Online services started to go downhill when Delphi closed up shop. I remember seeing the Vaxen in a house-turned-into-company in Cambridge, MA, wondering how all those people I talked to fit inside those boxes.
The next time you want to feel powerful, why don't you take some food down to a local food back and help a family who can't put food on their table for their kids.
That's power.
The reason the problem occurred in the first place is because an elementary rule was broken: Never Assign Intrinsic Meanings To Codes.
Once you start with "this column means this, that column means that", you're bound for trouble. Better just assigning sequential numbers and putting the actual description of the vehicle which was given that number in a database row.
What I don't understand is why SCO is so unwilling to show the code this is all about.
Perhaps they'd rather collect license fees than provide free help to a competitor?
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And the perfect example is regular junk snail mail. It costs them to send it, yet even in the Internet Age(tm), I still get a ton of it. Obviously that's NOT the answer, so "Don't Go There"(tm).:)
It's not quite so obvious that a charge isn't at least in part the answer.
How much junk snail mail trying to selling you penis lengtheners and Viagra do you get? None, I'll bet. I'd lump the marketers of those products into a category I'd call Little Marketers who can only afford spam.
Junk snail mail, on the other hand, is sent by "Big Marketers" who can afford to send it and, are arguably, more legitimate.
My guess is that a small charge would pretty much get rid of the vast majority of the Little Marketers.
>Arguments supported by Hollywood promoting copyright as "property" has a more grevious undertone, in my opinion. It seeks to divide everyone into two categories: The content creators and the content consumers.
I think that distinction is entirely correct. If I write a book, I'm a content creator. If I read a book, I'm a content consumer.
>The word consumer, as a whole, is also a source of aggravation. It implies a notion of being fed, of being given content that you don't necessarily desire.
Perhaps to you it does - not to me. I consume food - there's no implication I don't desire it. I consume movies - there's no implication I was bound and dragged to the theater.
People have responsibility for their actions. I'm not a "forced consumer". I choose what I consume. The question, really, is "what do I see my choices as being?"
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Online services started to go downhill when Delphi closed up shop. I remember seeing the Vaxen in a house-turned-into-company in Cambridge, MA, wondering how all those people I talked to fit inside those boxes.
Check out this book by Mike Murach and Associates called Murach's Mainframe COBOL: http://www.murach.com/books/mcb2/index.htm
Oh ... woops, never mind.
> PL/I, Cobal and Fortran are not hard to pick up.
They're not all that easy to spell, though.
The next time you want to feel powerful, why don't you take some food down to a local food back and help a family who can't put food on their table for their kids. That's power.
FORTRAN doesn't go on screens. FORTRAN goes on tab cards.
This doesn't help solve the problem, but:
The reason the problem occurred in the first place is because an elementary rule was broken: Never Assign Intrinsic Meanings To Codes.
Once you start with "this column means this, that column means that", you're bound for trouble. Better just assigning sequential numbers and putting the actual description of the vehicle which was given that number in a database row.
Perhaps they'd rather collect license fees than provide free help to a competitor?
It's not quite so obvious that a charge isn't at least in part the answer.
How much junk snail mail trying to selling you penis lengtheners and Viagra do you get? None, I'll bet. I'd lump the marketers of those products into a category I'd call Little Marketers who can only afford spam.
Junk snail mail, on the other hand, is sent by "Big Marketers" who can afford to send it and, are arguably, more legitimate.
My guess is that a small charge would pretty much get rid of the vast majority of the Little Marketers.
Good morning, I'm calling on behalf of Howard Dean, who wants to be the Democratic candidate for president.
May I ask if you'd like to subscribe to the Sunday New York Times?
I think that distinction is entirely correct. If I write a book, I'm a content creator. If I read a book, I'm a content consumer.
>The word consumer, as a whole, is also a source of aggravation. It implies a notion of being fed, of being given content that you don't necessarily desire.
Perhaps to you it does - not to me. I consume food - there's no implication I don't desire it. I consume movies - there's no implication I was bound and dragged to the theater.
People have responsibility for their actions. I'm not a "forced consumer". I choose what I consume. The question, really, is "what do I see my choices as being?"
Of course, I don't use Linux.
Wouldn't it be funny if they sued without checking?
If they were going to review Enterprise operating systems, they should have included IBM MVS. Now there's an operating system.
The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.