That's the biggest problem I see. People camp out on pages and claim that they're the editor for it. Any edit you make is reverted or rewritten to fit their style. Any source you pull that would make changes to the article will be discredited or simply deleted. Wikipedia has a metastasized cancer that it embraces as if it is healthy for the ecosystem, and it will be the death of it.
If it is superior, people will use it. If it is inferior, people won't use it. Pretty straightforward. They should be scared because they are implementing an inferior solution.
Patent bullshit is not a market force. The same manufacturers make everything under and over the hood because we don't allow anyone else to enter the arena, thus you get what we have now.
They'll still use it, but it will not be used in court, rather it will be used to gather information until another method of making a charge stick is found. It's not fruit of the poison tree at that point.
Chattanooga is one of the cities mentioned and if I recall offers municipal fiber. If Comcast isn't completely shut out by consumers in that city by now, they will be very soon.
Seriously. Who gives a shit about OpenGL gaming performance anymore? All major systems use DX or DX like languages(PS4 uses GNM, XBONE uses DX12, and PC uses DX9+ depending on engine). There's a reason that very little effort is put into OpenGL or *nix drivers.
PICK uses Data/BASIC as its language (suitably obscure). Nowadays, you run the PICK OS/database in a VM/emulator with a TCP/IP wrapper allowing it to communicate with the outside world. Still widely used in financial and accounting systems. ADP sells PICK based solutions. Very fast, very easy to use, very accurate. I prefer PICK over SQL for many databases
So, this Sgt is being honest, and likely will get his hand slapped for it. I work with public IT. Public organizations have contracts with vendors and vendors upcharge like crazy to sell these items, and none of the technical staff can do anything about it, and that's assuming the entity's IT isn't outsourced. This is just one more place where graft exists to line the pockets of donors/supporters/whatever.
Custom software requires lots of specially trained people to update, maintain, and manage the software. When one retires, you lose tons of knowledge. Proprietary software is almost always a poor long term solution if a COTS solution is available for most functions in the areas we're talking about. People outside of your organization know the product(meaning that support is available from the outside and that you can replace staff more easily when you lose someone), the product is supported by a real company(rather than a local devshop for hire that goes out of business in 5 years), people you bring in as end users and such may already have knowledge of the product, you have the comfort of knowing that other entities successfully use the product and you're not starting from scratch on a wing and a prayer(like, say, custom payroll for LAUSD that turned into a $100m loss), you generally have standardized methods of communicating with other systems(can you time and attendance software speak with your payroll software? what about the time and attendance software 10 years from now? what about the next software you bring in that replaces a function done outside of software today?), etc
I work in the public sector. Most users can't themselves. The vast majority of the software used for functions outside of word processing are generally custom or highly specialized COTS software. How do you self-train on RMS/CAD software? What about the custom payroll program still running on an AS400 that's accessed with a terminal emulator?
The vast majority of people are told to use technology in support of their job, not as a primary function of their job. Most people don't sit behind computers 24/7, but they still need to use them to submit timecards, generate reports, etc.
Half the people in the workforce don't want to use technology but they have to. Cops and firefighters don't give a shit about technology unless it helps them do their job, but I'll be damned if cities and counties don't force them to use software to update their timecard, file incident reports, do performance reviews, setup a schedule, etc. If you don't train them, they don't know. I walk into a place and 25% are proactive people who want to learn, 50% are people who don't care and can learn it if they're forced to, and 25% are people who hate change, hate technology, are technical morons, or whatever but they have to be taught because it's a function of their job. A firefighter needs to know how to operate a ladder truck, and they're trained on it and get good at it, but that doesn't mean that they can operate Linux or Windows or even iOS, but they have to for their job anyways, and if you're giving them software you need to train them.
Fair enough. In this case you system should be treated as hostile when you come back into the office. It doesn't have to effect you even in the office, it just means the network you are on should be quarantined from anything that may be sensitive.
Networks should be like that anyways. I only have access to data I need.
Also it sounds like your role is IT focussed to at least a degree. If you are on site making your employers software work on other peoples system you must be operating in a role of some IT trust. This is not the same requirements as for people who have no idea how computers really work.
That's fine, but, ultimately, I'm an end user. I am not in an IT division that manages our network, infrastructure, procurement, etc. I am in a revenue generating customer facing division and I get issued technology from the IT division. Blanket rules being discussed way up the list by ACs that "Users shouldn't install software" are plain wrong. I'm a user.
Secondarily, the only customer that provides you with everything is the US Government, and that's because they assign you a laptop with everything you need for your job. So I don't need my laptop, and I don't need administrative access on their laptop, because every tool that's necessary for the job is provided to me. Of course, your average, or even your uncommon customer, does not provide you with this.
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That's the biggest problem I see. People camp out on pages and claim that they're the editor for it. Any edit you make is reverted or rewritten to fit their style. Any source you pull that would make changes to the article will be discredited or simply deleted. Wikipedia has a metastasized cancer that it embraces as if it is healthy for the ecosystem, and it will be the death of it.
Wasn't the Target hack a man in the middle attack effectively done the same way?
If it is superior, people will use it. If it is inferior, people won't use it. Pretty straightforward. They should be scared because they are implementing an inferior solution.
Unfortunately, it's the browser with the best implementation of NoScript. Thus, it is indispensable.
Patent bullshit is not a market force. The same manufacturers make everything under and over the hood because we don't allow anyone else to enter the arena, thus you get what we have now.
They'll still use it, but it will not be used in court, rather it will be used to gather information until another method of making a charge stick is found. It's not fruit of the poison tree at that point.
Maptools also supports macros without being tied to any particular ruleset(you could even play Rolemaster with it)
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There's a reason that Pick is still in use 50 years after its release.
Chattanooga is one of the cities mentioned and if I recall offers municipal fiber. If Comcast isn't completely shut out by consumers in that city by now, they will be very soon.
Yes, we're all mobile device acronym experts here.
Yes, indeed. Who said it's going to matter?
Seriously. Who gives a shit about OpenGL gaming performance anymore? All major systems use DX or DX like languages(PS4 uses GNM, XBONE uses DX12, and PC uses DX9+ depending on engine). There's a reason that very little effort is put into OpenGL or *nix drivers.
Yes, but try finding an ASE DBA. Or, better yet, try finding an ASA/SQLA DBA. Watcom SQL? What's that?
This is some high brow shit for Sunday morning
PICK uses Data/BASIC as its language (suitably obscure). Nowadays, you run the PICK OS/database in a VM/emulator with a TCP/IP wrapper allowing it to communicate with the outside world. Still widely used in financial and accounting systems. ADP sells PICK based solutions. Very fast, very easy to use, very accurate. I prefer PICK over SQL for many databases
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So, this Sgt is being honest, and likely will get his hand slapped for it. I work with public IT. Public organizations have contracts with vendors and vendors upcharge like crazy to sell these items, and none of the technical staff can do anything about it, and that's assuming the entity's IT isn't outsourced. This is just one more place where graft exists to line the pockets of donors/supporters/whatever.
Custom software requires lots of specially trained people to update, maintain, and manage the software. When one retires, you lose tons of knowledge. Proprietary software is almost always a poor long term solution if a COTS solution is available for most functions in the areas we're talking about. People outside of your organization know the product(meaning that support is available from the outside and that you can replace staff more easily when you lose someone), the product is supported by a real company(rather than a local devshop for hire that goes out of business in 5 years), people you bring in as end users and such may already have knowledge of the product, you have the comfort of knowing that other entities successfully use the product and you're not starting from scratch on a wing and a prayer(like, say, custom payroll for LAUSD that turned into a $100m loss), you generally have standardized methods of communicating with other systems(can you time and attendance software speak with your payroll software? what about the time and attendance software 10 years from now? what about the next software you bring in that replaces a function done outside of software today?), etc
I work in the public sector. Most users can't themselves. The vast majority of the software used for functions outside of word processing are generally custom or highly specialized COTS software. How do you self-train on RMS/CAD software? What about the custom payroll program still running on an AS400 that's accessed with a terminal emulator?
It falls on the left side of the keyboard. So use the numpad like a normal person.
? If your network design is so shitty that a generic end user has access to critical data, then it's IT with the problem, not the end user.
The vast majority of people are told to use technology in support of their job, not as a primary function of their job. Most people don't sit behind computers 24/7, but they still need to use them to submit timecards, generate reports, etc.
Half the people in the workforce don't want to use technology but they have to. Cops and firefighters don't give a shit about technology unless it helps them do their job, but I'll be damned if cities and counties don't force them to use software to update their timecard, file incident reports, do performance reviews, setup a schedule, etc. If you don't train them, they don't know. I walk into a place and 25% are proactive people who want to learn, 50% are people who don't care and can learn it if they're forced to, and 25% are people who hate change, hate technology, are technical morons, or whatever but they have to be taught because it's a function of their job. A firefighter needs to know how to operate a ladder truck, and they're trained on it and get good at it, but that doesn't mean that they can operate Linux or Windows or even iOS, but they have to for their job anyways, and if you're giving them software you need to train them.
Networks should be like that anyways. I only have access to data I need.
That's fine, but, ultimately, I'm an end user. I am not in an IT division that manages our network, infrastructure, procurement, etc. I am in a revenue generating customer facing division and I get issued technology from the IT division. Blanket rules being discussed way up the list by ACs that "Users shouldn't install software" are plain wrong. I'm a user.
Secondarily, the only customer that provides you with everything is the US Government, and that's because they assign you a laptop with everything you need for your job. So I don't need my laptop, and I don't need administrative access on their laptop, because every tool that's necessary for the job is provided to me. Of course, your average, or even your uncommon customer, does not provide you with this.