the Ukraine never was a nation, and it isn't now. George Soros owns the government, but the people are so anti-semitic (as is he) and maliciously ignorant, that there will soon be pogroms against all kinds there. Jews, Russians, Poles, Rumanians, capitalists, former Communists. The Ukraine is a very scary place right now, and it's joining the EU.
abject nuclear annihilation?
Yes, that's what China fears. They would prefer a mutually assured destruction balance of power, and so to would have certain elements of the US population. (The US, by the way, you can see has clearly not militarized space, even given over 20 years free reign to do so. That's twice as long as it took from seeing Sputnik fly overhead to landing on the moon.)
Do you ever wonder how China made this great leap forward in space exploration? Their astronauts are flying on US designed rockets, which were originally designed to carry nuclear warheads across the globe. And do you doubt that the impetus for China's manned orbits are done primarily to learn how to point our own missiles back at us?
IBM's Linux related code has already been released to SCO, and anyone else that wants to look at it. It's beholden on SCO to show that code which they purchased the copyright to had that code copyrighted (and that they own the copyright) before it was released as part of Linux.
The old mozilla suite is thousands of times better than firefox, when it comes to the UI. There are all sorts of little things. A friend who uses firefox was just ranting the other day about the new build having a keyboard shortcut to bring up search. Firefox has, for the last year, done nothing but implement the obvious features from mozilla that it was missing, but overall usability design (as well as the stability and security) as still missing.
Google is going down the wrong route. This is like fixing a remote exploit by filtering traffic for the IP of the guy that rooted you. If your program is insecure, fix it, don't firewall suspicious messages. It's only a matter of time before a similar exploit is written unless gmail is engineered so that malformed messages don't get cached data.
10,000 records of name, address, phone number, ssn, email, and foo come to about 1MB. It can be downloaded in about 1 second over a browser and searched in javascript in about 10 seconds. With 100 operators working simultaneously you'll get about 1 dirty read out of 10. Big whoop, a 10 second wait and re-entry for ERP. Sounds like heaven.
While true, that doesn't explain why after a couple years, the ERP "solution" still doesn't work as good as their cobbled together business processing that involves web forms, faxes, COBOL batch jobs, spreadsheets, email, dumb terminals, and filing cabinets.
Nope, I sold no-OS and Linux systems in the bad old days of 1998. I still got an OEM discount for my Windows software. Granted, it wasn't anything like Dell or Compaq's discount.
PeopleSoft ERP is an exceedingly complicated application because it is poorly designed and cobbled together from thousands of different custom installs. But ERP is not a really complex task. Business practices are varied. Trying to fit them all into one package with years of cruft is what's complex.
CRM and ERP is a very weak field, populated by incompetent companies with long track records. Basically, they rewrite it from scratch through consulting for every company. SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, etc., are made for the consultants, not the clients. And if Microsoft could get the clients, they could get the consulting. And I'd find it hard to believe that Microsoft would do a worse job than, say, Peoplesoft at developing custom apps for businesses.
Only the Hitchhikers Guide is still top-down edited by a controlling organization. It is held in contrast to the Encyclopedia Galactica in that the primary motive for it's existence is Profit, not Academia, thus reflecting Adams's (ironic?) view that capitalism is a better system than Platonic Statism (i.e., the Republic, or CPUSA/BBC.) But he shows that corporatism is still not the ideal, reflected in the phrase "Mostly Harmless," with all it's social implications.
Encyclopedia Brittanica has no such disclaimer. That makes it even less reliable as a source of information, but for those looking for a supreme leader they can trust for all knowledge, it may be comforting.
I was going to give some links, but then I saw that both m-w.com and dictionary.com have conflicting and wrong etymologies.
Enkyklos means all-encompassing, not periodic or ordinary(?), and paedia means learning, not children. It shares a root with pedant, not paedophile.
I wonder, is, the study of ancient languages (including our own) devolved to random guessing from similar sounding words in modern usage.
The word "encyclopedia" has nothing to do with World Book subscriptions, travelling salesman, elementary school, or the former British Empire, despite typical associations.
Grad Students don't do reports by summaries articles in Encyclopedias, that's junior high school students your thinking of. And guess what, your math/science/PE teacher will probably be looking in wikipedia to check your facts (or at least make sure you didn't cut and paste) anyway. Since string theory is bogus and all your teacher is concerned with is that you know how to use the dewey decimal system (er... a search engine) I don't think it matters if you cite rope theory as well.
The theory is that if you let people read it, they might be able to see what's wrong and correct it. If you don't let them read it, they won't know if the contect is correct or not, and wouldn't be in a position to change it, even if they found something wrong.
Brittanica has been a political organization with a specific agenda and a terrible record on accuracy for at least 50 years. It's just a few stuffy goons and a throng of postgraduate students (of nothing) working for minimum wave doing proofreading and typesetting.
What if I don't use iTunes. What if I don't want to wait for content to be written to a disk (that might be full) before playing it. What if I don't have an internet connection and don't want my computer to bark about it when it tries to look up the playlist -- or what if I want to use another playlist besides CDDB because they are collecting spyware info from me.
Apples "integration" is poorly considered and not necessarily a good thing.
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the Ukraine never was a nation, and it isn't now. George Soros owns the government, but the people are so anti-semitic (as is he) and maliciously ignorant, that there will soon be pogroms against all kinds there. Jews, Russians, Poles, Rumanians, capitalists, former Communists. The Ukraine is a very scary place right now, and it's joining the EU.
abject nuclear annihilation? Yes, that's what China fears. They would prefer a mutually assured destruction balance of power, and so to would have certain elements of the US population. (The US, by the way, you can see has clearly not militarized space, even given over 20 years free reign to do so. That's twice as long as it took from seeing Sputnik fly overhead to landing on the moon.) Do you ever wonder how China made this great leap forward in space exploration? Their astronauts are flying on US designed rockets, which were originally designed to carry nuclear warheads across the globe. And do you doubt that the impetus for China's manned orbits are done primarily to learn how to point our own missiles back at us?
It would be a better move than partnering with the EU.
It's Verisign.
because it does something completely different?
IBM's Linux related code has already been released to SCO, and anyone else that wants to look at it. It's beholden on SCO to show that code which they purchased the copyright to had that code copyrighted (and that they own the copyright) before it was released as part of Linux.
Switch to Mozilla. It's better and better. And it has a future unless every abandons it for Firefox, which is looking pretty likely.
The old mozilla suite is thousands of times better than firefox, when it comes to the UI. There are all sorts of little things. A friend who uses firefox was just ranting the other day about the new build having a keyboard shortcut to bring up search. Firefox has, for the last year, done nothing but implement the obvious features from mozilla that it was missing, but overall usability design (as well as the stability and security) as still missing.
Google is going down the wrong route. This is like fixing a remote exploit by filtering traffic for the IP of the guy that rooted you. If your program is insecure, fix it, don't firewall suspicious messages. It's only a matter of time before a similar exploit is written unless gmail is engineered so that malformed messages don't get cached data.
10,000 records of name, address, phone number, ssn, email, and foo come to about 1MB. It can be downloaded in about 1 second over a browser and searched in javascript in about 10 seconds. With 100 operators working simultaneously you'll get about 1 dirty read out of 10. Big whoop, a 10 second wait and re-entry for ERP. Sounds like heaven.
He wasn't describing the school, he was describing PeopleSoft. And Works isn't that bad. Until Office 97 it was better than excel.
While true, that doesn't explain why after a couple years, the ERP "solution" still doesn't work as good as their cobbled together business processing that involves web forms, faxes, COBOL batch jobs, spreadsheets, email, dumb terminals, and filing cabinets.
Nope, I sold no-OS and Linux systems in the bad old days of 1998. I still got an OEM discount for my Windows software. Granted, it wasn't anything like Dell or Compaq's discount.
PeopleSoft ERP is an exceedingly complicated application because it is poorly designed and cobbled together from thousands of different custom installs. But ERP is not a really complex task. Business practices are varied. Trying to fit them all into one package with years of cruft is what's complex.
CRM and ERP is a very weak field, populated by incompetent companies with long track records. Basically, they rewrite it from scratch through consulting for every company. SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, etc., are made for the consultants, not the clients. And if Microsoft could get the clients, they could get the consulting. And I'd find it hard to believe that Microsoft would do a worse job than, say, Peoplesoft at developing custom apps for businesses.
smarter people cost more. Why would someone pay for software that makes them have to pay more for employees.
You used Dreamweaver to "design" a B2B configuration app for database servers?
Only the Hitchhikers Guide is still top-down edited by a controlling organization. It is held in contrast to the Encyclopedia Galactica in that the primary motive for it's existence is Profit, not Academia, thus reflecting Adams's (ironic?) view that capitalism is a better system than Platonic Statism (i.e., the Republic, or CPUSA/BBC.) But he shows that corporatism is still not the ideal, reflected in the phrase "Mostly Harmless," with all it's social implications.
Encyclopedia Brittanica has no such disclaimer. That makes it even less reliable as a source of information, but for those looking for a supreme leader they can trust for all knowledge, it may be comforting.
Maybe what you need is a dictionary.
I was going to give some links, but then I saw that both m-w.com and dictionary.com have conflicting and wrong etymologies.
Enkyklos means all-encompassing, not periodic or ordinary(?), and paedia means learning, not children. It shares a root with pedant, not paedophile.
I wonder, is, the study of ancient languages (including our own) devolved to random guessing from similar sounding words in modern usage.
The word "encyclopedia" has nothing to do with World Book subscriptions, travelling salesman, elementary school, or the former British Empire, despite typical associations.
Grad Students don't do reports by summaries articles in Encyclopedias, that's junior high school students your thinking of. And guess what, your math/science/PE teacher will probably be looking in wikipedia to check your facts (or at least make sure you didn't cut and paste) anyway. Since string theory is bogus and all your teacher is concerned with is that you know how to use the dewey decimal system (er... a search engine) I don't think it matters if you cite rope theory as well.
The theory is that if you let people read it, they might be able to see what's wrong and correct it. If you don't let them read it, they won't know if the contect is correct or not, and wouldn't be in a position to change it, even if they found something wrong.
Brittanica has been a political organization with a specific agenda and a terrible record on accuracy for at least 50 years. It's just a few stuffy goons and a throng of postgraduate students (of nothing) working for minimum wave doing proofreading and typesetting.
Thats rediculous. PHP has both an eval() function and "variable variables" $$foo
What if I don't use iTunes. What if I don't want to wait for content to be written to a disk (that might be full) before playing it. What if I don't have an internet connection and don't want my computer to bark about it when it tries to look up the playlist -- or what if I want to use another playlist besides CDDB because they are collecting spyware info from me. Apples "integration" is poorly considered and not necessarily a good thing.