Unless it's sitting in your wallet that is, it's only cold hard cash which ever stops. Money sitting in a bank account is being used by that bank to invest in stock markets etc. It's being loaned out.
They should be developing something like egroupware instead.
Honestly, why try to copy Outlook when something like eGroupWare does more of what a small business wants in a dead easy to set up, manage and use system that scales to hundreds or thousands of users. And... no Outlook required.
Ok here's a tip I got from my karate instructor, when someone's spoiling for a fight and are clearly about to start flailing, ask them a question, something dumb, irrelevant and obscure. When they take their eyes off you to think about it (and yup, people do exactly that when they're thinking, one of the reasons mobile phones are so dangerous in cars) you kick them in the balls and run for it.
The moral is watch what people do, don't listen to what they say.
The guys at the top of companies are all politicians, they tell you what you want to hear while continuing as always.
Concerted: 1 : to settle or adjust by conferring and reaching an agreement 2 : to make a plan for intransitive senses : to act in harmony or conjunction
If we take the second meaning then, yes, free and open source developers are in fact acting in harmony or conjunction. It's the software license and underlying philosophy which defines them as acting in concert.
Just because a flock of birds doesn't have a leader giving orders doesn't mean they aren't acting in concert.
Read up on self organisation and emergent systems:
Any type of data, trivial to develop web based applications which access an SQL backend, or which don't. Scales easily to hundreds of users, has a very powerful built in security and authentication system.
First thing to do is make sure you're eating a diet which provides everything your body and brain needs. The western diet is... abysmal... mostly; mediterranean isn't bad.
The body and brain are chemical machines, they need certain quantities of certain substances to run at their maximum potential and if you're not consuming the right substances, they'll be artificially limited to a lower performance. So you're wasting your time if you eat crap then try to boost your performance with drugs.
1: Dump the desktop metaphor. 2: Get rid of menu bars, status bars, process bars, window borders, titles etc. 3: Go full screen for every application
Unfortunately we're still getting portable machines, handhelds, pdas with very limited screen real estate ridiculously cluttered by windows, borders, menus, button bars, status bars. Qtopia for instance is a pain in the arse because of this.
All of the standard desktop operations. They're doing to the desktop what the textile mills did to the small home producers. There's a whole economy of IT people who support small businesses and homes, sorry, that's going to go away in a few years Google will be mopping up 80-90% of the tech support labour which supports small businesses and home users. Medium->Large businesses will come up with similar strategies to reduce their IT costs, if you're smart you'll be building products to help them.
It's just an inevitable result of increasing bandwidth, just as transport improvements made factories economically viable.
I once had to move from TSM to Netbackup due to corporate policies. It was horrible. TSM's a fabulously powerful bit of kit i'd recommend to anyone looking for an enterprise backup system.
I've used Amanda, Bakula, Netbackup, Networker and by far the best of the bunch for enterprise size networks is TSM. Easily. Netbackup is something I still have cold sweats and nightmares about, ok, not quite nightmares, just the occasional cold sweat. It's really a small network system which has been kludged to "enterprise" class. TSM was designed for managing large network backups from the start.
Sorry to say it but these days most of the martial arts you mentioned are now either sports with rules protecting the combatants or have bugger all to do with common ways of being attacked. This includes stuff like UFC which rule out attacks on "vital points" like eyes, throat, groin.
Look, they generally start as powerful self defence techniques which can be used when attacked by untrained attackers but the instant you start competitions, add rules they become methods of fencing for points. The training and techniques change for the tournaments to the point that they are largely useless against the kind of wild untrained and violent attackers they were originally designed for.
You do what you train and if you're training for head height roundhouse kicks , as good as it looks, you will end up on your arse when you try to use one on the street.
So, if you're going to practice a martial art, make sure it's with a teacher who teaches the original self defence art, not watered down long distance tournament fencing techniques. This is the elusive "become a master" step. It has nothing to do with the particular art or style btw, they're all ways of manipulating the opponent through force. It's purely down to the instructor.
p.s. you don't take or know a martial art, you have to practice it.
Most "engineers" are mechanics. It is indeed time that the software developers, in fact everyone in the industry started to act in a more professional manner, that means understanding the principles, designing and building systems which are known to be able perform to specifications. When I say known, I mean modeled and tested.
You can start taking the profession seriously by joining your local professional engineering body.
So when the there is a pileup, if you're in one type or model of car you're more likely to kick the bucket than another model. And you know what, people do look at safety when buying a car so there's a gradual evolution to safer vehicles.
You're right, diversity isn't the be all and end all, it doesn't help the individual, but look at the number of species on the planet which are not single sex species. The whole point of sex is to increase diversity so that when disaster hits, there are enough mutations out there that the species as a whole doesn't disappear. The organisation isn't halted completely.
Okay evolution in viruses is easy. A couple of random numbers and you're away. Use one to determine whether to modifiy the virus itself (low probability, on the order of 5% because most mutations are bad rather than good for an organism), whether to leave it alone and copy it as is or whether to lengthen or shorten the code. The second random number determines which byte within the code to modify if you're going to modify the code and a third random number gives you the value to change it to.
There you go... Evolution. Most of the modified copies won't work and are "dead", but some will and they will go on to pass on their code to the next generation.
Additional strategies... Don't infect every potential file with every execution, that'll give you low diversity and you're looking for wide diversity. A few per execution, also chosen at random. Also don't bother checking to see if a file is already infected, just re-infect it because most of the infections will after all be dead; think of it as predatory behaviour.
So you now have an evolving organism taking advantage of the software environment. A monoculture such as Windows and Word will allow it to spread far and wide. A Linux or OSX monoculture would be just as vulnerable.
Because as a scientist I couldn't be arsed with the IT side of it. I had data logged in text files. Data which needed relatively simple processing. I could either have spent days writing code to load the data process it save it or I could do the same job in an hour in a spreadsheet. No brainer. Spreadsheet's easier (It wasn't excel btw because of the size of the data set).
You can't assume tools are necessarily going to be used the way you intend them, so don't include arbitrary limits.
I used spreadsheets to process loads of data samples, hundreds of thousands of points and frankly excel or any spreadsheet is ideal for preliminary data processing, as long as it handles the data. The grandparent should get his prejudices out of the way the fewer arbitrary limits any software has the better, what it's actually used for is irrelevant and up to the users.
Which means cheap spaceflight, which means high volume and mass production, which means private companies. I don't really care much about space science because that'll be much cheaper and easier when folk like me can afford to get into space.
Who will write some wrapper scripts so that any heavyweight processes started are farmed out to the pool of available machines. i.e. use your grid for everything, including open office, thunderbird and anything else you can get to work. Write some wrappers which make it easy to distribute jobs all over the place, people will use it if it's easy. Then, when you need more throughput you can transparently just add more machines.
The middle and upper levels of management will follow because frankly, distance does matter, despite what Wipro think. Eventually they will be wholly Chinese companies owned by foreign shareholders. I don't really have a problem with this, it pushes the chinese economy up, makes them more expensive.
It'll level out, the important thing is to allow the currencies to float freely, which isn't happening at the moment. That's what you should be complaining about to your MP/representative.
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Unless it's sitting in your wallet that is, it's only cold hard cash which ever stops. Money sitting in a bank account is being used by that bank to invest in stock markets etc. It's being loaned out.
They should be developing something like egroupware instead.
Honestly, why try to copy Outlook when something like eGroupWare does more of what a small business wants in a dead easy to set up, manage and use system that scales to hundreds or thousands of users. And... no Outlook required.
Ok here's a tip I got from my karate instructor, when someone's spoiling for a fight and are clearly about to start flailing, ask them a question, something dumb, irrelevant and obscure. When they take their eyes off you to think about it (and yup, people do exactly that when they're thinking, one of the reasons mobile phones are so dangerous in cars) you kick them in the balls and run for it.
The moral is watch what people do, don't listen to what they say.
The guys at the top of companies are all politicians, they tell you what you want to hear while continuing as always.
From Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Concerted:
1 : to settle or adjust by conferring and reaching an agreement
2 : to make a plan for intransitive senses : to act in harmony or conjunction
If we take the second meaning then, yes, free and open source developers are in fact acting in harmony or conjunction. It's the software license and underlying philosophy which defines them as acting in concert.
Just because a flock of birds doesn't have a leader giving orders doesn't mean they aren't acting in concert.
Read up on self organisation and emergent systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization
Any type of data, trivial to develop web based applications which access an SQL backend, or which don't. Scales easily to hundreds of users, has a very powerful built in security and authentication system.
I mean, honestly.
http://www.jabber.org/software/servers.shtml
Yes, you can get a server for a Windows platform, yes you can pay for it too if it helps.
First thing to do is make sure you're eating a diet which provides everything your body and brain needs. The western diet is... abysmal... mostly; mediterranean isn't bad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4511759.stm
The body and brain are chemical machines, they need certain quantities of certain substances to run at their maximum potential and if you're not consuming the right substances, they'll be artificially limited to a lower performance. So you're wasting your time if you eat crap then try to boost your performance with drugs.
1: Dump the desktop metaphor.
2: Get rid of menu bars, status bars, process bars, window borders, titles etc.
3: Go full screen for every application
Unfortunately we're still getting portable machines, handhelds, pdas with very limited screen real estate ridiculously cluttered by windows, borders, menus, button bars, status bars. Qtopia for instance is a pain in the arse because of this.
All of the standard desktop operations. They're doing to the desktop what the textile mills did to the small home producers. There's a whole economy of IT people who support small businesses and homes, sorry, that's going to go away in a few years Google will be mopping up 80-90% of the tech support labour which supports small businesses and home users. Medium->Large businesses will come up with similar strategies to reduce their IT costs, if you're smart you'll be building products to help them.
It's just an inevitable result of increasing bandwidth, just as transport improvements made factories economically viable.
Course the battery life suc........
fully replicated servers in multiple countries...
I once had to move from TSM to Netbackup due to corporate policies. It was horrible. TSM's a fabulously powerful bit of kit i'd recommend to anyone looking for an enterprise backup system.
I've used Amanda, Bakula, Netbackup, Networker and by far the best of the bunch for enterprise size networks is TSM. Easily. Netbackup is something I still have cold sweats and nightmares about, ok, not quite nightmares, just the occasional cold sweat. It's really a small network system which has been kludged to "enterprise" class. TSM was designed for managing large network backups from the start.
Sorry to say it but these days most of the martial arts you mentioned are now either sports with rules protecting the combatants or have bugger all to do with common ways of being attacked. This includes stuff like UFC which rule out attacks on "vital points" like eyes, throat, groin.
Look, they generally start as powerful self defence techniques which can be used when attacked by untrained attackers but the instant you start competitions, add rules they become methods of fencing for points. The training and techniques change for the tournaments to the point that they are largely useless against the kind of wild untrained and violent attackers they were originally designed for.
You do what you train and if you're training for head height roundhouse kicks , as good as it looks, you will end up on your arse when you try to use one on the street.
So, if you're going to practice a martial art, make sure it's with a teacher who teaches the original self defence art, not watered down long distance tournament fencing techniques. This is the elusive "become a master" step. It has nothing to do with the particular art or style btw, they're all ways of manipulating the opponent through force. It's purely down to the instructor.
p.s. you don't take or know a martial art, you have to practice it.
Build it and they will come... Or was that baseball?
Most "engineers" are mechanics. It is indeed time that the software developers, in fact everyone in the industry started to act in a more professional manner, that means understanding the principles, designing and building systems which are known to be able perform to specifications. When I say known, I mean modeled and tested.
You can start taking the profession seriously by joining your local professional engineering body.
So when the there is a pileup, if you're in one type or model of car you're more likely to kick the bucket than another model. And you know what, people do look at safety when buying a car so there's a gradual evolution to safer vehicles.
You're right, diversity isn't the be all and end all, it doesn't help the individual, but look at the number of species on the planet which are not single sex species. The whole point of sex is to increase diversity so that when disaster hits, there are enough mutations out there that the species as a whole doesn't disappear. The organisation isn't halted completely.
Okay evolution in viruses is easy. A couple of random numbers and you're away. Use one to determine whether to modifiy the virus itself (low probability, on the order of 5% because most mutations are bad rather than good for an organism), whether to leave it alone and copy it as is or whether to lengthen or shorten the code. The second random number determines which byte within the code to modify if you're going to modify the code and a third random number gives you the value to change it to.
There you go... Evolution. Most of the modified copies won't work and are "dead", but some will and they will go on to pass on their code to the next generation.
Additional strategies... Don't infect every potential file with every execution, that'll give you low diversity and you're looking for wide diversity. A few per execution, also chosen at random. Also don't bother checking to see if a file is already infected, just re-infect it because most of the infections will after all be dead; think of it as predatory behaviour.
So you now have an evolving organism taking advantage of the software environment. A monoculture such as Windows and Word will allow it to spread far and wide. A Linux or OSX monoculture would be just as vulnerable.
Because as a scientist I couldn't be arsed with the IT side of it. I had data logged in text files. Data which needed relatively simple processing. I could either have spent days writing code to load the data process it save it or I could do the same job in an hour in a spreadsheet. No brainer. Spreadsheet's easier (It wasn't excel btw because of the size of the data set).
You can't assume tools are necessarily going to be used the way you intend them, so don't include arbitrary limits.
I used spreadsheets to process loads of data samples, hundreds of thousands of points and frankly excel or any spreadsheet is ideal for preliminary data processing, as long as it handles the data. The grandparent should get his prejudices out of the way the fewer arbitrary limits any software has the better, what it's actually used for is irrelevant and up to the users.
Which means cheap spaceflight, which means high volume and mass production, which means private companies. I don't really care much about space science because that'll be much cheaper and easier when folk like me can afford to get into space.
So... Kill NASA.
oh and we got ours for free, so I don't think your job's all that secure even if you do find a use for it. :)
Who will write some wrapper scripts so that any heavyweight processes started are farmed out to the pool of available machines. i.e. use your grid for everything, including open office, thunderbird and anything else you can get to work. Write some wrappers which make it easy to distribute jobs all over the place, people will use it if it's easy. Then, when you need more throughput you can transparently just add more machines.
lol. I mean, come one, when will people learn? For some reason people never believe it can happen to them.
The middle and upper levels of management will follow because frankly, distance does matter, despite what Wipro think. Eventually they will be wholly Chinese companies owned by foreign shareholders. I don't really have a problem with this, it pushes the chinese economy up, makes them more expensive.
It'll level out, the important thing is to allow the currencies to float freely, which isn't happening at the moment. That's what you should be complaining about to your MP/representative.