At the end of the day, unless you live in central Africa, and possibly not then, no one is truly indegenous. We're all immigrants at some point or another.
OK, I know I'm nitpicking. As far as the spread of mankind etc. then the first arrivals are the indigenous population. Here in the west of Europe peoples have been coming ad going for several thousend years. Exactly who's indigenous is very complex.
Try http://www.ecdl.co.uk/ The European Computer Driving Licence is what this would like to be. The ECDL covers a level of computer literacy which most of the/. users would find laughable but for Jo Normal, and his employer, demonstates teh ability to have overcome the initial hump in the learnign curve.
You can add to that list Oracle (Damn them!) As I work in a large organisation which uses Oracle as its db of choice and M$ on the desktop this is a big bone of contention for me.
Doesn't VoIP have issues with 911 calls. I know they can be resolved but I don't see anything in the article about this. Will the average AOL user be aware of the problem? I somehow doubt it as the AOL user base is not known for it technical awareness.
All the bells and whistles will be great until the first time the house catches fire, dad has a heart attack, or there's bad guys in the cellar!
Precisely. The author - in my case a professor of medical statistics - is fine on statistics but has to purchase LaTeX skills to produce camera-ready output.
I'm sure this is going to be an unpopular viewpoint and may get modded flamebait but I've seen the other side of achedemic publishing.
The problem with pricing on text books is the very limited market. Even if Proffessor Plum sells a copy to every student on his course he will only sell ~100 per year. Compare and contrast with the thousends of copies sold of the average novel. Moreover the calculus book requires specialist typesetting, less of a problem nowadays but the average printing house isn't set up for printing sigmas. All these force the price up.
Just because students are poor(ish) doesn't mean that they can be excempt from market forces.
At the end of the day it's all about money. Google may not be bad guys but they're in it for the money. As long as the vast bulk of users go straight to Google they've got no incentive to spend money to refine their search algorythms for the uber techies like yourself.
But that reminds me of another IT name that became the de-facto standard and the response to that was for the uber techies to create their own. Maybe we want/need a Linux type competitor to Google where quality is the driver? If only....
I honestly think you're misunderstanding the rationale behind the EU decision. They don't have their own OSS projects. They're just passing the same sort of judgement on MS as the US did and then enforcing it. If MS wants to trad in the EU they must play by EU rules. If they break the law they should be punished.
My son is now 16. I'm not sue what philosophy, if any, he's learning at school. I do know that his mother and I have never ducked the big questions and always tried to treat his opinions with respect. I'm biased but I think he's turning out a thoughtful young man who does consider the bigger questions.
So much education comes from outside school. Let the school do the exam focused fact cramming. You can do the deeper stuff. Above all else encourage him to read. What started with the hungry caterpillar has graduated into some quite deep reading.
If this sounds like I'm trying to tell you how to bring up your son - I'm not. Anybody who poses the questions you do will get that bit right!
What kind of person thinks its OK to force others to see things they are not interested in
Advertisers and, more importantly, the people who want a return on the investment they have made on their web site. If you don't like popovers vote with your mouse and don't visit those sites.
Google want to be everybodie's favourite source of information. That way anyone searching the internet for anything goes to Google and enough of them click on the adds to make a fat profit.
As Wiki grows they need someone/somthing with the resources behind the scenes to provide the infrastructure. The GNU licence should provide sufficient protection and I'm sure there are enough legal eagles in the OSF community to provide help with the contract if neccessary.
If only it were the informed admins. I work for a major international IT business and our security team read and beleive stuff like this. So when the people with the money are making decisions will they listen to the informed admins or the security team on security issues.....?
I'm a Unix drone in a large organisation. The E-mail system is M$ Exchange managed by the NT team so I have no input into what filters are or are not used.
I have to be careful about what I delete. I missed an important e-mail because it's subject line was too close to the usual spam titles. I know to delete 'Viagra by post' but 'Meeting request' is genuine as often as it's spam. So yes, I waste 10 mins a day deleting spam (but far more reading slashdot!)
Lets say an employee takes 12 minutes per day to delete spam and then thats 60 mins per day. If each employee costs $20 per hour then each employee costs $20 per week. If the company employs 2000 people then it's costing $40,000 per week.... and that's just one medium sized company
If you ran a company and you were told that each employee was going to lose 12 minutes a day whilst on your payroll you wouldn't call this just the usual cost-hunting nonsense
I spend ten minutes a day deleting spam from my inbox. That equates to approx 1 hr per week. I cost UKP 25 per hour to my company so I alone cost UKP 25 per week because of spam. Multiply that by the number of people like me and 22bn sounds a little on the low side.
However, to follow your theme, I also spend a similar amount of time throwing away the endless snail-mail I also receive and that has the added downside of killing trees.
Slashdot Mirror
At the end of the day, unless you live in central Africa, and possibly not then, no one is truly indegenous. We're all immigrants at some point or another.
OK, I know I'm nitpicking. As far as the spread of mankind etc. then the first arrivals are the indigenous population. Here in the west of Europe peoples have been coming ad going for several thousend years. Exactly who's indigenous is very complex.
Try http://www.ecdl.co.uk/ The European Computer Driving Licence is what this would like to be. The ECDL covers a level of computer literacy which most of the /. users would find laughable but for Jo Normal, and his employer, demonstates teh ability to have overcome the initial hump in the learnign curve.
You can add to that list Oracle (Damn them!) As I work in a large organisation which uses Oracle as its db of choice and M$ on the desktop this is a big bone of contention for me.
Doesn't VoIP have issues with 911 calls. I know they can be resolved but I don't see anything in the article about this. Will the average AOL user be aware of the problem? I somehow doubt it as the AOL user base is not known for it technical awareness.
All the bells and whistles will be great until the first time the house catches fire, dad has a heart attack, or there's bad guys in the cellar!
Quote Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister:- I need to know everything in order to know what I need to know
The beaurocrat's excuse for invasion of privacy never realy changes.
If you try looking east from NY or west from LA you just get endless blue ocean. Hello... Hello... This is the rest of the world calling!
I'm not sure that South Korea is a member of the Axis of Evil. Aren't they our bold friends holding back the commie menace?
Precisely. The author - in my case a professor of medical statistics - is fine on statistics but has to purchase LaTeX skills to produce camera-ready output.
I'm sure this is going to be an unpopular viewpoint and may get modded flamebait but I've seen the other side of achedemic publishing.
The problem with pricing on text books is the very limited market. Even if Proffessor Plum sells a copy to every student on his course he will only sell ~100 per year. Compare and contrast with the thousends of copies sold of the average novel. Moreover the calculus book requires specialist typesetting, less of a problem nowadays but the average printing house isn't set up for printing sigmas. All these force the price up.
Just because students are poor(ish) doesn't mean that they can be excempt from market forces.
At the end of the day it's all about money. Google may not be bad guys but they're in it for the money. As long as the vast bulk of users go straight to Google they've got no incentive to spend money to refine their search algorythms for the uber techies like yourself.
But that reminds me of another IT name that became the de-facto standard and the response to that was for the uber techies to create their own. Maybe we want/need a Linux type competitor to Google where quality is the driver? If only....
I honestly think you're misunderstanding the rationale behind the EU decision. They don't have their own OSS projects. They're just passing the same sort of judgement on MS as the US did and then enforcing it. If MS wants to trad in the EU they must play by EU rules. If they break the law they should be punished.
- Overworked techie department employs consultants without sufficient vetting
- Disgruntled and overworked techie is approached by bad guys
- Overworked techies release system into 'live' without sufficient testing/hardening due to presure to complete by deadline
Do you see the common thread?Libraries are free - as in speach. You want free as in beer.
Maybe if you can't see that this might be fun then you need to have more free time. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
If you're not a techie that's a very concise, understandable, and accurate answer. I'd mod if I had the points
My son is now 16. I'm not sue what philosophy, if any, he's learning at school. I do know that his mother and I have never ducked the big questions and always tried to treat his opinions with respect. I'm biased but I think he's turning out a thoughtful young man who does consider the bigger questions.
So much education comes from outside school. Let the school do the exam focused fact cramming. You can do the deeper stuff. Above all else encourage him to read. What started with the hungry caterpillar has graduated into some quite deep reading.
If this sounds like I'm trying to tell you how to bring up your son - I'm not. Anybody who poses the questions you do will get that bit right!
What kind of person thinks its OK to force others to see things they are not interested in
Advertisers and, more importantly, the people who want a return on the investment they have made on their web site. If you don't like popovers vote with your mouse and don't visit those sites.
- Eastenders
- Coronation Street
- Big Brother
Just because the picture's sharp doesn't mean the picture's worth watching, or not 15 grand's worth!As Wiki grows they need someone/somthing with the resources behind the scenes to provide the infrastructure. The GNU licence should provide sufficient protection and I'm sure there are enough legal eagles in the OSF community to provide help with the contract if neccessary.
If only it were the informed admins. I work for a major international IT business and our security team read and beleive stuff like this. So when the people with the money are making decisions will they listen to the informed admins or the security team on security issues.....?
Or we would do if the site wasn't /.ed!
I have to be careful about what I delete. I missed an important e-mail because it's subject line was too close to the usual spam titles. I know to delete 'Viagra by post' but 'Meeting request' is genuine as often as it's spam. So yes, I waste 10 mins a day deleting spam (but far more reading slashdot!)
But it's hidden
Lets say an employee takes 12 minutes per day to delete spam and then thats 60 mins per day. If each employee costs $20 per hour then each employee costs $20 per week. If the company employs 2000 people then it's costing $40,000 per week.... and that's just one medium sized company
If you ran a company and you were told that each employee was going to lose 12 minutes a day whilst on your payroll you wouldn't call this just the usual cost-hunting nonsense
However, to follow your theme, I also spend a similar amount of time throwing away the endless snail-mail I also receive and that has the added downside of killing trees.