I think that only good reason to obtain 10g is to learn Oracle. If I was working at a company that was moving to Oracle, or at least talking about it, I would DL this to learn it for improved job opportunities.
You can already download the full Oracle for free from Oracle's web site. Just create an account and then download. It's free to use for development and learning.
I have a regular Timbuk2 messenger bag not the laptop bag. It has a big compartment that's fine for my laptop and a book or two. There are several sleeves on the inside for dropping in my cell phone, keys, mouse, cables, whatever. Slings over the one shoulder well or over your shoulder and chest for hands free and secure carrying. Oh, and it's water resistant. I got caught in a downpour once or twice without an umbrella and it did a great job of keeping my stuff dry. I like it so much that I bought another that's bigger that I use for trips (holding clothes and stuff). It's more comfortable than a backpack because of how it slings over your shoulder and around your chest.
Oh, and I've had my messenger bag for eight years and use it daily. It's just now starting to have some of the cloth rip on it so I'll replace it soon. These things really take a beating and last for a long time.
Wasn't OSI trying to reduce the number of licenses? If the license is modeled on the BSD license, why not use the BSD license? If it's like the MPL, why not use the MPL?
RPM (and RedHat, by extension) used to be notorious for circular dependencies issues.
You mean that the myth was notorious. In reality there wasn't any issue as long as you used RedHat's RPMs for your distro. The problem that you speak of is not because of the format but because of who packaged the RPM. The article that you linked to even talks about that (downloading some random RPM off of someone's site). It's caused by a lack of experience on the part of the package creator. You can create a circular dependency in any packaging system, including DEBs. There was some discussion on the debian mailing lists recently about circular dependecies.
The solution is simple: Don't install any RPMs that aren't from your vendor. Compile everything else from source or create your own package. The advantage that Debian has was that there were just so many packages already pre-compiled and packaged. Gentoo seems to get around the problem by compiling at installation therefore being able to customize for what is on the system.
I'm not using RedHat anymore, but I still consider RPM to be the best packaging format because it keeps a lot of useful metadata about the files. For example, I can run rpm -V perl to test the perl package for problems. It'll verify the size, MD5 checksum, permissions, type, owner and group of each file in the package and let me know if anything is out of place. Having this function has saved my ass once. I haven't found anything like that in Debian yet. According to Gentoo's docs, "Portage will not check if the package you want to remove is required by another package." I wouldn't even call that package management.
Again from Robert Rozeboom. I actually support slashdot, bought a subscription (yea I know it's only $10) and I can't post from home because someone who uses a Comcast cable modem is a troll?! What the fuck?!
Instead of complaining about it here why don't you write a nice snail mail letter to Slashdot's parent company explaining the situation, that you are a paying customer, and that you are not happy. Things will only change if the parent corps management is made aware that they are pissing off customers. Even though your $10 isn't much you as a reader is much more valuable to them because you are why advertisers are willing to pay to advertise.
Exactly how is this bad for the affiliate stations?
TV stations make money by showing ads. TV stations that sign up to be an affiliate for a network do so for the purpose of having access to the network content that the networks produce so that they can draw in viewers. A hot show can draw in a lot of local viewers which means that more money can be charged for ad slots during those shows. Less people watching their station during a show means that they might not be able to charge as much money for ads for that time slot.
What's happening here is that the affiliates are seeing the writing on the wall. Downloads of shows aren't going to make a dent for a while but they could. If a significant amount of the viewership starts watching their TV shows via Apple's downloads then that is that many less people watching it on the air and seeing ads. TV stations know this as do the advertisers. Advertisers will not be willing to pay as much for those ad slots because there's less on-air viewership for that show at that time on that station.
The networks are going to make money either way as they are playing both ends against the middle. They make money from the affiliate licenses as well as from downloads from Apple. TV stations are just going to have to cope. This isn't going to go away. They'll have to find another way to keep their local viewership up.
Then one should set the other person's expectations just like you have to do with everyone and everything else in life. I've never expected get an answer anytime I call a cell phone. I've also never had someone who has called me complain because I didn't answer.
No sooner had she started one task than a colleague would e-mail her with an urgent request; when she went to work on that, the phone would ring.
This sounds like she doesn't know how to manage her environment. I'm reminded of the people that say they hate cell phones because they can be reached anywhere as if there's nothing they can do about it (hint: don't answer it or turn it off).
If you are working on something that requires your focused attention then turn off the distractions. When I'm coding at work I turn down the phone ringer and hit the send calls button so that everything goes to voice mail. I also close my email program so I'm not bothered by email notices or tempted to check email.
is the Apple switch to Intel-based hardware going to better my chances for a MacOS CAD workstation
Maybe. The software of which you speak is less dependent on the processor than it is on the Windows or UNIX API that is being used. Your best bet is to write a letter to the software company indicating that you want a native MacOS port.
What might happen that could help you is that virtual PC programs will be able to run MS Windows at near full speed since it'll be running on the same processor that Windows is written for. So you should be able to run a virtual PC program with Windows and your CAD apps on your Mac.
no-one was really using it until Google Maps first came along
Not true at all. A lot of people were using it. However, it didn't land on a lot of developers radar until Google started using it for projects like Maps, GMail, and Google Suggest. For a majority of developers that was their first exposure to it and that's when it hit the mainstream.
Only at big studios. The audio world is undergoing the same type of change the video world is undergoing. Fast computers and cheap software have removed most of the financial barriers for creative people. There's a lot of boutique studios that are cheap and have top notch audio engineers, most of them run by engineers who used to work for bigger studios.
hiring a producer
You be the producer. Don't you know your own music well enough to know what you want? If you are renting studio time, take advantage of the audio engineer's experience. That is, after all, a large part of what you are paying for when you rent studio time.
studio musicians
There are a lot of excellent musicians online that will record tracks for you in their home studio and send it to you via email. They cost a lot less than paying a session musician to travel to a studio (+ studio time). One person I correspond with on a mailing list used this technique with his last album. He recorded all of the songs using a drum machine. He sent the tracks to a drummer who listended to the songs, recorded new drum tracks, and then mailed the new drum tracks back on a CD. The guy imported the drum tracks and mixed them in. It didn't cost him an arm and a leg either.
whatever you need to get the sound you want) can be really expensive
I can be but it need not be. There's a lot of really great software available for mixing and audio processing. For example, I've been trying out Guitar Rig after seeing it on a friends computer. He plays gigs with a laptop, a preamp, and a firewire audio interface. He uses a foot controller hooked to the MIDI input on his firewire interface to control Guitar Rig. No need for a ton of pedals. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Great software for everything from mixing, recording, virtual instruments, audio mastering, and more are out there and can be had for very little money.
It sounds like there is something wrong with your laptop. I have a 1.3 GHz desktop machine at home. I run Azereus and it's as fast as any other application.
Any official standard in this area was almost certainly the result of massive amounts of political horse-trading.
Right. And that isn't Google's purview.
Standards are not some kind of absolute; they are simply useful guidelines to consider (the costs versus benefits of following or not following varies greatly depending on exactly what is being standardized)
I agree. I'm sure Google weighed the cost versus benefit of getting into a pissing match between what two foreign countries call one of themselves and wisely decided to go with the existing standard.
Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth
Pissing off chinese... Thumbs Down
Google was following the ISO standard. So thumbs up. Taiwan should work on getting the standard changed. If that happens then the change will filter into other things that use it such as Google Earth.
It's from the movie The Graduate. At the beginning of the movie the main character had just graduated from college and was attending a small party for him at his parents house. A neighbor came up to him and had the following to say:
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
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The important thing to do is write to or call your representative and tell them that you oppose this and that they should vote against it.
Oh, and I've had my messenger bag for eight years and use it daily. It's just now starting to have some of the cloth rip on it so I'll replace it soon. These things really take a beating and last for a long time.
Wasn't OSI trying to reduce the number of licenses? If the license is modeled on the BSD license, why not use the BSD license? If it's like the MPL, why not use the MPL?
I have an MCI pre-paid calling card that I got at Costco for 3 cents a minute. No ads. And you can buy more minutes at the same rate.
The solution is simple: Don't install any RPMs that aren't from your vendor. Compile everything else from source or create your own package. The advantage that Debian has was that there were just so many packages already pre-compiled and packaged. Gentoo seems to get around the problem by compiling at installation therefore being able to customize for what is on the system.
I'm not using RedHat anymore, but I still consider RPM to be the best packaging format because it keeps a lot of useful metadata about the files. For example, I can run rpm -V perl to test the perl package for problems. It'll verify the size, MD5 checksum, permissions, type, owner and group of each file in the package and let me know if anything is out of place. Having this function has saved my ass once. I haven't found anything like that in Debian yet. According to Gentoo's docs, "Portage will not check if the package you want to remove is required by another package." I wouldn't even call that package management.
What's happening here is that the affiliates are seeing the writing on the wall. Downloads of shows aren't going to make a dent for a while but they could. If a significant amount of the viewership starts watching their TV shows via Apple's downloads then that is that many less people watching it on the air and seeing ads. TV stations know this as do the advertisers. Advertisers will not be willing to pay as much for those ad slots because there's less on-air viewership for that show at that time on that station.
The networks are going to make money either way as they are playing both ends against the middle. They make money from the affiliate licenses as well as from downloads from Apple. TV stations are just going to have to cope. This isn't going to go away. They'll have to find another way to keep their local viewership up.
Then one should set the other person's expectations just like you have to do with everyone and everything else in life. I've never expected get an answer anytime I call a cell phone. I've also never had someone who has called me complain because I didn't answer.
If you are working on something that requires your focused attention then turn off the distractions. When I'm coding at work I turn down the phone ringer and hit the send calls button so that everything goes to voice mail. I also close my email program so I'm not bothered by email notices or tempted to check email.
What might happen that could help you is that virtual PC programs will be able to run MS Windows at near full speed since it'll be running on the same processor that Windows is written for. So you should be able to run a virtual PC program with Windows and your CAD apps on your Mac.
And it still turned out to be incorrect. Again, this isn't news. It's just some nobody's blog.
It sounds like there is something wrong with your laptop. I have a 1.3 GHz desktop machine at home. I run Azereus and it's as fast as any other application.