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ppurka Advocate

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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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smartass wrote: | ppurka, that's a nice idea, but the trouble is that the majority of people in education/academics use ancient browsers which are unable to display most new interactive stuff. | That's not quite true. There may be some people who are really out of touch, who don't want to use any kind of technology, who use ancient browsers. Most academicians *I* know are actually pretty up to date with their browsers. And they are not very young academicians either. _________________ emerge --quiet redefined | E17 vids: I, II | Now using e from git | e18, e19, and kde4 sucks :-/ |
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smartass Apprentice

Joined: 04 Jul 2011 Posts: 189 Location: right behind you ... (you did turn around, didn't you?)
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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ppurka, what field is that?
As for vertical integration and bloatware (to make BK happy), I think people don't really understand what they want when they talk about integration. They usually want some existing tools to communicate with each other, share information and act as a bigger system. That's called interoperability. Integration takes some tools and makes a completely new, bigger tool.
It's the mentality "I want this to work with this. Guess I'll have to add more glue and afterwards the whole thing won't be able to break apart". Bullshit ! The AK-47 remains the most widely used weapon because of it's serviceability as it's made of easy-to-assemble, simple parts. The first solid-looking M16s would jam all the time.
Next time somebody tells you to integrate something, ask him if he wants you just to improve the interoperability to save time and money and ensure future reusability.
As for vertical integration, that's a company practice to gain a monopoly. And that's something that should be regulated like in other industries.
tl;dr: IT needs to become a full blown industry with all the respective regulations and employ smarter managers that really care to build on top of past and established development to save time and money. |
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Bones McCracker Veteran


Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1605 Location: U.S.A.
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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"Integration" does not imply a merging or unification, such that the once-separate become inseparable. It merely implies making the once separate effectively cooperative components of a larger system. Integration is a well-established term in the industry, and if people are abusing it to refer to the fusion or merging of things, they're confused. |
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ppurka Advocate

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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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smartass wrote: | ppurka, what field is that? | mathematics and engineering. _________________ emerge --quiet redefined | E17 vids: I, II | Now using e from git | e18, e19, and kde4 sucks :-/ |
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avx Advocate


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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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ppurka wrote: | smartass wrote: | ppurka, what field is that? | mathematics and engineering. | Can't speak for all, but our Chemlab is using quite ancient, mostly self-written tools. The most modern tools are just not compatible with the accustomed workflow and the money needed to be spent and the time invested is mostly used for better additional components(ie. better simulation servers, pumps, microscopes, etc.). Only a few people supervise the new stuff, while dozens of the "old" people are doing fine work with what they are used to.
It's as simple as MS' "new" Office, training people for the new ribbons is mostly just not worth it, so is using more modern webstuff. Besides, while jumping for new stuff sometimes seems reasonable, when we look at the big picture, it'll often mean using a solution from a single salesman, who could leave every minute, making it a rather risky investion. _________________ ++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>. |
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