A similar thing happened to me. I seemed to have stumped the entire organization (or at least the one next to UT Austin) by asking, "What is a Dyanetic? You have a whole book about them. Can you tell me what it is." and "I'm not going to buy it if you cannot define this simple noun." It was an object lesson in circular logic and an amusing way to spend an afternoon. The personality / IQ test was brilliant. I was rated at very smart, but also deeply flawed. Therefore, I "needed" what they were offering and was "smart" enough to take them up on it.
Using prototype vehicles to make your point is like discussing gameplay in a product that has not even made it through alpha testing. Furthermore, noone wants to park their car at the airport for a week in the Bahamas only have it out of gas when they return. Finally, I am sure that diminished gas volume will result in diminished efficiency.
A movie? Of comparing code? I guess I'm getting old, because I do not understand this youtube-ification of the internet. What is wrong with plain 'ole text? I can read it faster than you can fumble around with the camera. It costs less to send to my computer. I don't have to learn YAFBMW (Yet Another Flash Based Movie Widget).
Remember kids, if you need a vBlog to make your Blog interesting it may be more about you not being interesting than the format.
Effective Software Design Is Hard. Thank you. Though I would argue it should be generalized to "Effective Design Is Hard." More programmers, software "engineers", and especially their managers need to understand this. No fancy new language, library, or tool kit can design the software for you. Paradoxically, while some tools make the job of design hard, none of them make the job easy.
How likely is it that you're going to need some random Word document from 1998?
Extremely likely in my case. My industry involves a lot of repeat work for existing customers. It is very handy when researching a new job to have access to everything done on previous jobs for the same customer. We tried several different methods of organizing all the different types of information. Because Outlook really doesn't have a good way of storing emails as files (dumb), we end up just storing it all in the email archive. We use a public archive to limit the amount of duplication on the mail server, but it is still all there in Outlook.
...the only valid complaint, is that it does hog up the disk... More valid complaints:
Breaks at least one competitor's product. (IFNS broke during this same update. Uninstalling WDS does not seem to help)
Cannot search network drives (if you do not understand why this is a valid complaint, please die in a fire)
Forced install = bad. (security updates are the sole exception)
It does not just go away. (if you uninstall, it whines about needing a reboot to "complete the uninstall". then if your IT department has locked you into automatically downloading and installing updates, it redownloads and reinstalls itself. YHL, HAND)
One more new, confusing, and inconsistent UI to learn.
Rule #1. Never ever base your business model on the success of someone else's business. Especially if, (a) you have no control over how they execute their business, and/or (b) they do not have a vested interest in your success. It is a recipe for failure. Nobody likes a parasite.
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Sure. And social engineering has about as much to do with engineering as social science has to do with science.
A similar thing happened to me. I seemed to have stumped the entire organization (or at least the one next to UT Austin) by asking, "What is a Dyanetic? You have a whole book about them. Can you tell me what it is." and "I'm not going to buy it if you cannot define this simple noun." It was an object lesson in circular logic and an amusing way to spend an afternoon. The personality / IQ test was brilliant. I was rated at very smart, but also deeply flawed. Therefore, I "needed" what they were offering and was "smart" enough to take them up on it.
c) Wait for them to declare bankruptcy, get skull for a song.
or (Things that are not feasible, but we are doing anyway)
I use scroll lock with my Belkin KVM. It's nice to not have to leave the keyboard to switch from one machine to another.
Using prototype vehicles to make your point is like discussing gameplay in a product that has not even made it through alpha testing. Furthermore, noone wants to park their car at the airport for a week in the Bahamas only have it out of gas when they return. Finally, I am sure that diminished gas volume will result in diminished efficiency.
1. Why locate off-shore when there is plenty of space on land?
For the libertarian stick-it-to-the-man joy of just barging your illegal data to the latest flag of convenience nation, of course.
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I call BS. If the goal is failure and pain, the clear choice is COBOL.
Semi-seriously. I was just reading the article about text editors and was wondering what Word Perfect had to do with digital signals.
Listen to NPR instead.
It (fairly reliably) sifts out the good 10% (or at least the top 5).
Extremely likely in my case. My industry involves a lot of repeat work for existing customers. It is very handy when researching a new job to have access to everything done on previous jobs for the same customer. We tried several different methods of organizing all the different types of information. Because Outlook really doesn't have a good way of storing emails as files (dumb), we end up just storing it all in the email archive. We use a public archive to limit the amount of duplication on the mail server, but it is still all there in Outlook.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue...
Yes.
A is 0.
Now we just need a suitable definition of 0.
Do you put your pants on one f00t at a time?
Or just hire a mechanical turk to be your sock puppet. Completing the recursion cycle.
...the only valid complaint, is that it does hog up the disk... More valid complaints:It broke my IFNS! And WDS cannot search network drives and is therefore useless.
Rule #1. Never ever base your business model on the success of someone else's business. Especially if, (a) you have no control over how they execute their business, and/or (b) they do not have a vested interest in your success. It is a recipe for failure. Nobody likes a parasite.
Why stop there? Buy a new copy each time you listen. (you laugh, but I bet this sort of thing is just around the corner)
Some two bit Scottish author.
Power corrupts.
Absolute power is kinda neat.