I HATE gridlock, if I were to become a police officer, my entire day would be spent writing tickets for the people who just HAVE to get to the next section, even if it means they are stopped under the light when it is red.
I'm surprised police officers don't write more of these tickets, as it always seems like during the busy hours, you could easily write 15-20 of them within a half hour.
Not that I think you are wrong with your theory here, but maybe (just maybe) the people in charge of operating, running and deploying their cloud are the best of the best?
The cloud simply allows them to group the best of the best together to benefit the community at large.
Instead of the FBI hiring poor programmers, you now have a central group responsible for implementing security among other things.
Theoretically, it's sound... Implementation is another issue altogether, however.
as a 10th or 11th grader, I would have had no issues with helping out / Student assistant style teaching a sub 6th grade class if I was getting paid 10 bucks an hour.
(hell i'd be OK with 5 bucks + say a certificate for my parents that gives them a modest discount on taxes; since were helping out the publicly run school system)
IMO, I feel a good company is one that stays competitive. I've always felt that the best way to do this is to branch out. There is no better way in todays economy than to get your own team of awesome programmers and have them work on maintaining your codebase or rolling your own product. Assuming you arent the market leader, you have the added bonus of possibly selling your product to your competitors.
If they are using your product, and you keep your sold product a step or two below your current build, you now KNOW you have the advantage.
If that client list is true, how many of those clients do you think would at least help finance the guy making these claims?
If it comes down to lawyer fees, I would imagine tons of those companies would toss some money to this guy. If he ends up being right that they have fraudulent results, wouldn't that mean Strategic Vision's clients can sue?
The Officers were NOT doing their jobs correctly, not following procedures, etc.
If the police officers did NOT include their usage of the Wii on their raid report or whatever it would be called, that is example #1 of the police officers not reporting exactly what they did.
If they lied about that, who is to say they haven't lied before in other cases or other parts of the report for this one?
Look, the cops have a job to do, and that is uphold the law. they are NOT supposed to interpret it how they see fit, but uphold the currently written law.
If they can't execute a drug raid to the tee of their procedures (IE NOT using the suspects property), then they should get reprimanded and the suspect should have the charges dropped.
If the cop can't follow one simple procedure (playing Wii in a suspects premise during a raid is NOT part of their job duties at all), who is to say they are doing the rest of their job correctly?
How do we know they didn't plant the drugs there? how do we know they didn't steal some of his money or his weed?
Doesn't google already offer you the ability to freely view all these books on their site? Can't I just go to books.google.com and browse freely and completely through any public domain books?
The article sounds like it's more "here is an API for all you scumbags if you actually want to charge people for this information, but we are still going to offer viewing of the books on our site for free [with our ads of course]"
I'm not sure how this is bad. Smart users still get free access to all the books, and companies can build a simple application that allows them to charge their dumbass customers money for something that is and should be free
Slashdot Mirror
forgetting about this.
I HATE gridlock, if I were to become a police officer, my entire day would be spent writing tickets for the people who just HAVE to get to the next section, even if it means they are stopped under the light when it is red.
I'm surprised police officers don't write more of these tickets, as it always seems like during the busy hours, you could easily write 15-20 of them within a half hour.
ditto, but through FioS. 50mbit down / 20mbit up.
Yes, I have maxed it multiple times... not a single letter or call from them about it since I first had it close to two years ago.
You do know that show is over right?
I'm surprised they still air it anywhere.
I am assuming a cluster environment so that you can at least apply patches and whatnot... three years is a long time to go without any major hotfixes
These are also the kind of people that I would either never hire or get rid of shortly if I ran the company.
In this economy and technology aware world, why the hell would you want an employee that can't adapt to a simple word processor change?
You want MS office? OK but you are getting a 20% pay cut then bitch; oh you need MS Project and Visio? make that a 40% pay cut.
(Visio is debatable as I haven't seen anything comparable; any suggestions?)
Not that I think you are wrong with your theory here, but maybe (just maybe) the people in charge of operating, running and deploying their cloud are the best of the best?
The cloud simply allows them to group the best of the best together to benefit the community at large.
Instead of the FBI hiring poor programmers, you now have a central group responsible for implementing security among other things.
Theoretically, it's sound... Implementation is another issue altogether, however.
Really? You have to _walk around_ to 100+ machines to uninstall an application?
So slashdot wouldn't compress that much?
I like how you cherry picked the sites.
I just opened the front page of /. and had it show 30 articles. Saving that HTM file resulted in a 207KB file.
Zipping that file resulted in a 37KB file.
41 seconds for uncompressed (@5KB/s)
7 seconds for compressed (@5KB/s)
Please PLEASE put this up on sourceforge!
http://www.mapmyfitness.com/
Free, and allows you to actually map your routes from the data.
Imagine what SpaceX could do with $100 billion
easy way to get kids to help too, just pay them.
as a 10th or 11th grader, I would have had no issues with helping out / Student assistant style teaching a sub 6th grade class if I was getting paid 10 bucks an hour.
(hell i'd be OK with 5 bucks + say a certificate for my parents that gives them a modest discount on taxes; since were helping out the publicly run school system)
IMO, I feel a good company is one that stays competitive. I've always felt that the best way to do this is to branch out. There is no better way in todays economy than to get your own team of awesome programmers and have them work on maintaining your codebase or rolling your own product. Assuming you arent the market leader, you have the added bonus of possibly selling your product to your competitors.
If they are using your product, and you keep your sold product a step or two below your current build, you now KNOW you have the advantage.
Wouldn't it be easier to get this lady to just start talking to the crowd?
I would imagine everyone would be gone in a minute or so.
If that client list is true, how many of those clients do you think would at least help finance the guy making these claims?
If it comes down to lawyer fees, I would imagine tons of those companies would toss some money to this guy. If he ends up being right that they have fraudulent results, wouldn't that mean Strategic Vision's clients can sue?
Exactly.
this C&D is about protecting their end users.
Developers should know better than this.
No it's not ludicrous.
The Officers were NOT doing their jobs correctly, not following procedures, etc.
If the police officers did NOT include their usage of the Wii on their raid report or whatever it would be called, that is example #1 of the police officers not reporting exactly what they did.
If they lied about that, who is to say they haven't lied before in other cases or other parts of the report for this one?
Look, the cops have a job to do, and that is uphold the law. they are NOT supposed to interpret it how they see fit, but uphold the currently written law.
If they can't execute a drug raid to the tee of their procedures (IE NOT using the suspects property), then they should get reprimanded and the suspect should have the charges dropped.
If the cop can't follow one simple procedure (playing Wii in a suspects premise during a raid is NOT part of their job duties at all), who is to say they are doing the rest of their job correctly?
How do we know they didn't plant the drugs there? how do we know they didn't steal some of his money or his weed?
don't forget Erie County, we have the Falls as well as the Hydro plant with their huge reservoir.
(Maybe yahoo's datacenter will use that to help with cooling... oh wait, they are in Lockport)
If you have a external HDD or a large enough flash drive, just save the Steam games data files.
Works like a charm!
How much did they get from MS for this "test"
Doesn't google already offer you the ability to freely view all these books on their site? Can't I just go to books.google.com and browse freely and completely through any public domain books?
The article sounds like it's more "here is an API for all you scumbags if you actually want to charge people for this information, but we are still going to offer viewing of the books on our site for free [with our ads of course]"
I'm not sure how this is bad. Smart users still get free access to all the books, and companies can build a simple application that allows them to charge their dumbass customers money for something that is and should be free
Ever hear of a paragraph?
Time to create a company that sells lead enclosures for cell phones!