If you're into this sort of thing and other scientific anomalies check out 13 Things That Don't Make Sense. Looks at a variety of scientific topics that scientists can't explain or are deeply divided on. Good book.
I have several customers who now want more than my word about the security of systems that have worked for them flawlessly for 5-6 years, with minimal expense outside of upgrades and patching for security.
5-6 years? Go back and figure out the cost of purchasing the various windows software that you'd need (including all licenses, per-seat, etc.) over that time period. Don't forget the proprietary back up software and enterprise anti virus software. Then taking your hourly rates run the numbers for how often you would need to patch those systems (every week?) and toss in the time it would take you to *test* the roll out of those patches and then add more time for when it breaks everything despite your testing.
ROI goes a long way towards changing a customer's mind (which is why so many of them don't want to spend money on reliable backups:)
We net benefit when companies run themselves as efficiently as possible.
Maybe. Maybe not. Henry Ford made the argument that he needed to pay his employees enough that they could afford to buy a Ford automobile. He probably would have been more efficient paying them less... right up till he went out of business because no one could afford his product.
So there is a line somewhere that a company shouldn't cross if they want to stay in business long term. Although I suppose in this case once the US stops consuming because it can't afford it, those companies will just move on to India, China, etc.
My personal feeling is that no one will care until suddenly the majority of US citizens can't afford their big screen TV and their "god given" right to watch it... then suddenly people will take an interest in this sort of thing. Heh.
My dad bought one when it came out... passed it onto me, and it's now sitting in my kids room where they either pretend to work or play some basic games on it. Only problem I've had is the video went out and had to reinforce the connection a bit, but that did give me a chance to look at the engraved signatures on the inside.
Not a bad investment all things considered... wish other computers would last that long...
Not necessarily. I've been in a similar situation. I even had a contract signed by the other party saying we could go ahead and do it. Two years later the lawsuit happened. In the end, our lawyers said we could go to trial, but it would just depend on the judge. And this was *with* a contract saying we could do what were doing.
If it were me I'd be very very very careful and go get real legal advice.
There does seem to be some thing to the version number. 1.0 is new, I'll wait for 1.1. 2.0 fixed the rest of the bugs and introduced some new ones. 3.0 is pretty good. 4.0 really shines. 5.0 introduces some stuff I don't need. 6.0 adds email capability, 7.0 adds PDF export, 8.0 completely redid the UI so I'm annoyed as long time user. That seems to hold true for some of fairly common apps out there.
I think however there is a difference if the app is commercial or open source. I assume an open source app at 1.0 is a 3.0 commercial app.
Personally I think your company is being silly. If I see a brand new app at version 6 that I've never heard of and can't find any reviews on Google about past apps I'm going to wonder what's up.
If you want to be a little more honest, get to version 1 *now*, release it internally only, then release version 2 to the public. That way you at least have a story to tell that is legitimate.
The transition time is very very real. I work from home and have for 3 years now. After a day's work I go for a 10-15 minute walk (or try to). My wife calls it my transition time. And it's exactly that.
Also, get a home office. With a door. And headphones that kill the noise. Most days are great, but sometimes our two kids decide to yell all day. With the headphones I don't hear them, zone out, and code. Without them I go nuts.
But it is pretty awesome when your 2 year old comes in just to give you a hug in the middle of the day!
You're over 26 machines, but I've always liked using the phonetic names of letters. There's a couple of options depending on which branch/time of the military you like, but the nice thing is they are meant to be easily heard and each one starts with it's own letter which makes tab completion/sorting work out great.
Additionally, your customer will now begin to rely on your schema and when you decide to change it they will be upset. In OO terms you just gave them access to all your private methods:(
This happened to me. No choice in the matter. And when it came time to build version 2 and make some internal changes we couldn't because the customers had grown accustomed to the schema being a certain way.
It's nice that Stuart Ross thinks he can develop rocketbelts to enable people to fly. However, until someone comes up with a way to store the, apparently, unlimited fuel necessary to power a suit such as Iron Mans, and have it weigh, again, apparently, next to nothing, we will never see flying suits of armor. Beans. Lots and lots of beans.
2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root. 1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer. 1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion. 1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill. 1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic. 2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root
(command line based server! - now I have to find a new catchphrase at work instead of the usual "Real servers don't have mice") Real servers don't have keyboards.
Just like the airline VP's who eat their own airline food a couple times a week, make the VP use a cube for a week or two and then let him decide. If he's still able to concentrate, make phone calls, etc... then he probably won't change his mind, but if he's not, perhaps he'll understand.
At the very least he'll know a bit more what it's like.
I dunno... I did some work for a 911 dispatch training program, part of which involved slicing up a lot of actual calls. What I was working on was for cardiac arrest calls and I found it amazing how calm some callers were.
"My address is xyz. My husband is lying on the floor not breathing. The front door is open. We are in the bedroom. Please tell me what to do."
Others of course were hysteric, but not all of them.
Best of all when that user asks how I create those PDF's I can say I just clicked the PDF button in OO.
I'm the only one who uses OO at work here (alongside Office) and I send out a lot of PDFs. I've had numerous people ask me how I do that especially when they know I don't have any of the Acrobat stuff...
Sadly they then say they wish Office had that and go about their day...
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If you're into this sort of thing and other scientific anomalies check out 13 Things That Don't Make Sense. Looks at a variety of scientific topics that scientists can't explain or are deeply divided on. Good book.
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I have several customers who now want more than my word about the security of systems that have worked for them flawlessly for 5-6 years, with minimal expense outside of upgrades and patching for security.
5-6 years? Go back and figure out the cost of purchasing the various windows software that you'd need (including all licenses, per-seat, etc.) over that time period. Don't forget the proprietary back up software and enterprise anti virus software. Then taking your hourly rates run the numbers for how often you would need to patch those systems (every week?) and toss in the time it would take you to *test* the roll out of those patches and then add more time for when it breaks everything despite your testing.
ROI goes a long way towards changing a customer's mind (which is why so many of them don't want to spend money on reliable backups :)
We net benefit when companies run themselves as efficiently as possible.
Maybe. Maybe not. Henry Ford made the argument that he needed to pay his employees enough that they could afford to buy a Ford automobile. He probably would have been more efficient paying them less... right up till he went out of business because no one could afford his product. So there is a line somewhere that a company shouldn't cross if they want to stay in business long term. Although I suppose in this case once the US stops consuming because it can't afford it, those companies will just move on to India, China, etc. My personal feeling is that no one will care until suddenly the majority of US citizens can't afford their big screen TV and their "god given" right to watch it... then suddenly people will take an interest in this sort of thing. Heh.
My dad bought one when it came out... passed it onto me, and it's now sitting in my kids room where they either pretend to work or play some basic games on it. Only problem I've had is the video went out and had to reinforce the connection a bit, but that did give me a chance to look at the engraved signatures on the inside.
Not a bad investment all things considered... wish other computers would last that long...
Not necessarily. I've been in a similar situation. I even had a contract signed by the other party saying we could go ahead and do it. Two years later the lawsuit happened. In the end, our lawyers said we could go to trial, but it would just depend on the judge. And this was *with* a contract saying we could do what were doing.
If it were me I'd be very very very careful and go get real legal advice.
There does seem to be some thing to the version number. 1.0 is new, I'll wait for 1.1. 2.0 fixed the rest of the bugs and introduced some new ones. 3.0 is pretty good. 4.0 really shines. 5.0 introduces some stuff I don't need. 6.0 adds email capability, 7.0 adds PDF export, 8.0 completely redid the UI so I'm annoyed as long time user. That seems to hold true for some of fairly common apps out there.
I think however there is a difference if the app is commercial or open source. I assume an open source app at 1.0 is a 3.0 commercial app.
Personally I think your company is being silly. If I see a brand new app at version 6 that I've never heard of and can't find any reviews on Google about past apps I'm going to wonder what's up.
If you want to be a little more honest, get to version 1 *now*, release it internally only, then release version 2 to the public. That way you at least have a story to tell that is legitimate.
The transition time is very very real. I work from home and have for 3 years now. After a day's work I go for a 10-15 minute walk (or try to). My wife calls it my transition time. And it's exactly that.
Also, get a home office. With a door. And headphones that kill the noise. Most days are great, but sometimes our two kids decide to yell all day. With the headphones I don't hear them, zone out, and code. Without them I go nuts.
But it is pretty awesome when your 2 year old comes in just to give you a hug in the middle of the day!
You're over 26 machines, but I've always liked using the phonetic names of letters. There's a couple of options depending on which branch/time of the military you like, but the nice thing is they are meant to be easily heard and each one starts with it's own letter which makes tab completion/sorting work out great.
Additionally, your customer will now begin to rely on your schema and when you decide to change it they will be upset. In OO terms you just gave them access to all your private methods :(
This happened to me. No choice in the matter. And when it came time to build version 2 and make some internal changes we couldn't because the customers had grown accustomed to the schema being a certain way.
You work for the US Government's Torture Oversight Committee don't you?
2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root
Ludicrous speed!
There's really no other option...
???
Profit!!!
Are you saying that the bad guys in Duke Nukem are actually flying pigs with iPhones for guns?
Lame.
> So it does sound like a neat trick, but what is a valid, viable use case for it?
Maybe for your AV stuff? No wires b/n your dvd, receiver, and tv would be nice.
Just like the airline VP's who eat their own airline food a couple times a week, make the VP use a cube for a week or two and then let him decide. If he's still able to concentrate, make phone calls, etc... then he probably won't change his mind, but if he's not, perhaps he'll understand.
At the very least he'll know a bit more what it's like.
Hrm... you could have re-stocked the copier with your output (100 page 1's, 100 page 2's, etc.) then had it copy *with collation* 100 blank pages.
Maybe anyway...
I dunno... I did some work for a 911 dispatch training program, part of which involved slicing up a lot of actual calls. What I was working on was for cardiac arrest calls and I found it amazing how calm some callers were.
"My address is xyz. My husband is lying on the floor not breathing. The front door is open. We are in the bedroom. Please tell me what to do."
Others of course were hysteric, but not all of them.
What has the database got to do with RoR. Doesn't matter what you use on the front end if your database can't handle the load.
Best of all when that user asks how I create those PDF's I can say I just clicked the PDF button in OO.
I'm the only one who uses OO at work here (alongside Office) and I send out a lot of PDFs. I've had numerous people ask me how I do that especially when they know I don't have any of the Acrobat stuff...
Sadly they then say they wish Office had that and go about their day...
Don't know much about it, but how would they handle the situation where I'd limit say Windows to VCPU 1 and Office to VCPU 2.
Seems like I should only have to pay the single VCPU price, but I imagine that won't be the case will it...
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=1121 98633625636&w=2 there you go.