Don't you love these banking boys, the people who said that all those.coms like "boo" would take over the world and destroy old style commerce.
A wonder what Brian and Matt were predicting as "hot stocks" in 1999. As someone who worked in a company that IPO'ed in 1999 and had a target price of over $50 and was worth sub $2 in 12 months.
Internal phone systems? People still call from desk to desk instead of sending an email? I'm impressed
Umm I'm assuming this is some form of gag. I actually find that business gets done much quicker if I speak to people than if I send an email. Sure email comes in useful lots of times, but nothing beats a quick phone call to make sure everyone is clear.
Eh ? VoIP when you are away from your desk.... so what you really want is some form of device that enables you to talk away from your desk....
Like a mobile phone ? Which already uses a digital network to encode the messages, hell why not run VoIP over 3G networks ? Even at 9Kbps you could get something intelligable over GRPS. And as for your "prediction" it misses the point that
MOBILE NETWORKS CHARGE FOR DATA, where as home networks charge for bandwidth, there is a BIG difference. WiFi does not exist in the business traveller space, Mobile does. VoIP for business networks, for instance internal phone systems, could be a great cost saver.
Sorry to pick on you, but in terms of looking at the BUSINESS case you've done nothing and just focused on your perception of what is "cool" and what is not.
Okay Mr Harvard MBA or what ever you are... out of interest what was the last billion dollar company you founded.
Look at the companies that DON'T exist right now that went intel back then, and you can include IBM's desktop OS division in that, and say that it was wrong then.
And now explain why dilluting the market would be a good idea, why creating incompatible OS X release would strengthen their brand.
Or is it just that you want to play on that "cool" OS X but can't afford/be arsed to buy a Mac ?
Damn that one beats "military intelligence" hands down. A model of earth that is 7,000 years old... oh boy oh boy.... lobbing in a world wide flood are we ?
Old Earth creationist are bad enough, but anyone who ignores 6,000 of continual history from Egypt makes even delusional nutters look objective. Its a sad sight when this sort of rubbish is moderated up on slashdot.
And I'm sure you have in your little mind heard the millions of cast iron reasons why a young earth is total rubbish and why bible literalism is a pile of crap. But in your closed little mind you don't got for reason, you go for assumption.
Astrophysics is NOT the weakest part of creationsim. Its the lack of an empirical method or approach that is its weakest part.
It was XP, it had multiple client interactions, and thus multiple client agendas. The Unit tests were binned more regularly than the code as the parameters kept changing.
That was one. Another was a small team of 6 people doing "pure" XP, planning game etc etc.... we got to the end of 6 months (the clients deadline) and everyone was STILL bloody farting about doing code.
XP is about giving the _impression_ of quality and requirements. In reality it is about meetings and hacking.
I'm one of those people who have seen XP tried and failed, and to be honest I never found it a suprise. I was educated to be a software engineer, and that the best way to deliver software effectively is to understand the problem domain. Iterative models like RUP or DSDM are great ways of delivering functionality quickly... XP is not... however there are some ideas in XP that are completely un-original that can work
1) Pair programming - first seen in the "Surgical Team" idea from the mythical man month
2) Unit Tests upfront - first seen in the 60s with the moon landing and space programmes.
3) Iterations - First seen during the 80s with the rise of object oriented systems
The ONE original idea in XP is simple...
You don't need requirements before you start coding. For godsake that is a friggin DILBERT cartoon.
XP assumes the John Wayne school of hacking, just hack hack and your talent will get you through. The reality is that if you are brilliant ANY process would be okay, and if you aren't you need more process to make sure you don't FUBAR things.
I loathe XP, its a strong word but to me it represents the Microsoft view of software in its documented form. Quality doesn't matter, it isn't engineering...
Eddie Izzard is a commando Transvestite commedian Extremely funny, bizarre use of imagery, his act in French is funnier than his English act as his vocab is limited so it just sounds even more brilliant.
Has done gigs in the US, been in a few films and is generally a bit of an all rounder. As a comic he'd be a sort of cross between Bill Hicks and Robin Williams, some politics, loads of insanity.
Describes himself as a "militant liberal"... this means you storm the parliment building and start with the words
Bloke who has only ever worked at a bank, says that a company who have driven technology innovation for 20 years is buggered because the world has changed....
Oi Sherlock... who changed it ? I'm sorry but these analysts get on my nerves sometimes. These are the sorts of people bumping SCO, while dumping Sun who only have a couple of billion in the bank, are cash positive each quarter and have FINALLY realised software is important.
Sun are rubbish at marketing themselves, but most of what this analyst says is either "yeah yeah" or just plain bunk.
Has the analysts _run_ a company ? _Worked_ in IT ?
Fire McNeally... are you the chap who recommended Apple should fire Jobs all those years ago ?
Ever try and read Usenet after the AOLer and WebTVers came on board ? What choice did I have to filter their crap out, one or two good posters drowned in a sea of crap.
I'm a lazy bloke, with a busy life, I don't want millions of choices, I want a system that filters out the crap and leaves the quality. In the same way as any company filters people to get the best people so it should be in the music business.
Play in your room, play in your garage... but please don't make me wade through 20,000 pieces of crap to get to the latest track by someone decent.
Does this mean I can finally record that rock opera I've always dreamed about?
I mean music has been going downhill a bit lately (or I'm getting old).... BUT this is a dread scenario of open publishing, file sharing and the end of labels. Sure there are some good points, but will they be weighed down by the bad ?
Think on it this way.... this will allow the musical equivalent of an AOLer to blast music at us. Some things shouldn't be open to all, or at least they shouldn't be able to subject people to such torture without lots of filtering. Steve Vai doing something.... good and cool.... your average Slashdotter.... yeeeh gags... there is probably a reason that highschool band never took off.
And did anyone notice the references... that REFERENCE the IBM patents from 1983 that are used on the mainframes. Microsoft have "refined" the IBM patent and thus created their own patent that refers to but is not identical to the IBM one.
So who ever made the IBM mainframe comment didn't get very far in reviewing the application... its the first bloody reference on the page.
IBM already hold the base patent here, so the objective here is to avoid being sued by IBM by getting your own patent. The real question is what is new here.
And this
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the repository is a remote server and wherein the failure reporting executable communicates with the remote server using a web browser program module residing on the user's computer.
Could be it. IBM don't specify a web browser. But is this REALLY enough for a brand new patent ?
And should everyone be paying cash to IBM to do this anyway ?
I know that isn't really very big, but it did make me realise how much the internet has kicked on in the last few years, and how high-compression technologies like Wavelets etc have been superceeded thanks to broadband connections.
9Mb isn't huge by todays standards, but it is worth considering for a second how much our viewing habits have been changed. No-longer do we go to a movie JUST to see the trailer... we download it. We all know that soon you'll see 100Mb full quality trailers being available.
Prediction of the day.... within 3 years someone will post on Slashdot that a trailer is "only" 100Mb.
Would be the advent of Interactive TV that works so Joe Sixpack can make the old WebTV crowd look smart, who in turn made us appreciate the AOLers.
SPAM is an issue, don't get me wrong. But that is why I have an address on the internet and an address my mates use. SPAM on one is high, SPAM on the other is zero.
This smacks as another "How to get rich like me" book where the real book should have only one page
"Write book to sell to suckers who believe this is special"
And finally, worse than SPAM would be the ability of goverments or companies to monitor your email to check you out and profile you.... but then that already happens, but as we don't see it we don't complain.
SPAM is a pain in the arse, its getting worse, but its still easier to do email now than it was 15 years ago, when SPAM didn't really exist.
Here we come, won't that be great. 10Mfps in Quake4D, milliseconds from start to crash in windows.
But still connected to a low bandwidth connection (2Mbps) to an unreliable network with high contention rates and collisions.
Fast processors ceased to become something to get excited about since about 1999, 90% of people don't need them, 8% need more memory instead, and the final 2% do nuclear and climate simulations, work in industrial modelling, or SFX and animation.
Good god. This was modded up. Okay here is another experiment for you. Place an object in water and see how much it displaces... this is called the VOLUME. 1/8th of an Iceberg or Pack-Ice shelf is ABOVE water and therefore NOT displacing anything but air. If water expands by less than 1/8th of its volume on freezing then freezing will result in an increase in the water level. Added to this the fact that an increase in temp will also expand a liquid, and that a fraction of a % on an ocean is a bloody big number.
Oh hang on, that first bit was irony as then you talk about two of the causes, as agreed by pretty much every scientist outside of the US Goverment, of global warming. Ozone depletion and the destruction of the earth's lungs.
Scripting is COOL, Scripting is GOOD, Scripting is FAST
The fact that managing distributed XA transactions and integrating with multiple datasources is the requirement doesn't matter... on Slashdot you can ALWAYS do it better in Perl.
In order to win a pitch with a PHP solution, a company should offer a good price and should have a very good proposal.
To get a profitable PHP business, you have to sell either CMS's or Intranets.
The obstacles to be surpassed are the fear of unknown technology, the compatibility between PHP solutions and existing ASP or Java applications. One should focus on the solution offered not on the technology when bidding for a project.
This is about WEBSITES for Intranets. This isn't in the enterprise, this is the information site the HR department thinks everyone should have. And while I do applaud the rules above, i.e. sell solutions not technology, I question the idea that this is PHP in the enterprise.
PHP in the enterprise would be PHP being used within a business critical function. Say something like your stock management system, or procurement system, CRM etc.
Now to all the people who are about to write pithy replies, please realise that 95%+ of systems out there are NOT websites, and that the ability to render pages easily is last on the list of reasons to use a technology.
This is "PHP in the low end of the website market" NOT PHP in the enterprise.
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Don't you love these banking boys, the people who said that all those
A wonder what Brian and Matt were predicting as "hot stocks" in 1999. As someone who worked in a company that IPO'ed in 1999 and had a target price of over $50 and was worth sub $2 in 12 months.
Internal phone systems? People still call from desk to desk instead of sending an email? I'm impressed
Umm I'm assuming this is some form of gag. I actually find that business gets done much quicker if I speak to people than if I send an email. Sure email comes in useful lots of times, but nothing beats a quick phone call to make sure everyone is clear.
Eh ? VoIP when you are away from your desk.... so what you really want is some form of device that enables you to talk away from your desk....
Like a mobile phone ? Which already uses a digital network to encode the messages, hell why not run VoIP over 3G networks ? Even at 9Kbps you could get something intelligable over GRPS. And as for your "prediction" it misses the point that
MOBILE NETWORKS CHARGE FOR DATA, where as home networks charge for bandwidth, there is a BIG difference. WiFi does not exist in the business traveller space, Mobile does. VoIP for business networks, for instance internal phone systems, could be a great cost saver.
Sorry to pick on you, but in terms of looking at the BUSINESS case you've done nothing and just focused on your perception of what is "cool" and what is not.
Okay Mr Harvard MBA or what ever you are... out of interest what was the last billion dollar company you founded.
Look at the companies that DON'T exist right now that went intel back then, and you can include IBM's desktop OS division in that, and say that it was wrong then.
And now explain why dilluting the market would be a good idea, why creating incompatible OS X release would strengthen their brand.
Or is it just that you want to play on that "cool" OS X but can't afford/be arsed to buy a Mac ?
On a serious note, creationist research
Damn that one beats "military intelligence" hands down. A model of earth that is 7,000 years old... oh boy oh boy.... lobbing in a world wide flood are we ?
Old Earth creationist are bad enough, but anyone who ignores 6,000 of continual history from Egypt makes even delusional nutters look objective. Its a sad sight when this sort of rubbish is moderated up on slashdot.
And I'm sure you have in your little mind heard the millions of cast iron reasons why a young earth is total rubbish and why bible literalism is a pile of crap. But in your closed little mind you don't got for reason, you go for assumption.
Astrophysics is NOT the weakest part of creationsim. Its the lack of an empirical method or approach that is its weakest part.
This changes nothing...
Pele is still God
Buckminster Fuller is the scientist with the cruelest parents.
Ummm so you've got the Joan Collins Shoulder Pads... the "touching", and hell isn't it sweet the way the defensive linemen hold hands before the game.
Till you'd mentioned it I'd never realised. American Football is the most pro-gay professional sport on the planet.
Who'd a thunk it ?
When will the US finally realise and stop playing all those other silly sports with Joan Collins style shoulder pads
Easy...
Just make the two people sit REAL close together so they can look at each others keyboards.
It was XP, it had multiple client interactions, and thus multiple client agendas. The Unit tests were binned more regularly than the code as the parameters kept changing.
That was one. Another was a small team of 6 people doing "pure" XP, planning game etc etc.... we got to the end of 6 months (the clients deadline) and everyone was STILL bloody farting about doing code.
XP is about giving the _impression_ of quality and requirements. In reality it is about meetings and hacking.
Not at my place, 97% on time, 94% satisfied customers.
And that is using RUP.
I'm one of those people who have seen XP tried and failed, and to be honest I never found it a suprise. I was educated to be a software engineer, and that the best way to deliver software effectively is to understand the problem domain. Iterative models like RUP or DSDM are great ways of delivering functionality quickly... XP is not... however there are some ideas in XP that are completely un-original that can work
1) Pair programming - first seen in the "Surgical Team" idea from the mythical man month
2) Unit Tests upfront - first seen in the 60s with the moon landing and space programmes.
3) Iterations - First seen during the 80s with the rise of object oriented systems
The ONE original idea in XP is simple...
You don't need requirements before you start coding. For godsake that is a friggin DILBERT cartoon.
XP assumes the John Wayne school of hacking, just hack hack and your talent will get you through. The reality is that if you are brilliant ANY process would be okay, and if you aren't you need more process to make sure you don't FUBAR things.
I loathe XP, its a strong word but to me it represents the Microsoft view of software in its documented form. Quality doesn't matter, it isn't engineering...
Its just lobbing together some-stuff.
I'm an engineer... what are you ?
Eddie Izzard is a commando Transvestite commedian Extremely funny, bizarre use of imagery, his act in French is funnier than his English act as his vocab is limited so it just sounds even more brilliant.
Has done gigs in the US, been in a few films and is generally a bit of an all rounder. As a comic he'd be a sort of cross between Bill Hicks and Robin Williams, some politics, loads of insanity.
Describes himself as a "militant liberal"... this means you storm the parliment building and start with the words
"Its okay, we'll pay for all the damages"
Bloke who has only ever worked at a bank, says that a company who have driven technology innovation for 20 years is buggered because the world has changed....
Oi Sherlock... who changed it ? I'm sorry but these analysts get on my nerves sometimes. These are the sorts of people bumping SCO, while dumping Sun who only have a couple of billion in the bank, are cash positive each quarter and have FINALLY realised software is important.
Sun are rubbish at marketing themselves, but most of what this analyst says is either "yeah yeah" or just plain bunk.
Has the analysts _run_ a company ? _Worked_ in IT ?
Fire McNeally... are you the chap who recommended Apple should fire Jobs all those years ago ?
You can sample small sections of other music for use in your own track, but not whole parts of the music (for instance not the whole bass line).
Not sure how that applies to code mind. Can you claim to be "quoting code" ?
Ever try and read Usenet after the AOLer and WebTVers came on board ? What choice did I have to filter their crap out, one or two good posters drowned in a sea of crap.
I'm a lazy bloke, with a busy life, I don't want millions of choices, I want a system that filters out the crap and leaves the quality. In the same way as any company filters people to get the best people so it should be in the music business.
Play in your room, play in your garage... but please don't make me wade through 20,000 pieces of crap to get to the latest track by someone decent.
More choice != more quality.
Does this mean I can finally record that rock opera I've always dreamed about?
I mean music has been going downhill a bit lately (or I'm getting old).... BUT this is a dread scenario of open publishing, file sharing and the end of labels. Sure there are some good points, but will they be weighed down by the bad ?
Think on it this way.... this will allow the musical equivalent of an AOLer to blast music at us. Some things shouldn't be open to all, or at least they shouldn't be able to subject people to such torture without lots of filtering. Steve Vai doing something.... good and cool.... your average Slashdotter.... yeeeh gags... there is probably a reason that highschool band never took off.
Dude... most people suck.
And did anyone notice the references... that REFERENCE the IBM patents from 1983 that are used on the mainframes. Microsoft have "refined" the IBM patent and thus created their own patent that refers to but is not identical to the IBM one.
So who ever made the IBM mainframe comment didn't get very far in reviewing the application... its the first bloody reference on the page.
IBM already hold the base patent here, so the objective here is to avoid being sued by IBM by getting your own patent. The real question is what is new here.
And this
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the repository is a remote server and wherein the failure reporting executable communicates with the remote server using a web browser program module residing on the user's computer.
Could be it. IBM don't specify a web browser. But is this REALLY enough for a brand new patent ?
And should everyone be paying cash to IBM to do this anyway ?
I know that isn't really very big, but it did make me realise how much the internet has kicked on in the last few years, and how high-compression technologies like Wavelets etc have been superceeded thanks to broadband connections.
9Mb isn't huge by todays standards, but it is worth considering for a second how much our viewing habits have been changed. No-longer do we go to a movie JUST to see the trailer... we download it. We all know that soon you'll see 100Mb full quality trailers being available.
Prediction of the day.... within 3 years someone will post on Slashdot that a trailer is "only" 100Mb.
Would be the advent of Interactive TV that works so Joe Sixpack can make the old WebTV crowd look smart, who in turn made us appreciate the AOLers.
SPAM is an issue, don't get me wrong. But that is why I have an address on the internet and an address my mates use. SPAM on one is high, SPAM on the other is zero.
This smacks as another "How to get rich like me" book where the real book should have only one page
"Write book to sell to suckers who believe this is special"
And finally, worse than SPAM would be the ability of goverments or companies to monitor your email to check you out and profile you.... but then that already happens, but as we don't see it we don't complain.
SPAM is a pain in the arse, its getting worse, but its still easier to do email now than it was 15 years ago, when SPAM didn't really exist.
"Faster processors and memory means faster routers as well."
PLEASE tell me that was a joke. ADSL is NOT limited by a routers processor or memory capacity, its a tad bit more fundamental than that.
Here we come, won't that be great. 10Mfps in Quake4D, milliseconds from start to crash in windows.
But still connected to a low bandwidth connection (2Mbps) to an unreliable network with high contention rates and collisions.
Fast processors ceased to become something to get excited about since about 1999, 90% of people don't need them, 8% need more memory instead, and the final 2% do nuclear and climate simulations, work in industrial modelling, or SFX and animation.
Good god. This was modded up. Okay here is another experiment for you. Place an object in water and see how much it displaces... this is called the VOLUME. 1/8th of an Iceberg or Pack-Ice shelf is ABOVE water and therefore NOT displacing anything but air. If water expands by less than 1/8th of its volume on freezing then freezing will result in an increase in the water level. Added to this the fact that an increase in temp will also expand a liquid, and that a fraction of a % on an ocean is a bloody big number.
Oh hang on, that first bit was irony as then you talk about two of the causes, as agreed by pretty much every scientist outside of the US Goverment, of global warming. Ozone depletion and the destruction of the earth's lungs.
Remember on Slashdot...
OO is BAD, OO SUCKS, OO BLOWS
Scripting is COOL, Scripting is GOOD, Scripting is FAST
The fact that managing distributed XA transactions and integrating with multiple datasources is the requirement doesn't matter... on Slashdot you can ALWAYS do it better in Perl.
In order to win a pitch with a PHP solution, a company should offer a good price and should have a very good proposal.
To get a profitable PHP business, you have to sell either CMS's or Intranets.
The obstacles to be surpassed are the fear of unknown technology, the compatibility between PHP solutions and existing ASP or Java applications. One should focus on the solution offered not on the technology when bidding for a project.
This is about WEBSITES for Intranets. This isn't in the enterprise, this is the information site the HR department thinks everyone should have. And while I do applaud the rules above, i.e. sell solutions not technology, I question the idea that this is PHP in the enterprise.
PHP in the enterprise would be PHP being used within a business critical function. Say something like your stock management system, or procurement system, CRM etc.
Now to all the people who are about to write pithy replies, please realise that 95%+ of systems out there are NOT websites, and that the ability to render pages easily is last on the list of reasons to use a technology.
This is "PHP in the low end of the website market" NOT PHP in the enterprise.