We use Kronos timecard at my place of employment, and I can tell you - catagorically - that it is a big peice of shit.
Every time you want to login or log out, gotta wait for the java plugin to load, also it has problems refreshing the timecard after you JUST PUNCHED causing many employees to punch duplicates because it shows they didn't. The interface is bad on so many levels. God, I hate it.
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Reconfiguring your network connection everytime you go to boot a game cause you can't save settings on a CD? that sucks...
And what do you think the purpose of Personal Digital Assistants are? I use mine to play music all the time, they're assisting me by entertaining me and keeping my mood up.
When was the last time you made a PDA? Never? Then you get no say in what their purpose is.
Actually, if you use ogg and compress at quality 0 (actually very listenable on a PDA/portable player) then it could concievably store one song as many of mine are less than 2MB.
I hate to burst the bubble of the little world you live in however surveyors, deeds and city planners define property lines. Some random fence someone put up does not.
If you and I share a property line and I want my side of the fence painted white and you want your side of the fence painted red, does it make a lick of difference who paid for the fence? Hell no. So if you share a property line with a public area, the public has the right to paint that fence any color they like, including something a little more interesting than a flat color.
This is operating on the false assumption that the fence is directly ON the property line, which in most cases is illegal. Fences, atleast here, are 100% on the owners property, in which case you have no right to anything.
The boys wrote letters to apologize to the victims' families that were read in court Thursday.
"I didn't want to hurt anyone," Joshua wrote. "This will stick with me the rest of my life."
Right... I didn't want to hurt anyone, I just wanted to shoot guns at people, that's all officer.
Can someone please explain to me what the fuck is wrong with people these days? Not only do they take a rifle and shoot at people because they were "bored", they either lied about not wanting to hurt people or didn't realise that lead travelling towards fleshy humans at hundreds of feet per second can hurt!
Because if you do a Google search for Kazaa Lite you can still easily get there and their sponsored links are still there? What is this article about? It makes no sense.
There's no reason why not. I have no idea why every manufacturer wants the masses to use the pretty confusing IP range when 10.0.0.0./8 is easier to remember/type.
Recently, MySQL changed their client license to the GPL. This means that ANY application that uses the MySQL client software (e.g. mysql_connect() and mysql_query() in PHP) must now be GPL, or you must pay a license fee to MySQL.
Your fatal flaw is this: your php script isn't directly accessing mysql, php is, and php is licensed as GPL incompatible and therefore PHP has to fix it's licensing issues if they want to link in the client library for mysql. mysql_connect() is a *php function* and part of the language.
bash is GPL, does that mean all bash scripts must be GPL? no. GCC is GPL, does that mean all C programs compiled with it must be GPL? no.
Your script can stay as proprietary as you want it to be. At this point the only people in murky water is PHP.
the open source community must recognize that its primary goals: freedom of choice, freedom of source code, and freedom to alter applications, are not the goals of the average user.
Sure, that's true, we already know that, so? We don't make software for the average user, we make software for us. If the average user wants to use it, that's up to them.
You have a multiissue problem. 1. your government sucks, try to change it and 2. your ISP sucks, see #1 aswell as 3. spam sucks.
Now with all this sucking going on, do you really expect the rest of us to put up with it because your government sucks, your ISP sucks and spam sucks? No, not going to happen homestar.
My government doesn't suck (as much), my ISP definately doesn't suck, so why should I put up with the suckness of spam because both your government and ISP suck?
My point is, don't dog on Palm for creating a program to MS spec years ago and not wanting to "update" because MS changed the spec and they don't want to lose all their third party vendor support.
A good example of a broken app is Palm Desktop. First of all, it only works with one user.
This is because the Palm Desktop software is pretty much unchanged from its roots. It was designed on Win95 where there was only one user and made to MS Specs *at that time*. Updating it to multiuser would be trivial if it were not for all the third party conduit and addon software designed for it which expects things like registry entries to be in the same spot as it has been for the last 5 years.
Second, to install it, you have to give the limited user admin rights, install it, and bring them back down to limited rights.
This isn't much different from MacOS or *nix software installation. It's actually pretty standard. The only difference is MacOS asks for the admin user pass during install and does it on its own. AFAIK there's no other way to install a USB driver in Windows.
It's the same for Documents To Go.
Because, again, Documents to Go expects the Palm Desktops registry entries to be where they have been for the last 5 years, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software - where MS told devs to put them 5 years ago.
and notice that neither of the apps boxes have the Windows logo on them.
So? Irrelevant. MS doesn't have to bless software for it to be any good. Truth is the Palm Desktop is a pretty good peice of software, it manages to do in one application what ActiveSync and Outlook fail to do with two.
Remind me, since when did companies have a legal or ethical obligation to release the source for any of their work?
There are legal cases where companies had an obligation to release the source of their work, but this is because of licensing agreements (building off of GPL'd code for example).
However ethically I think you are missing the entire point of the FSF. The FSF believes that software companies have an ethical responsibility to include the source to programs they sell in the case they go out of business and/or are unwilling/unable to fix flaws in the code. With this view the FSF equates only including part of the source with only selling you half of a car or half of a blender. Quite frankly I see their point and am in agreement with most cases.
The'd be selling twice as many palms, and the stable platform would finally give corporate customers time to evaluate and migrate to the Palm (right now they can't because the meaning of 'Palm' keeps changing, hardware and software).
Actually you are wrong, the market is screaming for these new features which is why palm is implimenting them.
we were asleep at the switch when there was this digital Pearl Harbor
Riiight, and passing a law through congress that made it illegal for Japan to attack the US would have stopped Japan how exactly?
New laws are not required, everything that should be illegal is under current law. Laws do not stop terrorists or foreign governments from attacking. It won't even stop ordinary people from attacking.
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We use Kronos timecard at my place of employment, and I can tell you - catagorically - that it is a big peice of shit.
Every time you want to login or log out, gotta wait for the java plugin to load, also it has problems refreshing the timecard after you JUST PUNCHED causing many employees to punch duplicates because it shows they didn't. The interface is bad on so many levels. God, I hate it.
Reconfiguring your network connection everytime you go to boot a game cause you can't save settings on a CD? that sucks...
the purpose of PDAs is not to play music
And what do you think the purpose of Personal Digital Assistants are? I use mine to play music all the time, they're assisting me by entertaining me and keeping my mood up.
When was the last time you made a PDA? Never? Then you get no say in what their purpose is.
-- iCEBaLM
Slightly off topic, but why is it that a company can pass the charges on to the end user whenever they have to pay a fee/fine?
Because a comapany is in business to *make* money, not *lose* money. They can set their prices to whatever they want. Profit = Revenue - Expendatures.
If you don't like it, then don't buy... anything.
-- iCEBaLM
Significantly more REGISTERED domains, not significantly more POTENTIAL domains.
.com/.net than all other country codes combined.
i.e.: More people use
-- iCEBaLM
Actually, if you use ogg and compress at quality 0 (actually very listenable on a PDA/portable player) then it could concievably store one song as many of mine are less than 2MB.
I dunno about how DSL works everywhere else but I kind of need my "landline" to use it or else it doesn't do much.
I hate to burst the bubble of the little world you live in however surveyors, deeds and city planners define property lines. Some random fence someone put up does not.
If you and I share a property line and I want my side of the fence painted white and you want your side of the fence painted red, does it make a lick of difference who paid for the fence? Hell no. So if you share a property line with a public area, the public has the right to paint that fence any color they like, including something a little more interesting than a flat color.
This is operating on the false assumption that the fence is directly ON the property line, which in most cases is illegal. Fences, atleast here, are 100% on the owners property, in which case you have no right to anything.
-- iCEBaLM
The boys wrote letters to apologize to the victims' families that were read in court Thursday.
"I didn't want to hurt anyone," Joshua wrote. "This will stick with me the rest of my life."
Right... I didn't want to hurt anyone, I just wanted to shoot guns at people, that's all officer.
Can someone please explain to me what the fuck is wrong with people these days? Not only do they take a rifle and shoot at people because they were "bored", they either lied about not wanting to hurt people or didn't realise that lead travelling towards fleshy humans at hundreds of feet per second can hurt!
-- iCEBaLM
Because if you do a Google search for Kazaa Lite you can still easily get there and their sponsored links are still there? What is this article about? It makes no sense.
-- iCEBaLM
There's no reason why not. I have no idea why every manufacturer wants the masses to use the pretty confusing IP range when 10.0.0.0./8 is easier to remember/type.
I use it myself. Nothing wrong with it.
-- iCEBaLM
Recently, MySQL changed their client license to the GPL. This means that ANY application that uses the MySQL client software (e.g. mysql_connect() and mysql_query() in PHP) must now be GPL, or you must pay a license fee to MySQL.
Your fatal flaw is this: your php script isn't directly accessing mysql, php is, and php is licensed as GPL incompatible and therefore PHP has to fix it's licensing issues if they want to link in the client library for mysql. mysql_connect() is a *php function* and part of the language.
bash is GPL, does that mean all bash scripts must be GPL? no. GCC is GPL, does that mean all C programs compiled with it must be GPL? no.
Your script can stay as proprietary as you want it to be. At this point the only people in murky water is PHP.
-- iCEBaLM
the open source community must recognize that its primary goals: freedom of choice, freedom of source code, and freedom to alter applications, are not the goals of the average user.
Sure, that's true, we already know that, so? We don't make software for the average user, we make software for us. If the average user wants to use it, that's up to them.
You have a multiissue problem. 1. your government sucks, try to change it and 2. your ISP sucks, see #1 aswell as 3. spam sucks.
Now with all this sucking going on, do you really expect the rest of us to put up with it because your government sucks, your ISP sucks and spam sucks? No, not going to happen homestar.
My government doesn't suck (as much), my ISP definately doesn't suck, so why should I put up with the suckness of spam because both your government and ISP suck?
-- iCEBaLM
My point is, don't dog on Palm for creating a program to MS spec years ago and not wanting to "update" because MS changed the spec and they don't want to lose all their third party vendor support.
A good example of a broken app is Palm Desktop. First of all, it only works with one user.
This is because the Palm Desktop software is pretty much unchanged from its roots. It was designed on Win95 where there was only one user and made to MS Specs *at that time*. Updating it to multiuser would be trivial if it were not for all the third party conduit and addon software designed for it which expects things like registry entries to be in the same spot as it has been for the last 5 years.
Second, to install it, you have to give the limited user admin rights, install it, and bring them back down to limited rights.
This isn't much different from MacOS or *nix software installation. It's actually pretty standard. The only difference is MacOS asks for the admin user pass during install and does it on its own. AFAIK there's no other way to install a USB driver in Windows.
It's the same for Documents To Go.
Because, again, Documents to Go expects the Palm Desktops registry entries to be where they have been for the last 5 years, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software - where MS told devs to put them 5 years ago.
and notice that neither of the apps boxes have the Windows logo on them.
So? Irrelevant. MS doesn't have to bless software for it to be any good. Truth is the Palm Desktop is a pretty good peice of software, it manages to do in one application what ActiveSync and Outlook fail to do with two.
-- iCEBaLM
You recall incorrectly, it uses HFS+ (Apples FS also used in OS9) and/or UFS. (which a lot of apps dont support and will break if you use it)
The FSF have never forced anyone to do their work for free, therefore they have a basic level of respect for peoples time, life and energy.
The second part is what gets me:
whereas not recommending a software license because it doesn't entirely mesh with your dogma is just sour grapes.
So now everyone is supposed to agree with you, and when they don't they have a case of sour grapes? Nice logic, seems to me you have the sour grapes.
-- iCEBaLM
Remind me, since when did companies have a legal or ethical obligation to release the source for any of their work?
There are legal cases where companies had an obligation to release the source of their work, but this is because of licensing agreements (building off of GPL'd code for example).
However ethically I think you are missing the entire point of the FSF. The FSF believes that software companies have an ethical responsibility to include the source to programs they sell in the case they go out of business and/or are unwilling/unable to fix flaws in the code. With this view the FSF equates only including part of the source with only selling you half of a car or half of a blender. Quite frankly I see their point and am in agreement with most cases.
-- iCEBaLM
Similarly, there's a difference between *not recommending* a software license and *forcing* you not to use said software license.
Yeah, get the laws in Florida changed?
Those damn Canadiasns....
The'd be selling twice as many palms, and the stable platform would finally give corporate customers time to evaluate and migrate to the Palm (right now they can't because the meaning of 'Palm' keeps changing, hardware and software).
Actually you are wrong, the market is screaming for these new features which is why palm is implimenting them.
we were asleep at the switch when there was this digital Pearl Harbor
Riiight, and passing a law through congress that made it illegal for Japan to attack the US would have stopped Japan how exactly?
New laws are not required, everything that should be illegal is under current law. Laws do not stop terrorists or foreign governments from attacking. It won't even stop ordinary people from attacking.
-- iCEBaLM