If lawyers are going to willingly undermine national security, then they deserved to be treated as such.
If you made a law that made it illegal to knowingly distribute classified information (for profit or otherwise) then this wouldn't be an issue and reporters could go back to telling us what to wear, how to act and where to place our votes.
Why is this bad news for MS? MS has been cherry-picking corporate apple users for the past ten years a a nice clip. "Macs are great for imaging" argument was lost a long time ago. "Macs are great for paginating" is dead too. Fact is, mixed desktop environments is a thing of the past. Companies understand multiple OS's are a pain to support and are moving to the FAR cheaper solution, Microsoft. Until Apple drops prices to compete with the desktop/MS world, they will never compete with them for the desktop. Yes yes yes, there are 100% Apple shops, and for some corporations its a good fit. It's a very narrow market and I'm sure MS is happy to relent that arena.
The real solution is setting up policy to enforce both the frequent changing of passwords and strong passwords. Password expiration isn't the problem in the above story. The problem is two-fold: Passwords escrowed to a non-secured area of the network. No strong password enforcement.
The release of quality games over the last year is primarily the reason for sales lagging. Add to that the playability of MMORPG's and it's a one-two punch. In fact, the playability issue is something MMORPGs have a strangle-hold on. I think on average I play a regular video game maybe 12-20 total hours. Most MMORPG players I know easily that amount of time on a single MMORPG per month.
My company is a TAP and early adoption program member. Been using Office 12 for about 2 months and so far I've got mixed feelings. The GUI is, well, pretty....people see it and immediately want to beta test it but then get all pissy when Outlook tasks won't synch up with their PDA. Its nice, but is far from stable.
I agree 100%; for the most part a blog is nowadays just a discussion forum with limited ability to "start a thread". /. is basically a blog in that respect, and since none of the content here is original (cept for articles post on April 1st) that points towards MikeRT being right.:)
I've tried using OO. But at work, when you have 75+ page MS Project report with embedded excel in it, you CAN'T use OO. Brighten up, OO is 3-5 year away from being fully compatible with MS Office.
People here are focusing only on Sony's game-based business unit. Sony's sales in EVERYTHING has been slipping and they desperately need the PS3 to be a hit. Pricing this high shows investors and market analysts they are on the ropes and launching one last haymaker. As a side note, how many development firms will agree to PS3 exclusive games if they have only a minor market-share?
The reason MS is spending money on interoperability is two-fold:
First, they recognize that linux is the ONLY other game in town and they have some minor needs. Secondly, the linux community cannot make compatible software to save their collective souls.
A PC pre-installed w/linux is a good idea but the user still faces the basic problem of file interoperability. Simply put, OpenOffice cannot handle anything outside the most basic file-type (.doc.xls.ppt). Until linux moves from the "hardcore, holier-than-thou, uber-techie" paradigm, it will always be behind Windows.
Many tech unions already exist, they're called recruiting agencies in our business. These "unions" provide jobs for qualifed workers and they also negotiate salary for you. Clearly this model doesn't work well for the bulk of tech workers because we're smart enough and resourceful enough to find full-time employment on our own.
This will never fly. People don't want to 'walk' around a store to shop, thats Why they go online. My biggest beef with MMOGs is that I have to spend time going to and from missions. The market won't want to commute to and from stores in a virtual strip mall.
Good thing someone is speeding up the process to remove jobs from US citizens. For a while I was worried that too many 3rd world nations and emerging markets were simply being ignored.
I don't think people are hatin' on IT. The company in this example has leadership issues. There's no transparency into the dept, likely no steering committee and no CTO at the helm who can get IT the resources to service the end-user (the customer). IT is a tough niche to thrive in, most depts are reactive and thats a deadly mode to be. Waiting for things to break is the way of the 90's. IT depts need to step up to the plate and provide efficient deliverables and convert their over-head dept into a gateway to revenue; all too often CEO's and CFO's think og IT as an obstacle to revenue.
A helpdesk system is VITAL, one that provides transparency into work-loads, individual efforts and small/large projects. If your company lacks this, or you have it but is so under-used that it's not valid.....GET ONE!
Immediately switch the pay from hourly/salary to uptime-based compensation. Do it NOW. You will see more proactive work and more gentle love put into your infrastructure you'll think your employees were replaced with the Betty Crocker of IT.
Stop being your employee's friend. It doesn't foster a proper relationship, IT is no longer some tight-nit group of A-Team style hackers; it's a corporate institution and you need to behave like you're a professional (or however they spell it). Mentor and care for your people's health, welfare and education... do not play LAN games and pound beer bongs with them.
Make people accountable for tasks and projects by publishing those to the end-user, using the concept in the first paragraph is a great method of distribution.
Consolidate everything. Remove the one-off apps, the crappy scripts that do production-level work.
Axe the "build-it" mentality; closed systems ALWAYS fail!
Simplify business processes for your fellow business units (depts). You'll be a hero for life.
Use a relationship map over-laid onto your company's org chart. Fix the people that are in the red. Attend to any dept that is all red and yellow. Walk through the trouble areas and ask people how they're doing, find out their needs.
So according to this guy, I should stop driving my car because I don't use the AM/FM radio. Afterall, a bike is much much cheaper and *IT* doesn't have an AM/FM radio.
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If lawyers are going to willingly undermine national security, then they deserved to be treated as such.
If you made a law that made it illegal to knowingly distribute classified information (for profit or otherwise) then this wouldn't be an issue and reporters could go back to telling us what to wear, how to act and where to place our votes.
Nice how no one threw in the obligatory "you can use stats to prove anything" comment.
Why is this bad news for MS?
MS has been cherry-picking corporate apple users for the past ten years a a nice clip. "Macs are great for imaging" argument was lost a long time ago. "Macs are great for paginating" is dead too.
Fact is, mixed desktop environments is a thing of the past. Companies understand multiple OS's are a pain to support and are moving to the FAR cheaper solution, Microsoft.
Until Apple drops prices to compete with the desktop/MS world, they will never compete with them for the desktop.
Yes yes yes, there are 100% Apple shops, and for some corporations its a good fit. It's a very narrow market and I'm sure MS is happy to relent that arena.
The real solution is setting up policy to enforce both the frequent changing of passwords and strong passwords. Password expiration isn't the problem in the above story. The problem is two-fold:
Passwords escrowed to a non-secured area of the network.
No strong password enforcement.
The release of quality games over the last year is primarily the reason for sales lagging.
Add to that the playability of MMORPG's and it's a one-two punch.
In fact, the playability issue is something MMORPGs have a strangle-hold on. I think on average I play a regular video game maybe 12-20 total hours. Most MMORPG players I know easily that amount of time on a single MMORPG per month.
Lots of baby-mamma-drama going on there.
Format the page, please Evan.
But isn't the preview screen simply an incarnation of the viewer from dageurotype cameras in the 1900's?
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. I'd like to play a comedy game from time to time, but never actually seen one for download or purchase at a local store.Of maybe the 150 or so people I know in the tech business, "telecommuting" is a euphamism for taking the day off.
My company is a TAP and early adoption program member.
Been using Office 12 for about 2 months and so far I've got mixed feelings. The GUI is, well, pretty....people see it and immediately want to beta test it but then get all pissy when Outlook tasks won't synch up with their PDA.
Its nice, but is far from stable.
I agree 100%; for the most part a blog is nowadays just a discussion forum with limited ability to "start a thread".
/. is basically a blog in that respect, and since none of the content here is original (cept for articles post on April 1st) that points towards MikeRT being right. :)
I've tried using OO. But at work, when you have 75+ page MS Project report with embedded excel in it, you CAN'T use OO.
Brighten up, OO is 3-5 year away from being fully compatible with MS Office.
As an excellent example, I give to you boo.com.
Mall walking is for brick and mortar stores.
People here are focusing only on Sony's game-based business unit.
Sony's sales in EVERYTHING has been slipping and they desperately need the PS3 to be a hit.
Pricing this high shows investors and market analysts they are on the ropes and launching one last haymaker.
As a side note, how many development firms will agree to PS3 exclusive games if they have only a minor market-share?
The reason MS is spending money on interoperability is two-fold:
First, they recognize that linux is the ONLY other game in town and they have some minor needs.
Secondly, the linux community cannot make compatible software to save their collective souls.
Using phone records provided to the NSA, they've confirmed that ABC News has no verifiable source for their article.
A PC pre-installed w/linux is a good idea but the user still faces the basic problem of file interoperability. .xls .ppt).
Simply put, OpenOffice cannot handle anything outside the most basic file-type (.doc
Until linux moves from the "hardcore, holier-than-thou, uber-techie" paradigm, it will always be behind Windows.
Many tech unions already exist, they're called recruiting agencies in our business.
These "unions" provide jobs for qualifed workers and they also negotiate salary for you.
Clearly this model doesn't work well for the bulk of tech workers because we're smart enough and resourceful enough to find full-time employment on our own.
This will never fly.
People don't want to 'walk' around a store to shop, thats Why they go online.
My biggest beef with MMOGs is that I have to spend time going to and from missions. The market won't want to commute to and from stores in a virtual strip mall.
Bi-partisan bills are usually funded by a lobbiest. The word Lobby is really funny if you say it enough.
Good thing someone is speeding up the process to remove jobs from US citizens.
For a while I was worried that too many 3rd world nations and emerging markets were simply being ignored.
I don't think people are hatin' on IT.
The company in this example has leadership issues. There's no transparency into the dept, likely no steering committee and no CTO at the helm who can get IT the resources to service the end-user (the customer).
IT is a tough niche to thrive in, most depts are reactive and thats a deadly mode to be. Waiting for things to break is the way of the 90's.
IT depts need to step up to the plate and provide efficient deliverables and convert their over-head dept into a gateway to revenue; all too often CEO's and CFO's think og IT as an obstacle to revenue.
A helpdesk system is VITAL, one that provides transparency into work-loads, individual efforts and small/large projects. If your company lacks this, or you have it but is so under-used that it's not valid.....GET ONE!
Immediately switch the pay from hourly/salary to uptime-based compensation. Do it NOW. You will see more proactive work and more gentle love put into your infrastructure you'll think your employees were replaced with the Betty Crocker of IT.
Stop being your employee's friend. It doesn't foster a proper relationship, IT is no longer some tight-nit group of A-Team style hackers; it's a corporate institution and you need to behave like you're a professional (or however they spell it). Mentor and care for your people's health, welfare and education... do not play LAN games and pound beer bongs with them.
Make people accountable for tasks and projects by publishing those to the end-user, using the concept in the first paragraph is a great method of distribution.
Consolidate everything. Remove the one-off apps, the crappy scripts that do production-level work.
Axe the "build-it" mentality; closed systems ALWAYS fail!
Simplify business processes for your fellow business units (depts). You'll be a hero for life.
Use a relationship map over-laid onto your company's org chart. Fix the people that are in the red. Attend to any dept that is all red and yellow. Walk through the trouble areas and ask people how they're doing, find out their needs.
So according to this guy, I should stop driving my car because I don't use the AM/FM radio. Afterall, a bike is much much cheaper and *IT* doesn't have an AM/FM radio.
Why is a DVD-RW needed to run a browser, connect to network files and do word processing?
DVDs are a perk in an office environment.