You can get an X server for Windows. Last I checked (years ago), Mac OS X was distributed with an X server on the install CD. I'm guessing that providing an X server in Wayland can't be hard... though admittedly, I've read no articles.
You're a technical person asking a technical group a business question. Redirect your inquiry to a business person. If you were working for a commercial company, the terms of your distribution of this software would be sussed out by sales people, marketing people, business analysts, etc., but no technical people (unless you count sales engineers or the like).
Don't give anyone access to your own infrastructure. Maybe offer to do a backup / restore or otherwise make copies, but offer these options to a business person on your side, not to prospective external users.
As an Oregonian, it's always thrilling to see my home state in the news!! Uh... any publicity is good publicity, right?
This is an entry point for solid debate. The USA values personal freedom. At the same time, you can't drive without training, you can't sell drugs, etc. There is the concept of one's rights ending where one's fist ends and the next person's nose begins. Does this extend to vaccinations? How well understood are the risks? Are they worth the opportunity to eradicate scores of hideous diseases?
Someone want to play devil's advocate and argue "for freedom"? This being Slashdot, I know where approximately 100% of opinions are. I myself don't care passionately enough to pay attention long enough to make an opinion.
"...has been constrained by the relatively poor lenses which are used to form the image. The new method, called electron ptychography, dispenses with the lens and instead forms the image by reconstructing the scattered electron-waves after they have passed through the sample using computers"
So while the old way had the electrons go through a "lens", they now go through a "computer."
I have this vision in my head of people looking through PC chassis and hoping to use it in place of a lens. So, what type of sensor IS being used? (No, didn't RTFA).
Here in the IT department, we are amused every time some genius 1) Assumes IT can't provide something without bothering to ask, 2) slaps together part of a solution, 3) discovers they need IT's help in some critical way, 4) is appalled when IT thinks they have the right to do their jobs, and 5) never, under any circumstances, manages to realize what's wrong with their sloppy little 2nd grade crafts project of an IT service.
You work for a hospital, you say???
I carry a sort of man-bag. It's just big enough to fit my netbook, a small notebook, a pen, tupperware lunch box and, yes, my keys. Wallet and phone, too, should I take them out of my pockets.
I've always got everything with me but since "everything" is a collection of small things, it isn't a burden.
1) Thank you, thank you for thinking of best practices before taking serious action.
2) ITIL is your friend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Infrastructure_Library
When implemented deliberately and properly, ITIL makes an IT admin darn near *comfy*. Just remember that ITIL != bureaucracy, ITIL == Best Practices.
I'm a Jr. Admin and there's no sign in site that I'm going to stop climbing anytime soon. I spent a couple of go-nowhere years in higher education.
A degree is great for many obvious reasons but consider the recruiter's perspective: you have 200 applications on your desk for one position. 100 of these either don't include a resume or have a generic, irrelevant resume that tells you the applicant saw your job posting and added it to the massive list of places to which they're applying. 50 or so are overqualified. 50 or so sound about right. Which of the 50 gets the job? The one with the prettier piece of paper?
If someone already inside the potential employer knows you, likes you, and thinks you could handle the job even if you're a little underqualified (or a little overqualified), your name just went to the top of the list of 50. The only place that has hired me without knowing me first was Wendy's- and they weren't going to hire me until I came in and made a good impression!
It's all about the People style of networking. Speaking of which, if you'd like to chat about breaking into the industry or just add another IT industry contact to your list, shoot me an email!
And hey, same goes for any IT folks looking to network!
If it's only "most" illegals, say "most illegals." And you don't know that it's really a majority of illegals- just the ones you observe. Please point out my racism. Was it when I said, "Mexican poverty?" You're the one who's talking specifically about Mexican illegals.
So much of who you are is determined by the fact that you were not born into Mexican poverty. Walk a mile in another person's shoes and then just you try to flame on, Johnny Torch.
If I could mod in this thread, I'd mod you up. It's just a cell phone with a miniturized version of the Internet, yet people will pay these kinds of numbers for this kind of service. You're absolutely right.
I proclaimed it costs too much?? Sorry, that's probably implied by my word choice and forum (Slashdot comments) but I didn't intend to do that. Random numbers, yes, completely, but if they do end up going with a subscription model, the cost will likely be reasonable. They've got people who make sure their pricing is sane.
Want Windows? Cool! Just $10 / month!
Word? Excel? Outlook? No prob, just another $10 / month.
Project? Access? PowerPoint? No sweat, just pull out another $20 / month each.
You want SharePoint? Exchange? Easy, just $5 / month per seat!
Want each of those? Microsoft is making $90 / month off a single person. For the amount of functionality it provides, plenty of people would pay that. That's over $1000 / year. And no one can save money by sticking to old versions! As software ages and settles, more people are satisfied with old software. A subscription model erases this problem for Microsoft, who sees that trend as probably the most dangerous possible roadblock to growth.
Some differences between my childhood and my kids' lives:
Between my wife and I, we have three cell phones, each with a great camera. And we have two digital cameras. As a kid, my grampa had a Polaroid and I had a 32mm.
I played Megaman and Zelda and had to get to ungodly goals and write down ridiculous grid passwords to save my game. My son plays the same games on emulators and saves his game by pressing a button.
I used to call Grampa every day, sometimes on the crackly cordless (when we finally got one). My kids call their Papa every day, either via cell phone with a speakerphone option or via Skype.
Most tellingly, I recently demanded that my son "get off the lawn" when he was trying to get a ball before I'd had a chance to pick up the dog's land mines.
I'm past my prime for the military, hairline is receding, I can finally rent a car and my auto insurance is down simply because I'm "Old(er)."
The best part? I turned 25 just last month. You and I are alike in two ways: We're/.ers and we're so ancient as to be out of touch, whether we know it or not!;-)
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You can get an X server for Windows. Last I checked (years ago), Mac OS X was distributed with an X server on the install CD. I'm guessing that providing an X server in Wayland can't be hard... though admittedly, I've read no articles.
How much you want to bet this has to do with smart phone and tablet adoption and their 3G / 4G speeds?
You're a technical person asking a technical group a business question. Redirect your inquiry to a business person. If you were working for a commercial company, the terms of your distribution of this software would be sussed out by sales people, marketing people, business analysts, etc., but no technical people (unless you count sales engineers or the like).
Don't give anyone access to your own infrastructure. Maybe offer to do a backup / restore or otherwise make copies, but offer these options to a business person on your side, not to prospective external users.
As an Oregonian, it's always thrilling to see my home state in the news!! Uh... any publicity is good publicity, right?
This is an entry point for solid debate. The USA values personal freedom. At the same time, you can't drive without training, you can't sell drugs, etc. There is the concept of one's rights ending where one's fist ends and the next person's nose begins. Does this extend to vaccinations? How well understood are the risks? Are they worth the opportunity to eradicate scores of hideous diseases?
Someone want to play devil's advocate and argue "for freedom"? This being Slashdot, I know where approximately 100% of opinions are. I myself don't care passionately enough to pay attention long enough to make an opinion.
"...has been constrained by the relatively poor lenses which are used to form the image. The new method, called electron ptychography, dispenses with the lens and instead forms the image by reconstructing the scattered electron-waves after they have passed through the sample using computers"
So while the old way had the electrons go through a "lens", they now go through a "computer."
I have this vision in my head of people looking through PC chassis and hoping to use it in place of a lens. So, what type of sensor IS being used? (No, didn't RTFA).
Here in the IT department, we are amused every time some genius 1) Assumes IT can't provide something without bothering to ask, 2) slaps together part of a solution, 3) discovers they need IT's help in some critical way, 4) is appalled when IT thinks they have the right to do their jobs, and 5) never, under any circumstances, manages to realize what's wrong with their sloppy little 2nd grade crafts project of an IT service. You work for a hospital, you say???
I carry a sort of man-bag. It's just big enough to fit my netbook, a small notebook, a pen, tupperware lunch box and, yes, my keys. Wallet and phone, too, should I take them out of my pockets.
I've always got everything with me but since "everything" is a collection of small things, it isn't a burden.
Asimov, The Feeling of Power!
1) Thank you, thank you for thinking of best practices before taking serious action. 2) ITIL is your friend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Infrastructure_Library When implemented deliberately and properly, ITIL makes an IT admin darn near *comfy*. Just remember that ITIL != bureaucracy, ITIL == Best Practices.
Because government mandated IT policy will cause an efficient and complete solution to Aunt Janey installing Bonzai Buddy.
Please, tell me how I can waste as much money as possible on this project.
You might consider having a machine or VM dedicated to being an admin console. You remote into that machine to do any work.
And with key based authentication, key(board) loggers aren't a worry.
Oh crap. Soon enough I'll have to have "Quantum Mechanic" on my resume just to get a desktop support job.
It's in EVERYTHING!
I'm a Jr. Admin and there's no sign in site that I'm going to stop climbing anytime soon. I spent a couple of go-nowhere years in higher education.
A degree is great for many obvious reasons but consider the recruiter's perspective: you have 200 applications on your desk for one position. 100 of these either don't include a resume or have a generic, irrelevant resume that tells you the applicant saw your job posting and added it to the massive list of places to which they're applying. 50 or so are overqualified. 50 or so sound about right. Which of the 50 gets the job? The one with the prettier piece of paper?
If someone already inside the potential employer knows you, likes you, and thinks you could handle the job even if you're a little underqualified (or a little overqualified), your name just went to the top of the list of 50. The only place that has hired me without knowing me first was Wendy's- and they weren't going to hire me until I came in and made a good impression!
It's all about the People style of networking. Speaking of which, if you'd like to chat about breaking into the industry or just add another IT industry contact to your list, shoot me an email!
And hey, same goes for any IT folks looking to network!
If it's only "most" illegals, say "most illegals." And you don't know that it's really a majority of illegals- just the ones you observe. Please point out my racism. Was it when I said, "Mexican poverty?" You're the one who's talking specifically about Mexican illegals.
So much of who you are is determined by the fact that you were not born into Mexican poverty. Walk a mile in another person's shoes and then just you try to flame on, Johnny Torch.
They could've had the nerve to hard code all pay values everywhere. Stupid, but there it is.
You're both right but the point he alludes to might be a better question: How often does it happen?
If I could mod in this thread, I'd mod you up. It's just a cell phone with a miniturized version of the Internet, yet people will pay these kinds of numbers for this kind of service. You're absolutely right.
I proclaimed it costs too much?? Sorry, that's probably implied by my word choice and forum (Slashdot comments) but I didn't intend to do that. Random numbers, yes, completely, but if they do end up going with a subscription model, the cost will likely be reasonable. They've got people who make sure their pricing is sane.
Is there a telecom that doesn't suck?
Good point, the concept is the same but the numbers are flexible.
Certainly the home and small business markets will take a second glance. And it's not to say that Windows licensing as it is today will be dead.
Nah. They just break it up.
Want Windows? Cool! Just $10 / month!
Word? Excel? Outlook? No prob, just another $10 / month.
Project? Access? PowerPoint? No sweat, just pull out another $20 / month each.
You want SharePoint? Exchange? Easy, just $5 / month per seat!
Want each of those? Microsoft is making $90 / month off a single person. For the amount of functionality it provides, plenty of people would pay that. That's over $1000 / year. And no one can save money by sticking to old versions! As software ages and settles, more people are satisfied with old software. A subscription model erases this problem for Microsoft, who sees that trend as probably the most dangerous possible roadblock to growth.
Microsoft essentially doesn't support their own OS if it's on a non-Microsoft virtual server:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=897615
Some differences between my childhood and my kids' lives:
/.ers and we're so ancient as to be out of touch, whether we know it or not! ;-)
Between my wife and I, we have three cell phones, each with a great camera. And we have two digital cameras. As a kid, my grampa had a Polaroid and I had a 32mm.
I played Megaman and Zelda and had to get to ungodly goals and write down ridiculous grid passwords to save my game. My son plays the same games on emulators and saves his game by pressing a button.
I used to call Grampa every day, sometimes on the crackly cordless (when we finally got one). My kids call their Papa every day, either via cell phone with a speakerphone option or via Skype.
Most tellingly, I recently demanded that my son "get off the lawn" when he was trying to get a ball before I'd had a chance to pick up the dog's land mines.
I'm past my prime for the military, hairline is receding, I can finally rent a car and my auto insurance is down simply because I'm "Old(er)."
The best part? I turned 25 just last month. You and I are alike in two ways: We're
25: It's the new 30!