I've heard this over and over but haven't actually seen hard evidence for that. The best I've seen is that the Windows Forms implementation may have patent issues. Do you have better information?
Mostly because the site has been taken over by mindless Microsoft haters. Instead of promoting FOSS, they bash anything with a slight connection to MS (sorry M$). Mono is a really nice product and C# is really much nicer than Java, but since Mono is based on.NET and C# is from Microsoft they get castigated here.
I considered starting my kids on C#, but decided Pascal is still a better teaching language. However once they've got the basics of programming down and I want to start in on OOP I'll move them to C# on Mono (MS doesn't make.NET for my platform).
I live in a small city in a very sparsely populated state which is mostly lacking fiber access, and yet the cheapest broadband I can get is 15Mbps. For very little more I can go to 60Mbps. Your jibe was true 5-10 years ago, but even in the middle of nowhere we have decent service now.
Wasting money is still wasting money, no matter how much you try to rationalize it.
Trivializing money is a mentality that just doesn't end well.
If the use of Lion Server saves time for an expensive employee or contractor, then it's not trivializing money and instead is making the smart financial choice. This is the point the GP was making.
And I'm not sure if you can finish off the cut edge of a board to a point where it won't unravel -- or at least, how you would do so.
When PCBs are made they are cut out of a larger sheet with a router bit, the edges are not further finished, and they last this way for years. Where I work now we often cut portions of PCBs out while developing RF circuitry and we do so with a band saw with no extra ventilation. I've never noticed fiberglass particles in the air and I've never seen the edges unravel.
The last place I worked we made PCB test boards that were placed in an oven at up to 250C for weeks or months on end for reliability testing of wafer processes. We told our customers to replace these boards after 6 months, but not all of them did that. We had one customer that kept theirs for three years and at the end of the three years the laminate between the layers was gone and the "board" was more like a piece of fabric with traces and ZIF sockets on it, but the edges of the fabric still did not unravel.
Using your real identity anywhere on the internet for any reason is just begging for complications.
That would depend on your name. Having a very common name is often a hassle (I had to sign an affidavit when buying the house to affirm I wasn't any of the many Michael Andersons in the state who were in major legal trouble). But as you can see I'll use it on the internet. When there are at least two of us on my block alone and pages of M. Andersons in my city's phone book and many more who aren't me that show up in a Google search then I'm not too worried.
If you do a search on Google for me I can be found if you also include the right terms, but you still have to wade through pages of search results.
I'll give you one hint if you want to try it: I'm not a dead astronaut posting from beyond the grave.
I set my wife up with iWeb using ExpanDrive to mount the server via SSHFS. Then she just publishes to what iWeb thinks is a local folder. Works so great and easy the kids are all doing their own sites to.
We used "klicks" in British Columbia 25 years ago (damn I'm getting old). Americans think it's a military term because the military is the only major group in the US using the metric system.
Just got a new Mac and I'm slowly re-building my dev environment on it, I need to send this CEO a note of thanks for reminding me to get Mono installed so I can play with.NET/Mono at home.
Yesterday I was at a meeting for engineers in a small city in the mid west. Half the laptops in the room were Macs, and no they don't develop for Mac, only Windows and embedded Linux.
Snippits from the TOS:
Safety:
5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else....
Registration and Account Security:
8. You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
I ran Kraken on Chrome 7 in one tab while browsing/. and working with a few other JS heavy pages. I experienced no slow down in my other pages and Chrome completed in 19.15 seconds. Then I started Kraken in FF4 with nothing else running in the browser. Every so often I came back to the browser to check on it's progress, each time the entire browser took 1-2 seconds to restore and FF4 was very sluggish in the UI. FF4 completed the benchmark in 22.54 seconds.
So FF4 is slower in their own benchmark versus Chrome 7 and the UI appears to use the same thread as the scripts.
I interviewed with Apple's mobile division, in the overview I was told that almost all notebooks are made by the same company in the far east. According to the manager Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc send a list of specs to the factory and the PCBs are designed on site to meet specs. Apple does their own layout (in Windows) and sends the CAD files to be manufactured and assembled.
From what I was able to see Apple is doing significant design work on their notebook boards (even the Macbook). While I was interviewing Apple was trying to double their mobile engineering staff. Apparently they did phone interviews with 40 Dell mobile engineers but didn't bring any of them in because they only had experience in generating spec lists; no actual design experience in the bunch.
Should be pretty obvious why they have the network lock: visual voicemail. Visual voicemail is a major change to the carrier's voicemail system, to get a network to agree to make the change Apple has to agree to the lock-in.
For me, the visual voicemail is the big win for the iPhone, the ability to have random access to voicemail is great. The other features are pretty, but visual voicemail is what makes me drool.
I've got two linodes (both in Dallas) running the i386 CD torrent (I've got to do something worthwhile with that 200GB of bandwidth). It's really odd, one is pushing 1.4MB/s up, the other is still downloading and only pushing 40KB/s up. Even my home machine is uploading faster than the second linode.
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I've heard this over and over but haven't actually seen hard evidence for that. The best I've seen is that the Windows Forms implementation may have patent issues. Do you have better information?
Mostly because the site has been taken over by mindless Microsoft haters. Instead of promoting FOSS, they bash anything with a slight connection to MS (sorry M$). Mono is a really nice product and C# is really much nicer than Java, but since Mono is based on .NET and C# is from Microsoft they get castigated here.
I considered starting my kids on C#, but decided Pascal is still a better teaching language. However once they've got the basics of programming down and I want to start in on OOP I'll move them to C# on Mono (MS doesn't make .NET for my platform).
I live in a small city in a very sparsely populated state which is mostly lacking fiber access, and yet the cheapest broadband I can get is 15Mbps. For very little more I can go to 60Mbps. Your jibe was true 5-10 years ago, but even in the middle of nowhere we have decent service now.
Wasting money is still wasting money, no matter how much you try to rationalize it.
Trivializing money is a mentality that just doesn't end well.
If the use of Lion Server saves time for an expensive employee or contractor, then it's not trivializing money and instead is making the smart financial choice. This is the point the GP was making.
Last I checked, a Prius can also fit up to 5 people.
Yes, but I never see more than one person in one.
And I'm not sure if you can finish off the cut edge of a board to a point where it won't unravel -- or at least, how you would do so.
When PCBs are made they are cut out of a larger sheet with a router bit, the edges are not further finished, and they last this way for years. Where I work now we often cut portions of PCBs out while developing RF circuitry and we do so with a band saw with no extra ventilation. I've never noticed fiberglass particles in the air and I've never seen the edges unravel.
The last place I worked we made PCB test boards that were placed in an oven at up to 250C for weeks or months on end for reliability testing of wafer processes. We told our customers to replace these boards after 6 months, but not all of them did that. We had one customer that kept theirs for three years and at the end of the three years the laminate between the layers was gone and the "board" was more like a piece of fabric with traces and ZIF sockets on it, but the edges of the fabric still did not unravel.
Using your real identity anywhere on the internet for any reason is just begging for complications.
That would depend on your name. Having a very common name is often a hassle (I had to sign an affidavit when buying the house to affirm I wasn't any of the many Michael Andersons in the state who were in major legal trouble). But as you can see I'll use it on the internet. When there are at least two of us on my block alone and pages of M. Andersons in my city's phone book and many more who aren't me that show up in a Google search then I'm not too worried.
If you do a search on Google for me I can be found if you also include the right terms, but you still have to wade through pages of search results.
I'll give you one hint if you want to try it: I'm not a dead astronaut posting from beyond the grave.
Meant to advertise for my host...no one beats Linode.com...and no I am not paid to say that.
I set my wife up with iWeb using ExpanDrive to mount the server via SSHFS. Then she just publishes to what iWeb thinks is a local folder. Works so great and easy the kids are all doing their own sites to.
According to the ARRL Bluetooth is slightly lower risk for the same power. Since max Bluetooth power is only 100mW the risk should be lower. The full paper from the ARRL can be found at http://www.arrl.org/rf-radiation-and-electromagnetic-field-safety
We used "klicks" in British Columbia 25 years ago (damn I'm getting old). Americans think it's a military term because the military is the only major group in the US using the metric system.
Just got a new Mac and I'm slowly re-building my dev environment on it, I need to send this CEO a note of thanks for reminding me to get Mono installed so I can play with .NET/Mono at home.
Yesterday I was at a meeting for engineers in a small city in the mid west. Half the laptops in the room were Macs, and no they don't develop for Mac, only Windows and embedded Linux.
Snippits from the TOS: Safety: 5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else. ...
Registration and Account Security:
8. You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
Do the FSH's run WinXP as well? I've got the FSQ26 which is part spectrum analyzer (26GHz) and it's a great tool except when Windows crashes on me.
I ran Kraken on Chrome 7 in one tab while browsing /. and working with a few other JS heavy pages. I experienced no slow down in my other pages and Chrome completed in 19.15 seconds. Then I started Kraken in FF4 with nothing else running in the browser. Every so often I came back to the browser to check on it's progress, each time the entire browser took 1-2 seconds to restore and FF4 was very sluggish in the UI. FF4 completed the benchmark in 22.54 seconds.
So FF4 is slower in their own benchmark versus Chrome 7 and the UI appears to use the same thread as the scripts.
I interviewed with Apple's mobile division, in the overview I was told that almost all notebooks are made by the same company in the far east. According to the manager Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc send a list of specs to the factory and the PCBs are designed on site to meet specs. Apple does their own layout (in Windows) and sends the CAD files to be manufactured and assembled.
From what I was able to see Apple is doing significant design work on their notebook boards (even the Macbook). While I was interviewing Apple was trying to double their mobile engineering staff. Apparently they did phone interviews with 40 Dell mobile engineers but didn't bring any of them in because they only had experience in generating spec lists; no actual design experience in the bunch.
Have you tried NeoOffice on Mac?
The extent of his code is one line of javascript:
If greasemonkey loads code before the page is loaded then all you have to do is define document.all = true;
Should be pretty obvious why they have the network lock: visual voicemail. Visual voicemail is a major change to the carrier's voicemail system, to get a network to agree to make the change Apple has to agree to the lock-in.
For me, the visual voicemail is the big win for the iPhone, the ability to have random access to voicemail is great. The other features are pretty, but visual voicemail is what makes me drool.
Once columns are properly supported then it should work just fine.
I can do that now...just have to shop around for a good ISP
I've got two linodes (both in Dallas) running the i386 CD torrent (I've got to do something worthwhile with that 200GB of bandwidth). It's really odd, one is pushing 1.4MB/s up, the other is still downloading and only pushing 40KB/s up. Even my home machine is uploading faster than the second linode.
Well you can ...but you may not.
Check out Handbrake.