How do you not control every line of code when you reuse? Unless you're a code monkey, you'll most probably know how to write something, but just 1) not want to spend 20 minutes thinking about it when you get get it from somewhere in two, or 2) You're getting to grips with the language and so syntax is a bit of an issue. I think the point should really be that code monkeys shouldn't be trusted with writing critical components for the reason you pointed out.
They want to be in your network for a reason, so it becomes a positive reflection on your worth.
And that's why I've stayed away from social networks. Why oh why would a person want to tell the whole world who they went to school with, who they went to college with, who they work with and who they hang out with other than to make some kind of a claim about their worth? I've got enough things to worry about in my life; I don't need people to start prejudging me because of who they see associated with my name.
Well, it depends. Our company takes care of 3,000+ WinXP workstations at a major airline's regional headquarters and migration to Vista isn't even on the table for discussion at the moment. Why? Because there's a tightly integrated suite of very expensive applications from over a dozen publishers that have been tuned to work on the hardware and OS of those machines. And given the fact that the technicians are stretched as it is, the last thing they want is to deal with a whole new set of compatibility issues. And let's not forget the cost of training all those employees. And on top of that you have the inevitable influx of all kinds of wonderful new OS-related incidents. And then you have the issue of justifying the surge in costs.
There is no justifiable reason why a company like ours would choose to willfully drink the poison that is Vista.
You see eating, breathing and having sex as addictions whereas I see excessive eating, excessive breathing and excessive sex as addictions, not because they have negative side-effects, which they may or may not, but because they take an action to an extreme. I drive to work every day and get a nice fuzzy feeling inside when I get there, but that doesn't mean I'm addicted to driving.
It's risky enough as it is browsing Slashdot at work; it would only add insult to injury to get caught while reading about a stupid sound "invented" by some engineer in a directory service half the world has never heard of.
So many good memories, here's one of the conversations I remember having with their tech support, exaggerated for effect. This was about 5 or so years ago:
(after waiting on hold for God knows how long)
a: Why does this month's invoice say $460 for "overages"?
b: Because you went over your bandwidth limit
a: But you said that I had unlimited bandwidth
b: Yeah well, we also have a fair usage policy
a: No one told me about that, what does it state?
b: That your usage of bandwidth has to be fair
a: And how do you define fair?
b: Bandwidth usage that is below the fair usage limit
a: Umm...So if I used 50GB a month would that be fair?
b: No
a: How about 40GB
b: No
a: How about 30GB?
b: No
a: How about 20GB?
b: (no answer)
a: How about 19GB?
b: Yes
a: Aha, so the bandwidth limit is actually 20GB!
b: What gave it away?
a: You don't really provide unlimited bandwidth, you just say you do so that people buy your supposedly attractive "crazy deal" plans, which actually use inferior hardware parts and are badly configured. You then suck money from your customers by charging them for going over their non-existent bandwidth limit.
b: It doesn't seem very fair to blame us for badly configuring our servers. You know, gardening* takes up most of the day and so by the time we get our hands on the boxes we're all out
a: What the...So you're all actually gardeners?
b: Yeah
a: You must be ****ing me. You mean my all my data is at the mercy of a few guys in rubber gloves and boots?
b: Our manager is actually a former wrestler
a: Bye (click)
* Not that there's anything wrong with being a gardener
The worst experience I've ever had in all my years of existence (possibly worse than that time when a train ran me over leaving me stranded for hours until a helicopter ambulance finally came only for it to crash and burn over the mountains shortly after takeoff where I survived for two months by eating slugs and other niceties while slipping away from the jaws of death on half a dozen occasions that involved running away from leopards, moose and, once, a lion), was dealing with C I HOST support and staff about 5 or so years ago.
Any money that I made back then all went to the good folks at C I HOST who were more than happy to cleverly suck it from me. So it came as no surprise to learn that following a recent robbery of one of their datacenters, they did what they do best: they reached into their bag of tricks and came up with the best way to tell their customers about the unfortunate situation: blatantly lying to them and saying it was caused by a router failure. It's ironic that the "Register" article is titled "Masked thieves storm into Chicago colocation (again!)"
Were it not the case that people's data got stolen and that they'll probably not be reimbursed by C I HOST, again no surprise, I'd have said that karma's a pretty cool guy. How that company has survived for so long given the rotten way it deals with customers is a mystery.
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Better yet, make the browser itself a plug-in...then start it from eclipse.
How do you not control every line of code when you reuse? Unless you're a code monkey, you'll most probably know how to write something, but just 1) not want to spend 20 minutes thinking about it when you get get it from somewhere in two, or 2) You're getting to grips with the language and so syntax is a bit of an issue. I think the point should really be that code monkeys shouldn't be trusted with writing critical components for the reason you pointed out.
They want to be in your network for a reason, so it becomes a positive reflection on your worth.
And that's why I've stayed away from social networks. Why oh why would a person want to tell the whole world who they went to school with, who they went to college with, who they work with and who they hang out with other than to make some kind of a claim about their worth? I've got enough things to worry about in my life; I don't need people to start prejudging me because of who they see associated with my name.
Well, it depends. Our company takes care of 3,000+ WinXP workstations at a major airline's regional headquarters and migration to Vista isn't even on the table for discussion at the moment. Why? Because there's a tightly integrated suite of very expensive applications from over a dozen publishers that have been tuned to work on the hardware and OS of those machines. And given the fact that the technicians are stretched as it is, the last thing they want is to deal with a whole new set of compatibility issues. And let's not forget the cost of training all those employees. And on top of that you have the inevitable influx of all kinds of wonderful new OS-related incidents. And then you have the issue of justifying the surge in costs.
There is no justifiable reason why a company like ours would choose to willfully drink the poison that is Vista.
...Unless you happen to have diarrhea and you say it out loud just a tad too passionately.
You see eating, breathing and having sex as addictions whereas I see excessive eating, excessive breathing and excessive sex as addictions, not because they have negative side-effects, which they may or may not, but because they take an action to an extreme. I drive to work every day and get a nice fuzzy feeling inside when I get there, but that doesn't mean I'm addicted to driving.
I speak as a layman; you've been warned!
It's risky enough as it is browsing Slashdot at work; it would only add insult to injury to get caught while reading about a stupid sound "invented" by some engineer in a directory service half the world has never heard of.
Oh, ***, coming boss...
How about they "pull a Nintendo" and start censoring their games.
So many good memories, here's one of the conversations I remember having with their tech support, exaggerated for effect. This was about 5 or so years ago:
(after waiting on hold for God knows how long)
a: Why does this month's invoice say $460 for "overages"?
b: Because you went over your bandwidth limit
a: But you said that I had unlimited bandwidth
b: Yeah well, we also have a fair usage policy
a: No one told me about that, what does it state?
b: That your usage of bandwidth has to be fair
a: And how do you define fair?
b: Bandwidth usage that is below the fair usage limit
a: Umm...So if I used 50GB a month would that be fair?
b: No
a: How about 40GB
b: No
a: How about 30GB?
b: No
a: How about 20GB?
b: (no answer)
a: How about 19GB?
b: Yes
a: Aha, so the bandwidth limit is actually 20GB!
b: What gave it away?
a: You don't really provide unlimited bandwidth, you just say you do so that people buy your supposedly attractive "crazy deal" plans, which actually use inferior hardware parts and are badly configured. You then suck money from your customers by charging them for going over their non-existent bandwidth limit.
b: It doesn't seem very fair to blame us for badly configuring our servers. You know, gardening* takes up most of the day and so by the time we get our hands on the boxes we're all out
a: What the...So you're all actually gardeners?
b: Yeah
a: You must be ****ing me. You mean my all my data is at the mercy of a few guys in rubber gloves and boots?
b: Our manager is actually a former wrestler
a: Bye (click)
* Not that there's anything wrong with being a gardener
The worst experience I've ever had in all my years of existence (possibly worse than that time when a train ran me over leaving me stranded for hours until a helicopter ambulance finally came only for it to crash and burn over the mountains shortly after takeoff where I survived for two months by eating slugs and other niceties while slipping away from the jaws of death on half a dozen occasions that involved running away from leopards, moose and, once, a lion), was dealing with C I HOST support and staff about 5 or so years ago.
Any money that I made back then all went to the good folks at C I HOST who were more than happy to cleverly suck it from me. So it came as no surprise to learn that following a recent robbery of one of their datacenters, they did what they do best: they reached into their bag of tricks and came up with the best way to tell their customers about the unfortunate situation: blatantly lying to them and saying it was caused by a router failure. It's ironic that the "Register" article is titled "Masked thieves storm into Chicago colocation (again!)"
Were it not the case that people's data got stolen and that they'll probably not be reimbursed by C I HOST, again no surprise, I'd have said that karma's a pretty cool guy. How that company has survived for so long given the rotten way it deals with customers is a mystery.