When the fox gaurds the henhouse, there isn't much need to count the chickens. Whatever happened to anti-trust with balls? A paper tiger is meaningless, and there is nothing that microsoft and company could possibly do that would actually result in real action. Once there was at least enough of a threat to have them work hard at keep Apple afloat, but now with Linux they can act with impunity. If my government won't stop Microsoft, who will?
I couldn't agree more. Only recently have some in the environmental movement started waking up and realizing that their opposition to all things nuclear had an anti-military basis and not an environmental basis. I predict this issue will divide the environmental movement and eventually splinter it away from the whole anti-war movement. Nuclear energy is the cleanest energy we have, yet it's greatest impediment is the environmental movement.
Wooden sailing vessels. They are wonderful sources of plying the seas and can be built from all natural materials. They even operate under this thing called wind power. Completely environmentally friendly. Capable of traversing the oceans and the globe itself. Only pollution is from the occupants of the ship. Used for thousands of years to go everywhere you can think of up to an including the first voyages to the Antartica.
They were not sailing a wooden vessel. Nor were they sailing a vessel with a hybrid sail / mechanical propulsion system. Instead they were using a decades old ship that has grossly ineffeceint engines. That ship does not have newer much more environmentally friendly engines, and greenpeace is more than capable of affording them, taking in millions of dollars a year. Greenpeace is chock full of hypocrites, like the ones on the ship.
Alternate energy sources, like windpower, are readily available, the just wont use them.
Greenpeace has a bad history of brushes with or outright supporting ecoterrorism. Why does this make the front page when other articles with similiar projects have been done elsewhere?
Their are many other upright environmental organizations that have worldwide work in very challenging locales, so why approve a greenpeace story?
Many of these conditions are very challenging environments that could be teach someone a great deal. Why choose a group that rightly shouln't be called a charity in the first place./Environmentalist sick of ecoterrorists and extemists making the environmental movement look bad.
They call it "Information Poisoning" and are absolutely baffled why on earth anyone would ever practice it. Just for useful reference for other peoples information poisoning efforts I have an easy one to remember
Young America, MN 55555
This will match the zip code to the city and will pass those systems that try to verify against bogus data.
They don't care about the people who refuse to sign up, this is meaningless to them. But if they get enough bogus data, those databases become significantly devalued.
And to whoever has that bob@jones.com email address, I offer my sincerest apologies.
Deeply isolationist, to a point most nowadays cannot imagine.
Kind of funny when you realize how many people now, both within and outside the US would like to see the US once more become isolationist. The last two times that happened we had those world events from 39-42 you referred to (even earlier if you count Japans conquest of a chunk of Asia) and another called WWI.
Believe it or not, not all Americans are ignorant of world history. But hey, with Marilyn Monroe and Mohammed Ali getting the attention they so richly deserve in our history books, things can only go...
Here's the real impact many of us will be feeling. Software vendors that license by the CPU have already in fair part indicated that they consider "dual core" chips to be two CPU's for licensing purposes.
In other words, people are going to find themselves having to pay higher licensing fees with regular desktop computers as well as servers. Small workgroup servers could be really hard hit by this from some vendors.
I wonder how this will play out with XP Home which only supports one CPU? AMD has the technology so they may well respond in kind when Intel does (dammit lead AMD, lead), which could have a fair impact in weaning the masses of XP Home. I dont think MS will let this go the route of hyperthreading with the "logical processor" support.
Yes, some of us do. Some of us even protested when the blue collar jobs were being eliminated. I have actively sought out environmentally responsible companies for decommisioned equipment, and paid 80 cents a pound to do so.
Not all IT people are as hypocritical as you describe. Some of us really do care about these things. When I work at a industrial facility for example, I always get to know the blue collar guys that don't even know they depend on IT.
A free market is good, but a free market does not mean that a market must be uncontrolled.
So, what am I trying to say here? The professional who doesn't practice is not going to be any better than the amateur who works hard at it his art.
I couldn't agree more. I've worked with too many dinosaurs with 20 years experience that should have been put out to pasture.
It's interesting that you have gone far enough with your hobby on publication to learn things like type setting. Most amateurs don't go that far though, and then some amateurs produce work that easily competes with professionals. More than a few map makers for games have found their way into professional employment, so by no means do I say an amateur automatically does bad work.
Most amateurs of course do the typical amateur job, and that was the point I was trying to make. When these people end up administrating systems, a few will do well, but most will do a half ass job.
It's the same thing that has happened to other fields that eventually grew to the point where people could do some of the work on their own. For comparison think of publications, once restricted to highly specialized professionals and now available to anybody with a printer and a copy of printshop. Those home-brew print jobs make the pros squeem in pain. Amateur work will always be amateur, and the results will reflect this.
Once Linux gets to the point that it can be administered by people who aren't dedicated specialists, it's inevitable they will try it out and that most of these people will be less careful administrators. After all they aren't dedicated *nix admins and will often wear many hats in their organization. This doesn't mean that Linux is insecure, it's just a growing pain that it has to go through.
Don't forget how many people fall into the "it's working, it's now forgotten" category. These are the people that only perform oil changes on their cars and wonder why it eventually breaks down on them - and there are a lot of them. They won't patch it, back it up or anything else until the day it inevitably comes crashing down around them.
Um, no. It can't have been outsourced their when that's where development started in the first place. The issues with outsourcing have nothing to do with other countries and peoples developing their own products and services. The issues have to do with your own countries companies having other countries do it on their behalf. It's about someone farming out your job to put you out of work.
It's ultimately unsustainable as it collapses the middle class and eventually leaves too few people in aggragate who can afford the minimum level of income corporate coffers require. With technology there will soon be very few jobs left that cannot be outsourced. Think about it, even reporters, lawyers and medical work is being outsourced to other countries.
The one question I have never been able to get a straight answer on. What field should the millions of displaced American IT workers get trained in?
It is always sais that people should be responsbile and learn new skills and train in a new field. When the farm economy shifted to manufacturing, people learned factory work. When manufacturing started to be offshored people were advised to get into IT. What field should people start to train in? Bush talks about training displaced workers, but I haven't heard anything about what their supposed to train in. What is the next new economy, retail?
Couple of thoughts here on this as I've done what your looking to do. First suggestion is wait to buy your stuff until you get here in the US to save yourself shipping fees and possible import duties. Once your here and settled look on ebay for a local auction so that you don't have to have the rack shared.
Going back to school to pick up Cisco and SUN I wanted a rack to hold all the requisite lab equipment for my sandbox - and I thought it would be nifty. I did this last summer and I was able to buy a 42u rack for $100 by watching a week for a local rack on ebay and avoided $200 in shipping fees. Of course no data center I have ever seen was willing to personalize their their rack by painting it metallic green like I did:)
When your buying your rack mount systems bear in mind that 1u cases tend to cost a lot more and have lower capacity. If you have the room, and at home you should, buy either a 3u or 4u rack case and then you don't have to use low profile memory, cards, power supplies and the like that are a fair bit more expensive than standard issue fair.
You can easily get the 3u or 4u cases on ebay for the same price range as a normal computer case. However the rack mount keyboards, mice and monitors cost a pretty penny. If you buy a full rack it will be far cheaper to just by a couple rackmount shelfs and put an old 15" Monitor, KVM, Keyboard and still have plenty of room left over.
Also bear in mind your electric capacity with where you place it. In my experience you'll get around 6-8 systems for a LAN party on your standard 15 amp outlet before blowing the circuit. If you can put it on a circuit that is as isolated as you can make it.
I hope your right and would gladly accept being wrong on this one. That accident should have at least turned me into a quadraplegic, and would have killed most people instantly. The only two reasons my neck didn't snap on the spot were a very well engineered car and many years of weightlifting. I wish you the best of luck with future endeavours, such efforts do make a difference.
Quick search found this article referring to issue.
Bringing jamming devices to the United States might prove trickier. The 1934 Telecommunications Act makes it illegal to inhibit the use of public airwaves, which is exactly what jammers do. In 2000, the FCC affirmed this ban on jammers. (An FCC spokesperson said she knew of no US law enforcement agencies with special exemptions to use the devices). Only an act of Congress could change that.
So does that mean they can refuse black people, or women? Of course not, it may be a business, but they are still subject to laws regarding the public. As you said, someone can always be removed, thus jammers are unneccasary.
As long as the movie theater prominently displays warning signs to all that enter. However, the airwaves are still public. Why is that so hard to understand? That's like saying a movie theater should be able to prevent airplanes from flying in the airspace above it. If someone is being rude on the phone the theater can just ask them to leave. I have no problem with that, but they have no right to shut off access to public airwaves.
Free speech often means interfering / annoying those around you, just ask any protestor. Why should only people who can afford $100 dinners be able to eat dinner without cell phones? Sounds pretty discrimanatory to me. If someone is rude during a movie, they can always be asked to leave - the cell phone is a moot point.
That scares me even more, that ditch was a good 25-30 feet down to the bottom with a 45+ degree slope. I was before the gaurd rail when I was hit. No thanks.
Public airwaves. What part of public is so hard to understand? You have no more right to shut off someone else's phone for bothering you than you do duct tape someone who's talking too loud at the mall. This is incredibily self centered, and blatantly disregards other people who also have a right to free speech.
Let's look at the bad sides. Public events like fairs would use jammers to get people to pay exhorbitant payphone rates, hotels would use them to force people to use room phone, and on and on. Don't forget that emergency services use cell phones extensively as backup communications mediums. Many emergency radio systems, arguable most, are incompatible with each other.
They are also used for on call personal like plumbers, system admins, fire fighters, and meidcal staff. You know that nice doctor that helps out during a baby's delivery? They aren't standing by in the waiting room, they are out and about and get called in when they are needed.
Now I understand why people get frustrated with people talking loudly on cell phones, so the better question is, why haven't the mic's improved?
Thought about it, but in this case that wouldn't have helped because I was in the outer lane rounding a relatively fair curve for a freeway. Radar or the like wouldn't have kicked in nearly in time. Especially in a stretch of freeway where traffic routinely travels 70 mph. At least the state trooper saw the guy do it:)
Doomed to failure. Trying to pit engineering against the almighty demon known as human stupidity. The poor engineers don't stand a chance. Time for my favorite Einstein quote.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
/me still bitter about the driver of a full size truck that rear-ended me on the freeway because he was looking at a tow truck in the ditch and not the road. He wasn't malicious, he was just plain stupid, and no avoidance system could have prevented it.
Marketing move: Yes. Public interest: Yes. License Irrelevant: Yes.
You don't get it do you? The license doesn't have to open to be reviewable. It's a good faith effort and complaining such as what your doing is a slap in the face of a company trying to do the right thing, and it makes open source look bad. Not everyone buys into the open source dogma, and it is asinine to expect that they do.
If they released the code once, chances are they'll do so again. It's pretty simple software relatively speaking, it just isn't going to be changing that often. I'm NOT arguing against open source, I use it for many things. I'm arguing against the presumption that software must be open source to be trustable.
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When the fox gaurds the henhouse, there isn't much need to count the chickens. Whatever happened to anti-trust with balls? A paper tiger is meaningless, and there is nothing that microsoft and company could possibly do that would actually result in real action. Once there was at least enough of a threat to have them work hard at keep Apple afloat, but now with Linux they can act with impunity. If my government won't stop Microsoft, who will?
I couldn't agree more. Only recently have some in the environmental movement started waking up and realizing that their opposition to all things nuclear had an anti-military basis and not an environmental basis. I predict this issue will divide the environmental movement and eventually splinter it away from the whole anti-war movement. Nuclear energy is the cleanest energy we have, yet it's greatest impediment is the environmental movement.
They were not sailing a wooden vessel. Nor were they sailing a vessel with a hybrid sail / mechanical propulsion system. Instead they were using a decades old ship that has grossly ineffeceint engines. That ship does not have newer much more environmentally friendly engines, and greenpeace is more than capable of affording them, taking in millions of dollars a year. Greenpeace is chock full of hypocrites, like the ones on the ship.
Alternate energy sources, like windpower, are readily available, the just wont use them.
Greenpeace has a bad history of brushes with or outright supporting ecoterrorism. Why does this make the front page when other articles with similiar projects have been done elsewhere?
/Environmentalist sick of ecoterrorists and extemists making the environmental movement look bad.
Their are many other upright environmental organizations that have worldwide work in very challenging locales, so why approve a greenpeace story?
Many of these conditions are very challenging environments that could be teach someone a great deal. Why choose a group that rightly shouln't be called a charity in the first place.
They call it "Information Poisoning" and are absolutely baffled why on earth anyone would ever practice it. Just for useful reference for other peoples information poisoning efforts I have an easy one to remember
Young America, MN 55555
This will match the zip code to the city and will pass those systems that try to verify against bogus data.
They don't care about the people who refuse to sign up, this is meaningless to them. But if they get enough bogus data, those databases become significantly devalued.
And to whoever has that bob@jones.com email address, I offer my sincerest apologies.
Deeply isolationist, to a point most nowadays cannot imagine.
Kind of funny when you realize how many people now, both within and outside the US would like to see the US once more become isolationist. The last two times that happened we had those world events from 39-42 you referred to (even earlier if you count Japans conquest of a chunk of Asia) and another called WWI.
Believe it or not, not all Americans are ignorant of world history. But hey, with Marilyn Monroe and Mohammed Ali getting the attention they so richly deserve in our history books, things can only go...
Here's the real impact many of us will be feeling. Software vendors that license by the CPU have already in fair part indicated that they consider "dual core" chips to be two CPU's for licensing purposes.
In other words, people are going to find themselves having to pay higher licensing fees with regular desktop computers as well as servers. Small workgroup servers could be really hard hit by this from some vendors.
I wonder how this will play out with XP Home which only supports one CPU? AMD has the technology so they may well respond in kind when Intel does (dammit lead AMD, lead), which could have a fair impact in weaning the masses of XP Home. I dont think MS will let this go the route of hyperthreading with the "logical processor" support.
I'll count all the god-awful service packs and security patches as #11 as they take just about as much time to install as the rest combined
For my own I always install opera as it deals well with things that break ie, but i find most other people aren't too comfortable with it.
Commercial client - for a generic office use machine I just don't see any need for much anything other than these:
tweakui
acrobat
ms office
mcafee
ad-aware (they have to pay though)
winzip (not the best, but well known)
Yes, some of us do. Some of us even protested when the blue collar jobs were being eliminated. I have actively sought out environmentally responsible companies for decommisioned equipment, and paid 80 cents a pound to do so.
Not all IT people are as hypocritical as you describe. Some of us really do care about these things. When I work at a industrial facility for example, I always get to know the blue collar guys that don't even know they depend on IT.
A free market is good, but a free market does not mean that a market must be uncontrolled.
It's interesting that you have gone far enough with your hobby on publication to learn things like type setting. Most amateurs don't go that far though, and then some amateurs produce work that easily competes with professionals. More than a few map makers for games have found their way into professional employment, so by no means do I say an amateur automatically does bad work.
Most amateurs of course do the typical amateur job, and that was the point I was trying to make. When these people end up administrating systems, a few will do well, but most will do a half ass job.
It's the same thing that has happened to other fields that eventually grew to the point where people could do some of the work on their own. For comparison think of publications, once restricted to highly specialized professionals and now available to anybody with a printer and a copy of printshop. Those home-brew print jobs make the pros squeem in pain. Amateur work will always be amateur, and the results will reflect this.
Once Linux gets to the point that it can be administered by people who aren't dedicated specialists, it's inevitable they will try it out and that most of these people will be less careful administrators. After all they aren't dedicated *nix admins and will often wear many hats in their organization. This doesn't mean that Linux is insecure, it's just a growing pain that it has to go through.
Don't forget how many people fall into the "it's working, it's now forgotten" category. These are the people that only perform oil changes on their cars and wonder why it eventually breaks down on them - and there are a lot of them. They won't patch it, back it up or anything else until the day it inevitably comes crashing down around them.
Um, no. It can't have been outsourced their when that's where development started in the first place. The issues with outsourcing have nothing to do with other countries and peoples developing their own products and services. The issues have to do with your own countries companies having other countries do it on their behalf. It's about someone farming out your job to put you out of work.
It's ultimately unsustainable as it collapses the middle class and eventually leaves too few people in aggragate who can afford the minimum level of income corporate coffers require. With technology there will soon be very few jobs left that cannot be outsourced. Think about it, even reporters, lawyers and medical work is being outsourced to other countries.
The one question I have never been able to get a straight answer on. What field should the millions of displaced American IT workers get trained in?
It is always sais that people should be responsbile and learn new skills and train in a new field. When the farm economy shifted to manufacturing, people learned factory work. When manufacturing started to be offshored people were advised to get into IT. What field should people start to train in? Bush talks about training displaced workers, but I haven't heard anything about what their supposed to train in. What is the next new economy, retail?
Couple of thoughts here on this as I've done what your looking to do. First suggestion is wait to buy your stuff until you get here in the US to save yourself shipping fees and possible import duties. Once your here and settled look on ebay for a local auction so that you don't have to have the rack shared.
Going back to school to pick up Cisco and SUN I wanted a rack to hold all the requisite lab equipment for my sandbox - and I thought it would be nifty. I did this last summer and I was able to buy a 42u rack for $100 by watching a week for a local rack on ebay and avoided $200 in shipping fees. Of course no data center I have ever seen was willing to personalize their their rack by painting it metallic green like I did:)
When your buying your rack mount systems bear in mind that 1u cases tend to cost a lot more and have lower capacity. If you have the room, and at home you should, buy either a 3u or 4u rack case and then you don't have to use low profile memory, cards, power supplies and the like that are a fair bit more expensive than standard issue fair.
You can easily get the 3u or 4u cases on ebay for the same price range as a normal computer case. However the rack mount keyboards, mice and monitors cost a pretty penny. If you buy a full rack it will be far cheaper to just by a couple rackmount shelfs and put an old 15" Monitor, KVM, Keyboard and still have plenty of room left over.
Also bear in mind your electric capacity with where you place it. In my experience you'll get around 6-8 systems for a LAN party on your standard 15 amp outlet before blowing the circuit. If you can put it on a circuit that is as isolated as you can make it.
I hope your right and would gladly accept being wrong on this one. That accident should have at least turned me into a quadraplegic, and would have killed most people instantly. The only two reasons my neck didn't snap on the spot were a very well engineered car and many years of weightlifting. I wish you the best of luck with future endeavours, such efforts do make a difference.
So does that mean they can refuse black people, or women? Of course not, it may be a business, but they are still subject to laws regarding the public. As you said, someone can always be removed, thus jammers are unneccasary.
As long as the movie theater prominently displays warning signs to all that enter. However, the airwaves are still public. Why is that so hard to understand? That's like saying a movie theater should be able to prevent airplanes from flying in the airspace above it. If someone is being rude on the phone the theater can just ask them to leave. I have no problem with that, but they have no right to shut off access to public airwaves.
Free speech often means interfering / annoying those around you, just ask any protestor. Why should only people who can afford $100 dinners be able to eat dinner without cell phones? Sounds pretty discrimanatory to me. If someone is rude during a movie, they can always be asked to leave - the cell phone is a moot point.
That scares me even more, that ditch was a good 25-30 feet down to the bottom with a 45+ degree slope. I was before the gaurd rail when I was hit. No thanks.
Public airwaves. What part of public is so hard to understand? You have no more right to shut off someone else's phone for bothering you than you do duct tape someone who's talking too loud at the mall. This is incredibily self centered, and blatantly disregards other people who also have a right to free speech.
Let's look at the bad sides. Public events like fairs would use jammers to get people to pay exhorbitant payphone rates, hotels would use them to force people to use room phone, and on and on. Don't forget that emergency services use cell phones extensively as backup communications mediums. Many emergency radio systems, arguable most, are incompatible with each other.
They are also used for on call personal like plumbers, system admins, fire fighters, and meidcal staff. You know that nice doctor that helps out during a baby's delivery? They aren't standing by in the waiting room, they are out and about and get called in when they are needed.
Now I understand why people get frustrated with people talking loudly on cell phones, so the better question is, why haven't the mic's improved?
Thought about it, but in this case that wouldn't have helped because I was in the outer lane rounding a relatively fair curve for a freeway. Radar or the like wouldn't have kicked in nearly in time. Especially in a stretch of freeway where traffic routinely travels 70 mph. At least the state trooper saw the guy do it :)
Does this mean were going to start seeing a lot more ads from Microsoft here on slashdot?
Marketing move: Yes.
Public interest: Yes.
License Irrelevant: Yes.
You don't get it do you? The license doesn't have to open to be reviewable. It's a good faith effort and complaining such as what your doing is a slap in the face of a company trying to do the right thing, and it makes open source look bad. Not everyone buys into the open source dogma, and it is asinine to expect that they do.
If they released the code once, chances are they'll do so again. It's pretty simple software relatively speaking, it just isn't going to be changing that often. I'm NOT arguing against open source, I use it for many things. I'm arguing against the presumption that software must be open source to be trustable.