Large companies are very quickly picking up speed and moving towards SOA. Oracle is going to be left behind (read: incompatible, out of the market) if it doesn't catch up. BEA has an application server as well as an integrated JSR116 compatible SIP stack, so it seems to make sense to buy them and get behind them to push into the SOA market.
Also, it makes sense to take them before anyone else does, so they can integrate BEA WebLogic into it's application server and therefore lock other companies out of gaining an "easy" application server.
Another notable acquisition is Avaya's acquisition of a SIP server company called Ubiquity. This happened some time last year, so maybe Oracle have been watching the market and decided they have to play catch up.
My thoughts, are that everyone wants to take a piece out of the real time communications market, and taking WebLogic with it's SIP stack makes sense.
RedHat really have the potential to capitalise on this market, if they were interested - they own JBoss, and Tuscany seems to becoming a pretty good SOA project.
Another post mentioned why they most likely will not merge, but Wine performance with DirectX games has improved drastically in the last couple of months - I seem to recall someone saying Wine has surpassed Cedegar in terms of performance, but I can't find a link to back that up.
Out of 148 tests: Wine has the current lead on 67 tests Wine has a lag between 0.1 and 10.0 percent on 14 tests Wine has a lag between 10.1 and 20.0 percent on 9 tests Wine has a lag between 20.1 and 50.0 percent on 19 tests Wine has a lag of more than 50.1 percent on 21 tests Wine or XP aborted on 18 tests
Mitch Rudman, a music industry executive in Las Vegas - $20,000 Denny Gmur, a scientist who works for a biotechnology firm in Bothell - $2,000 John Crow, a businessman who splits his time between his gas-and-oil business in Shreveport and a home in Port Angeles - $3,000 Walter Kistler, a retired physicist and rocket scientist who started Redmond-based Kistler Aerospace - $5,000. Total: $35,000
That leaves $5,000 (so far) donated from unnamed parties.
Indeed. An interesting variation on the pump and dump scam.
1) Send around a fake email, indicating something negative about a company. 2) Buy a bunch of shares when the share price has reduced. 3) Wait and monitor the market. 4) Sell shares when the share price has been restored. 4) Profit!!!
Even a reduction in 2p means a significant gain when you can be reasonably confident to buy many shares, as a company as large as Apple will quickly resolve their share pricing.
Ironically, the original article is about as biased as the slashdot story about the original article.
I heard a great quote not so long ago, that the story poster (and many other Slashdot readers) would do well to read:
"Every man should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind" -- St John Ervine
... and still have their malformed, misguided, assumption-based view...
(at least a large part of) the article is about security being mainly an "add on" process to the current IT process.
Security should ideally be an iterative process, through each part of the development cycle of a product and through each stage in a deployment roll-out. This generally doesn't happen though.
The "Security Industry" (e.g. anti-virus companies) is a necessity because security policies are lax, and further because no-one or nothing is ever perfect. If products and policies were perfect, there would still be a security industry, albeit a smaller ones. The weakest link will always be the end user.
All you need to do is open the file (mp3, avi, wmv etc.), and Totem will offer to download and install the codec for you.
To play most DVDs you'll need the libdvdcss2 package.
Again, there's no need to install this. A better way is to install the package "libdvdread3", and then run: sudo/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
While what you say is perfectly valid, you are missing the point. Pre-installation may not be useful to *you*, but it could be useful to many other less technical types.
An obvious use case, is probably one that most of us here know about. Grannie/Uncle/Friend of a friend asks what the best PC to buy is. We can potentially now say "Buy a Dell with preinstalled {Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE}".
{If|When} "Open XML" gets set as a standard, Microsoft will claim that Office is "standards-based and open". Which, by definition, it would be.
Open Office et. al will implement ODF. It will also implement a partial version of Open XML - as best as it possibly can do, given the vague nature of some of the Open XML implementation points.
Microsoft Office will only implement Open XML.
Now, which format is a consumer to choose? Obviously Open XML. Put simply, we'll be no closer to a real-world, workable word document standard than we are now.
Open Office will say "we tried to implement the standard as best as we could". Normal consumers will hear essentially "Open Office wont open my documents properly".
Or: Do nothing. You have suceeded in disrupting the service, and many other aeroplane services will no doubt be cancelled. The "worth" of this system will be "proven", and implemented in more and more airlines.
At any rate, if this does improve security of airlines, it's done nothing for overall state security. What it's merely done is push the potential terrorist target away form air to something probably more effective - like blowing up a train station, or a bus station, or a football/rugby/soccer/american football/baseball grounds.
Someone commented to say "just lock the cabin door". Coupled with a globaly policy (much like the UK hostage policy) that captains will not be subject to blackmail (e.g. "open the door or i'll shoot people"), then this could become a much more effective - not to mention cheaper - solution.
Of course, I'm sure there are other ways to down a plane..
Interesting opinion. Unfortunately, you seem to have forgotten to include any URLs/references supporting anything you say.
Their accessibility web page has a section dedicated to Linux and a some of their stuff is Open Source (not that this automatically implies Linux of course, but is sometimes a good representation).
I'm hoping that the BBC show a fair split between all the Operating Systems mentioned (does this include Amiga OS?:-)). Based on the comments they've chosen so far, I would call them "fair".
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Large companies are very quickly picking up speed and moving towards SOA. Oracle is going to be left behind (read: incompatible, out of the market) if it doesn't catch up. BEA has an application server as well as an integrated JSR116 compatible SIP stack, so it seems to make sense to buy them and get behind them to push into the SOA market.
Also, it makes sense to take them before anyone else does, so they can integrate BEA WebLogic into it's application server and therefore lock other companies out of gaining an "easy" application server.
Another notable acquisition is Avaya's acquisition of a SIP server company called Ubiquity. This happened some time last year, so maybe Oracle have been watching the market and decided they have to play catch up.
My thoughts, are that everyone wants to take a piece out of the real time communications market, and taking WebLogic with it's SIP stack makes sense.
RedHat really have the potential to capitalise on this market, if they were interested - they own JBoss, and Tuscany seems to becoming a pretty good SOA project.
In Soviet Russia, sites censor you!!
Wait, what?
As does Virgin Atlantic. Its in-flight entertainment crashed on me once too, and I was happy to see a booting Linux kernel.
Another post mentioned why they most likely will not merge, but Wine performance with DirectX games has improved drastically in the last couple of months - I seem to recall someone saying Wine has surpassed Cedegar in terms of performance, but I can't find a link to back that up.
Here is the last benchmarks that were done - http://wiki.winehq.org/BenchMark-0.9.5
Out of 148 tests:
Wine has the current lead on 67 tests
Wine has a lag between 0.1 and 10.0 percent on 14 tests
Wine has a lag between 10.1 and 20.0 percent on 9 tests
Wine has a lag between 20.1 and 50.0 percent on 19 tests
Wine has a lag of more than 50.1 percent on 21 tests
Wine or XP aborted on 18 tests
What a completely ignorant thing to say. Who knows what intelligence will be like in 100 billion years.
FTFA:
Mitch Rudman, a music industry executive in Las Vegas - $20,000
Denny Gmur, a scientist who works for a biotechnology firm in Bothell - $2,000
John Crow, a businessman who splits his time between his gas-and-oil business in Shreveport and a home in Port Angeles - $3,000
Walter Kistler, a retired physicist and rocket scientist who started Redmond-based Kistler Aerospace - $5,000.
Total: $35,000
That leaves $5,000 (so far) donated from unnamed parties.
Your logic may be sound, but only based on your current perception of time and the universe. Who's to say that this perception is correct?
My microwave has one rotary knob for time, and that's it.
:-)
You don't need a start/stop button, and a logarithmic scale isn't necessary unless you plan to cook things for half hour
There is also no need for a display, as the time is printed on the outside of the time knob.
That's right, Jeff K killed himself!
Indeed. An interesting variation on the pump and dump scam.
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1) Send around a fake email, indicating something negative about a company.
2) Buy a bunch of shares when the share price has reduced.
3) Wait and monitor the market.
4) Sell shares when the share price has been restored.
4) Profit!!!
Even a reduction in 2p means a significant gain when you can be reasonably confident to buy many shares, as a company as large as Apple will quickly resolve their share pricing.
* Not even a ??? damnit, I'm failed as a
Ironically, the original article is about as biased as the slashdot story about the original article.
I heard a great quote not so long ago, that the story poster (and many other Slashdot readers) would do well to read:
"Every man should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind" -- St John Ervine
... and still have their malformed, misguided, assumption-based view...
(at least a large part of) the article is about security being mainly an "add on" process to the current IT process.
Security should ideally be an iterative process, through each part of the development cycle of a product and through each stage in a deployment roll-out. This generally doesn't happen though.
The "Security Industry" (e.g. anti-virus companies) is a necessity because security policies are lax, and further because no-one or nothing is ever perfect. If products and policies were perfect, there would still be a security industry, albeit a smaller ones. The weakest link will always be the end user.
Here's where you should go to install codecs:
t s
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedForma
Please don't do this!
All you need to do is open the file (mp3, avi, wmv etc.), and Totem will offer to download and install the codec for you.
To play most DVDs you'll need the libdvdcss2 package.
Again, there's no need to install this. A better way is to install the package "libdvdread3", and then run: sudo
Valid prior art would be some form of H.323 to PSTN gateway (called a H.323 Gatekeeper), or maybe any sort of way to bridge PSTN with IP.
T -REC-H.323-200606-I!!PDF-E&type=items but I believe it was finalised in 1996, which puts it a bit too late. I think we'd need to be looking at SS7 Gateways to bust this patent.
FWIW, Cisco's IOS v11.3 implemented this functionality, which puts it around 1999
The PDF to the H.323 standard is at http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=
There's no real point in timezones. Everyone should use UTC. After the shock of having to go in at "10pm", you'll get used to it. Or Internet Time
While what you say is perfectly valid, you are missing the point. Pre-installation may not be useful to *you*, but it could be useful to many other less technical types.
An obvious use case, is probably one that most of us here know about. Grannie/Uncle/Friend of a friend asks what the best PC to buy is. We can potentially now say "Buy a Dell with preinstalled {Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE}".
Guess we all know what she got for Christmas.
Microsoft Office 2007?
I think you miss the point.
{If|When} "Open XML" gets set as a standard, Microsoft will claim that Office is "standards-based and open". Which, by definition, it would be.
Open Office et. al will implement ODF. It will also implement a partial version of Open XML - as best as it possibly can do, given the vague nature of some of the Open XML implementation points.
Microsoft Office will only implement Open XML.
Now, which format is a consumer to choose? Obviously Open XML. Put simply, we'll be no closer to a real-world, workable word document standard than we are now.
Open Office will say "we tried to implement the standard as best as we could". Normal consumers will hear essentially "Open Office wont open my documents properly".
Or: Do nothing. You have suceeded in disrupting the service, and many other aeroplane services will no doubt be cancelled. The "worth" of this system will be "proven", and implemented in more and more airlines.
At any rate, if this does improve security of airlines, it's done nothing for overall state security. What it's merely done is push the potential terrorist target away form air to something probably more effective - like blowing up a train station, or a bus station, or a football/rugby/soccer/american football/baseball grounds.
Someone commented to say "just lock the cabin door". Coupled with a globaly policy (much like the UK hostage policy) that captains will not be subject to blackmail (e.g. "open the door or i'll shoot people"), then this could become a much more effective - not to mention cheaper - solution.
Of course, I'm sure there are other ways to down a plane..
Lets hope he reads Slashdot on his satellite connection, and phones home to say he's alife... just like all good things coming out of Microsoft.
I'm sorry, but in any real production environment, I see NO issues with this setup.
Paid support.
Please, please let them know your reasons for leaving.
Pfft, they should have used : as the modal command operator ;-)
<Esc>:q! - Windows is Shutting down.
Interesting opinion. Unfortunately, you seem to have forgotten to include any URLs/references supporting anything you say.
:-)). Based on the comments they've chosen so far, I would call them "fair".
Their accessibility web page has a section dedicated to Linux and a some of their stuff is Open Source (not that this automatically implies Linux of course, but is sometimes a good representation).
I'm hoping that the BBC show a fair split between all the Operating Systems mentioned (does this include Amiga OS?
I agree, apart from the last point. "Free" means nothing to corporate employees. They don't pay for software anyway.