But we can use Crystal Reports or Oracle Forms!!! Then we can install 1 Gig of software to be our "server" (in addition to the DB) and another Gig of software on the client... all to look at the SQL queries sitting on the DB server!
But wait there's more!
In most companies BIG IT supports databases and data centers. little it supports servers with department apps. It's all about the responsibility. An app that hogs a desktop PC and takes 5 minutes to start is the "users" or "it" problem, not management's. The same app in a datacenter serving 50 users poorly is now an "IT" manager problem.. and they'll demand the app fixed or toss the app out. Guess which group vendors like to sell to?
because they HAVE to install your Win95-era GUI app and it will always be an easy to support Win95-era GUI app. Somebody still on IE6 versus Firefox 3 + greasemonkey could be drastically different.. and that confuses the minimum wage help-desk drones.
this is the kind of book-fixing Sarbanes-Oxley was designed to fix. You have to have do the audits YOURSELF, and have the executives verify that the numbers are good. Then the "auditors" audit parts of the audit process and verify proper signatures are in order.
Of course this is an INDIAN company... so they don't really have to follow ANY US accounting laws at all because they are not based on US soil!
They took your money big guys... you have no legal recourse under the rules you're used to... how 'bout them apples!
I guess that would be childish, but it wouldn't even bother the teacher. They just want to throw the notes in the trash, they won't even read them. As this was High School, they'll just grab whatever you mixed them with and trash that too.
He does have one point.. if you used a note book by "day" rather than class and this teacher seized it, you would actually get sympathy from your other teachers. There's no "rule" that says you have to have one notebook per class.. perhaps you like to take notes per month. If the teacher was trashing notes for 5 other classes you still had to take exams for that would get the other teachers on your side.... again, it's the teacher TAKING the notes at fault, not the student.
I'm not saying there's anything legally wrong with the practice. But all the netbooks with "linux" except Dells come with a non-brand Linux. There's Canonical out there with Ubuntu Net Remix which seems nice. It is a part of REAL Ubuntu, just some package changes so updates, drives and such will all be well maintained, as well as a large community of support that's really good for newbies. It should be the "default" netbook distro, even if the OEMs "borrow" it.
I'm upset that they don't use a branded Linux, and that the OEMS of netbooks don't really make any claims that what they put on there will be supported. All the netbook distros are just a little "broken" so you can't just go online to where newbies congregate and get help. While community efforts like ubuntu that would love to get the mindshare get ignored... the OEMs aren't even bothering to ASK companies like Red Hat or Canonical.
I sum it means that "linux" is not winning any shares at all. It's just being used because it's cheap, not good. That's negative press.
this is HS.. act like a fucking a child and tear their shit up!
or else get your parents to demand that the principal to review the teacher's reuse of note every term.. The teacher is paid to redo the work needed to teach the class each year. if they are not making new tests/homework each semester, then they are probably not following their employment contract.
no, it's attempted THEFT of EVERYTHING in the bag.. not just what was taken. Having the notebook is proof that they stole from the bag and the law assumes they "attempted" to steal other stuff of value. I've had family busted for B&E holding a toaster and get 5 years in prison because they "could have" "attempted" to steal anything... they're guilty of trying to steal whatever the highest value item in sight is.... that's how the REAL law works. If this was the bag of a typical slashdotter with a Macbook Pro, iphone, etc that's easily into felony territory.
Again, the TEACHER holds evidence of a crime.. whether they were attempting to enforce some class rule is irrelevant. Whether they were worried about "IP theft" is irrelevant. They committed a CRIME, with lots of witnesses. As a "business professional" they should clearly know the law on this matter and chose to ignore it to bully students.
no, he is correct. The teacher absolutely broke the real law when they took the notebook out of the bag. Had there been a Macbook Pro + software, iPod and iPhone in there, that's easily into felony grand theft territory... the same as if they broke out the window to your car in the lot to get your notes.
The school has procedures to get the notes from you.. the TEACHER didn't follow them. They broke a law that means jail time. They're more "adult" than the student... even if they really think they're right they need to do the time for their "civil disobedience".
that's what campus security is for. They're not really cops, so you're not actually filing charges, but if you file charges and they have seen the professor with your notes, in class, then they have to testify against him. Then you will get the dean's attention rather quickly and have the upper hand because the teacher actually stole from you.. instead of the teacher going to the dean to get the notes from you...
no, this is one of those situations where you have to KNOW the right beehive to kick on the first try. The student should have politely refused to allow the teacher access to the bag. Then, when teacher took the notes out, promptly called campus security while still in class. Then the teacher has to answer why they took something from a student, illeally... the question of their "IP" rights becomes moot.. then THEY need the lawyer first. And the student has first-mover advantage with administration to contain the situation.
there's nothing wrong with scanning notes.. they take up lots of room. I don't see how that's making the situation worse. You earned that information sitting in class.
On the other hand once the teacher opened the backpack... with notebook computer, ipod, cell phone, wallet, etc. they became absolutely guilty of theft... real theft, not Imaginary Property theft. If there was a Macbook Pro and iPhone that's easily enough value to be felony attempted burglary. Campus security should have been called immediately once he had the notebook in his hand.
"I think they mean company branded Linux in the same way HP, Dell, and the old Compaq and others brand Windows and the machine bios. I'll agree this isn't any kind of advantage, but only because this was always reasonably easy to do with Windows."
I think the problem is that the OEMs that re-brand linux distros don't give credit (or money) to the distros they mooch off. Like eeePC uses Xandros or the Walmart PCs used gOS... but that money doesn't go back to Ubuntu/cannonical or Fedora/Red Hat. Hence "Linux" isn't getting a brand name, a shiny sticker customers can look for on a box.
that and their reliance on temps. They could close and shuffle offices far bigger than this without a peep. They used to hide "right sizing" in the legions of temps.. but of course now it's better to shed the real employees and keep the temps!
They're just saying this to "look busy" so the stock market will still like them.
There is a certain point of view where the US does not "play fair". Many cultures view war as the contest of men to decide the outcome of allocation of scarce resources. The US doesn't put better warriors on the field, they put more "toys" on the field that kill without exposing the same humans to risk. There's such a thing as winning, but when you never lose, then it looks like tyranny.
look at the comparison another way, my 15 year-old broke the car... so the US response would be to bash his head in with a tire iron, and say it's his fault I pulled a muscle. How about the Mike Tyson fight where he bit the guy's ear off, the other guy just wasn't trying hard enough to win. How about bringing a pickup truck to use on the field during the superbowl then brag about beating people chasing on foot, but then complain when the other side doesn't follow the "rules" of war.
Look at it another way, if we can preemptively blow up other governments buildings with missiles from 1,000 miles away fired by 18 year-old recruits, what's the real difference when the other side blows up the bankers in the USA that loaned the money to build the missiles? At least suicide bombers make a trade of human life for other human lives... it might not be "fair" according to our sensability, but there is trade in life. The US troops generally sit in offices on ships and shoot missiles across the boundaries of the battlefield, then we claim "terrorism" when the ship is attacked because it's not in "theatre" where the "battle" is happening...that's a double-standard.
The US sees itself as a "police" force, not as an equal army to others. That leads to the idea that other countries' soldiers are "bad" because their government sends them out to fight on the losing side and justifies "unsportsman" like conduct on the battlefield. The sport of war is killing man-versus-man... not versus airplanes or bombs or tanks. A cruise missile is exactly the same as a road-side bomb.. just more expensive.
In reality, the Atomic Bombs in Japan were probably the first "sacrifices" of the Cold War. The purpose was more to keep Russia from gaining a foothold for communism in Japan, after what they had spent 3 months doing in Eastern Europe it was evident they were going to lock it down. Dropping the bomb was a way of showing that US was on top of Russia in the new world order.
even with all the problems the auto makers are having, productivity isn't one of them... typically they're running 7-9% increases per year. Of course that means they need 7-9% LESS staff to make the same number cars... buying cars has slowed down, see the problem... Auto makers are top-heavy because pensions are based on contributions PER WORKER, not company profits...(from workers labor) hence they've outsourced/cut too many workers to keep the critical mass necessary to pay into pension funds, etc.
exactly, every body else is doing it, so IBM wants to cut while it will prop up their stock price... even if they made a profit... they can always make a little more! Look at Apple, how they beat profit estimates every quarter.. and their stock drops because it won't happen "next time".
this is where they benefit by Steam. They make their money from online access. That is much easier to police. So a few people crack HL2... if they can't get updates easily or play on the main servers with their friends, regular people won't deal with it past a certain point. Make it slightly easier for the paying customers than for people to casually pirate... the "real" pirates won't be phased... but they won't ever pay anyway.
Google's problem is not even the issue of marriage... their problem is that the California law, just like the Michigan law I voted against 2 years ago goes way further than marriage. In Michigan the change goes so far that insurance companies don't have to cover the "+1" additional person option many companies had to get around the marriage issue. The Michigan law says that ONLY MARRIAGE can be considered... that was immediately extrapolated by the state to include housing, adoption, insurance benefits... etc. Many things like the "don't ask, don't tell" era "+1" health insurance negotiated in the State's own union contracts were immediately, summarily revoked under this amendment as "illegal".
Get the idea. This is not just about marriage, but about telling private companies what benefits THEY can offer THEIR employees and customers.. and it interferes with already established contracts that go back a dozen years, causing those employees to go elsewhere for work because of the change in circumstance... really think about that. This was the intended effect.
The state subsidizes kids because they are expensive and the state puts all sorts of restrictions on how much you have to feed them and where they sleep at night and how old they have to be before you can send them to work in the mines. Get the idea. "Single People" make all sorts of rules on how people raise their kids. Also, MY kids will be paying for YOUR Social Security in addition to mine when fewer people are working than drawing.. better hope they work really hard!
Actually for many, many years there was a marriage "penalty" because the tax man assumed married people without kids had slightly fewer bills (only 1 rent, shared expenses,etc) so you lost about half a single credit being married. They only changed the tax tables in the last few years.
The REAL benefit to being married is mutual property. The idea that "we" own a car so both people help make payments: and "we" are a family, so I can work and pay for you to go to school while my insurance covers my "responsibilities". Being married opens doors for home loans because it's a binding legal partnership.. like a mini company. It's those economic things that make one man-one woman marriage valuable to building careers and wealth single people don't get.
There's no problem with selling Open source software... I've even run into boxes of repackaged OpenOffice at the grocery and office supply stores in the US. But that's the point, you get to buy a box and you know what you're paying up front unlike this story.
This story is really about German law allowing all sorts of scammers. They are one of the countries that allows all sorts of junk in EULAs as "binding contracts" over and above even the US. And don't they also have those "identity" laws that make using fake names/info for online registration and actual crime? As well as the forbidding of anonymous email addresses and such. Combine the two and you have the perfect storm where people can "purchase" things just by going to sites... even though their consumer retail laws are quite the opposite.
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But we can use Crystal Reports or Oracle Forms!!! Then we can install 1 Gig of software to be our "server" (in addition to the DB) and another Gig of software on the client... all to look at the SQL queries sitting on the DB server!
But wait there's more!
In most companies BIG IT supports databases and data centers. little it supports servers with department apps. It's all about the responsibility. An app that hogs a desktop PC and takes 5 minutes to start is the "users" or "it" problem, not management's. The same app in a datacenter serving 50 users poorly is now an "IT" manager problem.. and they'll demand the app fixed or toss the app out. Guess which group vendors like to sell to?
because they HAVE to install your Win95-era GUI app and it will always be an easy to support Win95-era GUI app. Somebody still on IE6 versus Firefox 3 + greasemonkey could be drastically different.. and that confuses the minimum wage help-desk drones.
this is the kind of book-fixing Sarbanes-Oxley was designed to fix. You have to have do the audits YOURSELF, and have the executives verify that the numbers are good. Then the "auditors" audit parts of the audit process and verify proper signatures are in order.
Of course this is an INDIAN company... so they don't really have to follow ANY US accounting laws at all because they are not based on US soil!
They took your money big guys... you have no legal recourse under the rules you're used to... how 'bout them apples!
I guess that would be childish, but it wouldn't even bother the teacher. They just want to throw the notes in the trash, they won't even read them. As this was High School, they'll just grab whatever you mixed them with and trash that too.
He does have one point.. if you used a note book by "day" rather than class and this teacher seized it, you would actually get sympathy from your other teachers. There's no "rule" that says you have to have one notebook per class.. perhaps you like to take notes per month. If the teacher was trashing notes for 5 other classes you still had to take exams for that would get the other teachers on your side.... again, it's the teacher TAKING the notes at fault, not the student.
I'm not saying there's anything legally wrong with the practice. But all the netbooks with "linux" except Dells come with a non-brand Linux. There's Canonical out there with Ubuntu Net Remix which seems nice. It is a part of REAL Ubuntu, just some package changes so updates, drives and such will all be well maintained, as well as a large community of support that's really good for newbies. It should be the "default" netbook distro, even if the OEMs "borrow" it.
I'm upset that they don't use a branded Linux, and that the OEMS of netbooks don't really make any claims that what they put on there will be supported. All the netbook distros are just a little "broken" so you can't just go online to where newbies congregate and get help. While community efforts like ubuntu that would love to get the mindshare get ignored... the OEMs aren't even bothering to ASK companies like Red Hat or Canonical.
I sum it means that "linux" is not winning any shares at all. It's just being used because it's cheap, not good. That's negative press.
this is HS.. act like a fucking a child and tear their shit up!
or else get your parents to demand that the principal to review the teacher's reuse of note every term.. The teacher is paid to redo the work needed to teach the class each year. if they are not making new tests/homework each semester, then they are probably not following their employment contract.
no, it's attempted THEFT of EVERYTHING in the bag.. not just what was taken. Having the notebook is proof that they stole from the bag and the law assumes they "attempted" to steal other stuff of value. I've had family busted for B&E holding a toaster and get 5 years in prison because they "could have" "attempted" to steal anything... they're guilty of trying to steal whatever the highest value item in sight is.... that's how the REAL law works. If this was the bag of a typical slashdotter with a Macbook Pro, iphone, etc that's easily into felony territory.
Again, the TEACHER holds evidence of a crime.. whether they were attempting to enforce some class rule is irrelevant. Whether they were worried about "IP theft" is irrelevant. They committed a CRIME, with lots of witnesses. As a "business professional" they should clearly know the law on this matter and chose to ignore it to bully students.
no, he is correct. The teacher absolutely broke the real law when they took the notebook out of the bag. Had there been a Macbook Pro + software, iPod and iPhone in there, that's easily into felony grand theft territory... the same as if they broke out the window to your car in the lot to get your notes.
The school has procedures to get the notes from you.. the TEACHER didn't follow them. They broke a law that means jail time. They're more "adult" than the student... even if they really think they're right they need to do the time for their "civil disobedience".
that's what campus security is for. They're not really cops, so you're not actually filing charges, but if you file charges and they have seen the professor with your notes, in class, then they have to testify against him.
Then you will get the dean's attention rather quickly and have the upper hand because the teacher actually stole from you.. instead of the teacher going to the dean to get the notes from you...
no, this is one of those situations where you have to KNOW the right beehive to kick on the first try. The student should have politely refused to allow the teacher access to the bag. Then, when teacher took the notes out, promptly called campus security while still in class. Then the teacher has to answer why they took something from a student, illeally... the question of their "IP" rights becomes moot.. then THEY need the lawyer first. And the student has first-mover advantage with administration to contain the situation.
there's nothing wrong with scanning notes.. they take up lots of room. I don't see how that's making the situation worse. You earned that information sitting in class.
On the other hand once the teacher opened the backpack... with notebook computer, ipod, cell phone, wallet, etc. they became absolutely guilty of theft... real theft, not Imaginary Property theft. If there was a Macbook Pro and iPhone that's easily enough value to be felony attempted burglary. Campus security should have been called immediately once he had the notebook in his hand.
"I think they mean company branded Linux in the same way HP, Dell, and the old Compaq and others brand Windows and the machine bios. I'll agree this isn't any kind of advantage, but only because this was always reasonably easy to do with Windows."
I think the problem is that the OEMs that re-brand linux distros don't give credit (or money) to the distros they mooch off. Like eeePC uses Xandros or the Walmart PCs used gOS... but that money doesn't go back to Ubuntu/cannonical or Fedora/Red Hat. Hence "Linux" isn't getting a brand name, a shiny sticker customers can look for on a box.
that and their reliance on temps. They could close and shuffle offices far bigger than this without a peep. They used to hide "right sizing" in the legions of temps.. but of course now it's better to shed the real employees and keep the temps!
They're just saying this to "look busy" so the stock market will still like them.
There is a certain point of view where the US does not "play fair". Many cultures view war as the contest of men to decide the outcome of allocation of scarce resources. The US doesn't put better warriors on the field, they put more "toys" on the field that kill without exposing the same humans to risk. There's such a thing as winning, but when you never lose, then it looks like tyranny.
look at the comparison another way, my 15 year-old broke the car... so the US response would be to bash his head in with a tire iron, and say it's his fault I pulled a muscle. How about the Mike Tyson fight where he bit the guy's ear off, the other guy just wasn't trying hard enough to win. How about bringing a pickup truck to use on the field during the superbowl then brag about beating people chasing on foot, but then complain when the other side doesn't follow the "rules" of war.
Look at it another way, if we can preemptively blow up other governments buildings with missiles from 1,000 miles away fired by 18 year-old recruits, what's the real difference when the other side blows up the bankers in the USA that loaned the money to build the missiles? At least suicide bombers make a trade of human life for other human lives... it might not be "fair" according to our sensability, but there is trade in life. The US troops generally sit in offices on ships and shoot missiles across the boundaries of the battlefield, then we claim "terrorism" when the ship is attacked because it's not in "theatre" where the "battle" is happening...that's a double-standard.
The US sees itself as a "police" force, not as an equal army to others. That leads to the idea that other countries' soldiers are "bad" because their government sends them out to fight on the losing side and justifies "unsportsman" like conduct on the battlefield. The sport of war is killing man-versus-man... not versus airplanes or bombs or tanks. A cruise missile is exactly the same as a road-side bomb.. just more expensive.
In reality, the Atomic Bombs in Japan were probably the first "sacrifices" of the Cold War. The purpose was more to keep Russia from gaining a foothold for communism in Japan, after what they had spent 3 months doing in Eastern Europe it was evident they were going to lock it down. Dropping the bomb was a way of showing that US was on top of Russia in the new world order.
we need Pyramids!! Look at Egypt... the governments that built pyramids are still getting tourist traffic 5000 years later! That's an investment.
even with all the problems the auto makers are having, productivity isn't one of them... typically they're running 7-9% increases per year. Of course that means they need 7-9% LESS staff to make the same number cars... buying cars has slowed down, see the problem...
Auto makers are top-heavy because pensions are based on contributions PER WORKER, not company profits...(from workers labor) hence they've outsourced/cut too many workers to keep the critical mass necessary to pay into pension funds, etc.
exactly, every body else is doing it, so IBM wants to cut while it will prop up their stock price... even if they made a profit... they can always make a little more! Look at Apple, how they beat profit estimates every quarter.. and their stock drops because it won't happen "next time".
Google needs to invest $120 million and sign an IP license agreement with Yahoo... like Microsoft did in the 90's with Apple!
this is where they benefit by Steam. They make their money from online access. That is much easier to police. So a few people crack HL2... if they can't get updates easily or play on the main servers with their friends, regular people won't deal with it past a certain point. Make it slightly easier for the paying customers than for people to casually pirate... the "real" pirates won't be phased... but they won't ever pay anyway.
Google's problem is not even the issue of marriage... their problem is that the California law, just like the Michigan law I voted against 2 years ago goes way further than marriage. In Michigan the change goes so far that insurance companies don't have to cover the "+1" additional person option many companies had to get around the marriage issue. The Michigan law says that ONLY MARRIAGE can be considered... that was immediately extrapolated by the state to include housing, adoption, insurance benefits... etc. Many things like the "don't ask, don't tell" era "+1" health insurance negotiated in the State's own union contracts were immediately, summarily revoked under this amendment as "illegal".
Get the idea. This is not just about marriage, but about telling private companies what benefits THEY can offer THEIR employees and customers.. and it interferes with already established contracts that go back a dozen years, causing those employees to go elsewhere for work because of the change in circumstance... really think about that. This was the intended effect.
The state subsidizes kids because they are expensive and the state puts all sorts of restrictions on how much you have to feed them and where they sleep at night and how old they have to be before you can send them to work in the mines. Get the idea. "Single People" make all sorts of rules on how people raise their kids. Also, MY kids will be paying for YOUR Social Security in addition to mine when fewer people are working than drawing.. better hope they work really hard!
Actually for many, many years there was a marriage "penalty" because the tax man assumed married people without kids had slightly fewer bills (only 1 rent, shared expenses,etc) so you lost about half a single credit being married. They only changed the tax tables in the last few years.
The REAL benefit to being married is mutual property. The idea that "we" own a car so both people help make payments: and "we" are a family, so I can work and pay for you to go to school while my insurance covers my "responsibilities". Being married opens doors for home loans because it's a binding legal partnership.. like a mini company. It's those economic things that make one man-one woman marriage valuable to building careers and wealth single people don't get.
There's no problem with selling Open source software... I've even run into boxes of repackaged OpenOffice at the grocery and office supply stores in the US. But that's the point, you get to buy a box and you know what you're paying up front unlike this story.
This story is really about German law allowing all sorts of scammers. They are one of the countries that allows all sorts of junk in EULAs as "binding contracts" over and above even the US. And don't they also have those "identity" laws that make using fake names/info for online registration and actual crime? As well as the forbidding of anonymous email addresses and such. Combine the two and you have the perfect storm where people can "purchase" things just by going to sites... even though their consumer retail laws are quite the opposite.
God wrote the Bible in King James, it's the only "real" Bible. The Jews just got an early copy.