once again the known answer, you can get support from the community
Playing devils advocate here, that statement is a *very* hard sell to upper management. They want contracts, they want someone who can be charged back/billed/sued if something goes wrong. They want SLA's and the like.
I think the key here, is having a central repository for that $25 - kinda like a paypal type thing - when you make a micropayment at a website that recognizes your 'central repository', it comes from there. That way, only the pages you want get paid thier.25$ or whatever, and you only have one place to store that money, and worry about. And, you wont have to shell out $25 to each website you visit....
Most office workers barely make use of Outlook's full complement of abilities.
Unfortunately, its not 'most office workers' you have to worry about - it's the 'muckity-mucks' who have offices, that are wed to thier shared calendaring, public folders and global address book that matter. They make the decisions, hence Exchange lives on.
You are right in saying that most people barely make use of Exchange, but the ones that do tend to be the decision makers.
I'd give my left arm to get rid of Exchange here at work. I've even suggested it, which soliceted strange looks and lots of grumbling. *sigh*
Gee... wonder why TiVo and Replay have subscriptions... maybe the software is actually worth something. I know, that's tantamount to heresy on/.
I dont *want* that software functionality, however - I just want a PVR that records either what I am watching (Im a sports nut), or based on time/channel.
Right now, no PVR will let me do this, either without a monthly subscription, or hacking. Neither of which are valid options for me.
Someday, there will be a product that does what I want, and which point I will purchase it. Until then I am SOL:)
The new TIVO gets the time from the service - without a subscription, I get no time, and cant record based on time/channel, only record what I am currently watching. And, you get nagscreens and popups on the TIVO without a subscription. I'm still looking into what happens with the replaytv without a subsctription.
As a consumer, I want a unit, that ships with all the features enabled - including the basic ability to set the time, without a monthly fee. Its not too much to ask (my 20 year old VCR does this, why cant a PVR?). I think these companies are missing out on a large section of the possible customer base, by requiring a subscription.
According to Tivos' website , you need a subscription. Same according to replaytv's website. Where can I get one that doesn't require 'activation' or subscription?
how they plan to respond to criticisms that the DVR market is doomed.
I wont buy a PVR right now, due to the monthly payment required. I already have too many monthly payments in my life - I dont need one more. And, I don't want to pay UBER stupid prices for a 'lifetime' subscription.
I want a PVR that will act just like a VCR - programmable, by channel and time. Too much to ask? Is there something out there that will do what I want, that isn't a DIY soloution?
Amen, I've seen this too, at tradeshows and the like. Have to get a booth setup? Well, I have the knowledge to do it all myself, but the Unions wont let me. They have to:
Move the equipment, at thier pace and schedule. Hookup the ups' etc. to the electric grid. Build the booth, at thier pace and schedule.
I once got sick of waiting for some union wonk to come and move my machines to the booth, so I grabbed the hand-truck myslef. Holy shit, all hell broke loose. god forbid, I take some job away from some union wonk, whose only qualification being that he paid his union dues this month.
Frustrating as all hell, and SOOOO counterproductive...
Someone needs to mod this up. He said it perfectly:
"they tend to prop up the underachievers and demote the go-getters. In other words, they breed mediocrity."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have done very well in the tech sector on my own - last thing I want is a Union to 'represent' me, take part of my paycheck as 'dues', and make me follow thier rules and regulations.
Well, what do you know? I just went and checked my website referral logs, and what do you know? SPAM!
Don't these people realize that by spamming me - by email, by false referrers, by pop up/under ads, etc., it virtually *gurantees* that they will never get my business?
Amen, brother. I've been doing this for years. Some of my family gets peeved that I'm screening my calls, but tough. Its my time, I'll do with it as I please:)
I'm not fully confident that stringing together Postfix, Cyrus, OpenLDAP, etc. is really going to produce a cohesive groupware server. Yes, it'll work, but it'll be difficult to install.
You ever try to install Exchange 5.5, configure it, administer it? yikes.
Um, let me remind you that the military is all volunteers, who **put thier lives on the line** for ideals they belive in.
You stay up all night coding and think you deserve respect? pfft. You think you 'far exceed the effort put forth by soldiers'? PFFFFT.
Have you ever sat in a foxhole for DAYS, hoping to god you can get a warm meal, and some dry clothes? Have you ever feared for you life? I mean really feared? What hardships have you borne for your ideals? Drinking nothing but Dr. Pepper on a 3 day coding binge doesnt count.
I think you need to take a step back from yourself, and realize that without the people in the military, the world would be a whole nastier place.
I didnt say under a minute, I said in 3 minutes. Let me see here....
500MB in 3 minutes comes out to (once you do the conversions) about 21 megabits/second, which is still way too high. Ok, factor in the 4x compression that Gabe talked about, thats still 5.25 megabits/s, too high. Then, figure in the just-in-time-delivery - my guess is the 500mb file that I saw get loaded on my machine was just being reported as that big, but the Steam client actually was streaming the content to me, and finished the download while I was configuring the HL client - key bindings, video resoloution, etc. Then, when I went to join a server, I bet thats when the client decided to go out and grab the map/models etc. for that specific server.
There is no way that 500mb was streamed to me in the 3 minutes - but HL did load, and I was configuring/playing in that 3 minutes, which is pretty impressive. The rest of the download (ie stuff I didnt need for that session) will probably be downloaded as needed, or in the background.
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once again the known answer, you can get support from the community
Playing devils advocate here, that statement is a *very* hard sell to upper management. They want contracts, they want someone who can be charged back/billed/sued if something goes wrong. They want SLA's and the like.
At that level, its all CYA.
I think the key here, is having a central repository for that $25 - kinda like a paypal type thing - when you make a micropayment at a website that recognizes your 'central repository', it comes from there. That way, only the pages you want get paid thier .25$ or whatever, and you only have one place to store that money, and worry about. And, you wont have to shell out $25 to each website you visit....
Running on a windows desktop :)
I *may* be able to change the server side backend, but *no way* am I getting linux on the desktop here.
I managed to get off of IIS and onto a linux box with apache for the web and ftp server, mail however is a nightmare battle to changeover...
Most office workers barely make use of Outlook's full complement of abilities.
Unfortunately, its not 'most office workers' you have to worry about - it's the 'muckity-mucks' who have offices, that are wed to thier shared calendaring, public folders and global address book that matter. They make the decisions, hence Exchange lives on.
You are right in saying that most people barely make use of Exchange, but the ones that do tend to be the decision makers.
I'd give my left arm to get rid of Exchange here at work. I've even suggested it, which soliceted strange looks and lots of grumbling. *sigh*
Gee... wonder why TiVo and Replay have subscriptions... maybe the software is actually worth something. I know, that's tantamount to heresy on /.
:)
I dont *want* that software functionality, however - I just want a PVR that records either what I am watching (Im a sports nut), or based on time/channel.
Right now, no PVR will let me do this, either without a monthly subscription, or hacking. Neither of which are valid options for me.
Someday, there will be a product that does what I want, and which point I will purchase it. Until then I am SOL
The new TIVO gets the time from the service - without a subscription, I get no time, and cant record based on time/channel, only record what I am currently watching. And, you get nagscreens and popups on the TIVO without a subscription. I'm still looking into what happens with the replaytv without a subsctription.
As a consumer, I want a unit, that ships with all the features enabled - including the basic ability to set the time, without a monthly fee. Its not too much to ask (my 20 year old VCR does this, why cant a PVR?). I think these companies are missing out on a large section of the possible customer base, by requiring a subscription.
According to Tivos' website , you need a subscription. Same according to replaytv's website. Where can I get one that doesn't require 'activation' or subscription?
how they plan to respond to criticisms that the DVR market is doomed.
I wont buy a PVR right now, due to the monthly payment required. I already have too many monthly payments in my life - I dont need one more. And, I don't want to pay UBER stupid prices for a 'lifetime' subscription.
I want a PVR that will act just like a VCR - programmable, by channel and time. Too much to ask? Is there something out there that will do what I want, that isn't a DIY soloution?
Amen, I've seen this too, at tradeshows and the like. Have to get a booth setup? Well, I have the knowledge to do it all myself, but the Unions wont let me. They have to:
Move the equipment, at thier pace and schedule.
Hookup the ups' etc. to the electric grid.
Build the booth, at thier pace and schedule.
I once got sick of waiting for some union wonk to come and move my machines to the booth, so I grabbed the hand-truck myslef. Holy shit, all hell broke loose. god forbid, I take some job away from some union wonk, whose only qualification being that he paid his union dues this month.
Frustrating as all hell, and SOOOO counterproductive...
Someone needs to mod this up. He said it perfectly:
"they tend to prop up the underachievers and demote the go-getters. In other words, they breed mediocrity."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have done very well in the tech sector on my own - last thing I want is a Union to 'represent' me, take part of my paycheck as 'dues', and make me follow thier rules and regulations.
No, I don't think so.
This is what I am going as for Halloween. I figure it will scare the hell outta anybody.
At least a week or two. Sure it was on Slashdot earlier, somewhere.
:)
Must be a slow posting day or something
Well, what do you know? I just went and checked my website referral logs, and what do you know? SPAM!
Don't these people realize that by spamming me - by email, by false referrers, by pop up/under ads, etc., it virtually *gurantees* that they will never get my business?
>1- Mighty Netbios ( Most secure protocol >invented since '95! )
:)
Any sysadmin who doesnt diable this on publicly accessable machines isn't a good sysadmin.
>2- Unicode File Traversal Vulnerability. Appeared like 1-1.5 year ago. Still some servers vulnerable
Again, sysadmin problem. Its been patched.
>3- Melisa & IloveYou & others countlessly many Ms Word worms
Application problems, not OS problems, big difference.
>4- Nimda & CodeRed variants. Millions of computers got intruded in one day.
Application problems, not OS problems, big difference.
>5- Internet Explorer got 20 unfixed vulnerabilites today according to http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched [pivx.com]
Application problems, not OS problems, big difference.
6- Windows XP UPnP Vulnerability got public after the week XP was released....
I'll give you this one
Im not saying windows is the greatest and all, but get your facts straight, please. 3 of the 5 issues above are application issues, not OS issues.
Amen, brother. I've been doing this for years. Some of my family gets peeved that I'm screening my calls, but tough. Its my time, I'll do with it as I please :)
try lynx! :)
... and all for $69/seat. Plus, you have to still purchase MS Exchange2000, with client licenses. Not cheap.
How is the support on Ximian Connector when something goes wrong?
You ever try to install Exchange 5.5, configure it, administer it? yikes.
*sigh* another BG2 fan, who expected NWN to be BG3.
Newsflash: Its not *supposed* to be BG3.
The great thing about NWN is its DM client, and the Toolset (even though there is zero documentation for it, its easy enough to figure out).
NWN stands as a great game on its own. It was never meant to be BG3, but to be its own, self conatained game, which stands wonderfully on its own.
...by word of mouth. Get your friends on it, your families, your co-workers, thier friends, etc. It will soon spread.
" if the goddam AI's have 'some type of fusion' they would have utterly no NEED for the human's as 'batteries.'"
;-p
Kinda like we'd have utterly no need for more memory than 640k ?
I put all my books in order on my shelves, and make 3.5" index cards for each, organized by the Dewey Decimal System.
;)
That way, when the power goes out, I can still find the right book by candlelight.
I almost forgot to add - but it was a pleasure and and honor to protect you and your type for 10 years of my life.
You're welcome.
Um, let me remind you that the military is all volunteers, who **put thier lives on the line** for ideals they belive in.
You stay up all night coding and think you deserve respect? pfft. You think you 'far exceed the effort put forth by soldiers'? PFFFFT.
Have you ever sat in a foxhole for DAYS, hoping to god you can get a warm meal, and some dry clothes? Have you ever feared for you life? I mean really feared? What hardships have you borne for your ideals? Drinking nothing but Dr. Pepper on a 3 day coding binge doesnt count.
I think you need to take a step back from yourself, and realize that without the people in the military, the world would be a whole nastier place.
You, sir, are a buffoon.
I didnt say under a minute, I said in 3 minutes. Let me see here....
500MB in 3 minutes comes out to (once you do the conversions) about 21 megabits/second, which is still way too high. Ok, factor in the 4x compression that Gabe talked about, thats still 5.25 megabits/s, too high. Then, figure in the just-in-time-delivery - my guess is the 500mb file that I saw get loaded on my machine was just being reported as that big, but the Steam client actually was streaming the content to me, and finished the download while I was configuring the HL client - key bindings, video resoloution, etc. Then, when I went to join a server, I bet thats when the client decided to go out and grab the map/models etc. for that specific server.
There is no way that 500mb was streamed to me in the 3 minutes - but HL did load, and I was configuring/playing in that 3 minutes, which is pretty impressive. The rest of the download (ie stuff I didnt need for that session) will probably be downloaded as needed, or in the background.