It takes much longer to turn on your machine in the morning now than it did 20 years ago.
I don't know what kind of system this guy was using in 1983, but mine required one floppy to boot, one floppy to load the Word Processor (anyone remember WordStar, now that was a simple system;)) and finally another floppy to load my document in. Faster, yeah right.
Techies, professors conclude, must act more like psychoanalysts; they must learn to "appreciate the difference between what people say and what they mean."
Actually, it sounds like techies are suppossed to be more like psychics than psychoanalysts.
In a study of 8,000 tech projects in businesses, only 16 percent of the new systems were deemed successes.
Maybe this because the techies gave the users what they wanted, instead of what they _said_ they wanted?
Puhleez! As the damn article said itself, us canucks provide free health care to everyone in our country
And our recent efforts to "maintain as much of the traditional culture and economy as possible" are what we do everywhere in Canada
I think you missed the point of these statements. The contention is whether or not this is part of Cananda's sovereign territory. The fact that Canada treats it's land and people in this area exactly like it does in the rest of the country supports Canada's claim that this is part of their territory.
There will always be people who use things other then the way they are intended.
Back in the day, that was considered hacking (in the broadest sense of the word)... but what do I know. It cracks me up when Linux users complain about users using a computer the way they want to.
Merriam-Websters defines obsolete as: a : no longer in use or no longer useful b : of a kind or style no longer current If most users don't have a problem with the websites, because they are using one of the more popular web browsers, then the sites are still useful. If 99.9% percent of the websites employ these techniques, you can hardly say that the style is "no longer current".
He goes on to say that inefficient code causes Yahoo.com to add "add Pentagon-like costs to its overhead." Would anyone care to compare the annual budget of yahoo and the pentagon? I could go on, but I won't.
I COULD HEAR YOU BETTER IF YOU WEREN'T TALKING SO LOUD.
As for the client-side, I think that I fully-featured web mail system can easily replace Outlook on the corporate desktop.
Yeah, that works great until you are at 30000 ft (in coach, thank you very much internet bust) and want to plow through all your accumulated email. These days you have to consider that the corporate desktop, more often than not, is mobile.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but IIRC the steam engine powered more than just trains. Steam engines were used to power tractors, factories etc. Having a power source that could be located _anywhere_ not just where a river turned a wheel or where the wind turned a windmill was a revolution. Having a _mobile_ power source that was not animial based was also revolutionary.
Microsoft's time to patch a remote hole where the attacker can gain complete access to your computer: two months. Open Source's time to patch a much less serious bug where the attacker can merely crash your computer: three days.
Conclusivly proving it is faster to fix a small bug than a large one? Wow, what a brilliant observation.
'This is the last remaining communications medium that allows the small person to participate,' said Barbara Simons, past president of the Association for Computing Machinery.
except, of course, for ham radio, direct mail, public access cable, personal ads, classified ads... oh and walking around downtown with a sign that says "The world is coming to and end!".
Hmmm... the last one kind of reminds me of this article.
But when you lease a car you are taking physical possession of an object. When you are licensed to drive you have the right to DO something. You have the right to drive (within the speed limit, in the proper lane for your direction of travel, etc.) With software you are licensed to do something also, i.e. use the software (on one computer, not in a way that disparages the Company;), etc). In software it is the actual license that is identified by the serial number. The shipped software is identical and the serial number is only incoporated as part of the installation process, which is part of the use of the software.
OK, last week I went down to the DMV and bought a license to drive. Now I have the "right" to drive on the roads. This week I decide I don't want to drive any more so I sell the license to Joe Blow down the street.
Does Joe Blow now have the "right" to drive?
Software licenses work exactly the same way. You have the right to use, but not to transfer the right to use.
If bridges are so all fired wonderful, why do I have to creep along at 2 mph every day when I cross the bridge going home. If the bridge was so wonderfully designed, traffic shouldn't back up. And sometimes the traffic across the bridge stops completely. It's as frustrating as if my computer just locked and it takes 2 hours for it to reboot.
They should build bridges like they write software... when it locks up it just takes a couple of minutes to clear things up!!!!
However wrote this article either doesn't use many bridges (at least not around here) or doesn't know how good the software is.
Actually, the article doesn't say that it was a Washington State Corporation, but a corporation with a presence in Washington state. It could be headquartered anywhere.
The article says it has about 7000 people at it's central site. But I don't think that it specifically says that this site is in Washington State.
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Dang, and I just got rid of my last ISA card in my last upgrade, a couple months ago. Now I gotta start all over again.
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Sometimes I think I am the only person in the world who isn't unique in some way.
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It takes much longer to turn on your machine in the morning now than it did 20 years ago.
;)) and finally another floppy to load my document in. Faster, yeah right.
I don't know what kind of system this guy was using in 1983, but mine required one floppy to boot, one floppy to load the Word Processor (anyone remember WordStar, now that was a simple system
Techies, professors conclude, must act more like psychoanalysts; they must learn to "appreciate the difference between what people say and what they mean."
Actually, it sounds like techies are suppossed to be more like psychics than psychoanalysts.
In a study of 8,000 tech projects in businesses, only 16 percent of the new systems were deemed successes.
Maybe this because the techies gave the users what they wanted, instead of what they _said_ they wanted?
I don't know, you make the call.
get the opportunity to moderate frontpage stories...
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Wow, thats right. I've seen those commercials that say SUV=TERRORISM. That's why I ran right out and traded in my RAV4 for a Lincoln Towncar.
Puhleez! As the damn article said itself, us canucks provide free health care to everyone in our country
And our recent efforts to "maintain as much of the traditional culture and economy as possible" are what we do everywhere in Canada
I think you missed the point of these statements. The contention is whether or not this is part of Cananda's sovereign territory. The fact that Canada treats it's land and people in this area exactly like it does in the rest of the country supports Canada's claim that this is part of their territory.
There will always be people who use things other then the way they are intended.
Back in the day, that was considered hacking (in the broadest sense of the word)... but what do I know. It cracks me up when Linux users complain about users using a computer the way they want to.
Merriam-Websters defines obsolete as:
a : no longer in use or no longer useful b : of a kind or style no longer current
If most users don't have a problem with the websites, because they are using one of the more popular web browsers, then the sites are still useful. If 99.9% percent of the websites employ these techniques, you can hardly say that the style is "no longer current".
He goes on to say that inefficient code causes Yahoo.com to add "add Pentagon-like costs to its overhead." Would anyone care to compare the annual budget of yahoo and the pentagon? I could go on, but I won't.
I COULD HEAR YOU BETTER IF YOU WEREN'T TALKING SO LOUD.
As for the client-side, I think that I fully-featured web mail system can easily replace Outlook on the corporate desktop.
Yeah, that works great until you are at 30000 ft (in coach, thank you very much internet bust) and want to plow through all your accumulated email. These days you have to consider that the corporate desktop, more often than not, is mobile.
for all us people to whom fashion is more important that function.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but IIRC the steam engine powered more than just trains. Steam engines were used to power tractors, factories etc. Having a power source that could be located _anywhere_ not just where a river turned a wheel or where the wind turned a windmill was a revolution. Having a _mobile_ power source that was not animial based was also revolutionary.
Microsoft's time to patch a remote hole where the attacker can gain complete access to your computer: two months. Open Source's time to patch a much less serious bug where the attacker can merely crash your computer: three days.
Conclusivly proving it is faster to fix a small bug than a large one?
Wow, what a brilliant observation.
In other news Celine Dion sues 3M, the inventor of post-it notes under the DMCA for the production of a copy protection circumvention technology.
Anything that doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
Back even farther, guess what many of the "early adopters" of photography used it for.
Article 1: No person, group of persons, or government may initiate force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual's self or property.
Article 2: Force may be morally and legally used only in defense against those who violate Article 1.
Cool, force may morally and legally be used to protect one's self from fraud...this could get interesting.
'This is the last remaining communications medium that allows the small person to participate,' said Barbara Simons, past president of the Association for Computing Machinery.
... oh and walking around downtown with a sign that says "The world is coming to and end!".
except, of course, for ham radio, direct mail, public access cable, personal ads, classified ads
Hmmm... the last one kind of reminds me of this article.
But when you lease a car you are taking physical possession of an object. When you are licensed to drive you have the right to DO something. You have the right to drive (within the speed limit, in the proper lane for your direction of travel, etc.) With software you are licensed to do something also, i.e. use the software (on one computer, not in a way that disparages the Company ;), etc). In software it is the actual license that is identified by the serial number. The shipped software is identical and the serial number is only incoporated as part of the installation process, which is part of the use of the software.
OK, last week I went down to the DMV and bought a license to drive. Now I have the "right" to drive on the roads. This week I decide I don't want to drive any more so I sell the license to Joe Blow down the street.
Does Joe Blow now have the "right" to drive?
Software licenses work exactly the same way. You have the right to use, but not to transfer the right to use.
If bridges are so all fired wonderful, why do I have to creep along at 2 mph every day when I cross the bridge going home. If the bridge was so wonderfully designed, traffic shouldn't back up. And sometimes the traffic across the bridge stops completely. It's as frustrating as if my computer just locked and it takes 2 hours for it to reboot.
... when it locks up it just takes a couple of minutes to clear things up!!!!
They should build bridges like they write software
However wrote this article either doesn't use many bridges (at least not around here) or doesn't know how good the software is.
Actually, the article doesn't say that it was a Washington State Corporation, but a corporation with a presence in Washington state. It could be headquartered anywhere.
The article says it has about 7000 people at it's central site. But I don't think that it specifically says that this site is in Washington State.
All in all, it is pretty vague.
and this doesn't even go into the similarities between prayer and tech support...
Ebola is not the flesh eating bacteria. It is a particularly nasty tropical disease (virus?).
Actually, by my (perhaps suspect) calucations .5 x .5 x .5 inches = .125 cubic inches (i.e. 1/8th cubic inches).
2/3" by 2/3" by 2/3" is a lot closer to the 1/4 cubic inches stated in the article.