Mac is completely interoperable with windows & *nix where it counts. If it wasn't it would not exist.
Interoperability is the reason mac survives. It is also the reason linux is viable.
Create a niche and that's all you will exist in.
Work like this is what keeps linux viable. The vision shown by Ximian is great - this sort of innovation displays the strength of alternative software development.
It's not about the wheel being less than perfect. This sort of problem becomes obvious.
If you know the wheel speed and the entry quadrant of the ball then you can calculate the probability of the resulting quadrant.
Since the table is laid out in numerical order, with groupings that do not allow betting on wheel sectors, you have to quickly spread chips across the numbers that this system selects.
This must all be done very quickly. It has been done before without the phoone/camera - but yoy still need a spotter to communicate with the person placing the chips.
Three things that make this a short term proposition - you need a spotter and a gambler and a covert means of communication , you need to have the ammo to bet consistently for a long time, it is easy to detect - start winning consistently at roulette and a lot of eyes will be watching.
"If a company were large enough to have a mail room, then scanning in snail mail and emailing images would be neat. One could always fetch the hard copy if needed. I'm far more efficient with electronic files than I am with paper. (My desk is a pigsty)"
Decent EDMS do imaging,storage and workflow right now. Email is too crude - works for messaging but not for true information management when meta-data is all important
It's the bulk. You can't rely on *all* staff to carry out disposal in accordance with legal/policy requirements, so it is up to the knowledge manager/records/archives staff. Disposal can then be carried out at regular intervals - but generally speaking no-one cares too much until they run out of physical space. By then, we could be talking tonnes of paper to be effectively disposed of - hence the outsourced shredding companies.
Digital purging is another issue, certainly no easier though unless documents are sentenced correctly at the time of creation. It is a massive task to carry out at 'disposal time'.
Why do people always swallow the "at considerable taxpayer expense" line that is thrown about whenever an adventurer is rescued at sea?
Naval vessels cost a lot to run whether they are at sea or not. Salaries are paid, maintenance is carried out. More often than not these rescues provide real life training for the crews that is not possible in simulations. Actual cost is nil, it means things are done (eg training) out of schedule - but they would be done anyway.
Solaris for x86 is free for non-commercial single processor PC's - this was in the detail that/. reported.
The Unixware test here is on a multi(2) processor PC, aside from the fact that "Despite using a dual-processor system, SMP support is a licensed feature, so this installation only recognized one of the two processors."
Other posters have pointed out that Unixware is used heavily in commercial situations - notably retail. - your "free" Solaris is not for this.
Despite all of the above , I have to agree when you ask "Why bother with SCO".
For manuals, step by step stuff and general how-to's ebooks are fine. Think "stuff you need for work"
For leisure reading - no way. A book is a great piece of technology as it is. Cheap,portable, nice to handle and easy to use and shareable/resuable. The advantage of an ebook is the indexing & update-ability, but they lose out in the other areas.
We are planning deregulation in our most populated state..NSW. And we are using the US as the model for deregulation/privatisation of our energy corporations.
Why isn't this sort of thing in the mainstream press? In Australia there are clear reasons why not..the two richest guys who would undoubtedly cash in on the deregulation own all the media..that's right, Murdoch and Packer own our papers,our magazines, our pay TV, the 'infoportals' for our largest ISP's,our regular tv stations and our sports.
This is actually better than a lawsuit. The ACCC has real teeth in Australia and can demand and enforce instant compliance. The fact that they use these powers for somewhat dubious outcomes is a point of contention here, but a referral their way has to be at least investigated.
These guys love publicity and this is win/win for them. They get to flex some muscle and no Aussie company(read Packer or Murdoch) will be asked to do anything.
Recently it has seemed that if anything was said to be anti-spam it was deemed to be good - no further scrutiny was required.
These laws were a case in point, but any comments here or elsewhere that questioned the new laws were howled down in the shared "spam-is-evil" sentiment. Spam is a pain and is hard to defend - but defeating spam should be a case of the right tool for the job. The right tool is rarely legislation - yet it is the first we seem to reach for.
I'm glad that there is some well thought out legitimate questioning of these knee-jerk reaction laws.
The strength is in the meta-data. By using XML the doc can be formatted by anything that can understand it. But formatting is not the point.
The docs can then be referenced in a relational database - searched,indexed & importantly shared and migrated to other indexing systems or stripped.
The XML 'magic' is very simple. The use of the data is whatever you want it to be. Do you want to restrict access, provide access, record access, implement version control and X-referencing - then using this technology is for you.
It has sfa to do with troff/groff/cat/echo/print and everything to do with document collaboration and sharing.
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I should've taken much more time with this.
even if I say so
The server cost money. The client (browser) was a giveaway.
Wrong.
Mac is completely interoperable with windows & *nix where it counts. If it wasn't it would not exist.
Interoperability is the reason mac survives. It is also the reason linux is viable.
Create a niche and that's all you will exist in.
Work like this is what keeps linux viable. The vision shown by Ximian is great - this sort of innovation displays the strength of alternative software development.
Now if only they can make some $$$
If you think that then you must live in some authoritarian state like ....
Who'd have thought it... Russia..the home of the brave and the free.
Being in IT is no more cause for stress than any other role. It is no harder, no more elite and no better than many other roles.
Why do you think the guy in the factory has it so easy?
How the hell did this little whinge session make it as an article?
Take some advice from Dr Dennis Leary and shut the fuck up.
It's not about the wheel being less than perfect. This sort of problem becomes obvious.
If you know the wheel speed and the entry quadrant of the ball then you can calculate the probability of the resulting quadrant.
Since the table is laid out in numerical order, with groupings that do not allow betting on wheel sectors, you have to quickly spread chips across the numbers that this system selects.
This must all be done very quickly. It has been done before without the phoone/camera - but yoy still need a spotter to communicate with the person placing the chips.
Three things that make this a short term proposition - you need a spotter and a gambler and a covert means of communication , you need to have the ammo to bet consistently for a long time, it is easy to detect - start winning consistently at roulette and a lot of eyes will be watching.
"If a company were large enough to have a mail room, then scanning in snail mail and emailing images would be neat. One could always fetch the hard copy if needed. I'm far more efficient with electronic files than I am with paper. (My desk is a pigsty)"
Decent EDMS do imaging,storage and workflow right now. Email is too crude - works for messaging but not for true information management when meta-data is all important
Funnier still is that the author considers LUGS high profile.
I don't think there is any such thing as a 'high profile' *UG
Yesterday
It's the bulk. You can't rely on *all* staff to carry out disposal in accordance with legal/policy requirements, so it is up to the knowledge manager/records/archives staff. Disposal can then be carried out at regular intervals - but generally speaking no-one cares too much until they run out of physical space. By then, we could be talking tonnes of paper to be effectively disposed of - hence the outsourced shredding companies.
Digital purging is another issue, certainly no easier though unless documents are sentenced correctly at the time of creation. It is a massive task to carry out at 'disposal time'.
Why do people always swallow the "at considerable taxpayer expense" line that is thrown about whenever an adventurer is rescued at sea?
Naval vessels cost a lot to run whether they are at sea or not. Salaries are paid, maintenance is carried out. More often than not these rescues provide real life training for the crews that is not possible in simulations. Actual cost is nil, it means things are done (eg training) out of schedule - but they would be done anyway.
Solaris for x86 is free for non-commercial single processor PC's - this was in the detail that /. reported.
The Unixware test here is on a multi(2) processor PC, aside from the fact that "Despite using a dual-processor system, SMP support is a licensed feature, so this installation only recognized one of the two processors."
Other posters have pointed out that Unixware is used heavily in commercial situations - notably retail. - your "free" Solaris is not for this.
Despite all of the above , I have to agree when you ask "Why bother with SCO".
We could all be seeing this now.
.java it would work?
Maybe if they named it
Why TF is this an article?
Quote from the article:
"Somehow they got root on klecker and installed
suckit."
What follows is an interesting read - but the guts are in that 'somehow'.
Then we will really see some novel uses for this stuff.
A sweat shop worker realises she is being exploited.
More power to her.
Yep...the indexing and the updates...advantages of ebooks.
For manuals, step by step stuff and general how-to's ebooks are fine. Think "stuff you need for work"
For leisure reading - no way. A book is a great piece of technology as it is. Cheap,portable, nice to handle and easy to use and shareable/resuable. The advantage of an ebook is the indexing & update-ability, but they lose out in the other areas.
We are planning deregulation in our most populated state..NSW. And we are using the US as the model for deregulation/privatisation of our energy corporations.
Why isn't this sort of thing in the mainstream press? In Australia there are clear reasons why not..the two richest guys who would undoubtedly cash in on the deregulation own all the media..that's right, Murdoch and Packer own our papers,our magazines, our pay TV, the 'infoportals' for our largest ISP's,our regular tv stations and our sports.
This is actually better than a lawsuit. The ACCC has real teeth in Australia and can demand and enforce instant compliance. The fact that they use these powers for somewhat dubious outcomes is a point of contention here, but a referral their way has to be at least investigated.
These guys love publicity and this is win/win for them. They get to flex some muscle and no Aussie company(read Packer or Murdoch) will be asked to do anything.
none required.
Criticise is how WE spell it.
Recently it has seemed that if anything was said to be anti-spam it was deemed to be good - no further scrutiny was required.
These laws were a case in point, but any comments here or elsewhere that questioned the new laws were howled down in the shared "spam-is-evil" sentiment. Spam is a pain and is hard to defend - but defeating spam should be a case of the right tool for the job. The right tool is rarely legislation - yet it is the first we seem to reach for.
I'm glad that there is some well thought out legitimate questioning of these knee-jerk reaction laws.
Formatting can be handled by whatever.
The strength is in the meta-data. By using XML the doc can be formatted by anything that can understand it. But formatting is not the point.
The docs can then be referenced in a relational database - searched,indexed & importantly shared and migrated to other indexing systems or stripped.
The XML 'magic' is very simple. The use of the data is whatever you want it to be. Do you want to restrict access, provide access, record access, implement version control and X-referencing - then using this technology is for you.
It has sfa to do with troff/groff/cat/echo/print and everything to do with document collaboration and sharing.