Why not just pay an extra $5/hour to hire a competent Exchange administrator? Just because YOUR implementation of Exchange isn't working proerly doesn't mean that the product doesn't work well. There are lots of companies with larger numbers of Exchange users, in which it works just fine.
Yahoo could stay up. They're down almost as much as they're up. They're impossible to rely on as a primary mailbox because not only are they always down or inaccessible, but they don't notify their customers when they are/were down. If they could handle their own servers properly, then Yahoo would be a great mail service, and the encryption would make it only better.
But, the advantage to copying MS' interface is that most people that I'm assuming the KDE/Gnome people want to 'convert' already know and understand the MS interface. Apple's is better, granted, but it also has a learning curve. Anyone firing up KDE or Gnome for the first time who's used a PC in the past 5 years will for the most part, understand what's going on.
Our messiah has been born. The offspring of God has arrived, and I'm right now making plans to follow the Western Star, to offer up gifts of frankensence, mihr, and kernel source code. Long live the messiah, our lord! Praise her!
That was the point of an OS a long, long time ago. Now, when you have mission critical data sitting on the desktop, and all machines internetworked, it's crucuial that some level of security and management is integrated into the OS. MS is, if anything, being pragmatic and creating a better product to meet the market's demands.
Oh, sure you will. But to do this, he has to call support, support can explain to him the possible ramifications of doing it, then override W2K's controls if need be. The important part is that with this feature enabled, the admins have some sort of control or at least advanced warning that a user is going to screw up his/her computer or introduce a virus. If anything, sysadmins should be rejoycing that with this feature, they have a huge new CYA. Their jobs will be much easier and allow then to use that extra time that would've been spent fixing PC's to do important stuff, screwing around, or reading Slashdot.
Businesses are not altruistic. That's not the nature of business. Businesses do things to make money. That's the goal of business. Software companies will only write code if it helps their bottom line in some way. If a plug-in vendor knows that the non-Wintel and non-Mac part of their customer base represents a prohibitively small percentage, it may not be worth the money for them to write other versions. But, if the market demands other versions (ie: a large percentage of users are using other non-Wintel or non-Mac devices), rest assured that the plug-in providers will come out with appropriate versions to support those customers.
That IS a good idea. As a former sysadmin/support person for several big companies, I can tell you that people installing random, unapproved stuff on their PC's is a major source of support calls. This should make W2K be an even better choice for corporate desktops. This is yet another feature that shows that MS is thinking about enterprise implementation on the desktop. You do NOT want people to be able to install any old RPM on their desktop in a networked environment. That's a BIG "no-no".
Freenet is only good for 'popular' information. Ian says that it drops the least popular information. Just because the masses like something, doesn't mean it's good. I may not be interested in a Britney Spears mp3 or a 'get rich quick' article. I may be interested in something obscure, and by it's very definition, Freenet will make that bit of information/file/whaterver difficult to find, if it stores it at all. That's a pretty serious flaw in this system. On the Web, you can find any information, no matter how obscure or strange it is. If the web was like this, then the only thing we'd have would be a lot of news and shopping web pages. ugh!
This is exactly how other Open Source projects work. Somebody develops for free, then a company comandeers the project, and profits from it. It's happening right now with Apache (even as you read this). So, why shouldn't Netscape take advantage of Mozilla and profit from it?
Absolutely. OSHA is to keep people like factory workers from, say, falling in vats of dangerous chemicals, or getting sucked into giant machines. As a former manufacturing manager in large textitle plants, I can assure everyone that these ARE still real problems in the US. Whether or not the fat-ass coder in the next cube's back hurts from his chair or from eating too much junk food is not a serious problem. A little bit of soreness from typing is not a problem, no matter what the loudest bitchers and whiners say. IT people are used to being coddled, and it's disgusting to have a government agency side with them.
Oh, easy. I'm an ASP/COM/Oracle developer. I jsut got finished converting a state's Medicaid system from Mainframe to Web-RDBMS based. The Medicaid claims filled approx 1.5 terabytes, and grew at a rate of 100 gig/month.
That's bullshit. First of all, jsut because you're doing open source stuff, and have never even seen a real enterprise app, don't tell me that one terrabyte is 'enormous'. It's fairly standard. I've worked on several projects that had databases this big.
Secondly, Oracle IS object oriented. You can use eithe ra relational or object-oriented structure in Oracle.
Thirdly, I've never even heard of these DB's that you mention. Do they even support databases of this size?
I don't consider it narrowminded. I've been a web developer for 4 years now, and have worked on approximately 10 different web applications. It's based on what I see in the workplace.
It's more than will power. It's a matter of either finding some other way of paying my mortgage or living in a van down by the river. Sorry, kiddo, but tell me that you'll walk over W3C standards only after you've graduated and you have a family to support.
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Why not just pay an extra $5/hour to hire a competent Exchange administrator? Just because YOUR implementation of Exchange isn't working proerly doesn't mean that the product doesn't work well. There are lots of companies with larger numbers of Exchange users, in which it works just fine.
So what? Just because they ship the product, it doesn't mean that people will buy it in droves. Companies make unsuccessful products every day.
Why aren't users downloading multiple products and comparing them anymore?
Normal people (ie: not students, and not geeks) have better things to do than to play with OSes.
Yahoo could stay up. They're down almost as much as they're up. They're impossible to rely on as a primary mailbox because not only are they always down or inaccessible, but they don't notify their customers when they are/were down. If they could handle their own servers properly, then Yahoo would be a great mail service, and the encryption would make it only better.
But, the advantage to copying MS' interface is that most people that I'm assuming the KDE/Gnome people want to 'convert' already know and understand the MS interface. Apple's is better, granted, but it also has a learning curve. Anyone firing up KDE or Gnome for the first time who's used a PC in the past 5 years will for the most part, understand what's going on.
Very true.
Our messiah has been born. The offspring of God has arrived, and I'm right now making plans to follow the Western Star, to offer up gifts of frankensence, mihr, and kernel source code. Long live the messiah, our lord! Praise her!
That was the point of an OS a long, long time ago. Now, when you have mission critical data sitting on the desktop, and all machines internetworked, it's crucuial that some level of security and management is integrated into the OS. MS is, if anything, being pragmatic and creating a better product to meet the market's demands.
Oh, sure you will. But to do this, he has to call support, support can explain to him the possible ramifications of doing it, then override W2K's controls if need be. The important part is that with this feature enabled, the admins have some sort of control or at least advanced warning that a user is going to screw up his/her computer or introduce a virus. If anything, sysadmins should be rejoycing that with this feature, they have a huge new CYA. Their jobs will be much easier and allow then to use that extra time that would've been spent fixing PC's to do important stuff, screwing around, or reading Slashdot.
Businesses are not altruistic. That's not the nature of business. Businesses do things to make money. That's the goal of business. Software companies will only write code if it helps their bottom line in some way. If a plug-in vendor knows that the non-Wintel and non-Mac part of their customer base represents a prohibitively small percentage, it may not be worth the money for them to write other versions. But, if the market demands other versions (ie: a large percentage of users are using other non-Wintel or non-Mac devices), rest assured that the plug-in providers will come out with appropriate versions to support those customers.
That IS a good idea. As a former sysadmin/support person for several big companies, I can tell you that people installing random, unapproved stuff on their PC's is a major source of support calls. This should make W2K be an even better choice for corporate desktops. This is yet another feature that shows that MS is thinking about enterprise implementation on the desktop. You do NOT want people to be able to install any old RPM on their desktop in a networked environment. That's a BIG "no-no".
Freenet is only good for 'popular' information. Ian says that it drops the least popular information. Just because the masses like something, doesn't mean it's good. I may not be interested in a Britney Spears mp3 or a 'get rich quick' article. I may be interested in something obscure, and by it's very definition, Freenet will make that bit of information/file/whaterver difficult to find, if it stores it at all. That's a pretty serious flaw in this system. On the Web, you can find any information, no matter how obscure or strange it is. If the web was like this, then the only thing we'd have would be a lot of news and shopping web pages. ugh!
This is exactly how other Open Source projects work. Somebody develops for free, then a company comandeers the project, and profits from it. It's happening right now with Apache (even as you read this). So, why shouldn't Netscape take advantage of Mozilla and profit from it?
Sorry, but miners dying from black lung doesn't quite equate with a coder's fingers hurting.
Absolutely. OSHA is to keep people like factory workers from, say, falling in vats of dangerous chemicals, or getting sucked into giant machines. As a former manufacturing manager in large textitle plants, I can assure everyone that these ARE still real problems in the US. Whether or not the fat-ass coder in the next cube's back hurts from his chair or from eating too much junk food is not a serious problem. A little bit of soreness from typing is not a problem, no matter what the loudest bitchers and whiners say. IT people are used to being coddled, and it's disgusting to have a government agency side with them.
That's a Win 98 specific problem. Any of the DOS-based Windows will do that.
Sorry, Mr. AC, but ORacle 8i definately, and without a doubt, is Object Oriented. Read up, bucko.
Oh, easy. I'm an ASP/COM/Oracle developer. I jsut got finished converting a state's Medicaid system from Mainframe to Web-RDBMS based. The Medicaid claims filled approx 1.5 terabytes, and grew at a rate of 100 gig/month.
That's bullshit. First of all, jsut because you're doing open source stuff, and have never even seen a real enterprise app, don't tell me that one terrabyte is 'enormous'. It's fairly standard. I've worked on several projects that had databases this big.
Secondly, Oracle IS object oriented. You can use eithe ra relational or object-oriented structure in Oracle.
Thirdly, I've never even heard of these DB's that you mention. Do they even support databases of this size?
No way. 'Large' is a terabyte or bigger. 100 Gig is no big deal.
I don't consider it narrowminded. I've been a web developer for 4 years now, and have worked on approximately 10 different web applications. It's based on what I see in the workplace.
I'm really curious as to why you think this is a troll...
It's more than will power. It's a matter of either finding some other way of paying my mortgage or living in a van down by the river. Sorry, kiddo, but tell me that you'll walk over W3C standards only after you've graduated and you have a family to support.
You're a student, aren't you...?
If I did that, I'd be out of work faster than you can say "Slashdot". That's totally unreasonable and impractical.