I remember those "you will" ads AT&T ran. They were really cool if I recall. I have tried to find them on the web, or at least a list of what att said we would be doing and check the score...
What leads to the skewed and unbalanced viewpoint of non-academic liberals? I am (quite) liberal yet I don't get any money from the government (not counting services). My job is 100% private sector, clients included. I don't have the stats, but I don't think that the reason people are liberals is because they are dependant on big government.
This is demonstrably false. Just look at how new york city votes. There aren't eight million academics in NYC. But there are an awful lot of business people. I think the real issue is the rural/urban divide. Population density corrolates very strongly with voting patterns. I think academics, especially in the humanities, tend to be more liberal poltically. Which makes it appear to someone in a more conservative sector that liberals==academics and conservative==private sector. But it isn't like that. People in very conservative areas really only encounter liberals in an academic setting, mostly because people who choose to teach have little choice in where they live. You might teach at a small liberal arts school in the south, surrounded by very conservative southern baptists, but you have a phd in Gender studies from berkley.
Doesn't an education have some value beyond your vocational skills? Things like history, art, literature are worth knowing about. They might not have a specific value in terms of ROI. But why does education have to be just about ROI? Are we just widgets to be cycled through an educational system to come out the best programmers or sales people or whatever? Or do we want to actually learn things and become what used to be known as a well-rounded person? Yes, a university education has always been a class barrier, but that doesn't make it worthless. It fits in the same place that art and literature does. It doesn't expand the GDP much, but it might make life a little more worthwhile.
A leica is absurdly expensive including the glass. I think that some people are going to take all their shots with a Summicron and kodachrome 25...but jesus christ you have to be willing to drop a lot of money. I shoot 4x5s from time to time but the consumables cost is insane. As someone once said on fredmiranda, are you shooting test charts or are you shooting pictures? If I had the money to drop thousands on a leica and lenses and then more on film, the time to run back and forth to the lab and then spend more money on a slide scanner...I would. But I don't have any of those things. And, like 95% of all slr owners, I take pictures for fun, rarely make big prints and never sell or show them...that is what is going to kill production of 35mm slrs. Why would canon and nikon keeping doing it if there is no market? Leica sells to people, lets be serious, with disposable income for a luxury good. Its like a Patak Phillipe watch.
They exist. But they may not be geeks in the same why. My fiancee is definetly a geek. But she is more of a literature/craft geek. Compate the magazine Ready Made (that kind of geek) to Make (my kind of geek).
Believe me, any woman (excluding female IT pros) will appreciate an onsite IT guy. Just make sure that any male or female non tech geek you live with does not use windows. They will break it. I require all family members and friends. I do this by saying that my free IT services do not include windows support.
Damn, good MS have come up with a scarier, uglier error page for asp.net? We are working on a new CMS in.net at my company. Those error pages seriously freak clients out. It looks like the world ended.
I can't think of an application that would make a desktop like this necessary. 4 proc 8 core? No, that is overkill. If you are rendering, you would build a render farm for that price. If you need a large scsi array you wouldn't put it on the desktop. If you are building a system (you need a machine with these kind of specs) you probably need to go to Sun or IBM and buy a real server.
No they won't. Words do not kill or hurt people. They just can't, its not something they can do. You can write what every you want, that is the law in this country. I mean, are you trolling here? Words do not kill people. I cannot devise a sentance, that when read, causes injury or death. You cannot go to prison for just writing something.
Right, but its not like windows. They don't make money on software, but hardware. I was actually thinking more of the itunes+ipod concept. They give away itunes, which is a pretty kick ass music app. And they lose money or break even on the music store. And they make up for it selling high margin hardware. Seems to work for apple. Itunes is the razor...the ipod is the blade.
This is definetly what apple does in the consumer space. The cost of selling additional copies of software is zerom but hardware costs a certain minimum amount. If anything makes sense as a loss leader it is software that won't lose you more money the more you sell. Then of course your value proposition becomes hardware quality. Your hardware is better, it costs more (higher margin). So far this is working for apple.
Ok, what am I missing then (following up on my other reply). So you wrote a.net thing that can:
create an ou in active directory.
Set up users.
Create an exchange mailbox.
Set up the delivery policy and an smtp account.
If you did that rules. I need to know where the documentation on that is because I cannot figure it out. I confess I don't know active directory/exchange that well. The best I could do was get a web app that would run a vb script on the server that created the ou and set up all the other stuff, but then I get stuck because I can't figure out how to get the server to tell me when the exchange mailbox is set up and then move forward...it just seems ass backwards though. There must be something in asp.net that will do all this for me.
Make a web site! Tell me how! Please. please please please. Or send me and email to saw (at my domain). I'm not complaining for sport here, I really need to figure out how to do this.
GODDAMMIT. Why can't people just let go of microsoft office? If people weren't so insistant on using it we would have to have exchange and active directory and all that crap. Whenever microsoft makes somebullshit claim about ROI I think to myself all the steps I have to go through to add a user to a windows network. It takes about 15 minutes to add a mailbox. The dialog bog has what, 12 tabs in it? I have to add an exchange mailbox, then an alias, then I have to set up an SMTP mailbox, and then I have to set up the recipient policy, and I can't script it, or I sort of can, but so far it won't work right. What is wrong with IMAP? Can't we just have imap? Is exchange really that much better? And what is with Active Directory? What, exactly, was broken about the normal way of doing LDAP that made microsoft create this...thing. And who was the genius that decided that admins hate editing text files and would rather click on fifty buttons to do anything? But sad fact is that if you have microsoft desktops the end user is going to be a lot happier with using exchange that anything else...
.net is an excellent framework, but only within the realm of "stuff it is good for" like web apps. Provided, of course, that those web apps don't need to do things like create active directory users, edit exchange mailboxes...do anything out of the ordinary...it starts to suck. Because windows server stuff is ugliness in software form.
Microsoft has been trending toward open standards of late. Asp.net 2.0 produces glorious, standards compliant XHTML. It supports rss and SOAP. It plays nice with standard XML&XLST. This to mean demonstrates the fact that what Microsoft feared and fought from the beginning has happened. The web has made open standards a necessity. The client can't care what's on the server, and the server can't require too much of the client. This includes propriatary document formats.
I think what made this the new microsoft strategy uis that people want to generate files from web apps. With a closed office format it was basically impossible to create word or excel files on the fly (although I have seen it done) or to effectivly parse those same files. As intranets and other web application become more important to the enterprise, the pressure to move to an "open" format that can be easily generated or parsed is growing. If enterprise apps start dealing exlusively with rich text editors online, pdf documents and forms the reasons for enterprises to license MS Office on the desktop will start to evaporate. If server apps can support the office formats that will stop the bleeding, as users are still hooked on office and will stay there if their apps don't require switching. Of course, with standard formats MS will have to compete with open office on features and things. Which is only good news.
Short answer: yes, of course they will. Dynamic pricing makes very good business because you can keep things always in the sweet spot. When what your selling has an infinite supply certains songs will be worth selling at ANY price, so if some songs aren't moving they can send the price all the way down to 3 cents, becuase each additional sale cost them nothing. As sales go up software can set the price higher and higher until sales start to drop and constantly maximize profit on the music. I suspect that songs that are very old and not selling at all would get very cheap and high demand songs (like the beatles or new releases) could get quite pricey. (of course, this assumes that the music industry believes in lowering prices, which i don't think they do because they clearly don't understand pricing to sell cds, as witnessed by raising CD prices as demand fell)
Yes, but that isn't really the point. Of course a real application would be faster resident on your own server with your own database. But the fact that you COULD write a cms with a google back end was the first think that popped into my mind. I just think that there is a lot of potential for fun hacking with this service. You could have a blog that stores its post in google base...or who knows...something cool could happen.
If they release an api for this...holy crap. How incredibly useful. One could, say, write a content management system that runs on google base rather than mysql or whatever. Or who knows what other cool shit the hackers will come up with. This concept is SO powerful its kind of...freaky. So much of the internet could fit onto this one little idea.
What are you talking about? No, really, what are you trying to say? Basic christianity is not about science. It isn't about the specific acts of creation. Read Augustine. HE didn't believe in the literal truth of the bible, writing in the 5th century.
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I remember those "you will" ads AT&T ran. They were really cool if I recall. I have tried to find them on the web, or at least a list of what att said we would be doing and check the score...
What leads to the skewed and unbalanced viewpoint of non-academic liberals? I am (quite) liberal yet I don't get any money from the government (not counting services). My job is 100% private sector, clients included. I don't have the stats, but I don't think that the reason people are liberals is because they are dependant on big government.
This is demonstrably false. Just look at how new york city votes. There aren't eight million academics in NYC. But there are an awful lot of business people. I think the real issue is the rural/urban divide. Population density corrolates very strongly with voting patterns. I think academics, especially in the humanities, tend to be more liberal poltically. Which makes it appear to someone in a more conservative sector that liberals==academics and conservative==private sector. But it isn't like that. People in very conservative areas really only encounter liberals in an academic setting, mostly because people who choose to teach have little choice in where they live. You might teach at a small liberal arts school in the south, surrounded by very conservative southern baptists, but you have a phd in Gender studies from berkley.
Doesn't an education have some value beyond your vocational skills? Things like history, art, literature are worth knowing about. They might not have a specific value in terms of ROI. But why does education have to be just about ROI? Are we just widgets to be cycled through an educational system to come out the best programmers or sales people or whatever? Or do we want to actually learn things and become what used to be known as a well-rounded person? Yes, a university education has always been a class barrier, but that doesn't make it worthless. It fits in the same place that art and literature does. It doesn't expand the GDP much, but it might make life a little more worthwhile.
"I'm gonna go pray to God she dies before being able to run for President now"
Now that is raising the discourse...what the fuck is wrong with this country?
There are some things that you cannot unsee.
A leica is absurdly expensive including the glass. I think that some people are going to take all their shots with a Summicron and kodachrome 25...but jesus christ you have to be willing to drop a lot of money. I shoot 4x5s from time to time but the consumables cost is insane. As someone once said on fredmiranda, are you shooting test charts or are you shooting pictures? If I had the money to drop thousands on a leica and lenses and then more on film, the time to run back and forth to the lab and then spend more money on a slide scanner...I would. But I don't have any of those things. And, like 95% of all slr owners, I take pictures for fun, rarely make big prints and never sell or show them...that is what is going to kill production of 35mm slrs. Why would canon and nikon keeping doing it if there is no market? Leica sells to people, lets be serious, with disposable income for a luxury good. Its like a Patak Phillipe watch.
They exist. But they may not be geeks in the same why. My fiancee is definetly a geek. But she is more of a literature/craft geek. Compate the magazine Ready Made (that kind of geek) to Make (my kind of geek). Believe me, any woman (excluding female IT pros) will appreciate an onsite IT guy. Just make sure that any male or female non tech geek you live with does not use windows. They will break it. I require all family members and friends. I do this by saying that my free IT services do not include windows support.
I assume that the database server is overloaded, so the cms is throwing an error. Couldn't there be a more graceful way to do that?
Damn, good MS have come up with a scarier, uglier error page for asp.net? We are working on a new CMS in .net at my company. Those error pages seriously freak clients out. It looks like the world ended.
I can't think of an application that would make a desktop like this necessary. 4 proc 8 core? No, that is overkill. If you are rendering, you would build a render farm for that price. If you need a large scsi array you wouldn't put it on the desktop. If you are building a system (you need a machine with these kind of specs) you probably need to go to Sun or IBM and buy a real server.
Yes we would. But you are attacking a straw man here. Where did it say that in the article? When did this prof say that?
No they won't. Words do not kill or hurt people. They just can't, its not something they can do. You can write what every you want, that is the law in this country. I mean, are you trolling here? Words do not kill people. I cannot devise a sentance, that when read, causes injury or death. You cannot go to prison for just writing something.
Right, but its not like windows. They don't make money on software, but hardware. I was actually thinking more of the itunes+ipod concept. They give away itunes, which is a pretty kick ass music app. And they lose money or break even on the music store. And they make up for it selling high margin hardware. Seems to work for apple. Itunes is the razor...the ipod is the blade.
This is definetly what apple does in the consumer space. The cost of selling additional copies of software is zerom but hardware costs a certain minimum amount. If anything makes sense as a loss leader it is software that won't lose you more money the more you sell. Then of course your value proposition becomes hardware quality. Your hardware is better, it costs more (higher margin). So far this is working for apple.
Make a web site! Tell me how! Please. please please please. Or send me and email to saw (at my domain). I'm not complaining for sport here, I really need to figure out how to do this.
GODDAMMIT. Why can't people just let go of microsoft office? If people weren't so insistant on using it we would have to have exchange and active directory and all that crap. Whenever microsoft makes somebullshit claim about ROI I think to myself all the steps I have to go through to add a user to a windows network. It takes about 15 minutes to add a mailbox. The dialog bog has what, 12 tabs in it? I have to add an exchange mailbox, then an alias, then I have to set up an SMTP mailbox, and then I have to set up the recipient policy, and I can't script it, or I sort of can, but so far it won't work right. What is wrong with IMAP? Can't we just have imap? Is exchange really that much better? And what is with Active Directory? What, exactly, was broken about the normal way of doing LDAP that made microsoft create this...thing. And who was the genius that decided that admins hate editing text files and would rather click on fifty buttons to do anything? But sad fact is that if you have microsoft desktops the end user is going to be a lot happier with using exchange that anything else...
.net is an excellent framework, but only within the realm of "stuff it is good for" like web apps. Provided, of course, that those web apps don't need to do things like create active directory users, edit exchange mailboxes...do anything out of the ordinary...it starts to suck. Because windows server stuff is ugliness in software form.
Microsoft has been trending toward open standards of late. Asp.net 2.0 produces glorious, standards compliant XHTML. It supports rss and SOAP. It plays nice with standard XML&XLST. This to mean demonstrates the fact that what Microsoft feared and fought from the beginning has happened. The web has made open standards a necessity. The client can't care what's on the server, and the server can't require too much of the client. This includes propriatary document formats.
I think what made this the new microsoft strategy uis that people want to generate files from web apps. With a closed office format it was basically impossible to create word or excel files on the fly (although I have seen it done) or to effectivly parse those same files. As intranets and other web application become more important to the enterprise, the pressure to move to an "open" format that can be easily generated or parsed is growing. If enterprise apps start dealing exlusively with rich text editors online, pdf documents and forms the reasons for enterprises to license MS Office on the desktop will start to evaporate. If server apps can support the office formats that will stop the bleeding, as users are still hooked on office and will stay there if their apps don't require switching. Of course, with standard formats MS will have to compete with open office on features and things. Which is only good news.
Short answer: yes, of course they will. Dynamic pricing makes very good business because you can keep things always in the sweet spot. When what your selling has an infinite supply certains songs will be worth selling at ANY price, so if some songs aren't moving they can send the price all the way down to 3 cents, becuase each additional sale cost them nothing. As sales go up software can set the price higher and higher until sales start to drop and constantly maximize profit on the music. I suspect that songs that are very old and not selling at all would get very cheap and high demand songs (like the beatles or new releases) could get quite pricey. (of course, this assumes that the music industry believes in lowering prices, which i don't think they do because they clearly don't understand pricing to sell cds, as witnessed by raising CD prices as demand fell)
Yes, but that isn't really the point. Of course a real application would be faster resident on your own server with your own database. But the fact that you COULD write a cms with a google back end was the first think that popped into my mind. I just think that there is a lot of potential for fun hacking with this service. You could have a blog that stores its post in google base...or who knows...something cool could happen.
If they release an api for this...holy crap. How incredibly useful. One could, say, write a content management system that runs on google base rather than mysql or whatever. Or who knows what other cool shit the hackers will come up with. This concept is SO powerful its kind of...freaky. So much of the internet could fit onto this one little idea.
The os recognizes it as a movie and plays it. It will not "just run" some executable on a cd.
What are you talking about? No, really, what are you trying to say? Basic christianity is not about science. It isn't about the specific acts of creation. Read Augustine. HE didn't believe in the literal truth of the bible, writing in the 5th century.