This is why governments are not completely in sync with the Humanness of the People that compose them. In the end, though, humanness prevails, and governments fall. Never bet against Nature. She will always win. Always has.
The more a government steers from the natural inclinations of its citizens, the less stable it becomes.
The USA is steering away, and Obama getting elected was the people saying that the government was going in the wrong direction.
As far as FB is concerned, they can do whatever is legally allowed. They can also lose members.
Actually, since it seems their bandwidth bills are churning through their cash and in this economy it's hard for them to raise more, the worst thing that can happen to them now is to sign up too many users. See: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/31/facebooks-growing-problem/ for more on that.
An interesting tidbit from the link above: only on in four facebook members comes from the US.
So basically you'll have one geek at the high school burn a stack of knoppix cds, and he and all his buddies will be surfing porn and chatting online and doing all that bad evil stuff.
The article asks for a Linux client for Exchange 2007. The assumptions is that he's running Linux.
But to your point, the company might not be keen on people running linux, because while he might have made a deal with his manager, it's obvious the company IT people are not interested in being linux friendly.
It might be time to just use windows.
At least, go with two desktops if you gotta have linux.
There's no such thing as strong decentralized power. Strong power denotes that there is a rating of power, with some power being weak, and other power being strong. With full decentralization, all power becomes equalized at the individual level.
Decentralization of power in companies isn't. It is simply delegated power. In a decentralized company, the power that originally rested with the CEO has been further delegated to mid- and low-level management, but the responsibility for the proper use of such power still rests with the CEO.
In the matter of the States of the United States. The power that now rests with the States were originally theirs. They did not derive such power from the Federal Government. The States have agreed to form a Union in order to pool their individual resources to more effectively deal with the rest of the world. The Federal government has, because it is a consolidation of a subset of the power of many States, become more powerful than individual States. This is needed to face externalities such as threats of war and such.
It is important for Europeans to realize this. The United States is a union of sovereign States, similarly to what is being attempted with the European Union. It should be noted that as a citizen of France and thus as a European passport holder, it took me years of living in the United States to fully grasp the import of this distinction. I do not expect the average European citizen to understand this, such concept being so foreign to that of the centralized state.
The Soviet Union too was a federation of States. Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks quickly centralized power in Moscow. This was effectively needed to combat the German invasion of 1941, but alas proved fatal to the Federation.
Is is important to note that the People's Republic of China is effectively a federation, with the Beijing government having nominal power over the provinces. Yet the provinces enjoy strong local government, and often the will of Beijing is not quite followed to the letter.
India too is essentially is a Federation of States.
Beta tester here from day 1 (watched codinghorror on twitter and got early early invite)
The site is not out of beta. It's out of private beta and into public beta.
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At my company, there is a strong belief that if it ain't broke, you don't fix it.
So you basically have to wait for the customer to file a trouble ticket for you to fix something, and push a change control for approval, in order for you to fix something you knew was going to go wrong.
What we end up doing is developing the fix and keeping it in dev, until that fateful day when the user happens upon the bug. The we look all mighty because we can fix it insta-magically.
Actually, we no longer do that. We let our managers take the blame now. We say, we knew about it, and we were ready to fix it, but it was low-priority for our boss, so we never did.
Come to think of it, that's exactly how management likes it.
I tell them that if google and the internet are down, that we need not worry about our users coming to our website, because it will also be down.
If they want me to build non-internet-facing applications, I say no.
If they start quoting insane amounts of money I still say no, because then it becomes painfully obvious that they are desperate, and they must Suck to work for.
I tell them that if I am not allowed to look up information on the internet, they will get 10% Chris. The other 90% looks up info on the internet. php.net, docs.python.org, msdn, stackoverflow, various mailing lists, etc.
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Because people in the US have guns and use them. There's a long history of US politicians having been killed/shot at by US citizens.
(Lincoln, a couple of Kennedys, Reagan come to mind)
And they can't get the laws changed because, well, people have guns.
I personally think that's a good thing (The gun ownership part, not the (shooting at|killing) politicians part).
This is why governments are not completely in sync with the Humanness of the People that compose them. In the end, though, humanness prevails, and governments fall. Never bet against Nature. She will always win. Always has.
The more a government steers from the natural inclinations of its citizens, the less stable it becomes.
The USA is steering away, and Obama getting elected was the people saying that the government was going in the wrong direction.
As far as FB is concerned, they can do whatever is legally allowed. They can also lose members.
Actually, since it seems their bandwidth bills are churning through their cash and in this economy it's hard for them to raise more, the worst thing that can happen to them now is to sign up too many users. See: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/31/facebooks-growing-problem/ for more on that.
An interesting tidbit from the link above: only on in four facebook members comes from the US.
That would be revolution around the Sun.
Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out.
Which is why the Toyota Prius was developed by a Government Agency. The Toyota Government Agency.
No wonder GM and Chrysler can't compete against a government-funded entity.
knoppix cd. So no CD/DVD drive.
And no USB, because DSL, Belenix, other.
So basically you'll have one geek at the high school burn a stack of knoppix cds, and he and all his buddies will be surfing porn and chatting online and doing all that bad evil stuff.
Can't be done.
So he doesn't forget how to spell it?
I'd mod you insightful if I had points today.
I was thinking there must be a LaTeX -> PDF renderer somewhere on the web. But maybe not, because you can execute stuff with LaTeX...
I personally use google docs for all the little stuff I need done.
For the complex documents with all the bells and whistles, I use lyx. It's based on TeX/LaTeX and does a great job at complex stuff.
The live collaboration (and revision history) of google docs is very very useful.
I have avoided OpenID sites for the same reason.
The only one I use is StackOverflow and it seems to work OK, but it also seems that Jeff Atwood had fun with the implementation.
What's interesting is that if they had let their employees use facebook, they would not have had to do a huge marketing deal with facebook.
Yes. That's what I meant.
I hate having to explain jokes...
Damn Straight.
Hear hear! The parent speaks the truth.
For example, while his third sentence is understandable, it would flow better thus:
It takes 15 years of experience in a language to know its nuances.
This applies to natural languages as well.
Wrong. The number one way to stay interested is for the work to be interesting.
When slashdot becomes more interesting than the work, there's something seriously wrong with the interestingness of the work.
Support.
Shit don't do that. My boss will come around asking what's so funny when he hears me laugh out loud in my cube...
The article asks for a Linux client for Exchange 2007. The assumptions is that he's running Linux.
But to your point, the company might not be keen on people running linux, because while he might have made a deal with his manager, it's obvious the company IT people are not interested in being linux friendly.
It might be time to just use windows.
At least, go with two desktops if you gotta have linux.
Use OWA.
If your boss cares about you and gets imap enabled, bonus for him. Otherwise, demerit for him.
If the company is willing to live with it, so should you.
Or leave.
I for one like the idea of not using email for ever single little thing, and I purposely turn off new email notifications.
OWA is not that bad, and if more people use it from non-ms platforms, MS might actually make it better.
There's no such thing as strong decentralized power. Strong power denotes that there is a rating of power, with some power being weak, and other power being strong. With full decentralization, all power becomes equalized at the individual level.
Decentralization of power in companies isn't. It is simply delegated power. In a decentralized company, the power that originally rested with the CEO has been further delegated to mid- and low-level management, but the responsibility for the proper use of such power still rests with the CEO.
In the matter of the States of the United States. The power that now rests with the States were originally theirs. They did not derive such power from the Federal Government. The States have agreed to form a Union in order to pool their individual resources to more effectively deal with the rest of the world. The Federal government has, because it is a consolidation of a subset of the power of many States, become more powerful than individual States. This is needed to face externalities such as threats of war and such.
It is important for Europeans to realize this. The United States is a union of sovereign States, similarly to what is being attempted with the European Union. It should be noted that as a citizen of France and thus as a European passport holder, it
took me years of living in the United States to fully grasp the import of this distinction. I do not expect the average European citizen to understand this, such concept being so foreign to that of the centralized state.
The Soviet Union too was a federation of States. Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks quickly centralized power in Moscow. This was effectively needed to combat the German invasion of 1941, but alas proved fatal to the Federation.
Is is important to note that the People's Republic of China is effectively a federation, with the Beijing government having nominal power over the provinces. Yet the provinces enjoy strong local government, and often the will of Beijing is not quite followed to the letter.
India too is essentially is a Federation of States.
Get off slashdot and go get a job already.
Beta tester here from day 1 (watched codinghorror on twitter and got early early invite)
The site is not out of beta. It's out of private beta and into public beta.
At my company, there is a strong belief that if it ain't broke, you don't fix it.
So you basically have to wait for the customer to file a trouble ticket for you to fix something, and push a change control for approval, in order for you to fix something you knew was going to go wrong.
What we end up doing is developing the fix and keeping it in dev, until that fateful day when the user happens upon the bug. The we look all mighty because we can fix it insta-magically.
Actually, we no longer do that. We let our managers take the blame now. We say, we knew about it, and we were ready to fix it, but it was low-priority for our boss, so we never did.
Come to think of it, that's exactly how management likes it.
Amen.
I tell them that if google and the internet are down, that we need not worry about our users coming to our website, because it will also be down.
If they want me to build non-internet-facing applications, I say no.
If they start quoting insane amounts of money I still say no, because then it becomes painfully obvious that they are desperate, and they must Suck to work for.
I tell them that if I am not allowed to look up information on the internet, they will get 10% Chris. The other 90% looks up info on the internet. php.net, docs.python.org, msdn, stackoverflow, various mailing lists, etc.