Why do they complain at all? Many development tools can be downloaded from apple here I have downloaded mysql, apache and openoffice. And as far as X11 downloads are concerned, typing in three text fields (two if you have an apple id) on the X11 Download Page doesnt look that hard to me. Do they complain everytime they login to their isp or check their email, or are they just talking out of their collective (dumb) asses complaining about a problem that doesnt exist? Why would apple even install X11 for most users when they preinstall a superior window manager by default?
As you said some are hanging on to v10.2.x, but my girlfriend decided to upgrade to 10.3.(5) when she found out upgrading to safari with tabbed browsing, expose, and a host of other new features were not available unless she had 10.3.
I can't stand people who demean others, just because they aren't FREAKING pretentious.
If being literate is your idea of being pretentious, then by all means please hang around all of your 'normal' NASCAR friends and dont associate with the likes of us snobby literati.
The entire system was designed really well, why? Because these guys built it to make a profit.
That argument would be valid in a perfectly simplistic and unrealistic Ayn Randian universe.
However the very fact that Microsoft built Win 95, 98, Millenium and XP to make profits, all of which quality wise blow chunks -and- your theory way out of the water.
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I do the same, but for only one computer, and my drive cages contain different linux distros. I use the drive trays made by this company. I have been using these for 3 years with no problems. They work much better than their website looks.:)
why don't we add a wrapper that will automagically cache linked pages Just dont write it in java... Sorry, given the current topic I couldn't pass this one up:)
Another thing the article mentioned was intels clock speeds being twice as fast as a sparc. Of course they failed to realize that sparcs have a risc architecture and a clock speed comparison between x86/sparc processors isnt really informative. But what the hey, Businessweek is a magazine for MBAs, who never let technical facts get in the way of a good 'out of the box' synergistic read...*sigh*
...we should be dedicated staff who desire to be responsive and should do what it takes to make that happen...
When clueless managers start cutting benefits, especially those that could help you do your job better, its a sure sign that the company has changed its priorities. And with upper managment on board, it sounds like your company is inexorably sliding toward the short term viewpoint AKA 'cut costs this quarter' style of managment.
Your new 'CIO' sounds like the MBA/bean counter type to me, which means he is going to be totally clueless when it comes to your job, the job requirements, and help with technical issues.
Even his argument that you 'need to be more responsive' rings of MBA bullshit. This guy is simply about cutting costs in the short term to the detriment of everything else to make himself look good. Then will bail out or blame others before everything turns to fossilised shit.
Dont walk --but run to another company that cares more about its employees and customers.
Unless methane ice is much more dense than water ice, hail would fall much more slowly.
If a frozen methane ball and a ice ball were release at the same time from the same height in the atmosphere wouldnt they hit the surface of the planet simultaneously? Hasn't Galileo proven this already?
According to this site The space shuttle costs are 5 times projected costs even allowing for inflation: Initial hopes set the cost of each mission in the range of (US)$10 to (US)$20 million. Allowing for inflation, that would equate to about (US)$100 million today. Actual costs have been running (US)$500 million per mission. Turn around time between flights was initially planned to be about two weeks. It now typically takes several months.
So why should we believe the government has mended it inefficient ways and $10 billion estimate is correct?
Personally, I think we would be alot better off to have Burt Rutan get a crack at this first.
After scoping out the google search results, I found ironically on page 3 most links appear to be Crimestoppers -- Unsolved Crime Of The Week and have nothing to do with with these IE bugs...
Exactly...or buy a cap (like I did a couple of weeks ago) T-shirt, etc from the Slackware store if you absolutely have to download the image today and cant wait.
And will we some integration of Solaris' strong points into other open source OSes like Linux and BSD?"
I hope not, as unpredictable and indecisive as Scott McNealy is, Darl McBride is relatively stable.
One week McNealy likes Linux, the next week he doesn't. That and the fact after years of slamming Microsoft (as much as they deserve it), and making himself appear like a raving lunatic to the detriment of other important business decisions, Sun and Microsoft kiss and make up, and everything is suppossed to be OK now.
Well, its not OK, this looks like another desperate move by a company seeking something, anything to gain mindshare and revenue. If solaris becomes free, and their hardware will be free, how exactly is Sun supposed to make money again? And why should the open source community use source from Solaris from a company with such conflicting outlooks on open source and Linux?
The cracking operation can only be done on songs the user has already has valid licenses for and requires either an iPod or a windows computer for key recovery.
Is this article a cleverly disguised troll?
If anything the creator(s) of PlayFair are doing the responsible thing, and not allowing the user to perform a so-called cracking operation on a song they haven't licensed/paid for.
My current job is a total frustrating nightmare. I was originally hired where I worked to make a new VB version of an access application. (Hey it pays the bills) So I began in earnest, devoting much time, effort and hard work. The SQL server backend database is a total convoluted, non normalized, non indexed steaming pile. The so-called middle tier performs calculations on massive joined tables, looping through each record, passing this massive recordset of multiple huge joined tables to functions and procedures that may or may not modify one or more fields in this recordset. Management then wonders why this is slow.
Project management, dont get me started.
Our project manager is an MBA with no programming experience, and a total tool. He never looks at source code, has no specification other than *random daily requests* to modify and change the application to match the desires of the last potiential client spoken to. He does not know who Fred Brooks is, he commonly asks for wildly divergent input behavior from day to day. Example: "On this form make the tab order go down after this control, then go across again" or "On this form take off the delete button on the toolbar because customer support thought that would confuse a user" or "on this form i want a to select a column instead of sorting when the user clicks on a grid column header". I have had a manager here tell me, "I am not sure if I trust this application development cycle stuff". Another wanted similiar functionality on toolbars to look different for each entry/edit area. Example: On this form I want search to look like binoculars, but on another to look different, because it needs 'more color!'. To top it all off, managers do not 'get together' on change requests, so they fight each other on how the application should work. My project manager will look and use a form for *weeks* with 'this is great' yada yada and then suddenly and inexplicably decide 'this sucks!' and request a total departure from normal functionality.
Any suggestion that things may be done better using traditional techniques is met with suspicion, or a perverse sense that I am trying to undermine their authority.
Needless to say, I dont work long hours anymore, as I feel used by people to incompetent and lazy to learn how properly develop an app.
As we all know Microsoft has absolutely no interest in improving their products, lowering costs, or using open standards to prevent vendor lock-in and forced upgrades.
So this leads me to believe the only valid reason for a survey is for a disinformation/FUD to gather counterpoints that PHBs and CIOs that will bring up about linux to the negotiating table: PHB: I heard that linux is free? Microsoft: But TCO is higher! (a lie) PHB: I have heard that openoffice can do everything that MS office can, why should I pay? MS: Oh, but it wont be [insert buzzword] compliant! PHB: Why should I pay $X for a web server when I can use Apache/PHP which are free? MS: Well IIS integrates better with XML and Office! (FUD/BS)
I suggest either refusing to take the survey, or better yet giving the totally opposite answer of the real reason you use linux. Because any answer you give, provides a MS marketing/sales person ammo for disinformation.
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Why do they complain at all? Many development tools can be downloaded from apple here I have downloaded mysql, apache and openoffice. And as far as X11 downloads are concerned, typing in three text fields (two if you have an apple id) on the X11 Download Page doesnt look that hard to me. Do they complain everytime they login to their isp or check their email, or are they just talking out of their collective (dumb) asses complaining about a problem that doesnt exist? Why would apple even install X11 for most users when they preinstall a superior window manager by default?
As you said some are hanging on to v10.2.x, but my girlfriend decided to upgrade to 10.3.(5) when she found out upgrading to safari with tabbed browsing, expose, and a host of other new features were not available unless she had 10.3.
I can't stand people who demean others, just because they aren't FREAKING pretentious.
If being literate is your idea of being pretentious, then by all means please hang around all of your 'normal' NASCAR friends and dont associate with the likes of us snobby literati.
The entire system was designed really well, why? Because these guys built it to make a profit.
That argument would be valid in a perfectly simplistic and unrealistic Ayn Randian universe.
However the very fact that Microsoft built Win 95, 98, Millenium and XP to make profits, all of which quality wise blow chunks -and- your theory way out of the water.
I do the same, but for only one computer, and my drive cages contain different linux distros. :)
I use the drive trays made by this company. I have been using these for 3 years with no problems. They work much better than their website looks.
why don't we add a wrapper that will automagically cache linked pages :)
Just dont write it in java...
Sorry, given the current topic I couldn't pass this one up
Another thing the article mentioned was intels clock speeds being twice as fast as a sparc. Of course they failed to realize that sparcs have a risc architecture and a clock speed comparison between x86/sparc processors isnt really informative.
But what the hey, Businessweek is a magazine for MBAs, who never let technical facts get in the way of a good 'out of the box' synergistic read...*sigh*
...we should be dedicated staff who desire to be responsive and should do what it takes to make that happen...
When clueless managers start cutting benefits, especially those that could help you do your job better, its a sure sign that the company has changed its priorities. And with upper managment on board, it sounds like your company is inexorably sliding toward the short term viewpoint AKA 'cut costs this quarter' style of managment.
Your new 'CIO' sounds like the MBA/bean counter type to me, which means he is going to be totally clueless when it comes to your job, the job requirements, and help with technical issues.
Even his argument that you 'need to be more responsive' rings of MBA bullshit. This guy is simply about cutting costs in the short term to the detriment of everything else to make himself look good. Then will bail out or blame others before everything turns to fossilised shit.
Dont walk --but run to another company that cares more about its employees and customers.
Unless methane ice is much more dense than water ice, hail would fall much more slowly.
If a frozen methane ball and a ice ball were release at the same time from the same height in the atmosphere wouldnt they hit the surface of the planet simultaneously? Hasn't Galileo proven this already?
According to this site The space shuttle costs are 5 times projected costs even allowing for inflation:
Initial hopes set the cost of each mission in the range of (US)$10 to (US)$20 million. Allowing for inflation, that would equate to about (US)$100 million today. Actual costs have been running (US)$500 million per mission. Turn around time between flights was initially planned to be about two weeks. It now typically takes several months.
So why should we believe the government has mended it inefficient ways and $10 billion estimate is correct?
Personally, I think we would be alot better off to have Burt Rutan get a crack at this first.
Thanks...
After scoping out the google search results, I found ironically on page 3 most links appear to be Crimestoppers -- Unsolved Crime Of The Week and have nothing to do with with these IE bugs...
Life is stranger than fiction...
Exactly...or buy a cap (like I did a couple of weeks ago) T-shirt, etc from the Slackware store if you absolutely have to download the image today and cant wait.
:)
Give back to slack.
This is gonna be fun. Bash, or laud? Insult, or praise?
Nah, just be like the French, surrender and accept it.
I have been wondering what the Bastard Operator from Hell has been up to lately...
And will we some integration of Solaris' strong points into other open source OSes like Linux and BSD?"
I hope not, as unpredictable and indecisive as Scott McNealy is, Darl McBride is relatively stable.
One week McNealy likes Linux, the next week he doesn't. That and the fact after years of slamming Microsoft (as much as they deserve it), and making himself appear like a raving lunatic to the detriment of other important business decisions, Sun and Microsoft kiss and make up, and everything is suppossed to be OK now.
Well, its not OK, this looks like another desperate move by a company seeking something, anything to gain mindshare and revenue. If solaris becomes free, and their hardware will be free, how exactly is Sun supposed to make money again? And why should the open source community use source from Solaris from a company with such conflicting outlooks on open source and Linux?
The cracking operation can only be done on songs the user has already has valid licenses for and requires either an iPod or a windows computer for key recovery.
Is this article a cleverly disguised troll?
If anything the creator(s) of PlayFair are doing the responsible thing, and not allowing the user to perform a so-called cracking operation on a song they haven't licensed/paid for.
When will they force the REST of us who AREN'T homeless to be tracked like our dogs? -Phyrebyrd
If there was ever a time for a -1 sucker moderation, this is it.
My current job is a total frustrating nightmare. I was originally hired where I worked to make a new VB version of an access application. (Hey it pays the bills) So I began in earnest, devoting much time, effort and hard work. The SQL server backend database is a total convoluted, non normalized, non indexed steaming pile. The so-called middle tier performs calculations on massive joined tables, looping through each record, passing this massive recordset of multiple huge joined tables to functions and procedures that may or may not modify one or more fields in this recordset. Management then wonders why this is slow.
Project management, dont get me started.
Our project manager is an MBA with no programming experience, and a total tool. He never looks at source code, has no specification other than *random daily requests* to modify and change the application to match the desires of the last potiential client spoken to. He does not know who Fred Brooks is, he commonly asks for wildly divergent input behavior from day to day. Example: "On this form make the tab order go down after this control, then go across again" or "On this form take off the delete button on the toolbar because customer support thought that would confuse a user" or "on this form i want a to select a column instead of sorting when the user clicks on a grid column header". I have had a manager here tell me, "I am not sure if I trust this application development cycle stuff". Another wanted similiar functionality on toolbars to look different for each entry/edit area. Example: On this form I want search to look like binoculars, but on another to look different, because it needs 'more color!'. To top it all off, managers do not 'get together' on change requests, so they fight each other on how the application should work. My project manager will look and use a form for *weeks* with 'this is great' yada yada and then suddenly and inexplicably decide 'this sucks!' and request a total departure from normal functionality.
Any suggestion that things may be done better using traditional techniques is met with suspicion, or a perverse sense that I am trying to undermine their authority.
Needless to say, I dont work long hours anymore, as I feel used by people to incompetent and lazy to learn how properly develop an app.
I just hope they don't get killed by MS.
I hope they dont get bought by Microsoft.
You would really love my boss.
If you still do code assembly, this new twist has just make you an even more valuable commodity than before, and you should be asking for a raise.
I wish, but my managers dont even know what assembly language is.
Yeah she looked at the source in the mirror.
As we all know Microsoft has absolutely no interest in improving their products, lowering costs, or using open standards to prevent vendor lock-in and forced upgrades.
So this leads me to believe the only valid reason for a survey is for a disinformation/FUD to gather counterpoints that PHBs and CIOs that will bring up about linux to the negotiating table:
PHB: I heard that linux is free?
Microsoft: But TCO is higher! (a lie)
PHB: I have heard that openoffice can do everything that MS office can, why should I pay?
MS: Oh, but it wont be [insert buzzword] compliant!
PHB: Why should I pay $X for a web server when I can use Apache/PHP which are free?
MS: Well IIS integrates better with XML and Office! (FUD/BS)
I suggest either refusing to take the survey, or better yet giving the totally opposite answer of the real reason you use linux. Because any answer you give, provides a MS marketing/sales person ammo for disinformation.
I betcha this guy moonlights at Forbes.
No she just calls him 'micro soft'.
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