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Indiana Launches Statewide Productivity System
TaylorJo writes "Lt. Governor of Indiana Kathy Davis today unveiled a new technology program designed to give all Hoosiers free access to a full suite of computer software tools. The SimIndiana software permits residents to access their personal files and applications from any computer at any time. The software can be downloaded on the SimIndiana site, but requires Windows, and registration on the site, to use it. The program also provides an email address and remote storage on SimIndiana servers."
Sounds good to me. I can't think of any reason not to trust government contractors with my personal information.
And is offering me a ride in his shiny car.
Ride! Ride! Ride!
Oh, is it called SimIndiana because you can pretend to be a Hoosier?
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
NO! Not registration! How will this site ever survive if they require registration!?
Anyways.. could this be the worst statement to try and appeal something to the /. crowd? It has Windows, registration, and remote storage all in the same paragraph.
SimIndiana is finally out? Cool, where do I get the demo and how do I send in the tornadoes?
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
As a matter of fact, I'm one of the legions of programmers that lost their jobs when it was outsourced to Indiana.
I think they said it was Indiana, anyway.
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Thank you for correcting the story. I wouldn't have been able to tell you were a Windows hater by your email address of billg@fuckmicrosoft.com, but your text interjections about Windows (in bold I might add) to the story totally gave it away. Thanks!
Hmmm.
Hey there was a glitch in the network thingie and I found these peektures of a hot girl.
wait a minute, that's....JENNY COME DOWN HERE NOW!!!! AND WHEN DID YOU GET THAT TATTOO?!@?
"It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself." - Henry Rollins
From their help page:
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We welcome your questions and comments about SimIndiana®.
We are located at:
6510 West Sam Houston Pkwy. N.
Suite 100
Houston, Texas 77041
Presumably its outsourced to texas then. Nothing says Indiana can't outsource its government to Texas does it ? I mean we seem to have outsourced ours to Washington
Firearms and ammunition illegal in Texas, tha's a good one....
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A Mac-using taxpayer should be happy that they didn't squander a ton of money to produce software that only a handful of people will use.
Maybe the state of Indiana wants to get in on the offshore outsourcing business anyway. It wouldn't be the first time somebody confused North America with India.
Have you read my blog lately?
Feh. More pork from the Indiana government. Why don't they give us something useful, like software that will translate Julia Carson's comments into English?
(And yes, I am a Hoosier resident and taxpayer who owns an iMac.)
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Just because it's Java doesn't mean it will run on everything. It will run on a lot of things, I'll give you that, but I personally find the Linux x86 version of Java to have many errors with it's forms that aren't present in the Win32 version. My bank's online banking system was a great example of this, then they started using HTML to do everything (probably after people complaining).
Flash is a slightly better option, as the specs are published such that you can make your own player/interpreter. Though it won't work on old hardware. Using scripts on the server end and allowing access via a web browser would be best, and possibly have the option of wether or not you wish to use Flash for the more techincal bits that HTML can't do.
They could have written it in <insert open scripting language here>, using <insert favourite widget toolkit>. That would have done the trick, provided it's well supported across most platforms and isn't difficult or huge to install.
I'll leave you with a quote which is fairly relevant to your comment :P
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If only we *could* replace Windows with some mythical "industry standard operating system."
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Simple. Answer the following questions:
- Who won the first Indy 500?
- Where did Kurt Vonnegut go to high school?
- In euchre, if spades are trump, what does that make the jack of clubs?
- Who hit the winning shot in the 1954 boys basketball championship game?
- Whom did Gene Keady replace as basketball coach at Purdue?
- What Congressional Medal of Honor recipient used to own the Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
- Are you a heterosexual man who cries when Jim Nabors sings?
- Who wrote A Girl of the Limberlost?
- What coach led the Pacers to three ABA titles?
- What high school's alumni include David Letterman, Jane Pauley, Wayne Gretsky, and Marylin Quayle?
- In 1983, John Mellencamp was involved with a strange contest on MTV. What was the prize?
- What is a Duesenburg?
- What was Yank Rachell's primary instrument?
- Who was Abe Martin?
- What Hoosier author won the Pulitzer prize for literature twice?
- What is Larry Bird's nickname?
- Complete the following: the goblins 'll gitcha if
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- What is Bob Knight's middle name?
- Name one of the national morning radio shows that originate in Indianapolis.
- Name three current NASCAR drivers from Indiana.
- At what age are Hoosiers required to retire to Florida?
- What jazz guitar great is from Indiana Avenue?
- The section of Interstate 65 interior to 465 is named after whom
- St. Elmo's is famous for what appetizer?
- What three rivers is Ft. Wayne built around?
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