To quote the learned and famous, well, me writing about health care: "First, you have to discard the idea that a private organization is inherently more efficient than a government organization. Both types of organizations are made up of people. On average, people are the same, smart or stupid, hard-working or lazy, friendly or cranky, whether they get checks from Uncle Sam or from Aetna. There are no management secrets unique to one side or the other.
The main difference between the two types of organizations is their goal. Managers of a public health insurance plan strive to perpetuate their jobs and those of their political bosses by maximizing the perceived health care benefits for the voting public. A private insurance companyâ(TM)s primary goal is to generate a profit for the owners of the company. That may involve providing a service to their policyholders, but only to the extent it helps make money."
Note that neither organization has the goal "provide health care". The organization's success in providing health care depends in large part on the extent that the people in the organization have the goal of providing health care, independent of the organization's real goals.
Now replace "health care" with the industry of your choice.
A LOOOONG time ago,I bought a $19.95 4 function Radio Shack Calculator. RS had a similar calculator with additional memory functions for an extra $20. By cutting holes in the case, I gained access to the memory function keys, thus saving 50%.
It does matter what you use to document and how you store the documentation. If no one can find the correct doc when needed, or if they don't know a doc with the necessary info exists, you've wasted your time.
Overhead while the system is logged in, in normal operation is minimal, nothing a user will notice. The noticable overhead comes at two points: 1) When the computer boots, there's an appreciable increase in the time before the system is usable. 2) When the system crashes and/or a critical piece of a file is not encrypted properly so the system doesn't boot, then the disk needs to be recovered (at best), restored from backup (you do have them, right?), or formatted and rebuilt with a loss of data. #2 doesn't happen often, but it does happen significantly more often than on a system without disk encryption.
If you aren't in a position where you can ask what your school's Microsoft licensing costs are, then you aren't in a position to influence the school to move to FOSS.
Much more important is the question of who supports these computers. When they get screwed up (and they will), are the computers "essentially owned by the students", so they'll need to get them fixed themselves? If so, you can't enforce any restrictions. Also, you're going to get enormous amounts of complaint from the users you're not helping.
Secondarily, students that are about to graduate will have ancient (6 year old) systems. Why should they by them? Hell, how will they be able to get anything done their last few years?
If you get rid of corporate taxes and only tax individuals, soon corporate heads all make $5/year, but are living in houses owned by the corporation, riding in cars owned by the corporations, eating food supplied by the corporation, etc...
In many Massachusetts towns, Verizion is supplying FiOS phone and internet, but not TV due to the town's contract with the cable company. Just because they can't put Verizon TV in Boston doesn't mean that they can't put in internet.
Intel HAD an antivirus product. They sold it to Symantec. Take a look at the registry settings for Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. You can still see the "Intel LANdesk" remnants three major versions after the acquisition.
What with canola oil for popping and "topping" instead of butter, I've quit eating theater popcorn. And I used to get the "humungous" size and eat it all by myself.
there are several "good" studies...that show an association between moderate alcohol consumption and appreciably reduced risk of a number of diseases. (Here, moderate is a range from approximately 1 to 3 drinks per day)
What if I only drink twice a week, but have 6 drinks each time?
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To quote the learned and famous, well, me writing about health care:
"First, you have to discard the idea that a private organization is inherently more efficient than a government organization. Both types of organizations are made up of people. On average, people are the same, smart or stupid, hard-working or lazy, friendly or cranky, whether they get checks from Uncle Sam or from Aetna. There are no management secrets unique to one side or the other.
The main difference between the two types of organizations is their goal. Managers of a public health insurance plan strive to perpetuate their jobs and those of their political bosses by maximizing the perceived health care benefits for the voting public. A private insurance companyâ(TM)s primary goal is to generate a profit for the owners of the company. That may involve providing a service to their policyholders, but only to the extent it helps make money."
Note that neither organization has the goal "provide health care". The organization's success in providing health care depends in large part on the extent that the people in the organization have the goal of providing health care, independent of the organization's real goals.
Now replace "health care" with the industry of your choice.
"Murdoch said. 'Quality journalism is not cheap.'"
That explains Fox News. Murdoch can't afford any better.
A LOOOONG time ago,I bought a $19.95 4 function Radio Shack Calculator. RS had a similar calculator with additional memory functions for an extra $20. By cutting holes in the case, I gained access to the memory function keys, thus saving 50%.
So if we divided the market up in thirds between Windows, Linux, and Macs, knocking out only a third of the Internet wouldn't be a disaster?
When you're home, you plug the phone into a dock, with larger I/O. Duh.
> Given the state of the news media right now,
> that guy'll never work in the field again.
Given the state of the news media right now, that guy'll shortly be making just as much as anyone else in the field.
It does matter what you use to document and how you store the documentation. If no one can find the correct doc when needed, or if they don't know a doc with the necessary info exists, you've wasted your time.
Overhead while the system is logged in, in normal operation is minimal, nothing a user will notice. The noticable overhead comes at two points:
1) When the computer boots, there's an appreciable increase in the time before the system is usable.
2) When the system crashes and/or a critical piece of a file is not encrypted properly so the system doesn't boot, then the disk needs to be recovered (at best), restored from backup (you do have them, right?), or formatted and rebuilt with a loss of data.
#2 doesn't happen often, but it does happen significantly more often than on a system without disk encryption.
If you aren't in a position where you can ask what your school's Microsoft licensing costs are, then you aren't in a position to influence the school to move to FOSS.
You kids. Us older folk know that "Sci-Fi" (aka "skiffy") is trashy SF. Star Wars is the epitome of Sci-Fi.
Change your password. The rest of the info is already freely available from the resume you posted to Monster, right?
Much more important is the question of who supports these computers. When they get screwed up (and they will), are the computers "essentially owned by the students", so they'll need to get them fixed themselves? If so, you can't enforce any restrictions. Also, you're going to get enormous amounts of complaint from the users you're not helping.
Secondarily, students that are about to graduate will have ancient (6 year old) systems. Why should they by them? Hell, how will they be able to get anything done their last few years?
Now we know why Chrome is competing with Firefox - to demonstrate that the Mozilla Foundation isn't really just an 85%-owned subsidiary of Google.
If you get rid of corporate taxes and only tax individuals, soon corporate heads all make $5/year, but are living in houses owned by the corporation, riding in cars owned by the corporations, eating food supplied by the corporation, etc...
Who cares? Until the mouse buttons are more usable, I don't care if it's running CP/M.
I have never seen Nixon called "colorful" before.
In many Massachusetts towns, Verizion is supplying FiOS phone and internet, but not TV due to the town's contract with the cable company. Just because they can't put Verizon TV in Boston doesn't mean that they can't put in internet.
If it weren't for drinking and driveing, how would we get home?
Why are there parking lots at bars?
I agree! Are you as old as I am (46)? Soounds like an old guy rant to me :-)
And then the unpopular stuff will be available through lower cost alternatives to cable, like the internet. You see this as bad?
..at least as of today. The note on the allofmp3 site is dated August 31.
You can drop the marble 99 floors. Drop it from Floor #100 - it'll go at least 99 floors before breaking.
Intel HAD an antivirus product. They sold it to Symantec. Take a look at the registry settings for Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. You can still see the "Intel LANdesk" remnants three major versions after the acquisition.
What with canola oil for popping and "topping" instead of butter, I've quit eating theater popcorn. And I used to get the "humungous" size and eat it all by myself.
What if I only drink twice a week, but have 6 drinks each time?