Except your business doesn't make money if you're giving all your money to MS. See how that works? There's this thing called "profit margin" - you have none if you have to pay about 1000$ each year to keep 'on top' of all software updates for each workstation. Companies can't afford that.
Whoa, hold on a second. Let's keep our intellectual package in our theoretical intellectual pants for a second here.
The day/night temperature cycle contrast on Mars is drastic enough to kill any bacteria that is on the surface of the planet. There should be no concern of Earth bacteria doing any harm.
Goodness, let alone so-called Mars bacteria. Let's think about this - if Mars has bacteria on it at all, shouldn't it have evolved at roughly the same rate as Earth's? Even at half the rate, there should be small reptiles and such on Mars by now. That is, of course, unless one (or both) of two things are true: Evolution is a farce, and there is no bacteria on Mars.
My understanding is that this is not so much to see who will build it, but who will design it. Outsourcing workload is not only commonplace in all industry nowadays, it's expected.
Um... 0.5% is "a percent of a percent" - 50 percent of 1 percent. Here, 'a' isn't meant to mean 'one'. "a percent of a percent" could very well be 100% of 100%, had he not stated otherwise.
... people would learn how to distinguish between "porting" and "migrating", so that they do not appear as complete fools when posting a topic.
You migrate a (physical) server or workstation. Applications get ported. It appears as if this article is talking about both; this isn't apparently obvious upon first reading the introduction.
... we linux/open source folks cry "criminal!" about MS keeping old code in their OS, screwing up performance, when XFree86 has a pile of old code for legacy's sake, also screwing up performance?
I wish XFree86 would just be rewritten, with the legacy shit (and I do mean shit - from say, pre-1995, even) just ripped out. Or at least made modular, and have them rewritten to a new archatecture that makes more sense for X's current main role - desktop systems. You will not be running X on much else nowadays. There is VNC to cope with most things that remote X had the role of.
In this case, legacy is a bad thing, IMO. It hinders the quality of the product. There is no reason for X to take up so much RAM, , leak, etc. etc.
Urg... that's another level of abstraction I don't need. I'd take my performance on the hardware that isn't exactly my choice, over poor quality performance on the hardware I want.
I might as well use an OS written in Java... (no offense to java, but that'd suck.)
Plus, I'd think it would be more difficult to write a UDI driver that's stable and bugless than one for an OS - once again, there's a level of abstraction. Sure, though, if it could be done well (adn I doubt it could be) it would be nice to see such a thing done by manufactuers of devices (like portables, etc - not video cards and essential stuff like that. that = relaly shitty performance) so alternative OSes could have support for nice devices like that.
Hah! My kind? "My kind" currently drives a '78 Oldsmobile Delta 88 4-door.
First off, I said there was insufficient public transit. So just shut up about the distance in US cities vs. that of Europe cities.
Second off, I don't know what locality you're refering to, but I'm thinking of NY/NYC public transit, which seems to be quite sufficient to me, not to mention faster/cheaper than driving.
Third, just because you own a car, doesn't mean you have to drive it all the time. If there's an established route of public transit, take it; drive on the weekends or when you go to those evening engagements. That way, at least, you have less likelyhood of some asshole vandalizing your nice car in the parking garage.
I've really not experienced such a plethora of ghetto children as you seem to illude to. Do you live in Chicago or something? The midwest does nasty things to humanity.
Granted, the food, phone, and music thing can be irritating - why not use something like ear buds? (You know, hearing protection) It filters out a huge amount of that excess noise, and if you want, you can probably still hold a conversation. All that noise polution is really bad for your psyche.
Sounds a lot like the story of the Minoan Crete island, Thera/Santorini - the gods also became jealous, and the nation was sunk in a single day. For those not familiar, this is probably the city/nation referenced to by Plato (or is it Socrates? I get their works confused sometimes) in his account of Atlantis, which subsuquently is a story he got from a man in Egypt, who got it from his father, who was a supposed escapee from the 'sinking Atlantis'. It's quite a fascinating story, but kind of sad that things like Atlantis are debunked instead of being found in their whole glory. However, the Minoan society -was- quite advanced - their houses had cold -and- warm running water fixtures that came from pipes! Their society was destroyed by a large volcanic explosion that errupted from teh center of their island. No remains have been found of humans, so it's suspected there were earthquakes that warned them to leave. This Theran volcano is probably what destroyed the Crete civilization.
It's kind of interesting how there are multiple accounts of 'great cities/nations that sink into the sea, never to be seen again' throughout various cultures. I suspect we'll have such Atlantean rumours in the future as well - New York after the polar ice caps melt, anybody? "A city that never slept, with pillars that reached to the sky, holding the world together" - I can see it now. Very, very interesting indeed.
...except the majority of CFCs are produced by automotive combustion, not the burning of coal or oil. Very, VERY little of CFCs are produced by plants. Factories produce more of them, more often than not.
Part of the problem is that there is insufficient public transit in the US, for a large part. And possibly it's cost in cities, and our lazyness. That, and (we) upper/middle-class Americans are too selfish, pigheaded, and materialistic to even consider taking a bus/subway/train with the unwashed street-urchin masses. (You know, normal people.)
There are, of course, exceptions. But as a rule...
In my mind, titanium is the real-world mythril. I think making a wedding ring of the stuff is one of the damned coolest applications.
I'm not sure, but isn't there another strong, white metal that is used in rings as well? Or is that titanium I'm actually thinking of? I know white gold and silver exist, but they suck when we're talking about strength.
I plan on getting my wedding bands made in titanium, with fine laser etching/engraving on the inside of the band.:) (Probably something mutually meaningful)... I think that her engagement ring will also be made of the stuff, with a nice (not big, not small) stone, and a jeweled light blue stone on either side - all three stones will be plush to the titanium, so that there are no 'rough' edges on the ring.
That is simply not true, and a very shallow, foolish way to look at the 'human interface' that is talking to you on the phone.
Sure, the job might seem unpleasant and immoral to you. However, they are indeed people, and have lives just like you do, outside of work. It's a huge emotional strain on some people to do it - the constant rejection, people yelling at you, swearing at you, being very poor human specimens.
I know this from personal experience. I was in dire financial straights this past summer, and there were absolutely no other jobs available (small retirement town). I lasted for less than 2 weeks. It was depressing, and I lost a lot of faith in the human race. People are selfish bastards; when I say 'people', I mean you. Just say, "I'm not interested, but I appreciate your call. Goodbye." It's not that difficult. Stop being so carnal by finding glee in harassing telemarketers (unless, of course, they're rude... then give 'em bloody hell!)
Personally, there were many times that I'd hang up from a downright hostile call, and think to myself, "I have their address (newspaper marketing) and number in front of me, and I know where to find a gun," due to the anguish of being constantly insulted, rejected, and verbally injured (being an emotional person and depressed at the time, didn't help, I'm sure...)
And saying that telemarketers are worse than drug dealers is completely off the wall, too. Drug dealers sell, well, drugs. They harm people, destroy lives, and break up relationships. They steal entire lives, never mind the few seconds it takes to give a polite "no thank you, goodbye". I doubt you, or most other people, get irrate about commercial breaks on TV.
Agreed re: marketing and advertisement. While what you say sounds good, and possibly true, several interjections:
1) where is MS going to go? They certainly won't just disappear, what with all their money. 2) who is going to rise to take their place? OS X hasn't been anounced for x86, there aren't any compatable office suites, linux isn't fit for the masses to use on desktops, all the games are developed for Windows, and MS has OEMs locked in. 3) sure, people hate MS, but it's mostly become a token hatred, and more times than not, it's an uninformed blind hatred towards computers, and not MS. MS doens't suffer in most cases, computer system OEMs suffer, like Gateway and Compaq.
Sorry, given jsut that, your arguement doesn't float.
If I remember my Tolkien thuroughly (and I'll be inclined to think that I do *g*), mithril is incredibly pure silver, made hard by the depths of the earth and the pounding of dwarven skillsmen. (I don't recall if there was magic involved or not... I think I recall Gimli talking about it at some point in the Trilogy - or maybe it was one of the dwarves in The Hobbit.)
Er, You don't mean Ironman, do you? or is there another superhero character I don't know of? I'm thinking of the (red/black/yellow colored) Marvel Comics character. As far as I recall, he was just a human, but had a disease or some sort of condition that required him to be under medical condition. He was a millionaire, so he had the Ironman suit made so that he could have some sort of mobility... so he fought the baddies... or am I on crack?
I remember when I first heard of Mozilla about 3 years ago - it was going to make the "browser war" non-existant becuase it was so much faster than Internet Explorer, and still had a lot of slimming down to do (oh, and it was already pretty small!) Never mind that at the time, it had hardly any features, was quite unstable, and such. It was a dream people had. It would be great!
Now, the moment is almost upon us, and Mozilla is almost out in the wild. Several years ago I was quite excited, but now? Well, I'm happy, of course, but what's the big deal? It's nothing all that fantastic, other than that it's a competing (open source) product for IE. If it fit on a floppy and file my taxes (damn those taxes!), though - that's another story.:)
I s'pose it's like sex - everyone says how great it is, and every teenage boy wants it. But then, when it's finally obtained or obtainable, it's just kind of, "Eh, it was ok, but not what I thought."
Why hasn't this been developed yet as a toolkit? Not specifically for outlook, but for MS Office in general. I'd think that it would make perfect sense to make a toolkit that has all the interface handlers necessary to interface and import MS-related data. I can't think of a single work-related software item in linux that would not benefit (or that wouldn't be able to benefit) from such an implimentation. That way, the effort wouldn't be fractured. I mean, really! It makes perfect sense. I don't know of any PIMs or email clients that import Outlook databases, and I don't know of any word processors taht properly import Word documents - two of the most frequently used things in the business world. When it comes down to it, the GUI doesn't mean jack shit to most people - at least, not compared to having working applications. Nowadays, what with Windows' stability being fairly good (to the point where it doesn't bother me, at least - no crashes for several days at a time), nobody has any real desire to switch to linux.
Seems to me that linux is dead on the corporate desktop, and stuck as a geek desktop/server OS, when it comes to x86 PCs. (In general here, don't take this out of context)
If I'm modifying your DNS, you've already got larger concerns. Debian's package management system is sufficient for what you're talking about, as well. A simple, 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' will update your system to the latest stable/secure release available.
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Except your business doesn't make money if you're giving all your money to MS. See how that works? There's this thing called "profit margin" - you have none if you have to pay about 1000$ each year to keep 'on top' of all software updates for each workstation. Companies can't afford that.
Whoa, hold on a second. Let's keep our intellectual package in our theoretical intellectual pants for a second here.
The day/night temperature cycle contrast on Mars is drastic enough to kill any bacteria that is on the surface of the planet. There should be no concern of Earth bacteria doing any harm.
Goodness, let alone so-called Mars bacteria. Let's think about this - if Mars has bacteria on it at all, shouldn't it have evolved at roughly the same rate as Earth's? Even at half the rate, there should be small reptiles and such on Mars by now. That is, of course, unless one (or both) of two things are true: Evolution is a farce, and there is no bacteria on Mars.
My understanding is that this is not so much to see who will build it, but who will design it. Outsourcing workload is not only commonplace in all industry nowadays, it's expected.
I'd mod this one up as well, had I any mod points. Please do so!
Um... 0.5% is "a percent of a percent" - 50 percent of 1 percent. Here, 'a' isn't meant to mean 'one'. "a percent of a percent" could very well be 100% of 100%, had he not stated otherwise.
... people would learn how to distinguish between "porting" and "migrating", so that they do not appear as complete fools when posting a topic.
You migrate a (physical) server or workstation. Applications get ported. It appears as if this article is talking about both; this isn't apparently obvious upon first reading the introduction.
... we linux/open source folks cry "criminal!" about MS keeping old code in their OS, screwing up performance, when XFree86 has a pile of old code for legacy's sake, also screwing up performance?
I wish XFree86 would just be rewritten, with the legacy shit (and I do mean shit - from say, pre-1995, even) just ripped out. Or at least made modular, and have them rewritten to a new archatecture that makes more sense for X's current main role - desktop systems. You will not be running X on much else nowadays. There is VNC to cope with most things that remote X had the role of.
In this case, legacy is a bad thing, IMO. It hinders the quality of the product. There is no reason for X to take up so much RAM, , leak, etc. etc.
Hey now, let's not be biased! :) Some of us still do. It helps edge a little better performance/optimization out of your hardware if you get specific.
1024x800 is a 'standard' resolution? I've never seen it before. :|
Urg... that's another level of abstraction I don't need. I'd take my performance on the hardware that isn't exactly my choice, over poor quality performance on the hardware I want.
I might as well use an OS written in Java... (no offense to java, but that'd suck.)
Plus, I'd think it would be more difficult to write a UDI driver that's stable and bugless than one for an OS - once again, there's a level of abstraction. Sure, though, if it could be done well (adn I doubt it could be) it would be nice to see such a thing done by manufactuers of devices (like portables, etc - not video cards and essential stuff like that. that = relaly shitty performance) so alternative OSes could have support for nice devices like that.
They're disguised as the marketese word, "messaging"... that, and telemarketers.
Hah! My kind? "My kind" currently drives a '78 Oldsmobile Delta 88 4-door.
First off, I said there was insufficient public transit. So just shut up about the distance in US cities vs. that of Europe cities.
Second off, I don't know what locality you're refering to, but I'm thinking of NY/NYC public transit, which seems to be quite sufficient to me, not to mention faster/cheaper than driving.
Third, just because you own a car, doesn't mean you have to drive it all the time. If there's an established route of public transit, take it; drive on the weekends or when you go to those evening engagements. That way, at least, you have less likelyhood of some asshole vandalizing your nice car in the parking garage.
I've really not experienced such a plethora of ghetto children as you seem to illude to. Do you live in Chicago or something? The midwest does nasty things to humanity.
Granted, the food, phone, and music thing can be irritating - why not use something like ear buds? (You know, hearing protection) It filters out a huge amount of that excess noise, and if you want, you can probably still hold a conversation. All that noise polution is really bad for your psyche.
Sounds a lot like the story of the Minoan Crete island, Thera/Santorini - the gods also became jealous, and the nation was sunk in a single day. For those not familiar, this is probably the city/nation referenced to by Plato (or is it Socrates? I get their works confused sometimes) in his account of Atlantis, which subsuquently is a story he got from a man in Egypt, who got it from his father, who was a supposed escapee from the 'sinking Atlantis'. It's quite a fascinating story, but kind of sad that things like Atlantis are debunked instead of being found in their whole glory. However, the Minoan society -was- quite advanced - their houses had cold -and- warm running water fixtures that came from pipes! Their society was destroyed by a large volcanic explosion that errupted from teh center of their island. No remains have been found of humans, so it's suspected there were earthquakes that warned them to leave. This Theran volcano is probably what destroyed the Crete civilization.
It's kind of interesting how there are multiple accounts of 'great cities/nations that sink into the sea, never to be seen again' throughout various cultures. I suspect we'll have such Atlantean rumours in the future as well - New York after the polar ice caps melt, anybody? "A city that never slept, with pillars that reached to the sky, holding the world together" - I can see it now. Very, very interesting indeed.
...except the majority of CFCs are produced by automotive combustion, not the burning of coal or oil. Very, VERY little of CFCs are produced by plants. Factories produce more of them, more often than not.
Part of the problem is that there is insufficient public transit in the US, for a large part. And possibly it's cost in cities, and our lazyness.
That, and (we) upper/middle-class Americans are too selfish, pigheaded, and materialistic to even consider taking a bus/subway/train with the unwashed street-urchin masses. (You know, normal people.)
There are, of course, exceptions. But as a rule...
In my mind, titanium is the real-world mythril. I think making a wedding ring of the stuff is one of the damned coolest applications.
:) (Probably something mutually meaningful)... I think that her engagement ring will also be made of the stuff, with a nice (not big, not small) stone, and a jeweled light blue stone on either side - all three stones will be plush to the titanium, so that there are no 'rough' edges on the ring.
:)
I'm not sure, but isn't there another strong, white metal that is used in rings as well? Or is that titanium I'm actually thinking of? I know white gold and silver exist, but they suck when we're talking about strength.
I plan on getting my wedding bands made in titanium, with fine laser etching/engraving on the inside of the band.
Or so I hope, at least.
That is simply not true, and a very shallow, foolish way to look at the 'human interface' that is talking to you on the phone.
Sure, the job might seem unpleasant and immoral to you. However, they are indeed people, and have lives just like you do, outside of work. It's a huge emotional strain on some people to do it - the constant rejection, people yelling at you, swearing at you, being very poor human specimens.
I know this from personal experience. I was in dire financial straights this past summer, and there were absolutely no other jobs available (small retirement town). I lasted for less than 2 weeks. It was depressing, and I lost a lot of faith in the human race. People are selfish bastards; when I say 'people', I mean you. Just say, "I'm not interested, but I appreciate your call. Goodbye." It's not that difficult. Stop being so carnal by finding glee in harassing telemarketers (unless, of course, they're rude... then give 'em bloody hell!)
Personally, there were many times that I'd hang up from a downright hostile call, and think to myself, "I have their address (newspaper marketing) and number in front of me, and I know where to find a gun," due to the anguish of being constantly insulted, rejected, and verbally injured (being an emotional person and depressed at the time, didn't help, I'm sure...)
And saying that telemarketers are worse than drug dealers is completely off the wall, too. Drug dealers sell, well, drugs. They harm people, destroy lives, and break up relationships. They steal entire lives, never mind the few seconds it takes to give a polite "no thank you, goodbye". I doubt you, or most other people, get irrate about commercial breaks on TV.
Agreed re: marketing and advertisement. While what you say sounds good, and possibly true, several interjections:
1) where is MS going to go? They certainly won't just disappear, what with all their money.
2) who is going to rise to take their place? OS X hasn't been anounced for x86, there aren't any compatable office suites, linux isn't fit for the masses to use on desktops, all the games are developed for Windows, and MS has OEMs locked in.
3) sure, people hate MS, but it's mostly become a token hatred, and more times than not, it's an uninformed blind hatred towards computers, and not MS. MS doens't suffer in most cases, computer system OEMs suffer, like Gateway and Compaq.
Sorry, given jsut that, your arguement doesn't float.
If I remember my Tolkien thuroughly (and I'll be inclined to think that I do *g*), mithril is incredibly pure silver, made hard by the depths of the earth and the pounding of dwarven skillsmen. (I don't recall if there was magic involved or not... I think I recall Gimli talking about it at some point in the Trilogy - or maybe it was one of the dwarves in The Hobbit.)
Er, You don't mean Ironman, do you? or is there another superhero character I don't know of? I'm thinking of the (red/black/yellow colored) Marvel Comics character. As far as I recall, he was just a human, but had a disease or some sort of condition that required him to be under medical condition. He was a millionaire, so he had the Ironman suit made so that he could have some sort of mobility... so he fought the baddies... or am I on crack?
Wow, I never thought I'd see the day!
:)
I remember when I first heard of Mozilla about 3 years ago - it was going to make the "browser war" non-existant becuase it was so much faster than Internet Explorer, and still had a lot of slimming down to do (oh, and it was already pretty small!) Never mind that at the time, it had hardly any features, was quite unstable, and such. It was a dream people had. It would be great!
Now, the moment is almost upon us, and Mozilla is almost out in the wild. Several years ago I was quite excited, but now? Well, I'm happy, of course, but what's the big deal? It's nothing all that fantastic, other than that it's a competing (open source) product for IE. If it fit on a floppy and file my taxes (damn those taxes!), though - that's another story.
I s'pose it's like sex - everyone says how great it is, and every teenage boy wants it. But then, when it's finally obtained or obtainable, it's just kind of, "Eh, it was ok, but not what I thought."
'ey Red :)
:)
I'd not consider mitrhil a 'comic' element. IIRC, Tolkien made it for his LotR universe, which is really not a comic-oriented world.
Why hasn't this been developed yet as a toolkit? Not specifically for outlook, but for MS Office in general. I'd think that it would make perfect sense to make a toolkit that has all the interface handlers necessary to interface and import MS-related data. I can't think of a single work-related software item in linux that would not benefit (or that wouldn't be able to benefit) from such an implimentation. That way, the effort wouldn't be fractured. I mean, really! It makes perfect sense. I don't know of any PIMs or email clients that import Outlook databases, and I don't know of any word processors taht properly import Word documents - two of the most frequently used things in the business world. When it comes down to it, the GUI doesn't mean jack shit to most people - at least, not compared to having working applications. Nowadays, what with Windows' stability being fairly good (to the point where it doesn't bother me, at least - no crashes for several days at a time), nobody has any real desire to switch to linux.
Seems to me that linux is dead on the corporate desktop, and stuck as a geek desktop/server OS, when it comes to x86 PCs. (In general here, don't take this out of context)
If I'm modifying your DNS, you've already got larger concerns. Debian's package management system is sufficient for what you're talking about, as well. A simple, 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' will update your system to the latest stable/secure release available.
In most cases, this will keep your system secure.
It would make more sense to say, "erase a word" or "erase a sentence" or "erase 3 words"
dselect shouldn't be used, it's so bad. :) Forget a facelift. Just apt-get install all that you need...