Have you ever actually read the GPL? It contradicts itself in at least a dozen ways. It is not an ironclad legal document. Just because a company decided not to challenge it in court doesn't mean it's unchallengable, it simply means they decided it's not worth it (most likely they either didn't understand what the GPL was trying to say in the first place, or they decided the bad PR wouldn't be worth it). Last time I noticed, OJ & Microsoft are still walking free. Do you really want to release your code under a license with loopholes, just because it hasn't been taken advantage of yet?
Although I condone and preach the ideals of the GPL, the actual license is extremely poorly written. RMS isn't a lawyer, as as far as I'm' aware, the GPL has never been reviewed by one.
Were the GPL ever to be the subject of a legal battle, it would be ripped to shreds. There are other licenses available (or you can always have a lawyer draft one for you), but sooner or later, I think the GPL's poor wording is going to kick us in the butt.
Lightning will not be popular in corporate environments for several reasons. Some of these have already been mentioned, but some have not.
1. Outlook is "free" when you buy Office. Until OpenOffice is a true competitor to Office and companies stop buying Office, there's no reason to switch to a program with less features when you have one already.
2. Outlook 2003 is awesome. See other posts for details, but its ability to aggregate information, plus security features like remote image blocking, prove it to be an area of Office that Microsoft is actually proving. It'll be hard for Lightning to catch up to a moving target when it's already behind.
3. Never underestimate the power of PDA syncing. One poster claims that the only people who care about this are executives. That alone is enough to warrant a site license of Outlook. What IT staff would commit suicide by not giving the execs PDA syncing? In reality, PDA syncing is used by many more than the execs, unless you count college students, IT professionals, cops, and teachers as executives.
4. MAPI-compliance. You don't have to have an Exchange server (a bad idea in my opinion), but you do have to have a connector if you want Outlook to communicate with your non-Microsoft mail server. This is fine; most vendors provide the connector with the package, which is really just vendor-specific MAPI drivers. This is the only way they can compete with Exchange Server's functionality. Well, if you're creating a new email client that's supposed to be a competitor to Outlook, you'd better make it act just like Outlook, because no vendor is going to create a new Connector for a program with such a small install base.
5. Integration with calendering systems. We decided to go with Oracle Calendar instead of Exchange, since we already run Oracle's mail server (Oracle's solutions are Linux-based and very standards-compliant). So now, in addition to MAPI, you have to have a way for your calender server to interface with Lightning, also. We do, of course, because Oracle's Outlook connector also interfaces with the Calender server. Again, in order for Lightning to succeed, it's going to have to work with the connectors already out there. Nobody wants to use a standalone Calender app anymore, after they see the way they can integrate with Outlook. And this better sync with your PDA as well.
This program has to be the hub of everything you do. Outlook is moving towards becoming the center of organization and time management. That's a lot more than email with a calendar.
This guy is one of my professors. This teleprompter is for a presentation on panoramic photos, of which he is an amazing photographer. He's actually creating a coffee-table book
from these panoramics, and some are for sale through PayPal.
Worth at least a look, especially the ones of the Brooklyn Bridge. He'll also sell you huge prints if you email him.
There are no mirrors. Adding a mirror to the construction would be a lot of physical work, not to mention: where would you put the mirror? InDesign is AppleScriptible (which, when combined with watched folders, allows the process to be completely automated), but in any case checking one box when you're saving the file, which takes all of about half a second, seems like a lot less work than adding mirrors to a wooden frame to me.
Although I work in prepress, I've never heard of an ISO flavor. X-1, X-1a for packaging, and X-3 are the common PDF flavors. Many of these require PDFs higher than 1.3.
Real wage growth is an economic term, but it does not take into account the entire picture (i.e. purchasing power), only inflation. In addition, the original poster's information is innacurate. I apologize for the mistake in my post.
So, America is currently experiencing 50% unemployment? Gee, I thought it was somewhere around 5.5%, but what does the Bureau of Labor Statistics know? "Real wage growth?" That's not an economic term. Obviously Americans have higher salaries/wages now than they did the fifties, but due to inflation, market anomalies/bubbles, and effects from specialization and trade, 'purchasing power' is what economists look at. In case you're confused about purchasing power, have a look at the Economist's famous
'Big Mac Index'. See all those countries that can't afford BMWs? That's America 100 years ago. Our purchasing power has increased. But don't take my word for it. Let's see what The Economist has to say:
Economies can get truly richer only through increased productivity growth, either from technological advances or from more efficient production thanks to international trade. Thus China's integration into the world economy genuinely creates wealth. The same cannot be said of all the "wealth" produced by stockmarket or housing bubbles.
I do not have the figures available, but for your argument to be correct, you must claim that we have had 0% (or.5% or whatever you're trying to say) productivity increase. Everybody knows that we have dramatically increased our productivity over the last fifty years and especially the last fifteen years, which is why America is the richest country (has the highest purchasing power) in the world. Oh and by the way, the price of the average home is about 10% higher than it was last year. But that doesn't take into account inflation or America's increased purchasing power during the last year.
A 100-level college economics class would have saved you the embarrassment of your post, and me the time to correct it.
I lived in Finland for two years, and learned some interesting things.
1) The sauna was invented in Finland. (Not the Turkish steam room, which most people think is a sauna. A sauna must have an extremely hot oven (85+ degrees C) to heat the rocks so that when you throw water on the rocks, it evaporates instantly into steam. This is fundamental because the instant humidity + temperature change causes you to sweat so much, you actually clean out your own pores with sweat. My friends and I had the cleanest pores while living in Finland (we sauna'd every week). Supposedly something about the steam, lots of water, antioxidants, and negatively charged ions helps your body get rid of free radicals, but I don't really understand that. It also helps you get rid of toxins and raise your white blood cell count.
2) Hitting yourself with birch twigs (vihta, vahta, or vitsa - pick your dialect) isn't just weird, it feels good and it's healthy. It stimulates blood flow to the skin and increases circulation.
3) You can cook food (meat, sausage, etc) in the sauna while you are saunaing!!!
4) The best part is jumping out of the sauna into the lake or snow. This is why most saunas are built next to a lake (if possible). Finland has 188,000 lakes, so it's not really an issue. Incredibly, no one in Finland ever worries about blood pressure. I always wondered why Americans make such a huge deal about that kind of thing when entire populations seem to think there's no problem with it. Maybe because they're not all obese.
5) Incredibly, the sauna has no sexual connotations. Saunaing is almost always non-co-ed, and if you go with your girl/boyfriend/spouse, no one would even consider having sex in there.(It's hot and the wood boards are uncomfortable.)
6) Finns always sauna naked. It's just better that way. Trust me.
The average "best" temperature most Finns give is 85C. I personally liked it around 95, but many Finns think that's too hot. Once we got ours all the way up to 128 degrees Celcius. Believe me, we were not in there long. I burned my hand from touching my hair when I finally came running out which had basically boiling water in it. I then proceeded to stand outside on my balcony naked in -30 degree Celcius weather for about ten minutes to cool off.
So, 128C is 262 degrees F, and -30C is -22F, so there's a difference of 284 degrees F. Only 16 off... I think enjoying the Finnish culture sure beats going to Antarctica.
I'm a tech for Cal Poly University, and I'll tell you some of the issues we're facing right now. We support 20,000 users and are currently moving everyone over to the Oracle Collaboration Suite from the now unsupported formerly-HP-but-now-Oracle OpenMail/OpenTime system. Now, what can OCS do with Outlook that nothing else can do? OCS doesn't use MAPI but uses a propietary connector that lets your (collaborative) calendar, email, PDA, and phone--yes, analog phone--be synced to each other always. You can call a number and have your email or calendar read to you, make the changes to your schedule, and your coworkers can see your updated schedule on their Palm. Is this a big deal when you work for the State of California and need accessability (not to mention functionality) for ALL 20,000 users?
Can you tell me of a Linux/Mac solution that can do that? If there is one, I'm all for it. But in this world, the vendors choose the playing field, the powers that be choose to play the game, and we just have to go with it. Changes can only be made from the top down, not the bottom up.
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It works, but you only get 30 mins max usage out of it. Check out http://www.pdabuyersguide.com/ubbthreads/showthrea ded.php?Board=UBB14&Number=14903
Have you ever actually read the GPL? It contradicts itself in at least a dozen ways. It is not an ironclad legal document. Just because a company decided not to challenge it in court doesn't mean it's unchallengable, it simply means they decided it's not worth it (most likely they either didn't understand what the GPL was trying to say in the first place, or they decided the bad PR wouldn't be worth it). Last time I noticed, OJ & Microsoft are still walking free. Do you really want to release your code under a license with loopholes, just because it hasn't been taken advantage of yet?
Were the GPL ever to be the subject of a legal battle, it would be ripped to shreds. There are other licenses available (or you can always have a lawyer draft one for you), but sooner or later, I think the GPL's poor wording is going to kick us in the butt.
Lightning will not be popular in corporate environments for several reasons. Some of these have already been mentioned, but some have not.
1. Outlook is "free" when you buy Office. Until OpenOffice is a true competitor to Office and companies stop buying Office, there's no reason to switch to a program with less features when you have one already.
2. Outlook 2003 is awesome. See other posts for details, but its ability to aggregate information, plus security features like remote image blocking, prove it to be an area of Office that Microsoft is actually proving. It'll be hard for Lightning to catch up to a moving target when it's already behind.
3. Never underestimate the power of PDA syncing. One poster claims that the only people who care about this are executives. That alone is enough to warrant a site license of Outlook. What IT staff would commit suicide by not giving the execs PDA syncing? In reality, PDA syncing is used by many more than the execs, unless you count college students, IT professionals, cops, and teachers as executives.
4. MAPI-compliance. You don't have to have an Exchange server (a bad idea in my opinion), but you do have to have a connector if you want Outlook to communicate with your non-Microsoft mail server. This is fine; most vendors provide the connector with the package, which is really just vendor-specific MAPI drivers. This is the only way they can compete with Exchange Server's functionality. Well, if you're creating a new email client that's supposed to be a competitor to Outlook, you'd better make it act just like Outlook, because no vendor is going to create a new Connector for a program with such a small install base.
5. Integration with calendering systems. We decided to go with Oracle Calendar instead of Exchange, since we already run Oracle's mail server (Oracle's solutions are Linux-based and very standards-compliant). So now, in addition to MAPI, you have to have a way for your calender server to interface with Lightning, also. We do, of course, because Oracle's Outlook connector also interfaces with the Calender server. Again, in order for Lightning to succeed, it's going to have to work with the connectors already out there. Nobody wants to use a standalone Calender app anymore, after they see the way they can integrate with Outlook. And this better sync with your PDA as well.
This program has to be the hub of everything you do. Outlook is moving towards becoming the center of organization and time management. That's a lot more than email with a calendar.
I thought Chaos was that company that makes all my programs work...
This guy is one of my professors. This teleprompter is for a presentation on panoramic photos, of which he is an amazing photographer. He's actually creating a coffee-table book from these panoramics, and some are for sale through PayPal.
Worth at least a look, especially the ones of the Brooklyn Bridge. He'll also sell you huge prints if you email him.
There are no mirrors. Adding a mirror to the construction would be a lot of physical work, not to mention: where would you put the mirror? InDesign is AppleScriptible (which, when combined with watched folders, allows the process to be completely automated), but in any case checking one box when you're saving the file, which takes all of about half a second, seems like a lot less work than adding mirrors to a wooden frame to me.
Although I work in prepress, I've never heard of an ISO flavor. X-1, X-1a for packaging, and X-3 are the common PDF flavors. Many of these require PDFs higher than 1.3.
PeopleSoft also runs over Oracle 8i. Just ask the entire California State University system.
Real wage growth is an economic term, but it does not take into account the entire picture (i.e. purchasing power), only inflation. In addition, the original poster's information is innacurate. I apologize for the mistake in my post.
I do not have the figures available, but for your argument to be correct, you must claim that we have had 0% (or .5% or whatever you're trying to say) productivity increase. Everybody knows that we have dramatically increased our productivity over the last fifty years and especially the last fifteen years, which is why America is the richest country (has the highest purchasing power) in the world. Oh and by the way, the price of the average home is about 10% higher than it was last year. But that doesn't take into account inflation or America's increased purchasing power during the last year.
A 100-level college economics class would have saved you the embarrassment of your post, and me the time to correct it.
I lived in Finland for two years, and learned some interesting things.
1) The sauna was invented in Finland. (Not the Turkish steam room, which most people think is a sauna. A sauna must have an extremely hot oven (85+ degrees C) to heat the rocks so that when you throw water on the rocks, it evaporates instantly into steam. This is fundamental because the instant humidity + temperature change causes you to sweat so much, you actually clean out your own pores with sweat. My friends and I had the cleanest pores while living in Finland (we sauna'd every week). Supposedly something about the steam, lots of water, antioxidants, and negatively charged ions helps your body get rid of free radicals, but I don't really understand that. It also helps you get rid of toxins and raise your white blood cell count.
2) Hitting yourself with birch twigs (vihta, vahta, or vitsa - pick your dialect) isn't just weird, it feels good and it's healthy. It stimulates blood flow to the skin and increases circulation.
3) You can cook food (meat, sausage, etc) in the sauna while you are saunaing!!!
4) The best part is jumping out of the sauna into the lake or snow. This is why most saunas are built next to a lake (if possible). Finland has 188,000 lakes, so it's not really an issue. Incredibly, no one in Finland ever worries about blood pressure. I always wondered why Americans make such a huge deal about that kind of thing when entire populations seem to think there's no problem with it. Maybe because they're not all obese.
5) Incredibly, the sauna has no sexual connotations. Saunaing is almost always non-co-ed, and if you go with your girl/boyfriend/spouse, no one would even consider having sex in there.(It's hot and the wood boards are uncomfortable.)
6) Finns always sauna naked. It's just better that way. Trust me.
The average "best" temperature most Finns give is 85C. I personally liked it around 95, but many Finns think that's too hot. Once we got ours all the way up to 128 degrees Celcius. Believe me, we were not in there long. I burned my hand from touching my hair when I finally came running out which had basically boiling water in it. I then proceeded to stand outside on my balcony naked in -30 degree Celcius weather for about ten minutes to cool off.
So, 128C is 262 degrees F, and -30C is -22F, so there's a difference of 284 degrees F. Only 16 off... I think enjoying the Finnish culture sure beats going to Antarctica.
Sigs are lame.
I'm a tech for Cal Poly University, and I'll tell you some of the issues we're facing right now. We support 20,000 users and are currently moving everyone over to the Oracle Collaboration Suite from the now unsupported formerly-HP-but-now-Oracle OpenMail/OpenTime system. Now, what can OCS do with Outlook that nothing else can do? OCS doesn't use MAPI but uses a propietary connector that lets your (collaborative) calendar, email, PDA, and phone--yes, analog phone--be synced to each other always. You can call a number and have your email or calendar read to you, make the changes to your schedule, and your coworkers can see your updated schedule on their Palm. Is this a big deal when you work for the State of California and need accessability (not to mention functionality) for ALL 20,000 users?
Can you tell me of a Linux/Mac solution that can do that? If there is one, I'm all for it. But in this world, the vendors choose the playing field, the powers that be choose to play the game, and we just have to go with it. Changes can only be made from the top down, not the bottom up.
Except, I put it in a shoebox.
It took about 30 mins, big deal.
The internet depends on BSD?
Just checking.