Tell your boss that you can do write the software and release under the "company's license model" (ie closed source) but that would take longer than deriving something from OSS code you've seen which just happens to do very nearly what your boss wants...
This is like hoarding sticks. Our gang can collect them, but if the kid down the road wants one then well we'll just have to beat him up (with our sticks).
The patent system works exactly the same. Next time Acme Media Corporation rolls out a VoD system, they'll need their own pretty good patent library to keep the MS legal team away.
Whether you can use a supercomputer or a cluster depends not so much on whether the task can be broken into independent pieces (code can and is independent by the nature of OO!!) but whether the solution can be recoded in parallel cost effectively. Its usually expressed in terms of one woman produces one baby every nine months, but nine women cannot each produce one baby a month!
If latency (or the time required to wait for results) is not a factor, as I believe it's not in the case of most large projects, then clusters can certainly replace many supercomputers.
This is the real problem - how quickly you need answers to the problem you're setting, and therefore how well you can "word" the question.
I don't have enough time to explain the abstraction between an application layer and an OS, so I've just showed the mods reply to my boss at the Imperial College biochem labs. He laughed. And laughed. And laughed.
Then he told me to stop posting to student-run websites (and do some work).
ASP.NET is nearly finished, and there's already an alpha (?) ASP.NET server available for Linux here. Code new apps in as web-based services or in C#/Windows.NET Forms and port to GTK# or Qt# when ready.
That's the way we're doing it.
MS uses Linux for Passport SDK development
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Microsoft is not using Linux. So the scope of any issues they may have are not as related to the specific Unix intellectual property they were using in their product or wanted to be able to use in their product in the future.
This is plainly untrue.
Here's the download page for Microsoft's Passport SDK for Linux.
Since suprisingly recently. The fact that the SCO/Linux case features on the Economist radar can only be good news. Not so long ago this article wouldn't even have feature in their "in other news" section.
And they're happy to tow the geek line that SCO's case has little real merit calling it a "ham-fisted attempt by SCO to get itself bought".
"A vertical integration synergy strategy helped us realise total productivity gains in the medium term. We still reckon little elves make it happen though."
"soapboxing" v. pej. To announce the development of a new Internet protocol with proportionate fanfare, and then to watch it grind to a halt within hours."
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Her icons are certainly... er... iconic but how many ways are there of rendering an 's' in 5x5 pixels? For that matter, same with a cursor or an arrow.
And now we're on this topic, I remember the Mac icons she made. Wasn't one of them the trashcan which deleted everything you dragged into it. Apart from the floppy disk.
* A million user thought bubbles all saying the same thing: Won't that delete my floppy disk? *
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Unlike books, code is easier to write than to read. And that's even when it's commented properly.
KFC will never seem the same again with Colonel Sanders driving that thing.
Tell your boss that you can do write the software and release under the "company's license model" (ie closed source) but that would take longer than deriving something from OSS code you've seen which just happens to do very nearly what your boss wants ...
This is like hoarding sticks. Our gang can collect them, but if the kid down the road wants one then well we'll just have to beat him up (with our sticks). The patent system works exactly the same. Next time Acme Media Corporation rolls out a VoD system, they'll need their own pretty good patent library to keep the MS legal team away.
Whether you can use a supercomputer or a cluster depends not so much on whether the task can be broken into independent pieces (code can and is independent by the nature of OO!!) but whether the solution can be recoded in parallel cost effectively. Its usually expressed in terms of one woman produces one baby every nine months, but nine women cannot each produce one baby a month! If latency (or the time required to wait for results) is not a factor, as I believe it's not in the case of most large projects, then clusters can certainly replace many supercomputers. This is the real problem - how quickly you need answers to the problem you're setting, and therefore how well you can "word" the question.
IE will continue to evolve, ...
... etc. ...
As far as I can tell, development of IE's features was iced around 5 years ago. Compare and contrast with Opera, Mozilla, Phoenix
They make a mini Mag-Light?
Yep.
Do you keep a nazi plate in a locakable glass cabinet by any chance?
So I don't have to suffer taping a mini mag-light to my handset now? Phew.
What you mean like in C# ?
The tail is wagging the dog here.
I don't have enough time to explain the abstraction between an application layer and an OS, so I've just showed the mods reply to my boss at the Imperial College biochem labs. He laughed. And laughed. And laughed.
Then he told me to stop posting to student-run websites (and do some work).
I'm going to take his advice.
ASP.NET is nearly finished, and there's already an alpha (?) ASP.NET server available for Linux here. Code new apps in as web-based services or in C#/Windows .NET Forms and port to GTK# or Qt# when ready.
That's the way we're doing it.
Microsoft is not using Linux. So the scope of any issues they may have are not as related to the specific Unix intellectual property they were using in their product or wanted to be able to use in their product in the future.
This is plainly untrue.
Here's the download page for Microsoft's Passport SDK for Linux.
According to the investor relations PDF here (in Japanese!), HSPDA was released in March 2002 as part of the FOMA initiative.
It also says the maximum data transfer rate is 14Mbps. Which is not the same as throughput.
Since suprisingly recently. The fact that the SCO/Linux case features on the Economist radar can only be good news. Not so long ago this article wouldn't even have feature in their "in other news" section.
And they're happy to tow the geek line that SCO's case has little real merit calling it a "ham-fisted attempt by SCO to get itself bought".
I was daft enough to post this troll (I'm surprised no-one else had the balls) and you were daft enough to compile it.
Buy the metal balls, put them in the machine, watch them shoot along gaining points you can exchange later more metal balls.
Or, take the metal balls to your friendly ganster outfit round the corner and exchange them for dodgy Chinese cameras and Hello Kittys. Great!
Why on eather could Sega see the marketability of this game?
if they want to take responsibility for aligning their IT strategy to their business objectives, or their systems provider's.
Which is where this article was poached from. With all this news redundancy my RSS feeds are all starting to look the same.
"A vertical integration synergy strategy helped us realise total productivity gains in the medium term.
We still reckon little elves make it happen though."
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"soapboxing" v. pej. To announce the development of a new Internet protocol with proportionate fanfare, and then to watch it grind to a halt within hours."
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Hmmmm.
Her icons are certainly ... er ... iconic but how many ways are there of rendering an 's' in 5x5 pixels? For that matter, same with a cursor or an arrow.
And now we're on this topic, I remember the Mac icons she made. Wasn't one of them the trashcan which deleted everything you dragged into it. Apart from the floppy disk.
* A million user thought bubbles all saying the same thing: Won't that delete my floppy disk? *
I've never really trusted those nerds at LinuxQuestions.org
and now you can do it offline too? That's sick.