... on how access bandwidth has grown during the same period. I accept that that bandwidth and storage are out of step but am conscious that I can access a lot more today over the bandwidth that I have than I could several years ago.
Maybe if we had enough data on the growth of each technology we would be able to work out an intersection point, or just accept that they'll never meet.
Like all secret service orgs the NSA has many arms dealing with various levels of classification and security. If you want to know more about them just go to http://www.nsa.gov, if you want a collection of names of people who work there go to http://www.nsa.gov/releases/speeches.html, learn who they are and feel free to digest all that they have to say.
This is the story of a guy who was fired for missing his performance goals, he should be laughed at not heralded as a hero. I'm not sure anybody really cares about the 30 procurement execs that he found in his companies CRM system.
You can bet your bottom dollar that any contractors working on secret systems will have been vetted, depending upon the classification level there is a good chance that the vetting will go down to employee level.
I therefore have to assume that the work that Platform are doing is non-essential, I for one am glad to see the Government spending our dollars a little more wisely than they would be if they applied the highest level of security regulations to all of their systems.
nice idea, lets use the principals of Open Source to build a rocket ship.
A bunch of well intentioned individuals with no accountability for their actions construct a ship that will launch you into space, maybe.
Five years ago it was all about how thin clients would destroy Microsoft. Larry was announcing his network devices and trying to work out how to migrate the rest of Oracle onto them.
Websphere is huge for IBM in Government, they have made an industry out of it both here in the US and in Europe. My guess is that they're just playing multiple hands, eventually one or more will pay out.
Government investments in software and other assets have to accomplish a number of goals, not only do the need to procure something for the government to use but they should also meet a number of economic goals, in software terms this often means helping create jobs, generate new intellectual property and generally stimulate and maintain a vibrant technology economy... as a community we talk about a lot of these tenants but so far have failed to clearly articulate a business model in terms that Government policy makers can understand.
Until that happens the only governments that will ever turn to OSS on a national level will be the ones that have other larger economic battles to fight with the countries dominant in technology. Who knows, maybe Germnay will use their love of OSS as a tool in the ongoing battles over who retains share in the automotive industry.
"America, give us a better break on the cars we ship onto your shores and in turn we'll drop this free software rubbish and allow you to profit off it once again".
Who knows, I'm not an economist.
I travel a great deal internationally... spam fro 3rd parties is nowhere near as big an issue for me as spam from the telcos.
When I arrive in france I don't need an SMS message that reads "WELCOME TO FRANCE", I know full well where I am without their help.
Lately as I'm in a foreign country I've started to get repeated messages as my phone roams from carrier to carrier within one country.
Joking aside this is super dangerous for the community... the clock is now ticking, Brazil has 3 years to migrate 80% of it's desktops to Linux while proving a reduction in overall national IT spending, or you have an embarrassed government on your hands who will turn back to MSFT or A.N.Other commercial company for help.
Somebody, somewhere has to start looking at how the skills appear on the ground in Brazil to do this. It's not going to be IBM that help the community here in the long run, the government will never show a cost reduction through that route.
Don't get me wrong, I love what they've done with MythTV... I'll take another look at their site, they didn't seem to have tackled those two issues when I last looked about two weeks ago.
If it's now done then all credit to them.
... the family used to use SMS for text conversations all the time, my sisters and parents still do. It seems to be a cheap effective way to communicate.
Here in the US the networks seem to have done a terrible job of implementation... text messages rarely seem to reach their destination over the same carrier, let alone inter-carrier... I've stopped using them, this report does not come as much of a surprise.
GSM is still a pretty new technology to the US, I guess we give it time and they'll get it sorted out. Service was pretty grim in the UK in the early days as well.
... the issue appear to be one of simplification.
www.mythtv.org and www.freevo.org are both examples of some pretty advanced projects that could easily stand up against the MS offering with some dedicated resource applied to it to cover the install and hardware issues.
We know that it's more than possible... one poster commented that he would stick with his Tivo. If memory serves me correctly Tivo is a linux based box that some commercial vendors have done a great job of packaging.
When you look at shipping home entertainment goods of this nature the project constructed around it has to have a really big set of ambitions around integration with existing home entertainment hardware and functionality. MythTV still has to tackle things like control of external set top boxes and time shifted TV... it will come, but the project team seems to be too small to tackle it in any timely manner.
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... on how access bandwidth has grown during the same period. I accept that that bandwidth and storage are out of step but am conscious that I can access a lot more today over the bandwidth that I have than I could several years ago.
Maybe if we had enough data on the growth of each technology we would be able to work out an intersection point, or just accept that they'll never meet.
And I guess you will "know" that it's playing by the swarms of fleeing bugs?
... if you're troubled by a bug you need to quickly find a payphone and call yourself? How will it work?
Like all secret service orgs the NSA has many arms dealing with various levels of classification and security. If you want to know more about them just go to http://www.nsa.gov, if you want a collection of names of people who work there go to http://www.nsa.gov/releases/speeches.html, learn who they are and feel free to digest all that they have to say. This is the story of a guy who was fired for missing his performance goals, he should be laughed at not heralded as a hero. I'm not sure anybody really cares about the 30 procurement execs that he found in his companies CRM system. You can bet your bottom dollar that any contractors working on secret systems will have been vetted, depending upon the classification level there is a good chance that the vetting will go down to employee level. I therefore have to assume that the work that Platform are doing is non-essential, I for one am glad to see the Government spending our dollars a little more wisely than they would be if they applied the highest level of security regulations to all of their systems.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-06 -30
nice idea, lets use the principals of Open Source to build a rocket ship. A bunch of well intentioned individuals with no accountability for their actions construct a ship that will launch you into space, maybe.
Five years ago it was all about how thin clients would destroy Microsoft. Larry was announcing his network devices and trying to work out how to migrate the rest of Oracle onto them.
Websphere is huge for IBM in Government, they have made an industry out of it both here in the US and in Europe. My guess is that they're just playing multiple hands, eventually one or more will pay out.
Government investments in software and other assets have to accomplish a number of goals, not only do the need to procure something for the government to use but they should also meet a number of economic goals, in software terms this often means helping create jobs, generate new intellectual property and generally stimulate and maintain a vibrant technology economy... as a community we talk about a lot of these tenants but so far have failed to clearly articulate a business model in terms that Government policy makers can understand. Until that happens the only governments that will ever turn to OSS on a national level will be the ones that have other larger economic battles to fight with the countries dominant in technology. Who knows, maybe Germnay will use their love of OSS as a tool in the ongoing battles over who retains share in the automotive industry. "America, give us a better break on the cars we ship onto your shores and in turn we'll drop this free software rubbish and allow you to profit off it once again". Who knows, I'm not an economist.
I travel a great deal internationally... spam fro 3rd parties is nowhere near as big an issue for me as spam from the telcos. When I arrive in france I don't need an SMS message that reads "WELCOME TO FRANCE", I know full well where I am without their help. Lately as I'm in a foreign country I've started to get repeated messages as my phone roams from carrier to carrier within one country.
Joking aside this is super dangerous for the community... the clock is now ticking, Brazil has 3 years to migrate 80% of it's desktops to Linux while proving a reduction in overall national IT spending, or you have an embarrassed government on your hands who will turn back to MSFT or A.N.Other commercial company for help. Somebody, somewhere has to start looking at how the skills appear on the ground in Brazil to do this. It's not going to be IBM that help the community here in the long run, the government will never show a cost reduction through that route.
Don't get me wrong, I love what they've done with MythTV... I'll take another look at their site, they didn't seem to have tackled those two issues when I last looked about two weeks ago. If it's now done then all credit to them.
... the family used to use SMS for text conversations all the time, my sisters and parents still do. It seems to be a cheap effective way to communicate. Here in the US the networks seem to have done a terrible job of implementation... text messages rarely seem to reach their destination over the same carrier, let alone inter-carrier... I've stopped using them, this report does not come as much of a surprise. GSM is still a pretty new technology to the US, I guess we give it time and they'll get it sorted out. Service was pretty grim in the UK in the early days as well.
... the issue appear to be one of simplification. www.mythtv.org and www.freevo.org are both examples of some pretty advanced projects that could easily stand up against the MS offering with some dedicated resource applied to it to cover the install and hardware issues. We know that it's more than possible... one poster commented that he would stick with his Tivo. If memory serves me correctly Tivo is a linux based box that some commercial vendors have done a great job of packaging. When you look at shipping home entertainment goods of this nature the project constructed around it has to have a really big set of ambitions around integration with existing home entertainment hardware and functionality. MythTV still has to tackle things like control of external set top boxes and time shifted TV... it will come, but the project team seems to be too small to tackle it in any timely manner.