Do a google search for iPhone6 or iPhone7 fire. You'll find that they also had a few incidents:-)
The Note7 had a higher incidence of it because of some dumb design decisions to maximize battery size, but phones catching fire because of lithium batteries is not a new thing...
Depends if your company is ready to use Spreadsheets instead of calculators. I find this to be a good analogy w/ my customers. A spreadsheet can make a confusing calculator if all you need is a calculator, but if you know what you're doing, a spreadsheet will make your work a *lot* more efficient. And you can program a calculator UI for a spreadsheet.
Lotus Notes has a much better UI in 8.x (everyone griping about probably has experience w/ Notes 4.x...it's like saying Windows 2.0 sucks when everyone is on XP or KDE or Gnome..seriously:-), built-in Office doc editors, security designed from the ground up (secured databases and network traffic and PKI), *secure* business level IM, etc. Mail/Calendaring just happen to be applications written on top of it, but you get all the built-in plumbing (security, replication, etc.) that are part of Notes.
So you have to ask yourself and your coworkers: do you want a calculator or a spreadsheet? What if your competitors are using spreadsheets and you're stuck on the freebie $5 calculators that Staples gives out? Who do you think is more efficient getting their job done? How much is that $5 calculator really costing you?;-)
Not that it's a bad approach, but it's a tradeoff for the better speed. E.g., I can install vmware on any Linux distro. If I wanted to use Xen, I could run a distro w/ it installed or I could try patching my distro. Vmware runs on Linux and Windows and you can use its VM images on both platforms, as well as have high availability support if you want to upgrade to ESX Enterprise...Xen is still missing these features.
Personally, I'd love to hear more about bugs people found in the Linux version of VMWare since that's what I plan to be using until Xen 4.0;-)
Bet the politicians don't have the b*lls to do that. In every case where they've tried to mandate a "smart" electronic gun (NJ, NY, MA), they let the cops and military do what they want. Guess their families aren't worth anything if these things really work that well. Or...maybe they don't because it adds too much complexity! What a stupid idea:-P
When you need to use one, you want it to go bang when you pull the trigger...not "hmm...I wonder if the batteries are still good" or "hmm..I wonder if my cell phone will jam the signal" or "hmm...I wonder if it'll recognize my fingerprint", as the bad guy or rabid dog gets the first chew on you...
As for folks who think self-defense never happens: http://www.claytoncramer.com/gundefenseblog/blogge r.html The cops can't magically be everywhere. I'd rather make sure good guys can fight the battles that happen and there are more armed good guys than armed bad guys...
There is party that is closer to that than you think in the US...the Libertarian party. Too bad the Repub/Dem media suppresses any chance they get at face time so they never get enough mindshare:-P
Most people say the Notes email client sucks because they're used to Outlook Express (go ask your users why they think it sucks and you'll get "because Outlook does it this other way" comments).
The Notes email client lets you do interesting things like file a document in multiple folders, integrated IM, etc.
Besides, if they don't like the Notes email client, they can always use Outlook Web Access (Outlook thinks the Notes server is an Exchange server), iNotes (web browser access), POP3, etc.
Notes/Domino indeed is a platform more comparable to JBoss + a real PKI infrastructure for security + applications for admin, etc...
Hanover (a.k.a., Notes 8) is a rewrite of the Notes client to use Eclipse as a base platform, so for folks that understand the Notes client, it'll be quite interesting...
> Lotus Notes is a beast. It stops working > whenever it feels like it, and occasionally > corrupts the database just to make your day.
Sounds more like your admins suck or you have bad hardware. Does your company need some consulting help from someone like me?;-)
Notes is far more than something that can be used to do Wiki's, and writing a Wiki app in Notes is fairly trivial since Wiki's are so crude:-)
Notes has a lot of plumbing/infrastructure. Ask anyone who's tried to port a non-trivial Notes app to a "standard" web application platform. You end up creating your own security scheme, messaging system, scheduling system. I've ported a few Domino (Notes web apps) to MS ASP/MSSQL; we used 5x the number of developers and it took 5x the time to do in Notes. We spent way too much time writing menial junk like a user manager UI for the web:-(
As for Notes on Linux at IBM, there's a reason the Win32 Notes client now runs on WINE...
Sounds like you should have used a local Lotus BP; they would have gotten a test setup for you and given you some hand holding. They're not that expensive (well..I'm not but I know Lotus Consulting is:-) If you mean the R4 mail client, I'd agree. The R5 client is a lot nicer (though it is still missing quoted text which a consultant can add in 5min). Gotta see if it runs under WINE;-)
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Do a google search for iPhone6 or iPhone7 fire. You'll find that they also had a few incidents :-)
The Note7 had a higher incidence of it because of some dumb design decisions to maximize battery size, but phones catching fire because of lithium batteries is not a new thing...
Depends if your company is ready to use Spreadsheets instead of calculators. I find this to be a good analogy w/ my customers. A spreadsheet can make a confusing calculator if all you need is a calculator, but if you know what you're doing, a spreadsheet will make your work a *lot* more efficient. And you can program a calculator UI for a spreadsheet.
:-), built-in Office doc editors, security designed from the ground up (secured databases and network traffic and PKI), *secure* business level IM, etc. Mail/Calendaring just happen to be applications written on top of it, but you get all the built-in plumbing (security, replication, etc.) that are part of Notes.
;-)
Lotus Notes has a much better UI in 8.x (everyone griping about probably has experience w/ Notes 4.x...it's like saying Windows 2.0 sucks when everyone is on XP or KDE or Gnome..seriously
So you have to ask yourself and your coworkers: do you want a calculator or a spreadsheet? What if your competitors are using spreadsheets and you're stuck on the freebie $5 calculators that Staples gives out? Who do you think is more efficient getting their job done? How much is that $5 calculator really costing you?
Not that it's a bad approach, but it's a tradeoff for the better speed. E.g., I can install vmware on any Linux distro. If I wanted to use Xen, I could run a distro w/ it installed or I could try patching my distro. Vmware runs on Linux and Windows and you can use its VM images on both platforms, as well as have high availability support if you want to upgrade to ESX Enterprise...Xen is still missing these features.
;-)
Personally, I'd love to hear more about bugs people found in the Linux version of VMWare since that's what I plan to be using until Xen 4.0
They're not meant to protect public servants (including politicians and cops)!
:-P
NH is getting rid of their "Live Free Or Die" motto on their license plates...now you know why
Bet the politicians don't have the b*lls to do that. In every case where they've tried to mandate a "smart" electronic gun (NJ, NY, MA), they let the cops and military do what they want. Guess their families aren't worth anything if these things really work that well. Or...maybe they don't because it adds too much complexity! What a stupid idea :-P
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When you need to use one, you want it to go bang when you pull the trigger...not "hmm...I wonder if the batteries are still good" or "hmm..I wonder if my cell phone will jam the signal" or "hmm...I wonder if it'll recognize my fingerprint", as the bad guy or rabid dog gets the first chew on you...
As for folks who think self-defense never happens:
http://www.claytoncramer.com/gundefenseblog/blogg
The cops can't magically be everywhere. I'd rather make sure good guys can fight the battles that happen and there are more armed good guys than armed bad guys...
There is party that is closer to that than you think in the US...the Libertarian party. Too bad the Repub/Dem media suppresses any chance they get at face time so they never get enough mindshare :-P
Most people say the Notes email client sucks because they're used to Outlook Express (go ask your users why they think it sucks and you'll get "because Outlook does it this other way" comments).
The Notes email client lets you do interesting things like file a document in multiple folders, integrated IM, etc.
Besides, if they don't like the Notes email client, they can always use Outlook Web Access (Outlook thinks the Notes server is an Exchange server), iNotes (web browser access), POP3, etc.
Notes/Domino indeed is a platform more comparable to JBoss + a real PKI infrastructure for security + applications for admin, etc...
Hanover (a.k.a., Notes 8) is a rewrite of the Notes client to use Eclipse as a base platform, so for folks that understand the Notes client, it'll be quite interesting...
> Lotus Notes is a beast. It stops working
;-)
:-)
:-(
> whenever it feels like it, and occasionally
> corrupts the database just to make your day.
Sounds more like your admins suck or you have bad hardware. Does your company need some consulting help from someone like me?
Notes is far more than something that can be used to do Wiki's, and writing a Wiki app in Notes is fairly trivial since Wiki's are so crude
Notes has a lot of plumbing/infrastructure. Ask anyone who's tried to port a non-trivial Notes app to a "standard" web application platform. You end up creating your own security scheme, messaging system, scheduling system. I've ported a few Domino (Notes web apps) to MS ASP/MSSQL; we used 5x the number of developers and it took 5x the time to do in Notes. We spent way too much time writing menial junk like a user manager UI for the web
As for Notes on Linux at IBM, there's a reason the Win32 Notes client now runs on WINE...
Sounds like you should have used a local Lotus BP; they would have gotten a test setup for you and given you some hand holding. They're not that expensive (well..I'm not but I know Lotus Consulting is :-) If you mean the R4 mail client, I'd agree. The R5 client is a lot nicer (though it is still missing quoted text which a consultant can add in 5min). Gotta see if it runs under WINE ;-)