I have no clue as to whether that theory is true or not. I seem to remember back in the late 90's that adult entertainment companies were the only *profitable* companies on the internet. Sure, Amazon and the like were present, but Amazon (to take one example) did not become profitable until a couple of years ago.
I've found that many NAS (Buffalo Terastation best example I can think of) have limitations when it comes to OS/X compatibility:
- Can't copy files larger than 2Gb. - Can't copy files with names longer than 30 characters. - Can't copy files with names that contain "special" characters (although they're OK on the Mac).
Have you tested those three scenarios? if that's the case, I'm getting me one for Christmas!!:)
Rats
I'm typing those commands, but CPAN tells me that SpamAssassin is up to date. However, when I type "spamassassin --version" I get 2.64.
What am I doing wrong?
A Floppy is when you can't get it hard. It "flops" and you can't do anything.
There are pills to fix it. Take some Viagra, and you'll be back as new. I'm sure there are plenty of e-mails in your inbox that tell you how to get some very cheap. And if you still don't like it after you get it hard? well, start clicking on those penis-enlargement ads!
You are absolutely correct. Large IT projects work exactly the way you describe them....and you are right with both things, those large IT companies are both incompentente and utterly shameless.
My company is not large at all, but we have seen large IT consulting firms when doing work for clients, and they usually work the following way:
- First, they have a "big" name, which allows them to meet with the CIO for lunch. - They use their big name and their big words to sell them the $5M project. - The CIO accepts. - The consulting firm cashes the check and moves on.
You would think there is some organized process they follow, but I still haven't seen it. They have pretty documents that they generate every once in a while, but by no means they are used as measurements for project progress and/or client expectation....very depressing.
Sure, I could watch Scooby all day long and you wouldn't know...at first.
Software projects are tracked and managed. It soon would be apparent that your progress is not aligned with what the initial estimate was, and although you could give some bullshit reasons as to why your progress was not as expected, they would eventually get rid of you for somebody more efficient.
Working from home sounds like a really good idea, but I don't think it's going to happen (unfortunately). I work for a software consulting firm and we have some remote people that work from home because they have no other choice (they are too far away from the closest office). However, when I (or anybody in the office) asked about working from home, the excuse we were given was that it would break the "team environment". They value person-to-person interaction too much and they don't care whether you could do netmeeting, telephone conference, or video conference through the net.
Working from home means you don't interact with other team members as much as you would if you were in the same location, and you don't share your knowledge and experience with them. Now, you don't share the comments about last night's football game either, but that's another story.
True, for home use you would probably be better off by just getting another cheap PC and switch between them (for as long as you don't mind having two computes chewing up power, space, and noise).
However, in a corporate environment, virtual machines make a lot of sense. You can purchase a beefy server that gives you all the redundancy and fail-over features that you need to run business critical applications, and at the same time you can "divide" that machine into virtual servers, each one performing a different function, and benefitting from the redundancy and fail-over. Really cheap and cost effective solution!!
It makes phone calls, takes pictures, plays music, has games... and you can't dry you hair with it?
Sorry, but until they come up with a device that AT LEAST lets you talk on the phone, take pictures, play music, play games, dry my hair, press my clothes, clean my room, and check for new porn on the net, I'm not interested. Thank you very much.
Forget about the fact that you could do it cheaper on your own.
Forget about the fact that this is targeted for the "masses", which don't include geeks....How is this device a "backup"?
It's a computer with a hard drive inside. Hard drives fail (and IDE are more prone to failures that SCSI)! That's one of the reasons you perform backups!
Who can guarantee me that two weeks after I'm using that thing the HD doesn't die?...If it at least copied its content to a web space so I could recover it later, that would be a different thing.
The main problem with.Net is that it ties you to a specific OS...
hmm... not quite
...makes it a pain from a business economics point of view
right on the money!
From the technology standpoint.Net sounds very good to most corporations who are already using M$ for their in-house apps. The problem is the money. All those thousands of lines of VB and ASP code (which cost thousands of dollars to plan, implement, debug, and deploy) have to be re-written into VB.NET and ASP.NET. That's a lot of money.
Sure, VS.NET comes with wizards that will migrate your VB app into VB.NET, and there are whitepapers that explains how to have your ASP pages run under ASP.NET, but for truly taking advantage of.Net's features, you have to re-write, and companies are not ready to pay for that yet.
Back in my days of parallel programming (read: 1998) on Beowulf clusters I used Fortran and C. The trick to make your program "parallel" is to use special programming libraries that will spawn instances of your program across the cluster and let them communicate between each other. The libraries I used were PVM and MPI.
At that time they were working on a Java implementation, but I don't know what happened with that.
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Hi!!! How are you?
It's so nice to meet a fellow PowerPC-based Mac user on the net...
sex presumably works better than irradiation
Well Said!!!I'd pick a quickie over a CAT scan any day of the week...
...so you can check out at the grocery store faster
Does it really support OS/X all the way?
:)
I've found that many NAS (Buffalo Terastation best example I can think of) have limitations when it comes to OS/X compatibility:
- Can't copy files larger than 2Gb.
- Can't copy files with names longer than 30 characters.
- Can't copy files with names that contain "special" characters (although they're OK on the Mac).
Have you tested those three scenarios? if that's the case, I'm getting me one for Christmas!!
Thanks.
He was not joking. ...and don't call him surely.
Rats I'm typing those commands, but CPAN tells me that SpamAssassin is up to date. However, when I type "spamassassin --version" I get 2.64. What am I doing wrong?
A Floppy is when you can't get it hard. It "flops" and you can't do anything.
There are pills to fix it. Take some Viagra, and you'll be back as new. I'm sure there are plenty of e-mails in your inbox that tell you how to get some very cheap. And if you still don't like it after you get it hard? well, start clicking on those penis-enlargement ads!
You are absolutely correct. Large IT projects work exactly the way you describe them. ...and you are right with both things, those large IT companies are both incompentente and utterly shameless.
...very depressing.
My company is not large at all, but we have seen large IT consulting firms when doing work for clients, and they usually work the following way:
- First, they have a "big" name, which allows them to meet with the CIO for lunch.
- They use their big name and their big words to sell them the $5M project.
- The CIO accepts.
- The consulting firm cashes the check and moves on.
You would think there is some organized process they follow, but I still haven't seen it. They have pretty documents that they generate every once in a while, but by no means they are used as measurements for project progress and/or client expectation.
I disagree.
Sure, I could watch Scooby all day long and you wouldn't know...at first.
Software projects are tracked and managed. It soon would be apparent that your progress is not aligned with what the initial estimate was, and although you could give some bullshit reasons as to why your progress was not as expected, they would eventually get rid of you for somebody more efficient.
Working from home sounds like a really good idea, but I don't think it's going to happen (unfortunately). I work for a software consulting firm and we have some remote people that work from home because they have no other choice (they are too far away from the closest office). However, when I (or anybody in the office) asked about working from home, the excuse we were given was that it would break the "team environment". They value person-to-person interaction too much and they don't care whether you could do netmeeting, telephone conference, or video conference through the net.
Working from home means you don't interact with other team members as much as you would if you were in the same location, and you don't share your knowledge and experience with them. Now, you don't share the comments about last night's football game either, but that's another story.
Besides the shapes, they also found WRITING incriptions! among them:
Sorry... it's friday. I couldn't help it. It was a long week for me...
True, for home use you would probably be better off by just getting another cheap PC and switch between them (for as long as you don't mind having two computes chewing up power, space, and noise).
However, in a corporate environment, virtual machines make a lot of sense. You can purchase a beefy server that gives you all the redundancy and fail-over features that you need to run business critical applications, and at the same time you can "divide" that machine into virtual servers, each one performing a different function, and benefitting from the redundancy and fail-over. Really cheap and cost effective solution!!
What!!!!????
It makes phone calls, takes pictures, plays music, has games... and you can't dry you hair with it?
Sorry, but until they come up with a device that AT LEAST lets you talk on the phone, take pictures, play music, play games, dry my hair, press my clothes, clean my room, and check for new porn on the net, I'm not interested. Thank you very much.
Forget about the fact that you could do it cheaper on your own.
...How is this device a "backup"?
...If it at least copied its content to a web space so I could recover it later, that would be a different thing.
Forget about the fact that this is targeted for the "masses", which don't include geeks.
It's a computer with a hard drive inside. Hard drives fail (and IDE are more prone to failures that SCSI)! That's one of the reasons you perform backups!
Who can guarantee me that two weeks after I'm using that thing the HD doesn't die?
Tedious
Just can't help thinking of
So, what word processor did you just release? It's not really Abiword, is it?
Of course!
What if they had to reproduce the error?
I don't know about you, but I sure as hell wouldn't want so much as a drop of moisture anywhere NEAR a $35k Sun blade server
Why not?
sounds like job security to me.
hmm... not quite
right on the money!
From the technology standpoint
Sure, VS.NET comes with wizards that will migrate your VB app into VB.NET, and there are whitepapers that explains how to have your ASP pages run under ASP.NET, but for truly taking advantage of
Back in my days of parallel programming (read: 1998) on Beowulf clusters I used Fortran and C. The trick to make your program "parallel" is to use special programming libraries that will spawn instances of your program across the cluster and let them communicate between each other. The libraries I used were PVM and MPI.
At that time they were working on a Java implementation, but I don't know what happened with that.