Lightning supports CalDAV for sharing calendar information. Apple announced yesterday that Leopard iCal Server and the iCal application will both talk CalDAV, they released the server at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration.Bedework is making a lot of progress as an institutional calendar server.
Oracle has a CalDAV stack. IBM has some stuff in the works as well.
It looks like exchange will have a fight on its hands very soon.
I've been helping on a CalDAV plugin for Outlook called Open Connector, which allows Outlook to take to CalDAV servers like Apple's and Bedework. We always need help, if you have a lot of experience developing COM apps in C++, come help out.
I think "High Brow" means inaccessible. It's a socio-enconomical class marker; In many ways, it is often legitimate.
The upper socio-enconomic classes have more money to educate and entertain themselves. These people thus are introduced to a variety of forms and influences. Sometimes, allowing them to develop a more 'nuanced' taste. This has nothing to do with the person's natural abilities, which are equal across classes. This is all nurture.
The elite, now 'learnt', begin to take interest in different things. Everyone else 'below' this elite socio-economic class begin to follow suite because it is ingrained in us to 'improve' our socio-economic class. It's a bain hardest felt by the middle class.
So why 'dig' inaccessible things? Exclusivity is one yes. But these forms of art may also simply provide enjoyment to people who prefer to invest more into their enjoyment, and choose to do so in that fashion.
Merchant Ivory films aren't "high art," they're pretentious fluff aimed at airhead elites who think that "great actor" is synonymous with "actor with a posh English accent."
Relax dude. Of course there are lots of posers out there, but have it occurred to you that many people enjoy these films? Looking at their filmography, I at least think that The Remains of the Day and Howard's End were great films. In fact I like most of Anthony Hopkin's movies.
And it wasn't until "Birth of a Nation" (25 years later) that anyone even BEGAN to expand that medium's horizons. It took 60 years into the medium to produce Citizen Kane, and 90 years for serious films outside of the strident studio system to become widely accepted
This is where you really lost me though. "Birth of a Nation" did pioneer some special effects technics, true. But to consider it the beginning of an era in film is controversial at best. Here are some notable movies pre-1915 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film#Before_19 15
So relax a little, it's art remember?:) Everyone's going to have their own take.
Get ready to call in and argue. Don't take no for an answer. If you don't get the answer you want, call back.
I recently signed up with Bellsouth for internet, and I was lied to at every step of the way. They signed me up for the $89 3M plan, when I asked for the Lite, they told me that my bill would be about $90 and I haven't seen a bill under $160 ( business account ). It's disgusting, but their legal and sales teams don't have much decency.
You may have to stoop to their level unfortunately. I've heard of of people getting out of cell phone contracts by stating that they are moving out of the country, or that they object to some obscure but recent change in policy.
I've also heard that many companies either have a conflict policy of giving you a refund if it is reasonable if you go though enough levels of customer service. Otherwise, managers often have some amount of leeway to make exceptions.
The bottomline. Fight it. If even people do, it may just have then reconsider those policies ( to wishful thinking... )
...why must I use the arcane and shitty SQL language to save my web objects in a datafile?
Because you are retrieving the data from an SQL Database?
As others have pointed out, there are many ways to do this. Another method that may work for you, depending on your situation, is the server's XML capabilities, eg. "SELECT... FOR XML..." will convert your dataset to XML that you can easily serialize.
People (including everybody at Sun) often say "Java" when they mean "Sun's Java implementation". That can be misleading. When you talk about "open sourcing Java" you're really talking about open sourcing a particular implementation of Java.
I agree with that.
And that is my problem with Open-sourcing Java.
There are many Open-Source Java projects out there. GNU and Apache each have their own.
So why is everyone clamouring for Sun's implementation? I believe the problem is that we haven't found a suitable funding source to develop a open source Java, and are hoping that an OS Sun implementation will jumpstart that effort.
I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect that may backfire, and actually simply stagnate the most successful implemenation of Java we have.
So hold onto the trademark, the same way the Mozilla foundation do, and only let implementations that pass a rigorous testsuite use it.
Sure, then what you are asking for is a battle of trademarks.
MS forks and names its product 'J++'. They keep it just compatible enough that it segments the Java development community. This isn't far-fetched since that's what they were doing with the original J++.
Now good luck going against Microsoft, who has more money in the bank than many 'developed' nations and has a software distribution channel that pales anything the whole has every seen ( ie. 'Windows' ).
Remember now that Java is now open-source and will have the marketing might of most open source programs, ie. besides word-of-mouth, not much.
There are many open source programming languages already (perl, python,
etc.), and they don't seem to have a problem with forking or
compatibility.
And how long has Perl6 been in development?
Sure there hasn't been a fork. That's because there aren't enough resources to development even the main branch!
Perl, Python are large scale under-funded open-source projects and thus highlight what I believe to be one of the main reasons not to open-source Java just now.
We haven't answered the question of who will fund future development...
My main concern with Java being Open-Sourced is that Sun may lose its incentive to continue funding Java development.
Java is not Python nor Perl. Even then, how long has Perl6 been in development? "It's ready when it's ready" is not good enough to much of the corporate world.
People asking for Java to be open-sourced believe that this will increase the amount of resources put into Java. I'm not so sure.
Grad school seems to have become the new bachelor's degree.
There are too many accredited diploma mills out there it seems. Sad to say but it's getting harder to differentiate between candidates, so many companies are requiring further study. Is that the right thing to do? I don't know, but it they're definitely going in that direction.
If you really want a good start in any engineering field, I'd suggest a MSc.
This is about saving lives and fixing major things wrong with the world and should not be bothering about some fucking music website.
Offtopic, I know, but since you brought it up...
These are the guys who've been having third world countries to open their markets using loans as bait, whilst protecting ( and hence dumping ) agricultural exports from theirs.
"Consider a farmer in Ghana who used to be able to make a living growing rice. Several years ago, Ghana was able to feed and export their surplus. Now, it imports rice. From where? Developed countries. Why? Because it's cheaper. Even if it costs the rice producer in the developed world much more to produce the rice, he doesn't have to make a profit from his crop. The government pays him to grow it, so he can sell it more cheaply to Ghana than the farmer in Ghana can. And that farmer in Ghana? He can't feed his family anymore."(Lyle Vanclief, Canadian Minister of Agriculture)
Somehow I don't think those guys are too interested in saving lives.
So if I wrap my RFID laden passport in tinfoil I am safe right? right?
When I bought my pre-paid toll transmitter, one of the things it came with was a very small plastic bag that you can put the transmitter in. This is in case you were at a toll but wanted to pay cash for some reason. The bag looks like a small ziplock bag with a silver tint.
I can see someone selling those at passport sizes on the internet as 'passport holders'.
One, it isn't in the US. 2 you need to lighten up, sure racism exists, but its a video game advert and guess what, in another on it shows the black person on top of the white...
Ok, check this out...
If one billboard depicts 4 KKK dudes kicking the crap out of an obviously gay man, and next to it, another shows 4 gay men beating up a KKK guy, is the first billboard any less intolerant due to the inclusion of the second?
If the ad is offensive ( which I don't think it is ), then it is offensive, regards of the content of the other adverts.
This is not math, they don't cancel each other out.
I agree. If you think about racism, you'll find the ad. racist. If you don't give a damn about skin color, the ad is just the representation of PSP colors.
I believe you are correct, but I don't agree with what you were getting at.
I lot of people have to think about racism, whether they want to or not. So they are going to be more sensitive about stuff like that. If you live your life in a place where there is no, or little racism. The ad probably won't offend you.
But if racism is something you have to deal with on occasion, then you will be on your guard, and sometimes over react.
The rich stay rich historically and the poor stay poor.
Finally, someone makes sense.
Regardless of race, it is very widely held that the economic status of your parents is the best indicator of your ecomonic success. And the importance of this link has been increasing over the last few decades.
Also, studies show that there is much less class mobility than the average american believes.
Check the book, Class Matters, if you are interested.
Funny, I never hear complaining about the legacy scholarship quotas, put in place for the upper class. Heck how did you think George Bush got his Harvard degree?
No one is offended that the billboard suggests a precursor to violence.
We are desensitized to voilence this is nothing new.
If it had been two white women, one in a white suit, one in a black suit, nobody would say a thing.
Ok, and? Should someone say something?
Furthermore, nobody has said word one about the version of the ad where the black woman is dominating the white woman.
Well, I'd like to be the first then. I think it's racist.
Slavery is abolished. Has been for a good long time. Not a single one of us Americans owned slaves, or was a slave. It was a horrible period in time, but it's over.
This is the really naive part.
Newsflash son Racism does not have to be about slavery
The fact is, intolerance is a big problem, like it or not. And the reason you keep hearing about it, is because it continues to be.
Which is more reaonable, that millions of minorities are whiners? Or that we are still susceptible to using arbituary characteristics to make social and economic decisions that adversely affect other groups?
Take your time coming up with an answer, this is a tough one.
Mod me down, if you're offended; I don't even care, because I'm fed up with this whole racism thing.
So am I, so am I...:)
There is an old saying "What you do not know is bigger than you are". I'd encourage people that are fed up with intolerance of all kinds to find out why it is still an issue today for so many people.
You'll notice they put the prettiest girl they have up on the tube. Why do you think that is?
Sex sells. I love it when they do this on religion stations especially.
Does human beauty always allude to sex?
Beauty is a broad concept. And appeals to us in many different ways.
Here's something from Wikipedia on beauty ( I really hate to throw obvious Wiki quotes around, but people sometimes don't do the basic background research themselves )...
An "object of beauty" may be anything that reveals or resonates with a personal meaning. Hence religious and moral teachings have often focused on the divinity and virtue of beauty, to assert natural beauty as an aspect of a spiritual beauty (ie. truth) and to define all self-centered or materialistic pretensions as based in ignorance....
Paintings can be beautiful, so can Sunset, cars, locations, children. Don't you think your mother is beautiful?
In summary, I'd argue that beauty is basically implies a pleasant fascination in something. The exact nature of the feeling depends a lot on the situation.
So when does the conversion utility for versions of Office people actually have come out?
Please read the article.
They say that an Open XML plugin will be available for older versions of Word, and that ODF export will work with it.
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Um...and just WHY would anyone be interested in downloading any of this non-free garbage? Especially Sourceforge.
Um... for support?
This may not appeal to the hobbyist, but some people here are in the business of developing software.
Paying a few hundred dollars per month so to have someone accountable for your support applications may work out to be a lot cheaper than spending your valuable time doing it, or hiring someone for that task.
I think, Sourceforge should lower their prices, or provide
an entry level product, rather than release for
free.
The On-Demand product is $100 per developer per
month ( $50 for first project ).
For the MicroISV type companies, the firms
SF.net would appeal to most, that might be a bit
steep. Especially compared to downloading the
open source components and configuring them for
themselves.
How about a bare-bones offering for about
$10-20 per developer per month, and charges
additional based on usage? Eg. Diskspace,
Bandwidth, CPU, additional features?
Though Ellison claims that the DB business will grow in double digits over the next few years, it seems that more companies are switching to open source rather than paying Oracle $40,000 a processor.
Do we have to stoop to this to make our point?
You can get Oracle server for as cheap as $150 per named user, with a three user minimum last I checked. This is perfect for many small business applications. And there are pricing schemes that gradually go up from there depending on the situation.
There are many great open source databases ( I use SQLite extensively ), but the commercial vendors still bring a lot to the table, and sometimes are even the best choice all things considered ( gasp! )
It looks like the biggest achievement in this release is their speed up of memory allocations. Looking at their charts, it appear that they have even outpace straight mallocs.
Not trying to belittle their achievement, but it's not that hard run faster than straight malloc if you use a memory pool, eg. http://www.boost.org/libs/pool/doc/index.html . In fact, for most applications doing a lot of allocation, you better be doing better than malloc/free as those a very slow.
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Lightning supports CalDAV for sharing calendar information. Apple announced yesterday that Leopard iCal Server and the iCal application will both talk CalDAV, they released the server at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration. Bedework is making a lot of progress as an institutional calendar server.
Oracle has a CalDAV stack. IBM has some stuff in the works as well.
It looks like exchange will have a fight on its hands very soon.
I've been helping on a CalDAV plugin for Outlook called Open Connector, which allows Outlook to take to CalDAV servers like Apple's and Bedework. We always need help, if you have a lot of experience developing COM apps in C++, come help out.
The problem is that "highbrow" is not defined
I agree with your point, but my theory...
I think "High Brow" means inaccessible. It's a socio-enconomical class marker; In many ways, it is often legitimate.
The upper socio-enconomic classes have more money to educate and entertain themselves. These people thus are introduced to a variety of forms and influences. Sometimes, allowing them to develop a more 'nuanced' taste. This has nothing to do with the person's natural abilities, which are equal across classes. This is all nurture.
The elite, now 'learnt', begin to take interest in different things. Everyone else 'below' this elite socio-economic class begin to follow suite because it is ingrained in us to 'improve' our socio-economic class. It's a bain hardest felt by the middle class.
So why 'dig' inaccessible things? Exclusivity is one yes. But these forms of art may also simply provide enjoyment to people who prefer to invest more into their enjoyment, and choose to do so in that fashion.
Merchant Ivory films aren't "high art," they're pretentious fluff aimed at airhead elites who think that "great actor" is synonymous with "actor with a posh English accent."
Relax dude. Of course there are lots of posers out there, but have it occurred to you that many people enjoy these films? Looking at their filmography, I at least think that The Remains of the Day and Howard's End were great films. In fact I like most of Anthony Hopkin's movies.
And it wasn't until "Birth of a Nation" (25 years later) that anyone even BEGAN to expand that medium's horizons. It took 60 years into the medium to produce Citizen Kane, and 90 years for serious films outside of the strident studio system to become widely accepted
This is where you really lost me though. "Birth of a Nation" did pioneer some special effects technics, true. But to consider it the beginning of an era in film is controversial at best. Here are some notable movies pre-1915 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film#Before_19 15
So relax a little, it's art remember? :) Everyone's going to have their own take.
Get ready to call in and argue. Don't take no for an answer. If you don't get the answer you want, call back.
I recently signed up with Bellsouth for internet, and I was lied to at every step of the way. They signed me up for the $89 3M plan, when I asked for the Lite, they told me that my bill would be about $90 and I haven't seen a bill under $160 ( business account ). It's disgusting, but their legal and sales teams don't have much decency.
You may have to stoop to their level unfortunately. I've heard of of people getting out of cell phone contracts by stating that they are moving out of the country, or that they object to some obscure but recent change in policy.
I've also heard that many companies either have a conflict policy of giving you a refund if it is reasonable if you go though enough levels of customer service. Otherwise, managers often have some amount of leeway to make exceptions.
The bottomline. Fight it. If even people do, it may just have then reconsider those policies ( to wishful thinking... )
Because you are retrieving the data from an SQL Database?
As others have pointed out, there are many ways to do this. Another method that may work for you, depending on your situation, is the server's XML capabilities, eg. "SELECT ... FOR XML ..." will convert your dataset to XML that you can easily serialize.
People (including everybody at Sun) often say "Java" when they mean "Sun's Java implementation". That can be misleading. When you talk about "open sourcing Java" you're really talking about open sourcing a particular implementation of Java.
I agree with that.
And that is my problem with Open-sourcing Java.
There are many Open-Source Java projects out there. GNU and Apache each have their own.
So why is everyone clamouring for Sun's implementation? I believe the problem is that we haven't found a suitable funding source to develop a open source Java, and are hoping that an OS Sun implementation will jumpstart that effort.
I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect that may backfire, and actually simply stagnate the most successful implemenation of Java we have.
So hold onto the trademark, the same way the Mozilla foundation do, and only let implementations that pass a rigorous testsuite use it.
Sure, then what you are asking for is a battle of trademarks.
MS forks and names its product 'J++'. They keep it just compatible enough that it segments the Java development community. This isn't far-fetched since that's what they were doing with the original J++.
Now good luck going against Microsoft, who has more money in the bank than many 'developed' nations and has a software distribution channel that pales anything the whole has every seen ( ie. 'Windows' ).
Remember now that Java is now open-source and will have the marketing might of most open source programs, ie. besides word-of-mouth, not much.
Yeah, that fight will be *real* interesting.
There are many open source programming languages already (perl, python, etc.), and they don't seem to have a problem with forking or compatibility.
And how long has Perl6 been in development?
Sure there hasn't been a fork. That's because there aren't enough resources to development even the main branch!
Perl, Python are large scale under-funded open-source projects and thus highlight what I believe to be one of the main reasons not to open-source Java just now.
We haven't answered the question of who will fund future development...
My main concern with Java being Open-Sourced is that Sun may lose its incentive to continue funding Java development.
Java is not Python nor Perl. Even then, how long has Perl6 been in development? "It's ready when it's ready" is not good enough to much of the corporate world.
People asking for Java to be open-sourced believe that this will increase the amount of resources put into Java. I'm not so sure.
There are too many accredited diploma mills out there it seems. Sad to say but it's getting harder to differentiate between candidates, so many companies are requiring further study. Is that the right thing to do? I don't know, but it they're definitely going in that direction.
If you really want a good start in any engineering field, I'd suggest a MSc.
Offtopic, I know, but since you brought it up...
These are the guys who've been having third world countries to open their markets using loans as bait, whilst protecting ( and hence dumping ) agricultural exports from theirs.
From Agricultural Policy...
Somehow I don't think those guys are too interested in saving lives.
When I bought my pre-paid toll transmitter, one of the things it came with was a very small plastic bag that you can put the transmitter in. This is in case you were at a toll but wanted to pay cash for some reason. The bag looks like a small ziplock bag with a silver tint.
I can see someone selling those at passport sizes on the internet as 'passport holders'.
Ok, check this out...
If one billboard depicts 4 KKK dudes kicking the crap out of an obviously gay man, and next to it, another shows 4 gay men beating up a KKK guy, is the first billboard any less intolerant due to the inclusion of the second?
If the ad is offensive ( which I don't think it is ), then it is offensive, regards of the content of the other adverts.
This is not math, they don't cancel each other out.
I believe you are correct, but I don't agree with what you were getting at.
I lot of people have to think about racism, whether they want to or not. So they are going to be more sensitive about stuff like that. If you live your life in a place where there is no, or little racism. The ad probably won't offend you.
But if racism is something you have to deal with on occasion, then you will be on your guard, and sometimes over react.
Finally, someone makes sense.
Regardless of race, it is very widely held that the economic status of your parents is the best indicator of your ecomonic success. And the importance of this link has been increasing over the last few decades.
Also, studies show that there is much less class mobility than the average american believes.
Check the book, Class Matters, if you are interested.
Funny, I never hear complaining about the legacy scholarship quotas, put in place for the upper class. Heck how did you think George Bush got his Harvard degree?
No one is offended that the billboard suggests a precursor to violence.
We are desensitized to voilence this is nothing new.
If it had been two white women, one in a white suit, one in a black suit, nobody would say a thing.
Ok, and? Should someone say something?
Furthermore, nobody has said word one about the version of the ad where the black woman is dominating the white woman.
Well, I'd like to be the first then. I think it's racist.
Slavery is abolished. Has been for a good long time. Not a single one of us Americans owned slaves, or was a slave. It was a horrible period in time, but it's over.
This is the really naive part.
Newsflash son Racism does not have to be about slavery
The fact is, intolerance is a big problem, like it or not. And the reason you keep hearing about it, is because it continues to be.
Which is more reaonable, that millions of minorities are whiners? Or that we are still susceptible to using arbituary characteristics to make social and economic decisions that adversely affect other groups?
Take your time coming up with an answer, this is a tough one.
So am I, so am I... :)
There is an old saying "What you do not know is bigger than you are". I'd encourage people that are fed up with intolerance of all kinds to find out why it is still an issue today for so many people.
...instead of just venting.
I dunno...
You mean we can use "We won't Microsoft You to the Poorhouse!", or "Buy From Us, and You won't be Microsofted" as our slogans and get away with it?
Sex sells. I love it when they do this on religion stations especially.
Does human beauty always allude to sex?
Beauty is a broad concept. And appeals to us in many different ways.
Here's something from Wikipedia on beauty ( I really hate to throw obvious Wiki quotes around, but people sometimes don't do the basic background research themselves )...
An "object of beauty" may be anything that reveals or resonates with a personal meaning. Hence religious and moral teachings have often focused on the divinity and virtue of beauty, to assert natural beauty as an aspect of a spiritual beauty (ie. truth) and to define all self-centered or materialistic pretensions as based in ignorance....
Paintings can be beautiful, so can Sunset, cars, locations, children. Don't you think your mother is beautiful?
In summary, I'd argue that beauty is basically implies a pleasant fascination in something. The exact nature of the feeling depends a lot on the situation.
Please read the article.
They say that an Open XML plugin will be available for older versions of Word, and that ODF export will work with it.
Um...and just WHY would anyone be interested in downloading any of this non-free garbage? Especially Sourceforge.
Um... for support?
This may not appeal to the hobbyist, but some people here are in the business of developing software.
Paying a few hundred dollars per month so to have someone accountable for your support applications may work out to be a lot cheaper than spending your valuable time doing it, or hiring someone for that task.
The On-Demand product is $100 per developer per month ( $50 for first project ).
For the MicroISV type companies, the firms SF.net would appeal to most, that might be a bit steep. Especially compared to downloading the open source components and configuring them for themselves.
How about a bare-bones offering for about $10-20 per developer per month, and charges additional based on usage? Eg. Diskspace, Bandwidth, CPU, additional features?
Here's ingratitude for you.
Rich people hoard all their people and they're labelled greedy.
A man works all his life, and finally, nearing retirement gives away almost all his fortunes and he is also looked down upon.
You just can't win in this world...
Do we have to stoop to this to make our point?
You can get Oracle server for as cheap as $150 per named user, with a three user minimum last I checked. This is perfect for many small business applications. And there are pricing schemes that gradually go up from there depending on the situation.
There are many great open source databases ( I use SQLite extensively ), but the commercial vendors still bring a lot to the table, and sometimes are even the best choice all things considered ( gasp! )
Not trying to belittle their achievement, but it's not that hard run faster than straight malloc if you use a memory pool, eg. http://www.boost.org/libs/pool/doc/index.html . In fact, for most applications doing a lot of allocation, you better be doing better than malloc/free as those a very slow.