I'm still wondering about "increasing the sales tax on consumers". You can buy consumers in WA? Isn't that against the law? Or did they mean to say: "increasing the sales tax paid by consumers." ?
You're absolutely correct! The researchers need to immediately be jailed for contributing to copyright violations. Scientists! They never think about how their inventions will impact our Corporate Overlords.
Like Health Insurance, which the in the US Congress want to make required with major fines if you don't have it? Unless, of course, you're an illegal alien and so effectively beyond the law's ability to punish.
Have you read an OCR'ed e-book? I have for some very old books by a dead SciFi author that I like (H. Beam Piper). The quality absolutely SUCKED! Yes, I could read the story. But the OCR was only about 90% accurate. And kerned letters almost guaranteed errors. Obviously nobody even bothered to proof read this thing. But, then again, it was only about $9.00 for 32 books. So it was worth it.
I like ebooks. I am hoping that they will enable authors to directly publish (self publish). That way, I know that the author is getting the majority of the money. The main problem in this case would be __finding__ the books on the Web. The main use of publishers today is advertising that the book exists and where it can be gotten.
Another plus to Groovy. You can start off just doing "normal" linear program writing like in Basic. But it also include OOP, like Java. But, to be really different, it also gives you the ability to write code in a Functional Programming paradigm. One language: three different modes of coding. And, of course, you can do all three in one program if you want.
If you like LISP, you might want to look at Clojure. It is a LISP variant which generate Java byte code. The of that is that you have all the Java infrastructure available. You can use it to write Tomcat / Jboss and other application server modules.
Is a fairly nice language. It is based on the Java JVM bytecode. The plus of this is that you can use Java code and libraries with Groovy. It also has a Web framework called Grails (like Rails, but with Groovy / Java as the language instead of Ruby). The syntax is fairly simple and easier than Java. The main plus is that you don't need to define your variables before hand. Groovy will determine the type when it is first defined. And semicolons are generally optional.
I have a KindleDX. With the wireless off, the battery lasts about 10 days between rechargings. With it on (even if not really used), that drops to less than 5 days. Wireless burns energy.
In honor of Arthur C. Clarke's famous words, I have a button which almost got me fired at work. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
I vaguely remember this. But the "to the head" I don't remember. I do remember hearing that __women__ rarely shot themselves in the head due to the damage it does to their looks. Vanity, thy name is WOMAN. But it would put my alert on that suicide was less than likely.
And the main purpose of a judge, during a trial, is to make sure that everybody plays by the same rules and so gets an equal chance for success. A judge is more like an umpire than a player. Sure a bad umpire ruins the game with bad calls. But the umpire doesn't just say: "The runner is an idiot and so can't have his base run."
OK, for us oldies who used to buy "vinyl" records. The more you played the record, the faster it degraded in quality. If you really liked the record, you ended up buying it multiple times. This was before it was easy to record it onto tape. The RIAA wants to return to the days of yesteryear when they could sell a song, the same song by the same artist, multiple times. That appears to be their mindset. After all, in the days of records, you couldn't return a damaged record for a new one. So they had a limited life. And so, in their mind, should all "creative works". I imagine a number of book publishers hate me. I have books that I have reread many times over the years. All for a single "license fee". But, as with records, books "wear out" (paper ages and degrades). I now have a number of books in PDF form. They will never wear out.
That is what I thought. Perhaps our LAN people at the time were ignorant because they were amazed and said Windows COULD NOT do that. Of course, they we're the best (IMO). We've got better now.
And that's how IBM is anticompetitive! You are "locked in" to using their hardware and software. Totally unlike MS, where you can run their software on any number of vendor's machines (HP, Dell, Gateway, even "white box" off the Internet!). And should you decide that you don't want to run MS Office any more, why then it is simple to convert to... OOPS - never mind. Or if you want to integrate a non-Windows server into an Active Directory environment, you simply... Never mind again. Or remember how easy it is to run a Win95 app on Vista - DAMN! forget that one too.
For the slow, the above is sarcasm. Not at its finest, granted.
Anything which is APF authorized can beat RACF. That is why APF authorization should be carefully reviewed by someone who knows what is being done. Not that anybody has the time. The best that one can do is get a statement from the vendor as to why their product requires APF authorization.
The mainframe hardware has many things in it which are patented. Including some of the instructions! In particular, a number undocumented instructions which are used by the OS (z/OS and z/VM). So, without a patent license from IBM, you cannot build a competitive hardware (or software emulator). And IBM has either refused to license the patents, or put the fee so high that nobody can afford to make compatible hardware.
A good point. The z (mainframe) is wonderful for something that requires its reliability. Some actual examples that I personally have had (I work on the mainframe). We had a CPU fail in our z. The __hardware__ transparently moved the running work onto a new CPU that was in "standby" mode. No outage of any sort. We didn't even know of the failure until IBM support called us that they had received a "call home" alert. We have two OSA (they are like NICs for the z). One OSA failed. The other OSA did an "arp takeover" and all TCPIP sessions continued with __NO__ outage. Again, we got messages about this, but the hardware/software recovered with no action on our part. The CE (repair man) came in, took out the bad OSA and put in a new OSA. We then issued commands and the new OSA simply started working. No down time. No interruptions to any work in progress.
If you don't mind downtime, then by all means, use Intel or AMD with Windows or Linux. If will be cheaper. And maybe even more cost effective. But, based on what happens with MS Exchange goes down around here, don't do it for anything that will make people scream if the service is done for very long. But perhaps we aren't using MS Exchange properly - I wouldn't know.
IBM is "anti competitive" because it is beating the crap out of MS in the new environment. I don't remember IBM screaming when MS was riding high on cheap Windows servers displacing mainframes. And MS was lying through their teeth. At the time, the Windows servers were nowhere near as reliable as the mainframe. Just cheaper.
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I'm still wondering about "increasing the sales tax on consumers". You can buy consumers in WA? Isn't that against the law? Or did they mean to say: "increasing the sales tax paid by consumers." ?
You're absolutely correct! The researchers need to immediately be jailed for contributing to copyright violations. Scientists! They never think about how their inventions will impact our Corporate Overlords.
Ah, no! Present all messages in Haiku format only. Or make the default button automatically link to the H.R. site and submit a resignation.
Like Health Insurance, which the in the US Congress want to make required with major fines if you don't have it? Unless, of course, you're an illegal alien and so effectively beyond the law's ability to punish.
Time to leave the idiot planet! Anybody else want to go to Beta Colony? (Lois McMaster Bujold stories)
I like ebooks. I am hoping that they will enable authors to directly publish (self publish). That way, I know that the author is getting the majority of the money. The main problem in this case would be __finding__ the books on the Web. The main use of publishers today is advertising that the book exists and where it can be gotten.
Another plus to Groovy. You can start off just doing "normal" linear program writing like in Basic. But it also include OOP, like Java. But, to be really different, it also gives you the ability to write code in a Functional Programming paradigm. One language: three different modes of coding. And, of course, you can do all three in one program if you want.
If you like LISP, you might want to look at Clojure. It is a LISP variant which generate Java byte code. The of that is that you have all the Java infrastructure available. You can use it to write Tomcat / Jboss and other application server modules.
http://groovy.codehaus.org/
I have a KindleDX. With the wireless off, the battery lasts about 10 days between rechargings. With it on (even if not really used), that drops to less than 5 days. Wireless burns energy.
Unless you're the Feds.
In honor of Arthur C. Clarke's famous words, I have a button which almost got me fired at work. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
I vaguely remember this. But the "to the head" I don't remember. I do remember hearing that __women__ rarely shot themselves in the head due to the damage it does to their looks. Vanity, thy name is WOMAN. But it would put my alert on that suicide was less than likely.
And the main purpose of a judge, during a trial, is to make sure that everybody plays by the same rules and so gets an equal chance for success. A judge is more like an umpire than a player. Sure a bad umpire ruins the game with bad calls. But the umpire doesn't just say: "The runner is an idiot and so can't have his base run."
Must have cost MS less than 388 Million, I guess. I "love" it when a judge vacates a jury by basically saying: "They're idiots."
OK, for us oldies who used to buy "vinyl" records. The more you played the record, the faster it degraded in quality. If you really liked the record, you ended up buying it multiple times. This was before it was easy to record it onto tape. The RIAA wants to return to the days of yesteryear when they could sell a song, the same song by the same artist, multiple times. That appears to be their mindset. After all, in the days of records, you couldn't return a damaged record for a new one. So they had a limited life. And so, in their mind, should all "creative works". I imagine a number of book publishers hate me. I have books that I have reread many times over the years. All for a single "license fee". But, as with records, books "wear out" (paper ages and degrades). I now have a number of books in PDF form. They will never wear out.
Not under GPL v3. But is Hyper-V in any way better than XEN or KVM?
That will someday (soon?) die. We used to say that about IBM (mainframes) back in the 1970s.
That is what I thought. Perhaps our LAN people at the time were ignorant because they were amazed and said Windows COULD NOT do that. Of course, they we're the best (IMO). We've got better now.
And that's how IBM is anticompetitive! You are "locked in" to using their hardware and software. Totally unlike MS, where you can run their software on any number of vendor's machines (HP, Dell, Gateway, even "white box" off the Internet!). And should you decide that you don't want to run MS Office any more, why then it is simple to convert to ... OOPS - never mind. Or if you want to integrate a non-Windows server into an Active Directory environment, you simply ... Never mind again. Or remember how easy it is to run a Win95 app on Vista - DAMN! forget that one too.
For the slow, the above is sarcasm. Not at its finest, granted.
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Anything which is APF authorized can beat RACF. That is why APF authorization should be carefully reviewed by someone who knows what is being done. Not that anybody has the time. The best that one can do is get a statement from the vendor as to why their product requires APF authorization.
The mainframe hardware has many things in it which are patented. Including some of the instructions! In particular, a number undocumented instructions which are used by the OS (z/OS and z/VM). So, without a patent license from IBM, you cannot build a competitive hardware (or software emulator). And IBM has either refused to license the patents, or put the fee so high that nobody can afford to make compatible hardware.
True. Too bad IBM didn't go with the UCSD Pascal system back in the day. Or that Digital Research wanted too much for CP/M-86.
A good point. The z (mainframe) is wonderful for something that requires its reliability. Some actual examples that I personally have had (I work on the mainframe). We had a CPU fail in our z. The __hardware__ transparently moved the running work onto a new CPU that was in "standby" mode. No outage of any sort. We didn't even know of the failure until IBM support called us that they had received a "call home" alert. We have two OSA (they are like NICs for the z). One OSA failed. The other OSA did an "arp takeover" and all TCPIP sessions continued with __NO__ outage. Again, we got messages about this, but the hardware/software recovered with no action on our part. The CE (repair man) came in, took out the bad OSA and put in a new OSA. We then issued commands and the new OSA simply started working. No down time. No interruptions to any work in progress.
If you don't mind downtime, then by all means, use Intel or AMD with Windows or Linux. If will be cheaper. And maybe even more cost effective. But, based on what happens with MS Exchange goes down around here, don't do it for anything that will make people scream if the service is done for very long. But perhaps we aren't using MS Exchange properly - I wouldn't know.
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John
IBM is "anti competitive" because it is beating the crap out of MS in the new environment. I don't remember IBM screaming when MS was riding high on cheap Windows servers displacing mainframes. And MS was lying through their teeth. At the time, the Windows servers were nowhere near as reliable as the mainframe. Just cheaper.