Wasn't the poll about IT spending plans? Why should it be a big surprise that IT departments plan to spend more on Windows and traditional UNIX platforms? The poll wasn't about implementation plans, but what items have budgetary priority.
Granted, we're talking about tables in the GB range...
:g/ GB/s// MB /
I know we're supposed to be talking about large DBMS installations, but I see the "consultants eat up any cost savings from the OS" argument all the time and it ain't necessarily so.
....by the time you have to hire consultants you are out of the skunkworks area anyway.
True enough when you're talking about a large enterprise. But there are still an awful lot of things Linux can be used for that displace commercial solutions, like file/print sharing, email servers, etc. There are also tons of small to mid-sized businesses that have no IT expertise that will be looking to consultants for implementation of basic networking solutions. I've written Databse applications that ran on AT&T 3b2 300's and 486's running System V. Linux on a modern processor can handle much more than that. Granted, we're talking about tables in the GB range with these applications, but many VARs have done well with businesses that will probably never be in the Fortune 500.
Sure it makes sense. I quite often opt-out because my comment isn't particularly insightful or funny, but I want to add to or refute a comment. Since moderation is handed out willy-nilly and some of the mod points applied make absolutely no sense, I post at +1 unless the point is genuinely important and everyone else seems to be dancing around it (rarely happens). The only other time I post at +2 is when I forget to check that dang box.
I have heard of an infant that is calmed by a vacuum cleaner.
When we had our first child, I had already noticed that infants in other households would awaken at the slightest noise. The parents would only allow soft whispers even when the baby was well down the hall. I suspected they were conditioned to sleep in near silent environments and told my wife that we would conduct ourselves normally, speak in normal tones, listen to music, and allow the baby to learn to be comfortable with everyday sounds. Worked just fine. Three times.
Of course, that consultant market diminishes the cost savings of using open source applications.
Not at all. Since the use of a consultant comes first and the solution follows, the consultant fees were a given regardless of the recommended solution so the savings are still there. However, consultants implementing Linux solutions may find themselves at a disadvantage when their proposal comes in significantly lower and is viewed with skepticism since everyone else was in a certain (higher) range. One way to combat that is to propose high and then come in well under budget for the first job or two.
A lot of pundits and PDR users know that commercials are ineffective now -- the only time I "watch" them is when I'm not paying attention to the show much anyway and don't pick up the remote to FF through them.
Hmmm. I sometimes FF through the program to get to the more entertaining commercials.
While we are all congratulating IBM on their Open Source move, what might be happening is: They are selling Linux and getting free development work from the Open Source community.
Good heavens! You mean while we're all exchanging high fives they'll outflank us and actually figure out a way to profit from this? I'm aghast.
Something I haven't seen discussed here (hope I didn't just miss it) is the fact that editing in the field takes time away from shooting. If the photographer is getting near capacity and doesn't want to miss any of the action, it takes far less time to pop in a new batch of storage media (whatever form) than it would to scroll through the existing images and make judgement calls on which ones are duds. Most photographers can tell you from experience that the "great shot" they saw through the lens or viewfinder was less thrilling once printed and that serendipity plays a crucial role in those award winning once-in-a-lifetime shots. The key has always been (and continues to be) to take lots of exposures. This is actually even more critical with today's raft of digital darkroom tools. It's easier than ever to fix under/over exposed shots or do other magic to turn bland into brilliant (without resorting to actual manipulation of the "reality" of the image, like editing out certain people - although this has been done for years, most simply by framing at the time of shooting or cropping afterward).
The name change thing was sort of a joke. See, I don't remember the airhead's name, so I just refer to her with a different airhead-ish name each time.
I suppose I shouldn't have done that.
Heck, I thought it was funny (got no mod points for you though).
I stand corrected. Guess I should watch more movies. Sam Adams was a notable individual in his own right, but not to be confused with John Quincy Adams.
The problem with Petabytes is all the Peta files produced which have to be tracked by the sexual predator web sites. I'm sure that's why NASA ditched it.....
Defines terrorist activities but makes exceptions for people who have innocent contacts to non-certified terrorist organizations
"Yes, may I see your terrorist certification?"
Wonder what you have to do to keep your certification current? "I'm sorry, we're only certifying Anthrax2000 now. Your Anthrax4.0 certification is no longer valid."
While I voted for the guy in the last election and don't agree with his Nay Vote on this Bill, at least the guy had the guts to stand up for what he believed in.
Samuel Adams stood virtually alone for years in his bid to defeat slavery (and this was after his stint as President). I'm not saying we have a modern day Adams in the Senate, but that standing alone doesn't make you wrong.
Secondly, it is people like you with the opinions like you have that have put my people into the situation that we are in right now.
I was with you right up until that statement. I have known people who grow up in the same circumstances (same household even) that go in very different directions, some to prison, others to work, entreprenuers, etc. Your own choices are far more important than what other people think or do to put you down.
How proprietary is it when about 90% of the user base can view the site and use their browser?
You are confusing market share with proprietary, which refers to exclusivity. Microsoft has deviated from standards (shock) which makes their stuff incompatible, not the rest of us, no matter the numbers. Go back three spaces and lose one turn.
60+ % of the american population wanted to put arab-americans in camps, restricting their freedom of movement.
That certainly isn't the case where I work or socialize. I'm sure, given the right sub-set of Americans, that you could get such results if that was your goal. Many polls are worded in such a way as to get a particular response, so if polls are a trusted resource for you.....
The problem starts when people ONLY read biased news, and don't know about it.
I'd say you have a problem then. There is no such thing as an unbiased news report. The only way to get unbiased coverage of an event is to be a witness to it yourself and then your view will still be biased. It will be biased because of your own beliefs. It will be biased because of what you see and experience (filtered through the bias already mentioned) that others don't. It will also be biased based on what you don't see or experience even though you're right on top of the action.
...you probably know as well as I do that the current affairs in Afghanistan are _very_ US-centric reported by CNN.
I am sure that "sources" more aligned with Taliban sympathys would report something a little more Afghan-centric and no less biased.
I once had a conversation with a television executive who said, "Television is your window to the world." I disagreed with him and said that, "Television is the venetian blind covering the window to the world. What you view through the window is dictated by the slant of the slats." He didn't reply.
There's a saying that americans are ignorant - can't point out Egypt on a map, don't know that Sweden and Schwitzerland aren't the same countries etc. With the risk of immideate "flamebait" moderation, I must confess that I agree with that view.
Yes, Americans are ignorant. So are Europeans, Africans, Asians, you-name-it. We are all ignorant. I'm totally lost when it comes to certain subjects. People who can go on for hours about one subject might very well be mentally adrift when it comes to something else. We are all ignorant. Your use of the term "ignorant" in your post seems to presuppose your own superiority over ignorant Americans and that, my friend, has blinded you to your own biases and those of your "trusted" sources.
Hypermedia spreads rumors, prompts action where none is required, panic and anxiety where none is necessary.
I doubt that panic and anxiety are ever "necessary". It may be understandable given a particular context, but it's usually more important to keep your wits about you. Panic often turns an otherwise orderly evacuation into a deadly stampede.
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8:15 Still slashdotted...Poor Dan the nerd's nerd doesn't have the server's server.
Dang! It's only 6:30. You mean I have at least another hour and fortyfive minutes before I can access the site? Boy, you guys from the future are a bunch of killjoys.....
I'd dismissed that book after reading a negative review. After your use of the word 'excellent' I did a little Googling and found others with the same opinion including a blurb from Electronic Musician and Keyboard Magazine. Looks like I'll have to check into it a little more now.
Dang! How am I ever going to save time by letting others do my thinking if they don't all think alike?
Really though, I go to a modest-sized community college b/c I can't afford anything much. Why should I be curesed into not learning because of my financial situation. I'll definatly be looking into this... I mean, even if there's no degree or whatever, I'm still learning, and that's what's important anyway.
Some might point out that you haven't taken advantage of this web-based learning tool... but I won't....
I am having trouble with the word curesed. I'm not sure if you mean "cursed" or "coerced" (gramatically coerced works better). At any rate, you shouldn't let money be a limiting factor. It's often only a matter of priorities. What do you spend money on? Games? Fast food? Movies? Add it all up and you'll be surprised what it looks like annualized. Some people just like Big Macs and Cokes more than something they bemoan a lack of finances for.
If you're bright enough to go to a place like MIT, finances can be worked out. You may have to "cram" a four year degree into six or eight years by laying out a semester here and there to accumulate more funds. There's more scholarship money out there than you can shake a stick at, some specializing in nearly every kind of sub-group you can think of ($1,500.00 for left-handed eskimos with post-nasal-drip? They probably have a scholarship!).
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Wasn't the poll about IT spending plans? Why should it be a big surprise that IT departments plan to spend more on Windows and traditional UNIX platforms? The poll wasn't about implementation plans, but what items have budgetary priority.
Granted, we're talking about tables in the GB range...
/s// MB /
:g/ GB
I know we're supposed to be talking about large DBMS installations, but I see the "consultants eat up any cost savings from the OS" argument all the time and it ain't necessarily so.
....by the time you have to hire consultants you are out of the skunkworks area anyway.
True enough when you're talking about a large enterprise. But there are still an awful lot of things Linux can be used for that displace commercial solutions, like file/print sharing, email servers, etc. There are also tons of small to mid-sized businesses that have no IT expertise that will be looking to consultants for implementation of basic networking solutions. I've written Databse applications that ran on AT&T 3b2 300's and 486's running System V. Linux on a modern processor can handle much more than that. Granted, we're talking about tables in the GB range with these applications, but many VARs have done well with businesses that will probably never be in the Fortune 500.
Just remove that option. It makes no sense.
Sure it makes sense. I quite often opt-out because my comment isn't particularly insightful or funny, but I want to add to or refute a comment. Since moderation is handed out willy-nilly and some of the mod points applied make absolutely no sense, I post at +1 unless the point is genuinely important and everyone else seems to be dancing around it (rarely happens). The only other time I post at +2 is when I forget to check that dang box.
I have heard of an infant that is calmed by a vacuum cleaner.
When we had our first child, I had already noticed that infants in other households would awaken at the slightest noise. The parents would only allow soft whispers even when the baby was well down the hall. I suspected they were conditioned to sleep in near silent environments and told my wife that we would conduct ourselves normally, speak in normal tones, listen to music, and allow the baby to learn to be comfortable with everyday sounds. Worked just fine. Three times.
Of course, that consultant market diminishes the cost savings of using open source applications.
Not at all. Since the use of a consultant comes first and the solution follows, the consultant fees were a given regardless of the recommended solution so the savings are still there. However, consultants implementing Linux solutions may find themselves at a disadvantage when their proposal comes in significantly lower and is viewed with skepticism since everyone else was in a certain (higher) range. One way to combat that is to propose high and then come in well under budget for the first job or two.
A lot of pundits and PDR users know that commercials are ineffective now -- the only time I "watch" them is when I'm not paying attention to the show much anyway and don't pick up the remote to FF through them.
Hmmm. I sometimes FF through the program to get to the more entertaining commercials.
While we are all congratulating IBM on their Open Source move, what might be happening is: They are selling Linux and getting free development work from the Open Source community.
Good heavens! You mean while we're all exchanging high fives they'll outflank us and actually figure out a way to profit from this? I'm aghast.
Something I haven't seen discussed here (hope I didn't just miss it) is the fact that editing in the field takes time away from shooting. If the photographer is getting near capacity and doesn't want to miss any of the action, it takes far less time to pop in a new batch of storage media (whatever form) than it would to scroll through the existing images and make judgement calls on which ones are duds. Most photographers can tell you from experience that the "great shot" they saw through the lens or viewfinder was less thrilling once printed and that serendipity plays a crucial role in those award winning once-in-a-lifetime shots. The key has always been (and continues to be) to take lots of exposures. This is actually even more critical with today's raft of digital darkroom tools. It's easier than ever to fix under/over exposed shots or do other magic to turn bland into brilliant (without resorting to actual manipulation of the "reality" of the image, like editing out certain people - although this has been done for years, most simply by framing at the time of shooting or cropping afterward).
The name change thing was sort of a joke. See, I don't remember the airhead's name, so I just refer to her with a different airhead-ish name each time.
I suppose I shouldn't have done that.
Heck, I thought it was funny (got no mod points for you though).
I stand corrected. Guess I should watch more movies. Sam Adams was a notable individual in his own right, but not to be confused with John Quincy Adams.
The problem with Petabytes is all the Peta files produced which have to be tracked by the sexual predator web sites. I'm sure that's why NASA ditched it.....
Defines terrorist activities but makes exceptions for people who have innocent contacts to non-certified terrorist organizations
"Yes, may I see your terrorist certification?"
Wonder what you have to do to keep your certification current? "I'm sorry, we're only certifying Anthrax2000 now. Your Anthrax4.0 certification is no longer valid."
While I voted for the guy in the last election and don't agree with his Nay Vote on this Bill, at least the guy had the guts to stand up for what he believed in.
Samuel Adams stood virtually alone for years in his bid to defeat slavery (and this was after his stint as President). I'm not saying we have a modern day Adams in the Senate, but that standing alone doesn't make you wrong.
A link to an article with some commentary (Wired?) would be a big help, please.
There's a really good article on MSN.com.... Oh, nevermind.
Secondly, it is people like you with the opinions like you have that have put my people into the situation that we are in right now.
I was with you right up until that statement. I have known people who grow up in the same circumstances (same household even) that go in very different directions, some to prison, others to work, entreprenuers, etc. Your own choices are far more important than what other people think or do to put you down.
How proprietary is it when about 90% of the user base can view the site and use their browser?
You are confusing market share with proprietary, which refers to exclusivity. Microsoft has deviated from standards (shock) which makes their stuff incompatible, not the rest of us, no matter the numbers. Go back three spaces and lose one turn.
60+ % of the american population wanted to put arab-americans in camps, restricting their freedom of movement.
That certainly isn't the case where I work or socialize. I'm sure, given the right sub-set of Americans, that you could get such results if that was your goal. Many polls are worded in such a way as to get a particular response, so if polls are a trusted resource for you.....
I *don't* want someone else to filter my news....
...you probably know as well as I do that the current affairs in Afghanistan are _very_ US-centric reported by CNN.
The problem starts when people ONLY read biased news, and don't know about it.
I'd say you have a problem then. There is no such thing as an unbiased news report. The only way to get unbiased coverage of an event is to be a witness to it yourself and then your view will still be biased. It will be biased because of your own beliefs. It will be biased because of what you see and experience (filtered through the bias already mentioned) that others don't. It will also be biased based on what you don't see or experience even though you're right on top of the action.
I am sure that "sources" more aligned with Taliban sympathys would report something a little more Afghan-centric and no less biased.
I once had a conversation with a television executive who said, "Television is your window to the world." I disagreed with him and said that, "Television is the venetian blind covering the window to the world. What you view through the window is dictated by the slant of the slats." He didn't reply.
There's a saying that americans are ignorant - can't point out Egypt on a map, don't know that Sweden and Schwitzerland aren't the same countries etc. With the risk of immideate "flamebait" moderation, I must confess that I agree with that view.
Yes, Americans are ignorant. So are Europeans, Africans, Asians, you-name-it. We are all ignorant. I'm totally lost when it comes to certain subjects. People who can go on for hours about one subject might very well be mentally adrift when it comes to something else. We are all ignorant. Your use of the term "ignorant" in your post seems to presuppose your own superiority over ignorant Americans and that, my friend, has blinded you to your own biases and those of your "trusted" sources.
Hypermedia spreads rumors, prompts action where none is required, panic and anxiety where none is necessary.
I doubt that panic and anxiety are ever "necessary". It may be understandable given a particular context, but it's usually more important to keep your wits about you. Panic often turns an otherwise orderly evacuation into a deadly stampede.
8:15 Still slashdotted...Poor Dan the nerd's nerd doesn't have the server's server.
Dang! It's only 6:30. You mean I have at least another hour and fortyfive minutes before I can access the site? Boy, you guys from the future are a bunch of killjoys.....
... and I've personally seen a watch that could take pictures in a store in NYC
Yeah, but what if you wanted to take pictures after leaving the store.....
"Let's see that fancy watch of yours take my picture."
"Sure, but we'll have to go back to Macy's...."
I'd dismissed that book after reading a negative review. After your use of the word 'excellent' I did a little Googling and found others with the same opinion including a blurb from Electronic Musician and Keyboard Magazine. Looks like I'll have to check into it a little more now.
Dang! How am I ever going to save time by letting others do my thinking if they don't all think alike?
Really though, I go to a modest-sized community college b/c I can't afford anything much. Why should I be curesed into not learning because of my financial situation. I'll definatly be looking into this... I mean, even if there's no degree or whatever, I'm still learning, and that's what's important anyway.
Some might point out that you haven't taken advantage of this web-based learning tool... but I won't....
I am having trouble with the word curesed. I'm not sure if you mean "cursed" or "coerced" (gramatically coerced works better). At any rate, you shouldn't let money be a limiting factor. It's often only a matter of priorities. What do you spend money on? Games? Fast food? Movies? Add it all up and you'll be surprised what it looks like annualized. Some people just like Big Macs and Cokes more than something they bemoan a lack of finances for.
If you're bright enough to go to a place like MIT, finances can be worked out. You may have to "cram" a four year degree into six or eight years by laying out a semester here and there to accumulate more funds. There's more scholarship money out there than you can shake a stick at, some specializing in nearly every kind of sub-group you can think of ($1,500.00 for left-handed eskimos with post-nasal-drip? They probably have a scholarship!).
Dang! missle^H^Hile