Our organization currently has a headache when non-developers make an Access database, get their department relying on it, and then leaving the organization. When things break, the developers get sucked into having to maintain this monstrosity.
yes, but remember people do this because they need the database.
Better ways to solve the problem would be:
Have a developer develop it in the first place
Offer people who want to develop applications themselves tools and training so they can do something reasonably maintainable: if you only give them MS office you will end up with messy VB apps.
Offer people help from the start so you know what is going on and can move an app over to a developer when it starts looking as though it will get complex
SO the GPL is licensed under a license similar to itself?
All we need now is a license that is licensed under itself - it would work for something like Creative commons no-derivs
There is a tactic to deal with this: just before the patent expires, patent necessary but previously unpatented aspects of the invention. You can also patent all the obvious variations of it. The end result is most actual implementations breach a patent, even though the original patent has expired.
Pharmaceutical companies do this sort of thing all the time.
Good for her. Double clicking is a stupid idea. I have set everything to work on single clicks, and I really do not see what the point of double clicks is. Their main effect seems to be to make GUIs less responsive by increasing the time taken to respond to a single click.
It reminds me of something similar (although not as bad). The "web designer" (a graphic designer with a background in interior design) wanted cascading drop down menus. Icon Medialab implemented it for us by using Java applets for all menus. Wasn't the dotcom boom wonderful.
The Register, which regularly publishes misinformation about open source, publishes a misinformed rant about open source. Who cares?
My favourite recent example of The Register misinformation: it is "difficult or impossible" to use "mainstream" websites with Firefox!
Incidentally for people who believe that FUD here are some facts:
1) I had someone working for me make a list of the investor relations sections of the websites of all FTSE350 companies (UK listed blue chips and mid-caps). He used Firefox, he only had problems with one site (Rank).
2) In the last year a team that has varied between two and four heavy users of the web found only one other site (apart from Rank) that failed to work with Firefox or Opera: a third world branch of HSBC.
I emailed this to The Register, and did not get a reply. The Register is true to its tabloid roots and just wants to put stuff up, without regard to facts. I only read it for BOFH stories - The Inquirer has a lot more actual news content and it recently replaced The Register in my live bookmarks (next, I am going to replace/. with Digg for carrying time-wasting stories like this).
The Register has always been like this. I remember a review of Red Hat a few years ago that gave the impression that, ext 3 was too unstable for use on a desktop (not by the time it was an option in RH it wasn't) and that an ext2 file system would be irretrievably broken if you pulled the power cable. Combining these two "facts" it came to the conclusion that Linux (unlike Windows!) did not have a file system that was ready for the desktop.
I do not think that They are MS shills. It is simply not possible to report accurately on something as complicated as an OS without ever using it yourself.
Oracle may not be being that silly. It is not that unusual to find Oracle used where its extra features are not needed, these are clients Oracle could lose to MySQL.
Are you sure about that? Leaving such an obvious loophole open seems unlikely. It does not work that way in the UK (although you can claim market value for certain donations, that does not apply to anything you make).
I very much doubt there is any tax write-off involved - unless US tax law is a lot stupider than in the rest of the world.
In every country I have lived in, expenses for tax purposes have to be money you really paid someone (or,if you bought on credit, that you really owe someone).
Of course Red Hat will undoubtedly do a MS and claim "we have donated x million dollars worth of software".
True, pity that more people like Debian did not buy RMS's argument against the LGPL. I wonder if he himself does in the case of KDE!
KDE developers are from Germany, and SuSE is (was), too; Gnome, on the other hand, is pretty much a US development
How could you think that? Just because all the major US based distros prefer Gnome, the remaining major European distro (Mandriva) prefers KDE, and SuSE preferred KDE as long as it was European owned and switched shortly after becoming US owned!
Ubuntu, wwith South African ownership, seems to be making a genuine effort to make both KDE and Gnome work well - I use Kubuntu myself.
I forgot to mention that I send very little email to the internet, I do not use IRC, chat and do not make much use of usenet. On the otherhand I do use Skype regularly - and (although now owned by Ebay) it is still (AFAIK) based in Europe. In any case, as I mostly use Skype out, it will be easy to replace.
The bottom-line issue is that the rest of the world wants the U.S. in their internet, a lot more than the U.S. -- generally speaking -- cares about being able to access the rest of the world.
As far as I am concerned the only US sites that really matter to me are Google and some bits of Yahoo - and I am sure that if they were cut off either both companies would continue to let me access the content or replacements would quickly appear.
On the other hand my (.co.uk, UK hosted, mostly UK related content) sites have got a fiar proportion of their traffic from the US at times.
You are giving MS credit that should go to IBM for commoditising hardware.
Even the credit due to IBM is doubtful: there were plenty of cheap computers and Moore's law ensured we got more for your money every year. My first computer was a ZX80 that cost all of £100. Computers from Apple, Acorn, Atari, Commodore etc. were quite affordable.
There were also a number of CP/M machins from various manufacturers.
Fine, so use spreadsheets for prototyping and have someone who can program rewrite a final version.
What I have a problem with is the use of the spreadsheet implementation as the production application. What happens is that the spreadsheet version works and no one gives a damn is it works badly, or will cause problems later on.
You actually read the original interview and what RMS actually said?
What are you doing posting on Slashdot.
Can I please explain what you are supposed to do?
1) Read the inaccurate summary of an inaccurate article. 2) DO NOT READ THE ARTICLE OR ORIGINAL SOURCES 3) Make sure you know nothing about the subject under discussion. 4) Post the first thing that comes into your head.
Please note that steps two and three are vital. The moderators will not have read anything other than the summary, so if what you say is inconsistent with the summary you will be assumed to be wrong. If you know about the subject and have expert knowledge, please remember other Slashdot users to not, and they do not want to make their heads hurt by following explanations either.
I don't blame people for wanting to avoid people like Chick
I have never come across sites like that except through discussions about extreme sites elsewhere in the net. On the other and plenty of sites carry diverse but mostly noraml views (slashdot, BBC users' comments etc.).
Actually Chick is so extreme that I initally thought it was a spoof.
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yes, but remember people do this because they need the database.
Better ways to solve the problem would be:
SO the GPL is licensed under a license similar to itself? All we need now is a license that is licensed under itself - it would work for something like Creative commons no-derivs
Of course the vendor will not actually do anything to solve the problem, but it will make your boss feel better.
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No debugger. You're stuck using printf^Wputs statements.
RamDebugger
There is a tactic to deal with this: just before the patent expires, patent necessary but previously unpatented aspects of the invention. You can also patent all the obvious variations of it. The end result is most actual implementations breach a patent, even though the original patent has expired.
Pharmaceutical companies do this sort of thing all the time.
Do you mean C-octothorpe (C#)
No. I prefer Linux with KDE to Windows. I use it for a small office and everyone who has used it here either prefers Linux or is neutral.
Good for her. Double clicking is a stupid idea. I have set everything to work on single clicks, and I really do not see what the point of double clicks is. Their main effect seems to be to make GUIs less responsive by increasing the time taken to respond to a single click.
It reminds me of something similar (although not as bad). The "web designer" (a graphic designer with a background in interior design) wanted cascading drop down menus. Icon Medialab implemented it for us by using Java applets for all menus. Wasn't the dotcom boom wonderful.
What are you talking about? I can use any of:p ?id=262&application=firefox p ?id=570&application=firefox p ?id=193&application=firefox
http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/index.html
http://www.quirk.co.za/searchstatus/
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
The Page Rank Status extension has been around for awhile.
Now with all this talk of SEO how do I work my sites in? Financial websites, in a discussion about SEO. Umm...OK, just admit I want to SEO them:
http://investmentideas.co.uk/ http://moneyterms.co.uk/
Actually I do not believe links from /. help very much - not if you already have any decent incoming links anyway.
My favourite recent example of The Register misinformation: it is "difficult or impossible" to use "mainstream" websites with Firefox!
Incidentally for people who believe that FUD here are some facts:
1) I had someone working for me make a list of the investor relations sections of the websites of all FTSE350 companies (UK listed blue chips and mid-caps). He used Firefox, he only had problems with one site (Rank).
2) In the last year a team that has varied between two and four heavy users of the web found only one other site (apart from Rank) that failed to work with Firefox or Opera: a third world branch of HSBC.
I emailed this to The Register, and did not get a reply. The Register is true to its tabloid roots and just wants to put stuff up, without regard to facts. I only read it for BOFH stories - The Inquirer has a lot more actual news content and it recently replaced The Register in my live bookmarks (next, I am going to replace /. with Digg for carrying time-wasting stories like this).
The Register has always been like this. I remember a review of Red Hat a few years ago that gave the impression that, ext 3 was too unstable for use on a desktop (not by the time it was an option in RH it wasn't) and that an ext2 file system would be irretrievably broken if you pulled the power cable. Combining these two "facts" it came to the conclusion that Linux (unlike Windows!) did not have a file system that was ready for the desktop.
I do not think that They are MS shills. It is simply not possible to report accurately on something as complicated as an OS without ever using it yourself.
Oracle may not be being that silly. It is not that unusual to find Oracle used where its extra features are not needed, these are clients Oracle could lose to MySQL.
Are you sure about that? Leaving such an obvious loophole open seems unlikely. It does not work that way in the UK (although you can claim market value for certain donations, that does not apply to anything you make).
I do not mean integration at the same level as ad words - i.e. of the stats. What I had in mind was:
1) Allow adsense publishers to use their adsense login for analytics.
2) Have a single javascript for both analystics and adsense
3) If 1) above, then allow access to the stats from the adsense interface
Of these three things, using the same login would the the most useful.
I very much doubt there is any tax write-off involved - unless US tax law is a lot stupider than in the rest of the world.
,if you bought on credit, that you really owe someone).
In every country I have lived in, expenses for tax purposes have to be money you really paid someone (or
Of course Red Hat will undoubtedly do a MS and claim "we have donated x million dollars worth of software".
OK so i is integrated with Ad Words.
Would it not make a lot of sense to integrate it with Ad Sense - whose users already have Google javascripts on their pages?
True, pity that more people like Debian did not buy RMS's argument against the LGPL. I wonder if he himself does in the case of KDE!
KDE developers are from Germany, and SuSE is (was), too; Gnome, on the other hand, is pretty much a US development
How could you think that? Just because all the major US based distros prefer Gnome, the remaining major European distro (Mandriva) prefers KDE, and SuSE preferred KDE as long as it was European owned and switched shortly after becoming US owned!
Ubuntu, wwith South African ownership, seems to be making a genuine effort to make both KDE and Gnome work well - I use Kubuntu myself.
A bad day for me. Of course I meant to say I send very little email to the US - not the internet.
I forgot to mention that I send very little email to the internet, I do not use IRC, chat and do not make much use of usenet. On the otherhand I do use Skype regularly - and (although now owned by Ebay) it is still (AFAIK) based in Europe. In any case, as I mostly use Skype out, it will be easy to replace.
As far as I am concerned the only US sites that really matter to me are Google and some bits of Yahoo - and I am sure that if they were cut off either both companies would continue to let me access the content or replacements would quickly appear.
On the other hand my (.co.uk, UK hosted, mostly UK related content) sites have got a fiar proportion of their traffic from the US at times.
..patenting the ideas in the rest of the world.
You are giving MS credit that should go to IBM for commoditising hardware. Even the credit due to IBM is doubtful: there were plenty of cheap computers and Moore's law ensured we got more for your money every year. My first computer was a ZX80 that cost all of £100. Computers from Apple, Acorn, Atari, Commodore etc. were quite affordable. There were also a number of CP/M machins from various manufacturers.
Fine, so use spreadsheets for prototyping and have someone who can program rewrite a final version.
What I have a problem with is the use of the spreadsheet implementation as the production application. What happens is that the spreadsheet version works and no one gives a damn is it works badly, or will cause problems later on.
You actually read the original interview and what RMS actually said?
What are you doing posting on Slashdot.
Can I please explain what you are supposed to do?
1) Read the inaccurate summary of an inaccurate article.
2) DO NOT READ THE ARTICLE OR ORIGINAL SOURCES
3) Make sure you know nothing about the subject under discussion.
4) Post the first thing that comes into your head.
Please note that steps two and three are vital. The moderators will not have read anything other than the summary, so if what you say is inconsistent with the summary you will be assumed to be wrong. If you know about the subject and have expert knowledge, please remember other Slashdot users to not, and they do not want to make their heads hurt by following explanations either.
I have never come across sites like that except through discussions about extreme sites elsewhere in the net. On the other and plenty of sites carry diverse but mostly noraml views (slashdot, BBC users' comments etc.).
Actually Chick is so extreme that I initally thought it was a spoof.