They have to cut you off eventually because they don't own the entire network. Yes, throughput is "free", but its the easiest way to charge for usage over a period of time. That way downloading at 6mb/s one day, and not downloading at all the next, evens itself out.
The ISP itself cannot hammer the entire internet continually, but it -can- spike. Thus -> throughput over time. If you use 6mb/s for 1 hour, its not as big a deal as if you use 1mb/s for 6 hours. You have a much more lasting impact in the later case, and have much higher odds of conflicting with someone else.
Correct. Within their own network aside, even the ISPs themselves have some form of limit at the end of the day. So bandwidth speed limitation aside, they will always have to cut you off eventually.
If you upgrade, some software will still work, some has to be reinstalled, that depends how they work. If you backup and install, you have to reinstall all your software though.
In any business, if you do something that makes worse a big problem the business you're dealing with has, you get fired.
If a trader even hints over insider information, they get fired. If a cook even hints about cockroaches, down the restaurant goes, and if a reporter or whatever from an institution that relies on copyright heavily hints of piracy, well, good bye he goes.
I'm in Quebec, my first language is french too, and I can honestly say "screw people like you".
Sticking laws all over the place to force a language thats only spoken by a minority of people on the damn continent (yeah its a lot of people, but its still a minority) is holding us back. The 101 law alone is keeping american companies from opening up shop here in many cases. Salaries half of what they are in other large cities and the government ponying it up to compensate is the only reason there's anything worthwhile in Montreal.
But no, they have to keep it up and make it worse. If there's no fucking demand for french videogames (go to Walmart: they sell french videogames when available. They're all in the god damn BARGAIN BIN), then they just take room that could be used to sell more variety, or to lower cost of doing business and maybe lower prices (you know, to compensate of the fucking tax that is higher than the damn exchange rate half of the time).
Protect french all you want, its a culture and its worth preserving. But not with laws that affect non-government entities!
The "slippage" issue is true with the legal process in general though, through the precedent system. Thats how a lot of these screwed up judgements happen, too. You have a new law, then a precedent is set. Then things are compared to that precedent, sometimes setting new precedents. And over time, the spirit of the law went poof.
And thats why some companies do not want to see a set a standard being drafted for it right away. Its not even set in stone what Cloud Computing is to begin with!.
But basically, its a design/architecture philosophy that would state that you put your application/code/whatever somewhere, and you dont really care about its physical environment, scaling, etc, because all that is a bit magical (in the "cloud"), and you may have a bunch of these apps in the "cloud" talking to each other, without really being in your company... Hmm, im explaining it wrong.
Try 2. Take virtualization, service oriented architecture, web hosting, clustering, automatic load balancing (that is, more computing power is added/removed as required), grid computing, sprinkle a bit of internet technologies similar to google's services, and you have "Cloud Computing". Hosted, auto-scaling custom apps/ressources/data on infrastructure you dont worrie about.
Yes, its extremely vague, and no one is even sure in which direction its going.
Its way too early, in the same way that HTML/CSS and various other web technologies were made a "standard" way before we knew where the web was going, even vaguely. Right now people are still debating whats the best USE of Cloud Computing...so any standards drafted now will miss the mark by miles.
this is mostly to get third party stuff and the dev tools. If the goal is just to get a web dev environment setup period, then it IS pretty much that simple in Windows too, as its preinstalled, its just not activated. You go in the Add/Remove programs, click IIS and ASP.NET, and thats pretty much it. You're missing the database (but for something simplistic, Jet is built in...otherwise you just get SQL Server Express with a next next next finish wizard).
This just makes that all even -easier-, and setup stuff like Joomla, Drupal, SQL Server Express, or Visual Web Developer 2008 install all from one place... but beyond that, it is fairly straight forward out of the box, even compared to how its done on macs and linux.
I can't understand why Vista needed so much computing power for the graphics AFTER forcing the use of a mega capable graphics card/blockquote>
Legacy, unfortunately. Vista's UI is a hardware accelerated GUI that, on the same panes, have to support old ass technology that can't be hardware accelerated even if you rewrote the entire subsystem, and still keep compatibility.
It blows. On the other hand, the graphic card that it needs are demanding in -features-, not in raw power. The megabyte requirement isn't for Aero, its for Aero + other stuff that will run at the same time. Intel's garbage from the day Vista came out aside, even most integrated cards will be bored with Vista's UI, so its not like the requirement is high. Thats why they're working on a software implementation For Win7 (and I hope it makes it and isn't ditch at the last minute). It really doesn't need raw power...just needs all the important features to be there.
And "Y per year for the next decade" amounts to 2 hours of work of everyone using it in the company aside for the monkey answering the phone, and after a couple of thousand on the volume licensing agreement, then its flat fee, so anyone added is "free" (so to speak).
So you have to SERIOUSLY make it appealing, because if the average employee in our company loses an afternoon for whatever reason, on average, over sticking with office, we lost money on that decade.
So just the license fee is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. You have to show that on top of being free, Open Office is better overall, and over that decade, you'll never fall on a significant "This 3rd party integration would have worked in MS Office, but now with Open Office we have to roll up our own situation" situation (that isn't offset by one of MS Office's various issues, which I'll say, aren't nearly as common in 2007 than in 2003 and previous unusable pieces of shit...but then again, OOo wasn't there or mature enough then).
Open Office would be my first option for a small company or a startup. Once you get to 100-500 users and more, the licensing fee is fairly insignificant with volume licensing, so you really need to find that killer feature in Open Office to sell it. They're there in many cases, but not very well "advertised", so to speak.
When you add all the plugins/add-ons/integration with 3rd party software/sharepoint integration/how almost half of Office doesn't have an OOo equivalent at all, never mind feature for feature, and the fact that the percentage of employees in a company doing accounting (well, accounting firms aside...) is relatively low, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were wrong by an order of magnitude or two...
Now, if it was companies instead of individuals, maybe.
There's a decent amount of activex that use the browser as a kind of software delivery platform for full blown applications...stuff that cannot just be done with Java or Flash (easily...though lately most are finding ways), from VPN clients, to anti-virus, to archaic bank systems, integration with RDP, etc.
Many of the ones I just pointed out are possible without ActiveX, but its very hard to do it as well as with a model that lets you do "anything and everything", so they're, in many cases, more primitive.
Doesn't change the fact that its just used because there's no better solution...but if they were to kill ActiveX, some third party would quickly make one, Im sure.
Yes, its unfortunately true that the default has you as admin. "Buried" though? It IS obscure for grandma, but all you have to do is create a new user, and thats far from obscure (and required for a lot of stuff). I've seen some seriously computer illiterate people that could do it.
UAC as a normal (non-admin) user does provide a lot of value. It will prompt for a password, so its not just a one button click prompt. UAC as admin isn't as good, but it does a lot of things under the hood, such as making symlinks to reroute certain calls to priviledged areas to "compatibility" sections in the user directory, as it should be if the application was programmed well. It does similar things with the registry, sandboxes IE (if you need to use it...), etc.
Put the user as a non-priviledged one. Then when the prompt pops, it will do the same thing, but also ask for a password. The password-less prompt is an compromise for people who are spoiled by running as admin. If you run as a normal user, you'll get the same prompts at the same times, but requesting for password. So yes, same damn thing, just with extra options if you really enjoy the spoiled realm of running as "root".
This is just silly. People completely unfamiliar with security might want to turn UAC off, since they're unlikely to differentiate intentional, benign actions from hostile ones. People familiar with security should be annoyed by its quirks and bugs, but understand its usefulness as a guard.
100% agreed. Unfortunately, most "power users" I know (people who can make Windows or even Unix do whatever they want, but don't "understand" either) will turn UAC off. Not because of its "quirks and bad design", but because "anyone who knows how to use a computer shouldn't have any problem running always as administrator". The vast majority of people I heard turning it off, did it for that. Average users, with a few exceptions, don't care enough. Professionals and people who really understand what its doing (which goes beyond the prompt, such as splitting the registry in multiple files, instead of centralizing it), leave it on. Its the arrogants in between that are problematic.
Yeah, though i was talking about the problems on Microsoft`s side. Windows Installer by default will tend to ask for elevation. It was one of the big complains when UAC was first revealed, if memory serves.
Its not a bandaid, since its basically a copy of what every other OS does and is considered critical. Run as a least priviledged user and elevate only when necessary. The only real differences is:
If you have an account thats not administrator, but is part of the administrator group, you still need to elevate. Its awkward and sometimes not possible to elevate an explorer window or the control panel (so you would only need to elevate once for multiple operations) You need to elevate an installer even if you only want to install a program for yourself, not computer wide.
If those 3 main things were fixed, it wouldn't be much different from sudo, and even has some advantages over it. But people spoiled by running constantly as administrator, or worse, being so arrogant that they think UAC is just "for noobs", would still disable it.
You missed the point. It was just an example of what CAN be done. If you feel Sharepoint and Sharepoint designer sucks, thats fine. The idea behind them is still good though. A designer/IDE tool that can integrate and modify a live content management system's logical autogenerated pages and extensions, without having to touch physical files, and having something like that of enterprise caliber integrated with the various awesome open source CMSs out there would be ideal.
Of course, wysiwyg is just one of Dreamweaver's features, and I dont think its the most used among professionals. I haven't used it in a long time, but back then we used it for workflow integration, script debugging, code analysis (like checking broken links and quickly testing for code correctness), template generations, plugins, etc.
The wysiwyg was only used a "real time semi-preview", and it was okay-ish at that.
It doesn't matter. The most you'll ever need to do is recycle the application pool, and users won't even notice when you do aside for a slight lag if you don't have a load balancer.
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They have to cut you off eventually because they don't own the entire network. Yes, throughput is "free", but its the easiest way to charge for usage over a period of time. That way downloading at 6mb/s one day, and not downloading at all the next, evens itself out.
The ISP itself cannot hammer the entire internet continually, but it -can- spike. Thus -> throughput over time. If you use 6mb/s for 1 hour, its not as big a deal as if you use 1mb/s for 6 hours. You have a much more lasting impact in the later case, and have much higher odds of conflicting with someone else.
Correct. Within their own network aside, even the ISPs themselves have some form of limit at the end of the day. So bandwidth speed limitation aside, they will always have to cut you off eventually.
There is a backup and install option as of Vista.
If you upgrade, some software will still work, some has to be reinstalled, that depends how they work. If you backup and install, you have to reinstall all your software though.
In any business, if you do something that makes worse a big problem the business you're dealing with has, you get fired.
If a trader even hints over insider information, they get fired. If a cook even hints about cockroaches, down the restaurant goes, and if a reporter or whatever from an institution that relies on copyright heavily hints of piracy, well, good bye he goes.
I'd be surprised if the opposite happened.
I'm in Quebec, my first language is french too, and I can honestly say "screw people like you".
Sticking laws all over the place to force a language thats only spoken by a minority of people on the damn continent (yeah its a lot of people, but its still a minority) is holding us back. The 101 law alone is keeping american companies from opening up shop here in many cases. Salaries half of what they are in other large cities and the government ponying it up to compensate is the only reason there's anything worthwhile in Montreal.
But no, they have to keep it up and make it worse. If there's no fucking demand for french videogames (go to Walmart: they sell french videogames when available. They're all in the god damn BARGAIN BIN), then they just take room that could be used to sell more variety, or to lower cost of doing business and maybe lower prices (you know, to compensate of the fucking tax that is higher than the damn exchange rate half of the time).
Protect french all you want, its a culture and its worth preserving. But not with laws that affect non-government entities!
The "slippage" issue is true with the legal process in general though, through the precedent system. Thats how a lot of these screwed up judgements happen, too. You have a new law, then a precedent is set. Then things are compared to that precedent, sometimes setting new precedents. And over time, the spirit of the law went poof.
So that would be nothing new.
100% Agree. That ability is also often referred to as "experience".
And thats why some companies do not want to see a set a standard being drafted for it right away. Its not even set in stone what Cloud Computing is to begin with!.
But basically, its a design/architecture philosophy that would state that you put your application/code/whatever somewhere, and you dont really care about its physical environment, scaling, etc, because all that is a bit magical (in the "cloud"), and you may have a bunch of these apps in the "cloud" talking to each other, without really being in your company... Hmm, im explaining it wrong.
Try 2. Take virtualization, service oriented architecture, web hosting, clustering, automatic load balancing (that is, more computing power is added/removed as required), grid computing, sprinkle a bit of internet technologies similar to google's services, and you have "Cloud Computing". Hosted, auto-scaling custom apps/ressources/data on infrastructure you dont worrie about.
Yes, its extremely vague, and no one is even sure in which direction its going.
Its way too early, in the same way that HTML/CSS and various other web technologies were made a "standard" way before we knew where the web was going, even vaguely. Right now people are still debating whats the best USE of Cloud Computing...so any standards drafted now will miss the mark by miles.
this is mostly to get third party stuff and the dev tools. If the goal is just to get a web dev environment setup period, then it IS pretty much that simple in Windows too, as its preinstalled, its just not activated. You go in the Add/Remove programs, click IIS and ASP.NET, and thats pretty much it. You're missing the database (but for something simplistic, Jet is built in...otherwise you just get SQL Server Express with a next next next finish wizard).
This just makes that all even -easier-, and setup stuff like Joomla, Drupal, SQL Server Express, or Visual Web Developer 2008 install all from one place... but beyond that, it is fairly straight forward out of the box, even compared to how its done on macs and linux.
And "Y per year for the next decade" amounts to 2 hours of work of everyone using it in the company aside for the monkey answering the phone, and after a couple of thousand on the volume licensing agreement, then its flat fee, so anyone added is "free" (so to speak).
So you have to SERIOUSLY make it appealing, because if the average employee in our company loses an afternoon for whatever reason, on average, over sticking with office, we lost money on that decade.
So just the license fee is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. You have to show that on top of being free, Open Office is better overall, and over that decade, you'll never fall on a significant "This 3rd party integration would have worked in MS Office, but now with Open Office we have to roll up our own situation" situation (that isn't offset by one of MS Office's various issues, which I'll say, aren't nearly as common in 2007 than in 2003 and previous unusable pieces of shit...but then again, OOo wasn't there or mature enough then).
Open Office would be my first option for a small company or a startup. Once you get to 100-500 users and more, the licensing fee is fairly insignificant with volume licensing, so you really need to find that killer feature in Open Office to sell it. They're there in many cases, but not very well "advertised", so to speak.
When you add all the plugins/add-ons/integration with 3rd party software/sharepoint integration/how almost half of Office doesn't have an OOo equivalent at all, never mind feature for feature, and the fact that the percentage of employees in a company doing accounting (well, accounting firms aside...) is relatively low, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were wrong by an order of magnitude or two...
Now, if it was companies instead of individuals, maybe.
There's a decent amount of activex that use the browser as a kind of software delivery platform for full blown applications...stuff that cannot just be done with Java or Flash (easily...though lately most are finding ways), from VPN clients, to anti-virus, to archaic bank systems, integration with RDP, etc.
Many of the ones I just pointed out are possible without ActiveX, but its very hard to do it as well as with a model that lets you do "anything and everything", so they're, in many cases, more primitive.
Doesn't change the fact that its just used because there's no better solution...but if they were to kill ActiveX, some third party would quickly make one, Im sure.
Windows Server 2008 :) Took decades, but it got there.
Especially now with Sleep mode, which, even for Vista, gets the computer ready to use in less than 2 seconds.
Yes, its unfortunately true that the default has you as admin. "Buried" though? It IS obscure for grandma, but all you have to do is create a new user, and thats far from obscure (and required for a lot of stuff). I've seen some seriously computer illiterate people that could do it.
UAC as a normal (non-admin) user does provide a lot of value. It will prompt for a password, so its not just a one button click prompt. UAC as admin isn't as good, but it does a lot of things under the hood, such as making symlinks to reroute certain calls to priviledged areas to "compatibility" sections in the user directory, as it should be if the application was programmed well. It does similar things with the registry, sandboxes IE (if you need to use it...), etc.
Put the user as a non-priviledged one. Then when the prompt pops, it will do the same thing, but also ask for a password. The password-less prompt is an compromise for people who are spoiled by running as admin. If you run as a normal user, you'll get the same prompts at the same times, but requesting for password. So yes, same damn thing, just with extra options if you really enjoy the spoiled realm of running as "root".
100% agreed. Unfortunately, most "power users" I know (people who can make Windows or even Unix do whatever they want, but don't "understand" either) will turn UAC off. Not because of its "quirks and bad design", but because "anyone who knows how to use a computer shouldn't have any problem running always as administrator". The vast majority of people I heard turning it off, did it for that. Average users, with a few exceptions, don't care enough. Professionals and people who really understand what its doing (which goes beyond the prompt, such as splitting the registry in multiple files, instead of centralizing it), leave it on. Its the arrogants in between that are problematic.
Yeah, though i was talking about the problems on Microsoft`s side. Windows Installer by default will tend to ask for elevation. It was one of the big complains when UAC was first revealed, if memory serves.
Its not a bandaid, since its basically a copy of what every other OS does and is considered critical. Run as a least priviledged user and elevate only when necessary. The only real differences is:
If you have an account thats not administrator, but is part of the administrator group, you still need to elevate.
Its awkward and sometimes not possible to elevate an explorer window or the control panel (so you would only need to elevate once for multiple operations)
You need to elevate an installer even if you only want to install a program for yourself, not computer wide.
If those 3 main things were fixed, it wouldn't be much different from sudo, and even has some advantages over it. But people spoiled by running constantly as administrator, or worse, being so arrogant that they think UAC is just "for noobs", would still disable it.
You missed the point. It was just an example of what CAN be done. If you feel Sharepoint and Sharepoint designer sucks, thats fine. The idea behind them is still good though. A designer/IDE tool that can integrate and modify a live content management system's logical autogenerated pages and extensions, without having to touch physical files, and having something like that of enterprise caliber integrated with the various awesome open source CMSs out there would be ideal.
Of course, wysiwyg is just one of Dreamweaver's features, and I dont think its the most used among professionals. I haven't used it in a long time, but back then we used it for workflow integration, script debugging, code analysis (like checking broken links and quickly testing for code correctness), template generations, plugins, etc.
The wysiwyg was only used a "real time semi-preview", and it was okay-ish at that.
It doesn't matter. The most you'll ever need to do is recycle the application pool, and users won't even notice when you do aside for a slight lag if you don't have a load balancer.