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Manufactures who don't know what they are doing go bankrupt, hence the router configuration progression from RS232 -> Telnet -> HTTP.
The reason I like pointy-clicky interfaces is that the system users these days understand them intuitively. My remit is to provide system users the tools they need to be productive and if that's a thin client running an embedded browser for data entry, team leaders running Crystal reports on XP and sales rep's pulling data from their mobile phones, so be it.
While not the most efficient use CPU cycles, it does mean that should I change the back end from Oracle running on Solaris to MySQL on Linux there is very little I have to rewrite and the client terminals don't need to be updated nor the users retrained.
The sooner all devices render HTML and POST XML the happier I'll be because all my systems will then be compatible and I will no longer need to shell out a couple of thousand on a SDK that only enables data flow in one direction keeping me tied into one system.
Do I care that accounts wanted their own Micro$oft SQL server no, in eighteen months have they realised that the only data stored on it is a set of procedures caching data from my system, no, efficient use of hardware, no, do they have the pointy-clicky reporting interface they needed to be more efficient yes!
'SAY' 2001 ? 'SAY' check your calendar bozo, I've not been playing that long. 'SAY' that would mean I've been playing for nearly three years. 'EXIT NORTH' 'SAY' Laughing
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I haven't many embedded Linux routers or print servers that talk XDCMP, I can't find a mobile phone that does either so I can't check the server status remotely, and if the sales rep's couldn't check their clients order status from their mobile phones before going into a meeting I'd be unemployed!. HTTP the universal interface!!!
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But an X-terminal doesn't give OS cross compatibility. HTTP does, a thin client with only a restricted browser = no down time due to personal e-mail, card games, msn or a the EBay denial of service attack.
Hmm... Didn't the CIA fund themselves in a similar manor blaming those pesky drugs barons? Just how much funding is the bush administration losing from the Middle East since he parked an army there? The oil gone could explain why there are no Blackberry's on capital hill only Redberry's.
But the thing is, it does not matter what the cause is. If the cycle continues it will certainly, without a doubt, lead to the death of us as a civilization, whether we were the cause or not.
No, life will go on. If we slip into and Ice age the landmasses on the equator will be habitable or the northern and southern extremes should we slip the other way. A nuclear winter from the fight over who will own the land masses may be another story.
While it's interesting that the higher tier distro's are being snapped up to support back-end systems when overlaying on a DCC Common Core Linux distro seems the obvious solution. Maybe it's just me that feels that Oracle doesn't need 8 GB of miscellaneous software, nor a NFS/mail/HTTP on the same server. What's really interesting to me though is that Adobe/Macromedia hasn't linked themselves to a particular distro even though rumour has it that their Linux versions are well underway, then they really need a desktop to role out their workstations on and they no longer seem keen to dance to the Microsoft/Apple tune never mind a GTK based KDE. Could they have their own desktop underway? They do do graphics don't they?
Browser wars 101, the customer is always right; you can blindly charge forward with your model only to find as Microsoft with Vista, your product being put back a year in an attempt to achieve your customers actual needs. More and more products now use a HTTP interface and if they look good in most browsers because the speak XHTML and CCS2, will the customers say 'Well I don't mind it looks bad' or go else where. In a couple of years the HTTP browser will be the ISO user interface and browsers that are most compatible will be the new standard regardless of whether it's built in to the OS. IE7 may have big backers but the consumer will decide its fate.
An interesting consequence of increased entertainment media costs has been more piracy an poorer sales, an even more interesting one is that in the top 100 hundred (music and video) lists, the big studios and their formula products have failed to knock off the independents, who due to increased airplay have never had it so good. Even better real artists have real fans who prefer genuine products rather than pirated copies. Make you wonder who been stealing from who all these years.
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Manufactures who don't know what they are doing go bankrupt, hence the router configuration progression from RS232 -> Telnet -> HTTP.
The reason I like pointy-clicky interfaces is that the system users these days understand them intuitively. My remit is to provide system users the tools they need to be productive and if that's a thin client running an embedded browser for data entry, team leaders running Crystal reports on XP and sales rep's pulling data from their mobile phones, so be it.
While not the most efficient use CPU cycles, it does mean that should I change the back end from Oracle running on Solaris to MySQL on Linux there is very little I have to rewrite and the client terminals don't need to be updated nor the users retrained.
The sooner all devices render HTML and POST XML the happier I'll be because all my systems will then be compatible and I will no longer need to shell out a couple of thousand on a SDK that only enables data flow in one direction keeping me tied into one system.
Do I care that accounts wanted their own Micro$oft SQL server no, in eighteen months have they realised that the only data stored on it is a set of procedures caching data from my system, no, efficient use of hardware, no, do they have the pointy-clicky reporting interface they needed to be more efficient yes!
'SAY' 2001 ?
'SAY' check your calendar bozo, I've not been playing that long.
'SAY' that would mean I've been playing for nearly three years.
'EXIT NORTH'
'SAY' Laughing
I haven't many embedded Linux routers or print servers that talk XDCMP, I can't find a mobile phone that does either so I can't check the server status remotely, and if the sales rep's couldn't check their clients order status from their mobile phones before going into a meeting I'd be unemployed!.
HTTP the universal interface!!!
But an X-terminal doesn't give OS cross compatibility. HTTP does, a thin client with only a restricted browser = no down time due to personal e-mail, card games, msn or a the EBay denial of service attack.
Hmm... Didn't the CIA fund themselves in a similar manor blaming those pesky drugs barons? Just how much funding is the bush administration losing from the Middle East since he parked an army there? The oil gone could explain why there are no Blackberry's on capital hill only Redberry's.
But the thing is, it does not matter what the cause is. If the cycle continues it will certainly, without a doubt, lead to the death of us as a civilization, whether we were the cause or not.
No, life will go on. If we slip into and Ice age the landmasses on the equator will be habitable or the northern and southern extremes should we slip the other way. A nuclear winter from the fight over who will own the land masses may be another story.
While it's interesting that the higher tier distro's are being snapped up to support back-end systems when overlaying on a DCC Common Core Linux distro seems the obvious solution. Maybe it's just me that feels that Oracle doesn't need 8 GB of miscellaneous software, nor a NFS/mail/HTTP on the same server. What's really interesting to me though is that Adobe/Macromedia hasn't linked themselves to a particular distro even though rumour has it that their Linux versions are well underway, then they really need a desktop to role out their workstations on and they no longer seem keen to dance to the Microsoft/Apple tune never mind a GTK based KDE. Could they have their own desktop underway? They do do graphics don't they?
But isn't that the point? If every warez, porn and kiddy script site can breach you OS, is it usable for anything other than warez, porn?
Browser wars 101, the customer is always right; you can blindly charge forward with your model only to find as Microsoft with Vista, your product being put back a year in an attempt to achieve your customers actual needs. More and more products now use a HTTP interface and if they look good in most browsers because the speak XHTML and CCS2, will the customers say 'Well I don't mind it looks bad' or go else where. In a couple of years the HTTP browser will be the ISO user interface and browsers that are most compatible will be the new standard regardless of whether it's built in to the OS. IE7 may have big backers but the consumer will decide its fate.
What's that percentage attacks / web sites? Is 58 pages in the 64,700,000 pages that Google claims to have found a lot of attacks. ;-)
An interesting consequence of increased entertainment media costs has been more piracy an poorer sales, an even more interesting one is that in the top 100 hundred (music and video) lists, the big studios and their formula products have failed to knock off the independents, who due to increased airplay have never had it so good. Even better real artists have real fans who prefer genuine products rather than pirated copies. Make you wonder who been stealing from who all these years.