What you and most people on slashdot dont realize (or even I for years) is that neither apple nor microsoft nor dell are in the market of selling coputers to epic geeks (pretty much anyone reading slashdot). They are in the business of selling computers to consumers. To consumers that are not as savy as your and me a mac IS more powerfull (the ability to do work). If you are honest with yourself and not a fanboy of any flavor you will see what I mean. If you are not honest with yourself and or a fanboy then don't waste my words with your mind.
First off, I'm a 35 year old hard core gamer in ever sence of the word. This concept is very important to me not only because of my love of gaming but also because my wife and I have decided to have kids. I have thought about this point myself many many times in refference to other kids and now that I have the unique focus of applying it to mine I can honestly tell you that I am leaning toward later in life than I had originally thought. Although video games are a big part of my life and one of my main hobbies I also race motocross and roadracing. Have been an accomplished windsurfing competitor. Have engaged in yacht racing. I have a passion for the outdoors and travel as well as a fascination with making my own coffe (all the way from plantation through importation to cupping). In saying all these things i'm not filling out a dating profile but rather trying to make the point that my interests and passions run the gambit. Personally I think that had I been exposed to video games earlier in my life I would not have been involved in all the experiences that created such varied and forming interests througt my early life. I would not have been into riding bikes, climbing trees, exploring caves, creating imaginative games of my own and with my friends, reading, etc, if I had been alowed to lock myself in my room playing video games or waching television for that matter (we were only allowed to wach with my parents in their room). Therefore, I can offer the fact that I, I dyed in the wool uber gamer geek, will be limmiting my kid's television viewing and video game playing during his youth. I will not howerver base it on how many times he has gone around the sun but will rather apply observation and allow him access based on his involvement with other interests.
I know this will sound overly simplistic. All the points above are important but the absolute most important one is:
Ask for it.
Poeple don't realize that their little slice of life is not the center of the universe and therefore not as high up on other people's conciousness as in their own. I'm not saying this as a flame but instead as a blunt explanation of how something as simple as walking in to the desicion makers office and stating you want the job is often overlooked.
Don't worry about being "management material". Get the job and unless you are a fool you will learn. I have often take projects on for systems/languages I had zero knowledge of and just studied and leveraged my fundamentals only to end up with a very happy customer oblivious that they were my first in that arena.
Listen to Nike and.....
"A parent's group is lambasting the Electronic Software Association for announcing its intention to curry political favour in Washington DC"
they are 100% correct.
Their point?
I suggest you pay more attention to the data itself. Do an comprehensive and brutaly unbiased audit of what data/resources are needed by whom. You would be amazed at how much of your infrastructure is either superfulous or capricious. Once you do this then you at least have a smaller mountain to climb.
I have never been too scared in movies. Short of a few times as a kid where I had to ride my bike through the woods to get back home I have never felt "horror". When I first played the original Resident Evil on the PS i had broken my hip in a Motocorss accident 2 weeks before so was bed ridden. I lived in a big house along and my mobility was extremely limmited. I remember laying in my bed in the night with only the light from the tv playing one of the first parts of the game. When I went down that first corridor and found the first team member you encounter and the game showed me the first cut scene of the zombie finishing his meal and turning toward me, I was startled. As soon as controll was given back to me and the zombie started heading to me... I was completely FREAKED OUT! I mean I felt real fear. There is no way a movie will ever reach that level of immersion when it comes to fear.
I bet you anything you want that Apple will take no legal steps against the hacker. ATT on the other hand will be a different story. I gurantee that Jobs fully expected the phone to be hacked. They are now sitting pretty. ATT still has to honor it's deal with Apple since they did nothing wrong and now anyone can use the iphone. Sales will skyrocket. Brilliant SOB.
I was under contract for ABN Amro Mortgage for a couple of years some time ago and, among other jobs, was tasked with identifying and implementing exactly what you are requesting. After assessing all the needs of my client, their timetable for completion and examining what was available I came to the conclusion that nothing out there would serve their needs. Due to the urgency of the situation (thousands of loan refi deals) I decided to build one using Filemaker Pro to use as a stopgap and eventually to serve as a structure model for a final system. This was 4 years ago and the "final system" was never written because my stop gap ended up serving their needs completely. I know there will be many "its a toy" nay sayers out there not to mention all the PHP and MySQL acolytes warming the tar and plucking the chickens. But the facts is the facts. The only real limitation the system has is its 250 concurrent user limit which in a department of 650 has rarely reared it's ugly head. Once they decide to spend the big bucks to rebuild the system in another platform/environment they have a working model with 4 years real world testing under it's belt.
My favorite case of waky labels is for the brand of Edamame (soy bean pods) that I regularly eat. Picture a full color printed bag with the background comprised of a photo of a ton of soy beans. Under the word Edamame it says "Raw Soy Beans in Pods" the instructions lead you to either microwave them or boil them in a pot of boiling water for 7 minutes. The 2 warning labels are: "Warning will get hot when heated"!!! and "Contains Soy"
Doh!
If its anything like Microsoft's "you must buy windows if you wanna buy DOS!" tactics then i'm guessing this is a loopehole that the Microsofties will patch up quickly.
Hiperbole = not a word.:-) In English, anyways. Associated press release:
"Today a combatant in the region of Dar Five was seen attacking a tank in the streets of Mogadefoot. Since he was only armed with a toilet plunger he resigned himself to strongly criticize the fact that they tank's camouflage color scheme did not match the paint of the house behind it. Followup at 11!
Thanx for the lucid comment. Something I'm sure this thread will be low on. You are correct in pointing out that currently some specialized tools are not available and un-replaceable on the mac platform. The point is that the news story we are commenting on was about Apple looking seriously at the Enterprise IT market not about Apple claiming they could replace it in the second quarter of 2007. The original comment poster for "it's hopeless", by the very title of his comment, implies that there is no chance in hell it could ever become possible. And those of us who think with our mind and not with our lemming node know that it is more than just possible. As far as your issues with hardware and repair are concerned. I am no aware of such widespread problems but don't doubt they happen. I have not had that happen in any of my large mac implementations (and unlike the poster suggests most are not in design firms). Conversely, I have had Dell ship me 8 servers and 150 workstations that were nowhere near the ones their "Sales Tech Expert" and I discussed/designed and I subsequently ordered for a client. The process of getting this little problem resolved became so complex and impossible that my client just "ate" the systems and compromised where needed.
Macs are more expensive. A lot more expensive, when you consider you can buy a basic Windows box that is more than sufficient for most business uses for around $500.
The vast majority of "business apps", especially custom stuff, don't run on MacOS.
Macs don't have anything to really compare with Active Directory, and especially GPOs.
So...why would a business run on Macs? Unless they are a pre-press or video-production house, of course.
You gotta love the nay sayers that speak authoritatevly about something they have done zero research on.
The more expensive macs are more expensive. You can buy a Mac Mini for $599 and it is a much better quality machine than the equivalent pricepoint pc.
There is a Mac version or equivalent of the most important "business apps" and most of the "custom stuff" get's rewriten quite often and normaly relies on core technologies (SQL, PHP etc..) that thrive on the Mac platform.
Mac's do have something to compare and completely integrate with Active Directory it is called Open Directory
Research = good. Hiperbole = weak./steps off soapbox
That is amazing. I had not heard about that requirement. I, for one, got a 2.8 GPA but a 1400 on my SAT (800) math. Never thought anyone outside of academia gave a damn about GPA.
They could also have pairs of questions that are the same but worded differently peppered all over and then use the algorhythm to "validate" the honesty of the person filling the survey.
I was thinking the same way but that fact is that if the individual is analitical enough to basically figure out the nuance of what google is "looking for" then it basically makes the attractive anyway.
A group within Franklin Templeton Financial actually archived unique data to JAZZ cartriges!!! And I dont mean old (we will likely never use that again) data, but important stuff that was just "filling" up the server! On a side note, they had an entire floor on a large building dedicated to Lotus Notes "development" I allmost peed my pants.
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What you and most people on slashdot dont realize (or even I for years) is that neither apple nor microsoft nor dell are in the market of selling coputers to epic geeks (pretty much anyone reading slashdot). They are in the business of selling computers to consumers. To consumers that are not as savy as your and me a mac IS more powerfull (the ability to do work). If you are honest with yourself and not a fanboy of any flavor you will see what I mean. If you are not honest with yourself and or a fanboy then don't waste my words with your mind.
IMO they are headed to other markets like SA and CA. The unlocked phone business there is huge compared to here.
How sad an existence do you have to have to draw pleasure from a "first post"? Specially when you are not actually posting anything.
First off, I'm a 35 year old hard core gamer in ever sence of the word. This concept is very important to me not only because of my love of gaming but also because my wife and I have decided to have kids. I have thought about this point myself many many times in refference to other kids and now that I have the unique focus of applying it to mine I can honestly tell you that I am leaning toward later in life than I had originally thought. Although video games are a big part of my life and one of my main hobbies I also race motocross and roadracing. Have been an accomplished windsurfing competitor. Have engaged in yacht racing. I have a passion for the outdoors and travel as well as a fascination with making my own coffe (all the way from plantation through importation to cupping). In saying all these things i'm not filling out a dating profile but rather trying to make the point that my interests and passions run the gambit. Personally I think that had I been exposed to video games earlier in my life I would not have been involved in all the experiences that created such varied and forming interests througt my early life. I would not have been into riding bikes, climbing trees, exploring caves, creating imaginative games of my own and with my friends, reading, etc, if I had been alowed to lock myself in my room playing video games or waching television for that matter (we were only allowed to wach with my parents in their room). Therefore, I can offer the fact that I, I dyed in the wool uber gamer geek, will be limmiting my kid's television viewing and video game playing during his youth. I will not howerver base it on how many times he has gone around the sun but will rather apply observation and allow him access based on his involvement with other interests.
I know this will sound overly simplistic. All the points above are important but the absolute most important one is: Ask for it. Poeple don't realize that their little slice of life is not the center of the universe and therefore not as high up on other people's conciousness as in their own. I'm not saying this as a flame but instead as a blunt explanation of how something as simple as walking in to the desicion makers office and stating you want the job is often overlooked. Don't worry about being "management material". Get the job and unless you are a fool you will learn. I have often take projects on for systems/languages I had zero knowledge of and just studied and leveraged my fundamentals only to end up with a very happy customer oblivious that they were my first in that arena. Listen to Nike and .....
"A parent's group is lambasting the Electronic Software Association for announcing its intention to curry political favour in Washington DC" they are 100% correct. Their point?
I suggest you pay more attention to the data itself. Do an comprehensive and brutaly unbiased audit of what data/resources are needed by whom. You would be amazed at how much of your infrastructure is either superfulous or capricious. Once you do this then you at least have a smaller mountain to climb.
I have never been too scared in movies. Short of a few times as a kid where I had to ride my bike through the woods to get back home I have never felt "horror". When I first played the original Resident Evil on the PS i had broken my hip in a Motocorss accident 2 weeks before so was bed ridden. I lived in a big house along and my mobility was extremely limmited. I remember laying in my bed in the night with only the light from the tv playing one of the first parts of the game. When I went down that first corridor and found the first team member you encounter and the game showed me the first cut scene of the zombie finishing his meal and turning toward me, I was startled. As soon as controll was given back to me and the zombie started heading to me... I was completely FREAKED OUT! I mean I felt real fear. There is no way a movie will ever reach that level of immersion when it comes to fear.
I bet you anything you want that Apple will take no legal steps against the hacker. ATT on the other hand will be a different story. I gurantee that Jobs fully expected the phone to be hacked. They are now sitting pretty. ATT still has to honor it's deal with Apple since they did nothing wrong and now anyone can use the iphone. Sales will skyrocket. Brilliant SOB.
I was under contract for ABN Amro Mortgage for a couple of years some time ago and, among other jobs, was tasked with identifying and implementing exactly what you are requesting. After assessing all the needs of my client, their timetable for completion and examining what was available I came to the conclusion that nothing out there would serve their needs. Due to the urgency of the situation (thousands of loan refi deals) I decided to build one using Filemaker Pro to use as a stopgap and eventually to serve as a structure model for a final system. This was 4 years ago and the "final system" was never written because my stop gap ended up serving their needs completely. I know there will be many "its a toy" nay sayers out there not to mention all the PHP and MySQL acolytes warming the tar and plucking the chickens. But the facts is the facts. The only real limitation the system has is its 250 concurrent user limit which in a department of 650 has rarely reared it's ugly head. Once they decide to spend the big bucks to rebuild the system in another platform/environment they have a working model with 4 years real world testing under it's belt.
My favorite case of waky labels is for the brand of Edamame (soy bean pods) that I regularly eat. Picture a full color printed bag with the background comprised of a photo of a ton of soy beans. Under the word Edamame it says "Raw Soy Beans in Pods" the instructions lead you to either microwave them or boil them in a pot of boiling water for 7 minutes. The 2 warning labels are: "Warning will get hot when heated"!!! and "Contains Soy" Doh!
in the 20 years that I have been doing IT I have never "upgraded" the video card on a corporate workstation.
Why throw tea into the bay when most people dont care about the redcoats! Dumbasses!
If its anything like Microsoft's "you must buy windows if you wanna buy DOS!" tactics then i'm guessing this is a loopehole that the Microsofties will patch up quickly.
I thought dell built the computer exactly how YOU wanted it? Why not order it with No windows to begin with?
Hiperbole = not a word.
In English, anyways. Associated press release: "Today a combatant in the region of Dar Five was seen attacking a tank in the streets of Mogadefoot. Since he was only armed with a toilet plunger he resigned himself to strongly criticize the fact that they tank's camouflage color scheme did not match the paint of the house behind it. Followup at 11!
Thanx for the lucid comment. Something I'm sure this thread will be low on. You are correct in pointing out that currently some specialized tools are not available and un-replaceable on the mac platform. The point is that the news story we are commenting on was about Apple looking seriously at the Enterprise IT market not about Apple claiming they could replace it in the second quarter of 2007. The original comment poster for "it's hopeless", by the very title of his comment, implies that there is no chance in hell it could ever become possible. And those of us who think with our mind and not with our lemming node know that it is more than just possible. As far as your issues with hardware and repair are concerned. I am no aware of such widespread problems but don't doubt they happen. I have not had that happen in any of my large mac implementations (and unlike the poster suggests most are not in design firms). Conversely, I have had Dell ship me 8 servers and 150 workstations that were nowhere near the ones their "Sales Tech Expert" and I discussed/designed and I subsequently ordered for a client. The process of getting this little problem resolved became so complex and impossible that my client just "ate" the systems and compromised where needed.
The vast majority of "business apps", especially custom stuff, don't run on MacOS.
Macs don't have anything to really compare with Active Directory, and especially GPOs.
So...why would a business run on Macs? Unless they are a pre-press or video-production house, of course.
You gotta love the nay sayers that speak authoritatevly about something they have done zero research on. The more expensive macs are more expensive. You can buy a Mac Mini for $599 and it is a much better quality machine than the equivalent pricepoint pc. There is a Mac version or equivalent of the most important "business apps" and most of the "custom stuff" get's rewriten quite often and normaly relies on core technologies (SQL, PHP etc..) that thrive on the Mac platform. Mac's do have something to compare and completely integrate with Active Directory it is called Open Directory Research = good. Hiperbole = weak.
That is amazing. I had not heard about that requirement. I, for one, got a 2.8 GPA but a 1400 on my SAT (800) math. Never thought anyone outside of academia gave a damn about GPA.
They could also have pairs of questions that are the same but worded differently peppered all over and then use the algorhythm to "validate" the honesty of the person filling the survey.
I was thinking the same way but that fact is that if the individual is analitical enough to basically figure out the nuance of what google is "looking for" then it basically makes the attractive anyway.
A group within Franklin Templeton Financial actually archived unique data to JAZZ cartriges!!! And I dont mean old (we will likely never use that again) data, but important stuff that was just "filling" up the server! On a side note, they had an entire floor on a large building dedicated to Lotus Notes "development" I allmost peed my pants.