parent post is indeed informative, it's spot-on good advice/comment - but I've gotta wonder where the origonal poster has been if he's not heard the word "consultant" or "outsourcing". Perhaps he should patent the business model [sheesh]
I think they chose well on both - and they were very different issues.
There is a world of difference between the FBI issue and the China one.
With the FBI case, a goverment was asking (demanding) that Google hand over search logs which would seriously comprimise the privacy, and perhaps the security, of a large number of citizens. Google said "naff off" - and kudos to them. I wish Yahoo and MS had the balls to do the same (but I wouldn't expect it)
With China, a goverment is requiring that Google not allow it's citizens access to certain data. Google have agreed. I think it's a shame but I can understand Google following national laws - especially when it has no privacy or survaliance result. I suspect the alternative would be that Google would be blocked from the Chinese national firewalls. In either case the citizens are prevented from accessing the search results. With this result the citizens do not have reduced access (they'd be blockedone way or another) but google retains a presence
Now - if Google were also handing over the logs of failed search requests then it would be a double standard and hypocrisy, and definitly "doing evil". As it stands I think the two issues are quite seperate. I also think they've come to a reasonably good conclusion when faced with very difficult moral questions
'He hijacked somewhere in the area of half a million computer systems.
Sure 500,000 PC's is quite a few - but does this really stack up as a MAJOR botnet? I would have thought multiple millions of devices would be involved in the really major league events. No?
No one uses it. -snip- I also attribute its failure partially to some of the public thinking the coin was "collectible" and thus hoarding rather than spending them
New Zealand simply withdrew the notes from circulation and never isued any further paper dollar notes - I believe they are still "legal tender" if you can find any. The notes are now collectable. If the US tresury were serious about migrating to coins they would have done the same - obviously they weren't
oh come on - you're suggesting that XP (especialy with SP2) is NOT significantly more secure than win2k, win98 or even NT4ws - and you are very very wrong.
XP is way more secure - there's no getting away from it (unless you stick your head in the sand screaming "it ain't it ain't").
The truth is that there is so much further to go.
Next I'll be hearing that XP can't be installed by normal users and doesn't impliment a WIMP interface.
as for Vista - I'm looking forward to using it - my current experience is that it really does make better use of graphics cards and SATA drives. But I don't expect to read any such articles here.
Freedom is all relative. There's always limits. But on the whole the examples cited in the parent are nowhere near the privacy invasion and restrictions on actions that seem to be going on in the US and Europe - but give us time. We won't rush in as quick as Aussie and England - but eventually we'll probably follow.
Just keep the Nuclear arms out of our waters, let us feel like that's significant, and we'll probably cave on anything else
Well considering the time (and space) based nature of networking. Getting away from books (and their limitations) and towards a more dynamic form of presentation would be best. We already try for this by buying all this hardware, and downloading lots of software. All so we can sit with our networking books propped right next to it.
Yup - we do. And only time will tell us whether ink on pulped wood is a better medium for reference than electronic media, or whether us old-timers just like it by habit
an interesting side-note (well i think it's interesting): I teach the Cisco Network Academy CCNA programme. Students have free access to the learning material online. About 1/2 the students shell out a significant amount of money for the printed version. One student said that he finds it easier to read the printed version in the bath (students are strange - what can I say). Another pointed out that perhaps there's something physically difficult about reading from something is a light source rather than using reflective light... I dunno but at least SOME people simply seem to prefer bound paper.
I used Comer & Stevens to learn about TCP/IP. along with Postal (ie the RFC's). But a hidden gem is the IBM Redbook "TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview". From that link you can download the PDF of the 980 page book - all for free. or you can order the hard copy book
thank you IBM - its a fantastic resource and reference.
when the ccTLD's came into play the individual nations were allowed to subdivide any way they liked. Some used the legacy TLD's as second level (like.us and.au - but the aussies follow.us blindly anyway). The uk did something similar but used different initials (such as.co.uk instead of.com) and some followed them like.nz. Still others decided to go flat under their ccTLD and I think.jp is one of those and perhaps Canada.
the point is that ICANN delegated decisions to the nation and can't be held responsible for whatever different nations chose - unless you count that delegation as causing divergence, which i guess it did.
a winner? You can't be serious! The Jewish culture and nationality bares very little resemblance to anything 500 years ago, hardly anything to 2000 years ago and resembles the culture 4000 years ago to the same degree that it resembles Polynesian culture today.
This is exactly the type of thing that I expect from the old institutions these days. They rely on "honor systems" and refuse to police things like plagiarism. What they ACTUALLY teach is "don't get caught and you're fine... and we won't try to catch you". Until I see these schools implement things like turnitin [turnitin.com] I will continue to disrespect and distrust their grads.
I'm just someone who uses BB for teaching but trialed Moodle last year unofficially. Hopefully there will be better answers to your queries:
What's the migration path to the new OSS product?
BB migration to Moodle - sucks (as far as I could figure). But apparently is getting better
Will it integrate with the library software, the student portal, the student system and all the other disparate systems on campus?
Probably - but it will be bespoke (so will integrating the proprietry one). At least you can code it to integrate with your student managment system and anything else. Just try doing that with BB without breaching license.
How many staff do I need to hire that can provide the love and hugs that an OSS enterprise LMS needs?
That depends on whether you want them to run the LMS or extend it. The Sys-admin I worked with, who currently maintains the (hugly expensive to licence) Blackboard reckond that the maintenance and running costs of Moodle would be no more than Blackboard. But - if you want to extend the modules to do funky things then yes you will have to pay developers
Say I need three programmers and a sys-admin, that's ~$400K (cost to employ after super contributions and payroll tax etc.) to install run and keep the software current. Or I can spend ~$150K to pay the license and the sys-admin and stay with WebCT.
well if you want to pluck numbers out of the air to make sure that the migration won't work - then yeah. Why do you need 3 programmers? I was able to take the course material from BB and put it into Moodle without anyone changing one line of code. I'm not talking import - that's crap - but I was able to do the same or more with Moodle straight out of the box than I was able to do with BB.
I will have to retrain all the academics and staff that put courses online = 6 months of labor = 6 months opportunity cost. TCO is cheaper with WebCT and I get ~$12million in R&D and access to a vibrant powerlink developer community. I just don't think I can afford free software and if I can I'm not getting the same ROI I get from WebCT.
yeah yeah more fictitious $. Why did you say 6 months rather than 2 or 18?. Yes training is a very real and expensive issue. But you are talking $150k each and every year to licence Web-CT - isn't it worth figuring out just what the cost really is?
The LMS is as important as the bricks and mortar buildings. Absolutly
I can't futz about with trying to get some OSS product to work, scale and migrate thousands of courses in an environment that is used 24/7.
sigh - isn't it sad that we are still hearing "no one got fired for buying IBM" rather than actually being interested in doing a solid investigation of the real issues. If you think that non-OSS is even slightly more workable, scalable and migratable then you have either been lucky or never tried to scale, work with or migrate proprietary systems. Those issues tend to become worse the more they cost... NOT better
For my money - Moodle is becoming a pretty decent product - and I do not care that it's OSS. Let me say that again I do not care that it is open source. I want a good LMS that is NOT going to cost my students the earth each and every year.
However - the issues raised are very very large stumbling blocks. I was able to manually load all of my course material into Moodle which is currently on BB. A migration for an institution cannot be manual. I am also not happy about Moodle's quizes or ability to use resources that are supplied by publishers.
I'm not using Moodle now solely because of those last two issues. But most of the features that I use daily in Blackboard are available in Moodle. And usually those features are more advanced in Moodle (the discussion board stuff is light years ahead of BB). Our sys-admin also doesn't care whether the stuff he looks after is OSS or not - he just wants it to work without headaches or faculty yelling at him. He much prefered Moodle and was dissapointed that he couldn't migrate the institution
Why King Konng? Because Peter can. No other reason.
Peter Jackson's success with LoTR meant that anyone would bankroll him for anything... once. PJ has been a King Kong fan since chldhood and leapt at that window of opportunity to make a re-make of something that probably would not have been funded except for his then current standing.
He can probably even afford it to be a box-office flop (regardless of it's artistic merit) if - and ONLY if - his next movie is absolutly awesome. Notice that he got HALO before KK was released. Can HALO be awesome? Sounds like a simple shoot-em-up to me without any of the depth of LoTR. But hey - I don't play games so what would I know. And besides, shoot-em-ups can be box office hits.
I suspect that if you can afford the ticket a few extra million isn't the issue. How often do you hear of russia failing to get their "cargo" back to earth in one piece
step two of the screening process is discard all resumes with the letters MCSE on them
Then you sir are an idiot who deserves what you get.
Sure there are some people that basically cheat their way into a cert by rote learning questions - but there are many who actually study the material and actually LEARN the material that is examined.
Blindly discarding a CV just because someone has gone to the trouble of being certified is even worse than blindly hiring someone for the same reason.
BTW - the only people that think MCSE is easy are those who never bothered trying, or those with decades of expreience. For those in between they are bloody hard exams that do test knowledge to certain limits. And no - they do not prove you a server god, or prove skills - the limits are simply "reasonable knowledge" - butthat is an important aspect worth considering along with the rest of the CV.
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parent post is indeed informative, it's spot-on good advice/comment - but I've gotta wonder where the origonal poster has been if he's not heard the word "consultant" or "outsourcing". Perhaps he should patent the business model [sheesh]
With the FBI case, a goverment was asking (demanding) that Google hand over search logs which would seriously comprimise the privacy, and perhaps the security, of a large number of citizens. Google said "naff off" - and kudos to them. I wish Yahoo and MS had the balls to do the same (but I wouldn't expect it)
With China, a goverment is requiring that Google not allow it's citizens access to certain data. Google have agreed. I think it's a shame but I can understand Google following national laws - especially when it has no privacy or survaliance result. I suspect the alternative would be that Google would be blocked from the Chinese national firewalls. In either case the citizens are prevented from accessing the search results. With this result the citizens do not have reduced access (they'd be blockedone way or another) but google retains a presence
Now - if Google were also handing over the logs of failed search requests then it would be a double standard and hypocrisy, and definitly "doing evil". As it stands I think the two issues are quite seperate. I also think they've come to a reasonably good conclusion when faced with very difficult moral questions
no this isn't a troll - criticisim issues within the USA does not mean anti-USA
New Zealand simply withdrew the notes from circulation and never isued any further paper dollar notes - I believe they are still "legal tender" if you can find any. The notes are now collectable. If the US tresury were serious about migrating to coins they would have done the same - obviously they weren't
XP is way more secure - there's no getting away from it (unless you stick your head in the sand screaming "it ain't it ain't").
The truth is that there is so much further to go.
Next I'll be hearing that XP can't be installed by normal users and doesn't impliment a WIMP interface.
as for Vista - I'm looking forward to using it - my current experience is that it really does make better use of graphics cards and SATA drives. But I don't expect to read any such articles here.
Just keep the Nuclear arms out of our waters, let us feel like that's significant, and we'll probably cave on anything else
Yup - we do. And only time will tell us whether ink on pulped wood is a better medium for reference than electronic media, or whether us old-timers just like it by habit
an interesting side-note (well i think it's interesting): I teach the Cisco Network Academy CCNA programme. Students have free access to the learning material online. About 1/2 the students shell out a significant amount of money for the printed version. One student said that he finds it easier to read the printed version in the bath (students are strange - what can I say). Another pointed out that perhaps there's something physically difficult about reading from something is a light source rather than using reflective light ... I dunno but at least SOME people simply seem to prefer bound paper.
thank you IBM - its a fantastic resource and reference.
Of course it's american owned. The US govt has been working on it since the american Tesla developed prototypes back in the late 1800's
that one's easy
when the ccTLD's came into play the individual nations were allowed to subdivide any way they liked. Some used the legacy TLD's as second level (like .us and .au - but the aussies follow .us blindly anyway). The uk did something similar but used different initials (such as .co.uk instead of .com) and some followed them like .nz. Still others decided to go flat under their ccTLD and I think .jp is one of those and perhaps Canada.
the point is that ICANN delegated decisions to the nation and can't be held responsible for whatever different nations chose - unless you count that delegation as causing divergence, which i guess it did.
I don't use e-bay but prefer a local (NZ) auction site and a quick search finds:
- Flock of Ducks
- A whole section on Horses including stud
Don't underestimate what you can buy & sell onlineYou can't discount mythical beings because you can't conclusivly prove that the best non-magic explanation isn't flawed.
Personally I think they should add the Ancient Ones as potential creators too.
you go guy
a winner? You can't be serious! The Jewish culture and nationality bares very little resemblance to anything 500 years ago, hardly anything to 2000 years ago and resembles the culture 4000 years ago to the same degree that it resembles Polynesian culture today.
I like this article by Orson Scott Card titled "Why software companies die". It's really short (and really old - 1995) - go read it.
This is exactly the type of thing that I expect from the old institutions these days. They rely on "honor systems" and refuse to police things like plagiarism. What they ACTUALLY teach is "don't get caught and you're fine ... and we won't try to catch you". Until I see these schools implement things like turnitin [turnitin.com] I will continue to disrespect and distrust their grads.
ahh - that explains it. Well spotted, I never thought to check for aliases
I wonder why they use the domain name mi6.gov.uk when they make such a big deal of their REAL name being SIS, with Mi6 being mostly a movie thing
see http://www.mi6.gov.uk/output/Page50.html
I'm just someone who uses BB for teaching but trialed Moodle last year unofficially. Hopefully there will be better answers to your queries:
... NOT better
What's the migration path to the new OSS product?
BB migration to Moodle - sucks (as far as I could figure). But apparently is getting better
Will it integrate with the library software, the student portal, the student system and all the other disparate systems on campus?
Probably - but it will be bespoke (so will integrating the proprietry one). At least you can code it to integrate with your student managment system and anything else. Just try doing that with BB without breaching license.
How many staff do I need to hire that can provide the love and hugs that an OSS enterprise LMS needs?
That depends on whether you want them to run the LMS or extend it. The Sys-admin I worked with, who currently maintains the (hugly expensive to licence) Blackboard reckond that the maintenance and running costs of Moodle would be no more than Blackboard. But - if you want to extend the modules to do funky things then yes you will have to pay developers
Say I need three programmers and a sys-admin, that's ~$400K (cost to employ after super contributions and payroll tax etc.) to install run and keep the software current. Or I can spend ~$150K to pay the license and the sys-admin and stay with WebCT.
well if you want to pluck numbers out of the air to make sure that the migration won't work - then yeah. Why do you need 3 programmers? I was able to take the course material from BB and put it into Moodle without anyone changing one line of code. I'm not talking import - that's crap - but I was able to do the same or more with Moodle straight out of the box than I was able to do with BB.
I will have to retrain all the academics and staff that put courses online = 6 months of labor = 6 months opportunity cost. TCO is cheaper with WebCT and I get ~$12million in R&D and access to a vibrant powerlink developer community. I just don't think I can afford free software and if I can I'm not getting the same ROI I get from WebCT.
yeah yeah more fictitious $. Why did you say 6 months rather than 2 or 18?. Yes training is a very real and expensive issue. But you are talking $150k each and every year to licence Web-CT - isn't it worth figuring out just what the cost really is?
The LMS is as important as the bricks and mortar buildings.
Absolutly
I can't futz about with trying to get some OSS product to work, scale and migrate thousands of courses in an environment that is used 24/7.
sigh - isn't it sad that we are still hearing "no one got fired for buying IBM" rather than actually being interested in doing a solid investigation of the real issues. If you think that non-OSS is even slightly more workable, scalable and migratable then you have either been lucky or never tried to scale, work with or migrate proprietary systems. Those issues tend to become worse the more they cost
For my money - Moodle is becoming a pretty decent product - and I do not care that it's OSS. Let me say that again I do not care that it is open source. I want a good LMS that is NOT going to cost my students the earth each and every year.
However - the issues raised are very very large stumbling blocks. I was able to manually load all of my course material into Moodle which is currently on BB. A migration for an institution cannot be manual. I am also not happy about Moodle's quizes or ability to use resources that are supplied by publishers.
I'm not using Moodle now solely because of those last two issues. But most of the features that I use daily in Blackboard are available in Moodle. And usually those features are more advanced in Moodle (the discussion board stuff is light years ahead of BB). Our sys-admin also doesn't care whether the stuff he looks after is OSS or not - he just wants it to work without headaches or faculty yelling at him. He much prefered Moodle and was dissapointed that he couldn't migrate the institution
Why King Konng? Because Peter can. No other reason.
... once. PJ has been a King Kong fan since chldhood and leapt at that window of opportunity to make a re-make of something that probably would not have been funded except for his then current standing.
Peter Jackson's success with LoTR meant that anyone would bankroll him for anything
He can probably even afford it to be a box-office flop (regardless of it's artistic merit) if - and ONLY if - his next movie is absolutly awesome. Notice that he got HALO before KK was released. Can HALO be awesome? Sounds like a simple shoot-em-up to me without any of the depth of LoTR. But hey - I don't play games so what would I know. And besides, shoot-em-ups can be box office hits.
The Buckland Hills Mall in Manchester seems to be the favourite example
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGC/i
sounds like an interesting methodology - but what does FUN stand for? How does it compare with SCRUM and is it Agile?
How can we teach this as a thriving Software Engineering methodology if it doesn't have a silly acronym
cheaper?
I suspect that if you can afford the ticket a few extra million isn't the issue. How often do you hear of russia failing to get their "cargo" back to earth in one piece
have you seen the interface "AERO" (sickening acroynm .. .forget what it stands for but remember my stomach churning)
a milyid=fd380553-911e-4659-a085-4dd58ae4b9ae&displa ylang=en
download and extract this and tell me which OS it looks like (to my non apple using eyes itlooks like OS-X)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?f
oh - stupid validation required for that link
Then you sir are an idiot who deserves what you get.
Sure there are some people that basically cheat their way into a cert by rote learning questions - but there are many who actually study the material and actually LEARN the material that is examined.
Blindly discarding a CV just because someone has gone to the trouble of being certified is even worse than blindly hiring someone for the same reason.
BTW - the only people that think MCSE is easy are those who never bothered trying, or those with decades of expreience. For those in between they are bloody hard exams that do test knowledge to certain limits. And no - they do not prove you a server god, or prove skills - the limits are simply "reasonable knowledge" - butthat is an important aspect worth considering along with the rest of the CV.
Certs have a place within a strong CV.