Exactly. Especially since the service is definately not actually denied, only the console is... The 5 star restaurant will not refund the cost of my jeans when they say I need a suit to go in:) I can still use my jeans, and I can still get in that restaurant. I just can't do both at the same time.
How does it break functionality? All it does is prevent you from accessing the service. The xbox itself works -just fine-.
You can even use a different xbox to go in. There's just certain types of xbox (which, out of the box, none of em fall in that category, so you have to make a conscious decision to change it) that are not allowed.
So I'd say my analogy is actually pretty darn good. Use an xbox thats still in the state they will allow, you can go in. With the same account too!
If they bricked the console? Sure, sue them for that if they do it. Banning you from a service? Lol, right. Im going to go to a 5 star restaurant in jeans and t-shirt then sue them once they kick me out. Same deal here.
While you're right, you also have to keep in mind that most of the things you mentionned either heavily modified the tools, OR have put crazy amount of work to put something on top to limit their exposure, such as Facebook's extreme reliance on a tuple store, to the point that you could replace MySQL with an Access database and it could ALMOST work.
Except the whole point of the GPL is to make source open, not to bring in cash. Usually, people in favor of the GPL prefer having the source code and settle on that than settling on money. As someone mentionned already, if you start sueing people who use the GPL by accident, and ask for money instead of source code, you'll just prove that people who called the GPL a "virus" were right.
because there are hundreds of thousands of teenage girls who cannot live without their phone, so the companies know that they can jack the price as high as they want.
Traffic between east asian regions and the americas has always been extremely limited, and expensive. Honestly, as soon as you leave your own ISP's territory, traffic starts being very limited. This is helped by the fact that ISPs have deals between them to even out the cost, and that the vast majority of traffic stays in house, on top of having bigger content providers replicate their stuff around the world (google, youtube, microsoft, akamai...), but if it wasn't for that, Google or Microsoft alone would saturate many international pipes, nevermind the whole internet.
A cheap Wacom Bamboo (100$ or less depending which one you get and where you get it, can go a fair bit lower with some looking) does the trick.
Use Office OneNote 2007 (2003 not worth mentionning) if you want to do everything manually, or if you want to input them and have character recognition, Windows 7's handwriting recognition is vastly improved over XP's and Vista's, and can handle equations fine, though for complex ones you may need to train it a bit.
They'd have to make a new format altogether like they did for Office I would think. All of these formats were built ad-hoc with little to no documentation, with each iteration just tacking on crap on top (see: Office 2003 format)
I don't think that stuff can be realistically made a standard, really.
Its not a standard. Its just documentation about an internally developped format that was never fully documented before so that the european union finally shuts the hell up. Nothing more. If people find it useful, so much the better.
i think in this case the purpose of it is to take -part- of your field of vision to -add- something to it, not to replace it so you can play WoW without a monitor.
I think Jimbo from Southpark would like that one. I can just picture him in front of an animal thats the last of its kind, and go "Ahhhh! Its consuming carbon!" *shoot*
Umm, have you ever used the *nix command line? I'm guessing not, or you wouldn't be comparing it to MS-DOS commands
My point was that you can do -everything- in Windows from the command line using WMI, and that Linux's UI changes around way more than Windows' ever will or did. That being said, Windows did make ONE massive change to the command line, and since then its been superior to *nix's, so meh.
And aside for the very recent shift with PowerShell (which still can use the old commands anyway), Windows' commands haven't changed in forever either! WMI and you're good to go. Oh, you're talking about the UI! Yeah, that never changed in Linux, ever. No sir!.
Wait wait, i hear you... "But but...Linux is all about the command line! Windows is all UI!!!"
Yeah, right. Linux is all UI to the noobs too. So's Windows.
I did say that Sharepoint stretched the definition of CMS, didn't I?
That said, we do use both SharePoint, Alfresco, and 2-3 other large scale CMS here, on about 100 thousand users, a few terrabytes of data in each, and SharePoint works just fine, and has a much wider feature set than Alfresco. Alfresco does have its pluses... better API to manage documents and cheaper to scale horizontally for example, but Office Server (the $$$ version of SharePoint) brings it down to the ground in term of features and as a development platform as well as in ease of scalability. So IMO, its a tie.
I'd suggest you review the feature list of SharePoint for a sec. Wiki != Content Management System. Hell, SharePoint itself stretches the definition as it is compared to real CMS... a wiki...lol.
No, it just lets the browser run XBAP applications as well as (I think) Click Once applications (The.NET version of Java webstart)
It is fairly common in the enterprise, and there's a handful of them around the open web. They actually work REALLY well, and are probably far more secure than html/javascript applications. And the plugin COULD be uninstalled/disabled in its last updated version.
This is just a major overreaction really. If Microsoft makes everything IE/Windows only, people scream. When they don't, people scream too. Woohoo. The only thing they really need to be slapped upside down over is that the plugin couldn't be uninstalled in its first version, and the update wasn't distributed automatically. Then again, its not like you couldn't uninstall.NET.
This talk of school and co-op make me think you're mostly talking about early career resume. Thats different. IT is a volatile job market, and aside for a few people who like to settle down early, many IT professional and software engineers will frequently bounce from job to job. By mid career, having 3, 5, or 10+ -significant- jobs on your resume isn't uncommon. Add additional -relevant- trainings and certifications, and relevent publications, and a consultant will need 3-5 pages even if they keep it to a minimum.
I worked for HR departments, head hunter agencies, consulting firms, you name it... and the recurring theme is this: If you have significant career experience (read: you're not straight out of college, and the part time job at BestBuy isn't career experience), 1 page won't cut it. Or any kind of "rule" for that matter. Those are just guides for people who don't know how to judge for themselves what is important (which is fine: not everyone has experience in the matter).
The first half of the first page should have everything that an hiring manager with ADHD would need. Beyond that, you should have everything important, but in a format that is easy to skim through. Different companies have a COMPLETLY different opinion on what should be in a resume, and you need to catter to all (well, most) of them in one document, since you don't know them in advance. You just have to make sure its in a format where the noise of what they don't care about doesn't prevent them from finding what they want.
But if you made your resume too short, or in a draconian format following arbitrary "rules", the company that may have hired you for your dream job may skip on your resume.
While mine is nowhere near that long, one of the most successful IT guy I know has a 15 page resume, and he never had issues with it. I know a heck of a lot of great people who had problems with their silly 1-2 pagers. I even spend a lot of my time rewriting the resume of some of my friends, after they bitch they can't find a job after 3 months. Rewrite the resume to put everything relevant on it, not worrying about page count, format things correctly, bang, the week after they have a job they like. Happened douzens of times!
Aside for the formatting of skill lists and stuff, its pretty good, which means one thing, in my opinion: he is another victim of the "YOUR RESUME MUST BE ONE PAGE REGARDLESS OF YOUR EXPERIENCE!!!!!111!" school of thought.
The one page resume rule: hurting professionals everywhere since....well, ever.
While you subscribe you get a small allocation of points, so you can use that to buy things permanently. But yes, if you buy via micro transactions, you keep things forever. Subscribers do get some minor perks that cannot be bought, but overall, if you were planning on playing 1-2 year+, buying everything in micro transactions would gain you in the long run, while if you want to play for a short amount of time, you're better off subscribing. Also, since not all of the purchasable content is worth the money, it can be a good idea to sub 1 month to try it all, then buy what you like.
Correct. Except there is a way to get infinite DDO store points for free by grinding: its just boring as hell. But technically you can unlock 100% of the content for free.
Notebooks have done this for years (my girlfriend's 2-3 years old windows lap-top has that). Im guessing this is just Intel's flavor of it. Unless there's something fancier about Apple or Intel's offering like being able to do it on the fly without any settings to toggle or bios interaction, like CPU stepping.
Its very easy to make a game that both works on Windows and on an Xbox. The experience will be completly different. The same game that would run on both Mac and Windows (let say WoW): while you're in the game, its the same thing. When you have to troubleshot your graphic card or your network connectivity, very different.
People also care very very much about whats built in (the default apps for average users, the administration tools for advanced users).
You're right in that it doesn't matter as much as it used to. But it still matters. Sure, making a Hello World on TI calculator, a Windows box, a Ubuntu machine, or a Mac, is all the same. Getting the user experience that your customers expect however, is going to be completly different. When Windows 7 came out, the first thing I heard was people on the chrome discussions asking when the Aero Preview in the task bar would be the same in Chrome as it is in IE8. You don't do that the same way on Windows as you do in Linux. And its those little integration details that matter (and why many apps don't even always work -exactly- as is on all Linux distros, nevermind completly different boxes)
YYYY-MM-DD is the only sane way to write dates... and it even sorts properly. But alas, we live in a world of insanity.
Fortunately, since its ISO 8601, I've been able to push it on a few companies Ive worked for (my current one is obligated to that format for more than just ISO compliance, so that is painless). You just spout "Errr, ISO standard, if you dont put dates that way, and someday we get into ISO compliance, we'd be SCREWED", and while it doesn't always work for front ends (some users are adamant to use date formats that are neither ISO, neither even the valid one in their country, or in the US.... I worked for a canadian company, that worked in french, who wanted to use the british date format or something for everything...yeah...), but you usually can get it through for backend processes. Better than a slap in the face.
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Exactly. Especially since the service is definately not actually denied, only the console is... The 5 star restaurant will not refund the cost of my jeans when they say I need a suit to go in :) I can still use my jeans, and I can still get in that restaurant. I just can't do both at the same time.
How does it break functionality? All it does is prevent you from accessing the service. The xbox itself works -just fine-.
You can even use a different xbox to go in. There's just certain types of xbox (which, out of the box, none of em fall in that category, so you have to make a conscious decision to change it) that are not allowed.
So I'd say my analogy is actually pretty darn good. Use an xbox thats still in the state they will allow, you can go in. With the same account too!
If they bricked the console? Sure, sue them for that if they do it.
Banning you from a service? Lol, right. Im going to go to a 5 star restaurant in jeans and t-shirt then sue them once they kick me out. Same deal here.
While you're right, you also have to keep in mind that most of the things you mentionned either heavily modified the tools, OR have put crazy amount of work to put something on top to limit their exposure, such as Facebook's extreme reliance on a tuple store, to the point that you could replace MySQL with an Access database and it could ALMOST work.
Except the whole point of the GPL is to make source open, not to bring in cash. Usually, people in favor of the GPL prefer having the source code and settle on that than settling on money. As someone mentionned already, if you start sueing people who use the GPL by accident, and ask for money instead of source code, you'll just prove that people who called the GPL a "virus" were right.
because there are hundreds of thousands of teenage girls who cannot live without their phone, so the companies know that they can jack the price as high as they want.
Traffic between east asian regions and the americas has always been extremely limited, and expensive. Honestly, as soon as you leave your own ISP's territory, traffic starts being very limited. This is helped by the fact that ISPs have deals between them to even out the cost, and that the vast majority of traffic stays in house, on top of having bigger content providers replicate their stuff around the world (google, youtube, microsoft, akamai...), but if it wasn't for that, Google or Microsoft alone would saturate many international pipes, nevermind the whole internet.
A cheap Wacom Bamboo (100$ or less depending which one you get and where you get it, can go a fair bit lower with some looking) does the trick.
Use Office OneNote 2007 (2003 not worth mentionning) if you want to do everything manually, or if you want to input them and have character recognition, Windows 7's handwriting recognition is vastly improved over XP's and Vista's, and can handle equations fine, though for complex ones you may need to train it a bit.
They'd have to make a new format altogether like they did for Office I would think. All of these formats were built ad-hoc with little to no documentation, with each iteration just tacking on crap on top (see: Office 2003 format)
I don't think that stuff can be realistically made a standard, really.
Its not a standard. Its just documentation about an internally developped format that was never fully documented before so that the european union finally shuts the hell up. Nothing more. If people find it useful, so much the better.
i think in this case the purpose of it is to take -part- of your field of vision to -add- something to it, not to replace it so you can play WoW without a monitor.
I think Jimbo from Southpark would like that one. I can just picture him in front of an animal thats the last of its kind, and go "Ahhhh! Its consuming carbon!" *shoot*
My point was that you can do -everything- in Windows from the command line using WMI, and that Linux's UI changes around way more than Windows' ever will or did.
That being said, Windows did make ONE massive change to the command line, and since then its been superior to *nix's, so meh.
And aside for the very recent shift with PowerShell (which still can use the old commands anyway), Windows' commands haven't changed in forever either! WMI and you're good to go. Oh, you're talking about the UI! Yeah, that never changed in Linux, ever. No sir!.
Wait wait, i hear you... "But but...Linux is all about the command line! Windows is all UI!!!"
Yeah, right. Linux is all UI to the noobs too. So's Windows.
Now you just need to get the internet there i guess
I did say that Sharepoint stretched the definition of CMS, didn't I?
That said, we do use both SharePoint, Alfresco, and 2-3 other large scale CMS here, on about 100 thousand users, a few terrabytes of data in each, and SharePoint works just fine, and has a much wider feature set than Alfresco. Alfresco does have its pluses... better API to manage documents and cheaper to scale horizontally for example, but Office Server (the $$$ version of SharePoint) brings it down to the ground in term of features and as a development platform as well as in ease of scalability. So IMO, its a tie.
I'd suggest you review the feature list of SharePoint for a sec. Wiki != Content Management System. Hell, SharePoint itself stretches the definition as it is compared to real CMS... a wiki...lol.
No, it just lets the browser run XBAP applications as well as (I think) Click Once applications (The .NET version of Java webstart)
It is fairly common in the enterprise, and there's a handful of them around the open web. They actually work REALLY well, and are probably far more secure than html/javascript applications. And the plugin COULD be uninstalled/disabled in its last updated version.
This is just a major overreaction really. If Microsoft makes everything IE/Windows only, people scream. When they don't, people scream too. Woohoo. The only thing they really need to be slapped upside down over is that the plugin couldn't be uninstalled in its first version, and the update wasn't distributed automatically. Then again, its not like you couldn't uninstall .NET.
This talk of school and co-op make me think you're mostly talking about early career resume. Thats different. IT is a volatile job market, and aside for a few people who like to settle down early, many IT professional and software engineers will frequently bounce from job to job. By mid career, having 3, 5, or 10+ -significant- jobs on your resume isn't uncommon. Add additional -relevant- trainings and certifications, and relevent publications, and a consultant will need 3-5 pages even if they keep it to a minimum.
I worked for HR departments, head hunter agencies, consulting firms, you name it... and the recurring theme is this: If you have significant career experience (read: you're not straight out of college, and the part time job at BestBuy isn't career experience), 1 page won't cut it. Or any kind of "rule" for that matter. Those are just guides for people who don't know how to judge for themselves what is important (which is fine: not everyone has experience in the matter).
The first half of the first page should have everything that an hiring manager with ADHD would need. Beyond that, you should have everything important, but in a format that is easy to skim through. Different companies have a COMPLETLY different opinion on what should be in a resume, and you need to catter to all (well, most) of them in one document, since you don't know them in advance. You just have to make sure its in a format where the noise of what they don't care about doesn't prevent them from finding what they want.
But if you made your resume too short, or in a draconian format following arbitrary "rules", the company that may have hired you for your dream job may skip on your resume.
While mine is nowhere near that long, one of the most successful IT guy I know has a 15 page resume, and he never had issues with it. I know a heck of a lot of great people who had problems with their silly 1-2 pagers. I even spend a lot of my time rewriting the resume of some of my friends, after they bitch they can't find a job after 3 months. Rewrite the resume to put everything relevant on it, not worrying about page count, format things correctly, bang, the week after they have a job they like. Happened douzens of times!
Aside for the formatting of skill lists and stuff, its pretty good, which means one thing, in my opinion: he is another victim of the "YOUR RESUME MUST BE ONE PAGE REGARDLESS OF YOUR EXPERIENCE!!!!!111!" school of thought.
The one page resume rule: hurting professionals everywhere since....well, ever.
While you subscribe you get a small allocation of points, so you can use that to buy things permanently. But yes, if you buy via micro transactions, you keep things forever. Subscribers do get some minor perks that cannot be bought, but overall, if you were planning on playing 1-2 year+, buying everything in micro transactions would gain you in the long run, while if you want to play for a short amount of time, you're better off subscribing. Also, since not all of the purchasable content is worth the money, it can be a good idea to sub 1 month to try it all, then buy what you like.
Correct. Except there is a way to get infinite DDO store points for free by grinding: its just boring as hell. But technically you can unlock 100% of the content for free.
Notebooks have done this for years (my girlfriend's 2-3 years old windows lap-top has that). Im guessing this is just Intel's flavor of it. Unless there's something fancier about Apple or Intel's offering like being able to do it on the fly without any settings to toggle or bios interaction, like CPU stepping.
Integration.
Its very easy to make a game that both works on Windows and on an Xbox. The experience will be completly different. The same game that would run on both Mac and Windows (let say WoW): while you're in the game, its the same thing. When you have to troubleshot your graphic card or your network connectivity, very different.
People also care very very much about whats built in (the default apps for average users, the administration tools for advanced users).
You're right in that it doesn't matter as much as it used to. But it still matters. Sure, making a Hello World on TI calculator, a Windows box, a Ubuntu machine, or a Mac, is all the same. Getting the user experience that your customers expect however, is going to be completly different. When Windows 7 came out, the first thing I heard was people on the chrome discussions asking when the Aero Preview in the task bar would be the same in Chrome as it is in IE8. You don't do that the same way on Windows as you do in Linux. And its those little integration details that matter (and why many apps don't even always work -exactly- as is on all Linux distros, nevermind completly different boxes)
Fortunately, since its ISO 8601, I've been able to push it on a few companies Ive worked for (my current one is obligated to that format for more than just ISO compliance, so that is painless). You just spout "Errr, ISO standard, if you dont put dates that way, and someday we get into ISO compliance, we'd be SCREWED", and while it doesn't always work for front ends (some users are adamant to use date formats that are neither ISO, neither even the valid one in their country, or in the US.... I worked for a canadian company, that worked in french, who wanted to use the british date format or something for everything...yeah...), but you usually can get it through for backend processes. Better than a slap in the face.