Come on. I've been online since the mid 80s. Every time someone complains about spammers or bad protocols or _______ eating up all the bandwidth they are wrong. Reality is that Spam is not fun - but it is not really costing us the gazillions of dollars people say it is. The worst part is that spam can be managed by very simple tools like server-side filters or the the built in spam filter in my email client. The server kills the V14GrA and f4st C@$H junk and my client keeps the rest of what I don't want to see off my plate. Reality check:
* 50% of the phone calls I get are from sales people. * 80% of the snail mail I get is marketing junk. The other 20% are bills. * 25-30% of TV time consists of commercials. * 10% of the email I see is spam. The other 200 spams go directly to Thunderwhatever's junk folder where I occasionally check them, then purge them.
Brain dead system administrators, stupid users who fill in every form possible online and wanton use of internet explorer are really the cause of the spam problem. Show me someone who gets thousands of spams, and I'll show you somoene who has posted their email address to a public website or usenet or has clicked on install for some popup marketing tool for IE.
Indiana has some of the best schools but almost no startups.
here's the deal: There's no money for startups. there's lot's of lip service to funding new businesses but at the end of the day, there's no money because:
* Indiana bankers don't understand anything that can't be measured in square foot, salvage value or acres. * Right now, all the money is getting sunk into biotech ventures... which have a 16 year startup cycle. * There's little support for business outside indianapolis * There's virtually no way for small business to be heard by the legislature... as the large corporations and unions literally have a tunnel to the legislature from the ISTA building across the street. * There is no good local beer.
Why the government even tries is beyond me. Amateur rocketry, which is safe, fun, educational and produces the rocket scientists of tommorow is now regulated.
but I can still stop by my local roadside fireworks/adult bookstore/stuckey's and buy as much stuff that goes boom, crackle and sizzle for two for the price of one... all I have to do is join the Fireworks PAC...
Comdex was at its best in the early '90s -- that's when all the big,bad earth shattering kabooms were announced. DesqView... Windows... Gupta SQL... WordPerfect versions... etc... New Intel Chips.
Everything was timed around comdex. And a lot of companies unloaded the marketing budget, too.
By 1994 the show was ruined by Microsoft the WindowsWorld sideshow became almost as big as the actual comdex show. Now the industry is so fragmented. By the way - Whatever happened to NBI - makers of Legacy - the best ever word processor?
Think Tanks generally serve political organizations in the role that "industry analysts" fill in the technology industry. Their opinions are hardly ever independent, they are dependent on support from the very institutions they analyze and they are woefully inaccurate. Think tanks create and idealogue that is often used by political parties, special interest groups and PACs to sell their ideas to the public to get support for a candidate, a vote in congress or buy in on an unpopular judicial decision. It's no different than Gartner, IDC or Meta saying that a linux based software package isn't ready for prime time or isn't in the "magic quadrant."
We should be happy that Linux and open source in general is now being taken on in a political arena... because the oposition is asking people to pay more money. Like it or not, tax cuts, handouts, cost reductions and the like get votes -- and those fighting open source will find themselves on the wrong side of coin in the world of fiscal politics...
First, a site must be attractive. You may be a purist who still thinks that pretty pictures and good design isn't necessary if you present enough information, but you'd be wrong. Actually, this really depends on your audience. Go to this site or google or ebay and then tell me about attractive = requirement.
Third, you've got to make your site usable. That's why you shouldn't design to a particular resolution your site becomes unusable when, say, I have two windows on my screen. Or I fire up the Treo... or for that matter, when my half-blind dad browses at 640x480 on his 19" monitor. As for all the tripe you dripped about style guides and the like, reality is that you can do an OUTSTANDING job making a site that looks good at many resolutions. The web is not print media. It is designed to scroll vertically (hence anchors and hyperlinks)... It can be resized and altered by the user when she goes into preferences and overrides your beautiful 9pt type.
I started with a Palm Pilot Pro ($500)... moved to a visor ($250), then to a Kyocera Smartphone ($400)... and now have a Treo 270 ($99). The 270 is a little flimsy, but it is a very practical device. Too bad T-Mobile has some of the functionality locked down.
The PDA isn't dead. It just isn't worth $500 like it was three years ago. Sony's products didn't make much sense because the value of the pda wasn't cameras, big screens, gadgety keyboards and the like. The value was to replace my day-timer, allow me to carry an e-book or two and from time to time, keep me entertained in the waiting room (Invaders anyone)...
I do get a kick when people show me their new fancy-schmancy camera phone... that they just paid $299 for... why you wouldn't get a smart phone is beyond me.
A failed or struggling ERP implementation is no an IT issue. Implementing new financial and business software is very difficult, especially in organizations that require multiple methodologies to manage money. Success requires that nearly every employee change some facet of their job... and when you look at a university that is a staggering number of people.
Fast moving private corporations struggle with ERP implementations - some even go out of business and blame it on the software... when in reality the problem was millions of threads holding gulliver down.
If you took away all the federal subsidies for air travel, the industry would have made a net profit of almost exactly zero dollars overall, since its inception.
rumsfield mode on ---- Having large numbers of jets that the government can use but not maintain infrastructure for is strategically important. This is also why there are large subsidies for the blue water shipping industry as well as for the rail system. How do you think that we got 150,000 troops and equipment over to Iraq so quickly?
Our airline industry is a critical strategic asset. ---------rumsfield mode off
There is nothing novel whatsoever about using a native capability of a display adapter or graphics library to render something to the screen. This is like allowing someone to patent green or blue dye for white paint.
Apple should be ashamed. There's a reason corporate America doesn't like them: they have been shifty on products, terms and technologies. If you are going to patent something, then make sure it's novel. That doesn't mean patenting a method to display a freaking window.
I'm glad to see some of the software as an application people have some success. Will be interesting to see if they can adapt to the short term focus that being public brings.
Whoever wrote the article is basically blind in one eye and can't see out the other. The author is saying ebay, a box-jelly fish, should behave like Sears, which is an elephant.
Sears, Roebuck & Company is a retailer. They sell products to consumers. Because Sears is the seller, it is up to Sears to provide compelling terms for buyers to stand out from the rest of the mail order, door to door and local store hucksters.
Ebay is an auction. They allow one person to sell something to another. It isn't up to Ebay to provide protections. It's up to the buyer and seller to agree on them.
Earth to slashdot: The record industry model is based on selling albums. Online music kills their revenue model. They own the IP so they dictate the packaging. Game over.
OK great, an product that does 90 % of what excel does. here are the three killer components of excel:
* MS Querry * Pivot Tables & Charts * Add Ins
Excel didn't become a killer product until they bought what became MS Querry from a company called pioneer software. With MS Querry, the wall between spreadsheet and database came down and users who knew spreadsheets could to detailed analysis and reporting. Pivot tables extended this capability.
Add ins made it easy for users... I have yet to see a decent replacement for pivot tables.
At the end of the day, the solution is super simple: add a receipt printer to the machine. White copy goes in the backup ballot box. The yellow copy is for the voter. The voter can validate his or her vote on the spot.
Why Diebold and these other jokers in the biz don't see $$$ for selling printers and supplies I don't know. That's more suspicious than anything.
I don't think there can be any true capitalist. That's nothing more than an oxymoron. Since capitalists are driven by profits (i.e. money), they'll do anything for it.
Capitalism is not the same as the love of money. Capitalists believe in free, fair and minimally regulated markets. Supply and demand rule.
You are confusing the concept of a "Yankee Trader" with that of a capitalist.
Argentina was a posterboy for at least three of the four above. Argentina experienced MASSIVE RESESION.
is it better to take everyone deeper in the hole or should we not try to have everyone's standards go up ?
It is better to pull standards up. From my American perspective, that is what is going on. The US standard of living has not changed on the average and the standard of living in countries experiencing growth will go up.
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Come on. I've been online since the mid 80s. Every time someone complains about spammers or bad protocols or _______ eating up all the bandwidth they are wrong. Reality is that Spam is not fun - but it is not really costing us the gazillions of dollars people say it is. The worst part is that spam can be managed by very simple tools like server-side filters or the the built in spam filter in my email client. The server kills the V14GrA and f4st C@$H junk and my client keeps the rest of what I don't want to see off my plate. Reality check:
* 50% of the phone calls I get are from sales people.
* 80% of the snail mail I get is marketing junk. The other 20% are bills.
* 25-30% of TV time consists of commercials.
* 10% of the email I see is spam. The other 200 spams go directly to Thunderwhatever's junk folder where I occasionally check them, then purge them.
Brain dead system administrators, stupid users who fill in every form possible online and wanton use of internet explorer are really the cause of the spam problem. Show me someone who gets thousands of spams, and I'll show you somoene who has posted their email address to a public website or usenet or has clicked on install for some popup marketing tool for IE.
Indiana has some of the best schools but almost no startups.
here's the deal: There's no money for startups. there's lot's of lip service to funding new businesses but at the end of the day, there's no money because:
* Indiana bankers don't understand anything that can't be measured in square foot, salvage value or acres.
* Right now, all the money is getting sunk into biotech ventures
* There's little support for business outside indianapolis
* There's virtually no way for small business to be heard by the legislature
* There is no good local beer.
Why the government even tries is beyond me. Amateur rocketry, which is safe, fun, educational and produces the rocket scientists of tommorow is now regulated.
but I can still stop by my local roadside fireworks/adult bookstore/stuckey's and buy as much stuff that goes boom, crackle and sizzle for two for the price of one... all I have to do is join the Fireworks PAC...
Governement idiots.
Comdex was at its best in the early '90s -- that's when all the big,bad earth shattering kabooms were announced. DesqView... Windows... Gupta SQL... WordPerfect versions... etc... New Intel Chips.
Everything was timed around comdex. And a lot of companies unloaded the marketing budget, too.
By 1994 the show was ruined by Microsoft the WindowsWorld sideshow became almost as big as the actual comdex show. Now the industry is so fragmented. By the way - Whatever happened to NBI - makers of Legacy - the best ever word processor?
Think Tanks generally serve political organizations in the role that "industry analysts" fill in the technology industry. Their opinions are hardly ever independent, they are dependent on support from the very institutions they analyze and they are woefully inaccurate. Think tanks create and idealogue that is often used by political parties, special interest groups and PACs to sell their ideas to the public to get support for a candidate, a vote in congress or buy in on an unpopular judicial decision. It's no different than Gartner, IDC or Meta saying that a linux based software package isn't ready for prime time or isn't in the "magic quadrant."
We should be happy that Linux and open source in general is now being taken on in a political arena... because the oposition is asking people to pay more money. Like it or not, tax cuts, handouts, cost reductions and the like get votes -- and those fighting open source will find themselves on the wrong side of coin in the world of fiscal politics...
First, a site must be attractive. You may be a purist who still thinks that pretty pictures and good design isn't necessary if you present enough information, but you'd be wrong.
Actually, this really depends on your audience. Go to this site or google or ebay and then tell me about attractive = requirement.
Third, you've got to make your site usable.
That's why you shouldn't design to a particular resolution your site becomes unusable when, say, I have two windows on my screen. Or I fire up the Treo... or for that matter, when my half-blind dad browses at 640x480 on his 19" monitor. As for all the tripe you dripped about style guides and the like, reality is that you can do an OUTSTANDING job making a site that looks good at many resolutions. The web is not print media. It is designed to scroll vertically (hence anchors and hyperlinks)... It can be resized and altered by the user when she goes into preferences and overrides your beautiful 9pt type.
Why does it matter? Just design your site so that it will scale nicely. Web pages don't have to be fixed rectangles like dialog boxes.
I started with a Palm Pilot Pro ($500)... moved to a visor ($250), then to a Kyocera Smartphone ($400)... and now have a Treo 270 ($99). The 270 is a little flimsy, but it is a very practical device. Too bad T-Mobile has some of the functionality locked down.
The PDA isn't dead. It just isn't worth $500 like it was three years ago. Sony's products didn't make much sense because the value of the pda wasn't cameras, big screens, gadgety keyboards and the like. The value was to replace my day-timer, allow me to carry an e-book or two and from time to time, keep me entertained in the waiting room (Invaders anyone)...
I do get a kick when people show me their new fancy-schmancy camera phone... that they just paid $299 for... why you wouldn't get a smart phone is beyond me.
A failed or struggling ERP implementation is no an IT issue. Implementing new financial and business software is very difficult, especially in organizations that require multiple methodologies to manage money. Success requires that nearly every employee change some facet of their job... and when you look at a university that is a staggering number of people.
Fast moving private corporations struggle with ERP implementations - some even go out of business and blame it on the software... when in reality the problem was millions of threads holding gulliver down.
Because I'm getting in the latex finger/thumb print business.
If you took away all the federal subsidies for air travel, the industry would have made a net profit of almost exactly zero dollars overall, since its inception.
rumsfield mode on ----
Having large numbers of jets that the government can use but not maintain infrastructure for is strategically important. This is also why there are large subsidies for the blue water shipping industry as well as for the rail system. How do you think that we got 150,000 troops and equipment over to Iraq so quickly?
Our airline industry is a critical strategic asset.
---------rumsfield mode off
There is nothing novel whatsoever about using a native capability of a display adapter or graphics library to render something to the screen. This is like allowing someone to patent green or blue dye for white paint.
Apple should be ashamed. There's a reason corporate America doesn't like them: they have been shifty on products, terms and technologies. If you are going to patent something, then make sure it's novel. That doesn't mean patenting a method to display a freaking window.
I feel better now.
That Intellectual Property is worth about 85% than IP owners think it is?
The public reason is that a receipt enables vote buying
I suppose that would be a problem, but vote buying exists without receipts. There's a simple fix. Don't let the voter take it home with them.
I'm glad to see some of the software as an application people have some success. Will be interesting to see if they can adapt to the short term focus that being public brings.
Whoever wrote the article is basically blind in one eye and can't see out the other. The author is saying ebay, a box-jelly fish, should behave like Sears, which is an elephant.
Sears, Roebuck & Company is a retailer. They sell products to consumers. Because Sears is the seller, it is up to Sears to provide compelling terms for buyers to stand out from the rest of the mail order, door to door and local store hucksters.
Ebay is an auction. They allow one person to sell something to another. It isn't up to Ebay to provide protections. It's up to the buyer and seller to agree on them.
Earth to slashdot: The record industry model is based on selling albums. Online music kills their revenue model. They own the IP so they dictate the packaging. Game over.
OK great, an product that does 90 % of what excel does. here are the three killer components of excel:
* MS Querry
* Pivot Tables & Charts
* Add Ins
Excel didn't become a killer product until they bought what became MS Querry from a company called pioneer software. With MS Querry, the wall between spreadsheet and database came down and users who knew spreadsheets could to detailed analysis and reporting. Pivot tables extended this capability.
Add ins made it easy for users... I have yet to see a decent replacement for pivot tables.
At the end of the day, the solution is super simple: add a receipt printer to the machine. White copy goes in the backup ballot box. The yellow copy is for the voter. The voter can validate his or her vote on the spot.
Why Diebold and these other jokers in the biz don't see $$$ for selling printers and supplies I don't know. That's more suspicious than anything.
Illustrator - Freehand more than shakes a stick at it.
Actually, there are more than a few packages that blow away Illustrator... even Corel Draw.
Adobe has done a good job putting our great products - I just wish their pricing was more affordable.
There is a huge difference between a best-selling book and a well-made one. Much like software.
I don't think there can be any true capitalist. That's nothing more than an oxymoron. Since capitalists are driven by profits (i.e. money), they'll do anything for it.
Capitalism is not the same as the love of money. Capitalists believe in free, fair and minimally regulated markets. Supply and demand rule.
You are confusing the concept of a "Yankee Trader" with that of a capitalist.
Capitalists simply screwed up. Argentina's entire economy was run by capitalists in USA (and IMF)
The IMF is a lot of things... but it is not capitalist as it regularly manipulates currencies or encourages that practice. The IMF is opportunist.
The last 50 years certainly proove that economical growth is a myth
If anything the last 50 years have proven that the following tools do not work in capitalism (and rightfully so!):
* Currency manipulation
* Massive overregulation
* Corruption
* Political instability / oppression
* Monopolies
Argentina was a posterboy for at least three of the four above. Argentina experienced MASSIVE RESESION.
is it better to take everyone deeper in the hole or should we not try to have everyone's standards go up ?
It is better to pull standards up. From my American perspective, that is what is going on. The US standard of living has not changed on the average and the standard of living in countries experiencing growth will go up.
right up until it start working against them,
The market should never "work against" a true capitalist. A true capitalist uses the expanding global market as a tool.