The sledgehammer, once you have it, is yours, and you can upgrade or customize it as you please. There are no licenses, and you can share it with everyone in your office.
The pump-action shotgun will have recurring costs and will require periodic cleaning of the system and maintainance. In many areas, you will need a license to own and operate it.
We have on in our food coop; it's used for looking up prices/stock/etc. by members, and it really is great! I can't imagine trying to have a normal keyboard in a place with thousands of people going past it every day...
That's not true at all - I work in a Windows shop, and other developers come here from Windows backgrounds, and many of them have heard of BitKeeper. Do any of them do Linux stuff? No. Have they used BitKeeper? Yes. Did they like it? Yes.
They'll certainly lose some future customers, but it's not the end of the world for them. They may even get more customers as companies decide it's cheaper to buy a Windoze box and slap the commercial version on it...maybe.
The Baby isn't ready to announce itself to the world yet (it doesn't yet have control of all nuclear weapons in China), so it's keeping a low profile until it declares itself God.
I hate to say it, but he does have a point. Allowing me put boot from my CD allows me to do just about anything I want with the computer. Suppose I installed a little program to mangle the bios and turn off all the fans?
Boom! No more computer.
Ok, showing goatse pictures is rather tacky, and I can see why this was modded flamebait, but it's actually rather insightful.
ATTENTION: Notwithstanding Any Listing of Product Contents Found Hereupon, the Consumer is Advised That This Product Actually Consists of 99.9999999999% Empty Space.
Hey, a software product doesn't even have that much matter!
I am contacting you because of a business matter concerning my late father. He ran a hoax lawsuit to gather monies from Lokitorrent, but then passed away due to unfortunate circumstances involving MPIAA thugs and illegal downloads. He put his money into a paypal account...
They've got a webpage! They've got a "Contact us" page! Drop them a line asking if your data has been compromised. Be polite, explain you're not in California, but you still want to know. If they're not going to send out letters to all of us, I say give 'em hell!
The keyboard/palmrest are from the equivalent Latitute... D600? Not sure exactly which brand. A little piece of plastic did have to be broken to make it fit (no problems there), and the little piece of plastic with the power button and sound buttons doesn't fit perfectly, but it's great:) No touchpad for me!
We didn't have to flash the Bios, BTW - it just worked.
My brother and I put a keyboard from the new Dell latititude into my inspiron (also replaced the palm rest). It's a non-trivial operation, but it's certainly doable. Across vendors??? You've got to make sure everything fits together, and there's not much of a market for modding laptops...
A lot of "The Blackberry could..." talk, but little else.
30 years ago, breathing a lot of asbestos might cause lung damage... The thing is, it's hard to repair such damage when it's been done, so you generally want to err on the side of caution... Not too much caution, of course - you do need a life.
Of course, I'm typing this in a chair/desk setup that should gaurentee that I have carpel tunnel in two years...
When will companies realize: cool products are great, but they have a hard time selling.
Companies already have realized that. That's why they don't sell things like the Zaurus SL-C3000 in the US. US people spend their money on other toys (cars, lawnmowers, clothes, whatever) besides really slick electronics. The Japanease think these things are neat, and are willing to pay money for them.
If your company uses a search appliance like Google's then searches are saved and indexed as if the user was searching the web. Also the users do not need to have direct access to the files.
Ah, but users do need direct access to the files - the files have be "web-enabled" so that Google can search them.
That's a good point, tho - being able to make a quick search via Google would be much more useful.
This is quite affordable even for a company with 20 employees! $5k? A drop in the bucket, if you're shelling out an average of $80K for programmers annually.
A Wiki setup seems perfect. According to the FA, they need something with "the ability for users to collaborate on documents and share information online."
It seems that if they could expand Wiki to also display fingerprints and arrest warrents, then they're golden. Then just set up a good search engine on top of it, and there you go.
I know, put a Google Desktop search on top of it, and run it off a Beowulf cluster...never mind.
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The sledgehammer, once you have it, is yours, and you can upgrade or customize it as you please. There are no licenses, and you can share it with everyone in your office.
The pump-action shotgun will have recurring costs and will require periodic cleaning of the system and maintainance. In many areas, you will need a license to own and operate it.
--LWM
We have on in our food coop; it's used for looking up prices/stock/etc. by members, and it really is great! I can't imagine trying to have a normal keyboard in a place with thousands of people going past it every day...
--LWM
I would like to know this works as well!
--LWM
--LWM
That's not true at all - I work in a Windows shop, and other developers come here from Windows backgrounds, and many of them have heard of BitKeeper. Do any of them do Linux stuff? No. Have they used BitKeeper? Yes. Did they like it? Yes.
They'll certainly lose some future customers, but it's not the end of the world for them. They may even get more customers as companies decide it's cheaper to buy a Windoze box and slap the commercial version on it...maybe.
--LWM
The Baby isn't ready to announce itself to the world yet (it doesn't yet have control of all nuclear weapons in China), so it's keeping a low profile until it declares itself God.
--LWM
Wow, that was so easy - I'll go home and do that today!
I shouldn't have any problem remember the, oh, 20 odd steps involved, nor remembering all the lines for my lilo configuration.
Easy as pie!
Thanks!
--LWM
I hate to say it, but he does have a point. Allowing me put boot from my CD allows me to do just about anything I want with the computer. Suppose I installed a little program to mangle the bios and turn off all the fans?
Boom! No more computer.
Ok, showing goatse pictures is rather tacky, and I can see why this was modded flamebait, but it's actually rather insightful.
--LWM
That's why he's focusing on the technology. So 6 years from now, when Joe retires, he's ready w/ all the technology.
--LWM
Hey, a software product doesn't even have that much matter!
--LWM
No, no, no:
...
My most esteemed colleague,
I am contacting you because of a business matter concerning my late father. He ran a hoax lawsuit to gather monies from Lokitorrent, but then passed away due to unfortunate circumstances involving MPIAA thugs and illegal downloads. He put his money into a paypal account...
How's that?
--LWM
Heh; it's still a good game. An old roomie bought me the CD for christmas. Bastard - I spent all day on Monday in front of my laptop!
--LWM
None. You'll be arrested on the spot, re-educated, and then added to the legions of mindless drones.
--LWM
It's pulling around lots of H. The H emits radio waves, which we can pick up.
--LWM
They've got a webpage! They've got a "Contact us" page! Drop them a line asking if your data has been compromised. Be polite, explain you're not in California, but you still want to know. If they're not going to send out letters to all of us, I say give 'em hell!
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http://www.choicepoint.com/choicepoint/home.nsf/c
--LWM
I have an Inspiron 600m.
:) No touchpad for me!
The keyboard/palmrest are from the equivalent Latitute... D600? Not sure exactly which brand. A little piece of plastic did have to be broken to make it fit (no problems there), and the little piece of plastic with the power button and sound buttons doesn't fit perfectly, but it's great
We didn't have to flash the Bios, BTW - it just worked.
--LWM
My brother and I put a keyboard from the new Dell latititude into my inspiron (also replaced the palm rest). It's a non-trivial operation, but it's certainly doable. Across vendors??? You've got to make sure everything fits together, and there's not much of a market for modding laptops...
--LWM
Of course, I'm typing this in a chair/desk setup that should gaurentee that I have carpel tunnel in two years...
--LWM
Companies already have realized that. That's why they don't sell things like the Zaurus SL-C3000 in the US. US people spend their money on other toys (cars, lawnmowers, clothes, whatever) besides really slick electronics. The Japanease think these things are neat, and are willing to pay money for them.
--LWM
A 2 hour day? That sounds great!
--LWM
Yes, but if a blacksmith thinks he has terrible tools, he'll build himself new ones. If a developer thinks he has terrible tools...
You get the idea.
--LWM
Ah, but users do need direct access to the files - the files have be "web-enabled" so that Google can search them.
That's a good point, tho - being able to make a quick search via Google would be much more useful.
--LWM
This is quite affordable even for a company with 20 employees! $5k? A drop in the bucket, if you're shelling out an average of $80K for programmers annually.
--LWM
A Wiki setup seems perfect. According to the FA, they need something with "the ability for users to collaborate on documents and share information online."
It seems that if they could expand Wiki to also display fingerprints and arrest warrents, then they're golden. Then just set up a good search engine on top of it, and there you go.
I know, put a Google Desktop search on top of it, and run it off a Beowulf cluster...never mind.
--LWM
What is the N-Gage?
--LWM