However, it is still questionable whether systems like ERP could be developed successfully as OSS projects.
Yeah, it's also still questionable whether systems like ERP can be developed successfully at all. I'd like to see statistics on the number of ERP implementations that go horribly wrong and wind up crippling or even bankrupting companies.
I rarely post on here, but I go out of my way to harp on Comcast every chance I get. Their service is really, really terrible.
I'm getting really pissed off about all these "Ditch the Dish" commercials they show, talking about how you lose signal when it rains or the wind blows or anything else. Truth of the matter is that I lose my cable signal everytime my neighbor checks his e-mail. Standard digital signals cut in and out, and the HDTV never works during the evenings or on weekends. They simply don't have enough bandwidth in my area to handle the demand. But since my deck faces northeast, I'm pretty much stuck with this crap until I move in August.
Is anyone from Logitech reading this? Bring back the Trackman Marble Wheel! The new version is way too small, and its layout moves the right button away from its rightful position under my ring finger.
As for the Microsoft one mentioned above, the layout is definitely better. However, its precision is so low that it is worthless for all but the most remedial tasks.
1) Abolition of Time Zones Sure, it sucks that I live in Eastern time, my family is in Central, and my sister is in Mountain, but time zones are essential to the way we function. It's a way of transferring a standardized day schedule around the world. It doesn't matter whether I'm in New York or Los Angeles, the typical work day is 9 to 5. If there were no time zones, we would have to come up with some other way to enforce the standard work day (amongst other things) based on your locale. If the work day where I live was considered to be 12 to 8, there would be a point at which 1 to 9 would be preferred, but where is the distinct line? Time zones give a hard and fast point for the change to occur, requiring you to remember only which one you happen to be in.
2) Months and weeks are just as arbitrary as hours and minutes. Why not change them instead. Remembering 60/60/24 is much easier than memorizing the old nursery school rhyme "30 days has September, April, June..." Other than obsoliting my old friend the Doomsday Algorithm, that makes a lot more sense to me.
Whether your car does 0-60 in 2 seconds or 20, it still accelerates quickly enough to enter the interstate at a reasonable speed. In 10 years, the rate at which your car currently accelerates will still be sufficient. That's because Micro$soft doesn't build the roads. If cars were like computers, then in 5 years, the entrance ramps would be no more than 1/10th of their current length. In other words, your car that blows everything off the road now would be the minimum required to safely get on the interstate.
Furthermore, whether or not you run Linux is immaterial. There will always be new software that pushes the limits of current hardware, and as hardware advances, so will the software. Just because you don't agree with Micro$oft's philosophy that it suddenly takes a P-III 800 with 256 MB RAM for your son to write a book report doesn't mean that there won't be something you want to do that requires faster hardware. Whether it is voice recognition, 3D animation, home automation, or AI, something will come out that will make you need faster hardware. And if you don't believe me, look at your current software and OS and tell me you would just as soon run it on a 4MB 486SX/25Mhz.
The reason P-III's are compatible with P-II motherboards is because there are hardly any differences between the two chips. It's really just a bunch of misleading marketing hype. People see the P-III name and assume that the difference is as radical as the difference between the Pentium and the P-II. In actuality, the technology difference between the P-III and the P-II is more similar to the difference between the Pentium and the Pentium MMX. And the speed difference of similarly clocked chips is even less.
I've got one of the original ones (without the wheel) and I like it a lot. It took me a week or two to really get used to it, but I was hooked after 10 minutes. My only gripe is that the buttons seem to wear out. My first one only lasted 3 or 4 months, so the warranty replaced it. The one I've got now has lasted about 2 1/2 years, but one of the buttons on it is starting to go too. I know mice usually only last about 2 or 3 years, but when you shell out about $100 (that's what they used to cost), you generally expect a little more.
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However, it is still questionable whether systems like ERP could be developed successfully as OSS projects.
Yeah, it's also still questionable whether systems like ERP can be developed successfully at all. I'd like to see statistics on the number of ERP implementations that go horribly wrong and wind up crippling or even bankrupting companies.
I rarely post on here, but I go out of my way to harp on Comcast every chance I get. Their service is really, really terrible.
I'm getting really pissed off about all these "Ditch the Dish" commercials they show, talking about how you lose signal when it rains or the wind blows or anything else. Truth of the matter is that I lose my cable signal everytime my neighbor checks his e-mail. Standard digital signals cut in and out, and the HDTV never works during the evenings or on weekends. They simply don't have enough bandwidth in my area to handle the demand. But since my deck faces northeast, I'm pretty much stuck with this crap until I move in August.
Is anyone from Logitech reading this? Bring back the Trackman Marble Wheel! The new version is way too small, and its layout moves the right button away from its rightful position under my ring finger.
As for the Microsoft one mentioned above, the layout is definitely better. However, its precision is so low that it is worthless for all but the most remedial tasks.
1) Abolition of Time Zones
Sure, it sucks that I live in Eastern time, my family is in Central, and my sister is in Mountain, but time zones are essential to the way we function. It's a way of transferring a standardized day schedule around the world. It doesn't matter whether I'm in New York or Los Angeles, the typical work day is 9 to 5. If there were no time zones, we would have to come up with some other way to enforce the standard work day (amongst other things) based on your locale. If the work day where I live was considered to be 12 to 8, there would be a point at which 1 to 9 would be preferred, but where is the distinct line? Time zones give a hard and fast point for the change to occur, requiring you to remember only which one you happen to be in.
2) Months and weeks are just as arbitrary as hours and minutes. Why not change them instead. Remembering 60/60/24 is much easier than memorizing the old nursery school rhyme "30 days has September, April, June..." Other than obsoliting my old friend the Doomsday Algorithm, that makes a lot more sense to me.
Whether your car does 0-60 in 2 seconds or 20, it still accelerates quickly enough to enter the interstate at a reasonable speed. In 10 years, the rate at which your car currently accelerates will still be sufficient. That's because Micro$soft doesn't build the roads. If cars were like computers, then in 5 years, the entrance ramps would be no more than 1/10th of their current length. In other words, your car that blows everything off the road now would be the minimum required to safely get on the interstate.
Furthermore, whether or not you run Linux is immaterial. There will always be new software that pushes the limits of current hardware, and as hardware advances, so will the software. Just because you don't agree with Micro$oft's philosophy that it suddenly takes a P-III 800 with 256 MB RAM for your son to write a book report doesn't mean that there won't be something you want to do that requires faster hardware. Whether it is voice recognition, 3D animation, home automation, or AI, something will come out that will make you need faster hardware. And if you don't believe me, look at your current software and OS and tell me you would just as soon run it on a 4MB 486SX/25Mhz.
The reason P-III's are compatible with P-II motherboards is because there are hardly any differences between the two chips. It's really just a bunch of misleading marketing hype. People see the P-III name and assume that the difference is as radical as the difference between the Pentium and the P-II. In actuality, the technology difference between the P-III and the P-II is more similar to the difference between the Pentium and the Pentium MMX. And the speed difference of similarly clocked chips is even less.
I've got one of the original ones (without the wheel) and I like it a lot. It took me a week or two to really get used to it, but I was hooked after 10 minutes. My only gripe is that the buttons seem to wear out. My first one only lasted 3 or 4 months, so the warranty replaced it. The one I've got now has lasted about 2 1/2 years, but one of the buttons on it is starting to go too. I know mice usually only last about 2 or 3 years, but when you shell out about $100 (that's what they used to cost), you generally expect a little more.