Okay, I think that not only is the pay offered too low but the job expectations also require extra work that produces little to no value whatsoever. It is honestly more lucrative for an IT professional to be a consultant. Consultant's are generally treated with more respect than being a full time employee and they get to do work that has value without the mickey mouse extra crap that, in reality, contributes nothing but makes management look productive. Yes, I am a little sour today......
The debate of evolutionism vs. creationism will probably never end due, in a large part, to the human adversity to change. Humans have a tendency to hold on to what is familiar or what they think they can grasp and understand. Humans are a bit change adverse. The very religious and the fundamentalists will never disavow the bible, torah, koran, etc. As others have noted, new evidence will change nothing. In the end, those that produce the new evidence will be lambasted by the creationists. This is an argument that will probably never disappear, as much as we wish it would.
I know this is a little off topic but I liked the bit on rentership and bootstrapping. While the article really had nothing directly to do with IE development costs, it did highlight some of the benefits of cloud computing. Prior to cloud computing, it took lots of money to build out infrastructure to support an application or system in development. Cloud computing makes enterprise-sized infrastructure available to the bootstrapper. It has leveled the playing field!
I am too. There was a lot of radiation released by Fukushima. Don't tell everyone to panic but don't lie and, in effect, tell everyone they are going to be okay either. It is a known fact that gamma radiation destroys DNA. I think one can link some cancers to gamma ray exposure.
Please mod the parent up! The true issue at heart is device ownership. If you purchase the device, you should be able to do modify it as you see fit! After all, as the thread parent notes, you are welcome to customize a car. In fact, why should browsers even be closed source? Don't they have to be standards compliant in order to function on the internet? A car is open source - you can easily get the repair manuals for it. In this case, a web browser is the "car" on the information "highway." What possible advantages does locking down a browser offer? I can see making proprietary plugins (to a point) that ride on top of a browser but to force people into using one or the other has no utility other than to alienate him or her.
I would recommend checking out Sogo. This would provide a good groupware solution. In their upcoming version, 2.0, it will have some goodies like Exchange Server emulation so it will integrate well with those using Outlook. For collaboration, you can check out Alfresco. As for a common identity management solution therein lies the trick. If you are brave, you can check out using Samba4 and configure all of your clients to authenticate against their version of Active Directory. The Samba wiki has some good instructions on that. I know that there is an open source software package that helps integrate Linux with Active Directory but I cannot remember its name. It does get packaged with Ubuntu, however. Hope this helps some.....
In most states it is considered a felony to engage in any kind of private investigation without being licensed. Is this the same for the U.K? If an MPAA agent tried to do that to me, I would go after the MPAA and demand to see their license to conduct private investigations and persue this to the fullest extent of the law. Guarranteed they aren't licensed to do such work and their employee would be operating outside the scope of his responsibilities. Therefore the employee posing as the agent is subject to arrest and being charged with a felony. A separate civil pursuit of the MPAA would be the next step.
Fight hate the way the Southern Poverty Law Center does it: through civil law. Imposing huge monetary fines and loss of assets actually does a whole lot more to bring down hatred than incarceration. Look at the decimation of some racist and militia-style hate groups where their assets were seized and turned over to the victim. Without a hate pulpit to preach from, these groups dissolve and disband. Anti-hate laws do little to curb the behavior - you have to hit'em in the wallet to stop it.
This makes me wonder if Meg Whitman hasn't received some "economic advantages" from China. This is really very sad. HP is a United States-based company. The layoffs should hit China first. This makes me think Meg Whitman isn't very patriotic. She is loyal to her own bottom line. I understand things were better at eBay before she came on the scene. Let's watch her further decimate HP.
China engages in all kinds of economic protectionism including artificially manipulating its currency not to mention import tariffs. So, by leveling these accusations at the United States, they sound awfully stale and hollow.
I read the headline and had a belly laugh to the point of hurting. What kind of legal action can they really take? I guess they could indict a few Google executives in their Sharia Court of Law which will amount to precisely nothing. In fact, I imagine Sergey Brin is laughing at this too. About the only thing Iran can do is rattle its sabre again to drive oil prices back up over a hundred bucks a barrel.
This is a really sad day but he hung in there to just about the bitter end. He really is the only viable candidate to be the next president of the United States. I was proud to cast my vote for Ron Paul in the primary. If Mitt Romney were smart, he'd reach out to Ron Paul to be his Vice President. Somehow, I don't think Romney will, but he should.
I have a feeling this app might be partially responsible for a paradigm shift in data pricing. In other words, carriers will want to compensate for lost revenue by making data even more expensive. There is already talks about going VoLTE. This would turn the basic phone call into a data transmission and subtract from available data quotas in people's plans. CTIA is lobbying VoLTE as a boon to consumers. Not so as it actually makes it more expensive to the consumer to make cellular phone calls. We would be going backwards to the days when cellular calls were.25 a minute or more.
It has been reported before that Verizon Wireless and AT&T are both begging for spectrum while they are currently holding spectrum that they haven't even used yet! This sounds like they want to grab as much as possible only to crowd others out of the market. The CTIA is an industry lobby group and is not there to benefit the consumer no matter how much they claim to benefit both.
Boilers have release valves for a reason. Even if you could turn the heat all the way up the safety release valves would let go. You would have to weld those shut to explode a boiler. If the "evil-doers" are welding those shut you have other problems
Also, elevators have safety systems that deploy brakes automatically when an accelerometer detects a sudden acceleration well oustide of normal operating parameters.
This is a sad day for education in America. I remember as a kid building stuff with HeathKit products. I guess no one wants to learn how things work and build them anymore. This, I would guess, is prime example of how education is dwindling. I am a proponent of lifelong learning too.
This is a very bad idea! There is a reason that doctors go through all of that training and we go to see doctors for our ailments: because it is neither a good idea nor within our abiliyt and training to diagnose ourselves. Even doctors never self-diagnose, they go to other doctors for a diagnosis. I am sure that Big Pharma would positively drool at the opportunity to be able to easily push more pills on us. I don't trust some computer kiosk to do that for me. Computers follow a black and white algorithm whereas practicing medicine is something done with "outside of the box thinking."
The Telegraph reported it and that particular rag is known for fudging more than a few things here and there. I would say nothing to see here, move along.
This is one area where a la carte pricing just doesn't work. It may work for the airlines but not for computing. Policies like this will drive people to alternatives like Linux. This isn't the brightest move that has been made by Microsoft.
The article mentioned manageability problems with Linux on the desktop and I disagree. Check out puppet for helping to manage systems. I have a soft spot for open source, particularly CentOS and OpenBSD. Again, from the article, if the Chester County Cat Hospital in the Greater Philadelphia area can deploy Linux on the desktop and server, then just about anyone can. I was amazed that anyone could find an open source practice management system. Generally, I think this article was not too well written but I am impressed at the research done to discover the Chester County Cat Hospital. I actually know of that practice and used to live in the area. Additionally, here is an article written about a company specializing in open source usage in business. A company by the name of MTier has done it, and in the process, is able to basically architect a system that is so secure that it would probably surpass standard auditing requirements by a wide margin: A Puffy in the corporate aquarium
I can see how a wind farm could effect climate change on a small scale. Blades on the wind mill create pockets of turbulence which could disturb, albeit in a small way, the local climate. Others have noted that the headline is rather poor but, given enough sizeable wind farms, there could be a sizeable impact. California has some large scale wind farms that could effect climate change for nearly half of the large, populous state so the change could be larger.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, I think that not only is the pay offered too low but the job expectations also require extra work that produces little to no value whatsoever. It is honestly more lucrative for an IT professional to be a consultant. Consultant's are generally treated with more respect than being a full time employee and they get to do work that has value without the mickey mouse extra crap that, in reality, contributes nothing but makes management look productive. Yes, I am a little sour today ......
Remember, you don't NEED to use Microsoft Windows. Linux is a viable option. Red Hat Linux works well on the desktop.
The debate of evolutionism vs. creationism will probably never end due, in a large part, to the human adversity to change. Humans have a tendency to hold on to what is familiar or what they think they can grasp and understand. Humans are a bit change adverse. The very religious and the fundamentalists will never disavow the bible, torah, koran, etc. As others have noted, new evidence will change nothing. In the end, those that produce the new evidence will be lambasted by the creationists. This is an argument that will probably never disappear, as much as we wish it would.
I know this is a little off topic but I liked the bit on rentership and bootstrapping. While the article really had nothing directly to do with IE development costs, it did highlight some of the benefits of cloud computing. Prior to cloud computing, it took lots of money to build out infrastructure to support an application or system in development. Cloud computing makes enterprise-sized infrastructure available to the bootstrapper. It has leveled the playing field!
I am too. There was a lot of radiation released by Fukushima. Don't tell everyone to panic but don't lie and, in effect, tell everyone they are going to be okay either. It is a known fact that gamma radiation destroys DNA. I think one can link some cancers to gamma ray exposure.
Please mod the parent up! The true issue at heart is device ownership. If you purchase the device, you should be able to do modify it as you see fit! After all, as the thread parent notes, you are welcome to customize a car. In fact, why should browsers even be closed source? Don't they have to be standards compliant in order to function on the internet? A car is open source - you can easily get the repair manuals for it. In this case, a web browser is the "car" on the information "highway." What possible advantages does locking down a browser offer? I can see making proprietary plugins (to a point) that ride on top of a browser but to force people into using one or the other has no utility other than to alienate him or her.
I would recommend checking out Sogo. This would provide a good groupware solution. In their upcoming version, 2.0, it will have some goodies like Exchange Server emulation so it will integrate well with those using Outlook. For collaboration, you can check out Alfresco. As for a common identity management solution therein lies the trick. If you are brave, you can check out using Samba4 and configure all of your clients to authenticate against their version of Active Directory. The Samba wiki has some good instructions on that. I know that there is an open source software package that helps integrate Linux with Active Directory but I cannot remember its name. It does get packaged with Ubuntu, however. Hope this helps some .....
In most states it is considered a felony to engage in any kind of private investigation without being licensed. Is this the same for the U.K? If an MPAA agent tried to do that to me, I would go after the MPAA and demand to see their license to conduct private investigations and persue this to the fullest extent of the law. Guarranteed they aren't licensed to do such work and their employee would be operating outside the scope of his responsibilities. Therefore the employee posing as the agent is subject to arrest and being charged with a felony. A separate civil pursuit of the MPAA would be the next step.
Fight hate the way the Southern Poverty Law Center does it: through civil law. Imposing huge monetary fines and loss of assets actually does a whole lot more to bring down hatred than incarceration. Look at the decimation of some racist and militia-style hate groups where their assets were seized and turned over to the victim. Without a hate pulpit to preach from, these groups dissolve and disband. Anti-hate laws do little to curb the behavior - you have to hit'em in the wallet to stop it.
This makes me wonder if Meg Whitman hasn't received some "economic advantages" from China. This is really very sad. HP is a United States-based company. The layoffs should hit China first. This makes me think Meg Whitman isn't very patriotic. She is loyal to her own bottom line. I understand things were better at eBay before she came on the scene. Let's watch her further decimate HP.
China engages in all kinds of economic protectionism including artificially manipulating its currency not to mention import tariffs. So, by leveling these accusations at the United States, they sound awfully stale and hollow.
I read the headline and had a belly laugh to the point of hurting. What kind of legal action can they really take? I guess they could indict a few Google executives in their Sharia Court of Law which will amount to precisely nothing. In fact, I imagine Sergey Brin is laughing at this too. About the only thing Iran can do is rattle its sabre again to drive oil prices back up over a hundred bucks a barrel.
This is a really sad day but he hung in there to just about the bitter end. He really is the only viable candidate to be the next president of the United States. I was proud to cast my vote for Ron Paul in the primary. If Mitt Romney were smart, he'd reach out to Ron Paul to be his Vice President. Somehow, I don't think Romney will, but he should.
I have a feeling this app might be partially responsible for a paradigm shift in data pricing. In other words, carriers will want to compensate for lost revenue by making data even more expensive. There is already talks about going VoLTE. This would turn the basic phone call into a data transmission and subtract from available data quotas in people's plans. CTIA is lobbying VoLTE as a boon to consumers. Not so as it actually makes it more expensive to the consumer to make cellular phone calls. We would be going backwards to the days when cellular calls were .25 a minute or more.
It has been reported before that Verizon Wireless and AT&T are both begging for spectrum while they are currently holding spectrum that they haven't even used yet! This sounds like they want to grab as much as possible only to crowd others out of the market. The CTIA is an industry lobby group and is not there to benefit the consumer no matter how much they claim to benefit both.
Sounds like attempts to whip up a fear storm and get more funds allocated towards anti-terrorism. I get sick of the fear storms!
Boilers have release valves for a reason. Even if you could turn the heat all the way up the safety release valves would let go. You would have to weld those shut to explode a boiler. If the "evil-doers" are welding those shut you have other problems
Also, elevators have safety systems that deploy brakes automatically when an accelerometer detects a sudden acceleration well oustide of normal operating parameters.
This is a sad day for education in America. I remember as a kid building stuff with HeathKit products. I guess no one wants to learn how things work and build them anymore. This, I would guess, is prime example of how education is dwindling. I am a proponent of lifelong learning too.
Why couldn't they have recreated a herd of these guys instead of raptors? Think 'Petting Zoo' instead of 'dying a horrible death'
Well, it would make for a rather boring book and the movie would flop fairly miserably. LOL!
This is a very bad idea! There is a reason that doctors go through all of that training and we go to see doctors for our ailments: because it is neither a good idea nor within our abiliyt and training to diagnose ourselves. Even doctors never self-diagnose, they go to other doctors for a diagnosis. I am sure that Big Pharma would positively drool at the opportunity to be able to easily push more pills on us. I don't trust some computer kiosk to do that for me. Computers follow a black and white algorithm whereas practicing medicine is something done with "outside of the box thinking."
The Telegraph reported it and that particular rag is known for fudging more than a few things here and there. I would say nothing to see here, move along.
Well, all you have to do is download VideoLAN and, voila, problem solved!
This is one area where a la carte pricing just doesn't work. It may work for the airlines but not for computing. Policies like this will drive people to alternatives like Linux. This isn't the brightest move that has been made by Microsoft.
The article mentioned manageability problems with Linux on the desktop and I disagree. Check out puppet for helping to manage systems. I have a soft spot for open source, particularly CentOS and OpenBSD. Again, from the article, if the Chester County Cat Hospital in the Greater Philadelphia area can deploy Linux on the desktop and server, then just about anyone can. I was amazed that anyone could find an open source practice management system. Generally, I think this article was not too well written but I am impressed at the research done to discover the Chester County Cat Hospital. I actually know of that practice and used to live in the area. Additionally, here is an article written about a company specializing in open source usage in business. A company by the name of MTier has done it, and in the process, is able to basically architect a system that is so secure that it would probably surpass standard auditing requirements by a wide margin: A Puffy in the corporate aquarium
I can see how a wind farm could effect climate change on a small scale. Blades on the wind mill create pockets of turbulence which could disturb, albeit in a small way, the local climate. Others have noted that the headline is rather poor but, given enough sizeable wind farms, there could be a sizeable impact. California has some large scale wind farms that could effect climate change for nearly half of the large, populous state so the change could be larger.