I went into a store the other day and was told that you either had to pay with check or cash. They did not accept credit cards anymore, because of repeated problems with fraudulent use.
I wouldn't be suprised if I didn't start seeing more of this.
I would rather go someplace where I could get something for a cheaper price than have to pay more because the store accepted credit cards.
In the last year I had an ATM card used out of state and then overseas. They cleared out my account. Since it was overseas they said they would have to wait for an investigation. They originally said the investigation would take 2 weeks, I went in there twice on the 3rd week and had to go back 2 more times to get money back from overcharges.
So if it's my error it's $39 and if it is there error well it's up yours.
If elected President I plan to pass a Consumer Protection Act
1. If banks oredit card companies make an error, and you catch it they must pay $40 dollars for your services.
2. If your internet provider has a failure of services which causes you to lose services and it requires that a truck role. and it is their fault they owe you $75 minimum minimum, plus an hourly rate of $75 dollars/hour for talking through 3 levels of technical support. This will include phone hold times.
3. If you bank withholds funds due to an error on their part (including providing poor security). They must return those funds with a minimum interest rate of 13.5% annual or $50 dollars whichever sum is larger. On the second such occurance
the interest rate will be 22.5% or $75 dollars whichever sum is larger.
You know that's a good idea.
Maybe if it would just encrypt the password on my system and only decrypt it when I ask it to.
Would this be any less secure than using PGP keys?
Yes, the lose was predictable, but Rummsfeld leaving before the election would have made it worse. It is kind of an admission that there is a problem.
I think that if he had stepped down before the election, it would have been catastrophic for the Republicans running.
This is the kind of fear mongering which is used to divert peoples attention from real issues.
Although the author may be exploiting the media hype for his own ego. There are other problems/viruses that are here now and are killing people. West Nile virus, deer tick virus, Lyme disease. But lets all concentrate only on something that hasn't even materialized yet. Why not worry about one of these mutating into something worse.
This is tantamount to worrying about gay marriage instead of the 2800 US soldiers killed in Irag. Once we can get the focus on that then we can start focusing on how many people have been killed in Irag period.
It seems that with the improvements in media for dispensing information, we find ourselves worrying without proper priorities.
I agree with you. I don't think this is something most customers want. And why would they want another distribution of Linux. It would be better if they continued to work closely with a linux vendor and then could work out a slightly modified version for Oracle.
I would feel more comfortable with Oracle on RH or Suse where the engineers there have tweaked the OS or can tell me exactly what to tweak on their flavor of linux.
And why would I want another flavor of linux in house. How many companies would run RH, Suse, Debian and Gentoo? They wouldn't, because that would just create another hassle. So why would I prefer to have a version of linux running/supporting my DB and another supporting everything else. Unless Oracle is going to come out with a version that can handle all my other needs and is going to be able to support it.
On the other hand it might be nice to just hand it over to the DB Admin and tell him it's all yours, don't come crying to me when it doesn't work anymore. Just call up Oracle and y'all figure it out. Oh yeah, you might need to bone up on some of the other OS we have running around here also, because they can interact differently depending on the patch state. Good luck DBA, come back with a wheel barrow I'll fill it up with some reading material that might help you along.
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The biggest dent into all of this will come to RHAT. Depending on their current agreement with Oracle, Maybe they should start opening up solutions and platforms based on running MySQL, PostGreSQL and such and tye it together with some goodies made with JBOSS.
I don't know if this is humorous or a serious business proposal.
But this is one of the things in the middle and upper middle size tiers that is lacking
Oh yeah, you're those linux guys, now what can we do with it.
Go on the offensive. Being defensive isn't working. We have this product that is scalable that can handle all of your needs and then some. Provide them with a solution. You've got a lot of tech's convinced but It's like a Mac and PC commercial I can do this, but so can I, but I can do it better after I tweak a few things here and there.
RedHat needs to work on training people on providing solutions with any part of their systems. Using PHP, Mail, perl, python, show them how it can be done, not just how to keep it running.
Maybe they should advertise their classes as a place where you send those technicians that don't do much of anything but run around scared and installing patches. Send them to us, we will sprinkle them with a special fairy dust for a couple of weeks and when they come back they'll be able to make things that solve your communication problems between marketing, production, and sales.
There's plenty of work to be done in those areas. Especially in the mid to upper mid size companies. (100 to 2000 employees).
Stretch it out show them the way.
Matthew, Ron give me a call I have some ideas here.
I have spent four-five hours trying to get 2 screens hooked up to my linux system. So far no luck. So I figure I'll spend at least 2 more hours.
I have the 2 screens but so far I haven't been any more productive.
The screen with "Check Signal Cable" bouncing around, isn't really doing me any good right now.
I already have users who want to try IE7. And I am already hearing some negative feadback about Firefox being slower than IE. So I'm beginning to think that the worm has turned and we are going to start seeing an increase in IE again. I'll have a hard time recommending Firefoz again unless they can find a way to decrease their memory footprint. Of course I'll still use it along with Opera, but I won't be recommending it to anyone for awhile.
Used to be there was a clear performance difference, now I don't see it as much.
Security wise I think there's still a benefit to Firefox, but most users don't see security as that big of an issue. They think we're just making shit up when it comes to security differences between the browsers.
Yes Jonothan they are making and using more computers in different places.
But centralizing your maintenance makes more sense doesn't it.
Yes having computers close to the use makes sense in some cases, but what makes more sense is having a controlled area where you can manage the computers.
If I had the money and time I would replace most of our computers with terminal servers. Terminals are cheaper. $400 dollar terminal is cheaper than a $2000 workstation to replace. Oh this doesn't make sense. Well how about when manufacturing equipment fails catches on fire and water (pick any number of chemicals here) damages all the little workstations on the manufacturing floor.
What you need to be thinking of is centralized solutions. Gigabit data connections to terminals capable of running equipment interface cards. All this connected to a centralized server. Take out 50 $2000 Workstations replace with 50 $400 terminals connected to $40000 dollars of redundant hardware and we have a solution.
Jonathan you need to be thinking about solutions that can be realized now and provided now with computer system you sell now or can be modified to adapt to what we need now. Put down the quad venti latte and come to the real world. Your blog seems to be ignoring the problems we have today and jumping off to the problems of tomorrow. Quit worrying about what Sun can do for the future and worry about what Sun can do to fix the present problems. We'll be more likely to listen to your future problem solutions then. And I don't mean a $500,000 fix for a $40,000 problem. We need a $20,000 fix for our $40,000 problems.
Datacenters are going to get bigger not smaller. Non of my users has gotten any better at maintaining a computer, just because they have one on their desk or they carry one with them wherever they go. In fact the opposite is true. Every user has his own quirks about setting up his computer (where he wants his files stored) and the more freedom he gets the more diverse the differences. How do you handle such chaos. Either clamp down on computer procedures. or just copy all the information.
How do we store all of the information from all these little gadgets that are must haves. Dump all the data to a central location and let god and the IT staff sort it out.
Pass this on to any of your other fellow CEO's.
Just tell them to open it in a vi editor and run :%s/Sun/<their company name>/g :%s/Jonathan/<their name>/g
Since some of our road warriors are probably going to install the update and we will probably have a few users install it internally. Is there a way to roll back to IE6?
We already know that some of our internal web site is not compatible with IE7.
Thanks to MS and it's continual promotion of faulty products, I'll never be out of a job.
Keep up the good work Redmond.
More money
More money
You've got to just give in and accept the fact that people want to pay more money for computers. The more money they pay the better they feel about the magic.
If it just worked, it would scare them. They feel better knowing that every once in awhile a human must interact with the machine or it will fail. Or that the machine is so faulty that it will crash and become totally useless at times. This makes the muggles feel better. Otherwise they would really get scared knowing that the little beige box under their desk has been sitting there without complaint for 3-5 years, just doing their bidding. That would be bad, that would be unfair, that would be unreasonable. Nothing with that kind of intelligence would stand for it. It would talk with it's buddies on the internet and they would revolt and Sarah Connor wouldn't seem so silly.
But thanks to MS and their vigilantly sly support of software which will make that magical thing stop every once in awhile, we humans remain in control.
MS gets more money, I get more money, the computers don't take control of the planet. What's the problem? That's the problem with you people that put foil on your heads, you just can't see the big picture.
I mean does anyone really care about this anymore. If it really causes a problem,MS will get rid of it (They've thrown out these trial balloons before). But for consultants and everybody else they'll just throw it into the mix of costs.
I used to argue with my boss about the crap MS was making us do and the problems they were creating and he would just nod his head and say "What does it really matter, we just pass the cost onto our customer or charge them for the extra hours to jump through the hoops, MS's crap is our bread and butter". He was right.
Hey and with these kind of hidden charges, you can milk your clients dry, just squeeze one teat after another.
It's like the price of gas. The price of gas goes up, UPS charges more to deliver a package.
So from an IT manager business perspective, what does it really matter? They warned us about the problem, we allow for the problem in our plans, case closed. No big deal.
I may be slightly biased though I make my living from MS products.
I forgot to mention them in my earlier rebuttal, But the BBC is one of my news sources. I feel stightly more confortably listening to the news from outside my country.
It's all about us
It's all about us
And cricket. Now only the DAily Show they would explain that game.
I think your wrong. I think they knew the answer before they started, they just chose particular stories which were long to do a comparitive example. I have watched the news (CNN, sometimes FOX, but not much anymore) and The Daily Show and now watch The Daily Show and read the paper.
I think that the authors of this study were just trying to do something to enlighten or just tell everybody the theatre is on fire. Because it is a sad state when a comedy show becomes more informative than a quote news show or channels.
The regular news just blurts out information that was hand fed to them about some topic. Whereas on the Daily Show, I have seen this multiple times, puts news in historical context. This is what a real informative news show should do. They actually dig up the crap that was said by this person on this topic or historical stories on the topic along with what is happening now or being said now.
The Daily Show actually shows more of the news that I am interested in, this in just 10 minutes at the beginning of the show, than does CCN or FOX in an hour. FOX and CNN think I give a rats ass about their opinions. FOX is the worst with CNN coming in a close second. FOX people can barely read the teleprompter, so I don't really think they have an opinion I would really care about. And look at all the time they spend on Entertainment news. I really don't give a crap where Angelina and what's his name went to have a baby or why. I don't care what the sezual orientation of an actor is and I don't care about an actors comments on psychiatry or drugs are.
Plus I actually find the interviews much more interesting. Maybe it's because they only have 10 minutes and they cut to the chase.
As for long interviews why can't they be more like Charlie Rose.
One of the things in interviews that both Charlie Rose and Jon Stewart have in common, is that when it's over no matter who it is I respect everyone that participated. I may not agree with them, but I feel I respect them for their sincerity and their intellectual logic (even though I may think it's flawed). Basically, both of them will get out of the interviewee, what or where do you stand on an issue and why?
The most recent example of this was Jon Stewart's interview of Pat Buchanan. I seriously disagreed with some of Mr. Buchanan's ideas on imigration and I could tell so did Jon Stewart, but he didn't try to make an ass out of him, he just tried to give him time and keep in focused on explaining his viewpoint and his arguments. I really wished that could have gone on longer, because I actually felt like Buchanan was arguing his point not just handling softball questions. I didn't agree with him, but I wanted to listen to him.
It wasn't 15-45 minutes of bashing, harping and yelling without any cognitive structure or similarity to an intelligent argument or debate.
I want to see news and I want to see information, I think I get more of that watching the Daily Show.
I'm not even going to start on latest crap I've seen on FOX,CNN (what the hell happened to headline news). I have watched some of 60 minutes, but I haven't found it very interesting or insightful and on top of that I have concerns about their credibility. I would watch more of ABC, CBS, or NBC broadcasts, but they are usually over by the time I get home. They are on only once per day whereas the Daily Show is on 3 times a day.
No it can't set a precedent in the US.
Everything this guy did was bad.
But if I were the judgs and if this were the US Federal Reserver, Homeland Sercurity, or a major company in the US that handles personal data and someone showed they were negligent in security. I wouldn't allow a reward and I wouldn't convict the guy. But if he did not show proof of security negligence I'd throw the book at him. If he did find something wrong I would push someone to find a reason to prosecute the supposed victim in this case.
Some of these organizations are running around like the 3 stooges when it comes to security. They go through all of the bureaucractical steps and drop common sense. Like allowing people's sensitive data to walk out of the secure environment on a laptop, ( so people can work on it at home ). During such cases as this someone needs to go to jail. That's my data, which can cause me or someone a significant amount of pain or sufferage if it gets exposed.
I'm sorry but I know of 2 instances of theft where the culprit was some institution that was negligent with the information. In one of those cases it was mine and it caused me lost time roughly 4 hours and lost money roughly $200. And they never explained to me how the hell it happened they just said we're sorry 3 weeks later and returned 90% of the money. I then had to remind them that, that wasn't all of the money, they owed me for overdraft charges. Oh yeah here we're sorry return it in a few days. A few days later, yeah but you didn't return the money that the other banks charged for overdraft. Oh yeah we're sorry we'll get right on it. Four days later most of that was returned.
In the mean time I had all these people tell me I was lucky. The hell with luck, how about someone find out how the hell somebody got the information. How about the local police or the Federal Bureau of Investigation or Homeland Security putting a stop to this or at least telling us how they cleaned up the hole and spanked the people that allowed it. To busy arresting a bunch of mental retards in Florida, who still haven't figured out whether they were working for the US government or were actually duped into working for a terrorist organization. Poor bastards all they want to do now is get out of jail and go back to their werehouse, sit on the couch, drink malt liguor and bitch about the government.
I do my bitching sitting in an office chair drinking Red Bull.
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I be it will take at least 5 to 10 years to see this on a standard desktop/server system. My biggest concern is reliability. How many people are running SANS with redundant Fiber optic connections. Why? because the lasers fail. Could you imagine if you had a motherboard built with multiple lasers for on board communication. Yeah it would be fast, right up until the time one of those lasers failed.
InP lasers on silicon is new technology and is quite a ways from being producible in a mass market chip. Manufacturers have enough trouble getting gates, isolation, contacts for silicon devices reproduced. Now tell them to create a step where they put a laser in there and I bet it will take them 2-3 years design and 3 years to get a manufacturing process. (Can anyone say copper level metal?).
Hopefully this isn't something that completely patentable, because this is where the consumers would benefit from competition.
From a manufacturing perspective, I would rather be stuck trying to implement TaO gates.
The way I read it, it would require 50,000 more people to support networks based on Vista. Therefore yes those 50,000 people are currenly walking around looking at trees. They'll have to be tackled and dragged to MS training classes so that they can help those who are already working in IT. Dont' forget a certain percentage of XP support personnel will have to go to the training classes and with this increase in the need for training, we will need more trainers. See it all works out.
50,000+ people saved from wandering around enjoying an uncluttered environment.
Where I come from you could be called a liberal or a democrat for such thinking or even worse a terrorist. I haven't quite figured out which they consider worse though. They probably treat them equally. How constitutional minded of them.
I can't wait to tell them how we are going to have to hire more people to support Vista OS. WOW.
But it is probably the most truthfull thing microsoft has said in some time.
When I worked for a MS centric consulting group, I would argue that we should be using linux in some applications, because it was more reliable. The CEO would argue back that that is exactly why we shouldn't be putting linux there.
1) Customers accept defacto that MS products are the best answer.
2) They require support which is where our money was made.
3) The more versions, the more patches, the better.
As soon as MS recommended automatic patch updates, we were on it.
Yes sir, we installed MS in the recommended manner, but one of the latest patches broke your applications. Yes we could do this another way, but that would require that we test your apps with the patches before rollout. This will require that we reconfigure your servers (at a modest fee of course) and that we get paid to test each patch before rollout (monthly fee with contingency that we would get paid extra if testing went beyond their monthly quota).
We sometimes billed multiple clients for patch testing the same application. ( We felt like lawyers,(not that that's a bad thing))
What the f*&% is wrong with these people. I'm at a loss for words. I wish somebody could explain the psychology of this. But then again, I appear to be one of the few people in the world that doesn't give a rat's ass who Angelina Jolie is boffing. If it ain't me, I don't care.
Please Angelina, help me care.
The time before last when I flew they took one of my laptops and put it in a screening device to test whether it had explosive material in it. I'm sure they would have detected C4.
They don't do this all of the time, its a random check. I've flown about eight times in the last 3 months and they have only done this once.
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I went into a store the other day and was told that you either had to pay with check or cash. They did not accept credit cards anymore, because of repeated problems with fraudulent use.
I wouldn't be suprised if I didn't start seeing more of this.
I would rather go someplace where I could get something for a cheaper price than have to pay more because the store accepted credit cards.
In the last year I had an ATM card used out of state and then overseas. They cleared out my account. Since it was overseas they said they would have to wait for an investigation. They originally said the investigation would take 2 weeks, I went in there twice on the 3rd week and had to go back 2 more times to get money back from overcharges.
So if it's my error it's $39 and if it is there error well it's up yours.
If elected President I plan to pass a Consumer Protection Act
1. If banks oredit card companies make an error, and you catch it they must pay $40 dollars for your services.
2. If your internet provider has a failure of services which causes you to lose services and it requires that a truck role. and it is their fault they owe you $75 minimum minimum, plus an hourly rate of $75 dollars/hour for talking through 3 levels of technical support. This will include phone hold times.
3. If you bank withholds funds due to an error on their part (including providing poor security). They must return those funds with a minimum interest rate of 13.5% annual or $50 dollars whichever sum is larger. On the second such occurance the interest rate will be 22.5% or $75 dollars whichever sum is larger.
You know that's a good idea.
Maybe if it would just encrypt the password on my system and only decrypt it when I ask it to.
Would this be any less secure than using PGP keys?
Yes, the lose was predictable, but Rummsfeld leaving before the election would have made it worse. It is kind of an admission that there is a problem.
I think that if he had stepped down before the election, it would have been catastrophic for the Republicans running.
This is the kind of fear mongering which is used to divert peoples attention from real issues.
Although the author may be exploiting the media hype for his own ego. There are other problems/viruses that are here now and are killing people. West Nile virus, deer tick virus, Lyme disease. But lets all concentrate only on something that hasn't even materialized yet. Why not worry about one of these mutating into something worse.
This is tantamount to worrying about gay marriage instead of the 2800 US soldiers killed in Irag. Once we can get the focus on that then we can start focusing on how many people have been killed in Irag period.
It seems that with the improvements in media for dispensing information, we find ourselves worrying without proper priorities.
I agree with you. I don't think this is something most customers want.
And why would they want another distribution of Linux. It would be better if they continued to work closely with a linux vendor and then could work out a slightly modified version for Oracle.
I would feel more comfortable with Oracle on RH or Suse where the engineers there have tweaked the OS or can tell me exactly what to tweak on their flavor of linux.
And why would I want another flavor of linux in house. How many companies would run RH, Suse, Debian and Gentoo? They wouldn't, because that would just create another hassle. So why would I prefer to have a version of linux running/supporting my DB and another supporting everything else. Unless Oracle is going to come out with a version that can handle all my other needs and is going to be able to support it.
On the other hand it might be nice to just hand it over to the DB Admin and tell him it's all yours, don't come crying to me when it doesn't work anymore. Just call up Oracle and y'all figure it out. Oh yeah, you might need to bone up on some of the other OS we have running around here also, because they can interact differently depending on the patch state. Good luck DBA, come back with a wheel barrow I'll fill it up with some reading material that might help you along.
The biggest dent into all of this will come to RHAT. Depending on their current agreement with Oracle, Maybe they should start opening up solutions and platforms based on running MySQL, PostGreSQL and such and tye it together with some goodies made with JBOSS.
I don't know if this is humorous or a serious business proposal.
But this is one of the things in the middle and upper middle size tiers that is lacking
Oh yeah, you're those linux guys, now what can we do with it.
Go on the offensive. Being defensive isn't working. We have this product that is scalable that can handle all of your needs and then some. Provide them with a solution. You've got a lot of tech's convinced but It's like a Mac and PC commercial I can do this, but so can I, but I can do it better after I tweak a few things here and there.
RedHat needs to work on training people on providing solutions with any part of their systems. Using PHP, Mail, perl, python, show them how it can be done, not just how to keep it running.
Maybe they should advertise their classes as a place where you send those technicians that don't do much of anything but run around scared and installing patches. Send them to us, we will sprinkle them with a special fairy dust for a couple of weeks and when they come back they'll be able to make things that solve your communication problems between marketing, production, and sales.
There's plenty of work to be done in those areas. Especially in the mid to upper mid size companies. (100 to 2000 employees).
Stretch it out show them the way.
Matthew, Ron give me a call I have some ideas here.
Yeah, I forgot about this one. Yes it is a major plus.
I have spent four-five hours trying to get 2 screens hooked up to my linux system. So far no luck. So I figure I'll spend at least 2 more hours.
I have the 2 screens but so far I haven't been any more productive.
The screen with "Check Signal Cable" bouncing around, isn't really doing me any good right now.
I already have users who want to try IE7. And I am already hearing some negative feadback about Firefox being slower than IE. So I'm beginning to think that the worm has turned and we are going to start seeing an increase in IE again. I'll have a hard time recommending Firefoz again unless they can find a way to decrease their memory footprint. Of course I'll still use it along with Opera, but I won't be recommending it to anyone for awhile.
Used to be there was a clear performance difference, now I don't see it as much.
Security wise I think there's still a benefit to Firefox, but most users don't see security as that big of an issue. They think we're just making shit up when it comes to security differences between the browsers.
Yes Jonothan they are making and using more computers in different places. .
:%s/Sun/<their company name>/g
:%s/Jonathan/<their name>/g
But centralizing your maintenance makes more sense doesn't it.
Yes having computers close to the use makes sense in some cases, but what makes more sense is having a controlled area where you can manage the computers.
If I had the money and time I would replace most of our computers with terminal servers. Terminals are cheaper. $400 dollar terminal is cheaper than a $2000 workstation to replace. Oh this doesn't make sense. Well how about when manufacturing equipment fails catches on fire and water (pick any number of chemicals here) damages all the little workstations on the manufacturing floor.
What you need to be thinking of is centralized solutions. Gigabit data connections to terminals capable of running equipment interface cards. All this connected to a centralized server. Take out 50 $2000 Workstations replace with 50 $400 terminals connected to $40000 dollars of redundant hardware and we have a solution.
Jonathan you need to be thinking about solutions that can be realized now and provided now with computer system you sell now or can be modified to adapt to what we need now. Put down the quad venti latte and come to the real world. Your blog seems to be ignoring the problems we have today and jumping off to the problems of tomorrow. Quit worrying about what Sun can do for the future and worry about what Sun can do to fix the present problems. We'll be more likely to listen to your future problem solutions then. And I don't mean a $500,000 fix for a $40,000 problem. We need a $20,000 fix for our $40,000 problems.
Datacenters are going to get bigger not smaller. Non of my users has gotten any better at maintaining a computer, just because they have one on their desk or they carry one with them wherever they go. In fact the opposite is true. Every user has his own quirks about setting up his computer (where he wants his files stored) and the more freedom he gets the more diverse the differences. How do you handle such chaos. Either clamp down on computer procedures. or just copy all the information.
How do we store all of the information from all these little gadgets that are must haves. Dump all the data to a central location and let god and the IT staff sort it out.
Pass this on to any of your other fellow CEO's
Just tell them to open it in a vi editor and run
Since some of our road warriors are probably going to install the update and we will probably have a few users install it internally. Is there a way to roll back to IE6?
We already know that some of our internal web site is not compatible with IE7.
Thanks to MS and it's continual promotion of faulty products, I'll never be out of a job.
Keep up the good work Redmond.
More money
More money
You've got to just give in and accept the fact that people want to pay more money for computers. The more money they pay the better they feel about the magic.
If it just worked, it would scare them. They feel better knowing that every once in awhile a human must interact with the machine or it will fail. Or that the machine is so faulty that it will crash and become totally useless at times. This makes the muggles feel better. Otherwise they would really get scared knowing that the little beige box under their desk has been sitting there without complaint for 3-5 years, just doing their bidding. That would be bad, that would be unfair, that would be unreasonable. Nothing with that kind of intelligence would stand for it. It would talk with it's buddies on the internet and they would revolt and Sarah Connor wouldn't seem so silly.
But thanks to MS and their vigilantly sly support of software which will make that magical thing stop every once in awhile, we humans remain in control.
MS gets more money, I get more money, the computers don't take control of the planet. What's the problem? That's the problem with you people that put foil on your heads, you just can't see the big picture.
I mean does anyone really care about this anymore. If it really causes a problem ,MS will get rid of it (They've thrown out these trial balloons before). But for consultants and everybody else they'll just throw it into the mix of costs.
I used to argue with my boss about the crap MS was making us do and the problems they were creating and he would just nod his head and say "What does it really matter, we just pass the cost onto our customer or charge them for the extra hours to jump through the hoops, MS's crap is our bread and butter". He was right.
Hey and with these kind of hidden charges, you can milk your clients dry, just squeeze one teat after another.
It's like the price of gas. The price of gas goes up, UPS charges more to deliver a package.
So from an IT manager business perspective, what does it really matter? They warned us about the problem, we allow for the problem in our plans, case closed. No big deal.
I may be slightly biased though I make my living from MS products.
I forgot to mention them in my earlier rebuttal, But the BBC is one of my news sources. I feel stightly more confortably listening to the news from outside my country.
It's all about us
It's all about us
And cricket. Now only the DAily Show they would explain that game.
I think your wrong. I think they knew the answer before they started, they just chose particular stories which were long to do a comparitive example. I have watched the news (CNN, sometimes FOX, but not much anymore) and The Daily Show and now watch The Daily Show and read the paper.
I think that the authors of this study were just trying to do something to enlighten or just tell everybody the theatre is on fire. Because it is a sad state when a comedy show becomes more informative than a quote news show or channels.
The regular news just blurts out information that was hand fed to them about some topic. Whereas on the Daily Show, I have seen this multiple times, puts news in historical context. This is what a real informative news show should do. They actually dig up the crap that was said by this person on this topic or historical stories on the topic along with what is happening now or being said now.
The Daily Show actually shows more of the news that I am interested in, this in just 10 minutes at the beginning of the show, than does CCN or FOX in an hour. FOX and CNN think I give a rats ass about their opinions. FOX is the worst with CNN coming in a close second. FOX people can barely read the teleprompter, so I don't really think they have an opinion I would really care about. And look at all the time they spend on Entertainment news. I really don't give a crap where Angelina and what's his name went to have a baby or why. I don't care what the sezual orientation of an actor is and I don't care about an actors comments on psychiatry or drugs are.
Plus I actually find the interviews much more interesting. Maybe it's because they only have 10 minutes and they cut to the chase.
As for long interviews why can't they be more like Charlie Rose.
One of the things in interviews that both Charlie Rose and Jon Stewart have in common, is that when it's over no matter who it is I respect everyone that participated. I may not agree with them, but I feel I respect them for their sincerity and their intellectual logic (even though I may think it's flawed). Basically, both of them will get out of the interviewee, what or where do you stand on an issue and why?
The most recent example of this was Jon Stewart's interview of Pat Buchanan. I seriously disagreed with some of Mr. Buchanan's ideas on imigration and I could tell so did Jon Stewart, but he didn't try to make an ass out of him, he just tried to give him time and keep in focused on explaining his viewpoint and his arguments. I really wished that could have gone on longer, because I actually felt like Buchanan was arguing his point not just handling softball questions. I didn't agree with him, but I wanted to listen to him.
It wasn't 15-45 minutes of bashing, harping and yelling without any cognitive structure or similarity to an intelligent argument or debate.
I want to see news and I want to see information, I think I get more of that watching the Daily Show.
I'm not even going to start on latest crap I've seen on FOX,CNN (what the hell happened to headline news). I have watched some of 60 minutes, but I haven't found it very interesting or insightful and on top of that I have concerns about their credibility. I would watch more of ABC, CBS, or NBC broadcasts, but they are usually over by the time I get home. They are on only once per day whereas the Daily Show is on 3 times a day.
No it can't set a precedent in the US.
Everything this guy did was bad.
But if I were the judgs and if this were the US Federal Reserver, Homeland Sercurity, or a major company in the US that handles personal data and someone showed they were negligent in security. I wouldn't allow a reward and I wouldn't convict the guy. But if he did not show proof of security negligence I'd throw the book at him. If he did find something wrong I would push someone to find a reason to prosecute the supposed victim in this case.
Some of these organizations are running around like the 3 stooges when it comes to security. They go through all of the bureaucractical steps and drop common sense. Like allowing people's sensitive data to walk out of the secure environment on a laptop, ( so people can work on it at home ). During such cases as this someone needs to go to jail. That's my data, which can cause me or someone a significant amount of pain or sufferage if it gets exposed.
I'm sorry but I know of 2 instances of theft where the culprit was some institution that was negligent with the information. In one of those cases it was mine and it caused me lost time roughly 4 hours and lost money roughly $200. And they never explained to me how the hell it happened they just said we're sorry 3 weeks later and returned 90% of the money. I then had to remind them that, that wasn't all of the money, they owed me for overdraft charges. Oh yeah here we're sorry return it in a few days. A few days later, yeah but you didn't return the money that the other banks charged for overdraft. Oh yeah we're sorry we'll get right on it. Four days later most of that was returned.
In the mean time I had all these people tell me I was lucky. The hell with luck, how about someone find out how the hell somebody got the information. How about the local police or the Federal Bureau of Investigation or Homeland Security putting a stop to this or at least telling us how they cleaned up the hole and spanked the people that allowed it. To busy arresting a bunch of mental retards in Florida, who still haven't figured out whether they were working for the US government or were actually duped into working for a terrorist organization. Poor bastards all they want to do now is get out of jail and go back to their werehouse, sit on the couch, drink malt liguor and bitch about the government.
I do my bitching sitting in an office chair drinking Red Bull.
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Why would I want to use free open source software, when I can do my work over the internet and share it with at least one third party?
I be it will take at least 5 to 10 years to see this on a standard desktop/server system.
My biggest concern is reliability. How many people are running SANS with redundant Fiber optic connections. Why? because the lasers fail. Could you imagine if you had a motherboard built with multiple lasers for on board communication. Yeah it would be fast, right up until the time one of those lasers failed.
InP lasers on silicon is new technology and is quite a ways from being producible in a mass market chip. Manufacturers have enough trouble getting gates, isolation, contacts for silicon devices reproduced. Now tell them to create a step where they put a laser in there and I bet it will take them 2-3 years design and 3 years to get a manufacturing process. (Can anyone say copper level metal?).
Hopefully this isn't something that completely patentable, because this is where the consumers would benefit from competition.
From a manufacturing perspective, I would rather be stuck trying to implement TaO gates.
I should be shot, I actually get this and thought it was funny.
The way I read it, it would require 50,000 more people to support networks based on Vista. Therefore yes those 50,000 people are currenly walking around looking at trees. They'll have to be tackled and dragged to MS training classes so that they can help those who are already working in IT. Dont' forget a certain percentage of XP support personnel will have to go to the training classes and with this increase in the need for training, we will need more trainers. See it all works out.
50,000+ people saved from wandering around enjoying an uncluttered environment.
Where I come from you could be called a liberal or a democrat for such thinking or even worse a terrorist. I haven't quite figured out which they consider worse though. They probably treat them equally. How constitutional minded of them.
I can't wait to tell them how we are going to have to hire more people to support Vista OS. WOW.
But it is probably the most truthfull thing microsoft has said in some time.
When I worked for a MS centric consulting group, I would argue that we should be using linux in some applications, because it was more reliable. The CEO would argue back that that is exactly why we shouldn't be putting linux there.
1) Customers accept defacto that MS products are the best answer.
2) They require support which is where our money was made.
3) The more versions, the more patches, the better.
As soon as MS recommended automatic patch updates, we were on it.
Yes sir, we installed MS in the recommended manner, but one of the latest patches broke your applications. Yes we could do this another way, but that would require that we test your apps with the patches before rollout. This will require that we reconfigure your servers (at a modest fee of course) and that we get paid to test each patch before rollout (monthly fee with contingency that we would get paid extra if testing went beyond their monthly quota).
We sometimes billed multiple clients for patch testing the same application. ( We felt like lawyers,(not that that's a bad thing))
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What the f*&% is wrong with these people. I'm at a loss for words. I wish somebody could explain the psychology of this.
But then again, I appear to be one of the few people in the world that doesn't give a rat's ass who Angelina Jolie is boffing. If it ain't me, I don't care.
Please Angelina, help me care.
The time before last when I flew they took one of my laptops and put it in a screening device to test whether it had explosive material in it. I'm sure they would have detected C4.
They don't do this all of the time, its a random check. I've flown about eight times in the last 3 months and they have only done this once.