That's because it does so many things. Consider it a framework that has modules for all the business related functions and then some; Material Mangement, Sales, HR, Finance, etc. They're all tied together and are able to share the information as needed. To tie it all together is a built in programming language called ABAP which is like 1908's BASIC + some SQL commands. It's meant to replace all your various in house programs into one intergrated product. A lot of companies jumped on board during Y2K in order to replace their legacy mainframe systems.
The beauty is it requires a database to run and for most larger sites, this is done with Oracle. So, Oracle gets a nice cut from their competition.
I did that for 7 years, was tv free. I just watched DVDs on my set. However, my cable company basically had an offer I couldn't refuse - Free HD PVR for 2 years, free cable modem for life (no monthly rental fee) big discount on the cable channels and a 15% discount on my cable service (above the free modem). So I switched back from DSL to cable, get an 8mb/800k modem, PVR and top cable package and pay $25 more than I did for just DSL.
TV isn't so bad if you program what you want instead of sitting on the couch clicking channels. Certain ones like some on Discovery channel are entertaining and informative. I watch maybe 8 hours a week and I think it's ok for now. Worth $25 a month extra to me. However, I doubt I'll keep it after two years is up.
Studio Exec (to Ron Howard): What else you got? Howard: Well, there is this one thing. It's about a killer-robot driving instructor that travels back in time for some reason. Exec: I'm listening. Howard: OK, OK, well, you see, this robot, he's got a heart-breaking decision to make about whether his best friend lives... or dies. Exec (shrugging): Aah... Howard: His best friend's a talking pie! Exec: Sold!! Howard, you've done it again! (Hands over sacks of money)
"I've never, and I do mean NEVER, met anyone online or off who liked Outlook. Many liked the concept of what Outlook was supposed to be, but not Outlook itself. It's a huge memory hog, unstable and has no spam controls whatsoever. Thunderbird does. And a PIM? You're better off doing that the old-fashioned way, a little book with a pencil."
I called BS. Outlook is neither a huge memory hog nor unstable. Also, it's not designed to run like Thunderbird since it uses Exchange as it's email subsystem. Thirdly, for a PIM tool it's very useful. I'm sure people have heard all about Blackberry handhelds now. They are almost every other handheld out there will sync your contacts with Outlook/Exchange.
So I don't know what you read but try using some Focusin before replying next time.
I find Outlook 2003 to be a very nice mail client. It's Exchange I'm not so impressed with. Remember Outlook does not equal Exchange; Exchange is the one that does that primary spam and message filtering and while Outlook can access other mail backends that isn't what MS focuses on. It's just a front end.
Outlook is also neither a memory hog nor unstable. I run it 24x7 on my work pc and Firefox alone uses 3-4 times the memory footprint and I've never seen it crash.
"I have enough trouble sitting through the crap that's on the first time as it is, recording it is well beyond my scope of understanding."
You're missing the point. PVR's are ideal for watching the crap the first time and when you want to. I have a few tv shows I watch and I record everything and then watch it so I'm normally a day behind broadcast. By fast forwarding through all the commericals I gain an hour or more of time.
They're probably avoiding the tuner part because of the lack of standards in gaining access to digital channels and program guides.
As someone who played EQ for 5 years, I know what you're saying. When I started cancelling dates or brushing my gf off until another day, I knew this was a problem. There was a lot of social pressure in game that causes people, including myself, to make commitments they really have no need to keep. While I have no regrets playing as much as a did, I am certainly glad I have moved away from EQ. I played EQ2 and WoW for a month each and I can finally say I'm done with MMO's. They are simply too time consuming for the way I would want to play them. After being on the leading edge of EQ and trying to back off, I know I can never just play "casually".
I've always only changed the last two digits but you're right. You can only modify the the last 3 digits in recent releases. They did it to ensure no conflicts in the network.
Reference:
Remove the three lines that begin with the following: ethernet[n].generatedAddress ethernet[n].addressType ethernet[n].generatedAddressOffset In these options, [n] is the number of the virtual Ethernet adapter -- for example ethernet0.
Add the following line to the configuration file : ethernet0.address = 00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ
In this line, XX must be a valid hexadecimal number between 00h and 3Fh, and YY and ZZ must be valid hexadecimal numbers between 00h and FFh.
GSX runs on Windows XP although I won't say it's perfect. I never got it to use the networking properly for multiple NICs and it had a few quirks but it did run.
What are you talking about? VMware allows you to make the MAC address anything you want. Edit the config file and change the generatedAddress for the ethernet controller.
Just like when gambling, it's not the money already in the pot, that's already gone. It's how much you're willing to spend extra to get it. The pot odds don't look good to me.
I've been a HPUX sysadmin for 9 years (help manage 16+ large servers). We started buying a number of Itanium boxes and have moved some apps to them. The IA64 chip is much faster than the PA-RISC, 40-60% improvements for us and overall cheaper to buy.
However, the Opteron machines we have running Linux blow them away at less than half the price loaded up. I honestly don't see IA64 lasting another 2-3 years and I'm already making plans to migrate what we can from PA-RISC to Linux based machines instead of IA64.
I really like HP-UX. It's not the most robust OS, but it's been rock solid for us over the years. Very, very, expensive like all closed Unix Vendors but for a large business it was money well spent at the time compared to Windows NT.
Be one of the few, the proud, the users of Borland Development Studio 2006. Delphi, C, C++, and C# programming languages all in one IDE. Pick your poison daily!
First off, in keeping on topic, I was talking about computing games. Second, Karateka came out in 1984 and you're free to find something that pre-dates it in rotoscope type animation and not digitized footage.
And this is why people despise lawyers. They purposefully lie and make threats against people freely and in most cases get their way. If a non-lawyer tried this, they would get sued...by a lawyer.
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That's because it does so many things. Consider it a framework that has modules for all the business related functions and then some; Material Mangement, Sales, HR, Finance, etc. They're all tied together and are able to share the information as needed. To tie it all together is a built in programming language called ABAP which is like 1908's BASIC + some SQL commands. It's meant to replace all your various in house programs into one intergrated product. A lot of companies jumped on board during Y2K in order to replace their legacy mainframe systems.
The beauty is it requires a database to run and for most larger sites, this is done with Oracle. So, Oracle gets a nice cut from their competition.
I did that for 7 years, was tv free. I just watched DVDs on my set. However, my cable company basically had an offer I couldn't refuse - Free HD PVR for 2 years, free cable modem for life (no monthly rental fee) big discount on the cable channels and a 15% discount on my cable service (above the free modem). So I switched back from DSL to cable, get an 8mb/800k modem, PVR and top cable package and pay $25 more than I did for just DSL.
TV isn't so bad if you program what you want instead of sitting on the couch clicking channels. Certain ones like some on Discovery channel are entertaining and informative. I watch maybe 8 hours a week and I think it's ok for now. Worth $25 a month extra to me. However, I doubt I'll keep it after two years is up.
Studio Exec (to Ron Howard): What else you got?
Howard: Well, there is this one thing. It's about a killer-robot driving instructor that travels back in time for some reason.
Exec: I'm listening.
Howard: OK, OK, well, you see, this robot, he's got a heart-breaking decision to make about whether his best friend lives... or dies.
Exec (shrugging): Aah...
Howard: His best friend's a talking pie!
Exec: Sold!! Howard, you've done it again! (Hands over sacks of money)
Do you want to sit around arguing about Government funding or do you want to see me hit a few dingers.
Say what? The Parent states
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"I've never, and I do mean NEVER, met anyone online or off who liked Outlook. Many liked the concept of what Outlook was supposed to be, but not Outlook itself. It's a huge memory hog, unstable and has no spam controls whatsoever. Thunderbird does. And a PIM? You're better off doing that the old-fashioned way, a little book with a pencil."
I called BS. Outlook is neither a huge memory hog nor unstable. Also, it's not designed to run like Thunderbird since it uses Exchange as it's email subsystem. Thirdly, for a PIM tool it's very useful. I'm sure people have heard all about Blackberry handhelds now. They are almost every other handheld out there will sync your contacts with Outlook/Exchange.
So I don't know what you read but try using some Focusin before replying next time.
I find Outlook 2003 to be a very nice mail client. It's Exchange I'm not so impressed with. Remember Outlook does not equal Exchange; Exchange is the one that does that primary spam and message filtering and while Outlook can access other mail backends that isn't what MS focuses on. It's just a front end.
Outlook is also neither a memory hog nor unstable. I run it 24x7 on my work pc and Firefox alone uses 3-4 times the memory footprint and I've never seen it crash.
"I have enough trouble sitting through the crap that's on the first time as it is, recording it is well beyond my scope of understanding."
You're missing the point. PVR's are ideal for watching the crap the first time and when you want to. I have a few tv shows I watch and I record everything and then watch it so I'm normally a day behind broadcast. By fast forwarding through all the commericals I gain an hour or more of time.
They're probably avoiding the tuner part because of the lack of standards in gaining access to digital channels and program guides.
Just looking at Redhat choices, they have 4 offerings each removing parts on purpose to segment the market.
Red Hat Desktop - for basic home users
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS - for power home users / business desktos
Redhat ES - Enterprise version
Redhat AS - Flagship product
MS doesn't see any different.
There isn't much market confusion here.
Two are for home users (like XP Home and XP Pro where), two are for EU members which have things removed.
The other two are the business editions. That's less than the multitude of 2003 Server choices.
Sound like he's whining cecause he didn't have enough DKP to buy the uber item that dropped last night.
As someone who played EQ for 5 years, I know what you're saying. When I started cancelling dates or brushing my gf off until another day, I knew this was a problem. There was a lot of social pressure in game that causes people, including myself, to make commitments they really have no need to keep. While I have no regrets playing as much as a did, I am certainly glad I have moved away from EQ. I played EQ2 and WoW for a month each and I can finally say I'm done with MMO's. They are simply too time consuming for the way I would want to play them. After being on the leading edge of EQ and trying to back off, I know I can never just play "casually".
That hammer was obviously a Monk item.
I've always only changed the last two digits but you're right. You can only modify the the last 3 digits in recent releases. They did it to ensure no conflicts in the network.
Reference:
Remove the three lines that begin with the following:
ethernet[n].generatedAddress
ethernet[n].addressType
ethernet[n].generatedAddressOffset
In these options, [n] is the number of the virtual Ethernet adapter -- for example ethernet0.
Add the following line to the configuration file :
ethernet0.address = 00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ
In this line, XX must be a valid hexadecimal number between 00h and 3Fh, and YY and ZZ must be valid hexadecimal numbers between 00h and FFh.
GSX runs on Windows XP although I won't say it's perfect. I never got it to use the networking properly for multiple NICs and it had a few quirks but it did run.
What are you talking about? VMware allows you to make the MAC address anything you want. Edit the config file and change the generatedAddress for the ethernet controller.
Just like when gambling, it's not the money already in the pot, that's already gone. It's how much you're willing to spend extra to get it. The pot odds don't look good to me.
I've been a HPUX sysadmin for 9 years (help manage 16+ large servers). We started buying a number of Itanium boxes and have moved some apps to them. The IA64 chip is much faster than the PA-RISC, 40-60% improvements for us and overall cheaper to buy.
However, the Opteron machines we have running Linux blow them away at less than half the price loaded up. I honestly don't see IA64 lasting another 2-3 years and I'm already making plans to migrate what we can from PA-RISC to Linux based machines instead of IA64.
I really like HP-UX. It's not the most robust OS, but it's been rock solid for us over the years. Very, very, expensive like all closed Unix Vendors but for a large business it was money well spent at the time compared to Windows NT.
"they process billions of emails per day" and probably most of it is spam. who in his right mind uses a hotmail account anyway?
Spammers?
They got it right because the lead on C# was Anders Hejlsberg the man who built Borland's Delphi. I look at C# and see Delphi morphed.
.Net/C# follower. Still Borland Studio 2006 is pretty good so far.
When Microsoft stole Anders from Borland, Delphi pretty much just because a
Here is someone who has worked in government =p
Be one of the few, the proud, the users of Borland Development Studio 2006. Delphi, C, C++, and C# programming languages all in one IDE. Pick your poison daily!
Your lowest paid works 15 hours a week for $65k a year! Sweet Jebus. Perhaps you're paying your staff a little too much.
First off, in keeping on topic, I was talking about computing games. Second, Karateka came out in 1984 and you're free to find something that pre-dates it in rotoscope type animation and not digitized footage.
Jordan Mechner who created PoP and Karateka was one of the first (if not the first) to use rotoscope tecniques for character animation.
I bet he doesn't even post podcasts on his blog. What a geezer...
And this is why people despise lawyers. They purposefully lie and make threats against people freely and in most cases get their way. If a non-lawyer tried this, they would get sued...by a lawyer.