The article is indeed very vague, but as I read it, she was abroad when her phone was stolen. She probably didn't have it with her, as the GSM's in the USA use a different band to communicate and are therefore incompatible with most of the rest of the worlds GSM networks. She probanly came home after a month or so, and found a bill, but no phone.
Well most cutting implements aren't as sharp as they could be, even with current technology (ceramic, diamond cutting edges).
Why:
Cutting yourself would become realy dangerous, as it wouldn't just be a skin deep cut, but would just slice your fingers right off. Imagine something like a papercut, but with a material much sharper, more effective, capable of cutting bone.
This is the reason why a cheese cutter is much more blunt as a razor blade, and razorblades themselves aren't sharper themselves.
Maybe I'm behind the times, as I've only used up to Word 2003 and OO.ord 1.1.4, but I find both very inferiour in handling Equasions, drawings, references, headers, styles, multipart documents, etc. compared to WordPerfect and LaTeX. I prefer de old-style equasion editor in WP to the new Word-like one however. I wish WP would still make a version for Linux...
And yes I am a scientist too...
I just want to do stuff like ----------------------
p = m . v (43)
Equation 43 in Chapter 4.1 (page 30) shows the formula for impulse as given by J.Doe et al[20] for... --------------------- Preferably in a document where each chapter can be in a different subdocument file, but still have all the references working and up to date.
Just a couple of nice ones: - Everything written in the Bible is true, any proof to the contrary is faricated by God to test the faithful. - I know people what walk around with a bible with 'relevant' text highlighted so they can find the 'right' lines quickly. - I have talked to people that believe that their Dutch translation is right, even if you can show them the original greek or hebrew text clearly says something differently. - I a divorce one of the partners is 'blamed' and not allowed to participate in religious activities anymore, because he/she is most certainly condemned to hell. 95% of the time the woman gets the blame.
I just came back from visiting my parents and having a conversation about my dad's problem: He wants to run 3 applications: - Lotus 1-2-3 v3 for DOS - Boekhoud (a __very old__ accounting package) - WordPerfect 12
The problem is: - Lotus runs in protected mode, crashes if it sees more as 16 Mb RAM. - Boekhoud run's in real mode and crashes on anything faster as 200 Mhz. - WP 12 needs loads of RAM a fast CPU and win98SE+
With a lot of tweaking he has all of it running on a 200Mhz with 64Mb RAM and 98SE, but all are a PITA to use, and the system can only run in 640x480.
Given your current position, does it look as if Microsoft will continue to try and marginalize all non-MS software, or will they do an about face and work to try and ensure ongoing interoperability?
If you're realy serious about security, disable USB mass storage devices on all machines, diskdrives and CD-burners too. You'll maybe need to treat laptops differently, but those are a problem anyway, because they get stolen all the time. I haven't figured out how to handle those properly.
For al the people griping and whining in this thread I have only one advice:
Do something about it!! ask for a raise, get another job, ask for training,...
Life is to short to waste it filling other peoples pockets with money while you have a hard time. It took me one year to find that out at a previous job, I've never been happier that I quitted.
I'm running an PII-350 (no fans, only heatsinks, 20.4 W according to specs), that spins down it's HD when not in use. It doesn't have a videocard, 3 NIC's, and run's some HTTP ssh and Samba too. It has a spacious 128 Mb RAM. Bought it in a PC dump store for 20 euro about 2 years ago.
I tried to get an old P133 laptop to run as firewall, to reduce power consumption even further, but there is no support for the PCMCIA network cards I had. (SMC 8016C Elitecard)
But because I also want to run some other stuff occasionally, I think it's worth the additional cost of the 40 or so Watts my setup probably consumes.
And people are recommending hacking your X.org config scripts in the same thread. I think your boss should probably wait with his trial, until you can actually use Linux without hacking config scripts.*
*Note I use several machines that do not even have X installed, just CLI, VI rulez!
A difference I see between IBM and Microsoft, is that Big Blue seems to have at least done some truly innovative cutting edge stuff, I've yet to see something from Microsoft that makes me go "yeah that's realy impressive they came up with that". Some IBM researchers have actually received Nobel prizes, I've yet to see a Microsoft employee do that. From http://www.research.ibm.com/know/top.html - Copper Chip Technology - Giant Magnetoresistive Head (GMR) - Speech recognition technology - Scalable parallel systems - Token-ring networking - High-temperature superconductivity (1987 Nobel prize) - Fractals (Mandelbrot) - Thin-film magnetic recording heads - Scanning Tunneling Microscope (1986 Nobel prize) - Formula Translation System (FORTRAN) - Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture - Relational database - Magnetic disk storage - One-transistor dynamic RAM (DRAM)
Disclaimer: 1) I am in no way affiliated with IBM, and know they abused their monopoly in the '80 too. I just think it's ridiculous to compare IBM and MS R&D results, just name 1 significant MS innovation.
2) I'm no big fan of software pattents in general, at least in their current form, because checking 20,000,000,000 pattents each time a program a line of code is impractical.
From the article: In Mr. Allen's view, absolutely not. "Time has basically always really meant what you measure when you put a stick in the ground and look at its shadow," he said.
I couldn't agree more.
The only sensible alternative is that we no longer keep time based on celestial mechanics, and we abolish leap days/year, daylight savings and the 365 day year too. Those are annoying to programmers like myself too.
Something like that happened to me: I was hired on very short notice during the christmas holydays, because they needed someone before january 1st. "the paperwork details would be settled later" The job was such that january was a very hectic month, and we only came round to the paperwork in the third week. I was then presented with a completely different contract as I thought I would get (some head-hunter company had done the actual communications with the new employer -- another mistake)
I then made the mistake of signing anyway, because I was very busy, and didn't want to cause trouble in my first few weeks at work. I came to regret that a lot.
I have therefore decided I want all the fine print up front, and I'm not going to sign anything after I started a job, that they somehow "forgot", even if it costs me the job. If it would ever happen again, I might find another solution, but this is how I feel about it right now. I am very happy with the contract from my current employer, and no small print has surfaced after I started.
Sounds too familiar, and I will never do it again.
I'm not going to accept a job before I've seen all the fine print ever again.
I left again after a year, as soon as my contract was open for renewal. (I live in the Netherlands, even quitting a job is difficult overhere, but getting fired is difficult too)
* Keep it short * Give a printed outline of your strongest arguments for future reference * Use examples, preferably from local or well known companies/projects. * My opinion would be that I'm not against Software Pattents, but that the current pattent system is too inpractical for actually promoting innovation. - Compared to the speed of developements the duration is to long. - Court battles can't be won before a pattent becomes obsolete, and are too expensive. - Because of lack of standardization it's impossible to find if you're infringing, esp. because possible infringement extends to all tools you are using (OS, editor, desktop, etc.) - Because of the currenty used funding system the (US)PO approves to many (trivial) pattents. - The current system favors large corporations over the little man - You'll find more arguments on the net, but these alone should get your point across.
* I would try to make some analogy's with how books work. - Books are also mainly protected by copyright. - Compare some of the current pattents with Stephen King having a pattent on Horror stories.
* The only OSS specific points I would make is: - It's easy for closed-source compettitors to find possible infirngements, but hard the other way round. - A lot of OSS lacks financial and juridical support to fight back. - A lot of OSS has no financial means to obtain pattents themselves.
Does anyone know of a similar program for PocketPC 2000. My Casio Cassiopeia has a CF slot, but no way to backup to/from it.
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Hmm, I've just made my first character with 5.8, and it's about 10x faster as the old 5.6.1. The new features are realy nice, although I've found the first bug already.
I am no expert on complex website, but I do have a good suggestion:
If you're planning on teaching any programming, check out Python, it's very clean, clear, small and easy and has lot's of inroads into the subjects you want to treat. Stuff like a functional SOAP Webservice can be done in under 10 lines of code. There's basic XML/HTML/CSS SQL too. After introduction of the basic concept you can then continue with some PHP and MySQL.
Please try to learn them something about user interface design too. Stuff like avoiding "mistery meat navigation". Check out places like webpagesthatsuck for ideas.
I don't say that software pattents are a bad thing, but that it the current pattent systems they are very impractical for a number of reasons: - Mass production/duplication of software can be free and outside of the view of the original constructor. Exactly what should be considered a duplicate for licencing reasons is also unclear/debated.
- Definition of the use of a pattent is very awkward and broad. This is a very big problem if "use" of the software crosses boundries, like for example a lot of internet traffic does.
- Very hard to find infringing pattents of others because of lack of uniformity and clasification. A lot of software isn't classified on what it does, but what field it's creator applied it in.
- Inprecise and unclear definition of field of application and method itself.
- Speed of developement compared to duration of application and pattent.
These problems (and probably some others) are most extreme in software, making software pattents impractical in a system not designed for them.
One example: You're browsing Slashdot, this leaves you liable for any pattented software you use doing so, in your country, including: - Your browser - The slashcode - Slashdot's database & OS Can you verify if any of these is infringing on any pattents? (and if you come back tomorrow: if any have changed?)
(I am not a lawyer, but have talked with lawyers about these matters)
Slashdot Mirror
Like the SUSE LINUX: Hardware compatibility list?
http://cdb.novell.com/?LANG=en_UK
They have had a database with compatible hardware online at least since version 6.2, when I started using SuSE (1998).
But I do not find any WiFi cards in that database.
The article is indeed very vague, but as I read it, she was abroad when her phone was stolen. She probably didn't have it with her, as the GSM's in the USA use a different band to communicate and are therefore incompatible with most of the rest of the worlds GSM networks. She probanly came home after a month or so, and found a bill, but no phone.
Well most cutting implements aren't as sharp as they could be, even with current technology (ceramic, diamond cutting edges).
Why:
Cutting yourself would become realy dangerous, as it wouldn't just be a skin deep cut, but would just slice your fingers right off. Imagine something like a papercut, but with a material much sharper, more effective, capable of cutting bone.
This is the reason why a cheese cutter is much more blunt as a razor blade, and razorblades themselves aren't sharper themselves.
Maybe I'm behind the times, as I've only used up to Word 2003 and OO.ord 1.1.4, but I find both very inferiour in handling Equasions, drawings, references, headers, styles, multipart documents, etc. compared to WordPerfect and LaTeX. I prefer de old-style equasion editor in WP to the new Word-like one however. I wish WP would still make a version for Linux...
And yes I am a scientist too...
I just want to do stuff like
----------------------
p = m . v (43)
Equation 43 in Chapter 4.1 (page 30) shows the formula for impulse as given by J.Doe et al[20] for...
---------------------
Preferably in a document where each chapter can be in a different subdocument file, but still have all the references working and up to date.
You've taken the words right out of my mouth.
Just a couple of nice ones:
- Everything written in the Bible is true, any proof to the contrary is faricated by God to test the faithful.
- I know people what walk around with a bible with 'relevant' text highlighted so they can find the 'right' lines quickly.
- I have talked to people that believe that their Dutch translation is right, even if you can show them the original greek or hebrew text clearly says something differently.
- I a divorce one of the partners is 'blamed' and not allowed to participate in religious activities anymore, because he/she is most certainly condemned to hell. 95% of the time the woman gets the blame.
Duh!
I just came back from visiting my parents and having a conversation about my dad's problem: He wants to run 3 applications:
- Lotus 1-2-3 v3 for DOS
- Boekhoud (a __very old__ accounting package)
- WordPerfect 12
The problem is:
- Lotus runs in protected mode, crashes if it sees more as 16 Mb RAM.
- Boekhoud run's in real mode and crashes on anything faster as 200 Mhz.
- WP 12 needs loads of RAM a fast CPU and win98SE+
With a lot of tweaking he has all of it running on a 200Mhz with 64Mb RAM and 98SE, but all are a PITA to use, and the system can only run in 640x480.
Given your current position, does it look as if Microsoft will continue to try and marginalize all non-MS software, or will they do an about face and work to try and ensure ongoing interoperability?
If you're realy serious about security, disable USB mass storage devices on all machines, diskdrives and CD-burners too.
You'll maybe need to treat laptops differently, but those are a problem anyway, because they get stolen all the time. I haven't figured out how to handle those properly.
For al the people griping and whining in this thread I have only one advice:
Do something about it!!
ask for a raise, get another job, ask for training,...
Life is to short to waste it filling other peoples pockets with money while you have a hard time.
It took me one year to find that out at a previous job, I've never been happier that I quitted.
I'm running an PII-350 (no fans, only heatsinks, 20.4 W according to specs), that spins down it's HD when not in use. It doesn't have a videocard, 3 NIC's, and run's some HTTP ssh and Samba too. It has a spacious 128 Mb RAM. Bought it in a PC dump store for 20 euro about 2 years ago.
I tried to get an old P133 laptop to run as firewall, to reduce power consumption even further, but there is no support for the PCMCIA network cards I had. (SMC 8016C Elitecard)
But because I also want to run some other stuff occasionally, I think it's worth the additional cost of the 40 or so Watts my setup probably consumes.
And people are recommending hacking your X.org config scripts in the same thread. I think your boss should probably wait with his trial, until you can actually use Linux without hacking config scripts.*
*Note I use several machines that do not even have X installed, just CLI, VI rulez!
A difference I see between IBM and Microsoft, is that Big Blue seems to have at least done some truly innovative cutting edge stuff, I've yet to see something from Microsoft that makes me go "yeah that's realy impressive they came up with that". Some IBM researchers have actually received Nobel prizes, I've yet to see a Microsoft employee do that.
From http://www.research.ibm.com/know/top.html
- Copper Chip Technology
- Giant Magnetoresistive Head (GMR)
- Speech recognition technology
- Scalable parallel systems
- Token-ring networking
- High-temperature superconductivity (1987 Nobel prize)
- Fractals (Mandelbrot)
- Thin-film magnetic recording heads
- Scanning Tunneling Microscope (1986 Nobel prize)
- Formula Translation System (FORTRAN)
- Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture
- Relational database
- Magnetic disk storage
- One-transistor dynamic RAM (DRAM)
Disclaimer: 1) I am in no way affiliated with IBM, and know they abused their monopoly in the '80 too. I just think it's ridiculous to compare IBM and MS R&D results, just name 1 significant MS innovation.
2) I'm no big fan of software pattents in general, at least in their current form, because checking 20,000,000,000 pattents each time a program a line of code is impractical.
From the article:
In Mr. Allen's view, absolutely not. "Time has basically always really meant what you measure when you put a stick in the ground and look at its shadow," he said.
I couldn't agree more.
The only sensible alternative is that we no longer keep time based on celestial mechanics, and we abolish leap days/year, daylight savings and the 365 day year too. Those are annoying to programmers like myself too.
Let's start counting in Stardates !
Something like that happened to me:
I was hired on very short notice during the christmas holydays, because they needed someone before january 1st. "the paperwork details would be settled later"
The job was such that january was a very hectic month, and we only came round to the paperwork in the third week. I was then presented with a completely different contract as I thought I would get (some head-hunter company had done the actual communications with the new employer -- another mistake)
I then made the mistake of signing anyway, because I was very busy, and didn't want to cause trouble in my first few weeks at work. I came to regret that a lot.
I have therefore decided I want all the fine print up front, and I'm not going to sign anything after I started a job, that they somehow "forgot", even if it costs me the job.
If it would ever happen again, I might find another solution, but this is how I feel about it right now. I am very happy with the contract from my current employer, and no small print has surfaced after I started.
Sounds too familiar, and I will never do it again.
I'm not going to accept a job before I've seen all the fine print ever again.
I left again after a year, as soon as my contract was open for renewal. (I live in the Netherlands, even quitting a job is difficult overhere, but getting fired is difficult too)
We could go with
Planet XP
or
Planet X (Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Tiger, Panther,...)
We used to have a Test PC at my first job. we had GHOST images for every OS (95, OSR1, OSR2, 98, SE, ME, NT, SP3, SP5, SP6 SP6a, 2000, SP1)
All ran fine on this machine (a HP something Pentium Pro-233 w/64MB RAM)
Windows XP would not even install, it would hang halfway through setup.
MidTown Madness II for PC (it's like from 1999 or something, the new version is only for Xbox.)
Scorched Earth 3D (real nice up-to-date 3D version of a classic)
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/ (it's free!)
* Keep it short
* Give a printed outline of your strongest arguments for future reference
* Use examples, preferably from local or well known companies/projects.
* My opinion would be that I'm not against Software Pattents, but that the current pattent system is too inpractical for actually promoting innovation.
- Compared to the speed of developements the duration is to long.
- Court battles can't be won before a pattent becomes obsolete, and are too expensive.
- Because of lack of standardization it's impossible to find if you're infringing, esp. because possible infringement extends to all tools you are using (OS, editor, desktop, etc.)
- Because of the currenty used funding system the (US)PO approves to many (trivial) pattents.
- The current system favors large corporations over the little man
- You'll find more arguments on the net, but these alone should get your point across.
* I would try to make some analogy's with how books work.
- Books are also mainly protected by copyright.
- Compare some of the current pattents with Stephen King having a pattent on Horror stories.
* The only OSS specific points I would make is:
- It's easy for closed-source compettitors to find possible infirngements, but hard the other way round.
- A lot of OSS lacks financial and juridical support to fight back.
- A lot of OSS has no financial means to obtain pattents themselves.
just my 2 cents.
I'm not advocating it as a main web dev tool, but as a teaching language. You're right about everything else.
Does anyone know of a similar program for PocketPC 2000. My Casio Cassiopeia has a CF slot, but no way to backup to/from it.
Hmm, I've just made my first character with 5.8, and it's about 10x faster as the old 5.6.1. The new features are realy nice, although I've found the first bug already.
I am no expert on complex website, but I do have a good suggestion:
If you're planning on teaching any programming, check out Python, it's very clean, clear, small and easy and has lot's of inroads into the subjects you want to treat.
Stuff like a functional SOAP Webservice can be done in under 10 lines of code. There's basic XML/HTML/CSS SQL too.
After introduction of the basic concept you can then continue with some PHP and MySQL.
Please try to learn them something about user interface design too. Stuff like avoiding "mistery meat navigation". Check out places like webpagesthatsuck for ideas.
I don't say that software pattents are a bad thing, but that it the current pattent systems they are very impractical for a number of reasons:
- Mass production/duplication of software can be free and outside of the view of the original constructor. Exactly what should be considered a duplicate for licencing reasons is also unclear/debated.
- Definition of the use of a pattent is very awkward and broad. This is a very big problem if "use" of the software crosses boundries, like for example a lot of internet traffic does.
- Very hard to find infringing pattents of others because of lack of uniformity and clasification. A lot of software isn't classified on what it does, but what field it's creator applied it in.
- Inprecise and unclear definition of field of application and method itself.
- Speed of developement compared to duration of application and pattent.
These problems (and probably some others) are most extreme in software, making software pattents impractical in a system not designed for them.
One example: You're browsing Slashdot, this leaves you liable for any pattented software you use doing so, in your country, including:
- Your browser
- The slashcode
- Slashdot's database & OS
Can you verify if any of these is infringing on any pattents?
(and if you come back tomorrow: if any have changed?)
(I am not a lawyer, but have talked with lawyers about these matters)
The problem is, how to define those fields.