So in the first paragraph you blather on about why you WON'T use Vista, then the next are filled with what you THINK Vista does (thus probably based on reading on the intarnets and hearsay).
It'd be fun to go to my boss and say 'look boss, it is web2.0! you just stash all your sensitive data with all these unknown private companies and off you go!'
I used the outfit hyperbole to make a point, not to enter a formal debate and have logical fallacies exposed;)
Is spying on your kids OK? Do you read their letters (remember when people wrote letters) or diary? Does it become a different issue outside meatspace?
The other side of my point was, do you overprotect your kids? (thus in my opinion lessening their coping skills with what remains at times a brutal world)
we should outfit them with a camera, GPS device and listening post. Never know what those kids are up to. We should rigidly protect them from all outside evils real and imaginary and then at age 18 turn the poor unsuspecting souls loose. See what happens.
"A game that I could program myself in a few weeks is $19.99"
hey, if I spent several weeks programming and knew there wasn't a big market for it I might price it a little higher too. Halo might sell millions but the next bejeweled/tetris/whatever clone won't.
you corrected my typo but missed the point. I meant to say shipped with nearly all OEM PC boxes.
I made another type that's funnier in that post: "Which is exactly why IE7, for bad or for worse, will instantly have a huge userbase once OEMs switch."
Well, the post tags say it all:
[+] troll, dvorak, ie, stupid, idiot (tagging beta)
(ps. WHY does it have to say 'tagging beta' after EVERY set of tags?)
Of course, the general rule of thumb with Dvorak is that the opposite of whatever he says is true.
I don't like IE, I don't use IE, but it still gets shipped with 95%+ of all windows boxes on this planet and most users don't switch. Which is exactly why IE7, for bad or for worse, will instantly have a huge userbase once OEMs switch.
a $521 million settlement is pocket change for MS.
"we use a proprietary ticketing system that is unlikely to be ported to anything that isn't Windows. It enters problems on a customer's account, and assigns the problem to the appropriate technician, who then updates the ticket as needed."
We've been using it for 6 months and it rawks. As much as trouble ticket systems can rawk anyway. AND there are a zillion programs like it on freshmeat.net in varying states of readiness.
Aside from the fact that the server handling that page is obviously ill-equipped to handle any load the list itself starts out with "Forecastfox". Yay. Recommended only for those who want their browser decked out like a walking talking christmas tree complete with blinkenlights. Don't forget to complain about memory use on the forums later.
...and the current backbone will be what it is forever? Shortsightedness makes for dead corporations. Thank god, because otherwise the buggers are REALLY hard to kill.
look at an f-ing library. Books organised alphabetically by author name, or, in case you have a lot of different types of book, by category and then by author name. See, you don't NEED technology for everything.
If the guy ever actually signed any policy concerning ownership of data he'd be hosed in most countries. Otherwise its more or less a coin toss with so many factors involved.
250 Mb limit on storage, 10 Mb send/receive limit, none on storage time, ~400 users, exchange 2003, mining industry. You need to take the hard line early, and stick to it or suffer unwieldy archives (and hard disk space might be cheap in the consumer market, RAID/scsi hardware and backup devices and maintenance aren't) and impossible restore time as you mention. No exceptions; those only breed more exceptions.
All users have CDRWs, archiving is encouraged (if rarely done)
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That stuff is out there: http://btjunkie.org/torrent?do=stat&id=37844420367 eed57ec7300ee938ded2e9e9c599910a7
Bringing in the lawyers will only push the skin's popularity up for a few days/weeks and will cost apple a chunk of good will.
Note: linking is not a crime. Neither is fair use (exercised by bloggers/journalists posting about the iphone and using a screenshot).
by installing one of the many free NTP clients on your machine?
So in the first paragraph you blather on about why you WON'T use Vista, then the next are filled with what you THINK Vista does (thus probably based on reading on the intarnets and hearsay).
Try it, and then tell us.
Lexx was a fun show, better than logan's run ever was. And try to catch Blake's 7 when you can.
Hmmm, what ELSE happened in the 1980s that could be the root cause?
The answer is obvious: Yuppies are to blame! Or Cindy Lauper! Or personal computers!
you are forgetting:
- corporate/enterprise customers.
It'd be fun to go to my boss and say 'look boss, it is web2.0! you just stash all your sensitive data with all these unknown private companies and off you go!'
I used the outfit hyperbole to make a point, not to enter a formal debate and have logical fallacies exposed ;)
Is spying on your kids OK? Do you read their letters (remember when people wrote letters) or diary? Does it become a different issue outside meatspace?
The other side of my point was, do you overprotect your kids? (thus in my opinion lessening their coping skills with what remains at times a brutal world)
we should outfit them with a camera, GPS device and listening post. Never know what those kids are up to. We should rigidly protect them from all outside evils real and imaginary and then at age 18 turn the poor unsuspecting souls loose. See what happens.
no, that's manlish. This is mang-speak; the language of Mang.
But I agree that they could've chosen a better term.
Peter Sellers in Kubrik's dr. Strangelove.
"A game that I could program myself in a few weeks is $19.99"
hey, if I spent several weeks programming and knew there wasn't a big market for it I might price it a little higher too. Halo might sell millions but the next bejeweled/tetris/whatever clone won't.
correction: everyone who still thinks like a sixth-grader.
This would include 95% of the intarwebs, apparently.
how many of the people bitching here will be standing in line like good little consumer sheep when the system hits the streets.
Because even if I think the name is kinda awkward, I KNOW I want one.
you corrected my typo but missed the point. I meant to say shipped with nearly all OEM PC boxes.
I made another type that's funnier in that post:
"Which is exactly why IE7, for bad or for worse, will instantly have a huge userbase once OEMs switch."
hehehe for bad or for worse.
Well, the post tags say it all:
[+] troll, dvorak, ie, stupid, idiot (tagging beta)
(ps. WHY does it have to say 'tagging beta' after EVERY set of tags?)
Of course, the general rule of thumb with Dvorak is that the opposite of whatever he says is true.
I don't like IE, I don't use IE, but it still gets shipped with 95%+ of all windows boxes on this planet and most users don't switch. Which is exactly why IE7, for bad or for worse, will instantly have a huge userbase once OEMs switch.
a $521 million settlement is pocket change for MS.
"we use a proprietary ticketing system that is unlikely to be ported to anything that isn't Windows. It enters problems on a customer's account, and assigns the problem to the appropriate technician, who then updates the ticket as needed."
:P)
This exists in the open source world (and its LAMP, too
http://ruqueue.rutgers.edu/
We've been using it for 6 months and it rawks. As much as trouble ticket systems can rawk anyway. AND there are a zillion programs like it on freshmeat.net in varying states of readiness.
Aside from the fact that the server handling that page is obviously ill-equipped to handle any load the list itself starts out with "Forecastfox". Yay. Recommended only for those who want their browser decked out like a walking talking christmas tree complete with blinkenlights. Don't forget to complain about memory use on the forums later.
Me, I like to keep it light:
Adblock plus, Bugmenot, Downthemall, Sessionsaver, Greasemonkey, Tabmixplus.
Optionally Aardvark, Del.icio.us, enhanced history manager, and IEtab.
...and the current backbone will be what it is forever? Shortsightedness makes for dead corporations. Thank god, because otherwise the buggers are REALLY hard to kill.
I agree, but Nintendo didn't really hit their stride until the SNES. That's where the games are that I still load once in a while.
look at an f-ing library. Books organised alphabetically by author name, or, in case you have a lot of different types of book, by category and then by author name. See, you don't NEED technology for everything.
If the guy ever actually signed any policy concerning ownership of data he'd be hosed in most countries. Otherwise its more or less a coin toss with so many factors involved.
250 Mb limit on storage, 10 Mb send/receive limit, none on storage time, ~400 users, exchange 2003, mining industry. You need to take the hard line early, and stick to it or suffer unwieldy archives (and hard disk space might be cheap in the consumer market, RAID/scsi hardware and backup devices and maintenance aren't) and impossible restore time as you mention. No exceptions; those only breed more exceptions.
All users have CDRWs, archiving is encouraged (if rarely done)
Since I use firefox plus adblock I see none of these ads. I imagine most people do the same these days.
interesting. 'Bidden' is also current (and old) dutch for praying. Amen is also used in the dutch language.
"Roland Piquepaille writes"... that put me off, right there.
Yes this is a troll. But Roland is an attention whore. It's worth the karma burn.