I went to Ford's web site because I wanted the address of a Ford dealer to buy spare parts for the trashy car (Mondeo) I bought from them.
After spending 1/2 hour downloading an appalling Flash sequence, I eventually found they don't have a list of dealers.
I am planning to buy a 7 ton truck, and I was unable to find any data on their web site about engine or transmission options. (No shortage of Flash though).
I have recommended their webmaster visit "websitesthatsuck.com", since he clearly needs help. Expect them to have links to most of the major auto manufactuerers now.
I plan to buy a Peugeot car and a DAF truck next time.
I presume websitesthatsuck.com will have links to Volvo, Ford, and several other truck manufacturers too. If you plan to buy a truck, forget the web.
Database is the right tool for the package, whether accounting only or the whole inventry management, work in progress planning, etc.
MySQL is absolutely NOT suitable however. You need to think of DB2 or Oracle. DB2 is not just the most solid database ever, but has credibility with financial people.
Packages to do whatever are already available for DB2, and IBM would push Java for the front end. They could be right, but they also support QT (Dont know how well).
You absolutely MUST have stored procedures and triggers to achieve the data integrity required for this kind of system. (Postgres has these)
Any new Open system shoud go for Java and Postgres IM(NS)HO. Start with Accounts and go from there.
Dont forget that accounting rules are different in different countries.
Since year 2000 is now safely behind us, we can now resume coding the year into 2 digit fields.
Not so fast, young whipper-snapper - I was downloading an upgrade for NetBSD last night, and the ftpserver gave a date of "19101" so some software is sadly stuffed somewhere!
In the olden days, trolls lived under bridges in Scandinavia, and extracted monstrous payments from would-be passers by.
Nowadays, Microsoft has taken on the job of ripping people off, even in the coldest parts of Scandinavia, and they can do it without using bridges (or routers - but if you have one, Cisco will rip you off too).
This leaves trolls with nothing to do but post childish comments about operating systems that they have never used, and most people have never heard of.
Netcraft and IDC never even mention trolls, and nor do Microsoft. Its not true that Bill Gates is a secret troll. George W Bush can't even spell "troll".
Apple Computer ceased employing trolls when the Lisa failed to sell, and that was over 15 years ago. Even BSDZine doesn't mention trolls in 97% of issues. The bridge over Walnut Creek hasn't had a troll living under it since 1776.
Clearly there is no future for trolls, even if they are alive, which is doubtful.
The best advise to any remaining trolls is "get a life". (Though a part in "Lord of the Rings" might be more profitable.)
Why punish them? What is wrong with asking them to provide compensation for the loss they have caused?
Oh, its $600,000,000,000.
Ok, let them be punished. Lets be lenient - If they would have got a year for each bank they robbed, well give them one millisecond for every server they paralysed. OOps - thats a lot more than 5 years!
Or we could give them community service - lets employ them to provide DOS attacks on ISPs who permit their systems to be used for spam.
I dont mind light weight ads, but when pages take more than 30 MINUTES to load I cant see anyone waiting. Sure their foolish counters will say that people viewed the page, but in reality they gave up without ever seeing it.
Try www.ford.com to see how not to do it...
I wanted a list of Ford Dealers to buy a spare part. I cant wait 30 mins for their flash crap to load, I can WALK to a Ford dealer quicker than that!
If someone uses Flash on their site, its a fair bet they DONT WANT CUSTOMERS TO VIEW IT.
If there are just a few votes to blacklist a particular sender it's considered a mistake and no blacklisting occurs. The sender is blacklisted only if the number of votes is large. If a provider has a very large number of blacklisted senders, that provider may be blacklisted.
How about:
For each vote an extra volt goes back up the line into his modem.
When 30,000 people vote his message as spam, his modem explodes!
I too live in london. I am quite happy to know there are 2,500,000 CCTV cameras around.
As a contract programmer working on digital video - this means more work for me - and I need it!
I am not too concerned about privacy - I watch "crimewatch UK" - 9/10 of the cameras are so badly adjusted, you can't even tell if the criminal was wearing a black coat or a white one, and thats after the image processing.
No. Everyone knows its ridiculous. However the fact is that BT cannot lose much, as they are already bankrupt. They might win a small fortune, because there is a chance that no one in the court room will understand anything (it happens fairly regularly in the UK anyway).
It may also distract attention from the fact that they are busy not supplying broadband Internet.
Why are they not supplying broadband Internet? Thats easy - People would use internet phones to avoid paying the obscenely high phone tariffs we have here, and then they would be even more bankrupt than they already are.
BT is in the same position as a typewriter manufacturer who is delivering word processors as a side line. Of course monkeys on dope could run a better business. No surprise there
You have clearly never been to a third world country.
In most of them there is no such thing as a genuine ID.
You want a document, you pay and you get - no pay, no get.
I got plenty dollar
What document you want
I want passport, birth certificate, bank statement, driving licence
OK, bring dollars tomorrow - same time, same place.
The procedure is the same whether you are dealing with the mafia or the government, - hell, in most of them the government IS the mafia! Pointless asking for "legit documents" when you know there's o such beastie.
Its no mystery -American Football was invented, and they died out of boredom.
Seriously, how can people what a game which even the promoters know is so boring that you need semi-naked women bouncing their breasts around to retain interest in it for more than a few minutes?
I think most of them would prefer to live in countries where you have the freedom to reverse engineer whatever you like, and where M$ EULAs are not enforceable (anarchy has its merits).
Judging from/. there are not many freedoms left in America, and the remaining ones should be gone by the time Dubyah leaves office.
The mail can take three months in most of Africa. Anyway, it would be a complete waste of time sending a CD, as it would be stolen by an illiterate hoping for Abba's greatest hits.
The web site idea is good, but you should also collect names of people travelling to Africa, who can carry a CD and drop it at a school or University. Loads of people travel who could drop off a CD.
Or maybe the people who need the CD could arrange for someone to pick up from a European or American address posted on the web site.
That the price came down because of clones. IBMS's own products cost an arm and a leg, and then some IBM already knew from past experience with mainframes and minis that permitting clones was the route to world domination. You cold not be sole source and also the international standard.
IBM was required to unbundle software from hardware by the DOJ, This was not a bold initiative by M$, It was the LAW.
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After spending 1/2 hour downloading an appalling Flash sequence, I eventually found they don't have a list of dealers.
I am planning to buy a 7 ton truck, and I was unable to find any data on their web site about engine or transmission options. (No shortage of Flash though).
I have recommended their webmaster visit "websitesthatsuck.com", since he clearly needs help. Expect them to have links to most of the major auto manufactuerers now.
I plan to buy a Peugeot car and a DAF truck next time.
I presume websitesthatsuck.com will have links to Volvo, Ford, and several other truck manufacturers too. If you plan to buy a truck, forget the web.
Damn, you've cracked my 1024 bit encraption scheme.
Osama Win Modem: All your quantum are us!
MySQL is absolutely NOT suitable however. You need to think of DB2 or Oracle. DB2 is not just the most solid database ever, but has credibility with financial people.
Packages to do whatever are already available for DB2, and IBM would push Java for the front end. They could be right, but they also support QT (Dont know how well).
You absolutely MUST have stored procedures and triggers to achieve the data integrity required for this kind of system. (Postgres has these)
Any new Open system shoud go for Java and Postgres IM(NS)HO. Start with Accounts and go from there.
Dont forget that accounting rules are different in different countries.
Not so fast, young whipper-snapper - I was downloading an upgrade for NetBSD last night, and the ftpserver gave a date of "19101" so some software is sadly stuffed somewhere!
Nowadays, Microsoft has taken on the job of ripping people off, even in the coldest parts of Scandinavia, and they can do it without using bridges (or routers - but if you have one, Cisco will rip you off too).
This leaves trolls with nothing to do but post childish comments about operating systems that they have never used, and most people have never heard of.
Netcraft and IDC never even mention trolls, and nor do Microsoft. Its not true that Bill Gates is a secret troll. George W Bush can't even spell "troll".
Apple Computer ceased employing trolls when the Lisa failed to sell, and that was over 15 years ago. Even BSDZine doesn't mention trolls in 97% of issues. The bridge over Walnut Creek hasn't had a troll living under it since 1776.
Clearly there is no future for trolls, even if they are alive, which is doubtful.
The best advise to any remaining trolls is "get a life". (Though a part in "Lord of the Rings" might be more profitable.)
Of course you can sell just a part of your soul to the devil.
But he gets to chose which part is his at any given moment.
Oh, its $600,000,000,000.
Ok, let them be punished. Lets be lenient - If they would have got a year for each bank they robbed, well give them one millisecond for every server they paralysed. OOps - thats a lot more than 5 years!
Or we could give them community service - lets employ them to provide DOS attacks on ISPs who permit their systems to be used for spam.
Maybe in the US, but here in the UK, you can earn more as a minicab driver. We have more analog designers than used car salesmen.
What makes you people think that the best way to attract customers is to slap them round the face with a wet fish?
Try www.ford.com to see how not to do it ...
I wanted a list of Ford Dealers to buy a spare part. I cant wait 30 mins for their flash crap to load, I can WALK to a Ford dealer quicker than that!
If someone uses Flash on their site, its a fair bet they DONT WANT CUSTOMERS TO VIEW IT.
A visit to Web Sites That Suck is recommended, especially to all car manufactuerers.
Incidentally, will these foolish things hang your PC if you don't have a sound card?
I have set Opera to identify as "Opera" - will that avoid the download time?
How about:
For each vote an extra volt goes back up the line into his modem.
When 30,000 people vote his message as spam, his modem explodes!
2) Europe has laws limiting cold calling
3) Sure you can tell one cold caller, but others will still call you.
4) We dont pay the phone bill for cold calling.
5) In the last week, spam has gone from 1 in 10 of my e-mails to 8/10.
6) I believe in the death penalty for people who sell your e-mail ID if you click on remove.
In fact, I would support treating countries that harbour them like the Taliban. Fuck, I'd nuke the lot of them.
Use a cruise missile
That should deter them.
As a contract programmer working on digital video - this means more work for me - and I need it!
I am not too concerned about privacy - I watch "crimewatch UK" - 9/10 of the cameras are so badly adjusted, you can't even tell if the criminal was wearing a black coat or a white one, and thats after the image processing.
It may also distract attention from the fact that they are busy not supplying broadband Internet.
Why are they not supplying broadband Internet? Thats easy - People would use internet phones to avoid paying the obscenely high phone tariffs we have here, and then they would be even more bankrupt than they already are.
BT is in the same position as a typewriter manufacturer who is delivering word processors as a side line. Of course monkeys on dope could run a better business. No surprise there
In most of them there is no such thing as a genuine ID.
You want a document, you pay and you get - no pay, no get.
I got plenty dollar
What document you want
I want passport, birth certificate, bank statement, driving licence
OK, bring dollars tomorrow - same time, same place.
The procedure is the same whether you are dealing with the mafia or the government, - hell, in most of them the government IS the mafia! Pointless asking for "legit documents" when you know there's o such beastie.
Seriously, how can people what a game which even the promoters know is so boring that you need semi-naked women bouncing their breasts around to retain interest in it for more than a few minutes?
Just because you have a troll, it doesn't mean its the best troll for the job.
Judging from /. there are not many freedoms left in America, and the remaining ones should be gone by the time Dubyah leaves office.
OTOH The right to arm bears may be safe.
The web site idea is good, but you should also collect names of people travelling to Africa, who can carry a CD and drop it at a school or University. Loads of people travel who could drop off a CD.
Or maybe the people who need the CD could arrange for someone to pick up from a European or American address posted on the web site.
Let me know when you have a use for 80 billion wrong answers. I have loads of them already without even having to calculate them!
The PC was monchrome, the others were not.
That the price came down because of clones. IBMS's own products cost an arm and a leg, and then some IBM already knew from past experience with mainframes and minis that permitting clones was the route to world domination. You cold not be sole source and also the international standard.
IBM was required to unbundle software from hardware by the DOJ, This was not a bold initiative by M$, It was the LAW.
All your FBI are us
No. but Nazis can.