Throw in some Windows only donor reporting software for funding requirements and it ain't gonna happen.
Why are the donors mandating the software? I can see the sense in them wanting it in a specific format, but that format should be open enough that you can produce it with perl, VB or java. That's how it works with business to business communication, e.g. EDI. And in these case and similar one was mentioned above the charity looks more like a business to me.
He seems to think that if you are using open source software, it means your data server's admin account is available to anyone?
Yes, he's clearly a right bloody gibbon. As any fule kno, it's only available to anyone connected to the right tube - assuming it's not clogged up with spam intarwebs, of course.
An irrational belief in imaginary beings which demonstrably cannot exist is commonly called a delusion.
Not so, I got a reply from an MS tech support rep once. Well I suppose it could have been forged by Santa Claus. On second thoughts, it would have probably made more sense that way...
they couldn't believe how their stoopid cousins where able to manage
I think you've accidentally hit the solution there. The Neanderthals were more intelligent, but a bit hairy and smelly. On the other hand, your Cro-Magnons didn't now one end of a flint from another (let alone how to write a device driver for it), but were better looking, could talk the talk and had the right connections.
Hence the former were employed as engineers, but starved to death after they were outsourced by the latter.
Haven't you heard of Bollywood - the world's biggest film production centre? They could just fake the whole thing. Maybe this time they'll get the shadows right and turn off the fan so the flag doesn't flutter.
They have rights to DEFEND, AT HOME, not "take a war to da enemy".
That might have been true in the age of bows and arrows, or even muskets. But since bombers became practicable, if you're defending at home, you're defending too late.
Consider: Shooting down an enemy bomber on its way home, Shooting it down inbound, Destroying it at its base before it takes off, Knocking out the factory before it's even made.
Where do you draw the line between an agressive and a defensive act? Don't they all stop bombs landing on your home?
it's that the mouse interface is designed to safely float over elements without triggering them (although the old X-mouse is a notable departure from this).
Stops and starts, hovers, and little movements are to a pointing device what "ummmm" and "errr" and pauses are to speech recognition, i.e. the thing that the user does unconsciously, the thing that breaks it. In consequence they're the things that no sane UI designers would associate a meaning or action with, though clearly not all UI designers are sane. Trackpads in particular seem to be afflicted with this.
a simple, up-front way of picking one of a set of themes. [...] Include a few extras that look a lot like the MS and Apple default eye candy
I agree with the themes thing - but it has to go beyond appearance and cover behavior too - for example also emulating different OS settings for whether single click means select or open. Looking like $Whatever_OS but not acting like it is absolutely the worst design.
There's no way that humans can be made to agree on what's pretty
At least there's a fairly broad consensus on what's ugly. A whole post in italics, for example.
We'll leave aside the fact that you forgot to mark the quotation properly. And that your response, that I'm sure you're very proud of, was both a non sequitur and an ad hominem.
As it happens, I'm a European and I agree with every word of that 'ridiculous statement'.
And yet a Dutchman (or any other EU citizen) going the other way would have to pay a ton of legal bills, bring all his school reports going back to kindergarten and prove that there's no way an American could do the job he's after. And never mind subsidised lessons, he'd have to speak English to even get considered.
"You have come back late from work, and suddenly phone rings, and a group of 10 of your friends announce that they are coming to your place for dinner. You check around the cupboards, and find out that there is only one sack of flour and some pepper. What do you do ?"
I've heard this one before... I think you have to find a black dog and set light to it. Or something.
Think about it, who does AOL really compete with? Yes it's an Internet provider, but it's also a content provider, a portal provider, and many other things. I can't think of anyone who does all of those and more.
Lots of companies provide those services. What may be true is that no other single company provides all of them.
Question is, does the convenience of having a one stop shop outwiegh the fact that AOL don't do any of those things particularly well?
It would appear that the answer, for most people, is "no".
To someone who never learned any of the thinkers in question, who never heard a single lecture on the subject, who never even read a single actual "postmodern" article?
IOW, to someone who spent his time on something better than listening to (or spouting) inane, vacuous, pseudo-intellectual, 100% content-free babble.
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To get back on topic, my heart say's perl, but my head says
If that's the cause then it should still be contactable at night. Seems them there rocket scientists aren't as smart as they're made out to be.
Hence the former were employed as engineers, but starved to death after they were outsourced by the latter.
I don't care how they run - I want to know what they run. It's Linux, right?
Haven't you heard of Bollywood - the world's biggest film production centre? They could just fake the whole thing. Maybe this time they'll get the shadows right and turn off the fan so the flag doesn't flutter.
Consider:
Shooting down an enemy bomber on its way home,
Shooting it down inbound,
Destroying it at its base before it takes off,
Knocking out the factory before it's even made.
Where do you draw the line between an agressive and a defensive act? Don't they all stop bombs landing on your home?
What is this "backslashdot" of which you speak?
At least there's a fairly broad consensus on what's ugly. A whole post in italics, for example.
Sure it isn't GNU/Google?
Now all we need are video phones, to prevent the tiny risk that people might get someone else to take the test for them.
Plus it's thanks to them, the rest of their empire and - sure I'm missing someone
As it happens, I'm a European and I agree with every word of that 'ridiculous statement'.
And yet a Dutchman (or any other EU citizen) going the other way would have to pay a ton of legal bills, bring all his school reports going back to kindergarten and prove that there's no way an American could do the job he's after. And never mind subsidised lessons, he'd have to speak English to even get considered.
Do you need any form of delay to achieve 180 degree inversion? I thought wiring a speaker the wrong way round does it.
Question is, does the convenience of having a one stop shop outwiegh the fact that AOL don't do any of those things particularly well?
It would appear that the answer, for most people, is "no".
P.S. ad hominem? Where? I never said anything about anyone. It isn't Latin for "that's mean", pewrhaps that's your problem?