There in't as much software for OSX as there was for OS 9 (and with the intel Macs OS 9 is a moot point) and what there is, the stuff for OSX is pretty expensive.
Microsoft's products for the Mac are a second thought, where there is a high degree of compatibility it isn't much higher than Open Office (the only thing Mac Office really has above OOo is tables in PowerPoint and VBA support, and Microsoft has slated to drop VBA in the next Mac Office)
Of the commercial offerings for the Mac specific apps are generally harder to find (also hard to locate any decent reviews as well as places from which to purchase).
Apple's trends seem to be turning away from traditional business applications (Office, DB, DTP, etc.) to more personal digital lifestyle (music, etc) not much of a benefit for businesses.
OSX whuile an improvement on many fronts still has some issues (the OSX finder is still messed up for decent network access, aspects of the OSX user interface while stylish is a lot less intuitive than OS9 was)
Linux now offeres a lot of what Macs are missing for business end apps, development, and compatibility, as well as the security cost and cross-platform adaptability that the Mac have enjoyed for many years.
For the benefit of OSX though a lot of the issues are being resolved, and works-the-first-time installation/upgrading OSX stuff is a vertiable breeze then anything on MS or L\GNU/Linux. And comaprively OSX at ~$129 is way more realistic cost for an OS then MS's vision of a ~$300 OS.)
Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, the main character, Ash, who had been battling the dead for two previous movies, encounters another 'deadite' (as it is called in this sequel) which screemns and such and then falls down apparently dead after ash shoots her/it. Next as some of the noobs to the dead's tactics start to approach the body, Ash warns, "It's a trap. Get an axe."
Of course it is a trap, as 'it' gets back up and is finally put more out of its misery.
So 'it's a trap' is a warining that a perceived victory over a foe may be just the foe merely setting a trap for another opportunity to pounce on the unsuspecting victor(s).
Krita is fine but I wish they would do some more work on the object based graphics program, Karbon, it has some great features that the others programs don't (making a large drawing and priting it in tiles) but it is sorely lacking some very basic stuff also (import of bitmap obnjects like in Inkscape and OOo Draw). Oh and providing ANY instructions for it would be a big bonus too.
I just don't do just plain bitmap graphics all that much.
Same here I develop PHP in an organization, it's a great language (even better when you know how to program) and it is good news as I will something to point to them to keep them (PHBs) at bay from jumping to Visual Basic or Access because its MS supported.
The upgrade system in Linux always seems problematic so I prefer to backup my home folder and other data and then do an install of any new version and the restore the backed up stuff. Thing are a lot less problematic than.
The only OS that has been relatively free of upgrade woes has been MacOS/OSX.
That's what'a missing, a decent editor for XHTML that is: - WYSIWYG (not everyone 'gets' style tags) - Low Cost - Cross Platform - and easy to use
Many people are still using the likes of Claris Home Page, PageMill, Hotdog, etc. mainly because there are no good entry level web editors in thier price range or skill set anymore.
Same thing with ODF it may be a better standard but common people need to have access to it.
As a consumer I buy lots of CDs, I shop around and look for the songs I like on the CDs I can afford (rarely new hits, as the initial price really sucks and most artista are more akin to acting like porn stars than singers). I buy lots of the music I like, which is not always easy, some music isn't available on CD (or at least on CDs in the US.)
So my response is
Sell stuff at a more reasonable price (you've recouped your investment in CD production make good to drop the prices)
Get better artists or at least some variety that don't just do only pop, metal, rap.
If I like the artist I buy the album, if I like only the song, I would only buy the song. (ive bought such artists as the PRoclaimers, Dexy Midnight Runners, etc, there are actually a bunch of good songs on there, too bad you -record co.- never promoted the playlist.)
Find something that utilizes your desired skills as a project for an off-ours hobby, coding a game, improving some website you runm, etc. Make sure it hit on the next level challenges you are going for. (it does not have to be grand to start, just somehting you think you can accomplish)
Then do it. You only get some knowldge of the concept reading books and artricles, but you won't be skilled at anytrhing it until you do it yourself.
And if you pick a project or it leads to something you haven't seen done elsewhere or not as well as you can envision it, who knows, down the road you may have created the next youtube or myspace.
The article is from a Daniel Lyons talking about "restricting business" though the real point of GPL v# seems to be is to keep free software from restricting users (at the expense of shady business lock-in practices).
Lots of FUD about how this will hurt the (business) economy, etc. A lot of the gist sounds like a push to privitize the previous work of the community.
Also a bunch of exploitave tabloid-style character attacks on Stallman.
Right here! Set File Vault up on my bosses' new laptop (then) and one day she booted all her stuff was gone, no errors just gone, the file was unrecoverable.
I might try it again but I want to have a good backup system in place first.
Though it is nice to see how unrecoverable it is (in a security sense).
Now that the scouts are pwned by the lobbiests I bet the special interests are lining up to get thier interests added to the Boy Scout youth movement agenda:
Apple did that in the 90s,remember the beige boxes by Daystar, Motorolla, PC Computing, etc. Nearly killed Apple, not only did the hardware look ugly, it didn't really improve on any operation quality.
After that Apple got back into hardware and since then we have seen the candy iMacs, G3, G4, G5, intel dual core, etc. A lot of those came with pretty groundbreaking innovations (USB, firewire, bluetooth, etc) as well as the killer looks of the sleek cases.
Since Apple has control of the hardware they also have better control to make sure the OS consistently works with the hardware, A reason Windows is such a big thing (same With Linux) is all the various cards and drivers (and the not so perfect variations of 'standard' cards and drivers) It also happens in Macs too but the end user rarely sees it (and then not for very long) because Apple OWNS it all and can take care of it.
The parent is right Techsoup is a great place to start, and as the other poster said the prices are pretty low so many may just prefer to buy from them.
But not every non-profit can benefit from the offerings at techsoup (depends on the 'donator' and thier restrictions) For microsoft the restrictions listed are:
"Microsoft products are not available for distribution to educational institutions (including K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and trade schools), political organizations, religious organizations (except for those with a secular community designation), healthcare networks and healthcare research organizations, or private foundations. Please consult our complete list of ineligible organizations for more information."
Schools have thier own discounted licensing plan (might be higher $$ though), so if I wanted to help the unhelped I'd probably help my local church, foundation or healthcare research organization.
Thats what it means to many programmers (and creditors), of all the things a person has on them - thier SSN is unique (not totally, there have been mention of dupes - though no accounts I could verify).
It's not a problem if you are dealing with one location or a small set of locations, but if you deal with state-wide or federal data it gets to be an issue to have a good unique ID for everyone.
The idea of a national ID would be an alternative (as SSNs go up to 999,999,999 we are running out). ANother would be biometrics but those are from what I hear at least 512 bytes for a fingerprint metric and higher for others.
Though I don't think it was a problem until private-sector creditors picked it up as thier de-facto key unique ID for financial identity, and when or if the national ID comes out I am sure the banks will adopt that too and keep the system screwed up.
I started out distributed in our area (rural county), we had POTS for connection and no networking in the begining, so I did what any lazy programmer would do, worked up a distributed DB system among tens of clients in two locations. And it is cool in some respects, but a pain to manage, especially if you have wide ranging changes (yes the updates are automated but updating the updater and other connection issues... ugh).
Now (within the last couple years) we have all the networking of the 21st century (intranet/DSL) as well as the best tools for the job (web based apps, thank the User!) all this reduces the problems of massive redudancy as well as the time and cost of doing/maintining the distributed system. I look forward to a day with a 'honkin huge server managing a bunch of simple thin clients (with the rouge laptop coming and going - replication is great too).
AJAX concepts aren't exacly rocket science, I am sure a 13 year old could do it given the drive (*sigh* to be a teenager with all that time and energy to devote to sheer folly.)
When I was 15 I was learning BASIC in highschool on PETs, back then that was about it for the resources available to me. Nowadays there is a lot more available opportunity for kids to explore. (thank goodness for FOSS)
I'm really glad to read some of them are picking up on stuff like that.
You do it. If you want to be really good at it you do it a lot.
And don't just read about it (unless the interest IS reading), books and the net are good for pointers but experience counts a lot more in getting good at things.
Start wth kits, cobble together junk, make some mistakes (try to make them non-lethal on non-dangerous) You will get a "feel" for what works for you and what doesn't.
You can never be too old or too young - but you can be too lazy or just not interested enough.
Just to keep in perspective we aren't talking about a high security data center but a non-profit agency (yeah, money is tight, yadda yadda). So nothing like finger or retinal scans, maybe magstripe, but I would be leary of that.
The two things we see are a 1) regular turnover of staff (the preschool program is seasonal) and 2) having meeting areas available for use off hours. So I think maybe some cardlock doors and then the rest keylock (limited key distribution) might be a good compomise. The idea of timetracking employees was brought up but I don't know if that works well for an organization with many diverse programs.
So, what's the software like for these things? Are they usually some horrid over-grown VB that doesn't play well with others or are they usually a pretty flexible apps (export, import, LDAP?, web based, etc.)?
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There in't as much software for OSX as there was for OS 9 (and with the intel Macs OS 9 is a moot point) and what there is, the stuff for OSX is pretty expensive.
Microsoft's products for the Mac are a second thought, where there is a high degree of compatibility it isn't much higher than Open Office (the only thing Mac Office really has above OOo is tables in PowerPoint and VBA support, and Microsoft has slated to drop VBA in the next Mac Office)
Of the commercial offerings for the Mac specific apps are generally harder to find (also hard to locate any decent reviews as well as places from which to purchase).
Apple's trends seem to be turning away from traditional business applications (Office, DB, DTP, etc.) to more personal digital lifestyle (music, etc) not much of a benefit for businesses.
OSX whuile an improvement on many fronts still has some issues (the OSX finder is still messed up for decent network access, aspects of the OSX user interface while stylish is a lot less intuitive than OS9 was)
Linux now offeres a lot of what Macs are missing for business end apps, development, and compatibility, as well as the security cost and cross-platform adaptability that the Mac have enjoyed for many years.
For the benefit of OSX though a lot of the issues are being resolved, and works-the-first-time installation/upgrading OSX stuff is a vertiable breeze then anything on MS or L\GNU/Linux. And comaprively OSX at ~$129 is way more realistic cost for an OS then MS's vision of a ~$300 OS.)
Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, the main character, Ash, who had been battling the dead for two previous movies, encounters another 'deadite' (as it is called in this sequel) which screemns and such and then falls down apparently dead after ash shoots her/it. Next as some of the noobs to the dead's tactics start to approach the body, Ash warns, "It's a trap. Get an axe."
Of course it is a trap, as 'it' gets back up and is finally put more out of its misery.
So 'it's a trap' is a warining that a perceived victory over a foe may be just the foe merely setting a trap for another opportunity to pounce on the unsuspecting victor(s).Actually it's bronounce Sooh-Zah, and Microsoft will say "Why, sure you can play your John Phillip Sousa music on Windows!"
Krita is fine but I wish they would do some more work on the object based graphics program, Karbon, it has some great features that the others programs don't (making a large drawing and priting it in tiles) but it is sorely lacking some very basic stuff also (import of bitmap obnjects like in Inkscape and OOo Draw). Oh and providing ANY instructions for it would be a big bonus too.
I just don't do just plain bitmap graphics all that much.
Same here I develop PHP in an organization, it's a great language (even better when you know how to program) and it is good news as I will something to point to them to keep them (PHBs) at bay from jumping to Visual Basic or Access because its MS supported.
The upgrade system in Linux always seems problematic so I prefer to backup my home folder and other data and then do an install of any new version and the restore the backed up stuff. Thing are a lot less problematic than.
The only OS that has been relatively free of upgrade woes has been MacOS/OSX.
That's what'a missing, a decent editor for XHTML that is:
- WYSIWYG (not everyone 'gets' style tags)
- Low Cost
- Cross Platform
- and easy to use
Many people are still using the likes of Claris Home Page, PageMill, Hotdog, etc. mainly because there are no good entry level web editors in thier price range or skill set anymore.
Same thing with ODF it may be a better standard but common people need to have access to it.
As a consumer I buy lots of CDs, I shop around and look for the songs I like on the CDs I can afford (rarely new hits, as the initial price really sucks and most artista are more akin to acting like porn stars than singers). I buy lots of the music I like, which is not always easy, some music isn't available on CD (or at least on CDs in the US.)
So my response is
Find something that utilizes your desired skills as a project for an off-ours hobby, coding a game, improving some website you runm, etc. Make sure it hit on the next level challenges you are going for. (it does not have to be grand to start, just somehting you think you can accomplish)
Then do it. You only get some knowldge of the concept reading books and artricles, but you won't be skilled at anytrhing it until you do it yourself.
And if you pick a project or it leads to something you haven't seen done elsewhere or not as well as you can envision it, who knows, down the road you may have created the next youtube or myspace.
The article is from a Daniel Lyons talking about "restricting business"
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though the real point of GPL v# seems to be is to keep free software from
restricting users (at the expense of shady business lock-in practices).
Lots of FUD about how this will hurt the (business) economy, etc. A
lot of the gist sounds like a push to privitize the previous work of
the community.
Also a bunch of exploitave tabloid-style character attacks on Stallman.
Seems Daniel uses this simliar muck raking style with other platforms:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/22/vista-microsoft-
Some people have written about the author:
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/17
equally pisses off eveyone he reports about.
Right here! Set File Vault up on my bosses' new laptop (then) and one day she booted all her stuff was gone, no errors just gone, the file was unrecoverable.
I might try it again but I want to have a good backup system in place first.
Though it is nice to see how unrecoverable it is (in a security sense).
Now that the scouts are pwned by the lobbiests I bet the special interests are lining up to get thier interests added to the Boy Scout youth movement agenda:
- the Microsoft WGA enforcement merit badge
- the SCO source code violation spotter
- the Chevron Oil Advantage badge
Anyone have any others to add?
Apple did that in the 90s,remember the beige boxes by Daystar, Motorolla, PC Computing, etc. Nearly killed Apple, not only did the hardware look ugly, it didn't really improve on any operation quality.
After that Apple got back into hardware and since then we have seen the candy iMacs, G3, G4, G5, intel dual core, etc. A lot of those came with pretty groundbreaking innovations (USB, firewire, bluetooth, etc) as well as the killer looks of the sleek cases.
Since Apple has control of the hardware they also have better control to make sure the OS consistently works with the hardware, A reason Windows is such a big thing (same With Linux) is all the various cards and drivers (and the not so perfect variations of 'standard' cards and drivers) It also happens in Macs too but the end user rarely sees it (and then not for very long) because Apple OWNS it all and can take care of it.
The parent is right Techsoup is a great place to start, and as the other poster said the prices are pretty low so many may just prefer to buy from them.
But not every non-profit can benefit from the offerings at techsoup (depends on the 'donator' and thier restrictions) For microsoft the restrictions listed are:
"Microsoft products are not available for distribution to educational institutions (including K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and trade schools), political organizations, religious organizations (except for those with a secular community designation), healthcare networks and healthcare research organizations, or private foundations. Please consult our complete list of ineligible organizations for more information."
Schools have thier own discounted licensing plan (might be higher $$ though), so if I wanted to help the unhelped I'd probably help my local church, foundation or healthcare research organization.
Thats what it means to many programmers (and creditors), of all the things a person has on them - thier SSN is unique (not totally, there have been mention of dupes - though no accounts I could verify).
It's not a problem if you are dealing with one location or a small set of locations, but if you deal with state-wide or federal data it gets to be an issue to have a good unique ID for everyone.
The idea of a national ID would be an alternative (as SSNs go up to 999,999,999 we are running out). ANother would be biometrics but those are from what I hear at least 512 bytes for a fingerprint metric and higher for others.
Though I don't think it was a problem until private-sector creditors picked it up as thier de-facto key unique ID for financial identity, and when or if the national ID comes out I am sure the banks will adopt that too and keep the system screwed up.
I wonder in what situation he will be, he better be working on a backup skill.
I started out distributed in our area (rural county), we had POTS for connection and no networking in the begining, so I did what any lazy programmer would do, worked up a distributed DB system among tens of clients in two locations. And it is cool in some respects, but a pain to manage, especially if you have wide ranging changes (yes the updates are automated but updating the updater and other connection issues... ugh).
Now (within the last couple years) we have all the networking of the 21st century (intranet/DSL) as well as the best tools for the job (web based apps, thank the User!) all this reduces the problems of massive redudancy as well as the time and cost of doing/maintining the distributed system. I look forward to a day with a 'honkin huge server managing a bunch of simple thin clients (with the rouge laptop coming and going - replication is great too).
I'm doing better tham most Joes, 'Joe Commodore has a critic and a "critical review!"' :-D
As I said, gald to see the kids are doing well, more power to them.
BTW, AC, good luck on your 'snide comment carrer', really!
A member of each tem gets one limb sawn off and the first one to regrow it to appropriate size wins the prize!
AJAX concepts aren't exacly rocket science, I am sure a 13 year old could do it given the drive (*sigh* to be a teenager with all that time and energy to devote to sheer folly.)
When I was 15 I was learning BASIC in highschool on PETs, back then that was about it for the resources available to me. Nowadays there is a lot more available opportunity for kids to explore. (thank goodness for FOSS)
I'm really glad to read some of them are picking up on stuff like that.
You do it. If you want to be really good at it you do it a lot.
And don't just read about it (unless the interest IS reading), books and the net are good for pointers but experience counts a lot more in getting good at things.
Start wth kits, cobble together junk, make some mistakes (try to make them non-lethal on non-dangerous) You will get a "feel" for what works for you and what doesn't.
You can never be too old or too young - but you can be too lazy or just not interested enough.
Nor does it seem to be open source - so low poosibility of porting it.
God that is sooo 90s.
I'd reccomend Python.The California Highway Patrol are California's State Troopers.
".. can I um.. borrow the sheet of paper tonite?"
"Ok, Son, just have it clean by my meeting at 9:30 am."Just to keep in perspective we aren't talking about a high security data center but a non-profit agency (yeah, money is tight, yadda yadda). So nothing like finger or retinal scans, maybe magstripe, but I would be leary of that.
The two things we see are a 1) regular turnover of staff (the preschool program is seasonal) and 2) having meeting areas available for use off hours. So I think maybe some cardlock doors and then the rest keylock (limited key distribution) might be a good compomise. The idea of timetracking employees was brought up but I don't know if that works well for an organization with many diverse programs.
So, what's the software like for these things? Are they usually some horrid over-grown VB that doesn't play well with others or are they usually a pretty flexible apps (export, import, LDAP?, web based, etc.)?