"Ultimately, librarians simply need to understand that youth are coming to the library as amateur information finders"
Librarians already understand this. This is why they have such a public position in the library. School library's usually offer classes in how to use the facility's. The biggest problem with new users is that they often expect the librarian will do the work for them.
"The person who discovered this vulnerability has chosen to handle it irresponsibly, and has deliberately made this issue public only a few days after reporting it to Microsoft. It is simply not possible to build, test and release a patch within this timeframe and still meet reasonable quality standards."
Let's see hundreds of developers,exclusive access to source code and billions of dollars and they can't fix as fast as open source. But then again it is always easier to blame the messenger.
If your just finishing a win2000 roll out or about to begin a forced XP roll out, adoapting a new OS is not likely to be high on your list. Never mind the economic slowdown. Most companies are not looking to willingly complicate things right now, now matter how much you promise it will simplify things later.
You gotta figure Larry Ellison would be first in line. Any chance to look down on everybody at once would just yo good for him to pass up. On the bright side finally a place big enough for his ego.
Guess what now you have to start making real decisions about your future. The joy's of being an adult.
Try taking a job in an unexpected area. A new challenge is a great way to find some excitement and focus.
I don't want to suggest that making money is a bad thing. But releasing XP into a saturated market that is just getting to speed on Win2k suggests the motivation behind the release was more about profit margains than coming to market with an truly improved product. Which also makes one wonder about how well they are able to read the market. It is not unreasonable to ask Microsoft to consider customer need's and abilities when releasing product.
If Micro$oft keeps wants to release operating systems based on it's own profit needs. It will have to expect others will only adopt based on on their own needs and abilities. I hope more companies put XP support on the back burner. I would rather wait untill support is decent rather than just available.
MORTRAN was descibed to me as FORTRAN for dummies. The MORTRAN is more forgiving to write but it will take the code and convert it to FORTRAN. Sort of like macros.
As someone who does scientific programming in FORTRAN and even MORTRAN. I will love to pour through old math routines. Tax payers paid for this and now we get to use it. Gotta like when the system works for you not against you.
"*I* control who I hand my e-mail address to, and thus who can send to me"
All the spam I get is not based on an address I handed out. You just need to look at the header file to see that the spammer is just hitting multiple combinations of my name or domain. So where is my control?
Can't wait till they release the next generation controller called UNICODE. Of course Micro$oft will release it's own closed source version. A keyboard with the letter's blacked out. And of course the open source version will have over a hundred keys to you can customize it to your hearts content.
Another cool Linux hardware project, some how I think I'll be hacking the X-box before this thing ever hit's the shelve's.
Note my optimisim, I actually think it might come out.
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What about all the people in physic's , chemistry and engineering to name a few who work in a *nix enviroment. Advanced skills skill's scale down easily. Low end skills don't scale up at all.
At what point will Micro$oft realize forcing customers to upgrade and replace everything is bad business. Most companies spend years getting everything to work well. Now Micro$oft is telling them to throw away all that hard work and start over again on unproven technology or else.
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"Ultimately, librarians simply need to understand that youth are coming to the library as amateur information finders"
Librarians already understand this. This is why they have such a public position in the library. School library's usually offer classes in how to use the facility's. The biggest problem with new users is that they often expect the librarian will do the work for them.
In truth they are moving to a SCO codebase.
You might want to rethink RawandaB B53/press .html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAE
Let's face it Micro$oft has paid for good government representation.
How hard do you think Peter Wright will have to suck before Micro$oft will give him a job?
I wonder how many Matrix comments this article will receive.
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/egs/
Above address is for the EGS (electron gamma shower)Widely used by physicists and medical physicists.
http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/
Agreat collection of open source programs. The real bonus many are in FORTRAN.
"The person who discovered this vulnerability has chosen to handle it irresponsibly, and has deliberately made this issue public only a few days after reporting it to Microsoft. It is simply not possible to build, test and release a patch within this timeframe and still meet reasonable quality standards."
Let's see hundreds of developers,exclusive access to source code and billions of dollars and they can't fix as fast as open source. But then again it is always easier to blame the messenger.
If your just finishing a win2000 roll out or about to begin a forced XP roll out, adoapting a new OS is not likely to be high on your list. Never mind the economic slowdown.
Most companies are not looking to willingly complicate things right now, now matter how much you promise it will simplify things later.
You gotta figure Larry Ellison would be first in line. Any chance to look down on everybody at once would just yo good for him to pass up.
On the bright side finally a place big enough for his ego.
Guess what now you have to start making real decisions about your future. The joy's of being an adult.
Try taking a job in an unexpected area. A new challenge is a great way to find some excitement and focus.
But how does natural selection work under a monopoly? Does a company consider it's enviroment, should it?
I don't want to suggest that making money is a bad thing. But releasing XP into a saturated market that is just getting to speed on Win2k suggests the motivation behind the release was more about profit margains than coming to market with an truly improved product. Which also makes one wonder about how well they are able to read the market.
It is not unreasonable to ask Microsoft to consider customer need's and abilities when releasing product.
If Micro$oft keeps wants to release operating systems based on it's own profit needs. It will have to expect others will only adopt based on on their own needs and abilities. I hope more companies put XP support on the back burner. I would rather wait untill support is decent rather than just available.
MORTRAN was descibed to me as FORTRAN for dummies. The MORTRAN is more forgiving to write but it will take the code and convert it to FORTRAN. Sort of like macros.
Local user groups. Or try employment agencies that specilize in technology. They may have people with the skills you are looking for.
Hope my 2cents helps
As someone who does scientific programming in FORTRAN and even MORTRAN. I will love to pour through old math routines.
Tax payers paid for this and now we get to use it. Gotta like when the system works for you not against you.
The idea of staying at command line and bringing up a GUI tool as needed is very appealing.
"*I* control who I hand my e-mail address to, and thus who can send to me"
All the spam I get is not based on an address I handed out. You just need to look at the header file to see that the spammer is just hitting multiple combinations of my name or domain. So where is my control?
Can't wait till they release the next generation controller called UNICODE.
Of course Micro$oft will release it's own closed source version. A keyboard with the letter's blacked out. And of course the open source version will have over a hundred keys to you can customize it to your hearts content.
Suffer the pain of running wire enough and the price doesn't seem so high.
You really have to ask what freedom's are being protected? More and more it seems we won the cold war only to become what we defeated.
Another cool Linux hardware project, some how I think I'll be hacking the X-box before this thing ever hit's the shelve's.
Note my optimisim, I actually think it might come out.
What about all the people in physic's , chemistry and engineering to name a few who work in a *nix enviroment. Advanced skills skill's scale down easily. Low end skills don't scale up at all.
At what point will Micro$oft realize forcing customers to upgrade and replace everything is bad business. Most companies spend years getting everything to work well. Now Micro$oft is telling them to throw away all that hard work and start over again on unproven technology or else.