From a hardware perspective, I highly recommend Apple, specifically a Macbook Pro. I did 6 months in North / West Africa in 2007, and besides having to replace a hard drive in the field, everything kept working. During this same time, we had to replace a wall in a datacentre that we were working in because it got mortared.
Whatever you get though, make sure that you have the same for the whole team. Avoid the temptation to mix and match kit - that will just buy you support nightmares in the field. If your budget can bear the extra cost, be sure to carry at least one spare machine.
Far more important than your hardware and your software is your processes. Your post says that this will take you all over the world. If that's true, your communication strategy might not be appropriate. Many places have no roaming agreements for US and European cellular operators, so your Blackberry's may be nothing more than paperweights in a lot of places. You should be able to get mobile data solutions on a country by country basis that will tide you over though.
For your google solution, I would suggest coupling that with good offline tools and at least 1 alternative account to Google. You don't want to be stuck in some hellhole looking for help getting out and have Google be having one of its off days.
Last, but CERTAINLY not least - backup. Backup Backup Backup. For every gigabyte of disk that you have in a machine in the field with you, make sure you have at least the same amount in external portable storage for backups. That way you can always get back up and running if you need to.
Oh, and the bad news - if you're the IT guy, you might want to read a couple of books on project management. Like it or not, at some point in this project, you're going to find yourself trying to herd cats and unless they're all seasoned field workers, you're probably going to end up becoming 'Mommy':D
What part of 'I could care less' implies that one is struggling to care ?
Parsed logically, that statement means that you do care at least to a level where you could care less. Hence you care.
"I _couldn't_ care less" means that no matter what, you could not care any less about the issue and is a more logical statement for communicating that you do not give a shit.
What the TV show probably didn't tell you is that the mugger probably mugged someone else several days later.
With the CPS reluctance to prosecute and the severe reduction in custodial sentences, many people re-offend dozens of times before being put away.
CCTV is not the answer. An enshrined right to personal protection and the means to do so would be a good start, and it needs to be coupled with a justice system that actually puts persistent offenders somewhere where they can't hurt the rest of us.
I will *never* publish anything for possibly the most profitable platform for developers, as long as there is something about it that I don't like. I don't care, even if I lose most of my potential clients because of it.
And you think people who _buy_ the iPhone are dumb?
You're saying flat out that you don't care if you lose most of your business? Ethical standpoints are nice and all, but not when there are people who would like to give you money!
You're hoping the new guy will be better? Really? HAHAHAHAHA
This is the same cunt that during a trial for raping a woman stated that the sex was consensual and he knew that she had aids - but he had a shower afterwards, so he'll be fine.
Do you _really_ think that someone with that retarded an attitude towards HIV ? It'll only get worse after 23/04/09:(
I keep trying to find e-books online to download, but I never can. None of the books I want to read seem to be available on any of the big torrent sites:(
The main reason for this rollout is that the UK recently rescinded the reciprocal visa arrangements for South Africans visiting the UK.
Previously, many SA citizens visited and did business in the UK and no visa was required - They could stay for up to 3 months.
In early Feb this year, the UK govt announced that visas would be required from 3 March onwards due to concerns about the amount of illegitimate SA passports in circulation.
This gave thousands of people who had already bought plane tickets only a few weeks to make the appointment, travel across the country and apply for a visa. If they were unable to do this due to time constraints of financial constraints, they lost the cost of their flights as the airlines pushed back and said that they had sold non-refundable tickets, so it was not their problem.
The SA government really had no choice but to implement these as the UK is a major business partner for many SA companies, and stemming this travel would have been very damaging. And elections are coming up.
JK Rowling stole from me. She wrote her first book while claiming state benefits. Then when she got rich and famous, she ran off to the USA, so none of her taxes are going back in to top up that pot that she leeched from.
IIRC the actual standard has been reduced to 'could be useful to commit a crime'.
Several people in this country currently have criminal convictions for possessing certain books because they 'may be useful to someone planning a terrorist attack'
Not WERE planning attack. Not were part of a group of known terrorists with known events behind them. Just 'may be useful to someone planning a terrorist attack'.
So it's free for 3G iPhones and costs $10 for iPod touches.
What is the model for a 1st gen phone? I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $10 for an update to a phone that I can't move from because my contract is still running!
My car was hit by an uninsured driver while stationary. The car was local to my neighborhood (it was entering a dead end close). The police never prosecuted the driver, my insurance company decided that a civil claim would cost to much and would be unlikely to yield any results due to lack of assets so the whole thing was dropped.
I got stuck with higher insurance premiums, reduced no claims bonus and generally fucked. The system does not work because nobody cares to enforce it.
For less anecdotal problems with the system, look at the fact that in January 2008, the government complained that 40% of all motorcycles were untaxed (based on DVLA data). That too was bullshit and the figure is closer to something like 7%. The system does not work.
The so called 'safety' cameras can _only_ enforce speed limits, and we've seen two major accidents within 100m of a camera caused by a reckless driver jumping from lane to lane. But apparently this is perfectly safe because he was doing it within the sight of the 'safety' camera and it didn't do anything. When he sideswiped the other vehicle on his 3rd lane change, the safety camera _still_ didn't do anything.
Road enforcement of tax, speed, safety issues and insurance in the UK does not work. At all. And that's without getting into the sheer number of foreign registered vehicles on the road that are exempt from all of the above because there is no enforcement agreement in place with the countries the vehicles are from.
You were doing well until you fucked up the definition of 'market'
That 80% figure you mention consists largely of device owners who have never downloaded an application for their phone and never plan to.
The 5% figure consists largely of people who've tried at least 1 additional app and may try more.
Which is the more lucrative market to target ? To my mind, I'd rather write software for people who might buy it than for people who are almost guaranteed not to.
It's not a good indicator at all really. I would expect Eve sales to be largely saturated already, and growth across any medium to be low. Slow box sales on this do not really indicate anything particular about success of distribution channels this late in a game's life.
As someone who has worked all over the world, it's FAR easier to get work in most places than the USA. The US have possibly the most aggressive requirements for immigrant workers.
Stop bitching - if you want to go work somewhere else and you're even remotely good at your job, it's a doddle.
You're talking about the same man who veto'd the instruction to make pre-Iraq war documentation available. He has NO clue who his boss is and refuses to answer to the (notso)Great British public.
Are you batshit insane or something? The same manufacturers that make the iPod make all the other shit that is lost in the bottom end of the MP3 player market.
The iPod won because of the design of the device and the ease of integration with iTunes. May geeks may hate iTunes but every single regular user I've spoken to (construction workers, dinner ladies, etc.) love the fact that they just plug it in and their play list appears. They don't like having to drag and drop.
Besides which, Apple have pretty much all of their products made by 3rd party manufacturers. But as with the iPod, the design is done by Apple.
Do you honestly think that any of Apple's manufacturing partners have any input into the actual design of the product? Do you really think a high-volume fab in China made any improvements to the design supplied by Apple? If not, what value do you think they added here that makes the iPod special ?
Oracle certify specific distros for a number of a reasons. One of them is the kernel - with the debacle in the 2.4 tree that was the threading change, there were all sorts of caveats around various environment variables need to be set.
Another is the c libraries. Specific distros ship with specific distros of glibc and Oracle can be fussy about these. Don't get me started on DB2 or Sybase.
Moving on from one ISV, let's look at software Linux is desperate for - a decent volume management system. Last time I was prodding RHEL 5, it was still a joke in the enterprise. On Solaris, you present some more LUNs to the box, run devfsadm and start using them. On Linux, you had to cat stuff into the proc filesystem to force the scan and it was a bit klunky to say the least.
Once you get below that and wanted to do proper volume management, you were stuck with what felt like kiddie toys. There's a reason that Veritas was the enterprise standard for so long - it works, it works well, it's easy to recover and it is well supported. But doing their products on Linux is hard for them - they duplicate effort both in development and documentation, and again in support. For less revenue. Where's the business case in that ?
Ah, the usual strawman - if you don't like it, fork it.
Most people won't bother with that - they'll just vote with their wallet.
Sun haven't painted themselves into a corner, they do just fine with a stable ABI. So we give them hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. We used to give that money to RedHat bit with Solaris x86 we get what we need without bothering with the bullshit that comes with Linux.
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From a hardware perspective, I highly recommend Apple, specifically a Macbook Pro. I did 6 months in North / West Africa in 2007, and besides having to replace a hard drive in the field, everything kept working. During this same time, we had to replace a wall in a datacentre that we were working in because it got mortared.
Whatever you get though, make sure that you have the same for the whole team. Avoid the temptation to mix and match kit - that will just buy you support nightmares in the field. If your budget can bear the extra cost, be sure to carry at least one spare machine.
Far more important than your hardware and your software is your processes. Your post says that this will take you all over the world. If that's true, your communication strategy might not be appropriate. Many places have no roaming agreements for US and European cellular operators, so your Blackberry's may be nothing more than paperweights in a lot of places. You should be able to get mobile data solutions on a country by country basis that will tide you over though.
For your google solution, I would suggest coupling that with good offline tools and at least 1 alternative account to Google. You don't want to be stuck in some hellhole looking for help getting out and have Google be having one of its off days.
Last, but CERTAINLY not least - backup. Backup Backup Backup. For every gigabyte of disk that you have in a machine in the field with you, make sure you have at least the same amount in external portable storage for backups. That way you can always get back up and running if you need to.
Oh, and the bad news - if you're the IT guy, you might want to read a couple of books on project management. Like it or not, at some point in this project, you're going to find yourself trying to herd cats and unless they're all seasoned field workers, you're probably going to end up becoming 'Mommy' :D
And why would the records of politician's children need special "shielding" if this is secure?
Bingo! Surely if this is so secure, MP's brats should be the seed data for the list.
What part of 'I could care less' implies that one is struggling to care ?
Parsed logically, that statement means that you do care at least to a level where you could care less. Hence you care.
"I _couldn't_ care less" means that no matter what, you could not care any less about the issue and is a more logical statement for communicating that you do not give a shit.
It's hard to take you seriously when you call people an idiot and can't even spell "you're".
What the TV show probably didn't tell you is that the mugger probably mugged someone else several days later.
With the CPS reluctance to prosecute and the severe reduction in custodial sentences, many people re-offend dozens of times before being put away.
CCTV is not the answer. An enshrined right to personal protection and the means to do so would be a good start, and it needs to be coupled with a justice system that actually puts persistent offenders somewhere where they can't hurt the rest of us.
Let me rephrase this for you...
I will *never* publish anything for possibly the most profitable platform for developers, as long as there is something about it that I don't like. I don't care, even if I lose most of my potential clients because of it.
And you think people who _buy_ the iPhone are dumb?
You're saying flat out that you don't care if you lose most of your business? Ethical standpoints are nice and all, but not when there are people who would like to give you money!
You're hoping the new guy will be better? Really? HAHAHAHAHA
This is the same cunt that during a trial for raping a woman stated that the sex was consensual and he knew that she had aids - but he had a shower afterwards, so he'll be fine.
Do you _really_ think that someone with that retarded an attitude towards HIV ? It'll only get worse after 23/04/09 :(
I keep trying to find e-books online to download, but I never can. None of the books I want to read seem to be available on any of the big torrent sites :(
The main reason for this rollout is that the UK recently rescinded the reciprocal visa arrangements for South Africans visiting the UK.
Previously, many SA citizens visited and did business in the UK and no visa was required - They could stay for up to 3 months.
In early Feb this year, the UK govt announced that visas would be required from 3 March onwards due to concerns about the amount of illegitimate SA passports in circulation.
This gave thousands of people who had already bought plane tickets only a few weeks to make the appointment, travel across the country and apply for a visa. If they were unable to do this due to time constraints of financial constraints, they lost the cost of their flights as the airlines pushed back and said that they had sold non-refundable tickets, so it was not their problem.
The SA government really had no choice but to implement these as the UK is a major business partner for many SA companies, and stemming this travel would have been very damaging. And elections are coming up.
JK Rowling stole from me. She wrote her first book while claiming state benefits. Then when she got rich and famous, she ran off to the USA, so none of her taxes are going back in to top up that pot that she leeched from.
IIRC the actual standard has been reduced to 'could be useful to commit a crime'.
Several people in this country currently have criminal convictions for possessing certain books because they 'may be useful to someone planning a terrorist attack'
Not WERE planning attack. Not were part of a group of known terrorists with known events behind them. Just 'may be useful to someone planning a terrorist attack'.
Trust the law in this country? Hell no!
The USPTO don't even use their own tools for searching / working with their patent database, so why should we ?
AFAIK, they use products from what was Thomson Scientific (then Thomson Reuters, and now sold to someone else) for their own internal searches, etc.
So it's free for 3G iPhones and costs $10 for iPod touches.
What is the model for a 1st gen phone? I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $10 for an update to a phone that I can't move from because my contract is still running!
Bullshit!
My car was hit by an uninsured driver while stationary. The car was local to my neighborhood (it was entering a dead end close). The police never prosecuted the driver, my insurance company decided that a civil claim would cost to much and would be unlikely to yield any results due to lack of assets so the whole thing was dropped.
I got stuck with higher insurance premiums, reduced no claims bonus and generally fucked. The system does not work because nobody cares to enforce it.
For less anecdotal problems with the system, look at the fact that in January 2008, the government complained that 40% of all motorcycles were untaxed (based on DVLA data). That too was bullshit and the figure is closer to something like 7%. The system does not work.
The so called 'safety' cameras can _only_ enforce speed limits, and we've seen two major accidents within 100m of a camera caused by a reckless driver jumping from lane to lane. But apparently this is perfectly safe because he was doing it within the sight of the 'safety' camera and it didn't do anything. When he sideswiped the other vehicle on his 3rd lane change, the safety camera _still_ didn't do anything.
Road enforcement of tax, speed, safety issues and insurance in the UK does not work. At all. And that's without getting into the sheer number of foreign registered vehicles on the road that are exempt from all of the above because there is no enforcement agreement in place with the countries the vehicles are from.
My boss says I have to pay to replace this keyboard you selfish bastard !
And I don't like that feeling in the back of your nose after spewing tea all over the monitor and keyboard - but thanks :)
You were doing well until you fucked up the definition of 'market'
That 80% figure you mention consists largely of device owners who have never downloaded an application for their phone and never plan to.
The 5% figure consists largely of people who've tried at least 1 additional app and may try more.
Which is the more lucrative market to target ? To my mind, I'd rather write software for people who might buy it than for people who are almost guaranteed not to.
Crap - the above post completely ate my fx: of the world's smallest violin.
This joke no punchline.
That'll teach me to use the preview button!
Jeez, you whiny pedant...
Happy now ? :D
It's not a good indicator at all really. I would expect Eve sales to be largely saturated already, and growth across any medium to be low. Slow box sales on this do not really indicate anything particular about success of distribution channels this late in a game's life.
As someone who has worked all over the world, it's FAR easier to get work in most places than the USA. The US have possibly the most aggressive requirements for immigrant workers.
Stop bitching - if you want to go work somewhere else and you're even remotely good at your job, it's a doddle.
You're talking about the same man who veto'd the instruction to make pre-Iraq war documentation available. He has NO clue who his boss is and refuses to answer to the (notso)Great British public.
Well, we've seen trademark protection used to stop large shopping chains from selling specific clothing.
Tesco in the UK was forced to stop selling Levi jeans that they had parallel imported. The tool to do this was trademark law.
Are you batshit insane or something? The same manufacturers that make the iPod make all the other shit that is lost in the bottom end of the MP3 player market.
The iPod won because of the design of the device and the ease of integration with iTunes. May geeks may hate iTunes but every single regular user I've spoken to (construction workers, dinner ladies, etc.) love the fact that they just plug it in and their play list appears. They don't like having to drag and drop.
Besides which, Apple have pretty much all of their products made by 3rd party manufacturers. But as with the iPod, the design is done by Apple.
Do you honestly think that any of Apple's manufacturing partners have any input into the actual design of the product? Do you really think a high-volume fab in China made any improvements to the design supplied by Apple? If not, what value do you think they added here that makes the iPod special ?
Oracle certify specific distros for a number of a reasons. One of them is the kernel - with the debacle in the 2.4 tree that was the threading change, there were all sorts of caveats around various environment variables need to be set.
Another is the c libraries. Specific distros ship with specific distros of glibc and Oracle can be fussy about these. Don't get me started on DB2 or Sybase.
Moving on from one ISV, let's look at software Linux is desperate for - a decent volume management system. Last time I was prodding RHEL 5, it was still a joke in the enterprise. On Solaris, you present some more LUNs to the box, run devfsadm and start using them. On Linux, you had to cat stuff into the proc filesystem to force the scan and it was a bit klunky to say the least.
Once you get below that and wanted to do proper volume management, you were stuck with what felt like kiddie toys. There's a reason that Veritas was the enterprise standard for so long - it works, it works well, it's easy to recover and it is well supported. But doing their products on Linux is hard for them - they duplicate effort both in development and documentation, and again in support. For less revenue. Where's the business case in that ?
Ah, the usual strawman - if you don't like it, fork it.
Most people won't bother with that - they'll just vote with their wallet.
Sun haven't painted themselves into a corner, they do just fine with a stable ABI. So we give them hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. We used to give that money to RedHat bit with Solaris x86 we get what we need without bothering with the bullshit that comes with Linux.