Ok, this statement was thrown in my face a while back.
Its easy to go from 1 to 2 users or 2 to 4 and claim a fantastic growth rate, but what constitutes that magic number of users before its truly a desktop operating system being used daily by enough of a mass to catch the attention of large software development firms that will create/port applications to linux?
Is growth rate in terms of number of desktops conquered (eg growth rate of 1.5 million desktops a year) a better measuring stick than doubled/tripled/whatever the number of users in X years. What, in your opinion, is a good measuring tool in determining the growth rate/acceptance of linux in the market?
What about building this virtual worlds to thoroughly test their landers/robots/etc before sending them millions of miles to see them fail?
Seems like building dropping these landers from high altitudes and landing in these land scapes might be just the thing they need to do before sending the next lander to its doom.
Its interesting that the links info is a bit outdated. (http://www.fordreallysucks.com/more_in fo.html)
The page hasn't been updated in some time. Nasser is no longer president/ceo of ford. In fact, a Ford family member (William Clay Ford) is now running things again (which hasn't happened in a while).
Check out http://money.cnn.com/2001/10/30/ceos/ford/ for info.
I don't know about anyone else but I don't really look at taking over the world through my programming job. (Granted, that would be a nice second job...) I enjoy the field because of the daily challenges that it presents. Not only that, every time a new project comes along (or I change jobs) I get to learn a new industry.
Warning: next part sounds like a 'consultant' speaking. But I find it interesting how a person entrenched in a job for 4+ years quite often is wearing blinders, unable to tell what happens in the company after the order/invoice/whatever leaves her desk. Its kind of interesting to learn why things are done the way they are (often because, its always been.. or the person before me did it this way... or thats the only way I know..) and offer alternatives/different paths/etc. Just my 2 cents..
I saw this commercial last night while watching tv.
Its great. Fairly humorous commercial. The cow and the 'owner' of gateway (as you have seen him in other gateway commercials) are singing along while driving down the highway. Its hilarious. Then they ask if you like the song (a black screen, white font), then they say if you do, go download it at the gateway website, and burn it to cd.
I have never understood why we give tons of money to companies/universities/etc only to see the ideas patented or something else, and not released to the general public for use. If you were paid by the public, let the public have the benefits.
What if we paid Company X to build a bridge on private lands with public money, to only be used by the person who owns the private land. It just doesn't seem right.
While I am not certain, I see the entries for Davide Libenzi, Ingo Molnar on scheduler improvements. Ingo published a huge scheduler update that looks promising, might be worth checking it out if you have a system under high load that tends to be come poky/etc.
I believe there was some discussion of integrating Ingo's patch with the preemptive patch, should be good for everyone.
Passing an electric current from one conductor to another can make the interface between them hotter or colder, depending on the direction of the current.
So.. instead of a fan, can I put a thermoelectric cooler on top of the chip so as to eliminate that noisy, always failing, fan?
Does this use a huge amount of power as compared to the fan?
What about using the vacuum to help run the wire? Tie some light but strong string to a sponge or table top tennis ball that will easily fit through the system. Put ball/string in outlet (tieing the opposite end to something..) Turn the vacuum on.. and when the ball hits the canister turn the vacuum off.. next pull the cat 5 with the string... Seems good in theory.. who knows in practice....
I rarely have cash on my person. I frequenty go weeks/months without any cash. I use my check card, credit card, and occasionally (rarely) the check book.
The only time I get cash is when something requires it. Eg: street vendors, computer swap-meets, yard sales, etc.
And I will go out of my way to visit places that do not require cash but will take a credit card. Why do I rarley eat at McDonalds anymore? Simple: They don't take my check card. My Code Red Mt. Dew slush at 7-11 goes on the check card.
Besides, its a wonder how much I save since I don't have access to most vending machines/etc without cash.
It seems I see Mysql failures all the time... Does no one use postgres? Or does it just not fail? Not looking to flame, I just would like to know a little bit about the reliability of each...
Hmm.. Why don't we just go back to the days of Kings and Queens..
We have rules, and you can purchase a copy for $19.95 (all rights reserved). Otherwise take your chances and see if you break our rules. Oh yes, lending your purchased legal copy of the rules to somone else is a violation, and you will be fined. (of course, you would have known this had you purchased the rules..)
I've been to Denison, TX (sister city to Cognac, France fyi (thanks Mr. Craig)). Its not that pretty of a city.
So I guess the goal would be to hack into the 'host' system. That way you can copy the virtual machines data file (isn't it just one big nice file in vmware?) and have a complete copy of the virtual system... and all its data...
I think partly wireless is not yet in 'full force' because of a lack of hardware. People want a do everything, go everywhere device that last all day on a single battery. They want full color, crisp sound, and no worry of storage/etc. They want it to be connected to, ready to do anything anywhere.
Cheap hardware like this doesn't exist but when it does I think its then we will see an explosion in wireless demands.
You can argue than WinCE, PalmOS, etc. can do this now but I would disagree. I want something that can do everything my desktop can do with little or no sacrifice. Wouldn't it be great to have a pen based webpad sized machine, playing mp3z, streaming video, downloading Q3 all while you are doing your 'work' under a tree out on the lawn? Now do all that for 10 hours straight.. Thats what I want.
Timezone's affecting scheduling. I don't know how many times a consultant will come in with a timezone set different on their laptop from the companies (eg we're on CST where they are on Pacific...) and cause a 'time' for a meeting to be totally off... causing meeting time hell...
What about confirming the timezone/etc when all the participants but you are in a different timezone?
Other ideas... not bandwidth centric to synchronizing with a home pc/palm/etc...
WAP availability, ACLs for each persons schedule (so a secretary can schedule for a boss...), confirmations (of course), isn't centered around a single email client (eg Outlook), todo lists for groups/people (with the ability for each person in the group to accept an item as complete before it being 'checked off')...
Reminder options, from a popup in a/the client to an email to an alphanumeric page, etc... with a 'vacation' or 'out' system that redirects priority messages/events/schedule changes to the preferred mode of communication while they are away (eg, forward my messages to me via fax at ###-###-####, or send the first few lines to my alphanumeric pager....)
Integrated contact list...
ability to easily print monthly, daily, weekly, etc calenders.. (the paperless office never happened)
pre/post meeting discussion list management ability... to start a new discussion/thread from a meeting..
a quick 'Who Else is Going' button to see who'll be at the meeting... denoting those invited vs those accepted vs those not attending..
Instant Messenger integration? (eg ICQ/AIM/etc)
Resource tracking for meetings/room reservations/etc...
Ability to track the meeting from scheduling to its occurance to follow ups/etc... including a searchable meetings minutes/agenda index.
Just an idea or two.. much of this is already available.. but shouldn't be forgotten in your product...
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Isn't it nice for our species to have something to celebrate that is positive for a change?"
How many negative things do you celebrate?
Its easy to go from 1 to 2 users or 2 to 4 and claim a fantastic growth rate, but what constitutes that magic number of users before its truly a desktop operating system being used daily by enough of a mass to catch the attention of large software development firms that will create/port applications to linux?
Is growth rate in terms of number of desktops conquered (eg growth rate of 1.5 million desktops a year) a better measuring stick than doubled/tripled/whatever the number of users in X years. What, in your opinion, is a good measuring tool in determining the growth rate/acceptance of linux in the market?
Earings that double as biohazard detectors
Glasses than can shield your eyes from nuclear blasts.
Watch/Dirty Bomb detector (don't leave home without one!)
What about building this virtual worlds to thoroughly test their landers/robots/etc before sending them millions of miles to see them fail?
Seems like building dropping these landers from high altitudes and landing in these land scapes might be just the thing they need to do before sending the next lander to its doom.
I know plenty of people I'd be willing to offer to experimentation. Anyone know where I can sign them up?
Its interesting that the links info is a bit outdated.n fo.html)
(http://www.fordreallysucks.com/more_i
The page hasn't been updated in some time. Nasser is no longer president/ceo of ford. In fact, a Ford family member (William Clay Ford) is now running things again (which hasn't happened in a while).
Check out http://money.cnn.com/2001/10/30/ceos/ford/ for info.
I don't know about anyone else but I don't really look at taking over the world through my programming job. (Granted, that would be a nice second job...) I enjoy the field because of the daily challenges that it presents. Not only that, every time a new project comes along (or I change jobs) I get to learn a new industry.
Warning: next part sounds like a 'consultant' speaking. But I find it interesting how a person entrenched in a job for 4+ years quite often is wearing blinders, unable to tell what happens in the company after the order/invoice/whatever leaves her desk. Its kind of interesting to learn why things are done the way they are (often because, its always been.. or the person before me did it this way... or thats the only way I know..) and offer alternatives/different paths/etc. Just my 2 cents..
I saw this commercial last night while watching tv.
Its great. Fairly humorous commercial. The cow and the 'owner' of gateway (as you have seen him in other gateway commercials) are singing along while driving down the highway. Its hilarious. Then they ask if you like the song (a black screen, white font), then they say if you do, go download it at the gateway website, and burn it to cd.
Pretty damn cool.
Its obvious the moderators have never played the games in the series...
'Nuff Said.
Why do our public dollars fund private efforts?
I have never understood why we give tons of money to companies/universities/etc only to see the ideas patented or something else, and not released to the general public for use. If you were paid by the public, let the public have the benefits.
What if we paid Company X to build a bridge on private lands with public money, to only be used by the person who owns the private land. It just doesn't seem right.
While I am not certain, I see the entries for Davide Libenzi, Ingo Molnar on scheduler improvements. Ingo published a huge scheduler update that looks promising, might be worth checking it out if you have a system under high load that tends to be come poky/etc.
I believe there was some discussion of integrating Ingo's patch with the preemptive patch, should be good for everyone.
A link to his discussion http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html#4 on Kernel Traffic.
Passing an electric current from one conductor to another can make the interface between them hotter or colder, depending on the direction of the current.
So.. instead of a fan, can I put a thermoelectric cooler on top of the chip so as to eliminate that noisy, always failing, fan?
Does this use a huge amount of power as compared to the fan?
What about using the vacuum to help run the wire? Tie some light but strong string to a sponge or table top tennis ball that will easily fit through the system. Put ball/string in outlet (tieing the opposite end to something..) Turn the vacuum on.. and when the ball hits the canister turn the vacuum off.. next pull the cat 5 with the string... Seems good in theory.. who knows in practice....
Should be fun though!
The only time I get cash is when something requires it. Eg: street vendors, computer swap-meets, yard sales, etc.
And I will go out of my way to visit places that do not require cash but will take a credit card. Why do I rarley eat at McDonalds anymore? Simple: They don't take my check card. My Code Red Mt. Dew slush at 7-11 goes on the check card.
Besides, its a wonder how much I save since I don't have access to most vending machines/etc without cash.
that is, 0.9.3 don't know how I added that extra .2 out there...
So, this is version .9.3.2 (which is less than 1, so it is pre 1.0).
Or in Windoze Speak, its Mozilla Aug 3, 2001 ;)
But that doesn't mean it isn't good stuff.
It seems I see Mysql failures all the time... Does no one use postgres? Or does it just not fail? Not looking to flame, I just would like to know a little bit about the reliability of each...
We have rules, and you can purchase a copy for $19.95 (all rights reserved). Otherwise take your chances and see if you break our rules. Oh yes, lending your purchased legal copy of the rules to somone else is a violation, and you will be fined. (of course, you would have known this had you purchased the rules..)
I've been to Denison, TX (sister city to Cognac, France fyi (thanks Mr. Craig)). Its not that pretty of a city.
Actually tab completion is available in the cmd prompt on WinNT 4.0/2000 and can be turned on in the registry.
Is this like a single point of failure thing?
http://www.projectmayo.com
Enjoy...
Cheap hardware like this doesn't exist but when it does I think its then we will see an explosion in wireless demands.
You can argue than WinCE, PalmOS, etc. can do this now but I would disagree. I want something that can do everything my desktop can do with little or no sacrifice. Wouldn't it be great to have a pen based webpad sized machine, playing mp3z, streaming video, downloading Q3 all while you are doing your 'work' under a tree out on the lawn? Now do all that for 10 hours straight.. Thats what I want.
What about confirming the timezone/etc when all the participants but you are in a different timezone?
Other ideas... not bandwidth centric to synchronizing with a home pc/palm/etc...
WAP availability, ACLs for each persons schedule (so a secretary can schedule for a boss...), confirmations (of course), isn't centered around a single email client (eg Outlook), todo lists for groups/people (with the ability for each person in the group to accept an item as complete before it being 'checked off')...
Reminder options, from a popup in a/the client to an email to an alphanumeric page, etc... with a 'vacation' or 'out' system that redirects priority messages/events/schedule changes to the preferred mode of communication while they are away (eg, forward my messages to me via fax at ###-###-####, or send the first few lines to my alphanumeric pager....)
Integrated contact list...
ability to easily print monthly, daily, weekly, etc calenders.. (the paperless office never happened)
pre/post meeting discussion list management ability... to start a new discussion/thread from a meeting..
a quick 'Who Else is Going' button to see who'll be at the meeting... denoting those invited vs those accepted vs those not attending..
Instant Messenger integration? (eg ICQ/AIM/etc)
Resource tracking for meetings/room reservations/etc...
Ability to track the meeting from scheduling to its occurance to follow ups/etc... including a searchable meetings minutes/agenda index.
Just an idea or two.. much of this is already available.. but shouldn't be forgotten in your product...