It amazes me every time I go to the states how no signature or pin is required to buy goods on a credit card. Self-service gas stations are good example. This is single-factor authentication. RFID or magnetic strip, doesn't make a difference.
How long will it take the collectives minds of the criminal fraternity... or for that matter the collective minds of Slashdot, to design a reader that can be used to copy RFID takes from people in crowded lifts and trains?
I didn't say it was nice, I just said it was powerful:)
I agree with you. Excel is not easy to use, and to become a power-user really involves a lot of time with the product... more time that most people will ever need to use excel at an appropriate level.
If Openoffice can combine an "it just works" style with the power in Excel, they'll be on to a winner.
From the point of view of business, there are two fundamental applications: 1) Email 2) Wordprocessing/Self publication.
These are the drivers.
Personally, I see three killer apps from Microsoft (or currently owned by Microsoft) that yet to have equivalents in the open-source world:
- Excel: The power of the Excel in power-user mode is phenominal. The scalability, programability and calculation abilities of this program are amazing. Open Office does not, as yet, scrape the surface. That OO calc is enough for 90% of all users means that it won't get into businesses where the other 10% need to share data.
- Project - Visio I'll bundle these two, as neither are particularly complicated, but the file formats have become defacto standard. Once open source tools can import and export these formats, we'll be able to start displacing them on the desktop.
Cancer - "My brother's recovering from Cancer. I'll give the money to him" AIDS - "I've got a good friend currently on a coctail of drugs to keep him alive. I'll take him out for dinner so he has money to spend on pills" Starving kids - "I come from a family of 10 kids. I'll take them out for pizza". People living in poverty - "My fiancee is from a third world country. I've brought to Australia and am giving her a better life".... and the best thing is that all these are actually true. Charity begins at home.
What is the age Span of a generation? I know grandmothers and 5 year olds with iPods. So find the mean age and look one standard deviation each side and call that a generation?
I wonder if these are the sames people that we the "Tamagotchi" generation only a few years ago.
The 1RU has dual power supplies. I like that.
The Dell might as well, but personally I'd buy a Sun over a Dell.
But then I'd rather wax my butt crack with an angry wasp than buy a Dell.
"x64" is compression of "x86-64", namely the instruction set developed by AMD to extend the capabilities of the old x86 yet again.
What was it?
8088 - 8 bit instructions
8086 - 16 bit instructions with 8 bit channel
80386 - Pentium - went 32 bit somewhere in here.
For 64 bit, Intel decided to develop a new, more efficient instruction set to get rid of all these generations of crap. That was Itanium. It didn't work as there were no applications, and people didn't want to move across. This opened a window of opportunity which AMD filled.
Intel will catchup, but AMD have between 6 and 18 months to enjoy the spoils.
The differentiator will come out later with more cores. The funky bit about Bechilstienenen's (sp) design is to do with CPU and Memory scaling. SPARC and other RISC architectures have always been pretty good, but x86 isn't that great after about 4 processors. So what we are going to see is an 8 way, dual core x86-64 box that scales closer to linear than anything else.
D
> Note too that FEMA under Clinton was widely > acknowledged to be a very competent, professional, > well-run organization.
There are orders of magnitude of difficulty between removing a stain from a dress and evacuating a city of a million people. This is inversely proportional to the media value of the story.
LotR was so sucessful because Jackson himself is a huge fan of the books, plus the books themselves were written by a talented language scholar.
So imagine the possibilities if a talented director Star Wars fan took charge of a script written by a talented author with Lucas relegated to an Associate Producer credit to keep him happy.
Personally, I'd like to see Pedro Almodovar direct Episodes 7,8 and 9, though maybe Alfonso Cuarón would be a more appropriate choice.
I'm pretty sure you can only advertise "ex-GST" prices if you are wholesaling. Ebay is not a wholesaling site - and if you are selling a one-off item, then you would have a hard time claiming that you were, fine print or otherwize.
Unlike California, the price on goods on the shop shelves in Aus is the price you pay. The 10% GST comes out if it and its the seller's problem, not the buyers. You are not allowed to advertised tax-exclusive prices.
My current ebay pet hate is people who do the "I reserve the right to sell this off ebay". They have no such right. If I'm bound to pay for something I've bid for, they are bound to delivery something I've won for the price I won it for.
declare adding illustrations to a classic Infocom game blasphemy.
The real blasphamy is adding in the ability to save the game. Part of the design philosphy behind Hitchhikers was to make it complete bastard of a game. Thus something you forgot to do (eg feed dog) screws you right up later in the game, with no chance of recover other than to start from scratch.
Arthur: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail.
S: Well, I'll ask 'im, but I don't think 'e'll be very keen-- 'e's already got one, you see?
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe not, but he obviously spends time on slashdot.
It amazes me every time I go to the states how no signature or pin is required to buy goods on a credit card. Self-service gas stations are good example. This is single-factor authentication. RFID or magnetic strip, doesn't make a difference.
... or for that matter the collective minds of Slashdot, to design a reader that can be used to copy RFID takes from people in crowded lifts and trains?
How long will it take the collectives minds of the criminal fraternity
Yes, more powerful than Gnumeric.
Not more powerful than Matlab. How does Matlab licensing work?
Different from Kalediagraph.
The others I haven't dealt with.
I didn't say it was nice, I just said it was powerful :)
I agree with you. Excel is not easy to use, and to become a power-user really involves a lot of time with the product... more time that most people will ever need to use excel at an appropriate level.
If Openoffice can combine an "it just works" style with the power in Excel, they'll be on to a winner.
From the point of view of business, there are two fundamental applications:
1) Email
2) Wordprocessing/Self publication.
These are the drivers.
Personally, I see three killer apps from Microsoft (or currently owned by Microsoft) that yet to have equivalents in the open-source world:
- Excel:
The power of the Excel in power-user mode is phenominal. The scalability, programability and calculation abilities of this program are amazing. Open Office does not, as yet, scrape the surface. That OO calc is enough for 90% of all users means that it won't get into businesses where the other 10% need to share data.
- Project
- Visio
I'll bundle these two, as neither are particularly complicated, but the file formats have become defacto standard. Once open source tools can import and export these formats, we'll be able to start displacing them on the desktop.
Some people get 10-20 calls per day. That's chronic.
If there was some way to limit it to (say) a couple of calls a week, maybe people would be so up in arms about it.
Easy
... and the best thing is that all these are actually true. Charity begins at home.
Cancer - "My brother's recovering from Cancer. I'll give the money to him"
AIDS - "I've got a good friend currently on a coctail of drugs to keep him alive. I'll take him out for dinner so he has money to spend on pills"
Starving kids - "I come from a family of 10 kids. I'll take them out for pizza".
People living in poverty - "My fiancee is from a third world country. I've brought to Australia and am giving her a better life".
> kicking a guy when he's down ...is the best way to keep him down.
Telemarketers are like parking meter cops - they chose their jobs knowing what shit they were going to get, and still accepted the shit wage.
They'd get more respect, less hassels and make more money by going into table dancing, drug running or selling their own body parts.
Key word is "Day". Call me during the day, I'll tell you politely that I'm not interested.
Call me in the evening while I'm having dinner or watching NCIS, I'll tell you to fuck off.
Do they express surprise that vinyl records had music on BOTH sides?
No, listen to rap music will make you DeF.
I find that I can better hear the voices in my head with the iPod turned off.
What is the age Span of a generation? I know grandmothers and 5 year olds with iPods. So find the mean age and look one standard deviation each side and call that a generation?
I wonder if these are the sames people that we the "Tamagotchi" generation only a few years ago.
The 1RU has dual power supplies. I like that. The Dell might as well, but personally I'd buy a Sun over a Dell. But then I'd rather wax my butt crack with an angry wasp than buy a Dell.
"x64" is compression of "x86-64", namely the instruction set developed by AMD to extend the capabilities of the old x86 yet again. What was it? 8088 - 8 bit instructions 8086 - 16 bit instructions with 8 bit channel 80386 - Pentium - went 32 bit somewhere in here. For 64 bit, Intel decided to develop a new, more efficient instruction set to get rid of all these generations of crap. That was Itanium. It didn't work as there were no applications, and people didn't want to move across. This opened a window of opportunity which AMD filled. Intel will catchup, but AMD have between 6 and 18 months to enjoy the spoils.
Dude - if any company needs a mirror against the slashdot effect, it aint Sun. Still .. it would be nice to try tho.
The differentiator will come out later with more cores. The funky bit about Bechilstienenen's (sp) design is to do with CPU and Memory scaling. SPARC and other RISC architectures have always been pretty good, but x86 isn't that great after about 4 processors. So what we are going to see is an 8 way, dual core x86-64 box that scales closer to linear than anything else. D
> Note too that FEMA under Clinton was widely
> acknowledged to be a very competent, professional,
> well-run organization.
There are orders of magnitude of difficulty between removing a stain from a dress and evacuating a city of a million people. This is inversely proportional to the media value of the story.
LotR was so sucessful because Jackson himself is a huge fan of the books, plus the books themselves were written by a talented language scholar.
So imagine the possibilities if a talented director Star Wars fan took charge of a script written by a talented author with Lucas relegated to an Associate Producer credit to keep him happy.
Personally, I'd like to see Pedro Almodovar direct Episodes 7,8 and 9, though maybe Alfonso Cuarón would be a more appropriate choice.
Matt
Oh come on...
You are telling me that such a talented young Jedi can't harness the power of The Force to hold himself back? Coitus Interruptus Forcis.
Matt
That's a "go get stuffed" call.
I'm pretty sure you can only advertise "ex-GST" prices if you are wholesaling. Ebay is not a wholesaling site - and if you are selling a one-off item, then you would have a hard time claiming that you were, fine print or otherwize.
Unlike California, the price on goods on the shop shelves in Aus is the price you pay. The 10% GST comes out if it and its the seller's problem, not the buyers. You are not allowed to advertised tax-exclusive prices.
My current ebay pet hate is people who do the "I reserve the right to sell this off ebay". They have no such right. If I'm bound to pay for something I've bid for, they are bound to delivery something I've won for the price I won it for.
Matt
The real blasphamy is adding in the ability to save the game. Part of the design philosphy behind Hitchhikers was to make it complete bastard of a game. Thus something you forgot to do (eg feed dog) screws you right up later in the game, with no chance of recover other than to start from scratch.
If you can tell me a way to add a serial port that works with Sun, Brocade and anything else that has a serial console, I'll buy a Mac.
(I've only tried a couple of USB to serial converters, and they only worked with Cisco kit, nothing else, no matter how I made the cables).
According to this, Sun has actually been higher in the winter than during summer.
ObPython:
Arthur: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail.
S: Well, I'll ask 'im, but I don't think 'e'll be very keen-- 'e's already got one, you see?
A: What?
Lancelot: He says they've already *got* one!
A: (confused) Are you *sure* he's got one?
S: Oh yes, it's ver' naahs.