...why separate the database engine from the development tool on a palmtop, where efficiency is paramount? Do they expect people to use a palmtop as a db server or something?
Something like Foxpro or Access, with integrated database support, would make a helluva lot more sense. The latest version of Foxpro for the PC has a smaller runtime than what they are cramming on there for SQL CE for chrissakes! It's fuggin silly. What gets IN to those people?
10 years ago, I was putting the entire foxpro for dos development environment on 1 meg HP xxLX palmtops, and it worked really well. Full portability between desktop and palmtop, good performance, and good stability. Why have we taken such a giant step backwards that despite the hardware being 100 times better, we can no longer build decent software to run on it?
Everything MS does anymore should be accompanied by clown music.
I am truly starting to believe that MS is going to be a niche player like Apple in 10 years...an idea I would have laughed at a few years back. I don't LIKE this idea...it means I have to spend a lot of time retraining...but the writing is on the wall.
It has been my experience through the 3 or 4 updates I have installed, that you just overwrite your existing thunderbird folder with the one in the zip.
I always back up the folder first, but so far this has worked every time. One of my favorite things about Thunderbird is the installation...just drag and drop the folder, and off you go.
The spam filtering still bites though...it worked great for a few months, but the spammers have gotten ahead again.
Other than that, I really like Thunderbird...and I have Outlook, Outlook Express, and various mail clients as options.
The guy that mentioned calendaring had a good point. I would *LOVE* to replace Palm desktop with Thunderbird.
...worked for them a few years back. They were paying the usual wage slave entry level wages until Sterling heard that nobody could afford to live here on that wage (2 bedroom apts go for $900/mo.), so they raised wages somewere around 40% to provide a living wage. Impressed the hell out of me...I have never heard of any company anywhere doing this.
To have federal marshalls knocking on their door is ridiculous in the extreme. They would have complied in a skinny minute had they known that there was a problem. It just goes to show that the BSA and SCO have very similar revenue generating mechanisms.
I've been a game fiend since before Space Invaders, and this is the only game that gives me the adrenaline rush I used to get in arcades.
Unfortunately the masses couldn't quite get their heads around the 3D FPS/RTS hybrid concept, and the game foundered when it released in 2000. However, there is a small, helpful community of long-time players, and a LOT of excellent free addons. You can find them at bzuniverse.com
Battlezone II can be found on ebay or other places for under 5 bucks. Highly highly highly recommended.
...Linux is coming along very nicely. I've dabbled with it in the past, but was never able to get it to do much of anything useful.
A few weeks ago I set up a Redhat 9 box, and was quite pleased to find it was within my modest capabilities to set it up as an SMB file and print server and all kinds of other fun stuff from within gnome. Once I saw that I could get the damn thing to be USEFUL, I developed enough interest to start checking things out from a terminal window, reading man pages, and all that fun stuff those slightly geekier than I have enjoyed for years.
The point I am trying to make is the relatively minor ease of use improvement pushed me over the edge from being an MS only guy to a guy that is going to be deploying Linux file servers at client sites instead of Win2k servers. Might even float the idea for desktops to some folks....
With each successive ease of use improvement, more people will reach the same point, and Linux usage will grow. MS is rightfully scared shitless about it. Giving away their product isn't going to help them in the long run...all it will do is lower the perceived value of it.
I am no longer a doubter. Hats off and many thanks to those that have contributed to make Linux what it is.
...you are dealing with a crappily-WRITTEN app in Foxpro.
It's easy to learn just enough to cobble together a crummy app in Foxpro, and as such there are a million crappy fox apps out there.
This is in no way the fault of the language...which not only offers an extremely fast, stable native database, but full OOP implementation.
Don't judge it by some of the hacks that use it.
...as it is unlikely that many businesses are going to be willing to convert their workstations from Win XP to Linux.
The best/most stable VFP/Linux setup is going to be windows clients running VFP apps accessing data from some flavor of Linux SQL server. This doesn't appear to violate the EULA...
Well, if an ambulance driver wants to determine how many Newtons you were subjected to, a good rule of thumb is to look at how smashed the car is. If the engine is in the backseat, it would be a safe bet that you whacked pretty hard.
Sounds like a technology looking for a reason to exist.
I can tell you this...I won't buy any car that has this installed in it in such a way that I can't disable or remove it.
...the spawn of braindead parents, better serve humanity by yanking themselves from the gene pool with dad's colt, thus preventing further braindead descendants?
We gotta have SOME form of natural selection...
...at midway through a burn, is your cd half empty or half full?
If you are burning it in an empty house, and the burn hoses up, and you scream, does anybody hear?
Honestly, I think those RIAA folks are doing the more of the good drugs their talent does.
I've had several of 3com's $70 'server grade' nics go whacko on me, yet I've never had a $15 linksys give me any trouble at all.
About the only way to make the call is through personal experience. In the case of electronics, which people's lives generally dont depend upon, it ends up being cheaper to try the cheap stuff first.
...Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast was all hacked up within months of release.
I think hacking will probably put a serious dent in the number of people that play MMORPGS...and Sony knows it, hence their efforts to stop it.
It's really sad that some miscreants get power trips off cheating in online games. It pretty much limits players to playing with people they know, which greatly limits the pool of available people to play with, thus stealing from us the internets greatest promise...a vast number of people from all over the world to interact with.
People have been modding the heck out of BZ II...there are at least 3 professional quality mods out there and dozens of lesser ones...including all new models, weapons, and even a couple of races.
Anyone who is at all intrested in FPS/RTS hybrids should check it out...Battlezone is the grandaddy of em all.
When the game released, it was too much for the hardware of the day, but on modern systems it rocks. Graphics are damn good even by todays standards, it has a lot of depth, and the multiplayer is just plain awesome.
The main forum can be found at www.planetbattlezone.com, and copies of the game can be picked up dirt cheap on amazon or bigbox stores.
...all they can do is (possibly) prevent people from making perfect digital copies. There is no way they can stop people from simply re-digitizing what comes out of a line out port.
Seeing as how all compressed music sounds a bit funky anyhow, the slight distortion you get from re-digitizing is unimportant.
They can't stop piracy, but they are doing a good job of pissing off their paying customers. This is good. Once the people that have a stranglehold on the music industry are floating tits up in their swimming pools, all those great basement recording artists will have a chance to get their music listened to.
As a crappy basement recording artist, I couldn't be happier about it all.
Art is not supposed to be an industry.
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Can you describe one of these "really powerful mobile apps" that require a SQL server on a PDA?
...why separate the database engine from the development tool on a palmtop, where efficiency is paramount? Do they expect people to use a palmtop as a db server or something?
Something like Foxpro or Access, with integrated database support, would make a helluva lot more sense. The latest version of Foxpro for the PC has a smaller runtime than what they are cramming on there for SQL CE for chrissakes! It's fuggin silly. What gets IN to those people?
10 years ago, I was putting the entire foxpro for dos development environment on 1 meg HP xxLX palmtops, and it worked really well. Full portability between desktop and palmtop, good performance, and good stability. Why have we taken such a giant step backwards that despite the hardware being 100 times better, we can no longer build decent software to run on it?
Everything MS does anymore should be accompanied by clown music.
I am truly starting to believe that MS is going to be a niche player like Apple in 10 years...an idea I would have laughed at a few years back. I don't LIKE this idea...it means I have to spend a lot of time retraining...but the writing is on the wall.
It has been my experience through the 3 or 4 updates I have installed, that you just overwrite your existing thunderbird folder with the one in the zip. I always back up the folder first, but so far this has worked every time. One of my favorite things about Thunderbird is the installation...just drag and drop the folder, and off you go. The spam filtering still bites though...it worked great for a few months, but the spammers have gotten ahead again.
Other than that, I really like Thunderbird...and I have Outlook, Outlook Express, and various mail clients as options.
The guy that mentioned calendaring had a good point. I would *LOVE* to replace Palm desktop with Thunderbird.
"Hell hath no fury like geek legions scorned."
...worked for them a few years back. They were paying the usual wage slave entry level wages until Sterling heard that nobody could afford to live here on that wage (2 bedroom apts go for $900/mo.), so they raised wages somewere around 40% to provide a living wage. Impressed the hell out of me...I have never heard of any company anywhere doing this.
To have federal marshalls knocking on their door is ridiculous in the extreme. They would have complied in a skinny minute had they known that there was a problem. It just goes to show that the BSA and SCO have very similar revenue generating mechanisms.
I've been a game fiend since before Space Invaders, and this is the only game that gives me the adrenaline rush I used to get in arcades.
Unfortunately the masses couldn't quite get their heads around the 3D FPS/RTS hybrid concept, and the game foundered when it released in 2000. However, there is a small, helpful community of long-time players, and a LOT of excellent free addons. You can find them at bzuniverse.com
Battlezone II can be found on ebay or other places for under 5 bucks. Highly highly highly recommended.
...Linux is coming along very nicely. I've dabbled with it in the past, but was never able to get it to do much of anything useful. A few weeks ago I set up a Redhat 9 box, and was quite pleased to find it was within my modest capabilities to set it up as an SMB file and print server and all kinds of other fun stuff from within gnome. Once I saw that I could get the damn thing to be USEFUL, I developed enough interest to start checking things out from a terminal window, reading man pages, and all that fun stuff those slightly geekier than I have enjoyed for years. The point I am trying to make is the relatively minor ease of use improvement pushed me over the edge from being an MS only guy to a guy that is going to be deploying Linux file servers at client sites instead of Win2k servers. Might even float the idea for desktops to some folks.... With each successive ease of use improvement, more people will reach the same point, and Linux usage will grow. MS is rightfully scared shitless about it. Giving away their product isn't going to help them in the long run...all it will do is lower the perceived value of it. I am no longer a doubter. Hats off and many thanks to those that have contributed to make Linux what it is.
...you are dealing with a crappily-WRITTEN app in Foxpro. It's easy to learn just enough to cobble together a crummy app in Foxpro, and as such there are a million crappy fox apps out there. This is in no way the fault of the language...which not only offers an extremely fast, stable native database, but full OOP implementation. Don't judge it by some of the hacks that use it.
...as it is unlikely that many businesses are going to be willing to convert their workstations from Win XP to Linux.
The best/most stable VFP/Linux setup is going to be windows clients running VFP apps accessing data from some flavor of Linux SQL server. This doesn't appear to violate the EULA...
Well, if an ambulance driver wants to determine how many Newtons you were subjected to, a good rule of thumb is to look at how smashed the car is. If the engine is in the backseat, it would be a safe bet that you whacked pretty hard. Sounds like a technology looking for a reason to exist. I can tell you this...I won't buy any car that has this installed in it in such a way that I can't disable or remove it.
...the spawn of braindead parents, better serve humanity by yanking themselves from the gene pool with dad's colt, thus preventing further braindead descendants? We gotta have SOME form of natural selection...
...at midway through a burn, is your cd half empty or half full? If you are burning it in an empty house, and the burn hoses up, and you scream, does anybody hear? Honestly, I think those RIAA folks are doing the more of the good drugs their talent does.
I've had several of 3com's $70 'server grade' nics go whacko on me, yet I've never had a $15 linksys give me any trouble at all.
About the only way to make the call is through personal experience. In the case of electronics, which people's lives generally dont depend upon, it ends up being cheaper to try the cheap stuff first.
Tires and brakes are entirely another matter...
...Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast was all hacked up within months of release. I think hacking will probably put a serious dent in the number of people that play MMORPGS...and Sony knows it, hence their efforts to stop it. It's really sad that some miscreants get power trips off cheating in online games. It pretty much limits players to playing with people they know, which greatly limits the pool of available people to play with, thus stealing from us the internets greatest promise...a vast number of people from all over the world to interact with.
People have been modding the heck out of BZ II...there are at least 3 professional quality mods out there and dozens of lesser ones...including all new models, weapons, and even a couple of races. Anyone who is at all intrested in FPS/RTS hybrids should check it out...Battlezone is the grandaddy of em all. When the game released, it was too much for the hardware of the day, but on modern systems it rocks. Graphics are damn good even by todays standards, it has a lot of depth, and the multiplayer is just plain awesome. The main forum can be found at www.planetbattlezone.com, and copies of the game can be picked up dirt cheap on amazon or bigbox stores.
...all they can do is (possibly) prevent people from making perfect digital copies. There is no way they can stop people from simply re-digitizing what comes out of a line out port. Seeing as how all compressed music sounds a bit funky anyhow, the slight distortion you get from re-digitizing is unimportant. They can't stop piracy, but they are doing a good job of pissing off their paying customers. This is good. Once the people that have a stranglehold on the music industry are floating tits up in their swimming pools, all those great basement recording artists will have a chance to get their music listened to. As a crappy basement recording artist, I couldn't be happier about it all. Art is not supposed to be an industry.