I think Sun (JAVA) is a case where bad management doesn't work. They were a sinking ship before they went this route.
In Slashdot parlance it's like if a bad driver a Ford Pinto and then you gave him a brand new Lexus. He's still going to crash. The only difference was airbags, which is what the open sourcing stunt provided Sun management with.
I don't think Oracle is really concerned with whether or not open source is profitable. All they would have to do is look at RedHat and follow it's earnings report.
What they are really doing is announcing an investigation to be followed by "It's not profitable, we can't continue it, so buy Oracle databases systems, we just can't profitable continue the open source product lines".
Which is going to be a problem for Open Source for awhile once they announce.
They know they can make a profit from Open Source, but they know they can make a bigger profit from closed source (for now, which is all they care about).
What I'd like to do is start a buzz on how Oracle has bought Open Source and is to incompetent to figure out how to make a profit.
Better yet, the spin should be, Open Source products are so good, stable, and user friendly that Oracle couldn't figure out how to profit from that.
So next time MSNBC, or FOX starts reading email posts send it in.
I bet they paid or pay her a lot of money. If I was the CEO I would? Just here have a million.
I'm sure that Apple, MS and various others will get on board.
It's been known for a long time though that woman who use linux are hotter than most. I'll testify to that plus the fact that when a woman I'm dating uses Linux , I want to mow her lawn , pay her bills, vacuum, and do dishes. Linux is evil?
But who can I sue.
One of the people here at work has had one for about 4months and no one seems to be able to get it to connect to a samba server with read and write privileges.
Charging $30 each for adaptors to plug in a VGA or DVI monitor is just cheap though - they should be included as standard,
A new computer which was purchased from Dell required adapters for VGA and DVI, they cost $25.
And don't get me started on why we purchased from Dell
They still suck.
The main problem we run into is shoulder surfing. By changing the passwords every so often we reduce the number of instances where people are using an account with higher privileges. I actually ran into one instance where someone was giving out their account information so that a subordinate could do his work for him. If the account password had not been changed the subordinate would have had access to the account forever.
In the real world the CEO doesn't give a rats ass about these kinds of things, he just wants me to handle it.
So it makes my life easier to just expire the account password and say something went wrong.
The more times I force password changes the more times the idiot user has to tell people his password, which increases the likelihood of someone catching them and telling me.
I still only require a 90 day password change and am for passwords being changed.
The one place where this becomes apparent is after a password change, I see logs of denied access for a given account, which are much easier to track than access accepted.
Because he is a troll.
Anyway, I've been wondering what about all those people who used them to build clusters. I guess they wouldn't connect them to the internet, so they are probably okay. But man I would be pissed if someone connected my PS3 cluster to the internet and it just went away.
I think the bigger hammer Amazon has, is removing Sony products from their Web site. All of them?
I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon for the convenience, but I rarely walk into a store without looking at feedback on the product before I buy.
Amazon feedback, consumer reports, newegg feedback, and Tom's Hardware.
Using Apache, PHP, Postgres, Maintains revisions and signoff lists. document owners, authors. It ain't pretty but it has gotten us through 2 audits with high marks.
Still needs some security brush ups.
And there are some aspects that are still not user friendly.
But we have had some other companies ask for copies. Never have given it out though.
If you want a version and can wait a few weeks I can send it to you. Along with notes on what needs to be fixed.
I like science and math. I started working on a physics degree, but switched to engineering when I learned that I had a better chance of making a living in engineering. I eventually finished my physics degree, but continued in engineering.
Never wondered why kids climb trees, but have wondered why I always want to climb mountains.
The doctor was describing to a colleague how he was measuring a byproduct of the medication he was giving me. I had read up on the drug and realized that he was measuring one of the byproducts of the chemical reaction occurring in my blood. I think he thought it a little insulting that I a mere mortal thought there was a simple explanation for what was going on and it wasn't really magic. So I really didn't have a need for a pharmacist, although that is usually my first source when I have a question about what it going on with a medication.
I agree with your concerns. Being a chemical engineer and a physical scientist, I have often found medical doctors understanding of chemistry and other sciences lacking. I once had an argument about chemical kinetics involved in a prescription drug I was taking, he basically told me I didn't know what I was talking about and blew me off. After another run in with him over another issue I fired him. But that's just one of my personal issues with a doctor.
Back when I was in graduate school me and my colleagues in graduate science taught pre-med chemistry and physics, which was a really watered down version of chemistry and physics which were taught to engineers and science majors. To be honest I thought it was kind of scary. All these years I was taught that medical student were supposed to be the best and the brightest, but we spoon fed them "baby chemistry" and "baby physics".
Since that time I have had many discussions with professors about this and they and I have come to the same conclusion, "the best and the brightest do not go into medical school". Thirty or forty years ago this may have been true, but economics has taken a turn and it just isn't the case anymore.
And why would they? They can make more money on Wall Street, they don't have to hassle with bureaucracy of health insurance, they don't have to hassle with lawyers, so why would the best and brightest go into medicine.
And you want to know what kind of income a hot little girl with a business degree can get. Pharmaceutical sales can pay 6 figures for one good figure. So the next time you see that good looking girl pulling that bag through your doctors office realize she is probably making a lot of money. More money than the average general practitioner .
It seems to work for the accounting industry. Do you know how many accountants/companies would be out of work if we just went to a flat tax? Do you know how many people in healthcare administration would be out of work if we just went to single payer? So if all of these industries can have a boondoggle why can't we?
I get paid to do work, if that work involves fixing something that shouldn't be broke, well so be it.
And they usually pay me a lot more to tell them what they want to hear.
Hell , I used to work for a company where part of our business was supporting Windows. We also did development. After a number of frustrating weeks with patches we switched our development over to Linux systems, because it was more reliable and we could get things done. We talked about starting to expand linux installations to customer sites, but were deeply concerned that we would lose a constant revenue stream if we did. So if we were asked, we just told customers that Linux was to difficult to install and maintain in a corporate environment and was really only good in an environment with a lot of computer geeks. They would buy it, never thinking about why our laptops were linux and if you came to our offices most of us were running linux on the desktop and occassionally the CEO would tell them our servers were running linux. The main place where we ran Windows was in the lab, so we could test issues with Windows systems.
The main thing holding linux back from adoption in coorporate and business environments is an Office Suite. Yes, there is Open Office, but it doesn't have the functionality of MS Office. The other Suite issue is compatibility. For some reason people have this notion that you can't ask other people to resend a document in a format your office suite can read. This used to happen all the time, but now when I talk to someone they act like "What are you talking about? I can't just ask someone to resend me a document using another office suite format".
Sorry to be so abrupt, but I think what he was saying is that a lot of people learn Visual Basic and never learn what they are doing. They get hung up on results and creating them as fast as they can and it becomes a habit they can't break.
One case in point the number of programs with security flaws.
Another being the overhead of simple programs or the lack of concern of programmers for needless overhead.
Yes, there have been a number of people who have become good programmers after using Visual Basic, but there are also a lot of really crappy programmers who started with Visual Basic.
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I think Sun (JAVA) is a case where bad management doesn't work. They were a sinking ship before they went this route.
In Slashdot parlance it's like if a bad driver a Ford Pinto and then you gave him a brand new Lexus. He's still going to crash. The only difference was airbags, which is what the open sourcing stunt provided Sun management with.
I'd just add, look at Novell also. Open Source isn't going to cure bad management.
I don't think Oracle is really concerned with whether or not open source is profitable. All they would have to do is look at RedHat and follow it's earnings report.
What they are really doing is announcing an investigation to be followed by "It's not profitable, we can't continue it, so buy Oracle databases systems, we just can't profitable continue the open source product lines".
Which is going to be a problem for Open Source for awhile once they announce.
They know they can make a profit from Open Source, but they know they can make a bigger profit from closed source (for now, which is all they care about).
What I'd like to do is start a buzz on how Oracle has bought Open Source and is to incompetent to figure out how to make a profit.
Better yet, the spin should be, Open Source products are so good, stable, and user friendly that Oracle couldn't figure out how to profit from that.
So next time MSNBC, or FOX starts reading email posts send it in.
Ahh, somebody who actually reads the allowed tax deductions. What he says is true.
yep
I bet they paid or pay her a lot of money. If I was the CEO I would? Just here have a million.
I'm sure that Apple, MS and various others will get on board.
It's been known for a long time though that woman who use linux are hotter than most. I'll testify to that plus the fact that when a woman I'm dating uses Linux , I want to mow her lawn , pay her bills, vacuum, and do dishes. Linux is evil?
But who can I sue.
One of the people here at work has had one for about 4months and no one seems to be able to get it to connect to a samba server with read and write privileges.
Charging $30 each for adaptors to plug in a VGA or DVI monitor is just cheap though - they should be included as standard,
A new computer which was purchased from Dell required adapters for VGA and DVI, they cost $25.
And don't get me started on why we purchased from Dell
They still suck.
The main problem we run into is shoulder surfing. By changing the passwords every so often we reduce the number of instances where people are using an account with higher privileges. I actually ran into one instance where someone was giving out their account information so that a subordinate could do his work for him. If the account password had not been changed the subordinate would have had access to the account forever.
In the real world the CEO doesn't give a rats ass about these kinds of things, he just wants me to handle it.
So it makes my life easier to just expire the account password and say something went wrong.
The more times I force password changes the more times the idiot user has to tell people his password, which increases the likelihood of someone catching them and telling me.
I still only require a 90 day password change and am for passwords being changed.
The one place where this becomes apparent is after a password change, I see logs of denied access for a given account, which are much easier to track than access accepted.
I think it would be better if people just quit buying their products.
I quit buying Exxon/Mobil gas some years ago.
Because he is a troll.
Anyway, I've been wondering what about all those people who used them to build clusters. I guess they wouldn't connect them to the internet, so they are probably okay. But man I would be pissed if someone connected my PS3 cluster to the internet and it just went away.
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people with Vista on their computers were thinking the same thing.
I think the bigger hammer Amazon has, is removing Sony products from their Web site. All of them?
I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon for the convenience, but I rarely walk into a store without looking at feedback on the product before I buy.
Amazon feedback, consumer reports, newegg feedback, and Tom's Hardware.
Using Apache, PHP, Postgres, Maintains revisions and signoff lists. document owners, authors. It ain't pretty but it has gotten us through 2 audits with high marks. Still needs some security brush ups.
And there are some aspects that are still not user friendly.
But we have had some other companies ask for copies. Never have given it out though.
If you want a version and can wait a few weeks I can send it to you. Along with notes on what needs to be fixed.
So does this mean that the name 'Scarface' is now available on Facebook?
I like science and math. I started working on a physics degree, but switched to engineering when I learned that I had a better chance of making a living in engineering. I eventually finished my physics degree, but continued in engineering.
Never wondered why kids climb trees, but have wondered why I always want to climb mountains.
The doctor was describing to a colleague how he was measuring a byproduct of the medication he was giving me. I had read up on the drug and realized that he was measuring one of the byproducts of the chemical reaction occurring in my blood. I think he thought it a little insulting that I a mere mortal thought there was a simple explanation for what was going on and it wasn't really magic. So I really didn't have a need for a pharmacist, although that is usually my first source when I have a question about what it going on with a medication.
Oh and I actually made it through graduate school, maybe I should tell UT I want my money back.
You should remember that Engineers are just English majors who couldn't hack it.
I agree with your concerns. Being a chemical engineer and a physical scientist, I have often found medical doctors understanding of chemistry and other sciences lacking. I once had an argument about chemical kinetics involved in a prescription drug I was taking, he basically told me I didn't know what I was talking about and blew me off. After another run in with him over another issue I fired him. But that's just one of my personal issues with a doctor.
Back when I was in graduate school me and my colleagues in graduate science taught pre-med chemistry and physics, which was a really watered down version of chemistry and physics which were taught to engineers and science majors. To be honest I thought it was kind of scary. All these years I was taught that medical student were supposed to be the best and the brightest, but we spoon fed them "baby chemistry" and "baby physics".
Since that time I have had many discussions with professors about this and they and I have come to the same conclusion, "the best and the brightest do not go into medical school". Thirty or forty years ago this may have been true, but economics has taken a turn and it just isn't the case anymore.
And why would they? They can make more money on Wall Street, they don't have to hassle with bureaucracy of health insurance, they don't have to hassle with lawyers, so why would the best and brightest go into medicine.
And you want to know what kind of income a hot little girl with a business degree can get. Pharmaceutical sales can pay 6 figures for one good figure. So the next time you see that good looking girl pulling that bag through your doctors office realize she is probably making a lot of money. More money than the average general practitioner .
It seems to work for the accounting industry. Do you know how many accountants/companies would be out of work if we just went to a flat tax? Do you know how many people in healthcare administration would be out of work if we just went to single payer? So if all of these industries can have a boondoggle why can't we?
I get paid to do work, if that work involves fixing something that shouldn't be broke, well so be it.
And they usually pay me a lot more to tell them what they want to hear.
Hell , I used to work for a company where part of our business was supporting Windows. We also did development. After a number of frustrating weeks with patches we switched our development over to Linux systems, because it was more reliable and we could get things done. We talked about starting to expand linux installations to customer sites, but were deeply concerned that we would lose a constant revenue stream if we did. So if we were asked, we just told customers that Linux was to difficult to install and maintain in a corporate environment and was really only good in an environment with a lot of computer geeks. They would buy it, never thinking about why our laptops were linux and if you came to our offices most of us were running linux on the desktop and occassionally the CEO would tell them our servers were running linux. The main place where we ran Windows was in the lab, so we could test issues with Windows systems.
The main thing holding linux back from adoption in coorporate and business environments is an Office Suite. Yes, there is Open Office, but it doesn't have the functionality of MS Office. The other Suite issue is compatibility. For some reason people have this notion that you can't ask other people to resend a document in a format your office suite can read. This used to happen all the time, but now when I talk to someone they act like "What are you talking about? I can't just ask someone to resend me a document using another office suite format".
Hey if it works for the US financial system and government it can't really be that bad of a business model.
Sorry to be so abrupt, but I think what he was saying is that a lot of people learn Visual Basic and never learn what they are doing. They get hung up on results and creating them as fast as they can and it becomes a habit they can't break.
One case in point the number of programs with security flaws.
Another being the overhead of simple programs or the lack of concern of programmers for needless overhead.
Yes, there have been a number of people who have become good programmers after using Visual Basic, but there are also a lot of really crappy programmers who started with Visual Basic.
Ahh, that quote was a spaceship flying about 300 km over your head.