For what it's worth, at my wife's school, they're using some new whiz-bang Windows based testing software that's supposed to automate the taking and grading of some types of testing. Worked fine on the first server but when they moved the system to a new server (should have been no big deal), fails totally. Login, pull up a test, enter result #1, lights out on the entire system. They've been fighting the problem for at least a week.
Don't know the details but even if it's something simple like a config setting, seems like closed source isn't guaranteed to work out of box either.
Gearing up for riding(*) is all about layers - close to the skin, something to absorb moisture, then the semi-fluid armor, then leather for abrasion. No rider wears just one type of protection if they're at all serious about what they do.
(*) Actually we 'dress for the fall, not the ride'.
Re:Meh... Color me unimpressed.
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Ever wear shin pads or arm protectors? Ever notice that they need to be strapped on and chafe like a SOB? I'd love to get my hands on something like this. Built into an undersuit, moves with you, no staps, lightweight and instant protection when you hit something. I'd like to know that my non-moving bones (shins, radius/ulna, skull) were wrapped in protection when the jerk in an SUV cuts in front of my motorcycle and takes me down.
FWIW, this stuff sounds like what happens to a semi-liquid mix of cornstarch and water. Slide your hand in and it drops into the fluid; hit it hard and no penetration at all.
Sounded great. Downloaded the player and browser appliance. Takes for-freaking-ever to load (5 min+) the player. Takes nearly as long to start up the browser. Every page takes a minute or more to load. NO way to use this setup.
I have a 995 mhz celeron laptop with 512 meg ram running xp home sp2. I'll disable the dll and browse without the vm.
Maybe when I upgrade this thing I'll try again, but not for now.
Seems like there is about 100:1 'understand:clueless' post ratio here.
Converting the body of an email or document (word, pdf, excel, powerpoint, html, whatever) is trivial. Maintaining all of the meta data associated with the document/email is not. Maintaining the original context is not trivial. Let's not forget that something like highlighting, font color, underlining, bold face, or italics within a message may have meaning - if you convert to all ascii, the formatting and the meaning that went with it are gone and the saved information has less value.
XML might be a solution but for it to work, all of the existing production systems must be changed to xml compliant systems and users must be retrained and policies to manage the newly created data must be updated.
I work for a medical device company and struggle with these issues every day and I only need to worry about data for 10 years or so. I cannot imagine trying to keep today's data meaningful for 50 years.
If anybody has a solution that is: Free Transparent to the users Transparent to the admins/developers/maintainers Easy to implement Doesn't require revalidation (oh, you didn't know regulated systems had to be validated before use and change controlled and tested at each change???)
Ya mean these folks don't send out Word, Powerpoint, Excel, funny pics and all that other attachment crap to the 100 folks on the cc: list? I'm thinking 8K is probably a very low end estimate given the junk that shows up in my inbox.
This is a field you can't grow out of. Every month there is something new and different to try. I didn't really start coding for pay until I was nearly 40 and I don't see any reason to stop now.
Anybody who has been part of an 'event' that turned up on TV or in print media knows that all information is incomplete, biased, and potentially wrong. It is common for an author to pick one aspect of an event that is not central to the actual event and turn the side-thread into 'THE' main content.
I'm actually much happier reading Wikipedia than the news because I think peer review is likely to be more complete and the final content more robust. All of us are smarter than each of us.
Re:Its a matter of perspective
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I've found that I'm happiest when my employer's reason for being fits in with my core belief system. While I don't hold an employer responsible for my happiness, I know that when I'm in sync with my place of employ, I find joy. As my needs, desires, and goals drift away from those of my workplace, the pleasure I derive from working diminishes (and I usually move along).
For me, I don't want or expect, the employer to stive to make me happy. I want an employer who understands what they do, why they do it, and that they do it well.
Keep looking, you can find work that is meaningful for you.
Domino runs on Win, Linux, and the AS stuff. It scales like a charm because you put servers where you need them. Users can access via native Notes client, browser, or POP. Server mail can be replicated to local laptops, do the mail off-line, then replicate when you get to the hotel. With the newer versions you can set execution control features which help keep the bad guys from hosing your system. Add to that that Notes is a great development platform and you've got an excellent package.
How long does it take? I guess from what I see of many post college grads and the Kansas board of Ed, more time than we have.
R/W/A means more than just ABCs, 123s. It means being able to read complex books and articles, figure out the meaning(s), discuss the implications of the writing, and develop defensible opinions. Writing skills in the US are crap and we need to focus more on finding ways to teach kids how to communicate effectively.
I'd suggest that a well rounded and full education prepares one for any job. Knowing the basics well makes learing specific tasks easier.
PE and art? Personal bias. I think that art and music opens ones mind to other ways of thinking about the world. PE? Please, the US if full of fat kids and adults - give 'em a chance to work out.
In a high tech society, you need to teach kids how to think and how to learn so the next big thing isn't a major road block. Teach them 'how to use a computer' and that's all they know - not any help at all if they can't generalize the process of learning.
And if you read more of my post, you'll note that I say teachers need to know what the heck they're doing. I totally agree that you can't give a 2 year old a loaded Uzi just because they want one. On the other hand, when tech literate educators need apps to do their job, IT should faciliate the acquisition and installation of the programs and then get the hell out of the way.
I feel for you and understand the issue but I've seen too many IT groups (schools AND businesses) use blind policies rather than intellegent cooperation to make system work for everyone.
If teachers don't know how to use the tech - TAKE IT AWAY AND TEACH THEM HOW. Don't leave a crippled system gathering dust on the teacher's desk. Teach the teachers how to use the stuff, then turn 'em loose.
My wife is an educator. I've helped a small school obtain dozens of free cast-off laptops. I've helped install and maintain them and helped teachers figure out how to use them in a way that made sense - and all as a volunteer.
Understaffed (ain't we all?)? Try going to the PTA/PTO groups and seeing if you can get some off-hours tutorial help. Use the tech smart teacher rather than treating them like they're stupid. Hell, use some of the smarter kids to help tutor others.
I think we're in heated agreement on this one - right tool, right person, right task is the way to go.
But the basics my parents learned are more relevant today than ever - reading and writing and arithmatic should be the core studies required for all students. Add in history, language (especially for those of us in the US who think English is the only language), PE and an artistic course and that's a sound core curriculum. All of this can be taught without tech. Teach the buggers how to talk, write, and think.
I love tech and think it can have a place in schools if a few simple rules are followed. Use tech where it makes sense. Make sure the teachers know how to use the tech FIRST. Make sure there is sufficient and appropriate tech for the audience (skip PowerPoint and Word, geez, use a good text editor, who needs all the formatting whizbang crap anyway?). Try and find an IT support person/group that understands education and can communicate with the staff (nothing worse than a locked down desktop just because the IT dept can't be bothered to understand the teacher's needs).
I think it's more important to have teachers who understand their subject, are enthusiastic about it, and love to share that enthusiasm than to have computers for computer's sake.
I also think it's important that we stop adding course load on kids and trim the subject list back to something that is more human AND make the classes a bit longer (I had 1 hour classes when in high school, my kids were down to 45 minutes - how soon before we get to 1/2 hour of McEd?).
Tech is fine when used sanely with a purpose within a larger designed teaching environment. If something has to go, let it be tech in favor or better teachers.
For what it's worth, I heard the tail end of an interview with the author on NPR. The article was meant to stimulate discussion on how to deal with declining populations of the mega-fauna and was, as such, included the outlandish suggestion to re-wild the US; not quite J. Swift, but close enough to get tongues wagging.
Is there a reason your family needs to be so large? How about something more earth friendly like, 4? You know, replace yourself and then stop? 4 fit very nicely in any eco-box auto - been there and done that and it works.
Every human added to the world uses resources - your family is a case in point. You have 7 in the group so your house must be bigger and you need a monster SUV to take everyone for trips. Fewer folks = less demand on the environment = good.
Do you REALLY need to haul around a boat to have fun? Boats are uber-gas hogs so now you're driving a monster truck and hauling a gas guzzling , pollution (air and noise) spewing recreational vehicle out into the wilderness where peace and quiet should be what we seek. How about a couple of canoes/kayaks and a couple of tents - might that work? Might you not have some fun doing that also and teach your kids it's possible to have fun without making quite such a big footprint?
Sorry, big car is 'valid' for your case just isn't working out for me.
Having said that, it is certainly your right to have as large a family as you want, buy whatever toys you need, and live your life by your definitions. Eventually, resources will dry up and we'll be forced to make hard decisions where hard isn't what to pay for gas.
Notes is not a relational database. If you need relational systems, don't use Notes. The lack of joins is not dumb, it's a result of Notes' object database structure.
Views are not tables - the SQL join thing really doesn't exist in Notes. If you need joins, don't use Notes.
Thing is, I've found most apps can be built without the need for relational structures. Sure, there's data redundancy required (store user name in ever doc/record if you need to look up results for the user later) but disk space is cheap.
Use the _right_ tool for the job. Notes excels at quick development of workflow type apps (approval systems, doc control, discussions, action items, etc) which turns out to be a major class of apps used by businesses. Throw in the fine grain security (down to encrypted single fields in one record) and you have a great development platform for lots of apps.
Let's see... I know that Abbott and Bayer use Notes for worldwide applications in an FDA regulated environement. They scale, they're secure, they meet FDA's Part 11 rule, they're easy to build, easy to deploy, easy to maintain...hardly the stuff of small time intranets.
Look and feel - that's not a Notes thing. You can make Notes apps as pretty or as ugly as you want. Like everything else, it's just time and money. I prefer quick, easy, native and am more than willing to live with ugly if it gets the job done.
Re the 'must buy addin to search'; I'll concede this point. On the other hand, Notes does provide several native ways to find code so you don't actually have to buy Team Studio.
Guess I must be using a different Notes than you folks. OK, I only write apps using the native gui, no web browser stuff yet but I love this thing. I can put up a fairly complex workflow app in about a day that scales nicely, is secure, and is easy to maintain. I've pretty much written an entire manufacturing quality system using Notes. It's a breeze to support. We have no admin so I double duty as developer and admin. I support 50 apps or so and 150 users solo and go home every night on time, don't work nights or weekends, and actually take vacations.
If you need to search code, use addins like Team Studio Configurator. It does have a query language built in, you just need to know how to use it. You can build adhoc user driven queries without a lot of effort. (check LDD's FAQ of FAQ for the 'friendly query' article).
It's not a relational db and that drives some folks nuts. Once you get your head wrapped around an object db model, and use it for what it's good for, you can do wonders in almost no time at all.
It does support large web based apps (see IBM's Notes Developer Domain and the forums) that use JavaScript, html, xml, java, whatever you want.
User rights management, heavy duty encription, replication (second to none) all come standard. Every app is web enabled without doing anything special (yes, the apps won't be very pretty or friendly but the point is the app works using the Notes client or a browser by without doing any extra programming).
And that's just for starters. Your piece of shit is my palace of gold. It's kept me happily and gainfully employed for almost 10 years now and my company keeps looking for new and more interesting places to use it.
A few years back, I was trained to be a facilitator. We learned about the 4 stages of group behavior: Forming (everybody is nicey nicey but ignores the issue at hand), Storming (fighting for position and roles within the group), Norming (getting work done, finding a process that works), and Performing (really grooving and getting lots of work done). Key to the concept is that if you change the group at all, you go back to Forming.
During the training, I flashed back to a camping scene from years ago. A flock of birds was settling in for the night in a tree across the river. As they settled in they, quite literally, established a pecking order - knocking neighbors off a prize perch and the like. As the order became more to everyone's liking, they settled down. After about an hour, everybody had a place. ONE bird drifted in from elsewhere and settled on a branch. The tree erupted in noise and fury and they started all over again.
The more I observe animals, the less special I feel about my human-ness.
Don't sweat it. Each batch of kids has been exposed to some terrifying new technology that was guaranteed to ruin them forever. Comic books TV Dungeons and Dragons Video Games Computers. Guess what, each batch of kids has grown up to be OK. The exercise thing - a real issue, but probably cars have more to do with that than anything else. Provide your kids a range of activities and let em have some fun. Breath in. Breath out. Relax Enjoy 'em while you have 'em.
I found a version I like (Mandrake 10.0). I've got my system set up, running the way I like, apps I want installed and tweaked to do my bidding. I'm not even sure I'm going to move from 10.0 to 10.1 or whatever is the latest whizbang verion much less attempt to run a new version of Linux. I am not an uber-geek and don't know (or want to learn) how to migrate a zillion custom settings and application data from one Linux to another.
If/when something comes along that warrants the pain of conversion, I'll think about it.
Yahoo has chat rooms associated with their yahoo groups - these are still active. They don't display ads on the way in. Group use ads when you view threads - every n items you read, you get to view (ignore) an ad.
I didn't realize that yahoo also had these ad-hoc chat rooms but that appears to be what's been shut down.
As several other posters have remarked, this kind of adult/child dialog is nothing new. Way back in the day, when CompuServe was master of the on-line universe and a 2400 baud modem was da bomb, I recall watching my 7 yo daughter chatting on-line on night. When I noticed someone say 'would it matter to you if I was a 27 yo male', I pulled the plug on her chat and permanently shut down her access to chat rooms.
While I don't condone pedophilia, PARENTS ARE OBLIGATED TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES HOW THEY WANT TO MANAGE THEIR CHILDREN'S ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. Please do NOT ask the government or buinesses to become the ethics police, that's MY job.
I realize it's damn near impossible, and not very healthy, to monitor your kids 24/7, but teaching your kids right and wrong is what we get paid to do - you pop one out and you get the responsibility that comes with the sex.
Contrary to popular belief, the medical market is not all that big. When you look at the number of companies involved and the number of people in each company, medical falls quite a way down the list. Auto and aerospace are bigger and have lots more pull in other industries. I was at a meeting a couple of years ago related to the FDA's Part 11 reg. In attendance were several large pharmaceutical and medical device companies. One of the presenters was Johnson Controls (used a lot in pharma production plants). When the audience asked Johnson to make changes to their devices to better meet Part 11 requirements, Johnson indicated that the medical industry was less than 5% of their buisiness and there was no way they'd mod their code for that small of a market share.
Medical gets a lot of attention, but plumbing fixtures is bigger.
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For what it's worth, at my wife's school, they're using some new whiz-bang Windows based testing software that's supposed to automate the taking and grading of some types of testing. Worked fine on the first server but when they moved the system to a new server (should have been no big deal), fails totally. Login, pull up a test, enter result #1, lights out on the entire system.
They've been fighting the problem for at least a week.
Don't know the details but even if it's something simple like a config setting, seems like closed source isn't guaranteed to work out of box either.
Bill: Vista, eggs, sausage and Vista, that's not got much Vista in it.
Me: But I don't WANT ANY Vista!
Gearing up for riding(*) is all about layers - close to the skin, something to absorb moisture, then the semi-fluid armor, then leather for abrasion. No rider wears just one type of protection if they're at all serious about what they do.
(*) Actually we 'dress for the fall, not the ride'.
Ever wear shin pads or arm protectors? Ever notice that they need to be strapped on and chafe like a SOB? I'd love to get my hands on something like this. Built into an undersuit, moves with you, no staps, lightweight and instant protection when you hit something. I'd like to know that my non-moving bones (shins, radius/ulna, skull) were wrapped in protection when the jerk in an SUV cuts in front of my motorcycle and takes me down.
FWIW, this stuff sounds like what happens to a semi-liquid mix of cornstarch and water. Slide your hand in and it drops into the fluid; hit it hard and no penetration at all.
Sounded great. Downloaded the player and browser appliance.
Takes for-freaking-ever to load (5 min+) the player.
Takes nearly as long to start up the browser.
Every page takes a minute or more to load.
NO way to use this setup.
I have a 995 mhz celeron laptop with 512 meg ram running xp home sp2. I'll disable the dll and browse without the vm.
Maybe when I upgrade this thing I'll try again, but not for now.
A-freakin-men!
Seems like there is about 100:1 'understand:clueless' post ratio here.
Converting the body of an email or document (word, pdf, excel, powerpoint, html, whatever) is trivial. Maintaining all of the meta data associated with the document/email is not. Maintaining the original context is not trivial. Let's not forget that something like highlighting, font color, underlining, bold face, or italics within a message may have meaning - if you convert to all ascii, the formatting and the meaning that went with it are gone and the saved information has less value.
XML might be a solution but for it to work, all of the existing production systems must be changed to xml compliant systems and users must be retrained and policies to manage the newly created data must be updated.
I work for a medical device company and struggle with these issues every day and I only need to worry about data for 10 years or so. I cannot imagine trying to keep today's data meaningful for 50 years.
If anybody has a solution that is:
Free
Transparent to the users
Transparent to the admins/developers/maintainers
Easy to implement
Doesn't require revalidation (oh, you didn't know regulated systems had to be validated before use and change controlled and tested at each change???)
feel free to chime in.
Ya mean these folks don't send out Word, Powerpoint, Excel, funny pics and all that other attachment crap to the 100 folks on the cc: list? I'm thinking 8K is probably a very low end estimate given the junk that shows up in my inbox.
This is a field you can't grow out of. Every month there is something new and different to try. I didn't really start coding for pay until I was nearly 40 and I don't see any reason to stop now.
Doug
So just put it on a usb stick and take it with you.b le
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/index.php#porta
Anybody who has been part of an 'event' that turned up on TV or in print media knows that all information is incomplete, biased, and potentially wrong. It is common for an author to pick one aspect of an event that is not central to the actual event and turn the side-thread into 'THE' main content.
I'm actually much happier reading Wikipedia than the news because I think peer review is likely to be more complete and the final content more robust. All of us are smarter than each of us.
I've found that I'm happiest when my employer's reason for being fits in with my core belief system. While I don't hold an employer responsible for my happiness, I know that when I'm in sync with my place of employ, I find joy. As my needs, desires, and goals drift away from those of my workplace, the pleasure I derive from working diminishes (and I usually move along).
For me, I don't want or expect, the employer to stive to make me happy. I want an employer who understands what they do, why they do it, and that they do it well.
Keep looking, you can find work that is meaningful for you.
Domino runs on Win, Linux, and the AS stuff. It scales like a charm because you put servers where you need them. Users can access via native Notes client, browser, or POP. Server mail can be replicated to local laptops, do the mail off-line, then replicate when you get to the hotel. With the newer versions you can set execution control features which help keep the bad guys from hosing your system. Add to that that Notes is a great development platform and you've got an excellent package.
Have fun!
How long does it take? I guess from what I see of many post college grads and the Kansas board of Ed, more time than we have.
R/W/A means more than just ABCs, 123s. It means being able to read complex books and articles, figure out the meaning(s), discuss the implications of the writing, and develop defensible opinions. Writing skills in the US are crap and we need to focus more on finding ways to teach kids how to communicate effectively.
I'd suggest that a well rounded and full education prepares one for any job. Knowing the basics well makes learing specific tasks easier.
PE and art? Personal bias. I think that art and music opens ones mind to other ways of thinking about the world. PE? Please, the US if full of fat kids and adults - give 'em a chance to work out.
In a high tech society, you need to teach kids how to think and how to learn so the next big thing isn't a major road block. Teach them 'how to use a computer' and that's all they know - not any help at all if they can't generalize the process of learning.
And if you read more of my post, you'll note that I say teachers need to know what the heck they're doing. I totally agree that you can't give a 2 year old a loaded Uzi just because they want one. On the other hand, when tech literate educators need apps to do their job, IT should faciliate the acquisition and installation of the programs and then get the hell out of the way.
I feel for you and understand the issue but I've seen too many IT groups (schools AND businesses) use blind policies rather than intellegent cooperation to make system work for everyone.
If teachers don't know how to use the tech - TAKE IT AWAY AND TEACH THEM HOW. Don't leave a crippled system gathering dust on the teacher's desk. Teach the teachers how to use the stuff, then turn 'em loose.
My wife is an educator.
I've helped a small school obtain dozens of free cast-off laptops.
I've helped install and maintain them and helped teachers figure out how to use them in a way that made sense - and all as a volunteer.
Understaffed (ain't we all?)? Try going to the PTA/PTO groups and seeing if you can get some off-hours tutorial help. Use the tech smart teacher rather than treating them like they're stupid. Hell, use some of the smarter kids to help tutor others.
I think we're in heated agreement on this one - right tool, right person, right task is the way to go.
But the basics my parents learned are more relevant today than ever - reading and writing and arithmatic should be the core studies required for all students. Add in history, language (especially for those of us in the US who think English is the only language), PE and an artistic course and that's a sound core curriculum. All of this can be taught without tech. Teach the buggers how to talk, write, and think.
I love tech and think it can have a place in schools if a few simple rules are followed. Use tech where it makes sense. Make sure the teachers know how to use the tech FIRST. Make sure there is sufficient and appropriate tech for the audience (skip PowerPoint and Word, geez, use a good text editor, who needs all the formatting whizbang crap anyway?). Try and find an IT support person/group that understands education and can communicate with the staff (nothing worse than a locked down desktop just because the IT dept can't be bothered to understand the teacher's needs).
I think it's more important to have teachers who understand their subject, are enthusiastic about it, and love to share that enthusiasm than to have computers for computer's sake.
I also think it's important that we stop adding course load on kids and trim the subject list back to something that is more human AND make the classes a bit longer (I had 1 hour classes when in high school, my kids were down to 45 minutes - how soon before we get to 1/2 hour of McEd?).
Tech is fine when used sanely with a purpose within a larger designed teaching environment. If something has to go, let it be tech in favor or better teachers.
For what it's worth, I heard the tail end of an interview with the author on NPR. The article was meant to stimulate discussion on how to deal with declining populations of the mega-fauna and was, as such, included the outlandish suggestion to re-wild the US; not quite J. Swift, but close enough to get tongues wagging.
Doug
Is there a reason your family needs to be so large? How about something more earth friendly like, 4? You know, replace yourself and then stop? 4 fit very nicely in any eco-box auto - been there and done that and it works.
Every human added to the world uses resources - your family is a case in point. You have 7 in the group so your house must be bigger and you need a monster SUV to take everyone for trips. Fewer folks = less demand on the environment = good.
Do you REALLY need to haul around a boat to have fun? Boats are uber-gas hogs so now you're driving a monster truck and hauling a gas guzzling , pollution (air and noise) spewing recreational vehicle out into the wilderness where peace and quiet should be what we seek. How about a couple of canoes/kayaks and a couple of tents - might that work? Might you not have some fun doing that also and teach your kids it's possible to have fun without making quite such a big footprint?
Sorry, big car is 'valid' for your case just isn't working out for me.
Having said that, it is certainly your right to have as large a family as you want, buy whatever toys you need, and live your life by your definitions. Eventually, resources will dry up and we'll be forced to make hard decisions where hard isn't what to pay for gas.
Notes is not a relational database. If you need relational systems, don't use Notes. The lack of joins is not dumb, it's a result of Notes' object database structure.
Views are not tables - the SQL join thing really doesn't exist in Notes. If you need joins, don't use Notes.
Thing is, I've found most apps can be built without the need for relational structures. Sure, there's data redundancy required (store user name in ever doc/record if you need to look up results for the user later) but disk space is cheap.
Use the _right_ tool for the job. Notes excels at quick development of workflow type apps (approval systems, doc control, discussions, action items, etc) which turns out to be a major class of apps used by businesses. Throw in the fine grain security (down to encrypted single fields in one record) and you have a great development platform for lots of apps.
Let's see...
I know that Abbott and Bayer use Notes for worldwide applications in an FDA regulated environement. They scale, they're secure, they meet FDA's Part 11 rule, they're easy to build, easy to deploy, easy to maintain...hardly the stuff of small time intranets.
Look and feel - that's not a Notes thing. You can make Notes apps as pretty or as ugly as you want. Like everything else, it's just time and money. I prefer quick, easy, native and am more than willing to live with ugly if it gets the job done.
Re the 'must buy addin to search'; I'll concede this point. On the other hand, Notes does provide several native ways to find code so you don't actually have to buy Team Studio.
Doug
Guess I must be using a different Notes than you folks. OK, I only write apps using the native gui, no web browser stuff yet but I love this thing. I can put up a fairly complex workflow app in about a day that scales nicely, is secure, and is easy to maintain. I've pretty much written an entire manufacturing quality system using Notes. It's a breeze to support. We have no admin so I double duty as developer and admin. I support 50 apps or so and 150 users solo and go home every night on time, don't work nights or weekends, and actually take vacations.
If you need to search code, use addins like Team Studio Configurator. It does have a query language built in, you just need to know how to use it. You can build adhoc user driven queries without a lot of effort. (check LDD's FAQ of FAQ for the 'friendly query' article).
It's not a relational db and that drives some folks nuts. Once you get your head wrapped around an object db model, and use it for what it's good for, you can do wonders in almost no time at all.
It does support large web based apps (see IBM's Notes Developer Domain and the forums) that use JavaScript, html, xml, java, whatever you want.
User rights management, heavy duty encription, replication (second to none) all come standard. Every app is web enabled without doing anything special (yes, the apps won't be very pretty or friendly but the point is the app works using the Notes client or a browser by without doing any extra programming).
And that's just for starters. Your piece of shit is my palace of gold. It's kept me happily and gainfully employed for almost 10 years now and my company keeps looking for new and more interesting places to use it.
One man's opinion.
dogu.
A few years back, I was trained to be a facilitator. We learned about the 4 stages of group behavior: Forming (everybody is nicey nicey but ignores the issue at hand), Storming (fighting for position and roles within the group), Norming (getting work done, finding a process that works), and Performing (really grooving and getting lots of work done). Key to the concept is that if you change the group at all, you go back to Forming.
During the training, I flashed back to a camping scene from years ago. A flock of birds was settling in for the night in a tree across the river. As they settled in they, quite literally, established a pecking order - knocking neighbors off a prize perch and the like. As the order became more to everyone's liking, they settled down. After about an hour, everybody had a place. ONE bird drifted in from elsewhere and settled on a branch. The tree erupted in noise and fury and they started all over again.
The more I observe animals, the less special I feel about my human-ness.
Doug
Don't sweat it. Each batch of kids has been exposed to some terrifying new technology that was guaranteed to ruin them forever.
Comic books
TV
Dungeons and Dragons
Video Games
Computers.
Guess what, each batch of kids has grown up to be OK.
The exercise thing - a real issue, but probably cars have more to do with that than anything else.
Provide your kids a range of activities and let em have some fun.
Breath in.
Breath out.
Relax
Enjoy 'em while you have 'em.
I found a version I like (Mandrake 10.0). I've got my system set up, running the way I like, apps I want installed and tweaked to do my bidding. I'm not even sure I'm going to move from 10.0 to 10.1 or whatever is the latest whizbang verion much less attempt to run a new version of Linux. I am not an uber-geek and don't know (or want to learn) how to migrate a zillion custom settings and application data from one Linux to another.
If/when something comes along that warrants the pain of conversion, I'll think about it.
Yahoo has chat rooms associated with their yahoo groups - these are still active. They don't display ads on the way in. Group use ads when you view threads - every n items you read, you get to view (ignore) an ad.
I didn't realize that yahoo also had these ad-hoc chat rooms but that appears to be what's been shut down.
As several other posters have remarked, this kind of adult/child dialog is nothing new. Way back in the day, when CompuServe was master of the on-line universe and a 2400 baud modem was da bomb, I recall watching my 7 yo daughter chatting on-line on night. When I noticed someone say 'would it matter to you if I was a 27 yo male', I pulled the plug on her chat and permanently shut down her access to chat rooms.
While I don't condone pedophilia, PARENTS ARE OBLIGATED TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES HOW THEY WANT TO MANAGE THEIR CHILDREN'S ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. Please do NOT ask the government or buinesses to become the ethics police, that's MY job.
I realize it's damn near impossible, and not very healthy, to monitor your kids 24/7, but teaching your kids right and wrong is what we get paid to do - you pop one out and you get the responsibility that comes with the sex.
Contrary to popular belief, the medical market is not all that big. When you look at the number of companies involved and the number of people in each company, medical falls quite a way down the list. Auto and aerospace are bigger and have lots more pull in other industries. I was at a meeting a couple of years ago related to the FDA's Part 11 reg. In attendance were several large pharmaceutical and medical device companies. One of the presenters was Johnson Controls (used a lot in pharma production plants). When the audience asked Johnson to make changes to their devices to better meet Part 11 requirements, Johnson indicated that the medical industry was less than 5% of their buisiness and there was no way they'd mod their code for that small of a market share.
Medical gets a lot of attention, but plumbing fixtures is bigger.
Doug