...and vice versa. Of course the advantage to a balancing of power, which is what happened, is that one party can't ramrod whatever it wants down our collective throats like they have for the past 2 years.
This is a good thing, especially for people like me that believe both parties are cancer. The less damage either one can do the better. If this means neither party can pass ridiculous legislation full of pork and start more wars, AWESOME!
Both parties spend money we don't have on crap we don't need and pointless wars we can't afford. Put the koolaid down and sober up so you can see them both for what they are.
On a serious note, why badmouth IT people just because adobe's products are broken?
Personally I'd be simply dumping flash and pdfs, at the proxy/email servers, til adobe fixes their software. Send out note to entire company: Due to extreme security risk in adobe's products we must block flash and pdf content in web pages and email until further notice.
It's against policy (written or unwritten) in a lot of shops to deploy beta software to users so intermediate patching wouldn't be kosher in a lot of places. It'd likely get you fired in a significant number of shops, especially in government, financial and medical industries where compliance with federal information security regulations is important.
It's usually not a preference for the IT "droid". At the beginning of my career (I'm a software engineer now), we just did what we were told to do by the boss after we informed him of a problem. I'm pretty sure it still works the same way, at least if you want to stay employed. I was actually in the software patching automation group. We deployed what we were told to. We could care less what it was we were shipping out as long as the package worked.
If we were handed an adobe update on tuesday, then another one on thursday, no one would have cared one iota that it was for the same product. We'd just push it out.
adding any encryption library to a software application is one notch above trivial. I can (and have) done it in less than a day to an existing application with a few hours of trial and error.
This is not a reason to exclude a product since they could just add the capability, especially if it meant a juicy government contract.
I was making case hardened test gages that had to be within.0005" when I was a green apprentice at M.S. Willett for testing drilled holes in armor plate for navy ships. The plate material was incredibly expensive (due to being cut prior to the drilling) so it had to be done right.
Yea they don't know what they are talking about. Using 50 year old mills/drills or lathes combined with a grinder or boring machine (depending on the surface you are working on) you can get that kind of tolerance. It's time consuming and exacting but it can be done if you are careful.
Actually you kind of have it backwards. Most of us _had_ to learn java and chunk out crap code because our IT organization shoved J2EE down our collective throat. They took perfectly good programmers and saddled them with it.
The happiest day of my life was first day of my current job, when my boss said, "yea I noticed you have a lot of J2EE experience, in addition to the stuff we were interested in. Forget about it. Java is complete shit and you won't be using it here."
Guess what. We still get shit done. For me, working with java was a lot like picking fly shit out of pepper with boxing gloves on. There are much better tools for the job, like your brain, C++, and your favorite scripting language, which amount to a pair of tweezers to do a very specific job.
I actually had times when an application encapsulating a simple process wouldn't deploy to the app server and spent a week troubleshooting every aspect of the app server, jvm etc etc etc, I could have coded it in c++ and been done with it in a day. I hope Oracle burns java beyond recognition. It belongs in the bit bucket. Java is quite possibly the biggest mess in IT history. It delivers on NONE of it's promises. I don't say "hate" much, but I fucking hate java and everything it (and it's evangelists) stand for.
Basically you trade one issue, lack of skilled programmers, for another, lack of skilled administrators, who end up working 24x7 troubleshooting java deployment problems. Why? You can't develop skills to cope with crap that constantly breaks with every minor environment release.
It wouldn't hurt if Microsoft fully supported the same standards everyone else does too, like CSS3.
The best way to get them to fix it is to not support IE's deficiencies if you are a developer and you can get away with it. I don't.
Luckily I don't make my living schlepping web sites. If my boss says to (for example) make rounded corners on a table, I just tell him IE doesn't support that so it will look like crap in IE. He doesn't care. I'm sure as hell not going to spend 8 hours in the GIMP trying to get anti-aliased rounded table corner images to look right in 5 colors.
not being a GD I'm slow, and we don't have a GD so no one cares. They'd rather have me spending time writing stored procedures, cleaning up security issues and integrating systems.
On my own external projects (a facebook game being one) I put a note in the footer saying "Looks better in any browser but IE" and put a link to the page on Microsoft's site with the list of supported CSS3 stuff. It's a pretty small list.
eTrade and everyone else has the same shit for consumers to do their own HFT trading. You set your margins up on a stock and when it hits a target price, the system does something (usually buy or sell) automagically.
HFT is just Goldman's trademark on the Same Shit Everyone Else Does(TM). It's nothing special. All you need to do to get it is sign up for an electronic trading account. They have the same thing for equity, bond, and currency trading. A lot of them are programmable and you can write your own scripts to control the behavior.
I work with another programmer that does this extensively for currency trading. His scripts do trending and predict currency behavior on a lot more factors than just the current price. He's using subscription based service that provides the software environment that his scripts run in.
His script will define a trend when it sees it and he's got functions that determine if (for example) a downward trend has hit bottom. Over time they are getting quite sophisticated and considerably better at predicting trends.
CNN and CBS are pretty bad too. They continually report "news" that is nothing more than cleverly disguised op ed stuff.
They're just as bad as Fox. They report just enough real news to be able to call themselves news organizations but they are all political mouthpieces.
They have people on CNN like Joy Baher and Jane Valez that are just as ridiculous as Glenn Beck, who originally came from CNN (had a show for 2 years there). Not sure if a lot of people remember that... CNN and Fox are two peas in a pod on the opposite sides of the political spectrum. Don't get me started on Katie Couric.
They're all the same. They pick stories based on liberal and conservative platform issues then slant them 90 degrees.
Believe what you want, but if you honestly believe that any of them are any better than Fox, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale, real cheap. Personally I watch the BBC for world news. They don't give a shit about republicans and democrats. Neither do I. There isn't a single news organization I trust in this country.
Often the talent is supplied by the producer to the "artist". Sometimes they bring in other talent to make the song work, but at least someone on the record can sing or it won't sell. There has to be some talent thrown in with the production values and experience. Forget about engineers. There hasn't been a good mix in pop music in a long time. No one's cared about a good mix since Quincy Jones was in his prime. It's full tilt 20:1 crunchy ass limiting slammed to the ceiling on everything. Everything sounds like shit in pop music now. As long as it's LOUD record companies like it. If it's not, they'll make the mastering engineer ruin it so it sounds like everything else.
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Sometimes you can still sell the pig, but things are always easier if you are dealing with someone that can sing. Regardless of what you think of pop divas, most of them have "that something" that sells records. It's not always classical singing talent. Sometimes it's 90% attitude, a gimmick(GaGa), a great ass and tits(most), good lyrics(Pink, Amy Winehouse), or some combination...
There's always something there, even if it's only a hook, using B.o.B... Airplanes as a perfect example. Without Hayley Williams on that hook that song would be nothing. You'd have never heard it. The rest of the song is absolutely awful. B.o.B sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me, like he's rapping through a mouth full of dirt into a megaphone. Ditto for his other hit "nothin on you". Saved by the hook. He should fire himself, get a real rapper, and bring in outside talent like he does for himself. He'd have mega hits a la puff daddy then. He is his own worst enemy. Hell of a producer tho. Gotta give him that. He succeeds in spite of himself. That ain't easy to pull off. There's still talent there in his hits tho. Even though it's someone else's vocal ability carrying his lack of same. His lyrics are great though. He should just let someone else rap.
There has to be something there to work with. I don't give a shit what anyone says, you can't sell someone that can't sing (or rap) without some sort of angle, great lyrics, and/or other artist with talent to carry the weight.
Without fail the ones with long successful careers also have great pipes (mariah carey etc) or can at least dance (madonna/brittany spears). Talent and/or work ethic goes an awful long way and can keep a career going long after the first hit gets played out.
The day they went to mach/bsd.
That's when apple became cool to elite nerds.
It's the first mainstream UNIX certified hardware/software package built for consumers.
What's not to like? It's secure, there aren't many things that infest it and it works without needing waste a time finding drivers and documentation to get a bunch of laptop hardware to work. It's also damned pretty.
You pay for it, turn it on, and it Just Works(tm).
If you are a C programmer, security researcher, or any other discipline that requires access to the operating system and hardware using standard FOSS tools, there is no equal.
I don't know about you, but tweaking drivers and making hardware work in an OS gets old pretty quick when you have deadlines or are really busy doing Real Work, especially when there's a kernel update that breaks everything and something is due.
Linux is great and everything, but in the real world, hardware is a moving target and there's so much of it that there simply aren't enough people to keep up.
You buy a new laptop and need to install linux on it, there are guaranteed to be more than 5 things that don't Just Work. Been there, done it more than 10 times, got the T-Shirt.
If your time is billed at $100+ an hour, it's simply more economical to buy a mac laptop and be done with it.
Plug, power, work.
It's usually not the owner of the gun that causes problems, it's the other idiots in the house that do.
To your credit, locking the gun up and controlling access to it is part of gun safety. This is the part that most people who have an incident overlook.
More to your point, it's likely that biohazard safety and security protocols won't be followed by some people, leading to big problems for the other people on the premises, like curious children, pets, and insane people.
I get what you are saying and agree.
That would be pretty stupid, since ATT won't insure iPhones and the warranty doesn't cover a cracked screen.
Actually they will take your money to insure an iPhone but they don't cover them so you are paying for nothing ROFL.
I LOVE internet exploder. It's CSS 3 implementation is unmatched for it's craptasticness. Microsoft should finish 8 before starting a new one. Better yet, they should just use WebKit and stop reinventing a second rate wheel.
Actually most real conservatives want "illegals" to become tax paying citizens. You are thinking of the neocon GOP xenophobes. Real conservatives have quite the opposite view on immigrants.
They should be given the opportunity the italians, irish etc were early in the 20th century. Where is the Ellis Island for Mexicans? Give them SSNOs and make them pay taxes like everyone else... problem solved. That's all they really want.
Building a wall between the US and Mexico was about the dumbest idea ever.
yup. I'm conservative. I'm also against religion in politics and republicans. I despise neocons and the GOP. Not sure what that makes me.
I'm not quite right wing, because religion doesn't shape my political opinions, but I am conservative, believe in less tax and smaller government. That's the only thing that holds me back from subscribing to most conservative movements, the degree to which they involve religion. It makes me want to puke.
About the only legislation last century worth keeping is the banking regulations (set by FDR to prevent another depression) and civil rights legislation. Just about all of the rest of it needs to go.
Religion has no place in politics because we are supposed to be separating church from state and we have a lot of people making up this country that aren't christians. You can't squeeze them because they don't go to the right church (or none at all). This country was founded on religious freedom. If you start forcing your values down other people's throats you are no better than liberal democrats with their vote buying tax and spend programs.
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...and vice versa. Of course the advantage to a balancing of power, which is what happened, is that one party can't ramrod whatever it wants down our collective throats like they have for the past 2 years.
This is a good thing, especially for people like me that believe both parties are cancer. The less damage either one can do the better. If this means neither party can pass ridiculous legislation full of pork and start more wars, AWESOME!
Both parties spend money we don't have on crap we don't need and pointless wars we can't afford. Put the koolaid down and sober up so you can see them both for what they are.
These are not the droids you're looking for.
On a serious note, why badmouth IT people just because adobe's products are broken?
Personally I'd be simply dumping flash and pdfs, at the proxy/email servers, til adobe fixes their software. Send out note to entire company: Due to extreme security risk in adobe's products we must block flash and pdf content in web pages and email until further notice.
It's against policy (written or unwritten) in a lot of shops to deploy beta software to users so intermediate patching wouldn't be kosher in a lot of places. It'd likely get you fired in a significant number of shops, especially in government, financial and medical industries where compliance with federal information security regulations is important.
It's usually not a preference for the IT "droid". At the beginning of my career (I'm a software engineer now), we just did what we were told to do by the boss after we informed him of a problem. I'm pretty sure it still works the same way, at least if you want to stay employed. I was actually in the software patching automation group. We deployed what we were told to. We could care less what it was we were shipping out as long as the package worked.
If we were handed an adobe update on tuesday, then another one on thursday, no one would have cared one iota that it was for the same product. We'd just push it out.
adding any encryption library to a software application is one notch above trivial. I can (and have) done it in less than a day to an existing application with a few hours of trial and error. This is not a reason to exclude a product since they could just add the capability, especially if it meant a juicy government contract.
I was making case hardened test gages that had to be within .0005" when I was a green apprentice at M.S. Willett for testing drilled holes in armor plate for navy ships. The plate material was incredibly expensive (due to being cut prior to the drilling) so it had to be done right.
;)
Yea they don't know what they are talking about. Using 50 year old mills/drills or lathes combined with a grinder or boring machine (depending on the surface you are working on) you can get that kind of tolerance. It's time consuming and exacting but it can be done if you are careful.
I also worked in a tool & die shop
Actually you kind of have it backwards. Most of us _had_ to learn java and chunk out crap code because our IT organization shoved J2EE down our collective throat. They took perfectly good programmers and saddled them with it.
The happiest day of my life was first day of my current job, when my boss said, "yea I noticed you have a lot of J2EE experience, in addition to the stuff we were interested in. Forget about it. Java is complete shit and you won't be using it here."
Guess what. We still get shit done. For me, working with java was a lot like picking fly shit out of pepper with boxing gloves on. There are much better tools for the job, like your brain, C++, and your favorite scripting language, which amount to a pair of tweezers to do a very specific job.
I actually had times when an application encapsulating a simple process wouldn't deploy to the app server and spent a week troubleshooting every aspect of the app server, jvm etc etc etc, I could have coded it in c++ and been done with it in a day. I hope Oracle burns java beyond recognition. It belongs in the bit bucket. Java is quite possibly the biggest mess in IT history. It delivers on NONE of it's promises. I don't say "hate" much, but I fucking hate java and everything it (and it's evangelists) stand for.
Basically you trade one issue, lack of skilled programmers, for another, lack of skilled administrators, who end up working 24x7 troubleshooting java deployment problems. Why? You can't develop skills to cope with crap that constantly breaks with every minor environment release.
Luckily I don't make my living schlepping web sites. If my boss says to (for example) make rounded corners on a table, I just tell him IE doesn't support that so it will look like crap in IE. He doesn't care. I'm sure as hell not going to spend 8 hours in the GIMP trying to get anti-aliased rounded table corner images to look right in 5 colors. not being a GD I'm slow, and we don't have a GD so no one cares. They'd rather have me spending time writing stored procedures, cleaning up security issues and integrating systems. On my own external projects (a facebook game being one) I put a note in the footer saying "Looks better in any browser but IE" and put a link to the page on Microsoft's site with the list of supported CSS3 stuff. It's a pretty small list.
eTrade and everyone else has the same shit for consumers to do their own HFT trading. You set your margins up on a stock and when it hits a target price, the system does something (usually buy or sell) automagically. HFT is just Goldman's trademark on the Same Shit Everyone Else Does(TM). It's nothing special. All you need to do to get it is sign up for an electronic trading account. They have the same thing for equity, bond, and currency trading. A lot of them are programmable and you can write your own scripts to control the behavior. I work with another programmer that does this extensively for currency trading. His scripts do trending and predict currency behavior on a lot more factors than just the current price. He's using subscription based service that provides the software environment that his scripts run in. His script will define a trend when it sees it and he's got functions that determine if (for example) a downward trend has hit bottom. Over time they are getting quite sophisticated and considerably better at predicting trends.
CNN and CBS are pretty bad too. They continually report "news" that is nothing more than cleverly disguised op ed stuff. They're just as bad as Fox. They report just enough real news to be able to call themselves news organizations but they are all political mouthpieces. They have people on CNN like Joy Baher and Jane Valez that are just as ridiculous as Glenn Beck, who originally came from CNN (had a show for 2 years there). Not sure if a lot of people remember that... CNN and Fox are two peas in a pod on the opposite sides of the political spectrum. Don't get me started on Katie Couric. They're all the same. They pick stories based on liberal and conservative platform issues then slant them 90 degrees. Believe what you want, but if you honestly believe that any of them are any better than Fox, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale, real cheap. Personally I watch the BBC for world news. They don't give a shit about republicans and democrats. Neither do I. There isn't a single news organization I trust in this country.
Often the talent is supplied by the producer to the "artist". Sometimes they bring in other talent to make the song work, but at least someone on the record can sing or it won't sell. There has to be some talent thrown in with the production values and experience. Forget about engineers. There hasn't been a good mix in pop music in a long time. No one's cared about a good mix since Quincy Jones was in his prime. It's full tilt 20:1 crunchy ass limiting slammed to the ceiling on everything. Everything sounds like shit in pop music now. As long as it's LOUD record companies like it. If it's not, they'll make the mastering engineer ruin it so it sounds like everything else. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Sometimes you can still sell the pig, but things are always easier if you are dealing with someone that can sing. Regardless of what you think of pop divas, most of them have "that something" that sells records. It's not always classical singing talent. Sometimes it's 90% attitude, a gimmick(GaGa), a great ass and tits(most), good lyrics(Pink, Amy Winehouse), or some combination... There's always something there, even if it's only a hook, using B.o.B... Airplanes as a perfect example. Without Hayley Williams on that hook that song would be nothing. You'd have never heard it. The rest of the song is absolutely awful. B.o.B sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me, like he's rapping through a mouth full of dirt into a megaphone. Ditto for his other hit "nothin on you". Saved by the hook. He should fire himself, get a real rapper, and bring in outside talent like he does for himself. He'd have mega hits a la puff daddy then. He is his own worst enemy. Hell of a producer tho. Gotta give him that. He succeeds in spite of himself. That ain't easy to pull off. There's still talent there in his hits tho. Even though it's someone else's vocal ability carrying his lack of same. His lyrics are great though. He should just let someone else rap. There has to be something there to work with. I don't give a shit what anyone says, you can't sell someone that can't sing (or rap) without some sort of angle, great lyrics, and/or other artist with talent to carry the weight. Without fail the ones with long successful careers also have great pipes (mariah carey etc) or can at least dance (madonna/brittany spears). Talent and/or work ethic goes an awful long way and can keep a career going long after the first hit gets played out.
The day they went to mach/bsd. That's when apple became cool to elite nerds. It's the first mainstream UNIX certified hardware/software package built for consumers. What's not to like? It's secure, there aren't many things that infest it and it works without needing waste a time finding drivers and documentation to get a bunch of laptop hardware to work. It's also damned pretty. You pay for it, turn it on, and it Just Works(tm). If you are a C programmer, security researcher, or any other discipline that requires access to the operating system and hardware using standard FOSS tools, there is no equal. I don't know about you, but tweaking drivers and making hardware work in an OS gets old pretty quick when you have deadlines or are really busy doing Real Work, especially when there's a kernel update that breaks everything and something is due. Linux is great and everything, but in the real world, hardware is a moving target and there's so much of it that there simply aren't enough people to keep up. You buy a new laptop and need to install linux on it, there are guaranteed to be more than 5 things that don't Just Work. Been there, done it more than 10 times, got the T-Shirt. If your time is billed at $100+ an hour, it's simply more economical to buy a mac laptop and be done with it. Plug, power, work.
you mean no filament right? LED = Light Emitting Diode There's still light.
It's usually not the owner of the gun that causes problems, it's the other idiots in the house that do. To your credit, locking the gun up and controlling access to it is part of gun safety. This is the part that most people who have an incident overlook. More to your point, it's likely that biohazard safety and security protocols won't be followed by some people, leading to big problems for the other people on the premises, like curious children, pets, and insane people. I get what you are saying and agree.
redbox for the win
That would be pretty stupid, since ATT won't insure iPhones and the warranty doesn't cover a cracked screen. Actually they will take your money to insure an iPhone but they don't cover them so you are paying for nothing ROFL.
And how, exactly, do you know this? Spying for Dummies? Are you a spy yourself? /chuckle
I'd rather just put it on my egg and cheese bagel. I'm a man of simple taste.
All this time I thought my neighbors cooked a shit-load of bacon every day. Speaking of which, I'm hungry...
I LOVE internet exploder. It's CSS 3 implementation is unmatched for it's craptasticness. Microsoft should finish 8 before starting a new one. Better yet, they should just use WebKit and stop reinventing a second rate wheel.
You can calculate the trajectory of a rocket easily. It's rocket science. http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rkthowhi.html
To Marcel Aguera:
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity"
-Lucius Seneca
Luck had little to do with it outside of the weather that day.
... considering we can't even model our own climate with any semblance of accuracy.
define noise.
...headline "RIM doesn't want fart apps"
I thought that farts were one of the primary functions of your rim.
Actually most real conservatives want "illegals" to become tax paying citizens. You are thinking of the neocon GOP xenophobes. Real conservatives have quite the opposite view on immigrants.
They should be given the opportunity the italians, irish etc were early in the 20th century. Where is the Ellis Island for Mexicans? Give them SSNOs and make them pay taxes like everyone else... problem solved. That's all they really want.
Building a wall between the US and Mexico was about the dumbest idea ever.
yup. I'm conservative. I'm also against religion in politics and republicans. I despise neocons and the GOP. Not sure what that makes me.
I'm not quite right wing, because religion doesn't shape my political opinions, but I am conservative, believe in less tax and smaller government. That's the only thing that holds me back from subscribing to most conservative movements, the degree to which they involve religion. It makes me want to puke.
About the only legislation last century worth keeping is the banking regulations (set by FDR to prevent another depression) and civil rights legislation. Just about all of the rest of it needs to go.
Religion has no place in politics because we are supposed to be separating church from state and we have a lot of people making up this country that aren't christians. You can't squeeze them because they don't go to the right church (or none at all). This country was founded on religious freedom. If you start forcing your values down other people's throats you are no better than liberal democrats with their vote buying tax and spend programs.