The critical questions -- concerning the proper role and funding of IT -- are presented in the book couched in the language used by high-level business managers, who speak in vague terms about "technology" and "infrastructure," and yet have little or no real understanding of how it truly works, having spent their earlier years pursuing MBAs rather than programming computers
The people you describe above are the people who control the purse strings. They couldn't care less about the underlying bits and pieces. How much is it going to cost and what's the benefit to the business?
Having "great IT" isn't worth a warm bucket of spit as a key differentiator these days.
Try reading Chinese, Japanese and Indian history while your at it. Oh, and try to go back more than 40 years. Then come back and we'll talk about naive.
Wouldn't want to try to be second. Big difference.
What's to keep China, India, Japan, etc... from getting a weapon there first and preventing anybody else from accessing space by applying their weapon?
Getting there first ensures continued access to space. Yes, as a side effect, the US could then limit access as described above. You know what? I don't care. I trust the US a lot more than 3 cultures with a contiued history of placing a low value on human life. But that's my opinion and you're entitled to yours.
The amount of work you do in comprehending a license before accepting it should be proporational to the risk that you place yourself at by not complying.
If I'm licensing desktop office automation sw fow an entire company, you can bet I'm going to understand the entire thing before agreeing. Not so with buying a DVD or, say, a computer game, because the risk associated with non-compliance is much smaller.
In general, you cannot change the licenses terms on your cell phone contract. You can, if its that important to you, review and select the provider with the least offensive terms, or, if your risk associated with non-compliance is too great, do without a cell phone.
Also, the few I read seemed to me like more of cases where people failed to read the fine print and then got upset when the other party enforced their contract rights.
Way off topic, but a lot of implementations fail beacause:
- Lack of executive commitment to the project - Business processes are poorly defined/understood - Consultants are poorly managed
GNU enterprise? Which of the Big 4 is going to sign off on GNU enterprise? Well, I guess if you have enough cash, one of them will, but I'd imagine that one would want to spend one's cash in better ways.
Stallman's been at it for what, 20 years? Compare where is versus where they are from the perspective of the mainstream at that juncture in promoting their vision.
Any middle-of-the-road publicist could point out multiple reasons why Stallman has not (and likely will not) achieve mainstream recognition.
Lucasfilm President Micheline Chau says, "We do have to exist after George. He's not going to live forever. The man's in his early 60s."
Geez! I mean dig a hole and send out the obits already! What's the matter, getting impatient?
The pics are pretty non-exciting (an aerial shot of the Presidio, wide-angle shot of Presidio, outsdie shot of generic-looking hq bldg, pic of map showing location of Presidio, and a headshot of the man himself), but you can see them here if you want to decide for yourself.
Washington state also outlawed killing sasquatch. . . . OK, this is great. So how does one go about enforcing such a law? I have very mixed feelings about this one.
Maybe they send sasquatch over to kick the guy's ass?
Did you actually receive them or just get an order confirmation? If the latter, don't be too disappointed if the catch it and cancel your order (unless of course, they've already charged your card, in which case they have to honor the price).
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The critical questions -- concerning the proper role and funding of IT -- are presented in the book couched in the language used by high-level business managers, who speak in vague terms about "technology" and "infrastructure," and yet have little or no real understanding of how it truly works, having spent their earlier years pursuing MBAs rather than programming computers
The people you describe above are the people who control the purse strings. They couldn't care less about the underlying bits and pieces. How much is it going to cost and what's the benefit to the business?
Having "great IT" isn't worth a warm bucket of spit as a key differentiator these days.
Chances are, you won't be happy with Netflix either.
You want a handjob from a chicken or you want to give a handjob to a chicken?
Either way, the term "choking the chicken" takes on a whole, new meaning.
Oh for the love of Pete.
Try reading Chinese, Japanese and Indian history while your at it. Oh, and try to go back more than 40 years. Then come back and we'll talk about naive.
We could reduce the mumber of geeks that resemble Jabba the Hut.
After renewing for annother 12-month term. Not bad faith, but a commitment.
Companies are in business to make money, they have no obligation to "let you off the hook" because the contract no longer makes sense for you.
Wouldn't want to try to be second. Big difference.
What's to keep China, India, Japan, etc... from getting a weapon there first and preventing anybody else from accessing space by applying their weapon?
Getting there first ensures continued access to space. Yes, as a side effect, the US could then limit access as described above. You know what? I don't care. I trust the US a lot more than 3 cultures with a contiued history of placing a low value on human life. But that's my opinion and you're entitled to yours.
Will some nation eventually deploy weapons in space? I'd say there's a high liklihood.
To me then, the question boils down to, do you want to be first or attempt to be second?
Yeah, and everybody should hold hands around a campfire and sing Kum-bay-yah too, but the real world tends to be a little different.
That's not absurd, that's a cost associated with deciding to accept a job that's 800 miles away.
The amount of work you do in comprehending a license before accepting it should be proporational to the risk that you place yourself at by not complying.
If I'm licensing desktop office automation sw fow an entire company, you can bet I'm going to understand the entire thing before agreeing. Not so with buying a DVD or, say, a computer game, because the risk associated with non-compliance is much smaller.
In general, you cannot change the licenses terms on your cell phone contract. You can, if its that important to you, review and select the provider with the least offensive terms, or, if your risk associated with non-compliance is too great, do without a cell phone.
The complexity of the language is directly proportional to the cocmplexity of contract law.
I'm referring to the posting date of the complaint, not a refernce inside the complaint itself
...why do some of the complaints date to 2004?
Also, the few I read seemed to me like more of cases where people failed to read the fine print and then got upset when the other party enforced their contract rights.
The research end end of a university, maybe. The business end? Mot on your life.
Way off topic, but a lot of implementations fail beacause:
- Lack of executive commitment to the project
- Business processes are poorly defined/understood
- Consultants are poorly managed
GNU enterprise? Which of the Big 4 is going to sign off on GNU enterprise? Well, I guess if you have enough cash, one of them will, but I'd imagine that one would want to spend one's cash in better ways.
One milli-nut. The amount of testicular fortitude shown by Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot.
Let's cut to the chase.
No you don't. The press release went out yesterday. Here's a summary, also written yesterday.
Stallman's been at it for what, 20 years? Compare where is versus where they are from the perspective of the mainstream at that juncture in promoting their vision.
Any middle-of-the-road publicist could point out
multiple reasons why Stallman has not (and likely will not) achieve mainstream recognition.
You haven't spent much time there, have you? Ayy more solid and they'd have to invent another state of matter just to describe it. :)
Lucasfilm President Micheline Chau says, "We do have to exist after George. He's not going to live forever. The man's in his early 60s."
Geez! I mean dig a hole and send out the obits already! What's the matter, getting impatient?
The pics are pretty non-exciting (an aerial shot of the Presidio, wide-angle shot of Presidio, outsdie shot of generic-looking hq bldg, pic of map showing location of Presidio, and a headshot of the man himself), but you can see them here if you want to decide for yourself.
Washington state also outlawed killing sasquatch.
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OK, this is great. So how does one go about enforcing such a law? I have very mixed feelings about this one.
Maybe they send sasquatch over to kick the guy's ass?
Did you actually receive them or just get an order confirmation? If the latter, don't be too disappointed if the catch it and cancel your order (unless of course, they've already charged your card, in which case they have to honor the price).
A grand for a video card? A grand? All I can say is some folks have more dollars than sense, but that's just MHO.
A mirror of the print version is here and a mirror of the full article is here