I agree that buzz words like Web 2.0 sound lame, but they can loosely explain ideas that are not fully formed... Just as the "Information Superhighway" got used way too much as the internet was gaining momentum, I think "Web 2.0" will get used in a similar way, to describe an idea where the scope is too great to be explained in concrete terms.
As for throwing "2.0" at the end of everything, it will happen, and it will be inaccurate to the/. crowd, but it will be beneficial for a lot of people not "in the know".
As mush as we might hate to admit it, the business types that will use this term all the time are just as nessiary as the techies in advancing stuff.
It's funny how getting in on the ground floor of something like Google can let one individual stand out like this... Imagine if Google decided now to start putting up cystom art with each holiday. Due to their size, I'm sure it would be a huge heck of a mess... getting an artist, deciding on designs, figuring out what goes with the corporate principles.
He's a lucky guy, getting to do that on his own... I can barely get approval for a logo for our intranet, that will only be seen by 20 people, due to the issues I raised above.
It seems to me that Apple might as well hold off on releasing the Pro line until CS3... I've talked to a few designers, and they are all holding out for CS3 to make the upgrade, since they work so frequently in these applications, and they take a big performance hit on the new hardware.
I'm the IT manager for a small advertising company. I was hired as the company was just starting, and built a small network of Macs and PCs. As I was being hired, we also got an outsourced IT company. I'm a person that tends to do things himself, and then ask for help only after I have given it my best shot... otherwise, how the fuck do I learn anything?
However, we are a company of managers, and I find that I get praised for doing a good job when I call the outsourced company to deal with an issue than if I did it myself. Their time is about 8 times as expensive as mine, and referring to them can cost a small fortune, but the Powers the Be are more happy to see me managing others than doing something myself...
I am with you there. We use Sharepoint for our Intranet, and it's clunky at best... I've been charged with trying to make it's use better, but there's just enough of a learning curve that people would still rather stick to using a regular file server instead.
That said... We had a strong need in my office for a file-sharing system recently... Our requirements were 1- Easy to Use. 2- Branded with our logo/colors 3- multiple levels of access and file restrictions, so that users only saw the files we wanted them to.
We did not find any comprable services, so we had one built for us for about $5K. In the end, we got exactly what we wanted, and we have a web host with unlimited space for a couple hundred a ear.
hear hear! one of my co-workers had the yahoo equivelent of this. One day when on their computer, they tried to play off like someone else put them there, but they didn't know how to get them out...
I was going to agree with you and ad that I don't like the idea that they have acess to all my bookmarks... seems like they would know a LOT more about me than I would want them to know.
THen I remembered they've had the majority of my personal email for the last two years.
I was referring to the idea of imaging in general... but you can use Apple's Disk Utility to create an image of a hard drive (The easiest way is to boot to the install disk and run Disk Utility from there) and you also have the option of restoring from an image when you go to re-install the OS. Very similar to Ghost.
I never got this, either. Macs have had tools like this (Norton System Works, TechTool, Diskwarrior) that have worked on this principle for what? Ten years or more? I don't know why the idea never made it over to Windows... a bootable CD that cleans the registry, checks the file system, and other such non-sense. Most of the tools you would need exist, but they don't run from a bootable disk. I'm sure there are some hacks out there that do this, but nothing from MS, Symantec or any of the other "Big Boys"... seems like it would be quite the market, too...
Ghost, or imaging in general, is a great tool for both PCs and Macs in a work enviroment.
I am the IT guy for a small network of 25 PCs and about 6 Macs... I have images on hand for every model of machine. Users know damn well that anything stored on their local computer isn't backed up or safe from deletion, so when they have issues, I double check with them that they don't have anything important that we really, really need to save, and then I use one of my images, install any additional software I don't have in my image, and then give them back a healthy machine about an hour later.
If I think solving an issue on their machine is going to take more than an hour, it gets an image replacement. Saves both on my time getting the machine back up and running, and the user has less down-time.
Im' an avid fan of Macs, and I don't run anti-vi on my Powerbook, but I DO run it on the Macs in my office for a reason that people don't often think of: Macs can be a virus CARRIER, even if they can't be infected!
A few years ago I had a situation (in an all mac offce) where we burned a CD and sent it to a client (the client was Windows based). The client complained that some of the files were infected. As a Mac-only office, I didn't care about running virus protection, so the files went unchecked.
In my current office, a mixed enviroment, I make sure that both OS's are covered. even if the chance of the macs getting infected is next to nill, I want my PCs to be safe.
I can second that last part... I'm friends with an API developer at Google, and my boss is friends with someone higher-up in marketing... both have told us that Google has no plans for an OS.
and why should they? 2 years from now, no one is going to care about what OS you are running, anyway. We will have true Windows emmulation on OS X shortly, and WINE seems to do great things for windows apps under linux... pretty soon your choice of OS isn't going to matter in terms of what software you can run.
Beyond that, we are heading towards a service-based model, which moves us away from the OS as a productivity space anyway. Google would do better to put their efforts into these services than mucking about with an OS and fighting a (probably loosing) battle with MS on that front. Better to take the fight to the internet, where they are stronger anyway.
I've got one more day to go at my para-corporate job as a Project Manager.
When I've been asked for my opinion, I try to give an answer with some substance to it, something that can be discussed and built on. However, I find that more often than not, people are looking for answers like the ones we see above, where literally NOTHING is being said. It makes me mad that people would rather have nothing said to them but said well than nothing at all.
A friend of mine is currently working in Afghanistan. Before he left, a bunch of us put in money to buy him an iPod for the trip.
Since going there, he has been through some rough moments during some car trips (seeing parts of the road blow up, for example) and has been very thankful for the iPod as a way to escape these moments.
The difference is that the library (or someone donating to the library) paid for the printed matierials. In other words, some money was given to the author (supposedly).
Also, the number of people that are reading a book at a library is equal to the number of copies of the book the library owns. Any number of people could be reading the same text on the internet.
I've contributed to Uncyclopedia in the past (please note the entry for Boba Fett... I'd link to it but the site's been/.'ed).
There are a lot of funny people out there, but they don't always have time time to create a site where they can be funny on their own. Sites like this let anyone with something funny to say get it out in a clean, formal way. Sure, there is some lame stuff on there, but most of those articles are well-written and thoughful.
-but it will be poorly done. the XP theme wasn't so hot to start with, and then you have people emmulating it badly, and it makes the whole system ugly, as one app is going to look different compared to another. Is there a style guide for this sort of thing??
OS X seems a little better about that, partially because Apple is making a lot of the sortware themselves.
My office in NYC uses WiMax. We upgraded earlier this year and we've had great uptime, and good speed.
The cool thing is that the transmitter we connect to is on the Empire State Building. When I connect to the VPN from home, I can look out the window at the ESB and see my data flying through the air...
Apple almost never drops their prices, they just make things better at the current price point... remember, $300 5 years ago got you a black and white 5 GB iPod... look what it gets you now.
I bet it will be redesigned a little, but the price is going to stay where it is.
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I agree that buzz words like Web 2.0 sound lame, but they can loosely explain ideas that are not fully formed... Just as the "Information Superhighway" got used way too much as the internet was gaining momentum, I think "Web 2.0" will get used in a similar way, to describe an idea where the scope is too great to be explained in concrete terms.
/. crowd, but it will be beneficial for a lot of people not "in the know".
As for throwing "2.0" at the end of everything, it will happen, and it will be inaccurate to the
As mush as we might hate to admit it, the business types that will use this term all the time are just as nessiary as the techies in advancing stuff.
It's funny how getting in on the ground floor of something like Google can let one individual stand out like this... Imagine if Google decided now to start putting up cystom art with each holiday. Due to their size, I'm sure it would be a huge heck of a mess... getting an artist, deciding on designs, figuring out what goes with the corporate principles. He's a lucky guy, getting to do that on his own... I can barely get approval for a logo for our intranet, that will only be seen by 20 people, due to the issues I raised above.
It seems to me that Apple might as well hold off on releasing the Pro line until CS3... I've talked to a few designers, and they are all holding out for CS3 to make the upgrade, since they work so frequently in these applications, and they take a big performance hit on the new hardware.
Hear Hear!
I'm the IT manager for a small advertising company. I was hired as the company was just starting, and built a small network of Macs and PCs. As I was being hired, we also got an outsourced IT company. I'm a person that tends to do things himself, and then ask for help only after I have given it my best shot... otherwise, how the fuck do I learn anything?
However, we are a company of managers, and I find that I get praised for doing a good job when I call the outsourced company to deal with an issue than if I did it myself. Their time is about 8 times as expensive as mine, and referring to them can cost a small fortune, but the Powers the Be are more happy to see me managing others than doing something myself...
I am with you there. We use Sharepoint for our Intranet, and it's clunky at best... I've been charged with trying to make it's use better, but there's just enough of a learning curve that people would still rather stick to using a regular file server instead.
That said... We had a strong need in my office for a file-sharing system recently... Our requirements were 1- Easy to Use. 2- Branded with our logo/colors 3- multiple levels of access and file restrictions, so that users only saw the files we wanted them to.
We did not find any comprable services, so we had one built for us for about $5K. In the end, we got exactly what we wanted, and we have a web host with unlimited space for a couple hundred a ear.
hear hear! one of my co-workers had the yahoo equivelent of this. One day when on their computer, they tried to play off like someone else put them there, but they didn't know how to get them out...
Seriously... some data should just stay at home.
I was going to agree with you and ad that I don't like the idea that they have acess to all my bookmarks... seems like they would know a LOT more about me than I would want them to know.
THen I remembered they've had the majority of my personal email for the last two years.
I was referring to the idea of imaging in general... but you can use Apple's Disk Utility to create an image of a hard drive (The easiest way is to boot to the install disk and run Disk Utility from there) and you also have the option of restoring from an image when you go to re-install the OS. Very similar to Ghost.
I never got this, either. Macs have had tools like this (Norton System Works, TechTool, Diskwarrior) that have worked on this principle for what? Ten years or more? I don't know why the idea never made it over to Windows... a bootable CD that cleans the registry, checks the file system, and other such non-sense. Most of the tools you would need exist, but they don't run from a bootable disk. I'm sure there are some hacks out there that do this, but nothing from MS, Symantec or any of the other "Big Boys"... seems like it would be quite the market, too...
Ghost, or imaging in general, is a great tool for both PCs and Macs in a work enviroment.
I am the IT guy for a small network of 25 PCs and about 6 Macs... I have images on hand for every model of machine. Users know damn well that anything stored on their local computer isn't backed up or safe from deletion, so when they have issues, I double check with them that they don't have anything important that we really, really need to save, and then I use one of my images, install any additional software I don't have in my image, and then give them back a healthy machine about an hour later.
If I think solving an issue on their machine is going to take more than an hour, it gets an image replacement. Saves both on my time getting the machine back up and running, and the user has less down-time.
Im' an avid fan of Macs, and I don't run anti-vi on my Powerbook, but I DO run it on the Macs in my office for a reason that people don't often think of: Macs can be a virus CARRIER, even if they can't be infected!
A few years ago I had a situation (in an all mac offce) where we burned a CD and sent it to a client (the client was Windows based). The client complained that some of the files were infected. As a Mac-only office, I didn't care about running virus protection, so the files went unchecked.
In my current office, a mixed enviroment, I make sure that both OS's are covered. even if the chance of the macs getting infected is next to nill, I want my PCs to be safe.
I can second that last part... I'm friends with an API developer at Google, and my boss is friends with someone higher-up in marketing... both have told us that Google has no plans for an OS.
and why should they? 2 years from now, no one is going to care about what OS you are running, anyway. We will have true Windows emmulation on OS X shortly, and WINE seems to do great things for windows apps under linux... pretty soon your choice of OS isn't going to matter in terms of what software you can run.
Beyond that, we are heading towards a service-based model, which moves us away from the OS as a productivity space anyway. Google would do better to put their efforts into these services than mucking about with an OS and fighting a (probably loosing) battle with MS on that front. Better to take the fight to the internet, where they are stronger anyway.
The Polish put screendoors on their submarines! How did they get to the moon???
... ok guys... this is EXACTLY the same post from Digg. As far as I know, this is the first time someone has just copy-and-pasted a Digg story for /.
/.?
What's next? Fark headlines on
Hilarity Ensues.
I've got one more day to go at my para-corporate job as a Project Manager.
When I've been asked for my opinion, I try to give an answer with some substance to it, something that can be discussed and built on. However, I find that more often than not, people are looking for answers like the ones we see above, where literally NOTHING is being said. It makes me mad that people would rather have nothing said to them but said well than nothing at all.
A friend of mine is currently working in Afghanistan. Before he left, a bunch of us put in money to buy him an iPod for the trip.
Since going there, he has been through some rough moments during some car trips (seeing parts of the road blow up, for example) and has been very thankful for the iPod as a way to escape these moments.
Adding to that: Popcorn and drink will set you back another $7 - $10 in NYC.
The difference is that the library (or someone donating to the library) paid for the printed matierials. In other words, some money was given to the author (supposedly).
Also, the number of people that are reading a book at a library is equal to the number of copies of the book the library owns. Any number of people could be reading the same text on the internet.
I've contributed to Uncyclopedia in the past (please note the entry for Boba Fett... I'd link to it but the site's been /.'ed).
There are a lot of funny people out there, but they don't always have time time to create a site where they can be funny on their own. Sites like this let anyone with something funny to say get it out in a clean, formal way. Sure, there is some lame stuff on there, but most of those articles are well-written and thoughful.
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When Waterworld was made, it was the most expensive movie ever at the time.
It's a drop in the bucket compared to what FEMA will wind up paying for Katrina...
-but it will be poorly done. the XP theme wasn't so hot to start with, and then you have people emmulating it badly, and it makes the whole system ugly, as one app is going to look different compared to another. Is there a style guide for this sort of thing??
OS X seems a little better about that, partially because Apple is making a lot of the sortware themselves.
Ironicly, I gave my two weeks notice this morning....
My office in NYC uses WiMax. We upgraded earlier this year and we've had great uptime, and good speed. The cool thing is that the transmitter we connect to is on the Empire State Building. When I connect to the VPN from home, I can look out the window at the ESB and see my data flying through the air...
...which is exactly what Apple does, doesn't it?
Apple almost never drops their prices, they just make things better at the current price point... remember, $300 5 years ago got you a black and white 5 GB iPod... look what it gets you now.
I bet it will be redesigned a little, but the price is going to stay where it is.