Even now, years later, while they've been working on consolidating the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products, they haven't abandoned support for the legacy systems people are using.
Abandoned is such an interesting word. We're using a legacy product bought by Oracle. Before the company was bought their support guys would bend over backwards to support us. Patches, updates, advice.
Post-buy.. it's the same support crew. But they act oddly Borg like and most answers to our problems come in the form of 'upgrade there is no other fix'.
Also, a promised upgrade to the product for Solaris was de-facto canceled in favor of Windows only.
Yeah - the provision to store a year's worth of supplies for your family, that's a very bad thing to have. And the prohibition against caffeine - wicked.
And the lack of swears - man what will we do when the e-vil Mormans join up with the Zionist Conspiracy to rule the world?
"There's been some debate about this plan and Techdirt has a detailed explanation of why a music tax is a bad idea, noting that it effectively rewards those who failed in the marketplace, punishes those who innovated and sets up a huge, inefficient and unnecessary bureaucracy
So.. a music tax is a bad idea. But more taxes by the State on everything from bread to services to shelter.. 51% of Americans think that's hunky dory.
Try getting your science from reputable schools or journals rather than mass-market paperbacks.
One problem is that journals cost a whole lot more than a mass-market paperback. I can drop X dollars for a journal or a fraction of that for a paperback.
It's not the mass-market paperbacks that are the problem but the quality of the information inside.
The rich and the poor need each other. Who is going to clean your house when you are rich if everybody else is rich?
Duh. Robots.
No, seriously. Not so very long ago the middle-class had servants. Labor got pricey, Mr. Maytag invented the automated washing machine and now everyone has one.
Biden: We kicked the Russians out of Iraq in two days and we'll build clean coal power plants there and my buddy, Henry Kissinger, says I'm a working man from Scranton.
There is no point arguing with a professional liar,
Indeed - I was thinking that arguing in slashdot is like wrestling with a pig. The pig likes and both of you get muddy.
I had been talking with Tropical Coder, who insists that Slashdot can be a reasonable forum for discussion. Perhaps he's wrong - if there is reasonable discussion here it's too much work to sift the wheat from chaff.
Excellent. I might be looking for a new job in a few months..
A cheap space elevator can't be done by the current aerospace corporations for the same reasons they can't do rockets cheaply; claiming this is the fault of the technology is false.
You make some valid points. I don't think I was saying it's the fault of the technology, exactly. I know this is not the case at least.
I've learned something./. is not just a pit of linux geeks and open source hackers - there are some smart guys lurking in the comment threads.
I'm not woefully ignorant of the state of the art. There are gaps in my knowledge, sure. Probably huge ones. I am willing to learn.
I am not putting a whole lotta effort into dialog here - it's/. and this is not a place I'm going to devote a lot of time to rigorous argument in. Life is too short for that.
It's possible I was missing something - my perspective on/. is that it's great for headlines but the conversation devolves quickly into mudslinging between teenagers and other adolescents in their parent's basement. Have I been missing something?
You allow your elevator to mutate and evolve in response to every criticism - but hold the state of the art in rocketry as a constant.
You have a point - and I'll watch that in the future.
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Even now, years later, while they've been working on consolidating the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products, they haven't abandoned support for the legacy systems people are using.
Abandoned is such an interesting word. We're using a legacy product bought by Oracle. Before the company was bought their support guys would bend over backwards to support us. Patches, updates, advice.
Post-buy .. it's the same support crew. But they act oddly Borg like and most answers to our problems come in the form of 'upgrade there is no other fix'.
Also, a promised upgrade to the product for Solaris was de-facto canceled in favor of Windows only.
When is the last time you saw Oracle used as the back end for a Wiki
A few minutes ago when I logged onto my companies internal wiki.
that a lot of people in the government believe in the political philosophy that government is no good, and private enterprise should do everything.
Proof? Survey? Or did you pull this factoid out of thin air?
If they don't believe the government is any good - why are they working there?
Most of the government workers I know at my state's Department of Public Instruction loathe the idea of private schools, for example.
What's the rate for the job of 'scanning the internet for Swedish strippers'? $8.00 an hour? Heck, if that's all I have to pay ...
Hey wait. All this fuss and anger - and you actually believe Parker and Stone's story?
Okay, they might believe it. But even they don't know that 'South Park' was shown to Saddam.
I swear - if they said Saddam and Bill Gates collaborated to build Microsoft Bob, you guys would believe that, too.
We do have a corporate AV. It's pretty good.
Problem is that thanks to SarbOx we've broken functions down. Only a select few admins can login and do things to the AV scanner.
Yeah - the provision to store a year's worth of supplies for your family, that's a very bad thing to have. And the prohibition against caffeine - wicked.
And the lack of swears - man what will we do when the e-vil Mormans join up with the Zionist Conspiracy to rule the world?
One problem with a Ringworld movie is that hordes of the clueless would assume it was ripped off from Halo.
But .. yes. Seeing Ringworld on the big screen would be awesome. And Kzin!
Am I the only one who found this attempt at humor disturbing and objectionable?
Naw. Now if, as you were into your BRASS cycle, a paperclip popped up on the screen .. that would be objectionable.
I have some familiarity with the manufacturing process for Juniper products: the stuff I have seen ain't cheap hardware.
"There's been some debate about this plan and Techdirt has a detailed explanation of why a music tax is a bad idea, noting that it effectively rewards those who failed in the marketplace, punishes those who innovated and sets up a huge, inefficient and unnecessary bureaucracy
So .. a music tax is a bad idea. But more taxes by the State on everything from bread to services to shelter .. 51% of Americans think that's hunky dory.
Got it.
Especially one that clearly has no therapeutic benefit to the patient.
You, Sir, have clearly never been to the range with a weapon capable of full-automatic fire.
Try getting your science from reputable schools or journals rather than mass-market paperbacks.
One problem is that journals cost a whole lot more than a mass-market paperback. I can drop X dollars for a journal or a fraction of that for a paperback.
It's not the mass-market paperbacks that are the problem but the quality of the information inside.
I believe that the government should use military force only when absolutely necessary.
While I was not a career man or an officer, I did spend eight years in the Marines.
Your attitude is pretty much the same as most of the guys I served with.
Funny, that.
I've been on a humanitarian mission.
You don't get combat pay, medals are scarce, nobody actually _cares_ when you get back.
If you're counting on promotions and extra pay for spending a month or two digging new wells for Bengalis or feeding starving Somalis, think again.
The rich and the poor need each other. Who is going to clean your house when you are rich if everybody else is rich?
Duh. Robots.
No, seriously. Not so very long ago the middle-class had servants. Labor got pricey, Mr. Maytag invented the automated washing machine and now everyone has one.
It's a simplistic reply, sure. But it's right.
Biden: We kicked the Russians out of Iraq in two days and we'll build clean coal power plants there and my buddy, Henry Kissinger, says I'm a working man from Scranton.
So .. Microsoft is doing NOW what the Marines and the Army have been doing since at least 1990 - running data centers under canvas.
Also - we had single sign-on then.
Awesome.
Sound like anyone you know?
IBM?
There is no point arguing with a professional liar,
Indeed - I was thinking that arguing in slashdot is like wrestling with a pig. The pig likes and both of you get muddy.
I had been talking with Tropical Coder, who insists that Slashdot can be a reasonable forum for discussion. Perhaps he's wrong - if there is reasonable discussion here it's too much work to sift the wheat from chaff.
Apart from the building I gleaned these facts from the OP
under investigation for basically running a ponzi scheme.
The investigation is over. I do not think that what we were investigated for qualifies as a Ponzi scheme.
While it doesn't have any tenants, it does have an elevator.
The last time I checked the bulding had tenants. It has been a while since I looked, granted. It does have an elevator.
He has no research facilities, no engineers on staff
True, we have closed what was to be a research facility. Tom Nugent is an aerospace engineer.
the closest he came to do anything remotely related to the subject was the sponsorship of a glorified LEGO competition
I'm not sure what that is talking about - the FIRST Competition for high schoolers?
The closest he got was using the money from gullible investors to buy an office building. While it doesn't have any tenants, it does have an elevator.
Laine bought the office building years before LiftPort was founded.
What he showed was that, usually, in small town Canada, people didn't lock themselves *inside*.
This is also true - in my experience - in small towns in America.
Companies like XCOR (who I work for),
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/. is not just a pit of linux geeks and open source hackers - there are some smart guys lurking in the comment threads.
Excellent. I might be looking for a new job in a few months
A cheap space elevator can't be done by the current aerospace corporations for the same reasons they can't do rockets cheaply; claiming this is the fault of the technology is false.
You make some valid points. I don't think I was saying it's the fault of the technology, exactly. I know this is not the case at least.
I've learned something.
Your criticism has some validity but
/. and this is not a place I'm going to devote a lot of time to rigorous argument in. Life is too short for that.
/. is that it's great for headlines but the conversation devolves quickly into mudslinging between teenagers and other adolescents in their parent's basement. Have I been missing something?
I'm not woefully ignorant of the state of the art. There are gaps in my knowledge, sure. Probably huge ones. I am willing to learn.
I am not putting a whole lotta effort into dialog here - it's
It's possible I was missing something - my perspective on
You allow your elevator to mutate and evolve in response to every criticism - but hold the state of the art in rocketry as a constant.
You have a point - and I'll watch that in the future.