I didn't see the trailer either but after you mentioned it I checked out the summary of the next episode at upn.com/shows/enterprise . Here it is:
"Regeneration"
An excavation team on Earth makes an astounding discovery when they uncover a pair of never-seen-before cybernetic aliens (Borg drones) buried in the Arctic Circle. When these aliens mysteriously revive themselves and take off into space in one of the Earth ships, Enterprise is called upon to investigate and stop them. Meanwhile, as Archer and the crew close in on the fleeing aliens, the drones send a signal back to The Collective meaning regardless of what happens in this fight, humans and the Borg are destined to meet again.
I totally agree with you that including the borg into the preqel series would ruin it.
Damn. You beat me to the punch. I was just looking at one of their video conference the other day.
According to the sales literature it is a self contained unit with no need to connect to a computer (So sales guys might be able to set one up.) and costs about $270 per unit
Are you sure you want javascript completely disabled? You might find that you can't enter some of your favorite sites, preloaded rollover images won't work, and the drop down menus that many sites are using today will not work either.
Pop-up blocking works like a charm in Mozilla. When you visit a site that is trying to display a popup a little exlamation mark appears on the status bar. If you want to allow pop-ups (my company's intranet uses them) then you can allow them for this particular domain.
. . . PHP is also an excellent alternative to ASP.
I read somewhere that PHP is the fastest growing scripting language on the web, and has already surpassed the popularity of the more mature ASP.
Exellent development tools available for Java make it a good choice for some bigger web projects, but the downside is that the cost of setting up a server. Not too many people offer virtual hosting for java. You pretty much need your own server with root access to set things up.
For smaller projects you can get a domain name, virtual host with PHP, and mySQL for about $20 US per month.
Of course you can design and test both technologies on your free OS, with your free web server, with your free database.
Often on slashdot it is said that we should stop bashing Micro$oft for everthing they do.
The parent post has a point . . . that although a new module for apache is a very small step into the open source arena at least M$ is heading in the right direction.
And hopefully this litte Open Source project succeeds for both MS and the OSS community so that we see more stuff like this in the future
The hardest part of learning a new framework is typically learning a new language. With.NET you can continue to code in C++.
I disagree completly. Programmers who are well grounded in the basics of one language can usually pick up the syntax of another language quite quickly. Especially for someone like yourself who has already invested the time learn a rich language like C++.
For example if you haven't done so already pick up a book on PHP and give yourself a weekend to sit in the sun and read.
By lunch time on Sunday you will have had enough time to learn the basic data types of the language, how it handles arrays, building functions, file handling. ..etc . In other words you can easily learn all the syntax of the language in quite short order.
But if you want to do something more interesting that reading and writing text files you are going to have to learn some new APIs and that is where the real time is spent.
You can use a screwdriver as a pry bar but it is not always the best use of that tool.
Linux is good at many things, and there are many ways you can use Open Source tools at work to save money, and at home to learn and have fun.
But you can not or should not use linux for everything.
Games at home is one example You can cludge together something with Wine that will enable Linux to play most of your windows games but why make life hard for yourself? It is much easier to use that Win98 disk that came with your system and dual boot into windows if you want to run a game.
My Dual Head Matrox g400 has been working in this roll for two or three years now. The computer lives in the room next to the tv, and I feed the svideo output from the video card, and the audio out from the sound card through a small hole in the wall and into the surround sound stero.
Works like a charm.
Add a cordless keyboard, mouse, and a dvd rom drive and you will have a system that impresses most of your guests with your technical savy.
PS The G400 might be out of production. The current model I thing is G450 Dual head.
It seems that there is always a trade off between user friendly and user choice. The more options you give your users the harder time novice users will have making a decision.
I find that some of the Linux distros have nice gui configuration tools but have unusually complicated.conf files which makes them more difficult to remotely administer.
This is probably why so many serious linux people are moving back to simple systems like slackware or gentoo.
In the beginning(a few years ago anyway) JRun was hands down the most usable, and stable Servlet server. . . but now Tomcat has matured, and a few other companies offer comptitive java application servers.
I suspect this competition has erroded Macromedia's profits on JRun and open sourcing might be a way to attempt to breath new life into it.
I did the whole job digitally, and printed using the Epson 1280 Photo. The quality of this printer is truely amazing. The output looks just like a photo from a lab.
After shooting and printing about 640 photos the costs were as follows:
$658.00 ($47.00x8) Epson Photo Paper 50 sheets/pkg $ 81.00 ($27.00x3) Black Ink Cartrige $520.00 (~$40.00X13) Colour Ink Cartrige $1289.00 Total
About $1.96 per page (Canadian Dollars)
What I found interesting was that with about 90% ink coverage on the photo paper the ink cartriges lasted about 50 pages every time. Very consistent.
Two dollars per page is an obscene amount of money to print out your college reports but is much cheaper than sending a glossy print job to a professional printer or photo lab.
Summary: Use the right tool for the job. The new ink jet printers have great quality but are too expensive for normal office usage.
I agree. Legislation won't work and the big companies need to find other more practical solutions. Take the recording industry for example.
Almost any attempt to prevent people from recording their cd's to mp3's will fail.
Policing the internet for people sharing mp3s could be prohibitively expensive and infinge on the rights of law abiding citizens.
The recording industry could better protect their profits if they RELEASE mp3s of all their artists for free.
The catch is that the mp3s they release will be of low quality eg recorded in mono with low sample rates.
File sharing networks like gnutella would become filled with lower quality mp3s. If a person wanted the high quality sound they would need to buy the actual cd.
(In fact I sometimes think the record companies already do this)
This is offtopic for this discussion but I'm curious.
What alternatives to AutoCad did you find? Do they run on Linux X86 or require Solaris Unix?
My Dad uses AutoCad to design heavy haul trailers. Over the past year or two I have offered suggestions where Linux could be more cost effective (and legal) than their windows software.
Their office now has two linux boxes: one runs a file server (Samba), and another is a database server(interbase) for a labour-materials system.They feel stuck to windows on the desktop because of the CAD tools. If you have any suggestions as to how somebody can kick their windows habit I would like to hear them.
I used to burn a lot of data cd's but no audio because I honestly believe that the artist should get some royalties for their talents.
Now in Canada we have to pay a tax on every blank cd that we purchase. In theory the revenue from the media tax is distributed back to music artists.
So now that I know the artists are getting paid, and I am paying for it, I feel justified in burning the occasional music cd.
My current ratio of Data Cds to Audio is in the neighbourhood of 40:1
I dont think that its in the same ballpark as Oracle.
Until recently Interbase had a 4Gig file size limit, and maxed out around 400 transactions per second. The guys working on the sourceforge firebird project seem to have improved these specs.
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What am I missing here?
Looking for work can be a full time task on its own.
I totally agree with you that including the borg into the preqel series would ruin it.
Damn. You beat me to the punch. I was just looking at one of their video conference the other day.
According to the sales literature it is a self contained unit with no need to connect to a computer (So sales guys might be able to set one up.) and costs about $270 per unit
Hey. Where I come people *have* the right to voice uninformed opinions such as that.
Are you sure you want javascript completely disabled? You might find that you can't enter some of your favorite sites, preloaded rollover images won't work, and the drop down menus that many sites are using today will not work either.
Pop-up blocking works like a charm in Mozilla. When you visit a site that is trying to display a popup a little exlamation mark appears on the status bar. If you want to allow pop-ups (my company's intranet uses them) then you can allow them for this particular domain.
. . . PHP is also an excellent alternative to ASP.
.NET?
I read somewhere that PHP is the fastest growing scripting language on the web, and has already surpassed the popularity of the more mature ASP.
Exellent development tools available for Java make it a good choice for some bigger web projects, but the downside is that the cost of setting up a server. Not too many people offer virtual hosting for java. You pretty much need your own server with root access to set things up.
For smaller projects you can get a domain name, virtual host with PHP, and mySQL for about $20 US per month.
Of course you can design and test both technologies on your free OS, with your free web server, with your free database.
So why is anybody switching to
Often on slashdot it is said that we should stop bashing Micro$oft for everthing they do.
The parent post has a point . . . that although a new module for apache is a very small step into the open source arena at least M$ is heading in the right direction.
And hopefully this litte Open Source project succeeds for both MS and the OSS community so that we see more stuff like this in the future
The hardest part of learning a new framework is typically learning a new language. With .NET you can continue to code in C++.
I disagree completly. Programmers who are well grounded in the basics of one language can usually pick up the syntax of another language quite quickly. Especially for someone like yourself who has already invested the time learn a rich language like C++.
For example if you haven't done so already pick up a book on PHP and give yourself a weekend to sit in the sun and read.
By lunch time on Sunday you will have had enough time to learn the basic data types of the language, how it handles arrays, building functions, file handling. . .etc . In other words you can easily learn all the syntax of the language in quite short order.
But if you want to do something more interesting that reading and writing text files you are going to have to learn some new APIs and that is where the real time is spent.
Come on Yahoo. When parsing a block of text how hard is it to strip white spaces and evaluate each token individually?
Replacing a key phrase even though it is part of another word seems like an amateur mistake don't ya think.
You can use a screwdriver as a pry bar but it is not always the best use of that tool.
Linux is good at many things, and there are many ways you can use Open Source tools at work to save money, and at home to learn and have fun.
But you can not or should not use linux for everything.
Games at home is one example You can cludge together something with Wine that will enable Linux to play most of your windows games but why make life hard for yourself? It is much easier to use that Win98 disk that came with your system and dual boot into windows if you want to run a game.
My Dual Head Matrox g400 has been working in this roll for two or three years now. The computer lives in the room next to the tv, and I feed the svideo output from the video card, and the audio out from the sound card through a small hole in the wall and into the surround sound stero.
Works like a charm.
Add a cordless keyboard, mouse, and a dvd rom drive and you will have a system that impresses most of your guests with your technical savy.
PS The G400 might be out of production. The current model I thing is G450 Dual head.
It seems that there is always a trade off between user friendly and user choice. The more options you give your users the harder time novice users will have making a decision.
.conf files which makes them more difficult to remotely administer.
I find that some of the Linux distros have nice gui configuration tools but have unusually complicated
This is probably why so many serious linux people are moving back to simple systems like slackware or gentoo.
They are going after the guys with lots of files shared?
Fine by me. I know people who have5-10 Gigs of movies and songs available.
When my directory size approaches 640 - 700 megs I burn a cd. (and take the disk home since I don't have high speed internet at home).
In the beginning(a few years ago anyway) JRun was hands down the most usable, and stable Servlet server. . . but now Tomcat has matured, and a few other companies offer comptitive java application servers.
I suspect this competition has erroded Macromedia's profits on JRun and open sourcing might be a way to attempt to breath new life into it.
Typo: I used about 14 packs of paper not 8.
658==(47*14)
I recently did a photoshoot for a client.
I did the whole job digitally, and printed using the Epson 1280 Photo. The quality of this printer is truely amazing. The output looks just like a photo from a lab.
After shooting and printing about 640 photos the costs were as follows:
$658.00 ($47.00x8) Epson Photo Paper 50 sheets/pkg
$ 81.00 ($27.00x3) Black Ink Cartrige
$520.00 (~$40.00X13) Colour Ink Cartrige
$1289.00 Total
About $1.96 per page (Canadian Dollars)
What I found interesting was that with about 90% ink coverage on the photo paper the ink cartriges lasted about 50 pages every time. Very consistent.
Two dollars per page is an obscene amount of money to print out your college reports but is much cheaper than sending a glossy print job to a professional printer or photo lab.
Summary: Use the right tool for the job. The new ink jet printers have great quality but are too expensive for normal office usage.
I agree. Legislation won't work and the big companies need to find other more practical solutions. Take the recording industry for example.
Almost any attempt to prevent people from recording their cd's to mp3's will fail.
Policing the internet for people sharing mp3s could be prohibitively expensive and infinge on the rights of law abiding citizens.
The recording industry could better protect their profits if they RELEASE mp3s of all their artists for free.
The catch is that the mp3s they release will be of low quality eg recorded in mono with low sample rates.
File sharing networks like gnutella would become filled with lower quality mp3s. If a person wanted the high quality sound they would need to buy the actual cd.
(In fact I sometimes think the record companies already do this)
This is offtopic for this discussion but I'm curious.
What alternatives to AutoCad did you find? Do they run on Linux X86 or require Solaris Unix?
My Dad uses AutoCad to design heavy haul trailers. Over the past year or two I have offered suggestions where Linux could be more cost effective (and legal) than their windows software.
Their office now has two linux boxes: one runs a file server (Samba), and another is a database server(interbase) for a labour-materials system.They feel stuck to windows on the desktop because of the CAD tools. If you have any suggestions as to how somebody can kick their windows habit I would like to hear them.
I used to burn a lot of data cd's but no audio because I honestly believe that the artist should get some royalties for their talents. Now in Canada we have to pay a tax on every blank cd that we purchase. In theory the revenue from the media tax is distributed back to music artists. So now that I know the artists are getting paid, and I am paying for it, I feel justified in burning the occasional music cd. My current ratio of Data Cds to Audio is in the neighbourhood of 40:1
I dont think that its in the same ballpark as Oracle.
Until recently Interbase had a 4Gig file size limit, and maxed out around 400 transactions per second. The guys working on the sourceforge firebird project seem to have improved these specs.