It wasn't Xerox, that invented the GUI, that revolutionized computers. It wasn't Microsoft, that actually delivered the GUI to millions of people, that revolutionized computers. It was Apple, that made a commercial about the GUI, THEY revolutionized computers.
Yes, Junior, you have it right.
If Apple hadn't stolen/borrowed the GUI from Xerox, it might never have seen the light of day. Xerox management did not think the GUI was useful and did not plan to create any product using it.
Microsoft, in turn, stole/borrowed the GUI from Apple and their version didn't actually become useful until 1992 or so, with Win 3.1!
So yes, Apple gets the credit for the first widely available and actually usable GUI, by being first to market.
'The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455. How does that relate? You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash.'
Um, as much as I hate to dis a national hero, I'm gonna call "bullshit" on this one...
According to the above quote, statistically speaking, we should be getting wiped out by a huge catastrophy every 45500 years, over the entire history of the planet...
Has the frequency of comets appearing and volcanoes erupting increased?
In case you didn't know/realize it, ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) have been taking your picture for over 20 years...
The retention times for those pictures vary with the institution, but it could conceivably be years...
I worked for Diebold back in the 80s and on an almost weekly basis I was tasked with operating the video gear for bank security and FBI investigators...
Too many windmills, therefore, will slow air masses to a standstill, creating unprecedented ecological disasters. Specifically, consider the recent hurricanes that impacted the south eastern US. Without wind to eventually blow them out to sea, they'd still be floating over Florida, wreaking havoc.
IANAM (I am not a meteorologist), but I have studied weather forcasting and reading charts and so forth in support of one of my hobbies, sailing...
The scenario you describe is not likely.
The turbines are 400-500 feet tall and the wind that effects movements of weather systems like hurricanes occurs around the 5000 Meter altitudes, and at lattitudes covered by the North American continent, are mostly attributable to the movement of Polar low pressure systems...
For serious security, passwords shouldn't expire. They shouldn't even have to be that obscure. The security effort should go into making a brute force attempt impractical.
This statement show how little you know about the subject.
Without password complexity the only recourse is to lock the account with only a very small number of invalid login attempts, such as 1 or 2. The first time you come in and fat-finger your password and get locked out for an hour, you'll be screaming at the admins to give you more attempts.
Without password complexity AND short-term expiration times you risk losing everything if your password file (SAM, whatever) is compromised.
Four years ago, during an audit, I cracked nearly every password (over 1,000 users) in an NT Domain, using L0phtCrack, in just under 10 days using a moderately powered laptop. This Domain had no password complexity rules in place.
With what you propose, you might just as well post the passwords on a billboard.
I've used both SpyBoy S&D and AdAware with great results, but sometimes you gotta break your way into the system first.
For this I always keep renamed copies of Regedit and Task Manager handy. Very often you'll need these to kill process and clean the registry BEFORE you can run anti-spyware and anti-virus.
Always good for a free beer from the neighbors and atta-boys from the boss...
I'm not sure what the problem is, but there just doesn't appear to be enough GOOD candidates out there.
Well, it seems pretty obvious, it's the law of supply and demand.
The first company is "in a not-so-desirable geographical area" and knows it. The answer is, more incentive for experienced people to move there, which probably equals more money. If they want qualified staff they can't be as choosy as they might want because they are bargaining from a position of weakness.
The second company may just need to adjust their expectations. Does anyone with the desired qualifications actually exist?
When I hear the words, "there just doesn't appear to be enough GOOD candidates out there", my first thought is to question whether the "requirements" are realistic.
Got an offer from a place up there through monster.com, some insane deal along the lines of $19/hour to setup networks for various clients. Thinking this was way too good to be true...
Wow. Maybe I'm better off than I thought. I've got MCSE 2000, CNE6 and Security+ certs and I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning for $19/hr.
He resigned because of health problems and exhaustion. Apparently he has been having various medical difficulties over the past year or so.
Too bad he wasn't sick enough to just DIE ALREADY!
There were predictions even before the election that he would be asked to resign. Apparently he was too much of a lightning rod, even for this administration.
I wonder if for $349, a hundred dollars more, they could produce a similar package for here in the US with a nic instead of a modem along with some sort of optical drive.
Yep, you're missing something.
You can already get AMD powered PCs, with onboard nic AND modem AND video AND so on, in the US for less than $350 and sometimes less than $300...
Look at Tiger Direct or sales at CompUSA or Best Buy...Or look on PriceWatch...
My girlfriend, normally a total sweetheart, becomes Godzilla, wading through Tokyo, when you get between her and her first cup of morning coffee...
At first I thought she was just putting me on, but on a road trip to Miami a couple of years ago, she just about ripped my head off when I made a wrong turn on the way to the local Dunkin' Donuts...
USA did not have to pay this 'Russian tax', being separated by an ocean. You could develop a more mobile army (leaving aside technological superiority).
I'm not disagreeing with the overall gist of your post.
I was in the USAF for 8 years, and I would argue that our (US) military became more mobile and hi-tech precisely BECAUSE of our committment to the defense of Europe from the (potential, if not actual) Soviet threat.
1.) Despite the fact that we had a number of heavy divisions garrisoned in Europe, the bulk of our manpower was still in the Continental US and required heavy airlift capability to mobilize in a timely manner. The ability to project our combat power to anyplace in the World on short notice was driven by the need to counter the Soviets and their proxies.
2.) We developed hi-tech precision munitions to even the odds against superior numbers of Warsaw Pact forces in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. One account I have read estimated 20 Warsaw Pact divisions versus 8 NATO divisions. Even taking into account that NATO divisions tended to be larger than WP divisions, (IIRC, NATO divisions were 15K to 20K troops and WP divisions were generally about 12K troops) that's a 3:2 ratio of Warsaw Pact troops to NATO troops. Our hi-tech weapons (M-1 tanks, Apache and Blackhawk helicopters, TOW and Hellfire missiles, MLRS artillery, Patriot SAMs, AWACS, J-Stars, Aegis guided missile cruisers, GPS, precision guided munitions) were all in response to the Soviet threat.
Main Entry: pedant Pronunciation: 'pe-d&nt Function: noun Etymology: Middle French, from Italian pedante 1 obsolete : a male schoolteacher 2 a : one who makes a show of knowledge b : one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge c : a formalist or precisionist in teaching
I was a GroupWise/WordPerfect Office administrator for about 10 years... One of my employers replaced it with Netscape Messaging Server (A mistake IMHO) and another replaced it with Lotus Notes (Another mistake).
My current employer uses Exchange, for which I am the admin.
Outside of the obvious problems with Outlook, Exchange isn't all that bad, but GroupWise is still better.
I have had GroupWise servers which hadn't been rebooted in years...That's really NetWare's reliability shining through...
I was responsible for a pair of Netscape Directory Servers, version 6.1 IIRC, at a former employer.
They were relatively trouble free, much more so than some of the other "Netscape" products (Calendar Server)...
Once in awhile they would hang, without any sort of error indication, no log entries or the like, which made troubleshooting them very problematic.
The management interface was a Java app, which seemed fairly primitive,compared to NDS/eDirectory which I have used for about 9 years and AD which I have used since late 2000.
Overall, I'd say my experience with Netscape Directory Server was positive, but it really could use some updating, if it hasn't been already...
On another note, can someone enlighten me as to why they are upgrading the accounts so slowly? Shouldn't it be a quick and easy scripted task (unless they're editing the records one at a time)?
If they were using Exchange, actually probably any email system, it's just a matter of changing the global quota settings...A 5 second job...
But, you've got to have the extra storage in place to handle the new demand...They're probably adding drives to the SAN...
Seriously, I had a Hotmail account, which I used for testing purposes only. Never, ever gave the address out for any reason, and that thing was inundated with crap every single day...
My theory is that MS sells the user list to spammers...
The CIA never said that our productivity is not the best. The CIA said that our PCGDP is not the best (I won't argue with them there). But the CIA *never said* that PCGDP = productivity. That's what you said, and what I argued against.
In your original post you said that "The myth that American workers are the most productive (Per Capita GDP) persists". You equated productivity with PCGDP. I said your interpretation of PCGDP was wrong, not the figures for PCGDP.
I don't know how much clearer I can make it for you. Here's the quote which I included in my first reply: "For national productivity statistics, an obvious starting point is to take an estimate of aggregate output such as real gross domestic product (GDP) from the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). On the input side, the first requirement is to measure labor input, such as the number of workers or the number of hours worked."
...And your quote does not support your argument...Where does PCGDP take input into account? Where does PCGDP take product accounts into account?
The hell it doesn't, right in the quote I supplied. I'm starting to wonder if you can actually read English, or if you just want to argue...
And you still haven't answered my question about Luxembourg, Sweden and the other banking countries.
Fair enough, but what about Norway? Is Norway a "banking" country? Why is their PCGDP nearly equal to ours? Shouldn't a Social Democracy have a much lower GDP because of the expenses?
It's pointless to continue this...You're just going to say "Yes we are" and I'm going to say "No we're not"...
The bottom line is that our own intelligence service says our productivity is NOT the BEST...
Luxembourg is a small country with a lot of rich people in it.
Doesn't matter.
GDP is not a measure of the wealth of the inhabitants. It's a measure of the economic output of an area. So, if anything, an area with filled idle rich MAY even reduce GDP if they don't produce anything...
You may argue their consumption would raise local production, but it would also raise the number of producers..
Think of this: An island, where Donald Trump lives which contains NO production facilities, would have a very low GDP because it produces nothing of value...The only thing which MIGHT count is the payroll of his staff...
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It wasn't Xerox, that invented the GUI, that revolutionized computers. It wasn't Microsoft, that actually delivered the GUI to millions of people, that revolutionized computers. It was Apple, that made a commercial about the GUI, THEY revolutionized computers.
Yes, Junior, you have it right.
If Apple hadn't stolen/borrowed the GUI from Xerox, it might never have seen the light of day.
Xerox management did not think the GUI was useful and did not plan to create any product using it.
Microsoft, in turn, stole/borrowed the GUI from Apple and their version didn't actually become useful until 1992 or so, with Win 3.1!
So yes, Apple gets the credit for the first widely available and actually usable GUI, by being first to market.
Go read some history...
'The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455. How does that relate? You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash.'
a stronomy02.pdf the last major mass extinction was 65M years ago...
Um, as much as I hate to dis a national hero, I'm gonna call "bullshit" on this one...
According to the above quote, statistically speaking, we should be getting wiped out by a huge catastrophy every 45500 years, over the entire history of the planet...
Has the frequency of comets appearing and volcanoes erupting increased?
According to this article http://members.optusnet.com.au/mpaineau/paine_bio
Even if you accept that we've been really, really lucky, you've gotta see that statement as BS.
In case you didn't know/realize it, ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) have been taking your picture for over 20 years...
The retention times for those pictures vary with the institution, but it could conceivably be years...
I worked for Diebold back in the 80s and on an almost weekly basis I was tasked with operating the video gear for bank security and FBI investigators...
Too many windmills, therefore, will slow air masses to a standstill, creating unprecedented ecological disasters. Specifically, consider the recent hurricanes that impacted the south eastern US. Without wind to eventually blow them out to sea, they'd still be floating over Florida, wreaking havoc.
IANAM (I am not a meteorologist), but I have studied weather forcasting and reading charts and so forth in support of one of my hobbies, sailing...
The scenario you describe is not likely.
The turbines are 400-500 feet tall and the wind that effects movements of weather systems like hurricanes occurs around the 5000 Meter altitudes, and at lattitudes covered by the North American continent, are mostly attributable to the movement of Polar low pressure systems...
For serious security, passwords shouldn't expire. They shouldn't even have to be that obscure. The security effort should go into making a brute force attempt impractical.
This statement show how little you know about the subject.
Without password complexity the only recourse is to lock the account with only a very small number of invalid login attempts, such as 1 or 2.
The first time you come in and fat-finger your password and get locked out for an hour, you'll be screaming at the admins to give you more attempts.
Without password complexity AND short-term expiration times you risk losing everything if your password file (SAM, whatever) is compromised.
Four years ago, during an audit, I cracked nearly every password (over 1,000 users) in an NT Domain, using L0phtCrack, in just under 10 days using a moderately powered laptop. This Domain had no password complexity rules in place.
With what you propose, you might just as well post the passwords on a billboard.
Assume every node connects to some number of "neighbors", and you can query a node and request its list of neighbors.
Ok, that much I understand.
But how does my machine contact the initial node without a central DB?
I've used both SpyBoy S&D and AdAware with great results, but sometimes you gotta break your way into the system first.
For this I always keep renamed copies of Regedit and Task Manager handy. Very often you'll need these to kill process and clean the registry BEFORE you can run anti-spyware and anti-virus.
Always good for a free beer from the neighbors and atta-boys from the boss...
I'm not sure what the problem is, but there just doesn't appear to be enough GOOD candidates out there.
Well, it seems pretty obvious, it's the law of supply and demand.
The first company is "in a not-so-desirable geographical area" and knows it. The answer is, more incentive for experienced people to move there, which probably equals more money.
If they want qualified staff they can't be as choosy as they might want because they are bargaining from a position of weakness.
The second company may just need to adjust their expectations. Does anyone with the desired qualifications actually exist?
When I hear the words, "there just doesn't appear to be enough GOOD candidates out there", my first thought is to question whether the "requirements" are realistic.
PS I have all your certifications and experience.
Well, I didn't mention my experience, 22 years as a paid geek...
I only got the certs because when I was laid-off back in 2002 no one would even talk to me.
Quite humiliating.
Got an offer from a place up there through monster.com, some insane deal along the lines of $19/hour to setup networks for various clients. Thinking this was way too good to be true...
Wow.
Maybe I'm better off than I thought.
I've got MCSE 2000, CNE6 and Security+ certs and I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning for $19/hr.
Maybe I'm just spoiled.
He resigned because of health problems and exhaustion. Apparently he has been having various medical difficulties over the past year or so.
Too bad he wasn't sick enough to just DIE ALREADY!
There were predictions even before the election that he would be asked to resign. Apparently he was too much of a lightning rod, even for this administration.
I wonder if for $349, a hundred dollars more, they could produce a similar package for here in the US with a nic instead of a modem along with some sort of optical drive.
Yep, you're missing something.
You can already get AMD powered PCs, with onboard nic AND modem AND video AND so on, in the US for less than $350 and sometimes less than $300...
Look at Tiger Direct or sales at CompUSA or Best Buy...Or look on PriceWatch...
Getting cheap PCs in the US is not a problem.
My girlfriend, normally a total sweetheart, becomes Godzilla, wading through Tokyo, when you get between her and her first cup of morning coffee...
At first I thought she was just putting me on, but on a road trip to Miami a couple of years ago, she just about ripped my head off when I made a wrong turn on the way to the local Dunkin' Donuts...
USA did not have to pay this 'Russian tax', being separated by an ocean. You could develop a more mobile army (leaving aside technological superiority).
I'm not disagreeing with the overall gist of your post.
I was in the USAF for 8 years, and I would argue that our (US) military became more mobile and hi-tech precisely BECAUSE of our committment to the defense of Europe from the (potential, if not actual) Soviet threat.
1.) Despite the fact that we had a number of heavy divisions garrisoned in Europe, the bulk of our manpower was still in the Continental US and required heavy airlift capability to mobilize in a timely manner. The ability to project our combat power to anyplace in the World on short notice was driven by the need to counter the Soviets and their proxies.
2.) We developed hi-tech precision munitions to even the odds against superior numbers of Warsaw Pact forces in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. One account I have read estimated 20 Warsaw Pact divisions versus 8 NATO divisions. Even taking into account that NATO divisions tended to be larger than WP divisions, (IIRC, NATO divisions were 15K to 20K troops and WP divisions were generally about 12K troops) that's a 3:2 ratio of Warsaw Pact troops to NATO troops.
Our hi-tech weapons (M-1 tanks, Apache and Blackhawk helicopters, TOW and Hellfire missiles, MLRS artillery, Patriot SAMs, AWACS, J-Stars, Aegis guided missile cruisers, GPS, precision guided munitions) were all in response to the Soviet threat.
See Pedant, above.
I'm also not a Pedant.
Main Entry: pedant
Pronunciation: 'pe-d&nt
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, from Italian pedante
1 obsolete : a male schoolteacher
2 a : one who makes a show of knowledge b : one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge c : a formalist or precisionist in teaching
Greens believe in freedom and privacy.
As a Republican, I feel this is not what my party should be.
As an Independant, it doesn't surprise me that's what Republicans believe...
Is there *any* alternative to Exchange now?
GroupWise.
I was a GroupWise/WordPerfect Office administrator for about 10 years...
One of my employers replaced it with Netscape Messaging Server (A mistake IMHO) and another replaced it with Lotus Notes (Another mistake).
My current employer uses Exchange, for which I am the admin.
Outside of the obvious problems with Outlook, Exchange isn't all that bad, but GroupWise is still better.
I have had GroupWise servers which hadn't been rebooted in years...That's really NetWare's reliability shining through...
I was responsible for a pair of Netscape Directory Servers, version 6.1 IIRC, at a former employer.
They were relatively trouble free, much more so than some of the other "Netscape" products (Calendar Server)...
Once in awhile they would hang, without any sort of error indication, no log entries or the like, which made troubleshooting them very problematic.
The management interface was a Java app, which seemed fairly primitive,compared to NDS/eDirectory which I have used for about 9 years and AD which I have used since late 2000.
Overall, I'd say my experience with Netscape Directory Server was positive, but it really could use some updating, if it hasn't been already...
On another note, can someone enlighten me as to why they are upgrading the accounts so slowly? Shouldn't it be a quick and easy scripted task (unless they're editing the records one at a time)?
If they were using Exchange, actually probably any email system, it's just a matter of changing the global quota settings...A 5 second job...
But, you've got to have the extra storage in place to handle the new demand...They're probably adding drives to the SAN...
...for the Spam.
Seriously, I had a Hotmail account, which I used for testing purposes only. Never, ever gave the address out for any reason, and that thing was inundated with crap every single day...
My theory is that MS sells the user list to spammers...
Me too...
I lost my job back in May, got a new one in July...
However, 150+ of my fellow EDS employees lost their jobs 2 weeks ago here in RTP...
Even though I'm working, things still don't look too good around here...
The CIA never said that our productivity is not the best. The CIA said that our PCGDP is not the best (I won't argue with them there). But the CIA *never said* that PCGDP = productivity. That's what you said, and what I argued against.
In your original post you said that "The myth that American workers are the most productive (Per Capita GDP) persists". You equated productivity with PCGDP. I said your interpretation of PCGDP was wrong, not the figures for PCGDP.
I don't know how much clearer I can make it for you.
Here's the quote which I included in my first reply:
"For national productivity statistics, an obvious starting point is to take an estimate of aggregate output such as real gross domestic product (GDP) from the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). On the input side, the first requirement is to measure labor input, such as the number of workers or the number of hours worked."
...And your quote does not support your argument...Where does PCGDP take input into account? Where does PCGDP take product accounts into account?
The hell it doesn't, right in the quote I supplied.
I'm starting to wonder if you can actually read English, or if you just want to argue...
And you still haven't answered my question about Luxembourg, Sweden and the other banking countries.
Fair enough, but what about Norway?
Is Norway a "banking" country?
Why is their PCGDP nearly equal to ours?
Shouldn't a Social Democracy have a much lower GDP because of the expenses?
It's pointless to continue this...You're just going to say "Yes we are" and I'm going to say "No we're not"...
The bottom line is that our own intelligence service says our productivity is NOT the BEST...
Do you have bertter sources than the CIA?
Luxembourg is a small country with a lot of rich people in it.
Doesn't matter.
GDP is not a measure of the wealth of the inhabitants. It's a measure of the economic output of an area. So, if anything, an area with filled idle rich MAY even reduce GDP if they don't produce anything...
You may argue their consumption would raise local production, but it would also raise the number of producers..
Think of this:
An island, where Donald Trump lives which contains NO production facilities, would have a very low GDP because it produces nothing of value...The only thing which MIGHT count is the payroll of his staff...