Do you have a source for that? If they used.NET with a Microsoft implementation of XSLT (with the ddwrt namespace), you can indeed easily have a problem if a programmer was using a certain standard (American version eg.) and his Canadian counterpart the other standard. I am currently developing something similar and to be honest, the Microsoft extension of XSLT is a pain in the *** if you work with dates/times.
But what stops "them" from giving out an address range like aaa1::::::, aaa2, aaa3 to each exploration company that will investigate space in the near future. That is what happened with IPv4 too, they gave a full range to somebody that didn't need it right away.
That is 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8 and 172.16.0.0/12 for you, you insensitive clod. And remember, 172.16 is a 12-bit netmask, not a/16 and definitely not a/8 (I think HP owns a few of the other ranges in 172.x.x.x which usually gets blocked within a firewalled/natted network by an anal admin that didn't pay enough attention.
NAT though is NOT a solution, it's a patch, a fix to a problem of running out of space. There should be enough IP's out there for everyone, but the '/8 should be enough for the average company' idea from the 80's-early 90's screwed us all up. Each Coca Cola or IBM-owned computer for example could have it's own public IP, the way it should be, but they own 16M+ addresses, way too much for their needs. But anyway, IPv6 is going to keep us out of trouble for now until we make the same mistake (history has a tendency to repeat itself) and we have to invent IPv8 or so.
Next to that IPv4 has been missing some major features and runs into problems with large networks and (very) fast links (talking 10Gigabit for example) IPv6 will solve for us, it routes faster, it has inheritely support for multicast and jumboframes, IPSec and mobile versions while IPv4 usually has that functionality bolted on (sometimes implemented slightly different with each manufacturer).
I'm old and interested enough to know what REALLY happened through the history:
First, as taught in any school book and computer manual through history (see Apple, Amiga, Microsoft, Commodore): 1024 bytes = 1Kilobyte, 1024 Kilobyte = 1 Megabyte etc. because the computer could only calculate in exponents of 2 (1 and 0) and 20MB (20480 kilobyte) was about the largest size hard drive you could get.
A Kilobyte is 1024 (2^10) bytes. A Megabyte is 1024 Kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes (2^20) and a Gigabyte is 1024 Megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes (2^30), some background data on what comes next can also be found here: http://www.actionfront.com/hdtech1.html
As soon as the hard drives began to hit 1000MB and the price/capacity got obfuscated as well as the need to count with cylinders, headers and sectors and calculate your partitions based on that (yes, we used to do that for minimal loss of capacity and performance), people started to forget about the extra 24MB on the hard disk, because now it was not 1000MB but 1 Gig and of course the manufacturers started using 1000MB as 1GB etc. And then we could avoid talking about Int13h for addressing hard disks, we got translating BIOS'es and everybody forgot that we used to have 1024 bytes in a kilobyte. As you know, RAM still uses the correct count because we're still not mainstream on >4G of RAM but I imagine manufacturers will start 'forgetting' too and labeling 1000MB as 1GB
and charging a lot for it too! I heard it was somewhere between $500-$2000 for a patch depending how old your M$-software is (I'm talking WinNT3&4, and yes I know big credit card systems that are still running these). Yeah, all Unix servers just updated zoneinfo, now you see what you get for being locked into a system you can't change yourself.
By the way: good luck with stuff like SharePoint, if you didn't configure your timezones for each site, it automatically references PST (yes, Pacific), no matter what the rest of your computer configuration says.
And good Windows admins or not, one of the companies I work for has Microsoft themselves updating their Exchange since it already failed twice, screwing up their times and they haven't been successful so far
Currently running Office 2007 at work here, only Outlook, Word and SharePoint Designer open uses already near 300MB for these programs alone (not including OS or any supporting daemons).
Wait until you get into the more 'web-based' options in Microsoft's products. SharePoint (2007) for example stores all dates in Pacific time if you don't specify anything. I was expecting either local time or GMT or follow whatever the computer/SQL database has set, but no, if you don't specify it, it uses Pacific.
It's not because somebody is all-knowing, they know everything that is going to happen. If people have free will, then the deity doesn't know what the free will, will choose. Sure you can make a certain choice more favorable, but the choice is still to be made. Thus an all-knowing deity imho is a deity that can see the result of certain actions (more like a chess-player is 'all-knowing' of the game) by knowing all of the past choices, the options and the character of the person itself. I believe there is more of a 'known plan' going on with this world and people in it, people can still make their own choices, but there are certain things that are more or less guided for this masterplan to come through.
You know, it's still a government agency! They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous chair-throwing Ballmer of Redmond without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found, queried, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighter.
I think the only document format that would qualify is ODF (by OASIS). It's the only well known document format, based on XML and extensible, open and implemented by different vendors and office suites.
You have free (software), which means I can own (the program) and don't have to pay (for a fully working version). Whether that be a closed source or open source piece of software, doesn't matter. Before or after compilation, they give it to me for nothing (public domain, freeware)
You have free, open source, which means that I (personally) can only own the source code and don't have to pay for the fully finished version. Whether the binary blob and/or support during or after compilation becomes paid software or a service is none of my business, I own the source code now and can modify it to whatever I want to do with it, rip out the license number requirement for example. This is usually source code in public domain (like )
Licenses on the other hand is another beasty. A license is a contract (whether or not that can be implied by just reading/accepting it is something I rather leave to the lawyers) between you and another entity (be that a programmer or a company) which says what you get (a binary blob, an installer, the source code), what you can do with it (modify it, debug it) and what the constraints are in using/modifying the program (commercial, notify me). I don't know how far those contracts are legitimate in different countries (like EULA's in Europe or the GPL on the Cayman's)
GPL licensed software is indeed open source, since you can get the open source, but you are constrained by the license, so it is not truly free software. But then again, nothing is free in this world, everything comes with a certain cost (even breathing 'costs' you brain-time and energy), if you are willing to pay the price (be that the bandwidth, time, constraints...) then you have obtained something that you think is of value. The seller (whether that be the programmer) also thinks he got his value out of it (whether it is on his resume, or just feeling good, or needing somebody (the community) to fix problems).
Whatever people do, they always do it to get something out of it, there is nothing that you will do if it wouldn't have a certain value to you. All people are thus egoistic and you can't contend THAT.
Keep your finger/hand of your mouse (or trackpad) while your typing you big dummy. Happens with every laptop you will have (had iBook, PowerBook, HP, Toshiba, Dell), I usually disable the 'feature' that disables the trackpad while I'm typing (is in Linux, Windows and Mac too). And you might not always notice that you're using the trackpad thus in the beginning I was annoyed at it too, I have pretty big hands and these days they make everything so darn small.
It's not that it's THEIR network, such things get hugely funded by local, regional and federal governments. It also runs in public property (the streets) and thus could cost a lot of civilians (driving eg) some money going around traffic while they are working on it.
Next to that, the law doesn't state that they have to give it away for free, in a 'free business' (or liberal?) market, DT would start charging huge amounts of money for using their network, disproportionate to the actual cost, to keep newcomers out the market. That and DT used to be (and might still be partially) state-owned like in a lot of European countries (Belgium has Belgacom for example)
...not to run Windows on those machines. They HAD to upgrade to Vista because of all the cool 'features' the pilots would like to see. First we had to put more ram in and an extra video card, now this... I'm telling ya, next time Microsoft gives them a better deal because they're switching to Linux, they shouldn't accept.
Really, I don't like the way that Merck is pushing to get their product out the door.
I think such vaccinations should not be pushed upon the people, especially if only one company sells it. It would give them a monopoly on this vaccine, a government funded monopoly for that.
I think we should first test it out further before getting the whole population vaccined. Once it's a generic product, then we should maybe recommend it highly to everybody. I hate to have a government forced vaccination, kinda like Hitler had the Jews, gays and certain religious groups tagged.
I can remember, as well as the autoexec.bat lines, the good old days... optimizing himem.sys and emm386.exe and then making a choice menu in DR-DOS one for games (himem.sys) and one for the rest (emm386.exe) and then later optimizing it that games run in protected memory by tweaking the command line of emm386.exe
No, Vista is more like the ugly fat mother (constantly nagging, no you can't do that or are you sure you want to do that or I'll tell that to your father (Balmer) when he gets home) trying to seduce YOU who are dating the far hotter, younger daughters (Linux & OS X). You don't want her, and anytime she tries to get your attention, it either induces a vomit-like nuisance or it's just plain annoying.
Well, I know your pun was intended, but for the people that don't understand the play on names here goes his answer:
Because ooxml is NOT an open standard. ODF is a truly open standard which everybody can use and implement and extend. With OOXML you're again at the whims of a large industry monopolist and nobody wants that anymore do they?
Should have used preview. What I meant was the stuff you see on the bottom when you submit to/., I am too lazy to change the < to < and the > to >
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Do you have a source for that? If they used .NET with a Microsoft implementation of XSLT (with the ddwrt namespace), you can indeed easily have a problem if a programmer was using a certain standard (American version eg.) and his Canadian counterpart the other standard. I am currently developing something similar and to be honest, the Microsoft extension of XSLT is a pain in the *** if you work with dates/times.
But what stops "them" from giving out an address range like aaa1::::::, aaa2, aaa3 to each exploration company that will investigate space in the near future. That is what happened with IPv4 too, they gave a full range to somebody that didn't need it right away.
Compare OS/2 with Windows XP and you'll see the same results. If OS/2 would have had Win32 compatibility back in the day...
That is 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8 and 172.16.0.0/12 for you, you insensitive clod. And remember, 172.16 is a 12-bit netmask, not a /16 and definitely not a /8 (I think HP owns a few of the other ranges in 172.x.x.x which usually gets blocked within a firewalled/natted network by an anal admin that didn't pay enough attention.
NAT though is NOT a solution, it's a patch, a fix to a problem of running out of space. There should be enough IP's out there for everyone, but the '/8 should be enough for the average company' idea from the 80's-early 90's screwed us all up. Each Coca Cola or IBM-owned computer for example could have it's own public IP, the way it should be, but they own 16M+ addresses, way too much for their needs. But anyway, IPv6 is going to keep us out of trouble for now until we make the same mistake (history has a tendency to repeat itself) and we have to invent IPv8 or so.
Next to that IPv4 has been missing some major features and runs into problems with large networks and (very) fast links (talking 10Gigabit for example) IPv6 will solve for us, it routes faster, it has inheritely support for multicast and jumboframes, IPSec and mobile versions while IPv4 usually has that functionality bolted on (sometimes implemented slightly different with each manufacturer).
I'm old and interested enough to know what REALLY happened through the history:
First, as taught in any school book and computer manual through history (see Apple, Amiga, Microsoft, Commodore): 1024 bytes = 1Kilobyte, 1024 Kilobyte = 1 Megabyte etc. because the computer could only calculate in exponents of 2 (1 and 0) and 20MB (20480 kilobyte) was about the largest size hard drive you could get.
A Kilobyte is 1024 (2^10) bytes. A Megabyte is 1024 Kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes (2^20) and a Gigabyte is 1024 Megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes (2^30), some background data on what comes next can also be found here: http://www.actionfront.com/hdtech1.html
As soon as the hard drives began to hit 1000MB and the price/capacity got obfuscated as well as the need to count with cylinders, headers and sectors and calculate your partitions based on that (yes, we used to do that for minimal loss of capacity and performance), people started to forget about the extra 24MB on the hard disk, because now it was not 1000MB but 1 Gig and of course the manufacturers started using 1000MB as 1GB etc. And then we could avoid talking about Int13h for addressing hard disks, we got translating BIOS'es and everybody forgot that we used to have 1024 bytes in a kilobyte. As you know, RAM still uses the correct count because we're still not mainstream on >4G of RAM but I imagine manufacturers will start 'forgetting' too and labeling 1000MB as 1GB
and charging a lot for it too! I heard it was somewhere between $500-$2000 for a patch depending how old your M$-software is (I'm talking WinNT3&4, and yes I know big credit card systems that are still running these). Yeah, all Unix servers just updated zoneinfo, now you see what you get for being locked into a system you can't change yourself.
By the way: good luck with stuff like SharePoint, if you didn't configure your timezones for each site, it automatically references PST (yes, Pacific), no matter what the rest of your computer configuration says.
And good Windows admins or not, one of the companies I work for has Microsoft themselves updating their Exchange since it already failed twice, screwing up their times and they haven't been successful so far
Currently running Office 2007 at work here, only Outlook, Word and SharePoint Designer open uses already near 300MB for these programs alone (not including OS or any supporting daemons).
Wait until you get into the more 'web-based' options in Microsoft's products. SharePoint (2007) for example stores all dates in Pacific time if you don't specify anything. I was expecting either local time or GMT or follow whatever the computer/SQL database has set, but no, if you don't specify it, it uses Pacific.
It's not because somebody is all-knowing, they know everything that is going to happen. If people have free will, then the deity doesn't know what the free will, will choose. Sure you can make a certain choice more favorable, but the choice is still to be made. Thus an all-knowing deity imho is a deity that can see the result of certain actions (more like a chess-player is 'all-knowing' of the game) by knowing all of the past choices, the options and the character of the person itself. I believe there is more of a 'known plan' going on with this world and people in it, people can still make their own choices, but there are certain things that are more or less guided for this masterplan to come through.
You know, it's still a government agency! They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous chair-throwing Ballmer of Redmond without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found, queried, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighter.
My server already runs Domino, why is he re-implementing this?
...but they overslept anyway, in their bed built of cash, FUD and chairs.
...bacteria store YOU... especially if you are addicted to the Intarhweb
I think the only document format that would qualify is ODF (by OASIS). It's the only well known document format, based on XML and extensible, open and implemented by different vendors and office suites.
The meaning of the word... nothing else:
...) then you have obtained something that you think is of value. The seller (whether that be the programmer) also thinks he got his value out of it (whether it is on his resume, or just feeling good, or needing somebody (the community) to fix problems).
You have free (software), which means I can own (the program) and don't have to pay (for a fully working version). Whether that be a closed source or open source piece of software, doesn't matter. Before or after compilation, they give it to me for nothing (public domain, freeware)
You have free, open source, which means that I (personally) can only own the source code and don't have to pay for the fully finished version. Whether the binary blob and/or support during or after compilation becomes paid software or a service is none of my business, I own the source code now and can modify it to whatever I want to do with it, rip out the license number requirement for example. This is usually source code in public domain (like )
Licenses on the other hand is another beasty. A license is a contract (whether or not that can be implied by just reading/accepting it is something I rather leave to the lawyers) between you and another entity (be that a programmer or a company) which says what you get (a binary blob, an installer, the source code), what you can do with it (modify it, debug it) and what the constraints are in using/modifying the program (commercial, notify me). I don't know how far those contracts are legitimate in different countries (like EULA's in Europe or the GPL on the Cayman's)
GPL licensed software is indeed open source, since you can get the open source, but you are constrained by the license, so it is not truly free software. But then again, nothing is free in this world, everything comes with a certain cost (even breathing 'costs' you brain-time and energy), if you are willing to pay the price (be that the bandwidth, time, constraints
Whatever people do, they always do it to get something out of it, there is nothing that you will do if it wouldn't have a certain value to you. All people are thus egoistic and you can't contend THAT.
Keep your finger/hand of your mouse (or trackpad) while your typing you big dummy. Happens with every laptop you will have (had iBook, PowerBook, HP, Toshiba, Dell), I usually disable the 'feature' that disables the trackpad while I'm typing (is in Linux, Windows and Mac too). And you might not always notice that you're using the trackpad thus in the beginning I was annoyed at it too, I have pretty big hands and these days they make everything so darn small.
It's not that it's THEIR network, such things get hugely funded by local, regional and federal governments. It also runs in public property (the streets) and thus could cost a lot of civilians (driving eg) some money going around traffic while they are working on it.
Next to that, the law doesn't state that they have to give it away for free, in a 'free business' (or liberal?) market, DT would start charging huge amounts of money for using their network, disproportionate to the actual cost, to keep newcomers out the market. That and DT used to be (and might still be partially) state-owned like in a lot of European countries (Belgium has Belgacom for example)
The Newton had 2 PCMCIA slots. There have been Newtons signaled with modems, ethernet, wifi, cell modems (dial-up or 3g)
...not to run Windows on those machines. They HAD to upgrade to Vista because of all the cool 'features' the pilots would like to see. First we had to put more ram in and an extra video card, now this... I'm telling ya, next time Microsoft gives them a better deal because they're switching to Linux, they shouldn't accept.
Really, I don't like the way that Merck is pushing to get their product out the door.
I think such vaccinations should not be pushed upon the people, especially if only one company sells it. It would give them a monopoly on this vaccine, a government funded monopoly for that.
I think we should first test it out further before getting the whole population vaccined. Once it's a generic product, then we should maybe recommend it highly to everybody. I hate to have a government forced vaccination, kinda like Hitler had the Jews, gays and certain religious groups tagged.
I can remember, as well as the autoexec.bat lines, the good old days... optimizing himem.sys and emm386.exe and then making a choice menu in DR-DOS one for games (himem.sys) and one for the rest (emm386.exe) and then later optimizing it that games run in protected memory by tweaking the command line of emm386.exe
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=122363
No, Vista is more like the ugly fat mother (constantly nagging, no you can't do that or are you sure you want to do that or I'll tell that to your father (Balmer) when he gets home) trying to seduce YOU who are dating the far hotter, younger daughters (Linux & OS X). You don't want her, and anytime she tries to get your attention, it either induces a vomit-like nuisance or it's just plain annoying.
Well, I know your pun was intended, but for the people that don't understand the play on names here goes his answer:
Because ooxml is NOT an open standard. ODF is a truly open standard which everybody can use and implement and extend. With OOXML you're again at the whims of a large industry monopolist and nobody wants that anymore do they?
Should have used preview. What I meant was the stuff you see on the bottom when you submit to /., I am too lazy to change the < to < and the > to >