Outside of Apple Corp. MBU (Mac Business Unit) @ Microsoft is the largest Apple development shop in the world, and Apple has noted this more than once. The MBU is largely independent of the rest of MSFT (which is why Office.X is so much nicer/faster/more stable than Office 2000). I haven't seen a performance problem with IE on a G3-500 running both 9.2 and OSX.
MF! OK, the javascript drop downs worked locally in Mozilla, now they're tweaked (wondering if Zope does something funky in structured text that freaks out Moz). Ah well.
You're confusing bootlegging and pirating. The connotation in the music industry is such that bootleg refers to an illicit recording of a live performance, whereas a pirate is an illicit copy of an official work that is sold under the pretense of being legit. Even the RIAA differentiates between the two. There was extensive coverage in Musician magazine sometime in 1991 or 1992 IIRC where they detailed many piracy busts and talked about how piracy damaged the music companies, and there was a sidebar explaining that while the RIAA didn't condone bootlegs, they weren't putting any effort into stopping them as they were seen as non-competitive. People buying live shows probably already own the studio CD.
OK, I have been hearing "You're paying way more for the name" with reference to IBM. I've owned several IBM computers and would say unequivocally that you are paying more for quality. One example: I bought a low end Aptiva pentium 200mmx about 4 years ago that has had at various times Win95, Win98, NT 4, BSD, and linux. Aside from adding memory and additional hard drives I have never had a single problem with it. It is currently the internal server for my home network (DNS/IMAP/SMTP/MP3) running linux and in the last two years has only ever been turned off for moving. I have freinds who bought computers at the same time (Dells, Compaqs, Gateways, etc) that didn't undergo nearly as much abuse as my Aptiva, and they were all replaced about 3 years ago.
You want quality, you pay for it. You want cheap, you get cheap. Which means lower grade parts, poor assembly, and generally lousy support. I wouldn't know about IBM support, however. In my years of using their laptops and desktops at several jobs I've never needed to use their support.
AIX also powers a hell of a lot of retail and supply chain systems. If you go to a mall and see a big chain like Fredericks, Starbucks, Gap, Saks, they all run inv mgmt on AIX.
Unlikely. I've worked w/IISWeb and they have a long tradition of sleazy behavior and getting sued by pretty much everyone they come into contact with. While I don't want to get sued for libel/slander, the following is what I understood to be the relationship between them and my former employer. I heard this from people on my team including people close to the VP in charge of the project and subsequent lawsuit.
The company I worked for contracted them to do a project, they said they'd deliver in X months. They had zero experience in the field and eventually admitted (in the process of being sued by our company) that they'd agreed to the contract (and put their loser team on it) only because they figured our company would go bankrupt before anything was due and they would get paid for 9 months of doing nothing.
I drove through Utah from Colorado to Nevada once. On entering there was a sign with the state motto "The Right State". Someone obviously familiar with UT had inserted Wing between Right and State.
Note that a lot of the document management vendors are still around, they've simply morphed into "content management" vendors (Documentum, for example).
Quite true, though you can also roll your own content management (which is what I did before CMF 1.0 came out). Squishdot is another option, and there are products for a variety of portal-types and specific content management (MyMediaManager, KM NetNews, etc) within Zope as well.
I was thrilled with KDE, until I used it. I had serious performance issues on an Athlon 750 w/512M of RAM (serious relative to Gnome performance, that is).
I switched to Ximian and haven't looked back. Performance is of particular interest because I do use several "ancient" machines for assorted purposes and I like to have a consistent WM/DM across all machines. So it runs comfortable on my 200MMX with 64M as well as my Athlon 750.
People still pay attention to that site? I thought they'd been completely discredited when Harry admitted to accepting gifts in exchange for pre-release hyping of crappy movies.
When it first started gaining popularity (or at least when I first noticed it) circa 1998, I found it to be juvenile, fan boy garbage and almost entirely apocryphal or at least wildly innaccurate (to quote D Adams). I'm glad to see it hasn't changed. I'll stick with hollywoodbitchslap.com, myself.
At $170 bucks I think it's overpriced. Pick up a virgin webplayer or other hackable "network appliance" from a failed startup for $30 and staple an old hard drive to it and you have a much more versatile system for a lot less money.
Same here. I wrote an original well thought out (IMHO) letter detailing the problems with the settlement and how it was basically not even a slap on the wrist, citing several scholarly and technical critiques. I also included background information on myself establishing my credibility. My comment was dumped, apparently. Nothing like a participatory democracy to make you feel like you have a voice...
I've no idea why people are opposed to paying for things. Sure, you can get tons of stuff for free online. But if you want a resource to stay around why would you be against helping that resource stick around? I already click on ad banners on/. when there's something interesting (usually on thinkgeek) and often buy things through those clicks. I buy stuff from copyleft, I buy boxed versions of distros that I like even though I've already downloaded and burned the ISO's.
People who want something for nothing are usually the first to bitch and moan when the entity providing that something for nothing is no longer able to survive due to lack of cash flow.
I just finished reading it, and it is mandatory reading if you are developing security these days. It covers a very broad range of situations and assumes a fair amount of familiarity with the math behind crypto, so this isn't "Teach Yourself Security in 24 Hours for Dummies".
Not really true. The labels (and tv and movie studios) put out what some idiot in a corner office decides people want.
There were several shows in production based on dot-com premises (mostly sit-coms) that were canned when the executives started losing money from their d-c investments. The shows weren't cancelled because they didn't think people would want to see them, but because the execs were pissed about the market and associated the shows with their financial losses. I've heard from lots of actors/writers/grips/cameramen/etc who said that there's still plenty of interest on the part of the employees and the audience, but some jackass multi millionare VP took this stupid shit personally.
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Outside of Apple Corp. MBU (Mac Business Unit) @ Microsoft is the largest Apple development shop in the world, and Apple has noted this more than once. The MBU is largely independent of the rest of MSFT (which is why Office.X is so much nicer/faster/more stable than Office 2000). I haven't seen a performance problem with IE on a G3-500 running both 9.2 and OSX.
MF! OK, the javascript drop downs worked locally in Mozilla, now they're tweaked (wondering if Zope does something funky in structured text that freaks out Moz). Ah well.
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You're confusing bootlegging and pirating. The connotation in the music industry is such that bootleg refers to an illicit recording of a live performance, whereas a pirate is an illicit copy of an official work that is sold under the pretense of being legit. Even the RIAA differentiates between the two. There was extensive coverage in Musician magazine sometime in 1991 or 1992 IIRC where they detailed many piracy busts and talked about how piracy damaged the music companies, and there was a sidebar explaining that while the RIAA didn't condone bootlegs, they weren't putting any effort into stopping them as they were seen as non-competitive. People buying live shows probably already own the studio CD.
OK, I have been hearing "You're paying way more for the name" with reference to IBM. I've owned several IBM computers and would say unequivocally that you are paying more for quality. One example: I bought a low end Aptiva pentium 200mmx about 4 years ago that has had at various times Win95, Win98, NT 4, BSD, and linux. Aside from adding memory and additional hard drives I have never had a single problem with it. It is currently the internal server for my home network (DNS/IMAP/SMTP/MP3) running linux and in the last two years has only ever been turned off for moving. I have freinds who bought computers at the same time (Dells, Compaqs, Gateways, etc) that didn't undergo nearly as much abuse as my Aptiva, and they were all replaced about 3 years ago.
You want quality, you pay for it. You want cheap, you get cheap. Which means lower grade parts, poor assembly, and generally lousy support. I wouldn't know about IBM support, however. In my years of using their laptops and desktops at several jobs I've never needed to use their support.
I didn't even have to use my AK...
AIX also powers a hell of a lot of retail and supply chain systems. If you go to a mall and see a big chain like Fredericks, Starbucks, Gap, Saks, they all run inv mgmt on AIX.
Unlikely. I've worked w/IISWeb and they have a long tradition of sleazy behavior and getting sued by pretty much everyone they come into contact with. While I don't want to get sued for libel/slander, the following is what I understood to be the relationship between them and my former employer. I heard this from people on my team including people close to the VP in charge of the project and subsequent lawsuit.
The company I worked for contracted them to do a project, they said they'd deliver in X months. They had zero experience in the field and eventually admitted (in the process of being sued by our company) that they'd agreed to the contract (and put their loser team on it) only because they figured our company would go bankrupt before anything was due and they would get paid for 9 months of doing nothing.
I drove through Utah from Colorado to Nevada once. On entering there was a sign with the state motto "The Right State". Someone obviously familiar with UT had inserted Wing between Right and State.
This is the first April Fools story I've seen so far that was actually funny.
I should've stayed offline today.
Note that a lot of the document management vendors are still around, they've simply morphed into "content management" vendors (Documentum, for example).
Quite true, though you can also roll your own content management (which is what I did before CMF 1.0 came out). Squishdot is another option, and there are products for a variety of portal-types and specific content management (MyMediaManager, KM NetNews, etc) within Zope as well.
Favorite things about Zope:
They weren't making laws. They were making rules. Congress makes laws, agencies enforce them.
I was thrilled with KDE, until I used it. I had serious performance issues on an Athlon 750 w/512M of RAM (serious relative to Gnome performance, that is).
I switched to Ximian and haven't looked back. Performance is of particular interest because I do use several "ancient" machines for assorted purposes and I like to have a consistent WM/DM across all machines. So it runs comfortable on my 200MMX with 64M as well as my Athlon 750.
People still pay attention to that site? I thought they'd been completely discredited when Harry admitted to accepting gifts in exchange for pre-release hyping of crappy movies.
When it first started gaining popularity (or at least when I first noticed it) circa 1998, I found it to be juvenile, fan boy garbage and almost entirely apocryphal or at least wildly innaccurate (to quote D Adams). I'm glad to see it hasn't changed. I'll stick with hollywoodbitchslap.com, myself.
At $170 bucks I think it's overpriced. Pick up a virgin webplayer or other hackable "network appliance" from a failed startup for $30 and staple an old hard drive to it and you have a much more versatile system for a lot less money.
It would be nice to get paid to torture them instead of paying to be tortured by them...
Same here. I wrote an original well thought out (IMHO) letter detailing the problems with the settlement and how it was basically not even a slap on the wrist, citing several scholarly and technical critiques. I also included background information on myself establishing my credibility. My comment was dumped, apparently. Nothing like a participatory democracy to make you feel like you have a voice...
People who want something for nothing are usually the first to bitch and moan when the entity providing that something for nothing is no longer able to survive due to lack of cash flow.
Your sig is funnier in context: He's a Canadian postal worker.
I just finished reading it, and it is mandatory reading if you are developing security these days. It covers a very broad range of situations and assumes a fair amount of familiarity with the math behind crypto, so this isn't "Teach Yourself Security in 24 Hours for Dummies".
There were several shows in production based on dot-com premises (mostly sit-coms) that were canned when the executives started losing money from their d-c investments. The shows weren't cancelled because they didn't think people would want to see them, but because the execs were pissed about the market and associated the shows with their financial losses. I've heard from lots of actors/writers/grips/cameramen/etc who said that there's still plenty of interest on the part of the employees and the audience, but some jackass multi millionare VP took this stupid shit personally.
I'd argue that there's a lot more perl out there doing heavy duty than there is Java. Python (by way of Zope) is also gaining in popularity.
You spelled Arkansas wrong, but that's OK because no one from there would know anyway.