T-Mobile isn't even an option in this area of the Midwest. Closest T-Mobile store is 90 miles away. Here it is Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint and there are no other choices. And that is the case for a lot of places. For what the N1 cost I could just about buy a low end iPad 3g and docking station + cheap just a phone cell phone and have a platform that functions better for email/apps/web surfing than a phone and probably a phone with better reception for phone calls than a smart phone.
But the link does show opensource solutions on the list. The OP is just stating that in his experience, the only solution he has found that works is Dragon and relating his experience with Dragon.
What was cool about Facebook is I've been able to find all the folks I studied abroad with in Germany back in 2000 even though there were people from the US, UK, Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Turkey, etc.. It was kind of fun to see everyone ten years later and see what folks were up to and keep some type of tabs of people. It also helps because now if I need to get a work permit for the UK, that's what one of my friends from that program does now for living. That part of Facebook I enjoy. Also I like how it keeps track of peoples birthdays. Or at least how it used to as I'm too busy to keep track of that stuff. It used to be I could look at the lower right hand corner and see people with up coming birthdays not only for that day, but for 2 or 3 days in advanced. Which was handy because I could then send someone flowers or plan for a phone call to wish them a happy birthday.
Then suddenly in the last month (who knows maybe longer) that information was gone, moved and only shows birthdays for that day. I don't check Facebook every day and I've missed some peoples birthdays this year I'm sure. But that is the biggest problem with facebook, the interface changes too often. I don't know if you can customize the layout or not. I don't care enough. But I everytime they make a big change like that, I find myself logging in less and less.
How about just having the phone turned on allows his location to be triangulated by the carrier at law enforcements request. They've had that ability for at least a decade. No GPS required.
All my developers could really care less about the number of cores and clock speed of the cores so long as they have 2 and are above the 2Ghz mark, it's the RAM that is in high demand. We use iMacs since they had up to 8GB in previous generations, but now we're more likely to get Mac Mini's. Most of the developers are needing 4GB these days and wanting 8GB. The simple reason is everyone is running virtualized. Most units are still Core2Duo, which seems to run OSX 10.6 and Win XP or 7 in Parallels just happy with 8GB of Ram. We'll see what is there in the next upgrade cycle in 2012, but we work mostly with Netbeans IDE for Java and Some in Xcode (iPhone).
The corporate officers, myself included, now pretty much use iPads for most of our work, but we still have some older Mac Mini's there incase we need them. I need my Mac Mini about once a week to fire up NetBeans, load the latest development build and do the testing.
Our point-of-sale software runs acceptably on a single core 1.6Ghz Intel Atom machine with 1Gb of Ram in embedded mode (client software + database, PostgreSQL, on same machine), it runs better with 2GB of ram, and then there is no noticeable difference between a Dual Core Atom with 2GB of Ram vs. a Core 2 Duo with 2Gb of RAM. And if you are running the software in client/server mode with a seperate database server for multiple terminals, then the 1.6Ghz Atom and 1Gb of ram is plenty.
They are now, after the fact that things are really, really bad.
They were rejected initially because they didn't purify the water "enough" for EPA standards. At first it was either because folks both at BP and government wanted to try the smoke and mirrors, "This is bad, but not *that* bad" until it became clear to everyone they were lying. Then it became a bureaucratic problem which after folks saw through the smoke and mirrors was quickly "solved" by taking the Dutch equipment and putting them on US ships and training the crews. Where as if we had allowed the dutch ships in to begin with, would have saved a lot of time.
Which begs the question, why wasn't action done by the government sooner? All it would have taken was an executive order to allow these skimmers in sooner saying that in this case they could purify the water "enough". Because even if they can't purify 100%, anything they are going to do is better than doing nothing.
I have the M48 app, which even has a skin that is like the normal iPhone calc, but with the old HP48 screen, stack, and RPN. This is the interface I use most of the time because I'm not doing much beyond basic math with accounting, just having to keep track of lots of numbers and I'm used to that format after using an HP48 since 95. HP 48 is still in its bag in my desk drawer. Spent 12 years in backpacks and brief cases, abused like mad, and still works. Damn thing was built like a tank.
Still, I loved people borrowing my calc in high shool, not being able to figure out how 1+1 worked and giving back never to ask again.
That company exists, it's called Southwest Airlines. Free Snacks, free soda, 2 bags up to 50lbs each are free to check, and you get your two carry ons. Oh, and their fares are usually around the cheapest. Sometimes they are $20 more than another airline, but you know you'll be paying more than $20 just to check a bag.
I don't fly a lot, usually 4 - 5 times a year. But if I'm flying domestically, I fly Southwest.
If it does work, look for the carriers to demand the feature in their handsets from every manufacture so that the ball can be placed back in their courts, not Google's. Then we're back to "want, apps, you have to use the Vcast store. Oh and developers, we take a 60% cut if you want it approved for our customers".
We use SuSE Studio to create pre-configured linux distros of our POS application and Database Server. It's stable and works. I can't say we've had that experience with Ubuntu as Ubuntu broke stuff from 8 to 9 and then from 9 to 10 with our point of sale system. Sometimes it was hardware support that was suddenly buggy, other times it was buggy libraries causing the problem. We've never had that problem with SuSE/OpenSuSE. Plus SuSE Point of Service is the linux supported by NCR on their equipment and is supported by HP retail equipment.
honestly, this is 20 years overdue. Especially with the new reactor designs. Now, if we could only reprocess the damn fuel we'd have a clean method of power generation with very little overall waste for a couple hundred years at least.
Sort of. MySQL has a really interesting clause in the community edition, you are not allowed to bundle the database with 3rd party applications. If we wanted to use MySQL and package it with our Point of Sale software, the cost is $500 per install last time I checked. (That was with Sun, god only knows with Oracle). Hence this was one of many reasons we elected to go with PostgreSQL as part of our installation.
You maybe able to fork it, but you can't call it SugarCRM or use their artwork. Same thing with FireFox, OpenbravoERP, or anything else using a Mozilla style license.
Not funny, he has a point. There is Libre and Gratis. Libre is generally what people think in terms of GPL (sorta) or BSD licensed software (more BSD/MIT) that you are free to modify and do what you want with the source code. Gratis would be free in terms of no money needed. It's free as in Frankly GPL probably falls under the Gratis category the more I think about it because there are restrictions.
Or in simple terms: Libre = Free as in speech/do what you want, Gratis = free as in beer.
Depends, things like PA-DSS and HIPPA suddenly can throw a monkey wrench into things. We forked an opensource project with the goal of getting it PA-DSS certified so we could use it to continue processing credit cards after July 1st of this year. We've done the audit and now just waiting for the paperwork to go through to get it listed as "certified" software. However, only versions signed and distributed by our organization is certified. Like SugarCRM, we only give out the code to customers who are paying for support contracts.
They are free to download the code and they could even compile and use the code in house and be okay under PCI-DSS. However the monkey wrench comes if they decided to compile the application and then distribute their version to other parties. Technically those 3rd parties would not be able to use the software to process credit cards since the version would not be "PA-DSS certified". And while the software would still be functional, if you used the uncertified version to process credit cards, then one could lose their merchant account. And processing credit cards is a MAJOR feature of the product and too risky for a lot of businesses to consider using it without that certification.
So while one could have all the source code, the source code without the "PA-DSS Certification" certificate doesn't do folks much good in practice.
Magento is doing something similar. Only their "Enterprise" version is PA-DSS certified. The Community Edition is not. And I suspect we're going to start to see more of this as time goes forward. I'm not saying it will be impossible to do it, but it is extremely hard. PA-DSS certification requires a lot of documentation and about $25k up front to pay for auditing, the PCI-SSC, and the best part is the validation is only good for 3 years. That's either a lot of community donations or someone bank rolling the operation.
We had some excess profits back in 2007 that was use or be taxed at 40% so we put up some solar panels. (Also some tax credits at the time at the state level that made it attractive as well). We're a small shop, but invested about $60k all said and done and it cut our utility rates per month to cover a Jr. level developers salary. In fact we were planning on using the savings to hire an additional developer, but that didn't happen due to the economy. Also, last year the state adopted a new law that allowed us to choose our electricity provider. The savings from that would have come close to reducing our power bill about the same amount as the solar panels. Under the old utility rates, ROI would have been about 8 - 10 years. With the new rates it's more like 12 - 14 years.
If we had it to do over again, we would have been better of to have paid the tax and have had the extra cash on hand honestly.
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Here is my list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_longevity_of_service
And the results of the Civil War mean the practical reality of "Whatever the Feds say, goes."
T-Mobile isn't even an option in this area of the Midwest. Closest T-Mobile store is 90 miles away. Here it is Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint and there are no other choices. And that is the case for a lot of places. For what the N1 cost I could just about buy a low end iPad 3g and docking station + cheap just a phone cell phone and have a platform that functions better for email/apps/web surfing than a phone and probably a phone with better reception for phone calls than a smart phone.
But the link does show opensource solutions on the list. The OP is just stating that in his experience, the only solution he has found that works is Dragon and relating his experience with Dragon.
What was cool about Facebook is I've been able to find all the folks I studied abroad with in Germany back in 2000 even though there were people from the US, UK, Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Turkey, etc.. It was kind of fun to see everyone ten years later and see what folks were up to and keep some type of tabs of people. It also helps because now if I need to get a work permit for the UK, that's what one of my friends from that program does now for living. That part of Facebook I enjoy. Also I like how it keeps track of peoples birthdays. Or at least how it used to as I'm too busy to keep track of that stuff. It used to be I could look at the lower right hand corner and see people with up coming birthdays not only for that day, but for 2 or 3 days in advanced. Which was handy because I could then send someone flowers or plan for a phone call to wish them a happy birthday.
Then suddenly in the last month (who knows maybe longer) that information was gone, moved and only shows birthdays for that day. I don't check Facebook every day and I've missed some peoples birthdays this year I'm sure. But that is the biggest problem with facebook, the interface changes too often. I don't know if you can customize the layout or not. I don't care enough. But I everytime they make a big change like that, I find myself logging in less and less.
How about just having the phone turned on allows his location to be triangulated by the carrier at law enforcements request. They've had that ability for at least a decade. No GPS required.
See what happens when basic services are disrupted for more than 72 hours in any large metro area.
All my developers could really care less about the number of cores and clock speed of the cores so long as they have 2 and are above the 2Ghz mark, it's the RAM that is in high demand. We use iMacs since they had up to 8GB in previous generations, but now we're more likely to get Mac Mini's. Most of the developers are needing 4GB these days and wanting 8GB. The simple reason is everyone is running virtualized. Most units are still Core2Duo, which seems to run OSX 10.6 and Win XP or 7 in Parallels just happy with 8GB of Ram. We'll see what is there in the next upgrade cycle in 2012, but we work mostly with Netbeans IDE for Java and Some in Xcode (iPhone).
The corporate officers, myself included, now pretty much use iPads for most of our work, but we still have some older Mac Mini's there incase we need them. I need my Mac Mini about once a week to fire up NetBeans, load the latest development build and do the testing.
Our point-of-sale software runs acceptably on a single core 1.6Ghz Intel Atom machine with 1Gb of Ram in embedded mode (client software + database, PostgreSQL, on same machine), it runs better with 2GB of ram, and then there is no noticeable difference between a Dual Core Atom with 2GB of Ram vs. a Core 2 Duo with 2Gb of RAM. And if you are running the software in client/server mode with a seperate database server for multiple terminals, then the 1.6Ghz Atom and 1Gb of ram is plenty.
Most the rules about water purity and what is deemed to be safe by the EPA are made by the EPA, not congress
They are now, after the fact that things are really, really bad.
They were rejected initially because they didn't purify the water "enough" for EPA standards. At first it was either because folks both at BP and government wanted to try the smoke and mirrors, "This is bad, but not *that* bad" until it became clear to everyone they were lying. Then it became a bureaucratic problem which after folks saw through the smoke and mirrors was quickly "solved" by taking the Dutch equipment and putting them on US ships and training the crews. Where as if we had allowed the dutch ships in to begin with, would have saved a lot of time.
Which begs the question, why wasn't action done by the government sooner? All it would have taken was an executive order to allow these skimmers in sooner saying that in this case they could purify the water "enough". Because even if they can't purify 100%, anything they are going to do is better than doing nothing.
I have the M48 app, which even has a skin that is like the normal iPhone calc, but with the old HP48 screen, stack, and RPN. This is the interface I use most of the time because I'm not doing much beyond basic math with accounting, just having to keep track of lots of numbers and I'm used to that format after using an HP48 since 95. HP 48 is still in its bag in my desk drawer. Spent 12 years in backpacks and brief cases, abused like mad, and still works. Damn thing was built like a tank.
Still, I loved people borrowing my calc in high shool, not being able to figure out how 1+1 worked and giving back never to ask again.
That company exists, it's called Southwest Airlines. Free Snacks, free soda, 2 bags up to 50lbs each are free to check, and you get your two carry ons. Oh, and their fares are usually around the cheapest. Sometimes they are $20 more than another airline, but you know you'll be paying more than $20 just to check a bag.
I don't fly a lot, usually 4 - 5 times a year. But if I'm flying domestically, I fly Southwest.
would it be ClosedBSD?
If it does work, look for the carriers to demand the feature in their handsets from every manufacture so that the ball can be placed back in their courts, not Google's. Then we're back to "want, apps, you have to use the Vcast store. Oh and developers, we take a 60% cut if you want it approved for our customers".
I've found that those of us using OpenSuSE do so because it generally works and stable so we can be working on fixing other problems.
We use SuSE Studio to create pre-configured linux distros of our POS application and Database Server. It's stable and works. I can't say we've had that experience with Ubuntu as Ubuntu broke stuff from 8 to 9 and then from 9 to 10 with our point of sale system. Sometimes it was hardware support that was suddenly buggy, other times it was buggy libraries causing the problem. We've never had that problem with SuSE/OpenSuSE. Plus SuSE Point of Service is the linux supported by NCR on their equipment and is supported by HP retail equipment.
French intelligence, DGSE, is the only one that I know to admit that about 25% of their budget is for corporate espionage.
honestly, this is 20 years overdue. Especially with the new reactor designs. Now, if we could only reprocess the damn fuel we'd have a clean method of power generation with very little overall waste for a couple hundred years at least.
Or one or more of the three "T's": Time, Talent, Treasure
Sort of. MySQL has a really interesting clause in the community edition, you are not allowed to bundle the database with 3rd party applications. If we wanted to use MySQL and package it with our Point of Sale software, the cost is $500 per install last time I checked. (That was with Sun, god only knows with Oracle). Hence this was one of many reasons we elected to go with PostgreSQL as part of our installation.
You maybe able to fork it, but you can't call it SugarCRM or use their artwork. Same thing with FireFox, OpenbravoERP, or anything else using a Mozilla style license.
Not funny, he has a point. There is Libre and Gratis. Libre is generally what people think in terms of GPL (sorta) or BSD licensed software (more BSD/MIT) that you are free to modify and do what you want with the source code. Gratis would be free in terms of no money needed. It's free as in Frankly GPL probably falls under the Gratis category the more I think about it because there are restrictions.
Or in simple terms: Libre = Free as in speech/do what you want, Gratis = free as in beer.
Depends, things like PA-DSS and HIPPA suddenly can throw a monkey wrench into things. We forked an opensource project with the goal of getting it PA-DSS certified so we could use it to continue processing credit cards after July 1st of this year. We've done the audit and now just waiting for the paperwork to go through to get it listed as "certified" software. However, only versions signed and distributed by our organization is certified. Like SugarCRM, we only give out the code to customers who are paying for support contracts.
They are free to download the code and they could even compile and use the code in house and be okay under PCI-DSS. However the monkey wrench comes if they decided to compile the application and then distribute their version to other parties. Technically those 3rd parties would not be able to use the software to process credit cards since the version would not be "PA-DSS certified". And while the software would still be functional, if you used the uncertified version to process credit cards, then one could lose their merchant account. And processing credit cards is a MAJOR feature of the product and too risky for a lot of businesses to consider using it without that certification.
So while one could have all the source code, the source code without the "PA-DSS Certification" certificate doesn't do folks much good in practice.
Magento is doing something similar. Only their "Enterprise" version is PA-DSS certified. The Community Edition is not. And I suspect we're going to start to see more of this as time goes forward. I'm not saying it will be impossible to do it, but it is extremely hard. PA-DSS certification requires a lot of documentation and about $25k up front to pay for auditing, the PCI-SSC, and the best part is the validation is only good for 3 years. That's either a lot of community donations or someone bank rolling the operation.
We had some excess profits back in 2007 that was use or be taxed at 40% so we put up some solar panels. (Also some tax credits at the time at the state level that made it attractive as well). We're a small shop, but invested about $60k all said and done and it cut our utility rates per month to cover a Jr. level developers salary. In fact we were planning on using the savings to hire an additional developer, but that didn't happen due to the economy. Also, last year the state adopted a new law that allowed us to choose our electricity provider. The savings from that would have come close to reducing our power bill about the same amount as the solar panels. Under the old utility rates, ROI would have been about 8 - 10 years. With the new rates it's more like 12 - 14 years.
If we had it to do over again, we would have been better of to have paid the tax and have had the extra cash on hand honestly.