...not since I got bitten by the White Lilies Island album by Natalie Imbruglia (UK). Luckily I managed to extricate myself from that situation and I have not bought any more CD's since then. To compensate I tend to listen to the radio, try out tracks from mp3.com, listen to the CDs I have already or make my own music. I used to buy lots of CDs but now zilch, zero, nil.
I always pictured Louis as David Carradine (the guy from "Kung-Fu").
Freaky.... so did I at the time I read the book!
Nowadays if I read the book again I would probably have Laurence Fishburne in mind - but perhaps thats me confusing the Kung-Fu scene in The Matrix with Kung-Fu - the programme:-P
If you translate space travel to an atmospheric flight analogy we are currently at the stage where we are flapping our arms trying to fly. Space travel is a hard problem to solve. You don't just whizz into space in a tin can hoping to get around by blasting rocket motors all over the place and live all cooped up for weeks on end - thats only ok for short duration/distances. REAL space travel (ie to the edge of our solar system and beyond) requires technology WAY beyond our present capabilities. A lot of people seem to have difficulty coming to terms with this.
I rate proper space travel harder that AI and how far have we got with that! I would say that we are probably a couple of hundred years away from being able to venture from our solar system. I may even be too optimistic with that timescale. But don't let this dishearten you too much - we all have to start somewhere. The secret is to keep bashing those rocks together guys!
I second the comments that if VMWare doesn't keep offering some value over what free software can produce, they don't deserve to survive.
...VMWare could start by selling the windows and linux versions together in the same package instead of having the users trying to decide which version to get and then regretting the choice that they did make.
The combo of Clarke and Lee is definitely the BEST combo I have ever seen. Clarke does the technical SciFi type stuff, and Lee adds the human touch.
Sorry but I strongly disagree with you. Gentry Lee written stuff is awful. So called 'characterisation' is a swift descent into smushy banality that add little or nothing to the overall story. Gentry would be better off writing for Mills and Boon (smushy romantic novel publishers).
Sorry to be so negative but I feel I am justified in this case. All my friends who read Sci-Fi agree with me (including all the members of my local Sci-Fi group).
I don't know about you lot but I have been waiting for a long time for the two factions to decide to cooperate.
Having two competing desktops has been useful and productive in the past due to forcing each other to go just that extra mile in an attempt to be better than the other lot. Unfortunately nowdays, it has become increasingly counter-productive in winning over users to the GNU/Linux system.
The old pioneering days are over, it is time to pat each other on the back for a job well done and get merging (or at the very least cooperating) to ensure a coherent user interface.
...the tighter you squeeze, the more systems (CD sales) will escape between your fingers... well something like that anyway!
I had bought the new Natalie Imbruglia CD (here in the UK) when it first came out and discovered myself that it was copy protected. I was very annoyed to say the least and managed to return the CD and get my money back. A while later I ordered the unprotected version from BMG and now I have a CD that I can actually listen to.
There is NO WAY I will intentionally buy any protected music CDs now, or in the future. Music publishing companies will just force copying and distribution of music from these CDs via the channels that they are trying to stop. Duh! why can they not see this?...
...Maybe its due to the age old misconception that number of pirated copies equals the number of lost sales! Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
The day that all music CDs are protected is the day I will stop buying them.
With all the confusion about whether Lindows means LinuxWindows or LinuxWindows why not just have a hyphen between the bits you want?? ie. Lin-dows. Thereby removing some of the confusion (when it is written down on packaging) and also keeping the name almost the same.
... and it worked a treat. Using Access with either mySQL or PostgreSQL works a treat if you use the ODBC drivers. Despite being a Linux fan and a double fan of PostgreSQL I have to grudingly admit that MS SQLServer 7.0 is not too bad (but more expensive that using PostgreSQL:) ).
Just as an aside: MS Access supports one of the best reporting facilities I know. Does anyone know why MS didn't use it in VB 6.0? I HATE that DataReport abomination supplied with VB6 and Crystal reports is not that much better either.
Can anyone recommend a Linux reporting facility???
I have been programming with Access for about 6 years and it is okay for most run-of-the-mill database tasks. It's just not really good enough for a full blown multiuser realtime system.
Arrgh.. I sound just like a MS junkie - I'm not, it's just that I have to use MS stuff at work ('cause the boss creates a stink if I don't).
In the Windows environment it always felt like I was fighting everything, nothing seemed intuitive. With Linux it's just the oppisite.
Thank God that I'm not the only one who feels this way...
However, I do like the intellisense feature of Visual Studio where lists of options pop up at the approriate time. I find this speeds up the development time by providing nudges to my memory. Unfortunately, this is the only good thing I like in VS.
I find that Microsoft products are Okay to use but not brilliant - ie they do the job but not in a satisfying way.
I agree with most of what you said. However, there are one or two points I would like to make.
A spreadsheet/database program. (Personally, I would leave this out as I have no use for it, and most people don't either.)
In my experience spreadsheet programs are very popular with users so I'll have to disagree with you there. Databases are a special case - though it wouldn't go amiss if there was a generic database interregation tool available.
A schedule app. Because being late (or worse: forgetting completely!) is bad.
I totally agree with the idea of a open source planning app (does anyone know of OS planner?). I have been keeping an eye out for one for ages and I feel that this is one area that has been neglected. Maybe I might start one...
However, this does not mean that Gnome and KDE should merge into one codebase. In fact the interoperabiliy is the best solution all round. The Gnome and KDE factions could still argue who's is best but it wouldn't really matter.
This interoperability is what Linux needs if it is to make any headway in the desktop stakes.
Aha! Someone else who thinks the same way as me...
...Maybe my outlook on life affects the world in a subtle way and causes it to become a self fulfillng prophecy. If I have a bad outlook on life then bad things will happen etc...
...Thats why I force myself to be happy even if it kills me:-)
I only have my past experiences to go on I'm afraid. And my opinions are based on those experiences. You are right, there seems to be a lack of hard facts of speed vs reliability. You just have to take my opinions at face value.
I have been following (and using) the efforts produced by the PosgreSQL team for quite some time and I am impressed with what they have achieved so far.
It is a bit slow but on the other hand I would prefer correct operation over speed any day.
Maybe this is something that Microsoft might take note of. In their rush to chuck newer, faster versions of SQLServer on the market they tend to concentrate on the speed rather than the reliability.
Why stop at LANs/WANs when you could have each gubbins in your computer with a fibre interface. Then you could do away with all those mucky circuit board tracks and just have fibre cables between your processor, memory and disk drives. Power leads to each component would also be needed of course.
I should note that I don't condone homosexuality. But then I don't condone gluttonly, drunkeness, adultry, or any of the other more popular sins either.
The fact that there is a gay magazine involved has got nothing at all to do with it. They could be a magazine about potatoes. What is important here is the censorship in case you might write something a bit close to the wind.
I feel that this will send a message to all the other ISP's that this is an acceptable course of action to take in response to the Demon Internet affair.
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...not since I got bitten by the White Lilies Island album by Natalie Imbruglia (UK). Luckily I managed to extricate myself from that situation and I have not bought any more CD's since then. To compensate I tend to listen to the radio, try out tracks from mp3.com, listen to the CDs I have already or make my own music. I used to buy lots of CDs but now zilch, zero, nil.
Just for the record the 'other' UML you were thinking of is an abbreviation for 'Unified Modelling Language'.
Freaky.... so did I at the time I read the book!
Nowadays if I read the book again I would probably have Laurence Fishburne in mind - but perhaps thats me confusing the Kung-Fu scene in The Matrix with Kung-Fu - the programme :-P
If you translate space travel to an atmospheric flight analogy we are currently at the stage where we are flapping our arms trying to fly. Space travel is a hard problem to solve. You don't just whizz into space in a tin can hoping to get around by blasting rocket motors all over the place and live all cooped up for weeks on end - thats only ok for short duration/distances. REAL space travel (ie to the edge of our solar system and beyond) requires technology WAY beyond our present capabilities. A lot of people seem to have difficulty coming to terms with this.
I rate proper space travel harder that AI and how far have we got with that! I would say that we are probably a couple of hundred years away from being able to venture from our solar system. I may even be too optimistic with that timescale. But don't let this dishearten you too much - we all have to start somewhere. The secret is to keep bashing those rocks together guys!
Sorry but I strongly disagree with you. Gentry Lee written stuff is awful. So called 'characterisation' is a swift descent into smushy banality that add little or nothing to the overall story. Gentry would be better off writing for Mills and Boon (smushy romantic novel publishers). Sorry to be so negative but I feel I am justified in this case. All my friends who read Sci-Fi agree with me (including all the members of my local Sci-Fi group).
I don't know about you lot but I have been waiting for a long time for the two factions to decide to cooperate.
Having two competing desktops has been useful and productive in the past due to forcing each other to go just that extra mile in an attempt to be better than the other lot. Unfortunately nowdays, it has become increasingly counter-productive in winning over users to the GNU/Linux system.
The old pioneering days are over, it is time to pat each other on the back for a job well done and get merging (or at the very least cooperating) to ensure a coherent user interface.
Sigh, I wish ssh would port forward UDP as well as TCP...
Arrrgh! I hate game theory :-P
...the tighter you squeeze, the more systems (CD sales) will escape between your fingers... well something like that anyway!
I had bought the new Natalie Imbruglia CD (here in the UK) when it first came out and discovered myself that it was copy protected. I was very annoyed to say the least and managed to return the CD and get my money back. A while later I ordered the unprotected version from BMG and now I have a CD that I can actually listen to.
There is NO WAY I will intentionally buy any protected music CDs now, or in the future. Music publishing companies will just force copying and distribution of music from these CDs via the channels that they are trying to stop. Duh! why can they not see this?...
...Maybe its due to the age old misconception that number of pirated copies equals the number of lost sales! Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
The day that all music CDs are protected is the day I will stop buying them.
With all the confusion about whether Lindows means LinuxWindows or LinuxWindows why not just have a hyphen between the bits you want?? ie. Lin-dows. Thereby removing some of the confusion (when it is written down on packaging) and also keeping the name almost the same.
...to speak very LOUDLY and s.l.o.w.l.y and try and be as patronising as you can ;-)
I agree with most of your points about Access. However, it DOES come with good reporting facilities.
... and it worked a treat. Using Access with either mySQL or PostgreSQL works a treat if you use the ODBC drivers. Despite being a Linux fan and a double fan of PostgreSQL I have to grudingly admit that MS SQLServer 7.0 is not too bad (but more expensive that using PostgreSQL :) ).
Just as an aside: MS Access supports one of the best reporting facilities I know. Does anyone know why MS didn't use it in VB 6.0? I HATE that DataReport abomination supplied with VB6 and Crystal reports is not that much better either.
Can anyone recommend a Linux reporting facility???
I have been programming with Access for about 6 years and it is okay for most run-of-the-mill database tasks. It's just not really good enough for a full blown multiuser realtime system.
Arrgh.. I sound just like a MS junkie - I'm not, it's just that I have to use MS stuff at work ('cause the boss creates a stink if I don't).
In the Windows environment it always felt like I was fighting everything, nothing seemed intuitive. With Linux it's just the oppisite.
Thank God that I'm not the only one who feels this way...
However, I do like the intellisense feature of Visual Studio where lists of options pop up at the approriate time. I find this speeds up the development time by providing nudges to my memory. Unfortunately, this is the only good thing I like in VS.
I find that Microsoft products are Okay to use but not brilliant - ie they do the job but not in a satisfying way.
Just my £0.02p worth
Here's a link to my local government website:
HantsNet - Hampshire County Council UK
Apparently Bill Gates the Antichrist has praised it as a shining example to governments everywhere...
...Yeeuck!
But joking apart, at least the poor dears are attempting something has been useful. Maybe they ought to get it in a better organised format
I agree with most of what you said. However, there are one or two points I would like to make.
A spreadsheet/database program. (Personally, I would leave this out as I have no use for it, and most people don't either.)
In my experience spreadsheet programs are very popular with users so I'll have to disagree with you there. Databases are a special case - though it wouldn't go amiss if there was a generic database interregation tool available.
A schedule app. Because being late (or worse: forgetting completely!) is bad.
I totally agree with the idea of a open source planning app (does anyone know of OS planner?). I have been keeping an eye out for one for ages and I feel that this is one area that has been neglected. Maybe I might start one...
Interoperability is a good thing.
However, this does not mean that Gnome and KDE should merge into one codebase. In fact the interoperabiliy is the best solution all round. The Gnome and KDE factions could still argue who's is best but it wouldn't really matter.
This interoperability is what Linux needs if it is to make any headway in the desktop stakes.
Please excuse my shouting :-)
As far as I'm concerned Vernor Vinge was the author that created cyberpunk. Gibson just repeated him a few years later.
I only have my past experiences to go on I'm afraid. And my opinions are based on those experiences. You are right, there seems to be a lack of hard facts of speed vs reliability. You just have to take my opinions at face value.
EJBoss (by Telkel) is one of the OSS EJB container developments that I know of. Others are the efforts at the Apache Foundation and Enhydra.
Hope this helps...
It is a bit slow but on the other hand I would prefer correct operation over speed any day.
Maybe this is something that Microsoft might take note of. In their rush to chuck newer, faster versions of SQLServer on the market they tend to concentrate on the speed rather than the reliability.
Why stop at LANs/WANs when you could have each gubbins in your computer with a fibre interface. Then you could do away with all those mucky circuit board tracks and just have fibre cables between your processor, memory and disk drives. Power leads to each component would also be needed of course.
The fact that there is a gay magazine involved has got nothing at all to do with it. They could be a magazine about potatoes. What is important here is the censorship in case you might write something a bit close to the wind.
I feel that this will send a message to all the other ISP's that this is an acceptable course of action to take in response to the Demon Internet affair.