...vmware on non-x86 to run x86? Not likely. The reason vmware works is because it takes advantage of virtual machine stuff that's been in x86 proccessors since the '286.
Now, if DEC/Digital/Compaq used that on-the-fly recompile program that they used when they released the MIPS machines in the late 80's to convert VAX binaries to MIPS binaries, on the fly, and morphed it so that it converted x86 ASM instructions to appropriate Alpha codes, and saved the morphed code...
B&W? Well, no, B&W was the standard. NTSC layered color onto the B&W signal so that B&W TVs could still recieve the color signal, albeit w/o the color.
Color broadcasting equipment and cameras, etc., were much more expensive as well, at the time.
Well, here is one data point that said, "is it important whether Inprise GPLs the source for Delphi or not", I voted, "Do not care".
Do I care whether the source for Oracle is GPLd? No. Do I care whether the source for DB2 is GPLd? No. Do I care whether the source for Call To Power, for Linux, is GPLd? No.
As long as the base is GPLd, we're all protected (as long as the base does not get marginalized, as MS Office for Linux could do, because you KNOW that it will only work with other MS Office for Linux/Windows, which you'll have to pay for).
MSO2K says "we're using XML for our documents". Great. But most of the useful "features" are locked up in...ActiveX stuff.
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Re: cross-platform...
not too likely.
If you use MS-based tech (COM/DCOM, MFC, ADO, etc.) in Windows Delphi apps, how can you expect this to port to an environment that doesn't have these things?
If you write low-level apps in Linux, how can you expect the Unix-like stuff to work on Windows NT, much less Win9x? [read up on the gotchas of AT&T's UWIN and Cygnus's CygWin as far as Unix vs. MS system behaviors]
Sure, if the GUI stuff is cross-platform that can be a big time saver...
The survey was for Delphi developers and what they wanted for Delphi & Inprise's products, not what Linux users/developers wanted...
So, yes, it was slanted in that way...
I'm glad about it, as long as Delphi5 isn't so dependent on COM/DCOM & MFC that it'll be tough to do without essentially porting those things to Linux...
While X might be chatty, ICA (Citrix), although it is probably much less chatty, is server-dependent, as the desktop display is run from the server machine, and just needs to communicate window changes to the client and mouse and keyboard actions to the server (Server: the WinNT Server box running Winframe. Client: Xterminal, Mac running Citrix client, Win16 running Citrix client, X).
Play with VNC, whether you're hosting (or serving) it from a Win32 box or Linux a little bit over a remote connection... (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc) for a better analogy to what Citrix and pcAnywhere do compared to X.
Umm.. WP51 for Windows *SUCKED*. Of course, MS had some hand in that. Alt+F4 to exit, isn't that a Windows "standard"? Yet WPWin 5.1 didn't do that... no... And the bugs...
...well, until some more of the geeks get loads of money (I hope the RedHat IPO works for y'all who can get in it!), it will still be the stupid, but amazingly rich, froth (I refuse to call them the elite cream) and the associated wannabes that make up the Jetset now, that if they find that the Net is the Chic thing to do, then these people, not extroverted geeks, who will become the Netset...
The Geek and Nerd show will still go on, but will be on public access, instead of UPN or WB stations...
Outlook works fine as a mail client against non-MSMail/Exchange mail servers (i.e., POP3, IMAP).
Just beware the differences between Corporate (Exchange, but can use IMAP/POP as well) and Internet installs (IMAP/POP only)... check up at Woody's Office Watch for a synopsis on the differences at http://www.wopr.com/wow/
Umm... at least for Pine, you can compile it from source.
You have to trust the genies at Qualcomm to not fire off a UDP packet or whatever with your e-mail username & password and mailserver ip address and POP/IMAP port in it to WeSuck@qualcomm.com (or get a port scanner to watch how it works).
Microsoft's track record for what it does and doesn't do in the open isn't very good.
So am I violating copyright by buying a magazine, blacking out all the ads, and leaving it in a public place?
After all, I have bypassed all those potential click-through ads (for other readers of the magazine), no?
This is silly. Universal is stupid.
Universal sells movies. The more people are exposed to their movies, the more the company makes money.
It's too bad their web group probably needs the clickthrough/popup ads to get income to justify their expenses on web stuff (servers). Maybe if they were smarter about it, like clickthrough ads for quick interest surveys, intelligent links to moviephone.com for current movies, etc., and it just wouldn't be a big deal for them, either.
Umm...there are disturbing GAO reports about whether the F22 can even come close to its currently defined mission parameters, especially the "supercruise" one...
Congress, being a bit burned perhaps by the FA18E/F debacle, is getting back a bit. But that one is a done deal. Nothing can turn that one back now. Bye-bye, F14D. Buy Buy, FA18E/F.
The F22 is a pretty cool looking airplane. But that is the STUPIDEST reason to fund it (right next to, "well, there are lots of voters in my district who work on it") And it would probably be a worthy plane, but is its cost (+50% of an F15 or so) going to equate to +50% performance over an F15? No.
Yeah, it would be great if the Republican Congress was promoting using the projected tax surpluses for reducing the debt. Most of us all win on that, except for those on fixed incomes dependent on high interest rates (and the companies that benefit from those interest rates).
But they're not. The Demos and Repubs are fighting over which [large] political special interest gets it: social security and medicare, and how.
Debt reduction is thrown in as an aside.
So much for that being a hot topic from the last couple of election cycles.
Besides, how is Mother Teresa controversial? I'm not Catholic, and don't agree with most of her religious beliefs, but there's no denying that she did incredible work for the poor, and at great personal cost.
You have the source of her controversy:
A), Mother Teresa was Catholic, in a country of Hinduism and Islam.
B) She helped the poor, the "untermenschen", of Indian society. People who do this are by nature loathed by the System, the Man, etc. She basically was forcing the society to not ignore these people because, well, they were/are people. Anybody who does this tends to get the wrath of the rest of the community.
C), that you, and probably many others, disagreed with her religious beliefs, is also a source of controversy.
How did/do you feel about Rev. Hunthausen?
No, I don't need to know, but think about that, and the problems the American Catholics have in the eyes of the Pope in general...
Religion is as much about politics and social control as it is about faith.
Figure is missing. Bad thing assumed to have happened to Figure. If Bad Thing involved a car or plane, everything is done to minimize operator error by the Figure in the accident (i.e., the search for whether an instructor pilot was in the plane or not, so it could be his fault, instead of JFKJ's fault, even if it was found that JFKJ was flying the plane).
Oh, it *was* pilot error. Well, he was Popular, so we tend to ignore it.
Isn't the coverage here a little bit different than the plane crash of the little girl who was trying to fly across the country with her dad?
Will there be a spate of newly proposed legislation for General Aviation to try and make this National Tragedy not happen again, like there was for the girl's plane crash?
User is suspected of doing bad things with PC at work. Install BO and watch undetected what he/she is doing. Why undetected? Say user is pretty knowledgable about his work system, and has subverted previous attempts at this kind of thing...
Granted, I don't want to work in a place like that. As far as network traffic goes, it is easy enough to monitor what people do via the net unobtrusively, so that doesn't really count...
The "keyboard" watching stuff is pretty easy. Every keystroke in Windows generates a "message", that Windows then routes to the appropriate application. It is not too hard to watch this global message queue for keyboard messages. You can do it from Word, Access, Excel, VB or Powerpoint, in fact (it's a couple of API calls). It shouldn't be too hard, then, either, to write a little net app that blasts these messages to the net for clients to listen for...
...it probably ultimately won't help the cheetahs, which I read somewhere are incredibly inbred (or genetically homogenous), and even if environmental pressures on them disappeared, they'd probably be doomed to die in a human generation or two anyways...
ViewSonic 815 will do 1880x1440. Good luck getting an off-the-shelf video card that will drive that... (most seem to max out at 1600x1200).
to be honest, on my system here (ATI RageII Pro driving a GW2K "VX900" 19" monitor at 1600x1200), I see ZERO difference between turning on "sharpen screen fonts" and having it off, in Windows NT.
Anti-aliasing does less and less at higher resolutions.
Most companies are more willing to pay overtime because it's cheaper for them to do so than to pay another benefits-deservin' person their benefits... but then there's that Salary thing, too...
So, what could happen? Company decides that it will only pay benefits to employees working 3/4 time or higher, and all the geeks get their hours cut back to under 30 hrs/wk. So they hire more geeks, but they pay much less in benefits, and no more overtime to boot.
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...vmware on non-x86 to run x86? Not likely.
The reason vmware works is because it takes advantage of virtual machine stuff that's been in x86 proccessors since the '286.
Now, if DEC/Digital/Compaq used that on-the-fly recompile program that they used when they released the MIPS machines in the late 80's to convert VAX binaries to MIPS binaries, on the fly, and morphed it so that it converted x86 ASM instructions to appropriate Alpha codes, and saved the morphed code...
Yes, database servers.
B&W? Well, no, B&W was the standard. NTSC layered color onto the B&W signal so that B&W TVs could still recieve the color signal, albeit w/o the color.
Color broadcasting equipment and cameras, etc., were much more expensive as well, at the time.
Well, here is one data point that said,
"is it important whether Inprise GPLs the source for Delphi or not", I voted, "Do not care".
Do I care whether the source for Oracle is GPLd? No. Do I care whether the source for DB2 is GPLd? No. Do I care whether the source for Call To Power, for Linux, is GPLd? No.
As long as the base is GPLd, we're all protected (as long as the base does not get marginalized, as MS Office for Linux could do, because you KNOW that it will only work with other MS Office for Linux/Windows, which you'll have to pay for).
MSO2K says "we're using XML for our documents". Great. But most of the useful "features" are locked up in...ActiveX stuff.
Re: cross-platform...
not too likely.
If you use MS-based tech (COM/DCOM, MFC, ADO, etc.) in Windows Delphi apps, how can you expect this to port to an environment that doesn't have these things?
If you write low-level apps in Linux, how can you expect the Unix-like stuff to work on Windows NT, much less Win9x? [read up on the gotchas of AT&T's UWIN and Cygnus's CygWin as far as Unix vs. MS system behaviors]
Sure, if the GUI stuff is cross-platform that can be a big time saver...
The survey was for Delphi developers and what they wanted for Delphi & Inprise's products, not what Linux users/developers wanted...
So, yes, it was slanted in that way...
I'm glad about it, as long as Delphi5 isn't so dependent on COM/DCOM & MFC that it'll be tough to do without essentially porting those things to Linux...
While X might be chatty, ICA (Citrix), although it is probably much less chatty, is server-dependent, as the desktop display is run from the server machine, and just needs to communicate window changes to the client and mouse and keyboard actions to the server (Server: the WinNT Server box running Winframe. Client: Xterminal, Mac running Citrix client, Win16 running Citrix client, X).
Play with VNC, whether you're hosting (or serving) it from a Win32 box or Linux a little bit over a remote connection... (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc)
for a better analogy to what Citrix and pcAnywhere do compared to X.
Umm.. WP51 for Windows *SUCKED*. Of course, MS had some hand in that. Alt+F4 to exit, isn't that a Windows "standard"? Yet WPWin 5.1 didn't do that... no... And the bugs...
...well, until some more of the geeks get loads of money (I hope the RedHat IPO works for y'all who can get in it!), it will still be the stupid, but amazingly rich, froth (I refuse to call them the elite cream) and the associated wannabes that make up the Jetset now, that if they find that the Net is the Chic thing to do, then these people, not extroverted geeks, who will become the Netset...
The Geek and Nerd show will still go on, but will be on public access, instead of UPN or WB stations...
Outlook works fine as a mail client against non-MSMail/Exchange mail servers (i.e., POP3, IMAP).
Just beware the differences between Corporate (Exchange, but can use IMAP/POP as well) and Internet installs (IMAP/POP only)... check up at Woody's Office Watch for a synopsis on the differences at http://www.wopr.com/wow/
Umm... at least for Pine, you can compile it from source.
You have to trust the genies at Qualcomm to not fire off a UDP packet or whatever with your e-mail username & password and mailserver ip address and POP/IMAP port in it to WeSuck@qualcomm.com (or get a port scanner to watch how it works).
Microsoft's track record for what it does and doesn't do in the open isn't very good.
So am I violating copyright by buying a magazine,
blacking out all the ads, and leaving it in a public place?
After all, I have bypassed all those potential click-through ads (for other readers of the magazine), no?
This is silly. Universal is stupid.
Universal sells movies. The more people are exposed to their movies, the more the company makes money.
It's too bad their web group probably needs the clickthrough/popup ads to get income to justify their expenses on web stuff (servers). Maybe if they were smarter about it, like clickthrough ads for quick interest surveys, intelligent links to moviephone.com for current movies, etc., and it just wouldn't be a big deal for them, either.
But no.
Umm...there are disturbing GAO reports about whether the F22 can even come close to its currently defined mission parameters, especially the "supercruise" one...
Congress, being a bit burned perhaps by the FA18E/F debacle, is getting back a bit. But that one is a done deal. Nothing can turn that one back now. Bye-bye, F14D. Buy Buy, FA18E/F.
The F22 is a pretty cool looking airplane. But that is the STUPIDEST reason to fund it (right next to, "well, there are lots of voters in my district who work on it") And it would probably be a worthy plane, but is its cost (+50% of an F15 or so) going to equate to +50% performance over an F15? No.
Yeah, it would be great if the Republican Congress was promoting using the projected tax surpluses for reducing the debt. Most of us all win on that, except for those on fixed incomes dependent on high interest rates (and the companies that benefit from those interest rates).
But they're not. The Demos and Repubs are fighting over which [large] political special interest gets it: social security and medicare, and how.
Debt reduction is thrown in as an aside.
So much for that being a hot topic from the last couple of election cycles.
You have the source of her controversy:
A), Mother Teresa was Catholic, in a country of Hinduism and Islam.
B) She helped the poor, the "untermenschen", of Indian society. People who do this are by nature loathed by the System, the Man, etc. She basically was forcing the society to not ignore these people because, well, they were/are people. Anybody who does this tends to get the wrath of the rest of the community.
C), that you, and probably many others, disagreed with her religious beliefs, is also a source of controversy.
How did/do you feel about Rev. Hunthausen?
No, I don't need to know, but think about that, and the problems the American Catholics have in the eyes of the Pope in general...
Religion is as much about politics and social control as it is about faith.
Funny how these things go for a Popular Figure:
Figure is missing.
Bad thing assumed to have happened to Figure.
If Bad Thing involved a car or plane, everything is done to minimize operator error by the Figure in the accident (i.e., the search for whether an instructor pilot was in the plane or not, so it could be his fault, instead of JFKJ's fault, even if it was found that JFKJ was flying the plane).
Oh, it *was* pilot error. Well, he was Popular, so we tend to ignore it.
Isn't the coverage here a little bit different than the plane crash of the little girl who was trying to fly across the country with her dad?
Will there be a spate of newly proposed legislation for General Aviation to try and make this National Tragedy not happen again, like there was for the girl's plane crash?
I think the "client" is the software that "enables" the system to be managed by an SMS server.
Why run remote admin tools stealtily?
Hmm... work situations come to mind.
User is suspected of doing bad things with PC at work. Install BO and watch undetected what he/she is doing. Why undetected? Say user is pretty knowledgable about his work system, and has subverted previous attempts at this kind of thing...
Granted, I don't want to work in a place like that. As far as network traffic goes, it is easy enough to monitor what people do via the net unobtrusively, so that doesn't really count...
The "keyboard" watching stuff is pretty easy. Every keystroke in Windows generates a "message", that Windows then routes to the appropriate application. It is not too hard to watch this global message queue for keyboard messages. You can do it from Word, Access, Excel, VB or Powerpoint, in fact (it's a couple of API calls). It shouldn't be too hard, then, either, to write a little net app that blasts these messages to the net for clients to listen for...
...yeah, but what about all those marsupials in your nearest neighbor, Australia?
well, if some of those species were the urban sparrow, the city pigeon and the trash dump sea gull, Hmm...that would be a tempting choice to make...
But I guess I deal with them. I don't feed them. I wish people would not feed them. They wouldn't be around if they were starving. Oh well.
...it probably ultimately won't help the cheetahs, which I read somewhere are incredibly inbred (or genetically homogenous), and even if environmental pressures on them disappeared, they'd probably be doomed to die in a human generation or two anyways...
or the Carolina Parokeet. Or the Great Awk.
I hope those NZ researchers can try and find some DNA of a Moa (make ostriches look like capons).
This story goes along with the people going around Siberia looking for Wooly Mammoth corpsicles to clone them...
Sony 200SX/ES (17") will do 1280x1024 (60Hz).
ViewSonic 815 will do 1880x1440. Good luck getting an off-the-shelf video card that will drive that... (most seem to max out at 1600x1200).
to be honest, on my system here (ATI RageII Pro driving a GW2K "VX900" 19" monitor at 1600x1200), I see ZERO difference between turning on "sharpen screen fonts" and having it off, in Windows NT.
Anti-aliasing does less and less at higher resolutions.
Hmm...
Most companies are more willing to pay overtime because it's cheaper for them to do so than to pay another benefits-deservin' person their benefits... but then there's that Salary thing, too...
So, what could happen? Company decides that it will only pay benefits to employees working 3/4 time or higher, and all the geeks get their hours cut back to under 30 hrs/wk. So they hire more geeks, but they pay much less in benefits, and no more overtime to boot.
...or it'll be like in "Fahrenheit 451". Your TV will have a camera on it, and one of the big things to do will be to get to "be in the play".
What do you think, Julia?
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