"Note that the printed Domesday Book, on which the digital project was modeled, is still quite accessible after almost 1000 years."
Not really. I saw one volume of the Domesday book at the White Tower back in 2000. It was sealed under a sealed glass box, and you could only look at the two pages it was turned to. I would have tried to get access to it under the box, but there were these guards that looked quite intimidating and they kept saying "Move along..."
Even then, I could barely make out the cryptic scribbles. Sure didn't look like English to me.
At least with a digital version they can make infinite copies of it and distribute it to anybody interested, unlike the paper version locked up under a glass box.
Pretty simple. The movie theatres only show movies that they are going to make money off of.
BTW, the movie theatres are not owned by the MPAA, they are owned by other groups. Some of them are owned by studios, others are not. But still they have to make a profit.
The MPAA is a trade organization which consists of various movie producing companies as members.
They are a PAC, which is why you see them contributing to polictical campaigns and pushing for legislation to protect the movie markets.
But they don't themselves create movies, nor do they particularly care how movies are created, nor have they ever worked to stop independent film producers from creating movies.
So in your paranoid rant you made claims that simply cannot be backed up by facts. The DMCA, CDBTPA and so on cannot prevent an independent person from making a movie using their own creative energies.
Get a clue, understand how things work before trying to describe a grand conspiracy surrounding them.
I wondered about that. I thought maybe it came from Shakespeare or something. I did a search but the only references I could find to it were for Khan.:(
That's what happens when pop-culture controls the internet.:)
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Me thinks you don't get it.
You are ascribing to the MPAA power which they simply do not have.
"I know/. bashes MS for sport. Aside from all of the childish MS bashing, a REAL problem DOES exist. The practices of MS DO threaten other software makers."
Yes, those issues were addressed in the remedy accepted by Judge Kotelly.
She also made it a point to mention that anti-trust law is intended to protect the market for the interest of consumers. It's purpose is not to protect competitors.
This Mass decision is worthwhile, but only from a standpoint that the Appeals court is likely to uphold the remedies. Since the Appeals court through the case down to Kotelly's court for re-trial, it's reasonable to assume that she likely ran her decision by the Appeals court to insure it met their intentions.
If Mass wants to go anywhere, it'll be to the SCOTUS, and again I fully suspect they will reiterate my first point... that anti-trust law is not designed to protect competitors, but rather consumers.
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"Yet, every year has been exciting. Each year new projects are born, improve and mature. Each year brings amazing new tools. More organizations see the benifits and convert, Schools, Banks, Government Offices. The word is moving slowly, but surely. "
And yet the same is true of the commercial software marketplace, but to an even greater degree.
The point really is, what are you measuring your success against? If it's the downfall of Sun, then you are right Linux is doing well.
If it's Microsoft... Well then, maybe you better ask for a shovel for christmas as you'd do better as a ditch digger than a forecaster.
"It's always fun to play with you, Sheldon. You are always so offensive, yet harmlessly clueless."
Ahh, only because I don't smoke the drugs that you do, you call me clueless. How cute.
If China converts to Linux we're supposed to cheer?
But when China uses technology from MS, Sun and Cisco we're supposed to be all outraged?
What if their proxy servers are really nothing more than a Linux box running a modified version of Squid? How do I cheer and be outraged at the same time?
"Microsoft first drove Digital Research's superior DOS to near-oblivion by allowing IBM XT buyers to choose MS-DOS for free or to pay for DR DOS via a very low priced bundle deal (read nearly free) with IBM. "
What year were you born, kid?
Until us old timers are dead, maybe it's best you leave the history tales to those of us who actually remember using CP/M-86.
Huh? The market for digital cameras is hotter today than it ever has been. Gates in his COMDEX speech pointed out that more digital cameras are sold today than film cameras, by a factor of several times over. Only two years ago it was fairly rare to see people with digital cameras, now a large portion(majority of affluent families anyway) has one.
It's not lower demand, it's higher demand that brought new entrants into the market, made the flash memory more commoditized, drove profit margins down, etc.
Client/Server or 2-tier implied you had a client which interacted directly with the database.
N-Tier development means you have a minimum of 3-tiers... Client, Logic and Database. The Logic can be broken into other parts such as business or data-access, etc. N-Tier development does not imply web server. It can, but you can also build a "fat client" using.NET, ActiveX, Java, etc. which communicates directly with the application server.
One of the advantages of n-tier development is the abstraction between UI and logic. This allows for somewhat more rapid development on larger projects as you can divide the work up between several groups.
But the chief advantage is one of security. In order for client/server app to work, the user needs direct access to the database. With n-tier you can authenticate/authorize at the application layer, which gives you finer granularity of control than at the table layer. With the client/server model you need grant the user rights to an entire table, but with n-tier your app server has rights to the table, but the user may only have rights to the individual records that they should be able to see.
In a larger enterprise you also run into issues where once people have direct access to the database, they start running ad-hoc queries from reporting apps. It's nice to be flexible and convenient this way, but in larger environments, if those queries are not tuned they can consume a large amount of resources. So instead you keep the users out of the OLTP environment, and replicate the data to a data-warehousing environment that they can use for reporting. While you could possibly do this with training, you leave yourself at risk that your employees are all smart enough to understand. Better to just design the system to prevent potential issues.
Anyway, there's a lot of advantages in this model and there are books written on the topic. I just point out a few obvious ones that I've seen based on my experiences.
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"Note that the printed Domesday Book, on which the digital project was modeled, is still quite accessible after almost 1000 years."
Not really. I saw one volume of the Domesday book at the White Tower back in 2000. It was sealed under a sealed glass box, and you could only look at the two pages it was turned to. I would have tried to get access to it under the box, but there were these guards that looked quite intimidating and they kept saying "Move along..."
Even then, I could barely make out the cryptic scribbles. Sure didn't look like English to me.
At least with a digital version they can make infinite copies of it and distribute it to anybody interested, unlike the paper version locked up under a glass box.
"Eating healthy in America is not cheap."
Naw, it's cheap.
It's just not very tasty.
Ho-Ho's taste better than beans and rice.
Better check with the doctor on your Lithium prescription.
"Gee, I wonder how that happens?"
Pretty simple. The movie theatres only show movies that they are going to make money off of.
BTW, the movie theatres are not owned by the MPAA, they are owned by other groups. Some of them are owned by studios, others are not. But still they have to make a profit.
Welcome to the world of Linux advocacy where the motto is "Don't let facts get in the way of a good argument."
The MPAA is a trade organization which consists of various movie producing companies as members.
They are a PAC, which is why you see them contributing to polictical campaigns and pushing for legislation to protect the movie markets.
But they don't themselves create movies, nor do they particularly care how movies are created, nor have they ever worked to stop independent film producers from creating movies.
So in your paranoid rant you made claims that simply cannot be backed up by facts. The DMCA, CDBTPA and so on cannot prevent an independent person from making a movie using their own creative energies.
Get a clue, understand how things work before trying to describe a grand conspiracy surrounding them.
I wondered about that. I thought maybe it came from Shakespeare or something. I did a search but the only references I could find to it were for Khan. :(
:)
That's what happens when pop-culture controls the internet.
Me thinks you don't get it.
You are ascribing to the MPAA power which they simply do not have.
"from hell's heart I do spit at thee, to the end I do stab at thee, with my last breath I do curse thee" - Khan in ST2
Or maybe a nice quote from Don Quixote or Captain Ahab would be more appropriate?
"I know /. bashes MS for sport. Aside from all of the childish MS bashing, a REAL problem DOES exist. The practices of MS DO threaten other software makers."
Yes, those issues were addressed in the remedy accepted by Judge Kotelly.
She also made it a point to mention that anti-trust law is intended to protect the market for the interest of consumers. It's purpose is not to protect competitors.
This Mass decision is worthwhile, but only from a standpoint that the Appeals court is likely to uphold the remedies. Since the Appeals court through the case down to Kotelly's court for re-trial, it's reasonable to assume that she likely ran her decision by the Appeals court to insure it met their intentions.
If Mass wants to go anywhere, it'll be to the SCOTUS, and again I fully suspect they will reiterate my first point... that anti-trust law is not designed to protect competitors, but rather consumers.
It's not even a trademark in the US.
Really? You're sure about that, are you?
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ATI makes two different sets of drivers for Windows.
One set for the Built by ATI, the other set for the Powered by ATI.
They've apparently chosen not to build a Reference driver for Linux.
"Yet, every year has been exciting. Each year new projects are born, improve and mature. Each year brings amazing new tools. More organizations see the benifits and convert, Schools, Banks, Government Offices. The word is moving slowly, but surely. "
And yet the same is true of the commercial software marketplace, but to an even greater degree.
The point really is, what are you measuring your success against? If it's the downfall of Sun, then you are right Linux is doing well.
If it's Microsoft... Well then, maybe you better ask for a shovel for christmas as you'd do better as a ditch digger than a forecaster.
"It's always fun to play with you, Sheldon. You are always so offensive, yet harmlessly clueless."
Ahh, only because I don't smoke the drugs that you do, you call me clueless. How cute.
If China converts to Linux we're supposed to cheer?
/. makes me want to puke some days.
But when China uses technology from MS, Sun and Cisco we're supposed to be all outraged?
What if their proxy servers are really nothing more than a Linux box running a modified version of Squid? How do I cheer and be outraged at the same time?
Bleah...
"Microsoft first drove Digital Research's superior DOS to near-oblivion by allowing IBM XT buyers to choose MS-DOS for free or to pay for DR DOS via a very low priced bundle deal (read nearly free) with IBM. "
What year were you born, kid?
Until us old timers are dead, maybe it's best you leave the history tales to those of us who actually remember using CP/M-86.
I thought 1997 was going to be an exciting year for Linux.
And then there was 1998, remember that?
Oh 1999... now that was the year.
But no wait, 2000! That was finally the year for Linux!
Ok, wait... no 2001! 2001 was the year for Linux.
Ok, fine... 2002! In 2002 finally Linux will reach the mainstream.
What? No?
Then it's gotta be 2003! 2003 is going to be a very exciting year for Linux.
Someone get up and whack the turntable... this record is stuck.
Avoid Internet Explorer because people are targeting it. Use something else because it's more obscure.
Now tell me. Does that make sense? Are you actually safe, or do you just feel safe?
Huh? The market for digital cameras is hotter today than it ever has been. Gates in his COMDEX speech pointed out that more digital cameras are sold today than film cameras, by a factor of several times over. Only two years ago it was fairly rare to see people with digital cameras, now a large portion(majority of affluent families anyway) has one.
It's not lower demand, it's higher demand that brought new entrants into the market, made the flash memory more commoditized, drove profit margins down, etc.
No...No...No!!!!!
/. you have to say "Microsoft supports music piracy!" and then go on about how bloody hypocritical and evil they are.
:)
You can't use that title.
Here on
If you tell the truth, you'll just get modded down as a troll.
But if your target deployment environment is internal staff, then you do have standard containers.
N-tier does not imply HTTP/HTML. It can, but there are other ways as well.
Further, ActiveX, Java, Macromedia Flash, etc. were all developed to help provide a feature-rich UI environment in a web server housed application.
The point is, you have many options. It's not just web versus client/server.
Client/Server or 2-tier implied you had a client which interacted directly with the database.
.NET, ActiveX, Java, etc. which communicates directly with the application server.
N-Tier development means you have a minimum of 3-tiers... Client, Logic and Database. The Logic can be broken into other parts such as business or data-access, etc. N-Tier development does not imply web server. It can, but you can also build a "fat client" using
One of the advantages of n-tier development is the abstraction between UI and logic. This allows for somewhat more rapid development on larger projects as you can divide the work up between several groups.
But the chief advantage is one of security. In order for client/server app to work, the user needs direct access to the database. With n-tier you can authenticate/authorize at the application layer, which gives you finer granularity of control than at the table layer. With the client/server model you need grant the user rights to an entire table, but with n-tier your app server has rights to the table, but the user may only have rights to the individual records that they should be able to see.
In a larger enterprise you also run into issues where once people have direct access to the database, they start running ad-hoc queries from reporting apps. It's nice to be flexible and convenient this way, but in larger environments, if those queries are not tuned they can consume a large amount of resources. So instead you keep the users out of the OLTP environment, and replicate the data to a data-warehousing environment that they can use for reporting. While you could possibly do this with training, you leave yourself at risk that your employees are all smart enough to understand. Better to just design the system to prevent potential issues.
Anyway, there's a lot of advantages in this model and there are books written on the topic. I just point out a few obvious ones that I've seen based on my experiences.
Who do you think maintains this site:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/
This was reported in US News & World Report last summer
It's advertising... Most things you see in advertising aren't real.
I run Windows XP and haven't had this much fun on a computer since my Amiga 500.
Maybe you just aren't using it right?
Or could it be that you missed Dark Castle?