OSHA want to control all work done in the US (for now) This is one way to vastly expand that. One common new tactic now is to force other to do your enforcing for you under vague theats. This is why you will not see OSHA giving clear rules on what is required. This fearof lawsuits will stifle the telecomute movement which is just fine by OSHA. Because they want to be able to raid work places.
This is a service pack, these are generally a collection of fixes generated PSS calls. Getting enough testing on these things is hard, with Win2000 needing testing too. And I bet setting up Lotus Notes is a cast iron bitch, You are insisting that MS has a full test suite for every app, that gets run on every bit of code that MS releases, or you are going to cry gross incompetance or malice? Don't worry I am sure a goverment control industry can be stable, nothing will change.
I think that people need to realize what a OS is for, it is not for booting the system. OS's were written by people for people, it is to make life easier for some one else. OS do this a number of way.
Most OS's try and make the hardware look the same, but not all OS care about this, PalmOS doesn't really do this, it doesn't have changing hardware(yet). DirectX is part of a OS, it's goal is to make the hardware look different!
Mac's invented the ideal of making a common UI, this makes things easier for the user. It also greatly increased the potential size, because UI is not a task that can be captured in a few iocrtl's. MS took this ideal and said that the web shouldn't look that strange compared to the local machine, and folded a web browser into the file manager.
OLE/COM/CORBRA/... Were invented to make the task of talking between programs easier, this is a really hard task of course that has been mostly noted by how poorly it has been figured out.
All computers have OS, but there is a wide range of scales of OS. a OS doesn't have to be multi-tasking, preemptive, and protected. It has to make other peoples lives easier, Unix has been popular because it has made programmers lifes easier, Windows has made drooling moron's lives easier.
People are rewarded, for working on a small section, and haven't the time to look outside of that. I am quite sure that MS is more efficent at producing line of code per programmer than OSS, but that is of course part of the problem. There are people within MS that understand a large percentage of the OS, and in fact contribute to things far outside of their area. Management does't handle these people well, because it tries to promote them so that they end up tied up in meetings, unable to do much coding.
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OSHA want to control all work done in the US (for now) This is one way to vastly expand that. One common new tactic now is to force other to do your enforcing for you under vague theats. This is why you will not see OSHA giving clear rules on what is required. This fearof lawsuits will stifle the telecomute movement which is just fine by OSHA. Because they want to be able to raid work places.
This is a service pack, these are generally a collection of fixes generated PSS calls. Getting enough testing on these things is hard, with Win2000 needing testing too. And I bet setting up Lotus Notes is a cast iron bitch, You are insisting that MS has a full test suite for every app, that gets run on every bit of code that MS releases, or you are going to cry gross incompetance or malice?
Don't worry I am sure a goverment control industry can be stable, nothing will change.
I think that people need to realize what a OS is for, it is not for booting the system. OS's were written by people for people, it is to make life easier for some one else. OS do this a number of way.
Most OS's try and make the hardware look the same, but not all OS care about this, PalmOS doesn't really do this, it doesn't have changing hardware(yet). DirectX is part of a OS, it's goal is to make the hardware look different!
Mac's invented the ideal of making a common UI, this makes things easier for the user. It also greatly increased the potential size, because UI is not a task that can be captured in a few iocrtl's. MS took this ideal and said that the web shouldn't look that strange compared to the local machine, and folded a web browser into the file manager.
OLE/COM/CORBRA/... Were invented to make the task of talking between programs easier, this is a really hard task of course that has been mostly noted by how poorly it has been figured out.
All computers have OS, but there is a wide range of scales of OS. a OS doesn't have to be multi-tasking, preemptive, and protected. It has to make other peoples lives easier, Unix has been popular because it has made programmers lifes easier, Windows has made drooling moron's lives easier.
People are rewarded, for working on a small section, and haven't the time to look outside of that. I am quite sure that MS is more efficent at producing line of code per programmer than OSS, but that is of course part of the problem. There are people within MS that understand a large percentage of the OS, and in fact contribute to things far outside of their area. Management does't handle these people well, because it tries to promote them so that they end up tied up in meetings, unable to do much coding.
I would suggest that you look at http://www.ricochet.net with your current Palm Pilot Althought you would have to buy two modems.