Depending on your budget, there may be some value in looking into the "Interwoven" Document Management System (DMS).. Its primarily marketed to legal firms, however its got great file tracking (i.e. who, where, when opened, printed, viewed, and for how long.. etc..) and is quite well rounded to suite the needs of just about anyone.
Has no Linux suport for the server or desktop clients though...
As far as I can tell- the article mentions nothing about the types of ammunition they fire with this- however upon closer inspection,
I may have found a clue:
"Installation of the laboratory launcher is currently under way"
Seems like a waste of some perfectly good laboratories!
This is essentially an ultra-small footprint server installation to run server apps on top of it, it doesnt even have a window manager- you boot directly to the "cmd.exe" prompt.
Gee where have we seen this before- oh i know it started back in the 70s...
When I ran a BBS in the 'old days' as they were, I remember when the internet and IRC started to take hold and I wondered- just what a "Door" would end up looking like.. (i.e. Tradewars)... Somehow, the "door" became the grand-daddy of the "MMORPG"..
Also....
Ever notice how if you try explaining the BBS days to someone that never experienced it, you somehow end up looking like that stereotypical "wild eyed old coot" who raves about "back in my day, we walked 100 miles to school in the snow, with one shoe! AND WE LIKED IT!"... People have no concept of a 300bps modem with the "phone coupler", and how when a 1200pbs modem with the "High Speed" light was worth $2500bux....
Why not use your MP3 player? Most production music nowadays is recorded to a click-track. Simply get a nice pair of quality headphones (not entirely required but helps) and load some of your favorite music into it. Play along.
You will accomplish 2 things:
1) Your timing will improve. 2) You will pick up technique from what you hear by tring to recreate it.
How do you know they wont embed the encoded audio waveform directly into the kernel? It could be one of those uses for DRM encryption that they implement just for the fun of it.
Or they could keep it just a pointer to a.wav file like were used to.... I'm not conspiracy theorist here, but if they are willing to even have the conversation to make the startup sound mandatory, its not a stretch to think that at they also considered ways to make it more difficult to change...
I dont have time to RTFA (at work), however I have a question; what happens to light in the far infrared, or thermal vision? (i.e. light coming _from_ the object obscured).. Does this technology have an answer for this? or is this just cloaking from light/radar coming from external sources?
Uhm, I dont think you need to make that EULA a Click-Thru... This seems more the realm of "By reading this, you explicitly agree to..." type of nastiness..
But this however, brings up all sorts of issues.. Such as what language to write it in. We are not born speaking any single language... Okay, I am overthinging things..
These companies ALL have major contracts with RIM to BRAND the phones and service to their networks...
If RIM shuts down tomorrow, its not entirely RIM who will bear the brunt of the suffering here..
Example: If your organization has 500 T-Mobile Blaackberries, and tomorrow the service just STOPPED.. Your going to immediately blame T-Mobile, since its their branded phone/service contract....
I find it hard to beleive that there isnt more talk from these large corporations that stand to lose not only money- but customer confidence if this goes worst case.
Does anyone have any ideas on what one would do if they had users who depend on a Blackberry? I'm sure that if you have that many users it is quite possible that some of them already rely pretty heavily on them.
AFAIK (I could be wrong) but there doesnt seem to be any effort by Reasearch in Motion to include sendmail (or equiv.) support for their Enterprise Server product.. Not to mention real-time calendaring and contacts synchronization..
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if all the broadcast channels just started playing nothing but commercials for Digital TV sets, and cable company/satellite special offers and such 24/7 on-loop.
I think you missed the point, they are growing up in California.. The future you mentioned for them will most likely happen with or without the robot presence.:)
Qwoth the author: Establishing a viable space-community should be the primary goal of the human race
Interesting point you make, but alas, it may be life that people say is precious. However, the one singulare reason why we as humans are not making space colonisation a top priority is money and greed. If one looks into the past for an answer as to why we are not colonizing space at this point it is simple.. We have not been given the old 'kick in the pants yet'... I will wager that the INSTANT we get hit with an asteroid that doesnt totally anihilate us, you will see some serious money put into colonising space. Until then procrastination will be king..
I administrate a modest network for a decent sized law firm, (70+ users).. We use a combination of applications such as Interwoven (formerly iManage) for document management, Lotus Notes for email, and predominatly WordPerfect for word processing. Not to mention these are all intertwined with themselves and Windows.. (the Document management uses ODMA calls in Windows to transfer files)..
I have been racking my brain to think of anything in open source on top of linux that would come even close to the functionality that I have..
Its kinda frustrating because I would love to De-MS my shop.. I just _can't_..
How about the potential to create artificial muscle tissue for the express purpose of food generation? As in print out a slab of new york strip steak for example? Could this solve the food problems on long duration space flights?
If not for space travel, think of gloating to your veagan freind that your t-bone was not the product of a slaughter. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
So, in essence, you are proposing that humans born with no vision should be given the equivilant of a "screen saver" so that their visual centers of the brain to dont atrofy? Would this not inhibbit their ability to overdevelop their other senses (i.e. touch, hearing etc.) to compensate?
I feel sorry for the guy, in a way; he used to be a computer geek just like so many others and he's cut off from part of the internet just by virtue of his success.
Actually, since the inception of the internet, there has been this wonderful concept called a 'handle' or 'alias' that works pretty well.. I would not be surprised at all if he surfs the web and uses regular email on a daily basis. Who knows, he probably surfs chat rooms under the assumed identity of a 13 year old girl with braces for all we know.;>
It is interesting, however because even though your reference was most likely meant to be humerous. I would submit that something like this would be somewhat akin to the birth of flight or even similar in many ways to SpaceShipOne in the pioneering first steps toward commercial spaceflight.
Quite possibly even an eventual route to the elusive "fountain of youth" once machines can be manufactured to mimic human bodies. Because if you think of it- a human body is nothing more than a fantasticaly complex machine.
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Depending on your budget, there may be some value in looking into the "Interwoven" Document Management System (DMS)..
Its primarily marketed to legal firms, however its got great file tracking (i.e. who, where, when opened, printed, viewed, and for how long.. etc..) and is quite well rounded to suite the needs of just about anyone.
Has no Linux suport for the server or desktop clients though...
As far as I can tell- the article mentions nothing about the types of ammunition they fire with this- however upon closer inspection,
I may have found a clue:
"Installation of the laboratory launcher is currently under way"
Seems like a waste of some perfectly good laboratories!
Actually, no..
Microsoft has taken yet another page from the *NIX play book and constructed a model called "Server Core" for 2008:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/servercore.mspx
This is essentially an ultra-small footprint server installation to run server apps on top of it, it doesnt even have a window manager- you boot directly to the "cmd.exe" prompt.
Gee where have we seen this before- oh i know it started back in the 70s...
Agghhh. Wildcat!?
;>
I still cringe when I see the color "yellow".. you know what I mean.
When I ran a BBS in the 'old days' as they were, I remember when the internet and IRC started to take hold and I wondered- just what a "Door" would end up looking like.. (i.e. Tradewars)... Somehow, the "door" became the grand-daddy of the "MMORPG"..
... People have no concept of a 300bps modem with the "phone coupler", and how when a 1200pbs modem with the "High Speed" light was worth $2500bux....
Also....
Ever notice how if you try explaining the BBS days to someone that never experienced it, you somehow end up looking like that stereotypical "wild eyed old coot" who raves about "back in my day, we walked 100 miles to school in the snow, with one shoe! AND WE LIKED IT!"
I am not a wild eyed old coot. I'm 28 damnit!
Why not use your MP3 player? Most production music nowadays is recorded to a click-track. Simply get a nice pair of quality headphones (not entirely required but helps) and load some of your favorite music into it. Play along.
You will accomplish 2 things:
1) Your timing will improve.
2) You will pick up technique from what you hear by tring to recreate it.
How do you know they wont embed the encoded audio waveform directly into the kernel? It could be one of those uses for DRM encryption that they implement just for the fun of it.
.wav file like were used to.... I'm not conspiracy theorist here, but if they are willing to even have the conversation to make the startup sound mandatory, its not a stretch to think that at they also considered ways to make it more difficult to change...
Or they could keep it just a pointer to a
I guess we'll see...
I dont have time to RTFA (at work), however I have a question; what happens to light in the far infrared, or thermal vision? (i.e. light coming _from_ the object obscured).. Does this technology have an answer for this? or is this just cloaking from light/radar coming from external sources?
3... 2... 1....
Uhm, I dont think you need to make that EULA a Click-Thru... This seems more the realm of "By reading this, you explicitly agree to..." type of nastiness..
But this however, brings up all sorts of issues.. Such as what language to write it in. We are not born speaking any single language... Okay, I am overthinging things..
My bad.
Has anyone noticed just how silent the major carriers have been so far about this?
...etc
1) Verizon Wireless
2) Nextel
3) T-Mbile
4) Cingular
These companies ALL have major contracts with RIM to BRAND the phones and service to their networks...
If RIM shuts down tomorrow, its not entirely RIM who will bear the brunt of the suffering here..
Example: If your organization has 500 T-Mobile Blaackberries, and tomorrow the service just STOPPED.. Your going to immediately blame T-Mobile, since its their branded phone/service contract....
I find it hard to beleive that there isnt more talk from these large corporations that stand to lose not only money- but customer confidence if this goes worst case.
Does anyone have any ideas on what one would do if they had users who depend on a Blackberry? I'm sure that if you have that many users it is quite possible that some of them already rely pretty heavily on them.
AFAIK (I could be wrong) but there doesnt seem to be any effort by Reasearch in Motion to include sendmail (or equiv.) support for their Enterprise Server product.. Not to mention real-time calendaring and contacts synchronization..
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if all the broadcast channels just started playing nothing but commercials for Digital TV sets, and cable company/satellite special offers and such 24/7 on-loop.
hehe
I think you missed the point, they are growing up in California.. The future you mentioned for them will most likely happen with or without the robot presence. :)
uhhh. dude..
Fool me ONCE shame on YOU...
Fool me TWICE shame on ME!
Lots of history here, we have reason to be cautious.
Qwoth the author:
... I will wager that the INSTANT we get hit with an asteroid that doesnt totally anihilate us, you will see some serious money put into colonising space. Until then procrastination will be king..
Establishing a viable space-community should be the primary goal of the human race
Interesting point you make, but alas, it may be life that people say is precious. However, the one singulare reason why we as humans are not making space colonisation a top priority is money and greed. If one looks into the past for an answer as to why we are not colonizing space at this point it is simple.. We have not been given the old 'kick in the pants yet'
I agree...
I administrate a modest network for a decent sized law firm, (70+ users).. We use a combination of applications such as Interwoven (formerly iManage) for document management, Lotus Notes for email, and predominatly WordPerfect for word processing. Not to mention these are all intertwined with themselves and Windows.. (the Document management uses ODMA calls in Windows to transfer files)..
I have been racking my brain to think of anything in open source on top of linux that would come even close to the functionality that I have..
Its kinda frustrating because I would love to De-MS my shop.. I just _can't_..
Ahh.. the old programmers plight:
Upon delivering the completed project, the end user simply states:
"Now hold on, this is exactly what I asked for.. But not what I wanted!"
So basically, its humanity as a whole deciding as a collective to sloooooooowly push the reset button. I dig it.
Follow the link below for my favorite viewpoint on this subject. (Credit due to George Carlin)
George Carlin
How about the potential to create artificial muscle tissue for the express purpose of food generation? As in print out a slab of new york strip steak for example? Could this solve the food problems on long duration space flights?
If not for space travel, think of gloating to your veagan freind that your t-bone was not the product of a slaughter. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
If I hear the phrase "We are the lazy generation" one more friggin time I'm gonna .. well, I don't know what I am gonna do.. It wont be pretty.
So, in essence, you are proposing that humans born with no vision should be given the equivilant of a "screen saver" so that their visual centers of the brain to dont atrofy? Would this not inhibbit their ability to overdevelop their other senses (i.e. touch, hearing etc.) to compensate?
Bad idea methinks.
Actually, since the inception of the internet, there has been this wonderful concept called a 'handle' or 'alias' that works pretty well.. I would not be surprised at all if he surfs the web and uses regular email on a daily basis. Who knows, he probably surfs chat rooms under the assumed identity of a 13 year old girl with braces for all we know. ;>
It is interesting, however because even though your reference was most likely meant to be humerous. I would submit that something like this would be somewhat akin to the birth of flight or even similar in many ways to SpaceShipOne in the pioneering first steps toward commercial spaceflight.
Quite possibly even an eventual route to the elusive "fountain of youth" once machines can be manufactured to mimic human bodies. Because if you think of it- a human body is nothing more than a fantasticaly complex machine.
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