The GUI is later added out of necessity, with a clumsy attempt to twist it so that it can acommodate software that was written primarily with the CLI in mind. This is one of the reasons Linux users turn to the CLI so often. The GUI simply fails to do what it should do at times.
Maybe that is true for some Linux software, but not for all Linux software.
Companies (such as Novell, IBM, Oracle, HP, etc.) that support Linux on the desktop should consider to give a facelift to those GUI's that are substandard. It's IMHO the way to go if they want Linux on the desktop to grow.
I've a 1998 app (RailroadTycoon II), that doesn't run under Windows XP.
Windows, it's the OS that doesn't run many apps / drivers from it's previous edition:
Remember upgrading from Windows 3.x to '95?
Remember the 'issues' when upgrading from '95 to Mediocre Edition?
Remember all those apps that won't run at your new XP box?
One big difference: when upgrading to a new Windows edition, you have to pay for new apps that replace the apps that won't run at the new Windows. When upgrading to Linux, not only are most of the replacement apps free as in speech, but also free as in beer.
Of course you mean: The Applications. In many cases, databases get accessed by more than one application. In these cases you have multiple problems when you put the business rules in the applications, not in the database.
You have to update/test/redeploy all applications when the business rules change.
When most applications implement the business rules correctly, but one ill-behaving application doesn't, then that ill-behaving application can/will corrupt the data, and spoil the database for the other applications.
When data gets corrupted, you have to check at more than one place to find-and-squash the bug(s). You don't want to analyze the cause(s) of data corruption, when the business rules gaven't been implemented at the database level, and the database has 80+ interfaces with other systems.
All business rules that enforce data integrity should therefore be implemented in the database, because it's the only place where you can prevent corrupt data to enter the database.
but I don't think that any other part of the world would want them either.
Well, maybe they don't want the Twice Convicted Monopolist, but I'm sure they want the cashflow that comes with the TCM. There are a lot of economies that would welcome a ~ 10 G US$ / year infuse.
Yes - Oracle can.
Oracle also has an iFS, short for Internet File System. It's actually a filesystem inside the Oracle RDBMS, and can be connected to through HTTP, FTP, IMAP4, SMTP, SMB/NTFS, NFS, AFP, etc..
So Oracle has an relational database that can be used as a file system.
Certain plants (e.g. mushrooms) accumulate radio active materials - eating mushrooms harvested in the forests near Chernobyl is not exactly healthy.
Russian scientist are thinking about using plants to remove radio active pollution from the soil. Harvest the plants, freeze-dry them, and treat the residual for what it is - radio active waste.
My dad used to have a Volkswagen Beetle... engine in the back, and almost no weight on the front wheels. This caused some steering problems when driving at top speed, he had to put a sandbag in the front storage compartment in order to keep the front wheels in touch with the road:).
Lift at higher speeds? Cars are designed to have negative lift at high speeds... especially racing cars. Positive lift at high speeds would make a car too dangerous to drive. I mean, we are talking about cars, not planes.
So breaking will not be reduced.
Note that stopping from 157 km/hr in 4 seconds anyways is not an impossible situation-- that works out to 10.9 m/s/s, or 1.1 g's-- a value that can be attained in many cars.
Well, at low speeds 1.1 g could be attainable by some cars. However, air drag scales with the speed^2, so attaining 1.1 g acceleration at speeds above 100 km/h is out off reach for most cars.
Come on, there are plenty of reasons why CD sales are down. Just to mention a few:
People use illegal downloads (RIAA claim).
People buy via Apple's iTunes.
The economy: people have less money to spend, so they cut on non-essential purchases.
The replacement effect: when the CD was introduced, people bought CDs when a) they wanted a new album or b) when they wanted a replament for their old LP's. Now all LP's have been replaced by CD's, that part of the CD sales disappears.
The high CD prices, CD's are more expensive than LP's, but cost less to manufacture. Some people don't buy CD's anymore because they think CD's are too expensive.
Demographic reason: the average age of the citizens is increasing, and it are the teenagers who buy most music. Fewer teenager, and more retired adults --> lower music sales.
It's hard to tell which reason has the biggest effect. It would be stupid (and a waste of time and money) when the RIAA fights P2P, while the real reason for the decline is the economy (or something else).
Maybe a Slashdot vote would tell us why Slashdot readers buy less CD's.
Yep. If only NASA invests in these infrastructure projects, it would make sense. However, both the European Space Agency and the Chinese space agency have plans for the moon. Let's hope all three parties (and maybe the Russians) continue with their plans.
As usually with high tech project, the biggest hurdle is the financial one. I've heard a lot about Russian plans, but I doubt if they have the money.
The USA certainly does have the money, political commitment changes with every new administartion in Washington DC.
The Chinese have the money, and the political commitment.
ESA doesn't have the money, and the member states (claim to) have the political commitment. But when they (= member states) are asked to donate money, their first priority is to make sure that ESA spends at least as much money in their country as that country donates to the ESA budget. ESA has great technology, but this national pride of the member states often prevents optimal use of the technology. Sigh.
So there are several (potential) candidates to investing in infrastructure on the moon. I hope this will create a new space race between the candidates, because that is the only thing that is guaranteed to start and finish such an expensive enterprise.
We should get up to the moon and lay down some infrastructure for American investors to use to get their entrepeneurial space-based business ventures underway
Tell me, why are you writing about American investors, and not about investors in general? The moon isn't American property, so why shouldn't non-American investores be part of moon-based business operations?
There is no chance to make an Antarctic colony, where the conditions still are much more friendly than on Moon.
We have cities on Greenland, in Alaska and Siberia. So why wouldn't we be able to put a colony on Antarctica? Technology isn't the problem here, but international treaties against commercial exploration of Antarctica; only scientific stations are permitted.
Kyoto is rather mal-formed. It is based on false scientific premises, and is designed to do nothing but wreck economies of certain countries. There is nothing wrong with ignoring (not signing) this one.
Can you be more specific? The economies of which countries?
Typically, more stringent environmental laws force companies to innovate in better production technology. The end result often is a production process that creates less polution, uses fewer resources and gives a higher quality end product.
And: what false scientific premises? Compare the health statistics from former East Europe with Western Europe, and you can clearly see the negative health effect of no-environmental-constraints industry in the east versus lots-of-environmental-constraints industry in the west. And, b.t.w., products from the factories in the west were of a much better quality.
1) Ask your boss to buy a *good* Y2K scanning tool. 2) Process, in 2 weeks, the pile of code he thought would take 3 months. 3) Play DukeNukem 3D for the rest of the time.
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Maybe that is true for some Linux software, but not for all Linux software.
Companies (such as Novell, IBM, Oracle, HP, etc.) that support Linux on the desktop should consider to give a facelift to those GUI's that are substandard. It's IMHO the way to go if they want Linux on the desktop to grow.
I've a 1998 app (RailroadTycoon II), that doesn't run under Windows XP.
Windows, it's the OS that doesn't run many apps / drivers from it's previous edition:
One big difference: when upgrading to a new Windows edition, you have to pay for new apps that replace the apps that won't run at the new Windows. When upgrading to Linux, not only are most of the replacement apps free as in speech, but also free as in beer.
What about Edit --> Preferences ... --> Navigator --> Downloads. Here you can choose between the download manager and a progress-dialog-per-download.
Of course you mean: The Applications. In many cases, databases get accessed by more than one application. In these cases you have multiple problems when you put the business rules in the applications, not in the database.
- You have to update/test/redeploy all applications when the business rules change.
- When most applications implement the business rules correctly, but one ill-behaving application doesn't, then that ill-behaving application can/will corrupt the data, and spoil the database for the other applications.
- When data gets corrupted, you have to check at more than one place to find-and-squash the bug(s). You don't want to analyze the cause(s) of data corruption, when the business rules gaven't been implemented at the database level, and the database has 80+ interfaces with other systems.
All business rules that enforce data integrity should therefore be implemented in the database, because it's the only place where you can prevent corrupt data to enter the database.Well, maybe they don't want the Twice Convicted Monopolist, but I'm sure they want the cashflow that comes with the TCM. There are a lot of economies that would welcome a ~ 10 G US$ / year infuse.
Just my 0.02 $.
Yes - Oracle can.
Oracle also has an iFS, short for Internet File System. It's actually a filesystem inside the Oracle RDBMS, and can be connected to through HTTP, FTP, IMAP4, SMTP, SMB/NTFS, NFS, AFP, etc..
So Oracle has an relational database that can be used as a file system.
The article only specifies the specs for the Longhorn client machines.
Makes me wonder about the specs for the Longhorn servers.....
Certain plants (e.g. mushrooms) accumulate radio active materials - eating mushrooms harvested in the forests near Chernobyl is not exactly healthy.
Russian scientist are thinking about using plants to remove radio active pollution from the soil. Harvest the plants, freeze-dry them, and treat the residual for what it is - radio active waste.
I've never heard about the G35. USA-only model?
Lift at higher speeds? Cars are designed to have negative lift at high speeds... especially racing cars. Positive lift at high speeds would make a car too dangerous to drive. I mean, we are talking about cars, not planes.
So breaking will not be reduced.
Well, at low speeds 1.1 g could be attainable by some cars. However, air drag scales with the speed^2, so attaining 1.1 g acceleration at speeds above 100 km/h is out off reach for most cars.
So far the only MS products I know of that come without security problems are the dead-tree manuals and books.
Hint: the one with the necktie, that's George W.....
- People use illegal downloads (RIAA claim).
- People buy via Apple's iTunes.
- The economy: people have less money to spend, so they cut on non-essential purchases.
- The replacement effect: when the CD was introduced, people bought CDs when a) they wanted a new album or b) when they wanted a replament for their old LP's. Now all LP's have been replaced by CD's, that part of the CD sales disappears.
- The high CD prices, CD's are more expensive than LP's, but cost less to manufacture. Some people don't buy CD's anymore because they think CD's are too expensive.
- Demographic reason: the average age of the citizens is increasing, and it are the teenagers who buy most music. Fewer teenager, and more retired adults --> lower music sales.
It's hard to tell which reason has the biggest effect. It would be stupid (and a waste of time and money) when the RIAA fights P2P, while the real reason for the decline is the economy (or something else).Maybe a Slashdot vote would tell us why Slashdot readers buy less CD's.
As usually with high tech project, the biggest hurdle is the financial one. I've heard a lot about Russian plans, but I doubt if they have the money.
The USA certainly does have the money, political commitment changes with every new administartion in Washington DC.
The Chinese have the money, and the political commitment.
ESA doesn't have the money, and the member states (claim to) have the political commitment. But when they (= member states) are asked to donate money, their first priority is to make sure that ESA spends at least as much money in their country as that country donates to the ESA budget. ESA has great technology, but this national pride of the member states often prevents optimal use of the technology. Sigh.
So there are several (potential) candidates to investing in infrastructure on the moon. I hope this will create a new space race between the candidates, because that is the only thing that is guaranteed to start and finish such an expensive enterprise.
Tell me, why are you writing about American investors, and not about investors in general? The moon isn't American property, so why shouldn't non-American investores be part of moon-based business operations?
We have cities on Greenland, in Alaska and Siberia. So why wouldn't we be able to put a colony on Antarctica? Technology isn't the problem here, but international treaties against commercial exploration of Antarctica; only scientific stations are permitted.
Can you be more specific? The economies of which countries?
Typically, more stringent environmental laws force companies to innovate in better production technology. The end result often is a production process that creates less polution, uses fewer resources and gives a higher quality end product.
And: what false scientific premises? Compare the health statistics from former East Europe with Western Europe, and you can clearly see the negative health effect of no-environmental-constraints industry in the east versus lots-of-environmental-constraints industry in the west. And, b.t.w., products from the factories in the west were of a much better quality.
Just being curious, but couldn't Sun's refusal to open source Java be a part of this Sun-MS agreement?
Getting rid of an open sourced Java opponent is i.m.h.o. more valuable to MS than the 1.6 G$ settlement fee.
Just my 0.02 $....
The smarter way to do a Y2K job:
1) Ask your boss to buy a *good* Y2K scanning tool.
2) Process, in 2 weeks, the pile of code he thought would take 3 months.
3) Play DukeNukem 3D for the rest of the time.