That is a very good point. If you want to deny someone reproduction rights you will not give them an 8 MB image. Of course they could have scanned a photo...
I want to know why we should pay a LOT of money to send a bunch of egotistical people there
Short answer, we shouldn't. Hear me out...I think we should spend a lot of money sending people with Low Self esteem there. Also, the process should be incomplete. Let them figure it out, let them finance it. It will give them confidence. Then we will show the world who has the "right stuff"
Seeing as how nobody had to type furiously to activate the sabre, I'd say probably not.
Here (and not at the point of the theoretical physics) is where the fictional illusion breaks down. Not typing makes it appear not to be linux, but not crashing tells us this is not a windows product. So the unbelievability of it is that there was no great big iLightsaber logo on it along with some arcane connector that fit no standard hardware.
You downloaded a tarball, you extracted it, you opened it in a text editor, you copied and pasted the code. And then you tell your boss that you did that "on accident"?
Can anyone explain this to me?
but it's the CIO's job to warn senior management and the board about risks to the business as well as their liklihood of happening
The CIOs job is defined by the investors and management. Not by a slashdot post or even a standard definition. If the CIO is given many other things and told they are his priorities by the proper people, those things are his priorities. However, a good CIO would make risk management a priority with his company and if he could not...he would seek employment while he still had a good reference.
No, I think "business" is just what we all think it means: A Blackberry replacement for executives and salespeople.
Perspective is everything. As a distributor I think 'warehouse' when I hear the word business.
We use axim X50s in our warehouse. The units cost 300$ plus 100$ for a three year warranty and another hundred for drop all insurance. That makes 500$ for the pda plus 150$ for an sdio bar code reader 650$ total. Symbols piece o'junk entry model is 1200$ without a service contract. That is why I go dell on PDA. I replace about 2 per year, under warranty
The biggest use of a pda is to keep track of appointments, take notes, and hold contact information - all of which my nokia 6230 can do NOW! PDAs are dying.
If you noticed they said it would be geared towards business clients. In the world of POS (that's point of sale, not Chevy) the PDA has the ability to replace cash registers. I would bet the new Axim/cell phone thing will have a built in digital camera and optional bar code readers. A cashier with a camera can speed up the RMA process and document abused merchandise. A warehouse employee could use all those things. Imagine a receiving clerk in Chicago receiving faulty merchandise and using his Symbol PDA/scanner to take a picture and e-mail it to his manager in Az to get a decision on receive or refuse. Huge benefit. The PDA is not dying, it is adapting.
One helpful Groklaw reader went so far as to put up this analysis of the complaint on his Web site for those interested in just how objectionable IBM found SCO's filing.
I think that I will throw the one thing (ok other than Natalies hot grits) guaranteed to be looked at by all on/. up on my website.
People are clearly only taught rote monkey skills and are unadaptable as everyone where I work is still using the same OS and applications they learned in high school. All of our servers and desktops are Apple II's. Except for those stuborn people who refuse to give up their Coleco's and PDP-11's.
Wow. You seem to disagree, yet elequontly state my case. You say that whatever they learn in school as far as apps will be outdated by the time they are in the job market. Then you say that your employer uses the same stuff you learned in school. Do you think they do that because they are cheap or are they smart?
BTW, I am almost skeptical but far more curious about the PDP-11s...sounds neat. I have never even seen one in real life:-(
The differences between computing now and computing by the time the kids leave school and enter workforce will be far larger than the differences between MS Office and Open Office now.
That is a more valid point than most that dispute my point, but I disagree with the context of your statement. Yes, computing will be different...so what. User interfaces will not have changed that much. Look at Word 3 all the things that are in there and still in Word are still done the same way, interfaces are nearly stable. Computing may change radically. Hell we might be using molecular storage...who cares.
Anyone who says that kids who are taught using OO at school can't translate their word processing "skills" to MSOffice is creating make-believe problems where none exist.
Slightly to the left of the point your response is.:-) I said that teaching them properly it would not matter what application they used, but they are taught by rote in schools...that is not made up. I administer a network with approximately 200 users and there is a learning curve for some people simply between office 2000 and office XP (I honestly don't see the difference). The difference between OO and MSO is bound to be too much for a lot of people under that type of learning. You do not see it because it is the same to you as you understand what you are doing. That is the exception not the rule. Open, Save, save as are nice but there also is a lot more to office than that.
So please stop being the typical mindless free software drone and start being a bit more realistic.
Even as an OO user, I have to agree with you. Open Office does not have much penetration in the corporate space, so why put it in the schools? Kids need skills to be competitive. Yes you could say that proper training will make them able to adapt and learn software, but unfortunately they are taught rote monkey skills and are unadaptable (typically). Teach them the skills they need not the ones that appeal to your oss vanity.
After I installed SP2, I found that a lot of things started crashing
Me too, but luckily mine was a beta candidate of XP SP2 and was installed on a non production machine just like Microsofts documentation warned. Sp2 was available for a long time on Beta and MS warned that many things may not operate well so try it early. MS also warned that it would eventually FORCE its way in so don't procrastinate. I am not an MS fan but I believe this was a responsible rollout and admins crying over anything at this point are making a statement about their own skill set as much as anything else.
For the record, I am usually a Linux user but I admin a Windows network.
How do you handle these 3rd-party security people who make mountains out of every molehill?
I am currently dealing with this. I work in a very small IT shop (by small I mean me) in a not so small company (100+ million $ in revenue). We also have MIS, but they are just users in the network context. We recently were blessed with a new COO who very much wants to control all departments... can you say burnout in progress. Anyway, he wanted to get a third party audit. We (MIS who has control of me) turned it into a major project and accepted proposals from many companys (this burned a lot of hours). Then when a vendor was selected I
took the audit report and thoroughly documented each hole and its risk to us. The amount of work and risk caused by fixing it as well as the cost. Then, when it is done I prepared a cost benefit analysis of the various actions. My goal was to teach them a lesson. Instead, I learned one. Because my documentation was able to show them the complexity of the network I work with and the technology which we take for granted. They agreed to hire me a technician. Also, they allowed me to decide what in the security was worthwhile to address and source out a chunk of it as a project. The lesson is, use this to your advantage. How many times do you feel excluded from decisions because it is "a business matter", I do frequently. This showed them that I understood my job from the point of view of adding value to the organization and that is very important in business. In short, as my subject read, mountains are nothing make it into a mountainrange. Once they see it and they see you willing to conquer it for them, you all win.
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And he stressed this would be useful for much more than simple video conferencing.
Of course it would, think of the porn. On second thought, think of the kittens.
Eloquent and refined as always.
As a long time Linux user, I would just like to venture a guess that you are not Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum.
That is a very good point. If you want to deny someone reproduction rights you will not give them an 8 MB image. Of course they could have scanned a photo...
I want to know why we should pay a LOT of money to send a bunch of egotistical people there
Short answer, we shouldn't. Hear me out...I think we should spend a lot of money sending people with Low Self esteem there. Also, the process should be incomplete. Let them figure it out, let them finance it. It will give them confidence. Then we will show the world who has the "right stuff"
I wear nano-pants
I wish that I could wear nano-pants, I am apparently too big.
Back in my day a cute girlfriend was GIF pr0n & a bottle of lotion.
I'm dating your' ex!
So being a rich, well-televised sports figure now makes you a nerd? Interesting.
Conversely, being a nerd now makes you a rich, well-televised sports figure. Sigh.....
He's a Whill
And, where there's a whill, there's a whey.
Is it just me or does this sound like the kind of headline normally found in the Onion?
And I don't think a dude and a dudette deserve to die because they used an astonishingly-ill-designed fake lightsabre
That is where you are wrong.
Seeing as how nobody had to type furiously to activate the sabre, I'd say probably not.
Here (and not at the point of the theoretical physics) is where the fictional illusion breaks down. Not typing makes it appear not to be linux, but not crashing tells us this is not a windows product. So the unbelievability of it is that there was no great big iLightsaber logo on it along with some arcane connector that fit no standard hardware.
You downloaded a tarball, you extracted it, you opened it in a text editor, you copied and pasted the code. And then you tell your boss that you did that "on accident"? Can anyone explain this to me?
Muscle memory?
but it's the CIO's job to warn senior management and the board about risks to the business as well as their liklihood of happening
The CIOs job is defined by the investors and management. Not by a slashdot post or even a standard definition. If the CIO is given many other things and told they are his priorities by the proper people, those things are his priorities. However, a good CIO would make risk management a priority with his company and if he could not...he would seek employment while he still had a good reference.
No, I think "business" is just what we all think it means: A Blackberry replacement for executives and salespeople.
Perspective is everything. As a distributor I think 'warehouse' when I hear the word business.
We use axim X50s in our warehouse. The units cost 300$ plus 100$ for a three year warranty and another hundred for drop all insurance. That makes 500$ for the pda plus 150$ for an sdio bar code reader 650$ total. Symbols piece o'junk entry model is 1200$ without a service contract. That is why I go dell on PDA. I replace about 2 per year, under warranty
Does that ring a bell? How about PhP? This was news a few years ago.
The biggest use of a pda is to keep track of appointments, take notes, and hold contact information - all of which my nokia 6230 can do NOW! PDAs are dying.
If you noticed they said it would be geared towards business clients. In the world of POS (that's point of sale, not Chevy) the PDA has the ability to replace cash registers. I would bet the new Axim/cell phone thing will have a built in digital camera and optional bar code readers. A cashier with a camera can speed up the RMA process and document abused merchandise. A warehouse employee could use all those things. Imagine a receiving clerk in Chicago receiving faulty merchandise and using his Symbol PDA/scanner to take a picture and e-mail it to his manager in Az to get a decision on receive or refuse. Huge benefit. The PDA is not dying, it is adapting.
One helpful Groklaw reader went so far as to put up this analysis of the complaint on his Web site for those interested in just how objectionable IBM found SCO's filing.
/. up on my website.
I think that I will throw the one thing (ok other than Natalies hot grits) guaranteed to be looked at by all on
People are clearly only taught rote monkey skills and are unadaptable as everyone where I work is still using the same OS and applications they learned in high school. All of our servers and desktops are Apple II's. Except for those stuborn people who refuse to give up their Coleco's and PDP-11's.
:-(
Wow. You seem to disagree, yet elequontly state my case. You say that whatever they learn in school as far as apps will be outdated by the time they are in the job market. Then you say that your employer uses the same stuff you learned in school. Do you think they do that because they are cheap or are they smart?
BTW, I am almost skeptical but far more curious about the PDP-11s...sounds neat. I have never even seen one in real life
The differences between computing now and computing by the time the kids leave school and enter workforce will be far larger than the differences between MS Office and Open Office now.
That is a more valid point than most that dispute my point, but I disagree with the context of your statement. Yes, computing will be different...so what. User interfaces will not have changed that much. Look at Word 3 all the things that are in there and still in Word are still done the same way, interfaces are nearly stable. Computing may change radically. Hell we might be using molecular storage...who cares.
Anyone who says that kids who are taught using OO at school can't translate their word processing "skills" to MSOffice is creating make-believe problems where none exist.
:-) I said that teaching them properly it would not matter what application they used, but they are taught by rote in schools...that is not made up. I administer a network with approximately 200 users and there is a learning curve for some people simply between office 2000 and office XP (I honestly don't see the difference). The difference between OO and MSO is bound to be too much for a lot of people under that type of learning. You do not see it because it is the same to you as you understand what you are doing. That is the exception not the rule. Open, Save, save as are nice but there also is a lot more to office than that.
Slightly to the left of the point your response is.
So please stop being the typical mindless free software drone and start being a bit more realistic.
Even as an OO user, I have to agree with you. Open Office does not have much penetration in the corporate space, so why put it in the schools? Kids need skills to be competitive. Yes you could say that proper training will make them able to adapt and learn software, but unfortunately they are taught rote monkey skills and are unadaptable (typically). Teach them the skills they need not the ones that appeal to your oss vanity.
I live in my mommy's basement and I couldn't get laid if my life depended on it...
Actually, I have a nice house of my own. I don't often get laid, but when I do... your mommy's a screamer.
What kind of knucklehead would let his CEO have root?
After I installed SP2, I found that a lot of things started crashing
Me too, but luckily mine was a beta candidate of XP SP2 and was installed on a non production machine just like Microsofts documentation warned. Sp2 was available for a long time on Beta and MS warned that many things may not operate well so try it early. MS also warned that it would eventually FORCE its way in so don't procrastinate. I am not an MS fan but I believe this was a responsible rollout and admins crying over anything at this point are making a statement about their own skill set as much as anything else.
For the record, I am usually a Linux user but I admin a Windows network.
How do you handle these 3rd-party security people who make mountains out of every molehill?
I am currently dealing with this. I work in a very small IT shop (by small I mean me) in a not so small company (100+ million $ in revenue). We also have MIS, but they are just users in the network context. We recently were blessed with a new COO who very much wants to control all departments... can you say burnout in progress. Anyway, he wanted to get a third party audit. We (MIS who has control of me) turned it into a major project and accepted proposals from many companys (this burned a lot of hours). Then when a vendor was selected I took the audit report and thoroughly documented each hole and its risk to us. The amount of work and risk caused by fixing it as well as the cost. Then, when it is done I prepared a cost benefit analysis of the various actions. My goal was to teach them a lesson. Instead, I learned one. Because my documentation was able to show them the complexity of the network I work with and the technology which we take for granted. They agreed to hire me a technician. Also, they allowed me to decide what in the security was worthwhile to address and source out a chunk of it as a project. The lesson is, use this to your advantage. How many times do you feel excluded from decisions because it is "a business matter", I do frequently. This showed them that I understood my job from the point of view of adding value to the organization and that is very important in business. In short, as my subject read, mountains are nothing make it into a mountainrange. Once they see it and they see you willing to conquer it for them, you all win.