The way this works is that if you don't like the product, then you don't buy it. When enough people decide they don't like the product adn the seller's sales fall, the seller will change the product.
The fact that one does not like something about the product is not license to steal the product. This point seems to be lost on too many folks in this age of digital media.
Too bad the rights are held By the Weinstein brothers, not Michael Moore.
he doesn't have the authority to grant distribution rights, because he sold the film to Miramax, who sold it to harvey and brother because they were too scared to release it.
I couldn't get away from them during gym class....but now they are fighting on my turf!
And I know my network kung-fu is better than theirs. Bring the noise.
But seriously, kids just gotta deal. Bullied on the net, bullied in class, it doesn't matter. There will always be bullies; and it is a right of passage for us nerdy types.
Are you complaining about the ability to backup, or to clone drives?
NTBackup utility has shipped for a long time. Does fine for backups and restores, can backup to tape device or file image, and has always worked for me.
Because Quicktime is the wrapper format for MPEG4. So quicktime support paves the way for use by the broadcast industry, which is in the process of choosing between MPEG4 and WindowsMedia9 as the default high-end format.
This is more honest than what I have seen some other open source software providors do--which is purposefully degrade performance of the version readily available.
I worked with one open source product extensively, and discovered that no matter what I did I could never get a box to support more than 1200 (or some arbitrary number near that) simultaneous users.
The creators of the software had a "fix" that was available for the price of a consulting engagement...but no, they were not selling software in violation of the GPL...they were selling consulting services.
I ended up not using that open source product.
I think the fact that we are all sitting around here complaining about this is evidence of fundamental flaws in the proposed business models bedind open source software.
You should visit Sealand/Havenco...but I bet it is tough to get a guest pass!
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This "Slack" sounds like a luxery of a boom economy. In this world of cutbacks, layoffs, and rescoping, how many companies are ever going to have employees that remain only 70% utilized.
The truth is that you don't need slack, you need good managers. Should a business opportunity arise, good managers reprioritize and shift the focus of their employees, not complain that they have too few resources.
Just make him live up to his promise. Make him agree to an agressive SLA. and if you are not getting your full t1 bandwidth, then that should be an infraction of the sla somewhere--latency, packetloss, etc...
You would be surprised how much punch cards are still used today. A lot of old factory/assembly line automation is controlled via punch cards. And it probably will stay in use as long as they continue to do the job. Why spend $ on expensive computer automation upgrades, when the old tech gets the job done.
Don't be ridiculous. Don't confuse the tools with the actual knowledge or understanding of concepts. I work a high tech job, have a degree in engineering, and have never suffered for my lack of PDA. Nor do I think I will suffer in the future.
Remember...somebody has to make the caluclator, PDA, compass, protracotr, or whatever tool ends up aiding in the job at hand.
Funny. I somehow manged to get through high school and 5 semesters of college calculus using graph paper to draw circles, ellipses, and other curves. How did I muddle through? I just don't know. Obviously mu edumacation suffered for it.
As a person that works in the "new media" industy (god I hate that term), I see this kind of attitude from tv execs all the time.
They are totally afraid of the internet as a content ditriubution medium because of revenue losses in their current advertiseing based biz models, redistribution of their content, etc... and they are watching their ad-based revenue model fall apart in front of them, as audiences leave television, or oaudiences make more and more use of PVRs and otehr tech to avoid advertising.
What we are going to see happen in TV, is that advertising as we know it is going to go away. Two things: 1. Interactive TV with a micropayment/pay-per-view model. When interactive tv actually happens, we will be able to choose and pay for only the shows we want, when we want them, and commercial advertising will be gone. 2. Sponsored content/product placement. You will see more and more of your favorite tv stars prominently drinking diet coke after diet coke while the "show" isrunning. or more of the bugs across the bottom that state "brough to you by...". so if you want to watch the content, you have to see the addvertising at the same time.
The most valuable things I learned was not how to program, but engineering methodologies. This is basically a solid, logical approach to problem-solving, as well as how to document/describe what it is you have done (ie how to make others understand your approach to solving the problem).
Unfortunately, this is something that is drilled into you over years by professors and TAs marking you down when you don't do it. Any shortcut to a degree will not un-learn any bad habits you might have taught yourself over time.
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I guess this makes a vibrator a perpetual motion machine. Imagine, entire cities powered by women getting off.
It's right up there with The Simpson's vision of harvesting oil from the faces of teenagers. Genius, pure genius.
pshaw. next thing you know, they are going to say our patent system needs overhauling, too.
Novell? They're still around? Who knew...
It would be great to know on what platform that building automation software runs.
Timex Sinclair 1000
Buy teh CD and rip it. It's the only way you are going to retain archival rights across multiple formats and devices.
Funny, RSS is already doing this for me. Thanks, Big blue...
The way this works is that if you don't like the product, then you don't buy it. When enough people decide they don't like the product adn the seller's sales fall, the seller will change the product.
The fact that one does not like something about the product is not license to steal the product. This point seems to be lost on too many folks in this age of digital media.
Too bad the rights are held By the Weinstein brothers, not Michael Moore.
he doesn't have the authority to grant distribution rights, because he sold the film to Miramax, who sold it to harvey and brother because they were too scared to release it.
Let the bullies step on up cyber-style.
I couldn't get away from them during gym class....but now they are fighting on my turf!
And I know my network kung-fu is better than theirs. Bring the noise.
But seriously, kids just gotta deal. Bullied on the net, bullied in class, it doesn't matter. There will always be bullies; and it is a right of passage for us nerdy types.
Are you complaining about the ability to backup, or to clone drives?
NTBackup utility has shipped for a long time. Does fine for backups and restores, can backup to tape device or file image, and has always worked for me.
Because Quicktime is the wrapper format for MPEG4. So quicktime support paves the way for use by the broadcast industry, which is in the process of choosing between MPEG4 and WindowsMedia9 as the default high-end format.
This is more honest than what I have seen some other open source software providors do--which is purposefully degrade performance of the version readily available.
I worked with one open source product extensively, and discovered that no matter what I did I could never get a box to support more than 1200 (or some arbitrary number near that) simultaneous users.
The creators of the software had a "fix" that was available for the price of a consulting engagement...but no, they were not selling software in violation of the GPL...they were selling consulting services.
I ended up not using that open source product.
I think the fact that we are all sitting around here complaining about this is evidence of fundamental flaws in the proposed business models bedind open source software.
You should visit Sealand/Havenco...but I bet it is tough to get a guest pass!
This "Slack" sounds like a luxery of a boom economy. In this world of cutbacks, layoffs, and rescoping, how many companies are ever going to have employees that remain only 70% utilized.
The truth is that you don't need slack, you need good managers. Should a business opportunity arise, good managers reprioritize and shift the focus of their employees, not complain that they have too few resources.
I am a WCom customer in NYC. We have a hub-and-spoke VPN from them, hub in NYC and spokes around the USA.
We have had problems today around the country including NYC. Most of them seem to be resulting from routing issues across their backbone.
My handspring treo kicks ass. Best form factor out there, palmOS, color. Choice of tmobile, cingular, or sprintpcs as carrier.
I highly recommend it for anybody looking to consolidate pda and cell phone.
Just make him live up to his promise. Make him agree to an agressive SLA. and if you are not getting your full t1 bandwidth, then that should be an infraction of the sla somewhere--latency, packetloss, etc...
If he doesn't deliver, you don't pay.
Then we can relive the dot com boom. This time I am selling short sooner....
There are about 50 companies that already make this product. For a little service called content delivery networking.
cisco, cacheflow, network appliance, volera, and the list goes on and on
You would be surprised how much punch cards are still used today. A lot of old factory/assembly line automation is controlled via punch cards. And it probably will stay in use as long as they continue to do the job. Why spend $ on expensive computer automation upgrades, when the old tech gets the job done.
Don't be ridiculous. Don't confuse the tools with the actual knowledge or understanding of concepts. I work a high tech job, have a degree in engineering, and have never suffered for my lack of PDA. Nor do I think I will suffer in the future.
Remember...somebody has to make the caluclator, PDA, compass, protracotr, or whatever tool ends up aiding in the job at hand.
Funny. I somehow manged to get through high school and 5 semesters of college calculus using graph paper to draw circles, ellipses, and other curves. How did I muddle through? I just don't know. Obviously mu edumacation suffered for it.
As a person that works in the "new media" industy (god I hate that term), I see this kind of attitude from tv execs all the time.
They are totally afraid of the internet as a content ditriubution medium because of revenue losses in their current advertiseing based biz models, redistribution of their content, etc... and they are watching their ad-based revenue model fall apart in front of them, as audiences leave television, or oaudiences make more and more use of PVRs and otehr tech to avoid advertising.
What we are going to see happen in TV, is that advertising as we know it is going to go away.
Two things:
1. Interactive TV with a micropayment/pay-per-view model. When interactive tv actually happens, we will be able to choose and pay for only the shows we want, when we want them, and commercial advertising will be gone.
2. Sponsored content/product placement. You will see more and more of your favorite tv stars prominently drinking diet coke after diet coke while the "show" isrunning. or more of the bugs across the bottom that state "brough to you by...". so if you want to watch the content, you have to see the addvertising at the same time.
The most valuable things I learned was not how to program, but engineering methodologies. This is basically a solid, logical approach to problem-solving, as well as how to document/describe what it is you have done (ie how to make others understand your approach to solving the problem).
Unfortunately, this is something that is drilled into you over years by professors and TAs marking you down when you don't do it. Any shortcut to a degree will not un-learn any bad habits you might have taught yourself over time.