The first, and probably most important step would be to hire someone, such as myself, who is thoroughly versed in this topic. Someone, such as I, who has done this everyday for about 4 years at companies like Intel, Novell and Microsoft (leaving the latter due to the inferior IIS and all things pertaining to Basic):)
I find Pinkerton's solution to be offensive in so many ways.
Pinkerton is saying that they will provide a number that kids can call anonymously to turn their peers in for being different. For doing this, there are fabulous prizes to be won. How can you reward someone anonymously, and how do you verify the truth of a child's statement without putting the turned-in-victim though a period of psychological torture, whether he/she's "guilty" of being different or not?
When I was in high school there was a young girl in my neighborhood who was known for her wild stories, and imagination. One day, when she was in 5th or 6th grade, the school put on a program about abuse and such. She piped up that her dad touched her in "those ways" all the time. The people putting on the program immediately gave her their full panicked attention (as those involved in witch hunts are wont to do), and due to that attention her stories began to grow.
To make a long story short, the father had NOT done anything to his daughter and this fact was proved beyond a doubt. There was no medical evidence to back up the girl's stories and the father wasn't even around during the time the majority of her stories were supposed to have happened since there was a court order for him to stay away from his family during this investigation. My point is that the mother and father of this girl went through hell for several months (and were separated for those months by a court order) before substantial proof was gained to prove the fathers innocence and that the girl was lying.
Those turned in by their peers to 1(800)TEL-PFSL (Tell Pinkerton's Fascist Snitch Line) are guaranteed to suffer similarly. I believe many innocent children will suffer at the hands of Pinkerton should this be allowed to take place. This plan defies common sense and decency and has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with acquiring more money for Pinkerton.
Another problem I have is that the government is all for it. This is not their business and they shouldn't be involved in any way. In my opinion, if the government were really concerned about our children, they would drastically cut taxes so that both parents wouldn't have to work in order to live. One parent could stay home with their young ones and teach them how to act in society, amongst other things. As it is, many kids grow up without such guidance. You can't expect a child to learn to live well in a society and play well with others if you never teach them to do so. Pinkerton is not the answer, a family is.
This article stated - "Open source still requires good project management..."
I firmly believe that if Linux had been developed under the control of product management, as commercial products are,it would not be what it is today.
As one who has been a project manager, as well as a victum of product management, at a couple of large, well-known, and even disliked, commercial software companies I can assure everyone that project management,as described in this article, tends to kill the creativity, developer morale and intrinsic drive that has allowed Linux to excel.
I don't know why people get upset about these benchmarks. If Linux has some shortcomings, isn't it best for us to know about them so they can be fixed? Besides, to me benchmark tests are irrelevant. I run both NT and Linux at work everyday. All that matters to me is that my Linux machine has been up ever since I started working here (running Caldera's Open Linux). My NT machine must be rebooted several times each day. I am doing the same work on both machines. Bottom Line -- What good is speed to me if it's not reliable?
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Anyone who thinks W2K is going to change the rules in Microshaft's favor obviously hasn't had the misfortune of using it yet.
It took me about a week to be comfortable with the dvorak layout, so learning it is not that big a deal. I wouldn't switch back. I haven't noticed any increase in my typing speed, but I think that's because my brain refuses to think any faster. I have, however, noticed a BIG difference in typing comfort. I feel that I have to put only a fraction of the effort into typing when using the dvorak layout opposed to qwerty (except when typing "ls -l". All the keystrokes for this command are done using the little finger of the right hand.) I love the dvorak layout and think everyone should use it.
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The first, and probably most important step would be to hire someone, such as myself, who is thoroughly versed in this topic. Someone, such as I, who has done this everyday for about 4 years at companies like Intel, Novell and Microsoft (leaving the latter due to the inferior IIS and all things pertaining to Basic):)
I find Pinkerton's solution to be offensive in so many ways.
Pinkerton is saying that they will provide a number that kids can call anonymously to turn their peers in for being different. For doing this, there are fabulous prizes to be won. How can you reward someone anonymously, and how do you verify the truth of a child's statement without putting the turned-in-victim though a period of psychological torture, whether he/she's "guilty" of being different or not?
When I was in high school there was a young girl in my neighborhood who was known for her wild stories, and imagination. One day, when she was in 5th or 6th grade, the school put on a program about abuse and such. She piped up that her dad touched her in "those ways" all the time. The people putting on the program immediately gave her their full panicked attention (as those involved in witch hunts are wont to do), and due to that attention her stories began to grow.
To make a long story short, the father had NOT done anything to his daughter and this fact was proved beyond a doubt. There was no medical evidence to back up the girl's stories and the father wasn't even around during the time the majority of her stories were supposed to have happened since there was a court order for him to stay away from his family during this investigation.
My point is that the mother and father of this girl went through hell for several months (and were separated for those months by a court order) before substantial proof was gained to prove the fathers innocence and that the girl was lying.
Those turned in by their peers to 1(800)TEL-PFSL (Tell Pinkerton's Fascist Snitch Line) are guaranteed to suffer similarly.
I believe many innocent children will suffer at the hands of Pinkerton should this be allowed to take place. This plan defies common sense and decency and has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with acquiring more money for Pinkerton.
Another problem I have is that the government is all for it. This is not their business and they shouldn't be involved in any way. In my opinion, if the government were really concerned about our children, they would drastically cut taxes so that both parents wouldn't have to work in order to live. One parent could stay home with their young ones and teach them how to act in society, amongst other things. As it is, many kids grow up without such guidance. You can't expect a child to learn to live well in a society and play well with others if you never teach them to do so. Pinkerton is not the answer, a family is.
This article stated - "Open source still requires good project management..."
I firmly believe that if Linux had been developed under the control of product management, as commercial products are,it would not be what it is today.
As one who has been a project manager, as well as a victum of product management, at a couple of large, well-known, and even disliked, commercial software companies I can assure everyone that project management,as described in this article, tends to kill the creativity, developer morale and intrinsic drive that has allowed Linux to excel.
I don't know why people get upset about these benchmarks. If Linux has some shortcomings, isn't it best for us to know about them so they can be fixed? Besides, to me benchmark tests are irrelevant. I run both NT and Linux at work everyday. All that matters to me is that my Linux machine has been up ever since I started working here (running Caldera's Open Linux). My NT machine must be rebooted several times each day. I am doing the same work on both machines. Bottom Line -- What good is speed to me if it's not reliable?
Anyone who thinks W2K is going to change the rules in Microshaft's favor obviously hasn't had the misfortune of using it yet.
It took me about a week to be comfortable with the dvorak layout, so learning it is not that big a deal. I wouldn't switch back. I haven't noticed any increase in my typing speed, but I think that's because my brain refuses to think any faster. I have, however, noticed a BIG difference in typing comfort. I feel that I have to put only a fraction of the effort into typing when using the dvorak layout opposed to qwerty (except when typing "ls -l". All the keystrokes for this command are done using the little finger of the right hand.) I love the dvorak layout and think everyone should use it.