I guess there is a reason why my company destroys every computer - Cheaper than deleting the hard disk. They send it thru a smashing machine that produces bits and pieces of the machine on the other end.
Exactly my thoughts when I read this during my morning commute. And the remarks by the Mayor Street's advisor that he went and asked for this from Microsoft !! What a deal maker.
7. note on java support. the software product may contain support for programs written in java. java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons systems, in which the failure of java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.
But everything that M$ does can be done by command line. Open up the Resource toolkit for any OS by M$ and you will find a good collection of documented(!) utilities. If the sysadmins are idiots and dont know how to use or script around them !!
Everything related to Administration of NT or 2000 can be done using command line. If you have any questions - read the resource toolkit. It is full of useful cli tools with minimal but decent documentation. To augment it user Winternals. Anyway groups.google.com is the best source for M$ documentation.
If I can't find it on the web, I check the groups. IMHO groups are the best source for info on anything. Teoma lacks that and it will not be my first choice.
It is sad that none of the comparisons and this discussion does not take into account Sybase. Sybase is the widely used db in Wall Street. It is a lot dearer than a comparable oracle or db2. It is quite comparable in terms of performance. Hell they even give you a free version to run on Linux. And . . (rant deleted)
Check out MS Research or MS Speech site. Microsoft pioneered sapi with a plugable speeck api from any provider much like odbc. Ever heard SAPI. It is a COM based framework for speech applications. Microsoft has a simple implementation of the same. All this is available for download - free from microsoft's sites - (if you dint take their routers down). MS has been doing extensive research in the area of speech recognition. The next version of MS products will all be speech enabled.
Glad that the Linux world is catching on - May not be opensourced but still the alternatives sound interesting.
I commute to 69th streen on an Electric trolley every day. I catch the El to Center City and back on the same route. The trolley stops at all traffic lights for right of way. It is very convenient and such an ideal mode of transportation. It is extensively used by SEPTA in addition to the Buses for Suburban traffic.
I guess all this is fine from the american point of view. Stainless Steel is so extensively used in Asian Countries. Coffee is served in Stainless Steel tumblers. Food in Stainless steel plate. Longevity is the main consideration.
All the solutions here are analysis of the problem and unwanted suggestions with karma points greed. Here is your simple straight answer.
There is no alternative to work. H1B visa is a work permit Visa. So unless the guy lands in the corporate space with a job, he/she is better of continuing the education path. All versed foreign students buffer their transition path where they work on F1 for a brief while before moving to an H1B. Similarly the Green card is given only if INS deems you worthy enough - i.e. you company feels you need one.
So like everything else in this great country, this is also based on corporate policies and capitalist requirements.
How to do this - assuming that the req. are specifically for the I.T. sector, ask you students to find consulting companies or even one man body shops (lot in NJ/NY/MA/CA) that can sponsor for a visa and find a position for them in the meanwhile. Some better ones would give you a job, provided you take care of the paper work and the attorney fees etc. They would be happy to sign anything. For the first year, ask you students to get exploited. The next year or so, they would have enough experience to move on to greener pastures. By then they would have learnt enough about the H1B/GC situation (stupid if they dint learn at school) that they can decide on career/residence strategies
When you buy a product you dont try to understand the ins and outs of it assuming that it will fail. When a car breaks you take it to a service station and pay for it. Same goes for a software/PC. Irrespective of the OS/GUI/Tools something might fail. Get to know a good system service center or you next door geek. Wouldnt you do that for your car ? try not to figure out the basics of winnt/system32/etc/drivers/. . . you dont get under your car and start pulling out the parts for every minor sound that you hear.
1. open connection with multiple servers
2. select the same file on all the servers. some may be on a different path
3. client program verifies that the size and version of all the files are the same
4. client initiates transfer
5. the transfer algorithm would disect the file across the network much like what gozilla does
6. every server gets to transfer only a portion of the file thereby reducing its bandwidth req.
7. the client is responsible for re-assembly.
8. once the server has completed its portion of the file transfer, it could continue with another chunk
9. this could also be accomplished using a napster kind of approach to file transfer
10. the server would do the source selection and advises the client.
11. At the end of a transfer the anealing process would pick up pieces dropped by various servers
and tie the missing links.
Biggest advantage - no need for new infrastructure - serverside.
Fine we all know that there is a problem. But we need an Statement Of Work for activity. The options are all discussed here without even a clear definition of the problem. The obvious response to this is going to be wake up and stop smoking pot but there is more passion here than a will for action. You know how lawyers win. They write mountains of documents in a terse language we have no clue about. And we have a tough time writing 5 pages of documentation for an application that we spend nights coding.
Let us clearly define our problem here.
1. Excess and unwarrented Patenting (Dont denigrate statements with emotions) of *Ideas*.
2. Definition of what can be sued.
- DeCSS (Source code reverse engineered)
- Mp3.com (Post songs on the web)
- Napster (Peer2Peer computing with file sharing)
3....
Can we come up with a list and a set of possible action items for each of them. Can/. instead of just archiving this action items start a section for monitoring the status of the action items. And please stop critisizing your senators. They are angels compared to any other nations politicians and if you care so much become one. You will know why they are so.
Isnt that how windows 2.0 was and windows 3.0 came with a unified print architecture. or was it 3.1. Anway the point is - this is the right opportunity to create such and API and in the absence of a player HP can step up to the plate.
Quite correct. But the AE comes bundled with DB2 for serialization and the EE comes bundled with CICS/Tuxedo, MQ, Components, IMS connector etc. The Standard edition is Apache+Xylan+Xerces+..+..+ - your apache website with all its tools (one year old) nicely bundled in a neat front end. But they did commit a lot of development resources to this. But AE & EE are absolutely robust in nature. They are scalable and tie into any old system that cuts your paycheck to supplies electricity to your home (i.e. all ibm technologies since 1965). So as much as they need to indulge the developer community, they have other needs in mind too
Hmm,
with the advancement of CORBA 3.0 there is already support for the component objects in the OSS environment. Maturity ? That is an issue that would be addressed by the community! If it is already mature what would you do for a kick!
Have you ever tried a product called CPEN. It is a different kind of solution. You can get the text extracted if that is all you are looking for, and store it in any format that you need to, Of course you would miss images but I guess you were looking at pure text extraction solution. And since this device works at your pace, you can make modifications as you scan. - Pretty nifty.
For a change I would like to make my business partner's life happy by implementing a solution that would make his life easier, or save a buck or two or maybe earn a dollar or more. Programming is a means to an end for me. The end is customer satisfaction. I am satisfied by the means. I help the means with better modelling, scenarios, diagramming and documentation. Helps the guy who picks up my pieces to understand it better instead of figuring out million lines of code.
With windows being the most predominant OS and the virus specifically targetting that base, why should other computers get pulled into this messy game. Every computer illiterate (ok not savvy) person who listens to this "Computer bug (or whatever)" they think it is universal and applicable to everything because it happened to more than one person. What they dont understand is it did not happen on all the million mainframes, HPs, Sun, VAXs, Alphas and Linux machines. It happens only on Windows machine - So let us start terming the bug as a Windows bug or Windows virus instead of a generic computer bug. This goes a long way in getting the mindset of people that if you want to be on the Internet use a secure OS - Mac, Beos or Linux pick your choice.
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Mod this up please. A very insightful comment.
I guess there is a reason why my company destroys every computer - Cheaper than deleting the hard disk. They send it thru a smashing machine that produces bits and pieces of the machine on the other end.
Exactly my thoughts when I read this during my morning commute. And the remarks by the Mayor Street's advisor that he went and asked for this from Microsoft !! What a deal maker.
Here is a section of the Microsoft Java EULA
7. note on java support. the software product may contain support for programs written in java. java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons systems, in which the failure of java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.
Maybe they should replace Java with Windows !!
But everything that M$ does can be done by command line. Open up the Resource toolkit for any OS by M$ and you will find a good collection of documented(!) utilities. If the sysadmins are idiots and dont know how to use or script around them !!
Everything related to Administration of NT or 2000 can be done using command line. If you have any questions - read the resource toolkit. It is full of useful cli tools with minimal but decent documentation. To augment it user Winternals. Anyway groups.google.com is the best source for M$ documentation.
If I can't find it on the web, I check the groups. IMHO groups are the best source for info on anything. Teoma lacks that and it will not be my first choice.
that was good. mod this one up please.
It is sad that none of the comparisons and this discussion does not take into account Sybase. Sybase is the widely used db in Wall Street. It is a lot dearer than a comparable oracle or db2. It is quite comparable in terms of performance. Hell they even give you a free version to run on Linux. And . . (rant deleted)
Check out MS Research or MS Speech site. Microsoft pioneered sapi with a plugable speeck api from any provider much like odbc. Ever heard SAPI. It is a COM based framework for speech applications. Microsoft has a simple implementation of the same. All this is available for download - free from microsoft's sites - (if you dint take their routers down). MS has been doing extensive research in the area of speech recognition. The next version of MS products will all be speech enabled.
Glad that the Linux world is catching on - May not be opensourced but still the alternatives sound interesting.
I commute to 69th streen on an Electric trolley every day. I catch the El to Center City and back on the same route. The trolley stops at all traffic lights for right of way. It is very convenient and such an ideal mode of transportation. It is extensively used by SEPTA in addition to the Buses for Suburban traffic.
I guess all this is fine from the american point of view. Stainless Steel is so extensively used in Asian Countries. Coffee is served in Stainless Steel tumblers. Food in Stainless steel plate. Longevity is the main consideration.
All the solutions here are analysis of the problem and unwanted suggestions with karma points greed. Here is your simple straight answer.
There is no alternative to work. H1B visa is a work permit Visa. So unless the guy lands in the corporate space with a job, he/she is better of continuing the education path. All versed foreign students buffer their transition path where they work on F1 for a brief while before moving to an H1B. Similarly the Green card is given only if INS deems you worthy enough - i.e. you company feels you need one.
So like everything else in this great country, this is also based on corporate policies and capitalist requirements.
How to do this - assuming that the req. are specifically for the I.T. sector, ask you students to find consulting companies or even one man body shops (lot in NJ/NY/MA/CA) that can sponsor for a visa and find a position for them in the meanwhile. Some better ones would give you a job, provided you take care of the paper work and the attorney fees etc. They would be happy to sign anything. For the first year, ask you students to get exploited. The next year or so, they would have enough experience to move on to greener pastures. By then they would have learnt enough about the H1B/GC situation (stupid if they dint learn at school) that they can decide on career/residence strategies
When you buy a product you dont try to understand the ins and outs of it assuming that it will fail. When a car breaks you take it to a service station and pay for it. Same goes for a software/PC. Irrespective of the OS/GUI/Tools something might fail. Get to know a good system service center or you next door geek. Wouldnt you do that for your car ? try not to figure out the basics of winnt/system32/etc/drivers/. . . you dont get under your car and start pulling out the parts for every minor sound that you hear.
Analogy beaten to death.
1. open connection with multiple servers
2. select the same file on all the servers. some may be on a different path
3. client program verifies that the size and version of all the files are the same
4. client initiates transfer
5. the transfer algorithm would disect the file across the network much like what gozilla does
6. every server gets to transfer only a portion of the file thereby reducing its bandwidth req.
7. the client is responsible for re-assembly.
8. once the server has completed its portion of the file transfer, it could continue with another chunk
9. this could also be accomplished using a napster kind of approach to file transfer
10. the server would do the source selection and advises the client.
11. At the end of a transfer the anealing process would pick up pieces dropped by various servers
and tie the missing links.
Biggest advantage - no need for new infrastructure - serverside.
Check again. I ahve set it to about:blank. The browser goes to microsoft's web site and then to my blank page.
Fine we all know that there is a problem. But we need an Statement Of Work for activity. The options are all discussed here without even a clear definition of the problem. The obvious response to this is going to be wake up and stop smoking pot but there is more passion here than a will for action. You know how lawyers win. They write mountains of documents in a terse language we have no clue about. And we have a tough time writing 5 pages of documentation for an application that we spend nights coding.
...
/. instead of just archiving this action items start a section for monitoring the status of the action items. And please stop critisizing your senators. They are angels compared to any other nations politicians and if you care so much become one. You will know why they are so.
Let us clearly define our problem here.
1. Excess and unwarrented Patenting (Dont denigrate statements with emotions) of *Ideas*.
2. Definition of what can be sued.
- DeCSS (Source code reverse engineered)
- Mp3.com (Post songs on the web)
- Napster (Peer2Peer computing with file sharing)
3.
Can we come up with a list and a set of possible action items for each of them. Can
Isnt that how windows 2.0 was and windows 3.0 came with a unified print architecture. or was it 3.1. Anway the point is - this is the right opportunity to create such and API and in the absence of a player HP can step up to the plate.
Quite correct. But the AE comes bundled with DB2 for serialization and the EE comes bundled with CICS/Tuxedo, MQ, Components, IMS connector etc. The Standard edition is Apache+Xylan+Xerces+..+..+ - your apache website with all its tools (one year old) nicely bundled in a neat front end. But they did commit a lot of development resources to this. But AE & EE are absolutely robust in nature. They are scalable and tie into any old system that cuts your paycheck to supplies electricity to your home (i.e. all ibm technologies since 1965). So as much as they need to indulge the developer community, they have other needs in mind too
Hmm,
with the advancement of CORBA 3.0 there is already support for the component objects in the OSS environment. Maturity ? That is an issue that would be addressed by the community! If it is already mature what would you do for a kick!
Have you ever tried a product called CPEN. It is a different kind of solution. You can get the text extracted if that is all you are looking for, and store it in any format that you need to, Of course you would miss images but I guess you were looking at pure text extraction solution. And since this device works at your pace, you can make modifications as you scan. - Pretty nifty.
Check out msnbc's article on similar lines.
Acrobat reader which is all need for this purpose is available for - lets see
1. Windows (all)
2. Mac
3. Linux
4. HP
5. AIX
6. Solaris
7. BeOS
8. Java - the list grows
For a change I would like to make my business partner's life happy by implementing a solution that would make his life easier, or save a buck or two or maybe earn a dollar or more. Programming is a means to an end for me. The end is customer satisfaction. I am satisfied by the means. I help the means with better modelling, scenarios, diagramming and documentation. Helps the guy who picks up my pieces to understand it better instead of figuring out million lines of code.
With windows being the most predominant OS and the virus specifically targetting that base, why should other computers get pulled into this messy game. Every computer illiterate (ok not savvy) person who listens to this "Computer bug (or whatever)" they think it is universal and applicable to everything because it happened to more than one person. What they dont understand is it did not happen on all the million mainframes, HPs, Sun, VAXs, Alphas and Linux machines. It happens only on Windows machine - So let us start terming the bug as a Windows bug or Windows virus instead of a generic computer bug. This goes a long way in getting the mindset of people that if you want to be on the Internet use a secure OS - Mac, Beos or Linux pick your choice.