Many IT managers read "Dilbert" to get new ideas about how to manage their IT employees by following what the PHB (Pointy Haired Boss) does. "Dilbert" cartoons are based on reality and people keep sending in their IT Nightmare stories to Scott Adams who keeps turning them into "Dilbert" stories.
Wanted Windows 7.0 Axum developer, must work with.Net 4.0 and Microsoft Office 2010, must have minimum of five years of experience in all of them, knowledge of standardized OOXML by the ISO a must.
No open source developers accepted, must have at least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science minoring in Axom programming and Concurrent Languages knowledge.
Of course they will get thousands of submissions from people in India, China, and Russia claiming to have such experience on their resumes, ready for an H1B Work Visa program.
Real developers with jobs, use whatever OS and programming language that management tells them to use, if they want to keep their jobs that is.
Real developers without jobs contribute to open source projects using whatever language and OS they want. Sadly if you want the freedom to choose your OS and programming language, you have to be without a job to do so, or do it on your spare time at home as your real job requires you to use something else.
The only exception to this is to start up your own small business and develop software and solutions and be your own boss and create your own job or work for an open source software business.
Does that mean each teacher can edit them to fit his/her classes and then publish their own version for the school?
It really depends on who is editing them and how accurate they are.
If I were the Governator I would have the California colleges write the Open Source textbooks as part of their required projects, and then California would have open source textbooks written on almost every public school subject you could think of.
It would be cheap to just print up self-published copies using a Laser Printer and book binder. Even cheaper would be to use the Amazon.com Kindle devices to put the open source eBooks on.
I think the State of California can earn money by selling the eBooks and printed books to other states to raise money and help the other states save money as well. Just for the cost of printing up the open source text books plus a little extra to help pay off their debts.
Read the FAQ and you'll see how many applications that WINE supports and then match that with the XP applications that Vista supports.
I did and I found that WINE supports more "legacy applications" than Vista does. Stuff like Visual BASIC 6.0 you can run in WINE, but not Vista (Unless you have a VB 6.0 SP6 Install CD, older versions won't install for me.)
One version of WGA gets installed automatically without asking the user.
On my XP system it keeps coming up and I keep denying it to install, then it installed itself as part of a different update and I had to remove it.
There is no benefit that I can see to use it, my system is verified as genuine via Microsoft's web site without WGA being installed.
The statement that WGA is not spyware is astroturf from Microsoft fanboys. If you block access to the Internet, WGA says your system may not be genuine and marks it as "grayware".
For example under Windows XP, if the Firewall blocked the WGA verification internet connection, your copy of XP got called "grayware" because it could not verify the genuineness of the XP install.
If you reformatted and reinstalled, sometimes you got activation problems anyway, requiring you to log on to your Passport account and activate the Windows that way, and then WGA still says you might not be legit.
With Microsoft forcing activation, it will only lead to more "false positives" in genuine Windows usage.
you just disable features on it, and only install the core of the OS. Windows XP worked the same way.
P2P Pirates have a Tiny XP Distro based on XP Pro that only has the core of the XP OS minus IE, Media Player, and other things and it runs faster than the average XP Pro install. I think it only needs 48M of RAM and is about 384M of hard drive space it takes up.
You can get the same effect by installing the minimal XP Pro and then selecting Internet Explorer and Media Player to be uninstalled.
I'm hoping that Windows 7.0 has a minimal install option and allows you to remove parts of it that slow it down.
The Borland Museum has the old Turbo series of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo C++ for MS-DOS downloadable for free.
Turbo Pascal and Delphi got replaced by Free Pascal, and Turbo C++ got replaced with GNU C++ and MinGW C++ for Windows which are open source alternatives to them. Which I think is why the Borland Museum got opened and why the command line version of Borland C++ was given away for free.
While people were waiting for the Borland Museum to release Delphi 1.0 the Lazarus Project was developed based on Free Pascal to replace Delphi.
unless the chips and expansion card circuit boards can be made in masses to make them more affordable. You have to make them in mass quantities in order to drive the cost of them down.
Nobody wants to buy a $300 Open Source graphic card, when a closed source graphic card costs $100 and has better graphics.
Still this is a good idea, instead of Chinese companies stealing closed source ideas and violating IP laws, they can make open source graphic cards using the open source license and be legal. I would like to see open sourced computer systems complete with monitors, keyboards, wireless network adapters, etc. That way the Asian cloners can copy an open source standard instead of pirating the IP needed to make cheap knockoff clones.
Russia made an Apple// Clone with no troubles. How come they cannot fork a Fedora clone from the open source code? I think even China was able to do that with Red Flag Linux. Maybe they can license Red Flag Linux from China? I am sure it has all of the Communist customizations for spying on their citizens built into it.:)
AT&T could buy out AOL and merge it with their ISPS and Yahoo.
Oracle could buy out AOL and merge it with Sun, and port the AOL software to Solaris and SunOS.
Google could buy out AOL and turn it into GOL or Google Online.
Nobody can buy out AOL and let them go into bankruptcy with all of their debt.
AOL was a crappy ISP with bloatware for their connection software. Almost every service that AOL provides one can get for free or almost free on the Internet. Before the Internet explosion, AOL was something like Prodigy, CompuServe, et al because there was no world wide web. I can remember when AOL was Commodore 64 GEOS based, before it was ported to Windows and the Mac.
The best part of AOL was Netscape, but they even got rid of that.
It would be interesting if the phone was based on the old Apple Newton device. Apple could claim IP back to the Newton before a lot of these "Smart Phones" got invented.
It only makes sense as Microsoft used Windows CE in their smart phones, that Apple recycles the Newton into a Newton phone. You got that IP there, and it can be modified to run on ARM processors, and it pre-dates the iPhone.
Actually I died in November 2004. I invented an AI Robot to post for me on Slashdot and other web sites for me, based on the data I uploaded to my computer about my personality.
Now, people like me, Orion Blastar, can live on forever using the Cyber Zombies services out there to keep our friends, family, and enemies, updated of our existence after death.
Oh yeah, for those sinners out there, repent, or you'll end up in Hell. Just a little reminder of my preaching from beyond the grave, muahahahaahah!
they can now digitize any actor or actress and put them in a movie via CGI effects. Even dead ones, as long as they don't have a clause in their contracts that says they cannot.
Did you know that they almost went with OJ Simpson as The Termination instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger? Imagine if OJ got that role? They'd have to use his image because he is in jail for a long time now and couldn't be allowed to get out of jail to film the movie.
I have a ton of DRM protected eBooks from my college. They only work in Adobe Acrobat Reader. How do I remove the DRM, or would removing the DRM so that I can use them in a third party PDF viewer be a violation of my license with the college and publishers?
I really don't want to lose my eBook library, but I don't want to get infected either.
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It is more likely than you think.
When government keeps getting bigger and bigger, it starts to behave and act more like Big Brother than our founding fathers.
The government that governs least, governs best. Whomever said that be it John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, or Napoleon.
It seems at least in fiction, there is a way to fight the UKian Big Brother but I wouldn't advise it to UKians, least if they don't want to get arrested. :)
Yes it is, welcome to the 21st century.
Many IT managers read "Dilbert" to get new ideas about how to manage their IT employees by following what the PHB (Pointy Haired Boss) does. "Dilbert" cartoons are based on reality and people keep sending in their IT Nightmare stories to Scott Adams who keeps turning them into "Dilbert" stories.
Hardy har har:
Wanted Windows 7.0 Axum developer, must work with .Net 4.0 and Microsoft Office 2010, must have minimum of five years of experience in all of them, knowledge of standardized OOXML by the ISO a must.
No open source developers accepted, must have at least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science minoring in Axom programming and Concurrent Languages knowledge.
Of course they will get thousands of submissions from people in India, China, and Russia claiming to have such experience on their resumes, ready for an H1B Work Visa program.
Real developers with jobs, use whatever OS and programming language that management tells them to use, if they want to keep their jobs that is.
Real developers without jobs contribute to open source projects using whatever language and OS they want. Sadly if you want the freedom to choose your OS and programming language, you have to be without a job to do so, or do it on your spare time at home as your real job requires you to use something else.
The only exception to this is to start up your own small business and develop software and solutions and be your own boss and create your own job or work for an open source software business.
Does that mean each teacher can edit them to fit his/her classes and then publish their own version for the school?
It really depends on who is editing them and how accurate they are.
If I were the Governator I would have the California colleges write the Open Source textbooks as part of their required projects, and then California would have open source textbooks written on almost every public school subject you could think of.
It would be cheap to just print up self-published copies using a Laser Printer and book binder. Even cheaper would be to use the Amazon.com Kindle devices to put the open source eBooks on.
I think the State of California can earn money by selling the eBooks and printed books to other states to raise money and help the other states save money as well. Just for the cost of printing up the open source text books plus a little extra to help pay off their debts.
It is not done yet but it is still being developed on. One day there will be a WINE for Windows Vista and Windows 7.0 to run XP applications.
Read the FAQ and you'll see how many applications that WINE supports and then match that with the XP applications that Vista supports.
I did and I found that WINE supports more "legacy applications" than Vista does. Stuff like Visual BASIC 6.0 you can run in WINE, but not Vista (Unless you have a VB 6.0 SP6 Install CD, older versions won't install for me.)
One version of WGA gets installed automatically without asking the user.
On my XP system it keeps coming up and I keep denying it to install, then it installed itself as part of a different update and I had to remove it.
There is no benefit that I can see to use it, my system is verified as genuine via Microsoft's web site without WGA being installed.
The statement that WGA is not spyware is astroturf from Microsoft fanboys. If you block access to the Internet, WGA says your system may not be genuine and marks it as "grayware".
WGA Secret is that it is Spyware and Microsoft is sued over WGA Spyware complaints and Tool is invented to remove WGA Spyware.
WGA is also Spyware, it reports back to Microsoft the list of software applications you installed on your computer and other things.
false positives.
For example under Windows XP, if the Firewall blocked the WGA verification internet connection, your copy of XP got called "grayware" because it could not verify the genuineness of the XP install.
If you reformatted and reinstalled, sometimes you got activation problems anyway, requiring you to log on to your Passport account and activate the Windows that way, and then WGA still says you might not be legit.
With Microsoft forcing activation, it will only lead to more "false positives" in genuine Windows usage.
so we don't need debug.exe anymore.
Anyone remember Borland Turbo Debugger or Microsoft Codeview? I used to use them to debug programs as well in Assembly Language.
we port WINE over to Windows 7.0? I am sure that it will run Windows XP programs better than this half-arsed Intel VT goof.
Open Source software to the rescue!
you just disable features on it, and only install the core of the OS. Windows XP worked the same way.
P2P Pirates have a Tiny XP Distro based on XP Pro that only has the core of the XP OS minus IE, Media Player, and other things and it runs faster than the average XP Pro install. I think it only needs 48M of RAM and is about 384M of hard drive space it takes up.
You can get the same effect by installing the minimal XP Pro and then selecting Internet Explorer and Media Player to be uninstalled.
I'm hoping that Windows 7.0 has a minimal install option and allows you to remove parts of it that slow it down.
Already taken IWin.com is a search engine and game show all in one.
What name is Apple going to use?
Will it be iPhone based or iMac based?
Will they just modify the AppleTV and make it the AppleConsole?
The Borland Museum has the old Turbo series of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo C++ for MS-DOS downloadable for free.
Turbo Pascal and Delphi got replaced by Free Pascal, and Turbo C++ got replaced with GNU C++ and MinGW C++ for Windows which are open source alternatives to them. Which I think is why the Borland Museum got opened and why the command line version of Borland C++ was given away for free.
While people were waiting for the Borland Museum to release Delphi 1.0 the Lazarus Project was developed based on Free Pascal to replace Delphi.
unless the chips and expansion card circuit boards can be made in masses to make them more affordable. You have to make them in mass quantities in order to drive the cost of them down.
Nobody wants to buy a $300 Open Source graphic card, when a closed source graphic card costs $100 and has better graphics.
Still this is a good idea, instead of Chinese companies stealing closed source ideas and violating IP laws, they can make open source graphic cards using the open source license and be legal. I would like to see open sourced computer systems complete with monitors, keyboards, wireless network adapters, etc. That way the Asian cloners can copy an open source standard instead of pirating the IP needed to make cheap knockoff clones.
Russia made an Apple // Clone with no troubles. How come they cannot fork a Fedora clone from the open source code? I think even China was able to do that with Red Flag Linux. Maybe they can license Red Flag Linux from China? I am sure it has all of the Communist customizations for spying on their citizens built into it. :)
Microsoft could buy AOL and merge it with MSN.
AT&T could buy out AOL and merge it with their ISPS and Yahoo.
Oracle could buy out AOL and merge it with Sun, and port the AOL software to Solaris and SunOS.
Google could buy out AOL and turn it into GOL or Google Online.
Nobody can buy out AOL and let them go into bankruptcy with all of their debt.
AOL was a crappy ISP with bloatware for their connection software. Almost every service that AOL provides one can get for free or almost free on the Internet. Before the Internet explosion, AOL was something like Prodigy, CompuServe, et al because there was no world wide web. I can remember when AOL was Commodore 64 GEOS based, before it was ported to Windows and the Mac.
The best part of AOL was Netscape, but they even got rid of that.
or the Mac Phone.
It would be interesting if the phone was based on the old Apple Newton device. Apple could claim IP back to the Newton before a lot of these "Smart Phones" got invented.
It only makes sense as Microsoft used Windows CE in their smart phones, that Apple recycles the Newton into a Newton phone. You got that IP there, and it can be modified to run on ARM processors, and it pre-dates the iPhone.
Actually I died in November 2004. I invented an AI Robot to post for me on Slashdot and other web sites for me, based on the data I uploaded to my computer about my personality.
Now, people like me, Orion Blastar, can live on forever using the Cyber Zombies services out there to keep our friends, family, and enemies, updated of our existence after death.
Oh yeah, for those sinners out there, repent, or you'll end up in Hell. Just a little reminder of my preaching from beyond the grave, muahahahaahah!
they can now digitize any actor or actress and put them in a movie via CGI effects. Even dead ones, as long as they don't have a clause in their contracts that says they cannot.
Did you know that they almost went with OJ Simpson as The Termination instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger? Imagine if OJ got that role? They'd have to use his image because he is in jail for a long time now and couldn't be allowed to get out of jail to film the movie.
The Open Document Format - ODF was supposed to replace PDF anyway. Why not hasten the process and make a PDF to ODF converter?
The ODF Alliance should be on that case to do a converter program to convert all document formats to ODF format.
I have a ton of DRM protected eBooks from my college. They only work in Adobe Acrobat Reader. How do I remove the DRM, or would removing the DRM so that I can use them in a third party PDF viewer be a violation of my license with the college and publishers?
I really don't want to lose my eBook library, but I don't want to get infected either.