At least they had backups of their cloud data in a safe place where no random asshat could just go in and waste the data.
That is a code hosting company you can trust with your stuff that is for sure!
The whole icy comet diving into the sun and the bad ass far-side Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is worth the 1:20 of your time. Very cool.
Watching it happen is like watching something out of an old video game very interesting. Science can be quite a wild thing at times.
It seems that NASA is challenging the scientific community to come up with new projects or experiments that could still work despite the Kepler's limitations now.
So it is time for all the scientists with their eyes toward the sky to start dusting off the keyboards and to come up with some cool new proposals. So even though it was not a screaming success the project could still turn out to be important to the scientific community going forward. If we have some scientists who can come up with neat ideas on how to use the capabilities this device still has.
From the article:
"Regions that would be affected, including Kanagawa, Yamanashi and Shizuoka, plan to hold a test run of an evacuation by 2014, with a meeting of local governments covering progress of the plans and of shelter preparations slated for April 2013."
It seems if the pressure is higher than the last time the damn mountain went boom that they would speed up preparations a tad. Wow, laid back disaster relief.
It seems that we have been running out of addresses for 10 years or something and everyone has been talking about moving to IPv6 since the late ninteties ?
I am sure there is a limited range of numbers and the issue is real but also seems like fodder for sensationalist tech journal articles.
The whole article was not much more than a high level review. The graphic naturally draws attention to the parameters the writer wanted to cover but he did not back up his graphic with any sort of serious textual review of what he felt were the weaknesses or advantages of the different programming language at least not in any detail.
So am I the only one who read this as the PvP won't be ready at launch and the skill and rune system is so fucking annoying you have to watch a video and use a calculator to figure out how the damn thing works?
This is not surprising at all. A lot of government agencies do a lot of business with companies all around this region. It says to me that even in the government agencies there are IT people with bosses that get really excited over the idea of the newest hottest tech like "Cloud Services".
They talk to a lot of companies and get them all worked up that their agency will be moving to this new tech very soon.
Companies spend on the new tech with every indication that 4 or 5 people inside of big agencies will be moving that way very soon.
That is about the time the tech people in the agency present their powerpoint presentations on the promise of cloud technology to their upper bosses.
The upper bosses look at giving their data to someone else and they look at wikileaks and they think about the benefits and downsides and keep their data and servers close to their chest.
To all the asshats who wanted government to be run like a business ? They do run things now a lot like a large clueless fumbling business. You were thinking GE and look they work like a business kind of like a Worldcomm or an Enron.
I mean the article says that this thing is a long way off before being ready for medical applications in the field.
So, before we freak out and sit out pacemakers next to the microwave and everything, we should take a deep breath and calm the fuck down.
They realize there are things to work out but for now the headline should state the scientists think it is now feasible and probable.
I think we should all return to make jokes about Raquel Welch and the scientist whose name is Poon.
We are going to get shiny metallic space suits next.
Robots that flails its arms screaming "Danger Will Robinson Danger !"
This is great stuff we are back to ION propulsion which is kind of cool. Remember the spaceships that sail like Solar wind and stuff?
That would be cool too. Perhaps next we can actually get someone to care and fund this stuff and some of it will end up actually mattering in the long run.
Someone wants a good project manager ? Good luck with that man.
Either you have too few PMs and too many projects or more PMs than actual engineers. No one I mean absolutely no one at all seems to have a clue about finding a balance in terms of staffing project managers inside of a technology department.
Now with that bit of fussing out of the way. What you do is you look at the list sit with your immediate manager. You both logically discuss the insanity of a full sheet of top priority 1 emergency projects and figure out which ones really need to get done and when. Remember who signs off on your yearly review and focus your priorities from what your immediate and his manager above really need for you to get done.
You cannot let the bullshit of 50% of your projects being ranked as a high run you into the ground. Focus on what NEEDS to be done and then after that what your boss WANTS to get done and then on what the boss's boss would LIKE to have done.
I remember a conversation between my wife a naturalized US citizen and her kin from the UK about security and who cares how much they know as long as you have nothing to hide.
It is amazing and sad but a vision into our future. There is a whole series of reports and exposes in the British press a few months ago about how the presence of all the cameras and surveillance tactics have done nothing to make the country any safer.
It is basically a giant scam to sell products to the UK government but.... now it is entrenched.
Oh well this is how freedom ends right ? With thunderous applause?
personal surveillance drones ?
Any worse than the random google trucks taking pics of people taking out the trash au naturale?
Or is this like if everyone had the power to do a wiretap on demand?
What do you guys think
Ah the book with the recipe for napalm that will according to legend blow you the fuck up.
Great stuff.
Its all fun and games until someone explodes into a ball of fire.
They are amoral which is somewhat essential to the core goal of providing profit for the shareholders.
This company is just an extreme example of this.
I actually find the more interesting parts of the article are those that focus on the methods and such like this quote:
""You can install it by any means, except spam," says one affiliate recruiting site, earning4u.com, which pays $6 to $180 for every 1,000 PCs infected with its software. PCs in the US earn a higher rate than ones in Asia."
The methods more than the perks are what to me makes the article interesting.
But I am not doubting the intent. In fact, it is refreshing to see a nation not simply looking at short term but thinking in terms of long term goals but in a concrete way. Its a great thing to have the community of nations dedicated to space exploration expanding in any case.
If they are able to bypass the hypervisor and then do hack mods for the PS3 this might open up a whole new avenue for modders and interest in the platform that was not there before. In other words, this might not be a bad thing for the PS3 overall.
They get the not really gone part down.
But, I mean its still the heart and soul of the majority of *Nix desktop environments for good or bad. And most of the folks using Linux or Solaris or BSD know that it is the case.
By the way I still love NeXtstep - what an interface. Great for a lefty like me.
If you inform the office and cc'ed the boss when you know something illegal is going down, your covered.
If you don't, and there is a stink they fire you and put you up as the scapegoat.
The guys in the China office were following local tradition but that states-side IT manager knew and did nothing. So he is fired.
But if you are the good employee in all the news reports that told the higher-ups in that-stereotypical-memo-dated-whenever that the office in China was going to fuck up the works for everyone. And they did not listen.
No one is going to give you a medal but you reported what you knew via the proper channels and they don't fire you.
I mean I could easily go woo-hoo fighting the man here. I got it in me no doubts.
But there is something in legal cases called the Discovery phase and its illegal during a discovery phase to conceal information requested by the court for a case.
If he thought Microsoft had information that would have helped his case his lawyers should have asked for such info in the discovery phase and been done with it.
The spy cloak and dagger stuff is for the movies and just fucks you over in the real world.
If its true he pitched the idea before he was even hired, then don't try to keep working at the same company you are trying to sue. The counter-suit will be coming that is for sure.
Easier than firing him. Sue him instead.
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At least they had backups of their cloud data in a safe place where no random asshat could just go in and waste the data. That is a code hosting company you can trust with your stuff that is for sure!
The whole icy comet diving into the sun and the bad ass far-side Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is worth the 1:20 of your time. Very cool. Watching it happen is like watching something out of an old video game very interesting. Science can be quite a wild thing at times.
It seems that NASA is challenging the scientific community to come up with new projects or experiments that could still work despite the Kepler's limitations now. So it is time for all the scientists with their eyes toward the sky to start dusting off the keyboards and to come up with some cool new proposals. So even though it was not a screaming success the project could still turn out to be important to the scientific community going forward. If we have some scientists who can come up with neat ideas on how to use the capabilities this device still has.
From the article: "Regions that would be affected, including Kanagawa, Yamanashi and Shizuoka, plan to hold a test run of an evacuation by 2014, with a meeting of local governments covering progress of the plans and of shelter preparations slated for April 2013." It seems if the pressure is higher than the last time the damn mountain went boom that they would speed up preparations a tad. Wow, laid back disaster relief.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
It seems that we have been running out of addresses for 10 years or something and everyone has been talking about moving to IPv6 since the late ninteties ? I am sure there is a limited range of numbers and the issue is real but also seems like fodder for sensationalist tech journal articles.
The whole article was not much more than a high level review. The graphic naturally draws attention to the parameters the writer wanted to cover but he did not back up his graphic with any sort of serious textual review of what he felt were the weaknesses or advantages of the different programming language at least not in any detail.
they still fund their space program? Uh I got nothing.
So am I the only one who read this as the PvP won't be ready at launch and the skill and rune system is so fucking annoying you have to watch a video and use a calculator to figure out how the damn thing works?
This is not surprising at all. A lot of government agencies do a lot of business with companies all around this region. It says to me that even in the government agencies there are IT people with bosses that get really excited over the idea of the newest hottest tech like "Cloud Services".
They talk to a lot of companies and get them all worked up that their agency will be moving to this new tech very soon.
Companies spend on the new tech with every indication that 4 or 5 people inside of big agencies will be moving that way very soon.
That is about the time the tech people in the agency present their powerpoint presentations on the promise of cloud technology to their upper bosses.
The upper bosses look at giving their data to someone else and they look at wikileaks and they think about the benefits and downsides and keep their data and servers close to their chest.
To all the asshats who wanted government to be run like a business ? They do run things now a lot like a large clueless fumbling business. You were thinking GE and look they work like a business kind of like a Worldcomm or an Enron.
I mean the article says that this thing is a long way off before being ready for medical applications in the field.
So, before we freak out and sit out pacemakers next to the microwave and everything, we should take a deep breath and calm the fuck down.
They realize there are things to work out but for now the headline should state the scientists think it is now feasible and probable.
I think we should all return to make jokes about Raquel Welch and the scientist whose name is Poon.
We are going to get shiny metallic space suits next.
Robots that flails its arms screaming "Danger Will Robinson Danger !"
This is great stuff we are back to ION propulsion which is kind of cool. Remember the spaceships that sail like Solar wind and stuff?
That would be cool too. Perhaps next we can actually get someone to care and fund this stuff and some of it will end up actually mattering in the long run.
Someone wants a good project manager ? Good luck with that man. Either you have too few PMs and too many projects or more PMs than actual engineers. No one I mean absolutely no one at all seems to have a clue about finding a balance in terms of staffing project managers inside of a technology department. Now with that bit of fussing out of the way. What you do is you look at the list sit with your immediate manager. You both logically discuss the insanity of a full sheet of top priority 1 emergency projects and figure out which ones really need to get done and when. Remember who signs off on your yearly review and focus your priorities from what your immediate and his manager above really need for you to get done. You cannot let the bullshit of 50% of your projects being ranked as a high run you into the ground. Focus on what NEEDS to be done and then after that what your boss WANTS to get done and then on what the boss's boss would LIKE to have done.
I remember a conversation between my wife a naturalized US citizen and her kin from the UK about security and who cares how much they know as long as you have nothing to hide. It is amazing and sad but a vision into our future. There is a whole series of reports and exposes in the British press a few months ago about how the presence of all the cameras and surveillance tactics have done nothing to make the country any safer. It is basically a giant scam to sell products to the UK government but .... now it is entrenched.
Oh well this is how freedom ends right ? With thunderous applause?
personal surveillance drones ? Any worse than the random google trucks taking pics of people taking out the trash au naturale? Or is this like if everyone had the power to do a wiretap on demand? What do you guys think
Ah the book with the recipe for napalm that will according to legend blow you the fuck up. Great stuff. Its all fun and games until someone explodes into a ball of fire.
They are amoral which is somewhat essential to the core goal of providing profit for the shareholders. This company is just an extreme example of this. I actually find the more interesting parts of the article are those that focus on the methods and such like this quote: ""You can install it by any means, except spam," says one affiliate recruiting site, earning4u.com, which pays $6 to $180 for every 1,000 PCs infected with its software. PCs in the US earn a higher rate than ones in Asia." The methods more than the perks are what to me makes the article interesting.
Its a basement cat conspiracy I tell you!
But I am not doubting the intent. In fact, it is refreshing to see a nation not simply looking at short term but thinking in terms of long term goals but in a concrete way. Its a great thing to have the community of nations dedicated to space exploration expanding in any case.
If they are able to bypass the hypervisor and then do hack mods for the PS3 this might open up a whole new avenue for modders and interest in the platform that was not there before. In other words, this might not be a bad thing for the PS3 overall.
the software compromises you! Yes, someone else can come up with something more clever but man this is such an opportunity for a new meme.
They get the not really gone part down. But, I mean its still the heart and soul of the majority of *Nix desktop environments for good or bad. And most of the folks using Linux or Solaris or BSD know that it is the case. By the way I still love NeXtstep - what an interface. Great for a lefty like me.
Like frickin' having a backup? Isn't that one of the first things you ever learn if your business relies on computers + userdata?
If you inform the office and cc'ed the boss when you know something illegal is going down, your covered. If you don't, and there is a stink they fire you and put you up as the scapegoat. The guys in the China office were following local tradition but that states-side IT manager knew and did nothing. So he is fired. But if you are the good employee in all the news reports that told the higher-ups in that-stereotypical-memo-dated-whenever that the office in China was going to fuck up the works for everyone. And they did not listen. No one is going to give you a medal but you reported what you knew via the proper channels and they don't fire you.
I mean I could easily go woo-hoo fighting the man here. I got it in me no doubts. But there is something in legal cases called the Discovery phase and its illegal during a discovery phase to conceal information requested by the court for a case. If he thought Microsoft had information that would have helped his case his lawyers should have asked for such info in the discovery phase and been done with it. The spy cloak and dagger stuff is for the movies and just fucks you over in the real world. If its true he pitched the idea before he was even hired, then don't try to keep working at the same company you are trying to sue. The counter-suit will be coming that is for sure. Easier than firing him. Sue him instead.