...because they always practice "me too" development. It's silly. I like a good company that can innovate, not one that looks around, sticks a saliva-slavered finger in the wind, and then spends billions on R&D expressly to steal some hard worker's good ideas! Or, they just buy the hard worker and be done with it. Also, they're anti-competitive. They run a monopoly. And they're nasty little bastards.
The sky is blue, the grass is green. Just what benefit would it add to our discourse on sky or grass if we were to disregard their colors? Doesn't that seem illogical?
The slashdot troll crowd is a very cosmopolitan bunch, so perhaps someone has heard of/built/used an app like I'm about to describe. If so, TIA...
I need a calendar app that allows users to create events (appointments, say) that must fall under strict criteria and flag exceptions if a user attempts to violate the criteria. This is best explained in the form of an employee time off calendar. At the beginning of the year, admins can setup employee accounts, with total # of vacation, personal hours they're allowed, as well as %coverage needed on particular days and the like. Then, throughout the year, the associate can login to the calendar, enter timeoff requests, and be greeted with, "You may have March 15-29 off! Enjoy yourself." Or, "December 25 is a restricted day - the company must have 98% coverage that day. You cannot have this day off. However, your supervisor can override this exception with her password." Or, "Your request for April 12 off is denied: you have no more vacation hours left."
Has anyone seen/used/built such a calendar?
TIA,
chewmanfoo
A man screams, clutches his chest and falls to the floor in a crouded thrater. His wife stands and frantically pleads, "Is there a Doctor in the house?" A handsome young cardiologist from the front row (his neck already sore) stands up and leaps to their assistance.
Is his knowledge, expertise, assistance worthless simply because it is provided for free?
Obviously, one might argue that the pendulum has swung violently the other way these days. World opinion of the US nowadays is rapidly developing into "Nazi Germany prior to Czechoslovakia", as evidenced in media accounts.
But it could also be wildly successful PR.
chewy
There is a problem with this kind of thinking. Simply put, you can't know what the result of your vote may be. Assuming that the election is fair, that every person is able to cast 1 vote and each vote has equal weight, all you can know in that voting booth is that if you don't vote for your candidate, you can have no hope that they'll win. There's nothing to prevent every wayward Dem and every angry Rep from voting Nader tomorrow and upsetting the status quo. But if everyone who would have fails to vote for Nader, that will never happen.
In 1996 Perot recieved 19% of the popular vote. But given your attitude, he should have received none. I suspect that there were a fair number of voters who thought the way you do back then, keeping Perot/Stockdale out of the 20th percentile.
Regardless of what they stand for, we need a strong 3rd party in US government.
Your insider knowledge is quite amazing. How on earth do you know that what you say is true? Can you quantify your allegations? If so, provide proof please. Otherwise, please keep your paranoia to yourself.
God! You people are either quoting the "Fahrenheit 9/11" script like it was the Holy Bible,
his buddies the saudis were more closely related to 9/11 than iraq ever was
or you're babbling helplessly in a paranoid haze like you need your medicine adjusted!
Dick Cheney by extension - can anyone say huge conflict of interest
Repeat after me: Bush did not create the economic crisis we're currently recovering from, he dealt with it swiftly and boldly. Repeat again: Bush did not create the terrorist crisis we're in, he dealt with it as no one else would do.
I really appreciate you letting script kiddies hack my box with an ActiveX control to make it look like I'm "secure" when I'm really being ass-raped and turned into a SPAM server!
The system comes out of the box shiny, fresh, speedy. After only a few months it's slow, dingy, infected and just sad. They must know this at Microsoft, but why don't they fix it? Why does the computer get slower the more you use it? Why does it get eat up with spyware, to the point that I spend 10 minutes every boot killing off spyware procs that I can't remove from the registry because they don't post nice little tags there. I don't want to spend all my time innoculating my PC. So I use GNU/Linux and Macintosh.
What you're suggesting is simply incredible (as in, not credible!) You're guilty of a lack of scepticism over issues of faith. I encourage you to read Placher's "Unapologetic Theology", and even Schleiermacher's "On Religion". Reading only books by Josh McDowell et al will lead you to conclusions which, although encouraging and self-edifying, are also weak in critical thought.
Let's examine your argument for a minute. You suggest that a collection of documents survived over 2000 years at the hands of all sorts of people to arrive in your lap in 2004 "99% pure". I argue that in any other context, you would approach that sort of assertion with a health heap of scepticism, but in this case, you are willing to believe others who have always argued for inerrancy. Why? Study the scriptures. Does the Christian Faith teach such rampant gullability?
Your brain is certainly capable of reason and critical thought. Without it, you would be unable to work on a computer, or maintain an automobile. You simply refuse to apply it to religion! Someone in your past has taught you that criticism of the faith is sin, that the capacity of a man to reason about God is so sadly inadequate as to make pondering on things of God a waste of time. Perhaps the scriptures are in fact, on average, about 60% pure, but as it turns out, that's just what God intended! Wouldn't that be a hoot!
Mr de Icaza mentions two options to deal with Microsoft's latest anti-competitive sortee:
Implement Avalon/XAML and ship it with Linux (with Mono).
Come up with our own, competitive stack.
There is, of course, a third option. Move all your development time and efforts to supporting and using Java on Linux. Java is the technology Microsoft is trying to emulate and squash with.NET. Java is the inspiration for Bill Gates getting up in the morning. Why not partner with the people who have the tiger by the tail? Seems like developers in the linux community are standing by while one of the best M$ competitors is gasping for air. Who's side are you on?
I can definately empathize with the poster. I have a high-stress IT job in the Dallas area. I think what makes work the most stressful, is the roller-coaster ride of elation over what we can achieve technically and what we have to put up with from management and the customers we so dearly need. If there was a way to segment technical people from political people in IT, I think all the technical people would be much happier, but it's just not possible...
There's a pizzaria around the corner from my house called Nizza Pizza (Its in Arlington on Park Row and Cooper, if anyone wants to hop a plane and try a pie.) Anyway, on the busyest Friday night, I can see the cast and crew behind the counter making pizzas and salads like true artisans. The place is run by a family of Sicilian guys who stop and look up and say, "Hey Buddy, how ya doin'?" everytime I walk in. They make great pizzas, so they all must have the feeling of a job well-done. They have an obvious professionalism, and seem to enjoy their jobs. Watching them work makes me want to be the pizza guy, no matter what it pays. But then I remember my mortgage, and I turn around and head out the door with my pizza, because I have responsibilities...
Besides, comparing a pre-loaded Windows PC delivered to Mom and Pop with a Flashy multimedia CD and glossy colorful flashcards to a Windows PC with Windows removed and GNU/Linux loaded onto it isn't a fair comparison, in my estimation.
I bet I could build a Linux PC for your mommy and daddy in a few days with a LOT less R&D and implementation dollars than it cost to put together Dell's solution.
Guys I was just wondering: I'm not a Windows PC expert - I live mostly in the UNIX world anyway, but the vulnerabilities that Outlook and Outlook Express have with email worms and viruses, are they also present in Eudora, or Thunderbird etc.? For example, can you still infect a Windows PC -running Thunderbird- with an attachment labelled picture.zip, which turns out to be a Windows binary?
Slashdot Mirror
...because they always practice "me too" development. It's silly. I like a good company that can innovate, not one that looks around, sticks a saliva-slavered finger in the wind, and then spends billions on R&D expressly to steal some hard worker's good ideas! Or, they just buy the hard worker and be done with it. Also, they're anti-competitive. They run a monopoly. And they're nasty little bastards.
BeOS! It's the OS!
The sky is blue, the grass is green. Just what benefit would it add to our discourse on sky or grass if we were to disregard their colors? Doesn't that seem illogical?
The slashdot troll crowd is a very cosmopolitan bunch, so perhaps someone has heard of/built/used an app like I'm about to describe. If so, TIA... I need a calendar app that allows users to create events (appointments, say) that must fall under strict criteria and flag exceptions if a user attempts to violate the criteria. This is best explained in the form of an employee time off calendar. At the beginning of the year, admins can setup employee accounts, with total # of vacation, personal hours they're allowed, as well as %coverage needed on particular days and the like. Then, throughout the year, the associate can login to the calendar, enter timeoff requests, and be greeted with, "You may have March 15-29 off! Enjoy yourself." Or, "December 25 is a restricted day - the company must have 98% coverage that day. You cannot have this day off. However, your supervisor can override this exception with her password." Or, "Your request for April 12 off is denied: you have no more vacation hours left." Has anyone seen/used/built such a calendar? TIA, chewmanfoo
dude, OO saves to pdf just fine.
A man screams, clutches his chest and falls to the floor in a crouded thrater. His wife stands and frantically pleads, "Is there a Doctor in the house?" A handsome young cardiologist from the front row (his neck already sore) stands up and leaps to their assistance.
Is his knowledge, expertise, assistance worthless simply because it is provided for free?
Obviously, one might argue that the pendulum has swung violently the other way these days. World opinion of the US nowadays is rapidly developing into "Nazi Germany prior to Czechoslovakia", as evidenced in media accounts. But it could also be wildly successful PR. chewy
There is a problem with this kind of thinking. Simply put, you can't know what the result of your vote may be. Assuming that the election is fair, that every person is able to cast 1 vote and each vote has equal weight, all you can know in that voting booth is that if you don't vote for your candidate, you can have no hope that they'll win. There's nothing to prevent every wayward Dem and every angry Rep from voting Nader tomorrow and upsetting the status quo. But if everyone who would have fails to vote for Nader, that will never happen.
In 1996 Perot recieved 19% of the popular vote. But given your attitude, he should have received none. I suspect that there were a fair number of voters who thought the way you do back then, keeping Perot/Stockdale out of the 20th percentile.
Regardless of what they stand for, we need a strong 3rd party in US government.
Honestly, this thing works so well, you can get it from me only if you can pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Your insider knowledge is quite amazing. How on earth do you know that what you say is true? Can you quantify your allegations? If so, provide proof please. Otherwise, please keep your paranoia to yourself.
God! You people are either quoting the "Fahrenheit 9/11" script like it was the Holy Bible,
his buddies the saudis were more closely related to 9/11 than iraq ever was
or you're babbling helplessly in a paranoid haze like you need your medicine adjusted!
Dick Cheney by extension - can anyone say huge conflict of interest
Repeat after me: Bush did not create the economic crisis we're currently recovering from, he dealt with it swiftly and boldly. Repeat again: Bush did not create the terrorist crisis we're in, he dealt with it as no one else would do.
OK, then perhaps a documentary should instead focus on not telling so many lies. Hmm???
Lies are clearly "wrong" in documentaries, right? How many lies did Michael Moore tell in Fahrenheit 9/11?
Clearly written by a person who has never seen the Xerox PARC UI.
Or were you referring to Mac 128K circa 1984???
Cheers,
chewy
Good Job Microsoft!
I really appreciate you letting script kiddies hack my box with an ActiveX control to make it look like I'm "secure" when I'm really being ass-raped and turned into a SPAM server!
Another excellent release. Kudos!
is it?
Maybe I will... Yeah! Maybe I will...
No reason to buy Apple Hardware? Have you not seen this or this?
Surely, you're talking out of your ass here...
The system comes out of the box shiny, fresh, speedy. After only a few months it's slow, dingy, infected and just sad. They must know this at Microsoft, but why don't they fix it? Why does the computer get slower the more you use it? Why does it get eat up with spyware, to the point that I spend 10 minutes every boot killing off spyware procs that I can't remove from the registry because they don't post nice little tags there. I don't want to spend all my time innoculating my PC. So I use GNU/Linux and Macintosh.
Thanks for asking!
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SUBSTANTIAL REASON TO BE SO SUSPICIOUS OF SUN???
I don't understand this Microsoft = Sun = Satan mentality. Somebody explain it to me?
confused,
Get that book and read it. It'll open your eyes.
What you're suggesting is simply incredible (as in, not credible!) You're guilty of a lack of scepticism over issues of faith. I encourage you to read Placher's "Unapologetic Theology", and even Schleiermacher's "On Religion". Reading only books by Josh McDowell et al will lead you to conclusions which, although encouraging and self-edifying, are also weak in critical thought.
Let's examine your argument for a minute. You suggest that a collection of documents survived over 2000 years at the hands of all sorts of people to arrive in your lap in 2004 "99% pure". I argue that in any other context, you would approach that sort of assertion with a health heap of scepticism, but in this case, you are willing to believe others who have always argued for inerrancy. Why? Study the scriptures. Does the Christian Faith teach such rampant gullability?
Your brain is certainly capable of reason and critical thought. Without it, you would be unable to work on a computer, or maintain an automobile. You simply refuse to apply it to religion! Someone in your past has taught you that criticism of the faith is sin, that the capacity of a man to reason about God is so sadly inadequate as to make pondering on things of God a waste of time. Perhaps the scriptures are in fact, on average, about 60% pure, but as it turns out, that's just what God intended! Wouldn't that be a hoot!
- Implement Avalon/XAML and ship it with Linux (with Mono).
- Come up with our own, competitive stack.
There is, of course, a third option. Move all your development time and efforts to supporting and using Java on Linux. Java is the technology Microsoft is trying to emulate and squash withI can definately empathize with the poster. I have a high-stress IT job in the Dallas area. I think what makes work the most stressful, is the roller-coaster ride of elation over what we can achieve technically and what we have to put up with from management and the customers we so dearly need. If there was a way to segment technical people from political people in IT, I think all the technical people would be much happier, but it's just not possible...
There's a pizzaria around the corner from my house called Nizza Pizza (Its in Arlington on Park Row and Cooper, if anyone wants to hop a plane and try a pie.) Anyway, on the busyest Friday night, I can see the cast and crew behind the counter making pizzas and salads like true artisans. The place is run by a family of Sicilian guys who stop and look up and say, "Hey Buddy, how ya doin'?" everytime I walk in. They make great pizzas, so they all must have the feeling of a job well-done. They have an obvious professionalism, and seem to enjoy their jobs. Watching them work makes me want to be the pizza guy, no matter what it pays. But then I remember my mortgage, and I turn around and head out the door with my pizza, because I have responsibilities...
Here here! Mod this guy UP!
Besides, comparing a pre-loaded Windows PC delivered to Mom and Pop with a Flashy multimedia CD and glossy colorful flashcards to a Windows PC with Windows removed and GNU/Linux loaded onto it isn't a fair comparison, in my estimation.
I bet I could build a Linux PC for your mommy and daddy in a few days with a LOT less R&D and implementation dollars than it cost to put together Dell's solution.
Guys I was just wondering: I'm not a Windows PC expert - I live mostly in the UNIX world anyway, but the vulnerabilities that Outlook and Outlook Express have with email worms and viruses, are they also present in Eudora, or Thunderbird etc.? For example, can you still infect a Windows PC -running Thunderbird- with an attachment labelled picture.zip, which turns out to be a Windows binary?
Anyone?