As someone in technical presales who spends a lot of time travelling with sales execs, I would have agreed with you two years ago -- except now they use Blackberries. I very rarely, if ever, see a sales exec with a fired-up laptop onsite at a prospect -- they leave the mundane stuff like presentations and product demos to us presales folks.
I seem to remember OQO showing prototypes of (back then) incredibily small PCs four or five years ago. It seems that their products have taken too long to materialize, and in the mean time the rest of the industry has really started to catch up with them. In the end, I believe their target market is too small; most folks will be happy purchasing a Dell that's 25% larger but less than 50% of the price -- and all the time, the trend of miniaturization across the entire segment marches onward. OQO will become a small footnote in the history of laptops -- a great idea, but too long on the drawing board and not to market soon enough.
To be honest, the people who should be worried are third-party systems integrators. Once Oracle provide a single-shop BSS/OSS solution, then a large chunk of integration income will disappear.
Oh, don't worry about the SIs. It's not like huge enterprises (Global 2000 et al) *only* have Oracle, or *only* have SAP, or *only* have xxxxx -- they have Oracle, and SAP, and xxxxx, and every other vendor's crap that you can think of, plus a lot of in-house stuff as well. And everything needs to talk to everything else in one way or another. They'll *never* be able to get everything on one platform, no matter how much they'd like to, so they'll always be a need for bodies to plug everything together. Sure modern SOA architectures make that task a bit easier, but someone's still got to map the fields, configure / code / whatever the business rules, and oversee the project to make sure everything gets done within five years of when it was supposed to get done -- which, at the end of the day, is what SIs do.
Actually, I suspect Oracle is heavily leveraging the SIs at their customers' sites as we speak to stitch together the JD Edwards / PeopleSoft / Oracle / Siebel Frankenstein's monster that they've become in the last year and a half.
This is extremely debatable. You're citing a single decision by one state court, and the article doesn't list any of the "numerous psychological studies" to which it refers. Furthermore, the article even states that the court's decision purposely left the door open for future judges to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to question the credibility of eyewitnesses by allowing testimony by "experts" on the limits of eyewitness testimony. Personally, I certainly put more stock in their immediate "gut" reactions rather than what people think they saw weeks ago, after hours and hours of second-guessing and constant media coverage. Why are juries in high-profile cases sequestered and forbidden to read newspapers or watch the news? To prevent the media from influencing their deliberations, of course.
It has nothing to do with me being "a bit behind the news" and everything to do with what eyewitnesses -- people who actually saw the incident -- said they saw *immediately* after it occured. I'm aware that several of these folks have revised their statements but the power of suggestion can be incredible, especially after weeks of massive 24/7 media coverage of the event and a rabid anti-Blair faction clammoring to blame him for just about everything. Do you really think that some of them weren't eventually pressured into saying whatever the press wanted them to say?
I'm not suggesting that the Brazilian dude was a terrorist, but I am saying that I don't think things as cut-and-dried as we are being led to believe. Like it or not, there was some logical series of events which caused British anti-terror forces to really believe this guy was about to blow up a train, and they acted accordingly.
Except they were wearing plain clothes, did not shout "police, stop!", he didn't run until after he'd picked up a newspaper, walked through the ticket bararier, and saw a train about to leave, same as any other london commuter
Man, what's with all these people and their broken grammar? I believe you need to use "their," not "they're," in your sentence. Otherwise./'ers with nothing better to do will just make fun of your post. I know I did.
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Having to wade through 60+ spam comments a day on a WordPress blog (with all the stock antispam options enabled) just sucked . . . and the blog didn't even get much traffic (PageRank of 4). I installed the AuthImage plugin and used it on its stock settings, and for awhile didn't get a single bit of spam. Then, magically, it started up again. It seems some industrious little script kiddies have written a crawler to massively bombard AuthImage-enabled blogs with words from the stock word list. I switched from the wordlist file to randomly-generated strings and increased the size of the image for readability, and I never had another piece of comment spam in that blog again.
As for blind folks, I suppose every webmaster has to make that decision based on their target demographic, but I've seen a few text-only captchas that work well enough ("What color is an orange?") but will inevitably have the same limitation as the AuthImage word list above.
Word has it there's a "hot cocoa" mod available showing hidden footage of a naked John Madden being dragged onto an airplane, lashed into a jumpseat and flown city-to-city over the course of the season. Decency advocates, NFL officials and Hillary Clinton are already threatening to sue . . .:-P
Don't forget about HamWeather -- it's been around for years and is still one of the best weather-related suites for web developers, it's cheap, and it's available in a variety of languages.
Bah . . . this won't be the same class of hybrid as is a Prius or Highlander etc., and it'll get *maybe* 10 to 15% better mileage than the standard Ram diesel. Daimler Chrysler is simply using its selective cylinder technology to shut down two or more cylinders under cruising conditions where they're not really needed. The technology has been available on high-end Mercedes models for years. I believe you can get a regular gas-powered Ram with this technology right now. But it's a move in the right direction, I suppose.
Since it's highly doubtful that Sony can permit the resale of the japanese PSP consoles in Hong Kong no matter if on the local market or for export, it looks like this is planned to be one of the not the bright marketing ideas of the Sony HQ.
The submitter clearly pulled this text straight from Lik-Sang's English website. Can you see that I am serious?!??
. . . "Progressive" is to "Liberal." An idea has gained such a negative context in society that its proponents have had to rebrand it. As many others have mentioned, it's quite an excellent example of marketing an old idea as something new and improved.
As someone who works with salespeople on a daily basis, I can tell you firsthand, from my own years of experience in software technical presales, that the absolute best salespeople and sales VPs I'm worked with (I'm talking the top 5%) were not only brilliant with people (not usually so with technology, as someone else mentioned re: the IBM exec), but were also physically very attractive. Moreover, they were extremely aware that physical attrativeness gave them an edge in meetings, and spent thousands on plastic surgery -- nose jobs, cosmetic dentistry and hair transplants for the guys, and fake boobs and you name it for the gals -- and pricey wardrobes. And it works.
You may despise such people and how they do business, but I guarantee you that in reality, people buy from who they like -- not necessarily from who's got the best widget. I've seen it so many times that it's pretty much expected in the field.
I'd wager that your average engineer has more stategic know-how than most vice presidents; VPs are about presentation
Spoken like a true engineer. And I'll take that wager, being that your average engineer spends 10+ hours a day in their cube, with little contact with customers or competitors. Be sure to thank your VP for the "presentation" (a skill 99+% of the geeks out there don't have) that brings in the revenue that pays your paycheck!
BTW, remember the jocks in high school that got all of the chicks? They became frat boys, then sales guys (be it cars or insurance or software), and (some of them -- the smarter ones) finally VPs.
This is nothing more than Clinton trying to plant seeds which will (in her campaign directors' minds) help her appear not quite as left-leaning in '08. It's retarded but in general people in this country want to vote for someone who is perceived as "pro-morality" -- which ironically disqualifies just about every Senator and Governor in the USA.
The fully legal Etree torrent site [etree.org] is reportedly moving Petabytes on a regular basis.
Yeah, but 99% of it is Grateful Dead and Phish live shows . . . so much so that they actually have filters built into the search page specifically for these two bands.
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I need tungsten to live . . . TUNGSTEN!!!!
If I downsample something to a 4 bit audio sample, is it a violation of copyright ?
No, it makes you a remixer. ;-)
As someone in technical presales who spends a lot of time travelling with sales execs, I would have agreed with you two years ago -- except now they use Blackberries. I very rarely, if ever, see a sales exec with a fired-up laptop onsite at a prospect -- they leave the mundane stuff like presentations and product demos to us presales folks.
I seem to remember OQO showing prototypes of (back then) incredibily small PCs four or five years ago. It seems that their products have taken too long to materialize, and in the mean time the rest of the industry has really started to catch up with them. In the end, I believe their target market is too small; most folks will be happy purchasing a Dell that's 25% larger but less than 50% of the price -- and all the time, the trend of miniaturization across the entire segment marches onward. OQO will become a small footnote in the history of laptops -- a great idea, but too long on the drawing board and not to market soon enough.
phpMyAdmin is great for those of us working with PHP.
iPod Nano found to be as scratchable as all previous generations! President Bush will be addressing the nation on this crisis within the hour!
Nope, there will definitely be a delayed response, because as some have already pointed out here before, George Bush hates the Mac people.
To be honest, the people who should be worried are third-party systems integrators. Once Oracle provide a single-shop BSS/OSS solution, then a large chunk of integration income will disappear.
Oh, don't worry about the SIs. It's not like huge enterprises (Global 2000 et al) *only* have Oracle, or *only* have SAP, or *only* have xxxxx -- they have Oracle, and SAP, and xxxxx, and every other vendor's crap that you can think of, plus a lot of in-house stuff as well. And everything needs to talk to everything else in one way or another. They'll *never* be able to get everything on one platform, no matter how much they'd like to, so they'll always be a need for bodies to plug everything together. Sure modern SOA architectures make that task a bit easier, but someone's still got to map the fields, configure / code / whatever the business rules, and oversee the project to make sure everything gets done within five years of when it was supposed to get done -- which, at the end of the day, is what SIs do.
Actually, I suspect Oracle is heavily leveraging the SIs at their customers' sites as we speak to stitch together the JD Edwards / PeopleSoft / Oracle / Siebel Frankenstein's monster that they've become in the last year and a half.
This is extremely debatable. You're citing a single decision by one state court, and the article doesn't list any of the "numerous psychological studies" to which it refers. Furthermore, the article even states that the court's decision purposely left the door open for future judges to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to question the credibility of eyewitnesses by allowing testimony by "experts" on the limits of eyewitness testimony. Personally, I certainly put more stock in their immediate "gut" reactions rather than what people think they saw weeks ago, after hours and hours of second-guessing and constant media coverage. Why are juries in high-profile cases sequestered and forbidden to read newspapers or watch the news? To prevent the media from influencing their deliberations, of course.
It has nothing to do with me being "a bit behind the news" and everything to do with what eyewitnesses -- people who actually saw the incident -- said they saw *immediately* after it occured. I'm aware that several of these folks have revised their statements but the power of suggestion can be incredible, especially after weeks of massive 24/7 media coverage of the event and a rabid anti-Blair faction clammoring to blame him for just about everything. Do you really think that some of them weren't eventually pressured into saying whatever the press wanted them to say?
I'm not suggesting that the Brazilian dude was a terrorist, but I am saying that I don't think things as cut-and-dried as we are being led to believe. Like it or not, there was some logical series of events which caused British anti-terror forces to really believe this guy was about to blow up a train, and they acted accordingly.
Except they were wearing plain clothes, did not shout "police, stop!", he didn't run until after he'd picked up a newspaper, walked through the ticket bararier, and saw a train about to leave, same as any other london commuter
That's not what eyewitnesses said the day of the shooting immediately after it happened. But you're absolutely right -- I have no doubt that what the British press has reported on the matter is completely unbiased, especially after the Daily Mirror last year made up the story about British soldiers pissing on Iraqi prisoners and either fabricated (probably) or used obviously fake photographic evidence.
Man, what's with all these people and their broken grammar? I believe you need to use "their," not "they're," in your sentence. Otherwise ./'ers with nothing better to do will just make fun of your post. I know I did.
Having to wade through 60+ spam comments a day on a WordPress blog (with all the stock antispam options enabled) just sucked . . . and the blog didn't even get much traffic (PageRank of 4). I installed the AuthImage plugin and used it on its stock settings, and for awhile didn't get a single bit of spam. Then, magically, it started up again. It seems some industrious little script kiddies have written a crawler to massively bombard AuthImage-enabled blogs with words from the stock word list. I switched from the wordlist file to randomly-generated strings and increased the size of the image for readability, and I never had another piece of comment spam in that blog again.
As for blind folks, I suppose every webmaster has to make that decision based on their target demographic, but I've seen a few text-only captchas that work well enough ("What color is an orange?") but will inevitably have the same limitation as the AuthImage word list above.
Word has it there's a "hot cocoa" mod available showing hidden footage of a naked John Madden being dragged onto an airplane, lashed into a jumpseat and flown city-to-city over the course of the season. Decency advocates, NFL officials and Hillary Clinton are already threatening to sue . . . :-P
Don't forget about HamWeather -- it's been around for years and is still one of the best weather-related suites for web developers, it's cheap, and it's available in a variety of languages.
Bah . . . this won't be the same class of hybrid as is a Prius or Highlander etc., and it'll get *maybe* 10 to 15% better mileage than the standard Ram diesel. Daimler Chrysler is simply using its selective cylinder technology to shut down two or more cylinders under cruising conditions where they're not really needed. The technology has been available on high-end Mercedes models for years. I believe you can get a regular gas-powered Ram with this technology right now. But it's a move in the right direction, I suppose.
Since it's highly doubtful that Sony can permit the resale of the japanese PSP consoles in Hong Kong no matter if on the local market or for export, it looks like this is planned to be one of the not the bright marketing ideas of the Sony HQ.
The submitter clearly pulled this text straight from Lik-Sang's English website. Can you see that I am serious?!??
. . . "Progressive" is to "Liberal." An idea has gained such a negative context in society that its proponents have had to rebrand it. As many others have mentioned, it's quite an excellent example of marketing an old idea as something new and improved.
As someone who works with salespeople on a daily basis, I can tell you firsthand, from my own years of experience in software technical presales, that the absolute best salespeople and sales VPs I'm worked with (I'm talking the top 5%) were not only brilliant with people (not usually so with technology, as someone else mentioned re: the IBM exec), but were also physically very attractive. Moreover, they were extremely aware that physical attrativeness gave them an edge in meetings, and spent thousands on plastic surgery -- nose jobs, cosmetic dentistry and hair transplants for the guys, and fake boobs and you name it for the gals -- and pricey wardrobes. And it works.
You may despise such people and how they do business, but I guarantee you that in reality, people buy from who they like -- not necessarily from who's got the best widget. I've seen it so many times that it's pretty much expected in the field.
I'd wager that your average engineer has more stategic know-how than most vice presidents; VPs are about presentation
Spoken like a true engineer. And I'll take that wager, being that your average engineer spends 10+ hours a day in their cube, with little contact with customers or competitors. Be sure to thank your VP for the "presentation" (a skill 99+% of the geeks out there don't have) that brings in the revenue that pays your paycheck!
BTW, remember the jocks in high school that got all of the chicks? They became frat boys, then sales guys (be it cars or insurance or software), and (some of them -- the smarter ones) finally VPs.
"50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."
Dude, that's so pathetic I think Mom's gonna kick you out of the basement. Word.
Touche . . . and thanks for the free traffic.
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How can they stop me if I'm using a valid XP ISO with a randomly generated (but valid) key from any number of available keygens?
Mapper of Doom has had this for quite some time, albeit with existing data from Terraserver.
This is nothing more than Clinton trying to plant seeds which will (in her campaign directors' minds) help her appear not quite as left-leaning in '08. It's retarded but in general people in this country want to vote for someone who is perceived as "pro-morality" -- which ironically disqualifies just about every Senator and Governor in the USA.
The fully legal Etree torrent site [etree.org] is reportedly moving Petabytes on a regular basis.
Yeah, but 99% of it is Grateful Dead and Phish live shows . . . so much so that they actually have filters built into the search page specifically for these two bands.