I usually tell people not to send HTML-mails and to shoot everybody that do. HTML-mail include online content that may or may not be available and can not be trusted since the online content may be changed after the mail has arrived.
Just FYI: Notes has been semisupported on Linux thru wine for years now "We do not support this officially yet but search our website 'cause we've got some 1000 employees running this in-house" and Notes server (aka. Domino) got a native version since at least v. 5 (and probably earlier).
AFAIK, being a Notes-user for many years and having a good relation with IBM, they already do support SuSE and Redhat... Ubuntu is just the next distro getting certified Notes support.
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No, Notes doesn't suck... Notes is just different... but then, so is Linux.;-)
...that you start with reading "The Peter Principle" by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and look at "The Dilbert Principle" by Scott Adams Then you may reconsider your desire of getting the word "manager" in your title... ...unless of course you do have a masochistic desire of being spanked by everybody in the business for the sins of others.
Tram switches (or turnouts) are not like railway switches which are controlled from a central point. A tram switch is controlled by the driver of the tram either by a electromagnetic contact between the rails or by radiowaves. All tram switches may also be operated manually.
...Apple always got Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop. Apple are selling a complete system (hw + sw) in a sexy package that's the reason. The recent "explosion" in Apple sales is not due to supported sw. but due the fact that it now can run Windows.
...it reminds me of a book which shows the failure of such system... the answer was 42. Anyway... I do not think we would be able to show that "our reality" is someones simulation, at least not if the simulation is build for simulation purposes and not to hide something from us (like "Matrix").
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Last time we tried to interfere with our simulation was about 2000 years ago... and it was a complete disaster.
Wow... You've got the point... that's EXACTLY what they are saying when they refer to Bob and Eve. It is impossible to protect the content from the intended recipient and that is why DRM fails.
Is this 2007th's last Microsoft caused disaster... ...or 2008th first ? The best part is that it happened in Microsofts backyard.
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Just trying to get my first "Funny" tag in 2008;-)
Helical scan is much older than VHS, it has been used since mid 1960'ies. DAT was the first (if I remember correct) small form factor helical scan solution. I will agree that DAT as digital audio distribution format has flopped but I do not think Sony lost much on it and Sony was a part of the CD development team.;-) Sony's main market was professional equipment back then and their development shows it clearly (focus on high quality and not cheap manufacturing).
I do not consider myself a "consumer" so a commercial hidden as a article is not interesting (and should never have existed, that's my opinion as a child of a "real" journalist). There is nothing really exciting in the Acer except the size... and the size is limited by the screen usability... btw. did you know that the first portable computer got an 7" screen ?;-) The OLPC XO is interesting because of all the new technology and the idea behind. The availability to the consumers (not the intended users) is, at this point in time, uninteresting. The interesting part is that they managed to start production and they are shipping to the intended users. The other interesting thing is that you could have supported the project (you still can, but without the cool bonus).
I've been wondering this myself given the huge coverage in the media of this thing. It can run Windows... that's the reason for the hype. If the media was where it should have been then the coverage would be on the OLPC XO and their "Give 1 Get 1" initiative.
In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce... ...and in the US the commerce controls the government. I'm not sure which is worse from the populations/consumers point of view.
The tecnology behind DAT was not a failure... it has been reused in almost everything that needed digital recording in a compact format and with high capacity.
Digital audio (the original DAT)
Digital video (DV, camcorders and portable digital video recorders)
Tape drives for backup (Tandberg, IBM, HP)
That can't be called a failure. The primary reason why this format didn't become a digital distribution format for audio and video is... the missing copy protection. ...and remember, this was several years before the DVD.
I've got 70 GB recordable (format called DLT)... and there are up to 800 GB available. Just forget the disc and look at tapes.;-)...at least when you need long term backup, and it is fast and reliable. I wonder if I can use my old DLT-drive with my Linux media center to get video recording/playback...
"In the end, that'll be why people upgrade to Vista - difficulty in obtaining applications that still work on XP." That will probably never happen... we are seeing a replay of the ME tale. We will be getting "Siesta" or "Seven" (of Nine ?...are MS really going Borg now ?) or something else before vendors drop XP support, mostly because the real paying customers (the corporations) are not changing to Vista. We will probably see an Adobe Photoshop for Linux before we see a Vista-only version of Photoshop and we can assume something like that for AutoCad too.
"year of the Linux mainframe" Someone obviously forgot to tell it to the leading mainframe manufacturer in the world... IBM happily sells and supports Linux on their mainframes. The fact that something has happened will first be obvious in the future, in 50 years time or so someone will identify which year was "the year of Linux on desktop", which year was "the year of Linux on the mainframe" and which year was "the year of Microsofts death sentence". Appliances do already mostly run Linux... and has done it for 5 years or so, even very high-end appliances (fx. SAN FC-switches from leading manufacturers). Now Cisco is talking about "a UNIX like OS to replace IOS"... I wonder what that could be: Linux or xBSD ?
"Specifically, I'm talking about lights that dim... CF bulbs do not dim." Yes they do, but the device needed is much more complicated and expensive than a normal dimmer. The biggest problem is that depending of the type of the CF bulb you need different dimmers (as far as I know there are at least 3 different types + one which is used for normal fluorescent tubes). I do not know the details... that's what my electro-magician told me.
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Yes, I know. My problem is that nobody (well, almost) do not do that "standard", which btw. is clearly stated on that wiki page.
I usually tell people not to send HTML-mails and to shoot everybody that do.
HTML-mail include online content that may or may not be available and can not be trusted since the online content may be changed after the mail has arrived.
Just FYI: Notes has been semisupported on Linux thru wine for years now "We do not support this officially yet but search our website 'cause we've got some 1000 employees running this in-house" and Notes server (aka. Domino) got a native version since at least v. 5 (and probably earlier).
AFAIK, being a Notes-user for many years and having a good relation with IBM, they already do support SuSE and Redhat... Ubuntu is just the next distro getting certified Notes support. ;-)
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No, Notes doesn't suck... Notes is just different... but then, so is Linux.
...has lost this kind of action in court.
...that you start with reading "The Peter Principle" by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and look at "The Dilbert Principle" by Scott Adams
Then you may reconsider your desire of getting the word "manager" in your title...
...unless of course you do have a masochistic desire of being spanked by everybody in the business for the sins of others.
That is correct, but if you do that you lose the flexibility of the trams.
Because trams in most Europe runs on tracks in the street together with other traffic.
The system works, it just need a little security adjustment.
Tram switches (or turnouts) are not like railway switches which are controlled from a central point. A tram switch is controlled by the driver of the tram either by a electromagnetic contact between the rails or by radiowaves. All tram switches may also be operated manually.
...Apple always got Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop.
Apple are selling a complete system (hw + sw) in a sexy package that's the reason.
The recent "explosion" in Apple sales is not due to supported sw. but due the fact
that it now can run Windows.
...it reminds me of a book which shows the failure of such system... the answer was 42.
Anyway... I do not think we would be able to show that "our reality" is someones simulation, at least not if the simulation is build for simulation purposes and not to hide something from us (like "Matrix").
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Last time we tried to interfere with our simulation was about 2000 years ago... and it was a complete disaster.
...and that would be very good for the customers... that is you and me and everybody else.
Wow... You've got the point... that's EXACTLY what they are saying when they refer to Bob and Eve.
It is impossible to protect the content from the intended recipient and that is why DRM fails.
Pls. excuse my obvious ignorance but why is it marked Offtopic ?
Is this 2007th's last Microsoft caused disaster... ;-)
...or 2008th first ?
The best part is that it happened in Microsofts backyard.
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Just trying to get my first "Funny" tag in 2008
Helical scan is much older than VHS, it has been used since mid 1960'ies. DAT was the first (if I remember correct) small form factor helical scan solution. ;-)
I will agree that DAT as digital audio distribution format has flopped but I do not think Sony lost much on it and Sony was a part of the CD development team.
Sony's main market was professional equipment back then and their development shows it clearly (focus on high quality and not cheap manufacturing).
I do not consider myself a "consumer" so a commercial hidden as a article is not interesting (and should never have existed, that's my opinion as a child of a "real" journalist). There is nothing really exciting in the Acer except the size... and the size is limited by the screen usability... btw. did you know that the first portable computer got an 7" screen ? ;-)
The OLPC XO is interesting because of all the new technology and the idea behind. The availability to the consumers (not the intended users) is, at this point in time, uninteresting. The interesting part is that they managed to start production and they are shipping to the intended users.
The other interesting thing is that you could have supported the project (you still can, but without the cool bonus).
I've been wondering this myself given the huge coverage in the media of this thing.
It can run Windows... that's the reason for the hype.
If the media was where it should have been then the coverage would be on the OLPC XO and their "Give 1 Get 1" initiative.
In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce...
...and in the US the commerce controls the government.
I'm not sure which is worse from the populations/consumers point of view.
- Digital audio (the original DAT)
- Digital video (DV, camcorders and portable digital video recorders)
- Tape drives for backup (Tandberg, IBM, HP)
That can't be called a failure.The primary reason why this format didn't become a digital distribution format for audio and video is... the missing copy protection.
...and remember, this was several years before the DVD.
I've got 70 GB recordable (format called DLT)... and there are up to 800 GB available. ;-) ...at least when you need long term backup, and it is fast and reliable.
Just forget the disc and look at tapes.
I wonder if I can use my old DLT-drive with my Linux media center to get video recording/playback...
"In the end, that'll be why people upgrade to Vista - difficulty in obtaining applications that still work on XP." ...are MS really going Borg now ?) or something else before vendors drop XP support, mostly because the real paying customers (the corporations) are not changing to Vista. We will probably see an Adobe Photoshop for Linux before we see a Vista-only version of Photoshop and we can assume something like that for AutoCad too.
That will probably never happen... we are seeing a replay of the ME tale. We will be getting "Siesta" or "Seven" (of Nine ?
"year of the Linux mainframe"
Someone obviously forgot to tell it to the leading mainframe manufacturer in the world... IBM happily sells and supports Linux on their mainframes.
The fact that something has happened will first be obvious in the future, in 50 years time or so someone will identify which year was "the year of Linux on desktop", which year was "the year of Linux on the mainframe" and which year was "the year of Microsofts death sentence".
Appliances do already mostly run Linux... and has done it for 5 years or so, even very high-end appliances (fx. SAN FC-switches from leading manufacturers). Now Cisco is talking about "a UNIX like OS to replace IOS"... I wonder what that could be: Linux or xBSD ?
...does Microsofts integrated Windows desktop advertising fit in ?
Wouldn't it be even more anti competitive ?
"Specifically, I'm talking about lights that dim... CF bulbs do not dim."
Yes they do, but the device needed is much more complicated and expensive than a normal dimmer. The biggest problem is that depending of the type of the CF bulb you need different dimmers (as far as I know there are at least 3 different types + one which is used for normal fluorescent tubes).
I do not know the details... that's what my electro-magician told me.