As I have recently been running around with a bunch of ugly CMS projects, it kills me when someone puts a few data driven features on a web site and calls its a CMS. Its not a CMS. Its not even the beginning of a CMS. Its a basic data driven web page. It has maybe three content types, one page template and two types of authors. Doesn't look bad, isn't stupid, its just a basic data drive web page.
For each of the people interviewed, how do they think the world will look in five and ten years? And if you had your way to "fix" this or that problem with outsourcing, how would it look different?
Personally, I find it very curious that everyone, who comments on this phenomenon / process or whatever, uses the same type of narrow argument with wacky assumptions style. Before it was only the politicians, that would dump down into sound bite politics but now it is everywhere. So I would like to see some answers that talk about things in an intelligent manner rather these short handed answers that don't illuminate or make the discussion move forward.
But the guy's point is that there are tons of companies that even if you wiped out the debts, don't have enough cash or positive cash flow to make it in the long run. These companies are not going to get credit if they go through bankrupcy. Lots of these companies don't have significant debt anyway since they were VC funded - VC exchange funding for equity not debt.
When I worked in Silicon Valley, there were tons of people who thought that they were smarter than they were, that theit product was better than it was and that the market was bigger than it is.
By making the numbers portable, users will not put up with screwy pricing or bad service if they can move. That said what will happen is that as a company get a good rep for better pricing, enough users will leave to make the network that is losing subscribers to match. You will get the fairly equal pricing that you get in the airlines these days. Also, as users switch they will overburden the "good" providers bringing their service down and bringing up everyone elses. It really means that the phone company that can provide the service (and customer service) cheaper and has a good network, will make money and those that can't execute will be screwed.
The amazing thing to me was that they went through a big development effort and believed that they were going to be allowed to do it. They really have lost their marbles if they think that their contract allows them to do this type of stuff.
No you should flame the devs. Here is the simple math, for every problem that they leave in the finished product, the developers spend huge amounts of time wading through their mailbox and message boards with the same questions. So unless you are going to require that only developers download your code, the overall support equation says that you should cover your bases - make a resonable install, document cleanly and have some technical writers on your team.
Yeah and most were designed in the 60s and 70s. Most built before cell phones, laptops and other electronics were built. If they can't get their damn movies to work right half the time, why do you trust that they understand the electronic device that you are bringing on the plane. There is plenty of stuff that I want the airlines to fix but I personally used to like the days when the plane was a time out for reading not just another work place.
India is like every other third world country... its looking out for itself. It really doesn't need a bunch of people to come. They already have more than enough. So really what is this guy offering that the locals can't supply? Not much in their minds.
I have to laugh/cry when I see some uniformed person sobbing about how expensive things are, how access is controlled by the corporations, etc. These are the same folks who claim that its a shame that there is only one newspaper in most markets. Hey if the people would pay for it, then the products would be produced but instead the public wants to buy Starbucks coffee but not pay for broadband cause its too expensive. And now the only institutions that can afford to put out the big bucks to build out and support these new products are big companies (for the most part). Please study basic business management and economics and lots more of what you see today will make sense.
You can't trust that a message is from who it says its from. You can't trust the IP that is used. You can't trust the headers. So....
Just think about the SoBig virus and its expected payload of spambots is just the reason that you can't use blacklists. I agree that every ISP should be require those that setup mail servers on their networks to make sure they are not open relays but blocklists are yesterday's method that suprise the spammers are going to get around.
Hey, they use gestures to fly in Earth: Final Conflict but it looked a little to much like they were always being a bit inexact in their movements. Don't know that I want controls that have no feed back to them.
OK, so this review is written by someone who doesn't do anything for a living. He is a strategist not a doer not a manager but a bloody consultant who gets paid to write words about words and pictures and strategy.
Those that can do, those that can't strategize... for synergy, etc.
From an earlier experiment it is clear that there are forces that will wreak havoc on most equipment. Travelling that fast through even the thinnest atmosphere or magnetic field will do some serious stress on things.
I got the extended edition of fellowship. In it Peter Jackson goes on about how he doesn't want you to look at a shot and be distracted by if its CG, an actor or if other visual effects. Looking at fellowship there was not much that was distracting but TTT was loaded with visually distracting junk.
Ents - Grade: F - completely unbelievable and dragged the story
Gollum - Grade: B+ - pretty believable and well integrated most of the time.....the rest - Grade: A - very good and seamless
The first issue is that there are only a couple of areas that can support the kind of mass walk you are talking about and all are in very specialized consulting. Most poeple have non-competes that they have signed and although they generally aren't valid in court, nobody wants to go through the legal hassle. What I found when talking with various friends at my last work about leaving and starting something up was that they all were financially tapped. They all need about 80% or more of their present income. So they were only serious if the income interuption was brief and small. And the other thing is that there are lots of folks who do their jobs well but really don't understand about being their own boss. Generally, lots of the folks that work in big companies do so because they can't hack it in a small company.
Well, I don't think that I am much different that every other person who has managed a project - an internal project not for public knowledge. I would say that everyone who ever reported to me, shade the truth, fibbed, stretched the truth and out right lied to me. Some were more guilty of it but if there was one thing that everyone understood - the truth could get you fired so lets hide it.
1. Lots of students don't even listen in class about the reuse stuff.
2. They are taught the complete spectrum of software development from function to complete program. So they think that they can do it all reallllly well.
3. They don't get in the habit when they start.
4. They get paid by the hour not the thought. (sorry thats an old lawyer joke.)
More to the point, most of the press and incident reports talk about the infection from the single machine point of view and then jump up to the total numbers of infected machines without mapping out what happens in between the two. I hope they talk about percent of machines left vulnerable (idiots that have their SQL on the internet), how the jump from one host to another works, how effective the jump is... In other words, I would like to see the epidemiology of a computer virus.
It looks like the issue was did they put the revenue in the right quarter. Since they are not talking about 2002 or 2003, it means that the contracts in questions were fully realized. So it was just shifting stuff from one quarter into another not wholesale fake revenue like Enron. On big long drawn out contracts it is real tough to tell where to put the revenue and expenses. This is just a non-issue and its not really a tech issue.
I was looking into doing some WLAN engineering but found that it was too difficult to do without getting hold of the documents. Since these chips are used primarily in high volume applications - i.e. OEMs using 10 of thousands at a time - the manufacturers don't give out the specs to the public. First, they don't want to deal with questions from someone who is not paying them for their engineering support services. And second, they don't want the competition getting hold of the future direction in the product that may be hinted at in their technical documentation. All the manufacturers that I know of require you to sign an NDA to get a copy.
The only real leverage that anyone has is only buying products that have explicit Linux support from the OEM.
There was that episode where Barney and Fred (in P-31) write a song and analyze what needs to be in it to be a hit. I would not be suprised if this is just a hoax.
Yeah but I would look at going to a deeper level of CMS that has workflow built in.
eZ Publish from ez.no, and a bunch of others listed at OSCOM
But I would stay well away from some of the new stuff. There are plenty of CMS's out there without a project needing to use something that is new and is a duplicate of an existing product.
So instead of asking people to go back to simple things like know how your neighbors are, sit outside on the stoop and other local things, they are going to ask some Barney Fife wannabe to look at random cameras. Thanks and count me out.
Please put the gloom and doom on hold. If Microsoft really wants to control the PC, they would need time travel. They would have to go back to before the PC was put out by IBM and get them to use their processor?
Microsoft is and should be trying to reduce the clutter of the number of different pieces of hardware that need to be supported. Look at Linux - it can't keep up with all the crap HW coming on the market from all over the place. Please do we really need 100's of cards, USB devices and etc. NO and where does it fall to support that in the OS lots of the time.
And as for the "this software can only be installed here" model, hey lets see if it works. Cause there is nothing like the crap you have to go through to keep thousands of PC up and running with users trying to screw with them all the time.
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As I have recently been running around with a bunch of ugly CMS projects, it kills me when someone puts a few data driven features on a web site and calls its a CMS. Its not a CMS. Its not even the beginning of a CMS. Its a basic data driven web page. It has maybe three content types, one page template and two types of authors. Doesn't look bad, isn't stupid, its just a basic data drive web page.
Oh well mod away
Personally, I find it very curious that everyone, who comments on this phenomenon / process or whatever, uses the same type of narrow argument with wacky assumptions style. Before it was only the politicians, that would dump down into sound bite politics but now it is everywhere. So I would like to see some answers that talk about things in an intelligent manner rather these short handed answers that don't illuminate or make the discussion move forward.
When I worked in Silicon Valley, there were tons of people who thought that they were smarter than they were, that theit product was better than it was and that the market was bigger than it is.
And when are they going to have the email etiquette checker working? And the filter for bad joke forwarding - thats what I really need.
By making the numbers portable, users will not put up with screwy pricing or bad service if they can move. That said what will happen is that as a company get a good rep for better pricing, enough users will leave to make the network that is losing subscribers to match. You will get the fairly equal pricing that you get in the airlines these days. Also, as users switch they will overburden the "good" providers bringing their service down and bringing up everyone elses. It really means that the phone company that can provide the service (and customer service) cheaper and has a good network, will make money and those that can't execute will be screwed.
The amazing thing to me was that they went through a big development effort and believed that they were going to be allowed to do it. They really have lost their marbles if they think that their contract allows them to do this type of stuff.
No you should flame the devs. Here is the simple math, for every problem that they leave in the finished product, the developers spend huge amounts of time wading through their mailbox and message boards with the same questions. So unless you are going to require that only developers download your code, the overall support equation says that you should cover your bases - make a resonable install, document cleanly and have some technical writers on your team.
Yeah and most were designed in the 60s and 70s. Most built before cell phones, laptops and other electronics were built. If they can't get their damn movies to work right half the time, why do you trust that they understand the electronic device that you are bringing on the plane. There is plenty of stuff that I want the airlines to fix but I personally used to like the days when the plane was a time out for reading not just another work place.
India is like every other third world country... its looking out for itself. It really doesn't need a bunch of people to come. They already have more than enough. So really what is this guy offering that the locals can't supply? Not much in their minds.
I have to laugh/cry when I see some uniformed person sobbing about how expensive things are, how access is controlled by the corporations, etc. These are the same folks who claim that its a shame that there is only one newspaper in most markets. Hey if the people would pay for it, then the products would be produced but instead the public wants to buy Starbucks coffee but not pay for broadband cause its too expensive. And now the only institutions that can afford to put out the big bucks to build out and support these new products are big companies (for the most part). Please study basic business management and economics and lots more of what you see today will make sense.
Just think about the SoBig virus and its expected payload of spambots is just the reason that you can't use blacklists. I agree that every ISP should be require those that setup mail servers on their networks to make sure they are not open relays but blocklists are yesterday's method that suprise the spammers are going to get around.
Hey, they use gestures to fly in Earth: Final Conflict but it looked a little to much like they were always being a bit inexact in their movements. Don't know that I want controls that have no feed back to them.
Those that can do, those that can't strategize ... for synergy, etc.
From an earlier experiment it is clear that there are forces that will wreak havoc on most equipment. Travelling that fast through even the thinnest atmosphere or magnetic field will do some serious stress on things.
Ents - Grade: F - completely unbelievable and dragged the story Gollum - Grade: B+ - pretty believable and well integrated most of the time .....the rest - Grade: A - very good and seamless
The first issue is that there are only a couple of areas that can support the kind of mass walk you are talking about and all are in very specialized consulting. Most poeple have non-competes that they have signed and although they generally aren't valid in court, nobody wants to go through the legal hassle. What I found when talking with various friends at my last work about leaving and starting something up was that they all were financially tapped. They all need about 80% or more of their present income. So they were only serious if the income interuption was brief and small. And the other thing is that there are lots of folks who do their jobs well but really don't understand about being their own boss. Generally, lots of the folks that work in big companies do so because they can't hack it in a small company.
Well, I don't think that I am much different that every other person who has managed a project - an internal project not for public knowledge. I would say that everyone who ever reported to me, shade the truth, fibbed, stretched the truth and out right lied to me. Some were more guilty of it but if there was one thing that everyone understood - the truth could get you fired so lets hide it.
2. They are taught the complete spectrum of software development from function to complete program. So they think that they can do it all reallllly well.
3. They don't get in the habit when they start.
4. They get paid by the hour not the thought. (sorry thats an old lawyer joke.)
More to the point, most of the press and incident reports talk about the infection from the single machine point of view and then jump up to the total numbers of infected machines without mapping out what happens in between the two. I hope they talk about percent of machines left vulnerable (idiots that have their SQL on the internet), how the jump from one host to another works, how effective the jump is... In other words, I would like to see the epidemiology of a computer virus.
It looks like the issue was did they put the revenue in the right quarter. Since they are not talking about 2002 or 2003, it means that the contracts in questions were fully realized. So it was just shifting stuff from one quarter into another not wholesale fake revenue like Enron. On big long drawn out contracts it is real tough to tell where to put the revenue and expenses. This is just a non-issue and its not really a tech issue.
The only real leverage that anyone has is only buying products that have explicit Linux support from the OEM.
There was that episode where Barney and Fred (in P-31) write a song and analyze what needs to be in it to be a hit. I would not be suprised if this is just a hoax.
eZ Publish from ez.no, and a bunch of others listed at OSCOM
But I would stay well away from some of the new stuff. There are plenty of CMS's out there without a project needing to use something that is new and is a duplicate of an existing product.
sig globally, act locally
Microsoft is and should be trying to reduce the clutter of the number of different pieces of hardware that need to be supported. Look at Linux - it can't keep up with all the crap HW coming on the market from all over the place. Please do we really need 100's of cards, USB devices and etc. NO and where does it fall to support that in the OS lots of the time.
And as for the "this software can only be installed here" model, hey lets see if it works. Cause there is nothing like the crap you have to go through to keep thousands of PC up and running with users trying to screw with them all the time.