To be fair, Dell is limited with driver support by what their vendors provide. You can reasonably expect your hardware to be supported until the next version of windows is released. At that time if the drivers aren't compatible with the new version of windows you will be upgrading your hardware.
Pretty much an x86/x86_64 given.
Hardware companies don't make any money maintaining drivers for 4 year old hardware for which they will never see revenue again. Their margins are so thin there's no way they could afford to.
Yea you don't buy a mainframe from IBM, you rent it and never stop paying them monthly until the project is terminated. It's not exactly small potatoes either.
No one is licensed to kill. They are licensed to carry a firearm to be used if needed. If they were licensed to kill they would be allowed to just kill people whenever they wanted for no reason. They are subject to laws and department policy.
Police are expected to kill only as a last resort.
Samurai had a real license to kill. They were allowed to kill anyone that insulted their honor. There are very few real life instances where someone has a license to kill. Police are certainly not one of them.
Some of them act like they have a license to kill, but they don't. If you had a license to kill you couldn't be prosecuted for murder or wrongful death.
Alternatively you could future proof your environment, be hella more secure, download the source, compile it, develop your own package, automate it, and be completely free from Steve Jobs' tyranny and lack of motivation to release up to date OSS.
OSX is a UNIX with a free vendor provided gcc and you can do that;-)
Here's a MUCH better way to handle this issue: http://www.malisphoto.com/tips/mysql-on-os-x.html
Ditto for httpd, php, ssl and any other critical networking packages for exposed services. Relying on vendor packages for them is professional suicide and WILL leave you vulnerable while the vendor's employees fuck off and don't get the job done, leaving your ass hanging out in the breeze to get compromised while you wait whenever a 0day, worm etc is released. (remember the OpenSSL worm? It took months to get patched packages, the OpenSSL folks released the patch the day after it was discovered. I was patched, most people weren't while they waited for packages)
At least MySQL isn't exposed to the world (is it? hope not) so it's a little less critical, but at the same time it is still critical to keep it patched.
In general if you depend on an OSS application or service, and it's exposed (or exposed to systems that are exposed), you should be compiling it so you can patch it when you need to, not much later, when Apple deems it important enough to get around to releasing a package.
... teachers need to be told not to shit where they eat.
Aren't they supposed to be smart?
Before anyone starts spouting off about freedom of association, teachers are still free to associate with students on facebook, as long as they don't mind being unemployed. Jobs and companies have rules and aren't bound by constitutionally guaranteed freedoms, only the law enforcement and the judicial systems are, with regard to arresting and prosecuting people. Even with law enforcement, if you are a beat cop and you start running your mouth about the police commissioner, you will be fired if he finds out.
Much like you can't exercise your freedom of speech and draw a big sign letting everyone know how you really feel about your boss and still remain employed when you stand outside the front door of your company holding the sign. Sure you won't be arrested but you also won't be employed very long after that.
It's not smart for you to hang out with your customers/patients/students outside of the "office", unless it's sanctioned by your employer, especially if they are underaged and/or there are ethics issues. It's a no brainer to me. I'd think the teacher was a pedophile if they were chatting up my kid after hours behind my back.
Education is what you decide to take out of it. I left college enriched and with a new set of skills that I felt made me very valuable in real life. Others who took the same classes, could barely use any of the tools and had much harder time and were quite unprepared and only knew C++ (even though they took the same classes when I was out I had C, C++, Java, Python, Lisp and many others under my belt (Those were new technologies at the time))
--------------------- One important point here, which is relevant to the overall discussion, is that a person with your ability and smarts could have done this without college... especially after 1990 or so when the internet became available to the masses. I know all of those languages except Lisp, have a job as a senior software engineer, and I went to college for graphic design. I'm working on Lisp now, not because I'll use it, just out of interest. Then again I've been programming since I got a commodore 64 in 83. I started with basic and moved into assembler, learning what I needed from books, and was coding assembler at age 15.
Programming is easy in any language as long as you have the analytical, logical and cognitive skills to do it. You can't learn that stuff in college, you are either born with it wired into your brain or not.
/shrug
I'll say it, because I was told this when in college and didn't believe it: school is for sucks.
If you have no abilities, hobbies or anything else you can use to make money with, go to college. Otherwise you are better off turning your natural abilities and interests into your career. I haven't used my art education for anything more than being really good at photography.
My career and what I do for a living is based on stuff I could do before I went to my first college class.
The pretty pictures I have hanging on my walls are what I got out of college. I could have done that myself too. My dad is an oil painter and he could have taught me anything I needed to know about art.
The biggest lesson anyone can take out of this is that employers don't care where you went to school, they care about what you can do and what you have done, at least for programming jobs.
> Programmers don't apprentice; managers don't apprentice; Engineers don't apprentice. I don't understand this. Tell that to the 2 software engineering interns we have working for us. My boss interned under me at a previous company. I've been offered management promotion, I just have no desire to be a manager because I'm a hacker and don't want to be responsible for what other people do.
my kid just started reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. He can't put it down. Classical literature is as important as history and no less interesting than Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Harry Potter. When I was a kid I devoured the stuff. I was hooked on Moby Dick from the opening line "Call me Ishmael". I devoured this one, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold-Bug, Tom Sawyer, and Scarlet Letter in the time it took the rest of the class to get through Scarlet Letter (10th grade English).
Good stories are timeless...
I find it ironic that the rise of "bad schools" coincides with the rise of the "ghettos" and their virtually taking over 75% or more of city real estate. We're on a witch hunt we'll regret one day, with teachers. The educational "problems" such as low test scores occur mostly in the cities. Most kids in cities are in a daily fight to stay alive. Expecting them to have enough left over to fully participate in school is a little unrealistic. You want to solve educational problems?. Start with the real problems so kids can devote time to education, instead of devoting their time to staying alive.
>I wish I could say the same for most of society. Most of society is too busy trying to get food and pay for shelter to make the world a better place.
It's easy to make the world a better place for rich people. Not so easy for people that live paycheck to paycheck and have to decide whether to pay the phone or electric bill because they can't afford to do both.
I really hate the "blockbusters". Big budget, big stars, lots of eye candy, tons of product placement and about 5mg of worthwhile content in a pound of shit designed to do nothing more than emotional manipulation. you leave saying "wow" then think back on it and there's nothing worth remembering about the film other than how huge the special effects were.
Yea.... but... I'd say roughly 85% of the movies we (my family) want to watch are only available on DVD, AND only half the shows for a given series, in a given season, are streaming (Spartacus as a prime example, as of last month, only the first half of either season is on there). F that... If you are going to do a streaming service, do it right for fuck's sake. Having half the content only on DVD is an attempt to get you to buy both types of subscription.
We don't plan ahead to watch movies, we get home from shopping or something and want to watch something. Then we start searching for movies, and it takes half an hour to find something that is actually streaming? Gay...
I'm cancelling for sure. I was barely satisfied to begin with. I had a HD DVR put in, got starz and show time, and the total cost additional to what we already had? >drumroll< $18. We have about everything on netflix and then some and we can watch it any time we want without dealing with mailing dvds around.
Netflix streaming would be great if it wasn't so half-assed (in terms of content, the streaming technology works flawlessly)
Great point! I'm one of the people that doesn't get a headache from 3d but a great many people do. Adjustable parallax divergence would probably fix it for some people. Of course then you have the issue that everyone in the room is different so when you dial it in for yourself, chances are someone else will be getting a headache.
I bought a 3D tv because the 2D model was $50 less. I think we're at the tipping point where 3D will pretty much become default. I know there isn't much content, and most of what is (at least for movies) is the old red/blue cheesy 3d (which you can watch on a 2D tv with the same effect), but the 3D LCDs have pretty good picture quality and there isn't much of a premium any more for it. I think 2011-2012 will see a sharp increase in available content, and pretty much all newer tv models that get released in the next year will have 3d.
The prices have come down drastically and that's all it usually takes for something to start going mainstream and hit critical mass. 3D tvs will be ubiquitous in 5 years.
The USA economy is the largest of any single country in the world. The entire EU beat us very narrowly with 1.5x the number of people.
Remember this when people start talking about "lazy Americans". We're producing nearly as much as 1.5x the number of Europeans are.
US citizens are quick to claim that the US isn't this, or the US isn't that. Fact of the matter is we are still the shit.
We have the highest GDP of any country, we have the highest standard of living, and have the highest rate of scientific advancement, if you include our contributions internationally. We lead in just about every category.
About all the only category the US is losing in is in the number of jobs that a trained monkey can do where the pay standard is too high because of unions. Big surprise. THAT was sustainable...
If you aren't proud of your country, there's the door. Don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out. We'll be just fine without you.
Our biggest problem is career politicians and no term limits. We'll sort that out and come back out on top. We have to.
This is a sink or swim country. Make of that what you will. While the potential for failure is greater (less socialism) so is the potential for greatness.
The USA is what you make of it. That's why people from all over the world are trying to live here. If you aren't lazy and bust your ass to make something of yourself, it's the place to be.
The criteria used by everyone else is: 1. a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant 2. massive enough to be rounded by it's own gravity 3. not massive enough to be in a state of thermonuclear fusion (which would make it a star) 4. has cleared the neighboring region of planetesimals
You should print this out and hang it over your desk. That way when some crappy site's hacked javascript redirects you to a 0day flash driveby and your computer gets totally destroyed by 0day stuff that the antivirus and microsoft patches haven't dealt with yet, you can remember that you called whitelist security "nonsense".
Suggest everyone read this http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/index.html. The parent is guilty of items 1-3 on this list. He's a network infrastructure turd polisher.
People will say "Default deny is Hard(tm)". Then again so is reinstalling operating systems and getting all your gear and software to work again because you got redirected into malware that you can't remove because the malware removal guys are 6 months behind the malware writers.
I sleep very soundly at night and my kid won't get redirected to porn videos when he types "toy" in google. I am, in fact, releasing a very easy to use content filtering proxy fork, which is based on default deny, at the end of this month.
It's compiled for Yoggies but since Yoggie went out of business, I need to find another similar type of whitebox hardware to package it for, preferably a wireless device that runs linux, with a candy bar form factor, so I can make money installing them:-) If anyone knows of such a device, please reply to this post. It can either be wireless or have 2 NICs built in. It should cost $80 or less, though $150 is probably a more realistic target.
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To be fair, Dell is limited with driver support by what their vendors provide. You can reasonably expect your hardware to be supported until the next version of windows is released. At that time if the drivers aren't compatible with the new version of windows you will be upgrading your hardware.
Pretty much an x86/x86_64 given.
Hardware companies don't make any money maintaining drivers for 4 year old hardware for which they will never see revenue again. Their margins are so thin there's no way they could afford to.
Yea you don't buy a mainframe from IBM, you rent it and never stop paying them monthly until the project is terminated. It's not exactly small potatoes either.
No one is licensed to kill. They are licensed to carry a firearm to be used if needed. If they were licensed to kill they would be allowed to just kill people whenever they wanted for no reason. They are subject to laws and department policy.
Police are expected to kill only as a last resort.
Samurai had a real license to kill. They were allowed to kill anyone that insulted their honor. There are very few real life instances where someone has a license to kill. Police are certainly not one of them.
Some of them act like they have a license to kill, but they don't. If you had a license to kill you couldn't be prosecuted for murder or wrongful death.
You could reverse the polarity of the electrical connection :-p
or vi :-)
Alternatively you could future proof your environment, be hella more secure, download the source, compile it, develop your own package, automate it, and be completely free from Steve Jobs' tyranny and lack of motivation to release up to date OSS.
;-)
OSX is a UNIX with a free vendor provided gcc and you can do that
Here's a MUCH better way to handle this issue:
http://www.malisphoto.com/tips/mysql-on-os-x.html
Ditto for httpd, php, ssl and any other critical networking packages for exposed services. Relying on vendor packages for them is professional suicide and WILL leave you vulnerable while the vendor's employees fuck off and don't get the job done, leaving your ass hanging out in the breeze to get compromised while you wait whenever a 0day, worm etc is released. (remember the OpenSSL worm? It took months to get patched packages, the OpenSSL folks released the patch the day after it was discovered. I was patched, most people weren't while they waited for packages)
At least MySQL isn't exposed to the world (is it? hope not) so it's a little less critical, but at the same time it is still critical to keep it patched.
In general if you depend on an OSS application or service, and it's exposed (or exposed to systems that are exposed), you should be compiling it so you can patch it when you need to, not much later, when Apple deems it important enough to get around to releasing a package.
... teachers need to be told not to shit where they eat.
Aren't they supposed to be smart?
Before anyone starts spouting off about freedom of association, teachers are still free to associate with students on facebook, as long as they don't mind being unemployed. Jobs and companies have rules and aren't bound by constitutionally guaranteed freedoms, only the law enforcement and the judicial systems are, with regard to arresting and prosecuting people. Even with law enforcement, if you are a beat cop and you start running your mouth about the police commissioner, you will be fired if he finds out.
Much like you can't exercise your freedom of speech and draw a big sign letting everyone know how you really feel about your boss and still remain employed when you stand outside the front door of your company holding the sign. Sure you won't be arrested but you also won't be employed very long after that.
It's not smart for you to hang out with your customers/patients/students outside of the "office", unless it's sanctioned by your employer, especially if they are underaged and/or there are ethics issues. It's a no brainer to me. I'd think the teacher was a pedophile if they were chatting up my kid after hours behind my back.
Education is what you decide to take out of it.
I left college enriched and with a new set of skills that I felt made me very valuable in real life. Others who took the same classes, could barely use any of the tools and had much harder time and were quite unprepared and only knew C++ (even though they took the same classes when I was out I had C, C++, Java, Python, Lisp and many others under my belt (Those were new technologies at the time))
---------------------
One important point here, which is relevant to the overall discussion, is that a person with your ability and smarts could have done this without college... especially after 1990 or so when the internet became available to the masses. I know all of those languages except Lisp, have a job as a senior software engineer, and I went to college for graphic design. I'm working on Lisp now, not because I'll use it, just out of interest. Then again I've been programming since I got a commodore 64 in 83. I started with basic and moved into assembler, learning what I needed from books, and was coding assembler at age 15.
Programming is easy in any language as long as you have the analytical, logical and cognitive skills to do it. You can't learn that stuff in college, you are either born with it wired into your brain or not.
/shrug
I'll say it, because I was told this when in college and didn't believe it: school is for sucks.
If you have no abilities, hobbies or anything else you can use to make money with, go to college. Otherwise you are better off turning your natural abilities and interests into your career. I haven't used my art education for anything more than being really good at photography.
My career and what I do for a living is based on stuff I could do before I went to my first college class.
The pretty pictures I have hanging on my walls are what I got out of college. I could have done that myself too. My dad is an oil painter and he could have taught me anything I needed to know about art.
The biggest lesson anyone can take out of this is that employers don't care where you went to school, they care about what you can do and what you have done, at least for programming jobs.
> Programmers don't apprentice; managers don't apprentice; Engineers don't apprentice. I don't understand this.
Tell that to the 2 software engineering interns we have working for us. My boss interned under me at a previous company. I've been offered management promotion, I just have no desire to be a manager because I'm a hacker and don't want to be responsible for what other people do.
my kid just started reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. He can't put it down. Classical literature is as important as history and no less interesting than Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Harry Potter. When I was a kid I devoured the stuff. I was hooked on Moby Dick from the opening line "Call me Ishmael". I devoured this one, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold-Bug, Tom Sawyer, and Scarlet Letter in the time it took the rest of the class to get through Scarlet Letter (10th grade English).
Good stories are timeless...
I find it ironic that the rise of "bad schools" coincides with the rise of the "ghettos" and their virtually taking over 75% or more of city real estate. We're on a witch hunt we'll regret one day, with teachers. The educational "problems" such as low test scores occur mostly in the cities. Most kids in cities are in a daily fight to stay alive. Expecting them to have enough left over to fully participate in school is a little unrealistic. You want to solve educational problems?. Start with the real problems so kids can devote time to education, instead of devoting their time to staying alive.
...and the crack addicted parents have NOTHING to do with their kid's problems?
Give me a break.
In order for kids to be able to learn effectively, they need the basics: food, shelter, water, and a responsible adult in their life.
Without that, you are putting the cart before the horse. It's like expecting a new puppy to potty train himself.
>I wish I could say the same for most of society.
Most of society is too busy trying to get food and pay for shelter to make the world a better place.
It's easy to make the world a better place for rich people. Not so easy for people that live paycheck to paycheck and have to decide whether to pay the phone or electric bill because they can't afford to do both.
I really hate the "blockbusters". Big budget, big stars, lots of eye candy, tons of product placement and about 5mg of worthwhile content in a pound of shit designed to do nothing more than emotional manipulation. you leave saying "wow" then think back on it and there's nothing worth remembering about the film other than how huge the special effects were.
Crap dialog, crap plot, crap.
for real. I dropped my cable provider when they started taking up half the guide screen real estate with commercials. What the fuck is up with that?
I'm already sponsoring the guide with my subscription.
Yea.... but... I'd say roughly 85% of the movies we (my family) want to watch are only available on DVD, AND only half the shows for a given series, in a given season, are streaming (Spartacus as a prime example, as of last month, only the first half of either season is on there). F that... If you are going to do a streaming service, do it right for fuck's sake. Having half the content only on DVD is an attempt to get you to buy both types of subscription.
We don't plan ahead to watch movies, we get home from shopping or something and want to watch something. Then we start searching for movies, and it takes half an hour to find something that is actually streaming? Gay...
I'm cancelling for sure. I was barely satisfied to begin with. I had a HD DVR put in, got starz and show time, and the total cost additional to what we already had? >drumroll< $18. We have about everything on netflix and then some and we can watch it any time we want without dealing with mailing dvds around.
Netflix streaming would be great if it wasn't so half-assed (in terms of content, the streaming technology works flawlessly)
120hz tv?
Great point! I'm one of the people that doesn't get a headache from 3d but a great many people do. Adjustable parallax divergence would probably fix it for some people. Of course then you have the issue that everyone in the room is different so when you dial it in for yourself, chances are someone else will be getting a headache.
I bought a 3D tv because the 2D model was $50 less. I think we're at the tipping point where 3D will pretty much become default. I know there isn't much content, and most of what is (at least for movies) is the old red/blue cheesy 3d (which you can watch on a 2D tv with the same effect), but the 3D LCDs have pretty good picture quality and there isn't much of a premium any more for it. I think 2011-2012 will see a sharp increase in available content, and pretty much all newer tv models that get released in the next year will have 3d.
The prices have come down drastically and that's all it usually takes for something to start going mainstream and hit critical mass. 3D tvs will be ubiquitous in 5 years.
The USA economy is the largest of any single country in the world. The entire EU beat us very narrowly with 1.5x the number of people.
Remember this when people start talking about "lazy Americans". We're producing nearly as much as 1.5x the number of Europeans are.
US citizens are quick to claim that the US isn't this, or the US isn't that. Fact of the matter is we are still the shit.
We have the highest GDP of any country, we have the highest standard of living, and have the highest rate of scientific advancement, if you include our contributions internationally. We lead in just about every category.
About all the only category the US is losing in is in the number of jobs that a trained monkey can do where the pay standard is too high because of unions. Big surprise. THAT was sustainable...
If you aren't proud of your country, there's the door. Don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out. We'll be just fine without you.
Our biggest problem is career politicians and no term limits. We'll sort that out and come back out on top. We have to.
This is a sink or swim country. Make of that what you will. While the potential for failure is greater (less socialism) so is the potential for greatness.
The USA is what you make of it. That's why people from all over the world are trying to live here. If you aren't lazy and bust your ass to make something of yourself, it's the place to be.
assuming you reach 40mph when you jump ;-p
The criteria used by everyone else is:
1. a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant
2. massive enough to be rounded by it's own gravity
3. not massive enough to be in a state of thermonuclear fusion (which would make it a star)
4. has cleared the neighboring region of planetesimals
What about Venus, which has no moons, but is similar in mass, bulk composition and size to the earth?
Satellites (or lack thereof) don't make or break "planet" status.
THIS!...
Good post...
How about tile vertically/horizontally? Try it. I think there's absolutely no reason to dual screen a laptop. I'd rather have one big screen.
You should print this out and hang it over your desk. That way when some crappy site's hacked javascript redirects you to a 0day flash driveby and your computer gets totally destroyed by 0day stuff that the antivirus and microsoft patches haven't dealt with yet, you can remember that you called whitelist security "nonsense".
:-) If anyone knows of such a device, please reply to this post. It can either be wireless or have 2 NICs built in. It should cost $80 or less, though $150 is probably a more realistic target.
Suggest everyone read this http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/index.html. The parent is guilty of items 1-3 on this list. He's a network infrastructure turd polisher.
People will say "Default deny is Hard(tm)". Then again so is reinstalling operating systems and getting all your gear and software to work again because you got redirected into malware that you can't remove because the malware removal guys are 6 months behind the malware writers.
I sleep very soundly at night and my kid won't get redirected to porn videos when he types "toy" in google. I am, in fact, releasing a very easy to use content filtering proxy fork, which is based on default deny, at the end of this month.
It's compiled for Yoggies but since Yoggie went out of business, I need to find another similar type of whitebox hardware to package it for, preferably a wireless device that runs linux, with a candy bar form factor, so I can make money installing them