And like many of Raskin's ideas, the real-world result of this fantastic "Jef" innovation is to simply obscure the workings of something which everyone considers well-understood, thereby increasing the likelihood of failure and error.
The replies tend to be better when the stories aren't so spectacularly crappy. Since you're obviously new here, you may not have seen one of these rare events.
"I managed to get myself hired as an applications architect, and rapidly discovered I was in over my head."
This is painfully easy to do.
You clearly have some control over the machine where the scanning is taking place, so the answer is to simply manage the scanning operation at that machine, not from the remote terminal. The appropriate task for the remote terminal is viewing the results, not controlling the scan.
If the remote terminal simply MUST control the scanning operation, then you're just faced with another relatively simple task -- making a preview available from the scanning computer, permitting the remote operator to indicate which areas need to be scanned with some degree of quality.
Actually finding scanner-control software should take you about five seconds on Google. I did this years ago, and there are literally hundreds of products available.
You simply didn't provide enough information for a better answer than this.
It's projects like this that make me scratch my head and say WTF?
Large organizations are only truely served by in-house developed software.
To a degree, yes -- but what they're describing would be well-served by mostly run-of-the-mill Enterprise Records Management and the similar, but not identical, Document Management requirements. There is a whole world of products available which can handle this on the scale they're talking about -- I know, since this has recently become a big part of what I do (inside a globe-spanning company with revenue counted in the trillions).
The in-house development should focus on implementation and deployment of a COTS system like this (IBM has some competent stuff available), rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.
Go read the FCC enforcement division website. Those guys are positively raking in the dough serving up fines to people for illegal broadcasting. One or two guys in a van can easily generate $20K worth of fines per week -- and they do, all over the country. That adds up to millions in fines each year.
I hereby declare that "the orbit of Jupiter," much like the popular trend of referencing an arbitrary number of Volkswagons as a benchmark for indicating "pretty heavy", is becoming a new unit of measure indicating "pretty far away".
They would be like girls who get their fathers to pay $3000 for them to get increasingly large breasts.
Some day you'll emerge from your mom's basement, squinting through your eyes at the blinding rays of full daylight, and soon thereafter you'll discover that it's usually HUSBANDS who are paying those $3000 surgery bills.
You have an unusually broad definition of the word "dangerous".
Re:The submitter used the term gloat.
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Remember Netware? 1-2-3? Microsoft is capable of taking out industry leading players. They've done it before...
The PlayStation is a relatively insignificant sliver of what makes Sony what it is today, and console gaming is the only significant market in which they compete with Microsoft.
In most of the markets where Sony participates, they are a far worse example of abuse of monopoly-level powers than Microsoft has ever been -- it's just that activity in those markets aren't nearly as high profile as the software industry (read: as interesting to the general public).
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And like many of Raskin's ideas, the real-world result of this fantastic "Jef" innovation is to simply obscure the workings of something which everyone considers well-understood, thereby increasing the likelihood of failure and error.
So far slashdot has mentioned it three times in the past several years (including this article).
Ted Nelson Releases Xanadu
Xanadu, ZigZag and Ted Nelson
"Forgetful" would be more like it.
...and the muses are forced to kill themselves in utter shame and horror.
(appreciative nod, golf clap)
this was one of the first games i bought
Which means, of course, that you also didn't need to read the review.
I tend to ignore the "Slashdot sucks" comments (because it seems obvious and redundant) but this time around, I'd say the shouting is justified.
Unix style: do one thing but do it good.
Apparently in your UNIX, that one thing isn't grammar-checking.
...Desperately Seeking Problem to Apply to New Solution!
The replies tend to be better when the stories aren't so spectacularly crappy.
Since you're obviously new here, you may not have seen one of these rare events.
your grandmother won't buy a robot until it can walk and talk like the pet pooch
Talk? That must be one hell of a pet pooch.
You buy a Mac, you get a complete package.
You misspelled "are".
"I managed to get myself hired as an applications architect, and rapidly discovered I was in over my head."
This is painfully easy to do.
You clearly have some control over the machine where the scanning is taking place, so the answer is to simply manage the scanning operation at that machine, not from the remote terminal. The appropriate task for the remote terminal is viewing the results, not controlling the scan.
If the remote terminal simply MUST control the scanning operation, then you're just faced with another relatively simple task -- making a preview available from the scanning computer, permitting the remote operator to indicate which areas need to be scanned with some degree of quality.
Actually finding scanner-control software should take you about five seconds on Google. I did this years ago, and there are literally hundreds of products available.
You simply didn't provide enough information for a better answer than this.
Duderino! (I'm not into the brevity thing.)
It's projects like this that make me scratch my head and say WTF?
Large organizations are only truely served by in-house developed software.
To a degree, yes -- but what they're describing would be well-served by mostly run-of-the-mill Enterprise Records Management and the similar, but not identical, Document Management requirements. There is a whole world of products available which can handle this on the scale they're talking about -- I know, since this has recently become a big part of what I do (inside a globe-spanning company with revenue counted in the trillions).
The in-house development should focus on implementation and deployment of a COTS system like this (IBM has some competent stuff available), rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.
Go read the FCC enforcement division website. Those guys are positively raking in the dough serving up fines to people for illegal broadcasting. One or two guys in a van can easily generate $20K worth of fines per week -- and they do, all over the country. That adds up to millions in fines each year.
I wish they'd figure out a way that made it so I didn't have to eat and excrete every day
Easy: Kill yourself.
(Hey, YOU laid out the parameters.)
I'd estimate about six-hundred Standard Volkswagon-loads.
I hereby declare that "the orbit of Jupiter," much like the popular trend of referencing an arbitrary number of Volkswagons as a benchmark for indicating "pretty heavy", is becoming a new unit of measure indicating "pretty far away".
You heard it here first.
As far as I know.
Would you do that with your kid? Or someone you hired?
No, but I'd damned sure do it to a rented vacuum cleaner with delusions of grandeur.
What a clever way to fill up that extra space.
AGGGH. STRUGGLING...
Must not... take... bait...
I've been saying this for a long time. The porn industry is driving technology.
Tip to moderators: It isn't +1 Insightful if everybody has been saying that for a long time.
They would be like girls who get their fathers to pay $3000 for them to get increasingly large breasts.
Some day you'll emerge from your mom's basement, squinting through your eyes at the blinding rays of full daylight, and soon thereafter you'll discover that it's usually HUSBANDS who are paying those $3000 surgery bills.
You have an unusually broad definition of the word "dangerous".
Remember Netware? 1-2-3? Microsoft is capable of taking out industry leading players. They've done it before...
The PlayStation is a relatively insignificant sliver of what makes Sony what it is today, and console gaming is the only significant market in which they compete with Microsoft.
In most of the markets where Sony participates, they are a far worse example of abuse of monopoly-level powers than Microsoft has ever been -- it's just that activity in those markets aren't nearly as high profile as the software industry (read: as interesting to the general public).
India doesn't have intercontinental ballistic launch vehicles. Dude.
Kudos, sir.
I knew if I scrolled down far enough, I'd find somebody had already posted this.