" They didn't have toilets in Star Trek. Think I'm wrong? Cite one episode where you saw one. Obviously by that time, humanity has progressed beyond the need to take a dump."
Not so; they had nanotransporters positioned in their arseholes.
A list of the Fortune 1000 can be found here, but I don't know if it's up to date. Fortune Magazine publishes the list in the spring of each year. If you're a subscriber, you can look at it here.
"Now, type in my web server - http://www.isthatdamngood.com - its a nice Linux/Apache server. My server will CRASH thier app! Actually, a lot of linux servers will crash it...
Kinda hard to claim your results are more indicitative of the market when your scanning technology is flat out broken."
Well, all one need do is count the crashes:^)
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Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice. -- ChristopherAlexander
According to this ZDNet article (also posted yesterday), this "security initiative" is intended for mobile devices on corporate networks:
Cisco Systems has teamed up with three top antivirus companies in a security initiative intended to ban insecure mobile devices from corporate networks.
The initiative, dubbed the Network Admission Control program, would allow companies to set their network devices to refuse connections from any mobile PCs or devices that fail to meet corporate security policies, such as not having the latest software patches and antivirus updates. Antivirus companies Network Associates, Symantec and Trend Micro joined Cisco in making the announcement Tuesday.
If this is so, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth may be premature, although, should ISPs adopt it, it would probably not be good.
As far as DEC is concerned, it's even older: file versioning was found on RSX-11 (at least) running on the PDP-11. The versioning numbers were in octal, though (history: think 6 bit bytes and 36 bit words). I don't remember if TOPS-10 had this feature (I didn't use it much).
'... (with the electric motors in the wheels, you would get rid of the chain, and could have practical two-wheel drive).' There already is a practical two-wheel drive bike (with a Cycle World review).
Quite a few years ago I worked (as a subsystem owner/guru) for a company which provided its product's source code to the clients. Thus it was limited open source and not free as in speech or beer. The client base was technically literate (semiconductor manufacturers) and there was only one other competitor worldwide. The code base was more than 12 years old (at the time) and had undergone much enhancement and change, so it was getting pretty crufty. It took ~24 hours to compile and link from scratch.
Generally, the experience was positive. The clients liked the fact that they could, to a degree, fix their own bugs (which fixes we would propogate to everyone else after appropriate review). It was easy for us to log into their system to perform JIT repairs. They could compile with optional modules to produce a test system to see if they liked the addition before paying for it. And we occasionally got enhancements that we could incorporate for everyone.
The downsides were quite minimal. There was little that the competitor could take directly as the software architectures and structure were too different. Also, one was in FORTRAN, the other in COBOL. As far as copying features; they can do that by reading your product brochure! A couple of companies enabled optional modules in production systems without paying (they got caught when we revamped the DB structure and the automated conversion tools found them out). When the iron curtain came down, we found there were four or so unpurchased systems in eastern Europe.
'he new machines, meant to simplify voting, made the tallying of the votes more problematic. More than half of precinct officials resorted to the old-fashioned telephone to call in their numbers....'
Do you think that they mean the kind that you lift the earpiece and say into the mouthpiece, 'Hello, Mabel?, get me election headquarters, please.'
Mabel: 'Right away Mr. Johnson. Oh, by the way, did you hear that Winifred just gave birth to an 8 lb. 4 oz. boy?'
Election Official: 'Really; that should make George happy. He wanted a son after seven girls!' ...
... they did all this in Pascal (with some assembly in the kernel, of course). I'm not sure, but I think it [Domain/OS] was the only commercial OS written in Pascal,...
The original Mac OS was written in pascal.
The firmware (ROM) was optimised assembly generated from parts of the Lisa OS which was written in pascal (later updates were, I believe, done directly in assembly). The Finder, etc., were always in pascal (I think) until the advent of the PPC.
Considering that "phone home" has been annoying people for several years now; I must agree with most posters that the PTO really are ignorant arseholes.
"Their current procurement procedures require that, in order for a product to be considered, SOMEONE must submit a bid.... If we are talking about buying 300 copies of MS Office for the helpdesk guys to install, who's going to submit a bid proposing to supply Openoffice free, instead? ...
Finally, we have the fact that for many RFP's, the primary objective is to SPEND THE MONEY!"
Download OO (with source);
copy to 300 CDs;
look up (discounted) price of M$Office;
submit proposal (tender) for x% less;
supply discs if you win!
(1. and 2. are the value added part:^)
And most importantly: don't forget to reward the hard working developers, the FSF, etc. with (tax deductable?) donations.
is actually, IMHO, the first personal computer and was introduced in March of 1965, predating the MCM by about 8 years.Here is one on a desktop (with dual floppies! woohoo!).
This was the first computer I got to use hands on (the language being FOCAL and one had to toggle in the bootstrapping code). It sure beat handing in cards for the 360!
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'Do a search for 'government' on SourceForge and you get back less than four active projects, mostly unsuitable for Europe. I know, I've looked. Authorities need systems that can do things like council tax, sundry debtor tracking, payroll, personnel, time recording, electoral registration, development control, building control, licensing, contract administration, GIS, records management, benefits claims, cost of works, invoicing, BACS, asset management, inventory management,....'
I agree that there is a definite lack of business orientation in (most of) the open source community. Most of these applications, however, are not available as shrinkwrapware from the proprietory software sector either. They are almost always constructed from the ground up by a service house to meet a specific set of requirements. After all, only the German government needs a tax tracking system that incorporates their rules and laws. Even something that appears as straightforward as an invoicing system usually has enough backend interconnections so as to make most of it special case.
' It will nullifying Minnesota's law, plain and simple.'
I should like to think so, but, playing devil's advocate for a moment: VoIP is really just voice communication over a wire (or wireless). How is this significantly different from POTS? There are certainly arguments being made that ISPs should be treated like phone companies w.r.t. responsibility (viz.: none) for content transmitted over the network.
(Rather than rehash it all over again here, it's probably better to at least review the commentary in the original slashdot article
'Yes, even if you copied that windows CD and Gate$ gets no money from your HL2 experience. What you're doing is sending a message to game authors that it's OK to ignore Linux forever.'
Since you've already copied Windows, there is nothing obviously different in copying HL2 and ensuring that Valve gets gets no money.:)
'Tis probably better to send them a complaint, however.
CBC Radio 1 had an interview with a security representative from the bank last night on As It Happens. An audio recording of the program is available here. (It's the ninth item of the programme.)
Almost back to where we were?
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'Unlike conventional high-speed memory devices, MRAM uses magnetism instead of electrical charges to store data -- making it, in a sense, a back-to-the-future technology based on the same laws of physics that enabled the creation of audio and videotape recorders as well as hard drives.''
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Not so; they had nanotransporters positioned in their arseholes.
A list of the Fortune 1000 can be found here, but I don't know if it's up to date. Fortune Magazine publishes the list in the spring of each year. If you're a subscriber, you can look at it here.
Kinda hard to claim your results are more indicitative of the market when your scanning technology is flat out broken."
Well, all one need do is count the crashes :^)
If this is so, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth may be premature, although, should ISPs adopt it, it would probably not be good.
As far as DEC is concerned, it's even older: file versioning was found on RSX-11 (at least) running on the PDP-11. The versioning numbers were in octal, though (history: think 6 bit bytes and 36 bit words). I don't remember if TOPS-10 had this feature (I didn't use it much).
'... (with the electric motors in the wheels, you would get rid of the chain, and could have practical two-wheel drive).'
There already is a practical two-wheel drive bike (with a Cycle World review).
Quite a few years ago I worked (as a subsystem owner/guru) for a company which provided its product's source code to the clients. Thus it was limited open source and not free as in speech or beer.
The client base was technically literate (semiconductor manufacturers) and there was only one other competitor worldwide.
The code base was more than 12 years old (at the time) and had undergone much enhancement and change, so it was getting pretty crufty. It took ~24 hours to compile and link from scratch.
Generally, the experience was positive. The clients liked the fact that they could, to a degree, fix their own bugs (which fixes we would propogate to everyone else after appropriate review). It was easy for us to log into their system to perform JIT repairs. They could compile with optional modules to produce a test system to see if they liked the addition before paying for it. And we occasionally got enhancements that we could incorporate for everyone.
The downsides were quite minimal. There was little that the competitor could take directly as the software architectures and structure were too different. Also, one was in FORTRAN, the other in COBOL. As far as copying features; they can do that by reading your product brochure! A couple of companies enabled optional modules in production systems without paying (they got caught when we revamped the DB structure and the automated conversion tools found them out). When the iron curtain came down, we found there were four or so unpurchased systems in eastern Europe.
Do you think that they mean the kind that you lift the earpiece and say into the mouthpiece, 'Hello, Mabel?, get me election headquarters, please.'
Mabel: 'Right away Mr. Johnson. Oh, by the way, did you hear that Winifred just gave birth to an 8 lb. 4 oz. boy?'
Election Official: 'Really; that should make George happy. He wanted a son after seven girls!'
Try this page as a starting point to identify who makes what for whom.
We also need: alt.gator.fuckers.spyware.spyware.spyware
(OT but we could also have: alt.sco.slime.crapware.crapware.crapware
The sky's the limit!)
The original Mac OS was written in pascal.
The firmware (ROM) was optimised assembly generated from parts of the Lisa OS which was written in pascal (later updates were, I believe, done directly in assembly). The Finder, etc., were always in pascal (I think) until the advent of the PPC.
Well, someone succeeded: Apple Releases iTunes for Windows
Sorry, forgot the link. (So sue me!)
Considering that "phone home" has been annoying people for several years now; I must agree with most posters that the PTO really are ignorant arseholes.
Finally, we have the fact that for many RFP's, the primary objective is to SPEND THE MONEY!"
(1. and 2. are the value added part
And most importantly: don't forget to reward the hard working developers, the FSF, etc. with (tax deductable?) donations.
Then it's Guinness time! (WATMHL)
I had one at one time; they were great!
This was the first computer I got to use hands on (the language being FOCAL and one had to toggle in the bootstrapping code). It sure beat handing in cards for the 360!
A good starting point to read more is here
Reviews are here and here, e.g.
And here is a google search on here and the book.
I agree that there is a definite lack of business orientation in (most of) the open source community. Most of these applications, however, are not available as shrinkwrapware from the proprietory software sector either. They are almost always constructed from the ground up by a service house to meet a specific set of requirements. After all, only the German government needs a tax tracking system that incorporates their rules and laws. Even something that appears as straightforward as an invoicing system usually has enough backend interconnections so as to make most of it special case.
I should like to think so, but, playing devil's advocate for a moment: VoIP is really just voice communication over a wire (or wireless). How is this significantly different from POTS? There are certainly arguments being made that ISPs should be treated like phone companies w.r.t. responsibility (viz.: none) for content transmitted over the network.
(Rather than rehash it all over again here, it's probably better to at least review the commentary in the original slashdot article
Since you've already copied Windows, there is nothing obviously different in copying HL2 and ensuring that Valve gets gets no money. :)
'Tis probably better to send them a complaint, however.
I wonder how this will affect Vonage 's fight with Minnesota over the proposal to tax VoIP?
CBC Radio 1 had an interview with a security representative from the bank last night on As It Happens. An audio recording of the program is available here. (It's the ninth item of the programme.)
'Unlike conventional high-speed memory devices, MRAM uses magnetism instead of electrical charges to store data -- making it, in a sense, a back-to-the-future technology based on the same laws of physics that enabled the creation of audio and videotape recorders as well as hard drives.''
To say nothing of drums and original core memory!