What a load of carp. Right, so the technology is changing and we didn't realise it was going to cost more so we have to pass on the costs to you guys...sorry!
Come on - technology is constantly evolving, the only difficulty is keeping your developers skills up to date. The technology gets better/shinier/more complicated (choose two) but costs overall do not go up, except for inflationary rises or where a major retooling is required (I can't think of anything of the top of my head - I was going to say something like a holographic display but we're already producing 3d!).
This is just price gouging.
Having set the expectation with references to OSX, why don't they have any drop dead gorgeous screenshots instead of one very dated looking one?
I had high hopes that got dashed with WTF?
In the UK, as other poster have nebtioned we have the TPS - Telephone Preference Service. You register your number and telemarketeres can't ring you unless there is a previous relationship or you opted into reeiving call from them.
Before this peice of legislation I got about 2-3 calls a week, usually in the evening. Since becoming law, I now get 7-8 calls a day minimum, all from overseas call centres. I know this because I have caller ID. I even block calls that withold their number (typically from PBX systems) but that doesn't help either.
It's so bad I'm eyeing up a mini-ITX board to build some sort of phone spam filter using the aller ID:-(
The reason everybody is bashing Memory Stick is because it is a proprietary standard owned by Sony. The other card technologies are standards which anyone can use.
You buy a stick device and all your devices have to be memory stick. Kind of like buying windows and then discovering you can only buy software for windows from Microsoft rather than the choice we have now. (shh, don't tell Microsoft...)
Of course this doesn't matter if you don't care about using the same media in multiple devices as I do.
I fondly remember writting a spell checker in assembler. Gave me good experience of how computers really work.
Another good one would be to enter into IBM's robocode programming challenge - write 'simple' java robots that fight to the death - http://apps.alphaworks.ibm.com/rumble/
Good points but I guess it all depends on whether the stuff you're doing makes you a criminal in the eyes of the gov., whether you think a competitor has some control over a portion of the gov., whether IBM wants to buy you, etc...
Really what I was saying is it's a mature system that is secure and used by many military organisations because of that security, complete with digital signing.
However using open source does mean you can be sure it really is well written, unless someone throws a grid computer at it...
This is exactly the kind of thing Lotus Notes was designed for - it's had digital signatures from the start and can handle faxes as images.
Paperless office is what Notes all about.
Two points tho:
It's expensive, but very secure
The FAX solution is an add on product offered by many vendors.
Your best path, especially if you have no Notes experience, is to get a consultancy (IBM could recommend you one) who have done this before to give you proposal which you can then compare to alternate non-notes solutions.
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What a load of carp. Right, so the technology is changing and we didn't realise it was going to cost more so we have to pass on the costs to you guys...sorry! Come on - technology is constantly evolving, the only difficulty is keeping your developers skills up to date. The technology gets better/shinier/more complicated (choose two) but costs overall do not go up, except for inflationary rises or where a major retooling is required (I can't think of anything of the top of my head - I was going to say something like a holographic display but we're already producing 3d!). This is just price gouging.
Having set the expectation with references to OSX, why don't they have any drop dead gorgeous screenshots instead of one very dated looking one? I had high hopes that got dashed with WTF?
In the UK, as other poster have nebtioned we have the TPS - Telephone Preference Service. You register your number and telemarketeres can't ring you unless there is a previous relationship or you opted into reeiving call from them. Before this peice of legislation I got about 2-3 calls a week, usually in the evening. Since becoming law, I now get 7-8 calls a day minimum, all from overseas call centres. I know this because I have caller ID. I even block calls that withold their number (typically from PBX systems) but that doesn't help either. It's so bad I'm eyeing up a mini-ITX board to build some sort of phone spam filter using the aller ID :-(
The reason everybody is bashing Memory Stick is because it is a proprietary standard owned by Sony. The other card technologies are standards which anyone can use.
You buy a stick device and all your devices have to be memory stick. Kind of like buying windows and then discovering you can only buy software for windows from Microsoft rather than the choice we have now. (shh, don't tell Microsoft...)
Of course this doesn't matter if you don't care about using the same media in multiple devices as I do.
I fondly remember writting a spell checker in assembler. Gave me good experience of how computers really work.
Another good one would be to enter into IBM's robocode programming challenge - write 'simple' java robots that fight to the death - http://apps.alphaworks.ibm.com/rumble/
"Webspere application Studio Developer" that is?
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ad/studioappdev/
Good points but I guess it all depends on whether the stuff you're doing makes you a criminal in the eyes of the gov., whether you think a competitor has some control over a portion of the gov., whether IBM wants to buy you, etc...
Really what I was saying is it's a mature system that is secure and used by many military organisations because of that security, complete with digital signing. However using open source does mean you can be sure it really is well written, unless someone throws a grid computer at it...
Paperless office is what Notes all about.
Two points tho:
It's expensive, but very secure
The FAX solution is an add on product offered by many vendors.
Your best path, especially if you have no Notes experience, is to get a consultancy (IBM could recommend you one) who have done this before to give you proposal which you can then compare to alternate non-notes solutions.
If solitaire wasn't essential to the OS why is it in all the Server installs like NT, W2K etc...
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