In this case you are right, but earlier he has been slightly more bitchy. Like this one, where Linus respons to Mundie which cracked me up:
"I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less."
Although it was a funny quote, IMO Linus went too far with it. I'm sure all the Linux geeks giggled, but it's just not very professional, and if we want Linux to have a clean image (I do), than we gotta have a clean fight - not a cat fight.
I'm not much of a computer gamer, but I do love a weekend session of Dungeons & Dragons with good friends. However, the core group, I used to play with now live all over Europe. We have been looking for software, which could enable us to play together online. However, the few pieces of software, we have found are just too poor.
Someone told me that NeverWinterNights might be what I am seeking with the tools it's being released with. I wouldn't know, but personally I would prefer an open-source piece of software, if it could meet requirements.
What we want is something, which just allows the 7 of us to join up online. We need to role dice, send secret messages, chat, character management, combat situation setup, push pictures (from GM), movement of characters and that the Game Master has total control over all of this. (additional points on the desire list is: webcam conferencing, audio chat and GM controlled background music depending on situation).
Is WorldForge the right direction to look? Is something like this already available using the WF engine? Half the group are coders, so how much work might it take to develop such an app built on WF?
And the msn version. See the links "benchmark" and "performance". Notice the msn.zdnet.com link. Can somebody clear what the relationship between ZD and MS for me?
In case you don't know, the director of Luxo Jr. is John Lasseter - the guy who directed the Toy Stories.
Anyway, Luxo Jr. is a classic in computer animation. The most amazing part, is that it is made in 1986. This little movie really pushed the mental limit for people as to what computers could produce. Sure, Lasseter wasn't the only one experimenting at the time, but IMO this particular animation made computer animation respectable as it even got nominated for an Oscar under the category Animated Short Film in 87. Well, it's fun no matter what - check it out.
A year ago Adrian Nicholas followed the 500 year old Vinci design for a pyramid shaped parachute - built the thing, and used it. See the cool picture here
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Seeing everything from modding ads to new payments schemes has been discussed today, I will add my tiny suggestion for improving slashdot.
When I am a moderator, I find the pull-down mod system terrible. I like modding, but I don't want to spend all day on it. What sux is this: I view a story, see a good post and change the pull-down to "interesting". However, I don't want to go aaaaall the way down to click "moderate", because it takes 2-3 seconds of my life for the page to reload - and then I can't find where I got in the text. So I keep reading, just in case I spot another mod worthy post. If I see a sub-thread which isn't expanded, I can't go in there, cuz then the uncached page would forget the post I wanted to mod when I go back. Too often I end up going on a mod rampage, and just mod down trolls, but I would really prefer just to immidiatly vote for a post I saw, without getting disrupted.
Any solutions? You bet! If you check out half-empty, the solution chosen there is simply a small button or link for every vote option. Click on any of them and a little window opens in the background, which handles the modding. It's beautifully simple and solves all the problems mentioned here. It even stimulates modding.
Yes, this is kinda silly and kinda offtopic, but I can't be bothered to do some proper searching on the subject.
When were the oldest pyramids in Egypt built - really?
I saw a special on Discovery a year ago, and they said that carbon dating was estimating the pyramids to be (IIRC) between 4 and 11 thousand years old. Not too accurate, is it? Can someone explain, why there is so much doubt when estimating the age of pyramids, when they could set the age of the Egyptian pharaoh's tomb to 5730 years? And have any of these new techniques set some more accurate dates?
we should have a "everyone ranting about how horrible he is" filter.
I couldn't agree more. All you Katz-bashers, you DO know that if you go into your/. settings, you can exclude Katz stories, right? If you hate him that much, don't read what he writes. Simple. CmdrTaco has said he likes what Katz produces, and seeing it's Tacos site (kinda), respect that or turn off Katz. If it REALLY bothers you that Katz has anything to do with/., then write Taco about it (or even - flame Katz directly).
Don't spam me about it in every fucking article Katz writes.
Russian style communication...
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Time Europe ran a feature on the raising of Kursk a week ago.
The story linked describes nicely the sideshow journalists find themselves in, when dealing with Russian officials. Lies, name-calling seem to be part of the norm when they have set dates for the recovery.
says official: "The information you're getting unofficially isn't the truth. The only information one must trust is what we say officially."
This is nicely followed up by an interview with Vice Admiral Yevgeny Chernov who believes Moscow is covering up the cause of the accident.
"Had it been done, we would have known what happened to the Kursk. Now, there are three versions. A floating mine, which is nonsense. A collision with a submarine, but there were no other submarines there. Or a collision with a surface ship. Had they shown that there were no surface ships in the area, this version could have been ruled out for good. But their failure to have done so makes doubts linger."
Nb: the story 'Accidents can happen' requires a password, but if you access it here it works.
Please... for the love of God. Document your OS programs as if you were speaking to retards. Make little pretty diagrams. Make installation instructions for the layman. If GUI, then have tooltips. Make a tutorial. Even a flash demo with instructions....
Just document. Any documentation is better than none, but unfortunatly, in OSS none is often what is to be found.
This is a tad off-topic, but I suppose I'm not the only one wondering what TANSTAAFL stands for. I can really recommend Atomica (formerly known as Gurunet). It's a small application running in the background. When you see a word/acronym/term/country/anything as text, you just alt-click on it, and an un-bloated window pops up with the meaing/translation/explanation immediatly. What is so cool about this program is that you can click on any text anywhere (except for on pics) - in your email client, browser, text editor. I use it a lot to get more info about some piece of news I read.
Btw, I alt-clicked on TANSTAAFL and Atomica gave me:
I wouldn't say so. The "u" in "buddy" is too high, whereas "ø" is more deep and should come out a bit lower in the mouth, closer to the throat. Bass is the key. The German "ö" is pretty close, if that's any help.
Søren is from Denmark (so am I) and we have these three funny looking charactes:
æ ø å
"æ" is like the "ea" in "dead"
"å" is close to the "o" in "holy",
but the "ø" is a bit tricky to pronounce. It's kinda like the "ou" in "mourn", but with more bass.
So Sørens name is pronounced:
S + mourn + honest + n
= Søren! On top of that there is an expression in Danish, which goes "av for Søren", which means "auch for Søren" and you say that when you hurt. And there's another one "Det var Sørens!" which means "I'll be damned!".
1. Get Morpheus.
2. Install and run it.
3. Select "Video" and search for "Lord of the rings"
4. then you should be able to get in a few mins. The problem is figuring out what the hell the file is called.
With apples shit site, I have to upgrade to a new version of quicktime, which took me forever and it still doesn't work. I wanted to get the zip file from the sorensen server... but it's dead.
... or you can just view the file here:
http://homepage.mac.com/johnemdall/.Movies/lotr- tv 240.mov
After that, the outcome depends solely upon which of us is more willing and able to make his opinion become reality
Yes, naturally. Does this seem strange to you?
Ergo, if you can get away with it, go for it.
If you view our current list of punishments for crimes as a pricelist rather a list of evils, then I think society says the same thing: If you want to do it, you can, but if we catch you, this is the price. Scary? I don't think so. Forbidding is not the same as preventing is not the same as not encouraging it.
Following your logic, I would posit that we both live in a make-believe world.
And that is how I see it. I make believe that things are the way they are, and maybe you make believe that things are more than what they are. And I don't see anything wrong with either view (cause there is no wrong, imo).
My belief in worldsystem A is no more valid than your belief in worldsystem B, and therefore each of us is exactly as right as the other.
Bingo. We are equally "right", because none of the two systems are "correct". They are opinions, just like "I think Seinfeld is funny". It's just how I see the world. Thus none of us are correct - it's in a realm where "right" is not.
I can say that there is nothing wrong with stealing your identity, depleting your bank accounts, kidnapping and murdering your family, burning down your house, stealing your car, amputating your appendages, and escaping to some random country that harbors criminals
You got it. That's the dimension I live in. If you were raised to do it would just make it easier for me to forgive (because that is how I am), but it wouldn't make it Good. And just because the negative thoughts about your actions are in my head, those are the thoughts I base my opinions on, and my opinion is that you should be punished for what you have done.
All negative aspects of that action would simply be in your head.
That's how I see it, yes.
But please try to understand the difference between what IS (and imo nothing IS wrong) and how you interpret it (imo some things shouldn't be allowed).
I think it is totally unacceptable that someone kills people using a hijacked airplane - but IT IS just what it is. I think it's unacceptable. Some Talibanies think it's great. Some think it's horrible. Some think it's honorable.... but it just is.
Does this bother you in the slightest?
Doesn't it bother you that you live in a make-believe world?
One need not "believe" in evil. Evil is clearly visible element in the world.
I have catholic friends who say the same about God. I don't believe in God, but that's just what it is - belief.
There are people who are clearly evil. Should we argue that Hitler was not evil? That it is just a matter of perspective?
Yes. Sorry. I do view Hitler as a particulaly twisted person, but he wasn't really that either - just my interpretation. Though some of his deeds I would describe as evil - but they just were.
I don't belive in Evil... nor in Good... nor in smart, funny, happy.
Sure, I feel that some people are smarter than others, but I don't believe it's an inherint property. There are great advantages of labeling. It makes communicating much easier, but there is a great difference between what IS and what you SEE it as.
I do not think murder should be allowed, but that's not because it IS "bad" or "wrong". I find it impractical or disadvantages (although it "isn't" any of those things - those are also just interpretations).
To me (and I realise how totally extreme this will seem to some people) there are NO wrong/bad people, opinions, feelings, flowers or colors. But there _are_ people, opinions, feelings and flowers. The good and bad is just in your head - IT ISN'T REALLY THERE! Life is meaningless and that in itself is meaningless.
What I meant by the quote from the school in Belfast, was that it's hard for me to believe in evil, when I see how much upbringing matters. If you have a dog (or a child 8-) you know what I am talking about. If you beat that dog every day from its puppy years, it will be aggressive as hell. If you tell your son that he will never amount to anything, that he is useless, that you never wanted him, then I think he will turn out much more aggressive than if you told him, that you loved him. And if he started to hit people, would that make him evil? Maybe you think so, but then that's where we really disagree then.
while it is not a universal human value that killing is bad, it is a universal human value that killing without justification is evil.
What is a "universal human value"? If it simply means that most people seem to think so, then so what?
There are those who are evil. They desire nothing other than to prey upon their fellow human beings.
A sign inside the front door of Holy Cross Primary School (a catholic school for girls), in north Belfast, reads:
"If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe"
He could just add a clause in the use contract of PGP stating:
"Do not use PGP for bad stuff."
An example of WAP porn....
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Check out the amazin WAP porn site "XXXpics" using the tagtag emulator.
Too funny....
The most convincing use, IMO
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I never hated WAP, like most people. I just saw it as a cheap easy way to get essential information. Perhaps WAP will get overtaken by some other protocol - so be it. For now it gets me the daily news when I'm on the bus or the John.
However, one use is particularly useful right now, in these.gone days of lower budgets. Imagine you have a bunch of sales people and representatives who need data in the field. Usually these people will use laptops which somehow have to be online through a network/mobile/phone - whichever way is a hassle - booting up the laptop, finding plugs, waiting to connect.
With WAP it's a breeze. Not if you need excel sheets or word documents, but if you just need numbers it is. Server-side WAP is a piece of cake to install, so all you need is a few scripts online which generate WML with the data your employee needs, and there he has it. The big advantage is that this is such a cheap solution, which before would require a laptop or access at the clients place. Now you can have your info within a couple of minutes without the need for wires and batterymunching laptops.
HOWEVER, as I understand, WAP was designed with location-based services in mind, and when that becomes a reality, WAP will kick ass.
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"Everywhere I went in Israel I saw soldiers. All had rifles; some had rifles with grenade launchers. You actually get used to this after a while"
I was in Israel in 1988, when I was 12 years old. I did not get used to it, but my Israeli friend who was my age, didn't even think about it. For me, it was the first time I ever saw a weapon and I was so afraid, that I didn't want to leave the house, where we were staying.
"I was asked the purpose of my visit (a standard question) and asked to give a list of places I would be visiting. Since I didn't really know where I would be going yet, I said so. I was greeted with suspicious looks and incredulity, but allowed to pass through."
In case any of you are ever asked at border, where you are going, then don't say you don't know where. A year ago I went to Sweden from Denmark in my car, and had no particular aim, just wanted to cruise. Well, when I said that to the policemen at the border, they decided to tear my car appart and hold me back for about half an hour. They didn't have anything else to do, and being 20 at the time, I guess I did look suspicious (besides, I was actually carrying hash, but they didn't find it). Next time, I'm giving them dates and city names:)
As always, Time puts their articles online. This one, 'Microsoft Uncut' describes the case in less than flattering terms.
[extract from article] "Supporters of the antitrust lawsuit are worried that last week's announcement by Justice may be only the first shoe to drop. The next, they fear, could be a fuller capitulation, with the government settling the suit on terms that will let Microsoft continue to abuse its monopoly position"
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In this case you are right, but earlier he has been slightly more bitchy. Like this one, where Linus respons to Mundie which cracked me up:
"I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less."
Although it was a funny quote, IMO Linus went too far with it. I'm sure all the Linux geeks giggled, but it's just not very professional, and if we want Linux to have a clean image (I do), than we gotta have a clean fight - not a cat fight.
I'm not much of a computer gamer, but I do love a weekend session of Dungeons & Dragons with good friends. However, the core group, I used to play with now live all over Europe. We have been looking for software, which could enable us to play together online. However, the few pieces of software, we have found are just too poor.
Someone told me that NeverWinterNights might be what I am seeking with the tools it's being released with. I wouldn't know, but personally I would prefer an open-source piece of software, if it could meet requirements.
What we want is something, which just allows the 7 of us to join up online. We need to role dice, send secret messages, chat, character management, combat situation setup, push pictures (from GM), movement of characters and that the Game Master has total control over all of this. (additional points on the desire list is: webcam conferencing, audio chat and GM controlled background music depending on situation).
Is WorldForge the right direction to look? Is something like this already available using the WF engine? Half the group are coders, so how much work might it take to develop such an app built on WF?
Thought I'd post this link, since nobody else has:
The windows.com version is here: Lab Report: Windows XP Outperforms Earlier Versions.
And the msn version. See the links "benchmark" and "performance". Notice the msn.zdnet.com link. Can somebody clear what the relationship between ZD and MS for me?
In case you don't know, the director of Luxo Jr. is John Lasseter - the guy who directed the Toy Stories.
Anyway, Luxo Jr. is a classic in computer animation. The most amazing part, is that it is made in 1986. This little movie really pushed the mental limit for people as to what computers could produce. Sure, Lasseter wasn't the only one experimenting at the time, but IMO this particular animation made computer animation respectable as it even got nominated for an Oscar under the category Animated Short Film in 87. Well, it's fun no matter what - check it out.
A year ago Adrian Nicholas followed the 500 year old Vinci design for a pyramid shaped parachute - built the thing, and used it. See the cool picture here
Seeing everything from modding ads to new payments schemes has been discussed today, I will add my tiny suggestion for improving slashdot.
When I am a moderator, I find the pull-down mod system terrible. I like modding, but I don't want to spend all day on it. What sux is this: I view a story, see a good post and change the pull-down to "interesting". However, I don't want to go aaaaall the way down to click "moderate", because it takes 2-3 seconds of my life for the page to reload - and then I can't find where I got in the text. So I keep reading, just in case I spot another mod worthy post. If I see a sub-thread which isn't expanded, I can't go in there, cuz then the uncached page would forget the post I wanted to mod when I go back. Too often I end up going on a mod rampage, and just mod down trolls, but I would really prefer just to immidiatly vote for a post I saw, without getting disrupted.
Any solutions? You bet! If you check out half-empty, the solution chosen there is simply a small button or link for every vote option. Click on any of them and a little window opens in the background, which handles the modding. It's beautifully simple and solves all the problems mentioned here. It even stimulates modding.
Yes, this is kinda silly and kinda offtopic, but I can't be bothered to do some proper searching on the subject.
When were the oldest pyramids in Egypt built - really?
I saw a special on Discovery a year ago, and they said that carbon dating was estimating the pyramids to be (IIRC) between 4 and 11 thousand years old. Not too accurate, is it? Can someone explain, why there is so much doubt when estimating the age of pyramids, when they could set the age of the Egyptian pharaoh's tomb to 5730 years? And have any of these new techniques set some more accurate dates?
Thanks for the link. It's nice to get some perspective.
we should have a "everyone ranting about how horrible he is" filter.
/. settings, you can exclude Katz stories, right? If you hate him that much, don't read what he writes. Simple. CmdrTaco has said he likes what Katz produces, and seeing it's Tacos site (kinda), respect that or turn off Katz. If it REALLY bothers you that Katz has anything to do with /., then write Taco about it (or even - flame Katz directly).
I couldn't agree more. All you Katz-bashers, you DO know that if you go into your
Don't spam me about it in every fucking article Katz writes.
Time Europe ran a feature on the raising of Kursk a week ago.
The story linked describes nicely the sideshow journalists find themselves in, when dealing with Russian officials. Lies, name-calling seem to be part of the norm when they have set dates for the recovery.
says official: "The information you're getting unofficially isn't the truth. The only information one must trust is what we say officially."
This is nicely followed up by an interview with Vice Admiral Yevgeny Chernov who believes Moscow is covering up the cause of the accident.
"Had it been done, we would have known what happened to the Kursk. Now, there are three versions. A floating mine, which is nonsense. A collision with a submarine, but there were no other submarines there. Or a collision with a surface ship. Had they shown that there were no surface ships in the area, this version could have been ruled out for good. But their failure to have done so makes doubts linger."
Nb: the story 'Accidents can happen' requires a password, but if you access it here it works.
Please... for the love of God. Document your OS programs as if you were speaking to retards. Make little pretty diagrams. Make installation instructions for the layman. If GUI, then have tooltips. Make a tutorial. Even a flash demo with instructions....
Just document. Any documentation is better than none, but unfortunatly, in OSS none is often what is to be found.
This is a tad off-topic, but I suppose I'm not the only one wondering what TANSTAAFL stands for. I can really recommend Atomica (formerly known as Gurunet). It's a small application running in the background. When you see a word/acronym/term/country/anything as text, you just alt-click on it, and an un-bloated window pops up with the meaing/translation/explanation immediatly. What is so cool about this program is that you can click on any text anywhere (except for on pics) - in your email client, browser, text editor. I use it a lot to get more info about some piece of news I read.
Btw, I alt-clicked on TANSTAAFL and Atomica gave me:
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
Could have figured that one out... doh.
(Sorry, just for Windows and palm)
lol :)
Deeper "au" and less "r" and Sauron is not too bad. Americans and Brits usually pronounce Søren as Sauron anyway.
I wouldn't say so. The "u" in "buddy" is too high, whereas "ø" is more deep and should come out a bit lower in the mouth, closer to the throat. Bass is the key. The German "ö" is pretty close, if that's any help.
Søren is from Denmark (so am I) and we have these three funny looking charactes:
æ ø å
"æ" is like the "ea" in "dead"
"å" is close to the "o" in "holy",
but the "ø" is a bit tricky to pronounce. It's kinda like the "ou" in "mourn", but with more bass.
So Sørens name is pronounced:
S + mourn + honest + n
= Søren! On top of that there is an expression in Danish, which goes "av for Søren", which means "auch for Søren" and you say that when you hurt. And there's another one "Det var Sørens!" which means "I'll be damned!".
It's a common name.... and I need to get a life.
1. Get Morpheus.
- tv 240.mov
2. Install and run it.
3. Select "Video" and search for "Lord of the rings"
4. then you should be able to get in a few mins. The problem is figuring out what the hell the file is called.
With apples shit site, I have to upgrade to a new version of quicktime, which took me forever and it still doesn't work. I wanted to get the zip file from the sorensen server... but it's dead.
... or you can just view the file here:
http://homepage.mac.com/johnemdall/.Movies/lotr
After that, the outcome depends solely upon which of us is more willing and able to make his opinion become reality
Yes, naturally. Does this seem strange to you?
Ergo, if you can get away with it, go for it.
If you view our current list of punishments for crimes as a pricelist rather a list of evils, then I think society says the same thing: If you want to do it, you can, but if we catch you, this is the price. Scary? I don't think so. Forbidding is not the same as preventing is not the same as not encouraging it.
Following your logic, I would posit that we both live in a make-believe world.
And that is how I see it. I make believe that things are the way they are, and maybe you make believe that things are more than what they are. And I don't see anything wrong with either view (cause there is no wrong, imo).
My belief in worldsystem A is no more valid than your belief in worldsystem B, and therefore each of us is exactly as right as the other.
Bingo. We are equally "right", because none of the two systems are "correct". They are opinions, just like "I think Seinfeld is funny". It's just how I see the world. Thus none of us are correct - it's in a realm where "right" is not.
I can say that there is nothing wrong with stealing your identity, depleting your bank accounts, kidnapping and murdering your family, burning down your house, stealing your car, amputating your appendages, and escaping to some random country that harbors criminals
You got it. That's the dimension I live in. If you were raised to do it would just make it easier for me to forgive (because that is how I am), but it wouldn't make it Good. And just because the negative thoughts about your actions are in my head, those are the thoughts I base my opinions on, and my opinion is that you should be punished for what you have done.
All negative aspects of that action would simply be in your head.
That's how I see it, yes.
But please try to understand the difference between what IS (and imo nothing IS wrong) and how you interpret it (imo some things shouldn't be allowed).
I think it is totally unacceptable that someone kills people using a hijacked airplane - but IT IS just what it is. I think it's unacceptable. Some Talibanies think it's great. Some think it's horrible. Some think it's honorable.... but it just is.
Does this bother you in the slightest?
Doesn't it bother you that you live in a make-believe world?
One need not "believe" in evil. Evil is clearly visible element in the world.
I have catholic friends who say the same about God. I don't believe in God, but that's just what it is - belief.
There are people who are clearly evil. Should we argue that Hitler was not evil? That it is just a matter of perspective?
Yes. Sorry. I do view Hitler as a particulaly twisted person, but he wasn't really that either - just my interpretation. Though some of his deeds I would describe as evil - but they just were.
I don't belive in Evil... nor in Good... nor in smart, funny, happy.
Sure, I feel that some people are smarter than others, but I don't believe it's an inherint property. There are great advantages of labeling. It makes communicating much easier, but there is a great difference between what IS and what you SEE it as.
I do not think murder should be allowed, but that's not because it IS "bad" or "wrong". I find it impractical or disadvantages (although it "isn't" any of those things - those are also just interpretations).
To me (and I realise how totally extreme this will seem to some people) there are NO wrong/bad people, opinions, feelings, flowers or colors. But there _are_ people, opinions, feelings and flowers. The good and bad is just in your head - IT ISN'T REALLY THERE! Life is meaningless and that in itself is meaningless.
What I meant by the quote from the school in Belfast, was that it's hard for me to believe in evil, when I see how much upbringing matters. If you have a dog (or a child 8-) you know what I am talking about. If you beat that dog every day from its puppy years, it will be aggressive as hell. If you tell your son that he will never amount to anything, that he is useless, that you never wanted him, then I think he will turn out much more aggressive than if you told him, that you loved him. And if he started to hit people, would that make him evil? Maybe you think so, but then that's where we really disagree then.
while it is not a universal human value that killing is bad, it is a universal human value that killing without justification is evil.
What is a "universal human value"? If it simply means that most people seem to think so, then so what?
There are those who are evil. They desire nothing other than to prey upon their fellow human beings.
A sign inside the front door of Holy Cross Primary School (a catholic school for girls), in north Belfast, reads:
"If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe"
I'm glad some people don't believe in Evil.
He could just add a clause in the use contract of PGP stating:
"Do not use PGP for bad stuff."
Check out the amazin WAP porn site "XXXpics" using the tagtag emulator.
Too funny....
I never hated WAP, like most people. I just saw it as a cheap easy way to get essential information. Perhaps WAP will get overtaken by some other protocol - so be it. For now it gets me the daily news when I'm on the bus or the John.
.gone days of lower budgets. Imagine you have a bunch of sales people and representatives who need data in the field. Usually these people will use laptops which somehow have to be online through a network/mobile/phone - whichever way is a hassle - booting up the laptop, finding plugs, waiting to connect.
However, one use is particularly useful right now, in these
With WAP it's a breeze. Not if you need excel sheets or word documents, but if you just need numbers it is. Server-side WAP is a piece of cake to install, so all you need is a few scripts online which generate WML with the data your employee needs, and there he has it. The big advantage is that this is such a cheap solution, which before would require a laptop or access at the clients place. Now you can have your info within a couple of minutes without the need for wires and batterymunching laptops.
HOWEVER, as I understand, WAP was designed with location-based services in mind, and when that becomes a reality, WAP will kick ass.
"Everywhere I went in Israel I saw soldiers. All had rifles; some had rifles with grenade launchers. You actually get used to this after a while"
:)
I was in Israel in 1988, when I was 12 years old. I did not get used to it, but my Israeli friend who was my age, didn't even think about it. For me, it was the first time I ever saw a weapon and I was so afraid, that I didn't want to leave the house, where we were staying.
"I was asked the purpose of my visit (a standard question) and asked to give a list of places I would be visiting. Since I didn't really know where I would be going yet, I said so. I was greeted with suspicious looks and incredulity, but allowed to pass through."
In case any of you are ever asked at border, where you are going, then don't say you don't know where. A year ago I went to Sweden from Denmark in my car, and had no particular aim, just wanted to cruise. Well, when I said that to the policemen at the border, they decided to tear my car appart and hold me back for about half an hour. They didn't have anything else to do, and being 20 at the time, I guess I did look suspicious (besides, I was actually carrying hash, but they didn't find it). Next time, I'm giving them dates and city names
As always, Time puts their articles online. This one, 'Microsoft Uncut' describes the case in less than flattering terms.
[extract from article] "Supporters of the antitrust lawsuit are worried that last week's announcement by Justice may be only the first shoe to drop. The next, they fear, could be a fuller capitulation, with the government settling the suit on terms that will let Microsoft continue to abuse its monopoly position"