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Corporate America Wary of Subscription Software
medical_geek writes: "According to this
article
on cio.com,
MS's subscription service is failing in the business world. I guess
that personal users are not the only group that balks at paying a yearly
fee for software. My question is have you at your job bit the bullet
and signed up as an early adopter, or are you rolling the dice and seeing
if this experiment fails?" This article focuses only on Microsoft, but the same analysis probably explains why ASPs haven't taken off like they were supposed to, either.
you can't post to a thread where you've done moderation!!! *LOL*... Now that point is burned and you can't mod in this thread... SUKKA!.. :-) .. The linked post is about morons just like you.. ^_^
Perhaps the crime most feared and most under reported is that of
male on male rape, says Rob Malda in his new book Male on
Male Rape: The CmdrTaco syndrome.
Like most efforts in the incipient victim's rights movement, the
book and CmdrTaco's own career as coordinator of Slashdot's Rape
Education and Prevention Program got their genesis in someone's
own victimization and transformation as a male rape survivor. For
CmdrTaco, the events leading up to and surrounding his and many
other
male rapes are rooted in homosexuality--the sexuality of
choice for
Slashdot authors.
It started for CmdrTaco in the fall of 1989 when he and his friend
Hemos began their sophomore year at the Slashdot school for the
sexually impaired, sharing a dormitory room at Bradly Hall and
serving
as President and Vice President of the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance.
As campus gay leaders they raised questions and initiated dialogue
on
issues about which many men on the campus felt uncomfortable,
including
all the men on the third floor of Bradly Hall.
As a result, they received anal penetrations, reach arounds,
offers to write for Slashdot, and a daily dirty sanchez from the
other men on their floor. To escape the hostility, Hemos
headed home
for the weekend and CmdrTaco visited a gay bar.
CmdrTaco meets a man there who hours later would in CmdrTaco's
dormitory
room would rape him. He describes dramatically how he
could not call
for help because he loved it too much.
"A culture that encourages and condones sexual violence wielded as
a tool for the control and subordination of those with less power
in our
society." Basically, CmdrTaco states that he, and other
flaming
homosexuals use male rape as the leverage to gain control of
Slashdot's readers. Slashdot has always been pro-gay, but CmdrTaco
has
turned the once "queers are people to" website into a man-sauce
guzzling
festival of uninvited anal penetration and reach arounds.
What we actually know about male rape is very little. It is, as
JonKatz describes it, "something like a stack of delicious,
shit crusted pancakes that I can't wait to stick my tongue into!"
His is not the first book on the subject however. Cowboy Neal,
also of
Slashdot fame wrote the first book in 1990, Male Rape:
Breaking the
Silence on my Favorite Pastime.
CmdrTaco though traverses the 20 studies that have been conducted
in the
past 30 years. These are the only studies that have
examined the issue
in a non-institutionalized setting, such as
Slashdot. Here is what we
do know, from the shards of information
CmdrTaco expertly and exclusively narrates.
* Male rapes constitute about five to 10 percent of all rapes.
* Male rapes account for 100% of all rapes in the Slashdot community.
* Most perpetrators self-identify as "uber geeks".
* Most offenders refer to themselves as a "CmdrTaco."
* Most offenders are Slashdot readers.
* Most offenders rape out of lust or passion or sexual desire.
* Most victims state that they are only trying to "root" a victim's
"box."
* When documented at all, Slashdot authors had no preference to heterosexual
or homosexual victims.
* Slashdot authors referred to these pack or gang rapings as "lan
parties.".
* Stigma and shame are common responses from male rape victims.
* This is followed by the victim's interest in the Linux operating
system.
* Contemplation of suicide is fairly common among male rape
survivors.
* The most common form of post-male raping suicide attempts is forcing a
huge member into the already violated "purple carnation" (Slashdot lingo for
a penetrated anus).
Here is an example of some of
CmdrTaco's brilliant research.
Ahh, the Great Karma Massacre of 16-01-2002. A day, my friends, that will incoporate and mingle with the folklore and history of this famous arena.
/. poll is in order?
The day we learned the terms "Threadslap" and "Postslap".
The day the slashdot world (and others)learned of the all-powerful god-like powers of the editors. The day we learned these Slash Gods were not benign masters - like our beloved Tsorvalds - but more malignant, totolatarian entitites, with control-freakerish tendencies.
Who did it? Taco? Michael? Not Jon Katz, surely? Maybe a new
Yes, maybe the editors are rightfully wary of naval-gazing. Keeping things on topic - Science, technology, computers. But surely any organisation needs a certain level of feedback, interaction with customers and clients, re-direction of stratagies and goals.
I dont believe a huge overturn of the moderation system is required. If you change it, people will still complain. What I do have a problem with is negative inteference from the slashdot editors when anyone stands up to criticise them or their beloved system.
Burning Karma to protect the rights of slashdot users everywhere since 16-01-2002
everybody lies with performance figures. you should be fired for not evaluating your purchases properly.
update comments set karma=-1, reason='offtopic' where sid=26315
Either that, or you were selling useless garbage that could be done locally for no subscription cost.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
"The problem is that WinXP adds nothing to Win2k from a corporate point of view. "
.Net Server and will be released later this year, probably Q3 from what I've heard.
/.
That's not true.
"The new GUI? No use, since the older one is known by the users since 95, and the new one can be disorienting, despite Microsoft's claim of the contrary. Re-training is expensive. "
Oh no! Having frequently used icons in the start menu is disorienting. Oh my god!
".net? Pure vaporware so far as far as real-world applications go. "
No more so than using Linux.
"Server-side, WinXP is just not there(TM), and it offers a total amount of nothing over win2k. "
Furthering showing the author is clueless. There is no WinXP server product. The new server product is called
"Also, software compatibility is still to be tested."
It's actually pretty good.
It appears to be babbling nonsense day on
"I'm posting this as an AC to protect my job. "
/. again. :(
I think that was a good move. If you worked for me I'd fire you for being incompetent.
Fortunately you appear to be just a help desk flunky and not a server admin.
It's babbling nonsense day on
Anyone who relies extensively on DHCP is a lazy bum of a network administrator. In my experience it is *crucial* to always know positively the IP address of each host on the network and the only way to really enforce that is to deliberately assign IP addresses manually, or if you just must use DHCP, then to make 100% of your DCHP pool into reserved leases only.