And anyone who wants more details on the SCCS in question can go out and buy a copy of Vincent Maraia's THE BUILD MASTER (http://www.amazon.com/Build-Master-Microsofts-Con figuration-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321332059) which talks about the challenges of SCCM on this scale in great detail, and how Microsoft has addressed them. You may not agree with all his conclusions, you may not like the products that come out of Microsoft, you may think that Microsoft's corporate polices are scummy - but that doesn't mean that your random little SVN repository is going to scale up to handle a project the size of Windows Vista.
Not quite. This isn't a slashvertisement for Unisys. It's a slashvertisement for their new hip ultra-cool marketing firm (mentioned by name in TFA, but I'm not going to give them more notice here) who hope other corporate sales and marketing drones will say "hey, what a cool idea, I've gotta get me some of that hypermarketing stuff too!"
This is not a new problem. Or an unsolved one. Is there any modern programming language that does not supply a data type or library with exact decimal arithmetic support? Using a float to represent monetary amounts and expecting them to be free of rounding errors is as stupid as using integers to store zip codes and wondering where the leading zeros went from all the addresses in New England. If you can't be arsed to choose the right data type get out of the business.
One ad agency tries something new for one week on one Web site and we're supposed to infer that this is the new norm for all advertising across all media everywhere? Hello?
I've been forced to use Writeboard as part of our corporate Basecamp installation. It's got to be the least-functional wiki implementation out there, with very few formatting choices, almost no documentation, and slow response time. Oh, but wait, it comes from a sexy Web 2.0 company, so it must be good. There are better wikis (almost all of them), better AJAXified word processors (Writely), better collaborative tools that let you choose between wiki markup and WYSIWYG (JotSpot), so how did this dog get on the list? Perhaps the writers hang out at the same trendy coffeehouses chortling over their Web 2.0 antics...
Amen. I'll pull in $150K telecommuting from a small town (pop. 210) this year. I pay less in mortgage for our 90 acres and 4 bedroom house than I paid in rent on a 4th-floor 1-bedroom walkup apartment in a crime-ridden section of Brooklyn ten years ago. My kids are growing up happy and safe. My neighbors are good people instead of jerks. And if Jeff Bezos shows up here he'd better heed the "No Tresspassing" signs.
No, the demise of online advertising won't kill free content. This is trivially obvious to prove by noting that there are lots and lots of sites out there that manage to provide free content without online advertising, using a variety of business models. Some put the content out there as a way to promote other businesses (http://joelonsoftware.com./ Some run text sponsorships that their readers apparently find tolerable (http://www.larkware.com./ Some are just labors of love partially funded by donations (http://www.crazymeds.com./
Ad blocking is going to kill off one particular obsolete business model. Big deal. There aren't a lot of buggy whip manufacturers left either. It's called progress. Get over yourself, change with the times, and stop whining.
I was doing full-time computer consulting and living full-time in an RV back in 1997-2000 (in the US), and I was hardly the only one. Even then, it wasn't that hard to stay in touch; plenty of RV parks would let you plug in a wired modem somewhere, more and more had internet hookups right at every site, and you could have a satellite modem if you were willing to pay enough for it (around $2/minute for 9600 baud access, which was plenty good enough for email and shipping code back and forth in those less bloated days). It's fun when you get to camp in the boondocks next to a hot spring for a couple of weeks and still bill a good hourly rate for the hours you care to work on your laptop while recharging from the solar panels. It's not so fun when you're stuck in the client's parking lot in Schaumburg Illinois for a week in winter because they really need to see you on site and the propane heater barely keeps up with the chill.
And when I was a kid, we'd talk about how cool it would be in the year 2000, when everyone would have flying cars and monorails and rocket ships to get around in.
Wake me up when any of this actually makes a difference, OK?
Check the left column of http://www.bookpool.com/.x/SSSSSS_C473S597521D0502 011740/ct/163. You can buy parts of Vol. 1 (revised) and 4 already, in addition to the one part that's ready for free download.
They also say they expect to be able to sell you the entire volume 4 in 2007. And I'll bet Knuth doesn't slip nearly as bad as Longhorn.
The most recent schema download (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?f amilyid=fe118952-3547-420a-a412-00a2662442d9&displ aylang=en) includes Word, Excel, InfoPath, Visio, OneNote, Project, and Office Research Services schemas.
There are those of us who don't have and can't get broadband, no matter how much we are willing to pay. Those who think broadband is pervasive have most likely not visited the large stretches of rural America where you're lucky to be able to get 33.6K over copper phone lines.
Of course, we're the target market for non-Net XM and Sirius:)
So, ActiveX is unsafe? Congratulations on noticing something everyone has known for eons. Even users are figuring it out, and IE is configured to require them to agree to installing controls. Sure, it's a lousy design (why should anyone think users are smart enough to figure out what controls are safe?) but it's not news.
I can understand the flower-covering (it's required by the parade rules, after all), but what's all this nonsense about requiring RealPlayer for the cam?
I suppose it would be bad form to link to the BBC article Tidal wave threat 'over-hyped'. Apparently not everyone in the geological research community thinks there's much to this theory.
Perhaps my original comment was too terse. There's plenty of other evidence in Blunden's book of his own political leanings.
I'm also amused to note that others seem to think that my mentioning socialism necessarily means that I disapprove of it.
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And anyone who wants more details on the SCCS in question can go out and buy a copy of Vincent Maraia's THE BUILD MASTER (http://www.amazon.com/Build-Master-Microsofts-Con figuration-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321332059) which talks about the challenges of SCCM on this scale in great detail, and how Microsoft has addressed them. You may not agree with all his conclusions, you may not like the products that come out of Microsoft, you may think that Microsoft's corporate polices are scummy - but that doesn't mean that your random little SVN repository is going to scale up to handle a project the size of Windows Vista.
Not quite. This isn't a slashvertisement for Unisys. It's a slashvertisement for their new hip ultra-cool marketing firm (mentioned by name in TFA, but I'm not going to give them more notice here) who hope other corporate sales and marketing drones will say "hey, what a cool idea, I've gotta get me some of that hypermarketing stuff too!"
This is not a new problem. Or an unsolved one. Is there any modern programming language that does not supply a data type or library with exact decimal arithmetic support? Using a float to represent monetary amounts and expecting them to be free of rounding errors is as stupid as using integers to store zip codes and wondering where the leading zeros went from all the addresses in New England. If you can't be arsed to choose the right data type get out of the business.
Blog posting. Don't forget posting to blogs directly from Word 2007. All the Microsoft bloggers have been wetting their pants over that one.
One ad agency tries something new for one week on one Web site and we're supposed to infer that this is the new norm for all advertising across all media everywhere? Hello?
So in other words, you can't handle telecommuting, therefore it's bad for everyone.
I've been forced to use Writeboard as part of our corporate Basecamp installation. It's got to be the least-functional wiki implementation out there, with very few formatting choices, almost no documentation, and slow response time. Oh, but wait, it comes from a sexy Web 2.0 company, so it must be good. There are better wikis (almost all of them), better AJAXified word processors (Writely), better collaborative tools that let you choose between wiki markup and WYSIWYG (JotSpot), so how did this dog get on the list? Perhaps the writers hang out at the same trendy coffeehouses chortling over their Web 2.0 antics...
Nope - about 20 acres of pasture and 70 of woods. 90 acres wouldn't make enough farm to notice; this is mostly wheat & barley country.
Amen. I'll pull in $150K telecommuting from a small town (pop. 210) this year. I pay less in mortgage for our 90 acres and 4 bedroom house than I paid in rent on a 4th-floor 1-bedroom walkup apartment in a crime-ridden section of Brooklyn ten years ago. My kids are growing up happy and safe. My neighbors are good people instead of jerks. And if Jeff Bezos shows up here he'd better heed the "No Tresspassing" signs.
Do I need to replicate all the bugs and random crashes to win?
There's a somewhat less fawning review at http://www.larkware.com/BookReviews/best.html
No, the demise of online advertising won't kill free content. This is trivially obvious to prove by noting that there are lots and lots of sites out there that manage to provide free content without online advertising, using a variety of business models. Some put the content out there as a way to promote other businesses (http://joelonsoftware.com./ Some run text sponsorships that their readers apparently find tolerable (http://www.larkware.com./ Some are just labors of love partially funded by donations (http://www.crazymeds.com./ Ad blocking is going to kill off one particular obsolete business model. Big deal. There aren't a lot of buggy whip manufacturers left either. It's called progress. Get over yourself, change with the times, and stop whining.
I was doing full-time computer consulting and living full-time in an RV back in 1997-2000 (in the US), and I was hardly the only one. Even then, it wasn't that hard to stay in touch; plenty of RV parks would let you plug in a wired modem somewhere, more and more had internet hookups right at every site, and you could have a satellite modem if you were willing to pay enough for it (around $2/minute for 9600 baud access, which was plenty good enough for email and shipping code back and forth in those less bloated days). It's fun when you get to camp in the boondocks next to a hot spring for a couple of weeks and still bill a good hourly rate for the hours you care to work on your laptop while recharging from the solar panels. It's not so fun when you're stuck in the client's parking lot in Schaumburg Illinois for a week in winter because they really need to see you on site and the propane heater barely keeps up with the chill.
And when I was a kid, we'd talk about how cool it would be in the year 2000, when everyone would have flying cars and monorails and rocket ships to get around in. Wake me up when any of this actually makes a difference, OK?
Check the left column of http://www.bookpool.com/.x/SSSSSS_C473S597521D0502 011740/ct/163. You can buy parts of Vol. 1 (revised) and 4 already, in addition to the one part that's ready for free download.
They also say they expect to be able to sell you the entire volume 4 in 2007. And I'll bet Knuth doesn't slip nearly as bad as Longhorn.
Well, someone had to say it.
http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/default.aspx?vDir=ai captcha
The developer of an automated breaking bot explains how he did it.
The most recent schema download (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?f amilyid=fe118952-3547-420a-a412-00a2662442d9&displ aylang=en) includes Word, Excel, InfoPath, Visio, OneNote, Project, and Office Research Services schemas.
There are those of us who don't have and can't get broadband, no matter how much we are willing to pay. Those who think broadband is pervasive have most likely not visited the large stretches of rural America where you're lucky to be able to get 33.6K over copper phone lines. Of course, we're the target market for non-Net XM and Sirius :)
So, ActiveX is unsafe? Congratulations on noticing something everyone has known for eons. Even users are figuring it out, and IE is configured to require them to agree to installing controls. Sure, it's a lousy design (why should anyone think users are smart enough to figure out what controls are safe?) but it's not news.
Yeah, and when they're done laughing at your selection of games, you can impress them with your l33t grammar skills too.
I can understand the flower-covering (it's required by the parade rules, after all), but what's all this nonsense about requiring RealPlayer for the cam?
I suppose it would be bad form to link to the BBC article Tidal wave threat 'over-hyped'. Apparently not everyone in the geological research community thinks there's much to this theory.
If it took him 4 weeks to supply a working unit before all you SlashDotters went to visit, what's the backlog going to be like now?
Perhaps my original comment was too terse. There's plenty of other evidence in Blunden's book of his own political leanings. I'm also amused to note that others seem to think that my mentioning socialism necessarily means that I disapprove of it.