The reason Sci-Fi is leaning that way is because people are smart enough to know what's technologically bunk. You can't just say 'the computer did it' or super-duper xyz drive lets us travel 10x the speed of light and still move millions of lightyears in 2 hours. People realize that space is immense, robotics is hard, computers are complicated, and just writing complicated issues off without explanation breaks the suspension of disbelief. This worked in past because Average Joe didn't understand computers, robotics, and to a lesser extent, space travel.
Now these fantasy sci-fi things... hell, it's all just written off to magic and 'the way the world used to be back then'. How else could you explain wizards and walking talking trees. Which is cool because the fantasy writer can concentrate on the story while the futuristic sci-fi guy kinda has to explain why they can do what they can do.
This company _alleges_ that Microsoft withheld evidence based on their hand sorting of a subset of email.
So you're saying the mysterious disappearance of 35 weeks of email isn't witholding evidence? They've already stated they back up every email. Hell, my company backs up every email.
The company _claims_ to have gainfully employed more people than those just two.
You're doubting the company ever employed more than 2 people? This seems like pretty easy fact to prove... I doubt they'd assert it if it wasn't true.
Ah - right, sue the big cashbag and then turn on the marketing machine by publicizing this fact the world over.
First, they didn't advertise a thing. Cringley even said he had no idea and pretty much stumbled on it by chance. And I'm not sure but I *think* that MS has a pretty decent history of tippy-toeing through court cases and has yet to really be slapped with anything serious.
How many people do you think they needed to create a product that has the "ability to cache data to client disk buffers in Faster-Than-Real-Time(TM).
The technology isn't in question.
I'm sure there are a number of faults with the case but these aren't them.
I had this problem when trying to organize my 7000+ digital photos. I tried a new Adobe product, Photoshop Album, and my soul turned black... no seriously, they had a tag system where you create groups and tags within these groups. The tags can then be assigned to any number of photos and a photo can have any number of tags. So the pictures from my little brother's birthday would have a People/Brother tag, an Event/Birthday tag, a Place/Mom's House tag, and any other tags that seem appropriate. It works amazingly well barring the fact that tag groups cannot be nested more than 2 levels deep. But that's a software limitation, the idea remains valid. Unfortunately there is nothing like this for email that I'm aware of.
Regardless, any forward-looking organization system needs to have a many-to-many relationship between the organization structures and the data. The standard folder tree representation is obviously too limited.
"The G5 could also run Linux, and via some emulators, Windows software as well. I think the G5s run plenty of software."
So your solution is to pay twice as much to run emulated software 1/2 as fast. Don't get me wrong, it is a step above Apple's normal stance(pay twice as much to run 1/2 as much software 1/2 as fast) but as for me, I'll go the budget consious road.
I completely agree that shlop thrown out by Intel, AMD and IBM cannot be trusted and should be disregarded just as quickly as the shlop from Apple. The post was about Toms Hardware, an independent 3rd party with little bias one way or another. In fact, disproving those crap benchmarks is probably a major draw for readership.
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The RIAA is poised to die a horrible and wretched death under the weight of their own arm twisting and lies. *sarcasm*By God, I hope Mandrake follows THAT path!*/sarcasm*
Tom explicitly states the hardware is pre-release and objectively compares it on an even footing to what's available. In most reviews of pre-release hardware he pretty much tells the reader to take the results with a grain of salt because there are often vast differences between pre/testing hardware and what comes in the box.
The shlop that Apple throws out is a PR ploy plain and simple. Kind of like the benchmarks MS tosses out comparing IIS to Apache. There's no objectivity and there's no telling what tweaks and tunes have been done to each system to in/decrease performance.
Granted, it's true that Apple has probably come out with a decently fast processor but don't prove it by showing me benchmarks that'll probably end up on the back cover of their flyer.
The problem is anyone with a title at SCO is selling off what they can while the price is hot. Present a suite and all they'd do is close their doors and walk away cash-in-hand. As far as I can see it, any damage SCO can do is done... the FUD has been dispersed. Their claims are getting more wild and baseless every day. We can pretty much start talking about SCO in the past tense. Hell, change their Slashdot icon to a tombstone.
Now it's up to MS and friends to kick the community when it's down.
"Yet we hear whining all the time about the 50,000 people that die a year from SUV accidents, or lung cancer, or food poisoning, etc.... that's only going to help 50,000 people a year (in a country of 270,000,000), why not make a few changes to help 35,000,000 people in a state of 35,000,000?"
So you're comparing 50,000 dead people to 35mil that have to pay higher taxes? Gray may be a f'n idiot and the recall may be well-deserved but this comparison is insane. Besides, I don't think it's the actual recall that's the problem. It's the slimey way it's being pursued and all the goons coming out to run.
And you may be right about Cali. being a Democratic paradise but the entire Federal Government has been a republican paradise and just about the whole country is fscked. Hell, they got tired of f'n up our government so they're seeking out other governments to fsck up.
Anyone notice that, no matter the outcome, it's a victory for Microsoft?
If SCO wins case and GPL banished -- General state of disarray and panic in community, MS FUD campaign comes to a head while a new license is created and software stripped of SCO code.
If SCO wins case but GPL upheld -- Microsoft's "We respect IP, Linux is for thiefs" crap is reenforced. Valuable time and market share lost while code is stripped.
Say SCO gets trounced, GPL upheld, victory for Linux and Open Source -- Microsoft points and yells "See, GPL IS viral! SCO released Linux and now that code is GPLed!"
Regardless of the case outcome, MS FUD is the winner.
Peon: "Bill, the XYZ worm will attack www.microsoft.com at mightnight!"
BG: "Change the name of the company immediately! Do we know security or what?!"
By 2010 they'll just be dropping network support from Windows.
I realize it's a little more complicated than "setup.exe" but that's not bad. Oh damn, I forgot. It will ask you to press 'Y' before downloading.
I run it on both of my linux boxes pretty much constantly and have never had it crash. Either you're doing something horribly wrong which would surprise me as installation and configuration of a mail client is fairly simple compared to a linux install (or any OS install for that matter) or you've only used the thing long enough to notice that "Hey, this isn't Outlook", decided you didn't want to figure out this complicated foreign software, and now spout off about it in random public forums.
The truth of the matter is that Evolution is an efficient and mature mail client that, while maybe lacking a feature here or there, is right on the heals of Outlook and superior to just about any other mail client. In fact, as far as usability and efficiency goes, I'd say it surpasses Outlook. The only complaint I have is that I still have to use some form of bloatware or crapware on my Windows box.
the earth is a self correcting system. There's not a damn thing we could do to her that she can't recover from. Us surviving the recovery is just a happy coincidence.
You "signed" a click-wrap agreement when you installed Windows indemnifying Microsoft from damages caused. But either way that's not what's happening here. For this to be the same case, it would be like a Windows user hacking someone or posting slanderous information and the target trying to blame Microsoft for enabling it. Just because it's not MS's fault doesn't mean there is no fault. The people that use this software to accuse others of copyright infringement should be held accountable.
So did anyone catch the joke about a Windows user hacking? Hahaha
This sounds great and all and just about anything LaMothe does turns to gold in the eyes of video game developers but it seems to me that the technology is just too old to be interesting for the hacking community.
Now in the realm of education... low powered, fairly simplistic systems like these are used for things such as early electronic engineering courses, introductory assembly programming courses and the like. It would be nice for students to be able to do something cool in these courses besides light up LEDs and flip switches attached to an ancient Motorola 68k. If only the academic community didn't shun anything with 'game' in the title and the site actually had information besides "please call later" in the Education section.
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IIRC bittorrent/Kazaa was the only way to get RedHat 9 when it came out... Without paying RedHat that is.
The reason Sci-Fi is leaning that way is because people are smart enough to know what's technologically bunk. You can't just say 'the computer did it' or super-duper xyz drive lets us travel 10x the speed of light and still move millions of lightyears in 2 hours. People realize that space is immense, robotics is hard, computers are complicated, and just writing complicated issues off without explanation breaks the suspension of disbelief. This worked in past because Average Joe didn't understand computers, robotics, and to a lesser extent, space travel.
Now these fantasy sci-fi things... hell, it's all just written off to magic and 'the way the world used to be back then'. How else could you explain wizards and walking talking trees. Which is cool because the fantasy writer can concentrate on the story while the futuristic sci-fi guy kinda has to explain why they can do what they can do.
This company _alleges_ that Microsoft withheld evidence based on their hand sorting of a subset of email.
So you're saying the mysterious disappearance of 35 weeks of email isn't witholding evidence? They've already stated they back up every email. Hell, my company backs up every email.
The company _claims_ to have gainfully employed more people than those just two.
You're doubting the company ever employed more than 2 people? This seems like pretty easy fact to prove... I doubt they'd assert it if it wasn't true.
Ah - right, sue the big cashbag and then turn on the marketing machine by publicizing this fact the world over.
First, they didn't advertise a thing. Cringley even said he had no idea and pretty much stumbled on it by chance. And I'm not sure but I *think* that MS has a pretty decent history of tippy-toeing through court cases and has yet to really be slapped with anything serious.
How many people do you think they needed to create a product that has the "ability to cache data to client disk buffers in Faster-Than-Real-Time(TM).
The technology isn't in question.
I'm sure there are a number of faults with the case but these aren't them.
Bah! Overrated. For every SpongeBob SquarePants there's an Ed Edd and Eddy.
Comedy Central and SpikeTV!
It's actually $52... *ominous reverb*plus your soul*/ominous reverb*
So it's like a $53 value.
I had this problem when trying to organize my 7000+ digital photos. I tried a new Adobe product, Photoshop Album, and my soul turned black... no seriously, they had a tag system where you create groups and tags within these groups. The tags can then be assigned to any number of photos and a photo can have any number of tags. So the pictures from my little brother's birthday would have a People/Brother tag, an Event/Birthday tag, a Place/Mom's House tag, and any other tags that seem appropriate. It works amazingly well barring the fact that tag groups cannot be nested more than 2 levels deep. But that's a software limitation, the idea remains valid. Unfortunately there is nothing like this for email that I'm aware of. Regardless, any forward-looking organization system needs to have a many-to-many relationship between the organization structures and the data. The standard folder tree representation is obviously too limited.
"The G5 could also run Linux, and via some emulators, Windows software as well. I think the G5s run plenty of software."
So your solution is to pay twice as much to run emulated software 1/2 as fast. Don't get me wrong, it is a step above Apple's normal stance(pay twice as much to run 1/2 as much software 1/2 as fast) but as for me, I'll go the budget consious road.
I completely agree that shlop thrown out by Intel, AMD and IBM cannot be trusted and should be disregarded just as quickly as the shlop from Apple. The post was about Toms Hardware, an independent 3rd party with little bias one way or another. In fact, disproving those crap benchmarks is probably a major draw for readership.
The RIAA is poised to die a horrible and wretched death under the weight of their own arm twisting and lies. *sarcasm*By God, I hope Mandrake follows THAT path!*/sarcasm*
Tom explicitly states the hardware is pre-release and objectively compares it on an even footing to what's available. In most reviews of pre-release hardware he pretty much tells the reader to take the results with a grain of salt because there are often vast differences between pre/testing hardware and what comes in the box.
The shlop that Apple throws out is a PR ploy plain and simple. Kind of like the benchmarks MS tosses out comparing IIS to Apache. There's no objectivity and there's no telling what tweaks and tunes have been done to each system to in/decrease performance.
Granted, it's true that Apple has probably come out with a decently fast processor but don't prove it by showing me benchmarks that'll probably end up on the back cover of their flyer.
The problem is anyone with a title at SCO is selling off what they can while the price is hot. Present a suite and all they'd do is close their doors and walk away cash-in-hand. As far as I can see it, any damage SCO can do is done... the FUD has been dispersed. Their claims are getting more wild and baseless every day. We can pretty much start talking about SCO in the past tense. Hell, change their Slashdot icon to a tombstone.
Now it's up to MS and friends to kick the community when it's down.
That's a riot! When the ATM at my local branch goes down the screen turns blue but I just though it was a coincidence until now.
"to keep us from repeating mistakes."
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My old man, early 90s: "We'll sure as hell never elect another Bush"
Me now: "We'll sure as hell never elect another Bush"
I think some of us caught on a while ago. What the rest of the country is thinking I'll never know.
"Yet we hear whining all the time about the 50,000 people that die a year from SUV accidents, or lung cancer, or food poisoning, etc. ... that's only going to help 50,000 people a year (in a country of 270,000,000), why not make a few changes to help 35,000,000 people in a state of 35,000,000?"
So you're comparing 50,000 dead people to 35mil that have to pay higher taxes? Gray may be a f'n idiot and the recall may be well-deserved but this comparison is insane. Besides, I don't think it's the actual recall that's the problem. It's the slimey way it's being pursued and all the goons coming out to run.
And you may be right about Cali. being a Democratic paradise but the entire Federal Government has been a republican paradise and just about the whole country is fscked. Hell, they got tired of f'n up our government so they're seeking out other governments to fsck up.
That's kind of funny because I was driving around last night after 3 donuts and hit a pot.
Anyone notice that, no matter the outcome, it's a victory for Microsoft?
If SCO wins case and GPL banished -- General state of disarray and panic in community, MS FUD campaign comes to a head while a new license is created and software stripped of SCO code.
If SCO wins case but GPL upheld -- Microsoft's "We respect IP, Linux is for thiefs" crap is reenforced. Valuable time and market share lost while code is stripped.
Say SCO gets trounced, GPL upheld, victory for Linux and Open Source -- Microsoft points and yells "See, GPL IS viral! SCO released Linux and now that code is GPLed!"
Regardless of the case outcome, MS FUD is the winner.
It's a sad day for technology when we need an acronym for this...
Peon: "Bill, the XYZ worm will attack www.microsoft.com at mightnight!" BG: "Change the name of the company immediately! Do we know security or what?!" By 2010 they'll just be dropping network support from Windows.
It isn't 'doing the right thing' when it takes a class action lawsuit to get them to do it.
"apt-get install evolution".
I realize it's a little more complicated than "setup.exe" but that's not bad. Oh damn, I forgot. It will ask you to press 'Y' before downloading.
I run it on both of my linux boxes pretty much constantly and have never had it crash. Either you're doing something horribly wrong which would surprise me as installation and configuration of a mail client is fairly simple compared to a linux install (or any OS install for that matter) or you've only used the thing long enough to notice that "Hey, this isn't Outlook", decided you didn't want to figure out this complicated foreign software, and now spout off about it in random public forums.
The truth of the matter is that Evolution is an efficient and mature mail client that, while maybe lacking a feature here or there, is right on the heals of Outlook and superior to just about any other mail client. In fact, as far as usability and efficiency goes, I'd say it surpasses Outlook. The only complaint I have is that I still have to use some form of bloatware or crapware on my Windows box.
the earth is a self correcting system. There's not a damn thing we could do to her that she can't recover from. Us surviving the recovery is just a happy coincidence.
It's all about earth+plastic.
All my credit cards are registered to 'CmdrTaco' :)
You "signed" a click-wrap agreement when you installed Windows indemnifying Microsoft from damages caused. But either way that's not what's happening here. For this to be the same case, it would be like a Windows user hacking someone or posting slanderous information and the target trying to blame Microsoft for enabling it. Just because it's not MS's fault doesn't mean there is no fault. The people that use this software to accuse others of copyright infringement should be held accountable.
So did anyone catch the joke about a Windows user hacking? Hahaha
It's SCO!
This sounds great and all and just about anything LaMothe does turns to gold in the eyes of video game developers but it seems to me that the technology is just too old to be interesting for the hacking community.
Now in the realm of education... low powered, fairly simplistic systems like these are used for things such as early electronic engineering courses, introductory assembly programming courses and the like. It would be nice for students to be able to do something cool in these courses besides light up LEDs and flip switches attached to an ancient Motorola 68k. If only the academic community didn't shun anything with 'game' in the title and the site actually had information besides "please call later" in the Education section.