As far as I can tell it is not as stable as Win 2k3 or as Linux (we run RedHat). Just installed a new division file server based on 2008 and it crashed last week, apparently because MS services for NFS caused it to Blue Screen on a race condition in NFS services. You have to install a hot fix! Separate from normal updates.... some people lost a few hours of data and work!... seriously considering shit-canning it and going back to a RedHat file server running Samba. 2008 is hardly something that should be called an "Enterprise" product. It's quite amateurish in its coding!
I just read the original Science article referenced in the New Scientist article. For the purpose of the research performed, the efficacy or correctness of the choice was guaged by whether an individual "felt good about their choice". An obvious flaw with this metric is that there are some choices that are objectively better than others. For example, if you choose a car that turns out to be a "lemon", then you've made the wrong choice. And just because you "felt good" about your choice doesn't matter... Oh well...
Yep, you're right... it takes about five minutes to figure this out... and remembering that you signed over some rights to allow somebody like UMI to distribute your thesis. This connection becomes self-evident when you see that the prices charged by contentville are about the same as those charged by UMI. The contentville search engine seems better than UMI's though!... I think I signed it in a hungover stupor a day after I made the final changes suggested by the committee...
Exactly, the reasons stated in the article are complete nonsense. Every search engine, crawler, etc. as well as every user uses the hosts "private property", but they have put it there for us to use. It seems more like an issue of just plain old theft. Theft of content in this case.
Sure most "knowledge workers" work many hours but if I were a janitor or gardener I would have someone breathing down my neck all the time making sure I was some place at a particular time... there are always good and bad aspects... what I don't like is that all of my ideas belong to the company I work for... independent of when I have them or what they are about... this is not an uncommon thing.
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As far as I can tell it is not as stable as Win 2k3 or as Linux (we run RedHat). Just installed a new division file server based on 2008 and it crashed last week, apparently because MS services for NFS caused it to Blue Screen on a race condition in NFS services. You have to install a hot fix! Separate from normal updates. ... some people lost a few hours of data and work! ... seriously considering shit-canning it and going back to a RedHat file server running Samba. 2008 is hardly something that should be called an "Enterprise" product. It's quite amateurish in its coding!
I just read the original Science article referenced in the New Scientist article. For the purpose of the research performed, the efficacy or correctness of the choice was guaged by whether an individual "felt good about their choice". An obvious flaw with this metric is that there are some choices that are objectively better than others. For example, if you choose a car that turns out to be a "lemon", then you've made the wrong choice. And just because you "felt good" about your choice doesn't matter ... Oh well ...
... and we live in the battleground ...
Stop whining!
Yep, you're right ... it takes about five minutes to figure this out ... and remembering that you signed over some rights to allow somebody like UMI to distribute your thesis. This connection becomes self-evident when you see that the prices charged by contentville are about the same as those charged by UMI. The contentville search engine seems better than UMI's though! ... I think I signed it in a hungover stupor a day after I made the final changes suggested by the committee ...
Exactly, the reasons stated in the article are complete nonsense. Every search engine, crawler, etc. as well as every user uses the hosts "private property", but they have put it there for us to use. It seems more like an issue of just plain old theft. Theft of content in this case.
Sure most "knowledge workers" work many hours but if I were a janitor or gardener I would have someone breathing down my neck all the time making sure I was some place at a particular time ... there are always good and bad aspects ... what I don't like is that all of my ideas belong to the company I work for ... independent of when I have them or what they are about ... this is not an uncommon thing.