Looking at the list of metrics, I can understand why many of the larger agencies are "failing". Many of the metrics concern "agency-wide policies", "agency-wide plans", and "agency-wide inventories." The larger government agencies are very heterogeneous, by design. The DOE's laboratories, for example, are deliberately run by different contractors who each have a lot of discretion in how things are operated. And DHS, of course, is a hodgepodge, a loose federation of a large number of until-recently independent organizations -- of course they don't have a single unified IT oversight system.
You think it makes sense to have a single, central, updated, accurate list of every single computer owned by the DHS, categorized by OS? What's the cost/benefit analysis there?
Furthermore, another important metric on their scorecard is the extent to which the agency specifically acted on recommendations from a previous year. If an agency simply doesn't give a shit what Tom Davis' little committee has to say, then they get marked off for not caring.
This report is completely worthless, IMO. I could say a lot more, but I think I'll leave it at that.
You're missing the point. It's an elaborate scheme to transfer tax dollars into pocket dollars. Bush and Co. don't care much what the conversion ratio is -- Hell, waste 99%, they don't care, cause they get to pocket the other 1%.
We're talking about an 18-year old virus writer. He's a kid, a boy, a [i]kindt.[/i] Not a man at all, but a snivelling weasel and coward.
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Because the mouse-based solution from the front page lets you navigate 3 dimensions by moving an object in 3 dimensions! Your solution allows 3-d movement using a 2-d interface -- not the same at all.
Uhh, yeah. Unless he had heard of Gopher/Archie/Veronica, at which point the WWW really becomes only an incremental improvement. Nobody creates something out of a vacuum. TBL was just, as is so often the case, in the right place at the right time.
> Personally, if the PC market split from the consumer content market, I would be very happy. This would allow me, a developer to buy the OS and hardware I want while my less technologically inclined friends can just buy a tv-box and worry about which games it will play.
A-bloody-men, brother! The whole idea of DRM leading to TCPA and a machine that won't let me tell it what to do being an end result of the whole misguided "digital convergence" mantra makes my blood boil. Wanna make copy-protected CDs? Make 'em square, and an inch thick, and sell a proprietary player, and get them the hell away from my computer! I've got work to do!
That's an interesting article, although the article makes one odd mistake: it seems to imply that the $40,000 per programmer fee you'd pay would be the Indian programmer's salary. It wouldn't -- the programmer would get only a fraction of that.
> Once you write a successful application, you have book deals.
This is beyond hilarious. You've clearly never written a book. There are less than half a dozen technical book authors working today who can actually make a living at it. And note that RMS says that technical books should be free, too.
> there is still a job market for people who can use it, tailor it, and integrate it into a business.
This is the part of this argument that always bothers me the most. Yes, there is a market for this. But this is the part that's a) not particularly fun, and b) easy to outsource. The fun, creative part is writing the software in the first place. The boring drone part is supporting it afterwards. The end result, in any event, is that the fun jobs get done for free, and the boring jobs typing in web.xml files get sent to India. Whoopee.
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I have large, rectangular transparent panels installed in many of my exterior walls. They work very well!
Looking at the list of metrics, I can understand why many of the larger agencies are "failing". Many of the metrics concern "agency-wide policies", "agency-wide plans", and "agency-wide inventories." The larger government agencies are very heterogeneous, by design. The DOE's laboratories, for example, are deliberately run by different contractors who each have a lot of discretion in how things are operated. And DHS, of course, is a hodgepodge, a loose federation of a large number of until-recently independent organizations -- of course they don't have a single unified IT oversight system. You think it makes sense to have a single, central, updated, accurate list of every single computer owned by the DHS, categorized by OS? What's the cost/benefit analysis there? Furthermore, another important metric on their scorecard is the extent to which the agency specifically acted on recommendations from a previous year. If an agency simply doesn't give a shit what Tom Davis' little committee has to say, then they get marked off for not caring. This report is completely worthless, IMO. I could say a lot more, but I think I'll leave it at that.
Yes, and 1500m -> ~4500 ft -> nearly a mile, as the poster said.
What kind of training did you have for this position? Did you and the Iraqi Information Minister go to school together?
You're missing the point. It's an elaborate scheme to transfer tax dollars into pocket dollars. Bush and Co. don't care much what the conversion ratio is -- Hell, waste 99%, they don't care, cause they get to pocket the other 1%.
"BOFHs?" Don't you mean "PHBs"? BOFH is "Bastard Operator From Hell". PHB is "Pointy Haired Boss".
The "Newhart" ending!
Dude, do you really believe this? That's the worst attitude I've ever heard -- and the most ill-informed.
I can see it now: you could walk up to any woman you see, clap twice, and turn her sweater into a bikini top.
I [i]loved[/i] that story when I originally read it, but I didn't remember this detail. Pretty cool foreshadowing.
We're talking about an 18-year old virus writer. He's a kid, a boy, a [i]kindt.[/i] Not a man at all, but a snivelling weasel and coward.
Because the mouse-based solution from the front page lets you navigate 3 dimensions by moving an object in 3 dimensions! Your solution allows 3-d movement using a 2-d interface -- not the same at all.
.. I [i]suck[/i] at it when it comes out?
> It could leapfrog Iraq into a more competitive future.
First they'd need to figure out the elusive step 2, you know, in the business plan.
If they had checked the newspapers, they would have had time to shop on Yahoo for a boatload of throw pillows and their trailer would have been saved!
Ah, as in mobile-blog, not mob-blog. Was thinking this must be related to that other oh-so-fashionable (yet ultimately lame) concept, the "flash mob."
Umm, not quite, actually; you fire the rocket just as you're leaving the ground.
Did you ever see the movie "The Devil's Advocate"? Same principle in operation here.
Was that real, or was that just a movie with Michael Douglass?
Uhh, yeah. Unless he had heard of Gopher/Archie/Veronica, at which point the WWW really becomes only an incremental improvement. Nobody creates something out of a vacuum. TBL was just, as is so often the case, in the right place at the right time.
They could also design the part so that it can correctly go in either way.
> Personally, if the PC market split from the consumer content market, I would be very happy. This would allow me, a developer to buy the OS and hardware I want while my less technologically inclined friends can just buy a tv-box and worry about which games it will play.
A-bloody-men, brother! The whole idea of DRM leading to TCPA and a machine that won't let me tell it what to do being an end result of the whole misguided "digital convergence" mantra makes my blood boil. Wanna make copy-protected CDs? Make 'em square, and an inch thick, and sell a proprietary player, and get them the hell away from my computer! I've got work to do!
That's an interesting article, although the article makes one odd mistake: it seems to imply that the $40,000 per programmer fee you'd pay would be the Indian programmer's salary. It wouldn't -- the programmer would get only a fraction of that.
$60 is pricey? Jesus, man, no wonder so many IT jobs are being offshored if that's too much to pay for software.
This is beyond hilarious. You've clearly never written a book. There are less than half a dozen technical book authors working today who can actually make a living at it. And note that RMS says that technical books should be free, too.
> there is still a job market for people who can use it, tailor it, and integrate it into a business.
This is the part of this argument that always bothers me the most. Yes, there is a market for this. But this is the part that's a) not particularly fun, and b) easy to outsource. The fun, creative part is writing the software in the first place. The boring drone part is supporting it afterwards. The end result, in any event, is that the fun jobs get done for free, and the boring jobs typing in web.xml files get sent to India. Whoopee.