If a company's exec is so paranoid as to be frightened of his words going public, maybe there is something wrong with the company that it SHOULD be public.
That is not the case here, but I'm speaking directly to your statement.
Further, as the head of one biggest names in technology, you can't hope for anything you write down for mass consumtion NOT to be spread around. It's the nature of the beast. Surely intel exec, more than anyone else, would understand this.
Which carries more weight: the right of Apple to protect their trade secrets or the rights of journalists to protect their sources?
That this is even a question is cause for concern. Originally, from what I gather from history, journalists held a very important role in our society. Arguably more important than politicians: They were the watch dogs. They were the ones keeping our elected representatives honest. They had to have free reign, unrestricted by those that held power, to do their jobs effectively.
Now of course, journalists are simply mouthpieces for which ever party they subscribe to. Maybe it's always been that way, who knows, I don't really glean that much off the history I've read.
Actually, that's the otherside of the coin: As a manager/boss, I need to make the best use of my employees. That means if someone has time to screw around on slashdot, I am not making the best use of my investment.
The trick is to find the balance; I want my employees to feel comfortable with where they work that they can take a break and goof around, but still get work done. Does wonders for moral, hence my employees are productive.
Your workforce is not cattle. Don't treat them as such ( note: I'm not happy with how we treat cattle either ). I give my employees their taskes, they finish them to the best of their ability. I don't care how, as long as it's done by the deadline, everyone is happy. They can fuck around on slashdot for the entire week, as long as that report is on my desk by friday 5pm, they are gold.
This is moronic. Who's to say who's a competitor? Doesn't this invite all sorts of abuse by corporations who lack morals ( ie: all of them )?
*rubs temples*
I understand this is a "new" technology, and I appreciate how much catch up judges have to make effective rulings, but this indicates to me that they don't grasp how things work.
Maybe the court transcripts reveal more than the simple blurb. Perhaps there's simply more to this than the article suggests.
Well, sure, by our own definition. Who's to say the mice don't have a different definition?
Sure, that was a reference to HGTG, but seriously, when you start making definitions up without a great deal of information behind it, it's sorta a bullshit definition.
3. We, as a society, choose to accept the added risk out of respect for our elders.
Then we are a society of retards.
Not really surprising, I've known this for years.
And I'm not against old people driving. I'm against incompetent people driving. Of any age, really. I don't want to myself or, more importantly, my daughter, at risk because someone's ego says they can drive.
it's a shameful situation when you reall sit down and think about it.
You see, it's called marketing. He is saying exactly what big wig CIO/CEO/C[A-Z]{2} understand and like to hear. Accountability. That's a big thing to most corporations.
Now, him saying that Redhat can't improve the kernel is simple BS, and could either be a fundamental lack of understanding on his part, or just a flat out lie. Given his position, I'm guessing it's a lie. Redhat ( as have most distributers ) patches the kernel with it's own magic, and will often update it on it's own.
Cliff notes: MS marketting with head in sand. News at 11.
Why would you, as SBC, be looking to put out more cash, if you just LOST cash last reporting period?
This must be that business sense i hear so much about.
Not only that, but as an AT&T customer, I'd be scared. SBC is, with the possible exception of CompUSA, the worst company I have to deal with day in and day out. Their tech support is a fucking joke, and their products and services are medocre at best.
Aside from that, do these mega-mergers ever actually, you know, work? Timewarner-AOL, HP Compaq?
1) When will hollywood realize money does not make a good movie. Story does. Acting does. Special effects mean shit if they are attached to a crappy movie. Special effects are most effective when NOBODY NOTICES THEM, in my opinion.
2) Larger scope? For years, the trek people have strived to grab the biggest scope in effort to make their series mean something. Borg, time, ect... Refer to #1 for what they can focus on instead.
If you tell someone who looks up to you that they can't do something, it is highly likely they, in fact, won't do it. Further, when someone else pushes them to try, they become emotionally stressed ( in one form or another ), further reducing their ability in the "thing". Now, "telling" someone that they can't do something could be as simple as not encouraging them.
The mother of my child is terrible at math. Can barely do simple addition and subtraction. She gets incredibly stressed even attempting it. turns out, her father told her ( when she was in school still ) that she should focus on what she was good at and just leave math alone. When i see a study like this, I have to wonder how many other women suffered the same idiotic parenting as she did.
For the record, when she isn't paying attention, she can do complex algebra on the fly. It's a damn shame her father stuck that block in her head, and if I thought it'd help, I'd smack him around a bit. As it stands, I don't let him anywhere near our daughter, and I have to be content with that.
If the result of this is MS fully opening the MS Office file formats, so that every other office suite out there can read and write them with 100% compatibility, then that's great! It's not as good for open source as mandating the use of e.g. OO.o would be, but it's still good, and more importantly it focuses more on freedom.
Were this the case, then it'd actually be better for the OSS crowd than mandating the use of any specific application. Any app, anywhere, can read and write MS docs with complete confidence. Nothing to sneeze at.
That said, it remains to be seen what this translates into. I'm betting they open up their schema a bit, but leave the actual data storage closed.
Just like most of the rest of the articles on global stuff, this translates to, "WE ALL GOING TO DIE! THE SKY IS FALLING! Maybe. If this and this happens. Oh, and it's got to happen here, or we'll be just fine"
Say what you will about drug dealers, they are about the most honest "professional" people I've ever met. you tell them what you want when you want it, and they tell you whether they can do it or not. None of this, "I gotta talk to...x" or "Let me check with my vendor" crap.
I tell ya, they are a breath of fresh air to an IT manager-type.
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If a company's exec is so paranoid as to be frightened of his words going public, maybe there is something wrong with the company that it SHOULD be public.
That is not the case here, but I'm speaking directly to your statement.
Further, as the head of one biggest names in technology, you can't hope for anything you write down for mass consumtion NOT to be spread around. It's the nature of the beast. Surely intel exec, more than anyone else, would understand this.
This is just a cleverly craft bit of PR.
Which carries more weight: the right of Apple to protect their trade secrets or the rights of journalists to protect their sources?
That this is even a question is cause for concern. Originally, from what I gather from history, journalists held a very important role in our society. Arguably more important than politicians: They were the watch dogs. They were the ones keeping our elected representatives honest. They had to have free reign, unrestricted by those that held power, to do their jobs effectively.
Now of course, journalists are simply mouthpieces for which ever party they subscribe to. Maybe it's always been that way, who knows, I don't really glean that much off the history I've read.
So, what's next for the telecom industry?
Panic. Followed by voip regulations by "our" "elected" representatives, which effectively will make more and more of us law breakers.
Actually, that's the otherside of the coin: As a manager/boss, I need to make the best use of my employees. That means if someone has time to screw around on slashdot, I am not making the best use of my investment.
The trick is to find the balance; I want my employees to feel comfortable with where they work that they can take a break and goof around, but still get work done. Does wonders for moral, hence my employees are productive.
Your workforce is not cattle. Don't treat them as such ( note: I'm not happy with how we treat cattle either ). I give my employees their taskes, they finish them to the best of their ability. I don't care how, as long as it's done by the deadline, everyone is happy. They can fuck around on slashdot for the entire week, as long as that report is on my desk by friday 5pm, they are gold.
I voted for Bush, and that doesnt make me an idiot
Yes, actually, it does.
But certainly, if that doesn't, then your sig does.
I laughed at first, then I thought about it. You're probably right.
This is exactly what Groklaw has been saying all along, and they have commentary on the news as well."
It's called due process, and it's something I find vastly amusing.
This is moronic. Who's to say who's a competitor? Doesn't this invite all sorts of abuse by corporations who lack morals ( ie: all of them )?
*rubs temples*
I understand this is a "new" technology, and I appreciate how much catch up judges have to make effective rulings, but this indicates to me that they don't grasp how things work.
Maybe the court transcripts reveal more than the simple blurb. Perhaps there's simply more to this than the article suggests.
The only life we can be certain of is our own.
Well, sure, by our own definition. Who's to say the mice don't have a different definition?
Sure, that was a reference to HGTG, but seriously, when you start making definitions up without a great deal of information behind it, it's sorta a bullshit definition.
...it's better than this secret decoder ring I've been using since I was 8.
3. We, as a society, choose to accept the added risk out of respect for our elders.
Then we are a society of retards.
Not really surprising, I've known this for years.
And I'm not against old people driving. I'm against incompetent people driving. Of any age, really. I don't want to myself or, more importantly, my daughter, at risk because someone's ego says they can drive.
it's a shameful situation when you reall sit down and think about it.
You see, it's called marketing. He is saying exactly what big wig CIO/CEO/C[A-Z]{2} understand and like to hear. Accountability. That's a big thing to most corporations.
Now, him saying that Redhat can't improve the kernel is simple BS, and could either be a fundamental lack of understanding on his part, or just a flat out lie. Given his position, I'm guessing it's a lie. Redhat ( as have most distributers ) patches the kernel with it's own magic, and will often update it on it's own.
Cliff notes: MS marketting with head in sand. News at 11.
Why would you, as SBC, be looking to put out more cash, if you just LOST cash last reporting period?
This must be that business sense i hear so much about.
Not only that, but as an AT&T customer, I'd be scared. SBC is, with the possible exception of CompUSA, the worst company I have to deal with day in and day out. Their tech support is a fucking joke, and their products and services are medocre at best.
Aside from that, do these mega-mergers ever actually, you know, work? Timewarner-AOL, HP Compaq?
May I recommend you look at http://connect.voicepulse.com if you will be playing with asterisk.
1) When will hollywood realize money does not make a good movie. Story does. Acting does. Special effects mean shit if they are attached to a crappy movie. Special effects are most effective when NOBODY NOTICES THEM, in my opinion.
2) Larger scope? For years, the trek people have strived to grab the biggest scope in effort to make their series mean something. Borg, time, ect... Refer to #1 for what they can focus on instead.
If you tell someone who looks up to you that they can't do something, it is highly likely they, in fact, won't do it. Further, when someone else pushes them to try, they become emotionally stressed ( in one form or another ), further reducing their ability in the "thing". Now, "telling" someone that they can't do something could be as simple as not encouraging them.
The mother of my child is terrible at math. Can barely do simple addition and subtraction. She gets incredibly stressed even attempting it. turns out, her father told her ( when she was in school still ) that she should focus on what she was good at and just leave math alone. When i see a study like this, I have to wonder how many other women suffered the same idiotic parenting as she did.
For the record, when she isn't paying attention, she can do complex algebra on the fly. It's a damn shame her father stuck that block in her head, and if I thought it'd help, I'd smack him around a bit. As it stands, I don't let him anywhere near our daughter, and I have to be content with that.
...as I understand it, the music industry will continue to sell what has successfully sold in the past ( specifically: crap ).
Got it. Nice to know I don't need to budget in CDs in the foreseeable future.
hahaha, and you got modded funny.
Every now and then, the mods restore my faith in humanity.
If the result of this is MS fully opening the MS Office file formats, so that every other office suite out there can read and write them with 100% compatibility, then that's great! It's not as good for open source as mandating the use of e.g. OO.o would be, but it's still good, and more importantly it focuses more on freedom.
Were this the case, then it'd actually be better for the OSS crowd than mandating the use of any specific application. Any app, anywhere, can read and write MS docs with complete confidence. Nothing to sneeze at.
That said, it remains to be seen what this translates into. I'm betting they open up their schema a bit, but leave the actual data storage closed.
Just like most of the rest of the articles on global stuff, this translates to, "WE ALL GOING TO DIE! THE SKY IS FALLING! Maybe. If this and this happens. Oh, and it's got to happen here, or we'll be just fine"
Reach them? Christ, I don't want to touch them.
Say what you will about drug dealers, they are about the most honest "professional" people I've ever met. you tell them what you want when you want it, and they tell you whether they can do it or not. None of this, "I gotta talk to ...x" or "Let me check with my vendor" crap.
I tell ya, they are a breath of fresh air to an IT manager-type.
Iceland plans to become the first oil-free country by 2050.
5 bucks says we invade iceland next year because that's where all the terrorist hang out.
Whoa...you might want to turn that fan-boyism down a notch. Otherwise, people will think you are a raving luny.