Used them for the last 7 years, for a number of different sites. I've never had any technical problems that weren't solved with a quick phone call. And they have knowledgeable people answering the phones. I've moved sites from simple low, volume shared server all the way up to dedicated server, added ram and disk space, and transitions have always been smooth.
Currently running a drupal installation with 20 web sites on it. They host something like 100K web sites. Systems are FreeBSD and, depending on the level of service, you get ssh, ssl, sftp, separate ftp logins to specific difectories, good indexed pop/imap/webmail system. Easy to manage custom DNS. You can set up multiple web sites on a single shared IP with having to pay anything significant. You can manage any number of sites, with separate or shared IPs on one account.
The big deal for me has been stellar reliability and great tech support when needed.
I'd give you a point if I could. This is exactly right.
Privacy is long gone. Get Over It. Thinking privacy = some kind of security is like believing in computer security by obscurity. It works up to a point. But huge amounts of data are available for purchase about people, so the government might as well have it too.
The focus needs to be on preventing the government from mis-using information to harass people. I think we need some serious new civil rights laws to stop government from squishing people for exercising their democratic rights. But depending on keeping information secret from the government is just naïve.
Yes it's true. As a dedicated Mac user, I'm continuously left, errr... interrupted.... as my streaming video freezes. Or worse yet, left trying to imagine what I cannot see because the cool preview turned into a black screen when I tried to play it.
I know everyone thinks the Mac is the machine for the artistic types, but for high quality pr0n, nothing can touch windows. Pr0n and windoze: made for each other.
iPhoto organizes your photos like iTunes organizes music, complete with key words. And Spotlight rocks. It finds everything, grouped by pics/docs/pdfs etc, in less than a second usually.
My personal preference would be for a constitutional amendment that added a wholly new branch of Government - outside the Executive, Legislative and Judicial - that has all the necessary powers, clearances, means and protections to investigate corruption at absolutely any level in every branch of Government.
We used to have that. It was called "The Fourth Estate".
While MSIE isn't (and probably never will be perfect), it is partially reponsible for the huge popularity the internet enjoys today.
I can't image what would lead anyone to this conclusion. The internet was growing exponentially before ms did anything about it.
I put this kind of statement in the same class as people who say the personal computer succeeded because of Microsoft (who continously makes more complex, buggy and expensive software) instead of Intel, (who keep producing more computing power for a fraction of the cost).
I am shocked.... SHOCKED.... that more than 500 of the world's brightest are putting so much thought - or typing at least - into a completely useless and irrelevant discussion.
Start up time and file size and stuff have squat to do with why one program is or should be chosen over the other. It may have mattered 10 years ago but who the hell cares how long it takes to start up or how big the file size is any more? Might as well sit around and discuss the color of the box. (the one that doesn't exist.)
There are exactly 3 significant issues in this battle: cost, functionality, useability. All the rest is background noise.
I don't think they need to use the blue W, but I think they could get away with calling the product "OO Word", and that would be a good thing. Microsoft can't possibly own the word "word".
Boy that brings back some memories. There was a time when the legal dept at Motorola was a profit center. They were supposed to go out and earn an annual revenue target collecting royalties and threatening patent suits. Along about September, they had usually made their quota for the year, so 4th quarter was a good time to negotiate a patent deal because they didn't care so much any more.
Small businesses rarely need database servers. What they need are point of sale systems, customer relationship systems, personnel systems, document management systems, inventory, purchasing, order management, accounting, data mining, etc. etc.
That's the big missing ingredient on the linux platform. If those kind of things start to become available, then linux can compete and win in small business.
If the executive branch of the government stops enforcing the decisions of the courts, then we will have lost the American system of government. Without courts to judge the constitutionality of laws, it's a short track into tyranny.
1. Embed fonts in the document 2. Operate a page at a time; PostScript can change information anywhere in the document that affects downstream pages. PDF doesn't. 3. Support index, hyperlinks, and toc.
The thing the drives me crazy on windows are dialog boxes with 3 or 4 sentences of poorly worded text, with a question in there somewhere. And then two buttons: yes and no. You cannot possibly press the right button without carefully reading the text, and sometimes even then it's not clear.
I don't think you will EVER see two buttons like that in a mac dialog. The buttons on macs are virtually always verbs, and you don't have to carefully read through a bunch of text to try to figure out which button to press.
Just like car insurance - where you don't get your premium back if you don't have an accident.
Or life insurance - where you don't get your premiums back if you live too long.
You can call is communism if you want, but I call it risk management. You pool risks to limit your losses. That's why its SSI: social security insurance.
If you think we as a society should make sure that people who don't earn much during their working years should just become beggars when they're old, then you need to get a little moral guidance. I suspect you don't believe in minimum wages either. That would leave more for you.
I think there need to be several open file format standards: * one for plain text (straightforward, but standardize the/n/c/r) * one for rich text (above plus bold, italic, underline, color) * one for mixed documents (basically html - mix rtf and graphics) * one for rigid formatting (pdf) * one for complex documents - including collaboration markup
Forgetting authoring interface, each is an extension of the one below it. Rich text is still only text. Mixed adds graphics and tables, but no rigid layout control. PDF adds exact duplication or all fonts and layout. The complex document should take the mixed format and add collaboration tools, embedded objects, and stuff like that.
These 5 formats would give you a right solution for just about any document interchange problem. In fact, the first 3 could be collapsed into one, if they were universally recognized.
If we could come up with these as published standards, then it would make great sense for governments and corporations to start requiring interchanged documents to be in one of the standard formats.
Absent published, supported open formats, Microsoft wins.
You seem to be under the (mistaken) impression that iTMS makes any money. By the time they pay the royalties and pay for the infrastructure, there's essentially nothing left. Apple runs iTMS solely to sell iPods; that's the only place the money is.
The best thing about google news is the opportunity to see a lot of different perspectives on the same story. I like that a lot.
I have noticed that I am less and less likely to find interesting headlines on google news. I find myself going back to yahoo news or cnn to get real news. I'm not sure what they've done to make google news less "focused" but it seems to be that way.
This hits the nail on the head. The database part of filemaker is insignificant. In fact, my vote would have been to just dump it in FM 7 and use MySQL or an ODBC interface as the database.
All the power of FM is in the simplicity of layouts and scripting and building applications that work. Yes, I'd like a few more capabilities in the layouts, and I'd sure as hell like to turn the scripts into plain text files, but boy there's no way I'd trade FM for Access. It takes 10 times as long in Access to build something that works. And while there's some tools to build applications with MySQL, that really puts you into proprietary-land. At least FM has a pretty big base user base.
Filemaker is only incidently a database. Its a RAD tool.
The best architecture doesn't win. I know. I was personally involved in the battle for 16 bit processors: 8086 vs several others.
"Other" won every single engineering battle as the best architecture, but Intel brought rooks of vice presidents into every board room and convinced companies that Intel was the better choice, regardless of architecture.
Almost all the applications of Excel in my office are to make lists or to put stuff in a table with rows and columns. Ive even seen people use a calculator to add up a row of numbers in a spreadsheet so they could type in the total.
I now have 6 machines running Linux and OO,. They are used by volunteers that need a web browser, a word-compatible processor, and a way to open excel files so they can type stuff into lists. They often barely notice they aren't on windoze.
Only big headaches I run into are microsofts inscrutable file sharing and how the hell to unmount a floppy.
i think MS office is unnecessary for 90% of its users. The other 10% can pay the MS price.
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Used them for the last 7 years, for a number of different sites. I've never had any technical problems that weren't solved with a quick phone call. And they have knowledgeable people answering the phones. I've moved sites from simple low, volume shared server all the way up to dedicated server, added ram and disk space, and transitions have always been smooth.
Currently running a drupal installation with 20 web sites on it. They host something like 100K web sites. Systems are FreeBSD and, depending on the level of service, you get ssh, ssl, sftp, separate ftp logins to specific difectories, good indexed pop/imap/webmail system. Easy to manage custom DNS. You can set up multiple web sites on a single shared IP with having to pay anything significant. You can manage any number of sites, with separate or shared IPs on one account.
The big deal for me has been stellar reliability and great tech support when needed.
I don't want you to go on for pages, but am I curious:
who are you to say 207 years of Supreme Court decisions are wrong?
I'd give you a point if I could.
This is exactly right.
Privacy is long gone. Get Over It. Thinking privacy = some kind of security is like believing in
computer security by obscurity. It works up to a point. But huge amounts of data are available for purchase about people, so the government might as well have it too.
The focus needs to be on preventing the government from mis-using information to harass people.
I think we need some serious new civil rights laws to stop government from squishing people for
exercising their democratic rights. But depending on keeping information secret from the government is just naïve.
Yes it's true. As a dedicated Mac user, I'm continuously left, errr... interrupted .... as my streaming video freezes. Or worse yet, left trying to imagine what I cannot see because the cool preview turned into a black screen when I tried to play it.
I know everyone thinks the Mac is the machine for the artistic types, but for high quality pr0n, nothing can touch windows. Pr0n and windoze: made for each other.
Dude: you want a Macintosh. It's all there.
iPhoto organizes your photos like iTunes organizes music,
complete with key words. And Spotlight rocks. It finds
everything, grouped by pics/docs/pdfs etc, in less than a second usually.
My personal preference would be for a constitutional amendment that added a wholly new branch of Government - outside the Executive, Legislative and Judicial - that has all the necessary powers, clearances, means and protections to investigate corruption at absolutely any level in every branch of Government.
We used to have that. It was called "The Fourth Estate".
While MSIE isn't (and probably never will be perfect), it is partially reponsible for the huge popularity the internet enjoys today.
I can't image what would lead anyone to this conclusion. The internet was growing exponentially before ms did anything about it.
I put this kind of statement in the same class as people who say the personal computer succeeded because of Microsoft (who continously makes more complex, buggy and expensive software) instead of Intel, (who keep producing more computing power for a fraction of the cost).
The drive to Ft William.
Heeland coos on the isle of skye.
This is brilliant! He could pair up with bill moyers, or jon stewart
or al franken!
I am shocked.... SHOCKED.... that more than 500 of the world's brightest are putting so much thought - or typing at least - into a completely useless and irrelevant discussion.
Start up time and file size and stuff have squat to do with why one program is or should be chosen over the other. It may have mattered 10 years ago but who the hell cares how long it takes to start up or how big the file size is any more? Might as well sit around and discuss the color of the box. (the one that doesn't exist.)
There are exactly 3 significant issues in this battle: cost, functionality, useability. All the rest is background noise.
I don't think they need to use the blue W, but I think they could get away with calling the product "OO Word", and that would be a good thing. Microsoft can't possibly own the word "word".
Boy that brings back some memories. There was a time when the legal dept at Motorola was a profit center. They were supposed to go out and earn an annual revenue target collecting royalties and threatening patent suits. Along about September, they had usually made their quota for the year, so 4th quarter was a good time to negotiate a patent deal because they didn't care so much any more.
Small businesses rarely need database servers. What they need are point of sale systems, customer relationship systems, personnel systems, document management systems, inventory, purchasing, order management, accounting, data mining, etc. etc.
That's the big missing ingredient on the linux platform. If those kind of things start to become available, then linux can compete and win in small business.
If the executive branch of the government stops enforcing the decisions of the courts, then we will have lost the American system of government. Without courts to judge the constitutionality of laws, it's a short track into tyranny.
Data's a bit outdated, but check out http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php, and look up your address.
Maybe they can bring back Aldus Persuasion.
That was an absolutely terrific presentation package. I'm so sick of powerpoint.
1. Embed fonts in the document
2. Operate a page at a time; PostScript can change information anywhere in the document that affects downstream pages. PDF doesn't.
3. Support index, hyperlinks, and toc.
enuf?
The thing the drives me crazy on windows are dialog boxes with 3 or 4 sentences of poorly worded text, with a question in there somewhere. And then two buttons: yes and no. You cannot possibly press the right button without carefully reading the text, and sometimes even then it's not clear.
I don't think you will EVER see two buttons like that in a mac dialog. The buttons on macs are virtually always verbs, and you don't have to carefully read through a bunch of text to try to figure out which button to press.
It's called insurance, you moron.
Just like car insurance - where you don't get your premium back if you don't have an accident.
Or life insurance - where you don't get your premiums back if you live too long.
You can call is communism if you want, but I call it risk management. You pool risks to limit your losses. That's why its SSI: social security insurance.
If you think we as a society should make sure that people who don't earn much during their working years should just become beggars when they're old, then you need to get a little moral guidance. I suspect you don't believe in minimum wages either. That would leave more for you.
I think there need to be several open file format standards: /n/c/r)
* one for plain text (straightforward, but standardize the
* one for rich text (above plus bold, italic, underline, color)
* one for mixed documents (basically html - mix rtf and graphics)
* one for rigid formatting (pdf)
* one for complex documents - including collaboration markup
Forgetting authoring interface, each is an extension of the one below it. Rich text is still only text. Mixed adds graphics and tables, but no rigid layout control. PDF adds exact duplication or all fonts and layout. The complex document should take the mixed format and add collaboration tools, embedded objects, and stuff like that.
These 5 formats would give you a right solution for just about any document interchange problem. In fact, the first 3 could be collapsed into one, if they were universally recognized.
If we could come up with these as published standards, then it would make great sense for governments and corporations to start requiring interchanged documents to be in one of the standard formats.
Absent published, supported open formats, Microsoft wins.
You seem to be under the (mistaken) impression that iTMS makes any money. By the time they pay the royalties and pay for the infrastructure, there's essentially nothing left. Apple runs iTMS solely to sell iPods; that's the only place the money is.
Uh, yeah. I think so.
The best thing about google news is the opportunity to see a lot of different perspectives on the same story. I like that a lot.
I have noticed that I am less and less likely to find interesting headlines on google news. I find myself going back to yahoo news or cnn to get real news. I'm not sure what they've done to make google news less "focused" but it seems to be that way.
This hits the nail on the head. The database part of filemaker is insignificant. In fact, my vote would have been to just dump it in FM 7 and use MySQL or an ODBC interface as the database.
All the power of FM is in the simplicity of layouts and scripting and building applications that work. Yes, I'd like a few more capabilities in the layouts, and I'd sure as hell like to turn the scripts into plain text files, but boy there's no way I'd trade FM for Access. It takes 10 times as long in Access to build something that works. And while there's some tools to build applications with MySQL, that really puts you into proprietary-land. At least FM has a pretty big base user base.
Filemaker is only incidently a database. Its a RAD tool.
The best architecture doesn't win. I know. I was personally involved in the battle for 16 bit processors: 8086 vs several others.
"Other" won every single engineering battle as the best architecture, but Intel brought rooks of vice presidents into every board room and convinced companies that Intel was the better choice, regardless of architecture.
Intel won.
Signed:
Operation Crushed.
Almost all the applications of Excel in my office are to make lists or to put stuff in a table with rows and columns. Ive even seen people use a calculator to add up a row of numbers in a spreadsheet so they could type in the total.
I now have 6 machines running Linux and OO,. They are used by volunteers that need a web browser, a word-compatible processor, and a way to open excel files so they can type stuff into lists. They often barely notice they aren't on windoze.
Only big headaches I run into are microsofts inscrutable file sharing and how the hell to unmount a floppy.
i think MS office is unnecessary for 90% of its users. The other 10% can pay the MS price.