The good news is that there are a couple of guys named Bob available for a reasonable rate.
I'm a guy named Bob.
Oddly enough, I'm also a consultant who frequently does process mapping, though my rates aren't all that reasonable any more.
There's no great trick to process mapping, and rarely any resistance or fear from employees if it's done properly. The key is to approach it hierarchically, make sure you get plenty of overlap in your descriptions of activities or procedures, and keep the document live so changes can be documented and errors corrected.
I generally try to start with functional groups which contain locations, locations which contain equipment, then equipment which requires activities. The main point, which may not be obvious first, is that context is king. There tends to be a lot of self-similarity about business activities, and without the context, important details will almost certainly get lost.
Here's a bet: Within a few years, members of this community will find reasons for accessing the information that is "forbidden" to them, and the efforts to remove the DRM will begin.
If they make the decision to do that, it will be because they have also made the decision to leave the community.
The mores make the community, not the other way around.
Or is it that you personally get to set the standard for what "reasonable profit" is?
Anyone who's been involved in putting together a tender will tell you that "reasonable profit" is a well understood term, and on most cost plus jobs will be 15%.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent interface were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational program.
Overreact much?
Notes is a development platform and distributed database. It's not the fault of the program if your IT department makes you use it as an email tool without end-user customisations.
Here's hoping that Windows 7 wipes the slate clean
The review referenced in TFA says the installer asked for SATA drivers. That implies it uses the XP codebase rather than Vista.
It may be a tacit admission that Vista is so hopelessly flawed it's better to revert to the older code than to try to untangle the mess of the new one.
It will be interesting to see if the new focus on a "clean, lean" Windows 7 can be sustained, given Microsoft's deeply bureaucratic development structure.
Each team was separated by 6 layers of management from the leads, so let's add them in too, giving us 24 + (6 * 3) + 1 (the shared manager) 43 total people with a voice in this feature. Twenty-four of them were connected sorta closely to the code, and of those twenty four there were exactly zero with final say in how the feature worked. The quote is from one of the people in the Vista shutdown menu team. It will be hard to winnow the cruft in that sort of environment.
Does anyone know what processors the DoD is using?
They're Dell desktops.
You'll find one in each of the gatehouses of our DoD establishments around the country. Oh, and BTW, we'd appreciate it if you could work the boom gate while you're using our processors.
Actually, Microsofts' hardware is top notch, or atleast it used to be
They're just average now, at least the ones I've used.
I don't think Microsoft does much hardware in-house anyway - it's all just badge engineering.
TFA actually says the 360 team was under resourced because they just didn't have the people to do the work, though this quote was the most telling;
MS was so focused on beating Sony this cycle that the 360 was rushed to market when all indications were that it had serious flaws. Microsoft rushing a product to market before it's ready. Who'd have thunk it...
the ability to do so is not an adaptive trait, as GA experiments have shown.
Do you have any citations for this?
I believe it would be a logical fallacy to claim to test the adaptive value of an absence of reasoning ability with genetic algorithms, and if the test involved reasoning, it wouldn't be a GA.
If history is any judge, many VBA apps will one day not work in future versions of Office anyhow.
Actually, that should happen sooner rather than later, so this announcement is a retrograde step.
DDE, OLE, COM and DCOM are fundamentally flawed models which were developed in a much less fraught security environment than we have now. VBA is heavily tied into that same flawed architecture.
Microsoft has tried to address the exposures by disabling macros by default in Office, but the control they provide isn't fine-grained enough to do more than pass the buck to the customers who have to enable the lower security levels to get their documents working.
They do have an answer in.NET, but until Office is re-written for that platform, and until there's some sort of converter for the massive collection of existing VBA to VBA.NET, they're stuck with the risky and clunky security fix.
The underdogs always cry foul and always want someone, some government agency, some legal entity, to come to their aid and "level the playing field". Hogwash I say.
It's not Microsoft's competitors who want open document formats.
It's their customers.
Microsoft is bitterly fighting the entire world's demands to adopt formats that will allow businesses, governments and private individuals choice in their software. Customers want to be able to choose lower priced tools or tools which are more focused on their specific needs, not just one bulky, expensive, rarely updated suite.
Microsoft is fighting to keep them locked in to high prices and minimal improvement.
The US strip steak or New York cut is just the muscle tissue. Our porterhouse includes the thin strip of fat along one edge. When you're grilling, that strip adds flavour.
I'd use a New York cut if I was doing a bearnaise or mushroom sauce, but a porterhouse if I want the steak to stand on its own.
One can only hope that they will be using this to replace the database that comes in Open Office.
You can already use MySQL as the database engine for Open Office.
The development environment in OOo (Base) is a database client, not a database engine. Base does bundle the HSQLDB database engine, but even that is just XML tables, and shouldn't be used for anything serious.
As far as the quality of Base, yep it's rough, but it's also brand new for OOo v2. It's being actively developed, and there are plansto use it to allow users to share data from several FOSS packages within the suite.
* Btw, I know you were just trolling, but I thought this was worth an answer, since desktop databases are a badly misunderstood class of software.
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I'm a guy named Bob.
Oddly enough, I'm also a consultant who frequently does process mapping, though my rates aren't all that reasonable any more.
There's no great trick to process mapping, and rarely any resistance or fear from employees if it's done properly. The key is to approach it hierarchically, make sure you get plenty of overlap in your descriptions of activities or procedures, and keep the document live so changes can be documented and errors corrected.
I generally try to start with functional groups which contain locations, locations which contain equipment, then equipment which requires activities. The main point, which may not be obvious first, is that context is king. There tends to be a lot of self-similarity about business activities, and without the context, important details will almost certainly get lost.
So how come my Amiga still does live chromakey as well or better than the new machines?
I have an Amiga 2000/040 with a Vlab Motion card that still does occasional live genlock/chromakey duties.
The obsolescence of most computer gear happens because it is poorly designed, not because it fails.
If they make the decision to do that, it will be because they have also made the decision to leave the community.
The mores make the community, not the other way around.
Anyone who's been involved in putting together a tender will tell you that "reasonable profit" is a well understood term, and on most cost plus jobs will be 15%.
Overreact much?
Notes is a development platform and distributed database. It's not the fault of the program if your IT department makes you use it as an email tool without end-user customisations.
The review referenced in TFA says the installer asked for SATA drivers. That implies it uses the XP codebase rather than Vista.
It may be a tacit admission that Vista is so hopelessly flawed it's better to revert to the older code than to try to untangle the mess of the new one.
Interesting. There's a big hint there in the review.
One my primary machine, it asked for my SATA driver It looks like they're starting with an XP codebase, not Vista.They're Dell desktops.
You'll find one in each of the gatehouses of our DoD establishments around the country. Oh, and BTW, we'd appreciate it if you could work the boom gate while you're using our processors.
Don't let any bad guys in. Kthksby.
I thought it got the name because 360 F is the melting point of 63/37 solder.
They're just average now, at least the ones I've used.
I don't think Microsoft does much hardware in-house anyway - it's all just badge engineering.
TFA actually says the 360 team was under resourced because they just didn't have the people to do the work, though this quote was the most telling;
MS was so focused on beating Sony this cycle that the 360 was rushed to market when all indications were that it had serious flaws. Microsoft rushing a product to market before it's ready. Who'd have thunk it...Yes, and the same thing happens the first time you attempt to dismember a victim.
Fortunately, playing God of War has helped me suppress my gag reflex.
I've also learned to be careful of knives which cut both ways.
We're their product.
Marketing companies are their customers.
Do you have any citations for this?
I believe it would be a logical fallacy to claim to test the adaptive value of an absence of reasoning ability with genetic algorithms, and if the test involved reasoning, it wouldn't be a GA.
My BS jargon-sniffer is starting to tingle...
The trouble is, y'all Texicans invented a new word when us Aussies already had the perfectly acceptable "youse".
If youse had just given us a yell, y'all could've had it free.
There are no comments bashing Microsoft at all so far, let alone claiming they should retain VBA.
Pandering to shills may get you mod points here, but let's keep it real, hey?
Actually, that should happen sooner rather than later, so this announcement is a retrograde step.
DDE, OLE, COM and DCOM are fundamentally flawed models which were developed in a much less fraught security environment than we have now. VBA is heavily tied into that same flawed architecture.
Microsoft has tried to address the exposures by disabling macros by default in Office, but the control they provide isn't fine-grained enough to do more than pass the buck to the customers who have to enable the lower security levels to get their documents working.
They do have an answer in .NET, but until Office is re-written for that platform, and until there's some sort of converter for the massive collection of existing VBA to VBA.NET, they're stuck with the risky and clunky security fix.
It's not Microsoft's competitors who want open document formats.
It's their customers.
Microsoft is bitterly fighting the entire world's demands to adopt formats that will allow businesses, governments and private individuals choice in their software. Customers want to be able to choose lower priced tools or tools which are more focused on their specific needs, not just one bulky, expensive, rarely updated suite.
Microsoft is fighting to keep them locked in to high prices and minimal improvement.
No, OSX.
The US strip steak or New York cut is just the muscle tissue. Our porterhouse includes the thin strip of fat along one edge. When you're grilling, that strip adds flavour.
I'd use a New York cut if I was doing a bearnaise or mushroom sauce, but a porterhouse if I want the steak to stand on its own.
You can already use MySQL as the database engine for Open Office.
The development environment in OOo (Base) is a database client, not a database engine. Base does bundle the HSQLDB database engine, but even that is just XML tables, and shouldn't be used for anything serious.
As far as the quality of Base, yep it's rough, but it's also brand new for OOo v2. It's being actively developed, and there are plansto use it to allow users to share data from several FOSS packages within the suite.
* Btw, I know you were just trolling, but I thought this was worth an answer, since desktop databases are a badly misunderstood class of software.
I vote for Mister Vacuumy Pants!
Drop the soap and you'll find out.