if I was paying a good accountant money, I would want that money going towards him saving me money, not trying to figure out something stupid on Excel or StarOffice or why his printer config on Linux wont let him print my tax return.
The tools should be easy enough to use without him having to spend LOTS OF TIME and MY MONEY to learn to use them
i worked for a firm that developed a site geared towards selling baby supplies to parents.
anyway, they were trying to build it out into a "community" type site as well, so they wanted a message board.
well, some of the mothers can get outta hand... maybe it's the hormones or something, but anyway, they asked our developer to write a script that would just go through a post and remove explatives. well, when he went to do it, I convinced him to add a little "easter egg" in which if someone typed in the word "wanker" it would replace it with all of the bad words that were being removed as one big long string.
ah, yes. what was it called? push technology? where you dont have to do the searching, it pulls it all together and updates it on your computer at timed intervals that you set?
Yea, I liked it too. seems like it can still be had at http://www.cnn.com/ads/advertiser/pointcast2.0/
i don't see how this is any different than any other form of media.
if they use your image, voice, etc. on purpose (ie you are not accidentally walking around in the background) they are required to ask your permission before broadcasting it. otherwise, they "must" blur out your image. I could be wrong, but this doesn't seem odd to me.
Regardless of stock price, Apple for years has had a great cash position. At their worst low point, their stock, while at $12/share or something had a $11/share cash position. Basically, any company that wanted to take it over was getting it for $1/share instead of the market of $12/share.
why not add a tiny bit of restrictiveness to the system just to prevent people from acting stupid and believing that they are untraceable.
I've seen systems that when you try your first connection using DHCP, you need to input a username and password... often used in new highrise apt complexes that come with broadband.
make the user put in their library card name and number. hell, it's very little information for providing them with broadband access, right?
but I think this might also help when budget time rolls around and the state/county/etc asks you to justify your cost. you then show them usage stats and show how it is a desired service.
I also see lots of other marketing benefits, but it'll take too long to go into them.
what I meant to say more clearly was that by removing "mac" from certain product lines, you remove the connotations of "this is a machine only for my kids" as well as all of the other old connotations about what they can and cannot do.
now, i'm not saying remove "mac" from all of the lines, but specifically from the ones geared towards the businessess marketplace.
"mac" brings about thoughts of home computing in cute boxes. and although they keep the cute boxes, they also have more serious 'wares to sell.
same with win2k server. yes, it's windows... and it's always been windows. but regardless of how stable it is, you always have reminiscent connotations of your old win95 box always giving you the blue screen of death... doesn't matter if win2k server doesnt do that anymore, but your mind will put windows == blue screen.
with MacOSX and MacOSXS switching to bsd/mach, wouldn't it make sense to try to make as much of a break as possible from the "mac" connotations?
so basically he is right (accidentally) because he touches on the issue of confused marketing behind the use of the "macintosh" brand
understandable. I think apple has muddled the waters in what it means to be a "mac". this doesn't mean the "mac" is dead, but I think it's entirely warranted that they re-evaluate the brand name.
why not start at their OS level. MacOSX and MacOSXS. Hell. Remove the "mac". OSXS should not be run on what is quintessentially the macintosh... a little home computer that has a smiley face when you boot it up and originally came with a built in handle.
MacOSXS running on XServe... you hardly want to bring the idea of a "mac" into the picture, you want it to be seen as a serious piece of computing equipment with a serious operating system. Kill the bouncing shit in the docking bar on the server. Kill the fluffy shit. A little less "mac" and a little more serious.
anyway, it's getting late and this is just a rant now. enjoy.
add the title up and you're probably spending 2 to 5 times more than you initially thought. and for what? a program/system that was modified to try to accomodate your needs.
what would be much more cost effective would be to sit down with a dev house (such as mine), determine a project scope, and roll your own open source solution.
why:
1. the cost will be less than the package you buy such as RedDot (which is awful, lemme tell you
2. it'll fit your needs better since it was designed for your needs
3. the code will be available for you to tweak down the road if necessary
4. there will be less training time and installation time required
5. you will have a company to call on for assistance or thousands of programmers available that could modify the system (since it is open source)
ah, the 7500... with the additional video options?
that was the first machine I bought with my own hard-earned money.
mine is still alive and well and functioning as my ftp server (pr0n and electronica... don't ask)
added 3 scsi drives, more ram, a second video card, and removed the 120 mhz 604e it came with and took a 240 mhz 604 from a starmax, cut some of the casing, and inserted the new cpu (it was taller)
1) No longer in use: an obsolete word. 2) Outmoded in design, style, or construction: an obsolete locomotive.
Well, if he's using it, it's obviously still in use. And who really cares if it's outmoded in design, style, or construction if it is still able to perform the majority of tasks that people use a computer for with reasonable speed?
you mean like AOL/TimeWarner? Oh wait, they already own a cable service.
What's to say that streaming movies from any of AOL/TimeWarner's online properties to someone on their network won't count towards their "cap"? I don't think it would be impossible for them to do, plus, it would actually be a nice synergy (or confluence) of their disparate properties.
Or I can easily see Blockbuster teaming up with any other broadband provider and doing the same thing.
Basically, it's pay-per-view, 'cept streaming digitally. Make it cheaper than going and renting a flick from the store with as best quality as you can put down the pipes... or hell, make it so that one household can "rent" x number of movies a month for free.
But to get there, they need to retire the huge bandwidth hogs on the shared network. I'm not talking about joe-counterstrike-server, but the people that are acting as hubs for filesharing networks 24 hours a day and killing the local loop. Reduce them in size (by having them see their new bill), and broadband becomes a much more interesting phenomenon.
While you're certainly just trolling, I felt a need to reply.
Why is the NYTimes a bullshit reg site? Do you think they actually make money off of their site? Do you think they even recoup their costs? I'm a proud subscriber to the print edition of NYTimes and an avid reader of it online as well and I can't fathom why you cant be bothered to just apply for a free account (it takes less than 60 seconds) and instead condone redistributing someone else's work without their written consent which is set as the disclaimer at the bottom of the damn page.
Wow. I didn't think anyone actually remembered that. I was one of 5 people in the internet division of USABancShares (formerly vBank, USABanc.com, People's Trust, and Norristown Savings i believe).
If you're curious, this was the deal with BowieBanc:
Ken Tepper, CEO of USABancShares.com, would go to some large organizations that were not connected to financial institutions. He would then pitch the idea of a "private label" bank where all of the money would actually be handled by vBank, the parent of USABancShares.com, but that the private label bank could issue credit cards, bank cards, checks, etc. with the name of the private label bank and all of the decorations. Other possible private label banks were YankeeBanc (new york yankees) and TrumpBanc (donald).
With BowieNet and the corporation Bowie owns, BowieBanc seemed like a good fit. His ISP clients, who were all huge fans, could easily open an online bank account, get a david bowie credit card (some of the designs were amazing), and a bunch of other perks.
The whole idea crashed down when USABancShares.com took on a host of bad loans (as banks often will do) and I believe they're still trying to track down the culprit. But the loans degraded their credit rating which is imperative for a bank to maintain.
It's a shame tho. We built the second online back with 5 ppl working 8 days straight (we slept in the bank). And the flash bank is still pretty neat all these years later.
My favorite error is actually in the movie... it's rated "G" but in it Bumblebee is trying to flee the planet crushing thing (sorry, don't feel like popping the movie in to get the name) and he yells "Oh Shit!"
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if I was paying a good accountant money, I would want that money going towards him saving me money, not trying to figure out something stupid on Excel or StarOffice or why his printer config on Linux wont let him print my tax return.
The tools should be easy enough to use without him having to spend LOTS OF TIME and MY MONEY to learn to use them
i worked for a firm that developed a site geared towards selling baby supplies to parents.
anyway, they were trying to build it out into a "community" type site as well, so they wanted a message board.
well, some of the mothers can get outta hand... maybe it's the hormones or something, but anyway, they asked our developer to write a script that would just go through a post and remove explatives. well, when he went to do it, I convinced him to add a little "easter egg" in which if someone typed in the word "wanker" it would replace it with all of the bad words that were being removed as one big long string.
ah, yes. what was it called? push technology? where you dont have to do the searching, it pulls it all together and updates it on your computer at timed intervals that you set?
Yea, I liked it too. seems like it can still be had at http://www.cnn.com/ads/advertiser/pointcast2.0/
before posting stuff like that, watch this movie
One Day in September (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0230591)
i'd mod you up... but i can't.
i don't see how this is any different than any other form of media.
if they use your image, voice, etc. on purpose (ie you are not accidentally walking around in the background) they are required to ask your permission before broadcasting it. otherwise, they "must" blur out your image. I could be wrong, but this doesn't seem odd to me.
http://biz.yahoo.com/p/a/aapl.html
cash: $12.17/share
shares outstanding: 355.7 million
total cash on hand: $4,328,869,000
Regardless of stock price, Apple for years has had a great cash position. At their worst low point, their stock, while at $12/share or something had a $11/share cash position. Basically, any company that wanted to take it over was getting it for $1/share instead of the market of $12/share.
Pretty crazy.
Info on their stock and cash position is here
and how are these subsidies any different than the HUGE farm subsidies that the EU pays out to the farmers of their member countries?
such unbridled optimism. you must be a recent college graduate.
;)
huh. i was right!
always bet your money on the people WITH the money.
I have bought more than half of moby's albums within the last 5+ years.
This was the worst one I've heard so far.
I like two songs. Two. I wouldn't buy a cd for that.
why not add a tiny bit of restrictiveness to the system just to prevent people from acting stupid and believing that they are untraceable.
I've seen systems that when you try your first connection using DHCP, you need to input a username and password... often used in new highrise apt complexes that come with broadband.
make the user put in their library card name and number. hell, it's very little information for providing them with broadband access, right?
but I think this might also help when budget time rolls around and the state/county/etc asks you to justify your cost. you then show them usage stats and show how it is a desired service.
I also see lots of other marketing benefits, but it'll take too long to go into them.
what I meant to say more clearly was that by removing "mac" from certain product lines, you remove the connotations of "this is a machine only for my kids" as well as all of the other old connotations about what they can and cannot do.
now, i'm not saying remove "mac" from all of the lines, but specifically from the ones geared towards the businessess marketplace.
"mac" brings about thoughts of home computing in cute boxes. and although they keep the cute boxes, they also have more serious 'wares to sell.
same with win2k server. yes, it's windows... and it's always been windows. but regardless of how stable it is, you always have reminiscent connotations of your old win95 box always giving you the blue screen of death... doesn't matter if win2k server doesnt do that anymore, but your mind will put windows == blue screen.
with MacOSX and MacOSXS switching to bsd/mach, wouldn't it make sense to try to make as much of a break as possible from the "mac" connotations?
so basically he is right (accidentally) because he touches on the issue of confused marketing behind the use of the "macintosh" brand
understandable. I think apple has muddled the waters in what it means to be a "mac". this doesn't mean the "mac" is dead, but I think it's entirely warranted that they re-evaluate the brand name.
why not start at their OS level. MacOSX and MacOSXS. Hell. Remove the "mac". OSXS should not be run on what is quintessentially the macintosh... a little home computer that has a smiley face when you boot it up and originally came with a built in handle.
MacOSXS running on XServe... you hardly want to bring the idea of a "mac" into the picture, you want it to be seen as a serious piece of computing equipment with a serious operating system. Kill the bouncing shit in the docking bar on the server. Kill the fluffy shit. A little less "mac" and a little more serious.
anyway, it's getting late and this is just a rant now. enjoy.
add the title up and you're probably spending 2 to 5 times more than you initially thought. and for what? a program/system that was modified to try to accomodate your needs.
what would be much more cost effective would be to sit down with a dev house (such as mine), determine a project scope, and roll your own open source solution.
why:
1. the cost will be less than the package you buy such as RedDot (which is awful, lemme tell you
2. it'll fit your needs better since it was designed for your needs
3. the code will be available for you to tweak down the road if necessary
4. there will be less training time and installation time required
5. you will have a company to call on for assistance or thousands of programmers available that could modify the system (since it is open source)
I think you should have said:
1) employed
2) rich
3) unemployed and receiving unemployment checks
come on, we all know that *cough* it isn't the size that matters, but how well you use it to um, achieve results.
:)
ah, the 7500... with the additional video options?
that was the first machine I bought with my own hard-earned money.
mine is still alive and well and functioning as my ftp server (pr0n and electronica... don't ask)
added 3 scsi drives, more ram, a second video card, and removed the 120 mhz 604e it came with and took a 240 mhz 604 from a starmax, cut some of the casing, and inserted the new cpu (it was taller)
and it still runs 8.6 like a charm.
hmmmm
1) No longer in use: an obsolete word.
2) Outmoded in design, style, or construction: an obsolete locomotive.
Well, if he's using it, it's obviously still in use. And who really cares if it's outmoded in design, style, or construction if it is still able to perform the majority of tasks that people use a computer for with reasonable speed?
you mean like AOL/TimeWarner? Oh wait, they already own a cable service.
What's to say that streaming movies from any of AOL/TimeWarner's online properties to someone on their network won't count towards their "cap"? I don't think it would be impossible for them to do, plus, it would actually be a nice synergy (or confluence) of their disparate properties.
Or I can easily see Blockbuster teaming up with any other broadband provider and doing the same thing.
Basically, it's pay-per-view, 'cept streaming digitally. Make it cheaper than going and renting a flick from the store with as best quality as you can put down the pipes... or hell, make it so that one household can "rent" x number of movies a month for free.
But to get there, they need to retire the huge bandwidth hogs on the shared network. I'm not talking about joe-counterstrike-server, but the people that are acting as hubs for filesharing networks 24 hours a day and killing the local loop. Reduce them in size (by having them see their new bill), and broadband becomes a much more interesting phenomenon.
Yea... so my girlfriend is moving in with me into my 1 BR new york city apt. and she's not a techy (she calls me her geek)
;)
1. wireless LAN and a laptop. that way you can leave the room so she doesn't have to hear you typing away at all hours.
2. hide your servers. you got a lan, you got a firewall, do you really need them attached to a keyboard or monitor?
3. ok... i understand the typing on the shitter thing, but do you need an access point in there? see #1
4. use your equipment to do something nice for her... like burning music mixes (trust me, they go far)
Just my advice. Mine moves in tomorrow so I've spent time getting things ready
While you're certainly just trolling, I felt a need to reply.
Why is the NYTimes a bullshit reg site? Do you think they actually make money off of their site? Do you think they even recoup their costs? I'm a proud subscriber to the print edition of NYTimes and an avid reader of it online as well and I can't fathom why you cant be bothered to just apply for a free account (it takes less than 60 seconds) and instead condone redistributing someone else's work without their written consent which is set as the disclaimer at the bottom of the damn page.
You are lower than low.
Wow. I didn't think anyone actually remembered that. I was one of 5 people in the internet division of USABancShares (formerly vBank, USABanc.com, People's Trust, and Norristown Savings i believe).
If you're curious, this was the deal with BowieBanc:
Ken Tepper, CEO of USABancShares.com, would go to some large organizations that were not connected to financial institutions. He would then pitch the idea of a "private label" bank where all of the money would actually be handled by vBank, the parent of USABancShares.com, but that the private label bank could issue credit cards, bank cards, checks, etc. with the name of the private label bank and all of the decorations. Other possible private label banks were YankeeBanc (new york yankees) and TrumpBanc (donald).
With BowieNet and the corporation Bowie owns, BowieBanc seemed like a good fit. His ISP clients, who were all huge fans, could easily open an online bank account, get a david bowie credit card (some of the designs were amazing), and a bunch of other perks.
The whole idea crashed down when USABancShares.com took on a host of bad loans (as banks often will do) and I believe they're still trying to track down the culprit. But the loans degraded their credit rating which is imperative for a bank to maintain.
It's a shame tho. We built the second online back with 5 ppl working 8 days straight (we slept in the bank). And the flash bank is still pretty neat all these years later.
My favorite error is actually in the movie... it's rated "G" but in it Bumblebee is trying to flee the planet crushing thing (sorry, don't feel like popping the movie in to get the name) and he yells "Oh Shit!"
well, what if you want to have kinky sex in the bathroom of the airplane?
maybe just being a member of the mile-high club just no longer does it for people and they need to get kinky in that little bit of space...