The real question is, if your wife is already a PhD candidate, why does she need four more years to write a dissertation. Most people I know slacked off and did it in two years. A few people, myself included, did it in one year. Tell your wife to hurry up!
According to MS CEO Steve Ballmer, "What's good for the local industry in every country is good for Microsoft."
This is an interesting quote coming from Ballmer. While individual industries benefit from less competition, consumers and the economy as a whole are better off with more competition. After reading this quote, my first reaction was that he was stating that competition was good for everyone, including Microsoft. Then I realized it was Ballmer saying this.
H for H has nothing to do with giving away free houses. Homeownership encourages many positive effects on a family, including reduced crime, less unemployment, greater responsibility, and higher self-esteem.
By providing families who could otherwise afford to make monthly payments on a modest home but cannot come up with the usual downpayment and closing costs, H for H and related programs really do have a positive effect on participants' lives.
Don't get me wrong, I'm rather conservative and usually view social programs with a grain of salt. However, I think that since H for H is privately funded, has an excellent track record, and brings about very real changes to people's lives, it is a very worthwhile organization.
If someone uses a cable modem like it is his own private T-1 connection, of course he should pay more. By using his modem extensively, he has a negative impact on all other consumers using the network. To correct the imbalance the larger (ab)user should pay a higher price, and the smaller users should pay a lower price to compensate for the externality of the large user's network congestion. Basic public economics problem.
Previously I had just copied the entire plugins subdirectory over to the most recent Mozilla release. For the past few versions, whenever a Java app tried to launch it's own window, Mozilla would completely crash.
Here's the solution:
cd over/usr/local/mozilla-1.0/, remove all Java-related files and the java2 directory. Then go to java.sun.com and reinstall.
Everything now seems to work fine. Don't ask me why it works, though.
Hopefully they've finally fixed some of the problems running Java applets. For example, I can't play games at http://games.yahoo.com using Mozilla. I've seen tons of bugs at Bugzilla, but not being a Java expert I don't know what is what.
FM radio stations have a maximum frequency response of 17 KHz. Actually, a carrier signal is transmitted at the base frequency + 19 KHz -- if your receiver detects it, the stereo indicator lights up. The L+R channel is broadcast at the base frequency (so mono receivers get both channels), and the L-R channel is broadcast on a 34 KHz subcarrier.
As much as I enjoy using open-source software for many things, I would prefer to fly knowing that the software controlling air traffic was produced by a small number of companies. First, something as critical as air traffic control is probably best developed by very knowledgeable experts with extensive backgrounds in air safety. While many (most) OSS contributors are great programmers, I doubt if many truly understand the needs of air traffic control. Secondly, as many companies and PHB's say about OSS, if someone in my family were in an airplane that crashed due to air traffic problems, I would like to hold someone liable if there was a software glitch that should have been found and fixed before being deployed. Of course, mistakes happen and we shouldn't look to sue everytime one occurs, I'd still feel safer knowing that if there were gross negligence I would have some legal recourse.
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Nvidia has also faced recent SEC inquiries on two fronts. First, the company restated earnings for the past three years because of aggressive accounting, and the CFO took a leave of absence. Second, last year several employees were indicted on insider trading charges.
I use Applixware on Linux -- IMO it's the best. As I recall, however, the parent company stopped further development of the desktop version of Applixware (both for Windows and Unix) precisely because of the availability of free office productivity packages such as OO, KOffice, etc.
So, is StarOffice going to die a slow death because of the free alternatives, or might we luck out and see Applixware more heavily marketed again?
I thought the first article in this series tended to be a bit negative toward toward zSeries Linux, but this second installment went way over the edge. IIRC there was some discussion on/. that those articles were sponsored by Sun.
What I'd really like to see are some case studies from companies who have actually used Linux on the mainframe. What are their impressions of cost effectiveness? Why did they choose the mainframe instead of a UNIX server as this guy is preaching?
Do nVidia chipset cards display business applications crisply? None of our customers run games, so sharpness at 1600 x 1200 resolution on 19" monitors is the most important criteria.
I've been using an Nvidia Riva TNT2 with 32 megs of RAM for the last two years. It runs at 1600x1200x32bpp on a 19" Trinitron monitor, and everything looks great.
If you subscribe to news wires such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Dow Jones, AP, etc. if a story is revised the title usually indicates that, and the first few paragraphs of the article mention what was changed from previous versions.
As far as websites, if you read, for example, the business news feeds on finance.yahoo.com you will see exactly the same thing.
I guess it's more just a matter of convenience for consumer-oriented websites to ignore the details.
The less expensive dog is $999 according to their online store.
Instead, you could go to your local humane society and get a REAL dog for well under $100, and the remaining $900 would be more than enough for at least a couple years' food and vet check-ups. They're more fun, too, and programmable!
Actually, I'm thinking about buying one of these PC's from Walmart, and I'm a very experienced Linux user. They are attractively priced for my needs, and I feel safer dealing with a large company rather than a mom-and-pop computer store with 3 employees.
It seems reasonable to me that the company wants you to stay for 3 years if you accept the $$$ for training. If you quit prematurely, they arguably have a right to get some of their investment in you back.
However, the more important question is what happens if the company lays you off or terminates you? If they still expect to be reimbursed after terminating you, I'd be very cautious. Being unemployed is not fun. Having your ex-employer breathing down your neck for $50k would just make your life miserable.
But it wouldn't surprise me if in the future Microsoft modifies Exchange and Outlook to stay one step ahead of everyone. Surely they are aware of this type of product, and based on past experience they will do whatever is necessary to keep their hold on the Exchange market.
You're right, though, this does sound like a fantastic product if it really works as claimed.
How about using LTSP or some other terminal server software? That way you could use smaller/older/cheaper PC's as X servers and just have one powerful PC as the server. Moreover, if it's really an internet cafe, then the only software you'd need to provide is Mozilla/Netscape/your-favorite-browser.
Of course, the real question then is whether people would use the machines since the screens don't look just like Windows. Sigh.
I firmly disagree that Mathematica is "way ahead" of MatLab (or Gauss), especially when it comes to Matlab's core competencies such as matrix algebra and general-purpose numerical analysis.
Although Mathematica certainly has far better symbolic capabilities, it is slower than molasses for numerical work. Moreover, Mathematica's programming language is terrible.
Finally, even though Mathematica can do symbolic mathematics, for 95% of the mathematics that I do (I have a PhD in economics), a good understanding of algebra, a pencil, and paper provide useful results much more easily than Mathematica.
IMHO, Mathematica is just a bloated piece of crap.
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Applixware, imho, has a certain polish and ease-of-use to it that none of the free programs has ever matched.
This is an interesting quote coming from Ballmer. While individual industries benefit from less competition, consumers and the economy as a whole are better off with more competition. After reading this quote, my first reaction was that he was stating that competition was good for everyone, including Microsoft. Then I realized it was Ballmer saying this.
By providing families who could otherwise afford to make monthly payments on a modest home but cannot come up with the usual downpayment and closing costs, H for H and related programs really do have a positive effect on participants' lives.
Don't get me wrong, I'm rather conservative and usually view social programs with a grain of salt. However, I think that since H for H is privately funded, has an excellent track record, and brings about very real changes to people's lives, it is a very worthwhile organization.
Here's the solution: cd over /usr/local/mozilla-1.0/, remove all Java-related files and the java2 directory. Then go to java.sun.com and reinstall.
Everything now seems to work fine. Don't ask me why it works, though.
Hopefully they've finally fixed some of the problems running Java applets. For example, I can't play games at http://games.yahoo.com using Mozilla. I've seen tons of bugs at Bugzilla, but not being a Java expert I don't know what is what.
FM radio stations have a maximum frequency response of 17 KHz. Actually, a carrier signal is transmitted at the base frequency + 19 KHz -- if your receiver detects it, the stereo indicator lights up. The L+R channel is broadcast at the base frequency (so mono receivers get both channels), and the L-R channel is broadcast on a 34 KHz subcarrier.
There's a discussion about Wolfram's theory in the current issue of BusinessWeek as well; it just came today so I haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Nvidia has also faced recent SEC inquiries on two fronts. First, the company restated earnings for the past three years because of aggressive accounting, and the CFO took a leave of absence. Second, last year several employees were indicted on insider trading charges.
So, is StarOffice going to die a slow death because of the free alternatives, or might we luck out and see Applixware more heavily marketed again?
What I'd really like to see are some case studies from companies who have actually used Linux on the mainframe. What are their impressions of cost effectiveness? Why did they choose the mainframe instead of a UNIX server as this guy is preaching?
I've been using an Nvidia Riva TNT2 with 32 megs of RAM for the last two years. It runs at 1600x1200x32bpp on a 19" Trinitron monitor, and everything looks great.
As far as websites, if you read, for example, the business news feeds on finance.yahoo.com you will see exactly the same thing.
I guess it's more just a matter of convenience for consumer-oriented websites to ignore the details.
Instead, you could go to your local humane society and get a REAL dog for well under $100, and the remaining $900 would be more than enough for at least a couple years' food and vet check-ups. They're more fun, too, and programmable!
Actually, I'm thinking about buying one of these PC's from Walmart, and I'm a very experienced Linux user. They are attractively priced for my needs, and I feel safer dealing with a large company rather than a mom-and-pop computer store with 3 employees.
[bpoi@beast]% mplayer frost_disl3med.avi
MPlayer 0.60-egcs-2.91.66 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)
Support for win32 codecs disabled, or unavailable on non-x86 platforms! FATAL: Couldn't initialize video codec :(
How do I remedy this?
However, the more important question is what happens if the company lays you off or terminates you? If they still expect to be reimbursed after terminating you, I'd be very cautious. Being unemployed is not fun. Having your ex-employer breathing down your neck for $50k would just make your life miserable.
You're right, though, this does sound like a fantastic product if it really works as claimed.
Of course, the real question then is whether people would use the machines since the screens don't look just like Windows. Sigh.
Although Mathematica certainly has far better symbolic capabilities, it is slower than molasses for numerical work. Moreover, Mathematica's programming language is terrible.
Finally, even though Mathematica can do symbolic mathematics, for 95% of the mathematics that I do (I have a PhD in economics), a good understanding of algebra, a pencil, and paper provide useful results much more easily than Mathematica.
IMHO, Mathematica is just a bloated piece of crap.
They should have compared that overpriced Sony with a PowerMac costing about the same amount of money.
You just got $5.00 out of me. :-)