Yeah, but how many people are out there that have any formal training/education with Linux? Those people will be very attractive to the 1 out of 11 shops (to use your numbers) that are using it if most professionals only know how to code for Microsoft. There's a nice market dynamic there. If only a few colleges push linux hard then everything is in balence.
I highly recommend to everyone to read this page carefully
http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/flag.html
and if the drawbacks don't sound too bad (think carefully!) make the calls. It takes about a half hour. Much less than the time you'll spend untangling the mess of an identity theft. You may also consider calling your bank and creditors to ask them to put similar holds on your contact info so that some clever scammer doesn't have your statements forwarded to Timbuktu, thus gaining them extra time to run amok and causing you even more grief. This isn't paranoia talking, it's experience.
Here are the numbers.
Credit Bureau Fraud Departments
TransUnion Fraud Victim Assistance Department Phone: 800-680-7289
Which article were you reading? Here's what it's saying now.
"Within 10 minutes of debuting at 5:30 a.m. (UTC) Jan. 25 (9:30 p.m. PST, Jan. 24), the worm was observed to have infected more than 75,000 vulnerable hosts," the researchers' report read in part. "Thousands of other hosts may also have been infected worldwide. The infected hosts spewed billions of copies of the worm into cyberspace, significantly slowing Internet traffic, and interfering with many business services that rely on the Internet."
According to Symantec spokesman Yunsun Wee, Symantec issued an alert about Slammer to DeepSight Threat Management System subscribers "at approximately 9 p.m. PST on Friday, Jan. 24."
The first posts about Slammer appeared on major security discussion lists about an hour later, at roughly 1 a.m. PST, according to security consultant Ken Pfeil."
... Intel has the nice compiler that generate really fast code. Presumably it's getting more done per CPU cycle on average by being smarter about scheduling and not wasting so many cycles.
Intel also has this fancy new hyperthreading thing built into its newest CPUs that speeds things up by (very roughly speaking) letting one thread use another thread's wasted CPU cycles.
Does a vastly more efficient compiler make hyperthreading ineffective? Is there some sort of balance that a really great compiler would need to strike between the fastest code and the code that will work best on Intel's fancy new CPU's if the app your are going to run is multi-threaded?
If that's the same 5ESS switch that most ISDN lines I've ever been aquainted with have been hooked up to it would not take long at all to recoup the cost since those people are still paying tons o' money (up to $250/mo) for that service last I checked.
...this just came in to my inbox. PEAR at version 1.0. Good job folks!
The new PEAR package PEAR-1.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.
Release notes ------------- * set default cache_ttl to 1 hour * added "clear-cache" command
Package Info ------------- The PEAR package contains: * the PEAR base class * the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism * the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing and installing packages
This is the one Calvin 'n' Hobbes that I keep in my head because I can't wait to unload this mind-game on my own kids. Gawd, I live for that 'Dad's gone loopy again... hasn't he?' look that my 4 year old has already mastered.
... If you decide that the game wasn't worth it (Diakatana), too bad.
I suppose you could look at it that way.
Basicly, it is too easy for anyone to buy a CD or a game, make a copy, and then return the original. There is no real way for a retailer to demand integrity from the customer.
Well then... Too bad! I guess you'll just have to trust us.
In general your comment is a bit too consumer hostile for me to buy into. I think the retail market will be better off if they concentrate more on what keeps their customers happy and coming back. If you see the same slob returning with disk after disk that's another matter..... they're not a customer
It depends what you are after. When I read sci-fi I want to explore a new idea/universe. I'm not overly interested in the characters beyond what makes them important to the ideas.To me the best sci-fi is in the short story anthologies. Authors get to explore, are forced to move things along and develop the characters quickly (if the idea needs it) but they don't have to draw out a simple idea into something it just isn't worth the time to read.
Of course, if you can explore an idea and have all the other elements of a good novel on top of that then you might prefer that.
Of course, he's got more money and lawyers than I do
This is a bit orthagonal to your question but not all CEO's have allot of money. I've worked for my share of very small companies where neither the owner, company, or CEO had enough assets on hand to out lawyer your average "decent living" individual.
Egads, never go with the cheapest. Almost never a good deal. Everything will be fine until something goes wrong..... Then god help you, 'cause you'll have a hard time just getting them to cancel your service without screwing it up.
I had a master's in engineering and was ABD with good career prospects when I finally realized that I was only moving towards being successful at becoming a miserable cog in the system
I came to the conclusion that for all but the true geniuses and egomaniacle sub-geniouses (the majority) happiness and job satisfaction were rare in the scientific community. Of course this is a gross generalization and I've gotten over it for the most part sence then but there is an element of truth to it.
Here's two references to give you a clue as to how I got so cynical about this.
Ziolkowski, T. (1990). The Ph.D. Squid. The American Scholar, 59(2), 177-195.
I said it was pessimistic. For all we know this poor sod could have teammates with no clue or ethics at all and no hope for replacement. Management could be equally incompetent and unable to fix things (they hired these bozos after all.) Throwing more time at a situation like that is like buying more stock in a company who's stock has just taken a dive. It sounds/is idiotic but people do it.
If I've got someone in front of me with good experience and references but I see they quit their last position with no references and I get an explanation that indicates that this person is going to hold me accountable for providing them with an environment where they can succeed I tend to take that as a positive sign that this person won't waste their time or mine.
On the other hand you are right - people with one unfinished job after another on their resumes aren't likely to get the job.
Seriously, best advice is to take a good hard look at your situation and surroundings and make an honest assessment about whether you can succeed in that environment. If you come to the conclusion that you are doomed to fail cut your losses and get out if you can. Don't throw away good time after bad.
Hopefully the rest of the advice on this page works for you and you can ignore this. Please don't just discount it out of hand though - you sound like a the honest hard-working type and I hate to see good people wasting their time and damaging their careers.
You are missing out on what trance is really good for - coding music. While I'm sure you're on the mark for the live experiance, nothing beats the stuff for drowning out office gossip, bringing up the heartrate and focusing the mind.
Nobody has mentioned DJ Tiesto. Great stuff. I didn't see Sandra Collin's Tranceport album. That, or Oakenfold's Transport are the two best mixes I've heard.
While not *the* best, I've always liked the Ministry of Sound mixes. There's one by Roger Sanchez in particular that's a very well done blast from the past of 70's and 80's tunes. Being an old Police and Specials fan newly into trance music I have a soft spot for this one.
Yes, I played it. About the best RPG experience I ever had. So many possibilities because of the nature of Zelazny's creation. A group of about 10 got together to start things off and then treated it as a sort of interactive story writing thing. We'd write a few pages about what we where up to then the GM would through in a plot twist and we'd have to respond with a few more pages or get together for an IRC session. Worked great for a couple month until grad school got in the way.
His most demanding project at this time is a new PostgreSQL book for O'Reilly, Practical PostgreSQL
Joshua, great article. Thanks a bunch for writing it. But.... do you have a better idea of when that book is going to ship? The publishing date posted keeps slipping...;)
Can't I sue these fscker's asses for messing
with my copyrighted web content? My graphical
designers sometimes recommend guidlines for
me to pass on to advertisors for what will/won't
look good on the site. If gator messes with that
don't I have some say in the matter? It's my
freaking page, after all.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but how many people are out there that have any formal training/education with Linux? Those people will be very attractive to the 1 out of 11 shops (to use your numbers) that are using it if most professionals only know how to code for Microsoft. There's a nice market dynamic there. If only a few colleges push linux hard then everything is in balence.
I highly recommend to everyone to read this page carefully
http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/flag.html
and if the drawbacks don't sound too bad (think carefully!) make the calls. It takes about a half hour. Much less than the time you'll spend untangling the mess of an identity theft. You may also consider calling your bank and creditors to ask them to put similar holds on your contact info so that some clever scammer doesn't have your statements forwarded to Timbuktu, thus gaining them extra time to run amok and causing you even more grief. This isn't paranoia talking, it's experience.
Here are the numbers.
Credit Bureau Fraud Departments
TransUnion
Fraud Victim Assistance Department
Phone: 800-680-7289
Equifax
Consumer Fraud Division
Phone: 800-525-6285 or: 404-885-8000
Experian
Experian's National Consumer Assistance
Phone: 888-397-3742
... Intel has the nice compiler that generate really fast code. Presumably it's getting more done per CPU cycle on average by being smarter about scheduling and not wasting so many cycles.
Intel also has this fancy new hyperthreading thing built into its newest CPUs that speeds things up by (very roughly speaking) letting one thread use another thread's wasted CPU cycles.
Does a vastly more efficient compiler make hyperthreading ineffective? Is there some sort of balance that a really great compiler would need to strike between the fastest code and the code that will work best on Intel's fancy new CPU's if the app your are going to run is multi-threaded?
If that's the same 5ESS switch that most ISDN lines I've ever been aquainted with have been hooked up to it would not take long at all to recoup the cost since those people are still paying tons o' money (up to $250/mo) for that service last I checked.
This is the one Calvin 'n' Hobbes that I keep in my head because I can't wait to unload this mind-game on my own kids. Gawd, I live for that 'Dad's gone loopy again... hasn't he?' look that my 4 year old has already mastered.
In general your comment is a bit too consumer hostile for me to buy into. I think the retail market will be better off if they concentrate more on what keeps their customers happy and coming back. If you see the same slob returning with disk after disk that's another matter..... they're not a customer
It depends what you are after. When I read sci-fi I want to explore a new idea/universe. I'm not overly interested in the characters beyond what makes them important to the ideas.To me the best sci-fi is in the short story anthologies. Authors get to explore, are forced to move things along and develop the characters quickly (if the idea needs it) but they don't have to draw out a simple idea into something it just isn't worth the time to read.
Of course, if you can explore an idea and have all the other elements of a good novel on top of that then you might prefer that.
...you can mow your lawn with it!
This is a bit orthagonal to your question but not all CEO's have allot of money. I've worked for my share of very small companies where neither the owner, company, or CEO had enough assets on hand to out lawyer your average "decent living" individual.
Egads, never go with the cheapest. Almost never a good deal. Everything will be fine until something goes wrong..... Then god help you, 'cause you'll have a hard time just getting them to cancel your service without screwing it up.
I came to the conclusion that for all but the true geniuses and egomaniacle sub-geniouses (the majority) happiness and job satisfaction were rare in the scientific community. Of course this is a gross generalization and I've gotten over it for the most part sence then but there is an element of truth to it.
Here's two references to give you a clue as to how I got so cynical about this.
Ziolkowski, T. (1990). The Ph.D. Squid. The American Scholar, 59(2), 177-195.
Imposters in the Temple, by Anderson, Martin
If I've got someone in front of me with good experience and references but I see they quit their last position with no references and I get
an explanation that indicates that this person is going to hold me accountable for providing them with an environment where they can succeed I tend to take that as a positive sign that this person won't waste their time or mine.
On the other hand you are right - people with one unfinished job after another on their resumes aren't likely to get the job.
Seriously, best advice is to take a good hard look at your situation and surroundings and make an honest assessment about whether you can succeed in that environment. If you come to the conclusion that you are doomed to fail cut your losses and get out if you can. Don't throw away good time after bad.
Hopefully the rest of the advice on this page works for you and you can ignore this. Please don't just discount it out of hand though - you sound like a the honest hard-working type and I hate to see good people wasting their time and damaging their careers.
You are missing out on what trance is really good for - coding music. While I'm sure you're on the mark for the live experiance, nothing beats the stuff for drowning out office gossip, bringing up the heartrate and focusing the mind.
Nobody has mentioned DJ Tiesto. Great stuff. I didn't see Sandra Collin's Tranceport album. That, or Oakenfold's Transport are the two best mixes I've heard.
While not *the* best, I've always liked the Ministry of Sound mixes. There's one by Roger Sanchez in particular that's a very well done blast from the past of 70's and 80's tunes. Being an old Police and Specials fan newly into trance music I have a soft spot for this one.
Yes, I played it. About the best RPG experience I ever had. So many possibilities because of the nature of Zelazny's creation. A group of about 10 got together to start things off and then treated it as a sort of interactive story writing thing. We'd write a few pages about what we where up to then the GM would through in a plot twist and we'd have to respond with a few more pages or get together for an IRC session. Worked great for a couple month until grad school got in the way.
So where's the slashbox for it?
Joshua, great article. Thanks a bunch for writing it. But.... do you have a better idea of when that book is going to ship? The publishing date posted keeps slipping... ;)
I'm trying to get a visual around "overclocks like a hog" .... What's up with that?
Where are my moderation points when I need them? This should be up at the top. Puhlease people, this is pretty ludicrous
...What a dull name
Well, at least I got a fair joke out of what was
meant as a serious question....
Can't I sue these fscker's asses for messing
with my copyrighted web content? My graphical
designers sometimes recommend guidlines for
me to pass on to advertisors for what will/won't
look good on the site. If gator messes with that
don't I have some say in the matter? It's my
freaking page, after all.