My old man uses them for his small biz. He has a convertable one from Acer with a verizon wireless card in the pcmcia slot. Together, they allow him to do reports from the field. He has 1 Excel form that covers everything his clients needs and its just filled out with the tablet pen and it appears just like the old reports did. It cut his turn around time from 1-2 days to 10-30 minutes once he gets to the site.
First of all, let me apologize. Rereading my initial response it seemed to be a little to harsh. Bad day at work:). This though is the problem with all award shows. Any show that features awards voted on by the public are always a popularity contest. Shows voted on by a closed group can sometimes give an award for something you have no idea what it is or know anyone who does. The Oscar's are like that. I think the best way to do it are the way probowls and all-star games typically do it. Where the public and coaches both vote. For video games, I would suggest the public votes along with the developers. The developers of course having their vote weighted so its worth more.
Hopefully that's coherent. I've literally been interrupted 3 times to help people change backgrounds on their desktop. Sigh....
Your right, your opinion is far more important than the rest of the public. The hard truth is that Resident Evil 4 may be a better game than Halo 2...for those who like those type of games. I've played Resident Evil and have never cared for the series. I've never played Katamari damacy either. I've seen both of them in action and didn't care for either because those aren't my favorite type of games. Its like sports, some people like football instead of baseball. Just because your opinion is diffrent doesn't mean everyone elses is invalid and the public shouldn't have a right to vote for their favorites.
You should realize how the military works when it comes to computers.
There are 2 military networks. Niprnet and Siprnet. Niprnet is the unclassified network, while siprnet is obviously classified. Anything that is determined to be confidential or higher is supposed to be on the siprnet. The siprnet is also supposed to have absolutely no connectivity to the niprnet. This doesn't mean that people don't use niprnet email for stuff they shouldn't, but it is clearly outlined and military members are constantly reminded to be discrete in any email or what not. Just like Tom Clancy books, you can put together a lot of information from unclassified material.
As far as unsecured systems, this isn't a surprise at all. When I was stationed in Germany (98-01), I was only authorized to run win95 on my 486dx machine. Even though NT and then 2000 were both authorized by the US Army, it than had to be certified for us by USAEUR (US Army Europe). After that, it had to be approved by V Corps for usage. Once that was available, it would than be possible to run NT or 2000 on the desktop machines. When I left in June 2001, it still wasn't authorized for usage. Even though many officers were running 2000 on their shinny new laptops and "Toughbooks". The network admin's were purposely too lazy to downgrade to an authorized OS. The domain servers were NT4 however.
The sad reality is that most systems within the military are unsecured because of time constraints. It is foolish to think that a organization that is understaffed and has a primary focus of defense and offense, is going to spend much time worrying about things like computers. Unfortunately, most of the people I worked with in the Division's Automation shop weren't experienced with computers at all, and their first experience with a virus/worm was the ILOVEYOU virus.
I admit I haven't paid to much attention to this issue. But why should owners of a network be required to open it up to someone else? If I build a network for a location, I don't want to let others onto it unless it makes me extra money and doesn't hurt my income. Shouldn't the free market and not the government dictate something like this?
The only argument I can think of against this is because of a monopoly. However, I don't see (in my limited view of the world) that there is a monopoly preventing people from competing.
For those who do not know ev1servers.net (used to be rackshack.net) is also a contributor to many OS projects. Some examples:
virtualmin: Robert Marsh donated $400 http://www.swelltech.com/virtualmin/
php.net: They provide the servers and bandwidth for php.net http://www.php.net/thanks.php
Ev1 servers sponsor smaller projects.
I assume others; I am not going to spend all day looking to see what projects they do sponsor:).
My point is not to defend them. It has to make people realize that ev1servers and Robert marsh probably are not as anti-open source as everyone is making them out to be.
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My old man uses them for his small biz. He has a convertable one from Acer with a verizon wireless card in the pcmcia slot. Together, they allow him to do reports from the field. He has 1 Excel form that covers everything his clients needs and its just filled out with the tablet pen and it appears just like the old reports did. It cut his turn around time from 1-2 days to 10-30 minutes once he gets to the site.
Actually, no information wants anything. If I'm wrong, can I have your credit card numbers please? I'm sure that wants to be free :)
First of all, let me apologize. Rereading my initial response it seemed to be a little to harsh. Bad day at work :). This though is the problem with all award shows. Any show that features awards voted on by the public are always a popularity contest. Shows voted on by a closed group can sometimes give an award for something you have no idea what it is or know anyone who does. The Oscar's are like that. I think the best way to do it are the way probowls and all-star games typically do it. Where the public and coaches both vote. For video games, I would suggest the public votes along with the developers. The developers of course having their vote weighted so its worth more.
Hopefully that's coherent. I've literally been interrupted 3 times to help people change backgrounds on their desktop. Sigh....
Your right, your opinion is far more important than the rest of the public. The hard truth is that Resident Evil 4 may be a better game than Halo 2...for those who like those type of games. I've played Resident Evil and have never cared for the series. I've never played Katamari damacy either. I've seen both of them in action and didn't care for either because those aren't my favorite type of games. Its like sports, some people like football instead of baseball. Just because your opinion is diffrent doesn't mean everyone elses is invalid and the public shouldn't have a right to vote for their favorites.
You mean like life?
There are 2 military networks. Niprnet and Siprnet. Niprnet is the unclassified network, while siprnet is obviously classified. Anything that is determined to be confidential or higher is supposed to be on the siprnet. The siprnet is also supposed to have absolutely no connectivity to the niprnet. This doesn't mean that people don't use niprnet email for stuff they shouldn't, but it is clearly outlined and military members are constantly reminded to be discrete in any email or what not. Just like Tom Clancy books, you can put together a lot of information from unclassified material.
As far as unsecured systems, this isn't a surprise at all. When I was stationed in Germany (98-01), I was only authorized to run win95 on my 486dx machine. Even though NT and then 2000 were both authorized by the US Army, it than had to be certified for us by USAEUR (US Army Europe). After that, it had to be approved by V Corps for usage. Once that was available, it would than be possible to run NT or 2000 on the desktop machines. When I left in June 2001, it still wasn't authorized for usage. Even though many officers were running 2000 on their shinny new laptops and "Toughbooks". The network admin's were purposely too lazy to downgrade to an authorized OS. The domain servers were NT4 however.
The sad reality is that most systems within the military are unsecured because of time constraints. It is foolish to think that a organization that is understaffed and has a primary focus of defense and offense, is going to spend much time worrying about things like computers. Unfortunately, most of the people I worked with in the Division's Automation shop weren't experienced with computers at all, and their first experience with a virus/worm was the ILOVEYOU virus.
Actually it was covered by anandtech http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i =2420&p=5
who noticed slashdot's traffic ranking was #1?
I admit I haven't paid to much attention to this issue. But why should owners of a network be required to open it up to someone else? If I build a network for a location, I don't want to let others onto it unless it makes me extra money and doesn't hurt my income. Shouldn't the free market and not the government dictate something like this?
The only argument I can think of against this is because of a monopoly. However, I don't see (in my limited view of the world) that there is a monopoly preventing people from competing.
For those who do not know ev1servers.net (used to be rackshack.net) is also a contributor to many OS projects. Some examples: virtualmin: Robert Marsh donated $400 http://www.swelltech.com/virtualmin/ php.net: They provide the servers and bandwidth for php.net http://www.php.net/thanks.php Ev1 servers sponsor smaller projects. I assume others; I am not going to spend all day looking to see what projects they do sponsor :).
My point is not to defend them. It has to make people realize that ev1servers and Robert marsh probably are not as anti-open source as everyone is making them out to be.