Why? Is there really a need for a Dummies book about Solaris? It's not like you can just walk into CompUSA and pick up Solaris 9. How does Wiley market a book like this?
We have some Solaris users where I work, but all they do is run their applications. They're not power users, and they don't want to be power users. I guess I'm just having a hard time understanding the intended audience for this book.
Ok, maybe they can, but ever since they bailed out DejaNews and beefed up the offering, I've been behind Google 100%. I think ignorance is bliss, so I choose to ignore any negative news about Google.
As a matter of fact, I can't even remember what the story text was or what the linked article said.
Is it interesting how two nouns, Slashdot and Google, have become verbs?
I think it makes sense to patent business processes, to a certain extent. If I have a company that manufactures low profit margin widgets, and I have a competitor who manufactures low profit margin widgets, and I devise a business process that streamlines my manufacturing to eke out more profits, I won't want my competitor to have that business process.
At the same time, I think there are pitfalls. Take Netflix for example: the idea of renting DVDs over the Internet does not seem unique to me. As a matter of fact, I thought of the very same thing in 1997 but couldn't get capital.
The more I reply to these topics, the more I realize that there is no clear answer, so I begin to wonder why I reply at all.
I can't believe the number of posts here that insult the blind and visually impaired. Being blind does not make me any less a person than any of you; it just means that I can't see. You should think about how different your world would be if you were to lose your sense of sight.
That said, I have mixed feelings about this lawsuit. On the one hand, I know where the blind people are coming from: they want an equal opportunity to use popular websites, just as everyone else (with a computer) is able to. On the other hand, being blind means you live under a different set of circumstances, so not everything is possible. It's just a fact of life when you're blind.
I think a lawsuit is the last thing that should occur; rather, people should focus on developing new technology that assists the blind and allows them to gain equal access to websites. There should be more standards that dictate accessibility, and the browsers should do all they can as well.
After all, the Internet is a text-based medium at its core.
This is quite true; it's also why so many companies have abandoned "small software" and moved to enterprise or vertical market software.
The companies not working on large-scale applications are providing apps that offer familiar functionality (like text editing) but with additional features.
I don't know; I'm not a patent lawyer. I will say, though, that plenty of the patents I've looked at have been very illogical.
Perhaps the inventor of the CAD template used the word "logical" to denote a sense of consistency or usefulness, rather than the literal meaning of "logical;" that is, formally true or valid.
This reminds me of something my philosophy prof said in college: "Logic is local." His accent made it sound like, "Logic is loco," but I know what he meant.;)
You're right, Transmit is older than OS X. I actually used it on OS 9. What I was trying to say was that Transmit is an application that substantially improves the Mac OS X experience. That's not just buzz-speak; I find Transmit to be the best FTP app ever, and its OS X version is gold.
I lament the passing of the old-guard Mac publishers. Some are reborn, some fade away forever, and some are eulogized.
I think as Mac OS X becomes more ubiquitous, we'll witness a renaissance of Mac development and publishing. It's already showing with products like Transmit and Hydra (to name just a couple).
I've always wondered where vertical market software comes from (like how companies find out about it; just salesmen?), and why customers would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for crappy DOS programs written in Clipper. It seems like all one would have to do to overcome vertical market competition is build something that looks better, works better, and costs less.
I've seen it first-hand in the aviation industry. I worked for a small aviation company that sold fractional ownership of airplanes, as well as provided executive jet services and medical flights. Aviation-related data was all entered into an ancient DOS program that stored data in a single.dbf file on a central server. The DOS program cost $125,000 and $15,000 a year for maintenance. This was in 2000! The company that made the software was shocked that we were able to share the application on a Citrix server (and they threatened to sue).
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We have some Solaris users where I work, but all they do is run their applications. They're not power users, and they don't want to be power users. I guess I'm just having a hard time understanding the intended audience for this book.
What was bought or stolen, from memory:
-Visio
-PowerPoint
-SoftImage
-Internet Explorer
-SQL Server
-DOS
-Visual Basic
-FoxPro
-Windows
There are others, I'm sure. I just can't think of them.
No, sucky code is always left by bad programmers.
When I first read this, I thought it said maniacal engineer's indy race car team.
I meant to say wireless networked games on cell phones.
Could this be applied to wireless games on cell phones?
I think I read that in Masters of Doom.
As a matter of fact, I can't even remember what the story text was or what the linked article said.
Is it interesting how two nouns, Slashdot and Google, have become verbs?
For anyone who might have fished it out, the root password was "heretic."
Sheesh, I masturbated to pr0n 8 times before Yahoo.com loaded for you.
Someone who knows best may disagree with you on that statement.
"Stealing music is wrong, Daaaaaaaaavey."
What is the Matrix?
I guess you could say he did the right thing.
I only work 4 hours a day, so a 40 hour week is 10 days. ;)
At the same time, I think there are pitfalls. Take Netflix for example: the idea of renting DVDs over the Internet does not seem unique to me. As a matter of fact, I thought of the very same thing in 1997 but couldn't get capital.
The more I reply to these topics, the more I realize that there is no clear answer, so I begin to wonder why I reply at all.
700 days is 70 weeks.
That said, I have mixed feelings about this lawsuit. On the one hand, I know where the blind people are coming from: they want an equal opportunity to use popular websites, just as everyone else (with a computer) is able to. On the other hand, being blind means you live under a different set of circumstances, so not everything is possible. It's just a fact of life when you're blind.
I think a lawsuit is the last thing that should occur; rather, people should focus on developing new technology that assists the blind and allows them to gain equal access to websites. There should be more standards that dictate accessibility, and the browsers should do all they can as well.
After all, the Internet is a text-based medium at its core.
The companies not working on large-scale applications are providing apps that offer familiar functionality (like text editing) but with additional features.
Perhaps the inventor of the CAD template used the word "logical" to denote a sense of consistency or usefulness, rather than the literal meaning of "logical;" that is, formally true or valid.
This reminds me of something my philosophy prof said in college: "Logic is local." His accent made it sound like, "Logic is loco," but I know what he meant. ;)
You're right, Transmit is older than OS X. I actually used it on OS 9. What I was trying to say was that Transmit is an application that substantially improves the Mac OS X experience. That's not just buzz-speak; I find Transmit to be the best FTP app ever, and its OS X version is gold.
I think as Mac OS X becomes more ubiquitous, we'll witness a renaissance of Mac development and publishing. It's already showing with products like Transmit and Hydra (to name just a couple).
It was for a CAD tool template, which organized CAD commands in a logical manner.
I've seen it first-hand in the aviation industry. I worked for a small aviation company that sold fractional ownership of airplanes, as well as provided executive jet services and medical flights. Aviation-related data was all entered into an ancient DOS program that stored data in a single .dbf file on a central server. The DOS program cost $125,000 and $15,000 a year for maintenance. This was in 2000! The company that made the software was shocked that we were able to share the application on a Citrix server (and they threatened to sue).
Your post is stunningly ironic.