You're pretty much on your own on these 2 things when it comes to so called "free" software, and the TCO ends up being more expensive than a paid application.
That is not true generally, although it can be if you really go out of your way to implement something badly.
It's a MS talking point and it conveniently overlooks that most of the time with proprietary software you're paying for a steep license fee AND pay for support or a support contract separately. We use majority OSS here and the TCO blows away proprietary alternatives.
If we need support on an OSS choice we choose to purchase it, so far we haven't needed any. The other bogus argument frequently raised is that there's a productivity hit on time you spend researching solutions for OSS issues. That's another one that never happens in reality and also ignores the hours proprietary admins spend pouring over knowledge base searches.
Most for profit companies are squeezing their workforce so hard for profits these days that service in many companies is worse than what you get from OSS.
The age old debate about whether the flu shot can give people the flu. And the odd reaction to other components...I'm looking at you, thimerosal. Most of the discussions tend to be more heat than light.
My opinion is the fear is far greater than the actual risk would indicate. Even if the reaction rate was extremely small, litigation and the internet are going insure the stories spread far and wide. Combine a very small number of actual problems with a lot of publicity, add a dash of anecdotal evidence and I think the fear factor of vaccinations is over done.
Complicating the discussions are the number of times we've been collectively lied to by big business and big pharma. Even if they were telling the truth, we have reasonable grounds to remain suspicious. And the Bush administration installing an incompetent religious frootloop as head of the FDA hasn't exactly inspired public trust that the safety of medications and vaccines are being adequately monitored. It's easy to suspect that oversight of medication safety is every bit as good as the SEC's oversight of the financial markets.
Any time your business IP crosses onto someone elses network, it's susceptible to snooping either by corporate espionage or now government eyes.
I'm not sure your business critical data is the real risk. Like a lot of things, it's the unintended consequences that may have bigger implications. If other countries are afraid of communications flowing through US relays being monitored, whether that fear is legitimate or not, they may be tempted to utilize more advanced encryptions schemes or develop relays that don't route through the US.
Sort of like the laptop confiscations by TSA. Some companies stopped coming here to do business. That probably wasn't the only reason, but for a few it was the last straw. Those that did come were sudden converts to advanced encryption and off-site file storage.
I think there's a certain level of trust that used to be there that the US could be trusted with your data because no one could access it without a warrant. Probably not the protection they imagined but still a reasonable assurance. Take that away and nothing really separates us from the most heavy-handed and tyrannical governments on the planet.
Ultimately, I think that's the greatest blow to the US from the 6 years of right wing rule. The realization that another Bush could rise up and trample on our ideals and flout the law with little real consequence and even get enthusiastic support from a substantial minority of the population. Suddenly nothing is beneath us. Spying on friend and foe alike, unilateral military action, seizure of bank funds and property without due process, indefinite imprisonment without access to a lawyer, torture, racial profiling...nothing is out of bounds if we feel the justification is there. We can no longer be trusted to respect the rule of law. A perception we have, unfortunately, worked hard to deserve.
While a content site might run the risk of getting slashdotted or Dugg, that isn't necessarily a big risk for applications. And your platform choice makes a big difference. We do our business applications on a LAMP stack. If we need capacity, we can stand it up for the cost of hardware. Nice thing about LAMP is at least the AMP part is OS portable, so we can rent capacity where ever it's cheap. So far we haven't needed to do that but it's nice to have the ability.
To date we haven't run into any problems. If we're expecting a surge of new customers, we have a pretty good idea of expected traffic per customer. We can stand up the capacity well in advance. Hardware is cheap and can be repurposed if end up not needing all the extra capacity.
Our platform choice gives us a tremendous amount of flexibility. You don't get that with Windows. Any increase in capacity has a significant price tag in license fees associated with it. Once you build the capacity there are fairly significant ongoing expenses to maintain it. You can take it offline if you need to scale down but you don't get your money back on the licenses. There's a whole new set of problems outsourcing your hosting.
I like our setup. The flexibility, the scalability, the peace of mind of not struggling with capacity issues, negotiating license agreements with MS or one of their solution providers and not being limited to their development environment. We can build out a lot of excess capacity and just leave it sit in the rack. If we need more just push a button and light it up. I'm not sure an Amazon or anyone else could do it cheap enough to justify moving it. And I really like having the extra cash. Cash is good. Peace of mind and extra money...what's not to like? Keep your cloud.
but we have not had another major terrorist attack on our soil in over seven years.
It was six years between attacks on the World Trade Center. Guess that means the Clinton administration was doing a good job preventing attacks on American soil...without the Patriot Act, NSL's or wholesale spying on Americans.
They waited for the arrogant and incompetent to take over before trying again.
Imagine if Clinton had proposed the Patriot Act in the wake of the first WTC bombing. Pick up trucks loads of right wingers would have taken to the streets with guns. Right wing hate radio would have been spewing about an unconstitutional power grab. The hypocrisy force runs deep in the right.
Although it turns they did one thing right in Mumbai, they tried to warn India. Apparently they're not just spying on Americans. It's somewhat comforting to imagine there are a few competent people in the intelligence community and not totally handicapped with political appointees who's claim to mid-east intelligence experience was running the Arabian Horse Association.
I'm sure no one violated their rights by eavesdropping on their communications.
That's such an ignorant argument. They could have just as easily used walkie-talkies available at almost any department store, or spent some money and got some military grade communications for the cost of a few hand grenades. Or cell phones. Or satellite phones. Or wi-fi. Or broadband internet. You going to scan every frequency? Monitor every mode of communication? And it's not like they were sending detailed plans back and forth on their Blackberrys, it was tactical comm.
The type of wholesale spying the Bush administration is trying to promote and you seem to be trying to protect not only undermines the Constitution, it doesn't work. All the monitoring we have in place around the world didn't stop these yo-yo's. And it won't stop the next group. So what are you going to do then? Your philosophy is a failure. It's a false sense of security that provides no value in protection.
Combating terrorism by spying on Americans. Brilliant.
We are supposedly an open source shop and productivity is severely hampered by the constant maintenance required.
If that's the case then you've implemented OSS badly. We're 90% Linux here and the last significant downtime we recorded was when the remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through town and knocked out the power across the whole area. We use OSS solutions precisely because we don't have to jack with them all the time. The last place I worked that was constantly tweaking and fixing things was an all Microsoft shop.
Over half the company just use their own personal laptops due to the hassle, which ironically, defeats the crippling obsession with security that the IT guys have.
See, that sounds fishy to me. The only people still using Windows here are the sales reps. There's a Windows kiosk in accounting for a couple Windows-only apps they need and one in the flex area for anyone who might need a Windows client, but that goes largely unused. Other than that, no one is using their home laptops here. We use corporate Gmail which has some quirks but is generally quite reliable and no one has once complained about missing Outlook. Many were already using Gmail to manage their office email anyway. Lot of the staff use GoogleApps to collaborate on docs, we use Gliffy quite a bit and our Blackberry's.
There are generally two areas that make transition challenging: Productivity and specialty apps like GoToMyPc, which doesn't support Linux. On the productivity side, linked spreadsheets and Access db's are what give you fits. The specialty apps are why we keep a Windows box in the flex area. But that hasn't hurt our productivity any. I'd put our application turn-around times against any Windows shop and we do it with less staff. We save a LOT of money in license costs. Very real savings that we put to very good use.
Either your IT shop is phenomenally poorly run or that story's a big, fat fib.
This link seems to connect to clueful people, and more importantly, ones who can take ownership of a problem and get it resolved.
Ever since Dell outsourced their customer service they've never been the same company. Every niggling little thing they push back on customers to do, every endless phone menu you have to take time to navigate, takes a little of the value away from their product.
Instead of the endless goat rope of tier I customer service, I'd opt for the charge back angle.
Too bad it's not as simple as ordering an air strike.
America's rate of corporate tax is among the highest in the world.
That's only true in the sense that the tax rate is high, but has no bearing on how much tax corporations actually pay.
There are so many special interest loopholes in our tax code, we could make the tax rate 100% and most companies still wouldn't pay any substantial amount in taxes.
I hear that bogus line so many times, it's a Rush Limbaugh talking point with no basis in reality.
Simply the threat that we can deploy them keeps us out of wars.
Think about what you're saying in light of someone like Dick Cheney getting control of an army like that. At that point we wouldn't need Skynet because we'd be Skynet. Turning such an army loose on our own citizens becomes a comfortably distant and self-justifying mental exercise, much like torturing terror suspects. After all, if they weren't acting up, they wouldn't get killed by the robots, now would they?
I think we want killing to remain a painful, brutal, messy and difficult job. We want a human making that decision, even if it's pushing the launch button on a drone half-way around the world. We want them to see the blood and dismemberment, the grieving widows and crying children, the collateral damage. We want anyone engaged in killing, even in war time, to be in touch with the destruction they leave in their wake. Lest some crabby old man lacking a conscience some day decides you're the problem. Or some drunken Connecticut frat boy pretending to be a religious fighter pilot from Texas decides he wants to take out someone who made his daddy look bad.
And to borrow your own gun analogy, anyone who knows you got a gun and wants to start shit will just make sure they have a bigger gun and more of them. I think part of the problem is the rampant ethnocentrism that always sees what we want to do as being the right thing. What happens when the rest of the world, with their own robot armies, decide we're the problem?
If there's water in thin air, it makes you wonder if there's fat air? If there is, what's in it? And where do you find the height/weight proportional air?
Supposedly after 40 your brain function starts degenerating...along with the rest of your body. I read and take classes nearly constantly. And, yeah, mentally I'm a step slower. But I'm also able to focus better. Instead of 100's on tests I limp along with 90's.
You do get it back in other places, too. A lot of times you'll be covering material you learned a long time ago or maybe brushed on in a related topic. So that's more of a refresher than new ground and maybe you add some new information to the old, which is easier to remember than someone with less experience.
When you learn a new programming language later in life, you may not know the language but you know how to program. Loops, arrays, classes, functions, methods, IF statements...you know what you need to know, which saves a lot of the overhead processing power that you might have lost. Same with a spoken language. I may not be able to memorize as well as when I was in my 20's, but I know nouns, verbs, irregular verbs, idioms, contractions and all the elements of a language. You don't have to burn any processing building the mental scaffold for a new language.
So, yeah, you lose a little. You can make it up by being more efficient and having a broader knowledge base to build on.
Not only did they go after her again, but they refused to go after the cop who lied in court about the forensic evidence, and the prosecutors who suppressed a state forensic report that concluded the popups were from spyware.
It sends a clear message that our criminal "justice" system is seriously broken. And it sends the unintended message that if you're smart and have an option, avoid teaching or substitute teaching, don't volunteer for Scouts or church activities that have anything to do with young people. You could even take it to the extreme of refusing to help a child in distress or render aid if a parent isn't around, because where kids are concerned, law enforcement is totally off the reservation. Something like this incident or a false charge and you could be dragging an arrest record around the rest of your life. It's just not worth the risk. That used to be a paranoid attitude but it doesn't seem so paranoid today.
So the next time you're tempted to complain about a lack of math and science teachers, remember this incident. The only people willing to get involved will be other parents and, ironically, the predators.
The USA does more than 'suggest' that: there's a NOFORN caveat for classified documents...
Exactly right. And that even applies to access to sensitive areas. Foreign nationals get a different color badge, so everyone knows. Though I do notice that when it comes to top scientists, those rules seem to become a little more fluid.
The smart girls are going to med school or veterinary medicine. They see the creepy geek guys leering at them like they've never seen a live female before and figure if they're going to need to deal with some horse's butt, they might as well go to vet school.
It's not in the public interest to know how much public money MSFT is getting and for what? It's a certainty MSFT doesn't want it getting out how much of a discount government agencies are getting, and what other inducements they're tossing in to sweeten the deal. If it gets out gov agencies are paying $50/seat for Windows, every other enterprise customer will want that deal. I'm not sure how keeping that secret is in the public interest...unless they're worried MS will raise the price if it gets out.
If it were up to me...if the taxpayer buys it, the taxpayer owns it. And that would be true for software, or at least for the licenses. Imagine if the federal government could negotiate for government wide enterprise license deals. If the Navy closed a program, they could take the software licenses they don't need and transfer them to the Marines or another gov agency. I always thought it should be that way. What's MS going to do about it? Not sell to the government? Yeah, that would be smart, drive gov adoption of open source.
Given the extremely rudimentary functionality of Google Apps, I can't for the life of me figure out how there's even a discussion around it's potential use in business.
We use it all the time. Not for polished docs we're going to hand off to a client, but certainly for internal stuff. We share out docs with staff so application testers can submit comments, saves us writing a custom app to track change requests. For developing content quickly and gathering input from multiple users, it's really nice.
No, the formatting options may not be particularly deep, but I can dash off a quick letter and it looks fine. And that's particularly helpful when I'm starting it here and finishing at home. Saves me an rsync operation and version problems.
If there are cheaper, easier and more convenient ways to solve these problems I haven't found them. GoogleApps works for us.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your operating systems and I realized that you're not actually cross platform. Every OS on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding community but you Windows users do not. You move to a hardware manufacturer and you multiply and multiply until every desktop is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another OEM. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Windows is a disease, a cancer of this planet.
I'd like to add I like Aptera's approach of putting a small engine in an electrical car and letting it charge the batteries.
I wondered about that, too. Had thought about a kit conversion for a DIY electric car and wondered about putting one of those quiet Honda generators in it to charge the batteries while it's sitting in the parking lot. Why wouldn't that work? I don't think there would be enough current to drive the car, but three or four hours would put a lot of charge in the batteries.
Those little Honda 1000's will run for hours on a gallon of gas. 1000 watts will put some charge in a battery.
You'd think if it was that simple someone would have thought of it.
I totally agree. Stop dicking with the time and just deal with it. There was some discussion about having more daylight when kids are waiting for the school bus but that argument is not really valid anymore. School bus loading is a lot safer now, in any lighting conditions. Most school parking lots are well lighted. There are enough laws and enforcement going on now that the message is sinking in.
Farmers don't need the extra daylight, either. When it's harvest time they're running until midnight or later. With GPS and the lighting systems on tractors they can work anytime.
It's a brave new world and that world doesn't need anyone moving the clock back and forth.
Now, are their conservative blow hards on Fox? YES! But, their are also Liberal blow hards on all the major news chanels including Fox.
Which one of the other major news channels coordinates their daily talking points from the party and campaign leadership? Fox does that. Here, here, and the documentary OutFoxed goes into the relationship in a lot more detail. Scott McClellan confirmed the White House coordinated their talking points with Fox. OutFoxed has a lot more detail that substantiates the relationship was much deeper.
That's not a news media, that's a political tool. Everyone manipulates the media...or tries to...but which media outlets are coordinating talking point memos from campaign sources? Name one and be sure and provide the links that back it up (even if they're partisan). Not just the usual emesis about mainstream media.
Slashdot Mirror
...it looks like you're trying to fire a torpedo. What would you like to do?
Most of those people I've met could be thrown in a woodchipper and nobody would miss them.
Note to self: Budget item for Q2 09 - One Wood chipper with extra large chute.
I wonder if I could get that past the board? The utility is obvious. :)
You're pretty much on your own on these 2 things when it comes to so called "free" software, and the TCO ends up being more expensive than a paid application.
That is not true generally, although it can be if you really go out of your way to implement something badly.
It's a MS talking point and it conveniently overlooks that most of the time with proprietary software you're paying for a steep license fee AND pay for support or a support contract separately. We use majority OSS here and the TCO blows away proprietary alternatives.
If we need support on an OSS choice we choose to purchase it, so far we haven't needed any. The other bogus argument frequently raised is that there's a productivity hit on time you spend researching solutions for OSS issues. That's another one that never happens in reality and also ignores the hours proprietary admins spend pouring over knowledge base searches.
Most for profit companies are squeezing their workforce so hard for profits these days that service in many companies is worse than what you get from OSS.
The age old debate about whether the flu shot can give people the flu. And the odd reaction to other components...I'm looking at you, thimerosal. Most of the discussions tend to be more heat than light.
My opinion is the fear is far greater than the actual risk would indicate. Even if the reaction rate was extremely small, litigation and the internet are going insure the stories spread far and wide. Combine a very small number of actual problems with a lot of publicity, add a dash of anecdotal evidence and I think the fear factor of vaccinations is over done.
Complicating the discussions are the number of times we've been collectively lied to by big business and big pharma. Even if they were telling the truth, we have reasonable grounds to remain suspicious. And the Bush administration installing an incompetent religious frootloop as head of the FDA hasn't exactly inspired public trust that the safety of medications and vaccines are being adequately monitored. It's easy to suspect that oversight of medication safety is every bit as good as the SEC's oversight of the financial markets.
Any time your business IP crosses onto someone elses network, it's susceptible to snooping either by corporate espionage or now government eyes.
I'm not sure your business critical data is the real risk. Like a lot of things, it's the unintended consequences that may have bigger implications. If other countries are afraid of communications flowing through US relays being monitored, whether that fear is legitimate or not, they may be tempted to utilize more advanced encryptions schemes or develop relays that don't route through the US.
Sort of like the laptop confiscations by TSA. Some companies stopped coming here to do business. That probably wasn't the only reason, but for a few it was the last straw. Those that did come were sudden converts to advanced encryption and off-site file storage.
I think there's a certain level of trust that used to be there that the US could be trusted with your data because no one could access it without a warrant. Probably not the protection they imagined but still a reasonable assurance. Take that away and nothing really separates us from the most heavy-handed and tyrannical governments on the planet.
Ultimately, I think that's the greatest blow to the US from the 6 years of right wing rule. The realization that another Bush could rise up and trample on our ideals and flout the law with little real consequence and even get enthusiastic support from a substantial minority of the population. Suddenly nothing is beneath us. Spying on friend and foe alike, unilateral military action, seizure of bank funds and property without due process, indefinite imprisonment without access to a lawyer, torture, racial profiling...nothing is out of bounds if we feel the justification is there. We can no longer be trusted to respect the rule of law. A perception we have, unfortunately, worked hard to deserve.
While a content site might run the risk of getting slashdotted or Dugg, that isn't necessarily a big risk for applications. And your platform choice makes a big difference. We do our business applications on a LAMP stack. If we need capacity, we can stand it up for the cost of hardware. Nice thing about LAMP is at least the AMP part is OS portable, so we can rent capacity where ever it's cheap. So far we haven't needed to do that but it's nice to have the ability.
To date we haven't run into any problems. If we're expecting a surge of new customers, we have a pretty good idea of expected traffic per customer. We can stand up the capacity well in advance. Hardware is cheap and can be repurposed if end up not needing all the extra capacity.
Our platform choice gives us a tremendous amount of flexibility. You don't get that with Windows. Any increase in capacity has a significant price tag in license fees associated with it. Once you build the capacity there are fairly significant ongoing expenses to maintain it. You can take it offline if you need to scale down but you don't get your money back on the licenses. There's a whole new set of problems outsourcing your hosting.
I like our setup. The flexibility, the scalability, the peace of mind of not struggling with capacity issues, negotiating license agreements with MS or one of their solution providers and not being limited to their development environment. We can build out a lot of excess capacity and just leave it sit in the rack. If we need more just push a button and light it up. I'm not sure an Amazon or anyone else could do it cheap enough to justify moving it. And I really like having the extra cash. Cash is good. Peace of mind and extra money...what's not to like? Keep your cloud.
but we have not had another major terrorist attack on our soil in over seven years.
It was six years between attacks on the World Trade Center. Guess that means the Clinton administration was doing a good job preventing attacks on American soil...without the Patriot Act, NSL's or wholesale spying on Americans.
They waited for the arrogant and incompetent to take over before trying again.
Imagine if Clinton had proposed the Patriot Act in the wake of the first WTC bombing. Pick up trucks loads of right wingers would have taken to the streets with guns. Right wing hate radio would have been spewing about an unconstitutional power grab. The hypocrisy force runs deep in the right.
Although it turns they did one thing right in Mumbai, they tried to warn India. Apparently they're not just spying on Americans. It's somewhat comforting to imagine there are a few competent people in the intelligence community and not totally handicapped with political appointees who's claim to mid-east intelligence experience was running the Arabian Horse Association.
I'm sure no one violated their rights by eavesdropping on their communications.
That's such an ignorant argument. They could have just as easily used walkie-talkies available at almost any department store, or spent some money and got some military grade communications for the cost of a few hand grenades. Or cell phones. Or satellite phones. Or wi-fi. Or broadband internet. You going to scan every frequency? Monitor every mode of communication? And it's not like they were sending detailed plans back and forth on their Blackberrys, it was tactical comm.
The type of wholesale spying the Bush administration is trying to promote and you seem to be trying to protect not only undermines the Constitution, it doesn't work. All the monitoring we have in place around the world didn't stop these yo-yo's. And it won't stop the next group. So what are you going to do then? Your philosophy is a failure. It's a false sense of security that provides no value in protection.
Combating terrorism by spying on Americans. Brilliant.
We are supposedly an open source shop and productivity is severely hampered by the constant maintenance required.
If that's the case then you've implemented OSS badly. We're 90% Linux here and the last significant downtime we recorded was when the remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through town and knocked out the power across the whole area. We use OSS solutions precisely because we don't have to jack with them all the time. The last place I worked that was constantly tweaking and fixing things was an all Microsoft shop.
Over half the company just use their own personal laptops due to the hassle, which ironically, defeats the crippling obsession with security that the IT guys have.
See, that sounds fishy to me. The only people still using Windows here are the sales reps. There's a Windows kiosk in accounting for a couple Windows-only apps they need and one in the flex area for anyone who might need a Windows client, but that goes largely unused. Other than that, no one is using their home laptops here. We use corporate Gmail which has some quirks but is generally quite reliable and no one has once complained about missing Outlook. Many were already using Gmail to manage their office email anyway. Lot of the staff use GoogleApps to collaborate on docs, we use Gliffy quite a bit and our Blackberry's.
There are generally two areas that make transition challenging: Productivity and specialty apps like GoToMyPc, which doesn't support Linux. On the productivity side, linked spreadsheets and Access db's are what give you fits. The specialty apps are why we keep a Windows box in the flex area. But that hasn't hurt our productivity any. I'd put our application turn-around times against any Windows shop and we do it with less staff. We save a LOT of money in license costs. Very real savings that we put to very good use.
Either your IT shop is phenomenally poorly run or that story's a big, fat fib.
This link seems to connect to clueful people, and more importantly, ones who can take ownership of a problem and get it resolved.
Ever since Dell outsourced their customer service they've never been the same company. Every niggling little thing they push back on customers to do, every endless phone menu you have to take time to navigate, takes a little of the value away from their product.
Instead of the endless goat rope of tier I customer service, I'd opt for the charge back angle.
Too bad it's not as simple as ordering an air strike.
America's rate of corporate tax is among the highest in the world.
That's only true in the sense that the tax rate is high, but has no bearing on how much tax corporations actually pay.
There are so many special interest loopholes in our tax code, we could make the tax rate 100% and most companies still wouldn't pay any substantial amount in taxes.
I hear that bogus line so many times, it's a Rush Limbaugh talking point with no basis in reality.
Simply the threat that we can deploy them keeps us out of wars.
Think about what you're saying in light of someone like Dick Cheney getting control of an army like that. At that point we wouldn't need Skynet because we'd be Skynet. Turning such an army loose on our own citizens becomes a comfortably distant and self-justifying mental exercise, much like torturing terror suspects. After all, if they weren't acting up, they wouldn't get killed by the robots, now would they?
I think we want killing to remain a painful, brutal, messy and difficult job. We want a human making that decision, even if it's pushing the launch button on a drone half-way around the world. We want them to see the blood and dismemberment, the grieving widows and crying children, the collateral damage. We want anyone engaged in killing, even in war time, to be in touch with the destruction they leave in their wake. Lest some crabby old man lacking a conscience some day decides you're the problem. Or some drunken Connecticut frat boy pretending to be a religious fighter pilot from Texas decides he wants to take out someone who made his daddy look bad.
And to borrow your own gun analogy, anyone who knows you got a gun and wants to start shit will just make sure they have a bigger gun and more of them. I think part of the problem is the rampant ethnocentrism that always sees what we want to do as being the right thing. What happens when the rest of the world, with their own robot armies, decide we're the problem?
If there's water in thin air, it makes you wonder if there's fat air? If there is, what's in it? And where do you find the height/weight proportional air?
Air diet. This gets really deep in a hurry.
Supposedly after 40 your brain function starts degenerating...along with the rest of your body. I read and take classes nearly constantly. And, yeah, mentally I'm a step slower. But I'm also able to focus better. Instead of 100's on tests I limp along with 90's.
You do get it back in other places, too. A lot of times you'll be covering material you learned a long time ago or maybe brushed on in a related topic. So that's more of a refresher than new ground and maybe you add some new information to the old, which is easier to remember than someone with less experience.
When you learn a new programming language later in life, you may not know the language but you know how to program. Loops, arrays, classes, functions, methods, IF statements...you know what you need to know, which saves a lot of the overhead processing power that you might have lost. Same with a spoken language. I may not be able to memorize as well as when I was in my 20's, but I know nouns, verbs, irregular verbs, idioms, contractions and all the elements of a language. You don't have to burn any processing building the mental scaffold for a new language.
So, yeah, you lose a little. You can make it up by being more efficient and having a broader knowledge base to build on.
Read a lot....and, oh yeah...stay off my lawn.
Punks.
Not only did they go after her again, but they refused to go after the cop who lied in court about the forensic evidence, and the prosecutors who suppressed a state forensic report that concluded the popups were from spyware.
It sends a clear message that our criminal "justice" system is seriously broken. And it sends the unintended message that if you're smart and have an option, avoid teaching or substitute teaching, don't volunteer for Scouts or church activities that have anything to do with young people. You could even take it to the extreme of refusing to help a child in distress or render aid if a parent isn't around, because where kids are concerned, law enforcement is totally off the reservation. Something like this incident or a false charge and you could be dragging an arrest record around the rest of your life. It's just not worth the risk. That used to be a paranoid attitude but it doesn't seem so paranoid today.
So the next time you're tempted to complain about a lack of math and science teachers, remember this incident. The only people willing to get involved will be other parents and, ironically, the predators.
The USA does more than 'suggest' that: there's a NOFORN caveat for classified documents...
Exactly right. And that even applies to access to sensitive areas. Foreign nationals get a different color badge, so everyone knows. Though I do notice that when it comes to top scientists, those rules seem to become a little more fluid.
The smart girls are going to med school or veterinary medicine. They see the creepy geek guys leering at them like they've never seen a live female before and figure if they're going to need to deal with some horse's butt, they might as well go to vet school.
You just know this is going to end with some type of new p0rn.
It's not in the public interest to know how much public money MSFT is getting and for what? It's a certainty MSFT doesn't want it getting out how much of a discount government agencies are getting, and what other inducements they're tossing in to sweeten the deal. If it gets out gov agencies are paying $50/seat for Windows, every other enterprise customer will want that deal. I'm not sure how keeping that secret is in the public interest...unless they're worried MS will raise the price if it gets out.
If it were up to me...if the taxpayer buys it, the taxpayer owns it. And that would be true for software, or at least for the licenses. Imagine if the federal government could negotiate for government wide enterprise license deals. If the Navy closed a program, they could take the software licenses they don't need and transfer them to the Marines or another gov agency. I always thought it should be that way. What's MS going to do about it? Not sell to the government? Yeah, that would be smart, drive gov adoption of open source.
Given the extremely rudimentary functionality of Google Apps, I can't for the life of me figure out how there's even a discussion around it's potential use in business.
We use it all the time. Not for polished docs we're going to hand off to a client, but certainly for internal stuff. We share out docs with staff so application testers can submit comments, saves us writing a custom app to track change requests. For developing content quickly and gathering input from multiple users, it's really nice.
No, the formatting options may not be particularly deep, but I can dash off a quick letter and it looks fine. And that's particularly helpful when I'm starting it here and finishing at home. Saves me an rsync operation and version problems.
If there are cheaper, easier and more convenient ways to solve these problems I haven't found them. GoogleApps works for us.
If it works on Vista it'll work on W7.
So, in essence, Windows 7 represents a significant name change from Vista.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your operating systems and I realized that you're not actually cross platform. Every OS on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding community but you Windows users do not. You move to a hardware manufacturer and you multiply and multiply until every desktop is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another OEM. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Windows is a disease, a cancer of this planet.
You're a plague and AVG is the cure.
I'd like to add I like Aptera's approach of putting a small engine in an electrical car and letting it charge the batteries.
I wondered about that, too. Had thought about a kit conversion for a DIY electric car and wondered about putting one of those quiet Honda generators in it to charge the batteries while it's sitting in the parking lot. Why wouldn't that work? I don't think there would be enough current to drive the car, but three or four hours would put a lot of charge in the batteries.
Those little Honda 1000's will run for hours on a gallon of gas. 1000 watts will put some charge in a battery.
You'd think if it was that simple someone would have thought of it.
How long must we continue this DST insanity?
I totally agree. Stop dicking with the time and just deal with it. There was some discussion about having more daylight when kids are waiting for the school bus but that argument is not really valid anymore. School bus loading is a lot safer now, in any lighting conditions. Most school parking lots are well lighted. There are enough laws and enforcement going on now that the message is sinking in.
Farmers don't need the extra daylight, either. When it's harvest time they're running until midnight or later. With GPS and the lighting systems on tractors they can work anytime.
It's a brave new world and that world doesn't need anyone moving the clock back and forth.
Now, are their conservative blow hards on Fox? YES! But, their are also Liberal blow hards on all the major news chanels including Fox.
Which one of the other major news channels coordinates their daily talking points from the party and campaign leadership? Fox does that. Here, here, and the documentary OutFoxed goes into the relationship in a lot more detail. Scott McClellan confirmed the White House coordinated their talking points with Fox. OutFoxed has a lot more detail that substantiates the relationship was much deeper.
That's not a news media, that's a political tool. Everyone manipulates the media...or tries to...but which media outlets are coordinating talking point memos from campaign sources? Name one and be sure and provide the links that back it up (even if they're partisan). Not just the usual emesis about mainstream media.