People retire, move cities, change jobs for a promotion.
There will be a few IT people driving this from a technical standpoint. Seeing them successfully replaced will be a real boost to the viability of this project.
You sound like you're celebrating the fact many businesses and government agencies are locked in to a single source of software for a multitude of reasons. As a nerd I'd expect you to celebrate non-technical people embracing a very technical philosophy and trying to encourage other vendors to provide alternative products and avoid monopolies and all the pitfalls they bring.
I remember when this place was News for Nerds. Now it seems to be Clickbait for Trolls.
Are there any alternatives to slashdot that the trolls haven't ruined and have more than 2 visitors per day?
Europeans love to hate on American companies. Just see all of the court cases the European Union brings against American companies (Apple and Microsoft being the first two to spring to mind). That's where your zealotry will be coming from.
Beancounters and management hate spending money on licensing fees (plus the bean counters will expect to be exempt from the migration because the Council would be lost without them).
The IT team might have some senior people who want the challenge and anything to help bring them out of their drudgery of the day to day. They also might be experiencing repeated and significant problems with some of their hardware and this will be an excuse to finally get the financial support to address those problems (unfortunately they're addressing them by throwing them out the window). You might have some young uns who are excited to be using Linux instead of Micro$oft.
Ultimately the zealotry is the excuse to justify something that a whole swathe of people want for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately the average council worker is not included among those who want to go ahead with the whole project.
As for your personal preference: presumably your American so the public reason for doing this (shafting it to the yanks) falls flat for you.
That's exactly the attitude the finance people will have. Believe it or not there are open source alternatives to Microsoft Excel. You'll get finance people to switch to that as quickly as you'll get Texans to give up their firearms though.
What really makes this possible is the cloud. Typically industry specific software will make it really difficult to migrate away from Windows, but as more and more of these programs migrate to a browser based interface, Linux compatibility shoots through the roof.
By going with a phased approach where the OS is the last thing to migrate, they have already demonstrated more forethought than many other organisations. The real milestones will be when they get finance to move away from excel and when they replace senior members of IT. Until they meet those milestones, this will in all likelihood end up being a giant waste of money and time.
Of course the prankster should have known that the police would kill the first person they saw when he made the phone call. All Americans should know that any lineman they see is potentially moments away from killing someone and should react accordingly.
The police have no fault in this situation. Everyone else should know what they're like.
Lower crime rates means less police and lawyers which means higher unemployment which means increased taxes for those who do work to support whole population getting free money.
I suppose this mentality is how Trump got elected. I have no responsibility for my actions or words so long as sufficient number of other people do the same thing.
if anyone suggested that I go live in one of those Ghetto's then I'd probably kill them.
Either the GP has a poor understanding of English or they are in fact claiming they would likely kill anyone who made this particular suggestion to them.
That is not the course of action reasonable people take. Psychos on the other hand, have no such compunctions.
Why not just bring back slavery. Then you'll truly get a free market solution to wages./s
When I went to America a couple of years ago I was appalled to see the working conditions, but what was worse were the jobs that in Australia we just do without and instead everyone looks after themselves a bit more.
Hiding the high unemployment with below poverty level make busy jobs is not a better solution. Hopefully increasing unemployment will put America on the path to fixing some basic problems the whole world has to face. Otherwise world hunger orgs might be asking for the rest of us to adopt an American.
scientifically proven matching system decodes the mystery of compatibility and chemistry
Of course eHarmony couldn't provide scientific evidence to back up it's claims. The claims are so over the top that it would be expected no reasonable person would believe they actually had scientists applying scientific methods to the match-making algorithm. This should have been a clear and obvious case of mere puffery.
Of course, people can be pretty stupid so maybe eHarmony had been defrauding a significant percentage of the British population. God help us all.
So how many people did Trump kill when standing out on the street with a gun? Because he bragged about being able to do that too.
Face it. Trump has been nothing but lies for a long time. Him saying something is no more proof that he did it than some random whackjob claiming to be the son of God actually being the son of God.
The problem with climate change is it isn't falsifiable. While the deniers are asinine, the zealots are obnoxious.
If the weather gets warmer, it's global warming. If the weather gets colder, it's climate change. If the weather gets more extreme, it's climate change. If the weather stays exactly the same, the data isn't proof against global warming, it's irrelevant
The way the zealots have argued, with continual escalation of the changed climate change will bring, with skewing data to support their theories and changing models after the fact, many reasonable and intelligent people will reject the prophecies of the zealots. The problem isn't with changing models. It's doing it (sometimes in secret) and then definitively using that model to predict a future outcome.
Much in the same way that Y2K ended up being a big nothing, I expect the alarmist cries of the extreme global warming zealots will also prove to be wrong. Our weather will undoubemtedly change and we will have played some part in that. But the doom and gloom prophecies will ultimately prove to be false prophecies.
They are if they're asian. And we all know asians (especially Japs) are all cowards. So the expression is true for a vast number of yellow-bellied cowards.
Given you have no way of knowing what your work are doing, I wouldn't do anything on a work device that I didn't want my IT department seeing. Meaning I'll use my mobile phone to do all those things.
If you don't want pesticides in your food then don't eat my crops. I'll happily mark that they have pesticides though so you can make an informed choice.
Just because you consider non-humans to be lesser beings doesn't mean you haven't taken the life of another living and feeling creature and prematurely ended it for your own personal pleasures.
Once upon a time it was considered acceptable to kill beasts en mass in order to make fur coats. Today it is considered inhumane and cruel. How much longer do you think society will go before your killing of beasts is considered inhumane and cruel?
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People retire, move cities, change jobs for a promotion.
There will be a few IT people driving this from a technical standpoint. Seeing them successfully replaced will be a real boost to the viability of this project.
You sound like you're celebrating the fact many businesses and government agencies are locked in to a single source of software for a multitude of reasons. As a nerd I'd expect you to celebrate non-technical people embracing a very technical philosophy and trying to encourage other vendors to provide alternative products and avoid monopolies and all the pitfalls they bring.
I remember when this place was News for Nerds. Now it seems to be Clickbait for Trolls.
Are there any alternatives to slashdot that the trolls haven't ruined and have more than 2 visitors per day?
Europeans love to hate on American companies. Just see all of the court cases the European Union brings against American companies (Apple and Microsoft being the first two to spring to mind). That's where your zealotry will be coming from.
Beancounters and management hate spending money on licensing fees (plus the bean counters will expect to be exempt from the migration because the Council would be lost without them).
The IT team might have some senior people who want the challenge and anything to help bring them out of their drudgery of the day to day. They also might be experiencing repeated and significant problems with some of their hardware and this will be an excuse to finally get the financial support to address those problems (unfortunately they're addressing them by throwing them out the window). You might have some young uns who are excited to be using Linux instead of Micro$oft.
Ultimately the zealotry is the excuse to justify something that a whole swathe of people want for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately the average council worker is not included among those who want to go ahead with the whole project.
As for your personal preference: presumably your American so the public reason for doing this (shafting it to the yanks) falls flat for you.
That's exactly the attitude the finance people will have. Believe it or not there are open source alternatives to Microsoft Excel. You'll get finance people to switch to that as quickly as you'll get Texans to give up their firearms though.
Euthanasia is nothing more than state sponsored suicide. To try to cloak it in anytbing else is to say suicide is ok.
What really makes this possible is the cloud. Typically industry specific software will make it really difficult to migrate away from Windows, but as more and more of these programs migrate to a browser based interface, Linux compatibility shoots through the roof.
By going with a phased approach where the OS is the last thing to migrate, they have already demonstrated more forethought than many other organisations. The real milestones will be when they get finance to move away from excel and when they replace senior members of IT. Until they meet those milestones, this will in all likelihood end up being a giant waste of money and time.
Of course the prankster should have known that the police would kill the first person they saw when he made the phone call. All Americans should know that any lineman they see is potentially moments away from killing someone and should react accordingly.
The police have no fault in this situation. Everyone else should know what they're like.
Lower crime rates means less police and lawyers which means higher unemployment which means increased taxes for those who do work to support whole population getting free money.
I suppose this mentality is how Trump got elected. I have no responsibility for my actions or words so long as sufficient number of other people do the same thing.
if anyone suggested that I go live in one of those Ghetto's then I'd probably kill them.
Either the GP has a poor understanding of English or they are in fact claiming they would likely kill anyone who made this particular suggestion to them.
That is not the course of action reasonable people take. Psychos on the other hand, have no such compunctions.
You're a complete psycho. If someone says something to them you are going to commit murder?
For fuck's sake. I hope someone locks you up before you do anyone serious harm.
Get a grip.
Why not just bring back slavery. Then you'll truly get a free market solution to wages. /s
When I went to America a couple of years ago I was appalled to see the working conditions, but what was worse were the jobs that in Australia we just do without and instead everyone looks after themselves a bit more.
Hiding the high unemployment with below poverty level make busy jobs is not a better solution. Hopefully increasing unemployment will put America on the path to fixing some basic problems the whole world has to face. Otherwise world hunger orgs might be asking for the rest of us to adopt an American.
scientifically proven matching system decodes the mystery of compatibility and chemistry
Of course eHarmony couldn't provide scientific evidence to back up it's claims. The claims are so over the top that it would be expected no reasonable person would believe they actually had scientists applying scientific methods to the match-making algorithm. This should have been a clear and obvious case of mere puffery.
Of course, people can be pretty stupid so maybe eHarmony had been defrauding a significant percentage of the British population. God help us all.
So how many people did Trump kill when standing out on the street with a gun? Because he bragged about being able to do that too.
Face it. Trump has been nothing but lies for a long time. Him saying something is no more proof that he did it than some random whackjob claiming to be the son of God actually being the son of God.
The problem with climate change is it isn't falsifiable. While the deniers are asinine, the zealots are obnoxious.
If the weather gets warmer, it's global warming.
If the weather gets colder, it's climate change.
If the weather gets more extreme, it's climate change.
If the weather stays exactly the same, the data isn't proof against global warming, it's irrelevant
The way the zealots have argued, with continual escalation of the changed climate change will bring, with skewing data to support their theories and changing models after the fact, many reasonable and intelligent people will reject the prophecies of the zealots. The problem isn't with changing models. It's doing it (sometimes in secret) and then definitively using that model to predict a future outcome.
Much in the same way that Y2K ended up being a big nothing, I expect the alarmist cries of the extreme global warming zealots will also prove to be wrong. Our weather will undoubemtedly change and we will have played some part in that. But the doom and gloom prophecies will ultimately prove to be false prophecies.
They are if they're asian. And we all know asians (especially Japs) are all cowards. So the expression is true for a vast number of yellow-bellied cowards.
Given you have no way of knowing what your work are doing, I wouldn't do anything on a work device that I didn't want my IT department seeing. Meaning I'll use my mobile phone to do all those things.
Bet you nothing happens to the cop.
No it doesn't. Chanukah ended on December 20th this year. A full 5 days before Christmas day.
Citation needed.
Your right to eat what you want ends at the arm of the stupid Republican children.
If you don't want pesticides in your food then don't eat my crops. I'll happily mark that they have pesticides though so you can make an informed choice.
Just because you consider non-humans to be lesser beings doesn't mean you haven't taken the life of another living and feeling creature and prematurely ended it for your own personal pleasures.
Once upon a time it was considered acceptable to kill beasts en mass in order to make fur coats. Today it is considered inhumane and cruel. How much longer do you think society will go before your killing of beasts is considered inhumane and cruel?
so they can mow down their citizens with brand new tanks.
Cock off Chris. No-one loves you or wants you.