that produces shrink-wrapped products will have to find another business plan, rightly or wrongly. That's life in the real world.
Yes, but shrink-wrapped products are not the business plan.. they are the product. Maybe they have to start selling a different product.. maybe subscriptions? Maybe services? Oh wait they already are.
I know it's a joke, but just for record sake, evolution was not a beauty contest. ("Chicks dig muscular guys! I want to be muscular too!") It was about tuning an animal to be able to at least survive its environment.
Jocks and beauty are still very much with us.. perhaps mere survival is not enough when pitted against other humans? That reproduction is a competition amongst potential mates?
Just downloaded it, tried a few files, and a cursory evaluation reveals there is still a ways to go. Current styles showed up as funny characters, text was jittery and/or flickery as I highlighted sections of text, spacing between lines was uneven.
or a buncha horny techies that use sex to sell to adolescent teenage boys (or both). Those 'horny techies' are juvenilizing the gaming world so that women don't want to be a part of it.
Yet somehow the physical perfection and large muscles of the male characters is always overlooked.. how many fat slobs with bad skin do you see in games? I think people in general would rather have characters that look good (male and female). I sense a double standard here WRT female characters.
Yes, one of the original tenets of capitalism, mobility of labour, has been turned on its head now. Because the days of mass migrations are effectively over, labour is relatively immobile and can no longer effectively compete for the highest wage on a global scale. Conversely, because of globalization, capital has become increasingly mobile and is allowed to shop around for the lowest wage they can find, driving down wages everywhere. I think this bodes ill for workers in general, and I can only hope that labour unions arise in the wake of the continued global wave of corporate slash and burn tactics until there are no exploitable labour markets left.
Yes, and what about all those non-expert users out there who I have been advocating pheonix/firebird to? The Camino name change was also difficult; people have a hard enough time as it is trusting your advice. Name recognition helps in the trust dept. Now I have to say 'its part of the Mozilla project' or something like that.
If they change it one more time (and they probably will, as this name is terrible and has been used for other things before) I think they might as well get used to obscurity until it becomes the new Mozilla.
An _extremely_ poor analogy. The gnats draw their sustenance from the beast and would die without it. Free Software exists entirely independently of Microsoft and would replace it were to die.
Microsoft products quite often serve as the blueprint and inspiration for open source products, therefore Free Software is feeding off the market research and product development that Microsoft has done (or bought, or stole, or whatever - doesn't matter).
Until ACT is ported, until the average sales person can do everything he/she needs to do and very easily, linux will make "0" inroads into corporate america.
The ASP market has been heating up lately. I am familiar with both Act! and Goldmine, and salesforce.com seems to fit somewhere between them in terms of functionality. No reason why a company couldn't use a Linux based browser as a client to salesforce.com. I also noticed AMD recently signed a 3-year contract with them for 800 seats (news.com).
There are other similiar products out there, such as intranets.com, bluetie.com, solve360.com.. I believe it is getting easier and easier for SMEs to function without Windows on the desktop.
Even I am getting confused now essentially because of the 'enterprise' distributions - certain hardware manufacturers (Dell,IBM) are lining up behind SUSE and Redhat and do not support any other distribution. On our last round of server upgrades I was essentially afraid to go with anything else even though the distro shouldn't be a factor as much as the kernel version.
As it turned out, the RAID drivers worked fine, but RedHat 9 was horribly unstable with hyperthreading enabled.. go figure.
Redhat is the sleaze of the Linux community. They are the windows of linux
Exactly. And they have the collusion of the hardware manufacturers (dell,ibm) when it comes to driver support for enterprise level stuff as well.
We literally became too scared to use any other Linux because Dell said their drivers were only supported on Redhat and we have no idea what small bit of kernel code may be different between RH and others to cause it to break.
IBM and Oracle, among others, understand how to work on and with Linux. They sell proprietary software which runs on Linux
They understand it completely from an OS licensing point of view as well.
Try and purchase an enterprise class server w/RAID controller from Dell or IBM. They will not offer any support unless you purchase 'enterprise' Linux from Redhat (Dell,IBM) or Suse(IBM). Their RAID drivers are not officially supported on anything else, either.
The way I see it, free software is essentially rendered meaningless in this context. Redhat ships expensive modified distribution (with some proprietary code), vendors will only support expensive modified version, you are forced to pay.
CSS/XHTML will reduce bandwidth use, not increase it
At what point did I say it didn't?
I have seen the Zen garden and like it (even though it's a "textbook" example). But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about different, smaller, more optimized content altogether - see the W3C Device Independance working group for wonderful examples.
Why should the [PDA/Phone/low-bandwidth whatever] have to download the same markup and content a browser does? Why should the user not have an abbreviated, concise version to read on his smaller or lower bandwidth device?
All I'm saying is that commercial enterprises (like us) can and will spend the extra effort to make their content optimized for different devices. We are not consultants whose work must outlive them.
Yes, and I could simulate simple classes in C with structs and passing a this pointer to all the attached functions... but I would rather abstract that further by using actual C++.
Commercial wisdom says: It may work, but its not optimized, so users don't get the best possible experience. There are other valid reasons why you may not want to stream the same markup and/or content at all devices, such as bandwidth speed and low device memory, not to mention readability. W3C device independance working group deals with this.
Also, there are other more effective ways to increase visibility on Google, such as increasing your link popularity and, unfortunately, paying them.
Actually, it means eating just enough calories to live, thereby inducing some kind of long term famine response in your body. This is not about eating 'healthy' (as in to look/feel good). Do some googling on the newsgroups about this topic and see how deep the fear of aging has permeated their psyche.
I used to know someone who was on such a program, and with his rail thin body, wispy hair and prominent eyesockets he looked vaguely like the thing off creepshow.
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that produces shrink-wrapped products will have to find another business plan, rightly or wrongly. That's life in the real world.
Yes, but shrink-wrapped products are not the business plan.. they are the product. Maybe they have to start selling a different product.. maybe subscriptions? Maybe services? Oh wait they already are.I know it's a joke, but just for record sake, evolution was not a beauty contest. ("Chicks dig muscular guys! I want to be muscular too!") It was about tuning an animal to be able to at least survive its environment.
Jocks and beauty are still very much with us .. perhaps mere survival is not enough when pitted against other humans? That reproduction is a competition amongst potential mates?
Just downloaded it, tried a few files, and a cursory evaluation reveals there is still a ways to go. Current styles showed up as funny characters, text was jittery and/or flickery as I highlighted sections of text, spacing between lines was uneven.
"If you love what you do, you'll never have to work another day in your life."
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."
--Spanish Proverb
The mean age in Japan is approaching 70
The mean and median ages are barely past forty.
You're both wrong, I know plenty of mean SOBs younger than forty..
or a buncha horny techies that use sex to sell to adolescent teenage boys (or both). Those 'horny techies' are juvenilizing the gaming world so that women don't want to be a part of it.
Yet somehow the physical perfection and large muscles of the male characters is always overlooked.. how many fat slobs with bad skin do you see in games? I think people in general would rather have characters that look good (male and female). I sense a double standard here WRT female characters.
I believe its called an autocatalytic process
or perhaps Micros__t (in lieu of the usual stars)
Yes, one of the original tenets of capitalism, mobility of labour, has been turned on its head now. Because the days of mass migrations are effectively over, labour is relatively immobile and can no longer effectively compete for the highest wage on a global scale. Conversely, because of globalization, capital has become increasingly mobile and is allowed to shop around for the lowest wage they can find, driving down wages everywhere. I think this bodes ill for workers in general, and I can only hope that labour unions arise in the wake of the continued global wave of corporate slash and burn tactics until there are no exploitable labour markets left.
> I think the name change was a smart move.
Yes, and what about all those non-expert users out there who I have been advocating pheonix/firebird to? The Camino name change was also difficult; people have a hard enough time as it is trusting your advice. Name recognition helps in the trust dept. Now I have to say 'its part of the Mozilla project' or something like that.
If they change it one more time (and they probably will, as this name is terrible and has been used for other things before) I think they might as well get used to obscurity until it becomes the new Mozilla.
I'll certainly take the hairless part. Damn our simian heritage!
In closing, go away and write some code. If you can't do that, then just go away.
I nominate you for Open Source PR guy
10:30: Arrive at work, get high on cough syrup
Ahhh... Robitussin
Make your own spreadsheet from scratch, then. I dare you.
An _extremely_ poor analogy. The gnats draw their sustenance from the beast and would die without it. Free Software exists entirely independently of Microsoft and would replace it were to die.
Microsoft products quite often serve as the blueprint and inspiration for open source products, therefore Free Software is feeding off the market research and product development that Microsoft has done (or bought, or stole, or whatever - doesn't matter).
Until ACT is ported, until the average sales person can do everything he/she needs to do and very easily, linux will make "0" inroads into corporate america.
The ASP market has been heating up lately. I am familiar with both Act! and Goldmine, and salesforce.com seems to fit somewhere between them in terms of functionality. No reason why a company couldn't use a Linux based browser as a client to salesforce.com. I also noticed AMD recently signed a 3-year contract with them for 800 seats (news.com).
There are other similiar products out there, such as intranets.com, bluetie.com, solve360.com.. I believe it is getting easier and easier for SMEs to function without Windows on the desktop.
Even I am getting confused now essentially because of the 'enterprise' distributions - certain hardware manufacturers (Dell,IBM) are lining up behind SUSE and Redhat and do not support any other distribution. On our last round of server upgrades I was essentially afraid to go with anything else even though the distro shouldn't be a factor as much as the kernel version. As it turned out, the RAID drivers worked fine, but RedHat 9 was horribly unstable with hyperthreading enabled.. go figure.
Redhat is the sleaze of the Linux community. They are the windows of linux
Exactly. And they have the collusion of the hardware manufacturers (dell,ibm) when it comes to driver support for enterprise level stuff as well.
We literally became too scared to use any other Linux because Dell said their drivers were only supported on Redhat and we have no idea what small bit of kernel code may be different between RH and others to cause it to break.
They understand it completely from an OS licensing point of view as well.
Try and purchase an enterprise class server w/RAID controller from Dell or IBM. They will not offer any support unless you purchase 'enterprise' Linux from Redhat (Dell,IBM) or Suse(IBM). Their RAID drivers are not officially supported on anything else, either.
The way I see it, free software is essentially rendered meaningless in this context. Redhat ships expensive modified distribution (with some proprietary code), vendors will only support expensive modified version, you are forced to pay.
You can't go any lower bandwidth than that without truncating the actual information
Now you understand! We do use CSS/XHTML exclusively.. but for the PDA/Phone/etc version we actually want to deliver truncated information.
Anyways, here is a real world parallel of what we are trying to accomplish (from Yahoo - even though they not using CSS/XHTML)
Full
PDA
Phone
CSS/XHTML will reduce bandwidth use, not increase it
At what point did I say it didn't?
I have seen the Zen garden and like it (even though it's a "textbook" example). But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about different, smaller, more optimized content altogether - see the W3C Device Independance working group for wonderful examples.
Why should the [PDA/Phone/low-bandwidth whatever] have to download the same markup and content a browser does? Why should the user not have an abbreviated, concise version to read on his smaller or lower bandwidth device?
All I'm saying is that commercial enterprises (like us) can and will spend the extra effort to make their content optimized for different devices. We are not consultants whose work must outlive them.
Yes, and I could simulate simple classes in C with structs and passing a this pointer to all the attached functions... but I would rather abstract that further by using actual C++.
> portable devices
Commercial wisdom says: It may work, but its not optimized, so users don't get the best possible experience. There are other valid reasons why you may not want to stream the same markup and/or content at all devices, such as bandwidth speed and low device memory, not to mention readability. W3C device independance working group deals with this.
Also, there are other more effective ways to increase visibility on Google, such as increasing your link popularity and, unfortunately, paying them.
> myobject->hash_get(key)
> in fortran you would say:
> hash_get(myObjectStructure, key)
> is there any important difference?
Other than one is monolithic and one is object oriented?
> restricted calories != starvation
Actually, it means eating just enough calories to live, thereby inducing some kind of long term famine response in your body. This is not about eating 'healthy' (as in to look/feel good). Do some googling on the newsgroups about this topic and see how deep the fear of aging has permeated their psyche.
I used to know someone who was on such a program, and with his rail thin body, wispy hair and prominent eyesockets he looked vaguely like the thing off creepshow.