Wouldn't this be a better question for IBM's marketing department, or business/technology strategist types?
I agree. I work in a very large IT services multi-national that has business issues / problems similar to IBMs. My company supports (amongst other things) CERT, DOD (US/CN/UK/FR/AU), build military h/w & s/w, right thru to ERP (finance and HR) systems.
They'll repeat the company lines, with a few extra names, but they don't have any better pipe to the PHB's heads than we do.
1."I find it interesting that law enforcement isn't really at the table, Once you bring (the technology) to us, it's too late." Ron Davis, a captain in the Oakland, Calif., Police Department. One could read this as suggesting that increased government surveillance is a philosophical choice, sometimes made easier by having a vested interest (i.e. Ellisons's interested only if you run it on oracle).
2. Increased surveillance of the populace seems to be accompanied by decreased surveillance and supervision of those in power... President Bush has done his best to minimize any further revelations about the history of his team's relations with his biggest backer by depositing his Texas gubernatorial papers not in the Texas State Library and Archives, where they'd be subject to the state's tough Public Information Act, but at his father's presidential library, where they may not be. - from march 03 NY Times.
3. How will this increased surveillance actually prevent terrorism ? The Sept 11 guys were legal imigrants / visitors to the US. What would have shown up about them ? How many foreign nationals come to the US to learn to fly ? How many foreign nationals who study together live together ?
4. On an entirely personal issue, could a conservative bush / cheney / rumsfeld government stand a person like Mark Bingham ?
Dad worked on the first Rotary milking shed installed in our district (197?). The cows walked on, Dad put the cups on, cow goes round, cams turn off suction, cups fall off, cow backs off. This milked 180 cows in aprox 3 hrs.
EBCDIC was an IBM invention. Which means you only programmed Snow White, and none of the seven dwarfs (or BUNCH)... Burroughs, Univac, Ncr, Control data, Honeywell.
Generally, the World Bank is seen by the poor as a front for big business (i.e. US based multi-nationals)..... in most cases, this is true, not through deliberate acts of the IMF and World bank, but due to the effects of their actions...
Examples are where making agriculture more "efficient" means converting to cash crops like coffee (which are useless to the natives without further processing), where the real money is made back in the developed world.
_anyone_ can submit, people who were interested in subverting the collection effort would be anxious to post erroneous or misleading information. BZZZT. The reason it works is that its private. The people who read it know the other people who read it. And just like slashdot, you ignore the guys who talk crap.
In fact, it is a samller, more targeted Slashdot... As you pointed out, you wouldn't use the one list or source as your only source. I bet you use other sites, even for linux "propaganda". I know I don't rely on slashdot for all my tech news, and to just cut-and-paste an internet article before passing it up the chain of command is unprofessional in any job...
but as confirmation or background, knowing, for example, that all the aircraft from a given squadron were doing a flyby would confirm or disprove other reports about their activities and / or readiness....
In the Bazaar, as I read it, alot of open source information is being shared. I'm a little apprehensive, especially after that seminar, that if the wrong people are allowed to acquire alot of this information, they can eventually piece together and learn an awful lot about the future systems, processes, etc. of our government.
the following thoughts came to mind (in the following order).... 1. Who decides which of the little pieces is the key piece that the wrong people are not allowed to see ?
2. Who decides who the wrong people are ?
3. Who audits the people who make decisions one and two ?
It appears that this is a remote controlled scripting tool of some sort. There's a guy in the shuttle / Space station, who does all the keyboard work. The EVAer sees the appropriate page from the manual, some instructions (probably from the same manual) and a bunch of suit / bio-function monitoring icons.
Apart from that, this was appropriate (and overdue) recognition of the rights to privacy and security. The law doesn't (sorry shouldn't - i'm in Australia, after all) differ depending on medium - the Government are responsible for securing this data.
The chances are if you are asking this on Slashdot you are not qualified to modify the source of a database engine anyway, so use SAP DB...
The original poster was talking about OLAP, not DBMS. SAP/DB is a DBMS. You would keep your data in SAP/DB, but you would use an OLAP engine (on top of a Data Warehouse architechture) to extract and anlyse the underlying data.
In an enterprise strength system you could use... oh, i don't know,... SAP/DB as the underlying DBMS, running on Mandrake, Red Hat, AIX or even the dreaded W2K, with SAP/BW as the Data Warehouse and BEx Analyzer as the OLAP.
OLAP ne OLTP ne DBMS
...SO much better to do the APPROPRIATE thing
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Considering the history of terrorist activity (whether by
foreign nationals or US citezens) within the national boundaries of the United States of America, it would be more appropriate to stop the sale of fertilizer.
"An American would say, 'easy, give them satellite Internet.' But if the village had the $7,000 necessary for installing the antennas and $2,000 a month to rent the bandwidth, they'd already have spent that on drinking water, medicines and things like that."
Welcome to the real world, Amigo.... Computers and 'computerists' (1) don't exist in isolation; All users have priorities and values that are, by definition, not congruent with that of the average/.er. Somehwere along the line someone has to pay, somehow, for that new server under your desk, for your trip to CA-World or the latest open Source conference, for those routers and cables that let you check out the latest game sites. Even when you allow for existing infrastructure, someone has to have paid for it in the first place, and keep up the maintenance.
This leads into something that/. (only an example - there's so many other US-centric sites around) never recognises....You would do well to remember that there's a lot people (both within and outside the US) that have more important things to do with their precious time and money (like keeping themselves alive, if not healthy and well fed), than help prop up what is essentially a religious war (tux v redmond) that has no relevance to their lives.
(1) anyone who thinks about what goes on in their computer...whether its mac, *nix, win, mvs..
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
The same State Prison in Texas (forgot it's name - it's the town that Sam Houston came from) that handles all State executions, is also the prison where all State Gov't furniture is made.
If you're on Death Row, you don't get to do any work. The man is probably scared you'll kill yourself..... is suicide illegal in texas ? Anyway, what you're dreading is already happening; prisoners are becoming slave labour for the prison system. .
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
look at a map (preferrably 10 or 20 yrs old).
find the old Soviet Union (since you're educated in the US, I'd understand if you gave up now).
measure how wide it is.
find the continental USA.
compare.
A simpler way of looking at it is that the USSR spread across Eleven Twenty-fourths of the globe, about 45%.
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
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Just a reminder that MIR has been in orbit for more than fifteen years. With all due respect to the International Space Station, NASA sucks by comparison.
Anyway (and despite my comments above), for all you space tracking junkies, look at NASA's J-Track. Usefull for other satelites besides Mir.
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
....the makers of Cobol....
It was originally developed by (amongst others) Grace Hopper under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Defense in cooperation with computer manufactures, users and universities. It's now an American National Standards language now, just like FORTRAN. The original COBOL was based on a language called FLOWMATIC, and there should be a reference to the Sperry Corportaion (the company who developed it) at the front of your COBOL manual.
...when you can work anywhere ?
If you're 27 or under, you can work here (Australia) or the UK for up to a year, on a working holiday visa. If any of your grandparents were citizens of countries of the EC, you can work there for life...
As an ex contractor, I'd suggest working via an agency to get the foot in the door and getting used to 'being on your own'. But do your research !!! The good agencies are wonderfull, the rest will suck you dry.
Good Luck !!!!
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
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read yer constitution; it wants religion out of school.
or are you only the the land of the free until i disagree with you ?
Down here, we call people from the USA "seppos" from Septic tank (rhyming slang for yank).
Wouldn't this be a better question for IBM's marketing department, or business/technology strategist types?
I agree. I work in a very large IT services multi-national that has business issues / problems similar to IBMs. My company supports (amongst other things) CERT, DOD (US/CN/UK/FR/AU), build military h/w & s/w, right thru to ERP (finance and HR) systems.
They'll repeat the company lines, with a few extra names, but they don't have any better pipe to the PHB's heads than we do.
1."I find it interesting that law enforcement isn't really at the table, Once you bring (the technology) to us, it's too late." Ron Davis, a captain in the Oakland, Calif., Police Department. One could read this as suggesting that increased government surveillance is a philosophical choice, sometimes made easier by having a vested interest (i.e. Ellisons's interested only if you run it on oracle).
2. Increased surveillance of the populace seems to be accompanied by decreased surveillance and supervision of those in power
3. How will this increased surveillance actually prevent terrorism ? The Sept 11 guys were legal imigrants / visitors to the US. What would have shown up about them ? How many foreign nationals come to the US to learn to fly ? How many foreign nationals who study together live together ?
4. On an entirely personal issue, could a conservative bush / cheney / rumsfeld government stand a person like Mark Bingham ?
Dad worked on the first Rotary milking shed installed in our district (197?). The cows walked on, Dad put the cups on, cow goes round, cams turn off suction, cups fall off, cow backs off. This milked 180 cows in aprox 3 hrs.
Every morning.
Every night.
and people wonder how I can put with PHBs ?
all the punchcards I pounded out were EBCDIC.
EBCDIC was an IBM invention. Which means you only programmed Snow White, and none of the seven dwarfs (or BUNCH)...
Burroughs, Univac, Ncr, Control data, Honeywell.
in most cases, this is true, not through deliberate acts of the IMF and World bank, but due to the effects of their actions...
Examples are where making agriculture more "efficient" means converting to cash crops like coffee (which are useless to the natives without further processing), where the real money is made back in the developed world.
_anyone_ can submit, people who were interested in subverting the collection effort would be anxious to post erroneous or misleading information.
BZZZT. The reason it works is that its private. The people who read it know the other people who read it. And just like slashdot, you ignore the guys who talk crap.
In fact, it is a samller, more targeted Slashdot... As you pointed out, you wouldn't use the one list or source as your only source. I bet you use other sites, even for linux "propaganda". I know I don't rely on slashdot for all my tech news, and to just cut-and-paste an internet article before passing it up the chain of command is unprofessional in any job...
but as confirmation or background, knowing, for example, that all the aircraft from a given squadron were doing a flyby would confirm or disprove other reports about their activities and / or readiness....
In the Bazaar, as I read it, alot of open source information is being shared. I'm a little apprehensive, especially after that seminar, that if the wrong people are allowed to acquire alot of this information, they can eventually piece together and learn an awful lot about the future systems, processes, etc. of our government.
the following thoughts came to mind (in the following order)....
1. Who decides which of the little pieces is the key piece that the wrong people are not allowed to see ?
2. Who decides who the wrong people are ?
3. Who audits the people who make decisions one and two ?
I searched Red Books just using the keyword Linux, and got the following list. S/390 is the old name for the zSeries eserver, so take a look at Linux for IBM e-server zSeries and S/390: Distributions.
I've decided to call her Wendy.
He's Bob the Builder and the computer is Wendy (who does all the work). Where's Scoop Muck & Dizzy ?
It appears that this is a remote controlled scripting tool of some sort. There's a guy in the shuttle / Space station, who does all the keyboard work. The EVAer sees the appropriate page from the manual, some instructions (probably from the same manual) and a bunch of suit / bio-function monitoring icons.
like I said, RTFA
have a squiz at the article....
Apart from that, this was appropriate (and overdue) recognition of the rights to privacy and security. The law doesn't (sorry shouldn't - i'm in Australia, after all) differ depending on medium - the Government are responsible for securing this data.
works under IE 5.0 on NT 4.0
what about IEFBR14 on MVS / OS390 / whatever its called these days ? - the B R14 part of the name is a complete description of the program....
The chances are if you are asking this on Slashdot you are not qualified to modify the source of a database engine anyway, so use SAP DB ...
The original poster was talking about OLAP, not DBMS. SAP/DB is a DBMS. You would keep your data in SAP/DB, but you would use an OLAP engine (on top of a Data Warehouse architechture) to extract and anlyse the underlying data.
In an enterprise strength system you could use... oh, i don't know,... SAP/DB as the underlying DBMS, running on Mandrake, Red Hat, AIX or even the dreaded W2K, with SAP/BW as the Data Warehouse and BEx Analyzer as the OLAP.
OLAP ne OLTP ne DBMS
Considering the history of terrorist activity (whether by foreign nationals or US citezens) within the national boundaries of the United States of America, it would be more appropriate to stop the sale of fertilizer.
Welcome to the real world, Amigo.... Computers and 'computerists' (1) don't exist in isolation; All users have priorities and values that are, by definition, not congruent with that of the average /.er. Somehwere along the line someone has to pay, somehow, for that new server under your desk, for your trip to CA-World or the latest open Source conference, for those routers and cables that let you check out the latest game sites. Even when you allow for existing infrastructure, someone has to have paid for it in the first place, and keep up the maintenance. /. (only an example - there's so many other US-centric sites around) never recognises....You would do well to remember that there's a lot people (both within and outside the US) that have more important things to do with their precious time and money (like keeping themselves alive, if not healthy and well fed), than help prop up what is essentially a religious war (tux v redmond) that has no relevance to their lives.
This leads into something that
(1) anyone who thinks about what goes on in their computer...whether its mac, *nix, win, mvs..
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
If you're on Death Row, you don't get to do any work. The man is probably scared you'll kill yourself..... is suicide illegal in texas ?
Anyway, what you're dreading is already happening; prisoners are becoming slave labour for the prison system.
.
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
2. GPS is not illegal
Just RTFS
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
find the old Soviet Union (since you're educated in the US, I'd understand if you gave up now).
measure how wide it is.
find the continental USA.
compare.
A simpler way of looking at it is that the USSR spread across Eleven Twenty-fourths of the globe, about 45%.
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
Anyway (and despite my comments above), for all you space tracking junkies, look at NASA's J-Track. Usefull for other satelites besides Mir.
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
It was originally developed by (amongst others) Grace Hopper under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Defense in cooperation with computer manufactures, users and universities. It's now an American National Standards language now, just like FORTRAN. The original COBOL was based on a language called FLOWMATIC, and there should be a reference to the Sperry Corportaion (the company who developed it) at the front of your COBOL manual.
Also have a look at this Google search.
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
ROTFLMAO... Joke of the day...
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
If you're 27 or under, you can work here (Australia) or the UK for up to a year, on a working holiday visa. If any of your grandparents were citizens of countries of the EC, you can work there for life...
As an ex contractor, I'd suggest working via an agency to get the foot in the door and getting used to 'being on your own'. But do your research !!! The good agencies are wonderfull, the rest will suck you dry.
Good Luck !!!!
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,