Are you kidding? Pretty much every company I've ever seen is always jumping on the latest management or IT fad. Java, XML, Extreme Programming, Six Sigma, CMM, you name it. What programmer hasn't been told by their management that they want to XMLify everything or convert all the in-house applications to jsp webapps, whether it made sense or not? Companies are even more bleeding edge than your average geek is.
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People have lots and lots of data in formats that are only supported by proprietary Windows software. For example, my elderly neighbor has megabytes worth of genealogical material (digitized wills, etc.) on her Windows box in a format that she can only use with the proprietary genealogy software she bought
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Re:Are you a software company? (Score:5, Insightful) by alan_dershowitz (586542) Alter Relationship on Saturday January 22, @10:26PM (#11443278) I've wasted thousands of man-hours messing with our in-house fee calculation app. Instead of just buying Oracle Financials, we had a bunch of PL/SQL hackers write a giant, poorly documented, database-driven general ledger. Fantastic. I'm sure someone thought we were getting off cheap, but I can't even hope to calculate how much money we've lost over the last 7 years due to maintenance and bugfix, not to mention lost productivitly due to the inflexibility of a system built by people that aren't even experts on accounting.
In cases like this. Make a simple cost calculation (activity based costing) & show it to the managers.
Meanwhile, it's become rather more than obvious, that the privacy and electronic communications regulations that, in December, government promised would put an end to spend to spam, is as effective as, well, just about every other promise coming from Westminster of late. You may remember that it was made an offence for a UK company to send junk email or text messages, unless the recipient is an existing customer or has given their permission to receive such material. The penalty was a fine of £5,000 for each breach but with the catch that only covered individual e-mail accounts and not corporate ones.
Ironically, the appearance of the new regulations appeared to have encouraged some spammers to set-up shop in Britain and the anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project, which operates a blacklist of known spammers, has reportedly been receiving threats from operators who claim that Spamhaus has no legal right to block them as they are operating inside the new regulations.
With nobody yet prosecuted by the commissioner and unlikely to this year, the question of what constitutes legitimate direct mail and what does not, appears to be a complete mess to the observer. As a result, IT departments are making arbitrary decisions on the authority if the IT Manager on what correspondence they choose to filter at the gateway and the legitimate email marketing companies, who are bonded sender certified and use 'opt-in' lists are finding themselves excluded.
http://zentelligence.blogspot.com/2004/06/mail-c al l-lawrence-lessig-has-lost-his.html
1. The use of automated calling systems without human intervention (*automatic calling machines*), facsimile machines (*fax*) or electronic *mail* for the purposes of direct marketing may only be allowed in respect of subscribers who have given their prior consent.
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Are you kidding? Pretty much every company I've ever seen is always jumping on the latest management or IT fad. Java, XML, Extreme Programming, Six Sigma, CMM, you name it. What programmer hasn't been told by their management that they want to XMLify everything or convert all the in-house applications to jsp webapps, whether it made sense or not? Companies are even more bleeding edge than your average geek is. http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=141566&c id=11860211
People have lots and lots of data in formats that are only supported by proprietary Windows software. For example, my elderly neighbor has megabytes worth of genealogical material (digitized wills, etc.) on her Windows box in a format that she can only use with the proprietary genealogy software she bought
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if they have phd, they are already trained
she is on the right track
"Carly told us we had no business sense, and that every project needed to make a profit within three years or less."
good point
outrageous.
is IPTV dubious?
open government? I even like the sound of these words.
Re:Are you a software company? (Score:5, Insightful)
by alan_dershowitz (586542) Alter Relationship on Saturday January 22, @10:26PM (#11443278)
I've wasted thousands of man-hours messing with our in-house fee calculation app. Instead of just buying Oracle Financials, we had a bunch of PL/SQL hackers write a giant, poorly documented, database-driven general ledger. Fantastic. I'm sure someone thought we were getting off cheap, but I can't even hope to calculate how much money we've lost over the last 7 years due to maintenance and bugfix, not to mention lost productivitly due to the inflexibility of a system built by people that aren't even experts on accounting.
In cases like this. Make a simple cost calculation (activity based costing) & show it to the managers.
Good stuff. Thanks.
add google to the mix.
would'nt "server per classroom" be a better solution?
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/005177.h
http://www.predator-hunter.com/mvaughan/persona
http://ozzie.blog-city.com/read/378673.htm
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strike
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mostly used as "demonstrable truths" or "demonstrable lies". So it should be "demonstrable idiot"?
I hope that blogging will be as lively as today. That it will not die out.
I think
DSL is the winner. As phone companies have invested so much money in the copper, the possibly can't just overrun this by fiber.
RT LINUX will be used for what?
op. system that boots in a second (would be quite useful for a home user) :)
your (wild) guesses
" Never going to happen though, since Apple make their money from hardware, not the OS."
Free MAC OS for PC-s. It will generate some hardware sales or at least support the mindshare?
The rest of us corportate drones would rather use applications and datafiles that are compatible with what we use at work.d =10481939
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No, since a lot of games never get ported to Mac, or get ported later.
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But the more important point is that developers have to make file system and graphcical user interface into separate packages.
I would prefer to access files in THIS way, but navigate in THAT environment.
Bone structure and clothes.
Meanwhile, it's become rather more than obvious, that the privacy and electronic communications regulations that, in December, government promised would put an end to spend to spam, is as effective as, well, just about every other promise coming from Westminster of late. You may remember that it was made an offence for a UK company to send junk email or text messages, unless the recipient is an existing customer or has given their permission to receive such material. The penalty was a fine of £5,000 for each breach but with the catch that only covered individual e-mail accounts and not corporate ones.
c al l-lawrence-lessig-has-lost-his.html
Ironically, the appearance of the new regulations appeared to have encouraged some spammers to set-up shop in Britain and the anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project, which operates a blacklist of known spammers, has reportedly been receiving threats from operators who claim that Spamhaus has no legal right to block them as they are operating inside the new regulations.
With nobody yet prosecuted by the commissioner and unlikely to this year, the question of what constitutes legitimate direct mail and what does not, appears to be a complete mess to the observer. As a result, IT departments are making arbitrary decisions on the authority if the IT Manager on what correspondence they choose to filter at the gateway and the legitimate email marketing companies, who are bonded sender certified and use 'opt-in' lists are finding themselves excluded.
http://zentelligence.blogspot.com/2004/06/mail-
Article 13 - Unsolicited communications
1. The use of automated calling systems without human intervention (*automatic calling machines*), facsimile machines (*fax*) or electronic *mail* for the purposes of direct marketing may only be allowed in respect of subscribers who have given their prior consent.