I'd say Gravity. Our moon orbits around Earth, that orbits around the Sun, that orbits around the nucleus of the Milky way, that orbits around something we don't know is there yet, perhaps?
Man... You are late to the party. People have been struggling with this since the beginning of time (or so it seems). Especially database apps, where they need to work in "detached mode".
I can't give you a flat out solution, because all situations are different. But I can pass on a bit of wisdom. The most important thing for you to do is create business rules for your synchronization. If the data on the server has changed and you made changes offline, who gets priority? You will have three categories of which a file can be... Client changes get priority, Server changes get priority, and Merge files. I would stay away from the last one. If you want to keep things simple, Id go for the "Server changes get priority" approach. In short, if you took an "online" file "offline" and came back, and the server copy has changed since, your offline edits are abandoned. This way, it makes it so heavily edited files have a shorter "check out window" (even if you don't use a checkout system), and forces the person taking the file offline to coordinate with everyone else that may edit this file.
This game was GREAT. It was called Sonic Blast Man. Funny thing too, is the first time I ever got to play it, I played an arm wrestling game just like the article, but both were in Kinds Dominion, VA, USA
I tell you what. The true measure of a man is if he can take apart a computer completely removing every part, and putting it back together and seeing how many screws are left over. My best is two... but I saw this guy once only have one. Damn it someday I'll win that game
Well, yes and no. Just by the name, you can't be completely sure their purpose. Maybe they approve videos appropriate for classroom viewing? Maybe they are the organization that enforces not selling porn to minors?
Meh. I guess he is better at making FPS engines than Rocket engines.
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Grammar flames are for those who have nothing actually useful to say, but certainly try too hard to make it seem the opposite. Not only is this all about TYPED WORDS (spell/grammar check doesn't always do you well), but I'd gather most slashdotters best language isn't English. Mine is C++.
Ah yes. Certain contracts at a previous employer REQUIRED certain MS test certifications to work on the contract. So my employer paid for them. I took two before I told him to quit wasting his money. The first test "Windows NT 4.0 administration" had ZILCH about really administering an NT 4 machine/network, but COMPLETEY about Novell migration. Test 2, "Visual Basic Development", didn't ask ONE SINGLE QUESTION about Visual Basic. It was completely about some Packaging and Deployment Wizard that you only got if you ever used Visual Basic Enterprise Edition ANYWAY.
One thing I did take away from all of those tests, like you had commented, is that it is all about nailing you on technicalities and bullshittery. There were several questions where three of the four multiple choice answers were correct, but you HAD to KNOW the "Microsoft Official Way (TM)" of doing it.
How effective can this really be? What if both sides have said tech? Then they both know what each other thinks that the other is doing and change tactics accordingly.
One of the best cleaning of music I have ever heard is done by the Low Fidelity All-Stars. Hearing their clean versions on the radio, you had no idea where explicit material even was, or that it was even there.
At first, I was thinking quite differently, more along the lines that the audio was a server like esound daemon, so that, coupled with RDP, would further blur the line between a terminal and a full blown desktop.
But I was too optimistic. Looking at further replies to your post, it is indeed a DRM scheme.
I know my original post was a bit over the top, but your reply isn't unique, but better layed out, so I am willing to reply.
In the specific instance of this salesguy I pointed out... he had been with the company oh so many yeas more than me. Back when they didn't have a computer in the whole place. But he was one of the first to get one... after all technology can only help him, right? Wrong. From Office 95->98->2000->XP->2003 it is absolutely NOT ok to NOT know how to insert a picture from a file. Seriously... what was he doing for the past 10 years that he couldn't grasp this? Why was he too good to look in help? And most importantly, it was staring him in the face... Insert->Picture->From File. Do you SEE the problem? Because it involved a computer, he thought it was my job to do his computer work. Ultimately, that was the whole companys attitude... "We have a computer guy. Let's make the biggest effort to NOT pay attention to what we are doing on the computer, not to pick up anything, not to look for help on our own, and blame the computer guy for the most unrelated computer problems we can dream up".
And that isn't all that made me bitter. I was hired to do programming. More specifically, to fix/recode their desktop applications that were coded by someone who didn't know what they were doing. Not only was this TRUE, but it was explained to me JUST LIKE THAT on my interview with them. But I had work experience with Web Development, Network Administration, Hardware Engineering... All of a sudden, I started to get so much work to do, I can only estimate at my time of leaving that, if given no new work, I still wouldn't be done given THREE YEARS to complete it. No, I am NOT exaggerating.
Lastly, I sat behind a desk, away from most people. Interaction was done by email or phone. Why did I need to dress up like the sales people, or customer service reps, when no one even looked at me (except in a fit of rage)? Sure, fine. I'll bite it. I have to dress nice. But the deal with shaving my face? Close to 90% of everyone there had facial hair. The older men usually sported a puffy beard/moustache combo. WHY CAN'T *I* HAVE A SMALL MUSTACHE? I will tell you why. My job was not souly the "computer guy", but I was the company experiment to see how far they could push someone.
I gotta throw out my opinion here, with a bit of perspective from my last employer. Not everyone I worked with was nice. But the mantra was throughout the company, if you can't get them on the phone, hunt them down in person. So when someone got a bug up his ass about some issue, they would call my phone... over and over. You couldn't send them to voicemail... they would know right away you were there... so you had to wait out the three or four consecutive phone calls in hopes that they will just give up. But they rarely did. They would storm into my office ranting and raving about XYZ and they need ABC and whatever else they could complain about to keep me from my work. I honestly fought for an hour with a coworker (salesguy) that FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME STILL COULDN'T INSERT A PICTURE, FROM FILE, INTO A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION! And somehow this was my fault, because I was the computer guy. But I digress... anyway, even on the phone, they all went a mile a minute, giving me no time to think, no time to compose, nothing I could do where I could come out on top of that situation.
For this sake I preferred email corrispondance. I could think, sometimes over hours, what I needed to say, and constuctively lay it out how the situation needed.
But the old folks out there... the ones who insist I wear a tie, shine my shoes, shave my face TO SIT BEHIND A DESK, actually told me I was no longer allowed to respond to any issues of ANY kind via email. It had to be by phone.
Seriously, welcome to the 21st century. It is the future. A better mousetrap has been made. Quit making me catch mice with a broomstick and a bucket.
Are you actually arguing with me, buy providing idiot code examples? What good is strncpy and its brothers if you use strlen()? Is it MY fault the person writing your code doesn't understand sizeof()? You may as well teach me how to fill up a car by siphoning gas from another car while smoking a blunt.
Isn't that what REALLY all software development houses do? I can't name the number of times a sales guy would come back and say something like "I told company XYZ that our product ABC does 123"... and it didn't. Sometimes not even close. As the code monkey we had to do our best to match it... that was our job after all.
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Puts a new spin on you are what you eat. I need to quit eating the Burger King customers.
I'd say Gravity. Our moon orbits around Earth, that orbits around the Sun, that orbits around the nucleus of the Milky way, that orbits around something we don't know is there yet, perhaps?
Man... You are late to the party. People have been struggling with this since the beginning of time (or so it seems). Especially database apps, where they need to work in "detached mode".
I can't give you a flat out solution, because all situations are different. But I can pass on a bit of wisdom. The most important thing for you to do is create business rules for your synchronization. If the data on the server has changed and you made changes offline, who gets priority? You will have three categories of which a file can be... Client changes get priority, Server changes get priority, and Merge files. I would stay away from the last one. If you want to keep things simple, Id go for the "Server changes get priority" approach. In short, if you took an "online" file "offline" and came back, and the server copy has changed since, your offline edits are abandoned. This way, it makes it so heavily edited files have a shorter "check out window" (even if you don't use a checkout system), and forces the person taking the file offline to coordinate with everyone else that may edit this file.
[insert reply in which I say nasty things about your mother and somehow tie in the existence of underwear gnomes]
Yeah. Those terrorists need to make sure they know what they are doing...
clcikety click www.google.com "How to hijack a planes" bombs "box cutters"
Are you the same guy that posts this same damn thing at practically every article?
Yeah. Once Windows 95 came around, people somehow came desensitized to unnecessary system crashing.
This game was GREAT. It was called Sonic Blast Man. Funny thing too, is the first time I ever got to play it, I played an arm wrestling game just like the article, but both were in Kinds Dominion, VA, USA
I tell you what. The true measure of a man is if he can take apart a computer completely removing every part, and putting it back together and seeing how many screws are left over. My best is two... but I saw this guy once only have one. Damn it someday I'll win that game
Maybe their dealers have a job...
You mean like Mickey Mouse, created at least 30 years before hand is in the Public Domain...
Well, yes and no. Just by the name, you can't be completely sure their purpose. Maybe they approve videos appropriate for classroom viewing? Maybe they are the organization that enforces not selling porn to minors?
Meh. I guess he is better at making FPS engines than Rocket engines.
Grammar flames are for those who have nothing actually useful to say, but certainly try too hard to make it seem the opposite. Not only is this all about TYPED WORDS (spell/grammar check doesn't always do you well), but I'd gather most slashdotters best language isn't English. Mine is C++.
Ah yes. Certain contracts at a previous employer REQUIRED certain MS test certifications to work on the contract. So my employer paid for them. I took two before I told him to quit wasting his money. The first test "Windows NT 4.0 administration" had ZILCH about really administering an NT 4 machine/network, but COMPLETEY about Novell migration. Test 2, "Visual Basic Development", didn't ask ONE SINGLE QUESTION about Visual Basic. It was completely about some Packaging and Deployment Wizard that you only got if you ever used Visual Basic Enterprise Edition ANYWAY.
One thing I did take away from all of those tests, like you had commented, is that it is all about nailing you on technicalities and bullshittery. There were several questions where three of the four multiple choice answers were correct, but you HAD to KNOW the "Microsoft Official Way (TM)" of doing it.
Get your ass to mars.
How effective can this really be? What if both sides have said tech? Then they both know what each other thinks that the other is doing and change tactics accordingly.
One of the best cleaning of music I have ever heard is done by the Low Fidelity All-Stars. Hearing their clean versions on the radio, you had no idea where explicit material even was, or that it was even there.
At first, I was thinking quite differently, more along the lines that the audio was a server like esound daemon, so that, coupled with RDP, would further blur the line between a terminal and a full blown desktop.
But I was too optimistic. Looking at further replies to your post, it is indeed a DRM scheme.
I know my original post was a bit over the top, but your reply isn't unique, but better layed out, so I am willing to reply.
In the specific instance of this salesguy I pointed out... he had been with the company oh so many yeas more than me. Back when they didn't have a computer in the whole place. But he was one of the first to get one... after all technology can only help him, right? Wrong. From Office 95->98->2000->XP->2003 it is absolutely NOT ok to NOT know how to insert a picture from a file. Seriously... what was he doing for the past 10 years that he couldn't grasp this? Why was he too good to look in help? And most importantly, it was staring him in the face... Insert->Picture->From File. Do you SEE the problem? Because it involved a computer, he thought it was my job to do his computer work. Ultimately, that was the whole companys attitude... "We have a computer guy. Let's make the biggest effort to NOT pay attention to what we are doing on the computer, not to pick up anything, not to look for help on our own, and blame the computer guy for the most unrelated computer problems we can dream up".
And that isn't all that made me bitter. I was hired to do programming. More specifically, to fix/recode their desktop applications that were coded by someone who didn't know what they were doing. Not only was this TRUE, but it was explained to me JUST LIKE THAT on my interview with them. But I had work experience with Web Development, Network Administration, Hardware Engineering... All of a sudden, I started to get so much work to do, I can only estimate at my time of leaving that, if given no new work, I still wouldn't be done given THREE YEARS to complete it. No, I am NOT exaggerating.
Lastly, I sat behind a desk, away from most people. Interaction was done by email or phone. Why did I need to dress up like the sales people, or customer service reps, when no one even looked at me (except in a fit of rage)? Sure, fine. I'll bite it. I have to dress nice. But the deal with shaving my face? Close to 90% of everyone there had facial hair. The older men usually sported a puffy beard/moustache combo. WHY CAN'T *I* HAVE A SMALL MUSTACHE? I will tell you why. My job was not souly the "computer guy", but I was the company experiment to see how far they could push someone.
I gotta throw out my opinion here, with a bit of perspective from my last employer. Not everyone I worked with was nice. But the mantra was throughout the company, if you can't get them on the phone, hunt them down in person. So when someone got a bug up his ass about some issue, they would call my phone... over and over. You couldn't send them to voicemail... they would know right away you were there... so you had to wait out the three or four consecutive phone calls in hopes that they will just give up. But they rarely did. They would storm into my office ranting and raving about XYZ and they need ABC and whatever else they could complain about to keep me from my work. I honestly fought for an hour with a coworker (salesguy) that FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME STILL COULDN'T INSERT A PICTURE, FROM FILE, INTO A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION! And somehow this was my fault, because I was the computer guy. But I digress... anyway, even on the phone, they all went a mile a minute, giving me no time to think, no time to compose, nothing I could do where I could come out on top of that situation.
For this sake I preferred email corrispondance. I could think, sometimes over hours, what I needed to say, and constuctively lay it out how the situation needed.
But the old folks out there... the ones who insist I wear a tie, shine my shoes, shave my face TO SIT BEHIND A DESK, actually told me I was no longer allowed to respond to any issues of ANY kind via email. It had to be by phone.
Seriously, welcome to the 21st century. It is the future. A better mousetrap has been made. Quit making me catch mice with a broomstick and a bucket.
"Monoculture". I am not convinced you even know what that means.
Are you actually arguing with me, buy providing idiot code examples? What good is strncpy and its brothers if you use strlen()? Is it MY fault the person writing your code doesn't understand sizeof()? You may as well teach me how to fill up a car by siphoning gas from another car while smoking a blunt.
strncpy
Isn't that what REALLY all software development houses do? I can't name the number of times a sales guy would come back and say something like "I told company XYZ that our product ABC does 123"... and it didn't. Sometimes not even close. As the code monkey we had to do our best to match it... that was our job after all.