but not because of T1 business practices, but because they get better, cheaper service doing it themselves. It is not because of their business practices but how their business operates, and people find cheaper and better alternatives. Bad business practices tend to create problems in the company making them vulnerable to competition.
So you are saying you should only code the hard way? Isn't the point of these tools even CSS is to make programming tasks easier? I can see flash as it is not widely supported however most web enabled mobile devices that are worth developing for have Javascript, especially if they support CSS. I actually push for heavy Javascript and less on Server side processing as for the most part the client even a smart phone has excess processing power and it can handle doing most of the legwork and just use the server to process data. Actually this actually makes the pages run a lot faster even over dialup. As well it keeps the server load low and less server side processing make it much easier to handle security.
Make tiny black holes with an event horizon of say 1 foot. Then we have the ultimate trashcan. We can dump nuclear wast in it and nothing will come out except for perhaps according to some theories radiation. Which we cannot see or feel so there forth it must be harmless.
MBA is almost all about Change Management. MBA should really be hired and used when the company needs change. And they should be placed in units that need change. If you take an MBA and put them in a spot that doesn't need to be changed they will still go and try to change it, as that is what they are trained to do. Just like if you are a Software Developer and you are put in a non-software company you will write software to solve the problems and to do your work.
Now that said, as someone both trained in IT and has been in the trenches for a decade and also working on an MBA. I know that often there are other factors going on that I know I would have missed and thought complete insanity. For example this may or may not be your case, it is just an example. The 15 Minute 24/7 response to the problem may have been in the responsibility of one or two people to fix the problem, and if they were both asleep they wouldn't get back until the next day... Or the guys where were on the pager for the night were up all night and entered or skipped work for that day. Creating problems in record keeping of the problem and the employees not showing up to work. Secondly the expensive backup solution may have the advantage of it being offsite (granted you could probably ask his boss the ethics of using his previous company for this). As well having a team of people with different skillsets to manage the backup servers differently so to reduce the changes of the same mistake being duplicated. There can also be the case of company expansion. Your solution may not scale as well as the forecasted growth on them. So they may have wanted a solution that can scale better.
As for Exchange vs. your established industry. Exchange does have the advantage the new hires tend to know how to use it better then the other systems... Even though they may be good too. But one less thing for a New Hire to learn the lower the turnover cost for the company. It isn't about the technology but if people can use the technology.
I would agree. A computer is just that a computer. The same thing with the OS. It is just a bunch of instructions for the computer. I have a Mac, it is a nice tool for me it does what I need it to do for the most part. I don't expect to switch in the near future... However I could and would if I find that it is no longer the tool that I need to do my work. I have done switches in the past.
1987 - 1994 I used MS DOS with some windows 3.1 as a toy. By 1993 I had Desqview running on dos as I needed better Multi-tasking support. 1994 - 1999 I primarily used Linux as I had the need for really good multi-tasking (DOS, Windows 3.1 and Desqview didn't cut it) 1999 - 2002 I primarily used Solaris as I needed a rock solid system. That can handle high load gracefully 2002 - Current I primarily use OS X as I am doing more "professional" work, So I needed something slightly more Microsoft friendly but still have many of the Unix advantages.
Now what will the future hold... I don't know. Right now the Mac does what I need it do. But for the future who knows. Perhaps Ill use Plan-9 or Android, Maybe even Windows.
By year two in my MBA I finally learned what Synergy means. Your example is not it.
Synergy is when working in teams (not groups) where working with multiple people creates an additive effect to the idea process. Real Synergy is difficult to obtain.
That said most Offices do not have MBA's running them. The Middle Manager Sociopath is usually running it usually have Undergrad degrees in business or less. They may pick up these words that the MBA's use and buzzword them and make them stupid. So they will look that much better. The Office actually shows a lot of that. The people from Corporate are usually more intelligent, and barely tolerate the Middle Managers Sociopaths nature.
one worldwide government to oversee distribution, how could there be poverty?
Oh I don't know... Well locations X,Y,Z didn't vote for me so I will give more resources to A,B,C so they can make diamond rings for their wives. Now they may not do this directly but they will probably just let resources rot and fail and be slow to bring it back up to speed.
This group of people are not willing to follow by the world wide laws as they state it is against their morals so because they are not willing to play by the rules they will not get the services.
The Star Trek Universe morality will only work if all people have good intentions and doesn't get distracted by others. That isn't going to happen. It is to easy to get corrupted, and way difficult to avoid it. The best intentions can go bad very fast.
Really the number of people who would see working for a gambling industry as your job as a black mark. Is probably the same as the people who saw that you worked for a consulting firm, or a bank, or even a Not-for-profit as a black mark.
Gambling you will be a black mark for either Religious conservatives or ultra liberal don't let people do stupid things groups. Consulting means you are a union buster so the left wing pro Union people see you as a threat. Bank well right now banks are evil why didn't you software tell those people that these mortgages will fail. And why didn't it play a siren when it did. Not-for-profit you must be one of them long hair hippies who must have no idea how real business works.
I know a lot of people who worked for a lot of distasteful companies. Why? they needed the money and the distasteful companies tend to pay better. Most do offer some good or service that actually helps the general population even though there may be side effects that don't
With the exception of Google most companies what skilled people to do the work they don't care for their political standing.
Yet... They have a Credit system for Commerce across cultures. Some Humans work rather lowly jobs such as mining for profit not because they love the job. Non-commisioned personnel tended to live in multi-people dormitory living condition until the Galaxy class ship. Transporter Rations for the population... they didn't solve the problems they just pulled a pr stunt to stop people from bitchin about it.
Well I found that Running Vista on a MacBook Pro which is 3 years old still runs better then on a New Desktop PC which is less then 3 years old (and with good specs). Macs are good balanced systems with really good specs and are worth the price. Yes you can build your own PC for less. But to buy a comparable prebuilt PC from say from Dell (That matches all the specs. (Including demensions of the case, and other features you say "well I don't need that")) you will find that they are priced comparably +/- $100.00 Apple Computers are not more expensive then their competitor. However Apple does only have a limited line of products that forces to buy features that you don't use. Eg. Glowing Keyboard A feature I have always turned off, so unlike the Dell you are paying for features you may not want or need. However with no pun attended Apple to Apple comparison of the two products tend to show Apple is not overcharging for the product. The apple esthetics probably is only about $20 added to the price.
Why should we, the Linux-community, trust Microsoft? If it is in both our interests then we should be able to trust Microsoft.
Seriously? Yes, For the most part the goals are not that different. Most of the Anti-Microsoft hatrid come from... A making us stop using DOS as the primary OS, having convinced management to get rid of you old working legacy systems to Microsoft ones, and have a new set of problems, making the IT staff learn how to solve different problems. Finally if you use an alternative software you feel like a third party citizen because everything else is Microsoft. Now it seems like De Icaza is working with Microsoft to see if there is anything he can do to remedy some of this conflict.
Why should we do ANYTHING to promote their technology at all? Because a lot of it is good, really good, just because you are an open source zealot and don't want to see it doesn't mean Microsoft doesn't have good products. As well a large group of developers, and a large group of people who know how to use the products.
Yes Microsoft would love to see Linux die, but they know that won't happen, heck VMS is still around. So they might as well make the most of it they can. Microsoft is very aggressive marketing however they can also be good partners. And this can happen both at the same time.
You can't have two masters. But you can have none. I have an Apple OS X laptop, with a Linux Desktop with virtualized Windows systems... In short what ever technology is best at the time I use it. They all have there plusses and minuses. I know them and I use what is strong for what is strong. And I avoid each other weaknesses. Yes some Microsoft technology I don't embrace because I don't like it. however some I do.
Welcome to the cloud from california Such a lovely place Such a lovely trace Plenty of room at the cloud from california Any time of year, you can find it here
Don't forget all interpretations much match the teachers own view as well. Nothing spoils someone interest in a topic, when a teacher always tells them what story they got from this abstracted fiction is wrong.
well... If you want that smell of air freshener then you are locked in. In general the completive advantage is a lock in mechanism. Software tends to have a diverse set of different competitive advantages. Others sectors have less. Say Intel Processor vs. AMD processor, or Dell vs. HP, or Brand X rubber bands vs. Brand y.
However they all try to give themselves a competitive advantage. Say Brand X rubber band has the fastest shipping then any other brands, and your business depends on that fast shipping... Then you are stuck to brand X. Depending how much need that fast shipping they may even raise their prices for their product and you will still use them, as its competitive advantage is what you need.
For some people switching from one Cloud service to an other one may not be a big deal. The way they may use it is more "cross platform" or their data is easily converted back and forth. So depending on your priorities you can be more stuck to your brand of rubber band then to your Cloud service.
The example of moving your facebook page to myspace Is the best example you can think of... Even with non-coud computing. Converting you Informix Data to SQL Server. Converting you C++ code to java. Converting your Flash to HTML... It is not a problem with could computing it is a problem that systems programed by different people and don't follow the same sets of standards don't work with each other.
Data conversion is always expensive and bound to have errors unless it is done so often that there is a clean process to do so.
It is not a question do you want to be stuck, but more of a question who do you want to be stuck too.
Trademarks are filed in Black and White. As well the Apple Logo is not always silver. There is the Rainbow, the gray, I think there was even a red one once. I would say the Green NYC would be more of an infringement. Although apple sued them too.
Secondly apple need to be showing that it is protecting its trademark or it could loose it.
Do you really think it's easier for them to write the software to pretend to be an iPod to sync with iTunes than it would be to write software that reads an XML file and cp's a few files that are listed there?
Yes. Yes it is. Especially if your staff is imbedded device programmers. Which may not translate well for good desktop programmers. Changing the identity is probably just changing a string. Writting code for the desktop will need to be testing and work with a slew of different OS's (even just Windows... XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7...) and different default settings. Then you will need to support it over time make sure it is not vulnerable to virus that could make it infect your device...
I am sorry writing software for the masses is much different then writing code for a very select group.
No it is true. But they are not Liberal because they are trying to push their views (much like how Fox news does) But they are Liberal as it is easier to report good news.
In very raw terms. Liberals want to change things. Conservatives dont. So Liberals make news (As they feel this problem needs to be addressed) and conservatives are trying to stop such actions (As the solution of the problem will do more harm then good). So the news ends up first by targeting the Liberal as they are doing something that is new and news worthy. Then they get the conservatives on the defensive. So in the process of making the news There is a lot of time and effort toward the new idea. And just a little bit explaining the old view.
What that does is creates news where the Liberal Slant always gets more attention then the conservative.
Now lets be realistic here people. You get a Cell Phone and most of them even the low end systems are more powerful then computers 10 years ago. So most phones can do a lot of stuff. Now you have different carriers. They can Suck and have a small limited network where only some services will properly run. So if you had a phone that can do anything on a network that cant when you try to do something that the network can't handle you get an error, or it just doens't work. The geeks like us will see this as either a reason to switch carriers or hack the system to get it to work. But for average joe it will be like. Why offer us the feature if we can't use it, or it is broken so the entire system is broken. So if your carrier will not support the feature then it shouldn't be on the phone. So people will be happy with your product as it works. And if they see someone on an different network with the same product and there is a new feature then you think about switching the carrier not the phone technology. So if the iPhone will be on different networks and there is one willing to support different features you need. You can switch to that vender without thinking man this iPhone sucks because I cannot tether with my computer. While the truth is the iPhone can teather it is just you stupid carrier who won't let you.
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but not because of T1 business practices, but because they get better, cheaper service doing it themselves.
It is not because of their business practices but how their business operates, and people find cheaper and better alternatives. Bad business practices tend to create problems in the company making them vulnerable to competition.
So you are saying you should only code the hard way? Isn't the point of these tools even CSS is to make programming tasks easier? I can see flash as it is not widely supported however most web enabled mobile devices that are worth developing for have Javascript, especially if they support CSS. I actually push for heavy Javascript and less on Server side processing as for the most part the client even a smart phone has excess processing power and it can handle doing most of the legwork and just use the server to process data. Actually this actually makes the pages run a lot faster even over dialup. As well it keeps the server load low and less server side processing make it much easier to handle security.
Make tiny black holes with an event horizon of say 1 foot. Then we have the ultimate trashcan. We can dump nuclear wast in it and nothing will come out except for perhaps according to some theories radiation. Which we cannot see or feel so there forth it must be harmless.
MBA is almost all about Change Management. MBA should really be hired and used when the company needs change. And they should be placed in units that need change. If you take an MBA and put them in a spot that doesn't need to be changed they will still go and try to change it, as that is what they are trained to do. Just like if you are a Software Developer and you are put in a non-software company you will write software to solve the problems and to do your work.
Now that said, as someone both trained in IT and has been in the trenches for a decade and also working on an MBA. I know that often there are other factors going on that I know I would have missed and thought complete insanity. For example this may or may not be your case, it is just an example. The 15 Minute 24/7 response to the problem may have been in the responsibility of one or two people to fix the problem, and if they were both asleep they wouldn't get back until the next day... Or the guys where were on the pager for the night were up all night and entered or skipped work for that day. Creating problems in record keeping of the problem and the employees not showing up to work. Secondly the expensive backup solution may have the advantage of it being offsite (granted you could probably ask his boss the ethics of using his previous company for this). As well having a team of people with different skillsets to manage the backup servers differently so to reduce the changes of the same mistake being duplicated. There can also be the case of company expansion. Your solution may not scale as well as the forecasted growth on them. So they may have wanted a solution that can scale better.
As for Exchange vs. your established industry. Exchange does have the advantage the new hires tend to know how to use it better then the other systems... Even though they may be good too. But one less thing for a New Hire to learn the lower the turnover cost for the company. It isn't about the technology but if people can use the technology.
I would agree. A computer is just that a computer. The same thing with the OS. It is just a bunch of instructions for the computer. I have a Mac, it is a nice tool for me it does what I need it to do for the most part. I don't expect to switch in the near future... However I could and would if I find that it is no longer the tool that I need to do my work. I have done switches in the past.
1987 - 1994 I used MS DOS with some windows 3.1 as a toy. By 1993 I had Desqview running on dos as I needed better Multi-tasking support.
1994 - 1999 I primarily used Linux as I had the need for really good multi-tasking (DOS, Windows 3.1 and Desqview didn't cut it)
1999 - 2002 I primarily used Solaris as I needed a rock solid system. That can handle high load gracefully
2002 - Current I primarily use OS X as I am doing more "professional" work, So I needed something slightly more Microsoft friendly but still have many of the Unix advantages.
Now what will the future hold... I don't know. Right now the Mac does what I need it do. But for the future who knows. Perhaps Ill use Plan-9 or Android, Maybe even Windows.
You don't know what a balance sheet is do you?
Or once one finds the way. It won't work again... Especially once the word gets out. Oddly enough most rich people actually deserved to be rich.
In that case you don't need the http:/// Hence you are readining the protocall.
By year two in my MBA I finally learned what Synergy means.
Your example is not it.
Synergy is when working in teams (not groups) where working with multiple people creates an additive effect to the idea process. Real Synergy is difficult to obtain.
That said most Offices do not have MBA's running them. The Middle Manager Sociopath is usually running it usually have Undergrad degrees in business or less. They may pick up these words that the MBA's use and buzzword them and make them stupid. So they will look that much better.
The Office actually shows a lot of that. The people from Corporate are usually more intelligent, and barely tolerate the Middle Managers Sociopaths nature.
We created the universe that we are trying to figure out who made it.
one worldwide government to oversee distribution, how could there be poverty?
Oh I don't know...
Well locations X,Y,Z didn't vote for me so I will give more resources to A,B,C so they can make diamond rings for their wives. Now they may not do this directly but they will probably just let resources rot and fail and be slow to bring it back up to speed.
This group of people are not willing to follow by the world wide laws as they state it is against their morals so because they are not willing to play by the rules they will not get the services.
The Star Trek Universe morality will only work if all people have good intentions and doesn't get distracted by others. That isn't going to happen. It is to easy to get corrupted, and way difficult to avoid it. The best intentions can go bad very fast.
Really the number of people who would see working for a gambling industry as your job as a black mark. Is probably the same as the people who saw that you worked for a consulting firm, or a bank, or even a Not-for-profit as a black mark.
Gambling you will be a black mark for either Religious conservatives or ultra liberal don't let people do stupid things groups.
Consulting means you are a union buster so the left wing pro Union people see you as a threat.
Bank well right now banks are evil why didn't you software tell those people that these mortgages will fail. And why didn't it play a siren when it did.
Not-for-profit you must be one of them long hair hippies who must have no idea how real business works.
I know a lot of people who worked for a lot of distasteful companies. Why? they needed the money and the distasteful companies tend to pay better. Most do offer some good or service that actually helps the general population even though there may be side effects that don't
With the exception of Google most companies what skilled people to do the work they don't care for their political standing.
Yet... They have a Credit system for Commerce across cultures. Some Humans work rather lowly jobs such as mining for profit not because they love the job. Non-commisioned personnel tended to live in multi-people dormitory living condition until the Galaxy class ship. Transporter Rations for the population... they didn't solve the problems they just pulled a pr stunt to stop people from bitchin about it.
Or the fact that the capitalist economy does indeed self regulate.
Well I found that Running Vista on a MacBook Pro which is 3 years old still runs better then on a New Desktop PC which is less then 3 years old (and with good specs). Macs are good balanced systems with really good specs and are worth the price. Yes you can build your own PC for less. But to buy a comparable prebuilt PC from say from Dell (That matches all the specs. (Including demensions of the case, and other features you say "well I don't need that")) you will find that they are priced comparably +/- $100.00 Apple Computers are not more expensive then their competitor. However Apple does only have a limited line of products that forces to buy features that you don't use. Eg. Glowing Keyboard A feature I have always turned off, so unlike the Dell you are paying for features you may not want or need. However with no pun attended Apple to Apple comparison of the two products tend to show Apple is not overcharging for the product. The apple esthetics probably is only about $20 added to the price.
Why should we, the Linux-community, trust Microsoft?
If it is in both our interests then we should be able to trust Microsoft.
Seriously?
Yes, For the most part the goals are not that different. Most of the Anti-Microsoft hatrid come from... A making us stop using DOS as the primary OS, having convinced management to get rid of you old working legacy systems to Microsoft ones, and have a new set of problems, making the IT staff learn how to solve different problems. Finally if you use an alternative software you feel like a third party citizen because everything else is Microsoft. Now it seems like De Icaza is working with Microsoft to see if there is anything he can do to remedy some of this conflict.
Why should we do ANYTHING to promote their technology at all?
Because a lot of it is good, really good, just because you are an open source zealot and don't want to see it doesn't mean Microsoft doesn't have good products. As well a large group of developers, and a large group of people who know how to use the products.
Yes Microsoft would love to see Linux die, but they know that won't happen, heck VMS is still around. So they might as well make the most of it they can. Microsoft is very aggressive marketing however they can also be good partners. And this can happen both at the same time.
You can't have two masters. But you can have none. I have an Apple OS X laptop, with a Linux Desktop with virtualized Windows systems... In short what ever technology is best at the time I use it. They all have there plusses and minuses. I know them and I use what is strong for what is strong. And I avoid each other weaknesses. Yes some Microsoft technology I don't embrace because I don't like it. however some I do.
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Such a lovely place
Such a lovely trace
Plenty of room at the cloud from california
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Don't forget all interpretations much match the teachers own view as well. Nothing spoils someone interest in a topic, when a teacher always tells them what story they got from this abstracted fiction is wrong.
well... If you want that smell of air freshener then you are locked in.
In general the completive advantage is a lock in mechanism. Software tends to have a diverse set of different competitive advantages. Others sectors have less. Say Intel Processor vs. AMD processor, or Dell vs. HP, or Brand X rubber bands vs. Brand y.
However they all try to give themselves a competitive advantage.
Say Brand X rubber band has the fastest shipping then any other brands, and your business depends on that fast shipping... Then you are stuck to brand X. Depending how much need that fast shipping they may even raise their prices for their product and you will still use them, as its competitive advantage is what you need.
For some people switching from one Cloud service to an other one may not be a big deal. The way they may use it is more "cross platform" or their data is easily converted back and forth. So depending on your priorities you can be more stuck to your brand of rubber band then to your Cloud service.
Sure. Except for the fact it costs more. And if there is a problem it is all your fault.
The example of moving your facebook page to myspace Is the best example you can think of... Even with non-coud computing.
Converting you Informix Data to SQL Server. Converting you C++ code to java. Converting your Flash to HTML... It is not a problem with could computing it is a problem that systems programed by different people and don't follow the same sets of standards don't work with each other.
Data conversion is always expensive and bound to have errors unless it is done so often that there is a clean process to do so.
It is not a question do you want to be stuck, but more of a question who do you want to be stuck too.
Trademarks are filed in Black and White. As well the Apple Logo is not always silver. There is the Rainbow, the gray, I think there was even a red one once.
I would say the Green NYC would be more of an infringement. Although apple sued them too.
Secondly apple need to be showing that it is protecting its trademark or it could loose it.
Do you really think it's easier for them to write the software to pretend to be an iPod to sync with iTunes than it would be to write software that reads an XML file and cp's a few files that are listed there?
Yes. Yes it is. Especially if your staff is imbedded device programmers. Which may not translate well for good desktop programmers. Changing the identity is probably just changing a string. Writting code for the desktop will need to be testing and work with a slew of different OS's (even just Windows... XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7...) and different default settings. Then you will need to support it over time make sure it is not vulnerable to virus that could make it infect your device...
I am sorry writing software for the masses is much different then writing code for a very select group.
No it is true. But they are not Liberal because they are trying to push their views (much like how Fox news does) But they are Liberal as it is easier to report good news.
In very raw terms. Liberals want to change things. Conservatives dont.
So Liberals make news (As they feel this problem needs to be addressed) and conservatives are trying to stop such actions (As the solution of the problem will do more harm then good).
So the news ends up first by targeting the Liberal as they are doing something that is new and news worthy. Then they get the conservatives on the defensive. So in the process of making the news There is a lot of time and effort toward the new idea. And just a little bit explaining the old view.
What that does is creates news where the Liberal Slant always gets more attention then the conservative.
Now lets be realistic here people.
You get a Cell Phone and most of them even the low end systems are more powerful then computers 10 years ago. So most phones can do a lot of stuff.
Now you have different carriers. They can Suck and have a small limited network where only some services will properly run. So if you had a phone that can do anything on a network that cant when you try to do something that the network can't handle you get an error, or it just doens't work. The geeks like us will see this as either a reason to switch carriers or hack the system to get it to work. But for average joe it will be like. Why offer us the feature if we can't use it, or it is broken so the entire system is broken.
So if your carrier will not support the feature then it shouldn't be on the phone. So people will be happy with your product as it works. And if they see someone on an different network with the same product and there is a new feature then you think about switching the carrier not the phone technology. So if the iPhone will be on different networks and there is one willing to support different features you need. You can switch to that vender without thinking man this iPhone sucks because I cannot tether with my computer. While the truth is the iPhone can teather it is just you stupid carrier who won't let you.