Gartner *would* say that since they are in bed with MS.
Umm... you mean the same Gartner that says companies should drop IIS immediately?
C'mon, just because you disagree with one particular position of an entity doesn't mean they are allied with MS. Hell, the IIS anti-recommandation is a big reason we are able to force some of our third-party vendors to use Apache (and ammunition against any internal departments that try to force IIS-only solutions).
1. Every place I've ever been, the programmers work more hours than anybody, with the possible exception of harried middle-managers. They certainly are there more than the QA people. Deadlines are only ignored if they are arbitrary or unreasonable.
2. This is either because of unreasonable deadlines, or you work at Microsoft. Maybe both.
3. Keeping it simple is good, unless you sacrifice quality, or scalability. Maybe the programmer knows something you don't?
4. If you're adding fields to a payroll program, you don't need to be creative. If you're designing a system unlike anything else in your organization, you do.
5. Anything can be abused, and will be.
In short, you could've learned something from this article, but you chose to use it to fuel your own personal vendetta instead. Hopefully you never go into management, unless it's for one of our competitors.
Actually, this app sounds just like Lotus Sametime, which is marketed at businesses (they're pushing it on us where I work). They've just taken it and marketed it differently.
Microsoft taking someone else's idea, tweaking it, and calling it their own? I'm shocked... shocked!
Someone else mentioned John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline. (I also recommend it.)
One of Varley's common themes in his version of "future history" is people are effectively immortal... every so often, your mind is downloaded and if you're killed, it's loaded into a cloned body. Of course, you lose whatever memories you had after the last backup... the brain has no logfile you can use to "roll forward"...:-)
Some people then begin do this at will, having their minds loaded into bodies that are gentically different. For example, a lot of people regularly change sexes.
Anyway, in Hotline (IIRC), a woman is kidnapped and (illegally) cloned, not once but twice, and her mind downloaded into each. What's really interesting is Varley's exploration of how our environment shapes us... by the end of the book, all three women are essentially different people.
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Am I the only one who read this thread and thought, "Damn! Can you imagine how much email you'd have stacked up if you took off for five weeks?"
Garg
Is that Mike Gargano from New City, NY?
No, but I think his name was on the customer list.
(And what the hell happened to my sig? Silly Slashcode!)
Garg
Tiny dicks AND no brains? Hopefully a side effect of these pills is sterilization...
Garg
A lot must have changed at the ESRB in the last seven months since both these men wanted congressional hearings on video game ratings.
You mean, "A lot of money must have changed hands".
Garg
This was done by Mad Magazine in 1979.
About the only thing I remember from it is (to the tune of Barry Manilow's I Write the Songs):
"I am Frodo... and I've got the RRRIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!"
Garg
Gartner *would* say that since they are in bed with MS.
Umm... you mean the same Gartner that says companies should drop IIS immediately?
C'mon, just because you disagree with one particular position of an entity doesn't mean they are allied with MS. Hell, the IIS anti-recommandation is a big reason we are able to force some of our third-party vendors to use Apache (and ammunition against any internal departments that try to force IIS-only solutions).
Garg
we now have much better tornado information and prediction technology.
You have Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton to thank for that.
Garg
... if they make her wear veils all the time.
Garg
the WHO has only quarantined Canada and China, there's no advisory about the USA.
And that's just Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle, Pete Townshens is still undecided.
Garg
Because nobody from a trailer park ever claoms they were taken to a parallel universe and anally probed.
Garg
This weapon system, IMO, wouldn't make a visible or audible cover fire that would force enemy troops to seek cover.
What, don't you watch sci-fi? All lasers go "thwoot! thwoot!" or "zyzyuzyuzyuzyu!" or something like that.
Garg
1. Every place I've ever been, the programmers work more hours than anybody, with the possible exception of harried middle-managers. They certainly are there more than the QA people. Deadlines are only ignored if they are arbitrary or unreasonable.
2. This is either because of unreasonable deadlines, or you work at Microsoft. Maybe both.
3. Keeping it simple is good, unless you sacrifice quality, or scalability. Maybe the programmer knows something you don't?
4. If you're adding fields to a payroll program, you don't need to be creative. If you're designing a system unlike anything else in your organization, you do.
5. Anything can be abused, and will be.
In short, you could've learned something from this article, but you chose to use it to fuel your own personal vendetta instead. Hopefully you never go into management, unless it's for one of our competitors.
Garg
And a daughter-in-law with antennae.
Garg
Actually, this app sounds just like Lotus Sametime, which is marketed at businesses (they're pushing it on us where I work). They've just taken it and marketed it differently.
Microsoft taking someone else's idea, tweaking it, and calling it their own? I'm shocked... shocked!
Garg
The newest X-Man... Kreativ!
With the power to think outside the box!
Garg
Anybody else notice on the list of companies that use MacroVision included TransGaming?
Is this to help with Windows product emulation, or something more nefariuos?
Garg
Some of these, like "Made good judgments.." are Dan Qualye quotes, not GW.
You actually think they're different people? Have you ever seen them in same room together?
Garg
Before online shopping, I used to mail-order everything 'cause if you bought out-of-state, there was no sales tax.
So now just look up what you want online, and call their 800 number to order instead of using the Web.
I suppose they'll plug that too though...
Sigh.
Garg
Garbage men get paid a heck of alot more than that
Especially if they work for Tony Soprano.
Garg
The only thing I've ever got out of attending COMDEX is a horrible flu.
I got my ComputerWorld button collection, a couple of T-shirts and a miniature basketball autographed by Spud Webb.
Well, maybe that's why attendance is down... we've all got our offices decorated now.
Garg
Actually, it's a legitimate (if somewhat archaic) sentence... like, "Ho, Volstagg! How goes the battle?" or "How stands the Golden Realm?"
(Methinks Michael and I spent too much time reading The Mighty Thor in days agone...)
Garg
You've mistaken juvenile humor for cynicism and bitter experience.
Garg
I am working on an MBA and this is simply not the case. Employee satisfaction and well-being is consistently associated with success.
Then how come you guys suck at it so much?
Garg
...only outlaws will forge headers.
But seriously, will legislation have any effect at all? Most of this stuff originates (or at least is relayed) from outside the US.
Garg
Someone else mentioned John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline. (I also recommend it.)
One of Varley's common themes in his version of "future history" is people are effectively immortal... every so often, your mind is downloaded and if you're killed, it's loaded into a cloned body. Of course, you lose whatever memories you had after the last backup... the brain has no logfile you can use to "roll forward"...:-)
Some people then begin do this at will, having their minds loaded into bodies that are gentically different. For example, a lot of people regularly change sexes.
Anyway, in Hotline (IIRC), a woman is kidnapped and (illegally) cloned, not once but twice, and her mind downloaded into each. What's really interesting is Varley's exploration of how our environment shapes us... by the end of the book, all three women are essentially different people.
Garg