You definately don't like Outlook, but what do you reccomend? What do you think is a good replacement for the functionality that Outlook provides, including features such as calander software and such?
Lotus Domino. Preferably on an IBM iSeries, but on a PC if you have to. All of the calendaring, none of the viruses...
What suite of programs are we going to use on all the desktops now that Exchange is gone? Remember that it doesn't just do email; it does tasks and meetings and all that crap.
What "quick solution" do you recommend for thousands of people at a time?
Lotus Domino. Preferably on an IBM iSeries. Consolidate your six Exchange crap-boxes into one Model 820 with six server LPARs. All of the calendaring and better searching than MSX, with NO viruses (as of yet). I can't believe that the military is so stupid as to think that MS is the only groupware supplier out there.
However, it would make it NON-EXPLOITABLE, because a safe language would cause an error...
Which would allow it to be used in a DOS exploit. Imagine every time you opened an SSH connection, within 10 seconds it crashed. This is still an exploitable defect, though in another manner.
This is not to say that modern languages are not a good idea, just that they are not panaceas (or placebos, if you are a/. editor:-).
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Why are people ignoring 30 years of code maturity?
Show me a 30 year-old C compiler that's still in use.
The language may be mature; the knowledge that the compiler writers possess about the language and how to compile it may be mature; but I seriously doubt the maturity of most compiler code in use today.
By your rationale, we should prefer Fortran and Lisp
OOPS! I do (at least for most things). Never mind...
Realloc can also move the memory block ensuring that any pointers to the interior of the original memory block will be FU'ed. Realloc is a great idea when the main thing you deal with is arrays of chars or ins or floats, but most programs these days use data structures that have slightly more linkage than that. Similarly, a straight bit-by-bit copy is almost never proper copy semantics for data structures. Realloc is, in general, a car wreck waiting to happen. The original poster was right.
Send a letter telling of your lifelong support of the Democratic Party and why you do not like this bill together with a copy of your check made out the the Green Party of South Carolina. Send a copy of this letter and the copied check to the Democratic National Comittee. Fritz and his folks will get a clue really fast this way.
... write your letter, letting them know that you're a lifelong Democrat and enclose a copy of your contribution check made out to the Green Party (the larger, the better). Send a copy of the letter and the check to the DNC, as well. His aides will get hit with a cluestick really, really fast.
If you want to have an impact, make sure he knows you are a lifelong Democrat and send a copy of your $1000.00 check that you've sent to the Green party. Send a copy to the DNC, as well. His aides will start noticing REAL quick.
I am just astonished at the arrogance of the Microsoft legal team. I hope it bites them on the ass the way it did with Judge Jackson.
Maybe that's their other strategy. Make the judge so pissed off that she makes some outburst that they can use on appeal to show that the judge was biased.
I'd be called biased, too... I don't tend to like lying, arrogant people either.
Well you catch people masturbating to porn (never women I might add *Sigh) when you are working and then see just how happy you are to see it...
Well, the solution is obvious, isn't it? Get your digital camera and take pictures of them to post to a gay site! Even better, just install the little web cams and grab images. After all, I'm sure the gay guys out there would be quite interested in this activity from the demographic that inhabits your library. It also might bring in a few funds for the library.
If you include permission to be photographed using the library as part of your registration agreement it would be perfectly legal, too!
Finally, if word of this "solution" got around, you might not even see this activity taking place anymore.
And, in any case, you'll be trained for an exciting profession in photography!
when Sun says they can make it work, they will MAKE it work...
Well, I tend to believe that a company whose mainstay for the last 70 or so years has been service can make their system work, too. And a bit better than some "fly-by-night" firm that seems to have a "solution of the week" fetish.
Network exec #1: The whole Futurama thing is just so ironic '90's, you know. That concept's done to death.
Network exec #2: Yeah, and that Groenig guy's from Portland, anyway... Who the hell comes from Portland, for God's sake? And he can't even draw!
Network exec #3: The numbers are sucking, too. That ironic thing is tired. But before we cancel it, we gotta come up with a show for that slot.
Network exec #2: Well, the market surveys say that sincerity and wholesomeness is hot right now but, somehow, bringing back the Osmonds just doesn't seem right.
Network exec #1: But people still like cartoons. I got it! The Family Circus Hour. We could do production in Japan and keep costs down...
Network exec #2: Yeah, but it still has to be a bit edgy. You know, send the mom back to work...
Network exec #3: As a stripper!!! Those Japanese cartoonists could do some nice stuff to Mom's cleavage!
Network exec #2: The stripper's a good touch! It'll get the 14-25 YM demographic.
Network exec #1: Boys, I think we got a real winner here. We'll call it "The Family Circus - Mom's a Stripper - Hour. That's just the working title, of course. Joe, call legal to get us the rights; Jim, call Eddie Johnson to hack us a script together; Bill, call Okutaka-san to set up the anime contract. Marvin, go ahead with the press release saying that we're cancalling that Futurama turkey and get the press rolling for TFCMSH. This new show is going to be ratings heaven!!!!
... just tell your fsckin' boss to Ask Slashdot himself so we can kick his ass, too:-).
BTW, the ONLY languages that cover the entire set of design criteria listed are Allegro Common Lisp by Franz, Inc. or LispWorks by Xanalys. But something tells me that your boss isn't interested in hearing that answer, either.
And they don't have to be retrained everytime Windows or Office changes version?
As much as I'd like to say "No," the answer is really "Yes, they don't need to be retrained." The reason is simple. Even though Microsoft breaks the ability to read new files in the old products almost each time, the old docs read into the new version just fine. Old features do not disappear and, if the new features are not used, the user has no need to be retrained. If the user needs a new feature, he or she might need a small bit of training to use the new feature. So the users do not require complete retraining when a new version is released. However, it's been many, many releases since Microsoft released any essential new features, so it's getting harder and harder for them to justify their upgrade cycle, leading to subscription models, etc.
If I go and photocopy the latest John Grisham novel and put it in my library, you bet I'm risking trouble.
Dude, if someone is dumb enough to go to the trouble of photocopying an entire John Grisham novel, they've already got trouble. Double that for anything by Tom Clancy. Do these guys get paid by the pound, or what?
It's a sad thing that the JVM also sucks for non-Java-like languages. One of the points that they make is that languages like Lisp and Smalltalk suck on the CLR. However the same issues are present in the JVM (Kawa's bowdlerized Scheme implementation notwithstanding). And it's not like Sun hasn't been aware of this shortcoming either (With people like Guy Steele and Dick Gabriel on their research payroll, how could they not be aware?). If they had listened to people outside the Java community that wanted a better (read MORE UNIVERSAL) VM, they might had had a moral leg on which to stand.
As it is, this stupid editorial is just a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The only problems that Sun should have with CLR is that (1) it's by Microsoft and (2) Microsoft did a better job at beating Sun at their own game. Not that I like the CLR any beter than the JVM - they both blow chunks for dynamically-typed languages and for languages having anything different from simple class-based objects, but this editorial is just brain-dead.
Microsoft provided free product to their beta testers. You did not have to pay to become one.
Au contraire, mon frere. You pay in your time and effort. More importantly and sadly, you pay in self-respect.
There's a reason for the saying: "Friends don't let friends install Microsoft software." Once you start down the path of the dark side, forever will it keep you...
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How could Television networks fight this? It's simple: Provide streaming content from their website.
How could television networks fight this? It's even simpler: Write more obvious product placements into the shows...
[Interior shot - Crew room of Enterprise]
Crewman 1 (punching buttons on replicator) to Crewman 2: Can I get you a Coke?
Crewman 2: Yeah, but make it a Diet Coke. Ya know, it tastes just as good, but only has 2 calories. Fitness eval is coming up next month and I have to drop a few pounds...
... and so on. How do you skip comercials when they're woven into the fabric of the show?
Course they can always use crawls and split screens, too...
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Lotus Domino. Preferably on an IBM iSeries, but on a PC if you have to. All of the calendaring, none of the viruses...
What "quick solution" do you recommend for thousands of people at a time?
Lotus Domino. Preferably on an IBM iSeries. Consolidate your six Exchange crap-boxes into one Model 820 with six server LPARs. All of the calendaring and better searching than MSX, with NO viruses (as of yet). I can't believe that the military is so stupid as to think that MS is the only groupware supplier out there.
Sometimes I think the geek worldview would depress me if it weren't so f*cking pathetic I had to laugh...
... that Britney Spears and N'Sync had 6000 songs to download!
Come on, be fair. More marry their cousins and some of 'em even drink cheap wine when they're out on a date with 'em.
And they all watch Fox News when Pro Wrestlin' ain't on...
Which would allow it to be used in a DOS exploit. Imagine every time you opened an SSH connection, within 10 seconds it crashed. This is still an exploitable defect, though in another manner.
This is not to say that modern languages are not a good idea, just that they are not panaceas (or placebos, if you are a /. editor :-).
Show me a 30 year-old C compiler that's still in use.
The language may be mature; the knowledge that the compiler writers possess about the language and how to compile it may be mature; but I seriously doubt the maturity of most compiler code in use today.
By your rationale, we should prefer Fortran and Lisp
OOPS! I do (at least for most things). Never mind...
The problem IS with realloc.
Realloc can also move the memory block ensuring that any pointers to the interior of the original memory block will be FU'ed. Realloc is a great idea when the main thing you deal with is arrays of chars or ins or floats, but most programs these days use data structures that have slightly more linkage than that. Similarly, a straight bit-by-bit copy is almost never proper copy semantics for data structures. Realloc is, in general, a car wreck waiting to happen. The original poster was right.
Send a letter telling of your lifelong support of the Democratic Party and why you do not like this bill together with a copy of your check made out the the Green Party of South Carolina. Send a copy of this letter and the copied check to the Democratic National Comittee. Fritz and his folks will get a clue really fast this way.
... write your letter, letting them know that you're a lifelong Democrat and enclose a copy of your contribution check made out to the Green Party (the larger, the better). Send a copy of the letter and the check to the DNC, as well. His aides will get hit with a cluestick really, really fast.
If you want to have an impact, make sure he knows you are a lifelong Democrat and send a copy of your $1000.00 check that you've sent to the Green party. Send a copy to the DNC, as well. His aides will start noticing REAL quick.
Maybe that's their other strategy. Make the judge so pissed off that she makes some outburst that they can use on appeal to show that the judge was biased.
I'd be called biased, too... I don't tend to like lying, arrogant people either.
Well, I program in Lisp and so I do. They're all simple procedural languages with a simple stack semantics with maybe a bit of object wrapping.
Like the Red 'Lectroid from Buckaroo Bonzai said, "Big deal".
Well, the solution is obvious, isn't it? Get your digital camera and take pictures of them to post to a gay site! Even better, just install the little web cams and grab images. After all, I'm sure the gay guys out there would be quite interested in this activity from the demographic that inhabits your library. It also might bring in a few funds for the library.
If you include permission to be photographed using the library as part of your registration agreement it would be perfectly legal, too!
Finally, if word of this "solution" got around, you might not even see this activity taking place anymore.
And, in any case, you'll be trained for an exciting profession in photography!
Well, I tend to believe that a company whose mainstay for the last 70 or so years has been service can make their system work, too. And a bit better than some "fly-by-night" firm that seems to have a "solution of the week" fetish.
Yes! No research paper is complete without reference to the goatse man.
Network exec #2: Yeah, and that Groenig guy's from Portland, anyway... Who the hell comes from Portland, for God's sake? And he can't even draw!
Network exec #3: The numbers are sucking, too. That ironic thing is tired. But before we cancel it, we gotta come up with a show for that slot.
Network exec #2: Well, the market surveys say that sincerity and wholesomeness is hot right now but, somehow, bringing back the Osmonds just doesn't seem right.
Network exec #1: But people still like cartoons. I got it! The Family Circus Hour. We could do production in Japan and keep costs down...
Network exec #2: Yeah, but it still has to be a bit edgy. You know, send the mom back to work...
Network exec #3: As a stripper!!! Those Japanese cartoonists could do some nice stuff to Mom's cleavage!
Network exec #2: The stripper's a good touch! It'll get the 14-25 YM demographic.
Network exec #1: Boys, I think we got a real winner here. We'll call it "The Family Circus - Mom's a Stripper - Hour. That's just the working title, of course. Joe, call legal to get us the rights; Jim, call Eddie Johnson to hack us a script together; Bill, call Okutaka-san to set up the anime contract. Marvin, go ahead with the press release saying that we're cancalling that Futurama turkey and get the press rolling for TFCMSH. This new show is going to be ratings heaven!!!!
Because he can...
BTW, the ONLY languages that cover the entire set of design criteria listed are Allegro Common Lisp by Franz, Inc. or LispWorks by Xanalys. But something tells me that your boss isn't interested in hearing that answer, either.
As much as I'd like to say "No," the answer is really "Yes, they don't need to be retrained." The reason is simple. Even though Microsoft breaks the ability to read new files in the old products almost each time, the old docs read into the new version just fine. Old features do not disappear and, if the new features are not used, the user has no need to be retrained. If the user needs a new feature, he or she might need a small bit of training to use the new feature. So the users do not require complete retraining when a new version is released. However, it's been many, many releases since Microsoft released any essential new features, so it's getting harder and harder for them to justify their upgrade cycle, leading to subscription models, etc.
Bah dah boom!
Dude, if someone is dumb enough to go to the trouble of photocopying an entire John Grisham novel, they've already got trouble. Double that for anything by Tom Clancy. Do these guys get paid by the pound, or what?
As it is, this stupid editorial is just a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The only problems that Sun should have with CLR is that (1) it's by Microsoft and (2) Microsoft did a better job at beating Sun at their own game. Not that I like the CLR any beter than the JVM - they both blow chunks for dynamically-typed languages and for languages having anything different from simple class-based objects, but this editorial is just brain-dead.
Au contraire, mon frere. You pay in your time and effort. More importantly and sadly, you pay in self-respect.
There's a reason for the saying: "Friends don't let friends install Microsoft software." Once you start down the path of the dark side, forever will it keep you...
How could television networks fight this? It's even simpler: Write more obvious product placements into the shows...
[Interior shot - Crew room of Enterprise]
Crewman 1 (punching buttons on replicator) to Crewman 2: Can I get you a Coke?
Crewman 2: Yeah, but make it a Diet Coke. Ya know, it tastes just as good, but only has 2 calories. Fitness eval is coming up next month and I have to drop a few pounds...
... and so on. How do you skip comercials when they're woven into the fabric of the show?
Course they can always use crawls and split screens, too...