YOU FAIL, American pig. There are no American infidels in Baghdad, not now not ever. We are not afraid of the Americans. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid. I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
However, since 10.4.5+, I have noticed that (as a whole) there appears to be an inability of OS X to free RAM up as efficiently as it used to. Programs like Safari, after many hours of usage, will remain as a HUGE RAM/virtual memory sink
Not only that, his revised Wiki bio now says he was an account manager for Fortune 20 company and a licensed paralegal for 5 years before that. The guy is 24. Let's assume he was this account manager for maybe a year? So he must have started the 2 year paralegal school at what? 16 or so? Yeah.
I think one of the fronts for patent reform will come from outside the US border, when other countries finally wise up and simply make it their national policy to ignore stupid patents (or all patents).
Microsoft's refusal to come closer to a reasonable attempt at compliance with the latest accepted CSS standard will always create issues. What's astonishing to me is that they don't seem to realize that if they did, they could walk all over FF in the average consumer market (more than they are already, that is...).
Wal-Mart sells a huge variety of well-known well-regarded quality brands.... including Apple and Sony. If Apple and Sony are crap, than EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT EVERYWHERE is crap.
Haven't purchased any Sony consumer electronics recently, have you?
And if this is all T&M, lets assume a generous hourly rate of $250/hour and the guy is staying in a $500 a night hotel. That means this takes about 3 full weeks to certify a machine!
I think it involves more than one guy flying out. But you've never been involved in government contracts, I'm assuming? For this type of thing, take whatever would be acceptable in a commercial business environment, and multiply it by 4 or 5 times. That's why business is loving The War On Terror, it's a big pork feed...
A crappy, ugly mess of a program that is wildly popular in the fortune 500 for no other reason then because IBM has salesmen with really really shiny shoes.
Notes filled a need before there where other options. After time, when there where other options, people where to invested to be able to leave Notes... My take on it...
Deal with it. I'm smarter than you. I could do your job in my sleep; you couldn't do mine in a million years.
Exactly the ignorant elitist attitude that will place you near the top of the list when it's time to lay a few people off. Fact of the matter is that management needs tech and tech needs management, but neither needs arrogant know-it-alls like you.
At 37, I haven't suffered any harm from this attitude yet.
Time is not on your side. A more polite and still smart and pleasant to be around kid will soon replace you. Sure they will need some training and education that comes with experience, but the benefits to the management, that you are so quick to insult, of this new fresh blood out weigh your value.
All well and good, but the real step needed for OSS CMS is to create one that an average user can administer.
I think this is only true for the "average" non-professional fan site or personal blog / project.
When thinking of an "enterprise grade" CMS that a commercial site might use, where there are complex content management problems that involve complicated taxonomy and multi users and editors, it can be expected that the administration is going to be complex as well. This is not to say that the admins of such a site should know code (though it might help), but it just a whole different level of management from someone's *nuke site or WordPress blog or whatever...
They're sound business tactics, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're right or make sense.
How can they be "sound business tactics" if they don't make sense? Anyway, what's good for Microsoft is often different than what's healthy technology innovation in general.
He's a manager, not a coder. He doesn't need to push back, he needs to spend his time managing. Which means that instead of coding, he needs to spend his time doing other things like:
Like? Like pushing back. That's exactly what managers are for. They don't code, they push their agenda when and where it needs pushing.
I'll tell you, though, I've worked in a few places both big and small, and never experienced this problem. Most of the managers I've worked with, are all over the new paradigm of the Interweb, and the synergy it offers our customers, the staggering ROI potential....
People, in my experience, don't necessarily want to be on the web to use a word processor/similar application.
Don't think "web based", think "browser based". The app itself can be running some stripped down web server-type component, and script language interpreters like Perl and PHP... Nothing here demands Interweb connectivity... But this app in particular is not ready to take on MS Word, not even close. There are a million nice Rich Text editors out there, for example FCKeditor...
Have you gone to the trouble of actually reading the fine print? Are you saying that big corporations with a whole lot to lose in a class action suit are lieing when they say they are not connecting the CC info on the purchase with the club card? Just more from the tinfoil hat people.
and constant harping about signing over your credit profile to avoid being charged penalties of up to 75% on food.
You know that's not true. The issue of Club Cards has been hashed over and over here, but the bottom line is that most do not require any personal identifiers. That the stores give shoppers value in return allowing them to better understand purchase trends is not scandalous in the least except to the tinfoil hat crowd. Get over it.
As well, they announced a coding contest, where 6 people will win a Plasma TV and an XBox 360.
I can't help but think that these types of coding contests are just trolls for ideas that would have cost the companies a lot more had they hired a developer to sit around thinking this stuff up, and it seems a bit disingenuous. If they actually had to pay a developer rather than just giving away a few relatively cheap toys, it would cost considerably more. And if any of these ideas they are getting on the cheap are patentable, well, we know who gets that slice of the pie.
Trademark laws exist to protect the consumer, not the producer.
Where you been the last few dozen, 20, 30, 40 years? Trademark laws exist to protect "intellectualy property" so the owner can profit. Way it is, way its been. News? No. Right? No. Life moves on.
Would you hire a 27 year-old who has a MySpace account?
And good Lord! Have you been to her MySpace site? Take a look at some of those pictures of he flipping the camera off or "partying hardy". He site probably only "sealed the deal" on a decision already made 5 minute into the interview.
Slashdot Mirror
That is all.
They must be using code from Firefox...
(ducks)
Not only that, his revised Wiki bio now says he was an account manager for Fortune 20 company and a licensed paralegal for 5 years before that. The guy is 24. Let's assume he was this account manager for maybe a year? So he must have started the 2 year paralegal school at what? 16 or so? Yeah.
I think one of the fronts for patent reform will come from outside the US border, when other countries finally wise up and simply make it their national policy to ignore stupid patents (or all patents).
Microsoft's refusal to come closer to a reasonable attempt at compliance with the latest accepted CSS standard will always create issues. What's astonishing to me is that they don't seem to realize that if they did, they could walk all over FF in the average consumer market (more than they are already, that is...).
I surf to Sublime Directory's Big Board, and using Firefox, have no problems... As much "free" porn as your plate can hold...
Haven't purchased any Sony consumer electronics recently, have you?
I think it involves more than one guy flying out. But you've never been involved in government contracts, I'm assuming? For this type of thing, take whatever would be acceptable in a commercial business environment, and multiply it by 4 or 5 times. That's why business is loving The War On Terror, it's a big pork feed...
My catch-all goes to /dev/null
Notes filled a need before there where other options. After time, when there where other options, people where to invested to be able to leave Notes... My take on it...
Exactly the ignorant elitist attitude that will place you near the top of the list when it's time to lay a few people off. Fact of the matter is that management needs tech and tech needs management, but neither needs arrogant know-it-alls like you.
At 37, I haven't suffered any harm from this attitude yet.
Time is not on your side. A more polite and still smart and pleasant to be around kid will soon replace you. Sure they will need some training and education that comes with experience, but the benefits to the management, that you are so quick to insult, of this new fresh blood out weigh your value.
It's well known that software projects "more object-oriented features" have better synergy to help break out of the paradigm.
I think this is only true for the "average" non-professional fan site or personal blog / project.
When thinking of an "enterprise grade" CMS that a commercial site might use, where there are complex content management problems that involve complicated taxonomy and multi users and editors, it can be expected that the administration is going to be complex as well. This is not to say that the admins of such a site should know code (though it might help), but it just a whole different level of management from someone's *nuke site or WordPress blog or whatever...
Orson Scott Card would have been nice...
How can they be "sound business tactics" if they don't make sense? Anyway, what's good for Microsoft is often different than what's healthy technology innovation in general.
Like? Like pushing back. That's exactly what managers are for. They don't code, they push their agenda when and where it needs pushing.
I'll tell you, though, I've worked in a few places both big and small, and never experienced this problem. Most of the managers I've worked with, are all over the new paradigm of the Interweb, and the synergy it offers our customers, the staggering ROI potential....
Don't think "web based", think "browser based". The app itself can be running some stripped down web server-type component, and script language interpreters like Perl and PHP... Nothing here demands Interweb connectivity... But this app in particular is not ready to take on MS Word, not even close. There are a million nice Rich Text editors out there, for example FCKeditor...
Have you gone to the trouble of actually reading the fine print? Are you saying that big corporations with a whole lot to lose in a class action suit are lieing when they say they are not connecting the CC info on the purchase with the club card? Just more from the tinfoil hat people.
You know that's not true. The issue of Club Cards has been hashed over and over here, but the bottom line is that most do not require any personal identifiers. That the stores give shoppers value in return allowing them to better understand purchase trends is not scandalous in the least except to the tinfoil hat crowd. Get over it.
Why not. Everything else about my cell phone is designed to suck money out of my wallet.
I can't help but think that these types of coding contests are just trolls for ideas that would have cost the companies a lot more had they hired a developer to sit around thinking this stuff up, and it seems a bit disingenuous. If they actually had to pay a developer rather than just giving away a few relatively cheap toys, it would cost considerably more. And if any of these ideas they are getting on the cheap are patentable, well, we know who gets that slice of the pie.
I see....
Where you been the last few dozen, 20, 30, 40 years? Trademark laws exist to protect "intellectualy property" so the owner can profit. Way it is, way its been. News? No. Right? No. Life moves on.
And good Lord! Have you been to her MySpace site? Take a look at some of those pictures of he flipping the camera off or "partying hardy". He site probably only "sealed the deal" on a decision already made 5 minute into the interview.
I misunderstood the statement.