Just my 2, but have you looked into Rackspace Cloud Servers? They are cheaper than dedicated servers (mentioned somewhere else preiously).
I recently moved one of my clients' sites to a RCS (in this case CentOS 5.5), and it's working out quite well. I have full control of the OS and packages, and do not worry about the hardware. For a small licensing fee per month, you can Windows OS options (although I don't know a lot of details).
It's scalable (load balancing, scalable RAM, etc), and it's inexpensive. Definitely worth a look here.
For a few more bucks, you can have managed Cloud Servers, etc.
That very old document is really, not very old. It's also proven to be one of the wisest, and most simple documents that exist.
It speaks of the things limit the power of a government. Things that a government CAN NOT do to it's citizens... and the very basics that it provides to it's people.
It doesn't need to have specifics like health care, planned parenthood, internet regulation, etc... BECAUSE they are things the government would be providing... they're not to be included.
NOW... the next brilliant thing to grace those pages, is the ability to AMEND the constitution. Nothing is perfect, and mistakes happen... times change, and the founders knew that... it can be changed at any time to provide for our modern times... BUT, it rarely is. Why? Think about it. Wait for the epiphany to set in.
That old document was extremely successful at limiting the power of government from over-extending itself and evolving into a tyranny. It worked... BUT, it's being challenged daily by our president, and many of the powers that be. It's sickening, to say the least.
Like it or not: The USA is/was the last place on earth with such a document, and was the most successful country in our times to date.
Not anymore... and it's not because of the limiting of government, and how amazingly free this country is. Ha.
Nice catch on the front-end... now, what happens when you turn off Javascript? Do they use the same regex on the back-end? Do they check on the back-end?
Just curious, as I haven't had time to check for myself...
I've always had a terrible distaste for Microsoft for too many reasons to list.
BUT, I have to say that I am impressed with Microsoft on their approach of this one. All around, I really look at this and think that this is the attitude they should have adopted a very, very long time ago, and they produced a very outstanding product.
I'm happy to give them a sincere 'pat on the back' on this and try to find ways to positively reinforce more of these wonderful devices.
Chances are that your company does not need to protect the lives of all of the people who pass through it.
If this was the case, I can guarantee you'd have the government all over you, making sure what you were doing was safe, etc. You'd have to reveal everything you were doing (and not doing) to protect your customers to the government. The government would turn around and either allow you to continue,or they would shut you down if they felt your security wasn't doing enough.
You bet we should know all of the flaws and we should know exactly what we are getting with the TSA.
The government can question our methods, and expose our weaknesses in the name of safety, but we can not do the same to the government? It seems that this is where America was different, and it allowed us to thrive.
I am a 46 year old who has been in "Internet" access and development for close to 20 years. I have been working with open standards, open source, etc. since the mid 90's. Part of the fun of what I do on a daily basis is learning new things, and playing with different technologies, and it comes easily.
After the amount of time I have had the habits I have, new technologies, new ways of doing things (and so on) come very naturally. I can program circles around the "kids" out there, and definitely am much more thorough that anyone I work with who is younger than me.
I don't think I am an anomaly, but rather I am a perception of a younger generation that isn't close to accurate. So far, it has not been a problem to compete (and many times dwarf) against the "kids". Put me in a meeting for 10 minutes with them, and it becomes rather clear, consistently.
The thing us old workers have going forward is that the younger generation will be our age much quicker than they can believe (time flies, really), and will eat many of the words they might say today about older IT workers. Perhaps the intelligent/smart youth in the IT industry are smart enough to see the long term (which should be part of their daily job in technology).
Read the freakin' summary, at the very least. It's Lieberman the Toad that wants to do this, not Obama. (Although, given the chance, Obama likely would...but still, this is about Lieberman.)
I hope you understand that Lieberman is HIGHLY CONTROLLED as to his statements, policies, etc. Obama knows and approves what Lieberman is proposing. It's pretty common sense for your boss to know what policies you pitch to the company before you do it.
Make no mistake. This is a marketing campaign, just like the rest of the campaign we call the Obama administration.
What happened to the 60's democrats who were so anti-establishment, etc?
At what point, exactly did the Democrats want to build a HUGE, unsustainable government, and the Repubs (or conservatives) decided to create a movement (tea party) complete with protests and anti-establishment marches and rally's? Does something seem to have shifted here? What happened?
Is the younger generation of programmers really that arrogant to think that older programmers don't know and learn new languages and coding trends? it is my experience that the best coders out there are those over 40. Not only are they on top of technologies that are current, but they understand why those technologies came to be and what they helped to improve. Many of them learned on the job, in a budding industry.
How nice to hear! Thank you for that. I think one of my greater fears in life (career-wise) is to be perceived as an old man in a young man's profession.
I am a 45 year _old_ programmer who was classically trained in CS on a Vax-11780. Along the way in my career, I played with and learned Apple II's, IBM PC's, (original) Macintosh, and so on. I had also operated and played with BBS's and Email protocols, (FidoNet, UUCP), Dialup (Tribelink's, Portmasters), HTML, and then on to Web scripting languages, SQL, and deeply into Linux and the open source world.
I had learned all of this on my own, as needed, when many of these technologies were new -- and it could be difficult to find someone who can support them. Learning them was the only way to really understand how to make them work for my organizations, and work reliably.
It seems that my whole life I have been "upgrading" and continuously learning new technologies. It's a very natural part of my day, anymore. So far, I have been lucky, as the perception people have of me doesn't seem to be "he's over the hill". Although I can't say I don't see that day coming.
Um...whether you think global warming is bullshit or not, why would you want to halt carbon dioxide reduction policies? I mean, modify them, sure...but why completely halt them? Global warming being real or not, there is no denying that we as a species pump way too much crap into our atmosphere. Regardless of how much this affects our planet, you can't honestly tell me that it's a GOOD thing...
People always seem to follow one extreme ("We're ruining our planet!") or the other ("We aren't doing anything to the planet!") when it comes to global warming. What's up with that? Why is it so hard to find people with a realistic point of view ("We pollute too much, but we aren't dooming ourselves.")
I tend to agree with these thoughts. Although I am not a climate scientist of any sort, it stands to reason (IMHO) that there is no conclusive evidence of any kind strong enough to sway this argument to either side. There is an amazing amount of arguing for both sides, and a lot of "truths" coming out about who fudged results, etc.
This simply tells me that there is much more study needed, and perhaps better methods of study.
It seems horribly irresponsible to propose massive spending and potential changing of entire economies based on something so seemingly inconclusive.
Scenario 1: Your client needs an application that will accept data input for approximately 400 different forms, allow those forms to be validated using some rules that are simple and others that are very complex, and put those forms through a fairly standard work flow.
Scenario 2: Your client needs an application that has 5 different forms used for very different purposes whose data will be processed in very different ways.
In Scenario 1, you had better do some engineering up front to save you from custom coding the parts of those 400 forms that could have been "over-engineered" into templates, base classes, and interfaces.
In Scenario 2, it makes sense to duct-tape.
For me, It makes sense to duct-tape if Scenario 2 is a one-time, non-scaling set of forms. Depending on some circumstances/requirements: if I know that additional forms are going to be required in the future, it makes sense to me to spend a little more time up-front creating a solid framework for easy addition(s)/modifications, thus saving much time in the end.
FTFS -- "It seems that large paper companies stand to reap as much as $8 billion this year by doing the opposite of what an alternative-fuel bill intended."
The road to hell was paved with good intentions. (can I say that on Easter Sunday?)
Anonymous speech and anonymity are essential elements to freedom of speech, period. This is not (really) up for debate. Or it shouldn't be, anyway.
As what seems to be inevitable with the evolution of many civilizations, abuse of power can often shift to the side of governments to become governments vs. the people. This is not a terribly uncommon scenario seen around the world today.
In this case, freedom of speech can clearly be eliminated when someone speaks out about a government, or perhaps shares "unpopular" beliefs, etc, etc.
All it takes is the government to stop the "abuser" in ANY fashion they choose.
They can, and will. Why? Because anyone who witnessed the stopping of the abuser can be stopped from telling anyone about it just as easily.
Ultimately this leads to fear of speaking ones mind, or speaking out in any way other than the way that you are told to do so.
Freedom of speech requires anonymity to survive, Even though there is a price to pay for it, it's worth every painful payment.
This was always useful when appropriate:/^[\w.|-]+@(?:[\w.|-]{2,63}\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/
Validates a valid email address (rfc 5322) -- although not taking into account an IP address (user@192.168.1.2)
Slashdot Mirror
I recently moved one of my clients' sites to a RCS (in this case CentOS 5.5), and it's working out quite well. I have full control of the OS and packages, and do not worry about the hardware. For a small licensing fee per month, you can Windows OS options (although I don't know a lot of details).
It's scalable (load balancing, scalable RAM, etc), and it's inexpensive. Definitely worth a look here.
For a few more bucks, you can have managed Cloud Servers, etc.
It speaks of the things limit the power of a government. Things that a government CAN NOT do to it's citizens... and the very basics that it provides to it's people.
It doesn't need to have specifics like health care, planned parenthood, internet regulation, etc... BECAUSE they are things the government would be providing... they're not to be included.
NOW... the next brilliant thing to grace those pages, is the ability to AMEND the constitution. Nothing is perfect, and mistakes happen... times change, and the founders knew that... it can be changed at any time to provide for our modern times... BUT, it rarely is. Why? Think about it. Wait for the epiphany to set in.
That old document was extremely successful at limiting the power of government from over-extending itself and evolving into a tyranny. It worked... BUT, it's being challenged daily by our president, and many of the powers that be. It's sickening, to say the least.
Like it or not: The USA is/was the last place on earth with such a document, and was the most successful country in our times to date.
Not anymore... and it's not because of the limiting of government, and how amazingly free this country is. Ha.
Nice catch on the front-end... now, what happens when you turn off Javascript? Do they use the same regex on the back-end? Do they check on the back-end?
Just curious, as I haven't had time to check for myself...
I've always had a terrible distaste for Microsoft for too many reasons to list.
BUT, I have to say that I am impressed with Microsoft on their approach of this one. All around, I really look at this and think that this is the attitude they should have adopted a very, very long time ago, and they produced a very outstanding product.
I'm happy to give them a sincere 'pat on the back' on this and try to find ways to positively reinforce more of these wonderful devices.
Chances are that your company does not need to protect the lives of all of the people who pass through it.
If this was the case, I can guarantee you'd have the government all over you, making sure what you were doing was safe, etc. You'd have to reveal everything you were doing (and not doing) to protect your customers to the government. The government would turn around and either allow you to continue,or they would shut you down if they felt your security wasn't doing enough.
You bet we should know all of the flaws and we should know exactly what we are getting with the TSA.
The government can question our methods, and expose our weaknesses in the name of safety, but we can not do the same to the government? It seems that this is where America was different, and it allowed us to thrive.
I am a 46 year old who has been in "Internet" access and development for close to 20 years. I have been working with open standards, open source, etc. since the mid 90's. Part of the fun of what I do on a daily basis is learning new things, and playing with different technologies, and it comes easily.
After the amount of time I have had the habits I have, new technologies, new ways of doing things (and so on) come very naturally. I can program circles around the "kids" out there, and definitely am much more thorough that anyone I work with who is younger than me.
I don't think I am an anomaly, but rather I am a perception of a younger generation that isn't close to accurate. So far, it has not been a problem to compete (and many times dwarf) against the "kids". Put me in a meeting for 10 minutes with them, and it becomes rather clear, consistently.
The thing us old workers have going forward is that the younger generation will be our age much quicker than they can believe (time flies, really), and will eat many of the words they might say today about older IT workers. Perhaps the intelligent/smart youth in the IT industry are smart enough to see the long term (which should be part of their daily job in technology).
Read the freakin' summary, at the very least. It's Lieberman the Toad that wants to do this, not Obama. (Although, given the chance, Obama likely would...but still, this is about Lieberman.)
I hope you understand that Lieberman is HIGHLY CONTROLLED as to his statements, policies, etc. Obama knows and approves what Lieberman is proposing. It's pretty common sense for your boss to know what policies you pitch to the company before you do it.
Make no mistake. This is a marketing campaign, just like the rest of the campaign we call the Obama administration.
The thing I don't understand is:
What happened to the 60's democrats who were so anti-establishment, etc?
At what point, exactly did the Democrats want to build a HUGE, unsustainable government, and the Repubs (or conservatives) decided to create a movement (tea party) complete with protests and anti-establishment marches and rally's? Does something seem to have shifted here? What happened?
IT Matters!
World-wide public policy changed, billions/trillions of dollars spent, and entire economies are about to transform based on this research.
Who cares if personal agenda's, c.y.a., etc, etc mixed with some great science gets in the way.
Come on people. This is Slashdot.
You're all better than this.
There is not one atom of room for a personal agenda here.
You know it. Act like it, and restore our faith in people who actually call themselves scientists.
"BRB...this girl I tried to date will be at Subway in five minutes. Time to casually bump into her."
...there, fixed that for you.
Is the younger generation of programmers really that arrogant to think that older programmers don't know and learn new languages and coding trends? it is my experience that the best coders out there are those over 40. Not only are they on top of technologies that are current, but they understand why those technologies came to be and what they helped to improve. Many of them learned on the job, in a budding industry.
How nice to hear! Thank you for that. I think one of my greater fears in life (career-wise) is to be perceived as an old man in a young man's profession.
I am a 45 year _old_ programmer who was classically trained in CS on a Vax-11780. Along the way in my career, I played with and learned Apple II's, IBM PC's, (original) Macintosh, and so on. I had also operated and played with BBS's and Email protocols, (FidoNet, UUCP), Dialup (Tribelink's, Portmasters), HTML, and then on to Web scripting languages, SQL, and deeply into Linux and the open source world.
I had learned all of this on my own, as needed, when many of these technologies were new -- and it could be difficult to find someone who can support them. Learning them was the only way to really understand how to make them work for my organizations, and work reliably.
It seems that my whole life I have been "upgrading" and continuously learning new technologies. It's a very natural part of my day, anymore. So far, I have been lucky, as the perception people have of me doesn't seem to be "he's over the hill". Although I can't say I don't see that day coming.
Um...whether you think global warming is bullshit or not, why would you want to halt carbon dioxide reduction policies? I mean, modify them, sure...but why completely halt them? Global warming being real or not, there is no denying that we as a species pump way too much crap into our atmosphere. Regardless of how much this affects our planet, you can't honestly tell me that it's a GOOD thing...
People always seem to follow one extreme ("We're ruining our planet!") or the other ("We aren't doing anything to the planet!") when it comes to global warming. What's up with that? Why is it so hard to find people with a realistic point of view ("We pollute too much, but we aren't dooming ourselves.")
I tend to agree with these thoughts. Although I am not a climate scientist of any sort, it stands to reason (IMHO) that there is no conclusive evidence of any kind strong enough to sway this argument to either side. There is an amazing amount of arguing for both sides, and a lot of "truths" coming out about who fudged results, etc.
This simply tells me that there is much more study needed, and perhaps better methods of study.
It seems horribly irresponsible to propose massive spending and potential changing of entire economies based on something so seemingly inconclusive.
Scenario 1: Your client needs an application that will accept data input for approximately 400 different forms, allow those forms to be validated using some rules that are simple and others that are very complex, and put those forms through a fairly standard work flow. Scenario 2: Your client needs an application that has 5 different forms used for very different purposes whose data will be processed in very different ways. In Scenario 1, you had better do some engineering up front to save you from custom coding the parts of those 400 forms that could have been "over-engineered" into templates, base classes, and interfaces. In Scenario 2, it makes sense to duct-tape.
For me, It makes sense to duct-tape if Scenario 2 is a one-time, non-scaling set of forms. Depending on some circumstances/requirements: if I know that additional forms are going to be required in the future, it makes sense to me to spend a little more time up-front creating a solid framework for easy addition(s)/modifications, thus saving much time in the end.
FTFS -- "It seems that large paper companies stand to reap as much as $8 billion this year by doing the opposite of what an alternative-fuel bill intended."
The road to hell was paved with good intentions. (can I say that on Easter Sunday?)
Welcome to the USA
Anonymous speech and anonymity are essential elements to freedom of speech, period. This is not (really) up for debate. Or it shouldn't be, anyway.
As what seems to be inevitable with the evolution of many civilizations, abuse of power can often shift to the side of governments to become governments vs. the people. This is not a terribly uncommon scenario seen around the world today.
In this case, freedom of speech can clearly be eliminated when someone speaks out about a government, or perhaps shares "unpopular" beliefs, etc, etc.
All it takes is the government to stop the "abuser" in ANY fashion they choose.
They can, and will. Why? Because anyone who witnessed the stopping of the abuser can be stopped from telling anyone about it just as easily.
Ultimately this leads to fear of speaking ones mind, or speaking out in any way other than the way that you are told to do so.
Freedom of speech requires anonymity to survive, Even though there is a price to pay for it, it's worth every painful payment.
Just my $0.02
... or does it end up with all of those single missing socks and the occasional lost car keys -- taken, of course, by the car key gnomes.
This was always useful when appropriate: /^[\w.|-]+@(?:[\w.|-]{2,63}\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/
Validates a valid email address (rfc 5322) -- although not taking into account an IP address (user@192.168.1.2)
to McCarthyism of the 21st century. Scary Stuff!