A good example of this is the CTF-50 Case Study done by OFT. The types of capabilities they used to increase Mission Effectiveness (i.e. Instant Messenger, Web-logs, basic Portal) would be available directly from Core Information Services.
The study doesn't say which IM protocol/client was used. The value of IM over phone/radio was having a history of what was communicated.
I once read somewhere that words can be compared to radio waves: vowels are the carrier wave while the consonants represent the actual information. That's why you could leave out the vowels in many (written) words and still undertand what is meant.
Something else (from the article):
The serial letter recognition model fails because it cannot explain the Word Superiority Effect. The Word Superiority Effect showed that readers are better able to identify letters in the context of a word than in isolation [...]
has anyone heard of this "isolation" word processor?
My customers (and me) want an application that works, is maintanable and runs on platforms on which they haven't decided yet.
I use Java to program those applications. And they live up to their expectations.
I once attended a.Net convention. There Java was considered "uncool" because you had to think before writing a program. That did put some things in perspective...
There's another mechanism at work as well. In the early 90's my company decided to use the Lotus Suite (Amipro, Lotus123,...) as the standard office suite. However, since people used Microsoft programs at home (and at work - in those days you didn't have to be sysadmin yet to install programs) they wrote their documents in Word rather than Amipro, forcing others to use Word as well in order to read those documents. The company, faced with a de-facto standard that differed from the chosen one, switched to MSOffice as a standard some 3 years later.
I can see the same potential "danger" here, although it appears that the US Army is using Microsoft products anyway since they paid for it.
Yesterday I saw a BBC documentary about Iran... seems like it is a real police state, where the hardliners are in power since long. Internet cafes are available but apparently mail is read by government if not censored. I believe they will continue to allow these internet cafes, as long as they are capable of keeping up with monitoring whatever is going on in those places.
Larger organizations don't care about who is selling open source software (most of it can be freely downloaded from the Internet anyway) but they DO care about who is going to give support for the product afterwards. So I think the questions should be "How to support open source software", from a services point of view.
I am not a sailor, but I believe THAT only works because the water on which the sailboat sails offers resistance (through the keel) to the crosswind component of the wind. In space you would not have such resistance.
Let me give you an example of what's happening in my company right now: we run multiple applications, some outsourced and others written in-house. One of our most important apps (ERP) is accessible via an applet that uses Microsoft Java "extensions", and the applet is packed in a.CAB (not recognized by Sun JRE). Other apps are using Sun Java 1.2+ applets.
Because Microsoft's JVM is only Java 1.1, I cannot use their VM to run the Java 2 apps, and I cannot use Sun's to run the ERP applet.
Nice huh? Looks like I'll have to install 2 browsers at the workstations of my clients: IE for the ERP and another for the Java 2 apps. I cannot ask my users to switch the JRE used by the browser each time they want to use another application.
Because most big organisations don't trust anything that is open source or related to it. Sometimes they won't even consider open source as an alternative. This kind of certification can take away much of their "objections", and at least can be an argument for considering RH as an alternative for Windows.
I'm sorry to have moderated this post as "Funny" instead of "Insightful". The mousewheel is to blame, and so am I. However, I guess this mistake is preferrable over moderations that negatively affect the score.
In my country (Belgium) these machines are really breaking through. Many crossroads are equipped with radar/cameras making pictures of cars driving through red lights and cars speeding. One of the problems that occured is the limited number of pictures that can be put on a film - this film must be replaced manually! - making that after a couple of hours these films are full. They solved it... by using bigger films. Yesterday the government announced that, after a "minor" change in the software these cameras would be able to register other infractions as well: driving over a white line for example.
An interesting point is that since these devices were installed these crossroads actualy have become safer. And the politicians that put these things in place still are quite popular.
So it is a documented feature according to some reactions. Here is somebody that didn't read the manual carefully. According to the accompanying text this driver stepped on the gas instead of the brakes, but my guess is she activated the easter egg.
I don't know who owns the moon but one can "buy" a piece of the moon. One problem though is that you can buy these parts from different companies like here or there (there are other "vendors", maybe check the yellow pages?). Question: what happens when the same piece of moon is sold twice? A lunar war in the making!
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Uh oh... could I get that picture of mine...err my brother back then, plz?
IM is even used in warfare.
A good example of this is the CTF-50 Case Study done by OFT. The types of capabilities they used to increase Mission Effectiveness (i.e. Instant Messenger, Web-logs, basic Portal) would be available directly from Core Information Services.
The study doesn't say which IM protocol/client was used. The value of IM over phone/radio was having a history of what was communicated.
Given the number of posts I would say: maybe we can but we probably shouldn't.
You are right. I once saw a powerpoint presentation on leadership, made by Colin Powel when he retired as a general.
One of the lessons was: "it is easier to get forgiveness than to get permission".
One of the lessons the Bush administration applied, apparently.
Nobody knows it. That's why it is so secure...
I once read somewhere that words can be compared to radio waves: vowels are the carrier wave while the consonants represent the actual information. That's why you could leave out the vowels in many (written) words and still undertand what is meant.
Something else (from the article): The serial letter recognition model fails because it cannot explain the Word Superiority Effect. The Word Superiority Effect showed that readers are better able to identify letters in the context of a word than in isolation [...]
has anyone heard of this "isolation" word processor?
You mean you found a nuclear submarine ?
I believe you should be worshipping me.
;-)
You believe? A real Lord would know! What kind of Lord are you anyway...
Who cares if a language is cool?
.Net convention. There Java was considered "uncool" because you had to think before writing a program. That did put some things in perspective...
My customers (and me) want an application that works, is maintanable and runs on platforms on which they haven't decided yet.
I use Java to program those applications. And they live up to their expectations.
I once attended a
That's because you don't know me =:-)
I surely believe what you are telling, but in what way is Java responsible for that? Your companies uncool recruiters are to blame here.
There's another mechanism at work as well. In the early 90's my company decided to use the Lotus Suite (Amipro, Lotus123, ...) as the standard office suite. However, since people used Microsoft programs at home (and at work - in those days you didn't have to be sysadmin yet to install programs) they wrote their documents in Word rather than Amipro, forcing others to use Word as well in order to read those documents. The company, faced with a de-facto standard that differed from the chosen one, switched to MSOffice as a standard some 3 years later.
I can see the same potential "danger" here, although it appears that the US Army is using Microsoft products anyway since they paid for it.
Yesterday I saw a BBC documentary about Iran ... seems like it is a real police state, where the hardliners are in power since long. Internet cafes are available but apparently mail is read by government if not censored. I believe they will continue to allow these internet cafes, as long as they are capable of keeping up with monitoring whatever is going on in those places.
Larger organizations don't care about who is selling open source software (most of it can be freely downloaded from the Internet anyway) but they DO care about who is going to give support for the product afterwards.
So I think the questions should be "How to support open source software", from a services point of view.
I am not a sailor, but I believe THAT only works because the water on which the sailboat sails offers resistance (through the keel) to the crosswind component of the wind. In space you would not have such resistance.
I believe that the Microsoft licenses explicitly decline responsibility for damage caused by the software.
So I think you are right!
It's just a question of money: supersonic people transport turned out to be non-profitable. Now, the military don't have to make any profit.
Let me give you an example of what's happening in my company right now: we run multiple applications, some outsourced and others written in-house. One of our most important apps (ERP) is accessible via an applet that uses Microsoft Java "extensions", and the applet is packed in a .CAB (not recognized by Sun JRE). Other apps are using Sun Java 1.2+ applets.
Because Microsoft's JVM is only Java 1.1, I cannot use their VM to run the Java 2 apps, and I cannot use Sun's to run the ERP applet.
Nice huh? Looks like I'll have to install 2 browsers at the workstations of my clients: IE for the ERP and another for the Java 2 apps. I cannot ask my users to switch the JRE used by the browser each time they want to use another application.
Actually, MCSP stands for Microsoft Certified Solution Provider.
Because most big organisations don't trust anything that is open source or related to it. Sometimes they won't even consider open source as an alternative. This kind of certification can take away much of their "objections", and at least can be an argument for considering RH as an alternative for Windows.
I'm sorry to have moderated this post as "Funny" instead of "Insightful". The mousewheel is to blame, and so am I. However, I guess this mistake is preferrable over moderations that negatively affect the score.
In my country (Belgium) these machines are really breaking through. Many crossroads are equipped with radar/cameras making pictures of cars driving through red lights and cars speeding. One of the problems that occured is the limited number of pictures that can be put on a film - this film must be replaced manually! - making that after a couple of hours these films are full. They solved it ... by using bigger films. Yesterday the government announced that, after a "minor" change in the software these cameras would be able to register other infractions as well: driving over a white line for example.
An interesting point is that since these devices were installed these crossroads actualy have become safer. And the politicians that put these things in place still are quite popular.
I was just kidding ;-)
So it is a documented feature according to some reactions. Here is somebody that didn't read the manual carefully. According to the accompanying text this driver stepped on the gas instead of the brakes, but my guess is she activated the easter egg.
I don't know who owns the moon but one can "buy" a piece of the moon. One problem though is that you can buy these parts from different companies like here or there (there are other "vendors", maybe check the yellow pages?). Question: what happens when the same piece of moon is sold twice? A lunar war in the making!