Uh, sounds like you need a better project manager.
Project managers should not be the ones adding requirements. Architects, marketing and customers are supposed to do that.
Project managers do get a lot of say on the quality of testing, but if they want to mess with it, then they should also take responsability for the quality of the software itself.
Read your posts. You have a bit of growing up to do as far as your social skills go. You are replying to real people that put serious thought and effort into their messages and articles. Respect the fact that they are posting their ideas for you to learn from.
Mozilla as a product based on Netscape 5.0 which was based on previous versions of Netscape which were based on Mosaic which was first released in 1993. Give it 10 years. Judge the quality of Mozilla in 2003.
Q3A is definitely based on older versions of Quake, Doom & Wolfenstein.
The fact is that if you are a programmer for a commercial product, you should not expect any of your code to last more than 3-4 years in that product. The product will continue to improve. Those improvements entail replacing older code, eventually replacing all older code.
Couldn't you come up with some kind of translucent bump on the surface to indicate tactile reference points? Use dots of scotch tape or some kind of epoxy that doesn't hurt the surface. Better yet, try these adhesive BumpOns from 3M. Here's some that are transparent acrylic dots.I bet you always wondered where to get those little acrylic dots. These things stick to glass, wood or metal. They stick firm and handle abuse, but come off with no residue.
If the "reasonable man" would be confused by your branding and think that you product was manufactured and sold by another company, then indeed you could be libel of trademark infringement. It is the proving of that confusion that is the challenge to be taken by the prosecutor.
Also I, being a reasonable man, believe that modifying the first letter of a brand does make it hard to confuse it with another brand. Your example would be in parallel with Gaim vs. AIM if you offered "Gnilla Wafers" by Gabisco. I don't think anyone would confuse that with "Nilla Wafers" by Nabisco.
It all comes down to perception. If the real owner of the system (Dad, Boss, whatever) perceives non-Windows OS's to be harder to use, then he will never approve changing the OS on his systems. Also remember, people hate change.
A good way to win someone over would be to take an extra system, or get approval to create a dual-boot box, and demonstrate Linux. Also, you would need to explain the philosophy of Open Source. That should at least get him to approve Linux for your own use, especially if you are passionate about it.
Personally I don't know anyone who runs any window manager on production machine.
Well, I think that's the problem. I recall a day when the majority of computing and scientific professionals had a Sun or other Unix workstation on their desktop. Now they all use Windows NT.
Gnome is Sun's shot at offering a viable desktop environment and to perhaps recover some of the desktop marketshare. I certainly welcome the effort.
It's just like a technologist to take a simple, uncluttered interface and attempt to complicate it with "improved" technology. Adding a webcam, webserver, internet access and administration costs could kill the project. Keep it simple.
Also, by just allowing the world to view the board will affect what is written.
If you want to see what the board says, then just visit it. If instead, you want to publish opinions on the web, well there are plenty of ways to do that.
I hear too many assumptions being made. Yes this is a SQL interface. That does not imply that there is a full featured database behind it. It only means that you can use this popular language to retrieve data.
So what if FreeNet does not follow all tenents of a mature Relational Database model. Just because there is a SQL interface doesn't mean you have to run a business on it.
I'm not expressing my opinion of the H1B program, it has its good points and bad points. But, do you seriously expect the world to believe that the H1B program is what saved the US from rampant inflation during Clinton's presidency?
SiteAngel monitors online customer satisfaction. It continuously simulates and measures the true end-to-end customer experience at a Web site. Use SiteAngel to compare how your site's performance and availability stack up to service-level agreements.
You can centrally manage user accounts and group profiles for a wide variety of systems. You can take it further by assigning employees to roles which causes user accounts to be created with the necessary authority to do their specific job.
The Control-SA server runs on UNIX; the administration GUI runs on NT or UNIX.
Password synchronization is done by catching the password when it is changed on a system and sending it out to that user's accounts on other systems. Passwords are not stored in Control-SA. Another way to do password synch is to use the "Control-SA PassPort" product which lets users type in their new password in a HTTPS(SSL) web page. The new password then gets pushed out to their accounts by our server.
I have a question though. How will you synchronize passwords on California's state mainframes without requiring software to be installed on them?
Sorry for the advertisement, but I have a lot of respect for this product and my co-workers. It is very popular with large & medium companies and government agencies.
Wireless is necessary for some businesses to be efficient. Consider manufacturing plant floor IS systems. It isn't easy or cheap to retrofit a plant with copperwire. Plants often are reconfigured based on current production needs. Wireless is perfect.
Others:
Store or warehouse inventory control devices, ie scanners.
Hospitals where doctors & nurses each have handheld touch screen displays that bring up patient status & records.
Schools where students & teachers change rooms every hour, but will need constant access to school servers.
There's tons...
I highly doubt that SGI believed that the 3D power that they could offer would ever be used on commodity desktops. They stopped being visionary back when Jim Clark left, at least from the CEO level. Ed McCraken led SGI down a path of arrogance and myopic visions of customer delight. They always thought that they were dictating what technology would benefit their customers.
SGI's relationship with Hollywood, in particular, has been overbuilt. Why don't they use it to realize a larger market? They do all this work getting their systems into product placements in movies, but they don't actually have a product that regular movie-goers can buy. SGI never conceived that consumer products would be a good idea for their business model. Someone should have told that to their Windows NT System Engineers. I just think it's a shame to see such a well respected brand to be wasted.
I'll disagree with you on that one. You won't learn as much developing games for fun, as a passtime as you would if you were developing a game for a market reason. Maybe after you've put in a couple years on commercial games projects you can go home and write games for fun. It's just that the most creative and technically challenging work comes from having many tight constraints.
The answer is to get a mailbox that can take a beating. Mount it on the ground far from the road and extend the actual box to the road using a big horizontal arm that can swing when it is hit. I've seen these types survive for decades in Minnesota
I have to agree with sporkboy on this one. I don't have the time to monkey with file conversion when I have to get the job done. If you use the best tools for the job, then you are encouraging free competition. If you think those tools should be available on Linux, then get thee to a text editor and compiler.
I spent a month at my company's development shop in Israel. Our product's first GUI was written for X Windows. Later, the Windows version was released with more functionality. Even the Unix zealots there have a second Windows PC hooked up to a KVM switch. Deal with it.
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Uh, sounds like you need a better project manager.
Project managers should not be the ones adding requirements. Architects, marketing and customers are supposed to do that.
Project managers do get a lot of say on the quality of testing, but if they want to mess with it, then they should also take responsability for the quality of the software itself.
Ender Ryan. Dude, you're in time-out.
Read your posts. You have a bit of growing up to do as far as your social skills go. You are replying to real people that put serious thought and effort into their messages and articles. Respect the fact that they are posting their ideas for you to learn from.
Mozilla as a product based on Netscape 5.0 which was based on previous versions of Netscape which were based on Mosaic which was first released in 1993. Give it 10 years. Judge the quality of Mozilla in 2003.
Q3A is definitely based on older versions of Quake, Doom & Wolfenstein.
The fact is that if you are a programmer for a commercial product, you should not expect any of your code to last more than 3-4 years in that product. The product will continue to improve. Those improvements entail replacing older code, eventually replacing all older code.
Think about it.
I bet this will be a great software development tool in about 10 years.
Couldn't you come up with some kind of translucent bump on the surface to indicate tactile reference points? Use dots of scotch tape or some kind of epoxy that doesn't hurt the surface. Better yet, try these adhesive BumpOns from 3M. Here's some that are transparent acrylic dots.I bet you always wondered where to get those little acrylic dots. These things stick to glass, wood or metal. They stick firm and handle abuse, but come off with no residue.
If the "reasonable man" would be confused by your branding and think that you product was manufactured and sold by another company, then indeed you could be libel of trademark infringement. It is the proving of that confusion that is the challenge to be taken by the prosecutor.
Also I, being a reasonable man, believe that modifying the first letter of a brand does make it hard to confuse it with another brand. Your example would be in parallel with Gaim vs. AIM if you offered "Gnilla Wafers" by Gabisco. I don't think anyone would confuse that with "Nilla Wafers" by Nabisco.
It all comes down to perception. If the real owner of the system (Dad, Boss, whatever) perceives non-Windows OS's to be harder to use, then he will never approve changing the OS on his systems. Also remember, people hate change.
A good way to win someone over would be to take an extra system, or get approval to create a dual-boot box, and demonstrate Linux. Also, you would need to explain the philosophy of Open Source. That should at least get him to approve Linux for your own use, especially if you are passionate about it.
Personally I don't know anyone who runs any window manager on production machine.
Well, I think that's the problem. I recall a day when the majority of computing and scientific professionals had a Sun or other Unix workstation on their desktop. Now they all use Windows NT.
Gnome is Sun's shot at offering a viable desktop environment and to perhaps recover some of the desktop marketshare. I certainly welcome the effort.
It's just like a technologist to take a simple, uncluttered interface and attempt to complicate it with "improved" technology. Adding a webcam, webserver, internet access and administration costs could kill the project. Keep it simple.
Also, by just allowing the world to view the board will affect what is written.
If you want to see what the board says, then just visit it. If instead, you want to publish opinions on the web, well there are plenty of ways to do that.
I hear too many assumptions being made. Yes this is a SQL interface. That does not imply that there is a full featured database behind it. It only means that you can use this popular language to retrieve data.
So what if FreeNet does not follow all tenents of a mature Relational Database model. Just because there is a SQL interface doesn't mean you have to run a business on it.
I'm not expressing my opinion of the H1B program, it has its good points and bad points. But, do you seriously expect the world to believe that the H1B program is what saved the US from rampant inflation during Clinton's presidency?
Funny
SiteAngel monitors online customer satisfaction. It continuously simulates and measures the true end-to-end customer experience at a Web site. Use SiteAngel to compare how your site's performance and availability stack up to service-level agreements.
Are you presuming that the Osprey project developers were not following these Methodologies?
Full disclosure: I work for this software company as a developer. It's a great company - happily employed.
We offer a product that does this: "Control-SA"
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You can centrally manage user accounts and group profiles for a wide variety of systems. You can take it further by assigning employees to roles which causes user accounts to be created with the necessary authority to do their specific job.
The Control-SA server runs on UNIX; the administration GUI runs on NT or UNIX.
Password synchronization is done by catching the password when it is changed on a system and sending it out to that user's accounts on other systems. Passwords are not stored in Control-SA. Another way to do password synch is to use the "Control-SA PassPort" product which lets users type in their new password in a HTTPS(SSL) web page. The new password then gets pushed out to their accounts by our server.
I have a question though. How will you synchronize passwords on California's state mainframes without requiring software to be installed on them?
Sorry for the advertisement, but I have a lot of respect for this product and my co-workers. It is very popular with large & medium companies and government agencies.
Wireless is necessary for some businesses to be efficient. Consider manufacturing plant floor IS systems. It isn't easy or cheap to retrofit a plant with copperwire. Plants often are reconfigured based on current production needs. Wireless is perfect.
Others:
Store or warehouse inventory control devices, ie scanners.
Hospitals where doctors & nurses each have handheld touch screen displays that bring up patient status & records.
Schools where students & teachers change rooms every hour, but will need constant access to school servers.
There's tons...
Excellent post.
I highly doubt that SGI believed that the 3D power that they could offer would ever be used on commodity desktops. They stopped being visionary back when Jim Clark left, at least from the CEO level. Ed McCraken led SGI down a path of arrogance and myopic visions of customer delight. They always thought that they were dictating what technology would benefit their customers.
SGI's relationship with Hollywood, in particular, has been overbuilt. Why don't they use it to realize a larger market? They do all this work getting their systems into product placements in movies, but they don't actually have a product that regular movie-goers can buy. SGI never conceived that consumer products would be a good idea for their business model. Someone should have told that to their Windows NT System Engineers. I just think it's a shame to see such a well respected brand to be wasted.
FUD FUD FUD FUD FUDITY FUD.
Why would Apple develop a whole new operating environment but not develop key functionality so as to not compete with their MacOS?
I'll disagree with you on that one. You won't learn as much developing games for fun, as a passtime as you would if you were developing a game for a market reason. Maybe after you've put in a couple years on commercial games projects you can go home and write games for fun. It's just that the most creative and technically challenging work comes from having many tight constraints.
And you knew he was a Handspring rep because he indicated as much. That is different than pretending to be a regular employee of the store.
My company would never let us mis-represent ourselves. It is completely unethical. It is also unfair business practices.
Where did you get that info?
The answer is to get a mailbox that can take a beating. Mount it on the ground far from the road and extend the actual box to the road using a big horizontal arm that can swing when it is hit. I've seen these types survive for decades in Minnesota
I have to agree with sporkboy on this one. I don't have the time to monkey with file conversion when I have to get the job done. If you use the best tools for the job, then you are encouraging free competition. If you think those tools should be available on Linux, then get thee to a text editor and compiler.
I spent a month at my company's development shop in Israel. Our product's first GUI was written for X Windows. Later, the Windows version was released with more functionality. Even the Unix zealots there have a second Windows PC hooked up to a KVM switch. Deal with it.
Yes, and increase the frag total for the judge.
I didn't do it, nobody saw me, you can't prove anything. Bart Simpson
Dude, nobody actually got killed at a Midwestern college while playing Dungeons & Dragons.
You are thinking of the Tom Hanks movie, "Mazes and Monsters". Work of fiction.