Considering MS still controls over 75% of the OS market and over 50% of the mobile device OS market, her comment sure says a lot about how much she knows. Just because your boss setup a couple of cool AJAX websites for recovery.gov, change.gov and even the obama.gov doesn't mean you're qualified as a techie, and the whole technology infrastructure (which Obama is promotion in his stimulus) is just Google.
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This lady is just thinking that when the infrastructure plan is complete, that everyone, I mean everyone will be 'googling' and that make Google all powerful and threatening to the gov't. It's not Google being monopolistic, but the gov't's fear of losing control. Gov't's business is services and information (which is google's) and this is a turf protection manuver.
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Sounds like the same old gov't to me: not getting the big picture on tech, and narrow minded thinking (i.e. turf protection).
Considering CNN tried to leverage and exploit facebook for the election and inauguration, I'm not surprise they b*tched and moaned (cause all that CNN generated content is now owned by FB).
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Of course, this could be a deploy by FB to the old-media companies not to exploit them without consent. Ha.
As I sit here on my OpenSUSE 11.1 w/KDE4.x, I'm thinking, I wish I had the desktop widget and combined yast/system manager in a nice neat eye candy package on gnome--then I'd switch back to Gnome (it's just a more productive WM IMO) with it's fusion eye candy.
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HP appears to be asking the same question, cause I see KDE 4.x elements, of course, running gnome.
That due to legacy issues with the field (on P3 laptops for instance). They originally wanted to move these apps to web-browsers (back in the day everything had to be on a browser;) ).
And the only why to get the WYSIWYG of maps and ground truth and stuff was via DirectX and ActiveX widgets on the browser. Everything on the Linux side was nonexistence or too slow (flash/Java). Think about, 3-4 years ago.
Now having firefox, flash, faster Java, XUL, DHTML (and stuff like googlemaps), we can do it now on Linux, but again those apps have been around for years, and are highly integrated in the IC back office--if it ain't broken don't fix it.
The main reason for open source is that IRIX, Solaris, and AIX just got too d*mn expensive and they still needed to hire scores of admins (E****-Alliance) to main the systems. Also, the big players: Oracle, IBM, Sybase, CSC, etc... went to F/OSS. I remember XMPP getting deployed, it's not used in ops/NOCs, still being considered, but heavily used by developers and researchers, which is a lifeline for the IC.
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Also, new tech projects were forced to use open source to lower R&D costs since the war was sucking all the funding away (for ops).
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You'll normally find Windows (e.g. 'standard base load') on every desktop for day to day office stuff, and open source for servers and R&D--basically replacing the Solaris/AIX/IRIX boxes. Also a biggee for F/OSS is trusted systems, since we have secureLinux and trustedSolaris/IRIX--still for servers only.
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But in the end, it's still costing the IC the same money as proprietary systems. Why? Maintaining a cleared fleet of admins and engineers are getting more expensive (can't outsource that to overseas for instance), s/w development was just as expensive (IC needs US based s/w or they reinvent the wheel, better), maintenance is still requires the same number of people due to process. And... RedHat is charging more (you'll notice everything is RedHat-based likely)...
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FYI, info sharing has been common in the IC for decades--there are so many sharing knowledge bases out there that wikis and blogs just add to the stack (and are *fad* technologies--just talk to most of the veterans). The CROSSINT problem is still there unfortunately--which is what all they KBs are suppose to solve. Ironic.
According to the FTA, when does high resolution apps create "interoperability" issues? When I hear that word, I'm think ok, MS Dll vs. elf or XML vs. Binary (hard problems but can be fixed). And when does high resolution apps stop a phone's basic function? Android has no minimium resolution requirements, maybe some apps do, but not the OS.
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ok, so it can't run Google Apps or Google Earth, you have the source, prevent a use to start those apps (or diasble/remove them) and write your own email client and so forth, or have a group of F/OSS guys do it for you in the Android Market or go the webOS route and push the users onto the browser. That is a no brainer and exercising the true benefit of opensource. I'm sure the details of this decision will get this guy in legal hot water.
He brings back the old x86 days when off-brand companies like his tout 'cold fusion' and deliver vaporware.
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Really a total disservice to the F/OSS community. I was worried about Koolu, but because they published their modifed stack and distro it showed commitment and was acceptable for them to be late to delivery (and they still are late though after promising a Dec release date). Kogan has done no such thing, just demo-ing a phone mockup at trade shows...
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Kogan, having a closed demo strategy (no beta testers?), holding to all the press releases, tech details and tooling around with a single phone that for all I know was showing a flash app is asking for some major b*tchslapping from the community. And now abrupt about the details of shutting down production & refunds, providing zero details is an insult to the Android community. If Google was involved and led to a legal issue, okay, mentioned it at least, but if it was technical, the community deserves to know the details.
This is not good for the Android community and [we] sure better find out why production was stopped. Was this:
A h/w technical issue? (resolution problem? okay, postpone final and release a handful in beta! This is where the F/OSS community can help...)
A software issue? (releasing it with RC28?, or some huge bug?, okay, publish YOUR Android portion of your stack and we'll [the community] will fix it! F/OSS is all about helping or at least free advice)
A design issue? (you guys forked the Android stack?--big no no at this time).
Sorry, but what is it booting into? A terminal login? If so, then this is completely unproductive--I rather use connectbot or the RC29 terminal on my G1. I'm ashamed./ for posting a video that makes no sense, well maybe in some weird s/w p0rn sense.
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Aside from the cool geek factor, why load Debian? It's a distro optimized for servers. The G1 has a good linux system on it (and it's F/OSS) and a set of great tools. Even on the Freerunner, there's a Debian distro available too, but Om2008, Android, and Qtopia and FDOM are way better. Ok, pat on the back to the fellow for being a true geek (I can relate, e.g. I have Android running on my Freerunner), but yeah?
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Then again, maybe it's because it's Debian? I after to ask it. (here comes the mod-down...) If it was Redhat, Opensuse, Slackware, or even DSL, I doubt it would end up on the front page of/.
On AT&T, surprisingly, if you can't figure out that registration is online (and the CD is just crapware), you call AT&T support and they walk you through--even if it's a Linux installation.
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Considering Verizon likely uses Linux severs to handle proxying, firewall, etc... I'm a bit disappointed at Verizon--but then again who isn't, it's a telco.
In the days of corporate controlled goverenment, we elect officials not for them to do the work, but for their trust that they'll hire lobbyists or interns that put our trust (and interests) in front of their careers. Or at least consider it.
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Unfortunately, that's not the case currently. And it's not a divided nation, it not the lost of faith in our gov't, it's not that we find gov't untrustworthy, it's that with technology and the global community, the translation of trust has been lost. It is being redefined.
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If Obama is going to make [revolutionary] history, it's to open the discussion for how the public trusts the gov't and how that contract should be defined (for the people). At this point, everything else is just status quo, expected or 'putting out fires'... Everything.
From a software standpoint (been there done that): if you're on a maintenance project, or a project following some ISO standard process (or CMMi, SEI, ISO900X, Sigma, MIL-STD, etc...), then the 9/80 really works well. Really well. I used to love the 3 day weekends.
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If you're not on a project in that situation (i.e. any web project, or one following the latest fad methodology to 'get the code out the door', then your 9/80 really becomes 90/80. You'll end up working on that day off--guaranteed.
And remember, These were larger-size applets (today's applets are smaller!) running on 56kpbs.
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All you Java haters, who are likely PHP/Perl/CGI/Flash lovers, just are completely spoiled with broadband internet speeds.
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Could any of the mentioned languages run as fast as Java did over the interwebs back then, I doubt it. 56kbps was just too slow. And the applet concept (interactive apps) were truly ahead of its time.
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For all I know, with Obama's Clinton presidency, it's retro-90's, Webstart is likely going to make a comeback!
Obvious you were working in the consumer-commercial side of the waterfall practice.
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On the DoD Space Systems side, we had stuff like:
A Requirements Traceability Matrix
PDR: Preliminary Design Review with the Customer
CDR: Critical Design Review with the Customer
IOC: Initial Op capability
FAT: Preliminary Acceptance Testing
FOC: Final Op capability
FAT: Final Acceptance Testing
And never had a launch delay due to writing software last minute. And as long as the h/w flew fine, we had birds that ran in space for years. Years.
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The Waterfall model "failed" because of a. it got too expensive due to competition (mainly smaller firms that cut corners resulting in more failures); it wasn't "faster, cheaper". And b. all the OO and Agile guys were better salesmen.
Yes, the end of slavery was a war tactic to penalize the Southern States that the North/union would not recognize their contract to slaves (hence the migration of slaves to the north).
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Back then, in the south, no slaves == no workers == no production == no revenue == no ships/tanks/guns == lost war.
"I think every Obama supporter (and I am one) needs to temper their lofty expectations with a dose of reality"
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I beg to differ.
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Obama supporters should demand the lofty expectations he promised. Otherwise, it is truly politics as usual and we voted in a guy that will likely sit on his laurels since ANYTHING opposite to Bush or even logical will be better (according to those that support Obama).
It's politics, not medicine. The people need to demand performance. Come on people, he's just now doing the "I'm smarter, from harvard, so trust me" talk to set expectations low, when he originally set them high to get YOUR VOTE. Don't believe the hype, demand it.
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In this case, it's fog services.
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Considering MS still controls over 75% of the OS market and over 50% of the mobile device OS market, her comment sure says a lot about how much she knows. Just because your boss setup a couple of cool AJAX websites for recovery.gov, change.gov and even the obama.gov doesn't mean you're qualified as a techie, and the whole technology infrastructure (which Obama is promotion in his stimulus) is just Google.
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This lady is just thinking that when the infrastructure plan is complete, that everyone, I mean everyone will be 'googling' and that make Google all powerful and threatening to the gov't. It's not Google being monopolistic, but the gov't's fear of losing control. Gov't's business is services and information (which is google's) and this is a turf protection manuver.
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Sounds like the same old gov't to me: not getting the big picture on tech, and narrow minded thinking (i.e. turf protection).
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Of course, this could be a deploy by FB to the old-media companies not to exploit them without consent. Ha.
Excuse me, but that would be the R-type edition with overclocked CPU.
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HP appears to be asking the same question, cause I see KDE 4.x elements, of course, running gnome.
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yes, the market is tanking. Party like its 2001.
Makes sense.
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Geez, all this is just a cycling of hype .
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Celebs only bring to the table... themselves.
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(well unless you're in Europe).
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That due to legacy issues with the field (on P3 laptops for instance). They originally wanted to move these apps to web-browsers (back in the day everything had to be on a browser ;) ).
And the only why to get the WYSIWYG of maps and ground truth and stuff was via DirectX and ActiveX widgets on the browser. Everything on the Linux side was nonexistence or too slow (flash/Java). Think about, 3-4 years ago.
Now having firefox, flash, faster Java, XUL, DHTML (and stuff like googlemaps), we can do it now on Linux, but again those apps have been around for years, and are highly integrated in the IC back office--if it ain't broken don't fix it.
.
Also, new tech projects were forced to use open source to lower R&D costs since the war was sucking all the funding away (for ops).
.
You'll normally find Windows (e.g. 'standard base load') on every desktop for day to day office stuff, and open source for servers and R&D--basically replacing the Solaris/AIX/IRIX boxes. Also a biggee for F/OSS is trusted systems, since we have secureLinux and trustedSolaris/IRIX--still for servers only.
.
But in the end, it's still costing the IC the same money as proprietary systems. Why? Maintaining a cleared fleet of admins and engineers are getting more expensive (can't outsource that to overseas for instance), s/w development was just as expensive (IC needs US based s/w or they reinvent the wheel, better), maintenance is still requires the same number of people due to process. And... RedHat is charging more (you'll notice everything is RedHat-based likely)...
.
FYI, info sharing has been common in the IC for decades--there are so many sharing knowledge bases out there that wikis and blogs just add to the stack (and are *fad* technologies--just talk to most of the veterans). The CROSSINT problem is still there unfortunately--which is what all they KBs are suppose to solve. Ironic.
.
ok, so it can't run Google Apps or Google Earth, you have the source, prevent a use to start those apps (or diasble/remove them) and write your own email client and so forth, or have a group of F/OSS guys do it for you in the Android Market or go the webOS route and push the users onto the browser. That is a no brainer and exercising the true benefit of opensource. I'm sure the details of this decision will get this guy in legal hot water.
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He brings back the old x86 days when off-brand companies like his tout 'cold fusion' and deliver vaporware.
.
Really a total disservice to the F/OSS community. I was worried about Koolu, but because they published their modifed stack and distro it showed commitment and was acceptable for them to be late to delivery (and they still are late though after promising a Dec release date). Kogan has done no such thing, just demo-ing a phone mockup at trade shows...
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Kogan, having a closed demo strategy (no beta testers?), holding to all the press releases, tech details and tooling around with a single phone that for all I know was showing a flash app is asking for some major b*tchslapping from the community. And now abrupt about the details of shutting down production & refunds, providing zero details is an insult to the Android community. If Google was involved and led to a legal issue, okay, mentioned it at least, but if it was technical, the community deserves to know the details.
This is not good for the Android community and [we] sure better find out why production was stopped. Was this:
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For all I know, XP's firewall is a bit on the heavy (processing) side and who knows if Windows Update was running...
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Aside from the cool geek factor, why load Debian? It's a distro optimized for servers. The G1 has a good linux system on it (and it's F/OSS) and a set of great tools. Even on the Freerunner, there's a Debian distro available too, but Om2008, Android, and Qtopia and FDOM are way better. Ok, pat on the back to the fellow for being a true geek (I can relate, e.g. I have Android running on my Freerunner), but yeah?
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Then again, maybe it's because it's Debian? I after to ask it. (here comes the mod-down...) If it was Redhat, Opensuse, Slackware, or even DSL, I doubt it would end up on the front page of /.
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Considering Verizon likely uses Linux severs to handle proxying, firewall, etc... I'm a bit disappointed at Verizon--but then again who isn't, it's a telco.
Tagged entertainment == FTW !
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In the days of corporate controlled goverenment, we elect officials not for them to do the work, but for their trust that they'll hire lobbyists or interns that put our trust (and interests) in front of their careers. Or at least consider it.
.
Unfortunately, that's not the case currently. And it's not a divided nation, it not the lost of faith in our gov't, it's not that we find gov't untrustworthy, it's that with technology and the global community, the translation of trust has been lost. It is being redefined.
.
If Obama is going to make [revolutionary] history, it's to open the discussion for how the public trusts the gov't and how that contract should be defined (for the people). At this point, everything else is just status quo, expected or 'putting out fires'... Everything.
.
If you're not on a project in that situation (i.e. any web project, or one following the latest fad methodology to 'get the code out the door', then your 9/80 really becomes 90/80. You'll end up working on that day off--guaranteed.
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All you Java haters, who are likely PHP/Perl/CGI/Flash lovers, just are completely spoiled with broadband internet speeds.
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Could any of the mentioned languages run as fast as Java did over the interwebs back then, I doubt it. 56kbps was just too slow. And the applet concept (interactive apps) were truly ahead of its time.
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For all I know, with Obama's Clinton presidency, it's retro-90's, Webstart is likely going to make a comeback!
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On the DoD Space Systems side, we had stuff like:
And never had a launch delay due to writing software last minute. And as long as the h/w flew fine, we had birds that ran in space for years. Years.
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The Waterfall model "failed" because of a. it got too expensive due to competition (mainly smaller firms that cut corners resulting in more failures); it wasn't "faster, cheaper". And b. all the OO and Agile guys were better salesmen.
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I bet DeMarco is enjoying the responses.
Someone is going to take this device and retro fit it to a C64 cover/chassis. It will truly be killer.
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Back then, in the south, no slaves == no workers == no production == no revenue == no ships/tanks/guns == lost war.
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I beg to differ.
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Obama supporters should demand the lofty expectations he promised. Otherwise, it is truly politics as usual and we voted in a guy that will likely sit on his laurels since ANYTHING opposite to Bush or even logical will be better (according to those that support Obama).
It's politics, not medicine. The people need to demand performance. Come on people, he's just now doing the "I'm smarter, from harvard, so trust me" talk to set expectations low, when he originally set them high to get YOUR VOTE. Don't believe the hype, demand it.
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Obviously, the $50 is payment that is passed onto the p0rn companies as the agents 'need' to fully and completely check out your weblinks.