Here's a 9 point, back of an envelope plan which sums up what the big consulting firms will tell you (in less words).
1. Review the Business Plan. What does it tell you? You expanding? You going all e-business? What? Wishes as well as reality.
2. What about trends in the architecture world? Trends in technology? Cheap storage, cheap bandwidth etc?
--> Try to work out what capabilities are suggested by all of this. eg - if your firm says they want to go e-billing then, hey, thats a capability. Show these to your firm and get them to rank them, score them whatever.
3. You haven't just started up, I suppose, so how does your current IT match up? Do a big list of capabilities you have identified and assess each one against your current apps/functionality.
4. What would a future IT system look like if it were to deliver all these capabilities? How could you leverage some of the technology trends you identified in to creating growth or profit? (invoices by pdf = save on printing and mailing etc. Recruit new staff just via the web = savings etc )
5. Can you decribe an optimal IT applications and technology architecture yet? Would that be an open accessable database feeding billing, web portal, collaboration, etc? Web based? Accesible in the move, laptops etc?
6. Now do a gap analysis of what you have versus what you want. Describe how you could move between those two states. Ie projects, dependencies etc - migrate this database, use a temporary TS server, then move to app x etc etc. remember culture (saving local vs contributing centrally - loss of power for the individual) - have a plan for selling culture changes too.
7. How could you pay for this - what levels of investment would it take? How will the changes be paced - what happens this year and what next. Will there be an investment phase of a few years then a leveling out. Talk business cases here - ROI.
8. Map the risks and critical success factors. Map your communications plan for the changes.
9. Present. You now know exactly what you want, why you want it and in terms that the rest of your staff team will understand - they nedd the capabilities not the software itself. Easy sell really.
We go though this every few years and it is an effective enough methodology.
Hmmm - I think this is not really a solid position. Linux is equally as bad|normal at having functionality that takes a fair amount of time to get up to speed with in order to get this so called 5 minute pay back. LDAP, apache, sendmail, emacs, perl, bash, gimp all take time to learn and master before payback.
So - in fact, both platforms are the same then.
Except one OS can't play a huge (vast!) range of modern and popular games that are easy to install, perform well, and are sold in Virgin, HMV and Game.
the role filled by "african-americans" is played by exactly the same ethnic group in the UK too. 1st and 2nd gen Asians are usually fairly business focussed - the paki chants are mostly jealousy. It the the afro-carribean group that suffers most at school which translates to poor aspirations further down the line.
(and, it seems that it is poor boys that are suffering as much as any particular ethinic group)
You should calm down, as he says, because this is free speech in action. Someone is speaking, so now you speak up against it...
Get organised - you didn't get free speech in the first place without a fight so it is clear that free speech, or indeed freedom generally is not the natural "steady state" of mankind. We are animals, and dominance and territory are in our genes. Historically, dominance by the few has been the norm.
the government does not have those kind of buttons, the networks do - and some made changes to allow doctors and others to get priority - Vodafone for eg, others made no changes - O2 seems to have worked all day here.
I use Novell Linux at work and Ubuntu at home and yes they both work quite similarly the way you suggest. One is rpm and one is deb but they both have very similar point and click installers.
However they are both amazingly far apart in terms of versions of quite basic stuff.
Both are Gnome yet one is 2.6 and one is 2.10 - one has beagle, one doesn't. And each respository has different collections of stuff, again at different version points.
So, yes it works, but without the sense of a) choice (you take what your distro has) and b) standard versions on all your PCs.
You can't just go to the author's website and click to install his latest version. You have to wait until someone who knows how to do it puts that version into the repository. Can take a while for some stuff.
Lads, get a grip on reality, the UK is not a police state, let alone a Nazi one.
MAybe where you come from that's true, you don't specify. You say that the state installs free TVs where you are? Great - and I imagine that just unplugging the strobe light would do the trick.
A society in which every second person was being violently assulted has already broken down and most commerce would have ceased sometime ago.
A better comparison would be - if every second train carriage was tagged every night, manufacturers will need to develop easy-clean paint coatings. Which they now do.
But you are right in that Operating Systems need to be bullet proof immediately that they are installed, wired up or not and regardless of what install type or configuration the user might have selected. If they try to deselect a required setting or config, they should be warned and offered choices - eg - "you are trying to install your computer without the default firewall. You need to install a firewall to be safe but if you want to install a different one, you can easily do so later. For now shall we just install this one?"
WHat with Evo, the whole Ximian and Suse engineering crowd plus a directory service, groupwware and remote management system, it seems pretty end to end to me.
Imagine that in 10 years time, you have 50+ tapes - how are you going to realistically use this 'archive'? How will you browse it? How will you search it? What happend when you switched OS - did your backup sw vendor move with you or did you find an alternative - can you now read the oldest tapes? Do you still have the index without first loading the tape?
Sounds more like we need a personal document management system or personal content management system or similar.
"Bullshit. In this dystopia you've described, who do you think these corporations are selling their products to? After all, everyone is out of work except for the Ethiopians, who don't make enough to buy the products."
You hit the nail on the head - no point in the entirety of corporate USA sacking everyone unless their are other markets to take up the slack and replace their income...
That assumes that you are covering all the costs and profit required just using your subscription. If the sub is just/part/ of a revenue stream then you are just getting away with like everyone else.
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"u ride the wave till it falls. Long term anything in the stock market is a fools game. "
Well, that's not what modern linux boxes actually have to do - they can offer shutdown and login options in the same way as windows does. My SUSE acts this way out of the box and has done so for some time.
Not sure if we are talking about the same thing here...
When people pax tax because of income arising from the ownership of a property they pay tax on that income - this is true for either type of property - rental in the case of a building and sales of albums in the case of a song.
When I actually sell the building I give up some or all future income rights on that buildung but I make a one off income to compensate - and I normally pay tax on that income.
Likewise if I sell an intellectual property such as a startup company and all it's ideas then I make money in the same way and, hey, i pay tax on the income if I make a profit.
So it seems that they are entirely comparable.
If you mean the local property based taxes that exist in may countries then this is different because either a) they are a crude alternative to a local based income tax or b) they are because the state or similar is actually providing direct costed services to that property and it's surrounds - roads, lighting, water whatever. IP ownership (such as abandonware) doesn not incur a physical cost to anyone that has to actually be 'paid' therefore there are no charges (other than to renew the IP documents perhaps which I am sure is charged?)
I do take your point entirely that the holding of utilised rights should be eliminated.
In fact in the physical world this actually happens - if you do not demonstrably assert your rights to a piece of land it can become public through a challenge in court - in the UK, 12 years uninterupted squatting of a house, during which period no one asserts onwership though the courts, will leave you in full posession of the house!
Why would "newbies" even know to try doing a source installation? It is more likely to be intermediates who will either like the experience or go back to their original distribution after realising what good value they are!
I use Ubuntu at home and Novell Linux Desktop at work - great stuff, point and click updates on both even though one is rpm and one is deb. Having lost a day once trying to get gentoo installed, I have absolutely come to appreciate the convenience of a good distro.
"IE doesn't work. We have to spend three times the effort to make it work in IE without breaking the rest. "
Sure, but given that that amounts to the vast majority of your site visitors, no big problem. Just be thankful that to make your site fun for the minority it is ony taking an extra 25% etc etc
>>Duh! Where else is your email going to come from?
>A local mailbox?
Well, in that case, just select "standard unix mbox spool or directory" from the drop down box when setting up your account. Easy. Is a feature of outlook also?
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Here's a 9 point, back of an envelope plan which sums up what the big consulting firms will tell you (in less words).
1. Review the Business Plan. What does it tell you? You expanding? You going all e-business? What? Wishes as well as reality.
2. What about trends in the architecture world? Trends in technology? Cheap storage, cheap bandwidth etc?
--> Try to work out what capabilities are suggested by all of this. eg - if your firm says they want to go e-billing then, hey, thats a capability. Show these to your firm and get them to rank them, score them whatever.
3. You haven't just started up, I suppose, so how does your current IT match up? Do a big list of capabilities you have identified and assess each one against your current apps/functionality.
4. What would a future IT system look like if it were to deliver all these capabilities? How could you leverage some of the technology trends you identified in to creating growth or profit? (invoices by pdf = save on printing and mailing etc. Recruit new staff just via the web = savings etc )
5. Can you decribe an optimal IT applications and technology architecture yet? Would that be an open accessable database feeding billing, web portal, collaboration, etc? Web based? Accesible in the move, laptops etc?
6. Now do a gap analysis of what you have versus what you want. Describe how you could move between those two states. Ie projects, dependencies etc - migrate this database, use a temporary TS server, then move to app x etc etc. remember culture (saving local vs contributing centrally - loss of power for the individual) - have a plan for selling culture changes too.
7. How could you pay for this - what levels of investment would it take? How will the changes be paced - what happens this year and what next. Will there be an investment phase of a few years then a leveling out. Talk business cases here - ROI.
8. Map the risks and critical success factors. Map your communications plan for the changes.
9. Present. You now know exactly what you want, why you want it and in terms that the rest of your staff team will understand - they nedd the capabilities not the software itself. Easy sell really.
We go though this every few years and it is an effective enough methodology.
You can with Google too, actually.
"guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat"
:-)
I love your sig but for the fact that only Rosie O'Donnell's own spoon made her fat. My spoon can't make her fat, unlike my gun.
>/joke off
Actually quite funny (in a sick way) because their clothes were blown off by the blasts according to survivors.
So, back to the drawing board.
Hmmm - I think this is not really a solid position. Linux is equally as bad|normal at having functionality that takes a fair amount of time to get up to speed with in order to get this so called 5 minute pay back. LDAP, apache, sendmail, emacs, perl, bash, gimp all take time to learn and master before payback.
So - in fact, both platforms are the same then.
Except one OS can't play a huge (vast!) range of modern and popular games that are easy to install, perform well, and are sold in Virgin, HMV and Game.
the role filled by "african-americans" is played by exactly the same ethnic group in the UK too. 1st and 2nd gen Asians are usually fairly business focussed - the paki chants are mostly jealousy. It the the afro-carribean group that suffers most at school which translates to poor aspirations further down the line.
(and, it seems that it is poor boys that are suffering as much as any particular ethinic group)
You should calm down, as he says, because this is free speech in action. Someone is speaking, so now you speak up against it ...
Get organised - you didn't get free speech in the first place without a fight so it is clear that free speech, or indeed freedom generally is not the natural "steady state" of mankind. We are animals, and dominance and territory are in our genes. Historically, dominance by the few has been the norm.
We have been making calls on some networks here all day )o2), some have reprioritised that's all (Vodafone)
the government does not have those kind of buttons, the networks do - and some made changes to allow doctors and others to get priority - Vodafone for eg, others made no changes - O2 seems to have worked all day here.
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I use Novell Linux at work and Ubuntu at home and yes they both work quite similarly the way you suggest. One is rpm and one is deb but they both have very similar point and click installers.
However they are both amazingly far apart in terms of versions of quite basic stuff.
Both are Gnome yet one is 2.6 and one is 2.10 - one has beagle, one doesn't. And each respository has different collections of stuff, again at different version points.
So, yes it works, but without the sense of a) choice (you take what your distro has) and b) standard versions on all your PCs.
You can't just go to the author's website and click to install his latest version. You have to wait until someone who knows how to do it puts that version into the repository. Can take a while for some stuff.
"Insightful" !!!!
Lads, get a grip on reality, the UK is not a police state, let alone a Nazi one.
MAybe where you come from that's true, you don't specify. You say that the state installs free TVs where you are? Great - and I imagine that just unplugging the strobe light would do the trick.
Now, Slashdot, "insightful", do me favour!
accoring to Friedman who says that there is only one linux engineering team inside Novell.
A society in which every second person was being violently assulted has already broken down and most commerce would have ceased sometime ago.
A better comparison would be - if every second train carriage was tagged every night, manufacturers will need to develop easy-clean paint coatings. Which they now do.
But you are right in that Operating Systems need to be bullet proof immediately that they are installed, wired up or not and regardless of what install type or configuration the user might have selected. If they try to deselect a required setting or config, they should be warned and offered choices - eg - "you are trying to install your computer without the default firewall. You need to install a firewall to be safe but if you want to install a different one, you can easily do so later. For now shall we just install this one?"
Blah
WHat with Evo, the whole Ximian and Suse engineering crowd plus a directory service, groupwware and remote management system, it seems pretty end to end to me.
Imagine that in 10 years time, you have 50+ tapes - how are you going to realistically use this 'archive'? How will you browse it? How will you search it? What happend when you switched OS - did your backup sw vendor move with you or did you find an alternative - can you now read the oldest tapes? Do you still have the index without first loading the tape?
Sounds more like we need a personal document management system or personal content management system or similar.
You hit the nail on the head - no point in the entirety of corporate USA sacking everyone unless their are other markets to take up the slack and replace their income ...
Can you not think of any?
That assumes that you are covering all the costs and profit required just using your subscription. If the sub is just /part/ of a revenue stream then you are just getting away with like everyone else.
"u ride the wave till it falls. Long term anything in the stock market is a fools game. "
t ober03/longtermreturns.asp for some examples of how over most rolling time periods of ten or twenty years, growth is normal.
I am not really sure this actually is wise advice. see http://www.mutualofamerica.com/articles/CapMan/Oc
Well, that's not what modern linux boxes actually have to do - they can offer shutdown and login options in the same way as windows does. My SUSE acts this way out of the box and has done so for some time.
Not sure if we are talking about the same thing here ...
When people pax tax because of income arising from the ownership of a property they pay tax on that income - this is true for either type of property - rental in the case of a building and sales of albums in the case of a song.
When I actually sell the building I give up some or all future income rights on that buildung but I make a one off income to compensate - and I normally pay tax on that income.
Likewise if I sell an intellectual property such as a startup company and all it's ideas then I make money in the same way and, hey, i pay tax on the income if I make a profit.
So it seems that they are entirely comparable.
If you mean the local property based taxes that exist in may countries then this is different because either a) they are a crude alternative to a local based income tax or b) they are because the state or similar is actually providing direct costed services to that property and it's surrounds - roads, lighting, water whatever. IP ownership (such as abandonware) doesn not incur a physical cost to anyone that has to actually be 'paid' therefore there are no charges (other than to renew the IP documents perhaps which I am sure is charged?)
I do take your point entirely that the holding of utilised rights should be eliminated.
In fact in the physical world this actually happens - if you do not demonstrably assert your rights to a piece of land it can become public through a challenge in court - in the UK, 12 years uninterupted squatting of a house, during which period no one asserts onwership though the courts, will leave you in full posession of the house!
J
"So when are copyright holders going to pay property tax on their holdings?"
They do - everytime they make a quid in profit from those holdings they are liable for income or corporate tax, just like everyone else.
Why would "newbies" even know to try doing a source installation? It is more likely to be intermediates who will either like the experience or go back to their original distribution after realising what good value they are!
I use Ubuntu at home and Novell Linux Desktop at work - great stuff, point and click updates on both even though one is rpm and one is deb. Having lost a day once trying to get gentoo installed, I have absolutely come to appreciate the convenience of a good distro.
"IE doesn't work. We have to spend three times the effort to make it work in IE without breaking the rest. "
Sure, but given that that amounts to the vast majority of your site visitors, no big problem. Just be thankful that to make your site fun for the minority it is ony taking an extra 25% etc etc
>>Duh! Where else is your email going to come from?
>A local mailbox?
Well, in that case, just select "standard unix mbox spool or directory" from the drop down box when setting up your account. Easy. Is a feature of outlook also?
Just for accuracy, Thisislondon.co.uk is NOT produced the BBC as the link suggests.