We will know we are getting some where when we can get a computer to changes it's mind on something from a conversation.
a conversation, it's hard enough to find real humans that are willing to change their mind based on a double blind pear reviewed scientific study let alone a conversation. some degree of mental plasticity might be a dead giveaway that your talking to a non human.
I'm not talking about computing horsepower I'm talking browser support for dynamic web sites. since the example in the article focused on Netscape I gave an example where the limitations on internal technology represented a limitation in utilization of the web as an advertising medium since the gp used advertising as an example of a useful investment. the telnet support bit was a joke.
Recruitment is another area that hypercautious technology uptake will hamper business growth. You will be essentially limiting your business to either an increasingly aging and shrinking pool of qualified applicants or to the young and desperate. Qualified younger applicants will not want their skills to stagnate and in fact the majority of older applicants would not want this either.
My point was that for your employees to participate fully in the use and updating of the a company web site your forced to cross the point of diminishing returns in the sites implementation. It was only one example where "if it's not broke don't fix it" is not always true to life.
You know I hear a web presence is an effective and low cost form of advertising. Your going to want to have a telnet server so your employees can view the site in some form as well.
the reason for the upgrades is not that suddenly all of the servers failed it's because businesses wanted the ability to utilize their IT infrastructure in ways that the old hardware and software wouldn't allow. for example moving from shuttling Excel files around in email to using an ERP. Adding data warehousing so you can mine your historic data and find trends. Creating a web presence to provide prospective customers a simple means of finding you. these are all huge jumps in functionality that require some level of infrastructure investment. the reality is that businesses invest in IT because it gives them a competitive advantage.
the US has the a higher infant mortality rate and a lower life expectancy than all but a few of the worlds industrialized nations American babies are three times more likely to die in their first month as children born in Japan for example. US health care may be the envy of the "third world" but were tied with Latvia near the bottom of the list of industrialized nations.
I would also like to point out that Socialism is not Communism and the fact that you can't separate the two in your brain doesn't make them the same thing. Some people are color blind and yet green is not red.
the competitors "beta testing" was a bit of rhetoric the point is still valid QA is a cost and if your talking about office document formats the number of possible scenarios that QA would have to test to have anywhere near full coverage would be huge. unless your company is a software company you get no benefit from closing the source and some benefit from opening it. if your expectations are for large numbers of unique documents office automation may not be practical or desirable there are current commercial alternatives and likely the cost is justified. however in the unlikely event that the time to develop this were justified (filling idle man hours between large projects for example) and assuming the companies core competency is not software then they could do worse than gpl license.
as for your other point you'd have to be a bit loopy to take this on to begin with no matter what your license preference.
first open source "zealots" are professionals with resources. second who better to beta test a non core piece of software nicety then your competitors.
US companies were only there after the US attempted to annex Cuba during the Spanish American war. the original Cuban independence movement only agreed to accept US help after congress passed a resolution declaring that the US had no intention to annex the island. you can imagine that after fighting and dieing to free themselves from the control of a large colonial power that they wouldn't be too keen on another moving in to take it's place. that right there was why Castro was able to come to power US imperialism made Castro the lesser of two evils.
Can you imagine how US history would have been different if France having supported us through the revolution had then seized the new capital and declared us a colony with enough force to make their deceleration stand?
The idea of working on something for a few weeks or months then getting payed for the remainder of your life seems kind of odd to me. artists can't make a dime for a work half done so some term of protection is certainly in all of our interests but anything past 14 years is corporate welfare. At some point the value of the original work is recouped and further copy protections become hindrances in that they discourage further development based on the original works and further productivity by the original creator. we limit the rights of society as a whole to produce copies of original works in order to encourage production of original works beyond that there is no value social or otherwise in limiting these individual rights.
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I thought the purpose of a company was to provide an organizational structure around which people can act and an entrepreneur is one who undertakes or manages. sorry not seeing "maximize profits" anywhere here. my thought is that an entrepreneur is one that dedicates him or herself to a task whether that's building a affordable automobile(henry ford) or or dominating the software world(gates) and that the maximize profit hacks are not up to that job. it's only after companies are mature that the "maximize profit" vultures swoop in and shift all of the productive capacity into CEO salary and try to squeeze the last bit of blood from the stock price before the company begins to collapse. I use vulture as an analogy because the only virtue it possesses is that of a strong stomach.
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Is there a difference other than one of scale and preferred methodology? The results are often the same.
according to the original poster the company is replacing the original code with a new product that replicates it's function. which seems to mean they are replacing custom code with a purchased solution.
I know perfectly well who Abraham was. none of the moderators realized you were joking(though that's not uncommon) as opposed to grasping at straws to prove the literal truth of a religious text(also not uncommon).
the celts language is as far as i know gone the religious practices other than sketchy historical record disappeared. the Irish are a good people i have allot of respect for them but they are more likely to paint themselves from head to toe for a football game then they would for a religious ceremony. so for all practical purposes, yes, the celtic people are long dead and gone and you won't find one wandering new york. you never would have found one celebrating St Patrick's Day.
don't really see any Incas, Aztecs, Mesopotamians, celts, vagoths, Vikings or a thousand other civilizations that have disappeared, through war famine and disease or been incorporated into other groups, wandering around New York.
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a conversation, it's hard enough to find real humans that are willing to change their mind based on a double blind pear reviewed scientific study let alone a conversation. some degree of mental plasticity might be a dead giveaway that your talking to a non human.
Then if that weapon could be made to create life and resurrect Spock from a few remaining cells in his casket we'd be all set.
I'm not talking about computing horsepower I'm talking browser support for dynamic web sites. since the example in the article focused on Netscape I gave an example where the limitations on internal technology represented a limitation in utilization of the web as an advertising medium since the gp used advertising as an example of a useful investment. the telnet support bit was a joke.
Recruitment is another area that hypercautious technology uptake will hamper business growth. You will be essentially limiting your business to either an increasingly aging and shrinking pool of qualified applicants or to the young and desperate. Qualified younger applicants will not want their skills to stagnate and in fact the majority of older applicants would not want this either.
My point was that for your employees to participate fully in the use and updating of the a company web site your forced to cross the point of diminishing returns in the sites implementation. It was only one example where "if it's not broke don't fix it" is not always true to life.
You know I hear a web presence is an effective and low cost form of advertising. Your going to want to have a telnet server so your employees can view the site in some form as well.
so Palau is middle earth I had expected it to be bigger from the maps.
the reason for the upgrades is not that suddenly all of the servers failed it's because businesses wanted the ability to utilize their IT infrastructure in ways that the old hardware and software wouldn't allow. for example moving from shuttling Excel files around in email to using an ERP. Adding data warehousing so you can mine your historic data and find trends. Creating a web presence to provide prospective customers a simple means of finding you. these are all huge jumps in functionality that require some level of infrastructure investment. the reality is that businesses invest in IT because it gives them a competitive advantage.
the US has the a higher infant mortality rate and a lower life expectancy than all but a few of the worlds industrialized nations American babies are three times more likely to die in their first month as children born in Japan for example. US health care may be the envy of the "third world" but were tied with Latvia near the bottom of the list of industrialized nations.
I would also like to point out that Socialism is not Communism and the fact that you can't separate the two in your brain doesn't make them the same thing. Some people are color blind and yet green is not red.
Were the same way with five kids our house is a chaotic system.
i think he was mixing up your post and the anonymous GP post.
Apparently the majority of adults I encounter on a daily basis need their parents to monitor their computer usage as well.
the competitors "beta testing" was a bit of rhetoric the point is still valid QA is a cost and if your talking about office document formats the number of possible scenarios that QA would have to test to have anywhere near full coverage would be huge. unless your company is a software company you get no benefit from closing the source and some benefit from opening it. if your expectations are for large numbers of unique documents office automation may not be practical or desirable there are current commercial alternatives and likely the cost is justified. however in the unlikely event that the time to develop this were justified (filling idle man hours between large projects for example) and assuming the companies core competency is not software then they could do worse than gpl license.
as for your other point you'd have to be a bit loopy to take this on to begin with no matter what your license preference.
first open source "zealots" are professionals with resources. second who better to beta test a non core piece of software nicety then your competitors.
US companies were only there after the US attempted to annex Cuba during the Spanish American war. the original Cuban independence movement only agreed to accept US help after congress passed a resolution declaring that the US had no intention to annex the island. you can imagine that after fighting and dieing to free themselves from the control of a large colonial power that they wouldn't be too keen on another moving in to take it's place. that right there was why Castro was able to come to power US imperialism made Castro the lesser of two evils.
Can you imagine how US history would have been different if France having supported us through the revolution had then seized the new capital and declared us a colony with enough force to make their deceleration stand?
The idea of working on something for a few weeks or months then getting payed for the remainder of your life seems kind of odd to me. artists can't make a dime for a work half done so some term of protection is certainly in all of our interests but anything past 14 years is corporate welfare. At some point the value of the original work is recouped and further copy protections become hindrances in that they discourage further development based on the original works and further productivity by the original creator. we limit the rights of society as a whole to produce copies of original works in order to encourage production of original works beyond that there is no value social or otherwise in limiting these individual rights.
I thought the purpose of a company was to provide an organizational structure around which people can act and an entrepreneur is one who undertakes or manages. sorry not seeing "maximize profits" anywhere here. my thought is that an entrepreneur is one that dedicates him or herself to a task whether that's building a affordable automobile(henry ford) or or dominating the software world(gates) and that the maximize profit hacks are not up to that job. it's only after companies are mature that the "maximize profit" vultures swoop in and shift all of the productive capacity into CEO salary and try to squeeze the last bit of blood from the stock price before the company begins to collapse. I use vulture as an analogy because the only virtue it possesses is that of a strong stomach.
Is there a difference other than one of scale and preferred methodology? The results are often the same.
I respect the courts ruling and would like to state for the record that y'all bitches. :)
according to the original poster the company is replacing the original code with a new product that replicates it's function. which seems to mean they are replacing custom code with a purchased solution.
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I'm surprised at you, it's obvious the Professor cut the cables in an attempt to call for help after they washed ashore during a hurricane.
I know perfectly well who Abraham was. none of the moderators realized you were joking(though that's not uncommon) as opposed to grasping at straws to prove the literal truth of a religious text(also not uncommon).
the celts language is as far as i know gone the religious practices other than sketchy historical record disappeared. the Irish are a good people i have allot of respect for them but they are more likely to paint themselves from head to toe for a football game then they would for a religious ceremony. so for all practical purposes, yes, the celtic people are long dead and gone and you won't find one wandering new york. you never would have found one celebrating St Patrick's Day.
don't really see any Incas, Aztecs, Mesopotamians, celts, vagoths, Vikings or a thousand other civilizations that have disappeared, through war famine and disease or been incorporated into other groups, wandering around New York.