We handled everything in house because the very first time we called MS for support they told us, "Ummmmm, have you tried reinstalling?"
This has been their standard operating procedure for years. A reinstall usually keeps that person from calling back for at least 24 hours.
However, the other thing it does is wipe all the competitor's software from the machine. Who knows? Maybe that is the main goal. Installing applications on MS-Windows is neither easy nor automatable like on Linux, BSD or OS X. I'm surprised (ok, more disappointed than surprised) that this hasn't come up in any anti-trust investigations.
Actually, I'd call the unchanged state (except for patches) of Debian a huge succcess.
Stable is just that, stable. If you don't get that then you're missing the point.
With stable you get patches and bug fixes, but not different versions with their changed funtionality and unkowns. That's what you want in a production environment, stablility, whether it's a server somewhere or on your desktop. And Debian delivers that.
If you want new things, then there are probably specific things that you have in mind, not usually a general desire to change everything randomly.
If you want, it's possible to maintain a mixed system, so that you have the new packages you want without otherwise messing with your production environment.
there is data from WWII-era German births providing a link to the same phenomena in humans
Then it is simply a defect or disability like many other problems.
Many, many environmental contaminants function as hormone mimics. Both the right wing and the left wing would have a fit if there were found to be a positive correlation between exposure in the womb or during early puberty and defects. However, I can't see either side supporting research to confirm or deny that.
Dude, birth rate is going down (which is good / sustainable) but there haven't been strict immigration policies for a long time. So the population has still been climbing. A case in point is Malmö which is in southern Sweden, yet the largest ethnic minority there is Swedes. Similar things can be said of other regions, Denmark, Canada, too.
It's a mixed group. Some are people that anyone would be happy or, in some cases, proud to live next to or work with. Others are, quite literally, war criminals. There are no major ethnic riots, that's reserved for football, but there are large street fights from time to time involving dozens on each side. It's not something that the countries like to advertise, but ignoring the problem isn't going to help it any.
You can read about it in the local languages in some countries, though it's forbidden in some areas to mention the ethnicity of the groups involved.
Hibernation can't have a direct benefit on keeping the population down.
As everyone mentiones, space travel would be a good application for hibernation, but it's not possible to export people faster than they are being produced today with the focus on quantity over quality.
Travel by ship in hibernation on the planet is only a theoretical possibility, but all habitable areas are colonized and air travel would get them there anyway. I can't think anyone would want to end up lost, like many parcels and peices of luggage do, or risk ending up as an organ bank.
I dunno, maybe hibernation will bring a new angle on time-share condos?
This effect can be seen in China - birth rates have dropped but the effect of people wanting to drive cars rather than cycle may have some adverse effects on oil prices for a long time to come
That can probably be attributed to two factors: a bombardment of advertising encouraging private motor vehicles as status objects and the government deciding top-down that car manufacture and sales will be part of the new economy
However, the general point is correct, the increase of standard of living must come with lower resource usage. That goes especially for those currently burning through the majority of the resources.
IBM is itself was a mafioso-like offender of patent strategy. They have been known to go to a company armed with their patent arsenal saying: "you are violating a through z" forcing a company to do an exhaustive time-consuming, money-spending investigation...
That's common knowledge, at least for most in ICT.
What is interesting is that IBM now has the position that software patents are not good. What is also interesting is that IBM has been letting some of its patents go. I haven't looked at which patents, so they could be useless ones. If not, then perhaps IBM sees them as not likely to increase in value and is converting them to cash. That's what I'd do if I had a lot of patents that were going to EOL as a result of chaning legislation.
Dspace is a good repository system. That's quite different from library systems which sometimes include a repository system for electronic resources.
Dspace's job is digging up the document via searching or browsing. Lending a physical artifact, like a CD or a book, is not a task it is intended to track. So if your entire collection is wholly electronic and could be put on the web, then Dspace might be a good option.
A nice addition for the Firefox installer, or any program that gets tweaked a lot, would be a sort of kickstart script to allow automatically installing and configuring plug-ins.
There's already a few ways to do this for the linux distros.
I've used Koha and know people using and testing it. I've also used expensive systems like Notis, Aleph, Voyager, plus about four other major systems. I've also had the misfortune to be able to poke around the internals of some of those. None are good, though some have more drawbacks than others. Some that I haven't named are good others are really terrible.
Koha is rather good. It is better than the commercial systems in some areas and still lacking in some others. What it's mainly missing is a high-pressure sales team and a budget for whiskey & golf trips to soften people for signing.
Koha runs on any *nix or BSD, such as Debian GNU/Linux, OS X or even QNX. The software installation and configuration is easy. It's in Perl and uses MySQL and Apache. The customization of the interface and policies, though will take some time. The system requirements are not heavy and a library with a small user load can get by with a PII.
I have heard and seen good things about the OPAC, cataloging interface and the circulation modules. The cataloging is more flexible than most of the bigger name library systems, especially when it comes to non-roman alphabets. The acquisitions system is not familiar to me.
Except for the fact that it's far more flexible and customizable than the big name systems, it isabout as far along (or behind) as the others.
Are you sure you mean Photoshop CS, not Photoshop Album?
Interestingly in Consumer Reports' review last year of similar tools, they intentionally left out Photoshop and other well know competitors. Instead they fawned over MS experimental entry in a way that reminded me of when the PC magazines went south:
The magazines used to evaluate the products and choose a winner to recommend based heavily on technical merit. Later, they started throwing in a recommendation for MS products along side the real recommendations. Now, they just rehash MS press releases about promises for upcoming products or features and skip the evaluations.
PDF already is the standard for printable documents. Forgetting for a moment that the dozen or so MS Word ".doc" formats aren't quite compatible and screw up minor layout, you still aren't getting the fonts. PDF contains the fonts and will print as it is supposed to.
Plus there are many different standalone PDF readers out there for MS-Windows, Linux, OS X, and so on.
MS-Word doesn't have a standalone reader except on... MS-Windows. And if you already have MS-Windows, MS-Office is probably already on the machine.
PDF's can even embed metadata, which is a great bonus for locally searching your collection. e.g. Finding all documents of a particular author, or in a particular project, or about a particular topic.
The big drawback to PDFs is that it is not practical to re-edit them. But then that's not what they're for. They're essentially paper that hasn't come out of the printer yet.
For editable documents, the industry looks to be moving towards OpenDocument, which is a vendor-neutral, open, royalty-free, XML-based file format being shaped up by OASIS. All the big (and many of the small) international names in electronic publishing are members in OASIS. OpenDocument is being supported and encouraged by the EU as well and will be the main format for OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, AbiWord, Kword, and others. Google already indexes it.
Actually it appears that the European Commission doesn't even take the law seriously. Since there were objections to the CIID, it could not have been an A-item and it should not even be up for discussion at the parliament until the Commission itself hammers out the bugs.
Don't worry the decision is being made in the middle of the summer (July) when most members of parliament are away on a few weeks holidays. Since an abstention/absence counts as a yes vote, it'll likely walk through.
Could this be a response to feeling the heat from the Linux Terminal Server Project ? Kiosks, classrooms and call centers do well with thin clients and the hardware specs for LTSP let you get by with really old or inexpensive hardware on the client side.
Being on a committee and helping is very different than being on a committee and doing a) nothing b) being passively obstructive or c) being actively obstructive.
So far MS is on the record as the only OASIS member taking a "wait and see" strategy to the OpenDocument DTD. Whether it's participation is in role a, b or c, who knows? except other committee members. At some point MS is going to be left behind.
Most home users who do very little customization or fiddling could probably be up and running OS X within minutes. There's just a psychological factor involved when switching architectures. But then Macs are more expensive, right?
The same goes for basic corporate users, but since system skills can be acquired (by training, replacing, or hiring) there is also the option of linux or BSD.
Heck, forget certified, a lot of applications plain don't WORK under SP2.
Some new client software that one acquaintence is being pressured to look at by her current vendor doesn't work at all under SP2. The soon-to-be-discontinued client works just fine since it's accessed via a terminal emulator and can therefore be accessed from any platform with a terminal emulator.
The new one can't. Nor does it function under XP SP2.
If the vendor came out with a linux or bsd port for the new client then she could forget about MS-Windows altogether and wouldn't have to have those machines set up for dual boot. But then that would make sense.
The article is kind of weak on the details, but does dealing with just the eggs address the build up of free radicals?
Fully grown daphnia and other small animals have been re-hydrated and brought to life before. That works even for ones that were on the shelf for over a century. But they die right away. The longer the dry period, the shorter the life after re-hydration. Apparently, the cause is thought to be free radicals which accumulate during the dry period and kill the organisms within minutes.
The title was a bit misleading, I was naïvely hoping for an article about bringing back the passenger pidgeon, dodo or blue pike.
Some earlier work almost mentioned at the bottom of the article showed some really interesting patterns regarding the movement of alleles. The The history and geography of human genes byL. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza (1994) took samples from people around the world from smaller areas and that had been at least three generations in that area. One interesting observation is that the separate genes seem to travel separately. In many cases you can see that the distribution pattern of certain alleles follow trade routes, old political boundaries, linguistic regions and even archaelogical trends.
However, the post-WWII generation in most countries has moved so much that these studies are hard to do at least as far as specific subpopulations go.
But my company is moving away from Solaris because the new Dell Boxes are at least three times as fast as the fastest Sun we have.
And cost one third as much!
What was your evaluation of linux on PPC in regards to price and performance? The dual G5 power macs start at 1800 and the dual G5 xserves start at 3500.
I don't have any real benchmarks myself, but find that old G4's do large compilations faster than (comparatively) newer Intel-based computers. Like I said no scientific benchmarks, but enough for me to notice and want to ask.
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However, the other thing it does is wipe all the competitor's software from the machine. Who knows? Maybe that is the main goal. Installing applications on MS-Windows is neither easy nor automatable like on Linux, BSD or OS X. I'm surprised (ok, more disappointed than surprised) that this hasn't come up in any anti-trust investigations.
Stable is just that, stable. If you don't get that then you're missing the point.
With stable you get patches and bug fixes, but not different versions with their changed funtionality and unkowns. That's what you want in a production environment, stablility, whether it's a server somewhere or on your desktop. And Debian delivers that.
If you want new things, then there are probably specific things that you have in mind, not usually a general desire to change everything randomly.
If you want, it's possible to maintain a mixed system, so that you have the new packages you want without otherwise messing with your production environment.
Many, many environmental contaminants function as hormone mimics. Both the right wing and the left wing would have a fit if there were found to be a positive correlation between exposure in the womb or during early puberty and defects. However, I can't see either side supporting research to confirm or deny that.
It's a mixed group. Some are people that anyone would be happy or, in some cases, proud to live next to or work with. Others are, quite literally, war criminals. There are no major ethnic riots, that's reserved for football, but there are large street fights from time to time involving dozens on each side. It's not something that the countries like to advertise, but ignoring the problem isn't going to help it any. You can read about it in the local languages in some countries, though it's forbidden in some areas to mention the ethnicity of the groups involved.
Hibernation can't have a direct benefit on keeping the population down. As everyone mentiones, space travel would be a good application for hibernation, but it's not possible to export people faster than they are being produced today with the focus on quantity over quality. Travel by ship in hibernation on the planet is only a theoretical possibility, but all habitable areas are colonized and air travel would get them there anyway. I can't think anyone would want to end up lost, like many parcels and peices of luggage do, or risk ending up as an organ bank.
I dunno, maybe hibernation will bring a new angle on time-share condos?
However, the general point is correct, the increase of standard of living must come with lower resource usage. That goes especially for those currently burning through the majority of the resources.
Or adjust the population growth rate to 0%. However, that would take coordination, planning and forethought.
What is interesting is that IBM now has the position that software patents are not good. What is also interesting is that IBM has been letting some of its patents go. I haven't looked at which patents, so they could be useless ones. If not, then perhaps IBM sees them as not likely to increase in value and is converting them to cash. That's what I'd do if I had a lot of patents that were going to EOL as a result of chaning legislation.
Dspace's job is digging up the document via searching or browsing. Lending a physical artifact, like a CD or a book, is not a task it is intended to track. So if your entire collection is wholly electronic and could be put on the web, then Dspace might be a good option.
There's already a few ways to do this for the linux distros.
I've also used expensive systems like Notis, Aleph, Voyager, plus about four other major systems. I've also had the misfortune to be able to poke around the internals of some of those. None are good, though some have more drawbacks than others. Some that I haven't named are good others are really terrible.
Koha is rather good. It is better than the commercial systems in some areas and still lacking in some others. What it's mainly missing is a high-pressure sales team and a budget for whiskey & golf trips to soften people for signing .
Koha runs on any *nix or BSD, such as Debian GNU/Linux, OS X or even QNX. The software installation and configuration is easy. It's in Perl and uses MySQL and Apache. The customization of the interface and policies, though will take some time. The system requirements are not heavy and a library with a small user load can get by with a PII.
I have heard and seen good things about the OPAC, cataloging interface and the circulation modules. The cataloging is more flexible than most of the bigger name library systems, especially when it comes to non-roman alphabets. The acquisitions system is not familiar to me.
Except for the fact that it's far more flexible and customizable than the big name systems, it isabout as far along (or behind) as the others.
The magazines used to evaluate the products and choose a winner to recommend based heavily on technical merit. Later, they started throwing in a recommendation for MS products along side the real recommendations. Now, they just rehash MS press releases about promises for upcoming products or features and skip the evaluations.
Plus there are many different standalone PDF readers out there for MS-Windows, Linux, OS X, and so on. MS-Word doesn't have a standalone reader except on ... MS-Windows. And if you already have MS-Windows, MS-Office is probably already on the machine.
PDF's can even embed metadata, which is a great bonus for locally searching your collection. e.g. Finding all documents of a particular author, or in a particular project, or about a particular topic.
The big drawback to PDFs is that it is not practical to re-edit them. But then that's not what they're for. They're essentially paper that hasn't come out of the printer yet.
For editable documents, the industry looks to be moving towards OpenDocument, which is a vendor-neutral, open, royalty-free, XML-based file format being shaped up by OASIS. All the big (and many of the small) international names in electronic publishing are members in OASIS. OpenDocument is being supported and encouraged by the EU as well and will be the main format for OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, AbiWord, Kword, and others. Google already indexes it.
Actually it appears that the European Commission doesn't even take the law seriously. Since there were objections to the CIID, it could not have been an A-item and it should not even be up for discussion at the parliament until the Commission itself hammers out the bugs.
Don't worry the decision is being made in the middle of the summer (July) when most members of parliament are away on a few weeks holidays. Since an abstention/absence counts as a yes vote, it'll likely walk through.
Could this be a response to feeling the heat from the Linux Terminal Server Project ? Kiosks, classrooms and call centers do well with thin clients and the hardware specs for LTSP let you get by with really old or inexpensive hardware on the client side.
OpenDocument is being supported and encouraged within the EU. It will also be supported in OpenOffice 2.0, which is due out soon. The beta for OOo 2 is out already for testing.
It's got a lot of strikes against it:
The same goes for basic corporate users, but since system skills can be acquired (by training, replacing, or hiring) there is also the option of linux or BSD.
Some new client software that one acquaintence is being pressured to look at by her current vendor doesn't work at all under SP2. The soon-to-be-discontinued client works just fine since it's accessed via a terminal emulator and can therefore be accessed from any platform with a terminal emulator. The new one can't. Nor does it function under XP SP2.
If the vendor came out with a linux or bsd port for the new client then she could forget about MS-Windows altogether and wouldn't have to have those machines set up for dual boot. But then that would make sense.
Fully grown daphnia and other small animals have been re-hydrated and brought to life before. That works even for ones that were on the shelf for over a century. But they die right away. The longer the dry period, the shorter the life after re-hydration. Apparently, the cause is thought to be free radicals which accumulate during the dry period and kill the organisms within minutes.
The title was a bit misleading, I was naïvely hoping for an article about bringing back the passenger pidgeon, dodo or blue pike.
Now it too is cheap, safe, clean and relaible, plus more stations and better service counters, just like the British one.
Hence the expression,
Fatherhood is opinion, motherhood is fact.
However, the post-WWII generation in most countries has moved so much that these studies are hard to do at least as far as specific subpopulations go.
I don't have any real benchmarks myself, but find that old G4's do large compilations faster than (comparatively) newer Intel-based computers. Like I said no scientific benchmarks, but enough for me to notice and want to ask.
Many Western countries used to do forced sterilisation and other "treatments" like electro-convulsive treatment, but there's not been much of a stir.