For a brief period in the nineties I was an OS/2 evangelist/snob/fanboi...It's too bad IBM wasn't a little more savvy with marketing and branding. Scratch that, it's too bad OS/2 belonged to IBM. I was in the local DMV a few years ago and noticed they were still using it...and its circa 1989 graphics. One feature I loved and haven't seen duplicated on any other OS is the ability to create a work folder. Not sure the actual term for it any more but if you put a shortcut to an application/spreadsheet/document in that folder and set the folder as active whenever you opened that folder every one of those items would come up front and center. The closest thing I know of is the startup folder in Windows but that is only when you log in.
I just installed it on a Windows 7 system and it is smooth as glass. It looks more polished than most commercial offerings I've seen. Kudos to the team and their efforts.
Unfortunately that demand is global not domestic as much of the gasoline refined is being exported now.
"We've got plenty of excess refining capacity," said Jonathan Cogan, a spokesman for EIA. "It's a reminder that this is a global oil market, and it's reflected by the movements of products to where they will get the highest prices."
But it may be bewildering for American drivers, who could experience record high gas prices next year even though U.S. demand could hit the lowest level in a decade, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.
I could go to homeless shelter. Ask every person there if they are homeless. Then post my statistics that homelessness has reached 100%. In microscopic print I "might" add "at homeless shelters".
What's funny is when political pollsters pull these pranks and still only manage to scrounge up forty percent and change support for their candidate.
As several crack/. readers have pointed out...that should be 1995 not 85...even proofreading can't fix bad decade memory! 1985 was the year I got that smokin Members Only jacket and parachute pants at the mall...
It IS missing two very crucial features...Convenience & Trendiness
MAC & PC users in general do not care that they are using MAC OS X or Windows 7. They just care about getting what they want done AND how they look to their peers doing it.
CAR ANALOGY - The average driver does not want a car where the engine or other mechanical parts are showing but the gear head who loves tweaking his ride will go to great lengths to ensure at least some part of his engine sticks out. Also, people will buy a PRIUS or a Smart4two to appear eco-friendly despite there being other makes and models with similar fuel efficiency but less visibility as a fuel efficient driver.
I have used many different Linux distributions since 1985 ( I expect my compile of Gentoo to complete any day now ) and even Ubuntu hasn't really reached the ease of use factor I expect from a desktop OS. Is it more powerful than Windows? Absolutely! Does that matter one iota when I need to read my email or write a report on a word processor? Nope...Apple got it right IMO when they took BSD and tacked their own GUI on it to hide the power and flexibility of the underlying kernel. This is where choice has actually hurt the Linux on the desktop initiative. Add some peripheral support to Android and have it scale to the desktop and you have the killer Linux for the desktop distro. - This is tongue in cheek but not far from what I envision it will take to get Linux adopted as the desktop OS of choice.
Don't know why this is modded Flaimbait. After the last season of STNG I was pretty sure Wil was about to start showing up on the news as a homeless guy with a tricorder. He is hosting a show on a YouTube channel called Geek and Sundry that is watched primarily by the group he is trying to portray as normal and this doesn't strike him as PRECISELY why "normal" ( I prefer the term "less intellectually focused" ) people can't relate? Face it...people in general do not CARE about the things geeks do and that is OK. It's like the alternate reality in ST but for some reason IRL it's the smart Captain Kirk who can't blend in with the barbaric Enterprise.
You are correct. They were pulling data from an Oracle DB via ODBC to build the Access DB. They knew virtually nothing about SQL and had little desire to learn because Access was "good enough" for their needs. Except...when it wasn't
Would you rather have a 1 million line excel spreedsheet where there are 5 different versions all emailed around and not synchronized instead?
We have that anyway. Every day there is another Excel spreadsheet unleashed that some guy cobbled together to pull in data from twelve other spreadsheets and two external data feeds that he gave to his buddies and now he has left the company and the hard coded credentials he had embedded in the macro no longer works. We are called to "fix" the problem and it needs to be done in less than 10 minutes for a report that is critical to the business.
Yes, this happens because people do not have time to wait for I.T. and some BS policy on databases. This causes a lot more headaches.
Who said anything about waiting for IT? The tools and ability to create a DB in SQL are readily available and licensed. All that was needed was for them to request the SQL developer software be installed on the programmer's PC. They didn't even bother to convert the completed Access DB into a standalone binary that could be distributed to the PC. Instead they insisted we install Access on every PC in the business unit. They didn't even lock it down. Anyone who was accessing the system could make changes to it!
THIS!
We have an Oracle corporate wide license and recently a new manager hired several people for her group. Unknown to IT these people were brought in to create a complete DB in Access. We found out when she approached me and asked me to install Access on everyone's PC. She became irate when I said no that she should be using our Oracle DB. Ironically they were pulling data from one of the Oracle databases to populate their Access DB. Her argument was that it was "easier" to get stuff done in Access and she had never had any problems at her previous employer. Unfortunately she was also friends with the new president of the company and got what she wanted. The guy who created the DB moved on and the DB "broke" and IT doesn't support Access so they had to hire him back to maintain his code. If it was so "easy" why couldn't they get somebody else in their group to maintain it?
Quite right! and effort should be made to ensure citizens abide by the governing laws. Notice I said effort WITHOUT "every" in front of it? To put a music analogy on a car story the US music industry probably (very very likely I'd say) spends more on RIAA and its tactics than they ever made up in sales/court ordered restitution from RIAA's exploits. They are quite literally throwing money down a sink hole and getting less than nothing in return. While I'm not a citizen of the UK it is my understanding that the fuel itself is taxed to high heaven all on its own so this seems like cutting off Peter to pay Paul. Again I understand the intent but the cost to add the functionality and maintain this system will more than likely exceed any gains.
Agreed, I bought and played both Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 on Steam as well as all the DLC. I have never had an issue with Steam's DRM and switching to a new PC was almost a painless process (Still had to DL all the games over). When I heard EA was forcing the use of it's Origin PoS I was incensed! Origin has been in Beta longer than most Google properties and doesn't add anything other than letting EA spy on my PC. I did purchase the DVD copy of Mass Effect 3 over the weekend but it still installs Origin. Now I have to watch what I say because if EA can tie your Origin account to any negative comments about them they will ban you and you can't play any of the games you "own".
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For a brief period in the nineties I was an OS/2 evangelist/snob/fanboi...It's too bad IBM wasn't a little more savvy with marketing and branding. Scratch that, it's too bad OS/2 belonged to IBM. I was in the local DMV a few years ago and noticed they were still using it...and its circa 1989 graphics. One feature I loved and haven't seen duplicated on any other OS is the ability to create a work folder. Not sure the actual term for it any more but if you put a shortcut to an application/spreadsheet/document in that folder and set the folder as active whenever you opened that folder every one of those items would come up front and center. The closest thing I know of is the startup folder in Windows but that is only when you log in.
So for the security system you have the server connected to a service like Clear
Just get your neighbors to put J. Horn on their mailbox.
They are the 99%
Attacking the source when the comment is not liked (but mostly accurate) has been a staple of man for eons.
I just installed it on a Windows 7 system and it is smooth as glass. It looks more polished than most commercial offerings I've seen. Kudos to the team and their efforts.
Like we believe you are married...HA!
"We've got plenty of excess refining capacity," said Jonathan Cogan, a spokesman for EIA. "It's a reminder that this is a global oil market, and it's reflected by the movements of products to where they will get the highest prices."
But it may be bewildering for American drivers, who could experience record high gas prices next year even though U.S. demand could hit the lowest level in a decade, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.
Two words...civil disobedience
Or you could make it work to your advantage
So basically, LIES, DAMN LIES!
,and statistics.
I could go to homeless shelter. Ask every person there if they are homeless. Then post my statistics that homelessness has reached 100%. In microscopic print I "might" add "at homeless shelters".
What's funny is when political pollsters pull these pranks and still only manage to scrounge up forty percent and change support for their candidate.
The kind where the hacktivist is exposing a tie between a government or corporate system and blood diamonds or oppressive regimes?
Well it might have been true before the 4S but not so much NOW
As several crack /. readers have pointed out...that should be 1995 not 85...even proofreading can't fix bad decade memory! 1985 was the year I got that smokin Members Only jacket and parachute pants at the mall...
Linux us NOT missing features.
It IS missing two very crucial features...Convenience & Trendiness
MAC & PC users in general do not care that they are using MAC OS X or Windows 7. They just care about getting what they want done AND how they look to their peers doing it.
CAR ANALOGY - The average driver does not want a car where the engine or other mechanical parts are showing but the gear head who loves tweaking his ride will go to great lengths to ensure at least some part of his engine sticks out. Also, people will buy a PRIUS or a Smart4two to appear eco-friendly despite there being other makes and models with similar fuel efficiency but less visibility as a fuel efficient driver.
I have used many different Linux distributions since 1985 ( I expect my compile of Gentoo to complete any day now ) and even Ubuntu hasn't really reached the ease of use factor I expect from a desktop OS. Is it more powerful than Windows? Absolutely! Does that matter one iota when I need to read my email or write a report on a word processor? Nope...Apple got it right IMO when they took BSD and tacked their own GUI on it to hide the power and flexibility of the underlying kernel. This is where choice has actually hurt the Linux on the desktop initiative. Add some peripheral support to Android and have it scale to the desktop and you have the killer Linux for the desktop distro. - This is tongue in cheek but not far from what I envision it will take to get Linux adopted as the desktop OS of choice.
Don't know why this is modded Flaimbait. After the last season of STNG I was pretty sure Wil was about to start showing up on the news as a homeless guy with a tricorder. He is hosting a show on a YouTube channel called Geek and Sundry that is watched primarily by the group he is trying to portray as normal and this doesn't strike him as PRECISELY why "normal" ( I prefer the term "less intellectually focused" ) people can't relate? Face it...people in general do not CARE about the things geeks do and that is OK. It's like the alternate reality in ST but for some reason IRL it's the smart Captain Kirk who can't blend in with the barbaric Enterprise.
You are correct. They were pulling data from an Oracle DB via ODBC to build the Access DB. They knew virtually nothing about SQL and had little desire to learn because Access was "good enough" for their needs. Except...when it wasn't
Would you rather have a 1 million line excel spreedsheet where there are 5 different versions all emailed around and not synchronized instead?
We have that anyway. Every day there is another Excel spreadsheet unleashed that some guy cobbled together to pull in data from twelve other spreadsheets and two external data feeds that he gave to his buddies and now he has left the company and the hard coded credentials he had embedded in the macro no longer works. We are called to "fix" the problem and it needs to be done in less than 10 minutes for a report that is critical to the business.
Yes, this happens because people do not have time to wait for I.T. and some BS policy on databases. This causes a lot more headaches.
Who said anything about waiting for IT? The tools and ability to create a DB in SQL are readily available and licensed. All that was needed was for them to request the SQL developer software be installed on the programmer's PC. They didn't even bother to convert the completed Access DB into a standalone binary that could be distributed to the PC. Instead they insisted we install Access on every PC in the business unit. They didn't even lock it down. Anyone who was accessing the system could make changes to it!
THIS! We have an Oracle corporate wide license and recently a new manager hired several people for her group. Unknown to IT these people were brought in to create a complete DB in Access. We found out when she approached me and asked me to install Access on everyone's PC. She became irate when I said no that she should be using our Oracle DB. Ironically they were pulling data from one of the Oracle databases to populate their Access DB. Her argument was that it was "easier" to get stuff done in Access and she had never had any problems at her previous employer. Unfortunately she was also friends with the new president of the company and got what she wanted. The guy who created the DB moved on and the DB "broke" and IT doesn't support Access so they had to hire him back to maintain his code. If it was so "easy" why couldn't they get somebody else in their group to maintain it?
So this applies to basically every person who voted for the law...
But it's still funnier if a monkey wrote it.
Quite right! and effort should be made to ensure citizens abide by the governing laws. Notice I said effort WITHOUT "every" in front of it? To put a music analogy on a car story the US music industry probably (very very likely I'd say) spends more on RIAA and its tactics than they ever made up in sales/court ordered restitution from RIAA's exploits. They are quite literally throwing money down a sink hole and getting less than nothing in return. While I'm not a citizen of the UK it is my understanding that the fuel itself is taxed to high heaven all on its own so this seems like cutting off Peter to pay Paul. Again I understand the intent but the cost to add the functionality and maintain this system will more than likely exceed any gains.
Agreed, I bought and played both Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 on Steam as well as all the DLC. I have never had an issue with Steam's DRM and switching to a new PC was almost a painless process (Still had to DL all the games over). When I heard EA was forcing the use of it's Origin PoS I was incensed! Origin has been in Beta longer than most Google properties and doesn't add anything other than letting EA spy on my PC. I did purchase the DVD copy of Mass Effect 3 over the weekend but it still installs Origin. Now I have to watch what I say because if EA can tie your Origin account to any negative comments about them they will ban you and you can't play any of the games you "own".
Argue away...I don't think anyone is listening.
And does your loving God condemn anyone to an eternity of unimaginable torment and torture?
No but he does allow people the choice to do so willingly...But what does marriage have to do with this conversation?