And you can string five perfect sentences together in how many languages? Your use of commas is wrong. You use five words where three would be better. Pretend the next paragraph is about Glass Houses.
Either you or the company have this process backwards. The company needs to decide why they have a web presence and what they want to accomplish. For example:
We will book $XX sales this year through our website. We will generate XX,XXX new leads through out website. We will eliminate XX positions in Human Resources by providing information to our employees. We will increase stockholder satisfaction with our shareholder communications through improvement of our website.
If you were an architect and the company hired you to add 15,000 square feet of office space and a new manufacturing facility, you wouldn't have to perform a ROI before starting. That would have been done before you were hired and given a budget.
If you read the article closely, you will see that the source spoke to me on condition of anonymity. The source is someone who works in retail tech, and knows whereof he / she speaks.
Crediting your information (in the article) to "... a Mad Penguin (tm) source who spoke on condition of anonymity." gives it no authority. Normally the source's position (user, retailer, vendor, manager, marketer, cook, bottle washer) is identified to give his words some credibility.
Using an anonymous source is bad enough. Failing to give that source any authority is unacceptable.
Microsoft guards its distribution chain jealously, and punishes those business partners who stray into carrying FOSS products.
And the source for this little gem is what? Do you suppose the DOJ would be interested if it were true? Do you suppose that MS' competitors would be screaming if it were true? Do you suppose that with the size of MS' market, the number of retailers and speed of the internet, if this were true it would be on the front page of the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal?
Before spending any money the educators need to create a requirements document. How are the computers to be used? What are the educational objectives? Is there any specific software that needs to be run? Are there any compatibility requirements? What level of support is available?
With this document in hand, alternatives from "do nothing" through various upgrade strategies to "all new computers" should be reviewed and evaluated. Anything less would be irresponsible.
Here we have a large existing capital investment (14 computers and software) with no plan for upgrades or replacement. Not a good situation. Don't compound it.
But if you're an organization seeking to protect sensitive data, the users are your own employees and business partners. Are they really less trustworthy than Microsoft, its employees and its business partners?
Spend a week in HR and you'll find out how trustworthy your employees are. The stuff that walks out the door or flies out attached to an e-mail, from office supplies to sales data and product plans is astounding.
We've spent almost the past two weeks performing non-stop battery life testing on five notebooks with up to 4 different USB devices, testing theories, trying to pinpoint exactly what causes this problem and testing Microsoft's fix. What follows is the process that we went through in our labs when faced with this strange bug.
At the same time, Mr Gates claimed that official censorship could never succeed completely in thwarting the free flow of information over the internet.
"The internet overwhelmingly makes information available. It is not possible to block information, it is just not," he said. "It's [not like the situation] when newspaper publishers and TV owners were small chokepoints that controlled the distribution of information. I think people have to [understand] what an open tool the internet is despite any firewall stuff, or any takedown orders that get given."
At the same time, the company [Microsoft] says it doesn't want InfoCard to be the only program of its kind. The program uses non-proprietary communications standards, and Microsoft says it would like to see the people and companies behind other operating systems, such as Linux and Apple's Mac OS X, create their own programs similar to InfoCard, to make the approach more common.
The approach "essentially adds an identity layer to the Internet," said Microsoft's Turner, calling such a layer sorely needed in today's online world.
The identityblog has lots of information about InfoCards, how they were conceived and how they will work. It would be good to start at this entry, The Design Decisions Behind InfoCards. http://www.identityblog.com/?p=366/
To return to the carpenter analogy, building "just another house" requires almost no architectural or engineering preplanning beyond general layout -- number of rooms, where the garage goes etc -- before turning it over to the trades. Creating something new, unique and grand (a museum; a stadium; a hydroelectric dam) involves years of planning, design, engineering and approvals before building starts. And the designers remain involved through construction to solve problems and keep things on track.
This has nothing to do with Open Source. It is about trying to develop a product without a spec., without an architect, without management and without a timeline. Kind of like pointing a group of carpenters at an empty lot and telling them to build a school.
It wouldn't be any more or less successful at Microsoft, IBM or SAS.
Since treehugger.com was too greedy to publish the link, here is the original announcement http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3212/a/51058 from Mona Sahlin, Minister for Sustainable Development.
From the Microsoft Security Center Blog, facts about "the recent WMF issue" and SetAbortProc.
Now that the monthly release has passed and people are deploying the updates I wanted to take a moment to discuss some things related to questions we've been receiving on the recent WMF issue. (Which was addressed in MS06-001). http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/13/4 17431.aspx
Steam engines need to carry lots of water or provide a large cooler/radiator to condense the exhaust steam back to water for recycling. Bill Lear's plan to put "modern" steam engines into trucks and busses failed because he couldn't solve this problem. The article doesn't address this issue.
For a different perspective on the same news: http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=274#more-274/ The head of the Energy Committee is asking for the source code for the statistical calculations that "prove" we're experiencing global warming. Code that was developed with US Government money.
No more than an open source advocate would expect.
This white paper provides an overview of the approach and criteria categories currently used by the Microsoft research team to analyze and classify software.
Slashdot Mirror
And you can string five perfect sentences together in how many languages? Your use of commas is wrong. You use five words where three would be better. Pretend the next paragraph is about Glass Houses.
Mainstream news media do this all the time, and I'll bet you don't question it.
A bet you would lose.
Either you or the company have this process backwards. The company needs to decide why they have a web presence and what they want to accomplish. For example:
We will book $XX sales this year through our website.
We will generate XX,XXX new leads through out website.
We will eliminate XX positions in Human Resources by providing information to our employees.
We will increase stockholder satisfaction with our shareholder communications through improvement of our website.
If you were an architect and the company hired you to add 15,000 square feet of office space and a new manufacturing facility, you wouldn't have to perform a ROI before starting. That would have been done before you were hired and given a budget.
If you read the article closely, you will see that the source spoke to me on condition of anonymity. The source is someone who works in retail tech, and knows whereof he / she speaks.
... a Mad Penguin (tm) source who spoke on condition of anonymity." gives it no authority. Normally the source's position (user, retailer, vendor, manager, marketer, cook, bottle washer) is identified to give his words some credibility.
Crediting your information (in the article) to "
Using an anonymous source is bad enough. Failing to give that source any authority is unacceptable.
Microsoft guards its distribution chain jealously, and punishes those business partners who stray into carrying FOSS products.
And the source for this little gem is what? Do you suppose the DOJ would be interested if it were true? Do you suppose that MS' competitors would be screaming if it were true? Do you suppose that with the size of MS' market, the number of retailers and speed of the internet, if this were true it would be on the front page of the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal?
Before spending any money the educators need to create a requirements document. How are the computers to be used? What are the educational objectives? Is there any specific software that needs to be run? Are there any compatibility requirements? What level of support is available?
With this document in hand, alternatives from "do nothing" through various upgrade strategies to "all new computers" should be reviewed and evaluated. Anything less would be irresponsible.
Here we have a large existing capital investment (14 computers and software) with no plan for upgrades or replacement. Not a good situation. Don't compound it.
Maybe its because Sun is giving away servers. For free. No cost. And each free server would add ... let me think ... ummm ... zero dollars to the total.8 /
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/2005121
Maybe not.
Spend a week in HR and you'll find out how trustworthy your employees are. The stuff that walks out the door or flies out attached to an e-mail, from office supplies to sales data and product plans is astounding.
http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=26
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b415d3ca-9e90-11da-b641-
The identityblog has lots of information about InfoCards, how they were conceived and how they will work. It would be good to start at this entry, The Design Decisions Behind InfoCards.
http://www.identityblog.com/?p=366/
To return to the carpenter analogy, building "just another house" requires almost no architectural or engineering preplanning beyond general layout -- number of rooms, where the garage goes etc -- before turning it over to the trades. Creating something new, unique and grand (a museum; a stadium; a hydroelectric dam) involves years of planning, design, engineering and approvals before building starts. And the designers remain involved through construction to solve problems and keep things on track.
This has nothing to do with Open Source. It is about trying to develop a product without a spec., without an architect, without management and without a timeline. Kind of like pointing a group of carpenters at an empty lot and telling them to build a school.
It wouldn't be any more or less successful at Microsoft, IBM or SAS.
The county treasurer's name is Murphy. Jim Murphy. You can look it up.
Oracle to layoff 2000 jobs
It should read, "Oracle to layoff 2000 people" Not jobs, people. People are losing their jobs. Its a sad thing.
Since treehugger.com was too greedy to publish the link, here is the original announcement http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3212/a/51058 from Mona Sahlin, Minister for Sustainable Development.
From the Microsoft Security Center Blog, facts about "the recent WMF issue" and SetAbortProc.
4 17431.aspx
Now that the monthly release has passed and people are deploying the updates I wanted to take a moment to discuss some things related to questions we've been receiving on the recent WMF issue. (Which was addressed in MS06-001).
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/13/
... windmill farms ... provide clean and practically free energy once they're installed.
And my house provides clean and practically free shelter once I've built and paid for it.
And the Mozilla button looks an awful lot like the Engadget logo.
The diagram is suggestive but the article is contradictory:
Most of the remaining residual heat is absorbed by the cooling circuit of the engine, which acts as the second energy supply for the Turbosteamer.
Of course, if it both absorbes and supplies energy the news here may be the first working perpetual motion machine.
Steam engines need to carry lots of water or provide a large cooler/radiator to condense the exhaust steam back to water for recycling. Bill Lear's plan to put "modern" steam engines into trucks and busses failed because he couldn't solve this problem. The article doesn't address this issue.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-prin t-and-authors-guild.html
... any copyright holder can exclude their books from the program.
Let's be clear: Google doesn't show even a single page to users who find copyrighted books through this program (unless the copyright holder gives us permission to show more).
Not wanting Google to scan your book is like not wanting Google to crawl your website. Pretty silly but authors can completely opt out.
You mean the U of Wash prof, Sandeep Krishnamurthy, http://sandeepworld.blogspot.com/ who criticized MS Word's grammar checker in March http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/28/192323 1/ http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/217802_gram mar28.asp/ hasn't done it already? He made it sound so easy.
For a different perspective on the same news:
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=274#more-274/
The head of the Energy Committee is asking for the source code for the statistical calculations that "prove" we're experiencing global warming. Code that was developed with US Government money.
No more than an open source advocate would expect.
The source has now been released.
Windows AntiSpyware (Beta): Analysis approach and categories
s oftware/isv/analysis.mspx/
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/
This white paper provides an overview of the approach and criteria categories currently used by the Microsoft research team to analyze and classify software.