No, I'm not a fan of that. But it was said that the only choice was to use the electronic booths. I was just informing you of the other choices you choose to ignore.
You know you are monitored on toll roads now, right? The tickets have tracking numbers, which are linked against the cameras that record you license plate when you go through the toll booth.
colonization and exploration are intrinsicly linked. colonization will speed the process of exploration by creating a jump-off point for the next wave of exploration.
" If private individuals want to fund human space exploration, go ahead be my guest. But NASA's goal is not to do that." Umm.. actually, it is NASA's mission. http://www.eadshome.com/NASAmission.htm
"Please think twice the next time you want to write "create energy". There's a conservation principle which says we can't do that. We can liberate energy bound in various systems, that's all."
It's quite possable to refine fossile fuel and produce more energy then was used to refine it, without breaking conservation. It's the same thing with a nuclear bomb. It's takes a reletivly small amount of energy to cause the release of a alrge amount. Of course fossile fuel will eventually run out, which is where conservation of energy evens the books.
It hasn't really been 2.5 years. There have been unofficial builds released every few months, they refer to them as "WIPs" or Work In Progres. The WIPs are awesome, each one fixed a bunch of bugs, and was rock stable.
exactly! Our users don't want to know they are using different programs. Most don't even understand the difference between word, excel, or powerpoint now. They jsut open up IE to our sharepoint portal, find thier project site, and clikc the button for a new document. They get a blank page and when they are ready to send it they just go to the file menu and choose save it directly to our sharepoint system (this is all integrated into office's save dialog). That save file dialog gets info from sharepoint about what additional info needs to be specified and prompts the user right there in that screen. After saving, email gets sent out to everyone who is a member of that projct, those users can then access any files in that SP site directly thought the email. If they want to plan a meeting around it they jsut add a new item to the project sites callender, and any users who have outlook subscribed to that callener automatically pull down the new meeting info.
This is the kind of integration large companies need, because users are used to it, and the cost of retraining them far out weighs the savings of moving to a non-MS solution.
And I'm not just talking about microsoft products here, they are lots of other 3rd party apps that have just as much integration into the whole "office system". Anything that uses the standard open and save dialogs automatically gets the sharepoint integration.
"Agreed. But riddle me this: if Microsoft carried centralized spam-and-virus filtering software, a reasonable firewall or MS-branded backbone switch/router and an ERP/MRP/Accounting suite - and all this automagically tied into a slick management console for Win2k3 Server, would you not buy it?"
I'm just a programmer, but yeah, sounds like something we would buy.
Give me another solution that offers seamless integration of proccesses.
We use non microsoft products too. All our incomming and outgoing email is filtered through sendmail before it hits the exchange server. This gives us more reliable queuing, as well as spam and virus filtering. Out firewall and nework infrastructure runs on linux, cisco IOS. Our HR and payroll systems are built from websphere, and are tied into our VMS (manman) manufacturing and accoutning system. All of this is tied togheter through lots and lots of handwritten code and keep everything in sync.
PDAs are far from dead. With a compatable bluetooth phone you can connect to your corperate lan from almost anywhere in the world and pull back files.
Calling PocketPC a proprietary system is like saying windows is proprietary. Anyone can write software for it without any fees. The documentation and API is totally open for anyone to look at without paying fees.
Ohh, and Sharepoint is included in the cost of windows server 2003. there is no extra cost beyond what you would already pay for the server. You can go more advanced and get sharepoint Portal Server, which costs money, but it's still not expensive at all, and is actually included in our current license agreement.
"News flash: Software does not have to be geared for corporate use all the god damn time. No ones gives a shit about your company except you."
Hmm.. I would think that a product that is part of a line known as "Office" should have somethihg to do with, you know, actually having features that OFFICES want.
We use what works well for us, and Outlook and all the other microsoft products fit that bill.
We are just now in teh process of moving our document management system from "LiveLink" to "Sharepoint". Everything is going smoothly except for some initial user reaction to the lack of access controls at the individual folder and file level. But once those users get used to the new system the seem to calm down and enjoy it a lot more then the LiveLink system. The tight integration between all the microsoft products really does help us. We have also done some heavy custom Sharepoint coding, so our system is in no way "out of the box".
Umm, you may want to read what I was actually responding to before you make yourself look like an ass again. I was replying to the person who asked why there should be any goverment regulations at all. If people want to get on a rocket that has a 50/50 chance of exploding then that is thier right. I said that there needs to be regulations because without them the company won't tell thier customers that there is a 50/50 chance of explosion.
No, it does not use the same drivers. I have an ATI FireGL card. There are not windows 2003 drivers for it, only XP. When forceably installing those drivers into a 2003 box it bluescreens on boot. Obviously the drivers are not the same.
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No, I'm not a fan of that. But it was said that the only choice was to use the electronic booths. I was just informing you of the other choices you choose to ignore.
You know you are monitored on toll roads now, right? The tickets have tracking numbers, which are linked against the cameras that record you license plate when you go through the toll booth.
only choice is not to drive? why not try these other 2 possabilities.
1. don't take tool roads.
2. DON'T SPEED.
Which is far different then "refusing to release patches", which is what my parent post claimed.
What the hell are you talking about? Microsoft releases patches for thier browser all the time.
Except they are not selling it, it's a free download at the moment.
colonization and exploration are intrinsicly linked. colonization will speed the process of exploration by creating a jump-off point for the next wave of exploration.
"
If private individuals want to fund human space exploration, go ahead be my guest. But NASA's goal is not to do that."
Umm.. actually, it is NASA's mission. http://www.eadshome.com/NASAmission.htm
Ground to Seagull Missiles.
It hasn't really been 2.5 years. There have been unofficial builds released every few months, they refer to them as "WIPs" or Work In Progres. The WIPs are awesome, each one fixed a bunch of bugs, and was rock stable.
exactly! Our users don't want to know they are using different programs. Most don't even understand the difference between word, excel, or powerpoint now. They jsut open up IE to our sharepoint portal, find thier project site, and clikc the button for a new document. They get a blank page and when they are ready to send it they just go to the file menu and choose save it directly to our sharepoint system (this is all integrated into office's save dialog). That save file dialog gets info from sharepoint about what additional info needs to be specified and prompts the user right there in that screen. After saving, email gets sent out to everyone who is a member of that projct, those users can then access any files in that SP site directly thought the email. If they want to plan a meeting around it they jsut add a new item to the project sites callender, and any users who have outlook subscribed to that callener automatically pull down the new meeting info.
This is the kind of integration large companies need, because users are used to it, and the cost of retraining them far out weighs the savings of moving to a non-MS solution.
And I'm not just talking about microsoft products here, they are lots of other 3rd party apps that have just as much integration into the whole "office system". Anything that uses the standard open and save dialogs automatically gets the sharepoint integration.
I'm just a programmer, but yeah, sounds like something we would buy.
Give me another solution that offers seamless integration of proccesses.
We use non microsoft products too. All our incomming and outgoing email is filtered through sendmail before it hits the exchange server. This gives us more reliable queuing, as well as spam and virus filtering. Out firewall and nework infrastructure runs on linux, cisco IOS. Our HR and payroll systems are built from websphere, and are tied into our VMS (manman) manufacturing and accoutning system. All of this is tied togheter through lots and lots of handwritten code and keep everything in sync.
It's hardly keeping all our eggs in one basket.
PDAs are far from dead. With a compatable bluetooth phone you can connect to your corperate lan from almost anywhere in the world and pull back files.
Calling PocketPC a proprietary system is like saying windows is proprietary. Anyone can write software for it without any fees. The documentation and API is totally open for anyone to look at without paying fees.
Ohh, and Sharepoint is included in the cost of windows server 2003. there is no extra cost beyond what you would already pay for the server. You can go more advanced and get sharepoint Portal Server, which costs money, but it's still not expensive at all, and is actually included in our current license agreement.
We use what works well for us, and Outlook and all the other microsoft products fit that bill.
We are just now in teh process of moving our document management system from "LiveLink" to
"Sharepoint". Everything is going smoothly except for some initial user reaction to the lack of access controls at the individual folder and file level. But once those users get used to the new system the seem to calm down and enjoy it a lot more then the LiveLink system. The tight integration between all the microsoft products really does help us. We have also done some heavy custom Sharepoint coding, so our system is in no way "out of the box".
ohh yeah, outlook does remote image blocking as well too, by default.
-no exchange compatability
-no calander sharing
-no contact sharing
-no sharepoint integration
-no office integration
-no PocketPC syncing
Conclusion: My company needs outlook.
If you use more then email then you need outlook, plain and simple. There is no single app that can replace everything that we use outlook for.
Yes you can, unplug the damn network cable.
Whoa, talk about not getting the joke...
Umm, you may want to read what I was actually responding to before you make yourself look like an ass again. I was replying to the person who asked why there should be any goverment regulations at all. If people want to get on a rocket that has a 50/50 chance of exploding then that is thier right. I said that there needs to be regulations because without them the company won't tell thier customers that there is a 50/50 chance of explosion.
Because the company isn't going to tell the customer that there is a 50% chance of blowing up unless they are required to do it by law.
No, it does not use the same drivers. I have an ATI FireGL card. There are not windows 2003 drivers for it, only XP. When forceably installing those drivers into a 2003 box it bluescreens on boot. Obviously the drivers are not the same.