! You dropped the ball on cars about fifty years ago... And I have no axe to grind, my country (the UK) dropped the ball on cars about the same time...
I've got a cube with a 17" Apple LCD display, and I love it; it sits quietly on a corner of the desk with all its cables coming up into it from a cable port in the desk. Plug in a USB hub and firewire cable, hide away the power supply, and the only reason to touch the cube is to put in a CD (buy a firewire CDRW if you don't want to touch it at all). Note that you should get an apple ADC display; the speakers plug into one of the Apple display USB ports, and you can use its power button to control the cube.
The cube is a work of art, you have got to frame it properly...
Although I'm being a bit pedantic with OpenStep - did it even reach 1.0? OpenStep on Solaris (as opposed to OPENSTEP/Sparc native from NeXT) was going to be the new desktop for Sun, but withered and died when Sun got the Java religion. Still, it lives on as MacOS X.
OSX has taken nothing from Linux, so why should it give anything back to Linux. It has taken plenty from other GPL and Open Sources, and has given back - updates to GCC/GDB, The entire Darwin OS, Rendezvous and the Streaming Server.
There is no sense in responding to your points because your points are nonsense.
Actually, the confusion is a testament to the versatility of Linux. What other OS could be used so easily in both desktop and digital appliance environments as to make necessary the clarification?
From what I remember an ex-colleague who went to Lighthouse saying, the code of quite a few of the apps was a bit of a mess, and came from several different sources (sometimes in the same app) with different licenses...
Having said that I'd love a look at WetPaint with a view to porting it to (or using it to write a similar app on) MacOS X!
Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce! Read his message - AUD $3500 is _Australian_ dollars. The Basic iBook is US $1300 for 64MB/10GB/DVD-ROM/2xUSB/100Mbps-Ethernet, so it is much closer to the Compaq price range, but the hardware is sooooooo much nicer.
If I understand correctly, this is sort of a middleware for middlewares, sitting in between the legacy systems you want to integrate and the middleware.
It does more than your average middleware; standard components allow you to map and transform the data being transported, plus there's the exception handling systems for bad data.
Doesn't this add to the overall complexity of the system? Not necessarily;-) See below
The only benefit would be that you can replace your middleware system easier, but how often do you do that? An open-source middleware would be better.
Coding to the openadaptor API does mean you are not tied to any given middleware. Most large organisations have many more than one middleware system in use. Say you have an application exporting data over a guaranteed delivery middleware package, and you decide you need to publish the same data over a reliable (not guaranteed) middleware system. Normally you would have to write new code, but if you code to the openadaptor API all you need to do is alter a line or two in a configuration file and you are publishing over a different middleware system.
I work as a consultant in banking and finance and I often see these huge webs of interconnected systems with custom programmed interfaces between them. Middlewares help, but they are not the solution to all problems.You still have to interface to the middleware system.
True, but with openadaptor, you only have one interface to code to.
Introducing openadaptor would require you to interface to openadaptor, as well as interfacing openadaptor to your middleware (in case your middleware is not of the systems supported directly by openadaptor). How can this make things easier?
Well it won't (if we ignore all of the openadaptor features like data transformation, filtering, field mapping etc.) if you have to write your middleware adaptor.
However, given a strong open source community who see benefits in using openadaptor, there will be a good chance that someone has already written an interface to your middleware of choice, or if not, they are doing. Or you can, and get the credit and warm fuzzy feeling when someone else uses your component.
Anyway, more complex systems means more work for me, so I guess this is a good thing after all!:)
Smiley acknowledged, but openadaptor was written to remove the tedium of writing similar interface code over and over again, a job it does very well indeed!
"It's common practice for a game developed on a less popular yet powerful platform then port to another one for mass-sale. First Doom for example developed on SGI. (back then, playing full version of Doom in SGI was free. ^_^ )"
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>No -- the velcro ones stick to each other in the wash and cause damage.
We used to turn them inside out and fasten the velcro tabs (now on the inside) worked OK with us for a couple of years per child.
I prefer the ones with plastic snaps. We've been using FuzziBunz on our daughter for 2 months now (she's 10 weeks old), and absolutely love them.
-- not seen those in the UK. You may find the disposable get an 'edge' as your child gets older - two-year-olds can let go an enormous amount of urine in the night!
Good luck!
>> soo... who's going to be the first to get linux running on it?
> For all that we know it could allready be running Linux.
No way! If it were running Linux it would cost $699 !
It was a joke, idiot. And it was in his sig, it wasn't part of the message.
Read it again: "Thank god I'm atheist". Why would an atheist be thanking god? Because it's a joke.
Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not really out to get you.
TELL ME WHY THEY ARE OUT TO GET HIM!!!!!
Thank God I'm paranoid!
Took the words out of my mouth, except I think the first iteration(s) of Unix were on the PDP-7, the '11 was used for the first 'production' use of Unix (1971 in the Bell Labs Patents Dept, for writing documents).
Get modern washable nappies (e.g. Kooshies (sp?) ) They're cotton, but shaped and with velcro tabs just like the disposable ones. no need to pin or fold.
'course Microsoft understand this now - why do you think they just bought VirtualPC? (Actually they said why in press releases - so that people could run different (older) MS windows images on a standard XP box)
Two words "Homeland" "Security".
(or for the UK, only one word: RIPA)
>This is in the UK. Why would anyone care what had
>been found in some US case? If anything that's
>likely to encourage a court towards the opposite
>opinion; we've seen your legal system.
And anyway, they would have to honour the price, not honor it.
>OS X recognizes 2 button USB mice out of the box. Is your
> issue that Apple doesn't *ship* the mouse?
Too 'king right - I can stick a logitech two button/scroller mouse on my cube, but it is a pain having to plug in a two button mouse on my Apple laptop when I am using it on the train, when they could just split hte current button in two.
> We dropped the ball on electronics , soon cars
SOON cars? Ha ha! You dropped the ball on cars about fifty years ago... And I have no axe to grind, my country (the UK) dropped the ball on cars about the same time...
Tim
The cube is a work of art, you have got to frame it properly...
Fifth - close but not quite!
Sunview-NeWS-OpenWin-OpenStep(NEO)-CDE-Gnome
Although I'm being a bit pedantic with OpenStep - did it even reach 1.0? OpenStep on Solaris (as opposed to OPENSTEP/Sparc native from NeXT) was going to be the new desktop for Sun, but withered and died when Sun got the Java religion. Still, it lives on as MacOS X.
Open Source != Linux
OSX has taken nothing from Linux, so why should it give anything back to Linux. It has taken plenty from other GPL and Open Sources, and has given back - updates to GCC/GDB, The entire Darwin OS, Rendezvous and the Streaming Server.
There is no sense in responding to your points because your points are nonsense.
duh!
^to^too^
Aren't her laboratory logbooks still to radioactive to be handled today?
From what I remember an ex-colleague who went to Lighthouse saying, the code of quite a few of the apps was a bit of a mess, and came from several different sources (sometimes in the same app) with different licenses...
Having said that I'd love a look at WetPaint with a view to porting it to (or using it to write a similar app on) MacOS X!
Yep Gorm == IB
Project Centre = PB
but they are alpha/beta releases...
Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce! Read his message - AUD $3500 is _Australian_ dollars. The Basic iBook is US $1300 for 64MB/10GB/DVD-ROM/2xUSB/100Mbps-Ethernet, so it is much closer to the Compaq price range, but the hardware is sooooooo much nicer.
If I understand correctly, this is sort of a middleware for middlewares, sitting in between the legacy systems you want to integrate and the middleware. ;-) See below
:)
It does more than your average middleware; standard components allow you to map and transform the data being transported, plus there's the exception handling systems for bad data.
Doesn't this add to the overall complexity of the system?
Not necessarily
The only benefit would be that you can replace your middleware system easier, but how often do you do that? An open-source middleware would be better.
Coding to the openadaptor API does mean you are not tied to any given middleware. Most large organisations have many more than one middleware system in use. Say you have an application exporting data over a guaranteed delivery middleware package, and you decide you need to publish the same data over a reliable (not guaranteed) middleware system. Normally you would have to write new code, but if you code to the openadaptor API all you need to do is alter a line or two in a configuration file and you are publishing over a different middleware system.
I work as a consultant in banking and finance and I often see these huge webs of interconnected systems with custom programmed interfaces between them. Middlewares help, but they are not the solution to all problems.You still have to interface to the middleware system.
True, but with openadaptor, you only have one interface to code to.
Introducing openadaptor would require you to interface to openadaptor, as well as interfacing openadaptor to your middleware (in case your middleware is not of the systems supported directly by openadaptor). How can this make things easier?
Well it won't (if we ignore all of the openadaptor features like data transformation, filtering, field mapping etc.) if you have to write your middleware adaptor.
However, given a strong open source community who see benefits in using openadaptor, there will be a good chance that someone has already written an interface to your middleware of choice, or if not, they are doing. Or you can, and get the credit and warm fuzzy feeling when someone else uses your component.
Anyway, more complex systems means more work for me, so I guess this is a good thing after all!
Smiley acknowledged, but openadaptor was written to remove the tedium of writing similar interface code over and over again, a job it does very well indeed!
Couldn't let this comment slide!
"It's common practice for a game developed on a less popular yet powerful platform then port to another one for mass-sale. First Doom for example developed on SGI. (back then, playing full version of Doom in SGI was free. ^_^ )"
Wrong, Id wrote Doom on NeXT computers...