That's not really a lot of money in federal terms. Heck, that's less than a couple modern jet fighters. Plus, it's only in Utah. No other senator or representative will care since it's not in the district.
Yes and originally you could just post with your chosen nickname with the registration hassle. That led to a few obvious problem when people started impersonating people or trolling with MEEPT! and such. I think I waited on the order of weeks to sign up.
I think it's fair to say that the average uid in the comments on this post will be the lowest in the last few years... possibly the last decade.
Yes, quite likely. It's nice to come back to someplace where we all spent so much time contributing in big and little ways. Many of us are a bit older and rounder than when/. started but the ride has been fun. I still remember grabbing a tshirt from Rob at some Linux conference in the San Jose Convention center. It was in the 1990s I'm sure because I still have Alpha Linux swag as well. Thanks CmdrTaco for the fun times.
I don't really miss the juvenile flames and obligatory nitpicks but I do recall fondly some of the lamer aspects: hot grits, Natalie Portman, MEEPT, first post, endless discussion of whether Jackson would ruin the LOTR movies, "I hate JarJar", whining about poll choices, vi vs emacs, etc. Maybe I'll look to see if there's a BSD fan around here and start a flame war for old time's sake.
Of course this is the case. This study is as exciting as news that George Michael is gay. There have been plenty of studies to this effect. My company makes tons of money consulting on better storage utilization. [Some Fortune 500 companies I've visited run below 40% utilization.] EMC, IBM, HDS, NetApp and the rest have no real interest in selling you less drives. They all make vague, glossy statements about saving storage money but in reality you need to be wasteful if you want to protect your ass. Think of the things we spend $ on just to get another 9 on the uptime digits: UPS, generators, clustering, DR systems/networks that sit idle, dark fibre between datacenters, RAID 1(+0), RAID 6, tapes, VTLs, Storage Arrays, redundant Fibre Channel SANs, . . .
From a human perspective, fuzzyfungus is right. Over-engineering is less likely to cost your job than failure. Plus, over-engineering is easy to justify.
Some things are just known to cost money if you MUST ensure that business is not subject to fallibility in hw and sw. The fact that there are 50 TBs unused out of your 200 TB of usable storage really might not mean too much. [Some of the numbers quoted could point to the mirrored side of RAID 1 stripes as wasted. It's a cheap gimmick to make the numbers look worse but still true to a certain extent if the performance difference between R5 and R1 is not needed.] Of course, there are usually low hanging fruit that can be attacked to save real money and prevent cascading costs on the other cost centers mentioned above but there will always be waste. It's the cost of five 9's.
The feds don't need authority. They already have it. Congress just hasn't assigned it to any agency yet. If you think an electrical grid that shares power generated by utilities in numerous states isn't covered by the commerce clause, you are not reading the same Constitution as the rest of us.
So when is Microshaft going to hit them up with the 'Must make Apple machines run Windows' anti-monopoly lawsuit? The current Intel based Macs can run Windows. Ahh... maybe then they should have to pay the M$ tax and Macs should come with Windows licenses since no one would really run ax x86 box without Windows.
I would argue "mailordermonsters" is the better tag. Reminds me of when I had a lot of extra time to work on vitual monsters to take over to my friends house for deathmatches. [Remember to make a copy of your disk in case your monster gets killed.]
Anyone who bitches about the price drop is nothing more than a whiner. Nearly all consumer electronics get cheaper. Those people paid $200 to be cool and own the latest, greatest phone. Same as those who paid out the nose for a Razr when it debuted. I held off on my iPod upgrade for a month or two waiting for this announcement. Now I'm not sure what I want. I really want a wide, touchscreen ipod with a hard drive over 80gb. I got both and neither. I need the space but I still crave the new interface and bigger screen on the new iPod touch. Damn it!
If they thought TV was bad. Wait until their studies get to a generation brought up on Wikipedia and the rest of the internet. I don't know how people with severe attention deficit disorder cope with an internet connection.
Maybe it would be easier to request Sun to make the T2 compatible with the AM2 socket. I know Sun is very familiar with Hypertransport, they could design this lowend proc to work in AMD compatible mobos with a compatible EFI BIOS. Maybe allow us to stick a T2 in a terranza socket for giggles. Why not?
There is generally no appeal to a small claims court ruling. The penalties are limited so that they are not deemed worthy of appeal to higher courts. This was the case in California when I was involved in a case a few years back.
Shennanigans. Commerce has operated without EULAs just fine for centuries. I never sign a contract when I buy something from a supermarket, or even a big ticket item like a fridge, and somehow those companies don't suffer "unlimited liability" claims. Plenty of businesses have general terms and conditions that aren't disguised as contracts, and they're just as valid -- in fact, probably moreso, as they don't pretend to be something they're not.
The idea that software companies are somehow different that other previous businesses and require new laws to deal with them is without merit. As the parent says, plenty of businesses have worked without suffering unlimited liability claims. I have always believed that software companies were afraid of liability because of the general crappy product they produce. The old joke about "if MS built your car" is grounded in reality. Software companies have had the tools to make better, reliable software for years. There are better languages and methodologies for producing reliable code than those commonly used today. There is no excuse for releasing beta (at best) software as 1.0 to consumers if liability were enforced in the same manner as in the auto industry of even as food processors. If it were more expensive to release a crappy product than really internally test companies would produce better software. It's just good business. As to EULAs, I've had a EULA that popped up ONLY AFTER INSTALL that said I had to agree with the EULA to install the product. Most EULAs are crap and shouldn't stand in court. The man in the article has a great chance of winning since California's small claims courts generally accept that the litigants are not lawyers and don't require arcane law points be argued to make your case. A jusge will interpret the plaintiffs argument and measure it against current law. He will even steer the conversation towards fulfilling the requirements of the law as he is allowed to directly question everyone involved.
That's the point though. Java applications should be compatible with newer versions of the JRE, but they are usually not. Too often I have to load and unload one version after another until I find the version necessary to run some crappy GUI to administer a switch or array. It sucks ass! I worked for Sun and Java never worked right on internal apps either. Always throwing exceptions and other garbage onto my terminal screen.
Open-sourcing the JRE so IBM can brew up their own flavor isn't going to help much either.
Exactly right. I moved from CA to St Louis 3 years ago for the COL and quality of life. I travel for consulting gigs quite often so living in the middle of the country is nice. The microbreweries in STL are actually some of the best in the country. Schlafly has a great selection year round. I always have a keg downstairs ready for 5pm. It seems like nearly everything is free here: museums, Shakespeare in the Park, the Muny, the St Louis Zoo, the Children's Discovery Science Center, Grant's Farm w/ free beer, AB tour w/free beer. [Everything I mentioned is free and sells beer on premise including the Children's Center]. I love it as long as the air conditioner works in August.
There are plenty of decent jobs in the Midwest. Companies specializing in everything from aerospace to biotech, chemicals to financial are based here on top of tons of small companies with medium IT departments. With more companies utilizing work-from-home, there will be more satellite offices opening in lower COL areas. I already see it in my travels. Why pay someone 85k/yr in Boston when you can pay someone 75k/yr in Kansas City, Minneapolis or Austin?
I make six figures, my house is very nice and within the city limits so it's close to everything (read 30 minutes max from anything by car). With the money I save living here my wife stays home with the kid, we fly all over the country to visit family (6-10 trips per year) and we always go to Paris in Spring. In LA or SF (where I used to live) I would sink that money into a grossly overpriced house, commute 2-4 hours a day in traffic and pay child care since my wife would have to work again. Why again?
Screw living in CA or NY. Love both places. Can't justify living there so I'll just visit a few times a year.
Does this mean I'll have to have the exact right version of Java to see a webpage now? The "write once, run anywhere (where the matching version of java is installed)" problem will get very annoying for people on Web 2.0 sites.
No, it shouldn't change the result or the points awarded. That would leave the result in doubt until after review and generally ruin the matches. Suspensions and red cards should be given for flagrant violations which would have serious repercussions for all games except perhaps the final week of league play or Cup finals. As an Arsenal fan, I was glad to be rid of Reyes who was a diver of the worst sort. ManU fans should be ashamed of Ronaldo's tactics as well. It's a shame that I am surprised when a forward in the box keeps his feet after a nudge from a defender. As for my fellow Americans who subscribe to the Jim Rome interpretation of football/soccer, take a close look at the NBA and NFL. I see more guys flopping around (drawing the charge or offensive foul usually) in the NBA than I ever see in 90 minutes of soccer. What about wide receivers in the NFL taking a dive when they realize they won't get to a pass? Heck, even baseball players are known to exaggerate how close the pitch got to them (even though most players crowd the plate since pitchers get wrung-up for moving them back).
Ahh... I am familiar with your situation since I actually resided in your datacenter building (6th floor office) when it was called SBC. Hell, I probably ran into you on a few concalls. Terrible food in the cafeteria. Just miserable. Still live in STL. We should have a beer at the Tap Room sometime.
I am now a consultant who sees quite a few IT departments around the world. While most are truly bad, I think IT has more in common with other departments than most people realize. You state: "Managers of a project usually don't care how the code is produced, so long as it meets business requirements." That should not happen as there should be corporate guidelines that are adhered to. Those guidelines and best practices should be developed and projects checked for compliance by senior persons such as yourself. If an advantage can be gained by a few extra hours spent on a project, management should be given the opportunity to make the call as to whether they believe it is worth the effort. That's what management gets paid to do whether the coders agree with their decisions or not.
Accounting has "best practices" that they use in much the same way as IT. There are hundreds of ways to account for assets, cash, revenues, etc. The senior members decide on a methodology and everyone works based on those rules. The product is different, but the management of the process is very similar. If it were not, MBAs would change IT fundamentally so that it was similar. Managers have to manage and they are not about to let one organization be substantially different than the others. That would be difficult and against their interests.
Anyway, agree to disagree. I'm too tired and I don't know if I'm making sense. Nice chatting.
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That's not really a lot of money in federal terms. Heck, that's less than a couple modern jet fighters. Plus, it's only in Utah. No other senator or representative will care since it's not in the district.
I could have sworn in between the case mod stories there were stories of overclocking to reach 1Ghz using assorted cooling techniques.
Get off my lawn!!
Yes and originally you could just post with your chosen nickname with the registration hassle. That led to a few obvious problem when people started impersonating people or trolling with MEEPT! and such. I think I waited on the order of weeks to sign up.
As good a reason as any. I forgot how much people hated his posts.
I think it's fair to say that the average uid in the comments on this post will be the lowest in the last few years... possibly the last decade.
Yes, quite likely. It's nice to come back to someplace where we all spent so much time contributing in big and little ways. Many of us are a bit older and rounder than when /. started but the ride has been fun. I still remember grabbing a tshirt from Rob at some Linux conference in the San Jose Convention center. It was in the 1990s I'm sure because I still have Alpha Linux swag as well. Thanks CmdrTaco for the fun times.
I don't really miss the juvenile flames and obligatory nitpicks but I do recall fondly some of the lamer aspects: hot grits, Natalie Portman, MEEPT, first post, endless discussion of whether Jackson would ruin the LOTR movies, "I hate JarJar", whining about poll choices, vi vs emacs, etc. Maybe I'll look to see if there's a BSD fan around here and start a flame war for old time's sake.
Of course this is the case. This study is as exciting as news that George Michael is gay. There have been plenty of studies to this effect. My company makes tons of money consulting on better storage utilization. [Some Fortune 500 companies I've visited run below 40% utilization.] EMC, IBM, HDS, NetApp and the rest have no real interest in selling you less drives. They all make vague, glossy statements about saving storage money but in reality you need to be wasteful if you want to protect your ass. Think of the things we spend $ on just to get another 9 on the uptime digits: UPS, generators, clustering, DR systems/networks that sit idle, dark fibre between datacenters, RAID 1(+0), RAID 6, tapes, VTLs, Storage Arrays, redundant Fibre Channel SANs, . . .
From a human perspective, fuzzyfungus is right. Over-engineering is less likely to cost your job than failure. Plus, over-engineering is easy to justify.
Some things are just known to cost money if you MUST ensure that business is not subject to fallibility in hw and sw. The fact that there are 50 TBs unused out of your 200 TB of usable storage really might not mean too much. [Some of the numbers quoted could point to the mirrored side of RAID 1 stripes as wasted. It's a cheap gimmick to make the numbers look worse but still true to a certain extent if the performance difference between R5 and R1 is not needed.] Of course, there are usually low hanging fruit that can be attacked to save real money and prevent cascading costs on the other cost centers mentioned above but there will always be waste. It's the cost of five 9's.
"Mail Order Monsters" would be nice please. Much better than UFC or WWE.
That's not even close to true. A case of make the facts fit your argument.
The feds don't need authority. They already have it. Congress just hasn't assigned it to any agency yet. If you think an electrical grid that shares power generated by utilities in numerous states isn't covered by the commerce clause, you are not reading the same Constitution as the rest of us.
And haff of dat is fiddy.
Where I come from it means vomiting.
I registered too late as well. I registered once and then they reset everything for some reason and we had to register again.
I would argue "mailordermonsters" is the better tag. Reminds me of when I had a lot of extra time to work on vitual monsters to take over to my friends house for deathmatches. [Remember to make a copy of your disk in case your monster gets killed.]
Anyone who bitches about the price drop is nothing more than a whiner. Nearly all consumer electronics get cheaper. Those people paid $200 to be cool and own the latest, greatest phone. Same as those who paid out the nose for a Razr when it debuted. I held off on my iPod upgrade for a month or two waiting for this announcement. Now I'm not sure what I want. I really want a wide, touchscreen ipod with a hard drive over 80gb. I got both and neither. I need the space but I still crave the new interface and bigger screen on the new iPod touch. Damn it!
If they thought TV was bad. Wait until their studies get to a generation brought up on Wikipedia and the rest of the internet. I don't know how people with severe attention deficit disorder cope with an internet connection.
Maybe it would be easier to request Sun to make the T2 compatible with the AM2 socket. I know Sun is very familiar with Hypertransport, they could design this lowend proc to work in AMD compatible mobos with a compatible EFI BIOS. Maybe allow us to stick a T2 in a terranza socket for giggles. Why not?
I think that's what the OP was wishing for.
There is generally no appeal to a small claims court ruling. The penalties are limited so that they are not deemed worthy of appeal to higher courts. This was the case in California when I was involved in a case a few years back.
The idea that software companies are somehow different that other previous businesses and require new laws to deal with them is without merit. As the parent says, plenty of businesses have worked without suffering unlimited liability claims. I have always believed that software companies were afraid of liability because of the general crappy product they produce. The old joke about "if MS built your car" is grounded in reality. Software companies have had the tools to make better, reliable software for years. There are better languages and methodologies for producing reliable code than those commonly used today. There is no excuse for releasing beta (at best) software as 1.0 to consumers if liability were enforced in the same manner as in the auto industry of even as food processors. If it were more expensive to release a crappy product than really internally test companies would produce better software. It's just good business.
As to EULAs, I've had a EULA that popped up ONLY AFTER INSTALL that said I had to agree with the EULA to install the product. Most EULAs are crap and shouldn't stand in court. The man in the article has a great chance of winning since California's small claims courts generally accept that the litigants are not lawyers and don't require arcane law points be argued to make your case. A jusge will interpret the plaintiffs argument and measure it against current law. He will even steer the conversation towards fulfilling the requirements of the law as he is allowed to directly question everyone involved.
That's the point though. Java applications should be compatible with newer versions of the JRE, but they are usually not. Too often I have to load and unload one version after another until I find the version necessary to run some crappy GUI to administer a switch or array. It sucks ass! I worked for Sun and Java never worked right on internal apps either. Always throwing exceptions and other garbage onto my terminal screen.
Open-sourcing the JRE so IBM can brew up their own flavor isn't going to help much either.
Exactly right. I moved from CA to St Louis 3 years ago for the COL and quality of life. I travel for consulting gigs quite often so living in the middle of the country is nice. The microbreweries in STL are actually some of the best in the country. Schlafly has a great selection year round. I always have a keg downstairs ready for 5pm. It seems like nearly everything is free here: museums, Shakespeare in the Park, the Muny, the St Louis Zoo, the Children's Discovery Science Center, Grant's Farm w/ free beer, AB tour w/free beer. [Everything I mentioned is free and sells beer on premise including the Children's Center]. I love it as long as the air conditioner works in August.
There are plenty of decent jobs in the Midwest. Companies specializing in everything from aerospace to biotech, chemicals to financial are based here on top of tons of small companies with medium IT departments. With more companies utilizing work-from-home, there will be more satellite offices opening in lower COL areas. I already see it in my travels. Why pay someone 85k/yr in Boston when you can pay someone 75k/yr in Kansas City, Minneapolis or Austin?
I make six figures, my house is very nice and within the city limits so it's close to everything (read 30 minutes max from anything by car). With the money I save living here my wife stays home with the kid, we fly all over the country to visit family (6-10 trips per year) and we always go to Paris in Spring. In LA or SF (where I used to live) I would sink that money into a grossly overpriced house, commute 2-4 hours a day in traffic and pay child care since my wife would have to work again. Why again?
Screw living in CA or NY. Love both places. Can't justify living there so I'll just visit a few times a year.
Does this mean I'll have to have the exact right version of Java to see a webpage now? The "write once, run anywhere (where the matching version of java is installed)" problem will get very annoying for people on Web 2.0 sites.
No, it shouldn't change the result or the points awarded. That would leave the result in doubt until after review and generally ruin the matches. Suspensions and red cards should be given for flagrant violations which would have serious repercussions for all games except perhaps the final week of league play or Cup finals. As an Arsenal fan, I was glad to be rid of Reyes who was a diver of the worst sort. ManU fans should be ashamed of Ronaldo's tactics as well. It's a shame that I am surprised when a forward in the box keeps his feet after a nudge from a defender.
As for my fellow Americans who subscribe to the Jim Rome interpretation of football/soccer, take a close look at the NBA and NFL. I see more guys flopping around (drawing the charge or offensive foul usually) in the NBA than I ever see in 90 minutes of soccer. What about wide receivers in the NFL taking a dive when they realize they won't get to a pass? Heck, even baseball players are known to exaggerate how close the pitch got to them (even though most players crowd the plate since pitchers get wrung-up for moving them back).
Ahh... I am familiar with your situation since I actually resided in your datacenter building (6th floor office) when it was called SBC. Hell, I probably ran into you on a few concalls. Terrible food in the cafeteria. Just miserable. Still live in STL. We should have a beer at the Tap Room sometime.
I am now a consultant who sees quite a few IT departments around the world. While most are truly bad, I think IT has more in common with other departments than most people realize. You state: "Managers of a project usually don't care how the code is produced, so long as it meets business requirements." That should not happen as there should be corporate guidelines that are adhered to. Those guidelines and best practices should be developed and projects checked for compliance by senior persons such as yourself. If an advantage can be gained by a few extra hours spent on a project, management should be given the opportunity to make the call as to whether they believe it is worth the effort. That's what management gets paid to do whether the coders agree with their decisions or not.
Accounting has "best practices" that they use in much the same way as IT. There are hundreds of ways to account for assets, cash, revenues, etc. The senior members decide on a methodology and everyone works based on those rules. The product is different, but the management of the process is very similar. If it were not, MBAs would change IT fundamentally so that it was similar. Managers have to manage and they are not about to let one organization be substantially different than the others. That would be difficult and against their interests.
Anyway, agree to disagree. I'm too tired and I don't know if I'm making sense. Nice chatting.