Heck, it's not inconceivable that you could fit a 2-hour, high-definition movie on a small keychain drive within five years.
So a future flash drive might be big enough and cheap enough for a single movie. Other drives might be cost-effective with multiple movie rentals at one time, as he also pointed out.
Modern project management is an exercise in managing uncertainty.
More precisely, it's an exercise in managing risk. Developing software involves all sorts of monetary risk, including real costs and opportunity costs (i.e. doing x instead of y yields $10,000 less money). Generally, uncertainty is the biggest contributor to the total risk.
Joel's painless scheduling is a step in the right direction for estimating and learning from previous estimates.
Comparing software to construction
is helpful. Construction projects are not as lean as people think, and they sure seem a lot like software projects, when it comes to risk. The best things to learn include several, varied-length schedules (i.e. a daily schedule set at the beginning of the day, a 3-week schedule that is reviewed often, and a long-term schedule). Also, regularity in scheduling is an amazingly helpful habit. Regularly-scheduled builds, regular releases, regular fixing helps estimation and provides incentives for progress and scaling back the impossible. That all helps minimize risk.
Microsoft had been saying that Avalon (and XAML) would not be backported, prior to this. Companies like Xamlon made a version of XAML that works today, but it's not compatible enough with Microsoft's version.
Offering Office as web services is a means to an end, and that end is collaboration. Deploying it as a web service on the Internet or on an intranet server will be a challenge, and we'll see how it works for Microsoft.
Collaboration is sorely needed even on the most basic things. It's not just for "time wasters" or beaurocrats. Even if I just want to document an important process or how some critical service was installed, it's seems like it's a herculean effort to publish and maintain such documents, among several people. And sometimes a document starts with only one person involved, and later it needs to be read and maintained by a whole group, all of a sudden.
In many companies we need simple things, like:
Document versioning - CVS is for programmers, but the sales, marketing, and technical documentation people need to track changes and undo changes, too. MS Word change-tracking is not sufficient.
Document sharing - Sending documents, and keeping track of changes, via email is clumsy, inefficient, and error-prone. A Windows share isn't much better, and it's prone to virus attacks.
A content management system (CMS) deals with this sort of stuff. Oracle has a collaboration suite. There are many open-source CMS. SharePoint certainly tries to be a CMS. And there's Lotus Notes. But no CMS seems to dominate, and I haven't found one that is easy to implement and easy to use to share documents.
Sounds like how Oracle works when you create a stored procedure under the SYS account, with definer rights, and then GRANT EXECUTE to a role or another user. When another user executes that procedure, it effectively executes under the SYS account, which is an administrator.
I found that some people would rather install Sharepoint + Exchange (!!) on their server than load a Mozilla app on their machines. They're hooked on their Outlook.
Someone really needs to write a plugin for Outlook that can deal with iCal calendaring.
SPF has to be one of the easiest measures we can take to reduce spam.
If a source domain does not have SPF entries, then SPF does not help the site who is checking the incoming email. Thus, SPF doesn't reduce spam unless the vast majority uses it. That's unlikely to happen anytime soon.
The power of SPF, today, is in increasing the chances that your mail gets delivered. If you have SPF entries, your mail gets delivered to anyone who uses SPF checking, and anybody who tries to pretend to be you gets rejected. People trust your domain more.
SPF is powerful for the sender. POW/RPOW is powerful for the receiver.
Is CA looking to lure users of open-source databases or closed-source databases to Ingres? There seems to be a fair amount of open-source activity with regard to tools for, say, both MySQL and Oracle. Which group is more sought after by CA? And does CA see the migration group being the same people who would want to migrate?
You know what happens when SP2 blocks a connection via the firewall? It let's you know.
Unless you're just finding out that Remote Desktop is getting blocked... when you're at home, with VPN going, and you can't access your computer at work.
Craigslist has a "moral compass" when it has categories like "men seeking men", "women seek women", and "casual encounters"? And every other job ad, in some cities, is for a nude model? And Craig himself is thrilled to have the SF mayor pronounce Oct. 10 as Craiglist Day, when the mayor spits at the law? Sounds to me like the "moral compass" is pointing south.
Do people want businesses to be founded by good people? It happens _all the time_. Most businesses are created by good, decent people. They give other people jobs. Even Craig himself says, in the interview, that one of the best things you can do is give someone a job. Businesses do that for people _all the time_.
Hey, buddy, here's a clue: you haven't noticed the fact that the icon file you get when you bookmark it (or browse there on browsers like Safari) is a hippie peace sign?
Maybe he uses Mozilla, which has anti-hippie bookmark technology!
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He said,
So a future flash drive might be big enough and cheap enough for a single movie. Other drives might be cost-effective with multiple movie rentals at one time, as he also pointed out.
Modern project management is an exercise in managing uncertainty.
More precisely, it's an exercise in managing risk. Developing software involves all sorts of monetary risk, including real costs and opportunity costs (i.e. doing x instead of y yields $10,000 less money). Generally, uncertainty is the biggest contributor to the total risk.
Joel's painless scheduling is a step in the right direction for estimating and learning from previous estimates.
Comparing software to construction is helpful. Construction projects are not as lean as people think, and they sure seem a lot like software projects, when it comes to risk. The best things to learn include several, varied-length schedules (i.e. a daily schedule set at the beginning of the day, a 3-week schedule that is reviewed often, and a long-term schedule). Also, regularity in scheduling is an amazingly helpful habit. Regularly-scheduled builds, regular releases, regular fixing helps estimation and provides incentives for progress and scaling back the impossible. That all helps minimize risk.
Microsoft had been saying that Avalon (and XAML) would not be backported, prior to this. Companies like Xamlon made a version of XAML that works today, but it's not compatible enough with Microsoft's version.
Offering Office as web services is a means to an end, and that end is collaboration. Deploying it as a web service on the Internet or on an intranet server will be a challenge, and we'll see how it works for Microsoft.
Collaboration is sorely needed even on the most basic things. It's not just for "time wasters" or beaurocrats. Even if I just want to document an important process or how some critical service was installed, it's seems like it's a herculean effort to publish and maintain such documents, among several people. And sometimes a document starts with only one person involved, and later it needs to be read and maintained by a whole group, all of a sudden.
In many companies we need simple things, like:
A content management system (CMS) deals with this sort of stuff. Oracle has a collaboration suite. There are many open-source CMS. SharePoint certainly tries to be a CMS. And there's Lotus Notes. But no CMS seems to dominate, and I haven't found one that is easy to implement and easy to use to share documents.
Sounds like how Oracle works when you create a stored procedure under the SYS account, with definer rights, and then GRANT EXECUTE to a role or another user. When another user executes that procedure, it effectively executes under the SYS account, which is an administrator.
I found that some people would rather install Sharepoint + Exchange (!!) on their server than load a Mozilla app on their machines. They're hooked on their Outlook.
Someone really needs to write a plugin for Outlook that can deal with iCal calendaring.
SPF has to be one of the easiest measures we can take to reduce spam.
If a source domain does not have SPF entries, then SPF does not help the site who is checking the incoming email. Thus, SPF doesn't reduce spam unless the vast majority uses it. That's unlikely to happen anytime soon.
The power of SPF, today, is in increasing the chances that your mail gets delivered. If you have SPF entries, your mail gets delivered to anyone who uses SPF checking, and anybody who tries to pretend to be you gets rejected. People trust your domain more.
SPF is powerful for the sender. POW/RPOW is powerful for the receiver.
Is CA looking to lure users of open-source databases or closed-source databases to Ingres? There seems to be a fair amount of open-source activity with regard to tools for, say, both MySQL and Oracle. Which group is more sought after by CA? And does CA see the migration group being the same people who would want to migrate?
Why not just send an SNMP trap?
You know what happens when SP2 blocks a connection via the firewall? It let's you know.
Unless you're just finding out that Remote Desktop is getting blocked... when you're at home, with VPN going, and you can't access your computer at work.
I think you misunderstood my post. I didn't mention anything about "men seeking women", or vice versa. I was talking about the other areas.
Craigslist has a "moral compass" when it has categories like "men seeking men", "women seek women", and "casual encounters"? And every other job ad, in some cities, is for a nude model? And Craig himself is thrilled to have the SF mayor pronounce Oct. 10 as Craiglist Day, when the mayor spits at the law? Sounds to me like the "moral compass" is pointing south.
Do people want businesses to be founded by good people? It happens _all the time_. Most businesses are created by good, decent people. They give other people jobs. Even Craig himself says, in the interview, that one of the best things you can do is give someone a job. Businesses do that for people _all the time_.
Maybe he uses Mozilla, which has anti-hippie bookmark technology!
Very true.
Keystone is nice.