Comment: Re:The fourth directive (Score 1) 178
1. Serve the public trust
2. Protect the innocent
3. Uphold the law
4.
Fixed that for you...
Comment: I first read this as "...most 'shipped..." (Score 1) 256
...which also is appropriate for Slashdot.
Comment: Re:Ban guns (Score 1) 2166
the United States, which is currently under violent assault from a number of quarters (most of them south of the border)
South of the border? Really? Which border? The North Dakota border? The Kentucky border? Citation, please.
Comment: Re:Doctor, doctor (Score 1) 326
So if the doctor's (clone) daughter marries the doctor (doctor), will the doctor and doctor daughter's (doctor) son do as the doctor does?
Or will they play doctor?
Comment: Angus? Malcolm? (Score 1) 409
You reading this, AC/DC?
Comment: Re:Umm (Score 1) 126
I did a Time and Attendance system in three months by myself, starting from scratch with a new technology (Powerbuilder). Deployed to 1000+ people in 16 divisions across the U.S in less than 6 months. It cost them $20,000 for time and another $20k for hardware and support.
Even if they delivered on time and on budget, they ripped off the city.
How many unions did it deal with? How did it handle Civil Service regulations? Would it scale up to handle 300,000+ employees in 100+ different agencies each with its own policies over and above the CS and union ones? Believe me, I'm not trying to justify the CityTime team, just illustrating some of the issues faced by NYC government trying to get a handle on its timekeeping. (My agency uses something that works quite well and would definitely scale up to deal with the things I asked above.)
Comment: Re:I still don't see that much android in NYC (Score 1) 410
please..... you people put heavy cream in your fucking clam chowder
There, fixed that for you.
Comment: Re:Numbers, numbers (Score 1) 410
OK, I'll play too - in my small group it breaks out as 5 iOS devices (2 iPhone, 3 iPod Touch), 2 Blackberries, 1 WebOS, 0 Android. As I look around the floor to other groups I see 1 Android, 15 or 20 iPhones, 3 or 4 more Blackberries, and a bunch of dumbphones and "messaging phones".
So YMMV, as always.
So YMMV, as always.
Comment: Re:And what does Microsoft get out of this? (Score 1) 131
Perhaps the city threatened to migrate some departments away from Microsoft -- like, for example, the computers that are used in the city's school system? I bet that would have gotten Microsoft to start begging.
Too late. (Unless you're talking about the computers in the school offices? Yeah, we're all on Win XP / Office 2007.)
Comment: Re:The Key Is (Score 1) 131
At any rate I doubt NYC has many Macs in use
Only in the schools. (There are only about 1,600 of those.)