The vast majority of my family owns their own business or works for one of the members who does. As someone with experience on both ends of the spectrum... company ownership and working for "The Man"(tm)... I can say for certain that the primary reason most people are offered 2% (or whatever) raises, is because the boss or bosses are fairly certain they can get away with it. Sometimes this backfires. In a company with highly skilled and specialized folks, this can often mean you lose some of your best employees. Either way it's all a calculated risk. Questions that are asked:
Is the cost of the additional salary more or less than the cost of replacing the potential loss of personel?
What percentage of those who find other jobs can be lured back in with an offer for a bit more?
Is the product produced by the employee worth the money being paid?
Can an employee that costs less create the same quality of product in the same amount of time?
In the end, if you truely believe you're worth more than you make, and the company you work for seems unwilling to compensate you in this manner, everyone is better off if you find that job. In reality, your true market value is only what the highest bidder will pay. And, in our current job market, there are typically at least a dozen people willing to do what you do for the same or less... supply and demand at its best.
The ActiveX test on their site just told me that my copy was pirated. I'm 100% certain it's valid as this (work) Dell laptop had an sp2 slipstreamed version installed about two months ago (at my hands), and the registration code pasted to the back of the laptop allowed the install.
You'd need approximately 7967 2GHz opteron processors to perform as well as 4096 Itaniums.
Opteron 846 (2.0GHz) which was used in this system.... $675 OEM or $775 Retail.
Itanium 2 (1.4GHz) used in the compared system is approximately $2050.
$8.4 MEEELION for Itanium 2 system
$6.2 MEEELION for Opteron 846 system
Opteron runs standard 32 bit x86 stuff (read: compatability)... is easier to support (read: very common architecture).. and is cheaper...
Here's a $12M budget for the next few years to buy new hardware.... do you want 1 Itanium 2 system or 2 Opteron systems (twice the power, and all the other stuff).
In my region of suburbia, there are approximately 600 people per square mile. Assume $25/mo (though, most really pay about $35/mo here). Subscription rate of 65% for broadband in this part of town; it gives us:
$9,750 per month... $117,000 per year $585,000 in that same 5 year period.
I'd definately consider paying $25/mo to the city for this service, if I could get >2Mbps down and >=512kbps up. Though, my current 5M down is nice when pulling large chunks of data off the net... 2M would be great for that cheap.
.... pounded into my head by my HS english teacher.... Also, it's the one that annoys me the most when I see it. Not that I'm not guilty of some of the others myself, but I can't stand this one.
Example:
I dislike you talking about this subject.
vs.
I dislike your talking about this subject.
Now, in most english classes today, I see the above one accepted... and maybe Americanized English allows for it... but I fear the whip when I see it.
... but nobody ever seems to bring up Toy Soldiers when mentioning your acting career. For years it was my favorite movie. I'm wondering how many/.ers were fans of this movie when they were younger?
"Peter Jackson is an incredible filmmaker who did the impossible on 'Lord of the Rings,' " this lawyer said. "But there's a certain piggishness involved here. New Line already gave him enough money to rebuild Baghdad, but it's still not enough for him."
So let me get this straight.... he doesn't deserve what the contract you signed with him says because he can already choke all the worlds hippos with his cash?
3rd time to post this... hoping my wireless mouse doesn't do it's evil f-you trick again:
To those people complaining about the offenders lists out there. What is the difference between the state lawfully keeping a list of people who have offended certain sets of laws and listing it on their site.... and.... someone showing that exact same data on another site?
What if his state decides to use google maps to map their data? Is it wrong now? Why does google maps use make it wrong?
About the offenders.... My home state (Kansas)... provides online access to information regarding sex offenders. I created a site very similar to the one referenced here, due to some comments about some other cool google maps uses.
I think the site is excellent. It provides last known address, the date of that address. A photograph is provided... most look creepy, some look normal (like the one that lives 2 houses down from me).
This site also includes valuable information to help you determine what type of crime was commited. With this information displayed, you can easily determine the severity of the act. There's even a reference page that will explain the different offenses.
Example offenses include:
Sexual Misconduct (maybe he was peeing in public)
Aggravated indecent liberties with a child
Sexual Battery
Solicitation of a child
Interstate transportation of child porn
Lewd and Lascivious
Sexual Assault
Having maps for my friends and family to easily access information about these offenders is highly valuable. As a father of 3 young children... I like to be aware of anyone who might even be thinking about causing them harm.
Maybe once this guy's issues are resolved, I'll release mine to the public. I am also currently working on Missouri Illinois
There is currently no state in the Union that allows property to be taken without just compensation. And yes, they do typically pay MORE than fair market value.
They also don't usually just throw EmDom at you without much fair warning. You'll most likely receive a registered letter speaking of the plans and giving you the location of a meeting. Likely before and/or after the meeting, you'll receive some documentation about approximate values, etc.
At the meeting, often times just a city council type meeting, the topic will be discussed, questions might be answered.... this is where you go to make sure you're on the record early, if you don't want to sell.
If you think they are giving you a good deal... maybe take it... if it's not worth it... don't, and hope they don't force EmDo on you.
Either way, the government is not *taking* your property, so much as forcing you to trade it for cash of equal value.
"Individuals have historically underperformed the markets, earning just 2.6% vs. the S&P 500 gain of 12.2% between 1984 and the end of 2002*. Research in the U.S. has shown that this dramatic underperformance comes as a direct result of client behaviour, or more specifically, the attempt to avoid bad performance while seeking out better returns"
-- Dalbar Inc... Jul 2003
Your comments about car dealers ring very true. Infact, I'd say the primary reason I currently own a german car (and it's the 5th from the same dealership)... is because of the way I was treated.
In more recent experience, I've found that for some reason, the luxury german dealerships (MB, BMW, Audi) are much more friendly and forthcoming than those at the Japanese or American dealerships.
When I was younger (18), I walked into a Honda dealership looking to buy a new civic. I could easily afford it and already had a loan worked out [which I didn't tell them...]. The dealer had the balls to say to me, "Maybe we should look for something cheaper, used."
He could have sold me a Civic that day... but instead I bought a VW, since the dealer was respectful and helped me find the car *I* wanted.
A few weeks back a friend and I calculated the total dollar sales this dealership made as a direct result of people I sent there, who would have otherwise never considered VW or Audi or would have not used that dealership...
The total? > $1M
Needless to say, when speaking with them recently about a new car purchase, they offered me almost 40% more than any other dealership for my trade... and gave a better price on the vehicle I want.
I have some loyalty to them, because they have treated me well (even under new [evil] ownership). But, I still shop around, because there's no point in paying more when you don't have to.
When was the last time you heard of a firewall running (IOS/Linux/BSD/whatever) having an unpatched vulnerability on a network service that (1) you cannot turn off and (2) you cannot tell not to listen on every port?
Here's a list... let's just focus on iptables for a moment (which, btw, I use and love/lust)
I'm a much bigger fan of the BSDs and SuSE (don't like the others) than I am of Windows. However, hatred or dislike of one shouldn't lead you to make false claims about it.
If you look at all the packages typically installed (default) in most BSDs and SuSE... you'll find just as many vulnerabilities. It just happens that the largest OS provider in the world gains much more scrutiny, being that any worm or virus that makes its way through the net is propogated at such an intense rate because of the ratio of systems running their OS.
I worked in an organization a while back that had highly skilled security minded windows and unix sysadmins. Along with great help from their Data Security department, they were able to build a very secure and centrally managable network of unix and windows machines...
When a patch was released for any piece of software running within the network, be it OS or other... a central security system that calculates its risk based upon a number of calculations and determinations (from Data Security) determined a target date for full production deployment. For low risk items, they are pushed into a quarterly update... Medium risk items were updated more frequently... High risk items were typically done within 48 hours (after development testing)... and severe items were often pushed immediately.
The only users in the entire network of 4800+ that were allowed administrative rights were the sysadmins and the application developers. Their machines were also heavily monitored and tracked to prevent any issues.
No organization should ever accept anything less than the things I've mentioned above.
For whatever it may be worth... firewalls, did, in-fact, help prevent an extreme majority of issues within the company. The number of times we had partner companies (typically fortune 500 financial institutions) attempting things like Slammer, was almost unbelievable. Firewalls are the first line of defense. Segregating systems into functional areas can mitigate a great deal of issues and let you focus on the other more tedious tasks.
At my previous job we used mod_perl (1 and 2[beta]). The excellent part about mod_perl is that it allows you to completely control Apache in every manner possible.
There are excellent performance benefits in writing Apache handlers... and mod_perl simply allows them to be written in perl.
The last application I developed handled multi-millions of records per day without flinching. There were dozens of users and several extremely complex equations and correlations done...
In the end, it outperformed the other attempts made at doing the same thing... and it was simple to maintain.
Since my departure (and that of the rest of the perl team)... the company decided to scrap perl and move completely to java (for unix systems). They're finding that getting rid of the several million lines of perl code and the hundred-or-so websites developed in mod_perl is likely to take them an eternity when rewriting in java.
Though I now develop in ASP.NET (C#, etc)... I still fondly remember my days as a perl developer. Being able to crank out an application in little to no time was amazing... and with the power of CPAN it's hard to compare any other language.
When did slashdot become a format for spewing daytime drama that contains nothing pertinent between two people nobody knows. Sure, I enjoy highschoolishness just as much person... which is to say, not at all... but when I want this kind of drama, I can tune into Days of Our Lives.
Dozens. Suppose this depends on if you want to count each of the fixes rolled up into ie6 sp1 individually... or just count that as one and the dozen since as individual... either way, there's typically at least one a month.
There were plenty of other ways to knock IE when it relates to security... but their patching is fairly regular and well defined. MS releases its patches on a scheduled basis (2nd Tuesday of each month). This has been excellent for those of us who work in the security for large companies, as it has allowed to more easily manage deployment of patches.
I know they don't always patch every potential security flaw, but in my experience it's been about the same as any other piece of highly used software.
Since it wasn't mentioned... and since others brought it up in comments:
Snort is possibly the exception to the open-source vs commercial software bit.
Snort itself is vastly superior to any other IDS tool out there. BUT, the open-source data analysis tools/applications for reporting, etc on snort are terrible compared to the commercial versions.
Though, in the end, most of the commercial ones aren't much better than a decaying turd, either.
My previous employer decided to build their own. I just wish they'd have opensourced it or at least sold it, as it was muy mejor to any other commercial IDS application.. (and used snort on the backend).
AMD is using a technology patented by IBM called SOI (Silicon on Insulator)... IBM is very unwilling to allow Intel to use this technology to solve their heat problems....
Tom's Hardware has some good information about thermal loss. Notice that an idle AMD Winchester (SOI Athlon 64) loses only 3.2 watts, while the more recent P4 chips are losing > 34 at idle.
This number changes at load to 30 watts for the Winchester and 100+ watts for the P4.
Looking back and comparing it to a P2-450 I once owned... the Winchester numbers are close.... and that machine had no fan (just a very large heatsink).
I'm not sure you could have a fully-loaded Winchester without at least some type of active cooling... but certainly the CFM required across a good heatsink would allow you for an almost silent fan.
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The vast majority of my family owns their own business or works for one of the members who does. As someone with experience on both ends of the spectrum... company ownership and working for "The Man"(tm)... I can say for certain that the primary reason most people are offered 2% (or whatever) raises, is because the boss or bosses are fairly certain they can get away with it. Sometimes this backfires. In a company with highly skilled and specialized folks, this can often mean you lose some of your best employees. Either way it's all a calculated risk. Questions that are asked:
Is the cost of the additional salary more or less than the cost of replacing the potential loss of personel?
What percentage of those who find other jobs can be lured back in with an offer for a bit more?
Is the product produced by the employee worth the money being paid?
Can an employee that costs less create the same quality of product in the same amount of time?
In the end, if you truely believe you're worth more than you make, and the company you work for seems unwilling to compensate you in this manner, everyone is better off if you find that job. In reality, your true market value is only what the highest bidder will pay. And, in our current job market, there are typically at least a dozen people willing to do what you do for the same or less... supply and demand at its best.
Dish Network will buy TiVo
I love Warren....
BRK-B for those with not as much cash... who want a small piece.
The ActiveX test on their site just told me that my copy was pirated. I'm 100% certain it's valid as this (work) Dell laptop had an sp2 slipstreamed version installed about two months ago (at my hands), and the registration code pasted to the back of the laptop allowed the install.
:)
Should I report Dell?
You'd need approximately 7967 2GHz opteron processors to perform as well as 4096 Itaniums.
Opteron 846 (2.0GHz) which was used in this system.... $675 OEM or $775 Retail.
Itanium 2 (1.4GHz) used in the compared system is approximately $2050.
$8.4 MEEELION for Itanium 2 system
$6.2 MEEELION for Opteron 846 system
Opteron runs standard 32 bit x86 stuff (read: compatability)... is easier to support (read: very common architecture).. and is cheaper...
Here's a $12M budget for the next few years to buy new hardware.... do you want 1 Itanium 2 system or 2 Opteron systems (twice the power, and all the other stuff).
In my region of suburbia, there are approximately 600 people per square mile. Assume $25/mo (though, most really pay about $35/mo here). Subscription rate of 65% for broadband in this part of town; it gives us:
$9,750 per month...
$117,000 per year
$585,000 in that same 5 year period.
I'd definately consider paying $25/mo to the city for this service, if I could get >2Mbps down and >=512kbps up. Though, my current 5M down is nice when pulling large chunks of data off the net... 2M would be great for that cheap.
.... pounded into my head by my HS english teacher.... Also, it's the one that annoys me the most when I see it. Not that I'm not guilty of some of the others myself, but I can't stand this one.
Example:
I dislike you talking about this subject.
vs.
I dislike your talking about this subject.
Now, in most english classes today, I see the above one accepted... and maybe Americanized English allows for it... but I fear the whip when I see it.
... but nobody ever seems to bring up Toy Soldiers when mentioning your acting career. For years it was my favorite movie. I'm wondering how many /.ers were fans of this movie when they were younger?
So let me get this straight.... he doesn't deserve what the contract you signed with him says because he can already choke all the worlds hippos with his cash?
3rd time to post this... hoping my wireless mouse doesn't do it's evil f-you trick again:
To those people complaining about the offenders lists out there. What is the difference between the state lawfully keeping a list of people who have offended certain sets of laws and listing it on their site.... and.... someone showing that exact same data on another site?
What if his state decides to use google maps to map their data? Is it wrong now? Why does google maps use make it wrong?
About the offenders.... My home state (Kansas)... provides online access to information regarding sex offenders. I created a site very similar to the one referenced here, due to some comments about some other cool google maps uses.
I think the site is excellent. It provides last known address, the date of that address. A photograph is provided... most look creepy, some look normal (like the one that lives 2 houses down from me).
This site also includes valuable information to help you determine what type of crime was commited. With this information displayed, you can easily determine the severity of the act. There's even a reference page that will explain the different offenses.
Example offenses include:
Sexual Misconduct (maybe he was peeing in public)
Aggravated indecent liberties with a child
Sexual Battery
Solicitation of a child
Interstate transportation of child porn
Lewd and Lascivious
Sexual Assault
Having maps for my friends and family to easily access information about these offenders is highly valuable. As a father of 3 young children... I like to be aware of anyone who might even be thinking about causing them harm.
Maybe once this guy's issues are resolved, I'll release mine to the public. I am also currently working on Missouri Illinois
One thing you must all remember...
There is currently no state in the Union that allows property to be taken without just compensation. And yes, they do typically pay MORE than fair market value.
They also don't usually just throw EmDom at you without much fair warning. You'll most likely receive a registered letter speaking of the plans and giving you the location of a meeting. Likely before and/or after the meeting, you'll receive some documentation about approximate values, etc.
At the meeting, often times just a city council type meeting, the topic will be discussed, questions might be answered.... this is where you go to make sure you're on the record early, if you don't want to sell.
If you think they are giving you a good deal... maybe take it... if it's not worth it... don't, and hope they don't force EmDo on you.
Either way, the government is not *taking* your property, so much as forcing you to trade it for cash of equal value.
They're the ones who are responsible for companies needing to buy the software that the company who employs me produces... thus giving me a job.
To the hackers:
Though you annoy me... my lifestyle thanks you.
Obligatory pdf link here...
Quote for those without pdf reader:
"Individuals have historically underperformed the markets, earning just 2.6% vs. the S&P 500 gain of 12.2% between 1984 and the end of 2002*. Research in the U.S. has shown that this dramatic underperformance comes as a direct result of client behaviour, or more specifically, the attempt to avoid bad performance while seeking out better returns" -- Dalbar Inc... Jul 2003
Your comments about car dealers ring very true. Infact, I'd say the primary reason I currently own a german car (and it's the 5th from the same dealership)... is because of the way I was treated.
In more recent experience, I've found that for some reason, the luxury german dealerships (MB, BMW, Audi) are much more friendly and forthcoming than those at the Japanese or American dealerships.
When I was younger (18), I walked into a Honda dealership looking to buy a new civic. I could easily afford it and already had a loan worked out [which I didn't tell them...]. The dealer had the balls to say to me, "Maybe we should look for something cheaper, used."
He could have sold me a Civic that day... but instead I bought a VW, since the dealer was respectful and helped me find the car *I* wanted.
A few weeks back a friend and I calculated the total dollar sales this dealership made as a direct result of people I sent there, who would have otherwise never considered VW or Audi or would have not used that dealership...
The total? > $1M
Needless to say, when speaking with them recently about a new car purchase, they offered me almost 40% more than any other dealership for my trade... and gave a better price on the vehicle I want.
I have some loyalty to them, because they have treated me well (even under new [evil] ownership). But, I still shop around, because there's no point in paying more when you don't have to.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041115/pentium4 _570-20.html
So I'm guessing you own the Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester core CNQ?
I love google:
e rs+in+cubic+feet&btnG=Google+Search
enter the following into google search:
25 cubic meters in cubic feet
out comes:
25 (cubic meters) = 882.866668 cubic feet
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=25+cubic+met
When was the last time you heard of a firewall running (IOS/Linux/BSD/whatever) having an unpatched vulnerability on a network service that (1) you cannot turn off and (2) you cannot tell not to listen on every port?
Here's a list... let's just focus on iptables for a moment (which, btw, I use and love/lust)
I'm a much bigger fan of the BSDs and SuSE (don't like the others) than I am of Windows. However, hatred or dislike of one shouldn't lead you to make false claims about it.
If you look at all the packages typically installed (default) in most BSDs and SuSE... you'll find just as many vulnerabilities. It just happens that the largest OS provider in the world gains much more scrutiny, being that any worm or virus that makes its way through the net is propogated at such an intense rate because of the ratio of systems running their OS.
I worked in an organization a while back that had highly skilled security minded windows and unix sysadmins. Along with great help from their Data Security department, they were able to build a very secure and centrally managable network of unix and windows machines...
When a patch was released for any piece of software running within the network, be it OS or other... a central security system that calculates its risk based upon a number of calculations and determinations (from Data Security) determined a target date for full production deployment. For low risk items, they are pushed into a quarterly update... Medium risk items were updated more frequently... High risk items were typically done within 48 hours (after development testing)... and severe items were often pushed immediately.
The only users in the entire network of 4800+ that were allowed administrative rights were the sysadmins and the application developers. Their machines were also heavily monitored and tracked to prevent any issues.
No organization should ever accept anything less than the things I've mentioned above.
For whatever it may be worth... firewalls, did, in-fact, help prevent an extreme majority of issues within the company. The number of times we had partner companies (typically fortune 500 financial institutions) attempting things like Slammer, was almost unbelievable. Firewalls are the first line of defense. Segregating systems into functional areas can mitigate a great deal of issues and let you focus on the other more tedious tasks.
At my previous job we used mod_perl (1 and 2[beta]). The excellent part about mod_perl is that it allows you to completely control Apache in every manner possible.
There are excellent performance benefits in writing Apache handlers... and mod_perl simply allows them to be written in perl.
The last application I developed handled multi-millions of records per day without flinching. There were dozens of users and several extremely complex equations and correlations done...
In the end, it outperformed the other attempts made at doing the same thing... and it was simple to maintain.
Since my departure (and that of the rest of the perl team)... the company decided to scrap perl and move completely to java (for unix systems). They're finding that getting rid of the several million lines of perl code and the hundred-or-so websites developed in mod_perl is likely to take them an eternity when rewriting in java.
Though I now develop in ASP.NET (C#, etc)... I still fondly remember my days as a perl developer. Being able to crank out an application in little to no time was amazing... and with the power of CPAN it's hard to compare any other language.
Such examples of sites publishing content legally, all while using BitTorrent:
/. article about these:
1 4
http://bt.etree.org/ -- live records of bands who permit
http://www.legaltorrents.com/
http://www.commonbits.org/
Looks like there's even an older
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/03282
Only the game can be downloaded... many people waiting anxiously for someone to put the movie up.
When did slashdot become a format for spewing daytime drama that contains nothing pertinent between two people nobody knows. Sure, I enjoy highschoolishness just as much person... which is to say, not at all... but when I want this kind of drama, I can tune into Days of Our Lives.
Dozens. Suppose this depends on if you want to count each of the fixes rolled up into ie6 sp1 individually... or just count that as one and the dozen since as individual... either way, there's typically at least one a month.
There were plenty of other ways to knock IE when it relates to security... but their patching is fairly regular and well defined. MS releases its patches on a scheduled basis (2nd Tuesday of each month). This has been excellent for those of us who work in the security for large companies, as it has allowed to more easily manage deployment of patches.
I know they don't always patch every potential security flaw, but in my experience it's been about the same as any other piece of highly used software.
Since it wasn't mentioned... and since others brought it up in comments:
Snort is possibly the exception to the open-source vs commercial software bit.
Snort itself is vastly superior to any other IDS tool out there. BUT, the open-source data analysis tools/applications for reporting, etc on snort are terrible compared to the commercial versions.
Though, in the end, most of the commercial ones aren't much better than a decaying turd, either.
My previous employer decided to build their own. I just wish they'd have opensourced it or at least sold it, as it was muy mejor to any other commercial IDS application.. (and used snort on the backend).
AMD is using a technology patented by IBM called SOI (Silicon on Insulator)... IBM is very unwilling to allow Intel to use this technology to solve their heat problems....
Tom's Hardware has some good information about thermal loss. Notice that an idle AMD Winchester (SOI Athlon 64) loses only 3.2 watts, while the more recent P4 chips are losing > 34 at idle.
This number changes at load to 30 watts for the Winchester and 100+ watts for the P4.
Looking back and comparing it to a P2-450 I once owned... the Winchester numbers are close.... and that machine had no fan (just a very large heatsink).
I'm not sure you could have a fully-loaded Winchester without at least some type of active cooling... but certainly the CFM required across a good heatsink would allow you for an almost silent fan.