My questions are not tainted by real world experiences, so feel free to enlighten me.
1. If it is the marketing people who have the final say, why aren't they part of the process from the beginning?
2. If design people can throw in fundamental changes to UI, why are they the last to be asked?
In sum: Is this just mismanagement or is there some fundamental truth about real world development that escapes me somehow?
The lawyers were paid upfront - so they may be forced to beat single bones of this skeleton to an en-banc-hearing or the Supreme Court. Both are dead ends.
I guess this charade will have taught Boies Schiller & Flexner that such arrangements are a bad deal. Larry Ellison will have to cough up money for every step he wants to go in Oracle vs. Google (maybe the best coming out of this case).
And, of course, the counterclaims of SCO vs. IBM may have to be dealt with.
Two arguments against that:
1. He/She does not live. If your soul went to heaven - an unlikely proposition, I know - eternal bliss would not be a part of your life, but rather of your afterlife. If this is the place where you can meet your maker, and a place, where you don't live, your maker won't live either, I guess.
2. God has always been envisioned in the Christian theological tradition as a simple being. The same goes for souls and angels, btw. So there is no way of thinking Him as "complex" - because complex things by definition may degenerate, and a degenerating God is inconceivable.
Conclusion: Always know your enemy.;)
I'm quite sure that an engineer gone dentist is the right person to decide on a social science curriculum: This is the leader of the conservative majority. I think the next Oscars should be awarded by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
The decisive advantage of open formats should be that you can work around any limitations posed by an application. Moreover, every OO-user can send you a pdf preserving all essential properties of the document. I'm curious why none of these options seems to help you. And, by the way, what is an "epub-company"? A company publishing ebooks in epub format, or rather a company pursuing electronic publishing?
All you need then is an anti-information machine. So SF-writers would have to dream up a machine capable of annihilating information gathered in centuries before in order to compensate for gravitational effects. Oh... wait.. the internet exists... we just have to wait for its effects to get big enough: Buying an amnesia of, say, two years will buy you a journey to alpha centauri in the near future.;)
Step 1: "The KDE software compilation team happily acknowledges the bug report you have filed. Why we are happy? This bug report in fact concerns the KDE workspaces team. Or so we believe. Please be so kind as to file your bug report again at the appropriate place. If the KDE workplaces team should be able to prove that this is none of their matter, please be so kind as to reopen this bug. After reopening the bug here, please be aware that it will be triaged for at least nine months as a matter of policy. If you should be obnoxious, we may decide at our own will to extend the period to at least eleven months. Thank you very much for your assistance in making the K Desktop/Compilation/Workspace/Application Experience even better. Salvatory Clause: The expression "K Desktop experience" is only preserved for the purpose of backward compatibility."
Step 2: "Thanks a lot for filing a bug report. We certainly appreciate your willingness to enhance the K Workspaces Experience (formerly known as the K Desktop Experience, an expression preserved only in order to preserve backward compatibility). However, we have noticed in your bug report that Amarok 1.1.4 has been opened while encountering your bug. Since Amarok 1.1.4 certainly cannot be regarded as part of the K Software Compilation experience, you should consider updating. If this does not remove the bug you have encountered, please be so kind as to file a bug first against the respective K Software Compilation. If this should not prove to be sucessful in the next two years, please reconsider opening the bug here. Before that, it will be futile anyway."
At the present time, it is the district attorney (Staatsanwaltschaft) conducting an investigation (Ermittlungsverfahren). Whether this will ever go to court, remains to be seen. And if this should happen, it will be dealt with by the criminal division of the court. The judgments quoted by you concerned civil cases.
From the jury instruction: "The law demands of you a just verdict, unaffected by anything except the evidence, your common sense, and the law as I give it to you."
And what, if the law as given by the judge obliterates common sense?
1. You should have clarified your position in your original post (sparing many people empty replies supposing that you are on the it-side of things - those are the people supposed to post on slashdot).
2. What exactly is it that you decide on? The usecases you are pondering aren't all clear. Can you decide on software your administration is supposed to use? Or does this only concern academia?
3. Concerning your more specific requests: To which extent do you believe that zotero is a replacement for endnote? Just taking citations from the catalogue of your university library? The administration of bibliographical data for all your academic staff? Or just students? I am certainly not defending endnote, in particular with regard to the lawsuit of thomson against zotero, but still you need to clarify first of all the scope of what your commitee may decide upon before expecting any reasonable answers to your question. Or do you seriously believe that your committee may decide on how to set up the mailserver of your university? If this should be true, you may better be on the look-out for a new job. Any university allowing professors to decide on their it-backend is doomed, in my opinion.
Speaking from a user point of view, I can assure you that any attempt to change the attitudes of either professors or administrative staff towards open-source software is a tough job.
Administrators may reason that too many of their processes are tied to particular software bundles not available in the FOSS-world or that turnaround costs for introducing FOSS are too high.
Professors are a wholly different bunch: They regard their office computer as a natural extension of their working environment. Any disruption in this environment is highly unwelcome. I can guarantee that you would not like to go into fights with either of both sides.
There is, however, a highly unobtrusive way of introducing open source software to the university: public internet access and the like. If you really want to change user-experience, this is the place to go.
The argument for superiors: Conversion to FOSS substantially diminishes TCO. Public access points can be administered centrally, and the risk of demolition by students decreases significantly. Moreover, throwing a microsoft license at a workplace with limited capabilities is a waste of money.
The argument for you from a FOSS point of view: You can prove that FOSS significantly reduces TCO in a given area. Moreover, users feel at home very quickly (if the setup is reasonable, as I would hope). And you as an administrator gain valuable experience in a limited area, enhancing your credibility.
Further steps in any migration strategy very much depend on the infrastructure of the institution as a whole, so any general advice should be regarded with some caution - even if it comes from slashdot.
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My questions are not tainted by real world experiences, so feel free to enlighten me. 1. If it is the marketing people who have the final say, why aren't they part of the process from the beginning? 2. If design people can throw in fundamental changes to UI, why are they the last to be asked? In sum: Is this just mismanagement or is there some fundamental truth about real world development that escapes me somehow?
You forgot the journalist for the local newspaper - the only one being paid to listen, though he/she doesn't get enough... ;)
The author should look a the visudo man page.
http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2011cv02564/377900/49/1.pdf
The lawyers were paid upfront - so they may be forced to beat single bones of this skeleton to an en-banc-hearing or the Supreme Court. Both are dead ends.
I guess this charade will have taught Boies Schiller & Flexner that such arrangements are a bad deal. Larry Ellison will have to cough up money for every step he wants to go in Oracle vs. Google (maybe the best coming out of this case).
And, of course, the counterclaims of SCO vs. IBM may have to be dealt with.
Two arguments against that: 1. He/She does not live. If your soul went to heaven - an unlikely proposition, I know - eternal bliss would not be a part of your life, but rather of your afterlife. If this is the place where you can meet your maker, and a place, where you don't live, your maker won't live either, I guess. 2. God has always been envisioned in the Christian theological tradition as a simple being. The same goes for souls and angels, btw. So there is no way of thinking Him as "complex" - because complex things by definition may degenerate, and a degenerating God is inconceivable. Conclusion: Always know your enemy. ;)
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=672&index=672&domain ;)
Search terms: remotest travel time week bbc - you find it on the second page. How do I receive my Google-Fu-points?
I'm quite sure that an engineer gone dentist is the right person to decide on a social science curriculum: This is the leader of the conservative majority. I think the next Oscars should be awarded by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
Ad 1: Edit -> Search and Replace -> More Options -> Search for Styles This already worked in 3.0. For your other show-stoppers: Install it and try. :)
The decisive advantage of open formats should be that you can work around any limitations posed by an application. Moreover, every OO-user can send you a pdf preserving all essential properties of the document. I'm curious why none of these options seems to help you. And, by the way, what is an "epub-company"? A company publishing ebooks in epub format, or rather a company pursuing electronic publishing?
All you need then is an anti-information machine. So SF-writers would have to dream up a machine capable of annihilating information gathered in centuries before in order to compensate for gravitational effects. Oh... wait.. the internet exists... we just have to wait for its effects to get big enough: Buying an amnesia of, say, two years will buy you a journey to alpha centauri in the near future. ;)
Step 1: "The KDE software compilation team happily acknowledges the bug report you have filed. Why we are happy? This bug report in fact concerns the KDE workspaces team. Or so we believe. Please be so kind as to file your bug report again at the appropriate place. If the KDE workplaces team should be able to prove that this is none of their matter, please be so kind as to reopen this bug. After reopening the bug here, please be aware that it will be triaged for at least nine months as a matter of policy. If you should be obnoxious, we may decide at our own will to extend the period to at least eleven months. Thank you very much for your assistance in making the K Desktop/Compilation/Workspace/Application Experience even better. Salvatory Clause: The expression "K Desktop experience" is only preserved for the purpose of backward compatibility."
Step 2: "Thanks a lot for filing a bug report. We certainly appreciate your willingness to enhance the K Workspaces Experience (formerly known as the K Desktop Experience, an expression preserved only in order to preserve backward compatibility). However, we have noticed in your bug report that Amarok 1.1.4 has been opened while encountering your bug. Since Amarok 1.1.4 certainly cannot be regarded as part of the K Software Compilation experience, you should consider updating. If this does not remove the bug you have encountered, please be so kind as to file a bug first against the respective K Software Compilation. If this should not prove to be sucessful in the next two years, please reconsider opening the bug here. Before that, it will be futile anyway."
Ad 4): http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html
You mean this guy? I hope so - at least the kids can learn from him how to spell.
At the present time, it is the district attorney (Staatsanwaltschaft) conducting an investigation (Ermittlungsverfahren). Whether this will ever go to court, remains to be seen. And if this should happen, it will be dealt with by the criminal division of the court. The judgments quoted by you concerned civil cases.
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This is swarm intelligence at its finest. 350 commenters can't be wrong.
What does it say about /. that this question has at the time of writing this 349 (+1) commentsß ;)
From the jury instruction: "The law demands of you a just verdict, unaffected by anything except the evidence, your common sense, and the law as I give it to you." And what, if the law as given by the judge obliterates common sense?
computers is no more difficult then grammar. ;)
There's still the vi-mode for sissies afraid of carpal syndrome.
Good luck, then... :)
1. You should have clarified your position in your original post (sparing many people empty replies supposing that you are on the it-side of things - those are the people supposed to post on slashdot). 2. What exactly is it that you decide on? The usecases you are pondering aren't all clear. Can you decide on software your administration is supposed to use? Or does this only concern academia? 3. Concerning your more specific requests: To which extent do you believe that zotero is a replacement for endnote? Just taking citations from the catalogue of your university library? The administration of bibliographical data for all your academic staff? Or just students? I am certainly not defending endnote, in particular with regard to the lawsuit of thomson against zotero, but still you need to clarify first of all the scope of what your commitee may decide upon before expecting any reasonable answers to your question. Or do you seriously believe that your committee may decide on how to set up the mailserver of your university? If this should be true, you may better be on the look-out for a new job. Any university allowing professors to decide on their it-backend is doomed, in my opinion.
Speaking from a user point of view, I can assure you that any attempt to change the attitudes of either professors or administrative staff towards open-source software is a tough job. Administrators may reason that too many of their processes are tied to particular software bundles not available in the FOSS-world or that turnaround costs for introducing FOSS are too high. Professors are a wholly different bunch: They regard their office computer as a natural extension of their working environment. Any disruption in this environment is highly unwelcome. I can guarantee that you would not like to go into fights with either of both sides. There is, however, a highly unobtrusive way of introducing open source software to the university: public internet access and the like. If you really want to change user-experience, this is the place to go. The argument for superiors: Conversion to FOSS substantially diminishes TCO. Public access points can be administered centrally, and the risk of demolition by students decreases significantly. Moreover, throwing a microsoft license at a workplace with limited capabilities is a waste of money. The argument for you from a FOSS point of view: You can prove that FOSS significantly reduces TCO in a given area. Moreover, users feel at home very quickly (if the setup is reasonable, as I would hope). And you as an administrator gain valuable experience in a limited area, enhancing your credibility. Further steps in any migration strategy very much depend on the infrastructure of the institution as a whole, so any general advice should be regarded with some caution - even if it comes from slashdot.