This sounds more and more like laws we get in the UK, where the new bill is worthless, but makes out that the government cares. So, when someone says "senator, what are you doing about the problem of drink driving?", they can say "we are introducing these things by 2008". It's so far away, that by then (and certainly by the time the bill shows itself to be worthless), they're either gone or the issue is forgotten about.
But from what you are saying, wouldn't selling alcohol on a reservation make more sense? People wouldn't have to drive to get booze, so could drink locally.
Whether in print or online, I want to know that somethings an ad or not. Uprating results or using product placements/'advertisement features' annoys me, and tends to lower my respect for the publication.
I don't mind ads. Sometimes, ads have helped me find out about services I didn't know about. Google's are often good because you can find small providers of services.
This probably works for a fair number of dumb consumers who will just click the top links on a subject.
BUT, it doesn't serve consumers well, and won't help people find information, and consequently, many consumers will go away.
The sooner Google deal with the link farmers who just create a ton of noise the better. Businesses who want to get noticed should spend money on targetted ads, or get listed in www.yell.co.uk or something.
Amen to that. The message is slowly getting out there, but very slowly.
I tried to contact two people who are down as local OpenOffice.org reps about some ideas to promote it and just thought I'd say "do these work or not".
Did I get an answer? Did I heck. Nothing, not even a "yeah, whatever dude".
IMO It needs to be roadshowed to local business and school groups, with a set of pre-copied discs done through professional duplication. Any idea where I could get funding for such a thing?
Apart from the fact that 2 grand will buy me 150+ trips to the cinema, there's a bunch of other reasons to go to the cinema.
It's a night out. Whether for kids or families, it's far more spectacular than a DVD. And how many girls would think a guy creepy if the first date was "come round and watch the DVD".
I like it because I get out of the house, get very high quality images that I can immerse myself in in a dark room, away from the home environment. No-one phones me. It's also a shared experience. It's also great for me and a large group to see a film, which we can't do at home.
On top of that, it's also cheaper for me. A new DVD costs about 18UKP to buy here, but I can go to the cinema for about 12UKP. (For me, I don't live close to a large video club).
Things like the Exchange problem are going to get resolved.
Microsoft are in a difficult position - most of their software does everything people want, feature wise. How many people can name what's in Office 2003 over Office 97, or what's the new features in the latest version of Project?
So, Microsoft can't make startling quantum leaps forward because there's nowhere to go - there versions now are like changes to the 100m sprint record.
The OSS guys will be plugging more and more holes, and more businesses and authorities will start switching.
Why are people writing Macros inside documents anyway?
Mostly because it's a quick and dirty solution to a problem, and will only make things worse. I've worked in companies where forms were generated using Word macros. Form is typed in, form gets printed, document gets saved. Now, try mining the data recorded in that form for trends. Better to put a PHP/MySQL system in and get the same info and have it all stored away with history. Then if you want to print it, do so from the data recorded.
Well said. I've often said to people that Open Office isn't Office. It's an office suite in its own right.
If people thought more in those terms, accepted that the conversion isn't 100%, but that tweaking is quite small and worth the pain, they'd be more accepting of Open Office.
A lot of people end up using Macros in Word whether they like it or not - I've seen companies fire up word templates that extract data and print a bill.
Of course, if the format was open, you'd just be able to write the document yourself (like as XML) and then tell the engine to go ahead and print it.
It's partly the wizards IMO. They give people the impression they can do stuff real easy, rather than learning the theory of relational databases/how indexes work/housekeeping strategies etc.
The first thing every Access user should learn is about how relational databases work.
I worked in a company, and the rule was "thou shalt not write software unless thou residest in the computer department".
Sure enough, a whole lot of people got a bunch of keen guys in the departments to write software.
Problem is, they didn't think things through. One day, a seriously important user feedback database disappeared because the PC it had been put on got decomissioned and replaced.
There are ways of distributing data management, but it should be strategically thought through.
I'd imagine that many west end musicals get a huge audience of occassional theatregoers. I know people who will go for a birthday/anniversary and never throughout the year. So, they go to the theatre two or three times a year. They'll probably never go to the same show twice.
So, telling the difference will probably be insignificant on these people.
I never understood how people could sue and win over this. The record was out there, and people bought it and were happy with it until they found out it wasn't really 2 guys but a german bloke. Then, they wanted their money back.
I can understand where he'd coming from, but personally I'd reveal my backdoor to clients. I think that's the right thing to do.
Think of it in these terms - if he'd been called in, chances are he'd have had some pretty major rights to data etc? So, the fact he uses a backdoor doesn't give him anything he didn't have before, maybe? So, all he's doing is expediting his support.
Ultimately, you have to trust people you hire/employ.
I thought the way it worked, the downloaded file was checksummed against a hash in the.torrent file. So, as long as you trust the place you are getting the.torrent from, you will be safe.
WARNING: I stand to be corrected, and not to be sued if anyone follows my advice and gets their computer screwed up by a virus.
There are morons who buy the latest PDA even though they bought one 6 months ago that they only used for bragging to their mates. They pay for the R&D that means I can get the older one cheaper - and there's more second hand ones on Ebay.
In some cases, they are 'overbranded' and have put their names to all kinds of garbage that just makes people think they are tacky.
Ferrari should have come out with something like a super-overclocked top of the range laptop with everything tweaked to the limit, and then stuck the red colour on and the logo. And forget the startup sound.
The switch to Linux for me starts now. I've been politically thinking of doing it, but this is the straw that breaks the camel's back. Can't do it 100% right now, but I think I'll get a dual boot set up.
To me, that's part of the evolutionary part of Open Source. People gravitiate towards the popular and well supported solution. There's a whole load of BitTorrent clients out there, but really only 3 or 4 that are very good. The others die. People switch or choose to support it themselves.
Then again, if people aren't willing to give something back in code/money/moral support...
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This sounds more and more like laws we get in the UK, where the new bill is worthless, but makes out that the government cares. So, when someone says "senator, what are you doing about the problem of drink driving?", they can say "we are introducing these things by 2008". It's so far away, that by then (and certainly by the time the bill shows itself to be worthless), they're either gone or the issue is forgotten about.
But from what you are saying, wouldn't selling alcohol on a reservation make more sense? People wouldn't have to drive to get booze, so could drink locally.
I don't mind ads. Sometimes, ads have helped me find out about services I didn't know about. Google's are often good because you can find small providers of services.
BUT, it doesn't serve consumers well, and won't help people find information, and consequently, many consumers will go away.
The sooner Google deal with the link farmers who just create a ton of noise the better. Businesses who want to get noticed should spend money on targetted ads, or get listed in www.yell.co.uk or something.
They read to me like accusations from a kindergarten playground. Even if IBM did 'trick' SCO, so what? SCO had better grow up.
And considering some of the baseless things SCO have said about Linux, trying to play some kind of morality card is a bit rich.
I tried to contact two people who are down as local OpenOffice.org reps about some ideas to promote it and just thought I'd say "do these work or not".
Did I get an answer? Did I heck. Nothing, not even a "yeah, whatever dude".
IMO It needs to be roadshowed to local business and school groups, with a set of pre-copied discs done through professional duplication. Any idea where I could get funding for such a thing?
It's a night out. Whether for kids or families, it's far more spectacular than a DVD. And how many girls would think a guy creepy if the first date was "come round and watch the DVD".
I like it because I get out of the house, get very high quality images that I can immerse myself in in a dark room, away from the home environment. No-one phones me. It's also a shared experience. It's also great for me and a large group to see a film, which we can't do at home.
On top of that, it's also cheaper for me. A new DVD costs about 18UKP to buy here, but I can go to the cinema for about 12UKP. (For me, I don't live close to a large video club).
Microsoft are in a difficult position - most of their software does everything people want, feature wise. How many people can name what's in Office 2003 over Office 97, or what's the new features in the latest version of Project?
So, Microsoft can't make startling quantum leaps forward because there's nowhere to go - there versions now are like changes to the 100m sprint record.
The OSS guys will be plugging more and more holes, and more businesses and authorities will start switching.
Mostly because it's a quick and dirty solution to a problem, and will only make things worse. I've worked in companies where forms were generated using Word macros. Form is typed in, form gets printed, document gets saved. Now, try mining the data recorded in that form for trends. Better to put a PHP/MySQL system in and get the same info and have it all stored away with history. Then if you want to print it, do so from the data recorded.
If people thought more in those terms, accepted that the conversion isn't 100%, but that tweaking is quite small and worth the pain, they'd be more accepting of Open Office.
Of course, if the format was open, you'd just be able to write the document yourself (like as XML) and then tell the engine to go ahead and print it.
The first thing every Access user should learn is about how relational databases work.
Sure enough, a whole lot of people got a bunch of keen guys in the departments to write software.
Problem is, they didn't think things through. One day, a seriously important user feedback database disappeared because the PC it had been put on got decomissioned and replaced.
There are ways of distributing data management, but it should be strategically thought through.
Then again, I used to be an Access consultant.
So, telling the difference will probably be insignificant on these people.
I never understood how people could sue and win over this. The record was out there, and people bought it and were happy with it until they found out it wasn't really 2 guys but a german bloke. Then, they wanted their money back.
I can download a package from a Redhat mirror and compare the MD5 of the downloaded file with the published ones on the RH site.
I have noticed some mirror sites having MD5 key files on there, which kinda defeats the point!
Think of it in these terms - if he'd been called in, chances are he'd have had some pretty major rights to data etc? So, the fact he uses a backdoor doesn't give him anything he didn't have before, maybe? So, all he's doing is expediting his support.
Ultimately, you have to trust people you hire/employ.
I love it, and it works great for the OSS community.
Personally when I've finished a download, I leave my machine on for a few hours or overnight just to give back plenty o' bandwidth.
BTW I prefer Azureus over Bram's client.
PS If you get a BSOD using BT in Windows, it could be your network card. I had to get new drivers. Search for 'Bittorrent blue screen' on google.
WARNING: I stand to be corrected, and not to be sued if anyone follows my advice and gets their computer screwed up by a virus.
There are morons who buy the latest PDA even though they bought one 6 months ago that they only used for bragging to their mates. They pay for the R&D that means I can get the older one cheaper - and there's more second hand ones on Ebay.
In some cases, they are 'overbranded' and have put their names to all kinds of garbage that just makes people think they are tacky.
Ferrari should have come out with something like a super-overclocked top of the range laptop with everything tweaked to the limit, and then stuck the red colour on and the logo. And forget the startup sound.
Any advice on Distros for dual boot? Fedora?
Then again, if people aren't willing to give something back in code/money/moral support...
I do agree that an OSS Outlook replacement would be good - and I mean something that doesn't need a ton of bolt-ons installing.
BTW they're not the only factors. Microsoft Access is used extensively.