When you say "advanced" I think you mean feature-rich. Just as a comment to that, the users I support have a very hard time learning even the basic features in their office apps (calendaring, styles in Word, even frikkin folders!).
Some commercial groupware packages also run on *nix, such as Lotus Domino (Linux since 1999) which is the number two behind Exchange.
Some good points, however. Still, I prefer to remain platform agnostic and take a "horses for courses" approach.
In other news, adult entertainment professional Moaner Sexx has approached Max Payne publisher Rockstar Games via her solicitor regarding the unauthorized use of her artist name in the computer game Max Payne 2.
And thanks to the ACCC the poor sods Down Under have no idea what it's like to get 1mbps at home. The US, Korea, Japan and even Europe are way ahead. Or am I misinformed?
I guess the last European Parliamentary elections were all a sham and MEPs were actually selected by Zig the Almighty, ruler of Europe and the planet Zog. Go back to Zog.
My Danish and Norwegian friends tell me Finland is not Scandinavian because we speak a non-related language.
So I've considered Scandinavia to be SE + NO + DK. Norden is Scandinavia plus FI + IS + Greenland and Faroe. My take on things, anyway.
What it means:
Norden has long had the kind of common arrangements the EEC didn't have until recently: a common labour market and freedom of movement.
We have a common history (Swedish domination):) and very similar customs, political traditions and so on. We Finns just have a weird language.
Certainly it has meaning for identity. I consider myself Finnish first, Nordic second and (Western) European third.
I must conclude you are one of the aforementioned CS clan dropouts. No way you could have graduated from college with:
battaries
carrear
proffesors
callories
Sorry, had to say that. BTW, I'm one of those gamer almost-failures myself. Barely passed college. This is good advice.
Please, please, please. Someone who thinks like Mr Anonymous tell me a) What exactly they see as the problem with the gov't b) How they would change things if they had their way.
Open http://www.gsmcoverage.co.uk/coverage.html and click on Iraq
Core points:
1. There already is a limited GSM network in Iraq, KurdTel 900 2. The Iraqi government has ordered a GSM network to be installed, but UN sanctions have delayed it 3. gsmcoverage.co.uk has this article on the subject:
Plans to deploy a CDMA network in Iraq (28-Mar-03)
The California, USA, Congressman Darrell Issa has initiated a campaign to promote CDMA as the technology of choice for any future mobile phone network in Iraq. He has written to U.S. Agency for International Development demanding that the American CDMA system be used in preference to a system that he considers inherently European, and specifically French.
His letter harks back to the older, and long abandoned name for GSM - Groupe Speciale Mobile, presumably for its French language overtones, as opposed to Global System for Mobile Communications, its anglophile name today. He says that if "European" GSM technology is deployed in Iraq, much of the equipment used to build the cell phone system would be manufactured in France, Germany, and elsewhere in western and northern Europe. Furthermore, royalties paid on the technology would flow to French and European sources, not U.S. patent holders.
He seems to be under the impression therefore that Motorola has no interest in bidding for a GSM infrastructure contract - nor would Lucent, or Canada's Nortel Networks. This may well concern the shareholders of those companies who would be expecting them to bid for any available contracts.
He also says that CDMA phones incorporate GPS location technology, which may be a surprise to the vast majority of cell phone owners who will be hunting through their handset manuals looking for this function. His legitimate concern is that relief workers could be kidnapped or attacked, and a location aware handset would then enable them to be found. However, inserting GPS into a cell phone is nothing to do with whether it is GSM or CDMA - but down to the handset manufacturer simply implementing a location based solution. Also, GPS is not the only solution for locating a cell phone, network based solutions exist that can be deployed on both technology platforms. The fact that a GPS handset will be able to give its location anywhere in Iraq is pointless if the phone is out of cellular coverage though.
Of course, the greatest irony could be that a CDMA network is deployed - and Nokia wins the bulk of the handset sales contracts. Ironic, as Nokia, one of the "northern Europe" companies that Issa wants to block from working in Iraq makes CDMA handsets, but uses its own proprietary chipsets and doesn't pay royalties to Qualcomm.
It may be worth noting that Congressman Issa represents San Diego, hometown of Qualcomm who owns the CDMA technology used in cell phones. Also, in January, the US government's, National Communications System (NCS) awarded a priority connection contract, ensuring phone service would be unaffected by network congestion to T-Mobile, a GSM network.
Obviously the government isn't interested in the billing.:) I'm just saying storage isn't such an issue if they don't have to keep the actual data, and that already they have the systems in place for storing this information.
And it's only traffic information, not the actual data that gets passed. I would have thought they'd keep that kind of information anyway. If *access* to the gathered information is regulated properly, I don't see a problem.
Yeah, students can be depressive. These guys, however, have to deal with really unstable folks like Georg Lucas and Bruce Willis. Think about what BW did to the guys who spoiled his holiday in Die Hard...
The Novato company has performed emergency salvage operations for the likes of George Lucas, Bruce Willis and the makers of the "The Simpsons."... And they see a clear need for having a mental-health professional on staff.
A friend of mine worked at a directory enquiry service as a student. All kinds of lonely pensioners and horny nutters would call just to talk.
This could be a business opp for a "teleshrink" service with premium cost calls. Just form partnerships with the main culprits and get them to forward the calls: M$, Compaq, all major Linux distros...:P
URLs can contain session data such as usernames and passwords for processing by cgi-scripts, in which case meddling with those can be seen to constitute hacking.
Slashdot Mirror
...another DNS entry to route to 127.0.0.1
Maybe this will stop them selling cartridges that cost more than their inkjet printers. What a stupid, f***ed up business model.
When you say "advanced" I think you mean feature-rich. Just as a comment to that, the users I support have a very hard time learning even the basic features in their office apps (calendaring, styles in Word, even frikkin folders!). Some commercial groupware packages also run on *nix, such as Lotus Domino (Linux since 1999) which is the number two behind Exchange. Some good points, however. Still, I prefer to remain platform agnostic and take a "horses for courses" approach.
We use the FirstClass groupware system, the latest patch from last week (KB824141 I think) broke the client.
About a year ago one hotfix caused random bluescreens in NT4, it took me about two months to stumble on the fix (same patch, just updated).
In other news, adult entertainment professional Moaner Sexx has approached Max Payne publisher Rockstar Games via her solicitor regarding the unauthorized use of her artist name in the computer game Max Payne 2.
(How blatant can u be!)
And thanks to the ACCC the poor sods Down Under have no idea what it's like to get 1mbps at home. The US, Korea, Japan and even Europe are way ahead. Or am I misinformed?
Next, affordable handsets.
"Gates was an attendee and a key player at Soviet Communist Mikhail Gorbachev's State of the World Forum in San Francisco last year. "
Aaargh! A satanic-commie-geek conspiracy. The end is nigh!
The US, Finland, England, now Sweden. All within a few months. Perhaps others? Material for juicy conspiracy theories!
I guess the last European Parliamentary elections were all a sham and MEPs were actually selected by Zig the Almighty, ruler of Europe and the planet Zog. Go back to Zog.
My Danish and Norwegian friends tell me Finland is not Scandinavian because we speak a non-related language. So I've considered Scandinavia to be SE + NO + DK. Norden is Scandinavia plus FI + IS + Greenland and Faroe. My take on things, anyway. What it means: Norden has long had the kind of common arrangements the EEC didn't have until recently: a common labour market and freedom of movement. We have a common history (Swedish domination) :) and very similar customs, political traditions and so on. We Finns just have a weird language.
Certainly it has meaning for identity. I consider myself Finnish first, Nordic second and (Western) European third.
Found this in their forums:
IMplement forum registration, Quick!
Author: CmdrTaco ()
Date: 08-31-03 08:08
Slashdot is coming! Run for your lives!!
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I thought you had misspelt fallacious accicentally at first. :D
Shouldn't that be "comes into farce"
?I must conclude you are one of the aforementioned CS clan dropouts. No way you could have graduated from college with: battaries carrear proffesors callories Sorry, had to say that. BTW, I'm one of those gamer almost-failures myself. Barely passed college. This is good advice.
Or perhaps you are saying they should use Pentium III processors [that] provide a better "Internet Experience"
Please, please, please. Someone who thinks like Mr Anonymous tell me
a) What exactly they see as the problem with the gov't
b) How they would change things if they had their way.
Open http://www.gsmcoverage.co.uk/coverage.html and click on Iraq
Core points:
1. There already is a limited GSM network in Iraq, KurdTel 900
2. The Iraqi government has ordered a GSM network to be installed, but UN sanctions have delayed it
3. gsmcoverage.co.uk has this article on the subject:
Plans to deploy a CDMA network in Iraq (28-Mar-03)
The California, USA, Congressman Darrell Issa has initiated a campaign to promote CDMA as the technology of choice for any future mobile phone network in Iraq. He has written to U.S. Agency for International Development demanding that the American CDMA system be used in preference to a system that he considers inherently European, and specifically French.
His letter harks back to the older, and long abandoned name for GSM - Groupe Speciale Mobile, presumably for its French language overtones, as opposed to Global System for Mobile Communications, its anglophile name today. He says that if "European" GSM technology is deployed in Iraq, much of the equipment used to build the cell phone system would be manufactured in France, Germany, and elsewhere in western and northern Europe. Furthermore, royalties paid on the technology would flow to French and European sources, not U.S. patent holders.
He seems to be under the impression therefore that Motorola has no interest in bidding for a GSM infrastructure contract - nor would Lucent, or Canada's Nortel Networks. This may well concern the shareholders of those companies who would be expecting them to bid for any available contracts.
He also says that CDMA phones incorporate GPS location technology, which may be a surprise to the vast majority of cell phone owners who will be hunting through their handset manuals looking for this function. His legitimate concern is that relief workers could be kidnapped or attacked, and a location aware handset would then enable them to be found. However, inserting GPS into a cell phone is nothing to do with whether it is GSM or CDMA - but down to the handset manufacturer simply implementing a location based solution. Also, GPS is not the only solution for locating a cell phone, network based solutions exist that can be deployed on both technology platforms. The fact that a GPS handset will be able to give its location anywhere in Iraq is pointless if the phone is out of cellular coverage though.
Of course, the greatest irony could be that a CDMA network is deployed - and Nokia wins the bulk of the handset sales contracts. Ironic, as Nokia, one of the "northern Europe" companies that Issa wants to block from working in Iraq makes CDMA handsets, but uses its own proprietary chipsets and doesn't pay royalties to Qualcomm.
It may be worth noting that Congressman Issa represents San Diego, hometown of Qualcomm who owns the CDMA technology used in cell phones. Also, in January, the US government's, National Communications System (NCS) awarded a priority connection contract, ensuring phone service would be unaffected by network congestion to T-Mobile, a GSM network.
Obviously the government isn't interested in the billing. :) I'm just saying storage isn't such an issue if they don't have to keep the actual data, and that already they have the systems in place for storing this information.
To me "traffic information" means who called who, when, how long it lasted. They keep that for billing purposes anyway.
And it's only traffic information, not the actual data that gets passed. I would have thought they'd keep that kind of information anyway. If *access* to the gathered information is regulated properly, I don't see a problem.
Yeah, students can be depressive. These guys, however, have to deal with really unstable folks like Georg Lucas and Bruce Willis. Think about what BW did to the guys who spoiled his holiday in Die Hard... The Novato company has performed emergency salvage operations for the likes of George Lucas, Bruce Willis and the makers of the "The Simpsons." ... And they see a clear need for having a mental-health professional on staff.
A friend of mine worked at a directory enquiry service as a student. All kinds of lonely pensioners and horny nutters would call just to talk. This could be a business opp for a "teleshrink" service with premium cost calls. Just form partnerships with the main culprits and get them to forward the calls: M$, Compaq, all major Linux distros... :P
URLs can contain session data such as usernames and passwords for processing by cgi-scripts, in which case meddling with those can be seen to constitute hacking.
And if it's www.intentia.com/cgi-bin/topsecret.cgi?password=12 3&user=abc&session=111 they might have a case.