I am pretty sure that if a hardware manufacturer like Dell locks out Linux operating systems that quite a number of large institutions like Universities will refuse to buy from them. I am not 100% sure because there are a lot of unis with microsoft-centric IT departments. Institutions with hard sciences depend quite heavily on different flavors of Unix and Linux to get work done.
Anyway... this is a disgrace and it's bound to blow up in quite a number of people's faces.
Cash and checks are not going to go away any time soon. We're going to have to endure the rest of our lives with the old lady filling out the check in front of us. It's probably best to talk about half lives. It will take entire lifetimes for their use to stop and they will still be used. Or the government will phase them out and people will bitch.
Going back to my last post, the depressing thing about the SOPA story is just how big the protest had to get before anyone in the media would pay any attention. Then the protest was demonized (often in a "pro-piracy" light). Then the protest had to even get BIGGER before it was treated fairly at all. The protest even had to get BIGGER THAN THAT before our idiot congresspeople paid any attention.
This is what I am talking about... it shows how much the corporate state gets listened to (and automatically treated as having the "correct" opinion) as opposed to your every day person that is supposed to have a voice. In that way the SOPA fight was very disturbing... you have to have a petition with millions of signatures before your own representative will even take your call.
This is so wrong. By common sense you'd think it would be right, but that's not true.
I am seeing quite a number of students that want everything and want it NOW and they don't have any concept of what is under the hood of their computers. The percentage of the younger folks that can fix their computers is the exact same percentage of the older folks that can fix their computers.
Ok.. I am no nutball conservative and I believe in a certain amount of social spending, but this will be a corps of people with masters degrees in communications or some such that don't have the knowledge and ability to do anything but teach people how to do a Google search.
There are bad government programs and this would be one of them.
Introduction to such devices and the information they can access might lead to FREE THINKING!
Baaaaaad.
They also might become curious about how it works which leads to learning what is under the hood... and that will prevent them from being mindless consumers of corporate informational garbage and they might even become PRODUCERS of information. How can you convince them that Obama is a communist then??
BUZZ. Thank you. Your whole point is lost by such ignorant language.
I.T. people keep the organization running from day to day. To pull a Neil Boortz and start to whine about the "productive class" means your opinion should be roundfiled and proves that our upset about the MBA scam is justified.
I'd bet the first person you reflexively call is one of those "unproductive" people.
I've bought specialized software from some small home-grown companies of 3-4 programmers with at least 50% of the programmers being H1b. Yes it isn't evidence, but it does happen more than you think.
Again, when you can buy your own laws the market is warped. This is what is happening.
There is plenty of talent and plenty of people if you just follow the rules like you did in the good ol' days. This is one of those situations where the good old days were ACTUALLY good. Businesses had to compete for skills and didn't go crying to their favorite senator with money in hand when the market didn't go their way.
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I am pretty sure that if a hardware manufacturer like Dell locks out Linux operating systems that quite a number of large institutions like Universities will refuse to buy from them. I am not 100% sure because there are a lot of unis with microsoft-centric IT departments. Institutions with hard sciences depend quite heavily on different flavors of Unix and Linux to get work done.
Anyway... this is a disgrace and it's bound to blow up in quite a number of people's faces.
The should of gotten Carly Fiorina to power the data center using all her hot air. They clearly missed the boat.
Indiana attempted to do something like this in 1887.
Oh I'd agree. Most people on slashdot would agree. But the old lady will bitch and it won't happen.
We often forget about the old lady factor...
Cash and checks are not going to go away any time soon. We're going to have to endure the rest of our lives with the old lady filling out the check in front of us. It's probably best to talk about half lives. It will take entire lifetimes for their use to stop and they will still be used. Or the government will phase them out and people will bitch.
Going back to my last post, the depressing thing about the SOPA story is just how big the protest had to get before anyone in the media would pay any attention. Then the protest was demonized (often in a "pro-piracy" light). Then the protest had to even get BIGGER before it was treated fairly at all. The protest even had to get BIGGER THAN THAT before our idiot congresspeople paid any attention.
This is what I am talking about... it shows how much the corporate state gets listened to (and automatically treated as having the "correct" opinion) as opposed to your every day person that is supposed to have a voice. In that way the SOPA fight was very disturbing... you have to have a petition with millions of signatures before your own representative will even take your call.
See if it sticks and you'll have a good gauge of how much the corporate state is in control in the E.U.
You notice in the U.S. something like ACTA doesn't even hit the papers anymore. It's accepted without question.
The same federalization the tea party is screaming about out of their red faces.
Such a huge percentage of calls is user error, and that doesn't go away whatever choice you happen to make.
This is so wrong. By common sense you'd think it would be right, but that's not true.
I am seeing quite a number of students that want everything and want it NOW and they don't have any concept of what is under the hood of their computers. The percentage of the younger folks that can fix their computers is the exact same percentage of the older folks that can fix their computers.
English is meant to be an evolving language. It has no "academy" that selects right and wrong.
You lose.
Ok.. I am no nutball conservative and I believe in a certain amount of social spending, but this will be a corps of people with masters degrees in communications or some such that don't have the knowledge and ability to do anything but teach people how to do a Google search.
There are bad government programs and this would be one of them.
Introduction to such devices and the information they can access might lead to FREE THINKING!
Baaaaaad.
They also might become curious about how it works which leads to learning what is under the hood... and that will prevent them from being mindless consumers of corporate informational garbage and they might even become PRODUCERS of information. How can you convince them that Obama is a communist then??
All poor people are stupid?
Newt Gingrich, get the hell off of Slashdot. You're not welcome.
It's wasteful when it is something you don't like.
It's spending when it is on you.
False Dilemma. Learn a new concept.
Don't forget the lottery!
It's the math tax, you know.
> ...more productive people...
BUZZ. Thank you. Your whole point is lost by such ignorant language.
I.T. people keep the organization running from day to day. To pull a Neil Boortz and start to whine about the "productive class" means your opinion should be roundfiled and proves that our upset about the MBA scam is justified.
I'd bet the first person you reflexively call is one of those "unproductive" people.
I've bought specialized software from some small home-grown companies of 3-4 programmers with at least 50% of the programmers being H1b. Yes it isn't evidence, but it does happen more than you think.
This is interesting because what you are saying here is to actually **develop** your workforce.
Most corporations don't want to do that anymore.
The videos aren't really very hidden camera. In fact they can be quite open about it.
Three characters: H1B.
Again, when you can buy your own laws the market is warped. This is what is happening.
There is plenty of talent and plenty of people if you just follow the rules like you did in the good ol' days. This is one of those situations where the good old days were ACTUALLY good. Businesses had to compete for skills and didn't go crying to their favorite senator with money in hand when the market didn't go their way.
Yeah. Turning around to run is the correct action there.
That seems like two or three specialties right there...
Don't the H.R. people hate "jack of all trades" people, too?