As far as I can tell; no TV service provider makes a DVR as awesome as my MythTV box. Once you've got automatic commercial skip -- you never want to go back. Naturally, this means I only get OTA local channels; but there just isn't enough decent programming on cable or satellite to take me away from automagic commercial skipping. For the few non-OTA shows I do want to watch (SCIFI stuff mostly) -- I use hulu. I've had this setup now for about 4 years and have saved a ton of dough.

China is not trying to 'kill' America. They are simply trying to steal from it. And that potentially amounts to a slow and painful 'death'. That the author advocates being cognizant of these facts is not ignorance or racism, but rather prudence. Like all facts, they must be balanced with others, for a wise perspective to take form; but surely the scale of Chinese espionage is something all of us can see as a significant problem.

Wish I had found that article before I posted the question. Thanks for sharing it. But then, if I had found that article -- I wouldn't have needed to 'ask slashdot', would I?

Unfortunately, while the article you reference refers to a whitepaper and a presentation made by Scott McNealy, those materials are not published anywhere that I could find. If you know where they are -- please tell.

The need for a federal CIO is certainly a good part of the discussion, too. That there is not a federal CIO is very strange indeed. It sounds as though Scott did get his chance to make the pitch for using OSS to build vendor neutral enterprise environments. I hope that message doesn't get drowned out by the lobbyists.

Maybe he should have watched what you said in Revolution OS.

I agree that compared to you and others, he was terribly late to the party. Still, by the time he did his keynote to fose in 2006, he seemed to be starting to 'get it'.

I did some research. Actually quite a lot. If you read the title of the second link you referenced above it says:

"Sun's McNealy Advises Obama Administration on Open Source".

Even if we assume advising the administration is simply just writing a white paper, the question still remains where is that white paper?

The reason I posted the question to 'Ask Slashdot' is that question has not, in fact, been answered.

Whatever did in fact happen, the Obama administration clearly has forged ahead with its use of open source.

On whitehouse.gov alone:

- Drupal for Content Management
- Solr/lucene for search
- apache web server
- redhat OS for servers

From his wiki page:
Education:
- Orange Coast College -- Associate's Degree in Merchandising
- CSU Long Beach -- BS in 'Man Power'
- PACE U -- certificate in 'Market Analysis'

This guy has always seemed to me to be the very essence of F_ _ _ TARD.
If I want to listen to the mindless ravings of tards, I'll turn on fox-news.

If you think IT management absolves you of the requirements to understand the technologies you are managing.

That said, I've had several bosses in IT management who've often said, 'That's stuff is too technical for me.' -- when I've tried to explain them various issues and potential solutions.

Not understanding the technologies means you'll be asking your subordinates to fight-it-out when there's a dispute over which path to follow. They will come to despise you for that; and ultimately exploit that weakness in you to get the things they want (and eventually -- that includes your job).

Unfortunately, not going into management means your probably going to find yourself at the mercy of the very person I just described.

Your system administration is automagically outsourced to china and russia for free!

1) Try and create a list of the names of the classes you think your project will ultimately contain. 2) Then -- put them into categories that make sense (packages later on). Usually the effort to get these 2 steps done is minimal -- but provides just enough satisfaction to spark real productivity. If your creativity is still not sparked; 3) revisit the list of classes you made and try to list method signatures for each class

a penguin. So it should really be called penguin flew. Since nobody actually eats penguins, this name should satisfy all parties.