"It's difficult to tell whether it is a lack of ability, a lack of initiative, or a lack of quality control. Perhaps it is a mixture of all three factors."
Try thousands of users who get very irritated with us when we make much simpler changes to the codebase!
A completely rewritten, XHTML based, 508/WAI compliant, PHP 5 object-oriented is in the works (formerly to be Mambo 5, now to be Joomla 2). In the mean time, we're working on issues our users have actually requested, such as better language support.
"The lack of professionalism shown by this group of web developers rubs off on all open source developers, unfortunately."
Actually, the courtesy and respect our users experience gives open source a good name. More often than not, instead of telling newcomers to RTFM, we answer their questions, even if it's something simple that's been answered a thousand times. Because of this, we now have a rapidly growing userbase of people who may not necessarily be programmers, but can help new users with their questions. For many, Joomla is the first piece open-source they've ever used and they come away with an extremely good impression.
Mambo does not ship an ecommerce module. mamCom was an external project aimed at building an osCommerce component for Mambo, but development has halted due to a lack of developer support. A similar port for phpShop has been more successful.
So, to summarize, PBS and NPR are independent non-profit organizations that receive some federal grant money: nowhere near as much as most of their detractors seem to think.
Which is why they both tend to suck. Since viewers and listeners know that at least some of the funding is coming from the government, stations cannot claim that you are watching or listening without paying. Therefore, public broadcasters must cater to a narrower set of views, resulting in dull and occasionally preachy programming.
I predicted that all kinds of software companies would abandon support for older products, thus forcing us to upgrade to new operating systems and new hardware. Bingo.
We've all grown accustomed to Bob's vagueness in these predictions, but here he doesn't even list any examples to support the veracity of his already vague (and super-obvious) prediction.
-Joe
I've been seeing more job postings for US/North American candidates only. I think the time difference is beginning to wear on some of the PHB's out there.
Teacher Associations are for K-12. Try an experiment, walk into any university and ask the professor if they belong to a teachers association or teachers union. No such luck.
Try every state university in Pennsylvania. Union contracts for professors everywhere.
Existing VoIP services are through proprietary protocols controlled by the host companies (Vonage, Skype, etc...). Although the connections are made IP-to-IP, these clients are typically only built to accept connections that have been verified through the host network first. Although there have been problems with, for instance, instant message spam in the past, it is quite rare now (in my experience). Forging a message on a private network is much harder than on a public one.
Do understand that they have an actual revenue stream (SkypeOut, allowing calls to landlines for varying rates) and probably won't need to weigh the client down with adware to make money.
A year ago, we had to do a case study on eBay for a business class. I jumped all over it and told my team that we would suggest independent music sales, due to the fact that eBay already owns the transaction processing services necessary for small payments. Then we could create stores where the bands could sell their swag, etc... avoiding a duplicate of iTunes and other downloadable music services.
Well, at least we got a good grade for the project.
My dad had brought home a computer from work, a Zenith all in one computer, some sort of a 8086 machine... Kind of like an iMac only with a blue LCD screen and with two slots for 5 1/4 floppies. My mom left some mail on the ventilation slats. Later on, I decided to boot it up. Unfortunately, the machine started to overheat, giving off that dreaded burning plastic smell. The screen quickly went dark and the computer was history. It was probably a year later when we finally got a 386. Talk about a long year...
For the wife using publisher, Staroffice or Openoffice will suffice.
After using OpenOffice exclusively for about 3 months now, I can tell you that no, it would not suffice as an alternative to Publisher. The functionality in OpenOffice is simply too limited. Also, I find that the interface is often needlessly complicated, redundant, or simply butt ugly. For instance, as far as I can tell, there is no way to navigate through the slides in Presenter aside from the tabs at the bottom and the "Navigator" window. Often, after clicking a tab or two, the following tab is no longer visible, forcing you to use the "Navigator," which is very clunky and takes up space on the screen.
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Of course, they have found some instances of overcharging. At TGI Friday's or something like that. Thing are at "mall" prices, although I seem to remember a lot of stores there you would never find at a regular mall.
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"It's difficult to tell whether it is a lack of ability, a lack of initiative, or a lack of quality control. Perhaps it is a mixture of all three factors."
Try thousands of users who get very irritated with us when we make much simpler changes to the codebase!
A completely rewritten, XHTML based, 508/WAI compliant, PHP 5 object-oriented is in the works (formerly to be Mambo 5, now to be Joomla 2). In the mean time, we're working on issues our users have actually requested, such as better language support.
"The lack of professionalism shown by this group of web developers rubs off on all open source developers, unfortunately."
Actually, the courtesy and respect our users experience gives open source a good name. More often than not, instead of telling newcomers to RTFM, we answer their questions, even if it's something simple that's been answered a thousand times. Because of this, we now have a rapidly growing userbase of people who may not necessarily be programmers, but can help new users with their questions. For many, Joomla is the first piece open-source they've ever used and they come away with an extremely good impression.
Mambo does not ship an ecommerce module. mamCom was an external project aimed at building an osCommerce component for Mambo, but development has halted due to a lack of developer support. A similar port for phpShop has been more successful.
It's a joke people.
Of course: http://www.apple.com/macmini/accessories.html
So, to summarize, PBS and NPR are independent non-profit organizations that receive some federal grant money: nowhere near as much as most of their detractors seem to think.
Which is why they both tend to suck. Since viewers and listeners know that at least some of the funding is coming from the government, stations cannot claim that you are watching or listening without paying. Therefore, public broadcasters must cater to a narrower set of views, resulting in dull and occasionally preachy programming.
-Joe
I predicted that all kinds of software companies would abandon support for older products, thus forcing us to upgrade to new operating systems and new hardware. Bingo.
We've all grown accustomed to Bob's vagueness in these predictions, but here he doesn't even list any examples to support the veracity of his already vague (and super-obvious) prediction. -Joe
So, what would you say to my 3.83?
-Joe
He didn't say to ignore the jobs going to India, he just said to not worry about them.
-Joe
Because, if over-the-air digital television is launched successfully and analog goes dark, you will need to buy a new tuner anyway.
-Joe
>...and Apple (By adoption of Unix as an underlying OS, disputable but possible)
How about "patently ridiculous"? What information do you have to indicate that Linux was a option or even an influence when Apple chose BSD?
In "Just For Fun", Linus recounts the time Steve Jobs tried to woo him to work on the new version of MacOS and drop Linux.
-Joe
What years? This database seems to be limited to older archives... the most recent year for a record I found was 1965.
-Joe
I've been seeing more job postings for US/North American candidates only. I think the time difference is beginning to wear on some of the PHB's out there.
-Joe
Quite often, it's the other apps causing the instability in the first place. So you would want to restart them anyway.
In XP, if you're stable enough to get to it, log off and log back on again. This restarts explorer automatically.
Teacher Associations are for K-12. Try an experiment, walk into any university and ask the professor if they belong to a teachers association or teachers union. No such luck.
Try every state university in Pennsylvania. Union contracts for professors everywhere.
-Joe
Add "The Final Sacrifice." Watch a 15 year old overthrow a Canadian cult and consequently revive an ancient civilization.
-Joe
Existing VoIP services are through proprietary protocols controlled by the host companies (Vonage, Skype, etc...). Although the connections are made IP-to-IP, these clients are typically only built to accept connections that have been verified through the host network first. Although there have been problems with, for instance, instant message spam in the past, it is quite rare now (in my experience). Forging a message on a private network is much harder than on a public one.
-Joe
Do understand that they have an actual revenue stream (SkypeOut, allowing calls to landlines for varying rates) and probably won't need to weigh the client down with adware to make money.
-Joe
Pot? Kettle? Black?
Ted Turner is still just irritated that HIS media conglomerate was hijacked by AOL in the bubble years.
-Joe
That's ok, he's underpaid anyway.
-Joe
A year ago, we had to do a case study on eBay for a business class. I jumped all over it and told my team that we would suggest independent music sales, due to the fact that eBay already owns the transaction processing services necessary for small payments. Then we could create stores where the bands could sell their swag, etc... avoiding a duplicate of iTunes and other downloadable music services.
Well, at least we got a good grade for the project.
-Joe
My dad had brought home a computer from work, a Zenith all in one computer, some sort of a 8086 machine... Kind of like an iMac only with a blue LCD screen and with two slots for 5 1/4 floppies. My mom left some mail on the ventilation slats. Later on, I decided to boot it up. Unfortunately, the machine started to overheat, giving off that dreaded burning plastic smell. The screen quickly went dark and the computer was history. It was probably a year later when we finally got a 386. Talk about a long year...
-Joe
...the site is blocked by my school's proxy filter!
For the wife using publisher, Staroffice or Openoffice will suffice.
After using OpenOffice exclusively for about 3 months now, I can tell you that no, it would not suffice as an alternative to Publisher. The functionality in OpenOffice is simply too limited. Also, I find that the interface is often needlessly complicated, redundant, or simply butt ugly. For instance, as far as I can tell, there is no way to navigate through the slides in Presenter aside from the tabs at the bottom and the "Navigator" window. Often, after clicking a tab or two, the following tab is no longer visible, forcing you to use the "Navigator," which is very clunky and takes up space on the screen.
Of course, they have found some instances of overcharging. At TGI Friday's or something like that. Thing are at "mall" prices, although I seem to remember a lot of stores there you would never find at a regular mall.