You don't really work with SharePoint, do you? I mean, this isn't even true and hasn't been for some time.
It's difficult to integrate with any non-Microsoft software.
We have a number of 3rd party apps that are very SharePoint aware. You see, if you really worked with SharePoint, you'd understand that out-of-the-box MOSS/WSS is a very basic product that will do small or simple office needs. SharePoint has a fairly powerful and open API. It did have problems with documentation but most of that is in the past. If you want integration, go with a company that provides SharePoint awareness, or you can write your own stuff (Isn't that what geeks do? Isn't that what the Linux guys like to say? "If it doesn't do what you want it to do, write your own plug-in/module/web part/feature.")
If you are going to make a point, use talking points that don't come from SharePoint 2001.
If my boss at work said "we have this new process and from now on, you must start doing it this way" then my options are pretty clear.
I understand and have worked in that environment, as well. But, it is also clear from your statement that you have never worked in government and especially in government with a union.
All it takes is one guy filing a "Change in work environment" complaint with the union and the boss's "new process" becomes not only moot, but it will become a forbidden choice for all time and eternity.
In government, you will rarely hear bosses try that.
The problem is user inertia, it always has been, it always will be.
We deployed SharePoint years ago. Did that improve anything? No. User's still send attachments in email, still use network drives for collaboration, and still use spreadsheets to gather data.
The spreadsheet thing is really funny. The boss finally put the spreadsheet up on SharePoint and sent a link to it. But you still see people downloading the spreadsheet from the site, filling out their portion, then uploading it with a new name. Then yelling over the cubicle wall that they are done with their tasking. We've gone through training and tried to get them to do it the more efficient way. Impossible task.
Trying to get users to switch off of software and methods they've used for years is a near impossibility.
If an attractive woman approaches a/.er does he become stupid? (O.k. exclude the obvious Apple fanboys, because I'm not sure if an attractive guy just make those guys stupid or if they just stay gay.) Now, does he have the ability to access/. afterwards? If he has sex with her, does he lose his account?
If he has a 4 digit ID, does that mean he is immune, or just repulsive to attractive women?
And those DVD's play where? They are some of the worst part of the Japanese animation that some think of as ubercool. The story lines are still adolescent quality with nothing that drove the revolution into the graphic novels and bleeding edge.
If they had one scintilla of a real Frank Miller, instead of paying a passing homage, then maybe I'd given them respect.
Let me put it plainly, so you can see where you went wrong:
The current crop of anime compared to where comics have gone, is the same as where SyFy is compared to true SF.
It is a pale, cheap, flimsy excuse, with a direct-to-DVD quality that doesn't fulfill the promise of the characters that it rapes for the money.
Who cares? Super hero animation is stuck on TV, poorly done, and not scripted nearly as well as the comic books from which they spring
We haven't gotten much further than Casey Kasem doing his, zoinks, Robin voice.
Even though live action comic book adaptations are still inferior to the original product, the old campy Batman and Robin series is still superior to the animation that is going on now.
Did Stallman, Peace Be Upon Him, really say this? I refuse to click on links like this simply because I don't trust them. And really don't want them in the logs at work.
I have problems with Richard Stallman, Holiness to the Prophet, but I can't believe he'd espouse such an idea.
Nuclear planes? This was tried way back when. They never really got to a full test but their biggest problem was once you actually got a working reactor on an aircraft, what did you do when they crashed? Not a good idea. The few bombs we've lost over the years, most no in populated areas, have been enough of a public relations disaster.
Thank you for telling me what my child needs and where.
Thank you for foisting your ill-behaved little offspring on the rest of the world. If you had taught your children how to operate in a polite society, then society wouldn't be looking at a way to enforce good behaviour.
'I'll be gone for X weeks, Mr. Soandso will be covering for me in the interim...
OMG, you guys hired Soandso. He was with our company. He knocked up 3 admin assistants, and the guy that fixes the copier. He peed in the coffee pot in the break room. As a joke, he put our proprietary code up for sale on Craig's List. The worst of it was when he used 3 months of petty cash and donated it to McCain/Palin 2008.
After Art Bell hyped the Hale-Bopp as spaceship with Major Ed Dames, the Heaven's Gate cult offed themselves, thinking they were going home to their reward. I bet Dames and fellow snake oil salesman, Richard C. Hoagland are spinning this one for some sort of prophecy. Watch Hoagland tie his 19.5 Cosmic Math and Masonic rituals into it.
If you are in a cult, now is the time to turn down the bowl of apple sauce and free pairs of Nike.
Even if it was an attack ordered by North Korea, there's no chance the actual payloads originated there. You could likely fit all of NK's network on a Class C without NAT and have room to spare.
Then I say we outlaw Class C networks. Then only criminals will have Class C networks.
Put anyone with a Class C on the Really Bad Guy Axis of Evil Terrorist Country list.
I really hate to join this, but my first computer was a kit. 1976. No display, except for LED's. My first programming class had timeshare on computer across town. I programmed on a teletype with acoustic couplers, and saved my program to paper tape.
From there it was wiring my own serial S100 card from a magazine article. Yes, I used BASIC once it became available. Moved to a TRS80 model I and had a friend take me to task for wasting the money on 16k because I should be able to do everything in 4k. Moved to an Apple II, Sharp MZ80K with Pascal, Kaypro II, and eventually my first "IBM Compatible".
Microsoft was a common thread through most of that. Love 'em or hate 'em, they shaped the time.
As for their competitors, what most forget is that in the heat of battle, what allowed MS to win was usually serious mistakes by their competitors.
Word was inferior to WordPerfect, and possibly WordStar, but both companies shot themselves in the head, and allowed Word to take the lead.
Lotus 123 was THE spreadsheet for business, Lotus screwed themselves and Excel took the lead.
Netscape was the end-all-be-all for browsers, but they decided to shift focus and took on stuff that wasn't their core. Where are they now?
Yes, MS acquires a lot, sometimes by ruthlessly. But, most of the time, their competitors simply screw up and give the advantage to MS.
It's probably the portion of the poles that the orbital inclination didn't allow to be mapped.
Hey, this is a free country. Who is this Orbital Inclination that isn't allowing me to map what I want to map. Free speech, free speech, free beer, free. se...
Sorry, thought you'd look up RCH to check his claims on that. He was a low level "advisor". He would look up science terminology so Cronkite could use them in context. RCH uses this as some great massive resume point, but its more like he was half a step removed from Jeff in the mail room.
It is somewhat saddening to see this subject always reduced to illogical absurdity on this board. Go outside at night and look up. Billions of stars/galaxies. Now really contemplate the odds of the earth being the ONLY inhabited planet, or perhaps the most advanced with any sort of life, the most evolved, with the highest tech.
Note: I did not say I do not believe in aliens, extraterrestial life, or indications of life on Mars. Nor do I disbelieve that our government agencies participate in cover ups.
My issue with the woo-woo AC is that he brought in Richard C. Hoagland, a fully discredited conspiracy nut that pitches the worst kind of BS to listeners of late night radio.
The AC's use of RCH is as bad as using Ed "Man is as Old as Coal" Conrad, or some scientific creationist nut, or Dr. Louis "Dragon's Tail" Turi as reference.
Do I believe that aliens have visited the Earth? Possible. But no proof has been offered. I have seen a few things that my mind was incapable of interpreting and I could swear I've seen ghosts and alien craft. But, the healthy skeptic in me tells me the simplest answer is that there is some explanation I'm missing that is more mundane.
But, note, even the AC didn't believe his shit enough to post under his own screenname.
Good, F%&king god, man. Did you seriously post a link from Richard C. "Art Bell's Best Buddy" Hoagland, "winner" (read: purchaser) of the Angstrom Medal, science "advisor" to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, Mister "Face On Mars", glass tunnels on Mars? Did you seriously post that tripe on this site?
Do you believe:
Aliens have Elvis?
Alien craft are in storage in "Area "Boogidy Boogidy" 51"?
Aliens built the pyramids?
Atlantis is near Bermuda/Bahamas/Catalina?
The world will end on December 21, 2012?
You do know that this is/. and not the "News of the World" site, right?
The budding musician in me wants a long lasting 9v battery that costs less than $4.
Dominating in "Guitar Hero" does not make you a musician. Just like knowing the Star Wars prequels sucked doesn't make you a filmmaker. Or, having the AOL screen name "SugarBabeeGrl710" doesn't make you girl.
It took Korolyov YEARS just too replicate Von Braun's V-2 in Russia, and that was working *with* Von Braun's own assistant, Helmut Gröttrup.
That's the problem. The assistant, while technically adept and probably a good engineer in his own right, wasn't Von Braun and didn't have a connection into VB's thoughts. He saw drawings, sat in technical discussion, but remember, like all genius engineers, Von Braun probably had the latest fix drawing in his head. Something Grottrup wouldn't have known. Call it the difference between Creator Engineers and Implementation Engineers.
The other problem in Germany, at the time, was focus. Good talent and money were being moved from one project to another. If the military would have focused, the geo-political map would look different today.
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Or take away the people...oops.
You don't really work with SharePoint, do you? I mean, this isn't even true and hasn't been for some time.
We have a number of 3rd party apps that are very SharePoint aware. You see, if you really worked with SharePoint, you'd understand that out-of-the-box MOSS/WSS is a very basic product that will do small or simple office needs. SharePoint has a fairly powerful and open API. It did have problems with documentation but most of that is in the past. If you want integration, go with a company that provides SharePoint awareness, or you can write your own stuff (Isn't that what geeks do? Isn't that what the Linux guys like to say? "If it doesn't do what you want it to do, write your own plug-in/module/web part/feature.")
If you are going to make a point, use talking points that don't come from SharePoint 2001.
I understand and have worked in that environment, as well. But, it is also clear from your statement that you have never worked in government and especially in government with a union.
All it takes is one guy filing a "Change in work environment" complaint with the union and the boss's "new process" becomes not only moot, but it will become a forbidden choice for all time and eternity.
In government, you will rarely hear bosses try that.
I work in government. Not DC.
The problem is user inertia, it always has been, it always will be.
We deployed SharePoint years ago. Did that improve anything? No. User's still send attachments in email, still use network drives for collaboration, and still use spreadsheets to gather data.
The spreadsheet thing is really funny. The boss finally put the spreadsheet up on SharePoint and sent a link to it. But you still see people downloading the spreadsheet from the site, filling out their portion, then uploading it with a new name. Then yelling over the cubicle wall that they are done with their tasking. We've gone through training and tried to get them to do it the more efficient way. Impossible task.
Trying to get users to switch off of software and methods they've used for years is a near impossibility.
So, what you are saying is that if you used XP, you wouldn't be limited by those choices. Windows gives you more choice?
Well, it does, unless you limit your choices by placing preconditions.
If an attractive woman approaches a /.er does he become stupid? (O.k. exclude the obvious Apple fanboys, because I'm not sure if an attractive guy just make those guys stupid or if they just stay gay.) Now, does he have the ability to access /. afterwards? If he has sex with her, does he lose his account?
If he has a 4 digit ID, does that mean he is immune, or just repulsive to attractive women?
And those DVD's play where? They are some of the worst part of the Japanese animation that some think of as ubercool. The story lines are still adolescent quality with nothing that drove the revolution into the graphic novels and bleeding edge.
If they had one scintilla of a real Frank Miller, instead of paying a passing homage, then maybe I'd given them respect.
Let me put it plainly, so you can see where you went wrong:
The current crop of anime compared to where comics have gone, is the same as where SyFy is compared to true SF.
It is a pale, cheap, flimsy excuse, with a direct-to-DVD quality that doesn't fulfill the promise of the characters that it rapes for the money.
Who cares? Super hero animation is stuck on TV, poorly done, and not scripted nearly as well as the comic books from which they spring
We haven't gotten much further than Casey Kasem doing his, zoinks, Robin voice.
Even though live action comic book adaptations are still inferior to the original product, the old campy Batman and Robin series is still superior to the animation that is going on now.
The sad thing is that there will be those that think just that.
Bingo. Thanks, my day is made.
Did Stallman, Peace Be Upon Him, really say this? I refuse to click on links like this simply because I don't trust them. And really don't want them in the logs at work.
I have problems with Richard Stallman, Holiness to the Prophet, but I can't believe he'd espouse such an idea.
Why don't we have a mod for "I'm obviously lying, but here's my story anyway..."?
Nuclear planes? This was tried way back when. They never really got to a full test but their biggest problem was once you actually got a working reactor on an aircraft, what did you do when they crashed? Not a good idea. The few bombs we've lost over the years, most no in populated areas, have been enough of a public relations disaster.
Thank you for foisting your ill-behaved little offspring on the rest of the world. If you had taught your children how to operate in a polite society, then society wouldn't be looking at a way to enforce good behaviour.
OMG, you guys hired Soandso. He was with our company. He knocked up 3 admin assistants, and the guy that fixes the copier. He peed in the coffee pot in the break room. As a joke, he put our proprietary code up for sale on Craig's List. The worst of it was when he used 3 months of petty cash and donated it to McCain/Palin 2008.
After Art Bell hyped the Hale-Bopp as spaceship with Major Ed Dames, the Heaven's Gate cult offed themselves, thinking they were going home to their reward. I bet Dames and fellow snake oil salesman, Richard C. Hoagland are spinning this one for some sort of prophecy. Watch Hoagland tie his 19.5 Cosmic Math and Masonic rituals into it.
If you are in a cult, now is the time to turn down the bowl of apple sauce and free pairs of Nike.
Then I say we outlaw Class C networks. Then only criminals will have Class C networks.
Put anyone with a Class C on the Really Bad Guy Axis of Evil Terrorist Country list.
Maybe we can get a judge in Kentucky to seize all the Class C networks. Then, we can nuke Kentucky.
I really hate to join this, but my first computer was a kit. 1976. No display, except for LED's. My first programming class had timeshare on computer across town. I programmed on a teletype with acoustic couplers, and saved my program to paper tape.
From there it was wiring my own serial S100 card from a magazine article. Yes, I used BASIC once it became available. Moved to a TRS80 model I and had a friend take me to task for wasting the money on 16k because I should be able to do everything in 4k. Moved to an Apple II, Sharp MZ80K with Pascal, Kaypro II, and eventually my first "IBM Compatible".
Microsoft was a common thread through most of that. Love 'em or hate 'em, they shaped the time.
As for their competitors, what most forget is that in the heat of battle, what allowed MS to win was usually serious mistakes by their competitors.
Word was inferior to WordPerfect, and possibly WordStar, but both companies shot themselves in the head, and allowed Word to take the lead.
Lotus 123 was THE spreadsheet for business, Lotus screwed themselves and Excel took the lead.
Netscape was the end-all-be-all for browsers, but they decided to shift focus and took on stuff that wasn't their core. Where are they now?
Yes, MS acquires a lot, sometimes by ruthlessly. But, most of the time, their competitors simply screw up and give the advantage to MS.
Hey, this is a free country. Who is this Orbital Inclination that isn't allowing me to map what I want to map. Free speech, free speech, free beer, free. se...
Sorry, thought you'd look up RCH to check his claims on that. He was a low level "advisor". He would look up science terminology so Cronkite could use them in context. RCH uses this as some great massive resume point, but its more like he was half a step removed from Jeff in the mail room.
Note: I did not say I do not believe in aliens, extraterrestial life, or indications of life on Mars. Nor do I disbelieve that our government agencies participate in cover ups.
My issue with the woo-woo AC is that he brought in Richard C. Hoagland, a fully discredited conspiracy nut that pitches the worst kind of BS to listeners of late night radio.
The AC's use of RCH is as bad as using Ed "Man is as Old as Coal" Conrad, or some scientific creationist nut, or Dr. Louis "Dragon's Tail" Turi as reference.
Do I believe that aliens have visited the Earth? Possible. But no proof has been offered. I have seen a few things that my mind was incapable of interpreting and I could swear I've seen ghosts and alien craft. But, the healthy skeptic in me tells me the simplest answer is that there is some explanation I'm missing that is more mundane.
But, note, even the AC didn't believe his shit enough to post under his own screenname.
Good, F%&king god, man. Did you seriously post a link from Richard C. "Art Bell's Best Buddy" Hoagland, "winner" (read: purchaser) of the Angstrom Medal, science "advisor" to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, Mister "Face On Mars", glass tunnels on Mars? Did you seriously post that tripe on this site?
Do you believe:
You do know that this is /. and not the "News of the World" site, right?
Dominating in "Guitar Hero" does not make you a musician. Just like knowing the Star Wars prequels sucked doesn't make you a filmmaker. Or, having the AOL screen name "SugarBabeeGrl710" doesn't make you girl.
That's the problem. The assistant, while technically adept and probably a good engineer in his own right, wasn't Von Braun and didn't have a connection into VB's thoughts. He saw drawings, sat in technical discussion, but remember, like all genius engineers, Von Braun probably had the latest fix drawing in his head. Something Grottrup wouldn't have known. Call it the difference between Creator Engineers and Implementation Engineers.
The other problem in Germany, at the time, was focus. Good talent and money were being moved from one project to another. If the military would have focused, the geo-political map would look different today.
Disclosure: I'm trying to stress test my server. Please nuke it into the slag of its constituent parts.