You can make a incredible usable GUI and have also a incredible control over your software.
It is really easy to add functionnality to help geeks have all the options they may want without sacrificing the usability.
Think of Firefox as an example. This is one of the FOSS with the best interface I've seen. Why? It's easy to use and the interfaces act in a consistant way from one option to another. Moreover, it's even consistant with the OS you're using. The "Option" menu is not at the same place depending if you're on Windows or Linux to keep consistancy with the OS
Do they sacrifice the control? Not at all. The extensions give you the possibility to customize everything you want.
Well, parent is one of the most brilliant post in this topic.
Some may say that only countries outside America that would have this kind of problem but it isn't true.
Even in Canada (you know that place where everyone is fine) you could create a panic by asking to a Judo Olympic Champion to hold the flag at the Athens 2004 opening ceremony...
For people outside Canada: A lot of English-Canadians were offended by the fact that Nicolas Gill, a French-Canadian Judoka and Olympic Champion, were the flagholder of the Canada, because he one said in an interview that he voted Yes to the 1995 referendum about Quebec's sovereignty...
Being an employed-almost-techie(analyst), I would say that it seems a serious trend since maybe 12-18 months that companies are making more and more investment in IT.
As more and more application start to use HTML browser as their "interface", the war is for the future of computing.
Event SAP created web interface to its popular Enterprise System. So, as the time go, more and more applications (specially business applications) will use HTML as a way to create remotely-accessible interface. So, the OS could become less and less important and the browser would become more and more important.
So, if people lose interest in IE, they won't be tied to Windows anymore and then Microsoft will lose revenues.
Open Source Software for Governments is a question that is higher than cost.
The fact is that Open Source Software use STANDARDS that are PUBLISHED. Not closed-try-to-guess standards a la Microsoft.
From this point, if your government use Microsoft software to store his data, it's putting your data in risk? Why? Because you don't know HOW they are saved.
Not a bad deal for a single user, but a read danger for a government. What is the electoral list (or the income tax files) got a problem that is hard to recover? You'd be shaking because you don't know the format of that damn file. How could you wish to recover your file and be SURE that the data are still RIGHT?
Yeah, there is backups, but count on that 1-on-a-1000000 chance that the backups got the same problem? Man, we're talking about highly-confidential information here?
What if the government can't recover his nuclear arm inventory?
These kind of pages are easy to fing I know. But well documented business case are harder to find. (You may click on the link to Beaumont hospital in the article to see an example of a good business case.
I've met people that would put money in the stock market for the first time, just for google.
Yes, I know a lot of people that will do it too. Of course, almost none of these peoples know NOTHING about financial investment.
Google may be a good buy, but only at the good price.
My prediction is that Google stock price will go skyhigh in the first few months, then go down slowly to reach an acceptable level in 1+ year.
Some peoples say that Google will NEVER go down. It's stupid, it is not the first company who is supposed to be a heck-of-a-good-business around.
Anyone remember Nortel Network? Well, it was not a search engine, but it was for sure the tech company the most popular during the bubble. And there was good reasons (that most was thinking at the time): with the constant expansion of the needs in terms of optic fibers and related components, a lot of people (even "good" financial advisors) thinked it was the deal of the millenium.
It is not the simple parcometer, it is the payment station (who may takes payment for 20+ parcometers on the street).
Anyway, now you'll start believing my sig!;)
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You made a a little mistake.
UML is a design tool, not a methodology. So, you have to choose your methodology. Most often, it would be Rational Unified Process (RUP), that is made for use with UML.
But whenever you need a design tool, you can use UML (or some aspects of UML), ANSI, or any other design tool.
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a morale boost would be nice on occasion...or at least more words of wisdom
Well, according to W3Schools, Mozilla-family browsers are the only one that have gained market shares (or install base) this year...
I hope this make you feel less like "preaching in the desert".
You can make a incredible usable GUI and have also a incredible control over your software.
It is really easy to add functionnality to help geeks have all the options they may want without sacrificing the usability.
Think of Firefox as an example. This is one of the FOSS with the best interface I've seen. Why? It's easy to use and the interfaces act in a consistant way from one option to another. Moreover, it's even consistant with the OS you're using. The "Option" menu is not at the same place depending if you're on Windows or Linux to keep consistancy with the OS
Do they sacrifice the control? Not at all. The extensions give you the possibility to customize everything you want.
Phew, I thinked twice about it too. Because I know this really have a way to heat things up to talk about the Quebec situation.
Well, parent is one of the most brilliant post in this topic.
Some may say that only countries outside America that would have this kind of problem but it isn't true.
Even in Canada (you know that place where everyone is fine) you could create a panic by asking to a Judo Olympic Champion to hold the flag at the Athens 2004 opening ceremony...
For people outside Canada: A lot of English-Canadians were offended by the fact that Nicolas Gill, a French-Canadian Judoka and Olympic Champion, were the flagholder of the Canada, because he one said in an interview that he voted Yes to the 1995 referendum about Quebec's sovereignty...
And.. hum...Know anyone who is hiring local?
In the consulting business:
CGI/Ernst&Young/Deloitte/Accenture
Don't know what your type of job, but it seems that Electronics Arts hired a lot of programmer in Montreal in the last yeat too.
And for the jobs described in the article at IBM, there will be somes in Montreal for sure.
Good Luck in your resarch!
Forget the "parent", I had not read the modded-down comment before I post so I was not understanding well :)
Yeah, that would be a financial analyst. I'm a Information System Analyst.
it's good to see companies doing better
:)
Being an employed-almost-techie(analyst), I would say that it seems a serious trend since maybe 12-18 months that companies are making more and more investment in IT.
Hope this will last!
As more and more application start to use HTML browser as their "interface", the war is for the future of computing. Event SAP created web interface to its popular Enterprise System. So, as the time go, more and more applications (specially business applications) will use HTML as a way to create remotely-accessible interface. So, the OS could become less and less important and the browser would become more and more important. So, if people lose interest in IE, they won't be tied to Windows anymore and then Microsoft will lose revenues.
Microsoft tells people to "fine-tune" their website in order that they correctly fit in SP2.
= /library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xpsp2web.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
But there is not THAT many site that are not corrects. I run on Firefox and 98% percent of the site display correctly.
There is a lot of "broken" sites that won't be right in IE when Microsoft will release it's SP2 for XP with a lot of added security to IE.
Pop-up won't show, and all the non-correctly defined elements won't show right neither. So, maybe finally the webmasters will correct their sites.
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"diarrhea"
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Well, since the time I told everybody with my sig that Montreal IS the best place in the world.
Open Source Software for Governments is a question that is higher than cost.
The fact is that Open Source Software use STANDARDS that are PUBLISHED. Not closed-try-to-guess standards a la Microsoft.
From this point, if your government use Microsoft software to store his data, it's putting your data in risk? Why? Because you don't know HOW they are saved.
Not a bad deal for a single user, but a read danger for a government. What is the electoral list (or the income tax files) got a problem that is hard to recover? You'd be shaking because you don't know the format of that damn file. How could you wish to recover your file and be SURE that the data are still RIGHT?
Yeah, there is backups, but count on that 1-on-a-1000000 chance that the backups got the same problem? Man, we're talking about highly-confidential information here?
What if the government can't recover his nuclear arm inventory?
I used LOGO in French. Maybe it was not the most powerful language, but for a 10-year old that I was, it was perfect...
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It was a really good initiation to what programming is like...
Yeah I know i will have to document them... I want already written cases but i'll have to write somes on my own too...
These kind of pages are easy to fing I know. But well documented business case are harder to find. (You may click on the link to Beaumont hospital in the article to see an example of a good business case.
Yes, that would be an interesting study to.
But now I'll stick to my subject... (maybe later)
With french fries and a large coke please!
I've met people that would put money in the stock market for the first time, just for google.
Yes, I know a lot of people that will do it too. Of course, almost none of these peoples know NOTHING about financial investment.
Google may be a good buy, but only at the good price.
My prediction is that Google stock price will go skyhigh in the first few months, then go down slowly to reach an acceptable level in 1+ year.
Some peoples say that Google will NEVER go down. It's stupid, it is not the first company who is supposed to be a heck-of-a-good-business around.
Anyone remember Nortel Network? Well, it was not a search engine, but it was for sure the tech company the most popular during the bubble. And there was good reasons (that most was thinking at the time): with the constant expansion of the needs in terms of optic fibers and related components, a lot of people (even "good" financial advisors) thinked it was the deal of the millenium.
And, depending on how you read the law, it's 100% legal.
So i guess it comes down to: And, depending on who has the best lawyers...
It is not the simple parcometer, it is the payment station (who may takes payment for 20+ parcometers on the street).
;)
Anyway, now you'll start believing my sig!
You made a a little mistake.
UML is a design tool, not a methodology. So, you have to choose your methodology. Most often, it would be Rational Unified Process (RUP), that is made for use with UML.
But whenever you need a design tool, you can use UML (or some aspects of UML), ANSI, or any other design tool.
There's more: Even if you can break an article in sentences, nobody RTFA anyway!
The Department of Defense already developed a study on the application of open source:
_ 01/kenwood_software/index.html
http://www.mitre.org/work/tech_papers/tech_papers