First off, everyone step back and take a good look at what is at stake here. Neither China nor the U.S. of A. will destroy the other country's economy or infrastructure. Nor will these governments destroy their new toy - the internet. So what WILL they do? Stand side by side and have a pissing contest to see which country can get the other one to spend the most on "defense". Nothing to see now - or for the next thirty years. But this is a sign of where techs should look for new jobs.
I think Job's Reality Distortion Field is failing. After all of Apple's hype, the iPhone looks like just a fancy phone with all the drawbacks and contracts of a "normal" phone.
Thanks, but I'll wait for the eventual give-aways by AT&T. You know, "sign a lifetime contract and get an iPhone, free".
I know this is really late in the discussion, but the Scribus/Gimp/InkScape suite, along with GhostScript and a host of other one-shot products and add-ons are your best bet. The problem I can see from your question is that you are not a "designer". I am not dissing you. Not being a designer is akin to not being a crack-head, akaic. If you WERE a designer you wouldn't be asking those kinds of questions because they are ALL addicted to Adobe/Quark. The fact that you are willing to propose abandoning the Adobe/Quark products to real designers shows a refreshing innocense.
One tip from someone who has had to support REAL designers for 10 years (shudder) - get someone else to propose the idea for you. If they survive, take over the project. Its much easier than being "that guy who hates designers".
Modern sound recordings suck and the recordings are even worse if you download. Makes a lot of sense considering most people listen to music through speakers the size of DIMES.
EMI and a Sony Company both offer some sort of music file that is "better" than other recordings, for a price.
What's in it for the support guy? Dell and HP and anyone else (Acer, Lenovo, Etc) all do about the same in terms of support. I use both Dell (laptops) and HP (Desktops, printers) and have the same problems and good things to report with both of them.
Not really the issue.
1) How easy will it be for you to reimage one of these puppies? Will Dell/HP supply you with all of the drivers when you build your image or make you hunt?
2) When your lease is up, how bad will it be if you don't return, say, the original boxes, the original keyboards, or the original monitors? (Yes, my corp had that happen - shudder-).
3) What are the IT perks? Will HP or Dell give you access to their training and an opportunity to become a fully-authorized repair person? Comes in handy.
I could go on, but why? What's in it for Y-O-U? The lusers will complain no matter what. The management will be clueless and be looking for their own handouts. It all comes down to you.
the next version of Windows could be five years away. I'm pretty sure people will have time to adjust. Still good news for everyone that MS is moving forward. Can't wait to see what they need to change.
BTW - I am doing a little informal research on SD. I will now get myself modded down as Troll. Observe:
MS SUCKS!
(I don't really think MS sucks, but this IS science.)
"Or are you suggesting that Estonian sysadmins perform the impossible and patch all these lousy Windows boxes on various ISP accounts around the world?"
As a matter of fact, yes, I am suggesting that. More or less, I would either like everyone in the world to patch the systems OR see MS take responsibility for the giant macro-economic mess they've created. I shouldn't have to suffer whatever problems the US has in store becasue Gates & Co. can't get their act together.
"just think what it would do your nations economy."
And there it is. The tie-in with the everpresent threat af foriegn attacks against "a" government. "See waht those Russians did to the Estonians? See? See? IT COULD HAPPEN HERE, TOO!"
What exactly do you propose the governments do about these attacks? This will be a NATO issue and that means the Big, Bad U.S. of A. will get involved. Let's face it, that means civil liberties will be eroded even more.
For the love of freedom, just patch the boxes and shut up!
This sort of thing will come up more and more as western civ. slowly loses its ability to read. Already we have instructions created in diagram-only formats and even simple declaritive signs are reduced to symbols for "conprehension".
This is not to say that our schools are doing a bad job teaching reading or I.Q.s are dropping, but fewer and fewer people take the time to really read anything longer than a magazine article or a blog.
I've said for years the best way to protect you data is divide between two government agencies. I worked for our great state health dept. here and they were constantly fighting to connect-up their DBs, but their comittees and conferences and meetings and calls couldn't quite agree on such prosaid and unimportant things as, say, the data-length of the first name field. I was there for four years and no one managed to combine so much as two lousy mailing databases.
BTW, I was NOT in data managment and as a red-blooded, vote-casting citizen of my good state I kept my @#$%ed mouth shut about how to fix the problem, as should we all.
I know this is an oversimplification, but isn't this just another IT layoff? From what I understand, the people being laid off don't actually "make" anything, they just support the stuff other people create. Doesn't that make them a potential target for any layoff or outsourcing venture? In that light, this doesn't sound so far fetched, at least not to me.
So, this is it then. This is the so-called "one world government" the nut-jobs have warned us about. The only problem is that it has no real power except money, has no army except lawyers, and creates only profit for the very rich and powerful.
I always knew I hated Sony and BMG. Hard to think of them as our overlords after all their cute commercials.
Same here. My corp. offices set up a fax server (RightFax) and have an different 800 number for each office that wants one. Cut WAY down on the junk faxes, and since the email comes into a group mail box we can use standard filters (via phone numbers).
"The primary reason the IT security industry exists is because IT products and services aren't naturally secure."
Which is like saying that the primary reason the physical security industry exists is because buildings aren't naturally secure.
That simply isn't true. It exists becasue people are sneaky little bastards who naturally want what other people have. You cannot make something secure enough to keep everyone out - physically or digitally.
"This fuel cell type is essentially a battery in which bacteria consume water-soluble brewing waste such as sugar, starch and alcohol...."
Its not bad enough that we're killing off honey bees, polar bears, dolphins, tigers, and pandas, but now we need to do THIS? SUGAR, STARCH, and ALCOLHOL IS NOT WASTE!!! THAT'S **BEER**!!!!!
Why, for the love of all that's holy, do we need to create something that might one day consume all of the beer in the world.
Solvang Advanced Ploymers (http://www.solvayadvancedpolymers.com/)becasue they use a lot of plastics, and stuff.
I bet there are a lot of other companies Apple could buy that happen to produce things they consume. Apple uses hard drives. Why don't they buy Hitachi?
Just becasue Apple has decided to use something doesn't mean they need to buy the company.
The odds against something like this working ar astronomical. The odds against it being used in court (or worse, being used to "detain" someone) are just about even.
That means some poor schmuck will end up sitting in a detention cell for a decade or so because he shouted for something and the lipreaders thought he said 'bomb'.
The National Incandescent Light Board - Helping to keep America in the dark since the invention of the light bulb.
Of course, it goes without saying that ALL flourescent lights contain mercury.
Bad Flourescent lights! Bad! Bad!
It also goes without saying that burning fosil fuels, especially coal, realease mercury into the atmosphere, and the more energy a light bulb uses, the more mercury it releases.
Bad incandescent lights! Bad! Bad!
Welcome to the conundrum of modern technology.
"We've got like two types of pollution, bad and worse. Which one you want?"
"Google-y is defined as somebody who is fairly flexible, adaptable and not focusing on titles and hierarchy, and just gets stuff done."
In my experience, this translates into a dead-end grunt job.
Fairly flexable = Willing to do anything from sweep floors to fetch coffee. Adaptable = Doesn't need to be shown how to sweep floors or fetch coffee. Not focusing on titles or hierarchy = No promotions and everyone is your boss. Just gets stuff done = This would be the stuff no one else wants to do.
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Its like "Buggy Whips, Inc chooses Naugahide over Vinyl". I can't remember the last time I bought/rented a movie on a disk.
I guess the dying industries need to get into the news somehow.
So sad.
First off, everyone step back and take a good look at what is at stake here. Neither China nor the U.S. of A. will destroy the other country's economy or infrastructure. Nor will these governments destroy their new toy - the internet.
So what WILL they do? Stand side by side and have a pissing contest to see which country can get the other one to spend the most on "defense".
Nothing to see now - or for the next thirty years. But this is a sign of where techs should look for new jobs.
I think Job's Reality Distortion Field is failing. After all of Apple's hype, the iPhone looks like just a fancy phone with all the drawbacks and contracts of a "normal" phone.
Thanks, but I'll wait for the eventual give-aways by AT&T. You know, "sign a lifetime contract and get an iPhone, free".
I know this is really late in the discussion, but the Scribus/Gimp/InkScape suite, along with GhostScript and a host of other one-shot products and add-ons are your best bet. The problem I can see from your question is that you are not a "designer". I am not dissing you. Not being a designer is akin to not being a crack-head, akaic. If you WERE a designer you wouldn't be asking those kinds of questions because they are ALL addicted to Adobe/Quark. The fact that you are willing to propose abandoning the Adobe/Quark products to real designers shows a refreshing innocense.
One tip from someone who has had to support REAL designers for 10 years (shudder) - get someone else to propose the idea for you. If they survive, take over the project. Its much easier than being "that guy who hates designers".
Yeah, but you paid $5 for PAUL MC CARTNEY SONGS! Have some pride, man.
Modern sound recordings suck and the recordings are even worse if you download. Makes a lot of sense considering most people listen to music through speakers the size of DIMES.
EMI and a Sony Company both offer some sort of music file that is "better" than other recordings, for a price.
THIS "STORY" WAS AN ADVERTISEMENT.
Would it really have something to do with the rising gas and oil prices? It seems to me I'm paying about $1 US more at the pumps than last year.
Surely they mean "Attack Resistant". No sane person would use the 'proof' word in this world.
What's in it for the support guy? Dell and HP and anyone else (Acer, Lenovo, Etc) all do about the same in terms of support. I use both Dell (laptops) and HP (Desktops, printers) and have the same problems and good things to report with both of them.
Not really the issue.
1) How easy will it be for you to reimage one of these puppies? Will Dell/HP supply you with all of the drivers when you build your image or make you hunt?
2) When your lease is up, how bad will it be if you don't return, say, the original boxes, the original keyboards, or the original monitors? (Yes, my corp had that happen - shudder-).
3) What are the IT perks? Will HP or Dell give you access to their training and an opportunity to become a fully-authorized repair person? Comes in handy.
I could go on, but why? What's in it for Y-O-U? The lusers will complain no matter what. The management will be clueless and be looking for their own handouts. It all comes down to you.
Bill Gates is on his knees, right now. If you losten closely, you can hear his prayer;
"Please please please, somone film the crash."
the next version of Windows could be five years away. I'm pretty sure people will have time to adjust. Still good news for everyone that MS is moving forward. Can't wait to see what they need to change.
BTW - I am doing a little informal research on SD. I will now get myself modded down as Troll. Observe:
MS SUCKS!
(I don't really think MS sucks, but this IS science.)
"Or are you suggesting that Estonian sysadmins perform the impossible and patch all these lousy Windows boxes on various ISP accounts around the world?"
As a matter of fact, yes, I am suggesting that. More or less, I would either like everyone in the world to patch the systems OR see MS take responsibility for the giant macro-economic mess they've created. I shouldn't have to suffer whatever problems the US has in store becasue Gates & Co. can't get their act together.
"just think what it would do your nations economy."
And there it is. The tie-in with the everpresent threat af foriegn attacks against "a" government. "See waht those Russians did to the Estonians? See? See? IT COULD HAPPEN HERE, TOO!"
What exactly do you propose the governments do about these attacks? This will be a NATO issue and that means the Big, Bad U.S. of A. will get involved. Let's face it, that means civil liberties will be eroded even more.
For the love of freedom, just patch the boxes and shut up!
This sort of thing will come up more and more as western civ. slowly loses its ability to read. Already we have instructions created in diagram-only formats and even simple declaritive signs are reduced to symbols for "conprehension".
This is not to say that our schools are doing a bad job teaching reading or I.Q.s are dropping, but fewer and fewer people take the time to really read anything longer than a magazine article or a blog.
You may bash me when ready.
Amen, brother.
I've said for years the best way to protect you data is divide between two government agencies. I worked for our great state health dept. here and they were constantly fighting to connect-up their DBs, but their comittees and conferences and meetings and calls couldn't quite agree on such prosaid and unimportant things as, say, the data-length of the first name field. I was there for four years and no one managed to combine so much as two lousy mailing databases.
BTW, I was NOT in data managment and as a red-blooded, vote-casting citizen of my good state I kept my @#$%ed mouth shut about how to fix the problem, as should we all.
I know this is an oversimplification, but isn't this just another IT layoff?
From what I understand, the people being laid off don't actually "make" anything, they just support the stuff other people create. Doesn't that make them a potential target for any layoff or outsourcing venture? In that light, this doesn't sound so far fetched, at least not to me.
So, this is it then. This is the so-called "one world government" the nut-jobs have warned us about. The only problem is that it has no real power except money, has no army except lawyers, and creates only profit for the very rich and powerful.
I always knew I hated Sony and BMG. Hard to think of them as our overlords after all their cute commercials.
Same here. My corp. offices set up a fax server (RightFax) and have an different 800 number for each office that wants one. Cut WAY down on the junk faxes, and since the email comes into a group mail box we can use standard filters (via phone numbers).
"The primary reason the IT security industry exists is because IT products and services aren't naturally secure."
Which is like saying that the primary reason the physical security industry exists is because buildings aren't naturally secure.
That simply isn't true. It exists becasue people are sneaky little bastards who naturally want what other people have. You cannot make something secure enough to keep everyone out - physically or digitally.
"This fuel cell type is essentially a battery in which bacteria consume water-soluble brewing waste such as sugar, starch and alcohol ...."
Its not bad enough that we're killing off honey bees, polar bears, dolphins, tigers, and pandas, but now we need to do THIS?
SUGAR, STARCH, and ALCOLHOL IS NOT WASTE!!! THAT'S **BEER**!!!!!
Why, for the love of all that's holy, do we need to create something that might one day consume all of the beer in the world.
STOP THE MADNESS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
Solvang Advanced Ploymers (http://www.solvayadvancedpolymers.com/)becasue they use a lot of plastics, and stuff. I bet there are a lot of other companies Apple could buy that happen to produce things they consume. Apple uses hard drives. Why don't they buy Hitachi? Just becasue Apple has decided to use something doesn't mean they need to buy the company.
The odds against something like this working ar astronomical.
The odds against it being used in court (or worse, being used to "detain" someone) are just about even.
That means some poor schmuck will end up sitting in a detention cell for a decade or so because he shouted for something and the lipreaders thought he said 'bomb'.
The National Incandescent Light Board - Helping to keep America in the dark since the invention of the light bulb.
Of course, it goes without saying that ALL flourescent lights contain mercury.
Bad Flourescent lights! Bad! Bad!
It also goes without saying that burning fosil fuels, especially coal, realease mercury into the atmosphere, and the more energy a light bulb uses, the more mercury it releases.
Bad incandescent lights! Bad! Bad!
Welcome to the conundrum of modern technology.
"We've got like two types of pollution, bad and worse. Which one you want?"
New technologies may present unseen risks. Use with caution.
"Google-y is defined as somebody who is fairly flexible, adaptable and not focusing on titles and hierarchy, and just gets stuff done."
In my experience, this translates into a dead-end grunt job.
Fairly flexable = Willing to do anything from sweep floors to fetch coffee.
Adaptable = Doesn't need to be shown how to sweep floors or fetch coffee.
Not focusing on titles or hierarchy = No promotions and everyone is your boss.
Just gets stuff done = This would be the stuff no one else wants to do.
Translation: Paid Intern