Or fly from anywhere in the US to Nevada in under 4 hours... If you live in NY you can DRIVE an hour north and give us your money if you really need to gamble and don't want to fly..
That last quote in the article is wierd, IT'S A YAHOO TROLL!!
Seriously, it doesn't attribute that quote to anyone, it just sort of ends the article. Also whenever you see "..." in a quote it means something important was cut out and the quote is wrong (this is common when advertising movies for example).
I'm not trying to defend Steveio I just think it's a lame way to end an article.
Serious, this is the funny quote I like:
"That's probably the thing I feel worst about over the last few years -- not making our own R&D investment," Ballmer said at a conference for online advertisers held at Microsoft's Redmond campus. "
COME ON! 75% of their software is developed by outside companies, then Microsoft just buys them out. I think he should have said "The worst thing is, we waited so long to aquire google, now it's extremely over-priced for us".
We charge for our software as well. The key here is to make trial versions. Microsoft _does_ make trial versions of it's software, for instance I have a copy of Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition in front of me with a label "Evaluation Edition - 180 Day Limit On Use".
Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Home Edition 128 MB of RAM plus an additional 8 MB of RAM for each Office program (such as Word) running simultaneously
Office XP Standard 210 MB of available hard disk space Office XP Professional and Professional Special Edition 245 MB of available hard disk space
Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 (SP6) or later, Windows 2000, or Windows XP or later.
Computer with Pentium 133 megahertz (MHz) or higher processor; Pentium III recommended
Okay, so break it down:
A computer (d'uh), 210-245 Megs of RAM PLUS 8 megs for each product run (so Word, Excel, Access, Outlook = 32 Megs) so 242-277 megs. OS: Windows.
Now from the article:
System Requirements Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP) - Pentium-compatible PC, 64 MB RAM, 130 MB HD; or Linux (x86, PowerPC) - 64 MB RAM and 170 MB HD Solaris (x66, SPARC) - 64 MB RAM and 240 MB HD; or MacOSX (beta); or FreeBSD
Hmmm, so OO uses less RAM, less system resources, any runs on a variety of platforms.
Now here's the clincher:
basic feature functionality that enables content authoring is only one small aspect of what a small business needs.
After reading this, it looks like they are marketing OO!! I mean, sure it doesn't have Clippy and all (more features) and it doesn't have an email client (umm, do we really need another anyways?), but personally, I _hate_ Clippy.
Why didn't they put the "System Requirements" of Office? I mean, if it's a comparison shouldn't you put some sort of "comparison" information somewhere? That alone would show that OO is multi-platform, a HUGE benefit for most business..
The open-source community should be using this paper to hype OO, IMHO it does a great job!
I'm so sick and tired of reading about Wal-Mart. Whoopie do, they are a huge retailer, yeah! Anyone else sick of hearing "Walmart this, Walmart that"? No wonder they are so huge, for some reason the media loves "Walmart does anything"... I've now offically seen more in the news about Walmart, then I have of OJ.
"SolarFlare's chip will be used as evidence that 10G-bit over copper can be done, in anticipation of a draft IEEE standard to be developed later this year." "
Copper breaks down to easy, picks up to much interference, and is no good maintaining the speed over longer distances. They should concentrate on new technology instead of constantly trying to upgrade the old, now matter how much work you put into a '68 Mustang, it's always going to weigh a ton...
aRexx was great, but todays mainframe Rexx is even better. Socket support, great parsing/string manip. abilities, great conversion utilites (ASCII TO EBICDIC AND BACK!)
Rexx is a great language if your coding on a mainframe. I've done countless Rexx programs, they are easy, and powerful. Rexx now has SOCKET support, so you can code TCP/IP applications directly, here's a sample from an s/390 system:
SOCKS2 = SOCKET('SOCKET','AF_INET','SOCK_DGRAM','UDP')/* SOCKS2 = SOCKET('SOCKET','AF_INET','STREAM','TCP') */ PARSE VAR SOCKS2 SOCKET_RC NEWSOCKETID SOCKS12 = Socket('SetSockOpt',NEWSOCKETID,'Sol_Socket','So_A SCII','ON') PARSE VAR socks12 sockopt_rc junkinfo
SOCKS13 = SOCKET('FCNT',NEWSOCKETID,'F_SETFL','NON-BLOCKING' )
PARSE VAR socks13 ab ac ad ae af ag
As you can see above, the parsing is quite nice, and it's handling of sockets is self-explanitory (I find it _Much_ nicer then coding sockets with C for example). The above opens a UDP port, it's a piece of code I did for my own DNS "DiG" application, so it would fit into my SMTP application to query proper MX records...
I also coded a really cool text blackjack game so you can appear to be working on your 3270 emulator, when your actually just goofing off.. Let me know if your interested, it's not completely done (splitting doesn't work yet), and I play on building in HTTP/HTML support so you can play from home and it will keep player stats on the mainframe..
Or maybe it's just a play on words. It appears to be a rudder, as it is an up-down actuated air controller, but it is an "air brake", a rudder is just to control up-down movement, not braking.
"That's what the article said. If the faulty actuator had been installed in the higher-stress lower position instead of the upper one, it would likely have jammed and doomed the spacecraft. "
"So PowerPC, eh? Don't tell me they've still got you maintaining all those old mainframe assembly programs. That's got to be rough. "
No, big box. And I do systems applications, no old stuff. I enjoy it quite a bit!
"And I most certainly did not mod you down."
My bad. I thought you were the dude following me around modding me down.. (Yes, I piss off many people apparently, but there's nothing like a good debate!)
"Just be glad that you don't have to code assembly for the x86."
I've done it back in MS-DOS 5 days, don't remember much though..
"Eh? I don't believe I support OS/390. As much as I'd like to, I don't happen to have one around to test with.:-("
It was actually on your links page, I just figured you supported DB2 for os/390 (z/OS) since you were linking to it:
" IBM DB2
This is an extremely popular database, even today, due to the fact that it is the default on IBM's OS/390 mainframes. Versions also exist for Windows and Unix machines. "
x86, MIPS, SPARC, PowerPC, or ARM? Or are we talking something really archaic like a Honeywell? "
z/OS
"Hey, if you can't tell the difference in coding styles, then you're not worth jack as a high level programmer. Assembly is great for interfacing with hardware. However, the days of using assembly to write bug free word processors like WordStar are long over."
Your a troll. Assembler is used for much more then "interfacing with hardware (micro code). Go ahead, keep modding me down YOUR just jealous. I'll just keep reporting you.. Your the one that likes his power trip.
"t's not nice to make fun of something you have no clue about just because you're jealous"
At least you have a sense of humour....
BTW- Update your website, just search os/390 and replace it with z/OS.;)
Slashdot Mirror
I plan on beating the shit out of the first moron I see playing a FPS on a bus.
Besides, where is the uplink??
Actually it's a mobile LAN.
"You know that the casino didn't cheat. "
Only because they say they don't. The hand is quicker than the eye.
"It should be about wether or not online gambling is trustworthy"
Your right, and as always, buyer beware. The government should not be holding your hand.
"building false confidence is all too easy: Look at Nigerian scams."
Really, did you fall for it??
Or fly from anywhere in the US to Nevada in under 4 hours... If you live in NY you can DRIVE an hour north and give us your money if you really need to gamble and don't want to fly..
"and everyone else is 3rd world?"
Haha, you wouldn't believe how many Americans have said to me "Your a third world country". I'm Canadian..
I was wondering why an RC model with a US flag landed on my house. Tell him if he wants his toy back it'll be $85 USD plus shipping.
Dude, I can't believe your promoting a BBS? That's so 1992...
A world without Windows would be very dark...
That last quote in the article is wierd, IT'S A YAHOO TROLL!!
Seriously, it doesn't attribute that quote to anyone, it just sort of ends the article. Also whenever you see "..." in a quote it means something important was cut out and the quote is wrong (this is common when advertising movies for example).
I'm not trying to defend Steveio I just think it's a lame way to end an article.
Serious, this is the funny quote I like:
"That's probably the thing I feel worst about over the last few years -- not making our own R&D investment," Ballmer said at a conference for online advertisers held at Microsoft's Redmond campus. "
COME ON! 75% of their software is developed by outside companies, then Microsoft just buys them out. I think he should have said "The worst thing is, we waited so long to aquire google, now it's extremely over-priced for us".
We charge for our software as well. The key here is to make trial versions. Microsoft _does_ make trial versions of it's software, for instance I have a copy of Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition in front of me with a label "Evaluation Edition - 180 Day Limit On Use".
Okay, in that case, let's compare:
r eq s.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/xp/sys
Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Home Edition
128 MB of RAM plus an additional 8 MB of RAM for each Office program (such as Word) running simultaneously
Office XP Standard
210 MB of available hard disk space
Office XP Professional and Professional Special Edition
245 MB of available hard disk space
Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 (SP6) or later, Windows 2000, or Windows XP or later.
Computer with Pentium 133 megahertz (MHz) or higher processor; Pentium III recommended
Okay, so break it down:
A computer (d'uh), 210-245 Megs of RAM PLUS 8 megs for each product run (so Word, Excel, Access, Outlook = 32 Megs) so 242-277 megs. OS: Windows.
Now from the article:
System Requirements
Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP) - Pentium-compatible PC,
64 MB RAM, 130 MB HD; or
Linux (x86, PowerPC) - 64 MB RAM and 170 MB HD
Solaris (x66, SPARC) - 64 MB RAM and 240 MB HD; or
MacOSX (beta); or
FreeBSD
Hmmm, so OO uses less RAM, less system resources, any runs on a variety of platforms.
Now here's the clincher:
basic feature functionality that
enables content authoring is only one small aspect of what a
small business needs.
So they are promoting bloating. Neat!
Your are 100% right (MOD PAY ATTENTION TO PARENT!!)
I work for a software company, when a customer questions a competitor product or asks "Which is really better" kind of question, we always tell them:
"Install both and you can make a better decision".
I bet Microsoft would _never_ use that line!
After reading this, it looks like they are marketing OO!! I mean, sure it doesn't have Clippy and all (more features) and it doesn't have an email client (umm, do we really need another anyways?), but personally, I _hate_ Clippy.
Why didn't they put the "System Requirements" of Office? I mean, if it's a comparison shouldn't you put some sort of "comparison" information somewhere? That alone would show that OO is multi-platform, a HUGE benefit for most business..
The open-source community should be using this paper to hype OO, IMHO it does a great job!
mmmm monochrome. But my computer was colour before that, all-GREEN is a colour, and if I got sick of green I could change it to RED!
I'm so sick and tired of reading about Wal-Mart. Whoopie do, they are a huge retailer, yeah! Anyone else sick of hearing "Walmart this, Walmart that"? No wonder they are so huge, for some reason the media loves "Walmart does anything"... I've now offically seen more in the news about Walmart, then I have of OJ.
What kind of batteries, car batteries, big honking laptop batteries or triple a's?
"SolarFlare's chip will be used as evidence that 10G-bit over copper can be done, in anticipation of a draft IEEE standard to be developed later this year." "
Copper breaks down to easy, picks up to much interference, and is no good maintaining the speed over longer distances. They should concentrate on new technology instead of constantly trying to upgrade the old, now matter how much work you put into a '68 Mustang, it's always going to weigh a ton...
3MB OF RAM??? NO WAY DUDE!!!
aRexx was great, but todays mainframe Rexx is even better. Socket support, great parsing/string manip. abilities, great conversion utilites (ASCII TO EBICDIC AND BACK!)
Rexx is a great language if your coding on a mainframe. I've done countless Rexx programs, they are easy, and powerful. Rexx now has SOCKET support, so you can code TCP/IP applications directly, here's a sample from an s/390 system:
/* SOCKS2 = SOCKET('SOCKET','AF_INET','STREAM','TCP') */A SCII','ON')' )
SOCKS2 = SOCKET('SOCKET','AF_INET','SOCK_DGRAM','UDP')
PARSE VAR SOCKS2 SOCKET_RC NEWSOCKETID
SOCKS12 = Socket('SetSockOpt',NEWSOCKETID,'Sol_Socket','So_
PARSE VAR socks12 sockopt_rc junkinfo
SOCKS13 = SOCKET('FCNT',NEWSOCKETID,'F_SETFL','NON-BLOCKING
PARSE VAR socks13 ab ac ad ae af ag
As you can see above, the parsing is quite nice, and it's handling of sockets is self-explanitory (I find it _Much_ nicer then coding sockets with C for example). The above opens a UDP port, it's a piece of code I did for my own DNS "DiG" application, so it would fit into my SMTP application to query proper MX records...
I also coded a really cool text blackjack game so you can appear to be working on your 3270 emulator, when your actually just goofing off.. Let me know if your interested, it's not completely done (splitting doesn't work yet), and I play on building in HTTP/HTML support so you can play from home and it will keep player stats on the mainframe..
Or maybe it's just a play on words. It appears to be a rudder, as it is an up-down actuated air controller, but it is an "air brake", a rudder is just to control up-down movement, not braking.
"Google slashdot", why does that sound so sick when I say it out-loud? Seriously do you think you would get a website about googling at /.'s?
BACKSLASH, NO WAIT, FORWARD SLASH, ERRRRR...
What my browser says? http:/\//\\/..OGRE
"That's what the article said. If the faulty actuator had been installed in the higher-stress lower position instead of the upper one, it would likely have jammed and doomed the spacecraft.
"
True, but those weren't rudders...
I can't believe they actually discovered they have rovers over there:
"NASA has made another announcement, live on NASA TV, regarding the discoveries of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. "
Okay, I did troll first.. :)
:-("
"So PowerPC, eh? Don't tell me they've still got you maintaining all those old mainframe assembly programs. That's got to be rough.
"
No, big box. And I do systems applications, no old stuff. I enjoy it quite a bit!
"And I most certainly did not mod you down."
My bad. I thought you were the dude following me around modding me down.. (Yes, I piss off many people apparently, but there's nothing like a good debate!)
"Just be glad that you don't have to code assembly for the x86."
I've done it back in MS-DOS 5 days, don't remember much though..
"Eh? I don't believe I support OS/390. As much as I'd like to, I don't happen to have one around to test with.
It was actually on your links page, I just figured you supported DB2 for os/390 (z/OS) since you were linking to it:
"
IBM DB2
This is an extremely popular database, even today, due to the fact that it is the default on IBM's OS/390 mainframes. Versions also exist for Windows and Unix machines.
"
"BTW- Actually I'm an assembler programmer.
;)
x86, MIPS, SPARC, PowerPC, or ARM? Or are we talking something really archaic like a Honeywell?
"
z/OS
"Hey, if you can't tell the difference in coding styles, then you're not worth jack as a high level programmer. Assembly is great for interfacing with hardware. However, the days of using assembly to write bug free word processors like WordStar are long over."
Your a troll. Assembler is used for much more then "interfacing with hardware (micro code). Go ahead, keep modding me down YOUR just jealous. I'll just keep reporting you.. Your the one that likes his power trip.
"t's not nice to make fun of something you have no clue about just because you're jealous"
At least you have a sense of humour....
BTW- Update your website, just search os/390 and replace it with z/OS.
It looks like what I wrote, a bunch of case-sensitive CRAP.
"Just because you're a Microsoft lover doesn't mean you have to spoil the fun for those of us who can actually *code*."
Did you come up with this on your own or what?
BTW- Actually I'm an assembler programmer.