However, I don't think any amount of reasonable warning would have been enough to evacuate so many people as the Dec. '04 Tsunami. Sure, a great number of people could have made it out but you have to realize also that communication in some of those areas just isn't as fast as it is here - not to mention the crowded, overpopulated cities...it would take days to evacuate everyone and unfortunately there just isn't that kind of warning system available.
I really hope they handle this better than the outlook integration used with their own MS CRM tool. Anyone know what they did?
It installed "Cassini" which was a sample project when.NET came out on how you could write a web server in C#. They then ran ASP.NET pages through outlook on the local Cassini server. Imagine, all of your sales people, customer service folks and fields reps all having a web server running on their machines. Also, you really had to dig for how this was done - it wasn't something most people would find unless you were developing some type of add-on or trying to integrate CRM into an existing system.
If I am purchasing a pack of blank CDs to use as family photo picture storage, family video transferred over from the camcorder and backing up data such as tax records, etc. this tax has no bearing on what I would be using the CDs for. I don't see how they can justify that a percentage of the tax should go back to the recording industry when they cannot prove that the CDs are being used to copy songs. Also - even if I am burning songs or copies of songs that I own the right to (purchased online or an original CD) through fair use provisions I see it as totally illegal to charge me an additional tax for the specific reasons they have laid out.
As a project manager who has worked with developers in India, I can say that the preceding statement is false.
I found it just as easy to keep tabs on what was going on. The fact that the developers were not right next door made us do a much better job on requirements gathering, design, and change management.
It's all in how the project is managed.
You obviously don't work for Accenture. I have seen first hand what bad project management can do to an outsourced, off-shore developed project and it's not a pretty sight.
There hasn't been a MMORPG out to this date that required any skill. Sure, the people who put in countless hours and have no life will tell you they got uber weapon A and uber armor piece B because they have skill and took down a specific mob with help of their 60 friends on a raid but in the end, it was the time they put in. Skill had nothing to do with it.
In fact, I think the reason skill is not needed is why these games are so popular. You really don't have to do much except let the system handle your attacks for you with "auto-attack" - you just need to be online playing 12+ hours a day.
Husband:"Seriously, we need this!"
Wife:"You're really not joking are you?"
Husband:"But, we can have rotating screen savers with pictures of the kids..."
Wife:"Or you can just sit there flipping channels on the tv while checking scores on EPSN.com"
Husband:"yea, or that too..."
Wife:"It doesn't go with the the furniture we have - no."
That still doesn't change the outcome and it's no trick. Pricing advantages are the cause of the results, not some spin on the the results.
As far as administrators of larger corporations buying a system without an OS and putting on a *nix distro - they do the same with Windows Servers as well. Most large corporations have a Microsoft Select agreement whereas they order systems with no OS and install their own for which they already have purchased licenses for. Practices remain the same in many cases no matter which OS is in question.
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However, I don't think any amount of reasonable warning would have been enough to evacuate so many people as the Dec. '04 Tsunami. Sure, a great number of people could have made it out but you have to realize also that communication in some of those areas just isn't as fast as it is here - not to mention the crowded, overpopulated cities...it would take days to evacuate everyone and unfortunately there just isn't that kind of warning system available.
I really hope they handle this better than the outlook integration used with their own MS CRM tool. Anyone know what they did?
.NET came out on how you could write a web server in C#. They then ran ASP.NET pages through outlook on the local Cassini server. Imagine, all of your sales people, customer service folks and fields reps all having a web server running on their machines. Also, you really had to dig for how this was done - it wasn't something most people would find unless you were developing some type of add-on or trying to integrate CRM into an existing system.
It installed "Cassini" which was a sample project when
If I am purchasing a pack of blank CDs to use as family photo picture storage, family video transferred over from the camcorder and backing up data such as tax records, etc. this tax has no bearing on what I would be using the CDs for. I don't see how they can justify that a percentage of the tax should go back to the recording industry when they cannot prove that the CDs are being used to copy songs. Also - even if I am burning songs or copies of songs that I own the right to (purchased online or an original CD) through fair use provisions I see it as totally illegal to charge me an additional tax for the specific reasons they have laid out.
I'd rather see them go after Bill Clinton for aiding the Chinese missile program than Google for their censorship.
I thought XNU was the guy that Tom Cruise thinks is trapped below a volcano or something. :)
As a project manager who has worked with developers in India, I can say that the preceding statement is false.
I found it just as easy to keep tabs on what was going on. The fact that the developers were not right next door made us do a much better job on requirements gathering, design, and change management.
It's all in how the project is managed.
You obviously don't work for Accenture. I have seen first hand what bad project management can do to an outsourced, off-shore developed project and it's not a pretty sight.
Unless the single person's initials are GWB, then they most definitely sensationalize on the person...
This should be fun to watch. Hopefully we'll get a front row seat and be served popcorn!
Since when?
There hasn't been a MMORPG out to this date that required any skill. Sure, the people who put in countless hours and have no life will tell you they got uber weapon A and uber armor piece B because they have skill and took down a specific mob with help of their 60 friends on a raid but in the end, it was the time they put in. Skill had nothing to do with it.
In fact, I think the reason skill is not needed is why these games are so popular. You really don't have to do much except let the system handle your attacks for you with "auto-attack" - you just need to be online playing 12+ hours a day.
Husband:"Seriously, we need this!"
Wife:"You're really not joking are you?"
Husband:"But, we can have rotating screen savers with pictures of the kids..."
Wife:"Or you can just sit there flipping channels on the tv while checking scores on EPSN.com"
Husband:"yea, or that too..."
Wife:"It doesn't go with the the furniture we have - no."
That still doesn't change the outcome and it's no trick. Pricing advantages are the cause of the results, not some spin on the the results.
As far as administrators of larger corporations buying a system without an OS and putting on a *nix distro - they do the same with Windows Servers as well. Most large corporations have a Microsoft Select agreement whereas they order systems with no OS and install their own for which they already have purchased licenses for. Practices remain the same in many cases no matter which OS is in question.