Don't do it; the pricing just says they want to have a few extra sells. But IBM is used to supporting big clients, not small ones. I have the feeling they're not really committed to this market.
I've seen the same with Oracle. Some nifty pricing got an Oracle database within reach of small businesses. Is it affordable? Yes. Do you need all those fancy features? No. Will it give headaches later on? Yes. Will you need expensive consultants? Yes.
Only the other day, I picked up an O'Reilly book in a bookshop that had a $49.99 cover price but was £39.99 to buy in Sterling - nowhere near the 2:1 Sterling/Dollar exchange rate that there is currently.
Well, first of all half of the cover price is margin for your local supplier. And secondly, it might be that the book is actually domestically printed.
"Mindrover". In this game, you build and program a little robot that goes through obstacle courses, fights other robots, etc. It's got an intuitive graphical programming language (though you can edit the files directly
This game scared the living hell out of me. My 9-year-old nephew started editing the files directly and turned this game into a nightmare where one giant robot called Azr43L enslaved humandkind and started eating babies.
BTW: "You are an idiot." may sound like an insult, but from time to time it's just an accurate diagnosis
No, it's not accurate at all. It signifies that you are, at all times, doing stupid things. It's not insulting and much more accurate to say was that in this particular case that was a dumb thing to do.
I just don't feel like filtering out the abusive parts. I'll give it right back to them. "I'm getting angry here, because I have the feeling you're berating me." That's usually enough to make people realize they're being abusive.
They could have data that supports the hypothesis that people are taking illegitimate sick days.
They could have data, but that doesn't mean that it's causal evidence for sick day abuse. Vrijhof (1985) found that Mondays have a relatively high number of sickness absences because there's no way to note sickness in the weekend. When corrected for this, it actually appears Monday and Friday have the lowest number of sickness absences.
In most jobs I had, I was given the choice between a Linux or a Windows desktop. I would really hate to work somewhere where I didn't get the trust and freedom to pick my own tools. It's not really about Linux being better (it is for me), but more about the fact that I want some trust and independence.
I'm starting my new businesses on Linux from the ground up.
I've recently started my own business as well. It's all Linux of course, however, it's difficult to get it one hundred percent open source. Take for instance webbased software that I create. It has to look good on IE. That's one step down the dark, dark path.
Then imagine some people start working for you. You want to force them to use a Linux desktop? People are most productive with whatever they like to use -- so that's going to be a hassle as well. They may like Windows, or Mac. In short, I see that proprietary software is not something you can completely avoid.
After contacting the owners' legal team of the Hello Kitty brand, I can safely say: yes, it's still possible to keep wearing your Hello Kitty undergarments.
If you count Chinese and the like, well, we're all equally buggered
I'm not sure actually. Besides my mother language, I'm pretty comfortable with English and have highschool level knowledge of German. Then I lived for half a year in China. With a Mandarin Phrasebook from Lonely Planet, I could help myself in shops and "hello-how-are-you" situations with about half an hour of study every day, four days a week, for two months. I consider it easier to speak (not write, of course) than French.
AFAIK the SP1 update won't install when it finds an incompatible device -- period. So yes, you can disable the driver itself but that still doesn't make SP1 install.
There's such a thing as user interaction and graceful degradation. People might want to accept lesser functionality because SP1 would give them things they can't do without. They might view sound as something unnecessary and thus choose to accept a non functioning piece of hardware. Graceful degradation would mean that it's OK to install but the printer will only print in black and white.
The cousin ITs believe that they can build a framework according to their training that will make us all be more productive. The HR believe the same with a different framework. [...] So we fight back.
Don't we me. I don't fight back, I try to work along. Now, I could learn something from you because obviously you've got a big drive to get the job done. But what I'm missing here is you realizing that these other people you fight against, are just like you. They work in the same company and try to do a good job.
Meh... I've had it lots of times in the 2.4 days. Faulty CDs were often the problem. For one reason or another, a process trying to read a faulty burned CD would hang indefinitely. I haven't seen it for ages, but that might be because I hardly use CDs nowadays.
He's totally right on this, in my opinion. I get a real kick out of using my shell (bash). I've got a bunch of options in my.bashrc that make it much easier to use for me:
Automatic logout when left alone for more than x minutes
Colored prompt, allowing me to spot the output between previous and next command fast
Aliases like 'printcode' that calls a2ps with all the right options
Fancy PROMPT_COMMAND variable that sets the xterm title just right
Limiting the history
Ignoring things like 'ls -l' in the history
Expanding the tab-completion possibilities
And lots of more options, the list gets too long already:-)
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Don't do it; the pricing just says they want to have a few extra sells. But IBM is used to supporting big clients, not small ones. I have the feeling they're not really committed to this market.
I've seen the same with Oracle. Some nifty pricing got an Oracle database within reach of small businesses. Is it affordable? Yes. Do you need all those fancy features? No. Will it give headaches later on? Yes. Will you need expensive consultants? Yes.
You know the old adage; "those who can't, teach" ;-)
Because software costs more than a bog-standard cash register.
Statement: "It was good enough for the PC generation!"
Answer: "So, why don't you need improvements?"
This calls upon the person making the statement to think about what he said. Because often that's not the case at all.
In most jobs I had, I was given the choice between a Linux or a Windows desktop. I would really hate to work somewhere where I didn't get the trust and freedom to pick my own tools. It's not really about Linux being better (it is for me), but more about the fact that I want some trust and independence.
I've recently started my own business as well. It's all Linux of course, however, it's difficult to get it one hundred percent open source. Take for instance webbased software that I create. It has to look good on IE. That's one step down the dark, dark path.
Then imagine some people start working for you. You want to force them to use a Linux desktop? People are most productive with whatever they like to use -- so that's going to be a hassle as well. They may like Windows, or Mac. In short, I see that proprietary software is not something you can completely avoid.
After contacting the owners' legal team of the Hello Kitty brand, I can safely say: yes, it's still possible to keep wearing your Hello Kitty undergarments.
Use the Slashdotter Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2175 That way you can select a specific stylesheet, amongst them the OMG ponies.
+1 insightful, once again
Question: What do you think about Microsoft's U.S. general manager/chief security advisor?
Answer: I think it would be a good idea.
AFAIK the SP1 update won't install when it finds an incompatible device -- period. So yes, you can disable the driver itself but that still doesn't make SP1 install.
There's such a thing as user interaction and graceful degradation. People might want to accept lesser functionality because SP1 would give them things they can't do without. They might view sound as something unnecessary and thus choose to accept a non functioning piece of hardware. Graceful degradation would mean that it's OK to install but the printer will only print in black and white.
Meh... I've had it lots of times in the 2.4 days. Faulty CDs were often the problem. For one reason or another, a process trying to read a faulty burned CD would hang indefinitely. I haven't seen it for ages, but that might be because I hardly use CDs nowadays.
- Automatic logout when left alone for more than x minutes
- Colored prompt, allowing me to spot the output between previous and next command fast
- Aliases like 'printcode' that calls a2ps with all the right options
- Fancy PROMPT_COMMAND variable that sets the xterm title just right
- Limiting the history
- Ignoring things like 'ls -l' in the history
- Expanding the tab-completion possibilities
And lots of more options, the list gets too long alreadyNah you don't sound disparaging at all :D Anyway, OK, I admit I was really looking for stupid things.