The bigger problem is having school districts reponsibly spend the extra money they will save.
That is a huge problem. One of the local schools near where I live just finished spending $12 million to upgrade the sports complex. Astroturf football field, bigger stadium, clay running tracks, etc. The best part is that they've always had a parking problem and they built a bigger stadium where the parking lot used to be and didn't build any more parking. Doh!
The payware mafia are proud of saying that most audits are based on tipoffs from disgrunted ex-employees -- which scares most companies because, no matter how hard they try, they will have some disgruntled ex-employees.
If you're one of the happy ex-employees, does that mean you're gruntled instead of disgruntled?
A good alternative to StuffIt for decompressing various Unix archives on OS X is Scott Anguish's most excellent "OpenUp": http://softrak.stepwise.com/display?pkg=790&os =20
Stone Design's "PackUpAndGo" is also an excellent product: http://www.stone.com/PackUpAndGo/PackUpAndGo.html
I was recently standing in line at the local Sears Hardware store. The guy in front of me was buying an air conditioner. The teller accidentally scanned the shipping label barcode on the box instead of the UPC barcode. It crashed his cash register and all the other cash registers and the server in the back office.
I can just imagine what a nightmare adding a 13th digit is going to be in a system that is that brittle.
About two years ago, I was hired by a dot com (which has since layed me off) to do some database work. I had several years of Oracle DBA experience and one of the things they wanted me to do was be the SQL Server DBA. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that their SQL Server machine was not behind a firewall and had the default blank password for the "sa" user. This database stored the orders and account information (including credit card numbers) for several e-commerce sites. There were some junior programmers fresh out of college on the project working on code that a consulting company had originally supplied. The junior programmers didn't want me to change the "sa" password because everything was hardcoded to use the "sa" account (a bad thing) without the password (even worse). Management didn't want to clean the credit card numbers out of the database because "we might need them in the future". It took several weeks of me kicking up a fuss to get them to let me change the password and remove the credit card numbers. AFAIK, they never moved it behind a firewall.
Sometimes a company just deserves to go out of business.
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And if you were a little to the west, you'd have to drive through Bird-In-Hand (I'm not making this up) to get to Intercourse.
And on the first point in the title, mobile phone usage varies across Europe, Finland leading the way. The vast generalisations from Jon apply yet again only to the US.
Ummm, he's reporting on what was in "American Demographics" magazine. Not "European Demographics" or "Finnish Demographics" magazine.
Rather than whining that Jon is US centric, find some information that applies to Europe and post it for us. Do something constructive.
There's a number of large applications out there that just plain aren't covered by anything other then the vendor's manuals (which often suck). The one app that's a major thorn in my side right now is Siebel. They're really big in the sales force automation market (or "customer relationship management" depending on what the buzzword is this week). Of course, it may be difficult to write a book on this sort of topic without heavy support from the vendor.
It may not be as dead sexy as Ruby for Midgets, but it'd sell really well in enterprise IT departments.
If they aim at the enterprise market it might take off. I work for a large pharmaceutical company on IS support staff for the sales force. Right now we're using a combination of laptops and HP Jornada's running Siebel's CRM software. The rep takes the handheld into the doctor's office and records what samples where left and collects the doctor's signature. They need the laptop to do analysis (ie what doctors should I visit tomorrow), email, etc. because the handheld is too small, underpowered and storage challenged for this sort of work. This device with a microdrive added would be an almost perfect fit for replacing what we have now.
I agree with the statement that math and physics are overrated within the CompSci curriculum. A couple semesters of basic business classes will be much more valuable at your first job out of college.
I work as an Oracle DBA and Java developer. I've had several of my co-workers from outside the IS department ask me what I recommend their sons & daughters take in college if they're interested in computers. I always tell them to go to a strong liberal arts school, major in business and minor in computer science. They avoid all the silly math classes, get some basic programming skills, and learn about business. When they get out of college, they'll be able to communicate with business people and also be able to communicate with IS people. If the school has an internship program, that's even better.
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The bigger problem is having school districts reponsibly spend the extra money they will save.
That is a huge problem. One of the local schools near where I live just finished spending $12 million to upgrade the sports complex. Astroturf football field, bigger stadium, clay running tracks, etc. The best part is that they've always had a parking problem and they built a bigger stadium where the parking lot used to be and didn't build any more parking. Doh!
If you're one of the happy ex-employees, does that mean you're gruntled instead of disgruntled?
A good alternative to StuffIt for decompressing various Unix archives on OS X is Scott Anguish's most excellent "OpenUp": http://softrak.stepwise.com/display?pkg=790&os =20
Stone Design's "PackUpAndGo" is also an excellent product: http://www.stone.com/PackUpAndGo/PackUpAndGo.html
I was recently standing in line at the local Sears Hardware store. The guy in front of me was buying an air conditioner. The teller accidentally scanned the shipping label barcode on the box instead of the UPC barcode. It crashed his cash register and all the other cash registers and the server in the back office.
I can just imagine what a nightmare adding a 13th digit is going to be in a system that is that brittle.
About two years ago, I was hired by a dot com (which has since layed me off) to do some database work. I had several years of Oracle DBA experience and one of the things they wanted me to do was be the SQL Server DBA. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that their SQL Server machine was not behind a firewall and had the default blank password for the "sa" user. This database stored the orders and account information (including credit card numbers) for several e-commerce sites. There were some junior programmers fresh out of college on the project working on code that a consulting company had originally supplied. The junior programmers didn't want me to change the "sa" password because everything was hardcoded to use the "sa" account (a bad thing) without the password (even worse). Management didn't want to clean the credit card numbers out of the database because "we might need them in the future". It took several weeks of me kicking up a fuss to get them to let me change the password and remove the credit card numbers. AFAIK, they never moved it behind a firewall.
Sometimes a company just deserves to go out of business.
And if you were a little to the west, you'd have to drive through Bird-In-Hand (I'm not making this up) to get to Intercourse.
Dirty minded Amish.
And on the first point in the title, mobile phone usage varies across Europe, Finland leading the way. The vast generalisations from Jon apply yet again only to the US.
Ummm, he's reporting on what was in "American Demographics" magazine. Not "European Demographics" or "Finnish Demographics" magazine.
Rather than whining that Jon is US centric, find some information that applies to Europe and post it for us. Do something constructive.
There's a number of large applications out there that just plain aren't covered by anything other then the vendor's manuals (which often suck). The one app that's a major thorn in my side right now is Siebel. They're really big in the sales force automation market (or "customer relationship management" depending on what the buzzword is this week). Of course, it may be difficult to write a book on this sort of topic without heavy support from the vendor.
It may not be as dead sexy as Ruby for Midgets, but it'd sell really well in enterprise IT departments.
The article says the new iMac weighs 20 pounds. That seems rather heavy to me.
Has anyone picked one up yet? Does it actually weigh that much?
If they aim at the enterprise market it might take off. I work for a large pharmaceutical company on IS support staff for the sales force. Right now we're using a combination of laptops and HP Jornada's running Siebel's CRM software. The rep takes the handheld into the doctor's office and records what samples where left and collects the doctor's signature. They need the laptop to do analysis (ie what doctors should I visit tomorrow), email, etc. because the handheld is too small, underpowered and storage challenged for this sort of work. This device with a microdrive added would be an almost perfect fit for replacing what we have now.
Scripts are allowed to open new windows:
I always use the second choice. This means I'm totally surprised by all the pop-up ads when I'm using IE instead of OmniWeb.
I agree with the statement that math and physics are overrated within the CompSci curriculum. A couple semesters of basic business classes will be much more valuable at your first job out of college.
I work as an Oracle DBA and Java developer. I've had several of my co-workers from outside the IS department ask me what I recommend their sons & daughters take in college if they're interested in computers. I always tell them to go to a strong liberal arts school, major in business and minor in computer science. They avoid all the silly math classes, get some basic programming skills, and learn about business. When they get out of college, they'll be able to communicate with business people and also be able to communicate with IS people. If the school has an internship program, that's even better.
We're having a social breakdown because of the high obesity rate in America? Is this some sort of comment on the Nutty Professor?
Define "slaughters".
Slaughters by being easier to use? No.
Slaughters by being easier to initially configure? I doubt it.
Slaughters by being easier to maintain? Unlikely.
Slaughters by having more applications available? Doubtful.
Besides, why are you comparing a window manager to an operating system?