But...but...smaller government!!! Private industry is always better and more efficient than the government. That is, except for the all cases like this where they really aren't.
What's most funny about these people is that the "information just wants to be free" or the "copyright is bad meme" only applies to proprietary software or music, movies, etc that you have to pay for. On the other hand, don't dare infringe the copyright on even a single line of GPLed code or else you face a shitstorm of biblical proportions. Hypocrisy, lol.
Actually the lesson is to not let a bunch of incompetents draw up your IT contracts.
Apparently, when VITA negotiated its 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing contract with Northrop Grumman to modernize Virginia's 85 state government agencies' IT systems and networks, it forgot to require network that backup capability be provided in case of network failure, the Richmond Times-Disptach reported over the weekend.
I mean really? Requiring redundancy is such a basic requirement that you really have to wonder if the people in VITA even have a brain.
I would sue the living shit out of Northrop. That's insane.
Based on what would they sue? The contract they signed had no requirement of redundancy. As much fault as NG has in this, it's not like they broke the contract or anything. This is as much the fault of the incompetents in Virginia's IT Agency as on NG's.
Apparently, when VITA negotiated its 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing contract with Northrop Grumman to modernize Virginia's 85 state government agencies' IT systems and networks, it forgot to require network that backup capability be provided in case of network failure, the Richmond Times-Disptach reported over the weekend.
You cut out animal testing, you cut the throats of a French industry, one of the few France has left.
In what way? Plenty of other comestic companies seem to survive just fine without needing to test their products on animals. Exactly what is so special about these French companies?
I think if anything the US would be taking their queue from the French.
But according to Northrup Grumman they were "recently recognized by the National Association of Counties for Outstanding Achievement in the area of "Information Technology in State Government – Enterprise IT Management Initiatives".
During the first six months of 2009, Virginia's Department of Transportation (VDOT) experienced 101 significant IT outages totaling 4,677 hours: an average of more than 46 hours per outage. One outage, the Times-Dispatch said, took 360 hours to correct. The state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has experienced over the course of 5 weeks this autumn some 12 outages that put individual DMV offices out of business for a total of more than 100 hours the paper says.
From here. I'm sorry, but there is no excuse for that.
presumably the USAF/DARPA can use this to 'unlock' any supercomputing PS3s they have?
Because they would have updated at all? I'm sure being able to keep playing on PSN and playing the latest Blu-Rays is on the mind of the people running those clusters.
The idea that we are suddenly running out of space is laughable at best.
What will it matter if we have a bunch of free space if we've used up all our resources? Or are all these non-renewable resources infinite in the strawman universe?
That's odd, I would be kind of embarrassed of the flattery that the largest behemoth of a software company finds your code good enough to use in what is arguably the most widely used and popular suite of office software.
But not for the version for the premier platform for the software. It's used in the second-class citizen port to the Mac. This is just a way for them to save time and money.
Yes it is. The implication is quite clear in this sentence:
Somehow they figured out the free software "clean room implementation" of their own (patented) TrueType technology must better suit their needs."
This is nothing but Microsoft saving time and money by using Freetype that is already ported to the Mac instead of doing the work to port Cleartype. This a non-story at best.
Yeah, but only for the Mac version. This summary is trying to make it seem like Microsoft or the Office team is dumping Cleartype for Freetype which is not true.
Why would it burn them up? There is no financial justification for porting Cleartype when they can just use for Freetype for their Mac version. If they were switching the Windows version to Freetype that would actually be a story.
What's intimidating? In their case against Sun they've had a patent struck down and summary judgements against them saying that Sun doesn't violate others.
Except that poetmatt is just throwing out FUD. He is intentionally misrepresenting the fact that Microsoft has stopped officially supporting development of things like IronRuby as deprecating the entire platform. The fact that it is even modded as insightful despite being obviously false is quite telling for Slashdot.
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Yeah but George and 3DRealms are no longer involved. Gearbox can actually get a game done.
Except that what is described in that case study has absolutely nothing to do with the issue in the story here.
But...but...smaller government!!! Private industry is always better and more efficient than the government. That is, except for the all cases like this where they really aren't.
What's most funny about these people is that the "information just wants to be free" or the "copyright is bad meme" only applies to proprietary software or music, movies, etc that you have to pay for. On the other hand, don't dare infringe the copyright on even a single line of GPLed code or else you face a shitstorm of biblical proportions. Hypocrisy, lol.
Actually the lesson is to not let a bunch of incompetents draw up your IT contracts.
Apparently, when VITA negotiated its 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing contract with Northrop Grumman to modernize Virginia's 85 state government agencies' IT systems and networks, it forgot to require network that backup capability be provided in case of network failure, the Richmond Times-Disptach reported over the weekend.
I mean really? Requiring redundancy is such a basic requirement that you really have to wonder if the people in VITA even have a brain.
I would sue the living shit out of Northrop. That's insane.
Based on what would they sue? The contract they signed had no requirement of redundancy. As much fault as NG has in this, it's not like they broke the contract or anything. This is as much the fault of the incompetents in Virginia's IT Agency as on NG's.
Apparently, when VITA negotiated its 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing contract with Northrop Grumman to modernize Virginia's 85 state government agencies' IT systems and networks, it forgot to require network that backup capability be provided in case of network failure, the Richmond Times-Disptach reported over the weekend.
You cut out animal testing, you cut the throats of a French industry, one of the few France has left.
In what way? Plenty of other comestic companies seem to survive just fine without needing to test their products on animals. Exactly what is so special about these French companies?
I think if anything the US would be taking their queue from the French.
A queue of what?
But according to Northrup Grumman they were "recently recognized by the National Association of Counties for Outstanding Achievement in the area of "Information Technology in State Government – Enterprise IT Management Initiatives".
Both of them?
Really? This is hardly a great track record:
During the first six months of 2009, Virginia's Department of Transportation (VDOT) experienced 101 significant IT outages totaling 4,677 hours: an average of more than 46 hours per outage. One outage, the Times-Dispatch said, took 360 hours to correct. The state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has experienced over the course of 5 weeks this autumn some 12 outages that put individual DMV offices out of business for a total of more than 100 hours the paper says.
From here. I'm sorry, but there is no excuse for that.
Still, what could they possibly be doing for that amount of money.
Lining their pockets. What else?
look at live, clothed people for a change.
That's vile and disgusting.
presumably the USAF/DARPA can use this to 'unlock' any supercomputing PS3s they have?
Because they would have updated at all? I'm sure being able to keep playing on PSN and playing the latest Blu-Rays is on the mind of the people running those clusters.
The idea that we are suddenly running out of space is laughable at best.
What will it matter if we have a bunch of free space if we've used up all our resources? Or are all these non-renewable resources infinite in the strawman universe?
Putting them back under common carrier rules
Protip: ISPs were never under common carrier rules.
If its a success on the Mac, it'll make its way to Windows soon enough.
And you make this claim based on what evidence? Oh wait, none.
They wouldn't want to test it on Windows - if its a massive failure it'll hurt the Windows image... But not on a Mac!
Well of course. The Mac ports have pretty much always been a second-class citizen to the Windows version.
That's odd, I would be kind of embarrassed of the flattery that the largest behemoth of a software company finds your code good enough to use in what is arguably the most widely used and popular suite of office software.
But not for the version for the premier platform for the software. It's used in the second-class citizen port to the Mac. This is just a way for them to save time and money.
Yes it is. The implication is quite clear in this sentence:
Somehow they figured out the free software "clean room implementation" of their own (patented) TrueType technology must better suit their needs."
This is nothing but Microsoft saving time and money by using Freetype that is already ported to the Mac instead of doing the work to port Cleartype. This a non-story at best.
Yeah, but only for the Mac version. This summary is trying to make it seem like Microsoft or the Office team is dumping Cleartype for Freetype which is not true.
Why would it burn them up? There is no financial justification for porting Cleartype when they can just use for Freetype for their Mac version. If they were switching the Windows version to Freetype that would actually be a story.
What's intimidating? In their case against Sun they've had a patent struck down and summary judgements against them saying that Sun doesn't violate others.
Why? NetApp has been having it's ass handed to it over the patent claims.
Yes. poetmatt is lying.
Except that poetmatt is just throwing out FUD. He is intentionally misrepresenting the fact that Microsoft has stopped officially supporting development of things like IronRuby as deprecating the entire platform. The fact that it is even modded as insightful despite being obviously false is quite telling for Slashdot.
They aren't deprecating anything but they have ceased development on a few dynamic .NET languages like IronRuby.