The mouse pre-dates the GUI you probably keyboard-navigated and definitely pre-dates the world wide web. So, your 'experience' is not one that would have been shared by anyone in the '80s or the early '90s.
Now if you'd tried to run WordPerfect in DOS on a 486DX2/50 with a green screen and memorised _those_ keyboard shortcuts then, yes, you would have had some '80s experience right there. Or try to load a third-party DOS expanded memory manager. Or just managing DOS memory (gee that was fun).
I did some tests in a Mazda 6. Fuel economy at 55-60km/h is quite good - around 5-6 litres/100km (pardon all the metrics you US guys). But accelerating up to 55km/h the economy goes down to 20-35l/100km. Even worse if I put my foot down. So in city driving (ie: stop-start), the more gently you accelerate the better your economy. I guess what follows is that the slower you drive the better too simply coz you don't need to accelerate for so long to get to your final speed.
Ah, I wish I could find a link to the article I'm going to refer to.
I read an article somewhere a while back (yes, really!) that went into the story behind the creator of NTP as well as the founder of RIM. Both had very similar backgrounds and both were engineers with a thing for wireless technology. The chap who founded NTP had a separate company that sold pager technologies to telcos. He boomed and busted a few times and in the end he set up a company called NTP to patent the IP he had developed over the years.
Independently of all this RIM developed what eventually became the BlackBerry in Canada. The NTP chap realised he was using his patented technology and decided to sue him. According to the article RIM could have settled way back but decided not to. The article attributed this to the founder's personality.
Anyway, the article left me thinking that RIM was the Goliath and NTP the David in this battle. It was a good read
I found it!! Google is my friend. It was posted by The Globe and Mail. It's a good read.
But if you need to do a longer project, pick up Programming Perl and read it (from front to end). Without that book, Perl can just be extremely weird, after reading the book it at least makes sense in its own world, no matter how unconnected that world seems to be to the rest of the universe:-)
Read all of it? Blimey, I was writing my first code after just reading chapter 1! I was a shell script programmer and ch1 was enough for me to get into perl. It's a fantastic book and well laid-out. Read the 1st chapter and you'll be right. Excellent overview.
"If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby."
Not so fast Yewbert...
I think it would not be unfair to say atheism can be as much of a belief system as any faith is. This compares to not collecting stamps which is simply nothing.
Atheism is not necesarily that you don't believe God exists. It's more that you believe that God doesn't exist.
And once you're at that point, you, just like people of other faiths, want to let others know of your own belief system in the hope they will benefit from it. So atheists will also preach their beliefs (just as people of other faiths do) maybe with the hope of converting those who are not (yet) atheists. An example of this would be the practice of removing reference to religous influence from theirs and others' lives eg: No prayers in schools, no ten commandments statues, calling the Christmas break 'The Holidays' etc etc.
Some atheists also tend to 'crusade' against 'organised religion' (the reference to organised crime is not accidental) and also push a morally relativistic point of view which attempts to remove the authority of God.
My point is this. All of this stuff above is more than 'not collecting stamps'. Atheism is as an active a faith as Catholicism or Islam or Judaism is.
I used to run my own consultancy and I used OpenOffice (well StarOffice back then) as my office suite. I found it more useful to send documents around in PDF format instead of sending word documents to my clients. Most of my clients could read PDF back then (this was '99/2000) - even more should be able to now.
Be careful about compatibility. The MS Office compatibility in OpenOffice is not all it's cracked up to be - even things like bullets and headings change fonts and spacings during conversions. IMHO it's better for you to work in native formats and send PDF files around.
Big planes run on JetA1 which is a kerosene/diesel fuel. Little planes (pistons) run on Avas which 100 octane petrol. Some of 'em even run on plain ol' petrol petrol - like what you put in your cars.
I'd put my vote in for Notes also. It's architecture should scale to meet your requirements what with distributing you setup across many servers and using replication. Granted the client isn't the best by any means (more on this later) but the application itself is quite good. Your laptop users can replicate their e-mail locally which is a simple procedure. I replicate my notes locally just so I can index my mailbox on my local drive.
But the real advantage of Notes is as a distributed applications platform. If you want to expand past e-mail and start writing applications such as leave management or room booking or technical documentation databases the this is where Notes really shines. And they're all databases and they can all be replicated so they take advantage of the same redundancy that your e-mail will use. And if you need to travel then you just replicate the databases you want onto your notebook and take them with you. It's fantastic.
Ah, the mail client
Why oh why does the client suck SO MUCH!! At my previous company the management were looking at moving to exchange simply because Outlook is so much a better client than what Notes (even R6) is. It's a big fat piece of bloatware (as has been discussed many times here). My main peeve is that if you edit an attachment inside an e-mail you can't save it back into the e-mail! eg: here's a typical scenario:
Not using Notes (outlook, thunderbird, mail.app all let you do this)
Receive e-mail with an attachment
dbl-click on the attachment, edit it, save it
forward the e-mail, including the saved attachment, to someone else
Simple huh?
With Notes:
Receive e-mail with an attachment
Detach the attachment from the e-mail message. Save it somewhere
Use windows explorer (or whatever) to find the attachment, edit it and save it
Forward the message
before sending, delete the original attachment and replace it with the copy you have saved on your hard drive somewhere
send the message
delete your copy of the attachment
Sigh!!!
WHY!?!?!?!?
But despite all that crap I still think it's an excellent platform and one you should consider. It has support for encryption and also supports IMAP (although not very well I hear). A lot of large corporations run it. I've worked for 2 large investment banks both of who run it. You can also integrate IM into it (with sametime) and remote meetings also (with sametime meeting). Also, IBM PS are good at setting it up. For something this scale you'll be up for $$$ anyway so I'd be looking at having someone come in to help you and they're pretty good (I don't work for IBM!).
This is not news. Bill Gates just said that Google is like MS. He's trying to tarnish the image and the NYT obediently reports it and surrounds his comments with 2 pages of fluff.
Lets not kid ourselves here, the poor developers in India are exploited. The average salary is around $390/month, the kids down at the local fast food joint here in the US make more money than that. Sure the cost of living is a little lower over there, but things like books, computers etc, still cost the same or more than they do here.
I think you're the one who's kidding himself. I haven't been to India but I can bet you that $US390 is a HUGE wage in India. The cost of living is much much lower than in the US.
I live in Hong Kong and I go to China regularly where the situation is similar. A good wage in China is RMB1000/month which is about $US130 a month. But the living expenses are so low that $130 goes quite a way. You can get a meal for less $1 or $2 for example. And your staples (food, clothing, rent etc) cost a lot lot less than in the US (or Hong Kong for that matter). $130 isn't middle class but it's not poverty either. And that's a big step up for most people.
You won't tolerate it at all. What you'll do is move your outsourcing operation to China or Romania or somewhere so you'll get your same 75% savings again.
It's not worth it. They'll just replace the Queen's Birthday holiday with some president's or yay-we-chucked-out-the-queen day. Not enough to spark a revolution
You made a lot of sense up to the last paragraph (which is probably why you got modded down to -2). I can't remember the last time I worked a 40 hour week. It would seem like a holiday now! 45-50 hours is the norm. 60 isn't unusual. I don't think my productivity necessarily goes down past 40. I find my productivity is determined more by the quality of work I'm given. I'm not too good at creating unix accounts but much better at deploying enterprise backup solutions. I'm quite happy to deploy a backup solution for 50-60 hours a week. It's a challenge in itself and that keeps me going (and productive).
Anyway, I have no problem with a 45-50 hour week. I definitely don't think my productivity suffers at that level. 50-60 or 70. Well it's tough and the productivity increase is definitely not linear. But it's definitely not 'negative work' as mentioned in a previous post.
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Microsoft need to pay the Apple Tax. Apple take 30% of all App Store revenue, including in-App purchases.
So the fact that MS puts Office on the App Store and is prepared to pay Apple $$$ is an event worth reporting.
The mouse pre-dates the GUI you probably keyboard-navigated and definitely pre-dates the world wide web. So, your 'experience' is not one that would have been shared by anyone in the '80s or the early '90s.
Now if you'd tried to run WordPerfect in DOS on a 486DX2/50 with a green screen and memorised _those_ keyboard shortcuts then, yes, you would have had some '80s experience right there. Or try to load a third-party DOS expanded memory manager. Or just managing DOS memory (gee that was fun).
Vi won. Get over it.
Just asking.
There is no need for an Emacs vs vi flamewar.
Vi won.
...and lots of orange hair.
An orangutang!!!
Young orangutang supermodels coming to your neck of the woods soon....
Mark
Funny thing is they invented it and then they never used it!!
IIRC it was Google that was the first to exploit it on a wide basis with GMail.
Just goes to show MS can't spot a real innovation when they have one - even from their own labs...
That's what Ada was for.
I want to second this.
I did some tests in a Mazda 6. Fuel economy at 55-60km/h is quite good - around 5-6 litres/100km (pardon all the metrics you US guys). But accelerating up to 55km/h the economy goes down to 20-35l/100km. Even worse if I put my foot down. So in city driving (ie: stop-start), the more gently you accelerate the better your economy. I guess what follows is that the slower you drive the better too simply coz you don't need to accelerate for so long to get to your final speed.
...it's better value for money.
You get a longer ride.
I read an article somewhere a while back (yes, really!) that went into the story behind the creator of NTP as well as the founder of RIM. Both had very similar backgrounds and both were engineers with a thing for wireless technology. The chap who founded NTP had a separate company that sold pager technologies to telcos. He boomed and busted a few times and in the end he set up a company called NTP to patent the IP he had developed over the years.
Independently of all this RIM developed what eventually became the BlackBerry in Canada. The NTP chap realised he was using his patented technology and decided to sue him. According to the article RIM could have settled way back but decided not to. The article attributed this to the founder's personality.
Anyway, the article left me thinking that RIM was the Goliath and NTP the David in this battle. It was a good read
I found it!! Google is my friend. It was posted by The Globe and Mail. It's a good read.
Read all of it? Blimey, I was writing my first code after just reading chapter 1! I was a shell script programmer and ch1 was enough for me to get into perl. It's a fantastic book and well laid-out. Read the 1st chapter and you'll be right. Excellent overview.
Not so fast Yewbert...
I think it would not be unfair to say atheism can be as much of a belief system as any faith is. This compares to not collecting stamps which is simply nothing.
Atheism is not necesarily that you don't believe God exists. It's more that you believe that God doesn't exist.
And once you're at that point, you, just like people of other faiths, want to let others know of your own belief system in the hope they will benefit from it. So atheists will also preach their beliefs (just as people of other faiths do) maybe with the hope of converting those who are not (yet) atheists. An example of this would be the practice of removing reference to religous influence from theirs and others' lives eg: No prayers in schools, no ten commandments statues, calling the Christmas break 'The Holidays' etc etc.
Some atheists also tend to 'crusade' against 'organised religion' (the reference to organised crime is not accidental) and also push a morally relativistic point of view which attempts to remove the authority of God.
My point is this. All of this stuff above is more than 'not collecting stamps'. Atheism is as an active a faith as Catholicism or Islam or Judaism is.
The author of the article works for the Initiative for Software Choice. Or Yet Another Microsoft-Funded 'Independent' Body (TM). Check the list of members.
This article is just crap. It's Microsoft-funded FUD and another attempt to scare people away from the Massachusetts initiative.
Ignore it and call it for what it is.
Be careful about compatibility. The MS Office compatibility in OpenOffice is not all it's cracked up to be - even things like bullets and headings change fonts and spacings during conversions. IMHO it's better for you to work in native formats and send PDF files around.
Big planes run on JetA1 which is a kerosene/diesel fuel. Little planes (pistons) run on Avas which 100 octane petrol. Some of 'em even run on plain ol' petrol petrol - like what you put in your cars.
But the real advantage of Notes is as a distributed applications platform. If you want to expand past e-mail and start writing applications such as leave management or room booking or technical documentation databases the this is where Notes really shines. And they're all databases and they can all be replicated so they take advantage of the same redundancy that your e-mail will use. And if you need to travel then you just replicate the databases you want onto your notebook and take them with you. It's fantastic.
Ah, the mail client
Why oh why does the client suck SO MUCH!! At my previous company the management were looking at moving to exchange simply because Outlook is so much a better client than what Notes (even R6) is. It's a big fat piece of bloatware (as has been discussed many times here). My main peeve is that if you edit an attachment inside an e-mail you can't save it back into the e-mail! eg: here's a typical scenario:
Not using Notes (outlook, thunderbird, mail.app all let you do this)
- Receive e-mail with an attachment
- dbl-click on the attachment, edit it, save it
- forward the e-mail, including the saved attachment, to someone else
Simple huh?With Notes:
- Receive e-mail with an attachment
- Detach the attachment from the e-mail message. Save it somewhere
- Use windows explorer (or whatever) to find the attachment, edit it and save it
- Forward the message
- before sending, delete the original attachment and replace it with the copy you have saved on your hard drive somewhere
- send the message
- delete your copy of the attachment
Sigh!!!WHY!?!?!?!?
But despite all that crap I still think it's an excellent platform and one you should consider. It has support for encryption and also supports IMAP (although not very well I hear). A lot of large corporations run it. I've worked for 2 large investment banks both of who run it. You can also integrate IM into it (with sametime) and remote meetings also (with sametime meeting). Also, IBM PS are good at setting it up. For something this scale you'll be up for $$$ anyway so I'd be looking at having someone come in to help you and they're pretty good (I don't work for IBM!).
Download what? I can't see any red dots on my google earth and there doesn't seem anything obvious in the keyhole layer to indicate it.
Big whoopy-doo.
I think you're the one who's kidding himself. I haven't been to India but I can bet you that $US390 is a HUGE wage in India. The cost of living is much much lower than in the US.
I live in Hong Kong and I go to China regularly where the situation is similar. A good wage in China is RMB1000/month which is about $US130 a month. But the living expenses are so low that $130 goes quite a way. You can get a meal for less $1 or $2 for example. And your staples (food, clothing, rent etc) cost a lot lot less than in the US (or Hong Kong for that matter). $130 isn't middle class but it's not poverty either. And that's a big step up for most people.
You won't tolerate it at all. What you'll do is move your outsourcing operation to China or Romania or somewhere so you'll get your same 75% savings again.
Please please please....
Why in the Linux Hotel of course.
It's not worth it. They'll just replace the Queen's Birthday holiday with some president's or yay-we-chucked-out-the-queen day. Not enough to spark a revolution
You made a lot of sense up to the last paragraph (which is probably why you got modded down to -2). I can't remember the last time I worked a 40 hour week. It would seem like a holiday now! 45-50 hours is the norm. 60 isn't unusual. I don't think my productivity necessarily goes down past 40. I find my productivity is determined more by the quality of work I'm given. I'm not too good at creating unix accounts but much better at deploying enterprise backup solutions. I'm quite happy to deploy a backup solution for 50-60 hours a week. It's a challenge in itself and that keeps me going (and productive).
Anyway, I have no problem with a 45-50 hour week. I definitely don't think my productivity suffers at that level. 50-60 or 70. Well it's tough and the productivity increase is definitely not linear. But it's definitely not 'negative work' as mentioned in a previous post.