why would you spend 40+ hours a week, and 24/7 on call dealing with something you couldn't thoroughly enjoy?
That's how I used to see it too - as being paid to do what I enjoy. These days I do try and not be doing the same things for work and play. Not necessarily non-computer things, just not the same type of work that work is. Work is web apps and net stuff, home is DC games and DirectX. Otherwise you never feel like you've really left work.
Nothing has changed much - Those old shows were done by the industrial giants of that time: GE, GM (Futurama at the 1939 Worlds Fair - the source of the six-lane highway gag), Westinghouse...
For example, MS have their little (and rather underwhelming) showcase in SFO at the Metreon.
Too bad that a big assumption of the project is that providers of information on the web want to provide it in a format that is useful to an automated agent, when in reality they seem to do all they can to stop you making useful tools like these automated agents. Despite the development of things like XML, JINI and WSDL - all technologies designed to minimise the amount of customisation needed between strangers - the people who have this type of info aren't exactly jumping on those technologies.
Anyone know what the typical notebook draws? A brief simpleminded look at my Tosh suggests more than 15W... (label on bottom says 19V, 3.5A. Therefore power is 19x3.5?)
3 wheeled Robin Reliant: it has an impeccable safety record
I distinctly remember seeing a 'That's Life' (the UK consumer affairs program of the time) special about steering failures in Reliant Robins - Reliant is the manufacturer (not Robin), who also made the interesting all-fiberglass Scimitar coupe/estate.
Here it is: Possible loss of steering column control. They may be generally safe (I don't know), but loss of steering is not 'impeccably safe'!
I've never tried it, but MIME::Tools should deal with.mht files, since they are (at first glance at least) valid MIME documents. Some assembly required.
Depends on the music. Maybe not turntables, but you can download Hammond Organs (Native Instruments B4), various classic analog synths (e.g. NI Pro-5), step-sequencer synths (Propellerheads ReBirth 303) and drum machines (also ReBirth). You can also get the whole shebang in one app, using Propellerheads Reason - a virtual rack of synths, samplers, effects and sequencers.
It's fun to play with for those of us who can't afford a rack of gear but do have a moderate spec PC.
XP does have remote graphical apps. Even NT4/98 can have via Netmeeting, in a sort of cheesy way, but still part of the standard install. I don't quite see why multiple consoles is an important feature in an OS, but the difference between Alt-F1, Alt-F2 to switch consoles and Alt-Tab to switch to another app that happens to be a console window seems pretty small to me.
I don't have strong feelings for either OS - although Win2k causes me less hassle than Linux does, on my desktop - but if you're going to make it an enemy, at least know your enemy. That said, don't get me started on Win2k/NT memory management apparently swapping for fun.
Since the content under discussion seems to be the academic journals and other specialised data sources that Northern Light also have been offering searches of for a while, I doubt it's your content. It seems to be more in competion with things like Lexis.
And I also believe that most people here with mod points spend them all modding down people they don't agree with than modding up people they do...
According to the FAQ, whether you agree with them or not isn't supposed to be relevant in either case! "Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. "
there really aren't a whole lot of books that detail end-to-end how to do a complete database-driven site from beginning to end.
Another one to check out, if you can stand his smug MIT snobbery for long enough to read it is Phillip Greenspun's "Phillip And Alex Guide To Web Publishing" which covers a lot of ground in information design, database design, understanding your audience and so on. The implementation details are in Oracle and Tcl (AOLServer) where they appear, but the bulk of the book is independent of that.
I didn't notice any mention of good and/or evil in the post... There are several meanings for the phrase 'sell out' - why not assume that they mean "1 : to dispose of one's goods by sale; especially : to sell one's business"?
However, Exchange also gives you a lot more than just e-mail - shared calendaring, workflow routing etc. If that's important to you then there isn't a OSS solution to the same problem AFAIK...
I wouldn't fancy running 2K and Exchange on a PC with 128M RAM though. Win2K by itself is not much fun with 128M, let alone the rather porky Exchange server.
By comparison, a 128M system running QMail for 25 users is barely going to break a sweat.
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why would you spend 40+ hours a week, and 24/7 on call dealing with something you couldn't thoroughly enjoy?
That's how I used to see it too - as being paid to do what I enjoy. These days I do try and not be doing the same things for work and play. Not necessarily non-computer things, just not the same type of work that work is. Work is web apps and net stuff, home is DC games and DirectX. Otherwise you never feel like you've really left work.
Nothing has changed much - Those old shows were done by the industrial giants of that time: GE, GM (Futurama at the 1939 Worlds Fair - the source of the six-lane highway gag), Westinghouse...
For example, MS have their little (and rather underwhelming) showcase in SFO at the Metreon.
Umm.. s/WSDL/UDDI/
[what is a 'formkeys' anyway?]
Geez. Being an American puts you 'solidly in the minority of the worlds population'. Gotta love the good old USA. I know someone does.
Too bad that a big assumption of the project is that providers of information on the web want to provide it in a format that is useful to an automated agent, when in reality they seem to do all they can to stop you making useful tools like these automated agents. Despite the development of things like XML, JINI and WSDL - all technologies designed to minimise the amount of customisation needed between strangers - the people who have this type of info aren't exactly jumping on those technologies.
can power a 15W notebook for 10 hours,
Anyone know what the typical notebook draws? A brief simpleminded look at my Tosh suggests more than 15W... (label on bottom says 19V, 3.5A. Therefore power is 19x3.5?)
Has it ever been suggested for /. to open the submissions directory for public scrutiny?
about once a story, I think.
3 wheeled Robin Reliant: it has an impeccable safety record
I distinctly remember seeing a 'That's Life' (the UK consumer affairs program of the time) special about steering failures in Reliant Robins - Reliant is the manufacturer (not Robin), who also made the interesting all-fiberglass Scimitar coupe/estate.
Here it is: Possible loss of steering column control. They may be generally safe (I don't know), but loss of steering is not 'impeccably safe'!
I've never tried it, but MIME::Tools should deal with .mht files, since they are (at first glance at least) valid MIME documents. Some assembly required.
Limewire for Linux CAN'T have a dll...there are none.
.dll for .so - it's the same deal, basically.
change
How does a Java program have a dll anyway?
Read up on JNI - the Java Native Interface.
his set is archived at www.vibeflow.com, under the "respect" (the club) archive. check it out.
which ones? None are marked 'craze'... I'm curious to hear these...
Depends on the music. Maybe not turntables, but you can download Hammond Organs (Native Instruments B4), various classic analog synths (e.g. NI Pro-5), step-sequencer synths (Propellerheads ReBirth 303) and drum machines (also ReBirth). You can also get the whole shebang in one app, using Propellerheads Reason - a virtual rack of synths, samplers, effects and sequencers.
It's fun to play with for those of us who can't afford a rack of gear but do have a moderate spec PC.
XP does have remote graphical apps. Even NT4/98 can have via Netmeeting, in a sort of cheesy way, but still part of the standard install. I don't quite see why multiple consoles is an important feature in an OS, but the difference between Alt-F1, Alt-F2 to switch consoles and Alt-Tab to switch to another app that happens to be a console window seems pretty small to me.
I don't have strong feelings for either OS - although Win2k causes me less hassle than Linux does, on my desktop - but if you're going to make it an enemy, at least know your enemy. That said, don't get me started on Win2k/NT memory management apparently swapping for fun.
you shouldn't use it just because [other's say so, or because] you think it's superior. That's plain nuts.
If not because you think it's superior, just when should you use it? At random?
Or do you mean as a developer enabling it for others? I can't understand what you said if you meant for yourself...
not according to the linked page...
Drinking lead will give you third-degree burns, and very sore lips, aside from anything else.
Fermat. His last theorem was scribbled in the margin of a book, without an accompanying proof.
but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
:)
No, I'd rather wait 6 hours after the story has been posted for the site to settle down enough that it actually works.
Since the content under discussion seems to be the academic journals and other specialised data sources that Northern Light also have been offering searches of for a while, I doubt it's your content. It seems to be more in competion with things like Lexis.
don't most people think "ad revenue" when you say "dot-com model?"
.com model :-)
Maybe I'm older than the average slashdotter, but I still thought '64K single segment' when I saw
[I know it's from CP/M and VMS before that...]
Huh? "lousy"?
Roughly one-third of their sales was high-value electronic goods, from a site almost universally known as bookstore. How is that lousy?
And I also believe that most people here with mod points spend them all modding down people they don't agree with than modding up people they do...
According to the FAQ, whether you agree with them or not isn't supposed to be relevant in either case! "Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. "
there really aren't a whole lot of books that detail end-to-end how to do a complete database-driven site from beginning to end.
Another one to check out, if you can stand his smug MIT snobbery for long enough to read it is Phillip Greenspun's "Phillip And Alex Guide To Web Publishing" which covers a lot of ground in information design, database design, understanding your audience and so on. The implementation details are in Oracle and Tcl (AOLServer) where they appear, but the bulk of the book is independent of that.
I didn't notice any mention of good and/or evil in the post... There are several meanings for the phrase 'sell out' - why not assume that they mean "1 : to dispose of one's goods by sale; especially : to sell one's business"?
However, Exchange also gives you a lot more than just e-mail - shared calendaring, workflow routing etc. If that's important to you then there isn't a OSS solution to the same problem AFAIK...
I wouldn't fancy running 2K and Exchange on a PC with 128M RAM though. Win2K by itself is not much fun with 128M, let alone the rather porky Exchange server.
By comparison, a 128M system running QMail for 25 users is barely going to break a sweat.