The problem with the driver argument is it helps Sun in no way. Sun is a hardware company, they buy lots of hardware components and get driver code when they do so that they can support the hardware they sell. There are some third party peripherals that might not be supported but those aren't generally the focus of Sun's customers.
Wrong, modern Gigabit ethernet works over bog standard Cat5 with 5e only needed for runs at or over the 100m length limit. Hell using anything better than the cheapest of cheap cards we were able to do 100Mbps at 150m over Cat3 when I worked with Cisco wireless, PoE was a problem over Cat3 near 100m though =)
Intro Business Accounting at your local community college? That's how I learned and can't imagine trying to do it outside the structured learning environment of a class. It's really dry stuff so it's super easy to NOT do it without something pushing you. Perhaps that's just my learning style though.
One of those things is not like the others, Quickbooks is a double entry accounting package meant for SMB's to run their books on, not for personal finance (unless your finances are so complex as to rival a midsized company).
Um, a covenant not to sue is a two party contract. Others who have ownership or control over code covered by the agreement can still sue as the covenant is obviously not binding on them. That's why they didn't enter into a license, because they couldn't over any code they don't have sole control of. As long as Suse/Novell is not trying to reduce the rights granted to people who have received GPL'd code from them I don't see where FSF has a case.
The funny thing to me is that almost every large scale Java desktop app I have used is slow and a memory hog, yet J2ME apps run well on slow mobile chips with limited memory. Obviously it's not the Java language itself that creates the bloat but rather the mindset around Java desktop apps.
Depends on which one. That's the great thing about standards, there's so many to choose from. VMS, HPUX, and NonStop OS all have levels of fault tolerance that works with the hardware to protect against many classes of data corruption and hardware failure. That's why people who like reliability will always miss MIPS.
The licensing fee goes directly to the BBC and pays for the programming. Their level of funding (or lack thereof) is not based on political whim and how much they have bowed to the party currently in power. PBS/NPR had to completely change the nature of their programming in order to kowtow to the Republicans's after they took power in the 90's or else they would have had ALL of their funding stripped and would have been shut down.
I wish they were paid for by TV licenses. The BBC has considerably more freedom from the politicians than PBS/NPR to the point where political satire of sitting politicians is common and accepted. Btw this is also the reason why "faith based initiatives" are a bad idea, separation of church and state is best for both parties.
They have a Tax/Fee for owning a television in the UK which goes to pay for the commercial free, quasi-governmental quasi-independant entity known as the BBC or British Broadcasting Company. I actually wish we had such a system in the US as the BBC routinely puts out better material then 99.5% of the trash on commercial TV.
It's about legalities, but not the kind you point out. It's about contract law. Distributors usually have a contract to do retail distribution in one or more geographical areas such as North America, Europe, etc. Allowing online distribution worldwide would interfere with that system and would honk off those who purchased exclusive distribution rights for a game over their area. I think that going forward the most likely solution is for those negotiations to include a rider for online distribution and that the online portion will be handled as a seperate area to be negotiated just like one of the geographical zones.
Actually I very much care how much power my CPU's draw. I only have 50KVA available in my current UPS. I'm already at ~66% capacity. For me every watt counts because wasting 100 watts per dual CPU server means I can get that many fewer servers in before I hit the wall with my current UPS. A new larger UPS and generator big enough to power it is on the order of a quarter million dollars, so spending more per server to get cooler, equally capable processors isn't a big deal. We've been using Opterons because they have been giving us the best MIPS/Watt but that has changed with the new Core based Xeon's, only unfamiliarity with the models and lack of standard images is really keeping us from moving over right now (and standardization).
Only true if you can make an application design that can scale arbitrarily with the business and can meet all current and future business needs. Since that's impossible there will always be some level of maintenance and replacement of software systems. Then there's the hardware platform on which the application runs, and unless it's something basic like OS/360 nee Z/OS then you might have to redisign the app every so often to keep up with the changing OS platform. The goal of IT is to meet the businesses needs at the minimal cost necessary to maintain that position and meet ongoing business growth.
A chinese company tried to do exactly that, and got shot down in flames. Cisco IOS and the hardware are covered by literally thousands of patents as well as copyright. Trying to compete with them using their own tech doesn't work because anywhere in the civilized world their IP will be protected and the knockoff goods will be seized after Cisco wins their injunctive relief.
Does OS X support remote 3D calls? Windows does it with Vista's Remote Desktop, you can even run Aero on a remote PC when the host PC has an underpowered graphics card which can't run it nativly! And before anyone brings up X Windows let me say that it was cool when it was new, but thanks to the engineers at Citrix and Microsoft RDP is way ahead. Hell just today I was using RDP over a connection with 30% packet loss to diagnose the problem, it wasn't pretty but I can't imagine any other remote protocol working is such conditions.
It might break some pages but it does a nice job of stripping down most websites so they run well on mobile devices. I use it on pages where I just want the info, not the "functionality" of the page.
Google Maps Mobile on my Blackberry 7290 with GPRS (2.5G) is awsome, one of the best features is that I can lookup a restaurant, call for reservations, then get turn by turn directions to the place! My friend tried GMM on his new Windows Mobile 5.0 phone and he decided he will be loading Microsoft Pocket Streets 2005 with the entire US basemap since his 2GB flash card can hold the entire thing and he can download addons over the air for specific cities so it's faster than grabbing jpeg's over the air.
Hasn't FlexLM basically done away with dongles anyways? I can't think of many modern package that doesn't support FlexLM or one of its competitors in place of dongles, and those that do generally can use the newer USB dongles which eliminates much of the stupidity of their LPT cousins.
Still needs a Cablecard 2.0 card slot. A media PC without Cablecard is kind of useless unless you never watch TV or have no plans to use it as a PVR.
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Really, because we are running an Oracle/JDE Enterprise One stack on Windows 2003 and Oracle's, as well as our highly paid consultant's, recomendation was to just place the database and logs on NTFS.
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The problem with the driver argument is it helps Sun in no way. Sun is a hardware company, they buy lots of hardware components and get driver code when they do so that they can support the hardware they sell. There are some third party peripherals that might not be supported but those aren't generally the focus of Sun's customers.
He most likely means his PC has EFI Firmware, meaning his new PC is probably a MacBook.
Wrong, modern Gigabit ethernet works over bog standard Cat5 with 5e only needed for runs at or over the 100m length limit. Hell using anything better than the cheapest of cheap cards we were able to do 100Mbps at 150m over Cat3 when I worked with Cisco wireless, PoE was a problem over Cat3 near 100m though =)
Intro Business Accounting at your local community college? That's how I learned and can't imagine trying to do it outside the structured learning environment of a class. It's really dry stuff so it's super easy to NOT do it without something pushing you. Perhaps that's just my learning style though.
One of those things is not like the others, Quickbooks is a double entry accounting package meant for SMB's to run their books on, not for personal finance (unless your finances are so complex as to rival a midsized company).
Um, a covenant not to sue is a two party contract. Others who have ownership or control over code covered by the agreement can still sue as the covenant is obviously not binding on them. That's why they didn't enter into a license, because they couldn't over any code they don't have sole control of. As long as Suse/Novell is not trying to reduce the rights granted to people who have received GPL'd code from them I don't see where FSF has a case.
The funny thing to me is that almost every large scale Java desktop app I have used is slow and a memory hog, yet J2ME apps run well on slow mobile chips with limited memory. Obviously it's not the Java language itself that creates the bloat but rather the mindset around Java desktop apps.
Yeah, it's called Crossover Office.
Which proves that no matter how good the spec, the customer is always wrong about something and will want it changed in the future =)
Depends on which one. That's the great thing about standards, there's so many to choose from. VMS, HPUX, and NonStop OS all have levels of fault tolerance that works with the hardware to protect against many classes of data corruption and hardware failure. That's why people who like reliability will always miss MIPS.
The licensing fee goes directly to the BBC and pays for the programming. Their level of funding (or lack thereof) is not based on political whim and how much they have bowed to the party currently in power. PBS/NPR had to completely change the nature of their programming in order to kowtow to the Republicans's after they took power in the 90's or else they would have had ALL of their funding stripped and would have been shut down.
I wish they were paid for by TV licenses. The BBC has considerably more freedom from the politicians than PBS/NPR to the point where political satire of sitting politicians is common and accepted. Btw this is also the reason why "faith based initiatives" are a bad idea, separation of church and state is best for both parties.
They have a Tax/Fee for owning a television in the UK which goes to pay for the commercial free, quasi-governmental quasi-independant entity known as the BBC or British Broadcasting Company. I actually wish we had such a system in the US as the BBC routinely puts out better material then 99.5% of the trash on commercial TV.
7600GS. Pixel Shader 3.0, dedicated memory, and uses 27W max! Costs less than $100 for a 256MB-DDR2 PCIe model.
It's about legalities, but not the kind you point out. It's about contract law. Distributors usually have a contract to do retail distribution in one or more geographical areas such as North America, Europe, etc. Allowing online distribution worldwide would interfere with that system and would honk off those who purchased exclusive distribution rights for a game over their area. I think that going forward the most likely solution is for those negotiations to include a rider for online distribution and that the online portion will be handled as a seperate area to be negotiated just like one of the geographical zones.
Read The mythical man-month, throwing more bodies at the problem will not get is solved faster, and in fact will often slow it down.
Actually I very much care how much power my CPU's draw. I only have 50KVA available in my current UPS. I'm already at ~66% capacity. For me every watt counts because wasting 100 watts per dual CPU server means I can get that many fewer servers in before I hit the wall with my current UPS. A new larger UPS and generator big enough to power it is on the order of a quarter million dollars, so spending more per server to get cooler, equally capable processors isn't a big deal. We've been using Opterons because they have been giving us the best MIPS/Watt but that has changed with the new Core based Xeon's, only unfamiliarity with the models and lack of standard images is really keeping us from moving over right now (and standardization).
Only true if you can make an application design that can scale arbitrarily with the business and can meet all current and future business needs. Since that's impossible there will always be some level of maintenance and replacement of software systems. Then there's the hardware platform on which the application runs, and unless it's something basic like OS/360 nee Z/OS then you might have to redisign the app every so often to keep up with the changing OS platform. The goal of IT is to meet the businesses needs at the minimal cost necessary to maintain that position and meet ongoing business growth.
A chinese company tried to do exactly that, and got shot down in flames. Cisco IOS and the hardware are covered by literally thousands of patents as well as copyright. Trying to compete with them using their own tech doesn't work because anywhere in the civilized world their IP will be protected and the knockoff goods will be seized after Cisco wins their injunctive relief.
Does OS X support remote 3D calls? Windows does it with Vista's Remote Desktop, you can even run Aero on a remote PC when the host PC has an underpowered graphics card which can't run it nativly! And before anyone brings up X Windows let me say that it was cool when it was new, but thanks to the engineers at Citrix and Microsoft RDP is way ahead. Hell just today I was using RDP over a connection with 30% packet loss to diagnose the problem, it wasn't pretty but I can't imagine any other remote protocol working is such conditions.
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It might break some pages but it does a nice job of stripping down most websites so they run well on mobile devices. I use it on pages where I just want the info, not the "functionality" of the page.
Google Maps Mobile on my Blackberry 7290 with GPRS (2.5G) is awsome, one of the best features is that I can lookup a restaurant, call for reservations, then get turn by turn directions to the place! My friend tried GMM on his new Windows Mobile 5.0 phone and he decided he will be loading Microsoft Pocket Streets 2005 with the entire US basemap since his 2GB flash card can hold the entire thing and he can download addons over the air for specific cities so it's faster than grabbing jpeg's over the air.
Hasn't FlexLM basically done away with dongles anyways? I can't think of many modern package that doesn't support FlexLM or one of its competitors in place of dongles, and those that do generally can use the newer USB dongles which eliminates much of the stupidity of their LPT cousins.
Still needs a Cablecard 2.0 card slot. A media PC without Cablecard is kind of useless unless you never watch TV or have no plans to use it as a PVR.
Really, because we are running an Oracle/JDE Enterprise One stack on Windows 2003 and Oracle's, as well as our highly paid consultant's, recomendation was to just place the database and logs on NTFS.