Of course the following things can be pointed too as well:
Public/private key encryption support. Wellunderstood and supported expansions (NSF). Coherent environment across the board. Path for even more net operability via websphere [workplace, the workplace version that is not previously labeled quicktime btw]. Optimized for both NSF and DB2 [IMHO nsf is the best multiple file database format yet - lightning fast even compared to mysql] Agents for everything notes.
That said, WIKI's could encroach on the Lotus/Domino platform which is exactly why IBM has been working so hard integrating Domino, Websphere and Java. That means that if you today setup a Lotus Workplace setup you suddenly have: mail, calendering. konferencing [voice, video, text, dashboard]. IM functions [including pervasive awereness - ie read a document, and you can see if the authors or editors are online and so forth]. Team functions [assignment, projectplanning etc.]. Support for integrated VoIP. MS and Lotus Office compatible Text, spreadsheet and presentation packages.
Thats out of the box for between 25 or 50$ a seat [maintenance is 1/3th or 1/4th a year, first year free]. Even for Open Source that is hard to beat. Add to that a well understod development environment and a stable distribution stack available on any platform you might reasonably want to run it on as well as easy distributability of caches and clustering capabilities and I simply cant see why anyone would jump on anything else.
My company is going thru a merger and we have been looking at different other commerciel and FL/OSS solutions and nothing has come close to give us the features and expandibility we want. Some projects definitely want to (and I'll be looking at those again in 3-5 years).
Now it is worth noting that the Lotus Workplace Line and the Lotus Domino/Notes line of products should basically have the same features in the Workplace 4 and Domino/Notes version 8 [current is 2/6.5] and already have alot of the same functions in 3/7.
I can only see one reason why Lotus isn't dominating the collaborative and groupware market completely: It's IBM who markets it. Atleast they are getting better at that - but how many here knew that Lotus Workplace and Lotus Domino actually was one of those things IBM has been talking about in their pushing in their "Middleware is everywhere" campaign?:)
It could be since alot of advocates don't use IE that often and thus still has MSN as startpage (and non or mozilla.org as startpage in FF). Since mozilla.org is easier to render and FF is faster at rendering that could easily explain why people feel it is faster.
Well Sweden was a part of denmark, I'm not entirely sure about the dates though. Actually Skåne still has a small group who wants that part to become part of Denmark again.
Anyway, my point on that was that Norway is genuinely aware of how young it's independence is - while Sweden is not.
The Danish kingdom was rather big at one point, spanning both Sweden, Norway, parts of Finland (probably the same part referred to in the parent) and parts of Germany.
One of the main reasons Denmark has lost so much country is in fact because the French kings did not like the big country to the north (too powerfull), and since the big countries decided the outcomes of wars at that time, the decisions where generally unfavorable to Denmark.
Interesting - since up till about something like 1800-1840 Sweden was actually a part of Denmark - as far as I remember Finland liberated at about the same time Sweden liberated from the Danish kingdom. Of course Swedish people tend to forget that:)
The Norwegians haven't - but their kingdom is only a bit over 100 years old anyway [Norway was a part of the Danish kingdom too]
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Who the hell modded this up - at best it's redundant at worst it's flamebait. NO ONE HERE SAID SOFTWARE PATENTS ROCKS. However obviously its nice to have a company say they will defend (admittedly a limited amount off) OSS works against weird attacks. Like MS wielding their "innovative" double-click patent against the x.org project or some such. It doesn't mean anyone condones sw patents, just that people are happy to see someone atleast do some good with a system that is basically crap.
Allow the phonecompanies to charge for cell-phone like they are abroad while in theaters - after someone gets a 40$ bill for talking 10 mins in the theater they'd probably remember next time - and emergency calls would still come through:D
It is solely a question of ethics and moral (where ethics is the restriction someone takes upon themselves, while moral is the guidelines society bestows upon you).
It is obvious that if a society deems that something is counter-productive or has negative impact for society they will make a moral guideline against this behaviour. Not quite so obvious humans have a tendency to equate anything which remotely resembles A to be equal to A.
The argument about whether or not this is bad for society is mute, since it according to chineese moral is bad it is logical to outlaw it and try to remove it.
This even though it might not be against the ethics of most chineese.
You could look down to africa and see what they think about France invading one of their countries, and inciting the public revolt in rwanda [yes that WAS France's fault](they do this to get an upper hand in trade and to promote the french culture).
Also regarding the UN decision: There are 2 reasons why the second motion did not get passed - a) Germany decided to use anti-americanism in their election campaign, one of the ministers even compared Bush to Hitler - b) France did/not/ want to give up on the huge debts Iraq had to France.
While one can definitely find faults in the logic for going to war, please do not take this as a first on anything or try and claim that the other nations in the un council was any better. Atleast the U.S. does sometimes contemplate the impact of it's decisions on other countries, while France doesn't care. Germany does to some degree but their opinion is definitely influenced by having half the country thrown into communism for 50 years.
I hate these black and white pictures people try to paint - the world is indeed grim - whether the world would have been better if Gore had been president? I doubt it - he might not have attacked Iraq, but in the big scheme of things this is definitely not the worst thing that could've happened.
Atleast we are starting to get UN inspectors in Iran, this wouldn't have happened otherwise.
I'm just going out on a limb and quoting Todd Hollenshead here:
Mac and Linux: Unfortunately I don't have dates for either of these. However, Linux binaries will be available very soon after the PC game hits store shelves. There are no plans for boxed Linux games.
As seen in his plan update on the release of Doom 3 Todd plan file.
So I'm wondering what this is? Tux games buys a win32 game, repackages it on dvd along with the linux binary and an installer?
You are generally right - but for the heck of it, where can you get a Linux native version of Doom3? Last time I heard about that from ID they would only release the binary but not a Doom3 Linux boxed version.
What was the main reason for the mass murder of dozens of people in columbine? Doom.
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If only it where that it was - but no, a not so mediarized fact is the following: both kids had a non-violent history, then they where sent to a shrink who gave them psych-drugs, which are known to have violent behaviour, and suicidal behaviour as a side-effect. After using this for some time, the kids went off to do the columbine killing.
They where btw using the same drug as that postal guy who went in and shot his old work colleagues, and the student at a german university who went and shot some students there.
But nono, lets not look at facts and just blame doom.
In regards to your cousin, sorry to hear that, but he would've likely become catatonic by something else if it wasnt for doom (maybe loosing in Mariokart would've done the same for all we know).
Come on, Kerry aint that bad, getting a new us president will "just" ruin any chance of getting the isreal palestine thing on track again (somehow us presidents can only work seriously on this in their second period...).
Of course 8 more years of that wont be unsettling for the world balance....
It is quite possible to make alot of this stuff work crossplatform via a browser.
A good example is lotus workplace, based on J2EE - you can access, edit, create information. When you need more advanced features you get a 'richer' java interface.
Of course this is not always enough, and then you can use their rich client for the available platforms - most users will however not need this.
Also the latency problem is not very big, since the lotus products work via replication (and thus you are working on a local copy while the server version is locked etc.).
There's a lot of stuff you can do via the web which is normally done via desktop app's. Using Java makes it crossplatform (and thus makes the OS decision irrelevant). This is not to say that desktop app's will disappear, but more to say that the author is right - a lot of stuff will work perfectly fine via the web.
Well, since both the US distributors and the japaneese makers think it is ok as long as distribution is stopped once it is licensed I can't see why you can judge the fansubbing community like that. If the japaneese makers thought differently I'd agree with you.
But what you are saying is "ok, the fansubbers, the makers, and the importers/distributors all agree that doing this like this is ok, but its not because I don't think so, and the USA have made a lot of countries agree to insane copyright agreements that severely defeats the intention of the berner convention which originally governed copyright."
Actually the same thing was said about MTV (of course more people noticed the movie industry shouting about VCR's as much as the record labels shouted about MC's).
History repeats itself with intervals - those who know history will not make the same mistake twice. I wonder why so few people like the record industry anymore?:)
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Of course the following things can be pointed too as well:
:)
Public/private key encryption support.
Wellunderstood and supported expansions (NSF).
Coherent environment across the board.
Path for even more net operability via websphere [workplace, the workplace version that is not previously labeled quicktime btw].
Optimized for both NSF and DB2 [IMHO nsf is the best multiple file database format yet - lightning fast even compared to mysql]
Agents for everything notes.
That said, WIKI's could encroach on the Lotus/Domino platform which is exactly why IBM has been working so hard integrating Domino, Websphere and Java. That means that if you today setup a Lotus Workplace setup you suddenly have:
mail, calendering.
konferencing [voice, video, text, dashboard].
IM functions [including pervasive awereness - ie read a document, and you can see if the authors or editors are online and so forth].
Team functions [assignment, projectplanning etc.].
Support for integrated VoIP.
MS and Lotus Office compatible Text, spreadsheet and presentation packages.
Thats out of the box for between 25 or 50$ a seat [maintenance is 1/3th or 1/4th a year, first year free]. Even for Open Source that is hard to beat. Add to that a well understod development environment and a stable distribution stack available on any platform you might reasonably want to run it on as well as easy distributability of caches and clustering capabilities and I simply cant see why anyone would jump on anything else.
My company is going thru a merger and we have been looking at different other commerciel and FL/OSS solutions and nothing has come close to give us the features and expandibility we want. Some projects definitely want to (and I'll be looking at those again in 3-5 years).
Now it is worth noting that the Lotus Workplace Line and the Lotus Domino/Notes line of products should basically have the same features in the Workplace 4 and Domino/Notes version 8 [current is 2/6.5] and already have alot of the same functions in 3/7.
I can only see one reason why Lotus isn't dominating the collaborative and groupware market completely: It's IBM who markets it. Atleast they are getting better at that - but how many here knew that Lotus Workplace and Lotus Domino actually was one of those things IBM has been talking about in their pushing in their "Middleware is everywhere" campaign?
Entertainment is that big? Last time I checked IBM generated more grossincome then the entire music industri combined.
It could be since alot of advocates don't use IE that often and thus still has MSN as startpage (and non or mozilla.org as startpage in FF).
:)
Since mozilla.org is easier to render and FF is faster at rendering that could easily explain why people feel it is faster.
Thats my best bet anyway
Well Sweden was a part of denmark, I'm not entirely sure about the dates though. Actually Skåne still has a small group who wants that part to become part of Denmark again.
Anyway, my point on that was that Norway is genuinely aware of how young it's independence is - while Sweden is not.
The Danish kingdom was rather big at one point, spanning both Sweden, Norway, parts of Finland (probably the same part referred to in the parent) and parts of Germany.
One of the main reasons Denmark has lost so much country is in fact because the French kings did not like the big country to the north (too powerfull), and since the big countries decided the outcomes of wars at that time, the decisions where generally unfavorable to Denmark.
Interesting - since up till about something like 1800-1840 Sweden was actually a part of Denmark - as far as I remember Finland liberated at about the same time Sweden liberated from the Danish kingdom. Of course Swedish people tend to forget that :)
The Norwegians haven't - but their kingdom is only a bit over 100 years old anyway [Norway was a part of the Danish kingdom too]
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Who the hell modded this up - at best it's redundant at worst it's flamebait.
NO ONE HERE SAID SOFTWARE PATENTS ROCKS.
However obviously its nice to have a company say they will defend (admittedly a limited amount off) OSS works against weird attacks. Like MS wielding their "innovative" double-click patent against the x.org project or some such.
It doesn't mean anyone condones sw patents, just that people are happy to see someone atleast do some good with a system that is basically crap.
Allow the phonecompanies to charge for cell-phone like they are abroad while in theaters - after someone gets a 40$ bill for talking 10 mins in the theater they'd probably remember next time - and emergency calls would still come through :D
It is solely a question of ethics and moral (where ethics is the restriction someone takes upon themselves, while moral is the guidelines society bestows upon you).
It is obvious that if a society deems that something is counter-productive or has negative impact for society they will make a moral guideline against this behaviour. Not quite so obvious humans have a tendency to equate anything which remotely resembles A to be equal to A.
The argument about whether or not this is bad for society is mute, since it according to chineese moral is bad it is logical to outlaw it and try to remove it.
This even though it might not be against the ethics of most chineese.
You could look down to africa and see what they think about France invading one of their countries, and inciting the public revolt in rwanda [yes that WAS France's fault](they do this to get an upper hand in trade and to promote the french culture).
/not/ want to give up on the huge debts Iraq had to France.
Also regarding the UN decision: There are 2 reasons why the second motion did not get passed - a) Germany decided to use anti-americanism in their election campaign, one of the ministers even compared Bush to Hitler - b) France did
While one can definitely find faults in the logic for going to war, please do not take this as a first on anything or try and claim that the other nations in the un council was any better. Atleast the U.S. does sometimes contemplate the impact of it's decisions on other countries, while France doesn't care. Germany does to some degree but their opinion is definitely influenced by having half the country thrown into communism for 50 years.
I hate these black and white pictures people try to paint - the world is indeed grim - whether the world would have been better if Gore had been president? I doubt it - he might not have attacked Iraq, but in the big scheme of things this is definitely not the worst thing that could've happened.
Atleast we are starting to get UN inspectors in Iran, this wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Thanks for clarifying.
I'm just going out on a limb and quoting Todd Hollenshead here:
Mac and Linux: Unfortunately I don't have dates for either of these. However, Linux binaries will be available very soon after the PC game hits store shelves. There are no plans for boxed Linux games.
As seen in his plan update on the release of Doom 3 Todd plan file.
So I'm wondering what this is? Tux games buys a win32 game, repackages it on dvd along with the linux binary and an installer?
You are generally right - but for the heck of it, where can you get a Linux native version of Doom3? Last time I heard about that from ID they would only release the binary but not a Doom3 Linux boxed version.
If only it where that it was - but no, a not so mediarized fact is the following: both kids had a non-violent history, then they where sent to a shrink who gave them psych-drugs, which are known to have violent behaviour, and suicidal behaviour as a side-effect. After using this for some time, the kids went off to do the columbine killing.
They where btw using the same drug as that postal guy who went in and shot his old work colleagues, and the student at a german university who went and shot some students there.
But nono, lets not look at facts and just blame doom.
In regards to your cousin, sorry to hear that, but he would've likely become catatonic by something else if it wasnt for doom (maybe loosing in Mariokart would've done the same for all we know).
Isn't this and the musicstore part of the site supposed to go along with their portable devices? To me that seems like the general idea.
So you can buy an eVic-20GB and download some old classics like Uridium and game away while listening to the newest crap dance hit or whatever.
Come on, Kerry aint that bad, getting a new us president will "just" ruin any chance of getting the isreal palestine thing on track again (somehow us presidents can only work seriously on this in their second period...).
Of course 8 more years of that wont be unsettling for the world balance....
Or did you mean the other guy?
It is quite possible to make alot of this stuff work crossplatform via a browser.
A good example is lotus workplace, based on J2EE - you can access, edit, create information. When you need more advanced features you get a 'richer' java interface.
Of course this is not always enough, and then you can use their rich client for the available platforms - most users will however not need this.
Also the latency problem is not very big, since the lotus products work via replication (and thus you are working on a local copy while the server version is locked etc.).
There's a lot of stuff you can do via the web which is normally done via desktop app's. Using Java makes it crossplatform (and thus makes the OS decision irrelevant). This is not to say that desktop app's will disappear, but more to say that the author is right - a lot of stuff will work perfectly fine via the web.
Well, since both the US distributors and the japaneese makers think it is ok as long as distribution is stopped once it is licensed I can't see why you can judge the fansubbing community like that. If the japaneese makers thought differently I'd agree with you.
But what you are saying is "ok, the fansubbers, the makers, and the importers/distributors all agree that doing this like this is ok, but its not because I don't think so, and the USA have made a lot of countries agree to insane copyright agreements that severely defeats the intention of the berner convention which originally governed copyright."
To be fair the steel tariffs was something the democrats forced on the administration - not really something they liked.
:)
Politics isn't a nice business and this administration has made enough stupid mistakes - so putting the steel tariffs on them too isn't really nice
Btw I'm a EU citizen - just for the sake of it.
Well phoenix/firebird/firefox did introduce the feature - also last time I checked Mozilla had it turned of by default which firefox doesn't.
So it's a valid statement imho.
Well, there where several bugs related to office 97 on win2k - whether it was MS FUD or related only to the retail version or whatever I do not know.
So it's not an unfair assumption that either they will FUD it or it will actually be this way with longhorn and previous version of Office.
For this reason I insist on saying/writing MS or Microsoft infront of things.
/never/ say 'Word' - of course my users sometimes get annoyed the 3rd. time I correct them on it - the point is valid though.
:)
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I've been telling a friend for a long time that I'm using a messenger - he now understands that that is not the same as MS messenger
Sounds reasonable - however trademarks are ok IMHO.
So the original creators can keep their trademark and if someone else wants to play capt. kirk - fine let them put capt. kirk in "space opera".
Actually the same thing was said about MTV (of course more people noticed the movie industry shouting about VCR's as much as the record labels shouted about MC's).
:)
History repeats itself with intervals - those who know history will not make the same mistake twice. I wonder why so few people like the record industry anymore?
You could just install a plugin for XMMS or WinAmp for remote control and remote listening.