I speak for none other than myself when I say this "News Item" is final proof to me that the Slashdot of today is but a former shadow of itself.
HOW IN THE HELL DID THIS MAKE IT ON SLASHDOT!?!?!?
I'm left with two possible reasons 1) The editors have sold out and are now being paid by PR firms to post press releases as news stories 2) The editors don't have a clue about what they are posting.
Last week, Intermec filed suit against Matrics over RFID Patent Infringment. Intermec owns a WIDE variety of patents in the RFID space that are very general in nature.
For those of you who don't live in the RFID world...Matrics is the vendor who's hardware is being put into WalMart. Many insiders believe that Intermec's lawsuit was designed to poision the water around a possible acquistion of Matrics by one of Intermec's competitors. There is also a general train of thought that Intermec tactically blundered by moving too soon, they should have waited 6 more months for the RFID initiative within WalMart to really catch on before they hit the industry with royalties.
As Director of Consulting for a company that does custom application development, my experiance in submitting and winning bids has given me the following insights to the process:
1) A small one man shop bidding against a larger company will often lose simply because many companies don't like the thought of doing business with that small of a company. There is a much higher chance that the one man shop won't be around in two months when problems arise.
2) Client relationship management is what wins business. This is what I call bedside manner. I don't care how good your price and service are, if they don't like you they won't buy from you. Many people who get into this business have no respect for the importance of client relationship management. You may be the best programmer in the world, but if you don't know how to talk to your customers you won't be successful. This is key to winning and keeping customers.
3) The quality of your proposal is indicative of the quality of the work you will do for them. You must always put forth a top quality proposal. Formatting and grammer must be dead on. The proposal must be written with the target reader in mind. Don't try to impress them with your knowledge of java, impress them with your understanding of their business problem. Your proposal is your first chance to impress them with your attention to detail, if you deliver a shoddy proposal they will assume your programming work will be the same.
I agree that reasoned thought needs to be given to how we can defend both our nation and our rights.
I haven't heard ANYONE in the government ask for a blank check to combat these terrorists. If we give them that power along with a series of checks and balances to make sure that power isn't abused, then how could anyone reasonably protest.
Obviously, I don't think anyone wants to see a repeat of last weeks events.
If the government says we can't protect you if you don't let us change our methods, then we need to listen to what they want to do and help determine a way to accomplish this while protecting our rights.
Unfortuneatly, I think you've posed these questions to the wrong crowd. While I have no doubt that many of the slashdot readers could help come up with a reasoned recommendation, I think their anti establishment leanings will prevent it.
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oops...should have used preview.
A shadow of it's former self
I speak for none other than myself when I say this "News Item" is final proof to me that the Slashdot of today is but a former shadow of itself.
HOW IN THE HELL DID THIS MAKE IT ON SLASHDOT!?!?!?
I'm left with two possible reasons
1) The editors have sold out and are now being paid by PR firms to post press releases as news stories
2) The editors don't have a clue about what they are posting.
Neither of these are acceptable to me.
No it's not just my personnel insight. I am not at liberty to go into detail.
Last week, Intermec filed suit against Matrics over RFID Patent Infringment. Intermec owns a WIDE variety of patents in the RFID space that are very general in nature.
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For those of you who don't live in the RFID world...Matrics is the vendor who's hardware is being put into WalMart. Many insiders believe that Intermec's lawsuit was designed to poision the water around a possible acquistion of Matrics by one of Intermec's competitors. There is also a general train of thought that Intermec tactically blundered by moving too soon, they should have waited 6 more months for the RFID initiative within WalMart to really catch on before they hit the industry with royalties.
http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobil
As Director of Consulting for a company that does custom application development, my experiance in submitting and winning bids has given me the following insights to the process:
1) A small one man shop bidding against a larger company will often lose simply because many companies don't like the thought of doing business with that small of a company. There is a much higher chance that the one man shop won't be around in two months when problems arise.
2) Client relationship management is what wins business. This is what I call bedside manner. I don't care how good your price and service are, if they don't like you they won't buy from you. Many people who get into this business have no respect for the importance of client relationship management. You may be the best programmer in the world, but if you don't know how to talk to your customers you won't be successful. This is key to winning and keeping customers.
3) The quality of your proposal is indicative of the quality of the work you will do for them. You must always put forth a top quality proposal. Formatting and grammer must be dead on. The proposal must be written with the target reader in mind. Don't try to impress them with your knowledge of java, impress them with your understanding of their business problem. Your proposal is your first chance to impress them with your attention to detail, if you deliver a shoddy proposal they will assume your programming work will be the same.
I agree that reasoned thought needs to be given to how we can defend both our nation and our rights.
I haven't heard ANYONE in the government ask for a blank check to combat these terrorists. If we give them that power along with a series of checks and balances to make sure that power isn't abused, then how could anyone reasonably protest.
Obviously, I don't think anyone wants to see a repeat of last weeks events.
If the government says we can't protect you if you don't let us change our methods, then we need to listen to what they want to do and help determine a way to accomplish this while protecting our rights.
Unfortuneatly, I think you've posed these questions to the wrong crowd. While I have no doubt that many of the slashdot readers could help come up with a reasoned recommendation, I think their anti establishment leanings will prevent it.
I thought Al Gore invented Pong?
Its amazing and scary how many of you read a head line posted by an "editor" and just assume its true.
NONE of these articles says anything about Bush ordering the DOJ to back off of Microsoft.
If anyone has any doubts about the power of the media and its ability to affect the brain dead public, this should put those doubts to bed.
Sigs are for wimps!
Furthermore, this should end any lingering doubts about Slashdot's agenda.