Not to mention that in Oregon, I don't have to spend my lunch waiting in line to vote, I drop my ballot off in the mail a week before the election, or, if I don't have time, I just swing buy a county office or library and drop it off in one of the big, flag-painted mailboxes. That way I don't have to pay postage!
To really make it take off in business, it needs a groupware system. Not a crazy kludge of different packages, not a web based system. But a groupware server, that supports different clients on different os's. A single administration console, and quick easy setup. all in one little package. Hell, charge $5 a user for it, people will buy it in droves to move off of exchange/outlook.
Easy, Windows is an Operating system. By saying linux, he is refering to distributions, not the kernel. Of course, he doesn't mention the security venerabilities of Exchange, Outlook, Visual Studio, Sharepoint, and their many other products they sell, becuase they are not part of windows. With linux, it usually all comes in the same box, for the same price, whether you use it or not! He counts the security bugs of all OS Software that usually comes bundled with, An operating system.
Also, the study says its cheaper on TCO to upgrade windows than convert to Linux. Of course, cause people will need a bit of re-training. The windows interface they are already familiar with. Now an intersting study would be the cost of going from MacOS to linux/winodows, or maybe IBM Mainfraimes to linux/windows.
are you kidding? THis is slashdot! I think they filed for a patent on presumption!
My point was that while an immigrant on a visa might not be contributing as much as a native, its much more than someone that lives in India, China, Guatamala, etc. getting that same job from a "Native"
If this happens, the Canadian-Indian issue is small in comparison.
I think there are two different keys parts to this statement, (no, i'm not defending one candidate or another).
The first issue is the location of the worker. A mexican immigrant that comes here to work, gradually gaining citizen ship, is contributing to the economy. His wages are taxed, and the things he consumes are local. i.e. he's going to be buying groceries, goods, renting a house, etc. All of this keeps the money in the US, and in a roundabout way, helps create more US jobs. (need more grocery clerks, more construction, etc.)Once they gain Citizenship, they have a vested interest in staying in this country, and continuing to work and consume.
The second issue is the level of education, and the skill level of the jobs. There is a huge percentage of highly educated and/or skilled workers in India and Canada that are "taking" american jobs, and spending the money in their own country. The majority, (no, not all, but the vast majority) of workers from Mexico are relative unskilled laborers. They are not taking over $40k/year jobs with benifits. Of course, this does saturate the lower level, unskilled jobs, and drive their wages down.
To get technical though, in the long run, sending the money to other countries raises their income, and lowers the value of the dollar, making american goods less expensive than before. Exports will go up, but profit will go down, meaning more jobs outsourced to get more profit, and down the downward spiral our economy goes!
But what would happen to the Mcarthy hearings on comunism? oops, meant the Kenneth Star hearings on terrorism.. So easy to get the two mixed up..
I guess we could just ship all the middle eastern people to "camps." In fact, there was one about an hour from here in Lakeview California that they moved the japanese to in WW2. And theres one an hour north of here were they put those evil Indians a hundred something years ago.. Oops, thats right, we decided later on that these where mistakes.
Well, we could just grab people that the government thinks are bad, and haul them away in the middle of the night! Oh, thats right, we grew up learning that only evil Communist countries did that, and we never wanted to be like them..
Damn, I think our problem in America is we have the worlds shortest collective attention span and memories..
But what is the weight of 7 cameras and two LCD monitors? I'm guessing if the drivers can show 4 feeds at once, its probably not a 4 inch LCD.. and the boxes to mux the video feeds..
Small Companies too. I work at a small (65 staff) community college. We had outgrown our old PBX, and needed a new one. We don't have remote sites, but we went with the VOIP phone systems from shoretel. They were the same price as a new digital PBX, and moving phone lines from one office to another (cause faculty and staff are always changing offices and stuff) used to be a $100 charge from the local phone service guys. Now I just move the phones. Were also looking at further savings, cause were going to be building some new buildings, and don't need both Data and Telecom lines installed. The VOIP phones themselves actually cost about $80 bucks less each for the actual phone, and have a ton of new features. (before we had 3 different models of toshiba phones, and analog phones, that all programmed and worked differently.) So we spent less than a new digital PBX (or about the same) but less service costs, cheaper maintanence, and lots and lots of room to grow.
Most small startups (and small businesses) cannot afford the cost of the litigation for something like this. So they settle. It might take $10k to fight in court, or $7k to settle (For example). And there is the chance that if you lose, its suddenly $17k total. That makes the settling cost look very attractive. This is really easy for the bad company, since if you want to fight them in court, they just run and hide, but a large portion of people just settle. So they get tons of money, and never have to take things to court. Long live the american legal system!. Its hard to tell what the other companies intentions are, based on the info in the story. Are they a big company? (if they have lots of salaried lawyers sitting around, they're probably going to have no problem sending them to work against you.) But your right to request further clarification.
I also found it just amazing that one company claimed that under Linux there were few options for an SQL server, with Oracle being the only one. So no Sybase, Postgres, Informix, DB2? Did they maybe mean to say that SQL server didn't run on linux? That if you want to do ASPX pages with a different DB than MS SQL Server, there are a few other hoops you need to jump through? Please, Nowadays, the only DB that isn't multiplatform is probably SQL Server, which btw, is very similar and easy to convert to sybase..
Of course, if the environmentalists are so concerned, they have 2 options to explore.
1. Leave all the plutonium on the nuclear warheads.. This is comming from decommissioned Nuclear missles, this should be seen as a good thing..
2. Try to get the laws in the us changed so that we can do reprocessing here at home. Then we wouldn't have to ship our plutonium overseas. And we could refine and reuse our used uranium from our power generating nuclear reactors too. That sure would make Nevada happy. (less waste to dump in yucca mtn, and less radioactive!) It's recycling, what hack job environmentalist doesn't like recycling?
Of course, plutonium is shipped all over the world, every day, much larger quantities. its just that their still in the missles, inside subs, planes, etc..
-The unsilent majority of users want those things.
From a network administrator perspective, the idea of video phones is a shitty idea. a standard G.711 call is 64k of data.. how much back room capacity would you need to add to do video phones? especially site to site? all it does as give the exec's at companies the ability to point to the phone and say to their buddies, "Look at this, its cool!" It adds no business value. Yet Cisco pushes it very hard as a new feature.
encryption would be nice, for offsite calls, but internal calls don't need the extra overhead. Also, encrypting the packets would really mess with things if some packets were missing. (very common, called jitter).
Most other VOIP systems have an easy to use find me feature. If you call me during work hours, and get my voicemail, you can press 1 and it will call my Cel-Phone, if i don't answer, the system send the person to my work voice mail.
I would like linux software.. Have to agree on that one.
on a personal note, we looked at Cisco's VOIP, and saw the price, and considered it, and then we found Shoretel. Instead of spending $75k for equipmentfrom cisco, we spent $40k for the shoretel equipment, with some damn slick features. Also, i'm a network admin, not a phone person. Just playing around, I had the system up and working in a few hours.
keep in mind this is 60 minutes.. remember their huge, explosive, damaging piece of work about side straddle gas tanks on pickups? Cause mountains of damage when they showed a video of a car ramming the rear side of the pickup, and the pickup exploded. Of course, later, people found out that the pickup had incendiary's to make sure to set the gas on fire!!!.. so then CBS was laughed at. Of course it was a real issue, they did sometimes go boom, but adding electronic sparklers to the car to make sure it did sure ruined any journalistic integrity they have in my view..
I have found that web interfaces for submitting requests is a pain in the ass, and end users don't like them. make sure you have email submission.. I have heard of many people using RT
Of course, if your rich, look into HEAT.. it does some damn amazing things...
I live in a relatively rural town of 40k, in the middle of no-where.. (80 miles from another city over 20k), and many, many people I know have only cell phones.. Most people in this town hate Qwest with a passion... its really disturbing to see how many ranchers out here have Cell phones, laptops, wireless access, etc..
The Cell chip is a bunch of little processors on the same die, (think dual core, but its more like 16). the broadband they are talking about is the super high speed bus (on the chip) between the cores. By broadband they are talking about the bandwitdth between the cores, bandwidth is not only a measure of network speed.
How can that go to far, you do read those EULA don't you ? I'm sure its written in there somewhere.. Maybe if more software developers did this, there would be a nasty lawsuit. Then, maybe, just maybe, EULA's would finaly get a chance to fail in court, and that would really shake shit up....
Is clearing the Home directory much worse than inserting files into the network stack, creating Viral software that is almost impossible to remove, and that reinstalls itself when it detects part of it was removed?
Worst thing that comes out of this is that people learn to back up their data, and EULA's become trash..
Where do you see America in 5/10/15 years under its current leadership? Where do you see America in the same timeframe with you as the president? What broad steps will you take to get us there?
The thing is, Even if you were earning minimum wage, you'd probably be better off than someone Working at Wal-Mart.. I do not shop from them, because I don't like the way they treat their employees. Bare Minimum wage, no overtime, no benefits (or if you get benifits, it costs about 1/2 of your paycheck after your taxes), no respect from management, and very, very shitty conditions..
I agree, a two party system is a deadlocked system.. How many times have good ideas been shot down, becuase the "other party" came up with it, only to have a similar bill voted in by the other party.. at least 3 partys could make it very difficult for a single party to hold the majority in congress, and laws will have to be passed that are good..
In local and state elections, I always vote for a candidate (if there is one) that is independant, or some other party...
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Damn, I thought they acquited him because Chewbacca lived on Endor....
Not to mention that in Oregon, I don't have to spend my lunch waiting in line to vote, I drop my ballot off in the mail a week before the election, or, if I don't have time, I just swing buy a county office or library and drop it off in one of the big, flag-painted mailboxes. That way I don't have to pay postage!
To really make it take off in business, it needs a groupware system. Not a crazy kludge of different packages, not a web based system. But a groupware server, that supports different clients on different os's. A single administration console, and quick easy setup. all in one little package. Hell, charge $5 a user for it, people will buy it in droves to move off of exchange/outlook.
Also, the study says its cheaper on TCO to upgrade windows than convert to Linux. Of course, cause people will need a bit of re-training. The windows interface they are already familiar with. Now an intersting study would be the cost of going from MacOS to linux/winodows, or maybe IBM Mainfraimes to linux/windows.
Don't you watch trends? Its not low fat, it low carb! SPIM = Atkins approved spam!!
are you kidding? THis is slashdot! I think they filed for a patent on presumption!
My point was that while an immigrant on a visa might not be contributing as much as a native, its much more than someone that lives in India, China, Guatamala, etc. getting that same job from a "Native"
I think there are two different keys parts to this statement, (no, i'm not defending one candidate or another).
The first issue is the location of the worker. A mexican immigrant that comes here to work, gradually gaining citizen ship, is contributing to the economy. His wages are taxed, and the things he consumes are local. i.e. he's going to be buying groceries, goods, renting a house, etc. All of this keeps the money in the US, and in a roundabout way, helps create more US jobs. (need more grocery clerks, more construction, etc.)Once they gain Citizenship, they have a vested interest in staying in this country, and continuing to work and consume.
The second issue is the level of education, and the skill level of the jobs. There is a huge percentage of highly educated and/or skilled workers in India and Canada that are "taking" american jobs, and spending the money in their own country. The majority, (no, not all, but the vast majority) of workers from Mexico are relative unskilled laborers. They are not taking over $40k/year jobs with benifits. Of course, this does saturate the lower level, unskilled jobs, and drive their wages down.
To get technical though, in the long run, sending the money to other countries raises their income, and lowers the value of the dollar, making american goods less expensive than before. Exports will go up, but profit will go down, meaning more jobs outsourced to get more profit, and down the downward spiral our economy goes!
There should really be a mod option for "I really shouldn't be laughing", or "its funny cause I can see it happening"
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Could messing the DNA around be considered encryption? I'm sure they'd love to send DMCA takedown notices to little old ladies!
I guess we could just ship all the middle eastern people to "camps." In fact, there was one about an hour from here in Lakeview California that they moved the japanese to in WW2. And theres one an hour north of here were they put those evil Indians a hundred something years ago.. Oops, thats right, we decided later on that these where mistakes.
Well, we could just grab people that the government thinks are bad, and haul them away in the middle of the night! Oh, thats right, we grew up learning that only evil Communist countries did that, and we never wanted to be like them..
Damn, I think our problem in America is we have the worlds shortest collective attention span and memories..
But what is the weight of 7 cameras and two LCD monitors? I'm guessing if the drivers can show 4 feeds at once, its probably not a 4 inch LCD.. and the boxes to mux the video feeds..
Small Companies too. I work at a small (65 staff) community college. We had outgrown our old PBX, and needed a new one. We don't have remote sites, but we went with the VOIP phone systems from shoretel. They were the same price as a new digital PBX, and moving phone lines from one office to another (cause faculty and staff are always changing offices and stuff) used to be a $100 charge from the local phone service guys. Now I just move the phones. Were also looking at further savings, cause were going to be building some new buildings, and don't need both Data and Telecom lines installed. The VOIP phones themselves actually cost about $80 bucks less each for the actual phone, and have a ton of new features. (before we had 3 different models of toshiba phones, and analog phones, that all programmed and worked differently.) So we spent less than a new digital PBX (or about the same) but less service costs, cheaper maintanence, and lots and lots of room to grow.
Most small startups (and small businesses) cannot afford the cost of the litigation for something like this. So they settle. It might take $10k to fight in court, or $7k to settle (For example). And there is the chance that if you lose, its suddenly $17k total. That makes the settling cost look very attractive. This is really easy for the bad company, since if you want to fight them in court, they just run and hide, but a large portion of people just settle. So they get tons of money, and never have to take things to court. Long live the american legal system!. Its hard to tell what the other companies intentions are, based on the info in the story. Are they a big company? (if they have lots of salaried lawyers sitting around, they're probably going to have no problem sending them to work against you.) But your right to request further clarification.
I also found it just amazing that one company claimed that under Linux there were few options for an SQL server, with Oracle being the only one.
So no Sybase, Postgres, Informix, DB2? Did they maybe mean to say that SQL server didn't run on linux? That if you want to do ASPX pages with a different DB than MS SQL Server, there are a few other hoops you need to jump through? Please, Nowadays, the only DB that isn't multiplatform is probably SQL Server, which btw, is very similar and easy to convert to sybase..
1. Leave all the plutonium on the nuclear warheads.. This is comming from decommissioned Nuclear missles, this should be seen as a good thing..
2. Try to get the laws in the us changed so that we can do reprocessing here at home. Then we wouldn't have to ship our plutonium overseas. And we could refine and reuse our used uranium from our power generating nuclear reactors too. That sure would make Nevada happy. (less waste to dump in yucca mtn, and less radioactive!) It's recycling, what hack job environmentalist doesn't like recycling?
Of course, plutonium is shipped all over the world, every day, much larger quantities. its just that their still in the missles, inside subs, planes, etc..
From a network administrator perspective, the idea of video phones is a shitty idea. a standard G.711 call is 64k of data.. how much back room capacity would you need to add to do video phones? especially site to site? all it does as give the exec's at companies the ability to point to the phone and say to their buddies, "Look at this, its cool!" It adds no business value. Yet Cisco pushes it very hard as a new feature.
encryption would be nice, for offsite calls, but internal calls don't need the extra overhead. Also, encrypting the packets would really mess with things if some packets were missing. (very common, called jitter).
Most other VOIP systems have an easy to use find me feature. If you call me during work hours, and get my voicemail, you can press 1 and it will call my Cel-Phone, if i don't answer, the system send the person to my work voice mail.
I would like linux software.. Have to agree on that one.
on a personal note, we looked at Cisco's VOIP, and saw the price, and considered it, and then we found Shoretel. Instead of spending $75k for equipmentfrom cisco, we spent $40k for the shoretel equipment, with some damn slick features. Also, i'm a network admin, not a phone person. Just playing around, I had the system up and working in a few hours.
keep in mind this is 60 minutes.. remember their huge, explosive, damaging piece of work about side straddle gas tanks on pickups? Cause mountains of damage when they showed a video of a car ramming the rear side of the pickup, and the pickup exploded. Of course, later, people found out that the pickup had incendiary's to make sure to set the gas on fire!!!.. so then CBS was laughed at. Of course it was a real issue, they did sometimes go boom, but adding electronic sparklers to the car to make sure it did sure ruined any journalistic integrity they have in my view..
Of course, if your rich, look into HEAT.. it does some damn amazing things...
I live in a relatively rural town of 40k, in the middle of no-where.. (80 miles from another city over 20k), and many, many people I know have only cell phones.. Most people in this town hate Qwest with a passion... its really disturbing to see how many ranchers out here have Cell phones, laptops, wireless access, etc..
The Cell chip is a bunch of little processors on the same die, (think dual core, but its more like 16). the broadband they are talking about is the super high speed bus (on the chip) between the cores. By broadband they are talking about the bandwitdth between the cores, bandwidth is not only a measure of network speed.
Is clearing the Home directory much worse than inserting files into the network stack, creating Viral software that is almost impossible to remove, and that reinstalls itself when it detects part of it was removed?
Worst thing that comes out of this is that people learn to back up their data, and EULA's become trash..
Where do you see America in 5/10/15 years under its current leadership? Where do you see America in the same timeframe with you as the president? What broad steps will you take to get us there?
The thing is, Even if you were earning minimum wage, you'd probably be better off than someone Working at Wal-Mart.. I do not shop from them, because I don't like the way they treat their employees. Bare Minimum wage, no overtime, no benefits (or if you get benifits, it costs about 1/2 of your paycheck after your taxes), no respect from management, and very, very shitty conditions..
In local and state elections, I always vote for a candidate (if there is one) that is independant, or some other party...
You must buy the enterprise versions of Redhat, and you get the source, but not the source to some of their proprietary stuff.. ..