An anonymous AT&T store manager has told blorge.com...
Talk about unreliable rumors, a store manager? There's only 5 or 10 of those in the country! How far down the food chain is that? This guys information is probably based on rumors of rumors. In other words, very possibly no relation to reality.
If the students are using F/OSS throughout the K-12 years, some of the students will go on to college to study programming.
On of the problems with F/OSS is that many of its proponents seem to assume that most people want to know about programming. This just isn't so. Most people want to use computer to leverage their skills and do useful things, but they don't want to have to deal with the mechanics of the computer. Windows, to a huge extent, with all its warts, allows them to do this. Right now, Linux does not. Mybe some day soon, but not yet.
Emphasis mine. That's what makes this so unpalatable to the states, just like "No Child Left Behind" or welfare reform. The United States Government is saying "we're going to create these standards and you are going to pay to implement them" and the states are naturally balking at having to foot the bill for Washington D.C.'s foolishness.
You're right and wrong. *Some* states are not balking at the concept, only the price. Montana and Washington State are treditionally independent. But most states simply don't want to pay for it, "foolishness" has nothing to do with it.
They confiscated 50,000 bootleg CDs which they valued at $15 each. Of course in reality, these items had a much lower value. It's like busting 1 pound of Mexican Dirt Weed and estimating it's value the same as BC Bud.
I don't do the hireing, but I've assumed that people who put that on their resume lack real stuff to put there. Guess I'm wrong. I'll have to put it back on my resume.
If you actually checked, you would discover that the book came out after the film (and a couple years after the TV series began), so evidently the author literally took their conspiracy theory right off of a science fiction show.
Did it? Did it indeed? Maybe it did, and maybe it didn't.
kquote>I'm left wondering if a flashy power point presentation was really needed or if the "I know how to use office" on the resume got someone looking to jazz things up and get a promotion...
People *do not* put "I know how to use office" on their resume unless they are high school students. College students and anyone already in the work-force are assumed to know how to use Office.
This is good proof that security through obscurity doesn't work.
No it isn't. The concept of "security through obscurity" has nothing to do with this, this was not an attempt to hide the actual figure in a haystack and hope no one would find it. What's going on here is called stupidity. Whoever put the slides together didn't think through what actual information was embedded in the PowerPoint, didn't understand how PowerPoint works. This has *nothing* to do with attempting to hide something, it has to do with no understand that the something was there in the first place.
This is OK if you are conneccting from a local coffee shop, but sucks if you have a static IP, or even do DHCP over a small range of addresses.
Indeed. And when even with DHCP, a legal request to you ISP will revieal who you are. And, for many DSL / broadband customers with non-static, their IP simply doesn't change that much, so your surfing habits can defiantly be tracked. I would be surprised if Google didn't take "advantage" of this fact.
I keep hearing this. It isn't so. Had he had more cooperation from Congress, great things would have happened during his administration. And, within the context of his peers over the last 50 years, he's miles above them.
So maybe this John Henry Browne deserves this rating? Perhaps he has a penchant for spectacularly losing cases for his clients...
Brown typically represents people accused of high-profile crimes such as murder and rape. Most (all?) of his clients are guilty. Given the trash he represents, it wouldn't surprise me if he has a high loss rate. Everyone deserves a lawyer, and in Washington, when you've chopped up a few people, killed a few in an arson, done a rape or two, if you've got money, you get Brown. You still go to jail, but you spend less time there.
It's always possible that he'll either be marginally effective or...
Dan, we're talking about Microsoft. "Anything is possible", but if history can predict future trends, Hanrahan will tow the company line.
...that he'll bail out once he decides he can't accomplish anything useful.
Depends on what he feels is useful. A fat Microsoft paycheck will certainly be very useful to him. Perhaps he thinks it's time for him to feather the nest and live the easy life?
If Microsoft is violating the GPL and it comes to light, can't the individual contributors who are the actual copyright holders then sue Microsoft for copyright infringement?
Got the money to do that? Go for it. Not many do...
Besides, working with these guys, I find they spend a lot of time on licensing and acquisition.
Are you suggesting that they would jump at the chance for a simpler, less time consuming process? I don't think so, that would mean the loss or downgrade of a manning position. It may be a pain in the ass, but it translates into someone's job.
In a memorandum handed down from Department of the Navy CIO John Carey this week, the Navy is now mandated to consider open source solutions when making new software acquisitions...
Judging based on my knowledge of DoD networks and computer applications, I don't believe this will have much of an effect on IT decisions in the Navy. (at the Air Force base I work at, we have some BSD, but it's running on specialized devices on a very small scale). It reminds me of how my father did equipment purchasing at the university he worked at (and I'll bet most Navy IT sections will do the same): The university had a set of requirements for big computer purchases that favored specific venders and things like low bit. By dad simply wrote the specs for what he wanted so strictly that only one product would satisfy the requirements.
Also, keep in mind that great scads of DoD IT is standardized on Microsoft networks and applications that would be difficult to integrate with OSS for a variety of reasons. And, there will always be FUD based "security" reasons that military networks will want to avoid OSS.
I find sys admins often don't make the best user-friendly assessments of desktop software and OSs, especially from average Joe's point of view. No offense to the author, who makes many valid points, but I'd rather see a comparison of Ubuntu, Vista, and OS X from a school teacher or small business owner.
And this, people, is why Linux will *never* own significant acrege in the desktop market: The people who drive most Linux development *are not* interested in desktop usability and *user* experience. This is not a troll / flamebait / cut, it's simply the truth, the definition of "usability" is very different from Linux developer to "average Joe User".
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TMobile doesn't have a monopoly. So you don't like their business practices, but it's their network, and there are alturnatives.
Is there an online form or something to sign up for Slaverts? What's the rates?
Talk about unreliable rumors, a store manager? There's only 5 or 10 of those in the country! How far down the food chain is that? This guys information is probably based on rumors of rumors. In other words, very possibly no relation to reality.
PI'm 43. Never heard of the guy.
On of the problems with F/OSS is that many of its proponents seem to assume that most people want to know about programming. This just isn't so. Most people want to use computer to leverage their skills and do useful things, but they don't want to have to deal with the mechanics of the computer. Windows, to a huge extent, with all its warts, allows them to do this. Right now, Linux does not. Mybe some day soon, but not yet.
You're right and wrong. *Some* states are not balking at the concept, only the price. Montana and Washington State are treditionally independent. But most states simply don't want to pay for it, "foolishness" has nothing to do with it.
They confiscated 50,000 bootleg CDs which they valued at $15 each. Of course in reality, these items had a much lower value. It's like busting 1 pound of Mexican Dirt Weed and estimating it's value the same as BC Bud.
I don't do the hireing, but I've assumed that people who put that on their resume lack real stuff to put there. Guess I'm wrong. I'll have to put it back on my resume.
Training classes? Do people actually forget the basics? If you need more, buy a reference book. Jesus.
Did it? Did it indeed? Maybe it did, and maybe it didn't.
People *do not* put "I know how to use office" on their resume unless they are high school students. College students and anyone already in the work-force are assumed to know how to use Office.
No it isn't. The concept of "security through obscurity" has nothing to do with this, this was not an attempt to hide the actual figure in a haystack and hope no one would find it. What's going on here is called stupidity. Whoever put the slides together didn't think through what actual information was embedded in the PowerPoint, didn't understand how PowerPoint works. This has *nothing* to do with attempting to hide something, it has to do with no understand that the something was there in the first place.
Please drop the tired cliché
I got THIS
Indeed. And when even with DHCP, a legal request to you ISP will revieal who you are. And, for many DSL / broadband customers with non-static, their IP simply doesn't change that much, so your surfing habits can defiantly be tracked. I would be surprised if Google didn't take "advantage" of this fact.
So which is it? Puking or barfing? The summary leaves me confused.
I keep hearing this. It isn't so. Had he had more cooperation from Congress, great things would have happened during his administration. And, within the context of his peers over the last 50 years, he's miles above them.
Brown typically represents people accused of high-profile crimes such as murder and rape. Most (all?) of his clients are guilty. Given the trash he represents, it wouldn't surprise me if he has a high loss rate. Everyone deserves a lawyer, and in Washington, when you've chopped up a few people, killed a few in an arson, done a rape or two, if you've got money, you get Brown. You still go to jail, but you spend less time there.
Dan, we're talking about Microsoft. "Anything is possible", but if history can predict future trends, Hanrahan will tow the company line.
Depends on what he feels is useful. A fat Microsoft paycheck will certainly be very useful to him. Perhaps he thinks it's time for him to feather the nest and live the easy life?
I don't see too many law firms taking on M$ for contingency fees... My point is even more supported by this observation.
Got the money to do that? Go for it. Not many do...
Brimerton? Everett? McChord here.
"Mommy, guess what I learned at school today! I tried it on ALL the boys, and they want me to do it again!"
Are you suggesting that they would jump at the chance for a simpler, less time consuming process? I don't think so, that would mean the loss or downgrade of a manning position. It may be a pain in the ass, but it translates into someone's job.
Judging based on my knowledge of DoD networks and computer applications, I don't believe this will have much of an effect on IT decisions in the Navy. (at the Air Force base I work at, we have some BSD, but it's running on specialized devices on a very small scale). It reminds me of how my father did equipment purchasing at the university he worked at (and I'll bet most Navy IT sections will do the same): The university had a set of requirements for big computer purchases that favored specific venders and things like low bit. By dad simply wrote the specs for what he wanted so strictly that only one product would satisfy the requirements.
Also, keep in mind that great scads of DoD IT is standardized on Microsoft networks and applications that would be difficult to integrate with OSS for a variety of reasons. And, there will always be FUD based "security" reasons that military networks will want to avoid OSS.
Net result: very little.
And this, people, is why Linux will *never* own significant acrege in the desktop market: The people who drive most Linux development *are not* interested in desktop usability and *user* experience. This is not a troll / flamebait / cut, it's simply the truth, the definition of "usability" is very different from Linux developer to "average Joe User".