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They'd be better off setting up a spam campaign promoting spam the food (term loosely used) to get them out of the financial doldrums they are probably in !
I mean.. come on, do they really think that by getting the name back they can suddenly boost sales of pigs snouts and discarded trotters ??
And on a side thought, will the people at Spam Gourmet have to actually eat the stuff and compose critiques on it to avoid lawsuits ?
Is four retractable legs on the underneath, and you could have yourself a carry-round table, where your meals would never get cold (as long as the laptop was switched on).
it looks like good keyboards (i.e the early ones) were more components of the computer systems, whereas cheap keyboards are peripherals of said systems.
This only reflects the movement of the computing model, and the seperation of what is regarded as essential to what is regarded as an accessory.
I'm trying to think of any large business valued at over a few mill that doesn't bend over backwards to lick the collective asses of law enforcement agencies. It's alot less hassle, avoids possible court time and bad requests for info (whilst they undoubtedly happen) are rare. I guess eBay think most customers will just swallow theses Terms and Conditions and business as usual (which will be the case).
Working in an investment bank recently, in their production server floor, what did I find, but a small OS/2 box stashed away in some corner, with a notice popped up on the screen:
"Your license has expired - please contact your IBM representative to discuss renewing this or any other license you may have"
So, yes, banks still 'use' it, though sparingly. Most of the OS/2 machines had notices on them from 2000 saying "We'll turn this off in 3 years time if no-one uses them in the meantime"
subbing articles on himself
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Bill Gates On Linux
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· Score: 5, Interesting
What is Bill Gates doing submitting stories under his pseudonym (king-of-darkness) ? Anyways, an interesting bit in the article I thought was:
BG: Are you kidding? I mean, let's be serious. That was IBM, a company 15 times our size. Name a bank that didn't use OS/2. OS/2 was IBM's product, and the IBM army marched behind that product.
Now replace IBM with Microsoft, and OS/2 with windows. Not so clever now Mr. Gates !
Animators studied the movements made in gymnastics, ballet and modern dance and looked at underwater filming to get a feel for the fluid movements these "water women" might make.
No wonder the film took four years to make ! Animator: Sorry love, we didn't quite capture that.. once more, but this time come closer.. we need to get an artistic feel
Personally, I don't think they were referring to the rendering process here ! Use linux, and watch the chicks become a thing of the past , and the thought of water near your person makes you itch uncontrollably !
Closed source is driven by timeframes, customer requests and profitability. It's not done as a labour of love. Hence quality will always take second place to it-works-but-its-a-kludge
In contrast, Open Source is driven by all-that-is-good, i.e free software, community spirit, because-I-can. When there is no paymaster (because you rarely get paid for OSS), the motives for development differ greatly, and pride-of-work takes priority.
The two disparate models do cross sometimes, like in the case of ReiserFS - features are chosen by donation, but don't expect development to be rushed. Hans seems to have got the balance right with his project.
When I thought a bit about streaming audio, and when it came to be (i.e pre dot-com boom), it was an exciting technology, and the sky was the limit with regards to earning potential (as was every other idea to do with content delivery).
Unfortunately, it never came to be, and I struggle to see where mp3.com can make revenue from this part of the business, since bandwidth indeed does cost $$. I'm impressed that they kept it going this long to be honest, and they probably did at some loss for some time, solely for the benefit of the communities that used the service. It's inconceivable that someone still thought they could make money from this model, and mp3.com is a business, of course.
According to neurosaudio, this beta firmware upgrade will disable mp3 playback support. You can have one, but not the other. Looks like it would be better to wait until the beta stage has been passed before upgrading your firmware, since this will be resolved in later releases.
One of the few suites that I ever thought Microsoft did well was Exchange. Administering it may be a 'mare judging by the contractor rates offered to administer it, but that's neither here nor there. Whilst I have never used the full functionality of Exchange when I was forced to use windows, it made avoiding the boss easier with it's task and scheduling stuff. This is a good thing.
But then, I get by just as well in unix with plain old console-based email clients and bland sendmail. But I can appreciate what a useful tool it can be for saving business time, and hence would like to see something similar reach some sort of maturity in the OSS world. I for one shall be offering my skills for one of the projects mentioned !
This strikes me much the same as groups of American students in Europe bee-lining towards the golden arches and huddling there until it's time to go back to the hotel/hostel.. it would be nice if people living in a foreign culture made an effort to integrate, rather than creating a mini-home from home. I can't imagine the expat community miss those wacky game shows too much.
Looking at the new set of features this release offers (palm synchronisation, IRC client), it strikes me as though the project is trying to cover as many areas as possible that come loosely under the umbrella of "information exchange". Good things for this release are improved CSS support, image resizing on the fly etc. - advancements that improve the surfing experience. I wish they'd concentrate more on this area insted of bolting on the kitchen sink too..
I think we all know who the Jester is
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The Bug
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· Score: 5, Funny
When it does surface, it's usually during a sales presentation, causing a complete system failure
Common theme: Sales Presentation. Most sales-drones I've ever seen look and act like Jesters anyway.. certainly the promises spewing from their powdered faces seem utterly fantastic and comical at times
It looks like ATI have great faith in their new card(s) with this step. I hope that eventually a linux driver will emerge, but the reason for the "not supported" is likely to be due to "not written yet". Even though there are precious few games on linux to stretch a card of this calibre, if any at all.. it would be a dubious step not to support linux eventually, since you can be reasonably sure that nvidia will !
There's no foolproof way to restrict the Sobig variations from getting onto your PC
I see that the Senoir Associate Editor wrote this piece. That may explain the embarrasingly outdated technology quotes, like One reason for this success is that the latest variants include Zip files, but with reference to the foolproof quote, what I'm inclined to believe is that the makers of ZoneAlarm paid for this sort of tripe (advert on the article). Brown Envelope journalism at it's best !
It has said publicly that it moved, and is moving, key parts of AIX, and in fact is willing to move all of AIX over into Linux.
Surely he can't believe that all of AIX would be moved over ? Maybe that's why he believes his contracts are cast-iron.. perhaps because he is CEO, nobody dares tell him "Hey Darl, our code is crap, and the linux community wouldn't want it anyways"
The point of "That's the way we have always done things" is that if it didn't work, then there would be no business left. Alot of people here will have worked on systems/software that are ancient in terms of computing technology, but they are still in production because they work. It's all about risk management, and it's less risky just to stay where you are and continue to make a profit with your current business model.
Most of us would love to see Open Source widely adopted as a business strategy. The major barrier to this is that business adopts the path-of-least-resistance to profitability, and changing your current strategy for a largely untested and hence managerially mistrusted one is a brave move indeed. No amount of educating managers is going to change the fact that its better to wait and see others succeed (or fail) before you try yourself.
Waging mental battle with a proof
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Pure Math, Pure Joy
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· Score: 4, Funny
What this picture doesn't show is the analogue clock just above the blackboard.. they aren't thinking.. just clock-watching !
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I mean.. come on, do they really think that by getting the name back they can suddenly boost sales of pigs snouts and discarded trotters ??
And on a side thought, will the people at Spam Gourmet have to actually eat the stuff and compose critiques on it to avoid lawsuits ?
Is four retractable legs on the underneath, and you could have yourself a carry-round table, where your meals would never get cold (as long as the laptop was switched on).
This only reflects the movement of the computing model, and the seperation of what is regarded as essential to what is regarded as an accessory.
... was embedded into the computer, like the trusty Amiga had ! How we all miss those
A network of cameras track our movements and trigger enevlopes demanding money on our doorsteps if we dare cross the red lines !
Nein!
I'm trying to think of any large business valued at over a few mill that doesn't bend over backwards to lick the collective asses of law enforcement agencies. It's alot less hassle, avoids possible court time and bad requests for info (whilst they undoubtedly happen) are rare. I guess eBay think most customers will just swallow theses Terms and Conditions and business as usual (which will be the case).
"Your license has expired - please contact your IBM representative to discuss renewing this or any other license you may have"
So, yes, banks still 'use' it, though sparingly. Most of the OS/2 machines had notices on them from 2000 saying "We'll turn this off in 3 years time if no-one uses them in the meantime"
BG: Are you kidding? I mean, let's be serious. That was IBM, a company 15 times our size. Name a bank that didn't use OS/2. OS/2 was IBM's product, and the IBM army marched behind that product.
Now replace IBM with Microsoft, and OS/2 with windows. Not so clever now Mr. Gates !
No wonder the film took four years to make !
Animator: Sorry love, we didn't quite capture that.. once more, but this time come closer.. we need to get an artistic feel
Personally, I don't think they were referring to the rendering process here ! Use linux, and watch the chicks become a thing of the past , and the thought of water near your person makes you itch uncontrollably !
In contrast, Open Source is driven by all-that-is-good, i.e free software, community spirit, because-I-can. When there is no paymaster (because you rarely get paid for OSS), the motives for development differ greatly, and pride-of-work takes priority.
The two disparate models do cross sometimes, like in the case of ReiserFS - features are chosen by donation, but don't expect development to be rushed. Hans seems to have got the balance right with his project.
Unfortunately, it never came to be, and I struggle to see where mp3.com can make revenue from this part of the business, since bandwidth indeed does cost $$. I'm impressed that they kept it going this long to be honest, and they probably did at some loss for some time, solely for the benefit of the communities that used the service. It's inconceivable that someone still thought they could make money from this model, and mp3.com is a business, of course.
According to neurosaudio, this beta firmware upgrade will disable mp3 playback support. You can have one, but not the other. Looks like it would be better to wait until the beta stage has been passed before upgrading your firmware, since this will be resolved in later releases.
But then, I get by just as well in unix with plain old console-based email clients and bland sendmail. But I can appreciate what a useful tool it can be for saving business time, and hence would like to see something similar reach some sort of maturity in the OSS world. I for one shall be offering my skills for one of the projects mentioned !
This strikes me much the same as groups of American students in Europe bee-lining towards the golden arches and huddling there until it's time to go back to the hotel/hostel.. it would be nice if people living in a foreign culture made an effort to integrate, rather than creating a mini-home from home. I can't imagine the expat community miss those wacky game shows too much.
Looking at the new set of features this release offers (palm synchronisation, IRC client), it strikes me as though the project is trying to cover as many areas as possible that come loosely under the umbrella of "information exchange". Good things for this release are improved CSS support, image resizing on the fly etc. - advancements that improve the surfing experience. I wish they'd concentrate more on this area insted of bolting on the kitchen sink too..
Common theme: Sales Presentation. Most sales-drones I've ever seen look and act like Jesters anyway.. certainly the promises spewing from their powdered faces seem utterly fantastic and comical at times
It looks like ATI have great faith in their new card(s) with this step. I hope that eventually a linux driver will emerge, but the reason for the "not supported" is likely to be due to "not written yet". Even though there are precious few games on linux to stretch a card of this calibre, if any at all.. it would be a dubious step not to support linux eventually, since you can be reasonably sure that nvidia will !
I see that the Senoir Associate Editor wrote this piece. That may explain the embarrasingly outdated technology quotes, like One reason for this success is that the latest variants include Zip files, but with reference to the foolproof quote, what I'm inclined to believe is that the makers of ZoneAlarm paid for this sort of tripe (advert on the article). Brown Envelope journalism at it's best !
Surely he can't believe that all of AIX would be moved over ? Maybe that's why he believes his contracts are cast-iron.. perhaps because he is CEO, nobody dares tell him "Hey Darl, our code is crap, and the linux community wouldn't want it anyways"
The point of "That's the way we have always done things" is that if it didn't work, then there would be no business left. Alot of people here will have worked on systems/software that are ancient in terms of computing technology, but they are still in production because they work. It's all about risk management, and it's less risky just to stay where you are and continue to make a profit with your current business model.
Most of us would love to see Open Source widely adopted as a business strategy. The major barrier to this is that business adopts the path-of-least-resistance to profitability, and changing your current strategy for a largely untested and hence managerially mistrusted one is a brave move indeed. No amount of educating managers is going to change the fact that its better to wait and see others succeed (or fail) before you try yourself.
What this picture doesn't show is the analogue clock just above the blackboard.. they aren't thinking.. just clock-watching !