That's the double-edged sword of user-friendliness. Stupid users can happily be productive. At the same time stupid users are still stupid. Linux users are very savvy. They'd know what security defaults to change to make their system more hacker-proof. Windows users are much less savvy. And Mac users are 99.9% blissfully ignorant.
I see a market for an Apple A/V console where the user can doc their iPod to it but they can also surf the screen for movies to instantly download from iTMS. All Apple needs to do is license and re-brand big screen LCD TVs and good Hi-Fi speakers. Then they'd have a complete quality system in a $5000 package to take to market Apple-style.
You should do some research on the topic. It was a joint agreement between Intel and Skype. It's not just Skype doing this on their own. Intel approached Skype about the whole thing. Here's a link you should check out before you talk about how, "... if you want to blame someone, it's the former [Skype]"
You misquoted me. I was careful to make the distinction. I said, ". . . Intel making the most important hardware component. .." and also ". . . Intel CPUs are the workhorse of every new Mac." I was even careful to call the CPU the workhorse and not the brain.
I really like your point, though, about the x86 conversion effort paying off if Intel ever tries to jerk Apple around. AMD is an excellent processor and is not currently engaging in any monopolistic schemes like Intel seems to be. I just hope AMD realizes why they are winning over customers. Better price, Better performance and Better business ethics.
I wonder what the Mac users think about Macs now having Monopolistic Intel making the most important hardware component in their ideal computers.
I'm obviously not a mac user. But I know that the Mac users made heavy use of evil monopoly mentality to stoke the fires against MS and Intel in the past. I just wonder if any Mac users feel a bit uneasy about supporting an evil monopoly now that Intel CPUs are the workhorse of every new Mac.
It's an honest question. Will Mac users find a creative way to spin it? Or will some of them now actaully admit that it's a mark against the Apple/Mac reputation and mentality?
about processor speed it could simply have a list of processor minimums that it checked against. Or allow the user to set the parameter much the way video clips let you pick "Broadband" or "56k modem".
Good point. I'd say a large percentage of what corporate end users need are 2 things. 1) Reports and 2) Workflow solutions.
The sticky point about reports is that the reporting is easy it's the data input interface/program that requires expertise (GIGO). And there is really no simple workflow solution out there. That almost always requires a programmer of at least medium skill.
The thing that makes a programmer valuable to a company is that they design their solution. They don't just hack something together real quick for the boss to make themselves look like a genious.
I work as a software developer at a very large company. It just sickens me when a manager contacts our team and asks something like this, "Hey, I was going to have one of my employees throw something together real quick in Excel but I'd like it to be more dynamic and on the web. Can you make a quick web version for us?" First of all the "quick" version is just that - a Band-Aid. If it is to be done right a few days of thought and design is required before any code is even written.
MS Office solutions (Excel/Access) amount to only poor working prototypes. They rarely support more than 1 user and security, performance and maintainability is aweful. It also gives the illusion that software development is quick and easy.
A good software developer will develop a proper solution to the problem not just a simle spreadsheet macro or MS Access program.
My advice would be to convert to 2.0 first. Then convert one project at a time to C# (if your solution(s) contain more than one project). The port to C# is relatively straight-forward. The schedule risk lies in converting to 2.0. Plus you may want to incorporate some of the new features (generics, partial classes, etc.) of 2.0 when you convert to c#.
"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn't going to meet all their needs," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's director of Windows client product management.
So nice of him!
Muahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right. That must be one of the very few that actually get good volume. Because after listing a few larger sites they resort to the likes of BellyButton.com. Besides the volume of traffic doesn't necessarily prove that the language or framework is capable enough to handle a wide range of critical enterprise tasks.
They have to have a special page on the framework's official website to answer the question, "So, who the heck even uses this framework?" And then they give examples like "BellyButton.com" (maternity site). And that's supposed to be proof that it's good enough for mission-critical production use?
. . . no RESPECTABLE economist thinks off-shoring is a good idea.
How do you define respectable?
The Indians respect many econimists that think offshoring's a good idea.
Instead of being totally subjective your statements would be more effective if you'd explain why offshoring is absurd.
I think the police officers should be the first ones to test out the new cameras in every room of their homes. After all, they probably call the police department more than anyone else.
I disagree. I think style and "cool factor" of the hardware is a huge selling point. If Apple switched to making only standard ugly beige desktop and squared bland black laptops Apple would lose 90% of their customers. The cool style creates the buzz. The buzz sells the product. The OS is a good justification for spending the money. Not the only motivation though.
That's BS. It's funny that most mac zealots like to be overcharged. They always justify it by claiming the "cool factor". Music is Music. If people can get a better deal from somewhere else they will. When you hear the music playing it's not like you can tell where it was purchased from anyways.
Instead of having a robot climb the tether just have a pully on both ends. Sure, the pully wheels may need to be large to accomodate bending the rope without stressing it. But with this idea all you have to do is build a latch mechanism that you can remotely unlatch once it is it's proper orbit. All the climing power would be in the motorized earth-based pully wheel.
My advice would be to keep the boring good paying job and get some interesting work started on the side. Then you'll be able to save your brainpower/energy for what you enjoy. And maybe you'll get enough side work to eventually be self employed. Then you'll have good pay and interesting work.
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That's the double-edged sword of user-friendliness. Stupid users can happily be productive. At the same time stupid users are still stupid. Linux users are very savvy. They'd know what security defaults to change to make their system more hacker-proof. Windows users are much less savvy. And Mac users are 99.9% blissfully ignorant.
I see a market for an Apple A/V console where the user can doc their iPod to it but they can also surf the screen for movies to instantly download from iTMS. All Apple needs to do is license and re-brand big screen LCD TVs and good Hi-Fi speakers. Then they'd have a complete quality system in a $5000 package to take to market Apple-style.
You should do some research on the topic. It was a joint agreement between Intel and Skype. It's not just Skype doing this on their own. Intel approached Skype about the whole thing. Here's a link you should check out before you talk about how, "... if you want to blame someone, it's the former [Skype]"
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." Intel may not have a monopoly but it sure seems to be actling like one.
http://www.cnet.com.au/software/internet/0,390295
From the article, "Intel approached Skype with its plan . . .
You misquoted me. I was careful to make the distinction. I said, ". . . Intel making the most important hardware component. . ." and also ". . . Intel CPUs are the workhorse of every new Mac." I was even careful to call the CPU the workhorse and not the brain.
I really like your point, though, about the x86 conversion effort paying off if Intel ever tries to jerk Apple around. AMD is an excellent processor and is not currently engaging in any monopolistic schemes like Intel seems to be. I just hope AMD realizes why they are winning over customers. Better price, Better performance and Better business ethics.
I wonder what the Mac users think about Macs now having Monopolistic Intel making the most important hardware component in their ideal computers.
I'm obviously not a mac user. But I know that the Mac users made heavy use of evil monopoly mentality to stoke the fires against MS and Intel in the past. I just wonder if any Mac users feel a bit uneasy about supporting an evil monopoly now that Intel CPUs are the workhorse of every new Mac.
It's an honest question. Will Mac users find a creative way to spin it? Or will some of them now actaully admit that it's a mark against the Apple/Mac reputation and mentality?
about processor speed it could simply have a list of processor minimums that it checked against. Or allow the user to set the parameter much the way video clips let you pick "Broadband" or "56k modem".
Not even one mention of "Web 2.0"!
Good point. I'd say a large percentage of what corporate end users need are 2 things. 1) Reports and 2) Workflow solutions.
The sticky point about reports is that the reporting is easy it's the data input interface/program that requires expertise (GIGO). And there is really no simple workflow solution out there. That almost always requires a programmer of at least medium skill.
The thing that makes a programmer valuable to a company is that they design their solution. They don't just hack something together real quick for the boss to make themselves look like a genious.
I work as a software developer at a very large company. It just sickens me when a manager contacts our team and asks something like this, "Hey, I was going to have one of my employees throw something together real quick in Excel but I'd like it to be more dynamic and on the web. Can you make a quick web version for us?" First of all the "quick" version is just that - a Band-Aid. If it is to be done right a few days of thought and design is required before any code is even written.
MS Office solutions (Excel/Access) amount to only poor working prototypes. They rarely support more than 1 user and security, performance and maintainability is aweful. It also gives the illusion that software development is quick and easy.
A good software developer will develop a proper solution to the problem not just a simle spreadsheet macro or MS Access program.
My advice would be to convert to 2.0 first. Then convert one project at a time to C# (if your solution(s) contain more than one project). The port to C# is relatively straight-forward. The schedule risk lies in converting to 2.0. Plus you may want to incorporate some of the new features (generics, partial classes, etc.) of 2.0 when you convert to c#.
"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn't going to meet all their needs," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's director of Windows client product management.
So nice of him!
Muahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully it won't be a 100% propriatary locked-out standard like iTMS.
Right. That must be one of the very few that actually get good volume. Because after listing a few larger sites they resort to the likes of BellyButton.com. Besides the volume of traffic doesn't necessarily prove that the language or framework is capable enough to handle a wide range of critical enterprise tasks.
They have to have a special page on the framework's official website to answer the question, "So, who the heck even uses this framework?" And then they give examples like "BellyButton.com" (maternity site). And that's supposed to be proof that it's good enough for mission-critical production use?
I love that! I love it, man. You captured the spirit perfectly! Very well done.
. . . no RESPECTABLE economist thinks off-shoring is a good idea.
How do you define respectable?
The Indians respect many econimists that think offshoring's a good idea.
Instead of being totally subjective your statements would be more effective if you'd explain why offshoring is absurd.
do you think it will last? Is Windows picking up momentum or is Unix losing momentum?
So will Firefox users have any respect for IE7 as a capable browser (if it proves to be so)?
I think the police officers should be the first ones to test out the new cameras in every room of their homes. After all, they probably call the police department more than anyone else.
I disagree. I think style and "cool factor" of the hardware is a huge selling point. If Apple switched to making only standard ugly beige desktop and squared bland black laptops Apple would lose 90% of their customers. The cool style creates the buzz. The buzz sells the product. The OS is a good justification for spending the money. Not the only motivation though.
Marketing theory: Every new competitor that comes out helps the one in the #1 spot.
So does this mean that every dollar Apple spends on marketing the Mac OS also helps the Windows OS?
That's BS. It's funny that most mac zealots like to be overcharged. They always justify it by claiming the "cool factor". Music is Music. If people can get a better deal from somewhere else they will. When you hear the music playing it's not like you can tell where it was purchased from anyways.
That means that iTunes will have serious competition. It will be interesting to watch the battle. Competition is good.
Instead of having a robot climb the tether just have a pully on both ends. Sure, the pully wheels may need to be large to accomodate bending the rope without stressing it. But with this idea all you have to do is build a latch mechanism that you can remotely unlatch once it is it's proper orbit. All the climing power would be in the motorized earth-based pully wheel.
What do you think about that?
My advice would be to keep the boring good paying job and get some interesting work started on the side. Then you'll be able to save your brainpower/energy for what you enjoy. And maybe you'll get enough side work to eventually be self employed. Then you'll have good pay and interesting work.