Until Slack releases its enterprise offering, there'll be some companies needing the control that FB@work will give them. I've been using FB@work for a few weeks now, and it seems to be a great competitor to Yammer, but not to Slack.
The article doesn't say they are being hosted from DRNK, it says they've been invited to. The/. title is a poor summation, but the fact that they're not currently hosted there does not disagree with the content of the linked blog post.
You forget (or are intentionally not mentioning to seemingly strengthen your point) that the Bush tax cuts have at the same time reduced revenue, thus adding to the situation. We need to both decrease spending and at the same time increase revenues; this is the only way out of the situation.
Last time I had to help a relative move a malware infestation I was asked what I charge for the service. My response was $150. But, I added, if you let me migrate you to a Mac, I'll waive the fee and migrate you for free...
Guy with a 1M+ UID comes up with this to say? Where's my +3 [Insightful and 1M+ uid] modifier?
Verisign isn't perfect, but the real culprits are ICANN, and the short range thinking of stockholders in the US who only care about what is coming next quarter, rather than being with a company long term. I'd rather invest in a company who has multiple subsequent quarterly charges against their income for R&D than one which always makes the numbers (even barely) each quarter, but really has no real direction to expand.
This is why I left my company traded on the exchange for an LLP. Oftentimes there is a lot of investment that goes into excellent profits (prophets?), and shareholders rarely tolerate seeing their companies enrich the lives of anyone other than themselves.
Is that they went on this expedition without an attorney. They are either a) criminal incompetent themselves, or b) unable to find an attorney who was incompetent.
Either way, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside....
One of my brothers went to work in Delhi for a year at the Indian Express. As the only 'Merkin on staff, he spent a lot of time trying to explain some of the cultural background behind stories coming off the AP wire from the US. One such story was about born-again Christians.
After explaining this, an older curmudgeonly Hindi fellow piped up: "We Hindu believe that _all_ Christians are born again, and again, and again."
IMHO the biggest problem facing developers and designers now is that we are presented with "the client wants this." And while that might be good and well, more often than not, the client is trying to solve XYZ, and they don't understand that what they're asking for is not a fix for XYZ but a Band-Aid.
The only way to successfully approach this is to start by asking "What are you trying to accomplish." When they start talking about screens and drop-downs, shut them down by reiterating "No, what is the _business_ problem you are trying to solve," and work from there.
Anything I've worked on that was successful was a marriage of process improvement and technology. Pure technology doesn't solve business problems.
But, then again, I'm just some Big 8^H6^H5^H4 consultant...
"Microsoft made a deal with Citrix to license some of their technology, and they put it into NT4 Terminal Server Edition."
You got this one wrong: During the days of NT3x, Citrix licensed the OS codebase to which they were going to make custom modifications and sell as a separate, non-competing product. This continued into the NT4 days.
When M$ saw how popular this product was, they wanted in on the action. They threatened not to license NT5 to Citrix unless Citrix _gave_ them their code to incorporate into thier own product. In effect, M$ put a gun to their heads: your code, or your business.
Citrix has remained a force in the marketspace simply because they are so much better at this then M$ can hope to be. Even with the leg up with having all their code, M$ has never come close to the Citirx offerings.
I have previously consulted for a very large company with a _VERY_ large Citrix implementation. Think tens of hundreds of servers. The project I was involved with was converting their legacy application data and business rules into an application that would run off of a subset of this farm. It was a lot of fun, and some great work.
On the downside, there were some problems with the thin clients- serial devices didn't always work without some banging on the case, printers were always dodgy on the day we brought them up (though after 20-30 minutes, the administrators had then working), and in locations where the pipe was very thin (dial-up), we did have performance issues.
That having been said, the company doing this was saving millions of dollars a year (after paying the consulting costs and expenses) simply on maintenance and support. Previously when they'd roll out an enhancement or bugfix to an app, it would involve sending a crew of technicians out to a number of remote locations, and having them install the new app. Yeah, in the offices they would use SMS, but a good 40% of this company's machines were remote from main offices, and most didn't have nearly the bandwidth to D/L ~800MB of new application code in a reasonable amount of time.
After we came through, between 3 and 4 in the morning, a technician or two would install the new code on the handful of impacted servers, and voila, everyone's taken care of.
My dot-com experience was with a company that administers a loyalty program. We would collect data from all of our partner businesses, and attach them to persons using the credit card numbers.
From there we had simple heuristics to look for paterns (activity at a catering establishment and a purchase at a bridal shop?) and sell these profiles back to partner businesses for targeted advertisement.
Outside of only paying in cash, and never using your legitimate information except where absolutely essential, I can't see much way to avoid it. Way things are going, it'll only get worse unless we enact legislation to prohibit that kind of activity.
Except that a "Windows Primary Domain Controller" is part of an NT4 domain structure, not an Active Directory domain. AD makes no distinction between primary and secondary: it is federated, and only recongnizes the "master" machine which is the authoritative source when conflicts are encountered.
(US) If you purchase something abroad, you are allowed to bring it back into the country with you (import) without license provided that you are not importing it for redistribution. Technically the point of sale is in Russia, not the US.
Now, if it turns out that you purchase an album that you reasonably believe that they do not have the license to distribute, then, IMO, you would have to be brought to justice under the court which has jurisdiction over the point of sale, not your location. I don't believe the RIAA can sue you in the US for an action that took place outside of the jurisdiction of the US courts (except in exceptional circumstances).
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Until Slack releases its enterprise offering, there'll be some companies needing the control that FB@work will give them. I've been using FB@work for a few weeks now, and it seems to be a great competitor to Yammer, but not to Slack.
Blackberry offers BES for iOS and Android (I think): http://us.blackberry.com/business/software/bes.html
Thanks. I was looking at the initials thinking it didn't feel right, but took the time neither to confirm nor deny.
The article doesn't say they are being hosted from DRNK, it says they've been invited to. The /. title is a poor summation, but the fact that they're not currently hosted there does not disagree with the content of the linked blog post.
a -150 (approx) day vulnerability?
You forget (or are intentionally not mentioning to seemingly strengthen your point) that the Bush tax cuts have at the same time reduced revenue, thus adding to the situation. We need to both decrease spending and at the same time increase revenues; this is the only way out of the situation.
How typical, Windows users are bringing down the average.
Last time I had to help a relative move a malware infestation I was asked what I charge for the service. My response was $150. But, I added, if you let me migrate you to a Mac, I'll waive the fee and migrate you for free...
Perhaps they should focus their energies (pun not intended) at something that would make a more substantial impact, such as CF or LED lighting...
Is that they went on this expedition without an attorney. They are either a) criminal incompetent themselves, or b) unable to find an attorney who was incompetent.
Either way, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside....
Not unless you're a New England fan, I guess...
That's why they're not going to sell them here (US) until after the current regieme^w administration is out.
Damned Debian user... :)
Holy crap! It's the other person who bought Jyhad cards!
What, you didn't hear? DirecTV is bringing another bird online shortly for additional HD bandwidth... http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/directv-10-la unched-successfully-gears-up-for-september-action/
The Accademy has mandated the proper French word for email is courielle. They did this shortly after the US decided to invade and occupy Iraq.
One of my brothers went to work in Delhi for a year at the Indian Express. As the only 'Merkin on staff, he spent a lot of time trying to explain some of the cultural background behind stories coming off the AP wire from the US. One such story was about born-again Christians.
After explaining this, an older curmudgeonly Hindi fellow piped up: "We Hindu believe that _all_ Christians are born again, and again, and again."
IMHO the biggest problem facing developers and designers now is that we are presented with "the client wants this." And while that might be good and well, more often than not, the client is trying to solve XYZ, and they don't understand that what they're asking for is not a fix for XYZ but a Band-Aid.
The only way to successfully approach this is to start by asking "What are you trying to accomplish." When they start talking about screens and drop-downs, shut them down by reiterating "No, what is the _business_ problem you are trying to solve," and work from there.
Anything I've worked on that was successful was a marriage of process improvement and technology. Pure technology doesn't solve business problems.
But, then again, I'm just some Big 8^H6^H5^H4 consultant...
"Microsoft made a deal with Citrix to license some of their technology, and they put it into NT4 Terminal Server Edition."
You got this one wrong:
During the days of NT3x, Citrix licensed the OS codebase to which they were going to make custom modifications and sell as a separate, non-competing product. This continued into the NT4 days.
When M$ saw how popular this product was, they wanted in on the action. They threatened not to license NT5 to Citrix unless Citrix _gave_ them their code to incorporate into thier own product. In effect, M$ put a gun to their heads: your code, or your business.
Citrix has remained a force in the marketspace simply because they are so much better at this then M$ can hope to be. Even with the leg up with having all their code, M$ has never come close to the Citirx offerings.
I have previously consulted for a very large company with a _VERY_ large Citrix implementation. Think tens of hundreds of servers. The project I was involved with was converting their legacy application data and business rules into an application that would run off of a subset of this farm. It was a lot of fun, and some great work.
On the downside, there were some problems with the thin clients- serial devices didn't always work without some banging on the case, printers were always dodgy on the day we brought them up (though after 20-30 minutes, the administrators had then working), and in locations where the pipe was very thin (dial-up), we did have performance issues.
That having been said, the company doing this was saving millions of dollars a year (after paying the consulting costs and expenses) simply on maintenance and support. Previously when they'd roll out an enhancement or bugfix to an app, it would involve sending a crew of technicians out to a number of remote locations, and having them install the new app. Yeah, in the offices they would use SMS, but a good 40% of this company's machines were remote from main offices, and most didn't have nearly the bandwidth to D/L ~800MB of new application code in a reasonable amount of time.
After we came through, between 3 and 4 in the morning, a technician or two would install the new code on the handful of impacted servers, and voila, everyone's taken care of.
My dot-com experience was with a company that administers a loyalty program. We would collect data from all of our partner businesses, and attach them to persons using the credit card numbers.
From there we had simple heuristics to look for paterns (activity at a catering establishment and a purchase at a bridal shop?) and sell these profiles back to partner businesses for targeted advertisement.
Outside of only paying in cash, and never using your legitimate information except where absolutely essential, I can't see much way to avoid it. Way things are going, it'll only get worse unless we enact legislation to prohibit that kind of activity.
Except that a "Windows Primary Domain Controller" is part of an NT4 domain structure, not an Active Directory domain. AD makes no distinction between primary and secondary: it is federated, and only recongnizes the "master" machine which is the authoritative source when conflicts are encountered.
Since they object to Spyware, Malwaire, and Foistware, can we call them, instead...
Suck-AssWare?
Bzz, try again.
(US) If you purchase something abroad, you are allowed to bring it back into the country with you (import) without license provided that you are not importing it for redistribution. Technically the point of sale is in Russia, not the US.
Now, if it turns out that you purchase an album that you reasonably believe that they do not have the license to distribute, then, IMO, you would have to be brought to justice under the court which has jurisdiction over the point of sale, not your location. I don't believe the RIAA can sue you in the US for an action that took place outside of the jurisdiction of the US courts (except in exceptional circumstances).
This is what you're looking for:
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