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Battle of the Ages -- Stereotypes Collide

• Seasoned IT staffers stereotype consultants as too young to know anything
• Consultants stereotype the IT staff as mired in ancient technology

Time for a Reality Check

• CIOs don't have the luxury of time.
• Internal staff resent lost opportunities to learn and advance.
• Some consultants are experienced in comparatively few technologies.
• Internal staffers know the existing systems and business processes.
• Some internal staffers are intransigent, happiest with older technology.
• Consultants heighten tension by deferring operational tasks to internal staff.
• IT staffers' animosity builds, fueling passive resistance.
• Knowledge transfer garners little attention until it is too late.

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Battle of the Ages -- Stereotypes Collide

• Seasoned IT staffers stereotype consultants as too young to know anything
• Consultants stereotype the IT staff as mired in ancient technology

Time for a Reality Check

• CIOs don't have the luxury of time.
• Internal staff resent lost opportunities to learn and advance.
• Some consultants are experienced in comparatively few technologies.
• Internal staffers know the existing systems and business processes.
• Some internal staffers are intransigent, happiest with older technology.
• Consultants heighten tension by deferring operational tasks to internal staff.
• IT staffers' animosity builds, fueling passive resistance.
• Knowledge transfer garners little attention until it is too late.

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Battle of the Ages -- Stereotypes Collide

• Seasoned IT staffers stereotype consultants as too young to know anything
• Consultants stereotype the IT staff as mired in ancient technology

Time for a Reality Check

• CIOs don't have the luxury of time.
• Internal staff resent lost opportunities to learn and advance.
• Some consultants are experienced in comparatively few technologies.
• Internal staffers know the existing systems and business processes.
• Some internal staffers are intransigent, happiest with older technology.
• Consultants heighten tension by deferring operational tasks to internal staff.
• IT staffers' animosity builds, fueling passive resistance.
• Knowledge transfer garners little attention until it is too late.

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From TFA: Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

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From TFA: Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

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From TFA: Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

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From TFA: Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

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From TFA: Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

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From TFA: Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

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From TFA: Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

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From TFA: Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

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• Typical Commercial Software: 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code (Kloc)
• Linux kernel : 0.17 bugs per Kloc
• Windows XP: 40-50 bugs per Kloc Source

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• Typical Commercial Software: 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code (Kloc)
• Linux kernel : 0.17 bugs per Kloc
• Windows XP: 40-50 bugs per Kloc Source

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• Typical Commercial Software: 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code (Kloc)
• Linux kernel : 0.17 bugs per Kloc
• Windows XP: 40-50 bugs per Kloc Source

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• Typical Commercial Software: 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code (Kloc)
• Linux kernel : 0.17 bugs per Kloc
• Windows XP: 40-50 bugs per Kloc Source

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• Typical Commercial Software: 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code (Kloc)
• Linux kernel : 0.17 bugs per Kloc
• Windows XP: 40-50 bugs per Kloc Source

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• Typical Commercial Software: 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code (Kloc)
• Linux kernel : 0.17 bugs per Kloc
• Windows XP: 40-50 bugs per Kloc Source

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• Typical Commercial Software: 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code (Kloc)
• Linux kernel : 0.17 bugs per Kloc
• Windows XP: 40-50 bugs per Kloc Source

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• Linux kernel : 0.17 bugs per Kloc
• Windows XP: 40-50 bugs per Kloc Source

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From TFA:

• 384K of SRAM, single cycle access
• 27 MHz ARM7TDMI
• FBGA chip form
• ~450,000 instructions per second
• 4MB non volatile flash
• 1.8-volt core, 3.3-volt I/O
• 32768 Hz real-time clock
• 32-pin pinout, including 24 GPIO ports multiplexed with other functions (8 VTU ports, dual serial ports, SPI, and USB port)
• SPI and I2C interfaces

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From TFA:

• 384K of SRAM, single cycle access
• 27 MHz ARM7TDMI
• FBGA chip form
• ~450,000 instructions per second
• 4MB non volatile flash
• 1.8-volt core, 3.3-volt I/O
• 32768 Hz real-time clock
• 32-pin pinout, including 24 GPIO ports multiplexed with other functions (8 VTU ports, dual serial ports, SPI, and USB port)
• SPI and I2C interfaces

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From TFA:

• 384K of SRAM, single cycle access
• 27 MHz ARM7TDMI
• FBGA chip form
• ~450,000 instructions per second
• 4MB non volatile flash
• 1.8-volt core, 3.3-volt I/O
• 32768 Hz real-time clock
• 32-pin pinout, including 24 GPIO ports multiplexed with other functions (8 VTU ports, dual serial ports, SPI, and USB port)
• SPI and I2C interfaces

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From TFA:

• 384K of SRAM, single cycle access
• 27 MHz ARM7TDMI
• FBGA chip form
• ~450,000 instructions per second
• 4MB non volatile flash
• 1.8-volt core, 3.3-volt I/O
• 32768 Hz real-time clock
• 32-pin pinout, including 24 GPIO ports multiplexed with other functions (8 VTU ports, dual serial ports, SPI, and USB port)
• SPI and I2C interfaces

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From TFA:

• 384K of SRAM, single cycle access
• 27 MHz ARM7TDMI
• FBGA chip form
• ~450,000 instructions per second
• 4MB non volatile flash
• 1.8-volt core, 3.3-volt I/O
• 32768 Hz real-time clock
• 32-pin pinout, including 24 GPIO ports multiplexed with other functions (8 VTU ports, dual serial ports, SPI, and USB port)
• SPI and I2C interfaces

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From TFA:

• 384K of SRAM, single cycle access
• 27 MHz ARM7TDMI
• FBGA chip form
• ~450,000 instructions per second
• 4MB non volatile flash
• 1.8-volt core, 3.3-volt I/O
• 32768 Hz real-time clock
• 32-pin pinout, including 24 GPIO ports multiplexed with other functions (8 VTU ports, dual serial ports, SPI, and USB port)
• SPI and I2C interfaces

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From TFA:

• 384K of SRAM, single cycle access
• 27 MHz ARM7TDMI
• FBGA chip form
• ~450,000 instructions per second
• 4MB non volatile flash
• 1.8-volt core, 3.3-volt I/O
• 32768 Hz real-time clock
• 32-pin pinout, including 24 GPIO ports multiplexed with other functions (8 VTU ports, dual serial ports, SPI, and USB port)
• SPI and I2C interfaces

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• 384K of SRAM, single cycle access
• 27 MHz ARM7TDMI
• FBGA chip form
• ~450,000 instructions per second
• 4MB non volatile flash
• 1.8-volt core, 3.3-volt I/O
• 32768 Hz real-time clock
• 32-pin pinout, including 24 GPIO ports multiplexed with other functions (8 VTU ports, dual serial ports, SPI, and USB port)
• SPI and I2C interfaces

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According to this story here, it is not just Harvard.

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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I wait nearly 6 months before I upgrade or apply any patches

Interesting. On an unrelated note, did you know that the Slammer virus that crippled the internet exploited a flaw for which a patch had been available for nearly 6 months?

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I wait nearly 6 months before I upgrade or apply any patches

Interesting. On an unrelated note, did you know that the Slammer virus that crippled the internet exploited a flaw for which a patch had been available for nearly 6 months?

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I wait nearly 6 months before I upgrade or apply any patches

Interesting. On an unrelated note, did you know that the Slammer virus that crippled the internet exploited a flaw for which a patch had been available for nearly 6 months?

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I wait nearly 6 months before I upgrade or apply any patches

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I wait nearly 6 months before I upgrade or apply any patches

Interesting. On an unrelated note, did you know that the Slammer virus that crippled the internet exploited a flaw for which a patch had been available for nearly 6 months?

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I wait nearly 6 months before I upgrade or apply any patches

Interesting. On an unrelated note, did you know that the Slammer virus that crippled the internet exploited a flaw for which a patch had been available for nearly 6 months?

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I wait nearly 6 months before I upgrade or apply any patches

Interesting. On an unrelated note, did you know that the Slammer virus that crippled the internet exploited a flaw for which a patch had been available for nearly 6 months?

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