Are you a Mac user? If not please stop informing us of their philosophy. I know the marketing of Macs in the G3 iMac era was all about looks, but things have changed. Frankly I hear more about usability than i do looks anymore.
I'm not trying to single you out, but it seems that most of the people here are saying the same things, and i doubt they are qualified to speak for the Mac using population. I'm not a user so i'll reserve my judgement.
"Too soon for a columbine videogame?" Are you serious? Is there a time limit on garbage? To be honest i don't think such a game ever need to be written. Granted people should have the freedom to do this, but sometimes it isn't a question of fredoms. Good taste should be weighed in.
Well i'm not going to argue with your use of the word "stole" in regards to IP, so I'll use the term infringe.
No, intellectual property laws in the US do not cover instruction sets (amd).
However particular instructions can be implemented in such a way that the implementation can be patented. Of course the patent can be worded in such a way that those instructions cannot be implemented without requiring a license to that IP.
The original MIPS I instruction set only had 4 functions that were covered by patents, and the Goodwin family of processors in question doesn't implement those instructions. I don't know about IP associated with 64bit MIPS so I won't comment about that.
My point is that it is possible to implement an instruction set without infringing on IP. And besides the MIPS I instruction set was developed at a university (Stanford), not by a company, so the information was Free from the beginning.
You're correct, OpenBSD has primitive SMP support. However it seems the point was to show an example of an OS that would perform better without dealing with SMP.
It's been a while since I've had to look into speech recognition for linux, but this link should help you get started: Linux Accessibility Resource Site
Read down to the section about speech recognition. I hope that helps.
Lets rephrase this Title a bit to give a better picture of what is really being said.
Most Search Engine Users Stop after the first 60 hits
3 pages seems a lot smaller than 30 hits, but most search engines return around 20 hits per page. Another case of fun with numbers being used to dress up a non-article.
It is all clear to me now! Dell couldn't sell a $3000 gaming machine for those rock bottom prices of $2995 if they didn't remove value from the transaction. Haha, good call.
The main difference between an XPS and an Alienware machine with the same specs is not how finely the hardware is tuned, it is the software. Dell ships everymachine out with a bunch of crap software bundled, some of which trips off populare anti-spyware software.
Here at work we purchase Dell laptops for our sales force and the first thing we always do after receiving the machine is to reload the windows disk, but not the auxillary software.
Crufty software doesn't belong on work machines let alone a gaming system. Some of the software bundled could even be considered offensive to gamers looking for high performance computers. Why not bundle software that is relevant to your target customers (i.e. quickbooks isn't it).
Here's my take on it as an IT worker for a small business. It means my investement in office 2003 so we could interoperate with suppliers and customers is getting me a better than expected life cycle.
We have to justify captital expenditures such as upgrading to the latest and greatest version of office, and since office 2000 we have struggled to put reasons other than "Compatibility with Suppliers and Customers" on the request.
I guess I'm saying that I'm glad the upgrade treadmill has stalled out, at least temporarily.
Exactly. Why would Apple want to jump in the ring against Dell and the Asian PC OEMs? The margins are slim. This is not a "Step 2: ???" that would lead to "Step 3: Profit!"
This claim, though falacious, sure gets ad-revenue pumping into the company coffers.
Actually it is commonly known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, but is correctly called the Whorf Hypothesis.
Edward Sapir first became a believer in Linguistic Determinism, and passed this on to his student Benjamin Whorf. Whorf is the one who took the idea of Linguistic Determinism and fleshed it by creating the Whorf Hypothesis. Linguistic Determinism means that language effects our thoughts. Whorf went one step further and said that it impossible for ppl to think outside the confines of their native language.
Honestly I hope they aren't:
1) Running IM software
2) Checking e-mail
3) Surfing the web...
on their backend machines.
This exploit works by opening/viewing a WMF file, which is an image file. I know there are legit reasons to have WMFs on a NT Server. However, you probably shouldn't be downloading new ones randomly off the web. If these machines are some sort of net storage, you probably would use another machine to make use of these files. The only real threat your backend should have is a worm payload deposited on an infected 2k/XP/2k3 machine.
Find software that will fit your companies needs best.
Do you have or will you be able to find (now and in the future) expertise for the platform(s) it runs on.
Figure out how much reliability you need.
How can you get that reliability from the platform the software runs on the least $$$.
Those questions will help you determine whether or not stick with an iseries or go for some other platform for your ERP system. If the best software is for an iSeries and your company already sas an os/400 expert, you may be safe going with it. Otherwise you may need to consider Windows, Unix, or something else.
I knew they were doing soft emulation, but I thought it was modular. I'm a little surprised that they only have one peice of software which does all emulation. I presumed they would code different backends for all the popular titles. Guess it would be more work, but less headaches in the long run.
Not sure where I got these ideas from, but that is what I thought.
I'll ignore the attack on your parent post. But you are correct. They still own the lyrics, and the only thing they are losing is the ability to sell lyrics to the tiny population who cares about reading them.
As far as tabs go, there is probably a bigger market of people who want to buy those. However, why sell them at all? Why not provide them on the artists site, and allow lyrics sites to link to them. You would be getting free advertising for your artists.
Of course that wouldn't work for the RIAA. They don't want free marketing, they want total control of you. They want to tell you when you can listen to the music you bought, who you can listen to it with, where you can listen to it, and most importantly how you listen to it.
Who wants to change your business model to fit the market when you can just develop a stranglehold on it?
Your comment is too broad. I will agree some times of crime are at lower levels now, but what about identity theft? Is that lower now than it was 30yrs ago.
Clearly crime is a moving target. Bank robberies are probably down quite a bit comparted to 100 yrs ago, but that doesn't mean people aren't stealing money.
I would be interested in knowing if there is a metric for measuring aggregate crime statistics.
Honestly, that article is ridiculous. The idea that IPv6 won't be rolled out because IP address hording is going to be marketable. Sure thing. I can totally see myself paying an inflated amount of money for the privilege of hosting a web server.
Perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I see a lot of people deciding that they don't care to spend a boat load of money on services they can put on IPv6. SSH for example, if all I need is a SSH server, or an extranet server, or something that has no need of being globally available, I don't think I would buy an IPv4 address for the privilege of making it available to the old net.
When/If the IP address market really gets going I foresee a real migration to the IPv6 space. Furthermore, hobbyists and technophiles will begin to move to IPv6, the rest will follow.
At work we have many, many laptops. One in particular was for a user who wanted a desktop replacement, so we got him a laptop with a P4 in it (ouch). Well, all went well for a while, then he started complaining about the programs acting strangley, I had him bring it in. I looked at it, tried different things(reinstall programs, etc).
Eventually I called in told Dell it seemed like it was overheating, jumped through the tech support hoops (Bah), and they sent a guy in the next day. He discovered the cooling system went bad, replaced it. The machine has worked flawlessly since.
The point (finally): Call tech support if you can, see if you can get something changed out. Your laptop shouldn't overheat.
Well, it seems you have a windows environment, but don't want to purchase exchange. There is another tool, Windows SharePoint Services. It can be configure to have a calendar for each member. It is free, but it requires IIS 6, Win2k3, and SQL Server or the free data engine thingy.
There is a catch, you have to use the web interface to edit the calendars. You can always set that up to open in outlook.
We use it for an office calendar, useful!
contract n.
1. a) An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law. See Synonyms at bargain.
b) The writing or document containing such an agreement.
2. The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
Since when have I been entering into a contract when I purchase a movie or music? I see the copy right on the packaging, as well as the Federal Warning that plays at the beginning of the movie.
The warning says it is illegal to sell/distribute copies, not illegal to make them. I just don't understand where this contract is that says I cannot make copies for personal use. DRM is designed to make sure I cannot make copies. I want to see this contract I entered into, and see where it says they have the right to make ammendments to the contract without my approval.
I am of course not totally serious, I know about copyright law, DMCA and all that good stuff. I just don't like this use of the word contract. I know when I buy a cd I am expected to play by the rules, but my purchase does not qualify as an agreement to the record industries terms of use. If I want to make a backup, I will. If I want to make MP3s, I will. There is no contract.
The reason that Neptune and Pluto are in the same "neighborhood" is because Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's.
The fact that pluto behaves more like an asteroid than a planet also throws into the light the need to reclasify what is a planet, or better still come up with several classifications. Personally, I think the classifying objects into planets and not is pointless. They all orbit the Sun, and I'm sure the Sun loves all its children equaly.
So you bought a thin client for ~400-500 dollars. You installed linux on it... Great.
400 could get you a propper PC. and you could put it to better use.
Personally I would use a thin client as a thin client.
A ITX system could get you about the same energy savings. So really my question is why that hardware? Was it free?
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They still distribute other GPLed applications with/for their server software. First link i found: ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/uw7/net/samba/
Are you a Mac user? If not please stop informing us of their philosophy. I know the marketing of Macs in the G3 iMac era was all about looks, but things have changed. Frankly I hear more about usability than i do looks anymore.
I'm not trying to single you out, but it seems that most of the people here are saying the same things, and i doubt they are qualified to speak for the Mac using population. I'm not a user so i'll reserve my judgement.
"Too soon for a columbine videogame?" Are you serious? Is there a time limit on garbage? To be honest i don't think such a game ever need to be written. Granted people should have the freedom to do this, but sometimes it isn't a question of fredoms. Good taste should be weighed in.
Well i'm not going to argue with your use of the word "stole" in regards to IP, so I'll use the term infringe.
No, intellectual property laws in the US do not cover instruction sets (amd).
However particular instructions can be implemented in such a way that the implementation can be patented. Of course the patent can be worded in such a way that those instructions cannot be implemented without requiring a license to that IP.
The original MIPS I instruction set only had 4 functions that were covered by patents, and the Goodwin family of processors in question doesn't implement those instructions. I don't know about IP associated with 64bit MIPS so I won't comment about that.
My point is that it is possible to implement an instruction set without infringing on IP. And besides the MIPS I instruction set was developed at a university (Stanford), not by a company, so the information was Free from the beginning.
You're correct, OpenBSD has primitive SMP support. However it seems the point was to show an example of an OS that would perform better without dealing with SMP.
It's been a while since I've had to look into speech recognition for linux, but this link should help you get started: Linux Accessibility Resource Site
Read down to the section about speech recognition. I hope that helps.
Lets rephrase this Title a bit to give a better picture of what is really being said.
Most Search Engine Users Stop after the first 60 hits
3 pages seems a lot smaller than 30 hits, but most search engines return around 20 hits per page. Another case of fun with numbers being used to dress up a non-article.
It is all clear to me now! Dell couldn't sell a $3000 gaming machine for those rock bottom prices of $2995 if they didn't remove value from the transaction. Haha, good call.
The main difference between an XPS and an Alienware machine with the same specs is not how finely the hardware is tuned, it is the software. Dell ships everymachine out with a bunch of crap software bundled, some of which trips off populare anti-spyware software.
Here at work we purchase Dell laptops for our sales force and the first thing we always do after receiving the machine is to reload the windows disk, but not the auxillary software.
Crufty software doesn't belong on work machines let alone a gaming system. Some of the software bundled could even be considered offensive to gamers looking for high performance computers. Why not bundle software that is relevant to your target customers (i.e. quickbooks isn't it).
Here's my take on it as an IT worker for a small business. It means my investement in office 2003 so we could interoperate with suppliers and customers is getting me a better than expected life cycle.
We have to justify captital expenditures such as upgrading to the latest and greatest version of office, and since office 2000 we have struggled to put reasons other than "Compatibility with Suppliers and Customers" on the request.
I guess I'm saying that I'm glad the upgrade treadmill has stalled out, at least temporarily.
Exactly. Why would Apple want to jump in the ring against Dell and the Asian PC OEMs? The margins are slim. This is not a "Step 2: ???" that would lead to "Step 3: Profit!"
This claim, though falacious, sure gets ad-revenue pumping into the company coffers.
Actually it is commonly known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, but is correctly called the Whorf Hypothesis.
Edward Sapir first became a believer in Linguistic Determinism, and passed this on to his student Benjamin Whorf. Whorf is the one who took the idea of Linguistic Determinism and fleshed it by creating the Whorf Hypothesis. Linguistic Determinism means that language effects our thoughts. Whorf went one step further and said that it impossible for ppl to think outside the confines of their native language.
Honestly I hope they aren't:
1) Running IM software
2) Checking e-mail
3) Surfing the web...
on their backend machines.
This exploit works by opening/viewing a WMF file, which is an image file. I know there are legit reasons to have WMFs on a NT Server. However, you probably shouldn't be downloading new ones randomly off the web. If these machines are some sort of net storage, you probably would use another machine to make use of these files. The only real threat your backend should have is a worm payload deposited on an infected 2k/XP/2k3 machine.
Because I can think of a few other ways this could happen:
Just a few ideas from the top of my head.
- Find software that will fit your companies needs best.
- Do you have or will you be able to find (now and in the future) expertise for the platform(s) it runs on.
- Figure out how much reliability you need.
- How can you get that reliability from the platform the software runs on the least $$$.
Those questions will help you determine whether or not stick with an iseries or go for some other platform for your ERP system. If the best software is for an iSeries and your company already sas an os/400 expert, you may be safe going with it. Otherwise you may need to consider Windows, Unix, or something else.I knew they were doing soft emulation, but I thought it was modular. I'm a little surprised that they only have one peice of software which does all emulation. I presumed they would code different backends for all the popular titles. Guess it would be more work, but less headaches in the long run.
Not sure where I got these ideas from, but that is what I thought.
I'll ignore the attack on your parent post. But you are correct. They still own the lyrics, and the only thing they are losing is the ability to sell lyrics to the tiny population who cares about reading them.
As far as tabs go, there is probably a bigger market of people who want to buy those. However, why sell them at all? Why not provide them on the artists site, and allow lyrics sites to link to them. You would be getting free advertising for your artists.
Of course that wouldn't work for the RIAA. They don't want free marketing, they want total control of you. They want to tell you when you can listen to the music you bought, who you can listen to it with, where you can listen to it, and most importantly how you listen to it.
Who wants to change your business model to fit the market when you can just develop a stranglehold on it?
Your comment is too broad. I will agree some times of crime are at lower levels now, but what about identity theft? Is that lower now than it was 30yrs ago.
Clearly crime is a moving target. Bank robberies are probably down quite a bit comparted to 100 yrs ago, but that doesn't mean people aren't stealing money.
I would be interested in knowing if there is a metric for measuring aggregate crime statistics.
surge supressor strip + zip ties/velcro strapping.
keep it clean, and only have cables as long as they need to be.
Honestly, that article is ridiculous. The idea that IPv6 won't be rolled out because IP address hording is going to be marketable. Sure thing. I can totally see myself paying an inflated amount of money for the privilege of hosting a web server.
Perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I see a lot of people deciding that they don't care to spend a boat load of money on services they can put on IPv6. SSH for example, if all I need is a SSH server, or an extranet server, or something that has no need of being globally available, I don't think I would buy an IPv4 address for the privilege of making it available to the old net.
When/If the IP address market really gets going I foresee a real migration to the IPv6 space. Furthermore, hobbyists and technophiles will begin to move to IPv6, the rest will follow.
Dell is pretty good about these kind of things.
At work we have many, many laptops. One in particular was for a user who wanted a desktop replacement, so we got him a laptop with a P4 in it (ouch). Well, all went well for a while, then he started complaining about the programs acting strangley, I had him bring it in. I looked at it, tried different things(reinstall programs, etc).
Eventually I called in told Dell it seemed like it was overheating, jumped through the tech support hoops (Bah), and they sent a guy in the next day. He discovered the cooling system went bad, replaced it. The machine has worked flawlessly since.
The point (finally): Call tech support if you can, see if you can get something changed out. Your laptop shouldn't overheat.
Well, it seems you have a windows environment, but don't want to purchase exchange. There is another tool, Windows SharePoint Services. It can be configure to have a calendar for each member. It is free, but it requires IIS 6, Win2k3, and SQL Server or the free data engine thingy.
There is a catch, you have to use the web interface to edit the calendars. You can always set that up to open in outlook.
We use it for an office calendar, useful!
1. a) An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law. See Synonyms at bargain.
b) The writing or document containing such an agreement.
2. The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
Since when have I been entering into a contract when I purchase a movie or music? I see the copy right on the packaging, as well as the Federal Warning that plays at the beginning of the movie.
The warning says it is illegal to sell/distribute copies, not illegal to make them. I just don't understand where this contract is that says I cannot make copies for personal use. DRM is designed to make sure I cannot make copies. I want to see this contract I entered into, and see where it says they have the right to make ammendments to the contract without my approval.
I am of course not totally serious, I know about copyright law, DMCA and all that good stuff. I just don't like this use of the word contract. I know when I buy a cd I am expected to play by the rules, but my purchase does not qualify as an agreement to the record industries terms of use. If I want to make a backup, I will. If I want to make MP3s, I will. There is no contract.
The reason that Neptune and Pluto are in the same "neighborhood" is because Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's.
The fact that pluto behaves more like an asteroid than a planet also throws into the light the need to reclasify what is a planet, or better still come up with several classifications. Personally, I think the classifying objects into planets and not is pointless. They all orbit the Sun, and I'm sure the Sun loves all its children equaly.
So you bought a thin client for ~400-500 dollars. You installed linux on it... Great.
400 could get you a propper PC. and you could put it to better use.
Personally I would use a thin client as a thin client.
A ITX system could get you about the same energy savings. So really my question is why that hardware? Was it free?