1) don't care 2) prefer Mozilla, or 3) are forced to use IE in a corporate environment.
Add 4) use it because of cool features like integration with Windows Authentication so they don't have to enter a password for their intranet applications. Not exactly "forced."
These days it is all FireFox until I need to use the company portal, then IE comes in.
Has a whole section on the problem of replicating the informal interaction that brings so much to the work envrionment. Were I more than a lone programmer, I would need that. As it is, low overhead and a pants optional dress code keep me at home.
Righto, which is why being able to ID the source without the obvious big honkin' missile is important. Or more to the point, create the impression that the US can ID the source and presumably nuke the bejesus out of anyone who allows one of their weapons to be delivered.
The only "iPod killer" is going to be something that looks as cool as an iPod, holds as much, but is smaller and cheaper.
I'd take cool, holds half a much but is smaller and cheaper. Really, who needs 10 kajillion songs on one piece of fragile, battery operated hardware? Oh, and I hate that little wheel thingy. Since when does clockwise mean down and counterclockwise mean up? What, is there a little rope in there that connects the knob to the menus?
Actually, don't some credit Bangalore back office companies with defusing Kargill? I was under the impression that a number of US companies got nervous about outsourcing to India and Indian industry put enormous pressure on the govt to find a peaceful resolution. Anybody confirm?
Obviously, India can defend itself but who needs that kind of crisis?
Go for a small business clients/employers. People without the resources to outsource. Give the small business owners the hand holding that Bangalore can't provide. At least that is my plan
The fact that nobody would like to work on a store management program for free doesn't mean making it open source doesn't make sense. Somebody working for another company and being paid for it could use it.
Except, if I were a store, why would I pay an employee to build a system my competitors could freely use? Why wouldn't I have her code a proprietary system that gives us an advantage over them instead?
I do all kinds of very specific tool development for private sector clients and this is how they think. They want their investment to pay off to them and them alone.
You got me. I originally wrote "well-indexed db" in the preview, but I cut it out thinking that anyone who would build a fs as db would have to make certain it indexed in some rational way.
On another note, MS might be one of the few actors with the muscle to insist that anything that tries to save a "file" includes enough metadata to make it useful to the dbfs.
If they were smart, Office and Exchange would do this in the background, creating all the indexes and links with users none the wiser, all wrapped up in some nasty, obfuscated protocol that no one else can decipher, much less use without licensing some widget from MS. Nasty and obfuscated? Didn't I already say Exchange? (rimshot)
Sales rep needs the revised proposal on the Henderson account!
Computer: Get all Word documents emailed by Bob between last Thursday and today that contain the word 'Henderson' except where they also contain the phrase 'unreasonable, demanding client who is not worth our time'. --A snap for an db.
Putting the desktop client and the web service on the same PC means I don't have to lug a server to demos or try to get Win 2K Server to run on a laptop.
Yay Pine, or, um, any copy of Outlook patched since December of 2002, as it automatically ditches.pif files. Now I would prefer to choose what Outlook blocks, but really anyone who has applied an Outlook patch in the last six months is safe.
I for one don't understand how people manage to spread these things.
Access is a piece of shit but the whole MS cult worships it for some reason.
Um, because it is a useful tool that lets people get work done. I certainly don't use it for "real" databases, but to imagine that the solution to any data need is to throw MySQL at the assistant purchasing manager or deputy director of personnel because your ideology says MS=BAD is just stupid.
Midrange? Sheesh! End user software.
Show me the Mac Access. I know lots of managers who use Access for all kinds of quick and dirty data analysis. Sure, they could run VPC, and then have to learn (um, and buy) Windows and Mac. Plus add in the poor performance and VPC weirdness.
Why would anyone want to do this again?
As long as developers fail to test their pages with anything but ie, you are probably going to want to have ie around. I use Mozilla now (thanks to popups), but find I still use ie three or four times a day for browsing sites that don't accept Mozilla, don't render right, or just plain act weird.
The idea is to move into markets which aren't served by massive jumbos and couldn't fill one anyway.
Look at the Atlantic market. Used to be you had to go to NY or Boston to fly to the UK then into only London. Now 757s, 767s, and 777s leave from smaller US cities for smaller UK cities. (Phoenix to London anyone?)
Boeing is betting that the Asian market will start looking more like the Atlantic market in the late 90s than the superhub hub dominated Atlantic market of the 70s and 80s. They figure that the A380 will be more jet than these markets need or want.
Actually, I'm not much fond of the tablets. The solid state units like the MPX8000 have the right idea.
The target audience for those are people who have to stand or sit at a non-conventional workstation and do data entry. Warehouse clerks, nurses, cops, etc.
Microsoft has a tendancy to wrap up stale old code in fresh new interfaces and let their Marketing people slap a new name on it
Not just Microsoft. I just pulled the last of our Crystal Reports from out VB.NET project because we couldn't do xcopy distribution..NET compatible, oh to laugh!
It's unfortunate, but a university will give a teaching position to almost anyone whose name is followed by "PHD" on their resume
Um, do you know anything about the academic job market? Despite the laziness of many students, their sense of entitlement, and their mommies and daddies' threats to sue when junior doesn't get an 'A' in the class he skipped and slept through, there remain many more applicants than positions.
RTFA people, they want to be the Apple of robots. Where robots (and computers) were once industrial devices, they want robots in everyone's home. They explicitly mention the Apple II.
The only trouble is that this won't protect you from data corruption or destruction owing to malice or error. A backup that reflects the state of the original data 1 hour ago is worthless if somebody deleted your customer database two hours ago. A well synched backup merely replicates your loss in two places. You need different frequent backups, and for that you need cheap storage.
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1) don't care
2) prefer Mozilla, or
3) are forced to use IE in a corporate environment.
Add 4) use it because of cool features like integration with Windows Authentication so they don't have to enter a password for their intranet applications. Not exactly "forced."
These days it is all FireFox until I need to use the company portal, then IE comes in.
Has a whole section on the problem of replicating the informal interaction that brings so much to the work envrionment.
Were I more than a lone programmer, I would need that. As it is, low overhead and a pants optional dress code keep me at home.
Yeah, you figured it out, this one is aimed squarely at Pakistan.
Righto, which is why being able to ID the source without the obvious big honkin' missile is important.
Or more to the point, create the impression that the US can ID the source and presumably nuke the bejesus out of anyone who allows one of their weapons to be delivered.
The only "iPod killer" is going to be something that looks as cool as an iPod, holds as much, but is smaller and cheaper.
I'd take cool, holds half a much but is smaller and cheaper. Really, who needs 10 kajillion songs on one piece of fragile, battery operated hardware?
Oh, and I hate that little wheel thingy. Since when does clockwise mean down and counterclockwise mean up? What, is there a little rope in there that connects the knob to the menus?
Actually, don't some credit Bangalore back office companies with defusing Kargill? I was under the impression that a number of US companies got nervous about outsourcing to India and Indian industry put enormous pressure on the govt to find a peaceful resolution. Anybody confirm?
Obviously, India can defend itself but who needs that kind of crisis?
Go for a small business clients/employers. People without the resources to outsource. Give the small business owners the hand holding that Bangalore can't provide. At least that is my plan
The fact that nobody would like to work on a store management program for free doesn't mean making it open source doesn't make sense. Somebody working for another company and being paid for it could use it.
Except, if I were a store, why would I pay an employee to build a system my competitors could freely use? Why wouldn't I have her code a proprietary system that gives us an advantage over them instead?
I do all kinds of very specific tool development for private sector clients and this is how they think. They want their investment to pay off to them and them alone.
Actually, I do admin windows boxes, I just don't trust them.
Dude, maybe I'm paranoid, but if my server got hacked, I'm fdisking that sucker at the very least.
You got me. I originally wrote "well-indexed db" in the preview, but I cut it out thinking that anyone who would build a fs as db would have to make certain it indexed in some rational way.
On another note, MS might be one of the few actors with the muscle to insist that anything that tries to save a "file" includes enough metadata to make it useful to the dbfs.
If they were smart, Office and Exchange would do this in the background, creating all the indexes and links with users none the wiser, all wrapped up in some nasty, obfuscated protocol that no one else can decipher, much less use without licensing some widget from MS. Nasty and obfuscated? Didn't I already say Exchange? (rimshot)
Real world non-Geek use:
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Sales rep needs the revised proposal on the Henderson account!
Computer: Get all Word documents emailed by Bob between last Thursday and today that contain the word 'Henderson' except where they also contain the phrase 'unreasonable, demanding client who is not worth our time'. --A snap for an db
Putting the desktop client and the web service on the same PC means I don't have to lug a server to demos or try to get Win 2K Server to run on a laptop.
Yay Pine, or, um, any copy of Outlook patched since December of 2002, as it automatically ditches .pif files. Now I would prefer to choose what Outlook blocks, but really anyone who has applied an Outlook patch in the last six months is safe.
I for one don't understand how people manage to spread these things.
Access is a piece of shit but the whole MS cult worships it for some reason.
Um, because it is a useful tool that lets people get work done. I certainly don't use it for "real" databases, but to imagine that the solution to any data need is to throw MySQL at the assistant purchasing manager or deputy director of personnel because your ideology says MS=BAD is just stupid.
Midrange? Sheesh! End user software. Show me the Mac Access. I know lots of managers who use Access for all kinds of quick and dirty data analysis. Sure, they could run VPC, and then have to learn (um, and buy) Windows and Mac. Plus add in the poor performance and VPC weirdness. Why would anyone want to do this again?
As long as developers fail to test their pages with anything but ie, you are probably going to want to have ie around.
I use Mozilla now (thanks to popups), but find I still use ie three or four times a day for browsing sites that don't accept Mozilla, don't render right, or just plain act weird.
Or more correctly, Qat. Once a pedantic Arabist, always a pedantic Arabist. Oh, and it is a really lame drug.
The idea is to move into markets which aren't served by massive jumbos and couldn't fill one anyway.
Look at the Atlantic market. Used to be you had to go to NY or Boston to fly to the UK then into only London. Now 757s, 767s, and 777s leave from smaller US cities for smaller UK cities. (Phoenix to London anyone?)
Boeing is betting that the Asian market will start looking more like the Atlantic market in the late 90s than the superhub hub dominated Atlantic market of the 70s and 80s. They figure that the A380 will be more jet than these markets need or want.
Actually, I'm not much fond of the tablets. The solid state units like the MPX8000 have the right idea.
The target audience for those are people who have to stand or sit at a non-conventional workstation and do data entry. Warehouse clerks, nurses, cops, etc.
Microsoft has a tendancy to wrap up stale old code in fresh new interfaces and let their Marketing people slap a new name on it
.NET compatible, oh to laugh!
Not just Microsoft. I just pulled the last of our Crystal Reports from out VB.NET project because we couldn't do xcopy distribution.
Buy a house. Every mortgage refinancier, siding contractor, driveway sealer, etc. in the county will call twice a night.
We get about 75% marketing calls now. As a result, we never answer the phone without checking caller ID.
It's unfortunate, but a university will give a teaching position to almost anyone whose name is followed by "PHD" on their resume
Um, do you know anything about the academic job market?
Despite the laziness of many students, their sense of entitlement, and their mommies and daddies' threats to sue when junior doesn't get an 'A' in the class he skipped and slept through, there remain many more applicants than positions.
RTFA people, they want to be the Apple of robots. Where robots (and computers) were once industrial devices, they want robots in everyone's home. They explicitly mention the Apple II.
Live mirror, etc. hourly rsync does a nice job
The only trouble is that this won't protect you from data corruption or destruction owing to malice or error. A backup that reflects the state of the original data 1 hour ago is worthless if somebody deleted your customer database two hours ago. A well synched backup merely replicates your loss in two places.
You need different frequent backups, and for that you need cheap storage.