The use or non-use of WMA/WMV by less than one percent of the web-browsing market has exactly zero bearing on the "legitimacy" of the format. Please see a doctor about these delusions of grandeur.
Repackaging news from another mac web site and then insulting Apple users by ending each department name with "for dummies" is not an impressive start for this new section.
Remember, a.s.o is from the same drooling morons who have ended each and every story in the last three years about new Apple hardware announcements with the exact same lame gag about one-button mice. That malda still thinks this is funny pretty much says everything you need to know about him as a person (ie: monomaniac, idiot) and the intended purpose of this section of slashdot (ie: "get those damn stories about a company succeeding with unix on the desktop off the front page, we need more space for linux kernal point revision announcments and Sun press releases!").
I really hope that's shorthand for "completely scrapped the existing interface and rewrote it from scratch." Because that's really just about the only way you could fix it.
Notes has a larger installed base than Exchange by a significant amount, although most of it is inside the walls of very large corporations.
I'd be really curious to see some backing for those figures. I'd be even more curious to see how those figures look after you factor IBM's internal use of Notes (and, to be fair, Microsoft's internal use of Exchange) out of the equation.
I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, it's just completely the opposite of my admittedly anecdotal experience.
And I will certainly stand by my assertion that Exchange is by leaps and bound the superior product, Outlook worms and all.
The fact that Notes/Domino is generally perceived as Exchange's primary competition is the reason that Exchange has completely dominated the corporate messaging market despite its many horrible, crippling flaws. Personally, I'd choose either Exchange or a messy suicide over having to use Notes ever again.
Outlook 2001 for MacOS runs just fine under Classic in OSX. Sure, it would be nice to have a native Carbon or Cocoa version, but if you've got an overwhelming need to connect to an Exchange server from a Mac, it does the job just fine.
Scalia is one of the more right wing of the justices but he's very much a strict constuctionist.
Unfortunatly, in Bush v Gore, Scalia and the rest of the Nixon/Reagan appointees proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that their "strict constructionist" principles are for sale to the highest bidder at a moment's notice.
Actually, the X has a fairly sophisticated clipboard model, maybe a little bit too sophisticated. [...] Also read this for a backgrounder about clipboard and X: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
Gee, that's nice. Care to explain how to make that "sophisticated" clipboard model work with something other than plain text?
Since the constitution was written by terrorists, why are you so surprised that it's getting eroded as part of the war on terror?
Nice quote there. However, I must take issue with...
Do you really think that King Bush II got there on merit ? He inherited the position from his father with the help of his brother, Prince Jed. The fact that he lost Florida is interpreted with Orwellian brilliance as "results vindicate bush"
Riiiiight. The fact that Al Gore ran one of the most lackluster presidential campaigns since Walter Mondale, squandered a 15-point lead and stood around with his thumb up his ass while the Bush supporters flooded the streets in Florida had nothing at all do to with it.
The Florida results were, by any sane statistical viewpoint, a tie. The victor was not going to be determined by the act of counting the votes, but by deciding which standard would be applied to that count. The Bush team out-hustled the Gore team, and their view prevailed. Call them ruthless, unethical opportunists if you will, but spare us the nonsense about GWB being "appointed" by his father: if Gore had run an even half-decent campaign, the margin would never have been close enough for any of this to matter.
Despite the doom and disaster rhetoric that the studios greeted the personal videocassette recorder with in the 70s, these days most of the studios derive a substantial amount (sometimes the majority) of their income from home video sales and rentals.
They apparrently have a hard time taking "yes" for an answer.
IE5 runs more-or-less stably under the most recent Codeweavers WINE Preview release. I suspect that IE4 would be downright usable, but I don't have a copy to test with at the moment.
The market for PDAs in the states is collapsing, and Handspring's wireless devices are depending on a functioning GSM network, which is still semi-mythical in the states.
All I know is that if they don't offer a trade-in program for my VisorPhone, someone's gonna get hurt.
Ooooh, I can't make a fool out of myself on the beloved/. must I?
Did I say you couldn't? Heaven forfend. By all means, continue. Let me be struck down by a meteorite the day I complain about receiving free entertainment like this.
Instead of making a fool out of yourself on slashdot, why don't you pick up an introductory geology textbook and do a little basic reading on a subject you seem to be simultaneously fascinated with and yet completely ignorant of.
I don't know about you, but when I think "car", I usually imagine something a bit more substantial than a 5hp electric motor strapped to a couple of aluminum bars and wiremesh wheels.
Even in full earth gravity, two or three average men can usually pick up and move a golf cart, and the moon buggy was substantially smaller and lighter than the average golf cart: it weighed all of 80 pounds.
Just what you need for, er, something or other.
The final three Apollo missions were largely devoted to geological surveys and sample-taking. The moon buggy was used to transport the astronauts to craters they would not have been able to reach on foot in order to fulfill those goals.
Ironically, it's those very rock samples that the lunar rover was used to help collect that provide the "hardest" (har har) evidence that the moon landings really happened and that you're a shit-spewing troll, as hundreds of independent geologists have examined the samples, and not one of them has claimed that they were from anywhere other than the moon.
Okay, at least someone is using the "Doctor Memory" handle. I'd been convinced up until this time that it had been registered and then forgotten about.
The good news is that the technology to do this is cheap, proven, popular, and available now.
The bad news is that the motherboard and drive manufacturers are largely ignoring it in favor of standardizing on an ugly, unproven and untested hack that won't be available in consumer kit until 2004 at the earliest.
Why? You got me, captain. As far as I can tell, because they prefer paying patent licensing fees to Maxtor rather than Apple.
If I sound bitter, it's only because of the blood I've shed having to route IDE cables inside my Wintendo box.
...and they're still going to charge ten clams a month for guide data that's freely available on the web? I'm willing to bet, the answer is yes.
Yeah yeah yeah. Call us when you've implemented a system that not only downloads that data into a regularized format for PVRs to read, but is smart enough to follow schedule changes on its own.
In the meantime, please look up the definition of "value-add" in your nearest Business 101 textbook.
Unfortunatly, the best LDAP browser/editor I've found so far is neither web- nor console-based, but is a Windows program. LDAPBrowser 2.0, from the nice folks at Softerra, has been invaluable in helping me figure out how to make a bunch of openldap-based client programs talk to an MS Active Directory LDAP server. It's free-as-in-beer, and they have a number of other cool ldap toys available as well.
You would think that wrapping a gtk+ interface around ldapsearch would be a straightforward and no-brainer proposition, but you would apparently be wrong.
You're going to be waiting a while...
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Until Apple makes a 1.5Ghz G5, they won't get me as part of thier market share.
You're going to be waiting a while, since Apple doesn't make CPUs of any speed -- that's Motorola and IBM's job.
Other than a massive airtime buy on SciFi (which, given that 80% of their commericials are for their own shows, probably cost about $1.89) and a few other minor cable channels, real-world promotion of this film has been zilch.
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The use or non-use of WMA/WMV by less than one percent of the web-browsing market has exactly zero bearing on the "legitimacy" of the format. Please see a doctor about these delusions of grandeur.
some companies in the computer industry make more than the entire membership of the MPAA combined
Really? Which ones would they be? I think you may want to check those numbers again.
(Small hint: Sony is an MPAA member. So is Matsushita.)
Repackaging news from another mac web site and then insulting Apple users by ending each department name with "for dummies" is not an impressive start for this new section.
Remember, a.s.o is from the same drooling morons who have ended each and every story in the last three years about new Apple hardware announcements with the exact same lame gag about one-button mice. That malda still thinks this is funny pretty much says everything you need to know about him as a person (ie: monomaniac, idiot) and the intended purpose of this section of slashdot (ie: "get those damn stories about a company succeeding with unix on the desktop off the front page, we need more space for linux kernal point revision announcments and Sun press releases!").
R5 and Rnext have fixed a number of issues
I really hope that's shorthand for "completely scrapped the existing interface and rewrote it from scratch." Because that's really just about the only way you could fix it.
Notes has a larger installed base than Exchange by a significant amount, although most of it is inside the walls of very large corporations.
I'd be really curious to see some backing for those figures. I'd be even more curious to see how those figures look after you factor IBM's internal use of Notes (and, to be fair, Microsoft's internal use of Exchange) out of the equation.
I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, it's just completely the opposite of my admittedly anecdotal experience.
And I will certainly stand by my assertion that Exchange is by leaps and bound the superior product, Outlook worms and all.
Two words: Lotus Notes
Three words: WORST PROGRAM EVER.
The fact that Notes/Domino is generally perceived as Exchange's primary competition is the reason that Exchange has completely dominated the corporate messaging market despite its many horrible, crippling flaws. Personally, I'd choose either Exchange or a messy suicide over having to use Notes ever again.
Outlook 2001 for MacOS runs just fine under Classic in OSX. Sure, it would be nice to have a native Carbon or Cocoa version, but if you've got an overwhelming need to connect to an Exchange server from a Mac, it does the job just fine.
Scalia is one of the more right wing of the justices but he's very much a strict constuctionist.
Unfortunatly, in Bush v Gore, Scalia and the rest of the Nixon/Reagan appointees proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that their "strict constructionist" principles are for sale to the highest bidder at a moment's notice.
Actually, the X has a fairly sophisticated clipboard model, maybe a little bit too sophisticated. [...] Also read this for a backgrounder about clipboard and X: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
Gee, that's nice. Care to explain how to make that "sophisticated" clipboard model work with something other than plain text?
Since the constitution was written by terrorists, why are you so surprised that it's getting eroded as part of the war on terror?
Nice quote there. However, I must take issue with...
Do you really think that King Bush II got there on merit ? He inherited the position from his father with the help of his brother, Prince Jed. The fact that he lost Florida is interpreted with Orwellian brilliance as "results vindicate bush"
Riiiiight. The fact that Al Gore ran one of the most lackluster presidential campaigns since Walter Mondale, squandered a 15-point lead and stood around with his thumb up his ass while the Bush supporters flooded the streets in Florida had nothing at all do to with it.
The Florida results were, by any sane statistical viewpoint, a tie. The victor was not going to be determined by the act of counting the votes, but by deciding which standard would be applied to that count. The Bush team out-hustled the Gore team, and their view prevailed. Call them ruthless, unethical opportunists if you will, but spare us the nonsense about GWB being "appointed" by his father: if Gore had run an even half-decent campaign, the margin would never have been close enough for any of this to matter.
Despite the doom and disaster rhetoric that the studios greeted the personal videocassette recorder with in the 70s, these days most of the studios derive a substantial amount (sometimes the majority) of their income from home video sales and rentals.
They apparrently have a hard time taking "yes" for an answer.
Indiana Jones and the Vitamin Supplements.
Seriosly, isn't Harrison Ford getting a little old for this sort of thing?
IE5 runs more-or-less stably under the most recent Codeweavers WINE Preview release. I suspect that IE4 would be downright usable, but I don't have a copy to test with at the moment.
The market for PDAs in the states is collapsing, and Handspring's wireless devices are depending on a functioning GSM network, which is still semi-mythical in the states.
All I know is that if they don't offer a trade-in program for my VisorPhone, someone's gonna get hurt.
I'm just superior to you.
Ooooh, I can't make a fool out of myself on the beloved /. must I?
Did I say you couldn't? Heaven forfend. By all means, continue. Let me be struck down by a meteorite the day I complain about receiving free entertainment like this.
Lighten up
As soon as you smarten up.
And pieces of the moon never land on earth do they?
Not unsullied by re-entry heat they don't. And certainly not in the form of cylindrical core samples including compressed surface dust.
Instead of making a fool out of yourself on slashdot, why don't you pick up an introductory geology textbook and do a little basic reading on a subject you seem to be simultaneously fascinated with and yet completely ignorant of.
I don't know about you, but when I think "car", I usually imagine something a bit more substantial than a 5hp electric motor strapped to a couple of aluminum bars and wiremesh wheels.
Even in full earth gravity, two or three average men can usually pick up and move a golf cart, and the moon buggy was substantially smaller and lighter than the average golf cart: it weighed all of 80 pounds.
Just what you need for, er, something or other.
The final three Apollo missions were largely devoted to geological surveys and sample-taking. The moon buggy was used to transport the astronauts to craters they would not have been able to reach on foot in order to fulfill those goals.
Ironically, it's those very rock samples that the lunar rover was used to help collect that provide the "hardest" (har har) evidence that the moon landings really happened and that you're a shit-spewing troll, as hundreds of independent geologists have examined the samples, and not one of them has claimed that they were from anywhere other than the moon.
Okay, at least someone is using the "Doctor Memory" handle. I'd been convinced up until this time that it had been registered and then forgotten about.
The good news is that the technology to do this is cheap, proven, popular, and available now.
The bad news is that the motherboard and drive manufacturers are largely ignoring it in favor of standardizing on an ugly, unproven and untested hack that won't be available in consumer kit until 2004 at the earliest.
Why? You got me, captain. As far as I can tell, because they prefer paying patent licensing fees to Maxtor rather than Apple.
If I sound bitter, it's only because of the blood I've shed having to route IDE cables inside my Wintendo box.
...and they're still going to charge ten clams a month for guide data that's freely available on the web? I'm willing to bet, the answer is yes.
Yeah yeah yeah. Call us when you've implemented a system that not only downloads that data into a regularized format for PVRs to read, but is smart enough to follow schedule changes on its own.
In the meantime, please look up the definition of "value-add" in your nearest Business 101 textbook.
I really doubt it. It would be nice, but when was the last time you heard of a DVD player or television coming with an upgrade discount.
As long as they keep providing service for the S1 TiVos, I don't see any reason to expect a discount on the new ones.
Unfortunatly, the best LDAP browser/editor I've found so far is neither web- nor console-based, but is a Windows program. LDAPBrowser 2.0, from the nice folks at Softerra, has been invaluable in helping me figure out how to make a bunch of openldap-based client programs talk to an MS Active Directory LDAP server. It's free-as-in-beer, and they have a number of other cool ldap toys available as well.
You would think that wrapping a gtk+ interface around ldapsearch would be a straightforward and no-brainer proposition, but you would apparently be wrong.
Until Apple makes a 1.5Ghz G5, they won't get me as part of thier market share.
You're going to be waiting a while, since Apple doesn't make CPUs of any speed -- that's Motorola and IBM's job.
Other than a massive airtime buy on SciFi (which, given that 80% of their commericials are for their own shows, probably cost about $1.89) and a few other minor cable channels, real-world promotion of this film has been zilch.