Hum... 5$ device, over 1 year of battery life unbreakable thingny living in the couch's crack
vs
500++$$, 5 hours battery live fragile shinny phone that you carry away (read have a phone for everyone that's using the TV...).
I wonder what it'd be like to have my remote nuked out of space by some cell phone company !!
Phones are cool, but simplicity is unbeatable (oh, and grand'ma... To turn on the T.V., you have to turn on that thing, slide the bar, go to AppStore, download a.... grand'ma ????)
Let's think a little more strategic for a few seconds :
The killer app is still Office (Or Isn't it the Web... pick your favorite... honestly, my Killer thing is Wikipedia... whaetever). One of the biggest reason for people to stay on Windows is that they feel that they can't live without MS Office (whitch they more than often obtained illegally;) ).
Having a good replacement for Office could be a huge step into getting more people to, lets say, Ubuntu and other "Free made easy" ouvertures and thus getting more potential contributors. Oh wait there IS such a replacement !!!
I think that contribution to OpenOffice.org, right now, is a pretty strategic investment (yep, it's the right word) as it's devellopement would facilitate integration of many more people by diminishing one of the last "chains" they have to... hum, let's call this the dark side ! More people = more support (money, time, code, advices, feedback...).
Have fun and, whatever this discussion leads to... DO CONTRIBUTE !!! FranÃois
We've been working in a 100% policy free environment for a long while, being a small team of peaceful geeks. Everyone got to pick his or her machine, OS, software... Eventually, we had to agree on moderating our network use (in bandwidth we thrust...) but that's pretty much it... A "policy" was something we agreed on orraly, and the privilege to go against it was aquired by saying "mind if I ?"
All was cool until that day, when we started growing and hiring... Here lies the bomb : Low-life and untalented geeks !!! We ended up with people intruding our computers, creating backdoors on our servers, opening ports to download porn...
Here's my advice : If:
1- You know your people
2- They're competent (YOU think that they are... as opposed to
THEY think they are...)
3- You are ready to spend time to train them and they are willing
to help each other (sometimes, this can be way less than
administrating the whole thing)
4- You can foresee some benefits for any of those reasons:
4.1- Having different approaches on things
4.2- Not having your whole intelligence system to rely on
one person, one system or Micros~1
4.3- Allowing your team to experiment, discover and develop
new competences (that, by the way, you might not have)
If your team (or parts of it...) satisfies this, go on and you'll probably see that the time you have to spend on administration is going to decrease quickly as your team gets autonomous... If you answered no to 1, 2 or 3, forget it... Get them a cute little account with zero privileges and ponies on the desktop... If you answered no to all 4s, we're obviously in different spheres...
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Does she have to be "aware" that I'm having sex with her while she's doing this morning routine install ?
From my experience, the point where she sets up DRBD is usually where I get the best chances to sneek on my wife.
If only we had a basement... we could have fantasies...
Hum... 5$ device, over 1 year of battery life unbreakable thingny living in the couch's crack
vs
500++$$, 5 hours battery live fragile shinny phone that you carry away (read have a phone for everyone that's using the TV...).
I wonder what it'd be like to have my remote nuked out of space by some cell phone company !!
Phones are cool, but simplicity is unbeatable (oh, and grand'ma... To turn on the T.V., you have to turn on that thing, slide the bar, go to AppStore, download a.... grand'ma ????)
ahahahahahahahahhaha Phone freaks....
AHAHAHAHAH I Love this
Let's think a little more strategic for a few seconds :
... pick your favorite... honestly, my Killer thing is Wikipedia... whaetever). One of the biggest reason for people to stay on Windows is that they feel that they can't live without MS Office (whitch they more than often obtained illegally ;) ).
... hum, let's call this the dark side ! More people = more support (money, time, code, advices, feedback...).
The killer app is still Office (Or Isn't it the Web
Having a good replacement for Office could be a huge step into getting more people to, lets say, Ubuntu and other "Free made easy" ouvertures and thus getting more potential contributors. Oh wait there IS such a replacement !!!
I think that contribution to OpenOffice.org, right now, is a pretty strategic investment (yep, it's the right word) as it's devellopement would facilitate integration of many more people by diminishing one of the last "chains" they have to
Have fun and, whatever this discussion leads to... DO CONTRIBUTE !!!
FranÃois
We've been working in a 100% policy free environment for a long
while, being a small team of peaceful geeks. Everyone got to pick his
or her machine, OS, software... Eventually, we had to agree on
moderating our network use (in bandwidth we thrust...) but that's
pretty much it... A "policy" was something we agreed on orraly,
and the privilege to go against it was aquired by saying "mind if I ?"
All was cool until that day, when we started growing and hiring...
Here lies the bomb : Low-life and untalented geeks !!! We ended up
with people intruding our computers, creating backdoors on our
servers, opening ports to download porn...
Here's my advice :
If:
1- You know your people
2- They're competent (YOU think that they are... as opposed to
THEY think they are...)
3- You are ready to spend time to train them and they are willing
to help each other (sometimes, this can be way less than
administrating the whole thing)
4- You can foresee some benefits for any of those reasons:
4.1- Having different approaches on things
4.2- Not having your whole intelligence system to rely on
one person, one system or Micros~1
4.3- Allowing your team to experiment, discover and develop
new competences (that, by the way, you might not have)
If your team (or parts of it...) satisfies this, go on and you'll
probably see that the time you have to spend on administration is
going to decrease quickly as your team gets autonomous... If you
answered no to 1, 2 or 3, forget it... Get them a cute little account
with zero privileges and ponies on the desktop... If you answered no
to all 4s, we're obviously in different spheres...
Have a good one