However, while it was available, I found it not to be very user friendly, due to lack of advanced search, due to lack of negative keyword option (that is in order to exclude sites containing certain word(s) ) and due to unfamiliar design. The final one seems to be subjective, but as Altavista, Google and Yahoo has a common baseline design, a new search engine (IMHO) should conform that visual...
It has been some time, since I sit in an English classroom, however I still remember some parts of the language. Doesn't "unjustly enriched itself" mean that they steal money from Novell???
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I will provide some numbers, and I believe, as our market is truly global, these should provide you more or less a valid idea for Canadian pricing.
For shared VSAT terminals 1.000 USD (or 999) is pretty much common. Depending on your location and extra needs (larger dishes) this can go up to 1.300 USD.
For the service, the bit rate based offers are not so meaningful, you need to know your daily quota in Mbytes. Our 650 MBytes/day limited service is 155 Euro (~250 USD) per month.
For dedicated services; equipment cost is very dependent on capacity and traffic structure. Our regular dedicated Internet capacity customers' baseline cost for equipment (for a 1024/256 asymmetrical dedicated Internet capacity) is around 15.000 USD and monthly service fee is around 2.500 Euro (~4.000 USD) per month. If you have a seriously big capacity need (10+ Mbits), by investing into special equipments (~40.000 USD and above) you can decrease unit service cost up to 50%.
More likely, "we are bureaucrats, as long as their lawyers are better than yours, you are doomed..." with an evil laughter from '50s horror movies.
The processing of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 project has been conducted in conformity with the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Directives, with decisions determined by the votes expressed by the relevant ISO and IEC national bodies under their own responsibility, and consequently, for the reasons mentioned above, the appeals should not be processed further
Typical desk jockey jargon with no content whatsoever... "Vote was counted and records are signed, that is the end of it, just shut up, we do not care if a company bought out some (most) of the votes or not..."
The rigging in regular -old fashined- elections will take some people who will risk their necks in the process. These people are more likely to have some political ambitions, which cannot be valid outside the contry. A common argument in our local politics, is that "You can be a doctor (programmer...) in any country, with some paperwork, but cannot be a politician in a country aside from your native one". Of course there might be exceptions, but this is a generally valid argument.
On the other hand you can use _only one_ programmer who can be more willing to live outside of whatever country we are talking about for a reasonable sum of money if the rigging will be done by IT means, which requires e-voting. Also IT methods make it easier to automatize all the process and make it easier to modify only necessary counts, and important ability that manual rigging lacks.
When I started to give some courses in my old school -which fortunately did not last much- first thing I realized was that it was unbelievably easy for the instructor to see what is going on, during classes, during exams, and naturally home works and/or assignments etc. Any teacher who want to help the development of his/her pupils, just needs to watch them and _really_ read their papers.
"The problem is definitely getting worse, it is hard to detect, the number of these sites is spreading all the time and it is impossible for us to monitor all of them." If these gentlemen in the FA want to do their job correctly, maybe it would be better to concentrate on their students, instead of these cheating sites. I agree with them it is not possible to track all sites. I had a friend who established a publishing company by using his income from his "home work helper" site. It is one of the hidden (still) sectors of the Internet, like book selling before Amazon's success.
Yes I heard them all. Also I read PJ's recent post in Groklaw about SUN's silence on their deal with SCO for right to open source OpenSolaris. I am not saying SUN is perfect. I spent so much time on SPARC workstations and hate it most of the time, that I even today prefer to use AIX, if I must to use a branded UNIX.
What I tried to (maybe poorly) say is, SUN, being a UNIX -however bad- producer, is closer to FOSS community. Also while not saying Novell is totally evil, even after spending (wasting?) a part of my younger years writing programs on Netware, I cannot believe that they are honest, especially after wasting (this time with no question mark) some time while trying to install mpeg libraries to SUSE 10.x or after reading (thanks to PJ again) about their deal with M$.
Probably because they are an UNIX company at the end, their track record is better than that of Novell. SUN is closer to the core of FOSS community. Also this is not the first time they admit a mistake, which takes some balls to do in IT industry. It was really appreciated (by me at least) when they switched from SunOS to Solaris and it was not just the name that was changed. I hope Novell would take the clue one day...
Please keep in mind that IANAL, my reading of the positions is as:
As smaller ISPs are also customers of AT&T themselves, they should be eligible (under normal market conditions, for regular goods and services) for price negotiation to lower theÅYr costs, as they are buying said services in bulk. However as AT&T is a monopoly, it is using that superior market position for squeezing direct customers, by narrowing their profit margins. Which, besides collapsing your customers being a bad business practice, should be illegal, as it is an "unfair business practice". As far as I know there is no requirement for fairness in real market environment so that law maker do not care about your regular fairness concept, but "unfair business practices" usually is a placeholder for "Mafia like extortion techniques"...
While being not so "scientific", market research is one of the leading forces behind the statictics, as a -well, kind of- science. Also they usually need to squeeze some terabytes of data into one or two pages of PowerPoint (Keynote, if they are lucky) presentation pages. So, it is serious data processing, scientific or not.
My university is in the US, but how is this handled in other parts of the world? Well, my degree is in Computer Programming, and during my time in school I was very involved with our Computer Center and network operations. Only department that was not in need of technical support, help in programming etc. was Physics department -that is from a school that claims to have the best Engineering education in the country...- Our Physics department's only need from Computer Center was more, I mean MORE CPU time from each and every free or not so free server, in order to run their simulations.
So, basically, I guess there is a serious problem with your department. Excel(!)
I agree with the basic fact that it is way too long. However -as a nice surprise for me- there is stuff related with Frank Herbert and Dune buried within, a subject, I do not see frequently in Star Wars related material, which nevertheless should be included in any history related with these movies. So it seems to be a good reading material... I -for a change- recommend RTFA (RTFB even...).
While IANAL, I used to manage our relations with Telecommunications Authority of Turkey, whose regulations are closely similar to other ITU member organizations. Here we are required to protect customer privacy during their telecommunication activities and only share pertaining data with legal authorities. Similarly we are required to modify some web content (in fact, we are poisoning DNS data) only under legal orders. However it is not clear if the traffic from public web sites are private traffic, while messing with a banking site's traffic and/or a transactional traffic carrying credit card info will certainly put you behind the bars.
I used to have some numbers, but they are not valid as of now. However, with the exception of some academic and military networks, all (ALL) government computers are running Microcrap OS. Same applies to company networks (with the exception of media companies, where the trouble source of choice is Apple) and home computers (with the exception of a small percentage of younger home users, mostly Linux running script kiddies). You can deduct browser and mail client preferences. There are even some companies using old IE logo for "Internet" place holder:(
Because depending on the jurisdiction, the cash register must be a hardware that is certified to be a cash register, even if it was a PC in another lifetime...
In answer to FA poster; In my time as a software developer -when steam powered computers was just phasing out-, most register producers was willing to provide you with an API and some decent documentation about their data format. Try IBM, for example...
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Regular high gain omnidirectional antennas can go up to 100 meters in closed environment, if there is not so much metal sheets around. Somebody should try a yagi in open space.
While agreeing with the basic fact that "ethics is ethics" whatever the environment is, I guess it should be noted that, IT gives more power to people than it was expected during the time when ethic codes are developed in thousands of years. Before IT, you would need to have some guts to come into my house and try to look mt financial records, or love letters, or my childhood pictures, now it is very very easy to do so. You can automate any activity, either productive, or un-productive (such as unethical ones) with IT means, that would lead mass unethical activities by individuals. This should cause us to ha a different ethics in IT environment than a regular environment. The very same argument can be applied to privacy and availability of encryption to ordinary people. When government had no means to mass monitor its population, encryption issue can be trivial, but now the situation is different, as there are industrial scale monitoring facilities.
(Semi) official Microsoft view worded as
IBM is solely responsible for ISO's recent decision to deny OOXML fast-track approval. "Let's be very clear," Jean Paoli, Microsoft's senior director of XML technology, told ZDNet. "It has been fostered by a single company--IBM. If it was not for IBM, it would have been business as usual for this standard."
One wonders if Microsoft officials do not recognize their own organization as a "single company". Although there are claims of MS statehood, I prefer such ideas remain in the "jokingly funny" domain.
I seem to remember, they had some Microsoft code embedded into critical locations (albeit OS/2 is the fork attempt of IBM from MS OS base). If that is still the case, they might be bound by some eternal license agreement. I agree with your point (especially "garbage" part), but if they say "business, technical and legal problems", it basically means, "we do not want to spent technical, marketing and PR man/hours to clean up a mess we made some 15+ years ago" (when it was really? We are all getting older).
Being easier to start with, does not mean it is good to do so.
As a programmer, I believe that (without religious undertones) any decent programming language is as good as any other decent language, provided that you do not need something very obscure. However, there is no guarantee that, in RL(tm) you will have access to easier to live conditions. If students learn only easier tools, GUI embedded compilers -that links each and every library automatically- and 4GL look-a-like's and such, they will find themselves in deep shit when start working. I have programmers who cannot port a program's SQL portions from MSSQL to PostgreSQL, because our local schools here in Turkey are teaching only Pascal as introduction and then VB based scripting languages. Thay do not learn Assembler, C, COBOL, FORTRAN etc. If you have a, deeply buried in time, COBOL file and only a C compiler available, should this be a problem? No, but lots of programmers around me will just fill in their pants with the most recent meal they had, when facing such problems...
Students have things those are not very available in later stages of life, a fresh brain with lots of learning capacity, and some really free time. They should spent this time in preparation for the difficulties waiting them, which means learning Assembler, C, Ada, LISP and FORTRAN even if they would not need to see a single line of it after graduation. Because such languages are foundations of computer programming art.
If we can go back to the original post, Java is an important language, albeit I do not like and/or use it. However it is not one of the basic languages. On the other hand, I believe students must take some courses teaching languages like Java, but only after learning languages of historical importance.
As a final note; My school is very well known in our Country, even accepted best in certain circles, and I cannot find one acceptable candidate from there to fill my vacancies, just because they stopped teaching "difficult" languages.
This is the most basic dilemma of our times. It is normal for an organization to expect some kind of bond of honor from its members. This might be expectation of a nation state from its citizens, and/or expectation of a company from its workforce (with whatever collar color they have). While a government do not want a citizen cheating on tax records, or co-operate with an "enemy of the state", a company naturally would not like to have its employees to publicly discuss trade secrets or make fools of themselves while they are somehow associated with the company image.
When (in the "good old days") it was very difficult to commit these "crimes" against organizations, it was also very difficult to keep track of activities that can be part of those "crimes". Nowadays it is very easy to be a criminal in that sense, while it is easier to keep track of such things. So that, while the basic justification of tracking of public activities of various organizations' members exists (exists strongly from the organization's point of view), there are no established limits for such tracking, because the medium (in the broadest sense or word) is quite new. As we still have no reliable rules on phone tapping (yes, I know there are lots of laws, and we all know how they are enforced) unlike snail mail has for decades, I do not think we will reach a _mature_ solution for the Internet anytime soon.
I feel we are in a kind of _wild west during the gold rush_ status here, there are weak and not so enforced rules, while in practice most people (if not anybody) can get away with whatever they have done. This is especially true for organizations, that can hide behind hired individuals, as happened in HP's case...
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However, while it was available, I found it not to be very user friendly, due to lack of advanced search, due to lack of negative keyword option (that is in order to exclude sites containing certain word(s) ) and due to unfamiliar design. The final one seems to be subjective, but as Altavista, Google and Yahoo has a common baseline design, a new search engine (IMHO) should conform that visual...
It has been some time, since I sit in an English classroom, however I still remember some parts of the language. Doesn't "unjustly enriched itself" mean that they steal money from Novell???
For dedicated services; equipment cost is very dependent on capacity and traffic structure. Our regular dedicated Internet capacity customers' baseline cost for equipment (for a 1024/256 asymmetrical dedicated Internet capacity) is around 15.000 USD and monthly service fee is around 2.500 Euro (~4.000 USD) per month. If you have a seriously big capacity need (10+ Mbits), by investing into special equipments (~40.000 USD and above) you can decrease unit service cost up to 50%.
The processing of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 project has been conducted in conformity with the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Directives, with decisions determined by the votes expressed by the relevant ISO and IEC national bodies under their own responsibility, and consequently, for the reasons mentioned above, the appeals should not be processed further
Typical desk jockey jargon with no content whatsoever... "Vote was counted and records are signed, that is the end of it, just shut up, we do not care if a company bought out some (most) of the votes or not..."
The rigging in regular -old fashined- elections will take some people who will risk their necks in the process. These people are more likely to have some political ambitions, which cannot be valid outside the contry. A common argument in our local politics, is that "You can be a doctor (programmer...) in any country, with some paperwork, but cannot be a politician in a country aside from your native one". Of course there might be exceptions, but this is a generally valid argument.
On the other hand you can use _only one_ programmer who can be more willing to live outside of whatever country we are talking about for a reasonable sum of money if the rigging will be done by IT means, which requires e-voting. Also IT methods make it easier to automatize all the process and make it easier to modify only necessary counts, and important ability that manual rigging lacks.
C'mon, this is the new academical research technique for Parkinson's Diseases' effects on cognitive abilities...
Deserts are not desirable ecosystems. They are what happens when you push a healthy ecosystem to the point of collapse.
Huh, do you really mean all these desert ecosystem is a mistake of humans? So much Matrix?
What I tried to (maybe poorly) say is, SUN, being a UNIX -however bad- producer, is closer to FOSS community. Also while not saying Novell is totally evil, even after spending (wasting?) a part of my younger years writing programs on Netware, I cannot believe that they are honest, especially after wasting (this time with no question mark) some time while trying to install mpeg libraries to SUSE 10.x or after reading (thanks to PJ again) about their deal with M$.
Probably because they are an UNIX company at the end, their track record is better than that of Novell. SUN is closer to the core of FOSS community. Also this is not the first time they admit a mistake, which takes some balls to do in IT industry. It was really appreciated (by me at least) when they switched from SunOS to Solaris and it was not just the name that was changed. I hope Novell would take the clue one day...
As smaller ISPs are also customers of AT&T themselves, they should be eligible (under normal market conditions, for regular goods and services) for price negotiation to lower theÅYr costs, as they are buying said services in bulk. However as AT&T is a monopoly, it is using that superior market position for squeezing direct customers, by narrowing their profit margins. Which, besides collapsing your customers being a bad business practice, should be illegal, as it is an "unfair business practice". As far as I know there is no requirement for fairness in real market environment so that law maker do not care about your regular fairness concept, but "unfair business practices" usually is a placeholder for "Mafia like extortion techniques"...
Wrong, it is better to know that you have no data on a subject than, to hope that data you have might be correct on it.
Better yet, they can forget anything after (probably including) the black album.
While being not so "scientific", market research is one of the leading forces behind the statictics, as a -well, kind of- science. Also they usually need to squeeze some terabytes of data into one or two pages of PowerPoint (Keynote, if they are lucky) presentation pages. So, it is serious data processing, scientific or not.
So, basically, I guess there is a serious problem with your department. Excel(!)
I agree with the basic fact that it is way too long. However -as a nice surprise for me- there is stuff related with Frank Herbert and Dune buried within, a subject, I do not see frequently in Star Wars related material, which nevertheless should be included in any history related with these movies. So it seems to be a good reading material... I -for a change- recommend RTFA (RTFB even...).
While IANAL, I used to manage our relations with Telecommunications Authority of Turkey, whose regulations are closely similar to other ITU member organizations. Here we are required to protect customer privacy during their telecommunication activities and only share pertaining data with legal authorities. Similarly we are required to modify some web content (in fact, we are poisoning DNS data) only under legal orders. However it is not clear if the traffic from public web sites are private traffic, while messing with a banking site's traffic and/or a transactional traffic carrying credit card info will certainly put you behind the bars.
I used to have some numbers, but they are not valid as of now. However, with the exception of some academic and military networks, all (ALL) government computers are running Microcrap OS. Same applies to company networks (with the exception of media companies, where the trouble source of choice is Apple) and home computers (with the exception of a small percentage of younger home users, mostly Linux running script kiddies). You can deduct browser and mail client preferences. There are even some companies using old IE logo for "Internet" place holder :(
Because depending on the jurisdiction, the cash register must be a hardware that is certified to be a cash register, even if it was a PC in another lifetime... In answer to FA poster; In my time as a software developer -when steam powered computers was just phasing out-, most register producers was willing to provide you with an API and some decent documentation about their data format. Try IBM, for example...
Regular high gain omnidirectional antennas can go up to 100 meters in closed environment, if there is not so much metal sheets around. Somebody should try a yagi in open space.
While agreeing with the basic fact that "ethics is ethics" whatever the environment is, I guess it should be noted that, IT gives more power to people than it was expected during the time when ethic codes are developed in thousands of years. Before IT, you would need to have some guts to come into my house and try to look mt financial records, or love letters, or my childhood pictures, now it is very very easy to do so. You can automate any activity, either productive, or un-productive (such as unethical ones) with IT means, that would lead mass unethical activities by individuals. This should cause us to ha a different ethics in IT environment than a regular environment. The very same argument can be applied to privacy and availability of encryption to ordinary people. When government had no means to mass monitor its population, encryption issue can be trivial, but now the situation is different, as there are industrial scale monitoring facilities.
One wonders if Microsoft officials do not recognize their own organization as a "single company". Although there are claims of MS statehood, I prefer such ideas remain in the "jokingly funny" domain.
I seem to remember, they had some Microsoft code embedded into critical locations (albeit OS/2 is the fork attempt of IBM from MS OS base). If that is still the case, they might be bound by some eternal license agreement. I agree with your point (especially "garbage" part), but if they say "business, technical and legal problems", it basically means, "we do not want to spent technical, marketing and PR man/hours to clean up a mess we made some 15+ years ago" (when it was really? We are all getting older).
As a programmer, I believe that (without religious undertones) any decent programming language is as good as any other decent language, provided that you do not need something very obscure. However, there is no guarantee that, in RL(tm) you will have access to easier to live conditions. If students learn only easier tools, GUI embedded compilers -that links each and every library automatically- and 4GL look-a-like's and such, they will find themselves in deep shit when start working. I have programmers who cannot port a program's SQL portions from MSSQL to PostgreSQL, because our local schools here in Turkey are teaching only Pascal as introduction and then VB based scripting languages. Thay do not learn Assembler, C, COBOL, FORTRAN etc. If you have a, deeply buried in time, COBOL file and only a C compiler available, should this be a problem? No, but lots of programmers around me will just fill in their pants with the most recent meal they had, when facing such problems...
Students have things those are not very available in later stages of life, a fresh brain with lots of learning capacity, and some really free time. They should spent this time in preparation for the difficulties waiting them, which means learning Assembler, C, Ada, LISP and FORTRAN even if they would not need to see a single line of it after graduation. Because such languages are foundations of computer programming art.
If we can go back to the original post, Java is an important language, albeit I do not like and/or use it. However it is not one of the basic languages. On the other hand, I believe students must take some courses teaching languages like Java, but only after learning languages of historical importance.
As a final note; My school is very well known in our Country, even accepted best in certain circles, and I cannot find one acceptable candidate from there to fill my vacancies, just because they stopped teaching "difficult" languages.
When (in the "good old days") it was very difficult to commit these "crimes" against organizations, it was also very difficult to keep track of activities that can be part of those "crimes". Nowadays it is very easy to be a criminal in that sense, while it is easier to keep track of such things. So that, while the basic justification of tracking of public activities of various organizations' members exists (exists strongly from the organization's point of view), there are no established limits for such tracking, because the medium (in the broadest sense or word) is quite new. As we still have no reliable rules on phone tapping (yes, I know there are lots of laws, and we all know how they are enforced) unlike snail mail has for decades, I do not think we will reach a _mature_ solution for the Internet anytime soon.
I feel we are in a kind of _wild west during the gold rush_ status here, there are weak and not so enforced rules, while in practice most people (if not anybody) can get away with whatever they have done. This is especially true for organizations, that can hide behind hired individuals, as happened in HP's case...