I know they don't put everyone through the full scan that passengers experience, which is a big reason why the requirements of the passenger scan are simply security theater.
I'm glad they scan pilots as well, because people will pay attention when the pilots make a stink.
If they didn't scan everyone, then what's the point of scanning anyone? Imagine this progression: Ok, we'll exempt pilots. Ok, we'll exempt flight crew. Ok, we'll exempt ground crew. Ok, we'll exempt airport administration. Ok, we'll exempt First Class passengers. Ok, we'll exempt concession workers. Ok, we'll exempt Business Class passengers. Ok, we'll exempt the airport staff and janitorial crew.
Eventually the only people left getting scanned will be the "cattle class".
Tell that to our receptionists that had to go around and erase a voicemail in all our unused phone extensions (that have direct dial numbers) when the sheriff's department sent out a missing person call. Why this one person warranted reverse 911 in a major metropolitan area, I'll never know.
I don't have a problem with reverse-911 in general, just the particular details as to when it's implemented. In California our expensive traffic indicator freeway signs were re-appropriated for abducted child "Amber Alerts", and more often than not, don't show traffic information any more. I can see other things slowly clamoring for the same access.
You forgot the cost of the intelligence.... knowing exactly what kind of equipment to attack, and in what configurations. And the test equipment isn't cheap either.
$1M is pitifully low when you look at the whole picture of what it takes to put this together, AND keep it under wraps while you do it.
Synchronization (both email and calendar) across lots of clients... Outlook, Apple Mail, iPhone, Blackberrys, Thunderbird/Sunbird, Entourage, Android phones, Windows phones, etc.
GMail integrated calendars and contact databases only exist in the web app and Android devices.
The other missing thing is local servers which does have a real benefit if you have certain data retention requirements or are looking to reduce the load on your incoming data line.
Oh, and take the total price difference in your final options, and divide it out over the lifespan of the systems (usually 3 years, but check w/ your CFO regarding how they're depreciating items and taking advantage of tax issues). Leases offer a lot more flexibility for the bean counters in how they report things.
If that total difference, divided by the timespan is less than the salary + benefits + overhead of adding a single employee to the firm (which it probably is) then it's a huge waste of resources.
We just looked at completely revamping our servers, network, and desktops, comparing an Windows AD server environment to an OSX OD directory structure (most of our workstations are OSX). Even when you factor in all the extra licensing on the AD side, and the extra speciality management tools we'll need to buy to integrate OSX client management effectively, it was less than $30k difference in initial outlay costs on a half-million dollar project. Over the 3 years of depreciation and financing, that's less than $1k/month in direct cost difference. And if we had gone with the slightly less expensive OD environment, our IT labor costs would certainly have been more than $1k/month higher.
Leave your personal agenda out of this, and figure out just how much labor and lost productivity for users really costs. Hint, it's not simply their salary. I guarantee you your CFO knows how much overhead there is on top of salary, which is the company's real break-even. Someone making $65K a year likely needs to be billed out at around $70/hr or more, just for the company to break even. Every hour of productivity that person loses increases the hourly rate you need to bill them at in order to continue to break even.
Why Linux? If it's simply license costs, well then keep people on Windows. The per-seat software license costs are pretty small compared to your labor + overhead costs of what your IT people will need to put in to retrain user expectations. Even if you're paying $500/user for Windows + Office, that's tiny compared to overall productivity differences.
If people need posixy goodness, give 'em OSX. For the most part they'll probably be happier to not need to mess around as much with desktop config and software installation. Leave Linux to users who can self-install and self-support.
Do not take MS Office away from your Finance and Management teams. Sure, they could learn OpenOffice if they needed, but there's a lot of stuff that Excel does really well that OpenOffice Charts can't. And if a Senior Manager spends even 1-2 hours trying to learn how to use OpenOffice, well, that wasted time just blew away the license cost savings. Re-training and loss of productivity is very expensive, very difficult to factor into your budgeting plans, and impossible not to underestimate.
Finally, why move from Exchange to GMail??? If you don't want to pay as much, consider Kerio or Zimbra, but do not force users to give up integrated messaging, group calendars, and contact databases. We're moving right now from a lousy group calendar to Kerio (Exchange wasn't right for us) because we waste so much time just trying to schedule meetings.
Did I say that they didn't? No... I said that high-end consumer gaming machines are not where Intel is making its money.
And those cards don't have to use PCIe, there's other ways of getting the controllers in. Gigabit network cards for example already offload a lot onto the processor itself and are usually built into the chipset.
Re-read your own links and the passages mentioned. Jesus does not quote the Adam and Eve story as literal history, in contradiction to the argument you are repeating. He makes reference to Adam and Eve, but does not call them out specifically, and essentially says "Haven't you read your creation story? God made two genders with the intent of them joining together as one."
The arguments you are repeating are stretches relying on individual interpretation.
Because some fundamentalist Christians believe that the Bible is absolute word-of-God literal truth, and anything that might contradict that is a direct attack on their personal faith. It's a relatively insecure faith structure based on a very simplistic understanding of the Judeo-Christian God and the Bible.
On the other hand, most Christians look to the Bible as an important resource in bettering themselves, and believe that much of it, especially Genesis, is meant to be allegorical, not a literal history of the Earth. These people do accept evolution as valid science, and view it as one of many of God's tools used to influence the long-term development of humanity. We would prefer you didn't lump us together with that other crowd as evolution deniers.
For example, the Catholic Church openly accepts evolution as truth, saying there is no conflict between the science and God. Furthermore, the Big Bang Theory was actually put forward by a priest.
Running the government like a business will fail. Every time some one tries it, it fails. Why? because they MUST cater to everyone. Regardless of income. Plus, they can never maintain the high level of service the government provides cheaper then the government does it.
True, most businesses have a luxury of excluding unwanted customers, something the government cannot do. That said, the government can learn a lot from private business. For example there's little to no incentive for government employees to be better or more efficient at their jobs. All compensation is determined entirely by tenure and job title. Imagine if the DMV awarded quarterly bonuses for superior performance, better results, or cost-cutting efficiencies. The department would operate completely differently than it does now, there would be real incentives for having usable online customer/citizen tools, and good customer/citizen service could be a real valued, measured goal instead of simply a minimum job requirement to get a guaranteed paycheck.
Some school districts have started experimenting with these sorts of techniques, much to the chagrin of their teacher's unions, and real improvements in students are being seen without raising funding levels. The teachers are motivated by more than just personality to better themselves and improve their skills. The students rightly reap the benefits of having better teachers.
I agree their are problems with CSS that need to be addressed, and you brought up a great example, but comparing HTML5 support while ignoring CSS is pointless. It's like comparing javascript frameworks while ignoring browser support.
No, it's more like saying "I'm in Transportation".
Which is fine to start the discussion, especially since most people don't care whether you are a DB admin or if you are a network engineer. It's all just technology to them.
Look at people in the aerospace industry, they don't start out by saying "I'm a materials specialist studying the radar reflective characteristics on components with concave non-metallic surfaces under pressure" (or whatever the equivalent job description is), they say "I'm in aerospace" and continue the discussion from there if the other party is interested in more detail.
Bullshit. There's no way you had 5mbps DSL in 1995 at a rural location. The chips necessary for 56kbps modems didn't exist until 1996, and didn't even become standardized until consolidated into v.90 in 1998. Most cable companies weren't even thinking about providing internet access yet, and the DSL standard wasn't created until 1996. Canada's DSL standard wasn't drafted until 1997.
Now, if you want to claim you had 5 mbps at a rural location in 2005, I might believe you.
If somebody wrote a decent spreadsheet, one that separates data from calculation and presentation, I may actually use it.
Then what you want is a database. If you truly want the data and presentation separate, then a spreadsheet is wrong for you, because by definition it combines data, calculations, and presentation.
OS 9 was the last time we had an easy OS to tweak and customize. It was the last time Apple allowed you to just put anything on the machine and give it a go.
What the hell are you talking about? OSX in every incarnation is far more open and tweakable than OS9. You do realize that under that pretty Aqua layer is a full UNIX system with all the infinite flexibility and customization that brings? I've tweaked and run all kinds of services and tools that Apple never intended on OSX, but was impossible on OS9. Try doing real filesharing on OS9 with fine-grained permissions. Try running a web server. Try running a wiki, a chat server, a real calendar server, an email server, a managed login server... And that's not even counting what user-land applications can now do because there's a clear API and modern resource management underneath. Hell just fire up Automater and look at all the amazing things you can do linking programs together without even touching terminal. It makes Applescripting look like a child's toy.
It's mentatlities like yours that kept my office 4 years behind on hardware and software updates....and we're really paying for it now.
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Eve online is primarily a strategy game, and nothing like the dogfight space fighting sim that was X-Wing.
There are no fleet management components or APIs.
Read up on the iPhone Configuration Utility, http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/ I think you'll be surprised.
I know they don't put everyone through the full scan that passengers experience, which is a big reason why the requirements of the passenger scan are simply security theater.
I'm glad they scan pilots as well, because people will pay attention when the pilots make a stink.
If they didn't scan everyone, then what's the point of scanning anyone? Imagine this progression:
Ok, we'll exempt pilots.
Ok, we'll exempt flight crew.
Ok, we'll exempt ground crew.
Ok, we'll exempt airport administration.
Ok, we'll exempt First Class passengers.
Ok, we'll exempt concession workers.
Ok, we'll exempt Business Class passengers.
Ok, we'll exempt the airport staff and janitorial crew.
Eventually the only people left getting scanned will be the "cattle class".
Tell that to our receptionists that had to go around and erase a voicemail in all our unused phone extensions (that have direct dial numbers) when the sheriff's department sent out a missing person call. Why this one person warranted reverse 911 in a major metropolitan area, I'll never know.
I don't have a problem with reverse-911 in general, just the particular details as to when it's implemented. In California our expensive traffic indicator freeway signs were re-appropriated for abducted child "Amber Alerts", and more often than not, don't show traffic information any more. I can see other things slowly clamoring for the same access.
Who gets to decide the announcement and radius?
You forgot the cost of the intelligence.... knowing exactly what kind of equipment to attack, and in what configurations. And the test equipment isn't cheap either.
$1M is pitifully low when you look at the whole picture of what it takes to put this together, AND keep it under wraps while you do it.
They're doing a pretty good job already.
Synchronization (both email and calendar) across lots of clients... Outlook, Apple Mail, iPhone, Blackberrys, Thunderbird/Sunbird, Entourage, Android phones, Windows phones, etc.
GMail integrated calendars and contact databases only exist in the web app and Android devices.
The other missing thing is local servers which does have a real benefit if you have certain data retention requirements or are looking to reduce the load on your incoming data line.
But only within the GMail web client.
Oh, and take the total price difference in your final options, and divide it out over the lifespan of the systems (usually 3 years, but check w/ your CFO regarding how they're depreciating items and taking advantage of tax issues). Leases offer a lot more flexibility for the bean counters in how they report things.
If that total difference, divided by the timespan is less than the salary + benefits + overhead of adding a single employee to the firm (which it probably is) then it's a huge waste of resources.
We just looked at completely revamping our servers, network, and desktops, comparing an Windows AD server environment to an OSX OD directory structure (most of our workstations are OSX). Even when you factor in all the extra licensing on the AD side, and the extra speciality management tools we'll need to buy to integrate OSX client management effectively, it was less than $30k difference in initial outlay costs on a half-million dollar project. Over the 3 years of depreciation and financing, that's less than $1k/month in direct cost difference. And if we had gone with the slightly less expensive OD environment, our IT labor costs would certainly have been more than $1k/month higher.
Leave your personal agenda out of this, and figure out just how much labor and lost productivity for users really costs. Hint, it's not simply their salary. I guarantee you your CFO knows how much overhead there is on top of salary, which is the company's real break-even. Someone making $65K a year likely needs to be billed out at around $70/hr or more, just for the company to break even. Every hour of productivity that person loses increases the hourly rate you need to bill them at in order to continue to break even.
Why Linux? If it's simply license costs, well then keep people on Windows. The per-seat software license costs are pretty small compared to your labor + overhead costs of what your IT people will need to put in to retrain user expectations. Even if you're paying $500/user for Windows + Office, that's tiny compared to overall productivity differences.
If people need posixy goodness, give 'em OSX. For the most part they'll probably be happier to not need to mess around as much with desktop config and software installation. Leave Linux to users who can self-install and self-support.
Do not take MS Office away from your Finance and Management teams. Sure, they could learn OpenOffice if they needed, but there's a lot of stuff that Excel does really well that OpenOffice Charts can't. And if a Senior Manager spends even 1-2 hours trying to learn how to use OpenOffice, well, that wasted time just blew away the license cost savings. Re-training and loss of productivity is very expensive, very difficult to factor into your budgeting plans, and impossible not to underestimate.
Finally, why move from Exchange to GMail??? If you don't want to pay as much, consider Kerio or Zimbra, but do not force users to give up integrated messaging, group calendars, and contact databases. We're moving right now from a lousy group calendar to Kerio (Exchange wasn't right for us) because we waste so much time just trying to schedule meetings.
Episodes 2&3 of what?
And why are you making a Yoda-like quote?
Did I say that they didn't? No... I said that high-end consumer gaming machines are not where Intel is making its money.
And those cards don't have to use PCIe, there's other ways of getting the controllers in. Gigabit network cards for example already offload a lot onto the processor itself and are usually built into the chipset.
Re-read your own links and the passages mentioned. Jesus does not quote the Adam and Eve story as literal history, in contradiction to the argument you are repeating. He makes reference to Adam and Eve, but does not call them out specifically, and essentially says "Haven't you read your creation story? God made two genders with the intent of them joining together as one."
The arguments you are repeating are stretches relying on individual interpretation.
Because some fundamentalist Christians believe that the Bible is absolute word-of-God literal truth, and anything that might contradict that is a direct attack on their personal faith. It's a relatively insecure faith structure based on a very simplistic understanding of the Judeo-Christian God and the Bible.
On the other hand, most Christians look to the Bible as an important resource in bettering themselves, and believe that much of it, especially Genesis, is meant to be allegorical, not a literal history of the Earth. These people do accept evolution as valid science, and view it as one of many of God's tools used to influence the long-term development of humanity. We would prefer you didn't lump us together with that other crowd as evolution deniers.
For example, the Catholic Church openly accepts evolution as truth, saying there is no conflict between the science and God. Furthermore, the Big Bang Theory was actually put forward by a priest.
Intel's high-end consumer products aren't where they make their money.... and enough of them make it into prebuilt machines from Dell, HP, anyways.
Most high-end Intel CPUs are sold as server solutions, where a graphics card makes very little difference.
True, most businesses have a luxury of excluding unwanted customers, something the government cannot do. That said, the government can learn a lot from private business. For example there's little to no incentive for government employees to be better or more efficient at their jobs. All compensation is determined entirely by tenure and job title. Imagine if the DMV awarded quarterly bonuses for superior performance, better results, or cost-cutting efficiencies. The department would operate completely differently than it does now, there would be real incentives for having usable online customer/citizen tools, and good customer/citizen service could be a real valued, measured goal instead of simply a minimum job requirement to get a guaranteed paycheck.
Some school districts have started experimenting with these sorts of techniques, much to the chagrin of their teacher's unions, and real improvements in students are being seen without raising funding levels. The teachers are motivated by more than just personality to better themselves and improve their skills. The students rightly reap the benefits of having better teachers.
I agree their are problems with CSS that need to be addressed, and you brought up a great example, but comparing HTML5 support while ignoring CSS is pointless. It's like comparing javascript frameworks while ignoring browser support.
No, it's more like saying "I'm in Transportation".
Which is fine to start the discussion, especially since most people don't care whether you are a DB admin or if you are a network engineer. It's all just technology to them.
Look at people in the aerospace industry, they don't start out by saying "I'm a materials specialist studying the radar reflective characteristics on components with concave non-metallic surfaces under pressure" (or whatever the equivalent job description is), they say "I'm in aerospace" and continue the discussion from there if the other party is interested in more detail.
Exactly what I wanted to bring up.
HTML5 without CSS is completely useless.
Bullshit. There's no way you had 5mbps DSL in 1995 at a rural location. The chips necessary for 56kbps modems didn't exist until 1996, and didn't even become standardized until consolidated into v.90 in 1998. Most cable companies weren't even thinking about providing internet access yet, and the DSL standard wasn't created until 1996. Canada's DSL standard wasn't drafted until 1997.
Now, if you want to claim you had 5 mbps at a rural location in 2005, I might believe you.
If somebody wrote a decent spreadsheet, one that separates data from calculation and presentation, I may actually use it.
Then what you want is a database. If you truly want the data and presentation separate, then a spreadsheet is wrong for you, because by definition it combines data, calculations, and presentation.
No, the implication is that the knock-off clone with pirated iOS is a better value because it's already unlocked and doesn't need jailbreaking.
OS 9 was the last time we had an easy OS to tweak and customize. It was the last time Apple allowed you to just put anything on the machine and give it a go.
What the hell are you talking about? OSX in every incarnation is far more open and tweakable than OS9. You do realize that under that pretty Aqua layer is a full UNIX system with all the infinite flexibility and customization that brings? I've tweaked and run all kinds of services and tools that Apple never intended on OSX, but was impossible on OS9. Try doing real filesharing on OS9 with fine-grained permissions. Try running a web server. Try running a wiki, a chat server, a real calendar server, an email server, a managed login server... And that's not even counting what user-land applications can now do because there's a clear API and modern resource management underneath. Hell just fire up Automater and look at all the amazing things you can do linking programs together without even touching terminal. It makes Applescripting look like a child's toy.
It's mentatlities like yours that kept my office 4 years behind on hardware and software updates....and we're really paying for it now.
Microsoft Office is not provided with OSX, and certainly isn't in the App Store yet.