Evolution is not for the die-hard linux user who's been using linux for years and thinks X is for wussies.
Evolution, and Ximian Desktop for that matter are for those individuals out there that make up, oh, probably 65% to 75% of the computer user market. You know, the people you love to bash on.
Computers aren't just a hobbiest or an uber-Geek domain. There are accounting, sales, marketing departments out there that require something butt simple. If you give them somethink like Pine they will Whine forever because Outlook was so much better. If you give them Evolution, they have less to whine about because evolution is a lot like Outlook.
It's an important announcement for the rest of the world that manages large amounts of NT/2K Server Farms to support Exchange, IIS and other things and needs a business case to move. things like this help make that business case.
Internal IBM Guy here. Post a w3 link so I can get it to my team. We have about 200 or so xSeries ATS guys trying to migrate laptops over to Linux but Notes (And the MTS Client) are the big hold up.
Little Help?
tboucher at us dot ibm dot com if you want to email internally.
I'm growing tired of being protected 'for my own good'.
Looking over at CNN you see that over 100,000 people have voted that the 'new powers' of the government are not too much, while only 30K or so think they are too broad.
There are a number of Beowolf clusters produced by IBM for their customers. I helped build (build = carried servers into room and racked) one setup for in New Mexico.
However, if you look at the Top 500 Clusters Site You will see many a IBM Linux cluster on there. Specifically numbers 41, 106, and 125. There are numbers more that aren't listed on that site that are going into many a commercial account every month.
There are many a political game played when new systems are attemted to be brought in. Many times when trying to convince an account to move to a different hardware platform I've heard 'if this fails, I'll loose face' or similiar comment. Many are scared to do something different because no one has gotten fired for running Windows.
Get a clue people, everything is not a rip off of 'The Matrix'. While 'The Matrix' was one buttkicking sweet movie, every movie that comes after it can't be dissed for using technology they invented for it!
The One is a great action flick. The plot is decent, and it's fun to watch Jet Li smash a guy between to motorcycles.
Did anyone else notice the first paragraph of CNN?
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Windows XP Has Arrived
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The paragraph says
'This new release promises to have less crashes and let users delete data from their hard drive'
Quirky is the guy that comes in, goes to his cube, and sits there staring at his screen for hours on end, eating strange combinations of food.
The 'quirky' person can also be identified by this reaction. When asked a question, they look up blankly from their CRT and stare at you, making you uncomfortable, jittery, and then they look back at their screen, type something for a bit, and then answer in a stream of conscious thought to mouth so fast you think the guru on the mountain has answered.
The guy in the article was a reject posing as a uber guru.
But that is the point! The entire point of the excercise was to show how idiotic the copyright process is!
They took something that has been available for what, 30 years? Copyrighted it as something, and now are legally right to sue anyone with that combination of numbers, or to charge a licensing fee.
I now have two Athlon systems that I've purchased this year. Guess I'll have to do my part to increase consumer again and get another one for DNETC crunching. That's all my last one is doing.
Apache runs just fine on NT, as do many other web servers such as Notes, Websphere, and others. They aren't telling everyone to dump Windows NT and IIS, just IIS.
I've always found these ideas intriguing...
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Pyramid Shaped Keyboard
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...I've often wanted a chair that had a keyboard in each armrest, the left & right sides of a standard keyboard, yet you just move your fingers vertically for the upper and lower rows, or press down for the home row. I doubt anyone could learn it that knows how to hunt and peck, but us touch typists that go 120 wpm could benefit from it after you get used to it.
Who knows, maybe one day will figure out a way, but I just don't see voice replacing typing, many people can type faster than they talk.
I don't know where you're looking, the most I've seen the regular version is $39.95. Maybe you are seeing the Deluxe version that is like $79.95, and the 'Professional Server' version is $139.95...
...I think coool. Pretty funny name from the guys at MIT too. They sure get to have all the fun.
Then I remember going to some of my favorite sites that have become my not-so-favorites over the last six months. If they can watch my mouse movement, that means to most people, hey, let's pop up an add there.
That's what makes me hate this.
A Bold Move? Or A Death Cry for both companies?
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HP Buys Compaq
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I'm stunned. I'll admit, I was betting HP or Gateway would fold out of the business some time this year due to plunging market share. Out of the Business = stop making Intel based computers.
I did not expect HP to go out and buy Compaq.
But is this a good thing? HP has never been a player in the corporate desktop world to the extent of the other vendors. So I see the desktop line dropping away. Being in the Intel server business I can safely say that at least in the KS/MO areas HP is not a competitor either. So there goes the Intel Server line from HP.
But, HP is a R&D company. HP has big pockets from other divisions. HP has a service arm that can execute better than Compaq's (even after aquring Digital, I'd say Compaq Destroyed Digital in their blundering of that purchase) and hasn't had a decent service arm (at least in KS/MO/OK/AR region) ever (for Intel Servers).
Should be interesting. A merger of this size should take a good 12 - 18 months, so the fallout will be a while. Wonder what the heck they're going to do. Dell is still destroying the market into a commodity driven vs. quality driven, especially in the server market.
Please ad grains of salt to the last one, I don't like Dell. I'm sure many people do, I don't.
It fell flat on it's ass, but not because of M$
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It fell flat on it's ass for trying to take on the industry. They had an open source prodcut (ISA), saw what they COULD have made had it been close sourced, created something new (MCA) and closed sourced it.
Hence the formation of EISA and the collapse of MCA. Open Sourcing (so to speek) MCA resulted in PCI (not completely, but a good chunk of the PCI spec is MCA type stuff)
Stem Cells come from a freshly fertilized egg, still in the Zygote stage and before Blasti-something phase. Back when it is only between 2 and 8 cells.
I spent a lot of time researching this when my wife and I pursued Invitro Fertilization. Fetuses don't come along until I bleieve 4th or 5th month. They are Embryo's for a while.
The problem with some conservatism is ignorance. You should really look into where Stem cells come from, sometimes they are 'fake' fertilized eggs that have no chance of ever becoming a human.
The last paragraph is my $0.02 and my opionon only. The rest is medical terminology.
I know it's a pipe dream, but I'd like to try. The problem is now that XP is coming 2000 won't be available anymore and amazingly enough all the 'cool' stuff won't work with it.
It's just frustrating. I hate hotmail and I don't want to have a 'passport' to use software on my computer(s)
I have been a Microsoft desktop OS user since after Windows 95 came out. Before that I used OS/2 1.3, 2.0, 2.1 and 3. Unfortunately they lost.
Here's what pushed me over the edge:
I need a hotmail account to get features to work. After updating to IE 5.5 SP2 quicktime 'broke'. Java VM is being removed and the users are left up to select their own. Windows Media Player is ingrained in the OS as bad as IE now, and I never have liked it.
I'm working hard on designing a desktop platform that my wife can use, and once that happens over the next few weeks, There will not be a Windows machine in my house on any of my 8 computers.
If, by chance, the programmers have any type of ego they are going to program their tendancies into said AI, and that would be how an AI could get the emotions such as ambition.
You can't just dismiss the idea that AI can turn away from humankind's best interets. There are lots of things we've created for altruistic tendancies that turned out to have 'side effects' that damage humans, the environment, or could be perverted into something not originally intended for...
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Evolution is not for the die-hard linux user who's been using linux for years and thinks X is for wussies.
Evolution, and Ximian Desktop for that matter are for those individuals out there that make up, oh, probably 65% to 75% of the computer user market. You know, the people you love to bash on.
Computers aren't just a hobbiest or an uber-Geek domain. There are accounting, sales, marketing departments out there that require something butt simple. If you give them somethink like Pine they will Whine forever because Outlook was so much better. If you give them Evolution, they have less to whine about because evolution is a lot like Outlook.
It's an important announcement for the rest of the world that manages large amounts of NT/2K Server Farms to support Exchange, IIS and other things and needs a business case to move. things like this help make that business case.
Internal IBM Guy here. Post a w3 link so I can get it to my team. We have about 200 or so xSeries ATS guys trying to migrate laptops over to Linux but Notes (And the MTS Client) are the big hold up.
Little Help?
tboucher at us dot ibm dot com if you want to email internally.
Looking over at CNN you see that over 100,000 people have voted that the 'new powers' of the government are not too much, while only 30K or so think they are too broad.
The high end of the IBM pSeries line has 8 - 32 way CPU scalability.
I'm sorry, but unfortunately Linux doesn't scale that well. YET.
Now, in a few years will it? With this kind of backing from both IBM and Red Hat will we see it? I'd bet so...
There are a number of Beowolf clusters produced by IBM for their customers. I helped build (build = carried servers into room and racked) one setup for in New Mexico.
However, if you look at the Top 500 Clusters Site You will see many a IBM Linux cluster on there. Specifically numbers 41, 106, and 125. There are numbers more that aren't listed on that site that are going into many a commercial account every month.
There are many a political game played when new systems are attemted to be brought in. Many times when trying to convince an account to move to a different hardware platform I've heard 'if this fails, I'll loose face' or similiar comment. Many are scared to do something different because no one has gotten fired for running Windows.
Get a clue people, everything is not a rip off of 'The Matrix'. While 'The Matrix' was one buttkicking sweet movie, every movie that comes after it can't be dissed for using technology they invented for it!
The One is a great action flick. The plot is decent, and it's fun to watch Jet Li smash a guy between to motorcycles.
The paragraph says
'This new release promises to have less crashes and let users delete data from their hard drive'
WTF? (on both counts)
Quirky is the guy that comes in, goes to his cube, and sits there staring at his screen for hours on end, eating strange combinations of food.
The 'quirky' person can also be identified by this reaction. When asked a question, they look up blankly from their CRT and stare at you, making you uncomfortable, jittery, and then they look back at their screen, type something for a bit, and then answer in a stream of conscious thought to mouth so fast you think the guru on the mountain has answered.
The guy in the article was a reject posing as a uber guru.
But that is the point! The entire point of the excercise was to show how idiotic the copyright process is!
They took something that has been available for what, 30 years? Copyrighted it as something, and now are legally right to sue anyone with that combination of numbers, or to charge a licensing fee.
I've said this to many people, but not that it does any good.
Removing the WTC from films and pictures does just what the terrorists wanted. it removes 'the abomination'
Sigh. We'll never learn.
I now have two Athlon systems that I've purchased this year. Guess I'll have to do my part to increase consumer again and get another one for DNETC crunching. That's all my last one is doing.
Apache runs just fine on NT, as do many other web servers such as Notes, Websphere, and others. They aren't telling everyone to dump Windows NT and IIS, just IIS.
...I've often wanted a chair that had a keyboard in each armrest, the left & right sides of a standard keyboard, yet you just move your fingers vertically for the upper and lower rows, or press down for the home row. I doubt anyone could learn it that knows how to hunt and peck, but us touch typists that go 120 wpm could benefit from it after you get used to it.
Who knows, maybe one day will figure out a way, but I just don't see voice replacing typing, many people can type faster than they talk.
CNN has a poll going, over 190,000 people want more government involvement in their life, the poll is winning by 70 / 30.
I don't know where you're looking, the most I've seen the regular version is $39.95. Maybe you are seeing the Deluxe version that is like $79.95, and the 'Professional Server' version is $139.95...
So, I think you're looking in the wrong places...
True, but that batteries would die real quick from the lightening sparks flashing from his claw like pincers
...I think coool. Pretty funny name from the guys at MIT too. They sure get to have all the fun.
Then I remember going to some of my favorite sites that have become my not-so-favorites over the last six months. If they can watch my mouse movement, that means to most people, hey, let's pop up an add there.
That's what makes me hate this.
I'm stunned. I'll admit, I was betting HP or Gateway would fold out of the business some time this year due to plunging market share. Out of the Business = stop making Intel based computers.
I did not expect HP to go out and buy Compaq.
But is this a good thing? HP has never been a player in the corporate desktop world to the extent of the other vendors. So I see the desktop line dropping away. Being in the Intel server business I can safely say that at least in the KS/MO areas HP is not a competitor either. So there goes the Intel Server line from HP.
But, HP is a R&D company. HP has big pockets from other divisions. HP has a service arm that can execute better than Compaq's (even after aquring Digital, I'd say Compaq Destroyed Digital in their blundering of that purchase) and hasn't had a decent service arm (at least in KS/MO/OK/AR region) ever (for Intel Servers).
Should be interesting. A merger of this size should take a good 12 - 18 months, so the fallout will be a while. Wonder what the heck they're going to do. Dell is still destroying the market into a commodity driven vs. quality driven, especially in the server market.
Please ad grains of salt to the last one, I don't like Dell. I'm sure many people do, I don't.
It fell flat on it's ass for trying to take on the industry. They had an open source prodcut (ISA), saw what they COULD have made had it been close sourced, created something new (MCA) and closed sourced it.
Hence the formation of EISA and the collapse of MCA. Open Sourcing (so to speek) MCA resulted in PCI (not completely, but a good chunk of the PCI spec is MCA type stuff)
Stem Cells come from a freshly fertilized egg, still in the Zygote stage and before Blasti-something phase. Back when it is only between 2 and 8 cells.
I spent a lot of time researching this when my wife and I pursued Invitro Fertilization. Fetuses don't come along until I bleieve 4th or 5th month. They are Embryo's for a while.
The problem with some conservatism is ignorance. You should really look into where Stem cells come from, sometimes they are 'fake' fertilized eggs that have no chance of ever becoming a human.
The last paragraph is my $0.02 and my opionon only. The rest is medical terminology.
Hmm. Wonder if this will go to the same fate as Warcraft Adventures.
Still patiently waiting on Warcraft III....
I know it's a pipe dream, but I'd like to try. The problem is now that XP is coming 2000 won't be available anymore and amazingly enough all the 'cool' stuff won't work with it.
It's just frustrating. I hate hotmail and I don't want to have a 'passport' to use software on my computer(s)
I think what pushed me off the fence was this:
I have been a Microsoft desktop OS user since after Windows 95 came out. Before that I used OS/2 1.3, 2.0, 2.1 and 3. Unfortunately they lost.
Here's what pushed me over the edge:
I need a hotmail account to get features to work. After updating to IE 5.5 SP2 quicktime 'broke'. Java VM is being removed and the users are left up to select their own. Windows Media Player is ingrained in the OS as bad as IE now, and I never have liked it.
I'm working hard on designing a desktop platform that my wife can use, and once that happens over the next few weeks, There will not be a Windows machine in my house on any of my 8 computers.
If, by chance, the programmers have any type of ego they are going to program their tendancies into said AI, and that would be how an AI could get the emotions such as ambition.
You can't just dismiss the idea that AI can turn away from humankind's best interets. There are lots of things we've created for altruistic tendancies that turned out to have 'side effects' that damage humans, the environment, or could be perverted into something not originally intended for...