I know this kind of sounds strange, but absolutely the first thing you need to do is either have everyone's cooperation, or just make the changes and make people deal with them. People are very reluctant to change, and that's the biggest problem. When you have everyone in a company used to doing their business in Windows using MS Office, you're going to have a hard time getting them to change without just going ahead with the changes. It goes against everything they teach you in school (I was a business major), but people just won't change unless they're forced. That even goes for the higher-up in the company. I'm the director of IS at my company, and you really have to go over the benefits of open source to those above you, because they know only the pay-for-the-license way of doing business. For everyone else, even though OpenOffice is so much better than many Windows programs, they're still hung-up on MS Works from 1996, because that's all they know, and they don't even care to become more productive. I guess the only point I'm trying to make is that you can't just get the average person to change...they have to be made to.
...it only took about a $5 million research-study to tell these idiots this. Besides, who really cares anyway? I mean, just choose a font that can be read. And, with 14pt being the standard, the Russians/French/British will think we're all half blind.
And the great thing about all this is that those who want the bleeding-edge stuff get it, and the others (e.g. newbie, corporate user, etc.) get something that's stable right out of the box. I can see this as being a great way to sort out the bugs before the corporate guys install it and toss it to the side after playing with it for 10 minutes. This way, they get something very stable and usable that could gain widespread use throughout various companies.
This is actually similar to what Mandrake (and others) already do. Isn't this kind of like just releasing another release candidate in the alpha-beta-rc-final flow? Still, I like the idea, because there have been numerous times I've purchased the boxed version, and it has had major problems that immediately needed to be patched. This is just a way to better refine the distro before selling it on the shelves.
Do you ever wonder what would happen if they pulled the plug on a geeky lawyer who paid for something that was "unlimited"? That would really make it hit the fan.
Why don't we all just turn this "feature" of replying to the virus-laden email off? I do the administration of our anti-virus software on the network (Symantec Corporate Ed.), and I just turn that crap off...it's a very simple thing to do. I can't speak for the other anti-virus software, but I would assume you could also turn off email replies in them as well. We ought to be bitching to the network admins, and not to the government.
Just what in the hell does this have to do with this article? Plone just happens to be one of the very best content management systems of the open source world. You install it, and it just works...simple as that. You can even install in on Windoze, and it still works great.
SCO has released updated financial forecasts. Seems as though last year's $6 million in lawyers' fees will be just slightly higher this year.
Says CEO McBride, "Yeah, we're gonna milk 'em for ev'ry cent that them IBM pirates got. The udder's gonna dry up for 'em!" IBM responded, "Too bad they're just milking a bull."
Really, though, the price of media is really unimportant. I remember when CD-Rs were, what, $2 a piece? Now, I can get them for about $0.12 each on a decent day. Ultimately, the price of media is going to go way down regardless of which format wins.
...that people should be held accountable for the companies that they worked for (provided they had some kind of insight into the shady practices in use). Once an employee has the information in hand showing that their employer is doing something wrong/illegal/immoral/etc., they should leave. Plain and simple. These stupid Enron people that hung around to the end should have a hard time getting a job, because they obviously have no business ethics. If they do get out of the company in a reasonable amount of time, the employer-to-be should recognize this by the dates of employment on the resume, and this should make the prospective employee look pretty good.
Someone ought to start some kind of system where people can sponsor certain open-source projects, and have a lot of people contributing to them. $10 here and $10 there adds up to quite a bit of cash for the programmers who work hard at creating something great and then giving it to everyone for the betterment of all. This would also help the programmers gain feedback into what people really want to see in their programs.
These various court battles having nothing to do with creative effort and everything to do with maintaining power and control.
I believe you're right about trying to maintain control, but it does really seem like the RIAA is trying only to gain speed toward a supreme court case. They don't really care about one ISP not willing to cave-in to the pressure...they're trying to set precedents with these smaller court "wins" to give legitamacy to their stance on the whole issue, which (of course) they'll use to their advantage if/when it goes to the highest court in the land.
It really irks me that this court didn't have the balls to stand up to the RIAA. Why does it all have to go up the court-ladder? Why can't these judges just make an informed, reasonable decision. It bothers me even more that the high courts in this country always seem to lean more toward the side of big business.
Are Canadian engines measured in elk-power?
By the way: elks can run at about 35 MPH, and the speed of light is 186,282 miles per second, so I guess the speed of light is 19,160,434 elks.
Assuming a smooth continuity of growth in demand where growth rates are proportional to the size of the Internet, and assuming a continuation of the current utilization efficiency levels in the Internet, and assuming a continuing balance between public address utilization and various forms of address compression, and assuming the absence of highly disruptive events, then it would appear that the IPv4 world, in terms of address availability, could continue for another two decades or so without reaching any fixed boundary.
Yeah, two decades if everyone's pacemaker isn't running Apache on a wireless connection by then.
It's no damn wonder we have surgeons cutting off wrong limbs and such. I wonder how many doctor mistakes are due to bad transcribing done by people overseas, or (possibly) with poor English-speaking skills.
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I know this kind of sounds strange, but absolutely the first thing you need to do is either have everyone's cooperation, or just make the changes and make people deal with them. People are very reluctant to change, and that's the biggest problem. When you have everyone in a company used to doing their business in Windows using MS Office, you're going to have a hard time getting them to change without just going ahead with the changes. It goes against everything they teach you in school (I was a business major), but people just won't change unless they're forced. That even goes for the higher-up in the company. I'm the director of IS at my company, and you really have to go over the benefits of open source to those above you, because they know only the pay-for-the-license way of doing business. For everyone else, even though OpenOffice is so much better than many Windows programs, they're still hung-up on MS Works from 1996, because that's all they know, and they don't even care to become more productive. I guess the only point I'm trying to make is that you can't just get the average person to change...they have to be made to.
In other news...Bonzi Buddy claims to be your buddy, when he's not your buddy at all!
Insensitive clod.
...it only took about a $5 million research-study to tell these idiots this. Besides, who really cares anyway? I mean, just choose a font that can be read. And, with 14pt being the standard, the Russians/French/British will think we're all half blind.
And the great thing about all this is that those who want the bleeding-edge stuff get it, and the others (e.g. newbie, corporate user, etc.) get something that's stable right out of the box. I can see this as being a great way to sort out the bugs before the corporate guys install it and toss it to the side after playing with it for 10 minutes. This way, they get something very stable and usable that could gain widespread use throughout various companies.
This is actually similar to what Mandrake (and others) already do. Isn't this kind of like just releasing another release candidate in the alpha-beta-rc-final flow? Still, I like the idea, because there have been numerous times I've purchased the boxed version, and it has had major problems that immediately needed to be patched. This is just a way to better refine the distro before selling it on the shelves.
Do you ever wonder what would happen if they pulled the plug on a geeky lawyer who paid for something that was "unlimited"? That would really make it hit the fan.
Why don't we all just turn this "feature" of replying to the virus-laden email off? I do the administration of our anti-virus software on the network (Symantec Corporate Ed.), and I just turn that crap off...it's a very simple thing to do. I can't speak for the other anti-virus software, but I would assume you could also turn off email replies in them as well. We ought to be bitching to the network admins, and not to the government.
Do you really have to use Windows CE .NET on a 286??
Just what in the hell does this have to do with this article? Plone just happens to be one of the very best content management systems of the open source world. You install it, and it just works...simple as that. You can even install in on Windoze, and it still works great.
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Says CEO McBride, "Yeah, we're gonna milk 'em for ev'ry cent that them IBM pirates got. The udder's gonna dry up for 'em!" IBM responded, "Too bad they're just milking a bull."
Really, though, the price of media is really unimportant. I remember when CD-Rs were, what, $2 a piece? Now, I can get them for about $0.12 each on a decent day. Ultimately, the price of media is going to go way down regardless of which format wins.
...that people should be held accountable for the companies that they worked for (provided they had some kind of insight into the shady practices in use). Once an employee has the information in hand showing that their employer is doing something wrong/illegal/immoral/etc., they should leave. Plain and simple. These stupid Enron people that hung around to the end should have a hard time getting a job, because they obviously have no business ethics. If they do get out of the company in a reasonable amount of time, the employer-to-be should recognize this by the dates of employment on the resume, and this should make the prospective employee look pretty good.
My 2 cents.
Someone ought to start some kind of system where people can sponsor certain open-source projects, and have a lot of people contributing to them. $10 here and $10 there adds up to quite a bit of cash for the programmers who work hard at creating something great and then giving it to everyone for the betterment of all. This would also help the programmers gain feedback into what people really want to see in their programs.
These various court battles having nothing to do with creative effort and everything to do with maintaining power and control.
I believe you're right about trying to maintain control, but it does really seem like the RIAA is trying only to gain speed toward a supreme court case. They don't really care about one ISP not willing to cave-in to the pressure...they're trying to set precedents with these smaller court "wins" to give legitamacy to their stance on the whole issue, which (of course) they'll use to their advantage if/when it goes to the highest court in the land.
It really irks me that this court didn't have the balls to stand up to the RIAA. Why does it all have to go up the court-ladder? Why can't these judges just make an informed, reasonable decision. It bothers me even more that the high courts in this country always seem to lean more toward the side of big business.
What exactly happened? Just curious...
Very good, troll...I think you've actually succeeded in parsing a few of my brain cells for reading that. Well done.
That's the biggest damn link I've even seen. I guess my Firebird browser must be worm-infested.
....if DEET is as good of a defense against worms as it is against mosquitos. Hmmm....
When are they going to come out with this for the Segway?
No, you just talk and watch at the same time...these new cars practically drive themselves for you anyway.
Are Canadian engines measured in elk-power? By the way: elks can run at about 35 MPH, and the speed of light is 186,282 miles per second, so I guess the speed of light is 19,160,434 elks.
Assuming a smooth continuity of growth in demand where growth rates are proportional to the size of the Internet, and assuming a continuation of the current utilization efficiency levels in the Internet, and assuming a continuing balance between public address utilization and various forms of address compression, and assuming the absence of highly disruptive events, then it would appear that the IPv4 world, in terms of address availability, could continue for another two decades or so without reaching any fixed boundary. Yeah, two decades if everyone's pacemaker isn't running Apache on a wireless connection by then.
It's no damn wonder we have surgeons cutting off wrong limbs and such. I wonder how many doctor mistakes are due to bad transcribing done by people overseas, or (possibly) with poor English-speaking skills.
Lawsuits anyone?