Too many site developers love this kind of crap; they want you to be captive to their vision of a web page, with absolutely no way to skip the commercials or peek under the hood.
I've stopped doing business with any website which demands I use Flash to place an order or, even worse, just browse the catalog.
So I marched right in and asked the boss if I could be a software engineer. He said "What do thy do?" and I said "Same stuff I do", and he said "Sure!" so now I'm one of the few, the happy few! And to think, this morning I was just "the computer guy".
It just shows how far from grokkin' the source they both are. Neither Oracle or Sun need to buy ANYTHING; if either one would simply hire a dozen decent code jocks and turn them loose on the existing open-source code base(s), donating every frikkin' line of new and/or improved code back to the project(s), they'd be the acknowleged masters of OSS database within 2 years, and every Fortune-100 wannabe would be begging to give them money in exchange for support and peace of mind. At just about a half-mil a year, it would be a bargain.
Portable zombies, of course. Now you can contribute to the global spam epidemic anywhere you go, without the hassle of dragging around that oversized laptop.
...especially coming in behind a major flood, you may be in for a shock. In addition to the many good suggestions above, I reccommend:
Immodium AD -- many of these areas are basically slowly-drying septic tanks. Menthol or other strongly-scented lipbalm, preferably with a decent SPF. Then smear it under your nose if the smell gets to you. A full-week supply of the allergy medications of your choice. Off! It will help keep the flies and ansties at bay, too. Get the pump kind, without aloe-vera: you're going to be sweating enough without being greasy, too. For the same reason, a non-greasy sunscreen, high SPF: you'll be outdoors most of the time. GatorAde or etc., same reasons, and you're going to sweat like a dog. If you have room for a six-pack, it will reward you 100-fold. A hat that covers your ears, too, and can be rinsed out if needed. Loose, long-sleeve, light-colored shirt(s).
You: Boss, what do you want to do next year?
Boss: Blah, blah
You: Ok, here's what that will cost.
_OR_
You: How much do you want to spend next year?
Boss: $$$$
You: Ok, here's what you can get for that much.
Be sure to add 15% for contingencies; if the boss ever makes software/hardware decisions, add another 100%.
At least at NextFest. Maybe one day I'll install that piece of crap plugin so I can see websites like that one. Then again, there's only 8,058,044,651 or so other things to do and see on the 'net today, according to Google. Guess I'll have to miss out on the future.
EIGER was a version of Unix being reworked by SCO when they bought whatever it was they bought from Novell. It's dealt with specifically in the contracts.
Let's see...MS needs something that runs on oldder machines and is more secure than Win95/98...yep, sounds like a version of Unix would work just fine.
Maybe that's what MS bought from Caldera/SCOGroup for $50M...?
"If you'll look out the left side of the bus you'll see the smoking Caldera that used to be SCO Group...remember this sight well if ever you contemplate screwing with Open Source..."
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Too many site developers love this kind of crap; they want you to be captive to their vision of a web page, with absolutely no way to skip the commercials or peek under the hood.
I've stopped doing business with any website which demands I use Flash to place an order or, even worse, just browse the catalog.
So I marched right in and asked the boss if I could be a software engineer. He said "What do thy do?" and I said "Same stuff I do", and he said "Sure!" so now I'm one of the few, the happy few! And to think, this morning I was just "the computer guy".
It just shows how far from grokkin' the source they both are. Neither Oracle or Sun need to buy ANYTHING; if either one would simply hire a dozen decent code jocks and turn them loose on the existing open-source code base(s), donating every frikkin' line of new and/or improved code back to the project(s), they'd be the acknowleged masters of OSS database within 2 years, and every Fortune-100 wannabe would be begging to give them money in exchange for support and peace of mind. At just about a half-mil a year, it would be a bargain.
Portable zombies, of course.
Now you can contribute to the global spam epidemic anywhere you go, without the hassle of dragging around that oversized laptop.
...especially coming in behind a major flood, you may be in for a shock.
In addition to the many good suggestions above, I reccommend:
Immodium AD -- many of these areas are basically slowly-drying septic tanks.
Menthol or other strongly-scented lipbalm, preferably with a decent SPF. Then smear it under your nose if the smell gets to you.
A full-week supply of the allergy medications of your choice.
Off! It will help keep the flies and ansties at bay, too. Get the pump kind, without aloe-vera: you're going to be sweating enough without being greasy, too. For the same reason, a non-greasy sunscreen, high SPF: you'll be outdoors most of the time.
GatorAde or etc., same reasons, and you're going to sweat like a dog. If you have room for a six-pack, it will reward you 100-fold.
A hat that covers your ears, too, and can be rinsed out if needed.
Loose, long-sleeve, light-colored shirt(s).
You: Boss, what do you want to do next year? Boss: Blah, blah You: Ok, here's what that will cost. _OR_ You: How much do you want to spend next year? Boss: $$$$ You: Ok, here's what you can get for that much. Be sure to add 15% for contingencies; if the boss ever makes software/hardware decisions, add another 100%.
At least at NextFest. Maybe one day I'll install that piece of crap plugin so I can see websites like that one. Then again, there's only 8,058,044,651 or so other things to do and see on the 'net today, according to Google. Guess I'll have to miss out on the future.
...welcome to National Identity System customer service. My name is Ravi -- I mean 'Jim'. How it is I can be of helpful to you this fine morning?"
"I can't get past security."
"Have you tried to be re-installing your identity?"
It worked so well for PeoplePC and freepc.com. They'll be losing money on every unit, but heck, they'll make it up on volume, right?
What the mom-n-pop's-mom-n-pop crown really need is a machine that skips the os and boots straight to Yahoo!
EIGER was a version of Unix being reworked by SCO when they bought whatever it was they bought from Novell. It's dealt with specifically in the contracts.
Let's see...MS needs something that runs on oldder machines and is more secure than Win95/98...yep, sounds like a version of Unix would work just fine.
Maybe that's what MS bought from Caldera/SCOGroup for $50M...?
"If you'll look out the left side of the bus you'll see the smoking Caldera that used to be SCO Group...remember this sight well if ever you contemplate screwing with Open Source..."