Lord only knows there are enough people here looking for a job, and if you go screwing around in there your company will have at least one job opening.
Hey, who cares if it cost twice as much to do version 2.0 (or even 1.3) - if YOU ARE STILL ALIVE (in business) to sell the new version. And then so what- if you got there first, and everybody is using your software then they'll either upgrade to the new stuff (concomittantly you can pass the cost on the them) or keep using your old stuff, in either case keeping the competitors from geting in. For most companies it seems that dealing with the bugs is easier than switching to a whole new product.
But my preference is to ALWAYS make the schedule. I'm honest with bosses, current and potential, and teammates and suppliers: quality is nice, being absolutly on time is critical.
"Viagra distributors pay spammers per sale -- about $60 for every $150 order -- while financial companies typically pay for every consumer who requests more information -- as much as $12 for mortgage leads and as much as $5 for insurance referrals, Shiels said."
hmmmmmm
So if we could somehow pick one ad from one lender and have one percent of Slashdot request more information, we could bankrupt the stupid lender; yeah, you might make the spammer rich but if we targed the assholes who hire them, one by one; heck, even have someone set themselves up as a 'spammer' with the intention of the money from the lending company going to the EFF.......
Attention Slashdotters and other curious folk: Yes, the site is down at the moment. Yes, my hosters' servers cannot take the immense strain all of the traffic has generated. I'll wait until the topic falls off the front page before reactivating the site. Sorry, if it were my decision and I had bigger pipes I'd keep the site up uninterrupted, but you know how it is.
Behind every kid who "plays too many games for their own good" is a shitty parent. I think the mediamorons and other general arsholes are confusing the symptom with the cause.
I agree. Nothing but bad can come of this. My desire is that each law should only be as strong as where it is weakest. Thus copyright should be only as well enforced as in China, porn as in Sweden, racist virtol as in the United States. If we *HAVE* to live in a world with those annoying arsholes known as censors or other authorities, then the global scope of the net is our best hope for emasculating them. Freedom is good, restraint on information is evil.
Or a slow reader- I did a schedule C, Schedule A and long form 1040 in damn near the time I spent reading this thread.
Oh, yeah, Screw product activation, or ANY security device. I WILL NOT buy any software that requires dongel, activation or registration; they are all evil.
But then I wish the first person to think of the very CONCEPT of password had been strangled as an example.....
Is the tension between "innovation" and compatability. Nothing new there. from the story
" Which isn't to say that the ThinkPad was not innovative. However, the innovations came in things like colour and finish, screen size, the new TrackPoint pointing device and short-lived "butterfly keyboard", bundled software, price (low by IBM standards), marketing and support. The ThinkPad innovated in areas that were valued by customers, and customers were therefore prepared to pay for them. However, it did it without departing too far from accepted industry standards, which would have made customers reject it as "incompatible". Lesson learned."
I have seen very few end users even *THINK* about future compatability if it has the bells and whistles they want/need today. Quite frankly the typical customer does not see WHY there should be so much problem: I've never heard a good reason why the new software can't at least do what the old software did the same way it did it; pretty piss poor UI design in their opinion. Unless one has a Microsoftian stranglehold why should anyone upgrade to new stuff that deosn't work as well as the old stuff; 'working well' being defined by the end user, not the IT department (who exists to serve the end user, not the other way around)
IMHO- if they are transmitting the signals through my property then I have a right to do whatever I want to with them, including decrypt, record and propagate. If they don't like that then don't transmit through my property.
I don't know if this is doing something or giving up, from the legislative point of view... not the dumbest solution I've ever seen.
"At this point, I think the technical approach has more promise than the legal one," said Sorkin. "Filters have done more to block unsolicited e-mail than any piece of legislation."
Have somebody with NO idea of what the program is supposed to do OR any interenst in using it sit down at the computer. Verbally tell them what you want them to do.
If they can't grasp it immediately, without reference to the manual your UI sucks.
I like to tweak stuff, but the point is I shouldn't have to. If it needs a manual the designer needs to do more work.
We like to say "RTFM" but, in reality, RTFM's should be like emergency accident avoidence in a car- only needed in case something has gone greviously wrong.
I beg to respectfully disagree, IMHO If they are selling something, or asking for money, then it's probably Spam.
If it's commerce then there is a bit of a difference from speech that should be protected; in America, at least, the intent of the First Admendment was originally to protect political discourse, not advertising claims. Suprrise suprise, suprise that has gotten just a *wee* bit corrupted in the last few hunded years.
So, I hate censorship as much as anyone, but sometimes long for the good ol' days of arpanet on those mornings that I have 200 spams and 150 legitimate emails waiting for me in the inbox.
Can't get out of the Matrix with a cell phone, it has to be a land line or Tank can't get me out of here!
Re:Having SF Bay Area experience, not surprised...
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DSL Amidst Phone Wars
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Yep. I have SBC DSL here in Santa Rosa, 60 miles north of SF.
I like them, MUCH quicker phone support than the local ISP I used to have. Their business practices are nowhere nearly as sleazy as MCI who lie like dogs, try to switch you without permission and play games with their rates.
I would happily allow a total monopoly over DSL, wireless and landline as long as everything works and is a reasonable price. All I care about is good uptime connectivity at a decent price and SBC provides it, they can screw the living daylights out of everyone else as long as *I* can logon at 1.5 mbps:-)
I must say, with all due respect to your position, that the ROI has been enormous. A major chunk of the technology we take for granted today, from GPS to miniaturization to weather forcasts that are more than a guess based on barometric pressure and wind direction, and a dozen other technologies, are largely a result of the space program, or, to be more specific, our investement in it. Yes, at times NASA has lost vision and suffered from featherbedding and beaurcratic gamesmanship, but IMHO the payback from what we put into the space program has been the BEST use of taxpayer dollars, EVER.
Slashdot Mirror
1-Piss off entire open source community
2-Piss of biggest information and hardware co in world
3-???????
4-Profit!
Lord only knows there are enough people here looking for a job, and if you go screwing around in there your company will have at least one job opening.
Hmm, feed it some Kenny G and watch it go into an infinite repeat loop.
Or some Limp Bizkit, and it will decide its 15 minutes of fame is up and erase itself.
Except for Nepal perhaps some of the most incredible scenery in the entire world. Going to the Sun Road will stay with you a lifetime.
The Experience Music Project in Seattle. Say what you will about Microsoft but Paul Allen has to have spent his money in one of the cooest ways ever.
Glacier Park
http://www.nps.gov/glac
Experience Music Project
http://www.emplive.com
Both of them
Hey, who cares if it cost twice as much to do version 2.0 (or even 1.3) - if YOU ARE STILL ALIVE (in business) to sell the new version. And then so what- if you got there first, and everybody is using your software then they'll either upgrade to the new stuff (concomittantly you can pass the cost on the them) or keep using your old stuff, in either case keeping the competitors from geting in. For most companies it seems that dealing with the bugs is easier than switching to a whole new product.
But my preference is to ALWAYS make the schedule. I'm honest with bosses, current and potential, and teammates and suppliers: quality is nice, being absolutly on time is critical.
The 'Eh?" virus coming our way.
If America and Canada got into a war, where would all the draft dodgers go?
"Viagra distributors pay spammers per sale -- about $60 for every $150 order -- while financial companies typically pay for every consumer who requests more information -- as much as $12 for mortgage leads and as much as $5 for insurance referrals, Shiels said."
hmmmmmm
So if we could somehow pick one ad from one lender and have one percent of Slashdot request more information, we could bankrupt the stupid lender; yeah, you might make the spammer rich but if we targed the assholes who hire them, one by one; heck, even have someone set themselves up as a 'spammer' with the intention of the money from the lending company going to the EFF.......
Attention Slashdotters and other curious folk: Yes, the site is down at the moment. Yes, my hosters' servers cannot take the immense strain all of the traffic has generated. I'll wait until the topic falls off the front page before reactivating the site. Sorry, if it were my decision and I had bigger pipes I'd keep the site up uninterrupted, but you know how it is.
I just liket to change the prompt to
Formatting C..........complete
and watch the carbon based lifeforms freak out.
Behind every kid who "plays too many games for their own good" is a shitty parent. I think the mediamorons and other general arsholes are confusing the symptom with the cause.
I agree. Nothing but bad can come of this.
My desire is that each law should only be as strong as where it is weakest. Thus copyright should be only as well enforced as in China, porn as in Sweden, racist virtol as in the United States. If we *HAVE* to live in a world with those annoying arsholes known as censors or other authorities, then the global scope of the net is our best hope for emasculating them. Freedom is good, restraint on information is evil.
Or a slow reader- I did a schedule C, Schedule A and long form 1040 in damn near the time I spent reading this thread.
Oh, yeah, Screw product activation, or ANY security device. I WILL NOT buy any software that requires dongel, activation or registration; they are all evil.
But then I wish the first person to think of the very CONCEPT of password had been strangled as an example.....
Is the tension between "innovation" and compatability. Nothing new there.
from the story
" Which isn't to say that the ThinkPad was not innovative. However, the innovations came in things like colour and finish, screen size, the new TrackPoint pointing device and short-lived "butterfly keyboard", bundled software, price (low by IBM standards), marketing and support. The ThinkPad innovated in areas that were valued by customers, and customers were therefore prepared to pay for them. However, it did it without departing too far from accepted industry standards, which would have made customers reject it as "incompatible". Lesson learned."
I have seen very few end users even *THINK* about future compatability if it has the bells and whistles they want/need today. Quite frankly the typical customer does not see WHY there should be so much problem: I've never heard a good reason why the new software can't at least do what the old software did the same way it did it; pretty piss poor UI design in their opinion. Unless one has a Microsoftian stranglehold why should anyone upgrade to new stuff that deosn't work as well as the old stuff; 'working well' being defined by the end user, not the IT department (who exists to serve the end user, not the other way around)
That Green Day can finally play in tune?
shows a unit labled 'Single Wide'. I wonder what that implies for the future, and if it refers to physical size or data bus size
OK, then change it to "if they are sending satellite transmissions ONTO my property.."
same damn difference, if you are broadcasting it and the waves hit my friggin' property then don't bitch about what I do with it.
IMHO- if they are transmitting the signals through my property then I have a right to do whatever I want to with them, including decrypt, record and propagate. If they don't like that then don't transmit through my property.
I don't know if this is doing something or giving up, from the legislative point of view... not the dumbest solution I've ever seen.
"At this point, I think the technical approach has more promise than the legal one," said Sorkin. "Filters have done more to block unsolicited e-mail than any piece of legislation."
Pretty simple to cure that:
.02 worth.
Have somebody with NO idea of what the program is supposed to do OR any interenst in using it sit down at the computer. Verbally tell them what you want them to do.
If they can't grasp it immediately, without reference to the manual your UI sucks.
I like to tweak stuff, but the point is I shouldn't have to. If it needs a manual the designer needs to do more work.
We like to say "RTFM" but, in reality, RTFM's should be like emergency accident avoidence in a car- only needed in case something has gone greviously wrong.
Just my
I beg to respectfully disagree,
IMHO
If they are selling something, or asking for money, then it's probably Spam.
If it's commerce then there is a bit of a difference from speech that should be protected; in America, at least, the intent of the First Admendment was originally to protect political discourse, not advertising claims. Suprrise suprise, suprise that has gotten just a *wee* bit corrupted in the last few hunded years.
So, I hate censorship as much as anyone, but sometimes long for the good ol' days of arpanet on those mornings that I have 200 spams and 150 legitimate emails waiting for me in the inbox.
forth use = if unemployed then
Can't get out of the Matrix with a cell phone, it has to be a land line or Tank can't get me out of here!
Yep.
:-)
I have SBC DSL here in Santa Rosa, 60 miles north of SF.
I like them, MUCH quicker phone support than the local ISP I used to have. Their business practices are nowhere nearly as sleazy as MCI who lie like dogs, try to switch you without permission and play games with their rates.
I would happily allow a total monopoly over DSL, wireless and landline as long as everything works and is a reasonable price. All I care about is good uptime connectivity at a decent price and SBC provides it, they can screw the living daylights out of everyone else as long as *I* can logon at 1.5 mbps
I must say, with all due respect to your position, that the ROI has been enormous. A major chunk of the technology we take for granted today, from GPS to miniaturization to weather forcasts that are more than a guess based on barometric pressure and wind direction, and a dozen other technologies, are largely a result of the space program, or, to be more specific, our investement in it.
Yes, at times NASA has lost vision and suffered from featherbedding and beaurcratic gamesmanship, but IMHO the payback from what we put into the space program has been the BEST use of taxpayer dollars, EVER.