Its pretty clear in hindsight that had all the ballots been counted in FL, even not counting the loose chad ballots, but including the absentee ballots (that for no reason weren't counted) and letting that one county of old folks that incorrectly used the butterfly ballots revote, that Gore won FL by about 20,000 votes. At election time, the Republicans really begin to play dirty, and Democrats, for all their befuddlement, are generally not dishonest (maybe to a fault). The FL Republicans and the SCOTUS stole that election. Gore should hold his head high, there is no shame in being boned out of an election.
Well, Android is actually just google-shininess on top of Linux, so I'd say it adds to the Linux share
This is good news, despite my naysaying of exclusively Java Android. If this is true, I think we can expect to see a third party package management system (complementing Google's yet to appear answer to AppStore). My money is on apt. More importantly, we should see all other popular languages be ported... as it went for iPhone with Cydia, stuff like sh, perl, python, php... We'll likely even see C++ on Android eventually. I just don't think Java devs will show an interest enmasse, but once other dev platforms get ported we should see a flood of craziness from indy devs... like x86 VM's & WINE running God knows what...
Yeah, because everyone knows Java is an absurdly simple language to pick up! NOT! More than one Java developer has told me it takes a smart person 10 years to become completely proficient in Java. I just don't see a flood of apps coming from Indy devs... Java devs get paid well for complicated stuff... unless they truly have no life, I can't see them squandering their talents developing OSS for Android. If you happen to be awesome at Java, then hit it -- you reign supreme. Although if you know Java, you could pick up Obj-C in a couple hours. Though there's already a ton of worthess apps for iPhone, a handful of truly amazing ones, I haven't seen any that are slow or ugly. Personally, I've never seen a Java app be anything more than utility... not pretty, not slick, certainly not fast... then again, I don't get out much.
One more point where summary is incorrect-- although not supported, the SDK and all the slick Apple developer tools work just fine under Tiger on an older (and practically given away) PPC from 2002.
Great! So I'll just let the office know they won't be needing access to the rest of the company's Exchange environment and public folders then? Evolution certainly comes close, but every Microsoft update breaks it, which is expected... but the real problem is the restoration of functionality takes months sometimes.
Java is Andoid's Achilles Heel. Java apps are not pretty and are not fun... they are functional, and that's about the best thing you can say about them. Java is important in it's wide niche, but your group is going to lose big time if they think they can support a company making Java apps for phones. Ridiculous.
Open Source is the good. But were not going to see an avalanche of apps for Android like we have for, say, iPhone. Java apps are all it will run. Java is great for lots of stuff... but IMHO, running Java on a phone has been, and will continue to be a bad idea. I just don't forsee Java developers flocking to write cute little phone apps... what they do isn't easy and they work on serious stuff. And I've never seen a pretty Java app., just functional ones with clunky UI. It's hard to believe Google would make this mistake. I think the Android hype is going to dry up quick once consumers realize it's limitations.
Check out all the articles written about the Placebo Effect. Wikipedia is a good place to start. Yeah, it can cure cancer, you bet. Not saying it will, just saying it can. It's one of those big time mysteries of medical science.
But the poster's ask brings to the front a question I've been asking for years: Linux has virtuously duplicated nearly every Windows functionity... it's almost like that is Linux's purpose, a free alternative to anything available from Microsoft. Why isn't there an OSS integrated mail/cal client that duplicates Outlook's functionality, from push to public folders to scheduling and invites to calendar publishing?? It is due. Heck, I'd even be happy with a non-OSS alternative.
If my friends' doctor suggests a sugar pill to cure his multiple melanoma, I think Doc would be looking at a law suit.
Actually, not. No one knows why the placebo effect works, but it seems to work very well. Sugar pills cure all kinds of things, why not melanoma? Now if your friend's doctor suggested some common herb will put his Jackson on the Moon, I think the disappointment and humiliation could easy draw a 5 figure settlement.
no. The point is comedy. Its simply not funny to do what is expected... to pay and tip the delivery guy. And finally there is acknowledgment that people do not tip delivery guys. Not sure if you know, but delivery guys pay for the delivery with tips. So, its not really right to order an $8 delivery 7 miles from the restaurant then tip a dollar... delivery guy loses money on gas. Regardless of the amount for the food, tip should be minimum the price of a gallon of gas unless you live within a mile of the restaurant, in which case 10% will do.
I noticed that too. Apparently, once they turn it on, Zurich Time will speed up quite a bit. Also, usually when translating time zones, its traditional to use Eastern or Pacific time... because there's only a few hundred people living in Central or Mountain time zones... they just don't matter enough to be bothered with.
Thanks but no thank you. I'd like to speak to fellow human beings; you know, face to face.
Adapt or perish. 'face to face' is not a meaningful metric when it comes to the negative side of saving money or moving towards environmental responsibility.
Brilliant, obvious and totally doable on a short time scale (like, by the Monday after next, everyone telecommunting 3-5 days a week). Unfortunately, the lazy layabout management needs to make sure that everyone is still looking busy and never takes a few minutes to think about effecientcy, or the next obvious step will be to eliminate management, increasing productivity and reducing spending in one brilliant, long-time coming layoff.
You missed a step. Forgot "Try reinstalling the operating system and see if that helps." Then, when 6 hours after starting the installation the poor bastard that's still downloading updates realizes the system has already been compromised for at least the last 4 hours, begins screaming and yelling incoherently, he is escorted off the premises. Scrub, rinse, repeat.
Well, Labor Day is late Summer, and at elevation weather is always more extreme. Over recent history, haven't you noticed that the snows come later and linger longer? There was a snow storm late March 2 years ago... that just doesn't sit right with me that the biggest storms are arriving post-January rather than early December.
Leap days correct our orbit around the sun to keep December/January in the middle of winter for the Northern Hemisphere.
While true, that is the intent, has any one noticed that this has failed over the last 20 years or so? When I was a child, Winter was Winter, and the first snow fall in the Northeast was usually by Thanksgiving. Over the past couple decades, the first snowfall seems to be pushing itself into late January, mid-February. Used to be, the harshest part of Winter was Dec-Jan, now it seems firmly seated in February. And why is it every year we see an Indian Summer smack in the middle of Winter? By my reckoning, we're now at least a month off (April frost brings May snot).
It isn't the bandwidth, its the latency. When you're loading a 100K page and have literally seconds of latency due to DNS snafus or whatever else adds to it, its painful. But if my 800Mb download doesn't start for a few seconds, I don't really care because the download itself nears 700KB/s (not all that fast, but I'm OK with it for now).
The slowness of the Internet has less to do with users sapping bandwidth than it has to do with the cummulative latency of all the hops between you and you data.
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Its pretty clear in hindsight that had all the ballots been counted in FL, even not counting the loose chad ballots, but including the absentee ballots (that for no reason weren't counted) and letting that one county of old folks that incorrectly used the butterfly ballots revote, that Gore won FL by about 20,000 votes. At election time, the Republicans really begin to play dirty, and Democrats, for all their befuddlement, are generally not dishonest (maybe to a fault). The FL Republicans and the SCOTUS stole that election. Gore should hold his head high, there is no shame in being boned out of an election.
Well, Android is actually just google-shininess on top of Linux, so I'd say it adds to the Linux share
This is good news, despite my naysaying of exclusively Java Android. If this is true, I think we can expect to see a third party package management system (complementing Google's yet to appear answer to AppStore). My money is on apt. More importantly, we should see all other popular languages be ported... as it went for iPhone with Cydia, stuff like sh, perl, python, php... We'll likely even see C++ on Android eventually. I just don't think Java devs will show an interest enmasse, but once other dev platforms get ported we should see a flood of craziness from indy devs... like x86 VM's & WINE running God knows what...
Yeah, because everyone knows Java is an absurdly simple language to pick up! NOT! More than one Java developer has told me it takes a smart person 10 years to become completely proficient in Java. I just don't see a flood of apps coming from Indy devs... Java devs get paid well for complicated stuff... unless they truly have no life, I can't see them squandering their talents developing
OSS for Android. If you happen to be awesome at Java, then hit it -- you reign supreme. Although if you know Java, you could pick up Obj-C in a couple hours. Though there's already a ton of worthess apps for iPhone, a handful of truly amazing ones, I haven't seen any that are slow or ugly. Personally, I've never seen a Java app be anything more than utility... not pretty, not slick, certainly not fast... then again, I don't get out much.
One more point where summary is incorrect-- although not supported, the SDK and all the slick Apple developer tools work just fine under Tiger on an older (and practically given away) PPC from 2002.
I feel your pain.
I do like Evolution. But we do need to duplicate all the stupid things that the Exchange client does.
Great! So I'll just let the office know they won't be needing access to the rest of the company's Exchange environment and public folders then? Evolution certainly comes close, but every Microsoft update breaks it, which is expected... but the real problem is the restoration of functionality takes months sometimes.
Java is Andoid's Achilles Heel. Java apps are not pretty and are not fun... they are functional, and that's about the best thing you can say about them. Java is important in it's wide niche, but your group is going to lose big time if they think they can support a company making Java apps for phones. Ridiculous.
Open Source is the good. But were not going to see an avalanche of apps for Android like we have for, say, iPhone. Java apps are all it will run. Java is great for lots of stuff... but IMHO, running Java on a phone has been, and will continue to be a bad idea. I just don't forsee Java developers flocking to write cute little phone apps... what they do isn't easy and they work on serious stuff. And I've never seen a pretty Java app., just functional ones with clunky UI. It's hard to believe Google would make this mistake. I think the Android hype is going to dry up quick once consumers realize it's limitations.
see an OB/GYN & stfu, kthx
Check out all the articles written about the Placebo Effect. Wikipedia is a good place to start. Yeah, it can cure cancer, you bet. Not saying it will, just saying it can. It's one of those big time mysteries of medical science.
Outlook 2003 works under WINE.
But the poster's ask brings to the front a question I've been asking for years: Linux has virtuously duplicated nearly every Windows functionity... it's almost like that is Linux's purpose, a free alternative to anything available from Microsoft. Why isn't there an OSS integrated mail/cal client that duplicates Outlook's functionality, from push to public folders to scheduling and invites to calendar publishing?? It is due. Heck, I'd even be happy with a non-OSS alternative.
Thanks for the list!
Double checking, true Exchange replacements need a few points:
push email with calendaring integration and public folders
I've looked at Zimbra, but I discarded the idea because it was missing some functionality of Exchange... but I can't memenber what.
Point I'm asking is: do all these alternatives do push email and good calendaring integration?
If my friends' doctor suggests a sugar pill to cure his multiple melanoma, I think Doc would be looking at a law suit.
Actually, not. No one knows why the placebo effect works, but it seems to work very well. Sugar pills cure all kinds of things, why not melanoma? Now if your friend's doctor suggested some common herb will put his Jackson on the Moon, I think the disappointment and humiliation could easy draw a 5 figure settlement.
no. The point is comedy. Its simply not funny to do what is expected... to pay and tip the delivery guy. And finally there is acknowledgment that people do not tip delivery guys. Not sure if you know, but delivery guys pay for the delivery with tips. So, its not really right to order an $8 delivery 7 miles from the restaurant then tip a dollar... delivery guy loses money on gas. Regardless of the amount for the food, tip should be minimum the price of a gallon of gas unless you live within a mile of the restaurant, in which case 10% will do.
I agree... cute commercial, pretty funny. I think it'll be successful in showing we don't hate Bill Gates. Microsoft is another matter...
Whose the bigger fool: the fool, or the fool who argues with him?
Thanks but I already set up a cron to do periodic checks, and in the event of an apocolypse, it'll fire off an email notification.
I noticed that too. Apparently, once they turn it on, Zurich Time will speed up quite a bit. Also, usually when translating time zones, its traditional to use Eastern or Pacific time... because there's only a few hundred people living in Central or Mountain time zones... they just don't matter enough to be bothered with.
Thanks but no thank you. I'd like to speak to fellow human beings; you know, face to face.
Adapt or perish. 'face to face' is not a meaningful metric when it comes to the negative side of saving money or moving towards environmental responsibility.
Brilliant, obvious and totally doable on a short time scale (like, by the Monday after next, everyone telecommunting 3-5 days a week). Unfortunately, the lazy layabout management needs to make sure that everyone is still looking busy and never takes a few minutes to think about effecientcy, or the next obvious step will be to eliminate management, increasing productivity and reducing spending in one brilliant, long-time coming layoff.
You missed a step. Forgot "Try reinstalling the operating system and see if that helps." Then, when 6 hours after starting the installation the poor bastard that's still downloading updates realizes the system has already been compromised for at least the last 4 hours, begins screaming and yelling incoherently, he is escorted off the premises. Scrub, rinse, repeat.
Well, Labor Day is late Summer, and at elevation weather is always more extreme. Over recent history, haven't you noticed that the snows come later and linger longer? There was a snow storm late March 2 years ago... that just doesn't sit right with me that the biggest storms are arriving post-January rather than early December.
Leap days correct our orbit around the sun to keep December/January in the middle of winter for the Northern Hemisphere.
While true, that is the intent, has any one noticed that this has failed over the last 20 years or so? When I was a child, Winter was Winter, and the first snow fall in the Northeast was usually by Thanksgiving. Over the past couple decades, the first snowfall seems to be pushing itself into late January, mid-February. Used to be, the harshest part of Winter was Dec-Jan, now it seems firmly seated in February. And why is it every year we see an Indian Summer smack in the middle of Winter? By my reckoning, we're now at least a month off (April frost brings May snot).
Where do YOU live? For $2.65 I can't even get a drink.
It isn't the bandwidth, its the latency. When you're loading a 100K page and have literally seconds of latency due to DNS snafus or whatever else adds to it, its painful. But if my 800Mb download doesn't start for a few seconds, I don't really care because the download itself nears 700KB/s (not all that fast, but I'm OK with it for now).
The slowness of the Internet has less to do with users sapping bandwidth than it has to do with the cummulative latency of all the hops between you and you data.