This is a weirdly circular argument. The people arguing for management are essentially telling you that you're doing this work for your manager. In other words, your manager is your customer. Your manager is also telling you that its OK for a supplier to (a) do the minimum, (b) bill more for work than it actually cost, and (c) it's never OK to do work for free.
In other words, the manager is telling you on one hand that it's not ok for you to shaft your customers (him), but it's ok for him to shaft his customers (the end user)
Screw 'em. Do your job the way you want to do it. Never feel guilty about making money for doing the least amount of work. Don't worry about doing work for other people on your bosses time. Within the context of your contract, sell the work you do to as many people as you can.
If they fire you, find work with someone who actually gives a shit.
Management were wrong here. A lot of programmers just want to provide high quality code that does what the customer wants. They're eager to please and they have pride in their work. They will go above and beyond because they want to produce things that work. This "don't do any more than the minimum" attitude demotivates. I agree that programmers shouldn't run screaming off adding expensive features that push the cost up, and if this happened a lot and had an impact on the business, I'd have a quiet word. This isn't what happened here.
f.y.i The first four episodes of season 1 Lost are available to the UK. I think they'll limit the availablity of episodes according to the point the show is up to on normal TV in each country. I'm not entirely happy about this. I'd happily plum for the last season and a half of Lost at $4.00 an episode, but I can understand why they're doing this.
So any company (e.g. overture or microsoft) could sue Google for running adwords which contain the phrase overture or microsoft. That's plainly ridiculous. What about Hoover. What about any of a million business names.
If I was Google, I'd immediately make sure that nobody could buy an ad containing words trademarked by my main competitors. And then I'd sue every single text-ad serving company that allows the word "google" to be sold by them.
A targeted ad may be sold to the consumer on the premise of "an ad for a product that you'll want to watch and are interested in", but I think the reality is a bit darker. To me, targeted ads are a step away from using psychological profiling to sell everyone exactly the same things. They'll still be selling viagra, but they'll be doing in such a way as to directly appeal to your individual demographic. Don't think of it as "I can see you're interested in this product, shall I show you who sells these things", but instead think of it as "His personality shows a preference towards the colour blue, green eyed women, long words and Star Trek references."
No. There's a difference between a lossless format and the camera's raw format.A camera raw image file contains the unprocessed data from the image sensor of a digital camera.
industry's first disk-based online data backup and guaranteed recovery solution for small and medium businesses...
One, this seems awfully expensive, and two, we've used Connected which has provided us with a reliable online data backup facility for a couple of years now. (And it's a fraction of the price). What's the difference?
Methinks they should be spending less money on John Cleese, viral marketing and dodgy marketing tactics and a bit more time providing a proper service at a decent price.
That may work, but If I were an Adobe Marketing or legal person, I'd be loathe to put negative messages about other large companies in my documentation. I'd also be wary about making the fight so obvious to my customers. At least something like the Designed for Windows or Intel Inside logos wouldn't be overtly negative against Nikon.
It's still not RAW format, and every magazine tells me that for best results you MUST use the RAW format. This may actually not be true (I don't know), but it's certainly perceived as fact.
Is that Nikon camera users will blame Adobe for a lack of compatibility, and there's nothing Adobe will be able to do about it. If the other camera builders do the same, then Adobe could well be stuffed for Raw File editing. I'm guessing that Nikon have done a deal with a different graphics editing company.
The best solution would be to pay camera companies to include a "Compatible with Photoshop" peelable sticker on the bottom of the camera / camera packaging. That'd probably get Nikon crawling back pretty quickly.
Serious Question. Would CUPS work in an RDP environment? We have Terminal server machines available on the internet. Usually, users access them via a variety of Home and Office Environments. We expect our users to be hidden behind NAT, on dial-up connections and/or with a variety of printers. It's also important that users can only see the printers loaded on their own machines. We currently use EOL which works over the RDP stream, but if there is a better solution I'd love to give it a try.
A couple of things they could do to increase take-up are to include the cost of the Terminal Services CAL in the price and also to embed the Universal Printing clients of some of the more popular "Universal Printer" Software Suppliers. Because we use Terminal Services for users who are off site, we have to use EOL Universal Printer. This means that we can't use any of the thin clients that are out there.
Why the hell is that a troll. In the past I've wanted 100,000 or so mailing addresses to test an indexing routine on, and have ended up spending time writing a random address generator. If I'd have been able to go to a site (like lorum ipsum), ask for 100,000 addresses in CSV format and had these downloadable as a zipped file, it'd have saved time. I'm sure I'm not the only developer this has happened to. Jeez.
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This is a weirdly circular argument. The people arguing for management are essentially telling you that you're doing this work for your manager. In other words, your manager is your customer. Your manager is also telling you that its OK for a supplier to (a) do the minimum, (b) bill more for work than it actually cost, and (c) it's never OK to do work for free.
In other words, the manager is telling you on one hand that it's not ok for you to shaft your customers (him), but it's ok for him to shaft his customers (the end user)
Screw 'em. Do your job the way you want to do it. Never feel guilty about making money for doing the least amount of work. Don't worry about doing work for other people on your bosses time. Within the context of your contract, sell the work you do to as many people as you can.
If they fire you, find work with someone who actually gives a shit.
Management were wrong here. A lot of programmers just want to provide high quality code that does what the customer wants. They're eager to please and they have pride in their work. They will go above and beyond because they want to produce things that work. This "don't do any more than the minimum" attitude demotivates. I agree that programmers shouldn't run screaming off adding expensive features that push the cost up, and if this happened a lot and had an impact on the business, I'd have a quiet word. This isn't what happened here.
Programmers are people too.
f.y.i The first four episodes of season 1 Lost are available to the UK. I think they'll limit the availablity of episodes according to the point the show is up to on normal TV in each country. I'm not entirely happy about this. I'd happily plum for the last season and a half of Lost at $4.00 an episode, but I can understand why they're doing this.
Actually don't. Weird slashdot hiding of the parent made me make an idiot of myself.
Please modify parent as "missing the point... completely"
Is place link farms on a separate search page.
Then Google search will be useful again.
So any company (e.g. overture or microsoft) could sue Google for running adwords which contain the phrase overture or microsoft. That's plainly ridiculous. What about Hoover. What about any of a million business names.
If I was Google, I'd immediately make sure that nobody could buy an ad containing words trademarked by my main competitors. And then I'd sue every single text-ad serving company that allows the word "google" to be sold by them.
OK - my bad. Follow the links...
It'd be nice to have a few of these as 1028x768 jpegs to be used as wallpaper. If *you* beginning-of the-universe-scientists are listening!
A targeted ad may be sold to the consumer on the premise of "an ad for a product that you'll want to watch and are interested in", but I think the reality is a bit darker. To me, targeted ads are a step away from using psychological profiling to sell everyone exactly the same things. They'll still be selling viagra, but they'll be doing in such a way as to directly appeal to your individual demographic. Don't think of it as "I can see you're interested in this product, shall I show you who sells these things", but instead think of it as "His personality shows a preference towards the colour blue, green eyed women, long words and Star Trek references."
If I cared about this, I'd be trademarking cat names as we speak. Anyone want to buy a copy of my new "Puma", "Lion" or "Leopard" Linux distros?
No. There's a difference between a lossless format and the camera's raw format. A camera raw image file contains the unprocessed data from the image sensor of a digital camera.
I'll shut up now. Looks as though LiveVault and Connected may be the same company.
industry's first disk-based online data backup and guaranteed recovery solution for small and medium businesses...
One, this seems awfully expensive, and two, we've used Connected which has provided us with a reliable online data backup facility for a couple of years now. (And it's a fraction of the price). What's the difference?
Methinks they should be spending less money on John Cleese, viral marketing and dodgy marketing tactics and a bit more time providing a proper service at a decent price.
That may work, but If I were an Adobe Marketing or legal person, I'd be loathe to put negative messages about other large companies in my documentation. I'd also be wary about making the fight so obvious to my customers. At least something like the Designed for Windows or Intel Inside logos wouldn't be overtly negative against Nikon.
It's still not RAW format, and every magazine tells me that for best results you MUST use the RAW format. This may actually not be true (I don't know), but it's certainly perceived as fact.
Is that Nikon camera users will blame Adobe for a lack of compatibility, and there's nothing Adobe will be able to do about it. If the other camera builders do the same, then Adobe could well be stuffed for Raw File editing. I'm guessing that Nikon have done a deal with a different graphics editing company.
The best solution would be to pay camera companies to include a "Compatible with Photoshop" peelable sticker on the bottom of the camera / camera packaging. That'd probably get Nikon crawling back pretty quickly.
Serious Question. Would CUPS work in an RDP environment? We have Terminal server machines available on the internet. Usually, users access them via a variety of Home and Office Environments. We expect our users to be hidden behind NAT, on dial-up connections and/or with a variety of printers. It's also important that users can only see the printers loaded on their own machines. We currently use EOL which works over the RDP stream, but if there is a better solution I'd love to give it a try.
A couple of things they could do to increase take-up are to include the cost of the Terminal Services CAL in the price and also to embed the Universal Printing clients of some of the more popular "Universal Printer" Software Suppliers. Because we use Terminal Services for users who are off site, we have to use EOL Universal Printer. This means that we can't use any of the thin clients that are out there.
It only took 16 years for the BBC to bring Dr Who back, so hopefully we should be seeing more star trek in 2021.
What are the odds that the boat will end up being called the goldenpalacecasino.
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Not if you're in the UK.
Why the hell is that a troll. In the past I've wanted 100,000 or so mailing addresses to test an indexing routine on, and have ended up spending time writing a random address generator. If I'd have been able to go to a site (like lorum ipsum), ask for 100,000 addresses in CSV format and had these downloadable as a zipped file, it'd have saved time. I'm sure I'm not the only developer this has happened to. Jeez.
Not only that, but it'd be great to see things like lists of made up addresses and other test data.