I'd suggest a simpler explanation for the aboriginal's behavior - they watched animal behavior and read the signs - curiously, there was very little loss of animal life in the tsunami - they moved to higher ground...
I didn't see any particular details on what was going slowly with their implementation... The article seemed to focus more around Balmer's reaction to it...
Anyone know more about what are the install issues? Is it a training issue on the part of the implementors or scalability and requirements-meeting on the part of the Linux distro they are using?
The reaction that I'm afraid we'll see from most people on slashdot is one of denial that open source can be hard to integrate... Let's see what the real issues are and address them rather than making up excuses.
Cringley has discovered the concept of the Public library - what a genius!:) Serious, does anyone wonder what legal battles would be underway today if we tried to invent public libraries in this age?
Why the Amazons and Barnes & Nobles of this country would be telling everyone how libraries would put their businesses under and that it was just a form of stealing to read a book for free when you really know you should be paying for it and supporting intellectual property.
Are you going to have a fit of exaspiration when somebody needs to go to the bathroom during the film?
If you can't deal with things that other people sometimes need to take care of out in society, then maybe it's you who needs to be renting watching your movies exclusively via Blockbuster...
When I heard about Microsoft's plans for replacing the filesystem with a Relational DB (to make Windows most robust - yeah, right) and help people find/organize their information. I told my coworkers that this had to be just one part of their strategy and that the next thing they had to do is to eliminate SAMBA interoperability and they could take back File/Print services (which is the #2 service IT organization provide) from Linux/Samba and put it back on Microsoft servers....
I swear it's like watching a game of chess that ol' Bill is playing with the Open Source folks:)
The web is changing - the kind of support advertising used to bring in is not cutting it for more and more websites out there as they go under or transition to annoy-vertising type ads.
The number of websites that you or I might be willing to pay for will be self-limiting - and as more sites make the transition we might see them organize content channels to make subscription more universal and convenient - if one thing is true I think is that the web economy wants to make it as easy as possible for you to pay:). Slashdot is the one of the few that I personally am willing to pay for...
While I'm glad to hear that your websites do not need it I think the commercial reality is that larger, more sophisticated websites are going to need to do something different to make themselves financially viable. At least in slashdot's plan, payment is optional - it's not like they are making it subscription only.
I hope more folks are willing to give the subscription system a try to get their daily nerd-fix with fewer ads and show the market that website users are willing to support *good* content.
Afterall it's only $5 to get things started - i'll decide when my 1000 pages run out if it's worth renewing - perhaps by then Slashdot's staff will have figured out some additional incentives to reward contributors to the site...
I would encourage people to give the guys running the site a bit of support instead of incessant whining and complaining. Go ahead and throw your $5 vote into the system and keep your perspective - we're talking $5 afterall, Christ!
People have been pointing out that we need a good micropayment system to fund the quality web sites out there. Well, I think the slashdot folks have done good analysis of their userbase and come up with an innovative system to fund the site - 1/2 penny a page - that sounds fine with me.
It also sounds like the Slashdot folks are open to updating the system as we get more time using it - it would seem to be a good idea to use the system as a way to reward content providers and folks who keep the discussion interesting. Finally perhaps, something you can do with your Karma: use it to continue to view the site ad-free and at no cost to you.
Looks folks, slashdot has almost always got interesting content and discussion - even if we do have to wade through a fair of drivel at times. I for one, am voting with my wallet for a site that provides me with many hours of entertainment and diversion if nothing else:)
Here, here! You may be young (you mention that you're just a few years out of school), but I think you've got the right idea:)
A friend of mine in his early 40s is looking forward to a day a couple more years in the future when he and his wife will have enough put away so that he only has to only work 30 hrs/week so he has more time to pursue his own interests, travel and enjoy life.
He never got in on the.com boom - just tried to live frugally and spend on the things that really mattered (well, that and not having kids:) - the guy has become my financial role model because I really think you guys are on to something:)
Honestly, I've come to believe that alot of people accept the goals and values of our spend-happy society because they've never really developed any true interests of their own - so they just spend themselves to 'happiness' from one advertising-driven impulse purchase to another.
Unfortunately, that kind of financial craziness is what makes our economy go around... but no one says you have to spend your whole life on that track....
Well you've almost got it right - it is a sysadmins's job to install software. The matter at hand is that the software they install should be authorized to run on a company asset. This is both to contain liability and security as well as ensure proper change management. A good sysadmin (and I used to be one) understands this....
The sysadmin doesn't 'own' the corporate systems he administrates - any more than a racecar pit crew owns the racecar they maintain and tune to the max for optimal performance.
But do what you want on your own systems:)
I think you may be on to something: They've got the Microsoft keyboard and mouse, joysticks, and various other peripherals already. They've got the Microsoft Network, and have rolled out the Xbox - is it only a matter of time until they buy a significant (perhaps controlling) interest in AOL and announce The Microsoft Computer?
I love my Tivo, but the thing I find frustrating is the issue of control: they won't put a 30-second skip in, they won't release the format for storing the MPEG video and audio streams (but someone has hacked it). Still up to this date Tivo does more to get out of the way of hackers who want to play with their units (no pun intended:)
I am looking forward to a day where a Open PVR is available and consumers can actually have all the features that they find useful rather than crippleware that gives limited functionality because of the 'danger' perceived by corporate America.
That would be a powerful force... the genie is out of the bottle on this one!
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Respectfully, the sad fact is some outsourcing companies cloak themselves in being experts just by virtue that they are not being your corp IT department. Alot of higher-ups in my company took for granted that our outsourcer had the depth of compentancy that they claimed - the past twelve months have disproven that resoundly.
Outsourcers do not have the focus your IT groups would have in supporting your business - you can specify 'attitude' and 'focus' as part of your SLAs. They simply have very different goals from your business - they just want to satsify their contractual terms... not go the extra mile to make things truly good.
I used to love reading scientific american in the 80's but by the mid-90s they have been Discoverized and had dumbed down their articles and the magazine was mostly ads.
I was lucky to get a gift subscription to 'Science News' a couple of years ago for Christmas and have been a subscriber ever since - it's a fantastic science weekly with a good content level - check it out at www.sciencenews.org --Vince
I think this is a well-known example of an analog computer and years ago (back when they were still a good magazine) Scientific American covered this topic in an issue.
They specifically pointed out that the soap bubbles aren't really going to solve the problem since they get into a local minimum and there's just not enough of a difference to force it to the global min.
Vince
If you're using a slow dialup link to get remote access to the Unix boxes you're admin'ing and suffer from needing to ocassionally run an X GUI you will love Tarantella. Our big use for it is the X Gui for Veritas Netbackup which feels about 10x faster using Tarantella instead of running an Xserver natively....
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I'd suggest a simpler explanation for the aboriginal's behavior - they watched animal behavior and read the signs - curiously, there was very little loss of animal life in the tsunami - they moved to higher ground...
I didn't see any particular details on what was going slowly with their implementation... The article seemed to focus more around Balmer's reaction to it...
Anyone know more about what are the install issues? Is it a training issue on the part of the implementors or scalability and requirements-meeting on the part of the Linux distro they are using?
The reaction that I'm afraid we'll see from most people on slashdot is one of denial that open source can be hard to integrate... Let's see what the real issues are and address them rather than making up excuses.
Vince
Cringley has discovered the concept of the Public library - what a genius! :) Serious, does anyone wonder what legal battles would be underway today if we tried to invent public libraries in this age?
Why the Amazons and Barnes & Nobles of this country would be telling everyone how libraries would put their businesses under and that it was just a form of stealing to read a book for free when you really know you should be paying for it and supporting intellectual property.
vince
and hire a gang of offshore Indian lawyers for $5k/year trained in American labor laws to represent US IT workers
Vince
GEEEZE Lighten up!
Are you going to have a fit of exaspiration when somebody needs to go to the bathroom during the film?
If you can't deal with things that other people sometimes need to take care of out in society, then maybe it's you who needs to be renting watching your movies exclusively via Blockbuster...
Vince
I swear it's like watching a game of chess that ol' Bill is playing with the Open Source folks :)
The web is changing - the kind of support advertising used to bring in is not cutting it for more and more websites out there as they go under or transition to annoy-vertising type ads.
:). Slashdot is the one of the few that I personally am willing to pay for...
The number of websites that you or I might be willing to pay for will be self-limiting - and as more sites make the transition we might see them organize content channels to make subscription more universal and convenient - if one thing is true I think is that the web economy wants to make it as easy as possible for you to pay
While I'm glad to hear that your websites do not need it I think the commercial reality is that larger, more sophisticated websites are going to need to do something different to make themselves financially viable. At least in slashdot's plan, payment is optional - it's not like they are making it subscription only.
I hope more folks are willing to give the subscription system a try to get their daily nerd-fix with fewer ads and show the market that website users are willing to support *good* content.
Afterall it's only $5 to get things started - i'll decide when my 1000 pages run out if it's worth renewing - perhaps by then Slashdot's staff will have figured out some additional incentives to reward contributors to the site...
Vince
I would encourage people to give the guys running the site a bit of support instead of incessant whining and complaining. Go ahead and throw your $5 vote into the system and keep your perspective - we're talking $5 afterall, Christ!
:)
People have been pointing out that we need a good micropayment system to fund the quality web sites out there. Well, I think the slashdot folks have done good analysis of their userbase and come up with an innovative system to fund the site - 1/2 penny a page - that sounds fine with me.
It also sounds like the Slashdot folks are open to updating the system as we get more time using it - it would seem to be a good idea to use the system as a way to reward content providers and folks who keep the discussion interesting. Finally perhaps, something you can do with your Karma: use it to continue to view the site ad-free and at no cost to you.
Looks folks, slashdot has almost always got interesting content and discussion - even if we do have to wade through a fair of drivel at times. I for one, am voting with my wallet for a site that provides me with many hours of entertainment and diversion if nothing else
Good work guys,
Vince
A friend of mine in his early 40s is looking forward to a day a couple more years in the future when he and his wife will have enough put away so that he only has to only work 30 hrs/week so he has more time to pursue his own interests, travel and enjoy life.
He never got in on the .com boom - just tried to live frugally and spend on the things that really mattered (well, that and not having kids :) - the guy has become my financial role model because I really think you guys are on to something :)
Honestly, I've come to believe that alot of people accept the goals and values of our spend-happy society because they've never really developed any true interests of their own - so they just spend themselves to 'happiness' from one advertising-driven impulse purchase to another. Unfortunately, that kind of financial craziness is what makes our economy go around... but no one says you have to spend your whole life on that track....
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Well you've almost got it right - it is a sysadmins's job to install software. The matter at hand is that the software they install should be authorized to run on a company asset. This is both to contain liability and security as well as ensure proper change management. A good sysadmin (and I used to be one) understands this.... The sysadmin doesn't 'own' the corporate systems he administrates - any more than a racecar pit crew owns the racecar they maintain and tune to the max for optimal performance. But do what you want on your own systems :)
Aaaiiieeeeee, nooooooooooo......... :)
Either they're really smart or their right hand doesn't know what their left hand is doing :)
The tag line on the deco-dense image is also strangely appropriate for the new iMac with a slight mod: "50's design meets 21st century technology"
I am looking forward to a day where a Open PVR is available and consumers can actually have all the features that they find useful rather than crippleware that gives limited functionality because of the 'danger' perceived by corporate America.
That would be a powerful force... the genie is out of the bottle on this one!
Outsourcers do not have the focus your IT groups would have in supporting your business - you can specify 'attitude' and 'focus' as part of your SLAs. They simply have very different goals from your business - they just want to satsify their contractual terms... not go the extra mile to make things truly good.
I used to love reading scientific american in the 80's but by the mid-90s they have been Discoverized and had dumbed down their articles and the magazine was mostly ads. I was lucky to get a gift subscription to 'Science News' a couple of years ago for Christmas and have been a subscriber ever since - it's a fantastic science weekly with a good content level - check it out at www.sciencenews.org --Vince
I think this is a well-known example of an analog computer and years ago (back when they were still a good magazine) Scientific American covered this topic in an issue. They specifically pointed out that the soap bubbles aren't really going to solve the problem since they get into a local minimum and there's just not enough of a difference to force it to the global min. Vince
If you're using a slow dialup link to get remote access to the Unix boxes you're admin'ing and suffer from needing to ocassionally run an X GUI you will love Tarantella. Our big use for it is the X Gui for Veritas Netbackup which feels about 10x faster using Tarantella instead of running an Xserver natively....