Not as a type of pay system. The brand name is far too entrenched in the 'free' mentality.
I don't care how you market it, or how you spin it....the brand Kazaa cannot coexist with the concept of "money changing hands".
If you want to use a P2P type system, that's OK (kind of once you get around ISP personal account bandwidth restrictions). But don't attempt to call it Kazaa, or Napster, or any permutation thereof. Give it some rational name.
Customers know exactly what they want even if it may not be exactly what we think they need
And just as frequently, customers do not know how to articulate what they want. It is up to the req analyst to drag out of them what it is they are looking for.
How many times have you heard - "I want it to show me everything". Well....no, you don't.
Not until you actually show them some screens does the lightbulb turn on.
I had a USAF colonel tell me "This needs to send an Excel spreadsheet out to all of our offices." Because thats the way they had always done it.
"No, sir...it needs to send data between point A and point B, and reconcile the changes. Let us, the experts, figure out the best way to do that."
Or similarly..."What do you do with these reports?" 'Well....we fax them out to our affiliate offices 3 times a week, and they use them for reference.' Ok.
Call the affiliate office - "What do you do with the TPS report?"
'We're not sure. Home office keeps sending us these, and we actually just toss them.'
But yes...cookie cutter business s/w DOES suck. All business are slightly different. And need s/w customized for what it is they do, and how they do it.
I have _real_ issues with my tax money being spent allowing adults to surf harcore porn sites in a public facility frequented by children.
The choice of blocking software is a different issue. The blocklist definately should be open and available for public perusal. Regardless of the software that reads that list.
Um. Your analogy is seriously flawed. Belts do not combat obesity. You do not buy a belt to combat obesity. You do, however, increase the number of roads to relieve congestion. (I know you were trying to say that increasing roads is as wrong for relieving traffic as buying a belt would be to fight obesity. I'm simply correcting you. More roads = less congestion. Belt != less obesity)
No, what the analogy really means is "You are a fat bastard, and buying a bigger belt does not make you less fat. Eating less will make you less of a fat bastard." Or... There are too many cars on the road. To relieve congestion, how about we don't drive so damn much?
If the country were 80% roads, there would not be traffic filling them.
It seems what you want is to literally pave over everything. Voila'. No more congestion. Also no more parks, no more farms, no more open spaces...
How about a more elegant solution. Drive less. Less SOV's on the road.
Think about all the tasks you frequently do on your way to and from work, or on your lunch break, etc. It's tough to stop and pick up your dry cleaning when you're riding in someone else's car.
Yeah, but you're not doing those things every day.
Want to reduce rush hour traffic by 10%? Virtually eliminating jams? Find an alternate way to work twice a month. Every other Wednesday, for instance. Ride with your buddy, bus, bike, whatever.
If we could average that, the problem would mostly go away.
Sadly, this will never happen. The American public is far to self-centered.
So the carpool lanes are a lane that could be used for traffic, but is instead sitting there underutilized. If you remove the restriction from it and ease overall congestion, you're now creating a benefit in terms of pollution.
Building more roads to combat congestion is like buying a bigger belt to combat obesity. Traffic, much like data, increases to fill the available space. Not until a certain road becomes too much of a hassle or takes too long do people look at alternative routes to work.
so selling limited access to it is a sneaky way for the state to generate extra revenue.
I don't like it either. Those lanes were put in with the admission proce being >1 person in the car. Changing the rules to allow pay to play is simply wrong, IMHO.
There are a lot of things on the internet that I donâ(TM)t like, but I donâ(TM)t feel itâ(TM)s my place to stop people from seeing them.
That's right. It's not our place to prevent anyone from seeing whatever. However...it is also not our requirement to provide a public place for random porn surfing, in a publically funded area (library), where a good percentage of the patrons are children.
Will you show your (future?) 8 year old sexually explicit images and videos? Doubtful. But you can bet some fool will get his rocks off showing kids exactly that in the library. "Hey kid...come here and help me with this, will ya?"
Sure...he may get arrested eventually. But the damage has already been done.
If Joe Idiot wants to surf porn, fine. Let him do it at home. Or a private net cafe. Not the public library. I do not want to pay for it, nor do I want to introduce into the library an atmosphere of 'shielded eyes', in that "Be careful when you walk past the computers...that weird guy is there again." becomes the normative behavior.
The 'perfection of the human body' has nothing to do with internet porn. Rape, scat, bestiality videos do. And if you think that it is OK to display those in an area full of (by definition)"psychologically fragile" children, paid for by yours and my dollars....then we must live very, very different lives. Or one of us does not have little kids around the house.
"Daddy...what is that lady doing to that donkey?" is not a question that should come up in the public library.
One of my first uses of the internet was to read about it in rec.bicycles.offroad (A sadly defunct news group thanks to trolling).
see alt.mountain-bike. RBOR's better, rowdier brother.
Still has MJV, though...:( RBOR traffic died off due to the broken (voted in) moderation process. Moderated in attempt to get rid of the psycho Dr.MJV.
(One had even welded his own frame).
And yes..I've built a few recumbent bikes and trikes from a collection of tubes and old bike parts. Brazing is much easier for a neophyte to do.
Why replace the humans?
Because humans cost money,
because humans go on strike,
because humans get emotional,
because humans let other outside influences affect their calling,
bacause human make mistakes.
All of those situations don't matter, because the human ump is still needed. As you say....all this thing does is call balls and strikes.
It can't kick out an arguing manager. It can't decide to take a break if someone gets beaned. It can't yell "Play Ball" when someone is tactically delaying a bit.
It can't confer with the other umps as to the validity of a call. It can't be the impartial inspector and giver of new balls when there is the slightest question.
It can't be an object of derision by the fans when the game is going badly for the home team. Yelling at a camera controlled CPU is futile at best.
If it cannot fully replace a human umpire (i.e. actually run the game), and if it's reliability/accuracy in the over-the-plate calls is basically the same, then why attempt to replace the human?
One tool may do it better, but cost more. But if you need that extra 10% capability....a cheaper tool is worse than useless. You've spent money, and *still* don't have a tool that does everything you need it to do.
The job of the purchaser is to balance cost v capability. Be they corporate or government.
An outsourced church database could run for years and years with zero problems on an Oracle db. But that is vastly overpowered for what they need. So they may accept a lesser quality tool (MySQL or Access), for vastly less money. And still have it run with zero problems.
A city engineering dept may need a good CAD tool. LinuxCad 'might' work, but probably not. So they choose AutoCad and accept the vastly higher costs. But if 'preference' is given to OS tools...someone along the chain (governments being what they are) is going to question the choice. And then mandate that the dept use LinuxCad.
Mandating (via law) preference for one or the other is simply wrong.
From the proposed law: Principle applying to the procurement of computer software
17A. (1) A public authority must, in making a decision about the procurement of computer software for its operations, have regard to the principle that, wherever practicable, a public authority should use open source software in preference to proprietary software.
Personally, I think that is almost as bad as giving preference to a proprietary solution.
Say you run a 'family-oriented', church based blog or website. No rude language, etc (Think of the children!) In the process, you 'criticise' online porn, and name one of the most blatant purveyors specifically. He then drafts up a rebuttal, and posts it on his website, informing you of the URL.
Is the church website then required to provide a link to his porn website under this (proposed) law?
This would mean that you would be required to post the responses as well as authenticate their origin
So i would have to verify who a response actually comes from? And how, pray tell?
1. Criticise someone ("Jaque Chirac sucks!" 2. receive numerous responses rebutting ("No, I don't", "No he doesn't")
3. Now I have to weed through all of these, and figure out which one came from the actual person/entity criticised in #1.
4. Provide link to same
5. Wash, rinse, repeat
6. Declare bankruptcy, because I spent all of my time complying with this stupid law and lost my job.
Take for example if someone changes tires on a big truck...going from the stock size up to 44" of rolling rubber. The speed reading recorded by the EDR will be grossly inaccurate in relation to the true speed, unless everything is recalibrated to reflect the modifications.
It is up to the owner to have the speedo recalibrated when tire size changes enough to affect the speedo. If not, then that is a (minor) violation in itself.
But, if it hadn't been recal'd, a smart lawyer would use that and accept the (comparitively minor) equipment violation.
"younger minds generally work faster", blah de blah.
I would rather work with and employ a person with experience, who can grasp the big picture and howit affects the company, who can interface well with users, who only has to do it once, rather than a teenager who has to do it 4 times, but does it 'quickly'.
Our 12 person IT dept has a 33 year old as the youngest. Ave age prob 42.
Actually, no. Microsoft wants to allow as much use as possible. Stream to and from all your devices, play anywhere...all that jazz. Theoretically, this will sell more Windows products.
Hollywood, OTOH, DOES want to lock down everything. Rent a new 'play' for each device, no copying/sharing, blah de blah.
If we're going to bitch in here, let us at least bitch at the right Evil Entity.
A few years ago, some guy in Israel got stopped for driving erratically. Seems he was steering with his elbows, having two arguments on two cell phones at the same time.
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Not as a type of pay system. The brand name is far too entrenched in the 'free' mentality.
I don't care how you market it, or how you spin it....the brand Kazaa cannot coexist with the concept of "money changing hands".
If you want to use a P2P type system, that's OK (kind of once you get around ISP personal account bandwidth restrictions). But don't attempt to call it Kazaa, or Napster, or any permutation thereof. Give it some rational name.
Why are they "off your list"? Because they have a patent and are now evil?
If you were to boycott every company that has a patent on something, you'd end up living in a cave, catching squirrels for dinner.
Customers know exactly what they want even if it may not be exactly what we think they need
And just as frequently, customers do not know how to articulate what they want. It is up to the req analyst to drag out of them what it is they are looking for.
How many times have you heard - "I want it to show me everything".
Well....no, you don't.
Not until you actually show them some screens does the lightbulb turn on.
I had a USAF colonel tell me "This needs to send an Excel spreadsheet out to all of our offices."
Because thats the way they had always done it.
"No, sir...it needs to send data between point A and point B, and reconcile the changes. Let us, the experts, figure out the best way to do that."
Or similarly..."What do you do with these reports?"
'Well....we fax them out to our affiliate offices 3 times a week, and they use them for reference.'
Ok.
Call the affiliate office - "What do you do with the TPS report?"
'We're not sure. Home office keeps sending us these, and we actually just toss them.'
But yes...cookie cutter business s/w DOES suck. All business are slightly different. And need s/w customized for what it is they do, and how they do it.
I have _real_ issues with my tax money being spent allowing adults to surf harcore porn sites in a public facility frequented by children.
The choice of blocking software is a different issue. The blocklist definately should be open and available for public perusal.
Regardless of the software that reads that list.
Spoken like someone with no kids.
Um. Your analogy is seriously flawed. Belts do not combat obesity. You do not buy a belt to combat obesity. You do, however, increase the number of roads to relieve congestion. (I know you were trying to say that increasing roads is as wrong for relieving traffic as buying a belt would be to fight obesity. I'm simply correcting you. More roads = less congestion. Belt != less obesity)
No, what the analogy really means is "You are a fat bastard, and buying a bigger belt does not make you less fat. Eating less will make you less of a fat bastard."
Or...
There are too many cars on the road. To relieve congestion, how about we don't drive so damn much?
If the country were 80% roads, there would not be traffic filling them.
It seems what you want is to literally pave over everything. Voila'. No more congestion. Also no more parks, no more farms, no more open spaces...
How about a more elegant solution. Drive less. Less SOV's on the road.
Think about all the tasks you frequently do on your way to and from work, or on your lunch break, etc. It's tough to stop and pick up your dry cleaning when you're riding in someone else's car.
Yeah, but you're not doing those things every day.
Want to reduce rush hour traffic by 10%? Virtually eliminating jams? Find an alternate way to work twice a month. Every other Wednesday, for instance. Ride with your buddy, bus, bike, whatever.
If we could average that, the problem would mostly go away.
Sadly, this will never happen. The American public is far to self-centered.
So the carpool lanes are a lane that could be used for traffic, but is instead sitting there underutilized. If you remove the restriction from it and ease overall congestion, you're now creating a benefit in terms of pollution.
Building more roads to combat congestion is like buying a bigger belt to combat obesity.
Traffic, much like data, increases to fill the available space. Not until a certain road becomes too much of a hassle or takes too long do people look at alternative routes to work.
so selling limited access to it is a sneaky way for the state to generate extra revenue.
I don't like it either. Those lanes were put in with the admission proce being >1 person in the car. Changing the rules to allow pay to play is simply wrong, IMHO.
There are a lot of things on the internet that I donâ(TM)t like, but I donâ(TM)t feel itâ(TM)s my place to stop people from seeing them.
That's right. It's not our place to prevent anyone from seeing whatever. However...it is also not our requirement to provide a public place for random porn surfing, in a publically funded area (library), where a good percentage of the patrons are children.
Will you show your (future?) 8 year old sexually explicit images and videos? Doubtful.
But you can bet some fool will get his rocks off showing kids exactly that in the library. "Hey kid...come here and help me with this, will ya?"
Sure...he may get arrested eventually. But the damage has already been done.
If Joe Idiot wants to surf porn, fine. Let him do it at home. Or a private net cafe. Not the public library. I do not want to pay for it, nor do I want to introduce into the library an atmosphere of 'shielded eyes', in that "Be careful when you walk past the computers...that weird guy is there again." becomes the normative behavior.
The 'perfection of the human body' has nothing to do with internet porn.
Rape, scat, bestiality videos do. And if you think that it is OK to display those in an area full of (by definition)"psychologically fragile" children, paid for by yours and my dollars....then we must live very, very different lives. Or one of us does not have little kids around the house.
"Daddy...what is that lady doing to that donkey?" is not a question that should come up in the public library.
One of my first uses of the internet was to read about it in rec.bicycles.offroad (A sadly defunct news group thanks to trolling).
see alt.mountain-bike. RBOR's better, rowdier brother.
Still has MJV, though...:(
RBOR traffic died off due to the broken (voted in) moderation process. Moderated in attempt to get rid of the psycho Dr.MJV.
(One had even welded his own frame).
And yes..I've built a few recumbent bikes and trikes from a collection of tubes and old bike parts. Brazing is much easier for a neophyte to do.
Too late for you, but checking into all aspects of a new area are part of my moving process.
Broadband important? Choose a neighborhood that is supported by broadband. Don't move to where there is none, and then bitch about it.
Local phone service not up to par? Well...that's another decision point in the move.
"I've moved....and discovered..." does not count.
If it is important to you, find thse things out before you move.
when your competion give away their software (and a good lot of free help too) is it fair that these firms should go out of buisness
/. community is pissed at Microsoft for? Giving away IE, and burying Nutscrape in the process?
Wait...isn't that what one of the zillion things the
All it does is call balls and strikes.
Why replace the humans?
Because humans cost money,
because humans go on strike,
because humans get emotional,
because humans let other outside influences affect their calling,
bacause human make mistakes.
All of those situations don't matter, because the human ump is still needed. As you say....all this thing does is call balls and strikes.
No.
It can't kick out an arguing manager. It can't decide to take a break if someone gets beaned. It can't yell "Play Ball" when someone is tactically delaying a bit.
It can't confer with the other umps as to the validity of a call. It can't be the impartial inspector and giver of new balls when there is the slightest question.
It can't be an object of derision by the fans when the game is going badly for the home team. Yelling at a camera controlled CPU is futile at best.
If it cannot fully replace a human umpire (i.e. actually run the game), and if it's reliability/accuracy in the over-the-plate calls is basically the same, then why attempt to replace the human?
Exactly. A company is free to build open or closed standards tools. You are free to buy them or not buy them.
The market will eventually kill off the companies and tools that no one uses.
"All else" is never equal.
One tool may do it better, but cost more. But if you need that extra 10% capability....a cheaper tool is worse than useless. You've spent money, and *still* don't have a tool that does everything you need it to do.
The job of the purchaser is to balance cost v capability. Be they corporate or government.
An outsourced church database could run for years and years with zero problems on an Oracle db. But that is vastly overpowered for what they need. So they may accept a lesser quality tool (MySQL or Access), for vastly less money. And still have it run with zero problems.
A city engineering dept may need a good CAD tool. LinuxCad 'might' work, but probably not. So they choose AutoCad and accept the vastly higher costs. But if 'preference' is given to OS tools...someone along the chain (governments being what they are) is going to question the choice. And then mandate that the dept use LinuxCad.
Mandating (via law) preference for one or the other is simply wrong.
From the proposed law:
Principle applying to the procurement of computer software 17A.
(1) A public authority must, in making a decision about the procurement of computer software for its operations, have regard to the principle that, wherever practicable, a public authority should use open source software in preference to proprietary software.
Personally, I think that is almost as bad as giving preference to a proprietary solution.
Let each tool stand on its own merits.
IYO, how does the Seg compare to a cheaper, more conventional electric scooter? The little ones available for $200.
I agree that they are passive, for lack of a better word, in that they have no moving parts.
And then there are the 'active' ones. Photogray, which change light transmission depending on ambient conditions.
BAsically, thty are an enhancement/replacement for the lenses in your eye.
Say you run a 'family-oriented', church based blog or website. No rude language, etc (Think of the children!)
In the process, you 'criticise' online porn, and name one of the most blatant purveyors specifically. He then drafts up a rebuttal, and posts it on his website, informing you of the URL.
Is the church website then required to provide a link to his porn website under this (proposed) law?
This would mean that you would be required to post the responses as well as authenticate their origin
So i would have to verify who a response actually comes from? And how, pray tell?
1. Criticise someone ("Jaque Chirac sucks!"
2. receive numerous responses rebutting ("No, I don't", "No he doesn't")
3. Now I have to weed through all of these, and figure out which one came from the actual person/entity criticised in #1.
4. Provide link to same
5. Wash, rinse, repeat
6. Declare bankruptcy, because I spent all of my time complying with this stupid law and lost my job.
Take for example if someone changes tires on a big truck...going from the stock size up to 44" of rolling rubber. The speed reading recorded by the EDR will be grossly inaccurate in relation to the true speed, unless everything is recalibrated to reflect the modifications.
It is up to the owner to have the speedo recalibrated when tire size changes enough to affect the speedo. If not, then that is a (minor) violation in itself.
But, if it hadn't been recal'd, a smart lawyer would use that and accept the (comparitively minor) equipment violation.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
To put it mildly, that guy is an a$$clown.
"younger minds generally work faster", blah de blah.
I would rather work with and employ a person with experience, who can grasp the big picture and howit affects the company, who can interface well with users, who only has to do it once, rather than a teenager who has to do it 4 times, but does it 'quickly'.
Our 12 person IT dept has a 33 year old as the youngest. Ave age prob 42.
b) Communism didn't work? I'd love to have a discussion about this
Name one country/society where it has worked. Just one.
Actually, no. Microsoft wants to allow as much use as possible. Stream to and from all your devices, play anywhere...all that jazz.
Theoretically, this will sell more Windows products.
Hollywood, OTOH, DOES want to lock down everything. Rent a new 'play' for each device, no copying/sharing, blah de blah.
If we're going to bitch in here, let us at least bitch at the right Evil Entity.
A few years ago, some guy in Israel got stopped for driving erratically. Seems he was steering with his elbows, having two arguments on two cell phones at the same time.