Come on, compromising someone's computer is at least slightly more difficult than snatching their postal mail.
And I really can't understand what browsing at -1 has to do with the First Amendment. That makes about as much sense as "Support the Second Amendment, eat pizza."
Access allows you to distribute a relational database, a user interface, and reporting capabilities in one file.
I can too, with PKZip.;-)
You've got a point, but my boss has a Project Management System written in Access 2000 by a friend of his, and it is my opinion that it would be easier to rewrite the app with Visual C++ rather than make the changes and improvements we need. It would take a little longer up front, but save huge amounts of time in the long run. Of course, I'm far from an expert in Access, but it's a big hassle to use and for something written in 2000, it looks like a state-of-the-art GUI from say, 1990.
As with any tool by Microsoft (including MFC), if you stick to the narrow domain of functionality it supports, it's an easy too to generate a GUI, but the moment you want to do something a little off the path, you'll find yourself completely lost in the weeds.
Based on their track record, I bet they are doing it, but it either won't work well, will work but will be too much of hassle to use, or be cracked within 15 minutes.
Yes, use a Microsoft tool because everyone has it. This is/., right?
Excel is a very good tool (unlike Access which has no redeeming qualities), but based on my experience, any time you try to develop an application on anything but a real application development system, your app will be difficult to create, difficult to debug and look like crap.
This includes Excel, Access, and as far as the looking like crap part, Java.
Wow...what's the category? World's Biggest Waste of Time ?
I think that pretty well describes everything in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Except the guy who ate the bicycle. I mean, come on, that could solve the problem with our landfills.
Too bad they don't cover eating records any more. Of course, from what I've seen, the Guiness books only have about a tenth of the content they had in their heydays in the 70's.
People who run as administrator all the time deserve what they get.
You mean the ability to actually get something done?
I don't see how it would help since you need to be admin to do anything useful in Windows. Unless of course you're someone who randomly deletes system files for fun.
In theory, you're right, though. In practice, I don't want to waste the time it takes to mess around making things work as a non-admin. Of course, I don't break my OS.
just like the timebomb that will eat all your email once it hits 2GB that they call outlook express.
Don't you mean Outlook? That's exactly what happened to me with Outlook. Once your e-mail store hits about a gig and a half it starts losing mail. I don't know if OE did that because none of my folders ever got that big. Outlook 2003 though kept everything in one file so after importing all my messages from OE, I found a bunch of them missing.
I finally solved the problem by using Thunderbird. I'm convinced Microsoft hates me.
It's clear who runs the household, and brother, it's not you.
If he's playing so much that it's affecting him that adversely, a simple solution is to limit his time. My kids play computer games, GameCube and GameBoys too, but their grades have never suffered because of it. Homework comes first. When we decide time's up, time's up. No arguing (maybe some grumbling, but that doesn't change anything). You can let them have fun without being a doormat.
If in fact he is already playing only a reasonable amount of time, then perhaps there are other issues at work here.
Finally, if you need to remove the game, grow a spine and remove the game. If you don't take charge now, you will always be the subordinate in the house and your child will grow up to be a very selfish, obnoxious and unpopular person.
And that's the problem. Employers will usually trade critical thinking, adaptability and just about any other virtue for a little bit of training in some crappy piece of software.
That's the problem with modern business in America. People just want the seats kept warm. More often than not, they have no interest in anything about a person other than keywords on their resume and how little they can get away with paying them.
I know firsthand. I've been told numerous times that my resume doesn't really reflect my skill and experience because I haven't listed every technology or software package I've so much as brushed up against a book on in Barnes & Noble, which apparently is the standard these days. I made the mistake of writing a resume meant to be read, not just searched for the latest MS kludge of the month buzzword. Of course, the last time I was hired by such an employer, all I did was make them angry by repeatedly demonstrating how clueless they were.
Keywords. Keywords. Keywords. And "MS Office" is one of the big ones. No one cares if you're a halfwit, slacker or a cheat, as long as your resume has the keywords. You'll just be laid off in a year regardless when the next reorg or merger happens.
What advice do you have in selling this to tech coordinators and administrators who are not enlightened by Open Source?
Short of "Don't even bother", I'd say that you have your work cut out for you. Undoubtedly these people will be familiar, even comfortable, with MS Office and you will face huge momentum because your target audience probably sees no problems with MS Office. All the benefits of OSS except price will likely fall on deaf ears, so you'd better do your homework and have a very compelling presentation.
I can't offer specifics because I'm not really familiar with OO. In my mind it is self-evident. Office sucks more ways than you can count. Period.
However, you can't make this sell by bad-mouthing Microsoft or Office. Most non-techie people won't see it that way, and in fact will probably have a high opinion of Office since it's all they know. OO can't be just "good enough" to replace Office. It has to be made clear that it is superior... and not in the ways that we computer folks tend to think, but ways that will be convincing to non-technical people. You got a "gimme" on price, but the rest will be a steep hill.
Damn! He's cheap! We could all pitch in a buck each and buy and sell his sorry ass. Maybe he's come wash my car for a few bucks.
I would just, for once, see any member of Congress own up and stop pretending they are working for us. Usually you have to go to the red light district to see this kind of prostitution.
intentionally hamstringing someone based on something they cannot control is wrong
You're absolutely right. And the sooner we get the airlines to hire those blind folks at pilots, the sooner we will all rest easier as our civil rights have once again been secured.
also, what is this SUDDEN need for every frickin windows app to have a background app that makes the main app "load faster"
This is hardly sudden. MS has been doing it with Office and IE forever. How else can you compete with the quicker load times of these MS apps, which are essentially incorporated into the OS and preload at boot time?
If there were a good reason for MS to create PDF's, they would, but I think the parent poster is right, they want DOC to be standard, not PDF. I wouldn't have a problem with that if DOC was a fully documented open file format, but of course, that would require MS to cede a small amount of its monopolistic power, which they would never willingly do, even if it's to their benefit in the long run.
I don't think it would be unreasonable to put the scenes in at the level of production that was completed. After all, they are deleted scenes.
This is good news overall. I'm surprised there aren't more DVD players which simply ignore the "no FF/skip" functionality... or am I missing something?
And if we put a sign on every car that says, "This is a car.", I'm sure car accidents will go way down too.
You're not solving a problem, you're just hastening the inevitable collapse of the software industry that software patents, as they exist today will cause.
can seriously think that their cheesy ass ads will ACTUALLY draw customers.
Apparently they do though. Once again, a small minority of stupid people (people who believe ads that clearly lie, people who respond to spam, Neilsen families, Congress...) determine what the rest of us get saddled with.
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Bah! I meant Burroughs and Sperry...
Slow down, Cowboy...
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I don't know about that, but I heard Unisys and Sperry were thinking about merging.
It's a crazy business world out there, but as long as they don't break up AT&T, it'll be OK.
Same here. I don't normally block in-line ads, but I have to block those stupid animated ones, because I find it incredibly difficult to read something when there's a dancing monkey one inch away.
And whoever came up with that cockroach ad should be punished severely. Preferably something involving large numbers of cockroaches. And as to the effictiveness of ads, I seldom remember was bad ads (or even some good ads) are advertising. Of course, remembering what a bad ad is advertising is bad for the client... I'll avoid a product whose ad annoys me.
But I imagine I am not the typical ad watcher. Like I've said many times, if ads are reasonably subdued, informative, and not annoying (i.e., animated, ugly, garish), I won't bother to block them, and will probably even notice them. When ads get to be irritating and distracting and annoying, then I block them.
And I don't owe anyone for doing it. If you don't want me skipping the ads on your site, then don't put ads on your site.
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Come on, compromising someone's computer is at least slightly more difficult than snatching their postal mail.
And I really can't understand what browsing at -1 has to do with the First Amendment. That makes about as much sense as "Support the Second Amendment, eat pizza."
Access allows you to distribute a relational database, a user interface, and reporting capabilities in one file.
;-)
I can too, with PKZip.
You've got a point, but my boss has a Project Management System written in Access 2000 by a friend of his, and it is my opinion that it would be easier to rewrite the app with Visual C++ rather than make the changes and improvements we need. It would take a little longer up front, but save huge amounts of time in the long run. Of course, I'm far from an expert in Access, but it's a big hassle to use and for something written in 2000, it looks like a state-of-the-art GUI from say, 1990.
As with any tool by Microsoft (including MFC), if you stick to the narrow domain of functionality it supports, it's an easy too to generate a GUI, but the moment you want to do something a little off the path, you'll find yourself completely lost in the weeds.
Sounds like you're doing what a lot of us have to do... the boss is an idiot, penny-wise and pound-foolish and you're making do with what you can.
Fortunately I got laid off from the bosses that were mired in the 1980's and got hired by someone forward-looking, smart and who respects my opinion.
Good luck.
Based on their track record, I bet they are doing it, but it either won't work well, will work but will be too much of hassle to use, or be cracked within 15 minutes.
Yes, use a Microsoft tool because everyone has it. This is /., right?
Excel is a very good tool (unlike Access which has no redeeming qualities), but based on my experience, any time you try to develop an application on anything but a real application development system, your app will be difficult to create, difficult to debug and look like crap.
This includes Excel, Access, and as far as the looking like crap part, Java.
Wow...what's the category? World's Biggest Waste of Time ?
I think that pretty well describes everything in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Except the guy who ate the bicycle. I mean, come on, that could solve the problem with our landfills.
Too bad they don't cover eating records any more. Of course, from what I've seen, the Guiness books only have about a tenth of the content they had in their heydays in the 70's.
Ear protection with a Dremel? That's a little overkill.
People who run as administrator all the time deserve what they get.
You mean the ability to actually get something done?
I don't see how it would help since you need to be admin to do anything useful in Windows. Unless of course you're someone who randomly deletes system files for fun.
In theory, you're right, though. In practice, I don't want to waste the time it takes to mess around making things work as a non-admin. Of course, I don't break my OS.
just like the timebomb that will eat all your email once it hits 2GB that they call outlook express.
Don't you mean Outlook? That's exactly what happened to me with Outlook. Once your e-mail store hits about a gig and a half it starts losing mail. I don't know if OE did that because none of my folders ever got that big. Outlook 2003 though kept everything in one file so after importing all my messages from OE, I found a bunch of them missing.
I finally solved the problem by using Thunderbird. I'm convinced Microsoft hates me.
Not to mention meat-eating meat...
It's clear who runs the household, and brother, it's not you.
If he's playing so much that it's affecting him that adversely, a simple solution is to limit his time. My kids play computer games, GameCube and GameBoys too, but their grades have never suffered because of it. Homework comes first. When we decide time's up, time's up. No arguing (maybe some grumbling, but that doesn't change anything). You can let them have fun without being a doormat.
If in fact he is already playing only a reasonable amount of time, then perhaps there are other issues at work here.
Finally, if you need to remove the game, grow a spine and remove the game. If you don't take charge now, you will always be the subordinate in the house and your child will grow up to be a very selfish, obnoxious and unpopular person.
MS Office = better on resume
And that's the problem. Employers will usually trade critical thinking, adaptability and just about any other virtue for a little bit of training in some crappy piece of software.
That's the problem with modern business in America. People just want the seats kept warm. More often than not, they have no interest in anything about a person other than keywords on their resume and how little they can get away with paying them.
I know firsthand. I've been told numerous times that my resume doesn't really reflect my skill and experience because I haven't listed every technology or software package I've so much as brushed up against a book on in Barnes & Noble, which apparently is the standard these days.
I made the mistake of writing a resume meant to be read, not just searched for the latest MS kludge of the month buzzword. Of course, the last time I was hired by such an employer, all I did was make them angry by repeatedly demonstrating how clueless they were.
Keywords. Keywords. Keywords. And "MS Office" is one of the big ones. No one cares if you're a halfwit, slacker or a cheat, as long as your resume has the keywords. You'll just be laid off in a year regardless when the next reorg or merger happens.
To most corporations we're all just meat.
What advice do you have in selling this to tech coordinators and administrators who are not enlightened by
Open Source?
Short of "Don't even bother", I'd say that you have your work cut out for you. Undoubtedly these people will be familiar, even comfortable, with MS Office and you will face huge momentum because your target audience probably sees no problems with MS Office. All the benefits of OSS except price will likely fall on deaf ears, so you'd better do your homework and have a very compelling presentation.
I can't offer specifics because I'm not really familiar with OO. In my mind it is self-evident. Office sucks more ways than you can count. Period.
However, you can't make this sell by bad-mouthing Microsoft or Office. Most non-techie people won't see it that way, and in fact will probably have a high opinion of Office since it's all they know. OO can't be just "good enough" to replace Office. It has to be made clear that it is superior... and not in the ways that we computer folks tend to think, but ways that will be convincing to non-technical people. You got a "gimme" on price, but the rest will be a steep hill.
Good luck, I wish you well.
According to Slashdot users, I'm funny, insightful and interesting! So why aren't girls all over me?
;-)
'Cause we (the people who find you funny, insightful and interesting) are pasty couch potatoes just like you.
Damn! He's cheap! We could all pitch in a buck each and buy and sell his sorry ass. Maybe he's come wash my car for a few bucks.
I would just, for once, see any member of Congress own up and stop pretending they are working for us. Usually you have to go to the red light district to see this kind of prostitution.
intentionally hamstringing someone based on something they cannot control is wrong
You're absolutely right. And the sooner we get the airlines to hire those blind folks at pilots, the sooner we will all rest easier as our civil rights have once again been secured.
Equal rights for the blind!
also, what is this SUDDEN need for every frickin windows app to have a background app that makes the main app "load faster"
This is hardly sudden. MS has been doing it with Office and IE forever. How else can you compete with the quicker load times of these MS apps, which are essentially incorporated into the OS and preload at boot time?
If there were a good reason for MS to create PDF's, they would, but I think the parent poster is right, they want DOC to be standard, not PDF. I wouldn't have a problem with that if DOC was a fully documented open file format, but of course, that would require MS to cede a small amount of its monopolistic power, which they would never willingly do, even if it's to their benefit in the long run.
I don't think it would be unreasonable to put the scenes in at the level of production that was completed. After all, they are deleted scenes.
This is good news overall. I'm surprised there aren't more DVD players which simply ignore the "no FF/skip" functionality... or am I missing something?
"Marking" patents, hmmm??
And if we put a sign on every car that says,
"This is a car.", I'm sure car accidents will go way down too.
You're not solving a problem, you're just hastening the inevitable collapse of the software industry that software patents, as they exist today will cause.
can seriously think that their cheesy ass ads will ACTUALLY draw customers.
Apparently they do though. Once again, a small minority of stupid people (people who believe ads that clearly lie, people who respond to spam, Neilsen families, Congress...) determine what the rest of us get saddled with.
Bah! I meant Burroughs and Sperry...
Slow down, Cowboy...
I don't know about that, but I heard Unisys and Sperry were thinking about merging.
It's a crazy business world out there, but as long as they don't break up AT&T, it'll be OK.
If enough people complain about the lousy stories, maybe the editors will have to care more.
I dunno. I've been seeing it for about 7 years and nothing's changed yet.
Same here. I don't normally block in-line ads, but I have to block those stupid animated ones, because I find it incredibly difficult to read something when there's a dancing monkey one inch away.
And whoever came up with that cockroach ad should be punished severely. Preferably something involving large numbers of cockroaches. And as to the effictiveness of ads, I seldom remember was bad ads (or even some good ads) are advertising. Of course, remembering what a bad ad is advertising is bad for the client... I'll avoid a product whose ad annoys me.
But I imagine I am not the typical ad watcher. Like I've said many times, if ads are reasonably subdued, informative, and not annoying (i.e., animated, ugly, garish), I won't bother to block them, and will probably even notice them. When ads get to be irritating and distracting and annoying, then I block them.
And I don't owe anyone for doing it. If you don't want me skipping the ads on your site, then don't put ads on your site.
Nuff said.
How can they make money if I don't read the ads and buy the products?
Do you know how anything works?
Are you hiding behind anonymity because you are afraid of looking stupid?