The RIAA (and later the MPAA,) have fought EVERY single innovation that even looks like it might possibly impinge on their clients' business turf
Hate to break it to you, but I think this sort of thing is way more common than just being limited to these industries. Big business and/or unions have fought innovation that they see as being counter to their interests all the time. Case in point, the
Postal Codes in Canada - OMG all the mail sorters will be out of work!
Why hasn't some enterprising inventor come up with a cable/connector that combines optical (for data) and copper (for power) in a single cable?
Probably wouldn't be great for long distances, but I could imagine something like that having some advantages for replacing USB and ethernet w/PoE (at least in a home or office setting).
Honestly I'm surprised nobody's able to calculate an ROI on making the switch. The daily manual effort to maintain those schedules (and wasted time/resources when things change) seems to be quite a waste.
I certainly have my issues with MS products (which fortunately are not my responsibility to maintain) but I'm perfectly happy with the calendar setup we have. Again in our case people are the main problem - it looks unprofessional when I need to kick someone out of a room I booked in front of a client, because that person just decided that the room looked empty so they'll go ahead and use it... or worse, if that happens and said squatter is on a conference call that I need to now kick them out of.
My TomTom helped me out a great deal once. Was stuck in some surprise pea soup fog in the Niagara region of Ontario last fall. Came quickly in the evening as my wife and I were touring wineries.
Anyway, couldn't see a damn thing (maybe a few feet around the car). Just enough to drive very, very slowly and see that we were still on the road. There were no streetlights, of course. There was no way to tell where we were or what intersections we were passing.
Enter the TomTom - it was able to help us navigate through that fog turn-by-turn all the way back to the Inn where we were staying. I knew how to get there, but since I couldn't see any street signs I don't think we would have made it back as easily as we did.
I always keep maps on hand and study where we're going, but this was one particular time I was happy to have the GPS.
What would the boss do? Maybe he'd come to the conclusion that Java and C# are for professionals while Python and Ruby are for hobbyists?
Speaking as a manager (since I now am one, but still write code occasionally and I try to not be evil to my staff...), my preference is normally along the lines of (in this order):
-standardization in the organization. We don't need a spaghetti mess of different technologies for each project that represent an individual coder's personal preferred language or toolkit. If our pool of developers (each with their own unique talents) use the same tools we have an easier time backing each other up when someone is ill, goes on vacation or resigns (average retention in my team is about 6 years which is great, but makes it hurt when somebody does decide to go as all their knowledge leaves with them), and
-the right tool for the job. Exceptions in the above rule can be made if a given task is overly difficult to do with our standard technologies and conventions. You'd still need to make a good case, though, because anything you write needs to be supported in the long-term by a larger pool of developers. I'm sorry, but although as a coder myself I appreciate 'fun', in an enterprise environment what we need is maintainability.
These surveys which I refer to are the ones which they admitted they extrapolated from the American data, without actually considering Canada at all... [michaelgeist.ca]
Mods are not doing their job, seeing how that link in the parent post is about software piracy and has nothing to do with music or movies.
Try looking into OneNote 2007 on top of SharePoint
Seriously. It takes all the headaches out. Auto-synchronizes between team members, keeping a local copy on each person's machine. Everything can be dragged/dropped into it. Images, text, files - it doesn't matter. Easy to annotate content by just typing or drawing on top of stuff. Easy to reorganize just by dragging things around.
My team was very hesitant to adopt SharePoint for exactly what you were talking about. We (being an MS-oriented company) were using TWiki before to gather our docs but we found formatting to be tedious and as a result, the documentation was frequently out of date. Our company wanted us to start using SharePoint and we basically found it to be a step backwards... until we discovered OneNote and it basically addressed all of our complaints in one neat app.
Guys, I can't say I'm a fan of MS but I have to say I think I've found the next killer app. Or at least, killer app combo.
OneNote 2007 plus SharePoint
It's like everything I've wanted in a wiki. Collaborative editing, automatic synchronization between team members, drag *anything* into it (text, emails, screenshots, files), with easy-to-use annotation. Write anywhere, on anything. It's easy to reorganize, easy to search and plain easy to use. Editing a OneNote page is just all drag+drop plus familiar Word Processor-like controls. Every Windows app can now "print" to a virtual printer device that turns anything into a OneNote page as well.
Bonus screen-capturing made easy (windowkey+s lets me snap anything I want from the screen into the clipboard), and a "live" mode that does the whole realtime digital whiteboard thing so I can hold meetings with remote users and we can all see what we're talking about.
I'll agree I hate the new UI of Office 2007. Can't stand it. And I'm not a fan of SharePoint on its own (I find it cumbersome to use). But I have to say I see big things for OneNote (on SharePoint) in the future. Once set up, the OneNote folders do all the synchronization/checkout/commits transparently while keeping my local copy working. There are a few things that could use a little bit more work (I don't like how something can only be a folder OR a folder group, and not both) but I see this as the next killer app in enterprise organizations.
In some places (like Ontario, Canada where I live) they are outlawing the use of hand-held devices by drivers. I don't think the standalone GPS is going away here, because if it can be mounted on the dash then it's ok.
Form factor is still a problem. Having purchased an older house we have quite a bit of lighting in the ceiling that uses 20W globe bulbs (with the small connector). As much as I've love to replace the chandeliers, it's not a priority right now. Would love to install CFLs but there are none that will fit. Perhaps this technology can be put to use to help us here?
Our bathroom vanity lights use the same bulbs too...
No joke, but we use a 60W lightbulb in the cottage's (unheated but insulated) basement to produce just enough heat to keep the water pipes from freezing in the winter. Way cheaper than wrapping the pipes with heater coil!
However, no-one seems to be quite so quick to suggest that shows like "24" have a negative influence over Police and Security Services behavior.
That's an excellent point. Has anyone tallied how often Jack Bauer ("the hero") demonstrates that it's ok to use torture, and even murder (shoot and kill a prisoner right in the CTU boardroom) if it's for his cause?
#5 - realize that the (hopefully) smart network admin placed the AP outside of the internal network. Users connecting still use VPN as if they're external, so you can't sniff anything useful.
Basically the registrars need to be pimp slapped a bit: certificate registration shouldn't cost anywhere near what it does, certificates should be purchasable for whole domains, etc.
Wildcard certificates do exist and aren't that expensive. We use them and they seem to work fine for most things (with 1 or two non-HTTP-server exceptions)
Slashdot Mirror
Is this the start of a new meme?
The RIAA (and later the MPAA,) have fought EVERY single innovation that even looks like it might possibly impinge on their clients' business turf
Hate to break it to you, but I think this sort of thing is way more common than just being limited to these industries. Big business and/or unions have fought innovation that they see as being counter to their interests all the time. Case in point, the Postal Codes in Canada - OMG all the mail sorters will be out of work!
Suppose the technology becomes so cheap that a hundred thousand motorists can be tracked by GPS in any given city, much less any given state.
Why bother when you can already do this with cameras?
Why hasn't some enterprising inventor come up with a cable/connector that combines optical (for data) and copper (for power) in a single cable?
Probably wouldn't be great for long distances, but I could imagine something like that having some advantages for replacing USB and ethernet w/PoE (at least in a home or office setting).
Wow. I'm pretty speechless.
Honestly I'm surprised nobody's able to calculate an ROI on making the switch. The daily manual effort to maintain those schedules (and wasted time/resources when things change) seems to be quite a waste.
I certainly have my issues with MS products (which fortunately are not my responsibility to maintain) but I'm perfectly happy with the calendar setup we have. Again in our case people are the main problem - it looks unprofessional when I need to kick someone out of a room I booked in front of a client, because that person just decided that the room looked empty so they'll go ahead and use it... or worse, if that happens and said squatter is on a conference call that I need to now kick them out of.
Good God do you guys not have a shared calendar application? Outlook/Exchange solved this problem ages ago.
Now if only people would respect the schedule we'd be in better shape. We get a lot of squatters around here that need to be kicked out.
lions share of power consumed by 15k drives is consumed in counteracting the air buffeting the heads
Until some genius figures out how to build one with no air inside?
My TomTom helped me out a great deal once. Was stuck in some surprise pea soup fog in the Niagara region of Ontario last fall. Came quickly in the evening as my wife and I were touring wineries.
Anyway, couldn't see a damn thing (maybe a few feet around the car). Just enough to drive very, very slowly and see that we were still on the road. There were no streetlights, of course. There was no way to tell where we were or what intersections we were passing.
Enter the TomTom - it was able to help us navigate through that fog turn-by-turn all the way back to the Inn where we were staying. I knew how to get there, but since I couldn't see any street signs I don't think we would have made it back as easily as we did.
I always keep maps on hand and study where we're going, but this was one particular time I was happy to have the GPS.
What would the boss do? Maybe he'd come to the conclusion that Java and C# are for professionals while Python and Ruby are for hobbyists?
Speaking as a manager (since I now am one, but still write code occasionally and I try to not be evil to my staff...), my preference is normally along the lines of (in this order):
-standardization in the organization. We don't need a spaghetti mess of different technologies for each project that represent an individual coder's personal preferred language or toolkit. If our pool of developers (each with their own unique talents) use the same tools we have an easier time backing each other up when someone is ill, goes on vacation or resigns (average retention in my team is about 6 years which is great, but makes it hurt when somebody does decide to go as all their knowledge leaves with them), and
-the right tool for the job. Exceptions in the above rule can be made if a given task is overly difficult to do with our standard technologies and conventions. You'd still need to make a good case, though, because anything you write needs to be supported in the long-term by a larger pool of developers. I'm sorry, but although as a coder myself I appreciate 'fun', in an enterprise environment what we need is maintainability.
healthcare costs
shortest vacations
Anyone else curious if those two things are related?
These surveys which I refer to are the ones which they admitted they extrapolated from the American data, without actually considering Canada at all... [michaelgeist.ca]
Mods are not doing their job, seeing how that link in the parent post is about software piracy and has nothing to do with music or movies.
Sheesh.
Not all of the controls work, unfortunately. Most of it does but it really depends on the content of the pages, some of which still only work in IE.
Try looking into OneNote 2007 on top of SharePoint
Seriously. It takes all the headaches out. Auto-synchronizes between team members, keeping a local copy on each person's machine. Everything can be dragged/dropped into it. Images, text, files - it doesn't matter. Easy to annotate content by just typing or drawing on top of stuff. Easy to reorganize just by dragging things around.
My team was very hesitant to adopt SharePoint for exactly what you were talking about. We (being an MS-oriented company) were using TWiki before to gather our docs but we found formatting to be tedious and as a result, the documentation was frequently out of date. Our company wanted us to start using SharePoint and we basically found it to be a step backwards... until we discovered OneNote and it basically addressed all of our complaints in one neat app.
You've made your annual Costco trip recently as well, I see. Is there any way to buy fewer than a thousand rolls at a time?
Guys, I can't say I'm a fan of MS but I have to say I think I've found the next killer app. Or at least, killer app combo.
OneNote 2007 plus SharePoint
It's like everything I've wanted in a wiki. Collaborative editing, automatic synchronization between team members, drag *anything* into it (text, emails, screenshots, files), with easy-to-use annotation. Write anywhere, on anything. It's easy to reorganize, easy to search and plain easy to use. Editing a OneNote page is just all drag+drop plus familiar Word Processor-like controls. Every Windows app can now "print" to a virtual printer device that turns anything into a OneNote page as well.
Bonus screen-capturing made easy (windowkey+s lets me snap anything I want from the screen into the clipboard), and a "live" mode that does the whole realtime digital whiteboard thing so I can hold meetings with remote users and we can all see what we're talking about.
I'll agree I hate the new UI of Office 2007. Can't stand it. And I'm not a fan of SharePoint on its own (I find it cumbersome to use). But I have to say I see big things for OneNote (on SharePoint) in the future. Once set up, the OneNote folders do all the synchronization/checkout/commits transparently while keeping my local copy working. There are a few things that could use a little bit more work (I don't like how something can only be a folder OR a folder group, and not both) but I see this as the next killer app in enterprise organizations.
In some places (like Ontario, Canada where I live) they are outlawing the use of hand-held devices by drivers. I don't think the standalone GPS is going away here, because if it can be mounted on the dash then it's ok.
Form factor is still a problem. Having purchased an older house we have quite a bit of lighting in the ceiling that uses 20W globe bulbs (with the small connector). As much as I've love to replace the chandeliers, it's not a priority right now. Would love to install CFLs but there are none that will fit. Perhaps this technology can be put to use to help us here?
Our bathroom vanity lights use the same bulbs too...
No joke, but we use a 60W lightbulb in the cottage's (unheated but insulated) basement to produce just enough heat to keep the water pipes from freezing in the winter. Way cheaper than wrapping the pipes with heater coil!
In IT and a few other industries they dont bother with complicated things like exchange rates so :
$199 == £199 == â199
the result of this is that we get really ripped off on some products.
Try living in Canada, where
$199 USD == $350 CAD, regardless of the exchange rate (even during the periods that the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US)
The satnav knows that you're floating atop a ferry!
What if I'm riding a bus?
However, no-one seems to be quite so quick to suggest that shows like "24" have a negative influence over Police and Security Services behavior.
That's an excellent point. Has anyone tallied how often Jack Bauer ("the hero") demonstrates that it's ok to use torture, and even murder (shoot and kill a prisoner right in the CTU boardroom) if it's for his cause?
If it has milk in it, add a teaspoon or two of lemon juice to it at the time of leaving it on their desk.
#5 - realize that the (hopefully) smart network admin placed the AP outside of the internal network. Users connecting still use VPN as if they're external, so you can't sniff anything useful.
Support for "for i in $array" syntax
Agreed with most of your points, but this one has at least been improved in Java (6?) with:
MyObject[] myObjectArray;
for ( MyObject o : myObjectArray ){
}
Basically the registrars need to be pimp slapped a bit: certificate registration shouldn't cost anywhere near what it does, certificates should be purchasable for whole domains, etc.
Wildcard certificates do exist and aren't that expensive. We use them and they seem to work fine for most things (with 1 or two non-HTTP-server exceptions)