I think Europe has a larger population than the U.S., and a larger aggregate economy. It also has a much higher persistent unemployment rate. "Good times" in Europe look like severe recession in the U.S. Europe and has much weaker militaries.
I hate the whole "open in browser window" thing. I would much rather have the browser download the file and pass it off to another application with its own GUI.
Anyway, I will wait and see what's available on the "up2date/yum/apt" front with Fedora. I have an RHN subscription which will apparently run out in April. I have until March, I guess, to make a choice.
How? For the next few years, the trade press will be comparing everything to the "forthcoming and much-anticipated next release of Windows." It won't matter how good, or tangible, non-Microsoft products are now, only how they compare to the potential of Longhorn. Microsoft's hype machine in action. The final product never lives up to the hype *cough*cairo -- but in the meantime, competing products have to compete with press releases and promises, rather than actual shipping products.
Ralph Yarro isn't one of those people. I met him. I worked for a company he invested in. He is NOT a leader, a smart investor, a savvy businessman, or even a particularly interesting human.
Interesting nugget from the "executive and board bios" page:
Ralph J. Yarro III, chairman, has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since August 1998. Mr. Yarro has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Canopy Group, Inc. since April 1995. Prior to joining The Canopy Group, Inc., he served as a graphic artist for the Noorda Family Trust. Mr. Yarro holds a BA from Brigham Young University.
Ooo... Graphic designer. BA degree. What the fuck was Ray Noorda thinking?
MacOS 9 made a call to Gilligan's Island and tried to send some information to its little buddy at littlebuddy.apple.com. This was supposed to be a one time event at the end of the install process - but of course, Apple, forgetting that not everyone on the planet has 24/7 high-speed internet to their homes, created a situation where if it fails (ie: God forbid, you're not connected to the internet while installing MacOS 9), it repeatedly tries to get through. This first surfaced because someone noticed that their Mac was trying to make a net connection when nothing was supposed to be doing that.
So they took the normal windows file-extension stupidity, and added another stupid vulerability on top of that.
I've had to deal with the, "No, I'm IE and I know better than you, Mr. web app designer, and I say this file is [whatever], and not [whatever] as you contend" problem. It's maddening.
The real problem is that Windows infers that a file is executable based on its name, rather than something like execute permissions. This DOS-heritage behavior is dangerous and should be removed from Windows.
It's more or less impossible to have a monopoly with Free Software. How could there be only a single supplier controlling the development and distribution of Free software? There can't be. It's free.
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And invisible, unaccountable, untrustable computerized voting is the second coming.
Please, Verizon, pleeeeaaaassseeeeee!
If someone can determine if there's a CDMA version of this phone, please post below!
I thought the population of the countries in and soon to be in the EU stood at about 480 million.
However, you're right that the U.S. is growing while Europe is shrinking.
I think Europe has a larger population than the U.S., and a larger aggregate economy. It also has a much higher persistent unemployment rate. "Good times" in Europe look like severe recession in the U.S. Europe and has much weaker militaries.
The limit is 31.
Office X. I haven't heard bad things about that, yet.
Stupid filename-length limit.
Coal. Coal and be processed and burned cleanly. And, to quote Leo on The West Wing, we're the Saudi Arabia of coal.
I hate the whole "open in browser window" thing. I would much rather have the browser download the file and pass it off to another application with its own GUI.
Nice slippers.
Anyway, I will wait and see what's available on the "up2date/yum/apt" front with Fedora. I have an RHN subscription which will apparently run out in April. I have until March, I guess, to make a choice.
OK. Will Up2Date still work? That's the question I want answered.
So, it's like CNN, but not as bad as local news.
1) Stupid of Apple, if true; part of the appeal is the lower number of problems OSX has vs Windows.
2) They'll probably have a patch in a few days. If they're smart.
Here's another LongHorn article.
hehehe
How? For the next few years, the trade press will be comparing everything to the "forthcoming and much-anticipated next release of Windows." It won't matter how good, or tangible, non-Microsoft products are now, only how they compare to the potential of Longhorn. Microsoft's hype machine in action. The final product never lives up to the hype *cough*cairo -- but in the meantime, competing products have to compete with press releases and promises, rather than actual shipping products.
Ralph Yarro isn't one of those people. I met him. I worked for a company he invested in. He is NOT a leader, a smart investor, a savvy businessman, or even a particularly interesting human.
Ooo... Graphic designer. BA degree. What the fuck was Ray Noorda thinking?
Looks like an all-purpose employee.
Job Responsibilities:
- Administrative needs of CFO and other executives
- Quarterly budget reports
- Travel Arrangements
- Organizing meetings and phone conferences
- Supply inventory
- General office responsibilities
- Records minutes of various meetings
- Partner Program database coordination
- Answer investor questions regarding Stock performance
- Packaging of financial corporate communications
with the investment community
- Helps prepare written investor communications and
plan investor/analyst small-group private and large-group
meetings
- Handles telephone inquiries from analysts and investors
- Oversees scheduling and coverage of front desk
The Caldera International, Inc. ("Caldera", d/b/a "The SCO Group") Web site contains materials ("Materials") used only for informational purposes.The SCO Group
355 South 520 West, Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042
USA.
801.765.4999 phone
801.765.1313 fax
Perhaps the Samba team could get a little cash out of SCO. Since SCO has no valid license to distribute Samba, yet they are distributing it.
http://www.macopinion.com/columns/macskeptic/00/11 /21/
MacOS 9 made a call to Gilligan's Island and tried to send some information to its little buddy at littlebuddy.apple.com. This was supposed to be a one time event at the end of the install process - but of course, Apple, forgetting that not everyone on the planet has 24/7 high-speed internet to their homes, created a situation where if it fails (ie: God forbid, you're not connected to the internet while installing MacOS 9), it repeatedly tries to get through. This first surfaced because someone noticed that their Mac was trying to make a net connection when nothing was supposed to be doing that.
So they took the normal windows file-extension stupidity, and added another stupid vulerability on top of that.
I've had to deal with the, "No, I'm IE and I know better than you, Mr. web app designer, and I say this file is [whatever], and not [whatever] as you contend" problem. It's maddening.
The real problem is that Windows infers that a file is executable based on its name, rather than something like execute permissions. This DOS-heritage behavior is dangerous and should be removed from Windows.
It's more or less impossible to have a monopoly with Free Software. How could there be only a single supplier controlling the development and distribution of Free software? There can't be. It's free.
Businesses are used to "crap like that," actually.
Alternatives are good, though. I just hope the Linux market stays sufficiently unified that ISVs will write software for it.
Do you work for MSFT?
I've always found it really dubious that the Times lets him report on the Mac since he's not exactly what you'd call a neutral observer.
Rob Enderle is allowed to write about Microsoft...