I don't know about you, but when I was in K-12 school, I spent a lot of time sitting bored stiff at a desk listening to an equally bored teacher recite a lesson. This was a hell of a lot less productive than messing around with some the educational software we had installed on the classroom computers.
I work for a government central IT agency. A couple years ago, there was a requirement for a shared infrastructure between all of the K-12 schools in our jurisdiction.
We came up with what we thought was a really great Linux solution based on K-12 Admin.
After submitting our proposal to the education types, they were all for it. A few weeks later, Apple sent some slick marketing representatives to talk to our clients and much to our disbelief, the schools bought into it. Today, they are running an expensive, proprietary Macintosh solution, and I find it grimly amusing that it isn't meeting their expectations.
I guess what my point is, is that teachers have a similar attitude to other highly paid professionals like lawyers or doctors. They think they always know best. To them, if you're not an educator, you're an idiot. This makes it difficult to sell them on anything that doesn't have strong marketing hype, flashing colors and smooth talking sales reps. The unfortunate thing is, in most educational environments, these are the people who have the final say as to what products are used.
Now this is the review that should have been posted instead of CmdrTaco's lame uninformative drivel. This review reminded me a lot of the reviews done by The Filthy Critic.
It's kind of interesting that Slashdot has had so many recent discussion topics on the PayPal issue.
It makes me wonder if they aren't probing the attitude of the/. community towards PayPal, with the idea of implementing a future "paid subscription" policy.
It's true. I write code to designed specifications flawlessly. If you expect me to engineer your software and do you your analysis for you, a monkey is probably not what you need.
Although i vaguely remember a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game that i think was GURPS based that was pretty fun.
TMNT was Palladium based. And yes, the game came out when the TMNT genre was more dark scifi oriented instead of the kiddi-fied "gay" version it became. I spent many hours creating mutants and playing the system.
Presently, there are negotiations underway to run a full blown LNG pipeline down either the Alaska Highway or through the Mackenzie Valley in Canada's Northwest Territories from the North Slope to the lower 48. Like any project of this scale, there are many legal and environmental issues that have to be resolved before this happens.
Incidentally, a data center of this size would require more bandwidth than the entire state of Alaska has running into it.
In 1994, Len Adleman did an experiment involving getting DNA to solve a simple 7 city "travelling salesman" problem ( finding the shortest route between cities) using parallel processing.
The DNA computer he used consisted of 7 DNA strands each representing a "city" and 14 strands representing the "roads" connecting the cities. The calculation took about 1 second to complete. Cool huh?
Another interesting tidbit about DNA is that it is estimated that one cubic centimeter of DNA can store one trillion bits of information.
Some government services lend themselves well to the typical e-commerce model, meaning, the transactions are relatively anonymous and limited to a monetary exchange. Kinda like buying a book from Amazon if you like. Examples of government services that can be provided effectively online with this limited amount of identification are things like drivers license renewals, tax payments and fishing licenses. In this type of transaction, there is no real form of identification needed, I mean, if somebody wants to pay my taxes for me, they can go right ahead!:-) Super. Ok, why not provide everything online then? Well for one, a lot of electronic service delivery related to the government, requires some form of irrefutable identification. The government is responsible for protecting the data they have on you and they must ensure that only authorized parties can access your information. There is also an issue of law here, where certain types of transactions between you and your government are legally binding. In order to accomplish this, the transaction must have non-repudiation - that is, you have legally bound yourself to the transaction and it will hold up in court that the transaction did in fact take place and it was you that did it. Well kids, the only way to get this level of assurance is with the implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). For a government of any scale, this is a huge undertaking. I don't want to yammer on about what a PKI requires, but I'd just like to mention, that to establish an effective PKI on a large scale ( the public ), there is a massive amount of policy that needs to be written. And this amount of policy isn't just because we're talking government here, it's necessary to establish the requisite level of trust between the public, CA's ( Certificate Authorities like Verisign) and cross certifications with other governmental bodies. I'm willing to bet that most governments are aware of these issues and are currently working towards their own PKI solutions. Being relatively new technology, and the broad scope of a PKI project, it may be sometime before we the wide spread implementation of true electronic government service delivery. With the exception of a few jurisdictions who have implemented a PKI, for now all we've got is web-based e-commerce services. It's coming though, give it time.
You are correct. They offer nothing that can't be done through online banking and in fact have fewer services available than the online bank I currently use. I don't understand how they expect to generate revenue from this, I mean at least with normal mail they charge postage right? I also find it silly that they are going to snail mail my password to me. Now that's efficient!
I don't think the map shown in this article is in any way accurate. I live in Whitehorse (on the map) and I know for a fact all we've got running out of town right now is a T-3 over microwave.
I kind of wonder what the hell Oracle is thinking when the Oracle 8i CD reads "Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.5 for Linus" The CD case reads this as well.
If they can't even get the name of the OS right, I wonder how good the actual port is.
umm.. try reading some of his posts... if I posted 20 inane mostly off-topic one liners on just about EVERY/. topic, I'd expect to get moderated too... am I the only one who is sick seeing the "cannibals" tagline everywhere?
Don't forget about the Ganymede GASH 2 project. This looks like it's going to be a full blown directory managment platform. It's released under GPL too.
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And you work at a Steak N Shake? Ouch!
I don't know about you, but when I was in K-12 school, I spent a lot of time sitting bored stiff at a desk listening to an equally bored teacher recite a lesson. This was a hell of a lot less productive than messing around with some the educational software we had installed on the classroom computers.
I work for a government central IT agency. A couple years ago, there was a requirement for a shared infrastructure between all of the K-12 schools in our jurisdiction.
We came up with what we thought was a really great Linux solution based on K-12 Admin.
After submitting our proposal to the education types, they were all for it.
A few weeks later, Apple sent some slick marketing representatives to talk to our clients and much to our disbelief, the schools bought into it. Today, they are running an expensive, proprietary Macintosh solution, and I find it grimly amusing that it isn't meeting their expectations.
I guess what my point is, is that teachers have a similar attitude to other highly paid professionals like lawyers or doctors. They think they always know best. To them, if you're not an educator, you're an idiot. This makes it difficult to sell them on anything that doesn't have strong marketing hype, flashing colors and smooth talking sales reps. The unfortunate thing is, in most educational environments, these are the people who have the final say as to what products are used.
Now this is the review that should have been posted instead of CmdrTaco's lame uninformative drivel. This review reminded me a lot of the reviews done by The Filthy Critic.
It's kind of interesting that Slashdot has had so many recent discussion topics on the PayPal issue.
/. community towards PayPal, with the idea of implementing a future "paid subscription" policy.
It makes me wonder if they aren't probing the attitude of the
In a time of massive dot-com layoffs, there is a glut of experienced web developers out there.
Why not teach them something that traditionally has had consistent demand and there is still a shortage of, such as automotive mechanics.
How come my maximum filesystem block size is still locked at 4K then?
Not actually an outstanding game, technically or creatively, it relies on novelty appeal to generate any sort of interest in it.
It's true. I write code to designed specifications flawlessly. If you expect me to engineer your software and do you your analysis for you, a monkey is probably not what you need.
I know a homeless guy who wears one of these! It keeps the aliens from reading your thoughts apparently.
Although i vaguely remember a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game that i think was GURPS based that was pretty fun.
TMNT was Palladium based. And yes, the game came out when the TMNT genre was more dark scifi oriented instead of the kiddi-fied "gay" version it became. I spent many hours creating mutants and playing the system.
Presently, there are negotiations underway to run a full blown LNG pipeline down either the Alaska Highway or through the Mackenzie Valley in Canada's Northwest Territories from the North Slope to the lower 48. Like any project of this scale, there are many legal and environmental issues that have to be resolved before this happens.
Incidentally, a data center of this size would require more bandwidth than the entire state of Alaska has running into it.
In 1994, Len Adleman did an experiment involving getting DNA to solve a simple 7 city "travelling salesman" problem ( finding the shortest route between cities) using parallel processing.
The DNA computer he used consisted of 7 DNA strands each representing a "city" and 14 strands representing the "roads" connecting the cities. The calculation took about 1 second to complete. Cool huh?
Another interesting tidbit about DNA is that it is estimated that one cubic centimeter of DNA can store one trillion bits of information.
Some government services lend themselves well to the typical e-commerce model, meaning, the transactions are relatively anonymous and limited to a monetary exchange. Kinda like buying a book from Amazon if you like. Examples of government services that can be provided effectively online with this limited amount of identification are things like drivers license renewals, tax payments and fishing licenses. In this type of transaction, there is no real form of identification needed, I mean, if somebody wants to pay my taxes for me, they can go right ahead! :-)
Super. Ok, why not provide everything online then? Well for one, a lot of electronic service delivery related to the government, requires some form of irrefutable identification. The government is responsible for protecting the data they have on you and they must ensure that only authorized parties can access your information. There is also an issue of law here, where certain types of transactions between you and your government are legally binding. In order to accomplish this, the transaction must have non-repudiation - that is, you have legally bound yourself to the transaction and it will hold up in court that the transaction did in fact take place and it was you that did it.
Well kids, the only way to get this level of assurance is with the implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
For a government of any scale, this is a huge undertaking. I don't want to yammer on about what a PKI requires, but I'd just like to mention, that to establish an effective PKI on a large scale ( the public ), there is a massive amount of policy that needs to be written. And this amount of policy isn't just because we're talking government here, it's necessary to establish the requisite level of trust between the public, CA's ( Certificate Authorities like Verisign) and cross certifications with other governmental bodies.
I'm willing to bet that most governments are aware of these issues and are currently working towards their own PKI solutions. Being relatively new technology, and the broad scope of a PKI project, it may be sometime before we the wide spread implementation of true electronic government service delivery. With the exception of a few jurisdictions who have implemented a PKI, for now all we've got is web-based e-commerce services.
It's coming though, give it time.
Dude, hire a hooker or something. I'd say your preoccupation with canine sex might have something to do with the cause of your "difficulties" though.
Actually, Compaq, along with several other big players, DOES have a minor equity investment in RH.
Thats ok... neither do most video cards
You are correct. They offer nothing that can't be done through online banking and in fact have fewer services available than the online bank I currently use.
I don't understand how they expect to generate revenue from this, I mean at least with normal mail they charge postage right?
I also find it silly that they are going to snail mail my password to me. Now that's efficient!
WTF is Mae Ling Mak anyway??
I don't think the map shown in this article is in any way accurate. I live in Whitehorse (on the map) and I know for a fact all we've got running out of town right now is a T-3 over microwave.
I kind of wonder what the hell Oracle is thinking when the Oracle 8i CD reads "Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.5 for Linus" The CD case reads this as well.
If they can't even get the name of the OS right, I wonder how good the actual port is.
yeah, but most people have 2 lungs right? Typically, you only get one cancerous lung.
If I have cancer in both lungs doesn't that mean I have two cases of lung cancer?
...when you could have your own Mini-Me?
umm.. try reading some of his posts... /. topic, I'd expect to get moderated too...
if I posted 20 inane mostly off-topic one liners on just about EVERY
am I the only one who is sick seeing the "cannibals" tagline everywhere?
Don't forget about the Ganymede GASH 2 project. This looks like it's going to be a full blown directory managment platform. It's released under GPL too.