Jesus, did people in the 1850s cry this much when Ceres was downgraded?
Yes, actually they did.
Samuel Pepys issued a hilarious newsletter in the style of Jonathan Swift to much acclaim. The best line was in Ye Dot, something about Robert Peel fucking a cartoon character - it was a long time ago, I forget...
(Yes I know the dates are out - this is posted from a government computer and is considered 'good enough').
I've used this on a few call centers (AOL included), you just need to be in the right mindset before you call.
Me (talking fast): Hi. I am cancelling my acount. My details are... Drone: Hi may I ask you why you are cancelling? Me: (Silence) Drone: Hello? Me: (More Silence) Drone: Hello, are you still there? Me: (waiting for last possible moment): Hi. I am cancelling my acount. My details are... Drone: Right, is there a reason you need to cancel the account? Me: (Lots more silence)..and Repeat, Rinse, Repeat - works everytime.
May take a few minutes longer but never fails to make me smile...
..is that the base version if free. It comes bundled with all Windows Server 2003 editions. I've worked with it a lot as a developer, which isn't much fun.
Sharepoint 'Portal' Server is the paid-for-product, but a lot of companies dip their toe in the free 'Windows Sharepoint Services' version and get hooked/caught. Both verions share the same code base, but Portal has more features (obviously).
Microsoft seemed to spend a lot of time getting the split between the free and paid for features just right. As soon as you have a couple of SP sites then it basically becomes impossible to manage them without 'upgrading'. That sometimes comes as a shock.
The MS Office team also provides a bunch of integration options for Sharepoint too, as in you can save directly into the 'Document Libraries' from Word/Excel, plus sync up your calendar in Outlook.
One important point to always consider about Sharepoint, and it's subsequent success, is that it has done well *because* of the OS and Office market Microsoft hold - without those two heavily linked in, it would never have sold on it's own, IMO.
Another example of Sharepoint's 'spread factor' is that you *must have* MS SQL Server, and most probably MS Active Directory too, to make it work - in case you haven't figured it out yet, once you touch Sharepoint you are more or less signing up for the complete Microsoft 'stack' across your desktops and servers.
Now Sharepoint is established off the back of Office/OS divisions (what's that M word again), it is actually getting better. The upcoming new drop with Office 2007 fixes most of the things wrong with SP 2003.
It's one of those situations that personally makes me go, hmmmm. It works well and is getting better, but you might feel you've been run over by the licensing truck...
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation." - Adolf Hitler
You know, this is clearly against the UK constitution. Oh, um, yeah...
"What's the catch? Does Google own my GWT application? Do I have to run AdSense? Do I have to give Google my first-born child?
There's no catch, we promise. See the Terms of Use for the nitty gritty details."
I checked the ToU, apparently you have to make Adsense space on your *second* born child. Premium crib space is up to eCPM of $0.42 cents too, diapers down to under 10 cents.
Very clever of them, I bet most people wouldn't check...
Btw - on submitting last comment I got to hang around for 15+ secs looking at the 'contacting www.google-analytics.com...' in my firefox toolbar. It's nice that it's free and all but this site ain't getting any faster with urchinTracker() collecting all our souls...
Tin-foil hat aside, does this also mean we anticipate more 'OMG! OMG! The Google Logo Updated!!' stories soon?
Well, you have now publicly revealed the process of your inventions so you only have 1 year from today to file for non-provisional pattern application.
Alternatively you may file a provisional patent application by collecting up as much detailed information on this so called 'food to sustain life' process, and therefore gaining an immediate protection against first file.
Please note that the provisional application is only valuable if you intend to follow up with a full non-provisional application. Provisionals are not patents but do serve as a 1 year deferment of the full application submission, pending updates to the process. Do remember that this only applies to the US Patent Law.
The fact that I even know any of this makes me feel sick.
I have this book and quite like it, it's something that fills a need and has moments of usefulness. With everything else to do in starting up a new software business this is nice to grasp and think 'that will do for my lack of experience'. The market it serves is desperate for 'silver bullet' info, and a lot of it is common sense - Use a Search Engine to Find Things! Pay Tax if you Need To! Don't Draw Your Own Icons! Its very readable though, kind of like business-porn for startup types.
My problem is a lot of the content is tips that consist of links to websites. I think a couple of years down the line this book will be basically the 'Micro-ISV's Guide to 404 Not Found', either that or the authors personal recommendations will have changed radically.
Yeah, ok - fair point (am I allowed to do that here?).
Have to say though that patents for a calendar and tree view javascript (+2 years from now) seem a little unlikely. Not saying someone hasn't carpetbagged them already, but Yahoo take the PR to fight that case? Seems unlikely.
Also, the copyright may be more easily enforced, but really would it take too much to tweak them a little - that's basically what people do anyway with script (so I heard from a friend of a friend, can't remember his name...).
Also, anyone know of a copyright case that went against the defendant where a treeview or calendar javascript got stolen? Or maybe cite a similar case, i.e. a cookie crumb trail? It seems similar to people copyrighting their html and css, but then others doing a View Source and editing for their own use/learning and producing derivitives - do companies sue for copyright on that? This hardly a lot of difficult to do software...
Anyway, I do agree with your point, but it seems unlikely, which is why I think this is mainly for PR due to the nature of the tech. My point was that if they could enforce their IP they might not have gone this way.
I for one welcome the new script (overlords), but I can't help myself (oh, and I tried) but point out that because of the nature of the technology (client side jscript) then there isn't actually a good way *not* to release the source code for re-use, at least for the Beer part.
Now I do think Yahoo has done a smart thing in doing this under a BSD license, but it's worth remembering that this might be because they don't really have a way to protect their IP anyway. You can muss up script to be less readable, but basically it has to execute and therefore scarf-up-able to those that want it.
If this was a server-side technology then I don't know if Yahoo would have been so willing to go both kinds of free? At the very least this messes with Microsoft's Atlas people's heads, so should be good to sit in the peanut gallery for this one.
Actually, it's not really about horsepower at all.
Vista is using an update to the DirectX graphic libraries (it's like OpenGL but in the same way that Dr Evil is like Kofi Annan). DirectX10 will rely on certain hardware shaders and pipeline features. Some of these features crept into 9.0C, which is why that can be used as a baseline kind for your 'Vista experience pleasure, um, guide'.
So basically, they are up rev'ing a library and want to baseline on as high a hardware spec as they can to reduce the effort to code up emulation out of hardware for certain graphic features. In some ways this is a scheduling rationale rather than all to do with horsepower or trying to bully the market (they will do that anyway without Aero, so bases covered).
Ironically, this makes them a bit like Apple, as they have narrowed their target hardware platform.
Could I please insist that you alway put the word theory when having to mention the so called 'Vista'.
We here at the Intelligent (OS) Design Board feel that young people need the choices explained to them in a scientific way, with all choices clearly labeled.
Regards,
I(OS)D
PS (Dont hurt me mods!) TFA is kind of, um, inaccurate, it was always the Eye of Redmond's plan to offer a hardware accelerated desktop option in the LongHonk shell - the news here seems to be that half the PC don't have 'enough' hardware acceleration today. Of course, when the Vista (Theory) actually does ship then the ratio will be a lot different than today - we may all have rocket boots too...
Ci sono vantaggi a usando le lingue differenti. Aber normalerweise überwiegt die Gewinne das milde Durcheinander. Además, la frase la ' mejor herramienta para el trabajo ' viene importar. Est-ce que ce irritant n'importe qui est encore ?
I can't seem to view it in my browser. I just finished doing my online banking with the help of nice Nigerian contact, Sasser I think his name is. I needed to the money for the last payment on the new London Bridge I am investing in.
They just got mixed up with the first iteration taking 6 *years*.
User Story 1: Reach 40 years old. User Story 2: Develop new game involving voice acting:"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of gum."
(actually, the FA is pretty good, it's just my stomach acid bubbles when someone updates a webpage every now and again and gets called 'that' word). Off for coffee...
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Jesus, did people in the 1850s cry this much when Ceres was downgraded?
Yes, actually they did.
Samuel Pepys issued a hilarious newsletter in the style of Jonathan Swift to much acclaim. The best line was in Ye Dot, something about Robert Peel fucking a cartoon character - it was a long time ago, I forget...
(Yes I know the dates are out - this is posted from a government computer and is considered 'good enough').
I was 8 years old and it was Christmas day. But the pictures on the cover looked so *good*...
Torrent link please?
(oh, come on, I'm kidding)
..and the defense rests its case.
Rob - sometimes not being the leader still allows you to win...
I've used this on a few call centers (AOL included), you just need to be in the right mindset before you call.
..and Repeat, Rinse, Repeat - works everytime.
Me (talking fast): Hi. I am cancelling my acount. My details are...
Drone: Hi may I ask you why you are cancelling?
Me: (Silence)
Drone: Hello?
Me: (More Silence)
Drone: Hello, are you still there?
Me: (waiting for last possible moment): Hi. I am cancelling my acount. My details are...
Drone: Right, is there a reason you need to cancel the account?
Me: (Lots more silence)
May take a few minutes longer but never fails to make me smile...
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..is that the base version if free. It comes bundled with all Windows Server 2003 editions. I've worked with it a lot as a developer, which isn't much fun.
Sharepoint 'Portal' Server is the paid-for-product, but a lot of companies dip their toe in the free 'Windows Sharepoint Services' version and get hooked/caught. Both verions share the same code base, but Portal has more features (obviously).
Microsoft seemed to spend a lot of time getting the split between the free and paid for features just right. As soon as you have a couple of SP sites then it basically becomes impossible to manage them without 'upgrading'. That sometimes comes as a shock.
The MS Office team also provides a bunch of integration options for Sharepoint too, as in you can save directly into the 'Document Libraries' from Word/Excel, plus sync up your calendar in Outlook.
One important point to always consider about Sharepoint, and it's subsequent success, is that it has done well *because* of the OS and Office market Microsoft hold - without those two heavily linked in, it would never have sold on it's own, IMO.
Another example of Sharepoint's 'spread factor' is that you *must have* MS SQL Server, and most probably MS Active Directory too, to make it work - in case you haven't figured it out yet, once you touch Sharepoint you are more or less signing up for the complete Microsoft 'stack' across your desktops and servers.
Now Sharepoint is established off the back of Office/OS divisions (what's that M word again), it is actually getting better. The upcoming new drop with Office 2007 fixes most of the things wrong with SP 2003.
It's one of those situations that personally makes me go, hmmmm. It works well and is getting better, but you might feel you've been run over by the licensing truck...
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Damn. They should make that illegal or something...
Relax pal, where you from anyway, Uruguay?
(oh come on, I'm just kidding, let me live...)
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
- Adolf Hitler
You know, this is clearly against the UK constitution. Oh, um, yeah...
You'll need IETab or (gasp) IE5+, but this comes to mind:
http://omar.mvps.org/
I can't decide whether he's clever or just insane...
From: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/faq.html
"What's the catch? Does Google own my GWT application? Do I have to run AdSense? Do I have to give Google my first-born child?
There's no catch, we promise. See the Terms of Use for the nitty gritty details."
I checked the ToU, apparently you have to make Adsense space on your *second* born child. Premium crib space is up to eCPM of $0.42 cents too, diapers down to under 10 cents.
Very clever of them, I bet most people wouldn't check...
Btw - on submitting last comment I got to hang around for 15+ secs looking at the 'contacting www.google-analytics.com...' in my firefox toolbar. It's nice that it's free and all but this site ain't getting any faster with urchinTracker() collecting all our souls...
Tin-foil hat aside, does this also mean we anticipate more 'OMG! OMG! The Google Logo Updated!!' stories soon?
Well, you have now publicly revealed the process of your inventions so you only have 1 year from today to file for non-provisional pattern application.
Alternatively you may file a provisional patent application by collecting up as much detailed information on this so called 'food to sustain life' process, and therefore gaining an immediate protection against first file.
Please note that the provisional application is only valuable if you intend to follow up with a full non-provisional application. Provisionals are not patents but do serve as a 1 year deferment of the full application submission, pending updates to the process. Do remember that this only applies to the US Patent Law.
The fact that I even know any of this makes me feel sick.
I have this book and quite like it, it's something that fills a need and has moments of usefulness. With everything else to do in starting up a new software business this is nice to grasp and think 'that will do for my lack of experience'. The market it serves is desperate for 'silver bullet' info, and a lot of it is common sense - Use a Search Engine to Find Things! Pay Tax if you Need To! Don't Draw Your Own Icons! Its very readable though, kind of like business-porn for startup types.
My problem is a lot of the content is tips that consist of links to websites. I think a couple of years down the line this book will be basically the 'Micro-ISV's Guide to 404 Not Found', either that or the authors personal recommendations will have changed radically.
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Yeah, got hit by the unexpected shipping charges...
Yeah, ok - fair point (am I allowed to do that here?).
Have to say though that patents for a calendar and tree view javascript (+2 years from now) seem a little unlikely. Not saying someone hasn't carpetbagged them already, but Yahoo take the PR to fight that case? Seems unlikely.
Also, the copyright may be more easily enforced, but really would it take too much to tweak them a little - that's basically what people do anyway with script (so I heard from a friend of a friend, can't remember his name...).
Also, anyone know of a copyright case that went against the defendant where a treeview or calendar javascript got stolen? Or maybe cite a similar case, i.e. a cookie crumb trail? It seems similar to people copyrighting their html and css, but then others doing a View Source and editing for their own use/learning and producing derivitives - do companies sue for copyright on that? This hardly a lot of difficult to do software...
Anyway, I do agree with your point, but it seems unlikely, which is why I think this is mainly for PR due to the nature of the tech. My point was that if they could enforce their IP they might not have gone this way.
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I for one welcome the new script (overlords), but I can't help myself (oh, and I tried) but point out that because of the nature of the technology (client side jscript) then there isn't actually a good way *not* to release the source code for re-use, at least for the Beer part.
Now I do think Yahoo has done a smart thing in doing this under a BSD license, but it's worth remembering that this might be because they don't really have a way to protect their IP anyway. You can muss up script to be less readable, but basically it has to execute and therefore scarf-up-able to those that want it.
If this was a server-side technology then I don't know if Yahoo would have been so willing to go both kinds of free? At the very least this messes with Microsoft's Atlas people's heads, so should be good to sit in the peanut gallery for this one.
Am I being too cynical for a Tuesday?
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Actually, it's not really about horsepower at all.
Vista is using an update to the DirectX graphic libraries (it's like OpenGL but in the same way that Dr Evil is like Kofi Annan). DirectX10 will rely on certain hardware shaders and pipeline features. Some of these features crept into 9.0C, which is why that can be used as a baseline kind for your 'Vista experience pleasure, um, guide'.
So basically, they are up rev'ing a library and want to baseline on as high a hardware spec as they can to reduce the effort to code up emulation out of hardware for certain graphic features. In some ways this is a scheduling rationale rather than all to do with horsepower or trying to bully the market (they will do that anyway without Aero, so bases covered).
Ironically, this makes them a bit like Apple, as they have narrowed their target hardware platform.
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Could I please insist that you alway put the word theory when having to mention the so called 'Vista'.
We here at the Intelligent (OS) Design Board feel that young people need the choices explained to them in a scientific way, with all choices clearly labeled.
Regards,
I(OS)D
PS (Dont hurt me mods!) TFA is kind of, um, inaccurate, it was always the Eye of Redmond's plan to offer a hardware accelerated desktop option in the LongHonk shell - the news here seems to be that half the PC don't have 'enough' hardware acceleration today. Of course, when the Vista (Theory) actually does ship then the ratio will be a lot different than today - we may all have rocket boots too...
Ci sono vantaggi a usando le lingue differenti.
Aber normalerweise überwiegt die Gewinne das milde Durcheinander.
Además, la frase la ' mejor herramienta para el trabajo ' viene importar.
Est-ce que ce irritant n'importe qui est encore ?
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..and grab the article text for me please?
I can't seem to view it in my browser. I just finished doing my online banking with the help of nice Nigerian contact, Sasser I think his name is. I needed to the money for the last payment on the new London Bridge I am investing in.
Beta does mean Version 2, right?
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...they're doing eXtreme Programming (dude).
They just got mixed up with the first iteration taking 6 *years*.
User Story 1: Reach 40 years old.
User Story 2: Develop new game involving voice acting:"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of gum."
Ok, it's just a theory, but it does fit...
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You lost me at 'Blogger..'
(actually, the FA is pretty good, it's just my stomach acid bubbles when someone updates a webpage every now and again and gets called 'that' word). Off for coffee...
Pal, you're just bleeding - there is no edge there.
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