I'm sure they're planning to remake all of Matthew Broderick's films including "Ferris Bueller's Day Off 2 - Skippin' Work" where the now middle-aged Ferris and Cameron miss work to grow their sagging beer bellies and watch strippers all day.
True, some clever ones will extend the range of what was thought possible, but most will end up with the same cookie-cutter projects for which these frameworks are always tailored (look to scaffolding in Ruby on Rails for an example of the omnipresent "database browser").
Do you realize scaffolding is less than 1% of what Rails is about? To cite Rails as a tailored cookie-cutter system isn't some great insight on your part, it's rather a profession of ignorance.
What bothers me is anyone telling me I can't consider a point of view. Same with my kids, I want them to learn to see things from other people's points of view, even if they don't agree with those points of view.
The old saying of don't discuss money, politics or religion is outdated. People need to learn to think critically, and schools are a good place to practice critical thinking. It bothers me when governments, corporations and courts say what can and cannot be discussed. Next they'll be telling me what type of computer I must use and what sites I'm allowed to visit.
Doherty said he's skeptical anything interesting will come out of the project. The open-source development model may have worked two years ago, he said, but it's doomed at a time when building a portable media player is as easy as putting together a PC.
"I can go to over a dozen chip vendors that offer a reference design that can place MPEG-4, MP3 and.wav files on a personal video player," he said.
Forget the reasons why or if it will be successful. Build my own portable media player? Is anyone out there doing this sort of thing in their garage?
Windows Live is a painfully bad rip off of Google's Personal Homepage. It all just Microsoft up to their old tricks: copy someone elses idea then try to extend it.
This time, however, the deck is stacked against them. Developers are leaving Microsoft and going to Google in hopes to make millions like early Microsoft employees did. Also Microsoft is stuck using their own software as a development platform which is not as flexible as Google or even Apple to make changes. Google can simply outcode Microsoft in the web arena.
Two Words: Lean Thinking. Nothing else I've seen has been a better predictor or able to deliver what techs want than to adopt what the Japanese already know: North American business is wasteful. Techs hate waste, stupidity, bad software, ignorance...so much of what business is about is not delivering a quality product but delivering the *perception* of a quality product. Translation: sales & marketing.
Lean Thinking is simply the current state of Edward Deming's work on quality, which is seen most evidently in Toyota's work. Taichi Ono, who pioneered alot of Deming's theory into practical application, revolutionized the Japanese auto industry from makers of cheap crap to the best quality vehicles in the industry. The IT parallel to manufacturing is the Agile Software development movement, which has lately been buzzing with the latest sweetheart of the tech world Ruby on Rails.
There's no secret anymore. There *is* a better way to do IT and business by ruthlessly eliminating waste and perfecting the systems that deliver products and services.
The problem is not a technical one but rather business. What's helped me more than anything was learning to negotiate. I'd recommend "Secrets of Power Negotiating" by Roger Dawson which you can probably get from your local Library (I prefer the audio cassette series).
I took a cut to escape management and be on the front lines. At the end of the day, I was more interested in doing the tech role and gaining the approval of technicians and not "suits". Bottom line: what do you love, working with technology or having technology work for you. The former would be the techs, the latter sales & management.
It's all about personal choice. I'm happy with the choice I've made.
Regardless of what anyone says about the benefits of Star Office and/or the open document format, I won't start using it until Google Desktop for Windows and Spotlight for my Mac can index the contents. Until then I will (reluctantly) stick with Microsoft Office.(Man, I feel like I'm repeating myself)
Regardless of what anyone says about the benefits of open document format, I won't start using it until Google Desktop for Windows and Spotlight for my Mac can index the contents. Until then I will (reluctantly) stick with Microsoft Office.
The worst that could happen is that the computer's control of engine performance and emissions, navigation and entertainment systems cease to function. That would probably mean an annoying trip to the repair shop or having to reboot the system.
This is just stupid. Never happen. Car manufacturers who build cars that can be "infected" will be avoided like the plague in the marketplace.
The public simply won't buy a car if it can be infected by a virus. In the PC world, people don't have a choice, they have to buy Microsoft Windows if they want to buy cheap and compatible. In the automotive industry it's a totally different situation.
Wow. Talk about typical Microsoft quality. I put in my address which is in British Columbia, Canada (which Google Maps & Earth has no problem finding) and I ended up in the middle of Nebraska. I had to give it address, city, province and country before it got it right.
The program feels rushed, and doesn't have the same feel as Google maps. The name "Virtual Earth" seems to try and straddle both Google Maps and Google Earth.
I've learned from the past not to count Microsoft out when it comes to their dominance in the marketplace. That being said, I can't see any reason why I would choose to use it over Google Maps. It will be interesting to watch the battle between Microsoft and Google unfold, both in the courtroom and the marketplace.
This may be totally off-topic, but since the Matrix as a cultural focus was destroyed with the release of "The Matrix Revolutions" I wondered how it would be before Taco & the gang decided to recast the Blue & Red Pill icon away from the movies and onto something else.
Its executives have acknowledged the recruiting headaches in recent months. For instance, Microsoft's Windows chief, Jim Allchin, conceded that Google had lured away some of the software giant's talent and said Microsoft's magnetic pull among college students may have weakened, according to a Seattle Times story late last year.
Gee, ya think?! After years of beating up on students by branding many as pirates and communists for cutting their teeth on affordable Open Source software, Microsoft is shocked that somehow their abuses of the past have somehow come to bite them in their big, bloated behind.
You watch. They're going to start handing out tonnes of free development software to get people re-interested in developing for Windows. With web apps all the rage, who needs 95% of the market with desktop apps when you can develop with PHP, Rails or other open source tools and get 100% of the market with web apps?
Did anyone else hear Morgan's voice in your head when reading the quote, as if it was a line from "Shawshank Redemption" or "Million Dollar Baby"? Spooky!
Later, a typically-enthusiastic Ballmer addressed approximately 500 partner attendees, who grilled the CEO on all things Microsoft.
...Ballmer admitted the platform "had stalled in the last 12 months"...
..."We can't support open source, but we can support interoperability,"...
...may be addressed in the next release [of SQL Server] in 18 months, Ballmer said, but conceded he "really didn't know"...
...when a participant asked why MapPoint had not expanded to South East Asia so such services could be built, Ballmer was stumped...
..."I didn't know we weren't doing well there,"...
..."In the next six months, we'll catch Google in terms of relevancy,"...
...I've never used that interface...
"Give up the fight? No, never," he said.
This is not the Microsoft I know. I remember when Office XP was released, staff was saying things like "this is not a revolutionary version, but rather an evolution in software". They quickly recanted and began preaching "REVOLUTIONARY! REVOLUTIONARY!" again. Microsoft doesn't have great software, is not innovative, and is not liked in the industry the way Google is. What they ARE good at is sales and marketing. It may sound like Microsoft is conceding in areas, but you watch. Ballmer will come back flailing and ranting "REVOLUTION!" within the next couple of weeks.
There would be side effects, proponents admit. An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example.
Oh, and since we're already blocking the view in the night sky, of course the backside of the ring is available to rent on the universe's largest billboard.
This all may seem too far fetched, but imagine what people 200 years ago would have thought about our society today. Transplating organs, travelling to outer space, Donald Trump...who knows what other insanity the next 200 years will bring.
The marketing plan rises to evil-genius levels when you realize all the ways the move from April to September pried open six months' worth of free-publicity for the entire Firefly/Serenity franchise.
The apex of effective advertizing is, as we all know, word of mouth. Of course word of mouth doesn't scale as well across large geographic areas or even continents.
Until now.
What the producers realize is the blogosphere is practically a synonym for word of mouth. If they think the product is good (which it probably is), then marketing this way is an advanced form of releasing the movie on Wednesdays so word of mouth will help make the opening weekend big.
Slashdot Mirror
Windows Vista's codename was named after the Longhorn pub in Whistler, BC.
Coincidence? I think NOT!
I'm sure they're planning to remake all of Matthew Broderick's films including "Ferris Bueller's Day Off 2 - Skippin' Work" where the now middle-aged Ferris and Cameron miss work to grow their sagging beer bellies and watch strippers all day.
#11 = Web 2.0
No. Next question.
What bothers me is anyone telling me I can't consider a point of view. Same with my kids, I want them to learn to see things from other people's points of view, even if they don't agree with those points of view.
The old saying of don't discuss money, politics or religion is outdated. People need to learn to think critically, and schools are a good place to practice critical thinking. It bothers me when governments, corporations and courts say what can and cannot be discussed. Next they'll be telling me what type of computer I must use and what sites I'm allowed to visit.
Forget the reasons why or if it will be successful. Build my own portable media player? Is anyone out there doing this sort of thing in their garage?
Windows Live is a painfully bad rip off of Google's Personal Homepage. It all just Microsoft up to their old tricks: copy someone elses idea then try to extend it.
This time, however, the deck is stacked against them. Developers are leaving Microsoft and going to Google in hopes to make millions like early Microsoft employees did. Also Microsoft is stuck using their own software as a development platform which is not as flexible as Google or even Apple to make changes. Google can simply outcode Microsoft in the web arena.
Should be a bloodbath.
Two Words: Lean Thinking. Nothing else I've seen has been a better predictor or able to deliver what techs want than to adopt what the Japanese already know: North American business is wasteful. Techs hate waste, stupidity, bad software, ignorance...so much of what business is about is not delivering a quality product but delivering the *perception* of a quality product. Translation: sales & marketing.
Lean Thinking is simply the current state of Edward Deming's work on quality, which is seen most evidently in Toyota's work. Taichi Ono, who pioneered alot of Deming's theory into practical application, revolutionized the Japanese auto industry from makers of cheap crap to the best quality vehicles in the industry. The IT parallel to manufacturing is the Agile Software development movement, which has lately been buzzing with the latest sweetheart of the tech world Ruby on Rails.
There's no secret anymore. There *is* a better way to do IT and business by ruthlessly eliminating waste and perfecting the systems that deliver products and services.
The problem is not a technical one but rather business. What's helped me more than anything was learning to negotiate. I'd recommend "Secrets of Power Negotiating" by Roger Dawson which you can probably get from your local Library (I prefer the audio cassette series).
I took a cut to escape management and be on the front lines. At the end of the day, I was more interested in doing the tech role and gaining the approval of technicians and not "suits". Bottom line: what do you love, working with technology or having technology work for you. The former would be the techs, the latter sales & management.
It's all about personal choice. I'm happy with the choice I've made.
Regardless of what anyone says about the benefits of Star Office and/or the open document format, I won't start using it until Google Desktop for Windows and Spotlight for my Mac can index the contents. Until then I will (reluctantly) stick with Microsoft Office.(Man, I feel like I'm repeating myself)
Regardless of what anyone says about the benefits of open document format, I won't start using it until Google Desktop for Windows and Spotlight for my Mac can index the contents. Until then I will (reluctantly) stick with Microsoft Office.
The public simply won't buy a car if it can be infected by a virus. In the PC world, people don't have a choice, they have to buy Microsoft Windows if they want to buy cheap and compatible. In the automotive industry it's a totally different situation.
Wow. Talk about typical Microsoft quality. I put in my address which is in British Columbia, Canada (which Google Maps & Earth has no problem finding) and I ended up in the middle of Nebraska. I had to give it address, city, province and country before it got it right.
The program feels rushed, and doesn't have the same feel as Google maps. The name "Virtual Earth" seems to try and straddle both Google Maps and Google Earth.
I've learned from the past not to count Microsoft out when it comes to their dominance in the marketplace. That being said, I can't see any reason why I would choose to use it over Google Maps. It will be interesting to watch the battle between Microsoft and Google unfold, both in the courtroom and the marketplace.
This may be totally off-topic, but since the Matrix as a cultural focus was destroyed with the release of "The Matrix Revolutions" I wondered how it would be before Taco & the gang decided to recast the Blue & Red Pill icon away from the movies and onto something else.
That day arrived today.
You watch. They're going to start handing out tonnes of free development software to get people re-interested in developing for Windows. With web apps all the rage, who needs 95% of the market with desktop apps when you can develop with PHP, Rails or other open source tools and get 100% of the market with web apps?
TETRIS
Ask anyone who's hooked how religiously they play the darned thing.
Did anyone else hear Morgan's voice in your head when reading the quote, as if it was a line from "Shawshank Redemption" or "Million Dollar Baby"? Spooky!
It may sound like Microsoft is conceding in areas, but you watch. Ballmer will come back flailing and ranting "REVOLUTION!" within the next couple of weeks.
This all may seem too far fetched, but imagine what people 200 years ago would have thought about our society today. Transplating organs, travelling to outer space, Donald Trump...who knows what other insanity the next 200 years will bring.
I don't know the answer to your question, but when you lose your job because of outsourcing your company's IT assets, you can follow this link here.
Until now.
What the producers realize is the blogosphere is practically a synonym for word of mouth. If they think the product is good (which it probably is), then marketing this way is an advanced form of releasing the movie on Wednesdays so word of mouth will help make the opening weekend big.