The rest of the world isn't hurting for a lack of free word processors. When 3rd world countries are able to keep the power running 24x7, they'll be able to support business that need to produce lots of spreadsheets & documents -- and then they would be able to afford Excel.
That's a really good suggestion -- I'll probably recommend that approach.
The only thing that I'm concerned about is the corporate friendlyness of Firefox. There really isn't anything that lets you manage settings and extensions remotely.
Its a long and complicated story... but we have about 40,000 computers at over 2,000 sites.
We looked at thin-clients awhile back and the network costs were too high. Some of our sites are rural and telecom is outrageously expensive.
I like Sun Rays -- we deployed them in the past for one of our datacenters and I really think that its one of the more exciting platforms out there. But the problem with them is that we'd be getting screwed by the transition from Windows to Unix & by going from PCs to thin client.
I thought that the dumbest part about the whole $100 notebook thing was that they weren't going to sell the thing -- only give it away via governments or the UN.
Wouldn't it make alot more sense to sell millions of the things to Americans and Europeans, and use the proceeds to distribute them to the 3rd world?
People buy Exchange because Lotus Notes sucks ass and hiring secretaries is too expensive.
Say you want to schedule a meeting with 7-8 other people from various groups in your medium to large company. Thirty years ago, you'd have a secretary who maintained your schedule and could track down everyone else's schedule and book the meeting. That work is all accomplished today by Exchange for much less money.
Thunderbird is a great email client and Evolution is a good Outlook replacement for people at smaller companies or on their own. But they are hobbled because they use iCal calendars and cannot track down free/busy information or book conference rooms, projectors or laptops.
I'm not sure that Evolution's Exchange performance problems can be fixed.
If Novell uses anything other than the OWA interface to access Exchange, you're starting to tread on shaky licensing ground where Microsoft will demand that you purchase CALs for machines connecting to the Exchange server.
Q: Where are the "decent groupware servers running open protocols"?
A: They don't exist. I work at an IT shop that supports over 40,000 users and we went out of our way to find a solution that would scale out and provide the capability to serve email & calendaring. The Outlook/Exchange combo was by far the best solution.
There are plenty of good email servers out there. But there aren't alot of good, robust calendar servers out there that are price competitive with Exchange. And if you need shared mailboxes, delegates, etc... the solutions are either too complicated or don't work well at all.
You have a friend who wants to learn Photoshop, so instead of finding a good Photoshop book, you're on a quest to find something to find a book that teaches graphics editing without actually teaching it.
Forget the "lock-in" nonsense. Every editing program rips Photoshop, as it is the gold standard for such programs.
A merchant probably wouldn't be liable for any damages, unless they were negligent. If proper safeguards are in place, companies aren't held liable for the individual criminal acts of employees.
The $50 is a statutory liability that federal law provides to protect consumers and the credit card banks. Credit card companies are forced to eat any liability for fraud over $50, provided that the consumer reports the fraud within 90 days. Most credit card issuers voluntarily offer zero fraud-liability.
That limited liability makes it silly for consumers to sue merchants for employee fraud...
Even more ironic was that with the online fraud protection provided by credit cards, he would have zero liability for any misuse of his card due to the unencrypted credit card screen. (Assuming that you believe that Walmart.com doesn't use SSL)
If that call center agent used that same page or stole the number, the online fraud stuff doesn't kick in and you're liable for the first $50.
My desktop is the "home base" for all of my email, but I connect my laptop daily to sync my exchange mailbox. Then when I'm on the road my mailbox is cached on the laptop.
I have a 500MB email quota, and backup older stuff to PST files on my desktop. Google Desktop makes that easy by storing a cache of the emails in its index.
The entire computer industry is like that... 15 years ago CORBA client-server apps were the big new cool thing. Now client/server is "legacy" and centralized web apps are all the rage.
To handle all of these web apps, we're even cooking up "new" solutions like virtualization that were in mainframes thirty years ago.
The minimum wage raises the price of unskilled work that can be performed cheaper and more safely by a machine. (Or an illegal, these days) Minimum wage jobs tend to cluster around a few industries, chiefly restaurants and retail. You wouldn't see much inflation because people would choose other options with lower labor overhead. (Buying food and cooking at home or ordering merchandise online)
The inflation and spiraling standard of living that we have experienced over the last 30 years are a societal problem -- wages are a symptom, not a cause. We're transitioning from an urbanized industrial society into a suburbanized consumer society.
You are absolutely right. At my company I removed the Otis elevators and replaced them with elevators that I built myself from old soda cans. (Cost US$0.00) Once that was complete, I began using oily rags for lighting instead of electric bulbs. (Cost US$0.00)
I'm also replacing Linux, because I can only compile it with gcc and I'm not convinced that gcc is free of expertly hidden backdoors and such. So I'm reimplementing the entire thing with a combination of assembler code and Ruby on Rails. (Cost US$0.00)
What are they farming? Are they using legal labor?
Most farmers in the US are struggling as commodity prices drop and fuel and personnel costs go up. Dairy farmers have it particularly bad in the Northeast and other densely populated areas because their farms aren't big enough to support other crops, and the growth of suburbia and the increased issues stemming from zoning and property taxes makes it even harder to survive.
The in thing these days is to marginalize male children. Since males dominate everything, recognizing females in class before males, giving them special incentives, etc is considered a "progressive" thing to do.
Nonsense. People buy with the "bronze", "silver", "gold" mentality. If you take a selection of similar CDs, say the latest rap hits and price one artist at $0.99, one at $1.99 and another at $2.99, people will flock to the expensive one.
In general, people don't say "$2.99 for one song is a ripoff". They say "Why is that song worth $3?". Then they buy it to find out.
Go to any car dealership to see how this works. People who buy Buicks often stop in to look at the latest Caddy. Others come to sit in a nice Acura and settle for a nice Accord instead. Not everyone does this, but enough do that its a profitable technique.
We also targetted humans with WP in the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea & WW2. In WW2 B-29s dropped gasoline and WP on Japanese cities. It was never classified as chemical warfare until now.
Exactly. Forbes is a very pro-status quo, pro-big business magazine. They basically printed exactly what their buddies in the music biz wanted to see in print.
They had an article about a month ago about blogs... their basic contention was that blogs were the most dangerous thing since TNT and that they exist solely to slander corporations and individuals. It was one of the most amazingly one-sided articles that I ever saw in print.
Those numbers are misleading. You have to consider that in China, for instance, 60%+ of the population is living in rural areas where they are essentially peasants.
When you look at the number of well-educated engineers in modern/urbanized areas of asian countries, the numbers get scary. You also need to consider that asian school systems are stressing mathematics and hard science from kindergarten on up. Even in decent suburban schools in the US, "soft" subjects are stressed.
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The secret of the WW2 prosperity wasn't that we were making tanks and aircraft around the clock -- it was that shiploads of gold and other valuable commodities were being shipped across the ocean in exchange for US manufactured products. The UK was nearly bankrupted by debts to the US gov't.
These days nothing is made in the US... so other than keeping a few Chinese factories open, enriching some construction contractors, and employing some migrant workers the economic impact on the economy is not positive at all.
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People are going to criticise this as unrealistic, but these are exactly the type of strategies that Microsoft used to get their desktop dominance.
Not really. I regularly open documents written in Wordperfect 5.1 in Word.
The rest of the world isn't hurting for a lack of free word processors. When 3rd world countries are able to keep the power running 24x7, they'll be able to support business that need to produce lots of spreadsheets & documents -- and then they would be able to afford Excel.
Crossover & WINE aren't options, because you still need a Windows license, which eliminates the cost savings.
That's a really good suggestion -- I'll probably recommend that approach.
The only thing that I'm concerned about is the corporate friendlyness of Firefox. There really isn't anything that lets you manage settings and extensions remotely.
Its a long and complicated story... but we have about 40,000 computers at over 2,000 sites.
We looked at thin-clients awhile back and the network costs were too high. Some of our sites are rural and telecom is outrageously expensive.
I like Sun Rays -- we deployed them in the past for one of our datacenters and I really think that its one of the more exciting platforms out there. But the problem with them is that we'd be getting screwed by the transition from Windows to Unix & by going from PCs to thin client.
I thought that the dumbest part about the whole $100 notebook thing was that they weren't going to sell the thing -- only give it away via governments or the UN.
Wouldn't it make alot more sense to sell millions of the things to Americans and Europeans, and use the proceeds to distribute them to the 3rd world?
People buy Exchange because Lotus Notes sucks ass and hiring secretaries is too expensive.
Say you want to schedule a meeting with 7-8 other people from various groups in your medium to large company. Thirty years ago, you'd have a secretary who maintained your schedule and could track down everyone else's schedule and book the meeting. That work is all accomplished today by Exchange for much less money.
Thunderbird is a great email client and Evolution is a good Outlook replacement for people at smaller companies or on their own. But they are hobbled because they use iCal calendars and cannot track down free/busy information or book conference rooms, projectors or laptops.
I'm not sure that Evolution's Exchange performance problems can be fixed.
If Novell uses anything other than the OWA interface to access Exchange, you're starting to tread on shaky licensing ground where Microsoft will demand that you purchase CALs for machines connecting to the Exchange server.
Q: Where are the "decent groupware servers running open protocols"?
A: They don't exist. I work at an IT shop that supports over 40,000 users and we went out of our way to find a solution that would scale out and provide the capability to serve email & calendaring. The Outlook/Exchange combo was by far the best solution.
There are plenty of good email servers out there. But there aren't alot of good, robust calendar servers out there that are price competitive with Exchange. And if you need shared mailboxes, delegates, etc... the solutions are either too complicated or don't work well at all.
You have a friend who wants to learn Photoshop, so instead of finding a good Photoshop book, you're on a quest to find something to find a book that teaches graphics editing without actually teaching it.
Forget the "lock-in" nonsense. Every editing program rips Photoshop, as it is the gold standard for such programs.
A merchant probably wouldn't be liable for any damages, unless they were negligent. If proper safeguards are in place, companies aren't held liable for the individual criminal acts of employees.
The $50 is a statutory liability that federal law provides to protect consumers and the credit card banks. Credit card companies are forced to eat any liability for fraud over $50, provided that the consumer reports the fraud within 90 days. Most credit card issuers voluntarily offer zero fraud-liability.
That limited liability makes it silly for consumers to sue merchants for employee fraud...
Even more ironic was that with the online fraud protection provided by credit cards, he would have zero liability for any misuse of his card due to the unencrypted credit card screen. (Assuming that you believe that Walmart.com doesn't use SSL)
If that call center agent used that same page or stole the number, the online fraud stuff doesn't kick in and you're liable for the first $50.
Get rid of the POS Vectra.... those things have defective motherboards, disc controllers and hard disks.
Do yourself a favor and dump some water on the mainboard on Friday afternoon, call it in on Monday when things dry off.
"Your bank, or eBay, or Paypal, will never, ever, ever, ever, ever send you an email asking you to disclose any account information."
They say that, but they ask me to sign into my account to see the latest balance transfer offer or to sign up for "account guard" all of the time.
I have a similar setup with Office 2003.
My desktop is the "home base" for all of my email, but I connect my laptop daily to sync my exchange mailbox. Then when I'm on the road my mailbox is cached on the laptop.
I have a 500MB email quota, and backup older stuff to PST files on my desktop. Google Desktop makes that easy by storing a cache of the emails in its index.
The entire computer industry is like that... 15 years ago CORBA client-server apps were the big new cool thing. Now client/server is "legacy" and centralized web apps are all the rage.
To handle all of these web apps, we're even cooking up "new" solutions like virtualization that were in mainframes thirty years ago.
Turn off the talk radio for awhile.
The minimum wage raises the price of unskilled work that can be performed cheaper and more safely by a machine. (Or an illegal, these days) Minimum wage jobs tend to cluster around a few industries, chiefly restaurants and retail. You wouldn't see much inflation because people would choose other options with lower labor overhead. (Buying food and cooking at home or ordering merchandise online)
The inflation and spiraling standard of living that we have experienced over the last 30 years are a societal problem -- wages are a symptom, not a cause. We're transitioning from an urbanized industrial society into a suburbanized consumer society.
You are absolutely right. At my company I removed the Otis elevators and replaced them with elevators that I built myself from old soda cans. (Cost US$0.00) Once that was complete, I began using oily rags for lighting instead of electric bulbs. (Cost US$0.00)
I'm also replacing Linux, because I can only compile it with gcc and I'm not convinced that gcc is free of expertly hidden backdoors and such. So I'm reimplementing the entire thing with a combination of assembler code and Ruby on Rails. (Cost US$0.00)
What are they farming? Are they using legal labor?
Most farmers in the US are struggling as commodity prices drop and fuel and personnel costs go up. Dairy farmers have it particularly bad in the Northeast and other densely populated areas because their farms aren't big enough to support other crops, and the growth of suburbia and the increased issues stemming from zoning and property taxes makes it even harder to survive.
The in thing these days is to marginalize male children. Since males dominate everything, recognizing females in class before males, giving them special incentives, etc is considered a "progressive" thing to do.
Nonsense. People buy with the "bronze", "silver", "gold" mentality. If you take a selection of similar CDs, say the latest rap hits and price one artist at $0.99, one at $1.99 and another at $2.99, people will flock to the expensive one.
In general, people don't say "$2.99 for one song is a ripoff". They say "Why is that song worth $3?". Then they buy it to find out.
Go to any car dealership to see how this works. People who buy Buicks often stop in to look at the latest Caddy. Others come to sit in a nice Acura and settle for a nice Accord instead. Not everyone does this, but enough do that its a profitable technique.
It was targeting humans.
We also targetted humans with WP in the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea & WW2. In WW2 B-29s dropped gasoline and WP on Japanese cities. It was never classified as chemical warfare until now.
Exactly. Forbes is a very pro-status quo, pro-big business magazine. They basically printed exactly what their buddies in the music biz wanted to see in print.
They had an article about a month ago about blogs... their basic contention was that blogs were the most dangerous thing since TNT and that they exist solely to slander corporations and individuals. It was one of the most amazingly one-sided articles that I ever saw in print.
Those numbers are misleading. You have to consider that in China, for instance, 60%+ of the population is living in rural areas where they are essentially peasants.
When you look at the number of well-educated engineers in modern/urbanized areas of asian countries, the numbers get scary. You also need to consider that asian school systems are stressing mathematics and hard science from kindergarten on up. Even in decent suburban schools in the US, "soft" subjects are stressed.
The secret of the WW2 prosperity wasn't that we were making tanks and aircraft around the clock -- it was that shiploads of gold and other valuable commodities were being shipped across the ocean in exchange for US manufactured products. The UK was nearly bankrupted by debts to the US gov't.
These days nothing is made in the US... so other than keeping a few Chinese factories open, enriching some construction contractors, and employing some migrant workers the economic impact on the economy is not positive at all.