3rd-party developers have long complained that MS developers have access to "secret" API's not shared with the outside world.
Seems like this would be all-too-tempting of a strategy to take with the AV developers, as well. Except in this case it's not only API knowledge, but advance knowledge of security holes discovered by their own developers and testers.
I had just been poking all around the options, themes, etc., looking for that checkbox. It's like looking all over the house for your glasses when you've been wearing them the whole damn time!
The funny (sad?) thing is that every project mgmt. type of book I've read lately stresses the importance of a project kick-off party. I suppose it's like christening a ship upon launch. But part of me is wondering, "why haven't my employers ever had a kick-off party for MY projects?"
There was an urban legend floating around a few years back about the government taxing email, partly because it was biting into the USPS's business. It seemed pretty kooky at the time (and still does!), but how is that different than taxing internet phone traffic? Maybe Vonage should refer to their service as ephone.
Or maybe I should just shut up before the feds take another look at taxing email!
My former employer used a Filemaker database for one of their departments for a while until we finally rebuilt it in Delphi/SQL Server. A year later, users were still asking IT for help with their "Filemaker." Oooh, how the developers would cringe!
Why people without kids continue to fail to see the link between quality schools (or at least the perception of quality) and higher property values is beyond me. Or the link between good schools and fewer dumb/desperate kids committing crimes in their neighborhoods....
I have often wished for something exactly like this. There have been so many times where my boys do something funny or really cool that I would love to have on video. A minute would be *more* than enough time.
By the time I can whip out the camera, the moment is long gone, and it's pointless to try to reproduce the situation with a 3- and 1-year old. Instead of an amazing 30-second clip, you get 5 minutes of Dad saying, "Come on, make the funny face again! No, don't grab the camera, just make the face - you know, that one! Yeah, okay, I guess that's close enough...."
I think you're looking at the wrong company. Transcription Services was directly hired by the hospital for the transcriptions, and they legitimately hired/subcontracted several transcribers to do the work, including Sonya from FL. They specifically included clauses in their contracts that the buck stopped with their transcriptionists. Instead, Sonya (illegally) subcontracted the work to Tom Spires & Pakistan.
I'm not really familiar with the business, but I get the impression that (many? most?) transcriptionists work as freelancers, so the fact that this Transcription Services company acted more like an agent than a place where full-time employees type away from 9-5 makes sense to me.
I would think that if they had a 20+ year reputation, that would be worth something to future bidders?
I'm finishing up a contract job at a large corporate campus with ~6000 users. While chatting with some Level-2 support guys they told me how they flat-out refuse to help end-users with Access databases anymore. Why? Because someone had discovered that there were over 20 THOUSAND individual Access databases floating around the users' servers, most of them not created or supported by anyone resembling a professional developer. Scary.
Haha, couldn't agree with you more about Foxpro. A coworker once tried to convince me to learn Foxpro so I could help him support all the apps he'd been creating over the years. Instead, I started rebuilding a bunch of his databases in Filemaker. Took a couple of days, tops, for each system, including converting the data and training the end users, who couldn't believe how "fast" their new database was (which says a lot about Foxpro, since FM isn't always the speediest thing around). This went on for a while until he told me to knock it off.
Plants that grow quickly are weak and relatively worthless for construction (unless you're using a thatched roof, I suppose).
Also, don't confuse "slow-growth" with "old-growth" trees, as they are not always the same thing. Trees, like most living things, grow fastest up to a certain age range, then slow down. They keep growing, of course, but their slower growth translates into a tighter grain of the wood, which makes it far stronger than that in the center. So even relatively soft woods like pine are incredibly strong if they're harvested from old trees.
It's more profitable for lumber and paper companies to harvest the timber when it's young to reap the greatest amount of volume in the shortest amount of time. Too bad, because most people today probably don't realize the difference from modern lumber. My house was built in 1899, and it's obvious which lumber is original and which was added during remodeling even without looking. The old stuff makes me wish for a diamond-tipped drill bit, or at least a more powerful drill.
In Vernor Vinge's novel, the galaxy is divided into different zones, where different laws of physics apply. Earth is in the "slow" zone, where nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but other parts are not so limited. When an ancient "Blight" gets released, the only way to stop it is to expand the Slow zone until it encompasses the Blight and wipes out its ability to spread effectively.
Moral of the story: Put everyone back on 28.8 connections, and Slammer, et al., will wither and die.
Apple attempted to "be affordable" in the mid-90's, and it nearly killed them. Thousands of unsold Performas sitting in warehouses at Christmastime, while many other customers couldn't get the high-end machines they wanted because Apple didn't make enough of them.
Apple has wisely chosen to turn back away from the race to the bottom, and focused on innovation to keep people interested.
Golly jeepers, thanks for the tip. And the attitude!
Your valuable insight still does not address the gist of my original post, which is that "Planmaker" is, at first glance at least, a misleading title for a spreadsheet app. (Not that Excel means a heck of a lot, either.)
Was I the only one disappointed to learn that "Planmaker" is yet another spreadsheet application? I saw the name and thought it would be (MS Project compatible) project-management software. It would be a whole lot cooler if it was, maaaan.
I believe that's the case for other southwestern states, as well, and also applies to hamsters, guinea pigs, etc. The fear is that if they escape (er, I mean when they escape), they'll breed like crazy in the warm climate, unlike in Chicago where they'll never survive for long outside.
Seems awfully paranoid. What are the chances that a female gerbil will stumble upon a male gerbil in the sewers? Don't they have cats/owls/hawks in CA?
Maybe a paralegal watched the Tribbles episode of Star Trek and decided action must be taken!
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Isn't there a decent-sized Amish community in northern IN?
Isn't there an even larger population of AARP members?
And what about those Amish AARP members?
I think you're okay for a while, bud.
3rd-party developers have long complained that MS developers have access to "secret" API's not shared with the outside world.
Seems like this would be all-too-tempting of a strategy to take with the AV developers, as well. Except in this case it's not only API knowledge, but advance knowledge of security holes discovered by their own developers and testers.
THANK YOU.
I had just been poking all around the options, themes, etc., looking for that checkbox. It's like looking all over the house for your glasses when you've been wearing them the whole damn time!
The funny (sad?) thing is that every project mgmt. type of book I've read lately stresses the importance of a project kick-off party. I suppose it's like christening a ship upon launch. But part of me is wondering, "why haven't my employers ever had a kick-off party for MY projects?"
Or maybe I should just shut up before the feds take another look at taxing email!
How do the costs for a (local) telco telco connection compare to an IP telco connection?
There's your first clue.
My former employer used a Filemaker database for one of their departments for a while until we finally rebuilt it in Delphi/SQL Server. A year later, users were still asking IT for help with their "Filemaker." Oooh, how the developers would cringe!
Plumber-Butt 3.0, here to take a look at that clog...
Why people without kids continue to fail to see the link between quality schools (or at least the perception of quality) and higher property values is beyond me. Or the link between good schools and fewer dumb/desperate kids committing crimes in their neighborhoods....
Heck, that external power supply brick for the C64 was a toaster!
Are you kidding? It'll go perfectly with my Hummer!
If only it came in olive green, and had a gun turret on back...
By the time I can whip out the camera, the moment is long gone, and it's pointless to try to reproduce the situation with a 3- and 1-year old. Instead of an amazing 30-second clip, you get 5 minutes of Dad saying, "Come on, make the funny face again! No, don't grab the camera, just make the face - you know, that one! Yeah, okay, I guess that's close enough...."
I'm not really familiar with the business, but I get the impression that (many? most?) transcriptionists work as freelancers, so the fact that this Transcription Services company acted more like an agent than a place where full-time employees type away from 9-5 makes sense to me.
I would think that if they had a 20+ year reputation, that would be worth something to future bidders?
Absolutely. Can you imagine if the internet (as we know it today) existed in '86? In the Soviet Union? The things we take for granted today!
Where's my lead suit?!?
Haha, couldn't agree with you more about Foxpro. A coworker once tried to convince me to learn Foxpro so I could help him support all the apps he'd been creating over the years. Instead, I started rebuilding a bunch of his databases in Filemaker. Took a couple of days, tops, for each system, including converting the data and training the end users, who couldn't believe how "fast" their new database was (which says a lot about Foxpro, since FM isn't always the speediest thing around). This went on for a while until he told me to knock it off.
Also, don't confuse "slow-growth" with "old-growth" trees, as they are not always the same thing. Trees, like most living things, grow fastest up to a certain age range, then slow down. They keep growing, of course, but their slower growth translates into a tighter grain of the wood, which makes it far stronger than that in the center. So even relatively soft woods like pine are incredibly strong if they're harvested from old trees.
It's more profitable for lumber and paper companies to harvest the timber when it's young to reap the greatest amount of volume in the shortest amount of time. Too bad, because most people today probably don't realize the difference from modern lumber. My house was built in 1899, and it's obvious which lumber is original and which was added during remodeling even without looking. The old stuff makes me wish for a diamond-tipped drill bit, or at least a more powerful drill.
At least they're not tossing ConsoleOne into the mix!
Oh, man, that was the funniest thing I read all week - I needed that!
Moral of the story: Put everyone back on 28.8 connections, and Slammer, et al., will wither and die.
No thanks - I'll take my chances!
Apple has wisely chosen to turn back away from the race to the bottom, and focused on innovation to keep people interested.
Your valuable insight still does not address the gist of my original post, which is that "Planmaker" is, at first glance at least, a misleading title for a spreadsheet app. (Not that Excel means a heck of a lot, either.)
Was I the only one disappointed to learn that "Planmaker" is yet another spreadsheet application? I saw the name and thought it would be (MS Project compatible) project-management software. It would be a whole lot cooler if it was, maaaan.
Seems awfully paranoid. What are the chances that a female gerbil will stumble upon a male gerbil in the sewers? Don't they have cats/owls/hawks in CA?
Maybe a paralegal watched the Tribbles episode of Star Trek and decided action must be taken!