And let's apply the reverse logic. Does photoshop have (All features of GIMP - All features of PhotoShop) features? Does it support gimp plugins? , etc, etc, etc.....
Just because it's commerical doesn't mean that it has all/the best features...
And then they froze the Java on their platform... Means you either had to code to 1.x or make the user download Java 2...
I think that "If Sun would just standardize java" agrument is horse s__t. The second they did that MS would be in there trying to bastardize the standard. After all, they signed a contract that said they would maintain the (Sun's published) standard, and then went and ignored it. So you think that they would not try to use a standard committee to their advantage and everyone else's dis-advantage. Or just ignore the standard some more.
I think that if Sun is really letting their community process work, this, to me is as good as a official standard.
If it's truely a standard, not controlled on my MS, let's get in there are start ripping out the windows only / windows preferable parts of it and replace them with cross platform... They way, we get a standard that everyone change use.
Anyone want to wager on the chances of non MS approved changes getting in?
The NRA does NOT support ordinary people owning a machine gun.
What's funny is that the NRA does, in this case, support the 2nd amendment... It's the ordinary people who must own a machine gun (to protect our freedoms) that is one of the major tenents that I hear coming from the NRA (<b>You</b> need to own a gun to protect your freedom from the evil "elected" government).
But the military likes to classify cool useful stuff.... And keep paying the same contractor over and over and over to develop the same thing. DOD needs a xyz system, Army needs the same but xyzz, Marines need a axyz system. So each of them develops their own system completely independently. I have seen this!
Wow! and you're going to magically stay 25 forever?? Let's hear your tune when you're getting to be 40.. That's right 40! Not That old, but getting screwed by age discrimination.
Are we getting to "logan's run" in the near future? Kill all the old people who can't cut it?
Actually I feel sorry for people who are ignorant like you are. Assuming that knowing C# / whatever is the latest buzz word is the best thing to do. My skills are much more valuable than that. I've learned lessons, I have a good idea up front what will and won't work, and how much it will cost. All those kinds of things that most industries worship in their older workers....
H1B practice has nothing to do with H1B fantasy. Most of the H1B people I have know are 1) under paid, 2) endentured servants, 3) not really more qualified than their American counter parts. Sure, there are some morons out there that aren't qualified, but heh.
I'm working on a project with a product that only has (basically) indian people who know how to develop against it. The reasons... The products company went to indian, trained a bunch of people (cheap labor), brought them hear as endentured servants. These are the only people who are "officially" trained on the system. You get a company like mine, who is afraid to just hire a qualified j2ee developer and give them some on the job training. Instead they find barely qualified people who have this product on their resume.
Oops, you assume that creationism would be out... Pro-Religious (maybe judo-christian only) subjects would definitily be accepted into this domain. It's the evolution sites that would have a hard time getting in.
Basiclly you all are insisting that fixing security bugs (which should not have been there in the first place) is equivalent to adding functionality. Apple added stuff between 8 & 9 to make it better. Apple also has an established track record of breaking things between versions. It is just a price you pay for buying Mac. M$ has made it's reputation and monopoly by selling backward compatability. Except that now that they have the monopoly, the apologists insist that you're a moron and loser if you expect backward compatability. They want to change the rules.
This is all classic M$ apologists hypocrisy. We want our cake and for you to bite me too.
Back to rant 1: M$ should have be putting security in from the start, they should have strongly encouraged developers to avoid things that would cause problems later (Apple always had their "Develop Mac apps this way" documentation). M$ didn't really care (until recently, now that they are getting burned for their laziness) what developer did (If fact M$ did lot's of "bad" things themselves).
M$ Really needs to take this bullet and acknowledge that they f____ed up, and f____ed the users of Windows majorly. Now they should go on a campaign to fix it all, spend lots of money giving free updates, giving money to developers to fix things that M$ has broken, and make a pledge that their fixes won't "accidently" break compeating (how do you spell that?) companies programs. If M$ did these things, I bet that it wouldn't appear on slashdot as a negative issue, and would actually get positive feedback.
Hey, you're funny... But ATFQ is using two peoples time. You don't have to remember the entire manual, just that 1) the manual exists, and 2) have an idea where in the manual to look if problems come up. When I have issues, the first thing I do is a quick online (since most manuals are on-line instead of paper these days) search of the docs.
It's the really shitty documentation that gets me. We're using a automated testing product that when we have a problem we HAVE to call support because their documentation is useless. Their solution to the problem is to get you to buy their training to learn the system.
I have 6 people working for us right now, and another company that is providing support for a product that they didn't develop. It is easy and cheap to find people willing and quailified to give support.
Be careful not to get sucked into the level of support that commerical companies offer. They'll offer the world up front, but you'll have problems as time goes on. Don't forget the forced upgrades to the software and OS to keep the support going.
Give the commerical guys a call with a "tough" question, or a It's down and we need it up and have no clue as to what to do. See how they respond. I bet you'll be surprised (unless they know you are shopping, but even then)
1) Gee, an advertising magazine saying that a product that allows skipping advertising is going to fail. There's a surprise.
2) If you don't own Tivo, you don't understand. I have a DirectTv/Tivo system. I can record two things at once, program wish lists, record something after it starts (I'm watching it, decide the wife would like it, so tell it to record the whole program). it records stuff in free space, based on what I watch, some of which I actually watch.
I disagree. Without the ability to use the program guide to choose programs, wish lists, etc I wouldn't have bought a Tivo. I could have set my VCR to start/stop at different times to catch programs I wanted. But guess what! I never did (except football) because I'm just to damn lazy. With Tivo I get much more diversity in what I watch AND I actually see every episode of programs that I like. I can even go on bings where I capture all Buffy or Drew Darey reruns.
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I wonder if there will be a PayPal or some such no the site soon. "Use PayPal to get your ideas heard by the whitehouse. Click for a payment schedule"
Or maybe they were organizations that NEEDED to be audited, but were never gotten around to during the Reagan/Bush I era
But you can... Just put it on e-bay
I personally wish Outlook would die a fast painful death. I hate it, and it stifles real innovation.
Better than dropping them would be to allow/encourage filtering... Then the projects can stay, but I can choose a threshold that I want to view.
Plus, A project may become stable but inactive.... Do you want that dropped?
And let's apply the reverse logic. Does photoshop have (All features of GIMP - All features of PhotoShop) features? Does it support gimp plugins? , etc, etc, etc.....
Just because it's commerical doesn't mean that it has all/the best features...
And then they froze the Java on their platform... Means you either had to code to 1.x or make the user download Java 2...
I think that "If Sun would just standardize java" agrument is horse s__t. The second they did that MS would be in there trying to bastardize the standard. After all, they signed a contract that said they would maintain the (Sun's published) standard, and then went and ignored it. So you think that they would not try to use a standard committee to their advantage and everyone else's dis-advantage. Or just ignore the standard some more.
I think that if Sun is really letting their community process work, this, to me is as good as a official standard.
So... Even though Java doesn't have a standard, groups are able to create ports of it.... Where's the OS port of c#?
If it's truely a standard, not controlled on my MS, let's get in there are start ripping out the windows only / windows preferable parts of it and replace them with cross platform... They way, we get a standard that everyone change use.
Anyone want to wager on the chances of non MS approved changes getting in?
I would say "The following are good times to have protection on hand"
Yep, when I get laid off, I'll just live on my massive 401k investments.
crap. The first "does" should be "doesn't".. The NRA doesn't, in this case, support the 2nd amendment.
The NRA does NOT support ordinary people owning a machine gun.
What's funny is that the NRA does, in this case, support the 2nd amendment... It's the ordinary people who must own a machine gun (to protect our freedoms) that is one of the major tenents that I hear coming from the NRA (<b>You</b> need to own a gun to protect your freedom from the evil "elected" government).
But the military likes to classify cool useful stuff.... And keep paying the same contractor over and over and over to develop the same thing. DOD needs a xyz system, Army needs the same but xyzz, Marines need a axyz system. So each of them develops their own system completely independently. I have seen this!
Wow! and you're going to magically stay 25 forever?? Let's hear your tune when you're getting to be 40.. That's right 40! Not That old, but getting screwed by age discrimination.
Are we getting to "logan's run" in the near future? Kill all the old people who can't cut it?
Actually I feel sorry for people who are ignorant like you are. Assuming that knowing C# / whatever is the latest buzz word is the best thing to do. My skills are much more valuable than that. I've learned lessons, I have a good idea up front what will and won't work, and how much it will cost. All those kinds of things that most industries worship in their older workers....
Go to some place like Bld 19. You CAN get the $10 jeans there..... They ain't CK or Gap, but they work.
You're paying the extra, what $30 these days, for the tag!!! I pay $25 for mine because I can afford the name, and I like the fit....
H1B practice has nothing to do with H1B fantasy. Most of the H1B people I have know are 1) under paid, 2) endentured servants, 3) not really more qualified than their American counter parts. Sure, there are some morons out there that aren't qualified, but heh.
I'm working on a project with a product that only has (basically) indian people who know how to develop against it. The reasons... The products company went to indian, trained a bunch of people (cheap labor), brought them hear as endentured servants. These are the only people who are "officially" trained on the system. You get a company like mine, who is afraid to just hire a qualified j2ee developer and give them some on the job training. Instead they find barely qualified people who have this product on their resume.
I believe that some of the censor-ware filters have removed "subjects that religious people object to" which includes evolution.
Oops, you assume that creationism would be out... Pro-Religious (maybe judo-christian only) subjects would definitily be accepted into this domain. It's the evolution sites that would have a hard time getting in.
Basiclly you all are insisting that fixing security bugs (which should not have been there in the first place) is equivalent to adding functionality. Apple added stuff between 8 & 9 to make it better. Apple also has an established track record of breaking things between versions. It is just a price you pay for buying Mac. M$ has made it's reputation and monopoly by selling backward compatability. Except that now that they have the monopoly, the apologists insist that you're a moron and loser if you expect backward compatability. They want to change the rules.
This is all classic M$ apologists hypocrisy. We want our cake and for you to bite me too.
Back to rant 1: M$ should have be putting security in from the start, they should have strongly encouraged developers to avoid things that would cause problems later (Apple always had their "Develop Mac apps this way" documentation). M$ didn't really care (until recently, now that they are getting burned for their laziness) what developer did (If fact M$ did lot's of "bad" things themselves).
M$ Really needs to take this bullet and acknowledge that they f____ed up, and f____ed the users of Windows majorly. Now they should go on a campaign to fix it all, spend lots of money giving free updates, giving money to developers to fix things that M$ has broken, and make a pledge that their fixes won't "accidently" break compeating (how do you spell that?) companies programs. If M$ did these things, I bet that it wouldn't appear on slashdot as a negative issue, and would actually get positive feedback.
Hey, you're funny... But ATFQ is using two peoples time. You don't have to remember the entire manual, just that 1) the manual exists, and 2) have an idea where in the manual to look if problems come up. When I have issues, the first thing I do is a quick online (since most manuals are on-line instead of paper these days) search of the docs.
It's the really shitty documentation that gets me. We're using a automated testing product that when we have a problem we HAVE to call support because their documentation is useless. Their solution to the problem is to get you to buy their training to learn the system.
don't forget. If you ask for 1/10 of a FTE from a commercial company... After they stop laughing, they'll send you the $300 per hr price to help you.
I have 6 people working for us right now, and another company that is providing support for a product that they didn't develop. It is easy and cheap to find people willing and quailified to give support.
Be careful not to get sucked into the level of support that commerical companies offer. They'll offer the world up front, but you'll have problems as time goes on. Don't forget the forced upgrades to the software and OS to keep the support going.
Give the commerical guys a call with a "tough" question, or a It's down and we need it up and have no clue as to what to do. See how they respond. I bet you'll be surprised (unless they know you are shopping, but even then)
1) Gee, an advertising magazine saying that a product that allows skipping advertising is going to fail. There's a surprise.
2) If you don't own Tivo, you don't understand. I have a DirectTv/Tivo system. I can record two things at once, program wish lists, record something after it starts (I'm watching it, decide the wife would like it, so tell it to record the whole program). it records stuff in free space, based on what I watch, some of which I actually watch.
I disagree. Without the ability to use the program guide to choose programs, wish lists, etc I wouldn't have bought a Tivo. I could have set my VCR to start/stop at different times to catch programs I wanted. But guess what! I never did (except football) because I'm just to damn lazy. With Tivo I get much more diversity in what I watch AND I actually see every episode of programs that I like. I can even go on bings where I capture all Buffy or Drew Darey reruns.