Apparently this is no longer the case (though I havent tried it to confirm) and you can actually run it under wine (with a little bit of work)....
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/news/28
Security doesn't tend to have a pretty interface that managers can see; managers love eye candy. It's a bit similar to the case where you will develop the interface before the backend. If you spend 6 months working hard on a backend, a client/manager will think you haven't been doing much. If on the other hand you have a nice colourful interface to show them after 6 months regardless of functionality, they will love you.
Sounds like the stuff Dvorak would say. It's really boring reading this crap, yet I think it's on slashdot because it's a guaranteed story to generate posts which surely helps slashdot's income.
the days when I used to jump on the internet and download sound snippets to customise my desktop with (ie. have a different sound play when you minimise a window, close a window, open a window etc).
The other month I was watching a show, I think it was called Beyond Tomorrow, and a bloke from Philips was talking about this very thing. They have prototypes and they aren't restricted to just music. You take your PDA, phone or whatever into a shop and place it on a special docking station. You then choose the song(s) you want, the movie or any other media for sale, pay for it and leave. Then you dont have to wait till you get home to use it. The other cool thing they showed was if for example you bought a movie and put it on your PDA, you could watch it as you walk home then at home, you have a TV with a similar docking station, where you put your PDA and the movie switches from playing on your PDA to playing on your TV instaneous and continues from where it left off.
I've tried looking for mention of this on their website but unfortunately can't find it.
I think we can expect an increase in delayed flights because a bunch of innocent people with quiverring voices have been hauled off for extra questioning while the rest of the passengers wait patiently on the plane. What a crock!
Unfortunately reading the dialogue (of which you have left lots out of) just doesn't do this skit justice. The facial expressions, the tone of voice etc etc just help make this one of the greatest. I remember watching it done live and Michael Palin was struggling to keep a straight face and because of this, John Cleese was forgetting his lines. Very funny.
I wouldn't necessarily say that's a good comparison. A used car is not necessarily in as good a condition as when it was brand new. Software on the other hand, whether you got it brand new from a shop or from a one of these resellers doesnt really matter. It's not as if they would be selling it with the disclaimer 'Microsoft Windows 2000, good working order except due to excessive use, Microsoft Paint no longer works and should be replaced':)
I had a look on google earth and when I zoomed in to the maximum, I noticed your keys are on your front lawn near that little garden gnome. You must have dropped them while walking from your car to your front door:)
Seeing as the moon won't be productive for another 50+ years, that'll be hard to do, but I'm thinking we need to find options for how we'll divvy it up for future generations.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were to be treated in a similar fashion to how antarctica was early in the 20th century, with a range of countries claiming a seperate portion for themselves.
Not every company that offers training, support, documentation etc actually produce the product(s) in their service. For instance you could have a company that builds and deploys computers running RedHat and then offer support to their customers as an added extra. Because this company doesnt also need to pay the salaries of programmers, they may be able to offer a lower support cost. Granted this wouldn't be official RedHat support, but hey, when grandma can't work out that the reason she can't copy a file onto her hard drive because her disk is full, official support isn't really necessary.
Note: RedHat was just an example and they have worked their business model pretty well, but I can't see it working for everyone.
While he got off on the computer misuse charge, what about spamming? Couldn't it be argued he was sending unsolicited email to this bloke? Do the UK have such laws?
I'm all for alternatives for energy production but would it be logistically feasible to conduct such a venture? Wind farms on the land take up massive amounts of landspace, I just don't know how you could acceptably occupy a similar amount area on water. That is unless the technology has advanced somewhat and not as many windmills are required to produce the same amount of energy.
With Hubble getting rather old, I wonder if this will be its successor. Though I can't help but think that a telescope wizzing around in space would be much more useful than one on the ground. The fact that you don't necessarily have to wait 24 hours to take another look at the same bit of the sky surely has to be an advantage.
I'm only speculating since I'm not from the UK, but is this article an indication that perhaps the Sci-Fi channel was heading downhill with respect to other channels and not generating the necessary revenue? To combat this, the management has decided to broadcast a few popular shows, that while don't fall under the category of Sci-Fi, cause people to pay for the channel because they would like to watch those shows?
Has that site been slashdotted or the content taken down? I keep getting a blank page and mirrordot doesn't have it either?
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Hehe... it would be fun to watch someone using a head/eye controlled mouse while bopping away to their favourite tunes:)
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While the interface is interesting, the fact that you still are hanging onto a mouse is a drawback. The other drawback I see is that if this were to be incorporated into all programs today (as it is demonstrated on that website), I feel that the amount one could do with a program would be limited. For example, take Firefox. If you had 10 tabs lining the top of your browser, how could you get to the 'back' button or the 'reload' button? I feel this interface would prove a hinderance because you would have to snake your mouse around the screen to make sure you didnt cross anything unexpected.
The scoop seemed a little strange and had me confused for a while. It started nice and clear before jumping from talking about workers to researchers and rats. What the!? Didn't people learn creative writing at school? A story must have a start, middle and end. Not just a start and an end:)
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Apparently this is no longer the case (though I havent tried it to confirm) and you can actually run it under wine (with a little bit of work).... http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/news/28
It's hardly 'an otherwise perfect job' if it's mundane, boring and you are contemplating taking another job that involves a paycut.
Security doesn't tend to have a pretty interface that managers can see; managers love eye candy. It's a bit similar to the case where you will develop the interface before the backend. If you spend 6 months working hard on a backend, a client/manager will think you haven't been doing much. If on the other hand you have a nice colourful interface to show them after 6 months regardless of functionality, they will love you.
Sounds like the stuff Dvorak would say. It's really boring reading this crap, yet I think it's on slashdot because it's a guaranteed story to generate posts which surely helps slashdot's income.
Just imagine a scene from 'Theres something about mary' but instead of a zipper, you got a paper feeder :P
the days when I used to jump on the internet and download sound snippets to customise my desktop with (ie. have a different sound play when you minimise a window, close a window, open a window etc).
I've tried looking for mention of this on their website but unfortunately can't find it.
I think we can expect an increase in delayed flights because a bunch of innocent people with quiverring voices have been hauled off for extra questioning while the rest of the passengers wait patiently on the plane. What a crock!
Bring on the informative and insightful posts.
weights? maybe this is why people are paying more attention on digg.com
Unfortunately reading the dialogue (of which you have left lots out of) just doesn't do this skit justice. The facial expressions, the tone of voice etc etc just help make this one of the greatest. I remember watching it done live and Michael Palin was struggling to keep a straight face and because of this, John Cleese was forgetting his lines. Very funny.
I wouldn't necessarily say that's a good comparison. A used car is not necessarily in as good a condition as when it was brand new. Software on the other hand, whether you got it brand new from a shop or from a one of these resellers doesnt really matter. It's not as if they would be selling it with the disclaimer 'Microsoft Windows 2000, good working order except due to excessive use, Microsoft Paint no longer works and should be replaced' :)
I had a look on google earth and when I zoomed in to the maximum, I noticed your keys are on your front lawn near that little garden gnome. You must have dropped them while walking from your car to your front door :)
I wouldn't be surprised if it were to be treated in a similar fashion to how antarctica was early in the 20th century, with a range of countries claiming a seperate portion for themselves.
For the days when you want to see a rainbow but there just isnt one in the sky :)
After oracle 8 its possible to pass in arrays in your PL/SQL using the varray type. Here's a link that shows it in action.
Note: RedHat was just an example and they have worked their business model pretty well, but I can't see it working for everyone.
While he got off on the computer misuse charge, what about spamming? Couldn't it be argued he was sending unsolicited email to this bloke? Do the UK have such laws?
I'm all for alternatives for energy production but would it be logistically feasible to conduct such a venture? Wind farms on the land take up massive amounts of landspace, I just don't know how you could acceptably occupy a similar amount area on water. That is unless the technology has advanced somewhat and not as many windmills are required to produce the same amount of energy.
With Hubble getting rather old, I wonder if this will be its successor. Though I can't help but think that a telescope wizzing around in space would be much more useful than one on the ground. The fact that you don't necessarily have to wait 24 hours to take another look at the same bit of the sky surely has to be an advantage.
I'm only speculating since I'm not from the UK, but is this article an indication that perhaps the Sci-Fi channel was heading downhill with respect to other channels and not generating the necessary revenue? To combat this, the management has decided to broadcast a few popular shows, that while don't fall under the category of Sci-Fi, cause people to pay for the channel because they would like to watch those shows?
Has that site been slashdotted or the content taken down? I keep getting a blank page and mirrordot doesn't have it either?
Hehe ... it would be fun to watch someone using a head/eye controlled mouse while bopping away to their favourite tunes :)
While the interface is interesting, the fact that you still are hanging onto a mouse is a drawback. The other drawback I see is that if this were to be incorporated into all programs today (as it is demonstrated on that website), I feel that the amount one could do with a program would be limited. For example, take Firefox. If you had 10 tabs lining the top of your browser, how could you get to the 'back' button or the 'reload' button? I feel this interface would prove a hinderance because you would have to snake your mouse around the screen to make sure you didnt cross anything unexpected.
The scoop seemed a little strange and had me confused for a while. It started nice and clear before jumping from talking about workers to researchers and rats. What the!? Didn't people learn creative writing at school? A story must have a start, middle and end. Not just a start and an end :)