The computers, that is. They are cheap and easy to fix.
I have my company running on refurbished GX260, GX270 and GX280 models. I have the occasional fan failure, but no motherboard failures with PCs that are on 24x5, and some 24x7 out on the factory floor. If it fails, I put the HD into another one. We paid $200 each, or less. I got 'em stacked up in the corner like cord wood. Easy to fix, easy to swap parts. I can put a HD into any of the 3 models since they share a common chipset and XP runs just fine.
P4-2.4GHz or faster, 2GB RAM...pretty much all a normal business user needs.
Exactly how dumb does Apple think its users are that a text file is now considered 'complicated'?
Specifically this was for the Safari Developer program where Apple wants people to write extensions to Safari maybe like Firefox. I suppose you write all your code in notepad, vi or similar but I like having a basic UI wrapper for coding. It might not be as all encompassing as eclipse or VS but some help would be nice.
NotePad2 or HTML-Kit, but I get the point now from the responses that people have written. I guess this shows my age.
Ahem...I would like to point out that sense the three individuals were attempting to pre-salvage the wallet and electronics articles, though far from a ship, their attempted act might just qualify them as pirates. Really bad pirates, but pirates none the less.
I have been using Google Wave for months now. It works well once you figure out how to use it and for what you can use it effectively. I have been using it to collaborate with fellow musicians. In real-time, we hammer out lyrics, instruments parts, ideas, etc. Record something, most the MP3, share the bits that way, and the guy that is the best with the mixing software does the final mixes, shares the results. It has been fast and effective.
At my company, we have avoiding becoming a botnet.
100+ systems running XP Pro SP3 and installing updates as they are released. SOPHOS. Required use of Firefox for web browsing, with exceptions only for specifics sites coded for IE (stupid banks!). XP's firewall is on for each system.
The occasional system gets spiked, but that is it -- there is no stopping the efforts of the truly insipid. System-wide infections have never happened.
I will stop blocking ads, if you promise to make the ads less stupid.
1. Ban the use of ads with Audio/Video on them. They are stealing MY bandwidth. 2. If the ad uses animation, ban it. 3. If the ad uses Flash, ban it. 4. If the ad uses JavaScript, ban it. 5. If the ad jumps out and covers up my screen because my mouse scrolled over, ban it.
Take the ads back to single pic GIFs and JPGs, or simple text like Google and we will stop blocking them.
All of the above steal the bandwidth *I* am paying for. They slow down my browsing experience. They are often transports for malware (I'm looking at you Flash Player).
Giving Google the monopoly now would be the worst thing to do.
And would you like to know who has given Google their dominant position? You. Me. And Everyone else that thought that Yahoo, Microsoft, Excite, Alta Vista and the rest sucked. Google earned their way to the top by providing a better product. It wasn't given to them by government fiat.
Unlike some markets where immense cost is a barrier to entry, there is no such limitation for a new search engine to begin crawling the internet with their own algorithms and produce search results. Sure, you need servers and disk space, but ANY business endeavor will require some resources. Google's results were not so much superior amounts of hardware, but better algorithms. They simply did it better.
And now they are getting complaints that they are too successful? Bunch of communists.
What you call lazy, the company calls good business. They want to pay for all-new code.
So, learning the mindset of a "code modder" instead of "code originator" is a survival skill. This is about putting food on the table and shoes on the kids. You do what the companies are willing to pay to be done.
You and I, we know this is the wrong way to do it for the long run. Businesses of that size have done their math and simply think it is cheaper to mod the existing code, than write all new code. And since it is their money, that is their choice to make.
Don't like be a code-modder, find a job somewhere else.
Honestly, I think the wrong moral battle is being fought here. The world needs both kinds of programmers.
Before the internet, if you wanted to be a truly successful music group, you had to go to the labels. Otherwise, there was no easy to way to get your music heard.
Now, anyone with a guitar and a microphone can record themselves and post it up for everyone to listen to. There are some people that just shouldn't do this for lack of skill, but this IS a boon to the folks that do have some skill, but are ignored by the labels. The technology is cheap/free to record, mix and render some high-quality original music. You post it up to the 'net, advertise it and voila! The listeners are there. The listeners are the final judge. When their only choices were what the labels told them was good, that is what they bought. But, their available options are greater. They have greater access to music that truly appeals to them. They can now ignore more freely the crap they didn't really like in the first place.
The labels aren't paying attention. They are looking at the wrong thing. They are so focused on the decreasing sales of the current crap, that they are failing to see the greater choice in bands they could potentially sign and then control. Find the music that the people are wanting to listen to, sign those bands. You accomplish two things at once. One, you have removed something from the market stealing from your bottom line. Two, you are now making money from the fans of that band.
The big labels are just too big to see this, though. I feel sorry for them.
How is a person able to "add some mods" if he's spent four years cribbing everything and never coded anything himself?
You've never worked with COBOL in a mainframe environment, have you? At Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, there are billions of lines of COBOL, APL, PL1, Assembler, Forth, FORTRAN and God knows what else. You didn't write any NEW apps from scratch. You took what was written, modified to do "the new thing" and you were done.
And people were paid big money back in the 1990's for this. A buddy of mine still codes in Assembler for 5/3rd on their mainframe, because the speed of the code is so much faster, by several orders of magnitude. He occasionally gets to write a new program, but rarely. The majority of his job is modifying 40 years of accumulated code.
When you buy an off-the-shelf/over-the-counter good, first sale doctrine applies. On a work for hire, an EULA may hold legimate cause to restrict lessees' rights. That is not the case with commodity goods.
Congrats. You just figured out the direction Microsoft wants to go in the future to assure a constant flow of cash.
OO Fan Boy here. I am happy to see the success that OO is having, the continued development...and most importantly...starting up to a blank document in less time than it takes me to walk to the fridge for another can of Pepsi. Thank you OO development team!
Seriously, though, I like to use OO and it is the only my wife has used at home for documents, but making it start up faster should have been a number 1 priority all along.
People don't buy windows because they've assessed multiple competing options...
Depending on the user, the thought of the OS was probably secondary to the intended task: Run a web browser. Think about the typical user. And by typical, I mean grandma, mom, brother, dad, friend down the way that aren't tech geeks like the readers here. They just use a computer to get things done, like driving a car to get to work. They just use it, it is just a tool. This kind of user could care the hell less about the OS wars. They mock people like you and me for even caring about something "so trivial, because they all look the same anyways." (that is a direct quote, and it bugged me) And for many, many people, using a computer means running a web browser to get to FaceBook, MySpace, AOL, Gmail, etc, etc. The OS underneath doesn't matter for many of these people. Oh, sure, some of them want to type up documents, maybe write up a quick spreadsheet to help calculate some costs, but even then, the apps look the same on all platforms.
The difference comes in the money used to purchase the product. If dad only wants to spend $400 on "something that will let me read e-mail", it is probably going to be a PC with a copies of Windows already included. So, no, there is no comparison shopping be done. There is no point for them.
Think about the last time you bought a broom. Did you feature compare several models? Hate it or not, but the computer is on the level of a broom to most users. This fact bothers me...a lot. But I have had to come to terms with it.
The government logic being used here reminds of the incredible leaps of logic my 4-yr makes to defend himself from punishment.
Is very simple, my location at any given moment of any given day is none of the government's business. You want to know, get a warrant. None of this loop-hole business. Makes me happy to not own a cell phone, since I am absolutely certain they are ALREADY tracking innocent citizens in this manner on a regular basis.
My company has zero support for IE. We support FireFox and Chrome on our desktops only. And our web site is guaranteed to work in Firefox and Chrome, only. Outside vendors that bring in products that require IE are simply not purchased.
Since we instituted this policy, I've had fewer occurences of malware to contend with.
I think nothing could be better for the people of California. Tell the Federal Empire which robs us blind, kills our young men, and embroils us in endless overseas conflict to get lost. California would save tens of billions a year not paying taxes to the Empire, which we could turn around and use on our own infrastructure and defense. We have the eighth largest economy on our own, we don't need the American albatross hanging around our neck.
Okay, humor aside...Save tens of billions? Kali has a budget shortfall. Currently, the entirety of the American people are helping to prop up this '8th largest economy'.
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The computers, that is. They are cheap and easy to fix.
I have my company running on refurbished GX260, GX270 and GX280 models. I have the occasional fan failure, but no motherboard failures with PCs that are on 24x5, and some 24x7 out on the factory floor. If it fails, I put the HD into another one. We paid $200 each, or less. I got 'em stacked up in the corner like cord wood. Easy to fix, easy to swap parts. I can put a HD into any of the 3 models since they share a common chipset and XP runs just fine.
P4-2.4GHz or faster, 2GB RAM...pretty much all a normal business user needs.
I think that Disney films tend to be less about plot and more about adventure in a new world. And Tron delivers on that in volumes.
This.
Disney neither claimed to be high cinema, nor high drama with bullet-proof plots. It was *FUN* to watch.
Exactly how dumb does Apple think its users are that a text file is now considered 'complicated'?
Specifically this was for the Safari Developer program where Apple wants people to write extensions to Safari maybe like Firefox. I suppose you write all your code in notepad, vi or similar but I like having a basic UI wrapper for coding. It might not be as all encompassing as eclipse or VS but some help would be nice.
NotePad2 or HTML-Kit, but I get the point now from the responses that people have written. I guess this shows my age.
Instead of manually entering your scripts, menu items, stylesheets, and commands in a complicated text file
Comedy gold :)
Exactly how dumb does Apple think its users are that a text file is now considered 'complicated'?
Ahem...I would like to point out that sense the three individuals were attempting to pre-salvage the wallet and electronics articles, though far from a ship, their attempted act might just qualify them as pirates. Really bad pirates, but pirates none the less.
None. Just because we've exchanged messages about our music, Google doesn't any ownership of it, nor could they justify so in a court of law.
I have been using Google Wave for months now. It works well once you figure out how to use it and for what you can use it effectively. I have been using it to collaborate with fellow musicians. In real-time, we hammer out lyrics, instruments parts, ideas, etc. Record something, most the MP3, share the bits that way, and the guy that is the best with the mixing software does the final mixes, shares the results. It has been fast and effective.
At my company, we have avoiding becoming a botnet.
100+ systems running XP Pro SP3 and installing updates as they are released.
SOPHOS.
Required use of Firefox for web browsing, with exceptions only for specifics sites coded for IE (stupid banks!).
XP's firewall is on for each system.
The occasional system gets spiked, but that is it -- there is no stopping the efforts of the truly insipid. System-wide infections have never happened.
It is about that simple.
I will stop blocking ads, if you promise to make the ads less stupid.
1. Ban the use of ads with Audio/Video on them. They are stealing MY bandwidth.
2. If the ad uses animation, ban it.
3. If the ad uses Flash, ban it.
4. If the ad uses JavaScript, ban it.
5. If the ad jumps out and covers up my screen because my mouse scrolled over, ban it.
Take the ads back to single pic GIFs and JPGs, or simple text like Google and we will stop blocking them.
All of the above steal the bandwidth *I* am paying for. They slow down my browsing experience. They are often transports for malware (I'm looking at you Flash Player).
It is destroying our planet!
Giving Google the monopoly now would be the worst thing to do.
And would you like to know who has given Google their dominant position? You. Me. And Everyone else that thought that Yahoo, Microsoft, Excite, Alta Vista and the rest sucked. Google earned their way to the top by providing a better product. It wasn't given to them by government fiat.
Unlike some markets where immense cost is a barrier to entry, there is no such limitation for a new search engine to begin crawling the internet with their own algorithms and produce search results. Sure, you need servers and disk space, but ANY business endeavor will require some resources. Google's results were not so much superior amounts of hardware, but better algorithms. They simply did it better.
And now they are getting complaints that they are too successful? Bunch of communists.
What you call lazy, the company calls good business. They want to pay for all-new code.
So, learning the mindset of a "code modder" instead of "code originator" is a survival skill. This is about putting food on the table and shoes on the kids. You do what the companies are willing to pay to be done.
You and I, we know this is the wrong way to do it for the long run. Businesses of that size have done their math and simply think it is cheaper to mod the existing code, than write all new code. And since it is their money, that is their choice to make.
Don't like be a code-modder, find a job somewhere else.
Honestly, I think the wrong moral battle is being fought here. The world needs both kinds of programmers.
Before the internet, if you wanted to be a truly successful music group, you had to go to the labels. Otherwise, there was no easy to way to get your music heard.
Now, anyone with a guitar and a microphone can record themselves and post it up for everyone to listen to. There are some people that just shouldn't do this for lack of skill, but this IS a boon to the folks that do have some skill, but are ignored by the labels. The technology is cheap/free to record, mix and render some high-quality original music. You post it up to the 'net, advertise it and voila! The listeners are there. The listeners are the final judge. When their only choices were what the labels told them was good, that is what they bought. But, their available options are greater. They have greater access to music that truly appeals to them. They can now ignore more freely the crap they didn't really like in the first place.
The labels aren't paying attention. They are looking at the wrong thing. They are so focused on the decreasing sales of the current crap, that they are failing to see the greater choice in bands they could potentially sign and then control. Find the music that the people are wanting to listen to, sign those bands. You accomplish two things at once. One, you have removed something from the market stealing from your bottom line. Two, you are now making money from the fans of that band.
The big labels are just too big to see this, though. I feel sorry for them.
How is a person able to "add some mods" if he's spent four years cribbing everything and never coded anything himself?
You've never worked with COBOL in a mainframe environment, have you? At Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, there are billions of lines of COBOL, APL, PL1, Assembler, Forth, FORTRAN and God knows what else. You didn't write any NEW apps from scratch. You took what was written, modified to do "the new thing" and you were done.
And people were paid big money back in the 1990's for this. A buddy of mine still codes in Assembler for 5/3rd on their mainframe, because the speed of the code is so much faster, by several orders of magnitude. He occasionally gets to write a new program, but rarely. The majority of his job is modifying 40 years of accumulated code.
Mainframes are works for hire. PCs are not.
When you buy an off-the-shelf/over-the-counter good, first sale doctrine applies. On a work for hire, an EULA may hold legimate cause to restrict lessees' rights. That is not the case with commodity goods.
Congrats. You just figured out the direction Microsoft wants to go in the future to assure a constant flow of cash.
OO Fan Boy here. I am happy to see the success that OO is having, the continued development...and most importantly...starting up to a blank document in less time than it takes me to walk to the fridge for another can of Pepsi. Thank you OO development team!
Seriously, though, I like to use OO and it is the only my wife has used at home for documents, but making it start up faster should have been a number 1 priority all along.
People don't buy windows because they've assessed multiple competing options ...
Depending on the user, the thought of the OS was probably secondary to the intended task: Run a web browser. Think about the typical user. And by typical, I mean grandma, mom, brother, dad, friend down the way that aren't tech geeks like the readers here. They just use a computer to get things done, like driving a car to get to work. They just use it, it is just a tool. This kind of user could care the hell less about the OS wars. They mock people like you and me for even caring about something "so trivial, because they all look the same anyways." (that is a direct quote, and it bugged me) And for many, many people, using a computer means running a web browser to get to FaceBook, MySpace, AOL, Gmail, etc, etc. The OS underneath doesn't matter for many of these people. Oh, sure, some of them want to type up documents, maybe write up a quick spreadsheet to help calculate some costs, but even then, the apps look the same on all platforms.
The difference comes in the money used to purchase the product. If dad only wants to spend $400 on "something that will let me read e-mail", it is probably going to be a PC with a copies of Windows already included. So, no, there is no comparison shopping be done. There is no point for them.
Think about the last time you bought a broom. Did you feature compare several models? Hate it or not, but the computer is on the level of a broom to most users. This fact bothers me...a lot. But I have had to come to terms with it.
The government logic being used here reminds of the incredible leaps of logic my 4-yr makes to defend himself from punishment.
Is very simple, my location at any given moment of any given day is none of the government's business. You want to know, get a warrant. None of this loop-hole business. Makes me happy to not own a cell phone, since I am absolutely certain they are ALREADY tracking innocent citizens in this manner on a regular basis.
Yeah, because it seems perfectly reasonable for my OS to require me to call the developer periodically in order to remain functional.
Welcome to the world of mainframe licensing. Now coming to homes everywhere. There is a solution, of course: Don't run Win7.
My company has zero support for IE. We support FireFox and Chrome on our desktops only. And our web site is guaranteed to work in Firefox and Chrome, only. Outside vendors that bring in products that require IE are simply not purchased.
Since we instituted this policy, I've had fewer occurences of malware to contend with.
Has anybody RTFA'd yet? Most costliest... invented by through...
God, since when did they let just anybody post something on the interwebs?
When AOL users discovered that there was something beyond AOL.
I think nothing could be better for the people of California. Tell the Federal Empire which robs us blind, kills our young men, and embroils us in endless overseas conflict to get lost. California would save tens of billions a year not paying taxes to the Empire, which we could turn around and use on our own infrastructure and defense. We have the eighth largest economy on our own, we don't need the American albatross hanging around our neck.
Okay, humor aside...Save tens of billions? Kali has a budget shortfall. Currently, the entirety of the American people are helping to prop up this '8th largest economy'.
Why is software freedom biting people's asses?
Maybe because the people aren't used to true freedom in software?
How about GPL? Google Programming Language. Then GPL code could really be written in GPL code.
I think I need a car analogy to fully understand this story.