There are a number of reasons why MS is considered a totally fucked company. It isn't to do with Mr gates, even though his business practices are considered a little sharp. It isn't even to do with Mr Ballmer, even though he can't dance.
It is because the company is out of control of anyone except marketing. There are many good engineers in Microsoft and you may be one of them, but the quality of what goes into products is poorly architected and has too many major problems.
Actually, I want your management to be able to understand the great sticking points of their products. Perhaps services such as these will help. Perhaps rather than the API of the month club, they will follow through and get one of them to actually work as specified (publicly as opposed to the notes they send to those under special support).
Yes, of Russia. She was one of the main modernising czarinas, apparently getting the job after her husband was disposed of (not by her though). Of geek relevance was the fact that she paid for various natural philosphers to visit St Petersburg and discuss their work.
Nope!! Have Hilary Rosen draught IP laws ASAP for Iraq. Keep that technological world leader Iraq in check.
Its more frightening than you think, the Tigris-Euphrates delta is regarded as the cradle of agriculture and thus civilisation. Give her a time machine and extendable IP duration and the rest of us would still be running after mammoths.
As I wrote in another post, I don't work there but drink (and ski) with some of them.
The problem is that a small aitline either has to buy an expensive system, or buy into an outsourced solution which being based on dinosaur technology (i.e., SABRE) isn't exactly cheap. So I have five planes and want to start an airline, where do I go for the IT?
What can those mini-airlines buy? Well LH Systems hope to find a solution which can cut costs. And it isn't just airlines, LH Systems is into providing and facilities managing a lot of other stuff too.
LH Systems is a daughter company of Lufthansa. I don't work there but some of my friends do. They do airline systems for Lufthansa and others, such as Yield Management, Cargo, Reservations and Ticketing and so on. They traditionally did a lot with Unisys in this area and they also have a lot of expertise with thin client systems and vertical applications.
However these days they have signed up other customers like Deka Bank (a traditional German Bank).
When you are looking at systems that have a relatively narrowly defined functionality, you don't want to have XP licenses everywhere. Much of their front end could easily be done by a minimalist PC with Linux, better than loading it with XP. For the backend, they work with big databases, but they still want ways of flexibly adding and removing backend capacity to suit their customer's changing needs. Windows licensing for servers, frankly, sucks. The moment you start to add capacity, you must also add lots of licenses and then follow th MS led upgrade dance.
Frankly we are not talking about computers, we are talking about functional black boxes marked with labels like "Reservation System". This is very attractive to their customer base as they can buy a cheap solution.
You are dead right there. Europe isn't big on starving artists these days, well anyone starving. If you want to drop out and try writing a book, you can more or less do so, although most countries will insist that you make youself available for work.
JK Rowling was in reciept of a grant from the Scottish Arts council when she wrote her first novel, she had given up a teaching job. She definitely wasn't starving. I don't begrudge her the fortune she made but I don't think that the level of sales lost will particularly hurt her.
I have JK Rowlings books as real printed texts, I have many other. The publishing world lives well off my addiiction. Unfortunately, I often have to travel and books are bulky and heavy. My god, HP5 almost breaks the handbaggage allowance by itself. So, I find texts that I can download and carry them around on compact flash and look at them on my IPAQ. My only problem is switching back to the printed word when I'm back at home mid novel. Navigation can be painful.
On average, some people always get futures wrong, it is a zero sum game. You must have someone willing to take your 'bet', as in sell you or buy from you a futures contract.
The worst part is the contract design. There is no graduation in risk allowing finer cintrol with the suggested mechanism. Futures on sports matches usually have to translate into something numerical like goal differences.
Havn't you heard of Nick Leeson and the Barrings Crisis? He isn't the only trader who has put good money after bad chasing after bad in the same way as a lossing gambler does.
The problem with long term projects where the payoff is some way away is maintaining interest and trust from the investors. If I see something big being built, it is easy to keep the investors on board because they can see the 'pyramid' being built. To do this means a high level of disclosure. If you are a public company (i.e., with large numbers of investors) then anything that you disclose to investors will also be disclosed to your competitors.
A good example of how things can go wrong is Germany's ill-fated Cargolifter project. This was a project to build airshups for transporting up to 100 tonnes anywhere in the world with a minimum of infrastructure (the airship was its own crane). A brilliant idea, with concrete interest from disaster relief agencies, construction companies and the oil industry.
The project promised profits in five years, however in reality there was no way they could have done it in less than 10. There is airship knowhow in Germany still, but they decided to build in the former DDR and thus enjoy the tax reliefs for companies there. Regrettably they had few staff from the aerospace industry.
The management split the company into two with one part that was relatively poor doing the R&D and the production, the other part (Cargolifter Financial Services) was relatively rich, and frankly seemed to be playing interesting games in the financial markets and paying its staff very well. The money went and the project folded.
The thing is that airships are not rocket science. There was nothing really radical about the project and it looked good. The postscript was that it failed due to production difficulties, inadequate funding and some questionable financial behaviour by the management.
Lets talk Rocket Science. The technology is less well known, and potentially much more dangerous (requiring a lot of testing). The business model is unproven and with the amount of cash required, there is definitely a high risk project.
The X15 needed manouvering jets as it did not have enough air on the control surfaces to maintain stability. The X15 was a plane designed for a rocket and it was still was hard to fly. I suspect Scaled Composites will need some more work. This is a very different plane to Voyager.
CPAN modules are essentially just.tar.gz files with a Makefile.PL script to build/test/install them. It is sort of standardised and it works inside or outside the CPAN installer module. What the installer module does is act as a package manager, sorting out dependencies and updates. This is really what I'm looking for from Python.
Python is probably th better language. However Perl can be written in a nice and easy to understand way. What it really has is the killer-app - well actually the library. Lots of examples of Perl code (both good and bad) and a lot of useful stuff.
This book though is good and shows one of Pythons strengths. It is just a pity that Python didn't have such a library.
and install Linux as we are stuck on 4.2 and can't even go to 4.3 let alone 5. I really would like to make the move but we don't have time to port the code.
Anyway, the license is irrevocable and transferable under German law (even without IBM's standard third-party IP claims protection clause) and we can continue running 4.2 forever.
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The arcss are somewhat more dangerous in case of fuel leaks. Cars must have auto-cutoffs for accidents so the chance of spark getting close to the fuel and frying both those in the car and the rescuers.
Forget 'general' type construction skills unless you want to run a company or fix up your own place - go specialised. A plumber in the UK can earn around $100,000 pa as self-employed and if you are prepared to do call-outs, more. They cannot train enough because no qualified plumber wants to earn $30K lecturing when they could be out there actually doing the job and earning many times that/
Ne construction goes in waves (at the moment in many parts of the western world it is on a downturn) but many people still need the basics for maintenance.
The older simulators (about 20 years ago) used physical models and a camera which could be 'flown' through the model. Taller, buildings had to be hinged in case of collision with the camera which was on an arm. Rolls and cameras would be used for flighing at altitude.
Personally, I save my config outside the tree as linux-yymmdd.config so:
# cd/usr/src/linux # make mrproper
The 'mrproper' seems extreme but I really prefer to clean up properly between releases.
# cp../linux-yymmdd.config./.oldconfig
# make oldconfig
# make dep bzImage modules
# make modules_install install
# reboot
RH automatically connects the kernel to the grub or lilo boot loaders. The
When do you call the boot complete? I have found that most Win systems beyond ME, like NT,2K or XP seem to take some while before everything is really up, although the GUI is theoretically available. As a lot of this is caused by messing around on disk (image activation), I don't think CPU speed is so important - disk speed most definitely is.
Soundex is ok for suggesting alternatives such as Candy and Kennedy - but only for names of anglo-saxon origin (or names that were anglicized on Ellis Island). Take a Spanish name or a Russian name and the algotithm needs a complete reworking. Even with similar systems such as German, it just doesn't really work.
The military is just a government excuse to fleece the tax payers and take bribes!!!!
I agree that SW is still alive and well. However, computer augmented receivers have been around for a while now. For example, to record and display what has been found graphically.
On the other hand, SW receivers don't like PCs nearby unless they have been very well shielded.
My problem too, my mother toungue is English but I live and work in Germany. My work is often in English but in German too so I need both. Transcriber on my PocketPC has proved useless.
Actually VMS to AIX works because AIX supports asynch I/O and threads quite well. I have done a lot of VMS to AIX work and VMS has been fully Posix compliant for some time (if you wanted it to be). Motif apps went very easily between the two systems as Motif scheduled its own I/O and threads anyway.
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It is because the company is out of control of anyone except marketing. There are many good engineers in Microsoft and you may be one of them, but the quality of what goes into products is poorly architected and has too many major problems.
Actually, I want your management to be able to understand the great sticking points of their products. Perhaps services such as these will help. Perhaps rather than the API of the month club, they will follow through and get one of them to actually work as specified (publicly as opposed to the notes they send to those under special support).
Yes, of Russia. She was one of the main modernising czarinas, apparently getting the job after her husband was disposed of (not by her though). Of geek relevance was the fact that she paid for various natural philosphers to visit St Petersburg and discuss their work.
The problem is that a small aitline either has to buy an expensive system, or buy into an outsourced solution which being based on dinosaur technology (i.e., SABRE) isn't exactly cheap. So I have five planes and want to start an airline, where do I go for the IT?
What can those mini-airlines buy? Well LH Systems hope to find a solution which can cut costs. And it isn't just airlines, LH Systems is into providing and facilities managing a lot of other stuff too.
However these days they have signed up other customers like Deka Bank (a traditional German Bank).
When you are looking at systems that have a relatively narrowly defined functionality, you don't want to have XP licenses everywhere. Much of their front end could easily be done by a minimalist PC with Linux, better than loading it with XP. For the backend, they work with big databases, but they still want ways of flexibly adding and removing backend capacity to suit their customer's changing needs. Windows licensing for servers, frankly, sucks. The moment you start to add capacity, you must also add lots of licenses and then follow th MS led upgrade dance.
Frankly we are not talking about computers, we are talking about functional black boxes marked with labels like "Reservation System". This is very attractive to their customer base as they can buy a cheap solution.
You are dead right there. Europe isn't big on starving artists these days, well anyone starving. If you want to drop out and try writing a book, you can more or less do so, although most countries will insist that you make youself available for work.
I have JK Rowlings books as real printed texts, I have many other. The publishing world lives well off my addiiction. Unfortunately, I often have to travel and books are bulky and heavy. My god, HP5 almost breaks the handbaggage allowance by itself. So, I find texts that I can download and carry them around on compact flash and look at them on my IPAQ. My only problem is switching back to the printed word when I'm back at home mid novel. Navigation can be painful.
There isn't any need for the F-22? Build something more complicated and the reliability falls through the floor.
The worst part is the contract design. There is no graduation in risk allowing finer cintrol with the suggested mechanism. Futures on sports matches usually have to translate into something numerical like goal differences.
Havn't you heard of Nick Leeson and the Barrings Crisis? He isn't the only trader who has put good money after bad chasing after bad in the same way as a lossing gambler does.
A good example of how things can go wrong is Germany's ill-fated Cargolifter project. This was a project to build airshups for transporting up to 100 tonnes anywhere in the world with a minimum of infrastructure (the airship was its own crane). A brilliant idea, with concrete interest from disaster relief agencies, construction companies and the oil industry.
The project promised profits in five years, however in reality there was no way they could have done it in less than 10. There is airship knowhow in Germany still, but they decided to build in the former DDR and thus enjoy the tax reliefs for companies there. Regrettably they had few staff from the aerospace industry.
The management split the company into two with one part that was relatively poor doing the R&D and the production, the other part (Cargolifter Financial Services) was relatively rich, and frankly seemed to be playing interesting games in the financial markets and paying its staff very well. The money went and the project folded.
The thing is that airships are not rocket science. There was nothing really radical about the project and it looked good. The postscript was that it failed due to production difficulties, inadequate funding and some questionable financial behaviour by the management.
Lets talk Rocket Science. The technology is less well known, and potentially much more dangerous (requiring a lot of testing). The business model is unproven and with the amount of cash required, there is definitely a high risk project.
The X15 needed manouvering jets as it did not have enough air on the control surfaces to maintain stability. The X15 was a plane designed for a rocket and it was still was hard to fly. I suspect Scaled Composites will need some more work. This is a very different plane to Voyager.
CPAN modules are essentially just .tar.gz files with a Makefile.PL script to build/test/install them. It is sort of standardised and it works inside or outside the CPAN installer module. What the installer module does is act as a package manager, sorting out dependencies and updates. This is really what I'm looking for from Python.
This book though is good and shows one of Pythons strengths. It is just a pity that Python didn't have such a library.
Anyway, the license is irrevocable and transferable under German law (even without IBM's standard third-party IP claims protection clause) and we can continue running 4.2 forever.
The arcss are somewhat more dangerous in case of fuel leaks. Cars must have auto-cutoffs for accidents so the chance of spark getting close to the fuel and frying both those in the car and the rescuers.
Ne construction goes in waves (at the moment in many parts of the western world it is on a downturn) but many people still need the basics for maintenance.
The older simulators (about 20 years ago) used physical models and a camera which could be 'flown' through the model. Taller, buildings had to be hinged in case of collision with the camera which was on an arm. Rolls and cameras would be used for flighing at altitude.
When do you call the boot complete? I have found that most Win systems beyond ME, like NT,2K or XP seem to take some while before everything is really up, although the GUI is theoretically available. As a lot of this is caused by messing around on disk (image activation), I don't think CPU speed is so important - disk speed most definitely is.
Why was the RTE for PocketPC cancelled? Whilst sales of the PocketPC are hardly runaway, it still seems to be doing quite well as a platform.
The military is just a government excuse to fleece the tax payers and take bribes!!!!
On the other hand, SW receivers don't like PCs nearby unless they have been very well shielded.
My problem too, my mother toungue is English but I live and work in Germany. My work is often in English but in German too so I need both. Transcriber on my PocketPC has proved useless.
Actually VMS to AIX works because AIX supports asynch I/O and threads quite well. I have done a lot of VMS to AIX work and VMS has been fully Posix compliant for some time (if you wanted it to be). Motif apps went very easily between the two systems as Motif scheduled its own I/O and threads anyway.