Hypothetical situation, but what happens to the stuff you own when the format becomes obsolete? Although I'm sure it will be quite some time. In *theory* these media are supposed to be copy protected so you can't transfer them from one format to another. One could say you don't really own what you have right now, even though you have it "in hand".
I don't get why computation stops at a certain digit? Wouldn't it be possible to keep computing indefinitely and then announce the number of digits at periodic checkpoints? Instead of SETI at Home and Folding at Home what about "PI at home" ??
I'll admit - I like Sun gear. I've worked with it a lot and for the most part has been rock solid and performs well at an enterprise level. They've had their ups and downs but I feel they've been a positive player in IT.
I can't help but feel that this is ultimately going to be a bad thing for the IT industry, especially with enterprise IT. IMHO there will always be a need for big iron servers: commodity hardware does not necessarily scale well for all applications.
Competition is good for the IT industry. Take away yet another place and your choices are further diminished. Sun have done a lot of good work with SPARC, especially recently. What happens when the only choices in CPU technologies are x86 and PPC?
I've spent considerable time trying to get this work and it is still nowhere near being mature enough to be usable.
Don't get me wrong, it's better than it was a few months ago. It will allow Evolution to make a connection and even download most of the folder information. For us, it has trouble deciphering email addresses in the headers, doesn't display some messages at all and, most annoyingly, continues to consume all available memory until it crashes.
Of course giving something away for free destroys the market for commercial software, isn't that obvious? In my experience, though, free is not necessarily better. People and businesses select their products based on total cost of ownership and support availability and costs play a large factor in that. As a colleague of mine pointed out, your software is only as good as the support you get with it. If your software doesn't work, it doesn't matter what the off-the-shelf cost is. However, if you have good support that can get something working for you in a short amount of time, that's where the real value is.
Yes I use Linux and yes I love it, because it gives me personal freedom and it gives my company freedom. We pay for support of course. Same freedoms with Apache, MySQL, BIND, Firefox, etc etc etc.
Open standards, interoperability, TCO: these are things that benefit the consumer and ultimately the market benefits.
As I'm sure many many others will be lining up to respond: Linux is just the kernel. GNU/Linux is the operating system, consisting of the Unix-like commands provided by the GNU Project.
This may have been already covered, but can anyone explain to me why it's called "Power over Ethernet" when - to me at least - it should be called "Power over Cat-5"? The power delivery has nothing what-so-ever to do with Ethernet, has it?
Can you run token-ring over Cat-5? If so, in that case could you have "Power over token-ring" or PoTR??:)
These drives are shipped with some Inspiron and Latitude laptops and they are a crock. There have been so many postings on Dell's own forums regarding problems with these drives, myself included.
Whether this has anything to do with Dell giving them away at the moment, I don't know, but caveat emptor.
Probably the same argument for IP telephony vs telephones may be applied. When IP or Internet voice calls become standard and analogue lines become antiquainted we'll see the emergence of some applicance (document scanner with an Ethernet interface).
I guess I'm getting too old! I say, if it works well enough for what you need it for then there's no need for a mad rush to replace something. Bah!
For those interested, I've been using a Pronto editor called Tonto for a little while. It's written in Java and I've been using it successfully under Linux. I actually find it nicer to use than Prontoedit.
Good idea, but what do you do about messages where you've been bcc'd - for example some mailing lists do this ligitmately but spammers often do too. Do you blanket ban these or use further filters in these cases?
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Hypothetical situation, but what happens to the stuff you own when the format becomes obsolete? Although I'm sure it will be quite some time. In *theory* these media are supposed to be copy protected so you can't transfer them from one format to another. One could say you don't really own what you have right now, even though you have it "in hand".
Does anyone else remember them? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com
....because Windows is useless without it. Someone once told me that but I never did try to work out where that came from.
I could only ever manage to get 5 out of the 6 sides :(
I don't get why computation stops at a certain digit? Wouldn't it be possible to keep computing indefinitely and then announce the number of digits at periodic checkpoints? Instead of SETI at Home and Folding at Home what about "PI at home" ??
I can't help but feel that this is ultimately going to be a bad thing for the IT industry, especially with enterprise IT. IMHO there will always be a need for big iron servers: commodity hardware does not necessarily scale well for all applications.
Competition is good for the IT industry. Take away yet another place and your choices are further diminished. Sun have done a lot of good work with SPARC, especially recently. What happens when the only choices in CPU technologies are x86 and PPC?
I've spent considerable time trying to get this work and it is still nowhere near being mature enough to be usable.
Don't get me wrong, it's better than it was a few months ago. It will allow Evolution to make a connection and even download most of the folder information. For us, it has trouble deciphering email addresses in the headers, doesn't display some messages at all and, most annoyingly, continues to consume all available memory until it crashes.
Of course giving something away for free destroys the market for commercial software, isn't that obvious? In my experience, though, free is not necessarily better. People and businesses select their products based on total cost of ownership and support availability and costs play a large factor in that. As a colleague of mine pointed out, your software is only as good as the support you get with it. If your software doesn't work, it doesn't matter what the off-the-shelf cost is. However, if you have good support that can get something working for you in a short amount of time, that's where the real value is. Yes I use Linux and yes I love it, because it gives me personal freedom and it gives my company freedom. We pay for support of course. Same freedoms with Apache, MySQL, BIND, Firefox, etc etc etc. Open standards, interoperability, TCO: these are things that benefit the consumer and ultimately the market benefits.
Worth noting that said "google employee" is Jeremy Allison, a Yorkshire lad!
As I'm sure many many others will be lining up to respond: Linux is just the kernel. GNU/Linux is the operating system, consisting of the Unix-like commands provided by the GNU Project.
Take a good look at www.gnu.org
This may have been already covered, but can anyone explain to me why it's called "Power over Ethernet" when - to me at least - it should be called "Power over Cat-5"? The power delivery has nothing what-so-ever to do with Ethernet, has it? Can you run token-ring over Cat-5? If so, in that case could you have "Power over token-ring" or PoTR?? :)
Whether this has anything to do with Dell giving them away at the moment, I don't know, but caveat emptor.
I guess I'm getting too old! I say, if it works well enough for what you need it for then there's no need for a mad rush to replace something. Bah!
You can get it here.
Great! Does that mean whitespace code commenting as well? Programs in other languages have that already!
Note.. this is very Windows biased though.
Anyhoo... here it is. Enjoy.
Even down to the spinning globe that Mosaic had, plus the very useful "clone window" button.
I think the innovations have happened at the back-end: the move away from static content to dynamically generated on-the-fly content.