At first, I thought, "Perfect! This is exactly what Windows has needed for years--especially since the introduction of the registry and the 'cruft' that builds up over 1-2 years of use on the average PC."
Then, after a bit, it hit me how these features really are only necessary due to an antiquated, OS model that would be better served with a complete and total overhaul. OS X might not be for everyone, but the reliance on.plist files seems to work much better in the long run than a complicated mess like the registry often becomes.
The notable difference here is that, unlike the personal computers running ever-changing versions of OS X and Windows, the BlackBerry hardware platform has changed very little over the years. Thanks to a combination of weak, battery-sipping CPU's and a bloated java-based OS It's long been a clunky, rather unresponsive UI if you pressed the devices to do much of anything beyond the basic calendar and messaging apps.
I'd like to think RIM have a chance now that they're finally making some noteworthy changes to the hardware, but it's also entirely possible they're simply too late to the latest-generation smartphone party. If they managed to switch to the QNX platform on their phone devices I bet the investors would be much happier.
I really wonder, though, if they won't just cease making phones and tablets altogether and roll full Android support into BES for corporate environments. Better do it before Google makes a corporate management platform, though!:)
The fact that the Playbook tablet was released without a native RIM Email client--and also did not include the official BlackBerry Messenger app--made me stop and reconsider just where Research in Motion finds itself these days.
The news that RIM suddenly just renamed BlackBerry OS 6.1 as OS 7 strikes me as an additional sign of desperate moves, too; the OS isn't a major change, as it's not the desired/anticipated move to QNX base or anything.
I used BB's for years, and appreciated them for their excellent email support at the time. The truth is, though, once I had a taste of the Android platform, my days with RIM were over. The nearly-perfect Google data sync and number of applications are big advantages but, for my wife and I, it really came down to the fact that the browser didn't lock up the whole damned phone when a website became unresponsive.
Perhaps they can pull themselves together here--it's not an impossibility--and they're still in much better shape than Microsoft in regards to the smartphone market.
Actually, the AK-74 uses the 5.45x39mm round, just a tad smaller than the M16's 5.56x45mm round.
The AK-47 is chambered for the 7.62x39mm.
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Hey, I loved the Workplace Shell (WPS) in OS/2 and, for its time, it was a pretty amazing product, overall. Many BBS sysops would trust no other operating system for their machines back then.
But... simply throwing new services onto a linux kernel does *not* make for a great new product. Novell tried this when with shoddy Netware services in their Open Enterprise Server, versions 1 and 2. They actually managed to to take two stable platforms and merge them into a bloody mess.
Given Mr. Jobs' preference for minimalistic case and interface design, I really can't see this being implemented on *any* Apple-branded product. It's so contrary to his "vision" if you will.
As others have pointed out... perhaps it was just to ensure Apple had called "shotgun" on any use of this technology by someone else.
While the majority of your post was very informative, and rather interesting, it was the Weird Al reference at the end that totally made my day. Thanks!!
The Persecutor often had very little evidence that supported thier case
I was about to suggest the term prosecutor when it suddenly occurred to me that your statement might be more accurate.
Indeed, this particular case has been most interesting. Had Hans simply not taken the stand I imagine the outcome likely would have been different.
But does that make it right?
I mean, look at Sturgeon--confesses to eight murders, and certainly has more than a casual link to Nina Reiser--how could the jury have been completely blocked from hearing about that guy?
For what it's worth, I have a feeling Hans is guilty... but I would not have been able to convict him on the very limited evidence presented to the court.
The term unprofessional can be a qualitative assessment of the ethics, policies, or working conditions of a particular business, in comparison to society's standards of a given era.
At this point in time, I think it's fairly safe to say that society, as a whole, would not approve of this--no matter how much a minority of employees think it's a great idea.
Even if a company did want to modify its policy to allow such a profane workplace it would be a very short matter of time until some lawsuit/settlement-seeking slacker managed to get himself hired, file a complaint, and use the US court system to destroy its cash reserves.
Do I care if a company wants to run this way? Not really--actually, I'm all for allowing it, and letting others work there that would like the environment. Would I want to work there? No, but that shouldn't stop others from having the freedom to run their businesses the way they see fit.
Seriously, though... how could it possibly help matters?
The majority of jobs I've had in which the employees cursed incessantly were not necessarily more productive. In fact, having an angry boss is one thing--a __cursing__, angry boss is something else altogether.
Moreover, while I can understand this would make most women uncomfortable in the workplace, I can also vouch for my experience in offices staffed predominantly by females--it's very uncomfortable for the few men, at that point.
The whole thing reeks of unprofessionalism, in my opinion. I can understand the occasional pained and shouted curse in relatively unpopulated areas, such as server farms etc.--but I certainly wouldn't encourage my employees to use profanities as much as they feel like it--I see a lot of possible lost sale calls etc.
All in all, I suppose a lot of it comes down to the context of the situation--but it just sounds like a bad business strategy for HR to adopt.
For what it's worth, I did try setting up my backend about 1.5 years ago with Debian, but the dependencies and everything proved to be a bit too painful for my use. I settled on using KnoppMyth and I have to give the guys credit--it's hard to imagine getting a MythTV setup much easier than it provides. Great scripts and utilities, plus the most important thing--a good community with lots of helpful folks in the forums.
As easy as Edgy was to get going, I wouldn't be surprised to see something along the lines of MythUbuntu or UbuMyth showing up sometime soon.
It's not a feature/requirement of Intel integrated graphics, or for certain kinds of DDR... it's specific to the motherboard chipset and its support for dual-channel RAM. I don't think the Springdale (865) supports it, but the Canterwood (875) and most of the current above-economy-priced desktop chipsets by Intel do.
Using dual-channel gets you another ~4-10% overall memory performance, from what I remember, so it's not a bad idea if it's not too expensive. Most gamers specifically purchase pairs of RAM for this very reason.
All in all, it's pretty much like the older servers with huge banks of interleaved RAM. If you can afford it, go for it. Thankfully, though, it's only pairs, rather than banks of four!
On December 21 1999, John Carmack of id Software released the Quake engine source code on the Internet under the terms of the GPL license, allowing programmers to edit the engine and add new features. Soon programmers were releasing new versions of the engine on the net. A few of the most known engines are:
* DarkPlaces - An engine modification that adds realtime lighting and shadowing, Quake III BSP support, a completely new renderer, and many other features.
* Tenebrae - A derivative that was the first to introduce realtime lighting and shadowing to the Quake engine.
* Telejano - A modification that adds many more features and particle effects.
* Tomaz Quake - One of the first Quake engine modifications on the net.
* Twilight Engine - Fastest of the known Quake engines, this modification is based on performance rather than extra features.
I don't want to get into the "GPL isn't completely free" argument, but that's a pretty nice thing to have released, if you're a small-time developer/hobbyist.
If I remember correctly I think Blue started drinking this stuff at least a year ago or so. He's still alive, so I guess it's not particularly harmful... I had some kind of guarana-flavored soda test-marketed by Coke when I was out in California in 97 and didn't find anything special about it. I don't think it was severely caffeinated, though.
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Then, after a bit, it hit me how these features really are only necessary due to an antiquated, OS model that would be better served with a complete and total overhaul. OS X might not be for everyone, but the reliance on .plist files seems to work much better in the long run than a complicated mess like the registry often becomes.
I'd like to think RIM have a chance now that they're finally making some noteworthy changes to the hardware, but it's also entirely possible they're simply too late to the latest-generation smartphone party. If they managed to switch to the QNX platform on their phone devices I bet the investors would be much happier.
I really wonder, though, if they won't just cease making phones and tablets altogether and roll full Android support into BES for corporate environments. Better do it before Google makes a corporate management platform, though! :)
The news that RIM suddenly just renamed BlackBerry OS 6.1 as OS 7 strikes me as an additional sign of desperate moves, too; the OS isn't a major change, as it's not the desired/anticipated move to QNX base or anything.
I used BB's for years, and appreciated them for their excellent email support at the time. The truth is, though, once I had a taste of the Android platform, my days with RIM were over. The nearly-perfect Google data sync and number of applications are big advantages but, for my wife and I, it really came down to the fact that the browser didn't lock up the whole damned phone when a website became unresponsive.
Perhaps they can pull themselves together here--it's not an impossibility--and they're still in much better shape than Microsoft in regards to the smartphone market.
Actually, the AK-74 uses the 5.45x39mm round, just a tad smaller than the M16's 5.56x45mm round. The AK-47 is chambered for the 7.62x39mm.
But... simply throwing new services onto a linux kernel does *not* make for a great new product. Novell tried this when with shoddy Netware services in their Open Enterprise Server, versions 1 and 2. They actually managed to to take two stable platforms and merge them into a bloody mess.
Given Mr. Jobs' preference for minimalistic case and interface design, I really can't see this being implemented on *any* Apple-branded product. It's so contrary to his "vision" if you will. As others have pointed out... perhaps it was just to ensure Apple had called "shotgun" on any use of this technology by someone else.
While the majority of your post was very informative, and rather interesting, it was the Weird Al reference at the end that totally made my day. Thanks!!
Perhaps I'm just showing my age, but chills went up my spine until I realized it wasn't this MCA which involved Recovery Disks.
*sigh of relief*
Unfortunately, the latest release of ZENworks (10.x) does not support anything beyond very basic inventory functions on non-Windows clients.
Indeed, this particular case has been most interesting. Had Hans simply not taken the stand I imagine the outcome likely would have been different.
But does that make it right?
I mean, look at Sturgeon--confesses to eight murders, and certainly has more than a casual link to Nina Reiser--how could the jury have been completely blocked from hearing about that guy?
For what it's worth, I have a feeling Hans is guilty... but I would not have been able to convict him on the very limited evidence presented to the court.
At this point in time, I think it's fairly safe to say that society, as a whole, would not approve of this--no matter how much a minority of employees think it's a great idea.
Even if a company did want to modify its policy to allow such a profane workplace it would be a very short matter of time until some lawsuit/settlement-seeking slacker managed to get himself hired, file a complaint, and use the US court system to destroy its cash reserves.
Do I care if a company wants to run this way? Not really--actually, I'm all for allowing it, and letting others work there that would like the environment. Would I want to work there? No, but that shouldn't stop others from having the freedom to run their businesses the way they see fit.
Too bad the government doesn't see it that way...
Uhm... I call BS on this.
Seriously, though... how could it possibly help matters?
The majority of jobs I've had in which the employees cursed incessantly were not necessarily more productive. In fact, having an angry boss is one thing--a __cursing__, angry boss is something else altogether.
Moreover, while I can understand this would make most women uncomfortable in the workplace, I can also vouch for my experience in offices staffed predominantly by females--it's very uncomfortable for the few men, at that point.
The whole thing reeks of unprofessionalism, in my opinion. I can understand the occasional pained and shouted curse in relatively unpopulated areas, such as server farms etc.--but I certainly wouldn't encourage my employees to use profanities as much as they feel like it--I see a lot of possible lost sale calls etc.
All in all, I suppose a lot of it comes down to the context of the situation--but it just sounds like a bad business strategy for HR to adopt.
I, for one, was totally shocked at this revelation when watching an episode of The Young Ones several years ago.
Just recently, I did try an Ubuntu Edgy combo backend/frontend setup on another machine (my main box runs KnoppMyth).
I found it to be incredibly easy to setup, and there are some pretty good guides ready for anyone with the interest:
http://https//help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/
For what it's worth, I did try setting up my backend about 1.5 years ago with Debian, but the dependencies and everything proved to be a bit too painful for my use. I settled on using KnoppMyth and I have to give the guys credit--it's hard to imagine getting a MythTV setup much easier than it provides. Great scripts and utilities, plus the most important thing--a good community with lots of helpful folks in the forums.
As easy as Edgy was to get going, I wouldn't be surprised to see something along the lines of MythUbuntu or UbuMyth showing up sometime soon.
Or crypt kiddies, perhaps...
It's not a feature/requirement of Intel integrated graphics, or for certain kinds of DDR... it's specific to the motherboard chipset and its support for dual-channel RAM. I don't think the Springdale (865) supports it, but the Canterwood (875) and most of the current above-economy-priced desktop chipsets by Intel do.
Using dual-channel gets you another ~4-10% overall memory performance, from what I remember, so it's not a bad idea if it's not too expensive. Most gamers specifically purchase pairs of RAM for this very reason.
All in all, it's pretty much like the older servers with huge banks of interleaved RAM. If you can afford it, go for it. Thankfully, though, it's only pairs, rather than banks of four!
Not necessarily. Perhaps you mean the very-latest, Quake4 engine? In which case, you're right.
However, the Quake engine source code was released under the GPL by Carmack back in 1999.
source: http://www.answers.com/topic/quake-engine
From the above link:
On December 21 1999, John Carmack of id Software released the Quake engine source code on the Internet under the terms of the GPL license, allowing programmers to edit the engine and add new features. Soon programmers were releasing new versions of the engine on the net. A few of the most known engines are:
* DarkPlaces - An engine modification that adds realtime lighting and shadowing, Quake III BSP support, a completely new renderer, and many other features.
* Tenebrae - A derivative that was the first to introduce realtime lighting and shadowing to the Quake engine.
* Telejano - A modification that adds many more features and particle effects.
* Tomaz Quake - One of the first Quake engine modifications on the net.
* Twilight Engine - Fastest of the known Quake engines, this modification is based on performance rather than extra features.
I don't want to get into the "GPL isn't completely free" argument, but that's a pretty nice thing to have released, if you're a small-time developer/hobbyist.
If I remember correctly I think Blue started drinking this stuff at least a year ago or so. He's still alive, so I guess it's not particularly harmful...
:)
I had some kind of guarana-flavored soda test-marketed by Coke when I was out in California in 97 and didn't find anything special about it. I don't think it was severely caffeinated, though.
But I'll try anything once.
(excluding veggies)