As a greedy CEO, I'd expect him to act the way FB is trashing user's privacy. As a coder I'd expect him to be more careful about privacy and the security of the code that goes into production.
Did you notice that there was not a big price break between straight-old gasoline and E85? If the alcohol in E85 (15%) was cheaper then the price of fuel should have been incrementally lower.
You forgot the most important thing they should have done:
Follow the policy that says no PII goes off site without being encrypted.
I used to work for a financial institution that nightly sent data files over their internal network to another internal site. Policy required, and was followed, that the data be encrypted even though it was being sent from one internal site to another.
No, actually, it's not. It was, back when the first iPhone came out, but now you're required to get a $30 data plan that includes no SMS or MMS messages. I pay for those at the a la carte rate of $.20 and $.30 each, respectively. If I sent more than 5 a month, I might consider an Messaging plan at an additional $5 to $30 a month, depending on which plan. But it's certainly NOT included in the price of the iPhone data plan.
I guess it's just AT&T trying to gouge the iPhone users since my non-iPhone $30 unlimited data plan includes unlimited SMS and MMS.
Secondly, being a "monopolist" isn't a criminal offense, it's a civil one. So no, Microsoft was not convicted of a criminal offense. But thanks for playing.
Incorrect. Being a "monopolist" is neither a criminal nor a civil offense. Using a monopoly to improperly profit in the marketplace is a civil offense.
It was more trouble than it was worth, but it bugged the hell out of the local DEC office.
Except for those of us who worked for DEC rather than Digital. I about fell out of my chair laughing when I got the memo where Palmer wanted to trademark the word "Digital". I knew we were in deep sh*t when it was announced that we were going to call ourselves "Digital" instead of "DEC" because more people had heard of "Digital". Of course they had, the CD Digital Audio disk was taking the world by storm and "Digital" was being slapped on everything.
Within a more nuanced statement, let this be stated: I want to access what your app does or shows from random machines throughout the day, that makes installing a specific executable unacceptable.
On the developer and business side of considerations you may figure out web apps are problematic, and decide to abandon browser based coding. Your decision is a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear. Anything your project makes that does not show in a browser will go unused by the most modern class of computer users.
Since this topic is concerning Enterprise Applications, unless you are a C-level employee, you don't get to make that choice. It will be determined by the C-level policy. Now, a good C-level policy will specify a particular type, whether it be web-based or a desktop application, with exceptions allowed where appropriate. In some cases, there may be no choice if all the applications of a particular class are only available in one type. For example, you are unlikely to find web-based applications for things designed to run unattended like processing batches of daily transactions. After all, you wouldn't want a multi-hour batch process to fail because the browser timed out.
I do like the idea of disabling the submit button if an invalid card number is entered. I may add that in, along with a message by the submit button indicating that the card number is invalid.
Why not start with the submit disabled and only enable it when everything is valid?
Some patients with extreme insulin resistance (impaired ability of the body's cells to allow glucose in the blood to pass through the cell walls) need years to develop hyperglycaemia and some also never develop hyperglycaemia despite very severe insulin resistance...
OK, I've followed your link. Let me see if you can agree to this: The symptoms of Type 1 diabetes are caused by the destruction of beta cells usually caused by an incorrect autoimmune response, probably to some virus. The symptoms of Type 2 diabetes are caused by beta cell "burnout" caused by the body's attempt to regulate high glucose caused by insulin resistance.
In both cases, the symptoms are caused by the loss of beta cells, but the cause of the loss of beta cells is different between Type 1 and Type 2, thus the root causes of Type 1 and Type 2 are different. Unfortunately, in both types, replacement of beta cells is only a treatment of the disease and not a cure.
I agree with this to no end, most people don't need it and people who have a minor need for a browser will screw around with it most of the time.
This is not an issue. Every place I've worked in the past 10 years has had the ability to restrict access to anything outside the company, just like access to games on the desktop can be restricted.
Author is specifically referring to enterprise client/server apps.
Actually he is referring to enterprise apps. His only reference to "client/server apps" was where he said that web apps encourage a thin-client approach, which he likened to client/server apps.
That some dweebs, a few years ago, decided that web front-ends for such apps would be a "good thing" is tragic. Stand-alone, platform-specific front-end applications are infinitely superior in such an environment.
I used to work for a company with over 50K desktops. There were NO Stand-alone enterprise-wide applications in that environment. Why? How do you update 50K desktops in a reasonable amount of time? What happens if you have to rollback? With web apps, you update a few hundred servers. In our case, if we ever had to do a rollback, it was a simple directory rename operation.
I've been waiting for someone to write this article for years. 5 Stars.
When we will be able to reprogram them (for example) to become insulin islet cells, then we have won the battle. We will cure diabetes.
This is incorrect. There are generally two types of diabetes; Type I and Type II. Type II diabetes is characterized by the impaired ability of the body's cells to allow glucose in the blood to pass through the cell walls. The pancreas is still producing insulin, but not enough to get sufficient amounts of glucose into the body's cells. Type I diabetes is characterized by the absence of insulin production by the pancreas. Type I diabetes is commonly called Juvenile Diabetes because it usually occurs in children, although it can occur in adults due to damage to the insulin islet cells, such as when the body's immune system goes wacky and starts attacking the body's own cells instead of only foreign cells. At best, the use of Umbilical cells to replace insulin islet cells will become a treatment for Type I diabetes, but they won't have any effect on the more common, Type II diabetes.
(or memory, in the memory test, which is usually skipped because you can't test GBs of memory in a tolerable time.)
Given that most non-servers don't have ECC RAM, I'm more than willing to wait an extra minute or so on boot to give the system a chance to catch any bad RAM.
As a Microsoft shareholder I'm glad they weren't pissing my money up a tree trying to improve products in markets they already dominated. Now FF is giving them some competition, I'm also glad they are getting their shit together to preserve the IE line (in the eyes of Joe Public, rather than developers on ten bucks an hour having butthurt over standards).
If I was a Microsoft shareholder, I'd want them to plan and implement improvements to ALL their products so they DON'T have to keep reacting to lost market share and have to do the fire drill/death march dance to catch back up again.
On a related note, I thought it interesting that Vista (and maybe 7 too, I haven't checked) provides an option in its newfangled file association manager to use as few Microsoft applications as possible. Are they - *gasp* - maybe coming to the realization that not everybody wants to use their stuff?!
No, they just realized that they can't win all the anti-trust battles and those cost them a lot of cash.
...just that in clustered mode all the metadata operations are arbitrated by a dedicated server.
A single server? Haven't you just given yourself a really nasty single point of failure? What happens if that server crashes or loses communication with the other servers in some manner? Does it recover like a VMS Cluster such that if communication with the Distributed Lock Manager Master Node is lost for too long, everything stops while the remaining nodes decide on a new Master Node and all the nodes re-sync their view of the world? Of course, the VMS DLM manages more than just access to shared disks. It's capable of managing access to any shared entity that is DLM aware.
DIGITAL got bought out though, many times over. Many of its assest were spun off between 1994 and 1998, including things like Digital Linear Tapes (DLT). The company proper was sold to Compaq, soon bought by HP in 2002.
Correct. RDB was sold to Oracle.
Unfortunately, the similarities between DEC and SUN are amazing. DEC was always knocked for having poor marketing. We are hearing the same thing about SUN. DEC was selling over-engineered proprietary hardware in an industry where commodity, low cost hardware was taking over. SUN is doing the same with its own hardware, but is also selling in the commodity market. Unfortunately, commodity hardware margins are almost non-existent. Who's to say that SUN won't also start spinning off many of its assets.
Thoroughly unlikely. Sun would be bought out long before they needed to declare bankruptcy. Their star may not be in ascension, but the company has real value.
Your post and the parent post sound an awful lot like DEC in its last few years.
I've forgotten who he was, but there was a guy whose posts in the DIGITAL notes conference were titled, "And the death spiral continues". Unfortunately, he was correct. I believe you are correct in the outcome for SUN.
So to crack it, you take the first line in your dictionary, throw in the network's SSID (this is included for better security. Passphrase: 12345 will hash differently on a network named linksys than it will on a network named dlink), run it through the WPA algorithm the 4096 times, truncate the result at 256 bytes, then compare that 256 bytes to the captured packets.
How is this process impacted if the the router is set to not broadcast the SSID, like I have mine set up?
Also, both my SSID and WPA-2 key are gibberish, my WPA-2 key is > 50 characters, I do MAC address filtering, and the DHCP function only hands out 'X' number of IP addresses where 'X' = the maximum number of devices that will be on the network at the same time. Am I missing anything here?
and simply locating the fridge with a ductwork system to use cooler basement air to circulate around the waste heat coils is not hard to do.
What's a basement? Seriously, in many southern states, houses do not have basements. This is usually because of cost caused by the type of earth under the soil.
Maybe (today) you don't have to make overlays, write assembly or worry about memory. But, in the 80's, no one cares for race conditions, child procs, daemons, semaphores, multiusers, permissions, sessions, asyncs communications, etc.
Maybe in the PC world you didn't, but we even did that in the 70's on minis and mainframes.
The tools have improved over time so that we don't have to worry about overlays or for that matter, the proper way to update a master file on tape with a transaction tape. As a result, we are free to concentrate on more complex applications.
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As a greedy CEO, I'd expect him to act the way FB is trashing user's privacy. As a coder I'd expect him to be more careful about privacy and the security of the code that goes into production.
Did you notice that there was not a big price break between straight-old gasoline and E85? If the alcohol in E85 (15%) was cheaper then the price of fuel should have been incrementally lower.
E85 is 85% alcohol.
You forgot the most important thing they should have done:
Follow the policy that says no PII goes off site without being encrypted.
I used to work for a financial institution that nightly sent data files over their internal network to another internal site. Policy required, and was followed, that the data be encrypted even though it was being sent from one internal site to another.
No, actually, it's not. It was, back when the first iPhone came out, but now you're required to get a $30 data plan that includes no SMS or MMS messages. I pay for those at the a la carte rate of $.20 and $.30 each, respectively. If I sent more than 5 a month, I might consider an Messaging plan at an additional $5 to $30 a month, depending on which plan. But it's certainly NOT included in the price of the iPhone data plan.
I guess it's just AT&T trying to gouge the iPhone users since my non-iPhone $30 unlimited data plan includes unlimited SMS and MMS.
For that matter it'll never got popular. This is partly because operators overprice MMS and because it doesn't really serve that much purpose.
My plan with AT&T includes unlimited SMS and MMS and has for several years.
Incorrect. Being a "monopolist" is neither a criminal nor a civil offense. Using a monopoly to improperly profit in the marketplace is a civil offense.
It was more trouble than it was worth, but it bugged the hell out of the local DEC office.
Except for those of us who worked for DEC rather than Digital. I about fell out of my chair laughing when I got the memo where Palmer wanted to trademark the word "Digital". I knew we were in deep sh*t when it was announced that we were going to call ourselves "Digital" instead of "DEC" because more people had heard of "Digital". Of course they had, the CD Digital Audio disk was taking the world by storm and "Digital" was being slapped on everything.
Within a more nuanced statement, let this be stated: I want to access what your app does or shows from random machines throughout the day, that makes installing a specific executable unacceptable.
On the developer and business side of considerations you may figure out web apps are problematic, and decide to abandon browser based coding. Your decision is a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear. Anything your project makes that does not show in a browser will go unused by the most modern class of computer users.
Since this topic is concerning Enterprise Applications, unless you are a C-level employee, you don't get to make that choice. It will be determined by the C-level policy. Now, a good C-level policy will specify a particular type, whether it be web-based or a desktop application, with exceptions allowed where appropriate. In some cases, there may be no choice if all the applications of a particular class are only available in one type. For example, you are unlikely to find web-based applications for things designed to run unattended like processing batches of daily transactions. After all, you wouldn't want a multi-hour batch process to fail because the browser timed out.
I do like the idea of disabling the submit button if an invalid card number is entered. I may add that in, along with a message by the submit button indicating that the card number is invalid.
Why not start with the submit disabled and only enable it when everything is valid?
I don't agree with you :
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1106541&cid=26642625 [slashdot.org] ... the blood sugar values in type II diabetes go high only after about 50% of beta cells are destroyed because of "burnout" after years of hyperinsulinemia ...
Some patients with extreme insulin resistance (impaired ability of the body's cells to allow glucose in the blood to pass through the cell walls) need years to develop hyperglycaemia and some also never develop hyperglycaemia despite very severe insulin resistance ...
OK, I've followed your link. Let me see if you can agree to this:
The symptoms of Type 1 diabetes are caused by the destruction of beta cells usually caused by an incorrect autoimmune response, probably to some virus.
The symptoms of Type 2 diabetes are caused by beta cell "burnout" caused by the body's attempt to regulate high glucose caused by insulin resistance.
In both cases, the symptoms are caused by the loss of beta cells, but the cause of the loss of beta cells is different between Type 1 and Type 2, thus the root causes of Type 1 and Type 2 are different. Unfortunately, in both types, replacement of beta cells is only a treatment of the disease and not a cure.
I agree with this to no end, most people don't need it and people who have a minor need for a browser will screw around with it most of the time.
This is not an issue. Every place I've worked in the past 10 years has had the ability to restrict access to anything outside the company, just like access to games on the desktop can be restricted.
Please read the fine article, if you don't mind.
I did.
Author is specifically referring to enterprise client/server apps.
Actually he is referring to enterprise apps. His only reference to "client/server apps" was where he said that web apps encourage a thin-client approach, which he likened to client/server apps.
That some dweebs, a few years ago, decided that web front-ends for such apps would be a "good thing" is tragic. Stand-alone, platform-specific front-end applications are infinitely superior in such an environment.
I used to work for a company with over 50K desktops. There were NO Stand-alone enterprise-wide applications in that environment. Why? How do you update 50K desktops in a reasonable amount of time? What happens if you have to rollback? With web apps, you update a few hundred servers. In our case, if we ever had to do a rollback, it was a simple directory rename operation.
I've been waiting for someone to write this article for years. 5 Stars.
0 Stars.
When we will be able to reprogram them (for example) to become insulin islet cells, then we have won the battle. We will cure diabetes.
This is incorrect. There are generally two types of diabetes; Type I and Type II. Type II diabetes is characterized by the impaired ability of the body's cells to allow glucose in the blood to pass through the cell walls. The pancreas is still producing insulin, but not enough to get sufficient amounts of glucose into the body's cells. Type I diabetes is characterized by the absence of insulin production by the pancreas. Type I diabetes is commonly called Juvenile Diabetes because it usually occurs in children, although it can occur in adults due to damage to the insulin islet cells, such as when the body's immune system goes wacky and starts attacking the body's own cells instead of only foreign cells.
At best, the use of Umbilical cells to replace insulin islet cells will become a treatment for Type I diabetes, but they won't have any effect on the more common, Type II diabetes.
(or memory, in the memory test, which is usually skipped because you can't test GBs of memory in a tolerable time.)
Given that most non-servers don't have ECC RAM, I'm more than willing to wait an extra minute or so on boot to give the system a chance to catch any bad RAM.
why should we worry about it?
As a Microsoft shareholder I'm glad they weren't pissing my money up a tree trying to improve products in markets they already dominated. Now FF is giving them some competition, I'm also glad they are getting their shit together to preserve the IE line (in the eyes of Joe Public, rather than developers on ten bucks an hour having butthurt over standards).
If I was a Microsoft shareholder, I'd want them to plan and implement improvements to ALL their products so they DON'T have to keep reacting to lost market share and have to do the fire drill/death march dance to catch back up again.
On a related note, I thought it interesting that Vista (and maybe 7 too, I haven't checked) provides an option in its newfangled file association manager to use as few Microsoft applications as possible. Are they - *gasp* - maybe coming to the realization that not everybody wants to use their stuff?!
No, they just realized that they can't win all the anti-trust battles and those cost them a lot of cash.
I suspect that when I am in my eighties, I will have much less desire to communicate with the world...
I live in the U.S. and I sure would hate to have to communicate with my friend in South Africa only via snail mail.
...just that in clustered mode all the metadata operations are arbitrated by a dedicated server.
A single server? Haven't you just given yourself a really nasty single point of failure? What happens if that server crashes or loses communication with the other servers in some manner? Does it recover like a VMS Cluster such that if communication with the Distributed Lock Manager Master Node is lost for too long, everything stops while the remaining nodes decide on a new Master Node and all the nodes re-sync their view of the world? Of course, the VMS DLM manages more than just access to shared disks. It's capable of managing access to any shared entity that is DLM aware.
DIGITAL got bought out though, many times over. Many of its assest were spun off between 1994 and 1998, including things like Digital Linear Tapes (DLT). The company proper was sold to Compaq, soon bought by HP in 2002.
Correct. RDB was sold to Oracle.
Unfortunately, the similarities between DEC and SUN are amazing. DEC was always knocked for having poor marketing. We are hearing the same thing about SUN. DEC was selling over-engineered proprietary hardware in an industry where commodity, low cost hardware was taking over. SUN is doing the same with its own hardware, but is also selling in the commodity market. Unfortunately, commodity hardware margins are almost non-existent. Who's to say that SUN won't also start spinning off many of its assets.
"Microsoft yesterday unveiled its MSN Mobile Music service -- and a surprise return to digital rights management (DRM).
What's so surprising about that given how much Microsoft has invested in DRM on all its platforms?
Thoroughly unlikely. Sun would be bought out long before they needed to declare bankruptcy. Their star may not be in ascension, but the company has real value.
Your post and the parent post sound an awful lot like DEC in its last few years.
I've forgotten who he was, but there was a guy whose posts in the DIGITAL notes conference were titled, "And the death spiral continues". Unfortunately, he was correct. I believe you are correct in the outcome for SUN.
So to crack it, you take the first line in your dictionary, throw in the network's SSID (this is included for better security. Passphrase: 12345 will hash differently on a network named linksys than it will on a network named dlink), run it through the WPA algorithm the 4096 times, truncate the result at 256 bytes, then compare that 256 bytes to the captured packets.
How is this process impacted if the the router is set to not broadcast the SSID, like I have mine set up?
Also, both my SSID and WPA-2 key are gibberish, my WPA-2 key is > 50 characters, I do MAC address filtering, and the DHCP function only hands out 'X' number of IP addresses where 'X' = the maximum number of devices that will be on the network at the same time. Am I missing anything here?
and simply locating the fridge with a ductwork system to use cooler basement air to circulate around the waste heat coils is not hard to do.
What's a basement?
Seriously, in many southern states, houses do not have basements. This is usually because of cost caused by the type of earth under the soil.
Maybe (today) you don't have to make overlays, write assembly or worry about memory. But, in the 80's, no one cares for race conditions, child procs, daemons, semaphores, multiusers, permissions, sessions, asyncs communications, etc.
Maybe in the PC world you didn't, but we even did that in the 70's on minis and mainframes.
The tools have improved over time so that we don't have to worry about overlays or for that matter, the proper way to update a master file on tape with a transaction tape. As a result, we are free to concentrate on more complex applications.