I recently saw a sticker on a window in London (dentist's office I think) for http://www.dont-go-online-here.com/. Not much of a site but the fact that people are actually thinking about 'No Surfing' areas is significant.
2. people put up "text only"/"low bandwidth" versions of their pages up all the time. It is not difficult.
I don't agree. Maintaining and testing two UI's on your product is considerably more difficult that maintaining one. Especially if your content is dynamically generated in multiple languages. I get that with a well designed architecture with good separation between the presentation and logic layers makes this easier but it still requires a considerable effort for very little incremental gain (i.e. you will not see a considerable jump in people accessing your site)
"good technology outdone by better marketing"
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This is one that is always quoted by marketing heads. Anybody have any good evidence to back this up? Why was beta better? What was the marketing campaign that won it for VHS?
I don't necessarily doubt this but I'd love to see the detail.
However, I talked to some friends and checked the web for ideas and realized that there are a *lot* of ppl out there who believe you should never accept a counter-offer.
As for the web sites I would question who is behind those comments. Well meaning do gooders or crafty (is there any other kind) recruiters? Remember that if you accept the counter offer the recruitment agency gets nothing compared to the 20%+ (Irish number) of your year's salary they would get if you didn't accept the counter offer.
Reason 11. Your recruitment consultant has been eyeing up a new BMW...
I wish the article had discussed the reverse-engineering issues of needing 'virgins' who have never seen the product being reverse-engineered and how MS's newly broad distribution of its code makes finding virgins much more difficult
Could someone explain what this is all about? Virgin in the sense that that have not reverse engineered code before? What differnce would that make? Confused.
>Does anyone see the logic behind this? I can see some logic behind it. Rather than maintaining/supporting/upgrading X different systems across the various companies why not standardise on a single system. Now the choice of system to standardise on leaves a bit to be desired but the decision itself was, in my opinion, a sound one.
That particular factoid is probably one of the governments best spins in ages. The only reason Ireland is at the top of this list is that we localise and then physically export software for the big US companies. Not to disparage the localisation industry or anything but if we were actually writing the software itself then I think we would have something to be proud of.
OK, you keep BASIC and we'll keep Linux:) (Joking of course - Linux was obviously a pan global effort)
My point was that if more thought was put into developing software that was pretty much locale independent then there would be more development profits to keep 'right here' wherever 'right here' might be.
Yeah you have a point there. I was thinking more in terms of syntax where the syntax in most languages is not hugely biased towards a particular language. I suppose if you look at the directionality and script then we are doomed!
That's really not the point though is it. Forcing people to work in their second language is hardly the path to success. The users might have a grasp of English but even still will not be over the moon about being forced to use it. France is a good example.
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I recently saw a sticker on a window in London (dentist's office I think) for http://www.dont-go-online-here.com/. Not much of a site but the fact that people are actually thinking about 'No Surfing' areas is significant.
I think the original post was talking about the dates and not the registrar as in 'looks fishy that the domain was created a couple of weeks ago'
I doubt there are many other police forces with as distinctive an image, in any country.
That's really a regional thing. The French Gendarme hats and the English Bobby's Hat are pretty recognisable in this part of the world.
2. people put up "text only"/"low bandwidth" versions of their pages up all the time. It is not difficult.
I don't agree. Maintaining and testing two UI's on your product is considerably more difficult that maintaining one. Especially if your content is dynamically generated in multiple languages. I get that with a well designed architecture with good separation between the presentation and logic layers makes this easier but it still requires a considerable effort for very little incremental gain (i.e. you will not see a considerable jump in people accessing your site)
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This is one that is always quoted by marketing heads. Anybody have any good evidence to back this up? Why was beta better? What was the marketing campaign that won it for VHS?
I don't necessarily doubt this but I'd love to see the detail.
Isn't the name from that movie?
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As for the web sites I would question who is behind those comments. Well meaning do gooders or crafty (is there any other kind) recruiters? Remember that if you accept the counter offer the recruitment agency gets nothing compared to the 20%+ (Irish number) of your year's salary they would get if you didn't accept the counter offer.
I wish the article had discussed the reverse-engineering issues of needing 'virgins' who have never seen the product being reverse-engineered and how MS's newly broad distribution of its code makes finding virgins much more difficult
Could someone explain what this is all about? Virgin in the sense that that have not reverse engineered code before? What differnce would that make? Confused.
>Does anyone see the logic behind this?
I can see some logic behind it. Rather than maintaining/supporting/upgrading X different systems across the various companies why not standardise on a single system. Now the choice of system to standardise on leaves a bit to be desired but the decision itself was, in my opinion, a sound one.
If you want to complain about frivilous lawsuits, remember, lawyers don't sue people, plaintifs sue people.
Now where have I seen logic like that before that before?
That particular factoid is probably one of the governments best spins in ages. The only reason Ireland is at the top of this list is that we localise and then physically export software for the big US companies. Not to disparage the localisation industry or anything but if we were actually writing the software itself then I think we would have something to be proud of.
OK, you keep BASIC and we'll keep Linux :)
(Joking of course - Linux was obviously a pan global effort)
My point was that if more thought was put into developing software that was pretty much locale independent then there would be more development profits to keep 'right here' wherever 'right here' might be.
Yeah you have a point there. I was thinking more in terms of syntax where the syntax in most languages is not hugely biased towards a particular language. I suppose if you look at the directionality and script then we are doomed!
That's really not the point though is it. Forcing people to work in their second language is hardly the path to success. The users might have a grasp of English but even still will not be over the moon about being forced to use it. France is a good example.
>and speak English
I guess that rules out the majority of the globe then.
I think it was The Great Shark Hunt that detailed getting normally politically unmotivated people involved in politics. Interesting read.