Because I can't buy it at Wal-Mart or any other physical store. I've seen "Video Professor" ads for at least 10, if not 15 years from back when they came on VHS tapes. People that have legitimate products that can make it in the market often do the TV ads to raise brand awareness then shortly after you can buy them in stores. Example: Snuggies. You can buy a Snuggie at Wal-Mart. Not that I would, but the fact that one means they might have a worth while product. If they had a legit product, I would be able to go to Barnes and Noble and buy their video tutorials in the computer section for $XX.XX.
McDonnell Douglas vs. Locheed Martin. Often times McDonnell Douglas would create a design that went beyond the spec, including many of those "Well it should have this, or that". Locheed bided the contract spec, nothing more, and in the last few rounds of fighter programs won because they bid the spec. Then when the AF or Navy would come back and say, "Gee it should do XYZ" Locheed would say "Sure, it will be another $XX Million".
McDonnell Douglas did a review of why it lost the ATF, JSF, and a couple other projects and the conclusion was "Technical Arrogance". They were telling the DoD what they needed instead of trying to delivery a proposal for what the DoD specified in their request. And nothing pisses off the bureaucrats than to be told they were wrong on their specs.
Sadly I see this a lot. I do consulting on some joint projects with the University here in town and when we go to apply for grants, 95% of the battle of is making sure we write the proposal to exactly what is in the spec with all the i's and t's dotted/crossed.
I think you can download the core of their operating system. Google has said released under opensource. It has said nothing about using the GPL. They could use Apache or some derivative there of and still be "opensource", but it won't be ChromeOS unless on their approved hardware.
We have a client that was using a web based POS and moving back to one that runs on their local lan. Why? If they lost their internet for any reason, they're business is dead in the water. They can't process transactions. Now they are still using a web-based ERP solution, but if they loose internet they can still process transactions. They're store's info just doesn't sync with the ERP until the internet comes back up.
Why should MSNBC be entitled to freedom of the Press? Because as far as I can tell, they're about as far to the left as Fox is to the right. But then again, why should CNN? Maybe it should only be newspapers. Because newspapers at least have the word news in them and they use presses. Still doesn't mean there is anything of value there...
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We're a small company, so we can probably get away with it, but I require my coders to show up twice a week to the office for regular meetings and then be available if something comes up. All our code is either in SVN or Git repositories depending on the project. (Our Java team likes SVN, the web development team likes Git. Usually one isn't dealing with the other). We just come up with a list of milestones and due dates and then I get out of their way. Once a new feature is added, we test for bugs, and usually the last week of the month is documentation.
Give me someone who can understand systems beyond just lines of code on a page. I come from the systems arena. It surprises me the number of CS students, with 4-year degrees, that can't set up a simple web server. I've had the best luck with folks who had a 2 year degree, had worked as a technical grunt for a couple years, and then are going on for a 4-year degree. They tend to have the right combination of experience and motivation. For whatever reason, they seem to enjoy toying around with systems, and when they learn something in the class room they can apply to their job, they're excited.
Do you read the privacy policy of every single web page you visit?
We use cookies as part of our shopping cart. All the cookie does is keep track of what products are currently in your cart. I'd much rather use a cookie to do this than have every page or every button send a call to the database to check the contents of your cart. By having the cookie do this, it saves a lot of database resources when the site is busy.
Your user id and log in info are tracked via a session. They don't get linked until you click "submit order" and the order is saved in the database.
Reminds me of a conversation with a Linux Zeloat the other day:
LZ: "Look at my Ubuntu, it automatically finds my printer!" Me: "Thank Apple" *LZ GIVES ME A CONFUSED LOOK* LZ: "What do you mean?" Me: "Point your browser to localhost:631" *screen: CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems.*
Having to deal with linux printing a decade ago, be glad that Apple bought CUPS and continued to develop it.
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I know you got modded as a troll, but I had a similar problem with Drupal a couple years ago. There was a time when Drupal was worth considering, but its backend never made much sense. It was confusing enough to a developer, try explaining it to someone who is just in charge of updating, adding, changing content. We used Drupal because at the time it appeared to be the online opensource CMS that had all the features we were looking for in their modules repository.
And it was slow, 20sec + load times with even the most basic themes. And like the parent, we tried different platforms, different caches, and eventually the entire project got shelved and I've never touched Drupal since.
Discovered this when I lived in Germany as well. I had a power adaptor with a US plug. The apple store there had me go around the corner to a audio shop. Showed them the adaptor, they could one that went from the adaptor to the wall and it cost me E1.50. Worked the entire time I was over there, but the transformer ran hot. I mean really, really hot. I'm pretty sure that's why I had to buy a new one when a few weeks of returning to the states after living in Germany for almost a year.
We run an E-commerce site that gets a lot of hits and orders from IE6 yet. Roughly IE 6 accounts for 40% of the visits and completed orders. If our latest version doesn't work with IE6, that's 40% of our revenue gone. Fortunely, that number is finally starting to trend down and quick. Three months ago, IE6 accounted for nearly 60% of all our traffic.
I've been a mac user for 8 years. And no plans to go back. I switched to Apple because they offered a Unix based laptop that worked with commercial software support. At the time I was fighting with a biege box that ran Linux okay, but half the hardware didn't work like sound card, and Windows, which wasn't exactly stable. I was doing a lot of *iux development and Apple provided me with the platform that could do the most. Did it cost more up front? Yes, but when I got out into the working world I learned that my time ain't free. What the entire package saved me in terms of time, since it did what I wanted without having to mess around with internal settings that much, the price difference paid for itself quickly. Especially at the rates I get paid to solve other peoples problems. And I can't be doing that if I'm trying to fix my own shit.
That's because the Economist is one of the few resources that tells you what the hell is going on around the world. While they have a lot of good in depth articles, they also have an excellent brief on every part of the world each and every week. I look foreword to getting my copy every monday. I also don't mind paying for it online because they have typically have timely insight and perspectives. In other words: they produce something (information) of value that I desire to consume.
Every US military aircraft since the F4 sold for export has had a kill switch in them. This is widely known within the industry and happened after the Shah was over thrown. I'm not so sure about the Russian aircraft, but it would surprise me if the MIG-29 and SU-27's DIDN'T have hill switches.
I wonder how many sites are accepting and or storing credit card data on the Amazon cloud without knowing they're breaking the terms of their merchant account contracts.
Until Amazon, or any other "cloud" provider can guarantee PCI-Compliance, we can't even consider them. Our current data center guarantees Level-I compliance and we have it in writing.
Apple specs out the parts to the same manufactures that a lot of PC users do, but they are slightly different specs. When I opened up a 5 year old PowerBook and dell the other day, they both had Hatichi Travelstar harddrives, but the one in the Mac had a "Made for Apple" on the label. The one from the Dell had just a generic label. As far as I can tell, the drives are identical other than the type of ribbon had a standard EIDE connector on one end and a ribbon with a special adaptor for the motherboard. Same with the DVD burner.
Now what I have found is that Apple tends to write their own drivers. For YEARS ATI had better hardware than Nvidia, but ATI's drivers sucked on windows. It was literally buy a graphics card, wait 6 months for a decent driver to come out. On the Macs, never had the issues. From my understanding, the reason behind that was the fact that Apple wrote the drivers, not ATI.
Outside of video and audio production folks who may put in some 3rd party hardware, but this day in age, it seems to all be firewire or usb based products. Most people I know using macs have laptops or iMacs. I just replaced my last PowerMac with an iMac. Outside of RAM, I don't see myself upgrading anything.
I installed Windows 7 RC whatever a while ago on my Bootcamp partition. As a lark, I pulled out some older applications and programs that gave Vista fits when it first came out a couple years ago. Installed on Windows 7 without many hiccups, had to set the emulation and run in administrator mode on a couple, but at least they installed and ran without any problems after that.
Now I need to upgrade to Parallels 4 so I can run it in a VM like I did XP. It's not replaced OSX as my everyday OS, but we still have to test our web apps in IE and desktop apps in Windows and Windows 7 runs happily on my older MacBook with 2GB of Ram.
More accurately, there are a large number of old Goldwater Conservatives who have stopped identifying themselves as Republicans after the Bush years and are currently lacking another label other than Independents. Generally we're the small federal government, lower federal taxes, pro-individual freedom types who think the religious right can go F-themselves.
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Because I can't buy it at Wal-Mart or any other physical store. I've seen "Video Professor" ads for at least 10, if not 15 years from back when they came on VHS tapes. People that have legitimate products that can make it in the market often do the TV ads to raise brand awareness then shortly after you can buy them in stores. Example: Snuggies. You can buy a Snuggie at Wal-Mart. Not that I would, but the fact that one means they might have a worth while product. If they had a legit product, I would be able to go to Barnes and Noble and buy their video tutorials in the computer section for $XX.XX.
Happens with government contracts all the time.
McDonnell Douglas vs. Locheed Martin. Often times McDonnell Douglas would create a design that went beyond the spec, including many of those "Well it should have this, or that". Locheed bided the contract spec, nothing more, and in the last few rounds of fighter programs won because they bid the spec. Then when the AF or Navy would come back and say, "Gee it should do XYZ" Locheed would say "Sure, it will be another $XX Million".
McDonnell Douglas did a review of why it lost the ATF, JSF, and a couple other projects and the conclusion was "Technical Arrogance". They were telling the DoD what they needed instead of trying to delivery a proposal for what the DoD specified in their request. And nothing pisses off the bureaucrats than to be told they were wrong on their specs.
Sadly I see this a lot. I do consulting on some joint projects with the University here in town and when we go to apply for grants, 95% of the battle of is making sure we write the proposal to exactly what is in the spec with all the i's and t's dotted/crossed.
Watches are jewelry as well. The swiss figured that out a long time ago....
http://www.opensource.apple.com/
I think you can download the core of their operating system. Google has said released under opensource. It has said nothing about using the GPL. They could use Apache or some derivative there of and still be "opensource", but it won't be ChromeOS unless on their approved hardware.
We have a client that was using a web based POS and moving back to one that runs on their local lan. Why? If they lost their internet for any reason, they're business is dead in the water. They can't process transactions. Now they are still using a web-based ERP solution, but if they loose internet they can still process transactions. They're store's info just doesn't sync with the ERP until the internet comes back up.
Why should MSNBC be entitled to freedom of the Press? Because as far as I can tell, they're about as far to the left as Fox is to the right. But then again, why should CNN? Maybe it should only be newspapers. Because newspapers at least have the word news in them and they use presses. Still doesn't mean there is anything of value there...
We're a small company, so we can probably get away with it, but I require my coders to show up twice a week to the office for regular meetings and then be available if something comes up. All our code is either in SVN or Git repositories depending on the project. (Our Java team likes SVN, the web development team likes Git. Usually one isn't dealing with the other). We just come up with a list of milestones and due dates and then I get out of their way. Once a new feature is added, we test for bugs, and usually the last week of the month is documentation.
Give me someone who can understand systems beyond just lines of code on a page. I come from the systems arena. It surprises me the number of CS students, with 4-year degrees, that can't set up a simple web server. I've had the best luck with folks who had a 2 year degree, had worked as a technical grunt for a couple years, and then are going on for a 4-year degree. They tend to have the right combination of experience and motivation. For whatever reason, they seem to enjoy toying around with systems, and when they learn something in the class room they can apply to their job, they're excited.
Oh yeah, don't forget CUPS, WEBKIT, and a few other useful tools.
I've seen this one, all you have to do is reverse the polarity......right? Right?
Do you read the privacy policy of every single web page you visit?
We use cookies as part of our shopping cart. All the cookie does is keep track of what products are currently in your cart. I'd much rather use a cookie to do this than have every page or every button send a call to the database to check the contents of your cart. By having the cookie do this, it saves a lot of database resources when the site is busy.
Your user id and log in info are tracked via a session. They don't get linked until you click "submit order" and the order is saved in the database.
Reminds me of a conversation with a Linux Zeloat the other day:
LZ: "Look at my Ubuntu, it automatically finds my printer!"
Me: "Thank Apple"
*LZ GIVES ME A CONFUSED LOOK*
LZ: "What do you mean?"
Me: "Point your browser to localhost:631"
*screen: CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems.*
Having to deal with linux printing a decade ago, be glad that Apple bought CUPS and continued to develop it.
I know you got modded as a troll, but I had a similar problem with Drupal a couple years ago. There was a time when Drupal was worth considering, but its backend never made much sense. It was confusing enough to a developer, try explaining it to someone who is just in charge of updating, adding, changing content. We used Drupal because at the time it appeared to be the online opensource CMS that had all the features we were looking for in their modules repository.
And it was slow, 20sec + load times with even the most basic themes. And like the parent, we tried different platforms, different caches, and eventually the entire project got shelved and I've never touched Drupal since.
Discovered this when I lived in Germany as well. I had a power adaptor with a US plug. The apple store there had me go around the corner to a audio shop. Showed them the adaptor, they could one that went from the adaptor to the wall and it cost me E1.50. Worked the entire time I was over there, but the transformer ran hot. I mean really, really hot. I'm pretty sure that's why I had to buy a new one when a few weeks of returning to the states after living in Germany for almost a year.
We run an E-commerce site that gets a lot of hits and orders from IE6 yet. Roughly IE 6 accounts for 40% of the visits and completed orders. If our latest version doesn't work with IE6, that's 40% of our revenue gone. Fortunely, that number is finally starting to trend down and quick. Three months ago, IE6 accounted for nearly 60% of all our traffic.
I've been a mac user for 8 years. And no plans to go back. I switched to Apple because they offered a Unix based laptop that worked with commercial software support. At the time I was fighting with a biege box that ran Linux okay, but half the hardware didn't work like sound card, and Windows, which wasn't exactly stable. I was doing a lot of *iux development and Apple provided me with the platform that could do the most. Did it cost more up front? Yes, but when I got out into the working world I learned that my time ain't free. What the entire package saved me in terms of time, since it did what I wanted without having to mess around with internal settings that much, the price difference paid for itself quickly. Especially at the rates I get paid to solve other peoples problems. And I can't be doing that if I'm trying to fix my own shit.
I though they just rented Fox News and the WSJ from Murdoch...
That's because the Economist is one of the few resources that tells you what the hell is going on around the world. While they have a lot of good in depth articles, they also have an excellent brief on every part of the world each and every week. I look foreword to getting my copy every monday. I also don't mind paying for it online because they have typically have timely insight and perspectives. In other words: they produce something (information) of value that I desire to consume.
Every US military aircraft since the F4 sold for export has had a kill switch in them. This is widely known within the industry and happened after the Shah was over thrown. I'm not so sure about the Russian aircraft, but it would surprise me if the MIG-29 and SU-27's DIDN'T have hill switches.
I wonder how many sites are accepting and or storing credit card data on the Amazon cloud without knowing they're breaking the terms of their merchant account contracts.
Until Amazon, or any other "cloud" provider can guarantee PCI-Compliance, we can't even consider them. Our current data center guarantees Level-I compliance and we have it in writing.
Apple specs out the parts to the same manufactures that a lot of PC users do, but they are slightly different specs. When I opened up a 5 year old PowerBook and dell the other day, they both had Hatichi Travelstar harddrives, but the one in the Mac had a "Made for Apple" on the label. The one from the Dell had just a generic label. As far as I can tell, the drives are identical other than the type of ribbon had a standard EIDE connector on one end and a ribbon with a special adaptor for the motherboard. Same with the DVD burner.
Now what I have found is that Apple tends to write their own drivers. For YEARS ATI had better hardware than Nvidia, but ATI's drivers sucked on windows. It was literally buy a graphics card, wait 6 months for a decent driver to come out. On the Macs, never had the issues. From my understanding, the reason behind that was the fact that Apple wrote the drivers, not ATI.
Outside of video and audio production folks who may put in some 3rd party hardware, but this day in age, it seems to all be firewire or usb based products. Most people I know using macs have laptops or iMacs. I just replaced my last PowerMac with an iMac. Outside of RAM, I don't see myself upgrading anything.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/#deploying
There is the Apple Enterprise Developers program for creating and deploying in house apps.
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/apply.html
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
I installed Windows 7 RC whatever a while ago on my Bootcamp partition. As a lark, I pulled out some older applications and programs that gave Vista fits when it first came out a couple years ago. Installed on Windows 7 without many hiccups, had to set the emulation and run in administrator mode on a couple, but at least they installed and ran without any problems after that.
Now I need to upgrade to Parallels 4 so I can run it in a VM like I did XP. It's not replaced OSX as my everyday OS, but we still have to test our web apps in IE and desktop apps in Windows and Windows 7 runs happily on my older MacBook with 2GB of Ram.
More accurately, there are a large number of old Goldwater Conservatives who have stopped identifying themselves as Republicans after the Bush years and are currently lacking another label other than Independents. Generally we're the small federal government, lower federal taxes, pro-individual freedom types who think the religious right can go F-themselves.