No surprise, the IT industry is maturing (slowly, but steadily). Things should be getting a little more boring for your standard administrator, we have begin to learn and apply the lessons learned over the last 40 years (a.k.a. "best practices", a terrible buzz phrase but an accurate one).
So now you have a choice: you can leave IT and find another fiend that is less mature and still growing rapidly, or you can find an environment that still encourages and rewards innovation and new ideas, in other words the difference between slowly tweaking the system so it is more efficient and creating entirely new systems (that may or may not be more efficient, only one way to find out =).
My advice is change your job before you change your career.
They are suing Boeing in another matter, Boeing told them they could use the patent if they drop the suit (50 million according to the article). Unlikely Boeing will license them the patent.
Red Hat's do. I know Mandriva also does a pretty good job. Oddly enough the commercial Linux vendors do make sure stuff upgrades without breaking. Which is perhaps why they get paid.
I stand corrected, it is only 2.34 years. Still a major difference for two countries so closely linked. I did however check the hospital beds and doctor stats and we're about 10% ahead of the us (3.9 hospital beds per 1,000 in Canada, 3.6 per 1,000 in the US). That and the fact that medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US:
Because putting your health in the hands of medical insurance companies and HMO's is working out so well for you? I hate to say this but the US life expectancy is 5 years less than Canada now. Granted there are other factors, but health care is a pretty significant one (and 5 years is a pretty huge difference).
Because you can figure out someone's maiden name using cemetery data potentially? Guess what, losing privacy IS a slipper slope. Maiden names. Your home address. Your phone number. Where you work. Start putting this together and it becomes intrusive as heck. And then one day "oops, we just lost some cd/tapes/laptops/whatever that contain sensitive data on some/most/all of our citizens/consumers/whatever".
I'm a pretty open minded person, but I still Google pretty much everyone I interact with (part curiosity, partly to prepare for meetings, partly to see if they've ever behaved like a raving lunatic). If something really nasty pops up, it's going to make an impression, I can't exactly unsee it now can I? The reality is humans are a curious lot and given the chance to learn about other people we usually take it.
What always amuses me though is that no-one seems to spot the obvious way to deal with this from an individual's point of view. Simply create a ton of pages with your name occurring in or on them and flood the Google results with noise so the damaging stuff is harder to find.
Lovely, some short term investors would liek to crack open the golden goose and get allt he eggs now. Which may not be a bad idea (I can't imagine Yahoo!'s share price going up very significantly unless they have something very surprising in the works. If I was a shareholder I'd probably want to sue them too, but I'd feel dirty about it (but rolling around in money would probably cure that).
They eventually got an explosive decompression by using (wait for it) a large amount of explosives, which did blow a pretty good sized hold in the fuselage.
I was an avid Thunderbird user, have been for a long time. But then I transfered all my email to Google apps (GMail). I tried the web interface... and found myself using it more and more often, until eventually I realized I hadn't used Thunderbird for 1-2 months. So I installed the Gmail and Google calendar provider into Thunderbird thinking I might use it more... and I did at first... but then I found myself back in the web interface more often than not. To me the email client is no longer a concern, unless I plan to travel and need offline access I can't imagine myself using anything but the web interface to GMail if I am online (which more and more is the case).
Maybe a simple addition to this standard for a couple of categories like "adult" or "dynamic" or "temp" to designate a simplistic "why" content should not be indexed, thus allowing for some flexibility
Actually no. They fly in a V formation which means the vortices off the wings provide uplift (free energy) for the bird following them. It also helps them stay in a straight course.
Might be a rewrite but chances are you either had the same people rewriting it, or at the very least the same mindset/corporate culture/etc. rewriting it, so it probably didn't end up all that different (based on results this looks pretty likely).
Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, Faero Islands, Northern Britain (a.k.a Scotland), etc. Every time I fly to Germany from Canada I get to see Greenland (very pretty glacial fjords).
You've never driven on the trans Canada highway then. Last time my friend and I did we literally came to a stop sign where the highway narrows to a two lane road somewhere in the middle of nowhere mountainous B.C. Now hopefully GM wouldn't try and have an automated driver system handle that stretch (lots of hairpin turns and other mountain fun) because I could definitely see people dieing. Long term the article mentions fully automated trips from doorstep to parking the car somewhere, so yeah red lights/other infractions will be an issue potentially.
When it comes to sci-fi/etc. I typically buy used books at about 1-2$ a pop, load up on 20-40 and I'm set for a year. Way more convenient than the library.
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begin -> begun. fiend -> field. No more posting comments before first coffee.
No surprise, the IT industry is maturing (slowly, but steadily). Things should be getting a little more boring for your standard administrator, we have begin to learn and apply the lessons learned over the last 40 years (a.k.a. "best practices", a terrible buzz phrase but an accurate one). So now you have a choice: you can leave IT and find another fiend that is less mature and still growing rapidly, or you can find an environment that still encourages and rewards innovation and new ideas, in other words the difference between slowly tweaking the system so it is more efficient and creating entirely new systems (that may or may not be more efficient, only one way to find out =). My advice is change your job before you change your career.
They are suing Boeing in another matter, Boeing told them they could use the patent if they drop the suit (50 million according to the article). Unlikely Boeing will license them the patent.
What a ridiculous waste of time, money and energy. This is sickening.
Red Hat's do. I know Mandriva also does a pretty good job. Oddly enough the commercial Linux vendors do make sure stuff upgrades without breaking. Which is perhaps why they get paid.
I stand corrected, it is only 2.34 years. Still a major difference for two countries so closely linked. I did however check the hospital beds and doctor stats and we're about 10% ahead of the us (3.9 hospital beds per 1,000 in Canada, 3.6 per 1,000 in the US). That and the fact that medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/bankruptcy_study.html
Because putting your health in the hands of medical insurance companies and HMO's is working out so well for you? I hate to say this but the US life expectancy is 5 years less than Canada now. Granted there are other factors, but health care is a pretty significant one (and 5 years is a pretty huge difference).
"Can we agree that the plural of abacus is abacii?" Bonus points for where this quote comes from (or else hand in your geek card!).
Because you can figure out someone's maiden name using cemetery data potentially? Guess what, losing privacy IS a slipper slope. Maiden names. Your home address. Your phone number. Where you work. Start putting this together and it becomes intrusive as heck. And then one day "oops, we just lost some cd/tapes/laptops/whatever that contain sensitive data on some/most/all of our citizens/consumers/whatever".
Sipatron. One does not "slurp" with Sony tech.
For 800 million dollars I'd be willing to tell people pretty much anything about how great MSFT is.
I'm a pretty open minded person, but I still Google pretty much everyone I interact with (part curiosity, partly to prepare for meetings, partly to see if they've ever behaved like a raving lunatic). If something really nasty pops up, it's going to make an impression, I can't exactly unsee it now can I? The reality is humans are a curious lot and given the chance to learn about other people we usually take it.
What always amuses me though is that no-one seems to spot the obvious way to deal with this from an individual's point of view. Simply create a ton of pages with your name occurring in or on them and flood the Google results with noise so the damaging stuff is harder to find.
The US "health care" system astounds those of us living in other countries. How come people put up with this?
Lovely, some short term investors would liek to crack open the golden goose and get allt he eggs now. Which may not be a bad idea (I can't imagine Yahoo!'s share price going up very significantly unless they have something very surprising in the works. If I was a shareholder I'd probably want to sue them too, but I'd feel dirty about it (but rolling around in money would probably cure that).
Or you can watch MythBusters:
Explosive Decompression which they revisited later: Explosive Decompression
They eventually got an explosive decompression by using (wait for it) a large amount of explosives, which did blow a pretty good sized hold in the fuselage.
I was an avid Thunderbird user, have been for a long time. But then I transfered all my email to Google apps (GMail). I tried the web interface... and found myself using it more and more often, until eventually I realized I hadn't used Thunderbird for 1-2 months. So I installed the Gmail and Google calendar provider into Thunderbird thinking I might use it more... and I did at first... but then I found myself back in the web interface more often than not. To me the email client is no longer a concern, unless I plan to travel and need offline access I can't imagine myself using anything but the web interface to GMail if I am online (which more and more is the case).
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Maybe a simple addition to this standard for a couple of categories like "adult" or "dynamic" or "temp" to designate a simplistic "why" content should not be indexed, thus allowing for some flexibility
Actually no. They fly in a V formation which means the vortices off the wings provide uplift (free energy) for the bird following them. It also helps them stay in a straight course.
No, no it's not a 600 million infusion to the local economy. They aren't exactly buying all the machines and network gear from some local PC shop.
Might be a rewrite but chances are you either had the same people rewriting it, or at the very least the same mindset/corporate culture/etc. rewriting it, so it probably didn't end up all that different (based on results this looks pretty likely).
because then people plug it in and it "doesn't work" which results in bad word of mouth and tech support phone calls and emails.
Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, Faero Islands, Northern Britain (a.k.a Scotland), etc. Every time I fly to Germany from Canada I get to see Greenland (very pretty glacial fjords).
Huh? When did Dan Rather leave? I used to watch him every night when I was a kid. I guess I haven't watched TV news in a while.
You've never driven on the trans Canada highway then. Last time my friend and I did we literally came to a stop sign where the highway narrows to a two lane road somewhere in the middle of nowhere mountainous B.C. Now hopefully GM wouldn't try and have an automated driver system handle that stretch (lots of hairpin turns and other mountain fun) because I could definitely see people dieing. Long term the article mentions fully automated trips from doorstep to parking the car somewhere, so yeah red lights/other infractions will be an issue potentially.
When it comes to sci-fi/etc. I typically buy used books at about 1-2$ a pop, load up on 20-40 and I'm set for a year. Way more convenient than the library.