WinFS exists and is still in development. It's just not set to debut as part of Vista. Whether that means it will debut significantly after that I don't know, though. I think there's an alpha or beta version of WinFS available to developers now. --
So basically it will get tossed aside at some future date?
I still don't understand why someone would need a 64-bit workstation/desktop. What does x86-64 offer you other than the higher price tag? True, AMD-64 rocks in Intel's face, but the performance is gained through a direct memory interface, not by going 64-bit. The tests from TFA shows no difference between running 64-bit and 32-bit applications. If I were to own a x86-64 machine, I bet I'd turn off the 64-bit function to reduce the complexity of running applications.
Well, other than addressable memory - got to find some use for those Terabyte flash cards - it's a great excuse to make you pay lots of money for something that's supposedly faster so that you can forget what you really wanted was a faster Gigabit IPv6 Internet that could chop wood faster.
Did I mention you can spend more money? Because too many people have been buying laptops for $399 to $999 instead of the usual $4000, and PCs for $299 to $499 instead of the usual $2000. Have to justify those CEO salaries, don't we?
I saw the puff pieces for the NOLA Elites in their fancy houses and how they had suffered least, and were saying what hardships they might have to stay at their summer homes in Colorado for a while.
Investigate Maslow's Heirarchy before you go ascribing people's behavior in extremis - in the Army, when I had to command people, it was a very useful tool in understanding how people really behave, not some artificial construct such as you describe.
well, you have to admit it would be useful to put WiMAX where there's sufficient demand - it's possible you might find a trial service set up by a university in farm country, where there might be less interference, but the demand is mostly in densely populated areas.
Hence my comment that proximity to a state college or university might mean you can get the service. Otherwise, the economics just wouldn't work.
Only one? I doubt they will ever buy Microsoft. Will it come down to a two player game? I could see that.
At which point, an open source competitor will evolve, most likely.
Nature obhors a vacuum.
If this benefits customers, is it just open source
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Oracle To Buy Siebel
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Oh, I dunno... maybe finally, some semblance of linux support for siebel apps?
Possibly, since Oracle just released the Win version of ORACLE 10g only two months AFTER releasing the Linux and Unix versions.
Remember, with Larry, it's personal. If he has to encourage Linux to beat Bill, he'll do it. And IBM must be ROFLMAO at this new turn of events, even if they compete, they still get Linux to eat Win shorts.
No one needs any form of regulation from government at any level as they all create favoritism and don't fix any problem. Even pollution regulations are better controlled by the free market. Heavy polluters get blasted by watchdog groups, cleaner emitters get praised and consumers make the decision who succeeds and who fails.
The proposed bill does not grant an exception to the do-not-call list to all businesses; it grants an exception to businesses that have an *existing* business relationship with you. Still not good, but a random telemarketer won't be allowed to call you if you're not already a customer one way or another.
So, let's just examine CIBC for example. Let's say Joe Canuck has a checking account with them. Now he has a relationship with them.
Ah, so only they will phone, right?
Wrong. Now CIBC can call you, anyone in their umbrella corporation can call you about: - insurance - trips to Barbados - Cuban cigars - investing in mining stock in Brazil - buying a timeshare in Guadaloupe
When you do business with one firm, you are doing business with ALL the firms that corporation owns, under the definitions.
And that, my friend, is just plain wrong. It should be opt-in.
If I have a telephone in BC, then I have no choice but to have their corporation get my permission for all their "corporations" to phone me. When I have a checking account or a credit card, that's hundreds of corporations that can now phone me.
To you it's a small door.
To me, it's hundreds of doors that I didn't even know about existing in the first place.
Now, mind you, I'm basing this on my Business Management degree from Capilano College and some law courses I took in high school in B.C., but I doubt it's changed that much.
If you RTFA, it is proposed opposition amendments that would destroy the no-call list. These amendments have zero chance of becoming law.
The proposed government amendment - to allow subscribers to exempt charities - sounds fine to me.
Unlike the US, where one party dominates and has majorities in all houses, in Canada even the "majority" party has to maintain coalitions to get legislation passed.
So it's not impossible for the amendments to happen, and public pressure is probably all that can help.
But hey, I used to play pranks on the Liberal Whip back in my college days, when I went to a college many future politicians in Canada attended, so what do I know...
I think most Won't Fix items in the Firefox To do list are probably more like the bug I submitted for music.yahoo.com where it won't run something that another person wrote who won't fix it.
That would be my guess.
It's kind of mystifying why, even if they are closed source, people like the folks at music.yahoo.com won't fix such an obvious problem - it's not like Firefox created the problem per se, and it is kind of awkward to go and fix it - but I guess the Yahoo folks are sitting on their piles of cash and feeling sorry they're not Google coders or something like that, instead of fixing flaws in major browser implementations caused by their code.
Ferris has found bugs in Microsoft software before, including a yet-unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer that Microsoft still has under investigation.
I work at a Windows based company and I can't even begin to describe my frustration over issues just like the one above. I spend a lot of unnecessary time as a networking guy as opposed to a programmer because the only way to protect my users from their insecure browser is to configure Websense to block everything on the web and create ACLs on all of routers to prevent any traffic from problem domains.
Back when I was a MSDN Developer, it took me over three months to get them to admit there was an Access bug that they had a patch for (as it was in another suite, I could see the version number and date), and let me download a copy so I could use it to fix a serious flaw that it addressed. It was another year before they admitted in the press it existed, and was only released after the press hounded them for six months.
Sigh.
If it was open source, of course, one could fix it oneself if it was important.
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WinFS exists and is still in development. It's just not set to debut as part of Vista. Whether that means it will debut significantly after that I don't know, though. I think there's an alpha or beta version of WinFS available to developers now.
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So basically it will get tossed aside at some future date?
kind of disappointing really.
You'd think they could have come up with their own ideas.
Are flying vehicles a level of magnitude more expensive?
No, but the jetpacks to fly up to them are.
Now pass me the helium tank so I can talk in a high squeaky voice and scare off the terrarists.
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sigh.
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yeah, I know it's hydrogen, but it's funnier that way
Not really. Using 128 bits you could address every single atom in the universe, with plenty of bits to spare. We don't need that. Yet...
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You mean like we'll never need to use more than 640K of RAM?
I see.
There are the registers to think of, or the very very long words (paragraphs)
does this mean it's time to start work on 128-bit Linux and Unix?
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Hey, I've got to have something to address all the Terabytes in my flash card
I still don't understand why someone would need a 64-bit workstation/desktop. What does x86-64 offer you other than the higher price tag? True, AMD-64 rocks in Intel's face, but the performance is gained through a direct memory interface, not by going 64-bit. The tests from TFA shows no difference between running 64-bit and 32-bit applications. If I were to own a x86-64 machine, I bet I'd turn off the 64-bit function to reduce the complexity of running applications.
Well, other than addressable memory - got to find some use for those Terabyte flash cards - it's a great excuse to make you pay lots of money for something that's supposedly faster so that you can forget what you really wanted was a faster Gigabit IPv6 Internet that could chop wood faster.
Did I mention you can spend more money? Because too many people have been buying laptops for $399 to $999 instead of the usual $4000, and PCs for $299 to $499 instead of the usual $2000. Have to justify those CEO salaries, don't we?
No, you annexed Mercer Island. We traded it for Boston. That way we could always win baseball games. Of course, this way you might get WiMAX ...
ah, hypocrisy, thy name is America.
I saw the puff pieces for the NOLA Elites in their fancy houses and how they had suffered least, and were saying what hardships they might have to stay at their summer homes in Colorado for a while.
Investigate Maslow's Heirarchy before you go ascribing people's behavior in extremis - in the Army, when I had to command people, it was a very useful tool in understanding how people really behave, not some artificial construct such as you describe.
you should have seen some of the online comments after the NOLA disaster.
ah, well.
In fact, ice used to be shipped in barges, packed in sawdust, from Northern Europe all the way to Egypt.
Sometimes, low tech is best.
1. Wind turbines used to create it and charge batteries at the same time.
2. Solar cells used to create it and charge batteries at the same time.
Inefficiency is in the eyes of the beholder.
well, you have to admit it would be useful to put WiMAX where there's sufficient demand - it's possible you might find a trial service set up by a university in farm country, where there might be less interference, but the demand is mostly in densely populated areas.
Hence my comment that proximity to a state college or university might mean you can get the service. Otherwise, the economics just wouldn't work.
or nearby if you want to get this kind of service - that or next to a major university (or state college/university).
you're more likely to get high-speed service over your power lines out in farm country, IMHO.
Only one? I doubt they will ever buy Microsoft. Will it come down to a two player game? I could see that.
At which point, an open source competitor will evolve, most likely.
Nature obhors a vacuum.
Oh, I dunno... maybe finally, some semblance of linux support for siebel apps?
Possibly, since Oracle just released the Win version of ORACLE 10g only two months AFTER releasing the Linux and Unix versions.
Remember, with Larry, it's personal. If he has to encourage Linux to beat Bill, he'll do it. And IBM must be ROFLMAO at this new turn of events, even if they compete, they still get Linux to eat Win shorts.
I'll be impressed when Oracle comes out with an announcement that it's buying MicroSoft.
Won't happen. Larry's too interested in winning the World's Cup in yatching for that to happen.
Besides, it rains too much up here.
ah, so you don't want to live there.
petard, meet hoist.
thought so.
welcome our new CRAM (customer relationship application manager) overlords ...
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especially since I'm an ORACLE developer since back in my military days
[wonder if I have to wear a happy smile now when I haven't had my morning latt~e?
I'm moving to the U.S.!
/. a while ago.
Sorry, we filled up all the H1-B visas for next year already - that was on
No one needs any form of regulation from government at any level as they all create favoritism and don't fix any problem. Even pollution regulations are better controlled by the free market. Heavy polluters get blasted by watchdog groups, cleaner emitters get praised and consumers make the decision who succeeds and who fails.
So when are you moving to New Orleans? Tomorrow?
I thought so.
The proposed bill does not grant an exception to the do-not-call list to all businesses; it grants an exception to businesses that have an *existing* business relationship with you. Still not good, but a random telemarketer won't be allowed to call you if you're not already a customer one way or another.
So, let's just examine CIBC for example. Let's say Joe Canuck has a checking account with them. Now he has a relationship with them.
Ah, so only they will phone, right?
Wrong. Now CIBC can call you, anyone in their umbrella corporation can call you about:
- insurance
- trips to Barbados
- Cuban cigars
- investing in mining stock in Brazil
- buying a timeshare in Guadaloupe
When you do business with one firm, you are doing business with ALL the firms that corporation owns, under the definitions.
And that, my friend, is just plain wrong. It should be opt-in.
If I have a telephone in BC, then I have no choice but to have their corporation get my permission for all their "corporations" to phone me. When I have a checking account or a credit card, that's hundreds of corporations that can now phone me.
To you it's a small door.
To me, it's hundreds of doors that I didn't even know about existing in the first place.
Now, mind you, I'm basing this on my Business Management degree from Capilano College and some law courses I took in high school in B.C., but I doubt it's changed that much.
If you RTFA, it is proposed opposition amendments that would destroy the no-call list. These amendments have zero chance of becoming law.
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The proposed government amendment - to allow subscribers to exempt charities - sounds fine to me.
Unlike the US, where one party dominates and has majorities in all houses, in Canada even the "majority" party has to maintain coalitions to get legislation passed.
So it's not impossible for the amendments to happen, and public pressure is probably all that can help.
But hey, I used to play pranks on the Liberal Whip back in my college days, when I went to a college many future politicians in Canada attended, so what do I know
I think most Won't Fix items in the Firefox To do list are probably more like the bug I submitted for music.yahoo.com where it won't run something that another person wrote who won't fix it.
That would be my guess.
It's kind of mystifying why, even if they are closed source, people like the folks at music.yahoo.com won't fix such an obvious problem - it's not like Firefox created the problem per se, and it is kind of awkward to go and fix it - but I guess the Yahoo folks are sitting on their piles of cash and feeling sorry they're not Google coders or something like that, instead of fixing flaws in major browser implementations caused by their code.
That would be my guess
From TFA:
Ferris has found bugs in Microsoft software before, including a yet-unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer that Microsoft still has under investigation.
I work at a Windows based company and I can't even begin to describe my frustration over issues just like the one above. I spend a lot of unnecessary time as a networking guy as opposed to a programmer because the only way to protect my users from their insecure browser is to configure Websense to block everything on the web and create ACLs on all of routers to prevent any traffic from problem domains.
Back when I was a MSDN Developer, it took me over three months to get them to admit there was an Access bug that they had a patch for (as it was in another suite, I could see the version number and date), and let me download a copy so I could use it to fix a serious flaw that it addressed. It was another year before they admitted in the press it existed, and was only released after the press hounded them for six months.
Sigh.
If it was open source, of course, one could fix it oneself if it was important.