Apple without Jobs would definitely be perceived differently by consumers.
Outside of tech and business circles, does the average consumer even know who Steve Jobs is? If you walked into a Best Buy and asked the girl that was eyeing a new iPod who Steve Jobs is, would she even have any idea?
Ugh....why the heck would I want to put this in my pocket? Scratch city and smudges. Clamshell phones all the way. Maybe I could put it on my Batman utility belt....nahhhhh, I think I'll pass. I'm with Verizon anyway, so it doesn't matter. Everyone who gets this can have fun with their overglorified iPod because they won't be able to make actual *phone calls*. Cingular's coverage sucks. Doesn't anybody just want a phone to make calls anymore?!?
It's amusing whenever there's an article mentioning something like "Web 2.0" or "AJAX" or "blogs" that the Slashdot community jumps over itself in condemning the stupidity of said terms; however, I would bet that a vast majority of the/. crowd are actually responsible for either creating or improving or somehow working on said terms. You're telling me no one here actively develops and promotes flashy new web technologies, or runs blogs, or any of the other new-fangled gee-whiz aspects of the tech world? Puhleeze...
Interesting - I've not heard of Bacula before now, but it sounds very cool. I'm with a small small business, but they've been using BackupExec for some time now. It's a Windows shop, and so they're backing up a Win2003 file server, and SQL Server 2000 databases. I know they had to buy extra addons on top of the BE software in order to interact with the databases (so they wouldn't have to start and stop the db service) and to be able to backup "open" files. They're all backing up to a VXA tape library. Is Bacula able to be a viable replacement for a setup like this? I'm not sure if they'd be up for setting up a new linux server, but if it could run on a windows server and take care of client backups, too...that'd be pretty sweet. Perhaps I'll have to try it out on my home setup for a bit!
Huh, strange. My experience has been the total opposite. I have my gmail address, my vanity domain address, and a business address, all being sent to the gmail address. My vanity domain's host uses SpamAssassin, and it's hit or miss. It gets most Spam's, but it also has wrongly marked some. My business address used to also be on another host, also using SpamAssassin. I'm not sure how it's set up, but they changed ISP's or something and my work address went from allowing maybe 1-3 spams through a week to letting through 10-15 a day.
Since I started forwarded everything to gmail, though...gmail's been flagging spam for all addresses correctly. I get maybe 1 spam every couple of weeks that gets through...and have only seen a few that were falsely flagged. I guess each experience is different! Personally, I would think that gmail's ability to let *all* of it's users "mark as spam" would let their filters be highly tuned.
Maybe I'm not fully understanding what it is you're trying to do....but if you're running an IMAP server at home, why would it ever be turned off? That's your *mail* server. And if there's the possibility of it being turned off, maybe you should look for a hosted solution or something?
How do I manage mail between a laptop and a desktop? I bought my own domain and pay for budget hosting. They provide IMAP mail servers. I used to check everything with Thunderbird using IMAP, and then when I wasn't at my computer with Thunderbird, I could log into the webmail interface and everything would be there.
Now, I actually have everything forwarded to my gmail account. Yes, I went to the dark side, but gmail's web interface and spam control can't be beat. And now I don't have to maintain a local Thunderbird install or anything else. All of my email can be checked and worked with remotely from anywhere. It really isn't that hard!
Wow, just skimmed that site and played with the demo a bit and it looks pretty awesome. I used to do some tech work for a local library, and they used a management system from Follett, and had a massive upgrade from an older version to a newer version while I was there. Does Evergreen offer any sort of importing or upgrading from other management systems? This sound like it would be very beneficial to public libraries, especially if the regional co-ops/consortiums adopted it. But unless they can easily import their existing catalogs into the OSS software, they're probably not going to want to re-add and redo their existing setups altogether.
Define "operate". Yes, a PC without an OS will technically power up, but I think you'd be hard pressed to do anything with it without an OS of some sort. Have fun staring at "Please insert boot media..." all day long. Oooo, the lights will probably blink some, too, and you could spend all day going through the BIOS options. But other than that, you've got a nice paperweight without the OS.
Hmmmm, four paper bills or four coins jangling around in my pocket? Which would I prefer? Any change from anything immediately gets dumped into my car for use in vending machines or toll roads because I hate carrying change in my pockets. I'd sure love to be dropping dollars and higher into that box rather than pennies and nickels. Maybe it works for you and your purse, but thanks, I'll pass.
I'll remember that next time I go to the strip club and slip sockojaweea's in the girl's g-string. Or pull out my $50 bill to pay for a stick of gum because that's the lowest denomination in my pocket. I'm not going to waste using a credit card for a $1.27 purchase.
There is still a market for petty cash/coinage, and carrying petty cash is much better than carrying petty coins.
Again, why the fuck would I want to carry around a pocket full of dollar coins? It's not because the dollar bill is worthless, it's because carrying around 15 bucks in coins is a pain in the ass compared to 15 bucks in dollar bills.
Because we already have dollar coins and they're a pain in the ass? Why in the fuck would I want to carry around a pocket of coins when paper bills are infinitely more convenient?
I keep hearing about how great FIOS is, blah blah blah, yet according to dslreports it's nowhere to be found near me. I'm in the midwest (Northwestern Indiana now, Kalamazoo Michigan soon), and there's neither anything nearby now, or according to their maps in the future. What the crap? How long do I have to live with the crapulance that is Comcast?
^^ Yes, what he said! I'm already on ASP.NET, I'm just wondering if the GWT is a valid alternative to the MS integrated AJAX solution. I'll have to check out the scriptaculous...
Actually, depending on your variation, wouldn't it be...
"You will have to search out mechanics on your own, and in most cases if you find them they will laugh at you for being too stupid to use the car, and point you to libraries spread throughout the country. In each of those libraries there will be manuals that give small, different chunks that sort of relate to the problem you're having. Sometimes you will be lucky enough to find a mechanic who has seen your problem before, and actually gives you a straight answer and gets you back on the road. But good luck on the rest of the times.":-/
I would think that the whole point of an online journal / blog would be to *encourage* the two-way communication between author and readers. Otherwise, why post online - why not just write in a notebook or a text file that you keep private?
By posting anything online, I feel that an author is implicitly looking for feedback from others, whether he wishes to admit it or not.
Can anyone name a job for which a CS degree is the best qualification?
Um, because most programming openings list a BS in CS as a minimum requirement? It's a whole lot easier to get your foot in that interview door with a CS degree than just listing 5 years of writing little apps on your own at home. Does listing on your resume reference books that you've read work?
but really, this is useless until we have a follow-up story. I mean, it's already been debated to death on the importance of voting machine accuracy. When will we find out *why* this happened?
Ummmmm, last time I checked programming languages weren't a religion, as much as some around here like to think so. They're just tools, tools used to get a job done. I would think the smart man would use whatever tool is best for the job, and train himself in that which is most lucrative.
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Why not call it the IPHN?
Ugh....why the heck would I want to put this in my pocket? Scratch city and smudges. Clamshell phones all the way. Maybe I could put it on my Batman utility belt....nahhhhh, I think I'll pass. I'm with Verizon anyway, so it doesn't matter. Everyone who gets this can have fun with their overglorified iPod because they won't be able to make actual *phone calls*. Cingular's coverage sucks. Doesn't anybody just want a phone to make calls anymore?!?
It's amusing whenever there's an article mentioning something like "Web 2.0" or "AJAX" or "blogs" that the Slashdot community jumps over itself in condemning the stupidity of said terms; however, I would bet that a vast majority of the /. crowd are actually responsible for either creating or improving or somehow working on said terms. You're telling me no one here actively develops and promotes flashy new web technologies, or runs blogs, or any of the other new-fangled gee-whiz aspects of the tech world? Puhleeze...
Interesting - I've not heard of Bacula before now, but it sounds very cool. I'm with a small small business, but they've been using BackupExec for some time now. It's a Windows shop, and so they're backing up a Win2003 file server, and SQL Server 2000 databases. I know they had to buy extra addons on top of the BE software in order to interact with the databases (so they wouldn't have to start and stop the db service) and to be able to backup "open" files. They're all backing up to a VXA tape library. Is Bacula able to be a viable replacement for a setup like this? I'm not sure if they'd be up for setting up a new linux server, but if it could run on a windows server and take care of client backups, too...that'd be pretty sweet. Perhaps I'll have to try it out on my home setup for a bit!
Huh, strange. My experience has been the total opposite. I have my gmail address, my vanity domain address, and a business address, all being sent to the gmail address. My vanity domain's host uses SpamAssassin, and it's hit or miss. It gets most Spam's, but it also has wrongly marked some. My business address used to also be on another host, also using SpamAssassin. I'm not sure how it's set up, but they changed ISP's or something and my work address went from allowing maybe 1-3 spams through a week to letting through 10-15 a day.
Since I started forwarded everything to gmail, though...gmail's been flagging spam for all addresses correctly. I get maybe 1 spam every couple of weeks that gets through...and have only seen a few that were falsely flagged. I guess each experience is different! Personally, I would think that gmail's ability to let *all* of it's users "mark as spam" would let their filters be highly tuned.
Maybe I'm not fully understanding what it is you're trying to do....but if you're running an IMAP server at home, why would it ever be turned off? That's your *mail* server. And if there's the possibility of it being turned off, maybe you should look for a hosted solution or something?
How do I manage mail between a laptop and a desktop? I bought my own domain and pay for budget hosting. They provide IMAP mail servers. I used to check everything with Thunderbird using IMAP, and then when I wasn't at my computer with Thunderbird, I could log into the webmail interface and everything would be there.
Now, I actually have everything forwarded to my gmail account. Yes, I went to the dark side, but gmail's web interface and spam control can't be beat. And now I don't have to maintain a local Thunderbird install or anything else. All of my email can be checked and worked with remotely from anywhere. It really isn't that hard!
Wow, just skimmed that site and played with the demo a bit and it looks pretty awesome. I used to do some tech work for a local library, and they used a management system from Follett, and had a massive upgrade from an older version to a newer version while I was there. Does Evergreen offer any sort of importing or upgrading from other management systems? This sound like it would be very beneficial to public libraries, especially if the regional co-ops/consortiums adopted it. But unless they can easily import their existing catalogs into the OSS software, they're probably not going to want to re-add and redo their existing setups altogether.
Define "operate". Yes, a PC without an OS will technically power up, but I think you'd be hard pressed to do anything with it without an OS of some sort. Have fun staring at "Please insert boot media..." all day long. Oooo, the lights will probably blink some, too, and you could spend all day going through the BIOS options. But other than that, you've got a nice paperweight without the OS.
Hmmmm, four paper bills or four coins jangling around in my pocket? Which would I prefer? Any change from anything immediately gets dumped into my car for use in vending machines or toll roads because I hate carrying change in my pockets. I'd sure love to be dropping dollars and higher into that box rather than pennies and nickels. Maybe it works for you and your purse, but thanks, I'll pass.
I'll remember that next time I go to the strip club and slip sockojaweea's in the girl's g-string. Or pull out my $50 bill to pay for a stick of gum because that's the lowest denomination in my pocket. I'm not going to waste using a credit card for a $1.27 purchase.
There is still a market for petty cash/coinage, and carrying petty cash is much better than carrying petty coins.
Again, why the fuck would I want to carry around a pocket full of dollar coins? It's not because the dollar bill is worthless, it's because carrying around 15 bucks in coins is a pain in the ass compared to 15 bucks in dollar bills.
Because we already have dollar coins and they're a pain in the ass? Why in the fuck would I want to carry around a pocket of coins when paper bills are infinitely more convenient?
My vote goes to the Colbert Mountains
I keep hearing about how great FIOS is, blah blah blah, yet according to dslreports it's nowhere to be found near me. I'm in the midwest (Northwestern Indiana now, Kalamazoo Michigan soon), and there's neither anything nearby now, or according to their maps in the future. What the crap? How long do I have to live with the crapulance that is Comcast?
When will OO get the menu ribbon? It sure is nice to have a good free competitor to Office 97 out there...
^^ Yes, what he said! I'm already on ASP.NET, I'm just wondering if the GWT is a valid alternative to the MS integrated AJAX solution. I'll have to check out the scriptaculous...
Could this be used as an alternative to MS's Atlas/AJAX.NET with ASP.NET? Would I want to use GWT instead of the MS way?
Actually, depending on your variation, wouldn't it be...
:-/
"You will have to search out mechanics on your own, and in most cases if you find them they will laugh at you for being too stupid to use the car, and point you to libraries spread throughout the country. In each of those libraries there will be manuals that give small, different chunks that sort of relate to the problem you're having. Sometimes you will be lucky enough to find a mechanic who has seen your problem before, and actually gives you a straight answer and gets you back on the road. But good luck on the rest of the times."
I would think that the whole point of an online journal / blog would be to *encourage* the two-way communication between author and readers. Otherwise, why post online - why not just write in a notebook or a text file that you keep private?
By posting anything online, I feel that an author is implicitly looking for feedback from others, whether he wishes to admit it or not.
Ugh, please don't coin this term to refer to Google buying YouTube. It sounds like some Elmer's glue product, or a porn site.
but really, this is useless until we have a follow-up story. I mean, it's already been debated to death on the importance of voting machine accuracy. When will we find out *why* this happened?
Ummmmm, last time I checked programming languages weren't a religion, as much as some around here like to think so. They're just tools, tools used to get a job done. I would think the smart man would use whatever tool is best for the job, and train himself in that which is most lucrative.