I worked with an eBook publisher outside of Seattle a few years ago. It was my job to devise the conversion schemes for content sent from major publishers, from hardcopy (loose and bound) to electronic (Word, text, html, god-knows-what-typesetter-or-word-processor package).
We would get surveys, with results like:
The reader should be free if I buy books
The books should be free if I buy the reader
If I buy the hardbound, I should get the ebook free
If I buy the paperback, I should, at least, get a discount on the ebook
The reader should be the size of a magazine or a hardback
The reader should be the size of a paperback
The reader should fit in my pocket
The publishers should be allowed to protect their content
The publishers shouldn't protect their content
I should be able to get the ebook at home (web)
I should be able to get the ebook at the store
Some of the responses that contradict each other came from the same person. In other words, the public doesn't know what it wants, they just know that what you are going to offer them is not going to make them happy until you can read their subconscious desires.
In other words, the American public has been taking lessons from my wife.
You simply don't get it, do you?! Bio-diesel is not about how much you spend on gas.
B.S.!
The point you are missing is that for a minority of users, its not about cost, its about cleanliness. But, this is not how you get a fuel, or anything adopted by the general public.
The general car driving public is concerned about one thing, COST.
Most/.ers have a problem in understanding how to get the general public to adopt anything:
For Linux, they say, "It's not Microsoft, it's socially acceptable, it;s GNU, it's open." But the general public want, "It's easy, it runs what I want, and I don't have to think about it."
For fuel, you say, "It's clean, it's environmentally friendly." The general user wants, "It's not expensive, it screws the Arabs, and I can take a vacation anywhere in RV and get fuel anywhere I want."
Until people realize the Rules of General Acceptance, pet projects like Bio-Diesel, hemp, Linux, and government reform will never gain ground.
You cannot hope to change American attitudes in time to get BD accepted on the playing field you want them to accept it on, you must put BD on their playing field.
So, in essence, they're saying they want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features.
Statements like this, and the general l33t attitude of Linux proponents are what keeps a lot of people from embracing Linux. Seriously folks, the messengers are killing the message.
...when the OS, Windows QXP, blue screens and then shifts into far infrared, actually delivering the solution prior to loading the data, while also delivering random solutions through out the timeline (document: Leonard of Venice found drawings for a flying aparatus on his table several hundred years ago, courtesy the blue screened Quantum Computator of 2015.)
...a new tool to add money to the big boys' pockets.
Saw an interview with him years ago. He tried to make it sound as if creating a program that eventually put billions into the coffers at Lotus and Microsoft but left him with a teachers salary didn't sting all that much. But, it was evident in his eyes that he was stung and felt he missed the boat that made young millionaires out of the geeks of the late '70s.
Google is starting to creep me out. I've been in love with them and their "Don't be evil" thing, and have adopted many of their tools, including GMail. But, they are starting to do things that make me wonder if we are the frog that is destined to be boiled.
You know:
How do you boil a frog? Put him in a pot of cold water then slowly increase the heat.
I'm thinking we are going to turn around one day and wonder how Google got all our data. It will follow the revelation that all the data Google had was exposed to a hacker, or sold by a disgruntled employee, or accessed by Chinese Military Intel.
...there's no talk this time of producing endless supplies of power. Rather, the technology could lead to ultra-portable x-ray machines and even a wearable device that could provide safe, continuous cancer treatment."
...is anon.penet.fi? With all the p2p and new technologies, why can't we come up with an alternative that EVERYONE can use to foil any snooping.
Eventually, email will make us all criminals, if you send that Superbowl ad to your buddy or if you send plans for a nuke.
If every email were encrypted and every ID were hidden...
In the future, everyone will have 15 software patents. Then we can sue each other until we are all rich. That will put RMS out of business. Bwahahahahaha.
Because of the magnitude of bugs in this SECOND beta. This is obviously alpha quality software, at least in most peoples definitions.
You're not a developer, right?
Seriously, beta is beta is beta. The product, while buggy, and yes, I've reported several myself, is still good.
As the lead developer in my organization's SharePoint project, I needed to see the effects of this thing on SP. Sure enough, I found a few. The bugs were introduced after Beta 1. As a developer you would know that fixing some bugs introduces new ones. Adding features, introduces new breaks. Removing features, introduces other breaks.
Internal beta testing is fine to a point, but, until you go to a wider release, you aren't going to find all the problems.
However, when trying to find serious tech news discussions without knee-jerk-religionist BS Slashdot is not a great choice.
This is not vaporware? Preorders are being taken?
Thats a qualification for not being vaporware? Hell, weren't they taking preorders on that little gaming system called the Infinivap...Infinisteam...Infini...hell, are you a schill for the company? Is this the new PR engine?
you must be new here...this is slashdot we can fault Microsoft for anything...
Ain't that the truth, brother, all too often. If anyone can be accused of knee jerk reactions, its us. Let's give it a try, I'll give you a few words, you try this experiment, what is your reaction:
1. Gates 2. Stallman 3. CEO 4. Sun 5. Microsoft 6. OSS
Ten to one, most SD'ers went into knee-jerk mode (one direction or the other) on each. Logic be damned.
Honestly, if StarOffice, or OpenOffice for that matter, does not seemlessly integrate with SharePoint, I'm not seeing a major switch for any organization that is using SharePoint.
The combo of SharePoint, and the soon to be released v3 with Office 12, forms a massive killer app that corporations would be crazy to move away from. MS stays a step ahead of the competition by upping the ante on what is considered useful in the organization.
Now, someone create a MySQL based portal, using Mono, support SharePoint web parts, and include the hooks that allow MSO, OO, SO, KO, and WP to integrate seemlessly and then you have a MS killer.
Until then, OO and SO will remain also-rans.
Not trying to be a jack*** but, FEMA doesn't really need a bunch of us geeks Slashdotting their claim forms when people with legitimate needs are trying to get there. The need to bash MS or GWB or the GOV is one thing but basically DOSing a server is another.
Some thinking HAS to be done during some part of this disaster. Obviously, the citizens, the Mayor, the Governor, and the Feds are culpable. (BTW, how much food and stores do you have on hand?)
Will someone please think of the children...
This could be the preview or prediction of the result of the small portion of the "Information Wants to Be Free" crowd - you know the portion that follows that line with, "That's why I'm distributing 'The Matrix' on P2P...".
Eventually, things do come back to bite you in the tuckas.
Slashdot Mirror
I worked with an eBook publisher outside of Seattle a few years ago. It was my job to devise the conversion schemes for content sent from major publishers, from hardcopy (loose and bound) to electronic (Word, text, html, god-knows-what-typesetter-or-word-processor package).
We would get surveys, with results like:
Some of the responses that contradict each other came from the same person. In other words, the public doesn't know what it wants, they just know that what you are going to offer them is not going to make them happy until you can read their subconscious desires.
B.S.!
The point you are missing is that for a minority of users, its not about cost, its about cleanliness. But, this is not how you get a fuel, or anything adopted by the general public.
The general car driving public is concerned about one thing, COST.
Most /.ers have a problem in understanding how to get the general public to adopt anything:
Until people realize the Rules of General Acceptance, pet projects like Bio-Diesel, hemp, Linux, and government reform will never gain ground.
You cannot hope to change American attitudes in time to get BD accepted on the playing field you want them to accept it on, you must put BD on their playing field.
Statements like this, and the general l33t attitude of Linux proponents are what keeps a lot of people from embracing Linux. Seriously folks, the messengers are killing the message.
...when the OS, Windows QXP, blue screens and then shifts into far infrared, actually delivering the solution prior to loading the data, while also delivering random solutions through out the timeline (document: Leonard of Venice found drawings for a flying aparatus on his table several hundred years ago, courtesy the blue screened Quantum Computator of 2015.)
...a new tool to add money to the big boys' pockets. Saw an interview with him years ago. He tried to make it sound as if creating a program that eventually put billions into the coffers at Lotus and Microsoft but left him with a teachers salary didn't sting all that much. But, it was evident in his eyes that he was stung and felt he missed the boat that made young millionaires out of the geeks of the late '70s.
Snopes notwithstanding, my point is...damn, what was the point?
LINE!
(First, this is not an Anti-France post.)
Google is starting to creep me out. I've been in love with them and their "Don't be evil" thing, and have adopted many of their tools, including GMail. But, they are starting to do things that make me wonder if we are the frog that is destined to be boiled.
You know:
I'm thinking we are going to turn around one day and wonder how Google got all our data. It will follow the revelation that all the data Google had was exposed to a hacker, or sold by a disgruntled employee, or accessed by Chinese Military Intel.
- Altair
- TRS-80 Model 1 with the extender
After, while in the USAF:- Kaypro II
Followed by a long line of named and no-name PC clones....is anon.penet.fi? With all the p2p and new technologies, why can't we come up with an alternative that EVERYONE can use to foil any snooping. Eventually, email will make us all criminals, if you send that Superbowl ad to your buddy or if you send plans for a nuke. If every email were encrypted and every ID were hidden...
In the future, everyone will have 15 software patents. Then we can sue each other until we are all rich. That will put RMS out of business. Bwahahahahaha.
You're not a developer, right?
Seriously, beta is beta is beta. The product, while buggy, and yes, I've reported several myself, is still good.
As the lead developer in my organization's SharePoint project, I needed to see the effects of this thing on SP. Sure enough, I found a few. The bugs were introduced after Beta 1. As a developer you would know that fixing some bugs introduces new ones. Adding features, introduces new breaks. Removing features, introduces other breaks.
Internal beta testing is fine to a point, but, until you go to a wider release, you aren't going to find all the problems.
However, when trying to find serious tech news discussions without knee-jerk-religionist BS Slashdot is not a great choice.
This is not vaporware? Preorders are being taken? Thats a qualification for not being vaporware? Hell, weren't they taking preorders on that little gaming system called the Infinivap...Infinisteam...Infini...hell, are you a schill for the company? Is this the new PR engine?
Isn't this an almost exact dupe of this story?
Ain't that the truth, brother, all too often. If anyone can be accused of knee jerk reactions, its us. Let's give it a try, I'll give you a few words, you try this experiment, what is your reaction:
1. Gates
2. Stallman
3. CEO
4. Sun
5. Microsoft
6. OSS
Ten to one, most SD'ers went into knee-jerk mode (one direction or the other) on each. Logic be damned.
Honestly, if StarOffice, or OpenOffice for that matter, does not seemlessly integrate with SharePoint, I'm not seeing a major switch for any organization that is using SharePoint. The combo of SharePoint, and the soon to be released v3 with Office 12, forms a massive killer app that corporations would be crazy to move away from. MS stays a step ahead of the competition by upping the ante on what is considered useful in the organization. Now, someone create a MySQL based portal, using Mono, support SharePoint web parts, and include the hooks that allow MSO, OO, SO, KO, and WP to integrate seemlessly and then you have a MS killer. Until then, OO and SO will remain also-rans.
We've seen this before.
You host Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe crap, etc. on the web for use, then call it a platform. Filling out forms and data entry, not interested.
Not trying to be a jack*** but, FEMA doesn't really need a bunch of us geeks Slashdotting their claim forms when people with legitimate needs are trying to get there. The need to bash MS or GWB or the GOV is one thing but basically DOSing a server is another. Some thinking HAS to be done during some part of this disaster. Obviously, the citizens, the Mayor, the Governor, and the Feds are culpable. (BTW, how much food and stores do you have on hand?) Will someone please think of the children...
This could be the preview or prediction of the result of the small portion of the "Information Wants to Be Free" crowd - you know the portion that follows that line with, "That's why I'm distributing 'The Matrix' on P2P...".
Eventually, things do come back to bite you in the tuckas.
I've tried FireFox and Moz flavors, Opera, Maxthon, IE 7, and IE6 with MSN tabs.
Over all, for play browsing, I use FireFox, for work I use IE becaus, well we are a SharePoint shop and I am, after all, the SharePoint Evangelist.