Let the businesses run their IT the way they want. That includes letting them run Windows.
Then, be their competitor with an OSS solution. If it really makes a difference, you'll have the edge and it'll be that much easier to plow the other guy into the ground. Or they'll swicth over in order to survive.
Honestly, why does anybody care what OS businesses are running? A bank or something with my money in it, yeah, but really, what difference does it make for Generic Company X, Y, or Z?
Our enterprise email system at Local University puts the responsibility of archiving email on the user. This is because it's not so much a space issue as it is a "live" space issue. Keeping accessable the archives of all emails from the past year isn't so big a deal. Keeping accessable the archives for everyone over their entire careers with out institution would be a big deal. (And yeah, for people who write grants, carry out research, and author publications, its usually important to be able to go *all* the way back at a moment's notice. None of this "let me see if I can find the backup tape -- check back in a week" stuff.)
Instead, each user keeps their own archives on their own machines, where they have plenty of space just for their stuff. This is no big problem... until the computer blows up. Or the user gets creative with file management. Or a cosmic ray hits the drive platter in the wrong spot.
The upside is that we, the underfuided IT department, don't have to keep upgrading our backup systems exponentially every year. The downside is that the user shoulders the responsibility, and therefore is the one to blame when their all-important email archives die.
For movies like RotS which are shot in an entirely digital format, I'm still boggled and amazed that the studios aren't selling DVDs of the film you just saw right as you walk out of the theater.
Sure, maybe it's a chore to put on all the extras and such, but as Peter Jackson abley demonstrated: that's what EXTENDED EDITIONS are for.
If the movie is exciting and captivating, I imagine there'd be a stampede to the exit to get the Theatrical Edition of the DVDs the moment the credits start rolling.
Speaking of mistakes, can somebody please write a Greasemonkey script that corrects instances of your/you're, there/their/they're, and misplaced apostrophies?
I like your reasoning, and it's a shame that people are treating you like a jerk for daring to voice it.
I've got a cell phone from about 5 years ago and the battery is more than dead. Strangely, I haven't been put out by it at all. My cell phone is corded now, but to a power line, not a phone line.
As far as the "whatcha gonna do in an emergency, smart guy" argument, I suggest you take a page from/. pop-idol Neo. If you *really* need a cell phone, just snag one from a nearby suit and run like blazes.
I am writing to ask that you refuse to vote on, or otherwise vote against, any legislation containing a rider that imposes the establishment of a national ID card.
The issue of a unified national ID is too important to be decided on as an amendment to an unrelated bill. It has not been debated in either the House or the Senate to any satisfactory degree, and slipping the legislation in through the back door of a rider only serves to justify the dictator-like, beauracratic overtones of such a law.
The law of unintended consequences will surely cause a half-considered national ID card to turn around and bite the American people in unpleasant places. Debate this issue in public and in regards to its own primary legislation!
Please remember that you are in office as an advocate for wisdom and foresight on behalf of the future of our society. I hope you will take this issue seriously and give it the open discussion it demands instead of allowing it to sneak in under the radar of a more politically defensable bill.
Thank you,
And yeah, it won't be hard to find me on the list. Guess I blew my cover there.
There are some other posts that critique the complexity of the answers given in parent, and rightly so.
The answer to all these questions is simply "yes."
The advantage that the parent poster is trying to point out is that the questions might change--can you use OpenOffice?--and the answer can *still be yes.*
Impressing interviewers starts with being able to fill their needs. It finishes with exceeding them.
Something did! We call it "iTunes," and it woke Apple up from a decade-long slumber in the "our computer has something to offer the unconverted" market.
(Not that I actually have a Mac or anything. I don't.)
I agree that this would be too complicated a definition of science.
Maybe we can get some scientists to study the explanation and come up with a simpler model?
I suggest we start with Richard Feynman. To paraphrase, I think it'd go something like this: "If I could explain science simply, it wouldn't be worth the schooling you need to understand it."
I know everything I need to know about you, Eric! Everything about you is on... THE INTERNET!
Mark Burnett is an independent researcher, consultant, and writer specializing in Windows security. He is the author of Hacking the Code: ASP.NET Web Application Security (Syngress), co-author of the best-selling book Stealing The Network: How to Own the Box (Syngress), and co-author of Maximum Windows 2000 Security (SAMS Publishing). He is a contributor and technical editor for Special Ops: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle. Mark speaks at various security conferences and has published articles in Windows IT Pro Magazine (formerly Windows &.NET Magazine), Redmond Magazine, Information Security, Windows Web Solutions, Security Administrator and various other print and online publications. Mark is a Microsoft Windows Server Most Valued Professional for Internet Information Services.
You been pwn3d! Watch your back man, because I'm right there behind you!
Guys, I'm here to tell you that this project is doomed to failure. Nothing to do with the science involved...
It's the name.
PROMETHEUS? Why not name it the Titanic Initiative while you're at it? Or the Pandora Project? Or maybe pay some homage to the Kobayashi Maru? (You know: that one ship that was TOTALLY FREAKING DOOMED and there was NOTHING you could do about it.)
This is the problem with scientists: they fail to think *dramatically*. It is only sensical that a project of this type will open a dimensional rift to Hell, mutate the human race, and/or ignite the core of the Earth in a catastrophic conflagration that will blow the Moon out of orbit.
When are we going to learn? Never, *never* name a first-of-its-kind endeavor after any legend that concludes with the high price of human hubris. Likeways after anything that will be considered ironic when it inevitably goes down in flames.
Take a tip from Doctor Who. Let the TV franchise die the death it so desperately needs; put the stake through the heart and bury the heaving corpse in its native soil. Give it 15 years or so to regenerate. When it comes back, it will be more awesome than before with fresh twists on the old canon that'll make your jaw drop.
In the meantime, satisfy your cravings with the assloads of DVDs, magazines, audio dramas, and novels. Spinoff media tend to have more leeway, and so that's where the reinvigoration starts. Once the powers that be see that the productive fan base can actually improve the franchise instead of lapping up the table scraps from the studios, they'll come around and meet you at least half-way.
Time heals all wounds. It worked for Who, and it'll work for you too.
My wife's got a PhD in Political Science and can rattle off names and theories of power that make my head spin. I wouldn't call her average.
I work with doctors who a routinely called upon to diagnose and treat some of the more complex biological systems on the planet (read: humans). I wouldn't call them average.
I teach honors students who are literate, thoughtful, articulate, and and curious to learn. I wouldn't call them average.
Yet somehow, each of these kinds of people, highly developed in their own baliwick, is supposed to be "average" when it comes to their intimate knowledge of how a computer works?
They spent their time mastering their own domains. I may be able to repair a corrupted installation of the OS on a surgeon's workstation, but I wouldn't trust myself to perform open-heart surgery. Why expect it to work the other way around?
Computer expertise is a specialty field, not a life skill (whatever we may think of that situation). We're talking about a deeper understanding of how a computer works: one that goes beyond "turn it on and double-click the picture on the screen." Computers are complex systems of inter-relating processes which all must be understood if any are to be used with maximum efficiency.
Also, I don't know where the transmission on my car is, and I'm only about 10% sure I know how the distributor works. Does that make me a bad driver, or just a lousy mechanic?
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What does it matter what a hacker and a cracker is?
Does it matter what the difference between an African-American and a nigger is? Or a terrorist and a freedom fighter? Or a republic and a democracy?
Yes. Yes, it does. In the hope for a better world, language is our greatest asset.
Let the businesses run their IT the way they want. That includes letting them run Windows.
Then, be their competitor with an OSS solution. If it really makes a difference, you'll have the edge and it'll be that much easier to plow the other guy into the ground. Or they'll swicth over in order to survive.
Honestly, why does anybody care what OS businesses are running? A bank or something with my money in it, yeah, but really, what difference does it make for Generic Company X, Y, or Z?
Our enterprise email system at Local University puts the responsibility of archiving email on the user. This is because it's not so much a space issue as it is a "live" space issue. Keeping accessable the archives of all emails from the past year isn't so big a deal. Keeping accessable the archives for everyone over their entire careers with out institution would be a big deal. (And yeah, for people who write grants, carry out research, and author publications, its usually important to be able to go *all* the way back at a moment's notice. None of this "let me see if I can find the backup tape -- check back in a week" stuff.)
Instead, each user keeps their own archives on their own machines, where they have plenty of space just for their stuff. This is no big problem... until the computer blows up. Or the user gets creative with file management. Or a cosmic ray hits the drive platter in the wrong spot.
The upside is that we, the underfuided IT department, don't have to keep upgrading our backup systems exponentially every year. The downside is that the user shoulders the responsibility, and therefore is the one to blame when their all-important email archives die.
Oh, wait. That's an upside too. Never mind.
For movies like RotS which are shot in an entirely digital format, I'm still boggled and amazed that the studios aren't selling DVDs of the film you just saw right as you walk out of the theater.
Sure, maybe it's a chore to put on all the extras and such, but as Peter Jackson abley demonstrated: that's what EXTENDED EDITIONS are for.
If the movie is exciting and captivating, I imagine there'd be a stampede to the exit to get the Theatrical Edition of the DVDs the moment the credits start rolling.
Let's not forget, VoIP *is* going over the Internet...
(Caller dials 911)
Caller: Help! Emergency! My baby's not breathing!
Operator: OMG!
Caller: Send help right away!
Operator: A/S/L?
Wouldn't that require me to release all my reponses to your posts under the GPL as derivative works?
Why couldn't you go LGPL or BSD so I could do whatver I wanted with them with no strings attached!
Speaking of mistakes, can somebody please write a Greasemonkey script that corrects instances of your/you're, there/their/they're, and misplaced apostrophies?
Talk about taking the web back. Sheesh.
Why start now?
Wait... isn't there calculus involved here? Like, change in growth rate is a derivative of change in growth?
Like, aren't there a couple of ds and a few xs scribbled over each other somehow?
I like your reasoning, and it's a shame that people are treating you like a jerk for daring to voice it.
/. pop-idol Neo. If you *really* need a cell phone, just snag one from a nearby suit and run like blazes.
I've got a cell phone from about 5 years ago and the battery is more than dead. Strangely, I haven't been put out by it at all. My cell phone is corded now, but to a power line, not a phone line.
As far as the "whatcha gonna do in an emergency, smart guy" argument, I suggest you take a page from
Not to justify anything, but I'd like to point out that it's tough to get rich by being wrong all the time.
Unless, you know, you inheirit it. Or invest against your own advice.
Does anyone plan to read it this time?
And yeah, it won't be hard to find me on the list. Guess I blew my cover there.
There are some other posts that critique the complexity of the answers given in parent, and rightly so.
The answer to all these questions is simply "yes."
The advantage that the parent poster is trying to point out is that the questions might change--can you use OpenOffice?--and the answer can *still be yes.*
Impressing interviewers starts with being able to fill their needs. It finishes with exceeding them.
Something did! We call it "iTunes," and it woke Apple up from a decade-long slumber in the "our computer has something to offer the unconverted" market.
(Not that I actually have a Mac or anything. I don't.)
I agree that this would be too complicated a definition of science.
Maybe we can get some scientists to study the explanation and come up with a simpler model?
I suggest we start with Richard Feynman. To paraphrase, I think it'd go something like this: "If I could explain science simply, it wouldn't be worth the schooling you need to understand it."
The future of graphics in the Windows world is easy to plot.
Step one: Break interface compatibility with the past.
Step two: Ensure interface lock-in with the future.
No problem. Profit, of course, will follow.
You been pwn3d! Watch your back man, because I'm right there behind you!
Guys, I'm here to tell you that this project is doomed to failure. Nothing to do with the science involved...
It's the name.
PROMETHEUS? Why not name it the Titanic Initiative while you're at it? Or the Pandora Project? Or maybe pay some homage to the Kobayashi Maru? (You know: that one ship that was TOTALLY FREAKING DOOMED and there was NOTHING you could do about it.)
This is the problem with scientists: they fail to think *dramatically*. It is only sensical that a project of this type will open a dimensional rift to Hell, mutate the human race, and/or ignite the core of the Earth in a catastrophic conflagration that will blow the Moon out of orbit.
When are we going to learn? Never, *never* name a first-of-its-kind endeavor after any legend that concludes with the high price of human hubris. Likeways after anything that will be considered ironic when it inevitably goes down in flames.
In fact, we'll throw it completely in France's face by selling a bi-lingual CANADIAN version! Take that, Pierre!
Take a tip from Doctor Who. Let the TV franchise die the death it so desperately needs; put the stake through the heart and bury the heaving corpse in its native soil. Give it 15 years or so to regenerate. When it comes back, it will be more awesome than before with fresh twists on the old canon that'll make your jaw drop.
In the meantime, satisfy your cravings with the assloads of DVDs, magazines, audio dramas, and novels. Spinoff media tend to have more leeway, and so that's where the reinvigoration starts. Once the powers that be see that the productive fan base can actually improve the franchise instead of lapping up the table scraps from the studios, they'll come around and meet you at least half-way.
Time heals all wounds. It worked for Who, and it'll work for you too.
Let's save money for the *whole year* and move everybody's timezone ahead by an hour.
Better yet, let's think globally and do it for the WHOLE PLANET! Everybody on Earth: set your clocks one hour back. Now: REVEL IN THE SAVINGS!
My wife's got a PhD in Political Science and can rattle off names and theories of power that make my head spin. I wouldn't call her average.
I work with doctors who a routinely called upon to diagnose and treat some of the more complex biological systems on the planet (read: humans). I wouldn't call them average.
I teach honors students who are literate, thoughtful, articulate, and and curious to learn. I wouldn't call them average.
Yet somehow, each of these kinds of people, highly developed in their own baliwick, is supposed to be "average" when it comes to their intimate knowledge of how a computer works?
They spent their time mastering their own domains. I may be able to repair a corrupted installation of the OS on a surgeon's workstation, but I wouldn't trust myself to perform open-heart surgery. Why expect it to work the other way around?
Computer expertise is a specialty field, not a life skill (whatever we may think of that situation). We're talking about a deeper understanding of how a computer works: one that goes beyond "turn it on and double-click the picture on the screen." Computers are complex systems of inter-relating processes which all must be understood if any are to be used with maximum efficiency.
Also, I don't know where the transmission on my car is, and I'm only about 10% sure I know how the distributor works. Does that make me a bad driver, or just a lousy mechanic?
It's even better if you can get a history that's not already sanitized for national security reasons (or just plain old pride)...
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