There is a continuum on a scale that goes from "I have my own rights and I don't care about anyone else" to "What the individual wants isn't important, it's only the common good that matters." Most of us dislike both extremes and find our beliefs somewhere between the two. In this case, most residents thought the emergency and very temporary needs of their community were significantly more important than their own personal convenience and voluntarily complied with a request to stay in for part of a day. Seems eminently reasonable to me, and so I find it curious to be critical of that.
*Some* end users don't care if a system is open or not. Others - especially those who have burned in a previous technology buy by being locked into a system that ended up too proprietary - actually do. The questions to ask:
Does the closed system have enough market share & clout that you'll still get the apps you want?
Is the closed system likely to be around long enough to justify your investment?
Will the closed-system vendor become too tempted by market clout to make unreasonable decisions on pricing and on developers? This is a definite risk for things like overpriced products and planned obsolescence.
Are there benefits to the closed system that make up for the drawbacks? (In the case of the iPhone, fans argue that the software and hardware can work better together because the environment is better controlled than any Android app on any Android device.)
Got a lot done and wasn't distracted by e-mail or Web surfing. I'm sure I'd use WiFi if it were available on long flights, but there's also something to be said for uninterrupted concentration time.
The site's lawyer told Computerworld the deal doesn't allow Apple to get the name of ThinkSecret's sources, as the company had wanted. "The First Amendment has prevailed," said Terry Gross of Gross & Belsky LLP, "and every Internet journalist should feel some strength from what's happened."
I learned Morse and passed my 13 WPM, but I never enjoyed it and wasn't very good at it. I'm still not. However, I was sorry my skills weren't better during the war in Bosnia, when I was trying to keep in contact with friends under siege in Sarajevo. Sometimes, that's all the signal they were able to get out, running on scarce generator power or a car battery.
In an extended disaster/emergency situation, power may be at a great premium, and Morse code makes more sense than voice communication or powering up a computer along with a radio.
I did also communicate with people in Bosnia during the war by voice, and TCP/IP over the amateur radio bands. I'm in favor of keeping as many options as possible. Not everyone needs to be an expert in all of them, but I support exposing people to as many modes as possible and letting them decide which ones they want to use.
Just for the record, as far as I can tell, Wordpress 2.2 was not a security fix. It includes new features and addresses bugs, but I looked through the list of tickets closed in the release of 2.2 and did not see that any security issues were addresses by that newest version. 2.1.3 was a security fix, which users were advised to install promptly (and I did)
2.2 fixes bugs I never noticed and new features I didn't immediately need, so I can see why even good blog administrators might have waited to upgrade this one. I'm not sure BlogSecurity is correct to say 2.2 is the only secure version.
For people using Web hosts with control panels and doing installs and upgrades through a control panel like "Fantastico," the latest version they're offering is 2.1.3.
I agree that Wordpress is a bit of a pain to upgrade if you've done customization. I also like to manually back up my databases before I install a new version. The whole process takes about half an hour if I include the downloading, untarring, killing off files manually, and so forth.
Sorry about that, of course we should have included text links to each regional listing (there are six pages with data on multiple states). I've added text links below the map so people without Flash can easily get to the information. I hope you'll revisit the page and check below the map.
During Dr Summers's presidency, the proportion of tenured jobs offered to women has fallen from 36 per cent to 13 per cent. Last year, only four of 32 tenured job openings were offered to women.
This is an important point. Summers is coming under criticism for those statisics. Can you honestly argue that in response, it is NOT in his interest to bring up issues of "natural inferiority?"
On a personal note, having scored consistently and significantly higher on math standardized tests than verbal ones, I must admit I don't like to think of myself as some kind of genetic mutant....
Sorry, but your ignorance is showing. How many guys do you see give each other hugs IN AMERICA is one question. How many guys do you see give each other hugs IN ITALY gives quite a different answer. That's societal.
I'm a traditional journalist, and I definitely think traditional journalism has its place, but I disagree with your conclusions. Some blogs are in fact a way for people to put things out on the Web without due diligence. But others perform a very useful service.
Attempts at serious news and analysis, backed up by facts, are only one aspect of what many conventional media outlets do. Particularly on television, it's too often becoming more about ratings and entertainment than informing. I think Jon Stewart was spot on in his criticism of Crossfire, for example. And there are a fair amount of newspaper columnists, writing under their own names, who are more interested in making themselves famous by being controversial or flamboyant.
For me, it's not only the media outlet; it's the writer. There are reporters at the NY Times who I go out of my way to read, and other writers there whom I find fairly useless.
In any case, "anonymous" opinion writing on important issues of the day has a long and respectable tradition in this country, dating back to the Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay under the name "Publius" in support of the Constitution.
The actual question was:
"Based on what you know today about e-voting systems, how would you compare e-voting to traditional paper ballot machines in terms of accurately recording and reporting your vote?"
I just shortened it to "paper ballots" here because, well, I was trying to cut down on words for the short space available for postings here. But the link to the full story was available for anyone who wanted to see the details.
I passed your message along to our reporters who have been covering the SCO story, as well as our news editors. This is an important story for our readers, a fair number of whom are corporate users of Linux. Thanks!
I like to think that end users -- at least corporate end users -- get their information about these things from the tech media as well as the "mainstream" media.
From Computerworld's story today:
"I think the judge just sort of saw through what SCO was doing, particularly its public comments around copyright violations, and I think she took the prudent course here," said Dion Cornett, an analyst at Chicago-based Decatur Jones Equity Partners LLC. "
SCO hasn't provided any evidence out there to convince IT managers that Linux violates its intellectual property rights."
We'll have a story on this in our print edition Monday.
Gosh, thanks! I don't check my CW style guide and AP style book when I'm posting informally on a bulletin board, where the style is conversational.
If you'd like to verify, feel free to click the feedback link at the top right of any article on computerworld.com -- that goes to the editor mailbox, which I monitor (others have access as well, and a copy goes to the letters box).
It is indeed me; you're welcome to e-mail me at sharon_machlis at computerworld dot com to confirm. (plse excuse the probably vain attempt to foil e-mail harvesting) I visit Slashdot reasonably often but have never opened an account to post before.
I'm not the editor for any columns that start life in print, so I wasn't the editor on this one. But I am familiar with our open-source coverage in general, and I do feel strongly that it's unlikely Computerworld readers will be turned away from open-source because of this column.
First off, a criticism of one particular desktop implementation doesn't imply that the columnist advocates ditching Linux on the desktop; I can't speak for them, but I don't believe many of our readers would conclude that. But even if we had a columnist suggesting that, we've had a lot of other articles with differing points of view. (One recent example: I was the editor on a reader contributed opinion piece, It's Possible to Ditch Microsoft Office.)
In any case, I've sent along the link to this Slashdot discussion to our print Technology and Features editors.
Glad to see so much interest in one of our columns:-)
For the record, this column appeared on page 30 of Computerworld's print edition this week, on the last page of our Technology section. Nicholas Petreley is one of several different columnists who rotate writing for that Tech opinion page. (There is an opinion column on the last page of the print publication's Management section as well.)
Our print readers have seen quite a bit of coverage of Linux and open source in addition to this column. Two weeks ago, for example, one of our cover features was A Sunny Forecast For Open Source, about how weather.com has cut IT costs by one-third after moving away from proprietary software and hardware. It was one of the most-read stories on our site that week.
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There is a continuum on a scale that goes from "I have my own rights and I don't care about anyone else" to "What the individual wants isn't important, it's only the common good that matters." Most of us dislike both extremes and find our beliefs somewhere between the two. In this case, most residents thought the emergency and very temporary needs of their community were significantly more important than their own personal convenience and voluntarily complied with a request to stay in for part of a day. Seems eminently reasonable to me, and so I find it curious to be critical of that.
*Some* end users don't care if a system is open or not. Others - especially those who have burned in a previous technology buy by being locked into a system that ended up too proprietary - actually do. The questions to ask: Does the closed system have enough market share & clout that you'll still get the apps you want? Is the closed system likely to be around long enough to justify your investment? Will the closed-system vendor become too tempted by market clout to make unreasonable decisions on pricing and on developers? This is a definite risk for things like overpriced products and planned obsolescence. Are there benefits to the closed system that make up for the drawbacks? (In the case of the iPhone, fans argue that the software and hardware can work better together because the environment is better controlled than any Android app on any Android device.)
Got a lot done and wasn't distracted by e-mail or Web surfing. I'm sure I'd use WiFi if it were available on long flights, but there's also something to be said for uninterrupted concentration time.
The site's lawyer told Computerworld the deal doesn't allow Apple to get the name of ThinkSecret's sources, as the company had wanted. "The First Amendment has prevailed," said Terry Gross of Gross & Belsky LLP, "and every Internet journalist should feel some strength from what's happened."
I learned Morse and passed my 13 WPM, but I never enjoyed it and wasn't very good at it. I'm still not. However, I was sorry my skills weren't better during the war in Bosnia, when I was trying to keep in contact with friends under siege in Sarajevo. Sometimes, that's all the signal they were able to get out, running on scarce generator power or a car battery.
In an extended disaster/emergency situation, power may be at a great premium, and Morse code makes more sense than voice communication or powering up a computer along with a radio.
I did also communicate with people in Bosnia during the war by voice, and TCP/IP over the amateur radio bands. I'm in favor of keeping as many options as possible. Not everyone needs to be an expert in all of them, but I support exposing people to as many modes as possible and letting them decide which ones they want to use.
Just for the record, as far as I can tell, Wordpress 2.2 was not a security fix. It includes new features and addresses bugs, but I looked through the list of tickets closed in the release of 2.2 and did not see that any security issues were addresses by that newest version. 2.1.3 was a security fix, which users were advised to install promptly (and I did)
2.2 fixes bugs I never noticed and new features I didn't immediately need, so I can see why even good blog administrators might have waited to upgrade this one. I'm not sure BlogSecurity is correct to say 2.2 is the only secure version.
For people using Web hosts with control panels and doing installs and upgrades through a control panel like "Fantastico," the latest version they're offering is 2.1.3.
I agree that Wordpress is a bit of a pain to upgrade if you've done customization. I also like to manually back up my databases before I install a new version. The whole process takes about half an hour if I include the downloading, untarring, killing off files manually, and so forth.
Sorry about that, of course we should have included text links to each regional listing (there are six pages with data on multiple states). I've added text links below the map so people without Flash can easily get to the information. I hope you'll revisit the page and check below the map.
This is an important point. Summers is coming under criticism for those statisics. Can you honestly argue that in response, it is NOT in his interest to bring up issues of "natural inferiority?"
On a personal note, having scored consistently and significantly higher on math standardized tests than verbal ones, I must admit I don't like to think of myself as some kind of genetic mutant....
Sorry, but your ignorance is showing. How many guys do you see give each other hugs IN AMERICA is one question. How many guys do you see give each other hugs IN ITALY gives quite a different answer. That's societal.
Attempts at serious news and analysis, backed up by facts, are only one aspect of what many conventional media outlets do. Particularly on television, it's too often becoming more about ratings and entertainment than informing. I think Jon Stewart was spot on in his criticism of Crossfire, for example. And there are a fair amount of newspaper columnists, writing under their own names, who are more interested in making themselves famous by being controversial or flamboyant.
For me, it's not only the media outlet; it's the writer. There are reporters at the NY Times who I go out of my way to read, and other writers there whom I find fairly useless.
In any case, "anonymous" opinion writing on important issues of the day has a long and respectable tradition in this country, dating back to the Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay under the name "Publius" in support of the Constitution.
The actual question was: "Based on what you know today about e-voting systems, how would you compare e-voting to traditional paper ballot machines in terms of accurately recording and reporting your vote?" I just shortened it to "paper ballots" here because, well, I was trying to cut down on words for the short space available for postings here. But the link to the full story was available for anyone who wanted to see the details.
I passed your message along to our reporters who have been covering the SCO story, as well as our news editors. This is an important story for our readers, a fair number of whom are corporate users of Linux. Thanks!
The charge is for "the impairment of goodwill and intangibles." This is a specific accounting situation covering the decline in value of an intangible asset such as a corporate brand, see the Financial Accounting Standards Board statement 142 or the March 2002 CPA Journal.
If you'd like to verify, feel free to click the feedback link at the top right of any article on computerworld.com -- that goes to the editor mailbox, which I monitor (others have access as well, and a copy goes to the letters box).
I'm not the editor for any columns that start life in print, so I wasn't the editor on this one. But I am familiar with our open-source coverage in general, and I do feel strongly that it's unlikely Computerworld readers will be turned away from open-source because of this column.
First off, a criticism of one particular desktop implementation doesn't imply that the columnist advocates ditching Linux on the desktop; I can't speak for them, but I don't believe many of our readers would conclude that. But even if we had a columnist suggesting that, we've had a lot of other articles with differing points of view. (One recent example: I was the editor on a reader contributed opinion piece, It's Possible to Ditch Microsoft Office.)
In any case, I've sent along the link to this Slashdot discussion to our print Technology and Features editors.
For the record, this column appeared on page 30 of Computerworld's print edition this week, on the last page of our Technology section. Nicholas Petreley is one of several different columnists who rotate writing for that Tech opinion page. (There is an opinion column on the last page of the print publication's Management section as well.)
Our print readers have seen quite a bit of coverage of Linux and open source in addition to this column. Two weeks ago, for example, one of our cover features was A Sunny Forecast For Open Source, about how weather.com has cut IT costs by one-third after moving away from proprietary software and hardware. It was one of the most-read stories on our site that week.
Sharon Machlis
Online Managing Editor
Computerworld