This is an arguement ploy sometimes referred to as "no true Scotsman."
Re: "A True Scotsman has has Guiness and cabbage for breakfast." To which another replies in outrage, "No True Scotsman eats that! A True Scotsman has egg, black pudding, fruit pudding, lorne slice and ayrshire bacon."
We all have our allegiances, but please don't use this ploy.
All comments I've seen fail to address the following:
1. Securing Gov't contracts is a dirty business. If you don't have the resources, (people, money) to do the dirty work, then you are out. IBM has these things and they know better to keep them.
2. I'd be very interested to hear some feedback on Lenovo's service levels versus IBM's. Based on my knowledge of Chinese tech industry, I predict there was a great deal less satisfaction. Along the way this fine specimen of a politician gets to make a little hay on their misfortune and inexperience. That's predictable and accepted human behavior.
This has nothing to do with protectionism. It's about a once-venerated public agency brand (thinkpad) failing spectacularly.
While I believe going to offshore-whatever the vast majority of the time negatively impacts a company's bottom line, the PHB who dreamed up the scheme to go offshore dodges blame because:
1. Good service? Bad service? Who cares! Offshore is cheaper. 2. Most consumers happily trade today's low price for tomorrow's customer service nightmare.
A good sysadmin has to stay out of firing range by concentrating on valuable skills that won't soon be replaced by a lower-cost version of their skill-set.
I'd be very interested to hear if the Microsoft certified people stand a greater chance of being axed than a *nix experienced sysadmin.
I grow tired of people making this reference because it's just not true.
Now, it also stands to reason you may think this is fanboi speak which it is not. I changed to kde after starting with xfce and I see very little performance difference.
I've done two 3.x+1 upgrades of KDE just wishing the old dog would die so I have an excuse to replace it. Surprisingly each version is noticeably faster than the last.
Mind you the usual suspects are quite slow to start, OOO, GIMP regardless of the DE but once everything is up, it goes well.
FYI: I'm running it on a pII 233 256mb just fine. I think your P90 reference is too harsh.
Is a clue that the fellow has long ago left the non-felony citizenship a long time ago.
Most states do as they please with felons with no fanfare what-so-ever. Americans like their felons behind bars and generally prefer to keep them in the penal system once they've entered. So, the institution in charge is doing as it pleases with the broad support of the vast majority of Americans.
I'm really puzzled why there's outrage and indignation from the fellow or the/. crowd. He's a felon like all the others.
The Boston Globe story points out quite nicely is the utter disregard for the Take Care clause, "[The President] shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed..."
So the current administration is doing what most innovators do, taking the parts that bolster their story and leaving the rest.
In some kind of academic, edited for history books kind of way you are right, but you are casting the problem in conventional terms.
This administration has reasserted authority using the basic arguement, "because I'm the President and I say so." In practice then, there is *no* check or balance to this new authority, *no* legal constraint. That pretty much flies in the face of what all Americans were taught in school.
There are basically two argument paths: 1. Unitary Executive is innovative. Let's do it! 2. Unitary Executive is bad because it's.... (fill in your reason)
What saddens me is the hostility of most of the comments. The posters make angry statements then appear to do nothing. No, "Hey let's make a group to address the issue." Or, "Maybe you should contact x,y,or z in the gov't and speak up". Turn the fury into action within the constraints of law people.
What you and the jokers who modded you insightful fail to recognize is that is the mantra that all successful bandwidth/wire providers live by:
"Bandwidth is a service."
You can reasonably charge some customers more than some smaller bandwidth consumer and they will pay it. If they don't pay then maybe their service suffers a little until the big-bandwidth consumer sees the light and agrees to pay a little more. You have to have money to pay for the bandwidth provider's obscene CEO compensation package right?
If this sounds a little like organized crime's "security service" in some neighborhoods, then it should. I'd say the difference is one is not illegal.
1: The Internet *was* an ocean that ISP's sold boating subscriptions 2: The ocean contains wealth the ISP's have yet to harvest. That wealth will be extracted by turning the ocean into lakes. Inside each ISP's lake they will sell you the "right" to visit other lakes and see/use other features in the lake. This is the natural outcome of privitazation and "market-based" services.
The other sh*tpipe into your home, cable/satellite TV is the proven model. The "internet" that you have grown familiar with, is but a distant memory.
As someone that has implemented an Openser server I can tell you it's easy. Very easy.
While I do not have encryption enabled, it's certainly less difficult than learning how to manipulate openser.cfg.
I guess it goes to show you that Gartner only listens to IPO-bound companies blowing smoke up their rear-ends at lunches/dinners.
Also: For every person that thinks skype is somehow secure, no one knows because the encryption system is not availble for review.
How many times can the average american be screwed by corporations before "Trust us" fails?
Multiple stories in the last few weeks point out that some IP traffic is being passed right through the U.S. Gov's watchful eyes. Corporations gladly cooperate. Why would Skype (ebay) and the telco's defy the hand that subsidizes them?
This is no different than a gift card, only the currency is generated somehow online.
Now, if there's ever a game to crack, this is the one because the bad guy makes real money.
The unintended effect is creating a dual currency system. Though national regulations may/may not explicitely forbid this, you will find Treasuries the world over putting a stop to this.
It will make what happened to Napster a proverbial walk in the park.
I used to race bicycles and got myself to England to "really" race.
I had some nice equipment and good fitness (180 miles/week) at the time and consistently got my head handed to me by guys much older than me on what would be considered "ordinary" kit for an American bike racer.
Practice is the great equalizer. I have a hard time believing it's that different in golf.
But Congressperson/Senator the BSA is committed to open standards.
-Everyone can use word documents. -There is a standard in place and we manage it very well thank you. -Enforcing a single standard denies the market the ability to choose the better standard.
Today's Lesson: What is painfully obvious to the average./'er is anything but. This will go on for a solid 10 years before there's some meaningful adoption in the U.S.
And nothing else is done. Get that righteous indignation off your chest and go about your business.
Meanwhile, in the corridors of power, the party line remains intact. "Corporations know what is best for the consumer. It's in their best interest." And the other party line, "Anyone against DRM only wants to steal copyrighted material."
And what exactly are *you* doing to change that opinion? Nothing.
The U.S. Navy has a decentralized payment system aboard many ships.
Practically all the cash aboard U.S. Navy ships is replaced with an electronic purse. Authorization is handled between the terminal and the card. No network required.
And, yes, the wireless providers are their own worst enemy in this situation. They definitely can't see the forest through the trees. Which is why they'll probably be the last ones to do it.
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This is an arguement ploy sometimes referred to as "no true Scotsman."
Re: "A True Scotsman has has Guiness and cabbage for breakfast." To which another replies in outrage, "No True Scotsman eats that! A True Scotsman has egg, black pudding, fruit pudding, lorne slice and ayrshire bacon."
We all have our allegiances, but please don't use this ploy.
All comments I've seen fail to address the following:
1. Securing Gov't contracts is a dirty business. If you don't have the resources, (people, money) to do the dirty work, then you are out. IBM has these things and they know better to keep them.
2. I'd be very interested to hear some feedback on Lenovo's service levels versus IBM's. Based on my knowledge of Chinese tech industry, I predict there was a great deal less satisfaction. Along the way this fine specimen of a politician gets to make a little hay on their misfortune and inexperience. That's predictable and accepted human behavior.
This has nothing to do with protectionism. It's about a once-venerated public agency brand (thinkpad) failing spectacularly.
there's the Interweb you and I use.
I don't know that anyone in gov't really cares half as much about the consumer's network versus their own systems.
Ah, the perils of the "ownership society."
1. Local service is better for reason X,Y,Z
2. Remote service is better...
It all depends how much you value local service.
While I believe going to offshore-whatever the vast majority of the time negatively impacts a company's bottom line, the PHB who dreamed up the scheme to go offshore dodges blame because:
1. Good service? Bad service? Who cares! Offshore is cheaper.
2. Most consumers happily trade today's low price for tomorrow's customer service nightmare.
A good sysadmin has to stay out of firing range by concentrating on valuable skills that won't soon be replaced by a lower-cost version of their skill-set.
I'd be very interested to hear if the Microsoft certified people stand a greater chance of being axed than a *nix experienced sysadmin.
I grow tired of people making this reference because it's just not true.
Now, it also stands to reason you may think this is fanboi speak which it is not. I changed to kde after starting with xfce and I see very little performance difference.
I've done two 3.x+1 upgrades of KDE just wishing the old dog would die so I have an excuse to replace it. Surprisingly each version is noticeably faster than the last.
Mind you the usual suspects are quite slow to start, OOO, GIMP regardless of the DE but once everything is up, it goes well.
FYI: I'm running it on a pII 233 256mb just fine. I think your P90 reference is too harsh.
You my friend, have brightened my day.
What a wonderful, thought provoking premise.
Competition in telcommunication! Here comes the cliche' ROFL
An auction that won't go to a massive telco? I've got some fairies for you to meet and a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale too.
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! It's not over until WE say it's over. Who's with me? C'mon!" Let's go buy some spectrum!
Distro.
I'm not sure why the Solaris distros haven't been shut down for similar reasons.
http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki
Nexenta and their apt repository of software some of which must conflict with the Solaris kernel.
I was very tempted to start experimenting with an OpenSolaris, but there appears to be some license incompatibilities.
Is a clue that the fellow has long ago left the non-felony citizenship a long time ago.
/. crowd. He's a felon like all the others.
Most states do as they please with felons with no fanfare what-so-ever. Americans like their felons behind bars and generally prefer to keep them in the penal system once they've entered. So, the institution in charge is doing as it pleases with the broad support of the vast majority of Americans.
I'm really puzzled why there's outrage and indignation from the fellow or the
The employee churn at whatever level a "joe friend" employee resides must be absolutely horrible.
Any Microsofties care to elaborate? Details? Bueller?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_Executive_the ory
The Boston Globe story points out quite nicely is the utter disregard for the Take Care clause, "[The President] shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed..."
So the current administration is doing what most innovators do, taking the parts that bolster their story and leaving the rest.
Is it good? Bad? (shrugs shoulders)
action entirely!
In some kind of academic, edited for history books kind of way you are right, but you are casting the problem in conventional terms.
This administration has reasserted authority using the basic arguement, "because I'm the President and I say so." In practice then, there is *no* check or balance to this new authority, *no* legal constraint. That pretty much flies in the face of what all Americans were taught in school.
There are basically two argument paths:
1. Unitary Executive is innovative. Let's do it!
2. Unitary Executive is bad because it's.... (fill in your reason)
What saddens me is the hostility of most of the comments. The posters make angry statements then appear to do nothing. No, "Hey let's make a group to address the issue." Or, "Maybe you should contact x,y,or z in the gov't and speak up". Turn the fury into action within the constraints of law people.
times and people will believe it.
Unisys has the most to gain by selling this story. They do these kinds of projects on a regular basis.
I'd be interested to hear how many of their smart card projects actually worked as promised.
What you and the jokers who modded you insightful fail to recognize is that is the mantra that all successful bandwidth/wire providers live by:
"Bandwidth is a service."
You can reasonably charge some customers more than some smaller bandwidth consumer and they will pay it. If they don't pay then maybe their service suffers a little until the big-bandwidth consumer sees the light and agrees to pay a little more. You have to have money to pay for the bandwidth provider's obscene CEO compensation package right?
If this sounds a little like organized crime's "security service" in some neighborhoods, then it should. I'd say the difference is one is not illegal.
Your analogy utterly fails to acknowlege reality.
To use the same terms as your analogy:
1: The Internet *was* an ocean that ISP's sold boating subscriptions
2: The ocean contains wealth the ISP's have yet to harvest. That wealth will be extracted by turning the ocean into lakes. Inside each ISP's lake they will sell you the "right" to visit other lakes and see/use other features in the lake. This is the natural outcome of privitazation and "market-based" services.
The other sh*tpipe into your home, cable/satellite TV is the proven model. The "internet" that you have grown familiar with, is but a distant memory.
As someone that has implemented an Openser server I can tell you it's easy. Very easy.
While I do not have encryption enabled, it's certainly less difficult than learning how to manipulate openser.cfg.
I guess it goes to show you that Gartner only listens to IPO-bound companies blowing smoke up their rear-ends at lunches/dinners.
Also:
For every person that thinks skype is somehow secure, no one knows because the encryption system is not availble for review.
How many times can the average american be screwed by corporations before "Trust us" fails?
Multiple stories in the last few weeks point out that some IP traffic is being passed right through the U.S. Gov's watchful eyes. Corporations gladly cooperate. Why would Skype (ebay) and the telco's defy the hand that subsidizes them?
This is no different than a gift card, only the currency is generated somehow online.
Now, if there's ever a game to crack, this is the one because the bad guy makes real money.
The unintended effect is creating a dual currency system. Though national regulations may/may not explicitely forbid this, you will find Treasuries the world over putting a stop to this.
It will make what happened to Napster a proverbial walk in the park.
Openser keeps Debian packages and it really works.
www.openser.org
The toughest part for me is the lack of beginner how-to's. I didn't know anything about it, but I learned. The support forums are good.
It runs beautifully on a P2 233.
I used to race bicycles and got myself to England to "really" race.
I had some nice equipment and good fitness (180 miles/week) at the time and consistently got my head handed to me by guys much older than me on what would be considered "ordinary" kit for an American bike racer.
Practice is the great equalizer. I have a hard time believing it's that different in golf.
But Congressperson/Senator the BSA is committed to open standards.
./'er is anything but. This will go on for a solid 10 years before there's some meaningful adoption in the U.S.
-Everyone can use word documents.
-There is a standard in place and we manage it very well thank you.
-Enforcing a single standard denies the market the ability to choose the better standard.
Today's Lesson: What is painfully obvious to the average
And nothing else is done. Get that righteous indignation off your chest and go about your business.
Meanwhile, in the corridors of power, the party line remains intact. "Corporations know what is best for the consumer. It's in their best interest." And the other party line, "Anyone against DRM only wants to steal copyrighted material."
And what exactly are *you* doing to change that opinion? Nothing.
Yeah they're still supporting KDE.
They even made a version (or two?) upgrade available via rpm. My suse 9.3 looks great and works even better.
The U.S. Navy has a decentralized payment system aboard many ships.
Practically all the cash aboard U.S. Navy ships is replaced with an electronic purse. Authorization is handled between the terminal and the card. No network required.
And, yes, the wireless providers are their own worst enemy in this situation. They definitely can't see the forest through the trees. Which is why they'll probably be the last ones to do it.
PKI solves the problem quite elegantly.
"Bad" phones have their key revoked.
This mentality is exactly why the Association gets to abuse individuals.
Get back to me when there's more, many more, data points.
Based on my experience, I know of one other person who knows what an EULA is even though they never read them.
Guidlines might be good though. The downside is an EULA may become more enforceable.