As the TVTome.com is sold to TV.com, you would be advised not to copy the information.
CNet bought the information, I am sure they do not want people to dig out an archive, and resurrect the original site under a new name. IOW: the fastest way to get a C&D letter from them.
Actually (yes, I reply to myself), there's agood example.
Today, I find a post about comparing MySQL with PostgreSQL. Could be an interesting read, except that the first post is about SCO (sigh).
So, there's screens of blabber about a recent deal between MySQL AB and SCO (Inc. ?). I'ld like to be able to click a little square with a minus sign in it, so I don't need to read that crap.
A javascript to contract part of the comments would be nice.
Sometimes, we see people comment on the way their sister painted her toenails yesterday, and there's a complete thread about that.
Usually though, I want to see replies to a certain posting, and I have a lot of trouble finding them.
I have one problem with OOo Calc (version 1.1.4 though):
When entering numbers (I do this daily: several hundreds of numbers), it does not accept "." (a point) as a decimal divider, and instead converts it to a date. A option to set "." as a valid decimal point would be nice. Excel does accept a point. Other than that, OOo suits my needs.
Why not simply enter a ","? Because it's a laptop, I have an Azerty keyboard, and I shift-lock to enter the numbers; so the comma needs an additional shift, while the point does not.
Come over to me, get immediate response Use IM, get a response in less than an hour Use email, get a response in half-a-day, or a day Give me a paper: I respond within a week.
Each employee (excluding the IT) needs a PC, which costs a certain amount. Divide this amount by the time it is written off, and be sure to have this added to your budget if the company hires. Mind, it may also be deducted. IT will generally have better and more PC, but add these separately to the servers budget.
Assure you get to keep proceeds of sales, and be sure you get to keep old hardware if you need it. (A 4 year old PC -maybe with extra memory- can still do a lot of server work, while users don't want them anymore!) Sell older equipment to your colleagues, or any other interested party.
Ah, and make an inventory of often-needed replacement items, such as keyboards, mice and a couple of screens (preferably the same as the users already have).
Don't forget infrastructure: room, cabling, airco, furniture,... see if that should go in the budget as well.
And see if you can "save budget for next year". It may happen that you are planning to replace a large number of PCs, or servers, next year, but it wouldn't normally fit in your budget. Then, maybe you can save some budget this year and use it next year. This is interesting too. We now have this problem (government): the budget must be used this year, we can't save for next year. So, we shift our spending instead of the money, which complicates planning.
Cisco doesn't need to acquire a big player in the market. It does no good buying Nokia. It goes like this:
1. Buy small company 2. Stick on Cisco logo 3. ?? 4. Profit!!
If it bought a big company, it is bringing in a lot of shareholders, and loosing part of the control. Don't you think Chalmers wants to keep some control over his company?
The most conservative supermarket in the world: Colruyt is doing this.
There's Collect & Go: you order via web, it gets prepared, you go into the store, and pick it up. And ther's Collivery: You order, and they bring it to you.
Mind you, this company started as a wine shop, expanded to "colonial goods" (coffee, chocolate,...) and later became a real supermarket. They are specialized is being cheap.
The interior is as cheap as possible: painted concrete floors, sturdy racks (which you usually find in warehouses), one enclosed fridge (a huge fridge you walk into) and closed freezers (loose less energy). This was the first supermarket to introduce computers into the shop: in the 70s they had a computersystem, where a customer would take a product along with a punch card. An employee would take your grossaries from one cart into an empty one, thereby checking the punch cards, and then ran the cards through a reader: a letter-size ticket came out. Later on, by adding a barcode reader to this system, they were among the first to have barcode readers in the supermarket.
Right. My first PC had a Cherry keyboard. Those are in the same range of "you can beat a guys' head off with it" keyboards. But it works, you can take it apart, pull off the keys, and assemble it back together. But it has it's own sort of noise, and it doesn't have a 'hot' design.
Note that these keyboard have "wear-resistant" keycap symbols. And that is true! My 15 year-old keyboard, with dayly use has all the symbols still on it. The new (19 months) Dell keyboard I use in the office has a few partially missing, already...
I may be off here, but wouldn't a driver talk with the device directly? Then Windows should be unable to get inbetween? So, a manufacturer could write a driver and it would work.
Otherwise, I thought I heard DirectX was so great that game developers are now almost exclusively making DirectX games?
My experience with DirectX stopped at the example in MSDN in 1997(?) that had a dot following a logo in IE. Great showcase, but overkill...
You know, I have a higher uptime, and everyone keeps telling me to reboot. Why does everybody want people to reboot ?? Knowing full well that I won't reboot until I am forced to do so (electricity goes out, OS upgrade, admin threatening,...).
Other use for virtualization: he wants to use multiple PC's at once, having just one physically available ?
I have a webshop, and make websites for other people too. In all the software available for this work, if there's reviews programmed, they always can be approved before they are published.
Maybe at Amazon, you are able to submit bad reviews, on most other sites, your review will be read and must be approved before the public will be able to read it.
I was going to say: this is not new, maybe a new version, but I've seen this before...
And apparently I saw it in March.
Even if Microsoft copies the competitor, isn't that the way it usually goes in IT? Someone comes up with something, and someone else copies it. Then the best product wins.
This phenomenon is noticable in sequential gearboxes: in one car you push the lever to go one up, in the other to go one down.
All of these cars are made by companies that claim their system is right: ' You pull the lever, because as you accellerate, you are pushed back. ' and ' You push the lever, because it means up. '
You don't really have to do anything to divide bandwidth. There will be more people interested in Mozilla than in Drupal, hence the bandwidth will be requested by more visitors for one project over the other. Give every visitor a fair share and you'll end up giving more bandwidth to Mozilla than to Drupal.
It could go like this: Drupal> Did Mozilla get more bandwidth? OSUOSL> Do they have more visitors? Drupal> Yes. OSUOSL> Then they got more bandwidth.
People here seem to be reading the text wrong. What MS comes with is a library to addon to the.NET development environment. In other words, you will need Visual Studio.Net to be able to use this "Framework".
I think it will be compatible with other browsers, if it is not, tthe framework is not usable for the customers (yes: customers, not users).
Actually this would be an excellent marketing stunt.
1. announce a lot of wonderful new core(!) systems (WinFS?) 2. put them in alpha versions and show screenshots 3. develop backwards compatible wrapper around the new core 4. de-announce all new core systems one by one 5. bring out beta version where the wrapper is the only option 6. bring out the new OS and surprise everyone with all the previously announced features. 7. ??? 8. Profit!
Added bonus: When all this is going on, mystify everything even more by suddenly announcing other new features (Monad?) to go in.
I think you understand, but nonetheless, I'll say it anyway:
What amazon here did was take an old business practice, and implement it on a computer. This is not a great idea, it is a logical action. Someone was bound to do this one day. Amazon may get credit for implementing this first, though.
The system is severely flawed.
Did "A method of reading letters on a computer screen which together for a literature work for pleasure" get patented yet? Seems like a good thing to patent!
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Great. The first prize is "Belgian Style" beer ... from a brewery called "Ommegang".
Actually, considering trends these days, they should also forbid making a verb out of LEGO.
... oh wait, hype.
It's silly, it started with "to google", now I heard people do it with "to skype". Every new hype gets a verb
We sympathize with you.
Forgot to change "HTML Formatted" to "Plain Old Text" eh?
As the TVTome.com is sold to TV.com, you would be advised not to copy the information.
CNet bought the information, I am sure they do not want people to dig out an archive, and resurrect the original site under a new name. IOW: the fastest way to get a C&D letter from them.
Actually (yes, I reply to myself), there's agood example.
Today, I find a post about comparing MySQL with PostgreSQL. Could be an interesting read, except that the first post is about SCO (sigh).
So, there's screens of blabber about a recent deal between MySQL AB and SCO (Inc. ?). I'ld like to be able to click a little square with a minus sign in it, so I don't need to read that crap.
A javascript to contract part of the comments would be nice. Sometimes, we see people comment on the way their sister painted her toenails yesterday, and there's a complete thread about that. Usually though, I want to see replies to a certain posting, and I have a lot of trouble finding them.
Yes, I did try it. This software I run has a especially written database layer, that works only with MySQL.
... Or I could wait and hope.
The only option I have, is trying to rewrite that db layer
I know why people use MySQL: because they are using software that only runs on MySQL.
And I am one person like that. If the software for my website would run on PostgreSQL, I'ld switch right on the instance.
I have one problem with OOo Calc (version 1.1.4 though):
When entering numbers (I do this daily: several hundreds of numbers), it does not accept "." (a point) as a decimal divider, and instead converts it to a date. A option to set "." as a valid decimal point would be nice. Excel does accept a point. Other than that, OOo suits my needs.
Why not simply enter a ","? Because it's a laptop, I have an Azerty keyboard, and I shift-lock to enter the numbers; so the comma needs an additional shift, while the point does not.
It used to be like this with me:
Come over to me, get immediate response
Use IM, get a response in less than an hour
Use email, get a response in half-a-day, or a day
Give me a paper: I respond within a week.
Nowadays, I don't use IM anymore, though.
The Flying Goat summarizes it good!
... see if that should go in the budget as well.
Each employee (excluding the IT) needs a PC, which costs a certain amount. Divide this amount by the time it is written off, and be sure to have this added to your budget if the company hires. Mind, it may also be deducted. IT will generally have better and more PC, but add these separately to the servers budget.
Assure you get to keep proceeds of sales, and be sure you get to keep old hardware if you need it. (A 4 year old PC -maybe with extra memory- can still do a lot of server work, while users don't want them anymore!) Sell older equipment to your colleagues, or any other interested party.
Ah, and make an inventory of often-needed replacement items, such as keyboards, mice and a couple of screens (preferably the same as the users already have).
Don't forget infrastructure: room, cabling, airco, furniture,
And see if you can "save budget for next year". It may happen that you are planning to replace a large number of PCs, or servers, next year, but it wouldn't normally fit in your budget. Then, maybe you can save some budget this year and use it next year. This is interesting too. We now have this problem (government): the budget must be used this year, we can't save for next year. So, we shift our spending instead of the money, which complicates planning.
Cisco doesn't need to acquire a big player in the market. It does no good buying Nokia. It goes like this:
1. Buy small company
2. Stick on Cisco logo
3. ??
4. Profit!!
If it bought a big company, it is bringing in a lot of shareholders, and loosing part of the control. Don't you think Chalmers wants to keep some control over his company?
The most conservative supermarket in the world: Colruyt is doing this.
...) and later became a real supermarket. They are specialized is being cheap.
There's Collect & Go: you order via web, it gets prepared, you go into the store, and pick it up.
And ther's Collivery: You order, and they bring it to you.
Mind you, this company started as a wine shop, expanded to "colonial goods" (coffee, chocolate,
The interior is as cheap as possible: painted concrete floors, sturdy racks (which you usually find in warehouses), one enclosed fridge (a huge fridge you walk into) and closed freezers (loose less energy). This was the first supermarket to introduce computers into the shop: in the 70s they had a computersystem, where a customer would take a product along with a punch card. An employee would take your grossaries from one cart into an empty one, thereby checking the punch cards, and then ran the cards through a reader: a letter-size ticket came out. Later on, by adding a barcode reader to this system, they were among the first to have barcode readers in the supermarket.
Right. My first PC had a Cherry keyboard. Those are in the same range of "you can beat a guys' head off with it" keyboards. But it works, you can take it apart, pull off the keys, and assemble it back together. But it has it's own sort of noise, and it doesn't have a 'hot' design.
...
Note that these keyboard have "wear-resistant" keycap symbols. And that is true! My 15 year-old keyboard, with dayly use has all the symbols still on it. The new (19 months) Dell keyboard I use in the office has a few partially missing, already
I may be off here, but wouldn't a driver talk with the device directly? Then Windows should be unable to get inbetween? So, a manufacturer could write a driver and it would work.
...
Otherwise, I thought I heard DirectX was so great that game developers are now almost exclusively making DirectX games?
My experience with DirectX stopped at the example in MSDN in 1997(?) that had a dot following a logo in IE. Great showcase, but overkill
The first occurance of OpenGL was in Windows NT 3.51. It had the OpenGL screensavers that ran at 80% CPU ...
You know, I have a higher uptime, and everyone keeps telling me to reboot. Why does everybody want people to reboot ?? Knowing full well that I won't reboot until I am forced to do so (electricity goes out, OS upgrade, admin threatening, ...).
Other use for virtualization: he wants to use multiple PC's at once, having just one physically available ?
Move on, nothing to see here.
I have a webshop, and make websites for other people too. In all the software available for this work, if there's reviews programmed, they always can be approved before they are published.
Maybe at Amazon, you are able to submit bad reviews, on most other sites, your review will be read and must be approved before the public will be able to read it.
I was going to say: this is not new, maybe a new version, but I've seen this before ...
And apparently I saw it in March.
Even if Microsoft copies the competitor, isn't that the way it usually goes in IT? Someone comes up with something, and someone else copies it. Then the best product wins.
This phenomenon is noticable in sequential gearboxes: in one car you push the lever to go one up, in the other to go one down.
All of these cars are made by companies that claim their system is right:
' You pull the lever, because as you accellerate, you are pushed back. '
and
' You push the lever, because it means up. '
You don't really have to do anything to divide bandwidth. There will be more people interested in Mozilla than in Drupal, hence the bandwidth will be requested by more visitors for one project over the other. Give every visitor a fair share and you'll end up giving more bandwidth to Mozilla than to Drupal.
It could go like this:
Drupal> Did Mozilla get more bandwidth?
OSUOSL> Do they have more visitors?
Drupal> Yes.
OSUOSL> Then they got more bandwidth.
People here seem to be reading the text wrong. What MS comes with is a library to addon to the .NET development environment. In other words, you will need Visual Studio.Net to be able to use this "Framework".
I think it will be compatible with other browsers, if it is not, tthe framework is not usable for the customers (yes: customers, not users).
Microsoft makes mouses. Do they work with Linux?
Actually this would be an excellent marketing stunt.
1. announce a lot of wonderful new core(!) systems (WinFS?)
2. put them in alpha versions and show screenshots
3. develop backwards compatible wrapper around the new core
4. de-announce all new core systems one by one
5. bring out beta version where the wrapper is the only option
6. bring out the new OS and surprise everyone with all the previously announced features.
7. ???
8. Profit!
Added bonus: When all this is going on, mystify everything even more by suddenly announcing other new features (Monad?) to go in.
I think you understand, but nonetheless, I'll say it anyway:
What amazon here did was take an old business practice, and implement it on a computer. This is not a great idea, it is a logical action. Someone was bound to do this one day. Amazon may get credit for implementing this first, though.
The system is severely flawed.
Did "A method of reading letters on a computer screen which together for a literature work for pleasure" get patented yet? Seems like a good thing to patent!