Nader would split the dem vote ensuring Bush a victory. Therefore the bastion of conservatism that is Faux News would tend to run more Nader news.
You can see this occurring in other places as well - look to the Citizens for a Sound Economy, a group of conservatives lobbying across states to get Nader put on the ballot to split the left.
Beowulf's Children, The Gripping Hand . . . stank. Particularly since the first books (Legacy of the Heorot and Mote In God's Eye) were just so amazingly good.
And regarding Niven and flat characters - that's pretty darn standard for Niven. His books really get more life when he's collaborating with another author like Jerry P and Steve Barnes.
Their book Oath of Fealty was amasingly appropros, particularly with news items such as the Chicago article on/.
Not that it matters, but in the fantasy/sci-fi realms nobody, but nobody, beats George R.R. Martin.
"Is ERP just so new that it's immature? Or is it that different companies or schools are just so different that it's impossible to shoehorn them into a out of the box product like Peoplesoft???"
Yes. There's three main issues. ERP is immature (sort of, the chunky sexy name ERP is newer than the concept of integrated business processes)
Companies are different and are more willing to invest money in software change rather than process change - many non-tech companies still view (even post dot-bomb) technology as a panacea. Broken processes can be fixed by the Next New Thing. This is a twofold problemm and not entirely on the shoulders of ERP vendors. But they are willing to imply that their tech is the solution. They do deserve the blame for that.
Finally is the gap between what a developer sees and what a user sees. See Copeland's book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum for a wonderful look at the main issue facing ERP vendors today.
The ERP market is wide open even with the limited competition, even IF the big guys attempt to stifle new competitors. Because the products that are out there are garbage from a usability standpoint.
The toughest part is convincing a company that the millions spent on Oracle was a poor investment. Hard to do. Ego and jobs are on the line with that kind of admission. Hence most companies plodding along with a poor solution.
Government agencies are an interesting case study right now, being less bound by profitability, and allowed to simply spend more money and try try again.
For example, Bearing Point attempted to implement Oracle at the VA in Florida recently. They just pulled the plug on the implementation (millions of dollars later) and the DA announced recently that a criminal investigation is underway.
Part of that is obviously BP's fault, but a fair amount of the blame rests on Oracle's shoulders for a shoddy product. Heck, Oracle's Federal offering is very immature at this point and is sort of "bolted on" to the existing commercial application. This comes with the inevitable kruft and shoddy interfaces.
Now you know why I'm bitter and drunk.
You're 50% correct.;)
A small start-up type is better off homegrowing IMO. Your system is going to do exactly what you want and you're going to be more flexible than with a standard prohibitively expensive system.
It's a combination of a few factors:
(this is from my work implementing SAP and Oracle)
They're not designed with an end user in mind - they're designed to make the accounting package interact with every other bolt-on module. What occurs is a programmer with no idea how to, say, plan a line is put in charge of developing all the forms and interfaces for that type of job.
Kruft/feature creep - Customer A wants a feature to shine the shoes of his CEO and accompanying sycophants. Oracle says "ok" and implements it on top of preexisting flows. The documentation may or may not be updated.
Generalization of businesses - the underlying assumption of ANY ERP is most of the business processes that will be tracked/automated/integrated are generic and standard to a business and will only require modest tweaking. This is the most blatant of lies the ERP vendors make (niche players excluded). Overgeneralization forces almost a reinvention of the wheel - either changing processes or changing the program. Guess which one happens most;)
Finally, an ERP is just such a damn big undertaking. AR/AP, human resources, CRM (which Oracle's product is laughable. Too bad I make a living off of it), inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, planning, sales - all need to be integrated.
While there are "standards" of how to implement all of these products, the teams tend to be distinct and insulated from one another, sometimes taking completely different approaches to how they implement the solutions, making a customization effort quite difficult.
One of the biggest gooches is also the nasty little relationship of ERP vendors and their own consulting firms. They're trying to make money by implementing these products, so the documentation tends to be shoddy and it tends to be very difficult to get real answers on how to do something or how a specific thing works. Hell, Oracle's J2EE architecture is bogus, with most industry standard functions having changed names, making a standard J2EE developer near useless. Well, until you decompile the whole stinking stack to trace back what you need.
And as an aside to the main topic, Oracle has a long history of acquiring firms and integrating their designs. This is nothing new, but it won't be an improvement on the peoplesoft product.
Had you RTFA you would have noticed that they don't disclose whether he lost, but only that he's no longer on the show.
Probably raised enough money for that *ahem* operation.
The war was obviously about finding those cleverly hidden WMDs.
Erm, liberating the Iraqi people! That's what it was about!
It had nothing at all to do with economics or any sort of mucking about with oil. That's what those commie left wingers would have you believe. And Haliburton getting all the contracts is really just a coincidence due to the fact that there are so few companies that do what Haliburton does. Fortunately most of the rest are French and everyone knows what assholes they are. I mean, they didn't even believe Saddam was a threat or had weapons! We showed them, huh!
If you BUY the sandwich as Dent you can't get it as Prefect, rendering it unrecoverable. IIRC. It was a long time ago and this WAS the most frustrating Infocom game ever. Well, next to Infidel. Infidel may have been really cool, I always died in the desert.
Yes, that's right, I never found the pyramid. Leave me alone.
A post like the grandparent highlights the gap between tech savvy and those who aren't.
Guess what - someone who isn't a/. reader is:
Probably the ones most vulnerable to Google mining (for lack of a better term)
The ones least likely to know what a robots.txt is, what it does, and how to utilize it to prevent stuff like this.
/. readers for the most part are paranoid and cautious enough to minimize their risk of exposure on the net (even without robots.txt) - it is the group of users (increasing every day mind you) who are semi-literate and don't have the time or inclination to become well versed in security on the net. And really, who can blame them? Most of them don't embrace computers the way many here do and view them as a necessary evil that can occasionally help them find pornography.
I thought Websphere was a reporting tool similar to Business Objects . . . i.e. the power comes from proper design and implementation of the metacube (universe, whatever you call the data cube)
So you'll never have a great port, particularly if you try and leverage the same database backend.
I could be WAY OFF on what Websphere even is, as I've never used it and have only had it on my resume as an expert for a few months.
The parent is suggesting that you use Access (or Filemaker) as a front end tool to connect to a larger database backend.
With regards to your specific situ, it's probably the 70% slowing you down to a crawl, and it's probably due to lots poorly designed queries.
Not defending ODBC, but merely recognizing that report retreival/querying is a different beast than transactional querying. Your fundamental goals are different and should be focused on reducing query times and minimizing large data retreivals. Let the server do the work and just respond with the needed data.
But hey, you probably already knew that and designed your ASP/JSP hybrid interface to deal with that already, right?;)
I think you're a troll, but whatever.
Time shifting (recording a program for later listening) is LEGAL and protected by FAIR USE.
So what is the RIAA's stance again?
It's within the bounds of copyright.
I think a good plugin architecture benefits users as well as developers.
The feature bloat in Word is pretty astounding, and while power users may utilize extensive features in Word, the average Joe doesn't.
And power users wouldn't mind downloading/tweaking plugins to get their application to do exactly what it wants.
A plugin architecture merely allows features to be extended and added as necessary, while still offering a baseline product that fulfills the needs of the basic user.
It's getting down to what a basic user really needs . . . there's the rub.
Tabbrowser Preferences extension allows you to change your preference to open all new windows in tabs as well.
Lots of other nifty menu options for this one within Windows as well. Doesn't seem as robust on my linux box but that's probably due to my ignorance, not the extension.
Most people who exercise regularly don't get heart disease?
Generally speaking, however, if you have a medical condition that necessitates a heart transplant(!) chances are the doctors aren't going to be cool with extreme physical activity
In fact, they may forbid you any sort of strenuous activity including (*Gasp*) sex.
They awarded the contract to Accenture, whose core competency is turning documents into cash.
They won't pull anything worth anything together in decades.
The $6 an hour cashier with a line behind her and performance metrics based on her checking speed is certainly going to be someone to trust with verification of merchandise and the proper tagging.
I'm sure they all love their jobs and take them seriously.
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There's a whole slew of Options in the Tab Tabbrowser Extension Preferences under the Advanced Tabbrowsing tab.
The default settings have all new windows opening in tabs, IIRC, and you can uncheck them to make it work as new windows.
Install TabBrowser Extensions. It has the save features (among other really nice enhancements)
Whoops, you're right. I'm an idiot.
Nader would split the dem vote ensuring Bush a victory. Therefore the bastion of conservatism that is Faux News would tend to run more Nader news.
You can see this occurring in other places as well - look to the Citizens for a Sound Economy, a group of conservatives lobbying across states to get Nader put on the ballot to split the left.
Beowulf's Children, The Gripping Hand . . . stank. Particularly since the first books (Legacy of the Heorot and Mote In God's Eye) were just so amazingly good. /.
And regarding Niven and flat characters - that's pretty darn standard for Niven. His books really get more life when he's collaborating with another author like Jerry P and Steve Barnes.
Their book Oath of Fealty was amasingly appropros, particularly with news items such as the Chicago article on
Not that it matters, but in the fantasy/sci-fi realms nobody, but nobody, beats George R.R. Martin.
"Is ERP just so new that it's immature? Or is it that different companies or schools are just so different that it's impossible to shoehorn them into a out of the box product like Peoplesoft???"
Yes. There's three main issues.
ERP is immature (sort of, the chunky sexy name ERP is newer than the concept of integrated business processes)
Companies are different and are more willing to invest money in software change rather than process change - many non-tech companies still view (even post dot-bomb) technology as a panacea. Broken processes can be fixed by the Next New Thing. This is a twofold problemm and not entirely on the shoulders of ERP vendors. But they are willing to imply that their tech is the solution. They do deserve the blame for that.
Finally is the gap between what a developer sees and what a user sees. See Copeland's book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum for a wonderful look at the main issue facing ERP vendors today.
The ERP market is wide open even with the limited competition, even IF the big guys attempt to stifle new competitors. Because the products that are out there are garbage from a usability standpoint.
The toughest part is convincing a company that the millions spent on Oracle was a poor investment. Hard to do. Ego and jobs are on the line with that kind of admission. Hence most companies plodding along with a poor solution.
Government agencies are an interesting case study right now, being less bound by profitability, and allowed to simply spend more money and try try again.
For example, Bearing Point attempted to implement Oracle at the VA in Florida recently. They just pulled the plug on the implementation (millions of dollars later) and the DA announced recently that a criminal investigation is underway.
Part of that is obviously BP's fault, but a fair amount of the blame rests on Oracle's shoulders for a shoddy product. Heck, Oracle's Federal offering is very immature at this point and is sort of "bolted on" to the existing commercial application. This comes with the inevitable kruft and shoddy interfaces.
Now you know why I'm bitter and drunk.
Well, I'm not drunk yet but it IS Friday.
You're 50% correct. ;)
A small start-up type is better off homegrowing IMO. Your system is going to do exactly what you want and you're going to be more flexible than with a standard prohibitively expensive system.
Finally, an ERP is just such a damn big undertaking. AR/AP, human resources, CRM (which Oracle's product is laughable. Too bad I make a living off of it), inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, planning, sales - all need to be integrated.
While there are "standards" of how to implement all of these products, the teams tend to be distinct and insulated from one another, sometimes taking completely different approaches to how they implement the solutions, making a customization effort quite difficult.
One of the biggest gooches is also the nasty little relationship of ERP vendors and their own consulting firms. They're trying to make money by implementing these products, so the documentation tends to be shoddy and it tends to be very difficult to get real answers on how to do something or how a specific thing works. Hell, Oracle's J2EE architecture is bogus, with most industry standard functions having changed names, making a standard J2EE developer near useless. Well, until you decompile the whole stinking stack to trace back what you need.
And as an aside to the main topic, Oracle has a long history of acquiring firms and integrating their designs. This is nothing new, but it won't be an improvement on the peoplesoft product.
Had you RTFA you would have noticed that they don't disclose whether he lost, but only that he's no longer on the show.
Probably raised enough money for that *ahem* operation.
simply surfing to websites to compromise your machine? I agree, there's lots more hoops to jump through to compromise your box with firefox.
The war was obviously about finding those cleverly hidden WMDs.
Erm, liberating the Iraqi people! That's what it was about!
It had nothing at all to do with economics or any sort of mucking about with oil. That's what those commie left wingers would have you believe.
And Haliburton getting all the contracts is really just a coincidence due to the fact that there are so few companies that do what Haliburton does. Fortunately most of the rest are French and everyone knows what assholes they are.
I mean, they didn't even believe Saddam was a threat or had weapons! We showed them, huh!
Obi Wan is our only hope.
Yes, that's right, I never found the pyramid. Leave me alone.
Guess what - someone who isn't a /. reader is:
Probably the ones most vulnerable to Google mining (for lack of a better term)
The ones least likely to know what a robots.txt is, what it does, and how to utilize it to prevent stuff like this.
So you'll never have a great port, particularly if you try and leverage the same database backend.
I could be WAY OFF on what Websphere even is, as I've never used it and have only had it on my resume as an expert for a few months.
With regards to your specific situ, it's probably the 70% slowing you down to a crawl, and it's probably due to lots poorly designed queries.
Not defending ODBC, but merely recognizing that report retreival/querying is a different beast than transactional querying. Your fundamental goals are different and should be focused on reducing query times and minimizing large data retreivals. Let the server do the work and just respond with the needed data.
But hey, you probably already knew that and designed your ASP/JSP hybrid interface to deal with that already, right? ;)
I think you're a troll, but whatever. Time shifting (recording a program for later listening) is LEGAL and protected by FAIR USE. So what is the RIAA's stance again? It's within the bounds of copyright.
The feature bloat in Word is pretty astounding, and while power users may utilize extensive features in Word, the average Joe doesn't. And power users wouldn't mind downloading/tweaking plugins to get their application to do exactly what it wants.
A plugin architecture merely allows features to be extended and added as necessary, while still offering a baseline product that fulfills the needs of the basic user.
It's getting down to what a basic user really needs . . . there's the rub.
Tabbrowser Preferences extension allows you to change your preference to open all new windows in tabs as well.
Lots of other nifty menu options for this one within Windows as well. Doesn't seem as robust on my linux box but that's probably due to my ignorance, not the extension.
Isn't that every day?
Generally speaking, however, if you have a medical condition that necessitates a heart transplant(!) chances are the doctors aren't going to be cool with extreme physical activity
In fact, they may forbid you any sort of strenuous activity including (*Gasp*) sex.
So basically most Americans effectively have no pulse already? I swear, we're always ahead of the curve.
They awarded the contract to Accenture, whose core competency is turning documents into cash. They won't pull anything worth anything together in decades.
I'm sure they all love their jobs and take them seriously.
Hey, get with it and realize the point of the article was for designers to consider making games to those in time-limited situations.
Studying is not real life, my pasty-faced geek /.er - perhaps when you get a girlfriend you will understand what "time constraints" are.