It's situation normal for the UK. I can't remember a public-sector IT project that hasn't run hugely over budget, over schedule, and most of them are eventually abandoned. Tony Collins (writer for Compuer Weekly) has written books on the subject. And yet still we carry on repeating the same stupid PHB-driven mistakes as last year. Afterward there's an enquiry by the National Audit Office, various private sector companies are scapegoated, and yet are welcomed back with open arms when they tender for the next mega-project. NATS (national air-traffic control system) is already a disaster of this type - wildly over budget and > 5 years late (IIRC). Yes folks, FIVE YEARS LATE. Actually the chief villains are EDS, Anders - uh - Indenture, Cap Gemini et al. Having worked at Logica for a while (a similar "IT Services" house) I have to say I would never go back to such an organistation... nowhere is mediocrity, political manouvering, lack of technical knowledge, and being told what to do by one's suppliers so exalted as in public sector IT projects. Of course Blair are just starting to fawn over Microsoft (having been granted an audience by Bill Gates: the notion of there being some sort of backlash or alternative to Microsoft doesn't seem to have crossed their minds.
Sigh. And tax just went up 1%, allegedly to fund the health service, but if they just stopped pissing away hundreds of millions per project on stupid obvious mistakes they'd have MORE than enough to fund education, health, law & order etc.
Minor niggle, but the Barbican isn't really an "art gallery" per se. It's more like a university campus environment, but close to central London (prob ~20 mins walk from the City, the finacial district) which hosts many different art and cultural events. Last time I went I saw Vincente Amigo: highly recommended live if you happen to have had a bang on the head when you were a baby which left you cursed with the desire to listen to flamenco. I liked him so much I bought his most recent album.
Oh I KNOW I shouldn't fall for this but really, please... can't you stop stereotyping for just a few minutes? Please?? "snobbish" would be "looking down on people of a lower social class", right? How ironic that the UK has historically had FAR MORE social mobility than most other societies (you could be born a serf and die wealthy; if you did, your grandchildren would be viewed as being as good as any other aristos by their peers). And the US, the land of freedom and opportunity and the Merkin dream is now the land of inherited wealth that stays in families for generation after generation. With very little social support, education, rascism, etc etc, I'd bet that social mobility there is lower than probably anywhere else in the developed world.
OK, rant over, mod me down and get back to the topic...
(gloomily) I wish you could explain this to my grilf. I love her to bits and all, but she's got some terrible new-age hippy-freak pseudo-science beliefs... she reckons the first Matrix film was a thinly-veiled metaphor for the view of the universe (and human existence) propounded by Carlos Castaneda. She practically worships Castaneda, she's convinced he's got the profound insight & Ancient Wisdom of the Sages and all that crap. It's long past the point where we just don't bother talking about it any more. (well,/I/ don't bother talking about it any more, I just put my face in my hands when she reads bits out to me;)
The stuff about the aliens needing humans "for their Energy" plays perfectly with her new-age bollocks ideas. I've pointed out that if this stuff existed, anyone who could prove it could walk away with the Nobel Prize, but she doesn't want to know. ANy suggestions? (Apart from "find a new girlfriend"... )
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extremely well said, it's a shame this comment is currently just at +2 ( ). It's been said before but it's important to keep on saying it as long as people accept corporate propaganda without question (which, let's face it, the vast majority of us do.) Someone here used to have a sig quote (from The Usual Suspects, I think?) along the lines of: "The cleverest thing the devil ever did was to convince the world he didn't exist." Well the smartest thing Disney (corp.) ever did was to boil the frog so that gradually the idea that we might have intellectual freedom has become an outlandish, bizarre idea that most people just don't Get without a lot of careful explaining.
The books are funny mostly because they remind us how superb the radio series was (is.) The last three places I've worked have ALL had copies on the local mp3 server. They were good places to work:)
By withholding its funding to the International Atomic Energy Agency - an overly-aggressive and short-sighted attempt to pressurise that body into abandoning all assistance that its giving Cuba to safely complete and operate the plant - the US is effectively shooting itself in the foot. By doing everything it can to make sure that the Cuban plant isn't built, the US is only ensuring that cost-effectiveness and completion at any cost are the paramount in Cuba's considerations, at the expense of safety.
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I'm shocked - SHOCKED! -- that you could think such a thing! Next, you'll be suggesting that the US forced out the head of the body that monitors compliance with international chemical weapons treaties -- even though the USA had ALREADY been granted an unprecedented waiver allowing them to just deny the inspectors access to any facility, without needing to give even an explanation -- because he was saying that it wouln't be a problem to get into Iraq and verify that, in fact, they have no more WMD,and that would remove the US's pretext to bomb a few thousand more women and children to bits.Good heavens, people may then start to wonder if the US forced Mary Robinson out of office as the head of the UNHCR (high commission on refugees) because she spoke up for the human rights of the civilians being massacred in Jenin, and that might slow sales of US tanks, planes, bombs and so on to Israel. They might even suspect that perhaps the Bush administration feels that, because they've got more hydrogen bombs than anyone else, they can do whatever the fuck they feel like, to anyone, anywhere, any time, without needing an explanation more valid than "it's in our best interest". You must surely be some sort of anti-American terrorist hippy communist drug-dealer.People like you should be secretly arrested,imprisoned without trial or access to legal representation, or in short, "disappeared". Oh, wait --
No, you're right. Someday, we (or our children - but before your grandchildren's time,if we're the average/.er age) are going to have to... wait for it... do without SUVs . A terrible thought, I know; we might have to get up off our fat arses and WALK for a change... give it a go some time, it's actually enjoyable believe it or not.
the napster market share has been taken over by a lot of other p2p applications...
To try to build back a userbase on the napster name would be a mistake imo
Isn't it fortunate that Napster didn't try to patent the basic idea? If they'd done that, the shrivelled husk of the company would still be worth a fortune to the vultures - ownership of that patent would presumably allow the firing off of C&Ds to anyone involved with Gnutella, FreeNet, KaZaa et al. "But Gnutella and FreeNet are decentralised!" Yeah, but surely they ALL require a single central download location for the client software... even if those sites are run by non-profit orgs, the hosting will come from a commercial (ie., sueable) corporation.
Hmmmmmm, now I come to think of it, perhaps someone should register a P2P patent portfolio and turn them over to the FSF to prevent such eventuality happening?
And even more info here, courtesy of Aunty. OK, so you already read that piece,but remember - for every one who checks the Beeb for stories they missed on Slashdot,there's probably one who does it the other way around...
Oh purLEASE.... Why is it that EVERY frickin time a story like this is published, some gimp always claims "Why, if they did that to ME, I'd SUE! Can you say CLASS ACTION?"
Stop and think. You WON'T sue them. No-one EVER sues in these situations: if they did, we'd have a Slashdot front page full of stories about hardware megacorps being banktupted by massive lawsuits. Go ahead an md me down if you want, (I'm capped anyway) but it still ain't going to happen.
I used to work at Chrysalis Music Publishing, Mr James' music publisher (as opposed to record label - at the time Chrysalis signed him he was releasing on lots of different labels under different names.) Anyway the song copyright assignment forms duly arrived when he delivered the first album under the deal - this became "Ambient Works II". he had left every track untitled (as a deliberate policy.) Alas the MCPS (UK equivalent of BMI/ASCAP, they register music copyrights and royalty payments), not unnaturally, had a computer system which required a track to have a NAME before it could be entered onto the system. Cue many interesting calls back and forth between artist, management, Chrysalis, A&R rep, MCPS, PRS et al. IIRC they were eventually registered as "untitled - 01" to "untitled - 22" or somesuch.
And if you haven't heard any of his stuff, check it out. There's nothing like it. The guy is a genius.
Congratulations, you've just re-invented Social Psychology;)
google for that phrase and GAQ or Intro and "in-group" "out-group"... have fun... warning, you will become very depressed if you read and understand that material. Studying social psychology was what finished off the destruction of my youthful idealism that had begun a couple of years earlier when I discovered Behaviourism, B.F.Skinner, "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" and decided that 99% of psychology is bullshit, Skinner is the psychologist's Darwin, but that approach has been marginalised because of conflicting "real world" political factors (it pisses off both the traditional leftist and rightists.) But I digress...
I do think there are still reasons to be cheerful. I take great comfort from absurdism, the Samuel Beckett-type view of life, plus a dash of zen and some discordianism. Nothing makes sense, and it's all good (especially when it hurts.)
There are two UNIX/Linux solutions to that startup overhead problem. One is to build the transaction program into the network application (as in Apache/mod_perl/php). Note that this uses an interpreter to protect the network application from bugs in transaction programs, which is a major performance hit.
I'm sure others will point this out too, but this just isn't true of mod_perl, at least (I can't speak of PHP, I've never used it.) Checkout the benchmarks in Stas Bekmann's mod_perl User Guide. Skinny: application code under mod_perl is compiled once, the first time it's accessed, and thereafter runs at (in effect) the speed of any Apache - modulo database, network, or bad code -related bottlenecks. I can't imagine any way of having a network accessible program be scalable, short of starting from scratch (no generic httpd) in C. You notice all those "http://www.foo.com/dynamic/foo.c?arg=val" type URLs? No, neither did I...
AFAIK: It's a UN organization that is the center of research.
Close... the IPCC was designed to collate all well-reviewed, reliable, statistically sound studies done around the world, and describe the consensus of opinion amongst researchers in the field.
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The idea was to prevent scum-sucking American corporations from buying the US Government (by convincing the typical Merkin in the street) and preventing the measures required to help allleviate the threat, from being introduced. Of course we (rational human that is) reckoned without the extraordinary phenomena of Gee Dubya. The US is now storing up/vast/ amounts of resentment around the world, even in places like Europe where we have traditionally been sympathetic to their values. Since the US started bullying respected heads of world bodies out of office -- well let's just say I don't have ANY respect for the current Administration, and I just hope the rest of the world aren't confusing the actions of a handful of corrupt, hyper-rich elite types who run America, with the actions of those unfortunate enough to live there and get brainwashed by all the anti-science propaganda. You see this here on Slashdot whenever a climate change story comes up. It's sad it is to see otherwise intelligent people talking *complete bollocks*, seemingly completely unaware that they've been brainwashed by oil companies.
No, you're mistaken. You seem to be making the elementary mistake of confusing climate modelling with weather forecasting. Curiously enough, you've fallen victim to the very thing you accuse the experimenters of: you made a (relatively) small blunder before you started writing, which has rendered the rest of your comment utterly irrelevant.
Further research is left as an exercise for the original poster. If you can't be bothered to read the article, or the detailed write up on the project's site, I can't be bothered to point out all the places you're wrong.
200Mb? You're kidding, right? Come on, the last win2K service pack was bigger than that. XP IIRC is > 1Gb for a default install. Mindblowing, but true.
My vote (without reading other comments) goes to Arthur Eddington's validation of Einstein's relativity by demonstrating that the sun's gravity bent the light from nearby stars. But how do you see stars when they're right next to the sun? Good lateral thinking, very ingenious...
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I just read this article in Info Sec magazine on DRM technololgy: alas the web version doesn't have the article, just list of products and vendors - the whole thing was without any discussion of the moral or ethical dimension to the issue. Yet CISSP and SANS info-sec certifications all include an "ethical dimension" to their course materials. Go figure.
This is EXCELLENT news, especially if some kind soul (or company) would care to finance an AOL-like blizzard of CD mailouts and mage coverdisks. I've often thought (and occasionally said) that getting the message through to ignorant PHBs is the only way to guarantee Free software a future: witness the horrors of the DMCA, et. al., and now the EUCD (which is even WORSE than the DMCA...). Once PHBs realise that such laws will actually COST THEM MONEY - or that they can save money by using *cough* open source *cough* apps, servers and OSes, we'll be safe from the proprietary industry's last attempt to save itself, by legislating us out of existence.
Just read an interesting article (excerpt from his new book) by Will Hutton, noted UK economic chin-stroker & pundit to the stars (well, new Labour anyway.) He points out that many European companies which have rejected US-style, red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism aimed at maximising shareholder value at all costs has lead to rampant short-termism in US industry, with the predictable result that they have begun to fall behind their competitors. There are some other pretty interesting stats in there on management and exec remuneration, too... did you know that the CEO of Nokia earns less (much less!) than a million a year? Meanwhile in the US, board-level execs commonly pull multi-million dollar packages, with the excuse that this is the market rate that must be paid to attract top-class talent. Of course, all they're really interested in is boosting the share price so they can cash in their options and make another truckload of money. Read the article, it's food for thought.
But since I know they're using Outlook and Lotus Notes on Windows to monitor, I can rename a zip file of data to.mpg, comment on the funny joke I pretend is inside, and send corporate info into or out of our intranet.
That won't work on NAI/McAfee VirusScan, at least; VS doesn't trust the OS to know what type the file is.
Anyone seen lighting a match INSIDE the office I work would be sacked on the spot. Accidentally triggering sprinklers over server racks and dev workstations is Bad. This is one reason us smokers have to hide in the carpark...
It's parent companies (both established broadcasters "Carlton" and "Granada" are using Legagal technicalities to get out of paying the Football clubs the money they were promised.
Not at all. Carlton and Granada are limited liability companies; this is what limited liability means - they are not liable for ITV Digital's debt just because they own a majority of the shares ('stock'). How would you like it if a compnay went bankrupt and you found yourself liable for their debt because you owned some shares in them?
The F.A. were greedy. Football players were greedy. ITV Digital were greedy. You may have noticed, there's been a lot of this in the last few years....
I hope they don't swing the pendulum too far the other way. Are we really any better off if Sun or Oracle are given the power to choose the direction of Windows? I hope the decision makers stick to the principle of "What's good for the consumers," and not just "What's bad for Microsoft."
Yeah? speak for yourself... personally, I say "fuck 'em!" Yes, I WOULD rather have Sun, Oracle, Netscape or IBM reaming us in exactly the same way that Microsoft has. I've had to live with the conequences of Microsoft's existence and behaviour for the last decade: you can build up a lot of loathing and hatred in that time. What's more, although Ellison and McNealy are also insufferable bores, rapant egomaniacs and "big swinging dicks" (well, big dicks anyway), they're far less infuriating than that scumbag slimeball cheesehead mofo, Gates. Yeah, I know this is the party line for the slashdot zealot, but just this once, I don't care. Fuck Gates, fuck Microsoft, fuck everyone who ever worked there or helped in the triumph of lousy software and evil business practices.
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It's situation normal for the UK. I can't remember a public-sector IT project that hasn't run hugely over budget, over schedule, and most of them are eventually abandoned. Tony Collins (writer for Compuer Weekly) has written books on the subject. And yet still we carry on repeating the same stupid PHB-driven mistakes as last year. Afterward there's an enquiry by the National Audit Office, various private sector companies are scapegoated, and yet are welcomed back with open arms when they tender for the next mega-project. NATS (national air-traffic control system) is already a disaster of this type - wildly over budget and > 5 years late (IIRC). Yes folks, FIVE YEARS LATE. Actually the chief villains are EDS, Anders - uh - Indenture, Cap Gemini et al. Having worked at Logica for a while (a similar "IT Services" house) I have to say I would never go back to such an organistation... nowhere is mediocrity, political manouvering, lack of technical knowledge, and being told what to do by one's suppliers so exalted as in public sector IT projects. Of course Blair are just starting to fawn over Microsoft (having been granted an audience by Bill Gates: the notion of there being some sort of backlash or alternative to Microsoft doesn't seem to have crossed their minds.
Sigh. And tax just went up 1%, allegedly to fund the health service, but if they just stopped pissing away hundreds of millions per project on stupid obvious mistakes they'd have MORE than enough to fund education, health, law & order etc.
Minor niggle, but the Barbican isn't really an "art gallery" per se. It's more like a university campus environment, but close to central London (prob ~20 mins walk from the City, the finacial district) which hosts many different art and cultural events. Last time I went I saw Vincente Amigo: highly recommended live if you happen to have had a bang on the head when you were a baby which left you cursed with the desire to listen to flamenco. I liked him so much I bought his most recent album.
Oh I KNOW I shouldn't fall for this but really, please... can't you stop stereotyping for just a few minutes? Please?? "snobbish" would be "looking down on people of a lower social class", right? How ironic that the UK has historically had FAR MORE social mobility than most other societies (you could be born a serf and die wealthy; if you did, your grandchildren would be viewed as being as good as any other aristos by their peers). And the US, the land of freedom and opportunity and the Merkin dream is now the land of inherited wealth that stays in families for generation after generation. With very little social support, education, rascism, etc etc, I'd bet that social mobility there is lower than probably anywhere else in the developed world.
OK, rant over, mod me down and get back to the topic...
(gloomily) I wish you could explain this to my grilf. I love her to bits and all, but she's got some terrible new-age hippy-freak pseudo-science beliefs... she reckons the first Matrix film was a thinly-veiled metaphor for the view of the universe (and human existence) propounded by Carlos Castaneda. She practically worships Castaneda, she's convinced he's got the profound insight & Ancient Wisdom of the Sages and all that crap. It's long past the point where we just don't bother talking about it any more. (well, /I/ don't bother talking about it any more, I just put my face in my hands when she reads bits out to me ;)
The stuff about the aliens needing humans "for their Energy" plays perfectly with her new-age bollocks ideas. I've pointed out that if this stuff existed, anyone who could prove it could walk away with the Nobel Prize, but she doesn't want to know.
ANy suggestions? (Apart from "find a new girlfriend"... )
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extremely well said, it's a shame this comment is currently just at +2 ( ). It's been said before but it's important to keep on saying it as long as people accept corporate propaganda without question (which, let's face it, the vast majority of us do.) Someone here used to have a sig quote (from The Usual Suspects, I think?) along the lines of: "The cleverest thing the devil ever did was to convince the world he didn't exist." Well the smartest thing Disney (corp.) ever did was to boil the frog so that gradually the idea that we might have intellectual freedom has become an outlandish, bizarre idea that most people just don't Get without a lot of careful explaining.
The books are funny mostly because they remind us how superb the radio series was (is.) The last three places I've worked have ALL had copies on the local mp3 server. They were good places to work:)
I'm shocked - SHOCKED! -- that you could think such a thing! Next, you'll be suggesting that the US forced out the head of the body that monitors compliance with international chemical weapons treaties -- even though the USA had ALREADY been granted an unprecedented waiver allowing them to just deny the inspectors access to any facility, without needing to give even an explanation -- because he was saying that it wouln't be a problem to get into Iraq and verify that, in fact, they have no more WMD,and that would remove the US's pretext to bomb a few thousand more women and children to bits.Good heavens, people may then start to wonder if the US forced Mary Robinson out of office as the head of the UNHCR (high commission on refugees) because she spoke up for the human rights of the civilians being massacred in Jenin, and that might slow sales of US tanks, planes, bombs and so on to Israel. They might even suspect that perhaps the Bush administration feels that, because they've got more hydrogen bombs than anyone else, they can do whatever the fuck they feel like, to anyone, anywhere, any time, without needing an explanation more valid than "it's in our best interest". You must surely be some sort of anti-American terrorist hippy communist drug-dealer.People like you should be secretly arrested,imprisoned without trial or access to legal representation, or in short, "disappeared". Oh, wait --
No, you're right. Someday, we (or our children - but before your grandchildren's time,if we're the average /.er age) are going to have to... wait for it... do without SUVs . A terrible thought, I know; we might have to get up off our fat arses and WALK for a change... give it a go some time, it's actually enjoyable believe it or not.
Isn't it fortunate that Napster didn't try to patent the basic idea? If they'd done that, the shrivelled husk of the company would still be worth a fortune to the vultures - ownership of that patent would presumably allow the firing off of C&Ds to anyone involved with Gnutella, FreeNet, KaZaa et al. "But Gnutella and FreeNet are decentralised!" Yeah, but surely they ALL require a single central download location for the client software... even if those sites are run by non-profit orgs, the hosting will come from a commercial (ie., sueable) corporation.
Hmmmmmm, now I come to think of it, perhaps someone should register a P2P patent portfolio and turn them over to the FSF to prevent such eventuality happening?
And even more info here, courtesy of Aunty. OK, so you already read that piece,but remember - for every one who checks the Beeb for stories they missed on Slashdot,there's probably one who does it the other way around...
Stop and think. You WON'T sue them. No-one EVER sues in these situations: if they did, we'd have a Slashdot front page full of stories about hardware megacorps being banktupted by massive lawsuits. Go ahead an md me down if you want, (I'm capped anyway) but it still ain't going to happen.
And if you haven't heard any of his stuff, check it out. There's nothing like it. The guy is a genius.
google for that phrase and GAQ or Intro and "in-group" "out-group"... have fun... warning, you will become very depressed if you read and understand that material. Studying social psychology was what finished off the destruction of my youthful idealism that had begun a couple of years earlier when I discovered Behaviourism, B.F.Skinner, "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" and decided that 99% of psychology is bullshit, Skinner is the psychologist's Darwin, but that approach has been marginalised because of conflicting "real world" political factors (it pisses off both the traditional leftist and rightists.) But I digress...
I do think there are still reasons to be cheerful. I take great comfort from absurdism, the Samuel Beckett-type view of life, plus a dash of zen and some discordianism. Nothing makes sense, and it's all good (especially when it hurts.)
Nurse... the screens!
I'm sure others will point this out too, but this just isn't true of mod_perl, at least (I can't speak of PHP, I've never used it.) Checkout the benchmarks in Stas Bekmann's mod_perl User Guide. Skinny: application code under mod_perl is compiled once, the first time it's accessed, and thereafter runs at (in effect) the speed of any Apache - modulo database, network, or bad code -related bottlenecks. I can't imagine any way of having a network accessible program be scalable, short of starting from scratch (no generic httpd) in C. You notice all those "http://www.foo.com/dynamic/foo.c?arg=val" type URLs? No, neither did I...
Close... the IPCC was designed to collate all well-reviewed, reliable, statistically sound studies done around the world, and describe the consensus of opinion amongst researchers in the field.
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The idea was to prevent scum-sucking American corporations from buying the US Government (by convincing the typical Merkin in the street) and preventing the measures required to help allleviate the threat, from being introduced. Of course we (rational human that is) reckoned without the extraordinary phenomena of Gee Dubya. The US is now storing up
Better luck in 2004.
No, you're mistaken. You seem to be making the elementary mistake of confusing climate modelling with weather forecasting. Curiously enough, you've fallen victim to the very thing you accuse the experimenters of: you made a (relatively) small blunder before you started writing, which has rendered the rest of your comment utterly irrelevant.
Further research is left as an exercise for the original poster. If you can't be bothered to read the article, or the detailed write up on the project's site, I can't be bothered to point out all the places you're wrong.
200Mb? You're kidding, right? Come on, the last win2K service pack was bigger than that. XP IIRC is > 1Gb for a default install. Mindblowing, but true.
My vote (without reading other comments) goes to Arthur Eddington's validation of Einstein's relativity by demonstrating that the sun's gravity bent the light from nearby stars. But how do you see stars when they're right next to the sun? Good lateral thinking, very ingenious...
I just read this article in Info Sec magazine on DRM technololgy: alas the web version doesn't have the article, just list of products and vendors - the whole thing was without any discussion of the moral or ethical dimension to the issue. Yet CISSP and SANS info-sec certifications all include an "ethical dimension" to their course materials. Go figure.
This is EXCELLENT news, especially if some kind soul (or company) would care to finance an AOL-like blizzard of CD mailouts and mage coverdisks. I've often thought (and occasionally said) that getting the message through to ignorant PHBs is the only way to guarantee Free software a future: witness the horrors of the DMCA, et. al., and now the EUCD (which is even WORSE than the DMCA...). Once PHBs realise that such laws will actually COST THEM MONEY - or that they can save money by using *cough* open source *cough* apps, servers and OSes, we'll be safe from the proprietary industry's last attempt to save itself, by legislating us out of existence.
Just read an interesting article (excerpt from his new book) by Will Hutton, noted UK economic chin-stroker & pundit to the stars (well, new Labour anyway.) He points out that many European companies which have rejected US-style, red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism aimed at maximising shareholder value at all costs has lead to rampant short-termism in US industry, with the predictable result that they have begun to fall behind their competitors. There are some other pretty interesting stats in there on management and exec remuneration, too... did you know that the CEO of Nokia earns less (much less!) than a million a year? Meanwhile in the US, board-level execs commonly pull multi-million dollar packages, with the excuse that this is the market rate that must be paid to attract top-class talent. Of course, all they're really interested in is boosting the share price so they can cash in their options and make another truckload of money. Read the article, it's food for thought.
That won't work on NAI/McAfee VirusScan, at least; VS doesn't trust the OS to know what type the file is.
Anyone seen lighting a match INSIDE the office I work would be sacked on the spot. Accidentally triggering sprinklers over server racks and dev workstations is Bad. This is one reason us smokers have to hide in the carpark...
Not at all. Carlton and Granada are limited liability companies; this is what limited liability means - they are not liable for ITV Digital's debt just because they own a majority of the shares ('stock'). How would you like it if a compnay went bankrupt and you found yourself liable for their debt because you owned some shares in them?
The F.A. were greedy. Football players were greedy. ITV Digital were greedy. You may have noticed, there's been a lot of this in the last few years....
Yeah? speak for yourself... personally, I say "fuck 'em!" Yes, I WOULD rather have Sun, Oracle, Netscape or IBM reaming us in exactly the same way that Microsoft has. I've had to live with the conequences of Microsoft's existence and behaviour for the last decade: you can build up a lot of loathing and hatred in that time. What's more, although Ellison and McNealy are also insufferable bores, rapant egomaniacs and "big swinging dicks" (well, big dicks anyway), they're far less infuriating than that scumbag slimeball cheesehead mofo, Gates. Yeah, I know this is the party line for the slashdot zealot, but just this once, I don't care.
Fuck Gates, fuck Microsoft, fuck everyone who ever worked there or helped in the triumph of lousy software and evil business practices.
OK,... I'm done ranting now.