Further more, the high score on your post causes me to realize what crap this site can be. Don't worry, I won't be posting on slashdot for quite some time... if ever.
Let me see if I have it:
-- You are not a language expert, in fact, you know very little about them.
-- You are asserting an opinion that one language, Java, is better than almost all others.
-- You are upset that I called you a troll (which was nicer than just saying, "Shut it, Corky.").
Do I have it?
Not that it is for me to tell you what to do, but not stating your opinion, about which you admit you know very little, sould have been your first course of action, not your final one.
If you fill out the nuclear waste reclamation facility survey on isle 12 near the adult diapers, you become eligible receive a 5 dollar off coupon on cigarettes!
In my whole IT career (some... christ... 13 years now) I have seen no other vendor of HDD that comes close to WD for sheer volume of failed drives (Maxtor is a distant 2nd). That they resort to cheap marketing gimmicks like this (1 million hours mean time between failure, puhleeze, these are the people who pioneered the 1 year warranty) is only so much more indication of their propensity to manufacture garbage.
Buy their gear if you must but I would not put my data on it.
Gone is a quality product from a company which cares about making quality products. Gone is the HP that cared more about hiring good engineering people than about quarterly projections.
Everone welcome in the HP that cares about shipping commodity product (read: crap) to customers whose success only matters in so much as they buy next season's overpriced plastic crap.
Welcome in the HP which lies to long term corporate customer about product lines (not online: pick up Sept. 5th ComputerWorld and read Don Tennant's column and the reader reaction).
Since the merger it's like HP sucked all the Suck out of Compaq's sucky products and injected it into HP products. Everyone thought the merger was a question of customer bases but clearly HP bought Compaq for the Suck alone.
I was thinking on a larger scale: university, state and federal gov'ts and it sounds as if you are applying this to the local scale. FWIW, all of the geeks I know in city gov't and elementary school districts block huge swaths of IP just like you said.
Around the state level this view stops. It has to be open. Email from Moscow and Johannasburg must be on equal terms with email from around the corner.
My point was not that public orgs at some level do not block IP, but that public orgs at a larger level cannot block IP and remain functional. If these larger organizations have found ways to do this, it seems a shame that we (the technosavvy) encourage the balkanization of the net to thwart this problem.
Your local school district is not a university with a global community to support.
In the same way local government can get away with IP blocking say, South Korea, for an extended period of time, your local school district will probably get away with blocking -- let's see what's 98 million and change divided by 4.2 billion addresses -- call it 3% of all IP addresses and surive unscathed.
As far as the tangent about the legality of allowing unfiltered email to fritter into our children's inboxes - I don't want to talk legaleese, let's keep it tech-centric for now. All attorneys do is drain your wallet and my wallet and accomplish nothing.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
P.S. Hogwash? Tell the truth, you're the last WWII vet on slashdot, aren't you?
I think by and large most corporations are taking this tack in dealing with spam sent to their MTAs. If you do not do business with that country, ban their IP block. This is an inexpensive 100% solution to spam from overseas.
Public ISPs, universities and government centers do not (and can not) take this route. So these orgs must take another path towards dealing with international spam.
Filtering works. Greylisting works. These technologies help a great deal against the zombie armies everyone said would be unstoppable spam sources.
I am glad you have a solution which works for you (and to some extent, I agree with your soultion), but I would hate for the balkanization of the Internet to come about due to the misbehavior of a few rotten apples. I think there must be a better way.
5). Do they all fit in one cell?
6). Just Hit Delete!
7). A change on the lunch menu.
8). But Warden, I don't have anythig to do with all the spam you get today. Just click remove me, OW, OW that's really rough, OW, wow, OW, oh you're in a mood today...
You have a point. I should have used the phrase "less profitable" and not the absolute "unprofitable." It would have been far more accurate.
That being said, I still think the parent to my first post is way off base: that MS should use their private funds to sue a spammer for the public good otherwise MS are the beneficiaries of SPAM is silly in the extreme.
Are you so blinded by your disliked of MSFT that you cannot compliment them when they do something good?
It was Microsoft's hotmail service which was forced to spend money to deal with the onslaught of Richter's spam.
It was Microsoft who put up the front money to investigate and file suit against Richter's company. Keep in mind that circa 2003, taking a spammer to court was not exactly a lucrative enterprise (I do not have hard facts on this, but I doubt it is overly profitable today, either).
It was Microsoft who followed through with their threat to make spamming unprofitable. I think you are swinging a bit wild with that axe you have to grind.
First an observation: drafter's their tech needs are generally higher per seat than other employee types (exception: CNC users).
Some things you might consider:
-- All the good advice above about inventory.
-- Depreciation schedules you can live with. I am amazed how many accountants still think computers are good for 5 years.
-- Consider leasing software. Many will disagree with me for very valid reasons. Software leasing (most are 12 or 24 months) work well for our business. They give me software numbers I can stick too 99% of the time. None of this, "Oops, Office XYZ came out this year and we need 24.5K to upgrade Office JBF to XYZ. Suck." Another advantage in the CAD busienss is you do not have to rush out and buy that one copy of CAD.Latest when everyone else (except that 1 customer) is still good with CAD.LastYearsVersion and then shuffle all that customer's files to the ONE user who has CAD.Latest.
-- Treat hardware as commodity. In most cases it does not merit your time to do anything under the hood apart from a memory upgrade.
-- My trick: write your budget out in a spreadsheet. You will have lots of line items. Spend an hour organizing them (software, VARs, hardware, printing services, server hardware, battery backup, off site storage, whatever). Now put this list away for a solid week and then revisit it.
-- TALK TO OTHERS IN YOUR INDUSTRY ABOUT THEIR SPENDING.
Though I lack the parent's university experience, my 2.5 years at UCLA showed me that the parent and grandparent posts are very accurate.
Keep in mind, reverse sexism, racism and anti-american sentiment are still very chic at the university level. While I often applaud people who question the direction our country is headed, these political overtones will target the average/. geek (read: white guy).
Since you do not care about American television politics I am going to quit responding to this thread. That and you seem to be unawares how Google advanced searches work. In order to provide the link, I had to construct the search. In doing so, I was privy to the result set. The first one is the best, see the other thread of this grandparent for a humorous discussion.
To summarize: beating up the little guy w/ the legal system is bad. Making a straw man out of a news entertainment channel is just silly. Defending one news entertainment channel over another makes you look like a fool.
Slashdot Mirror
-- RLJ
Let me see if I have it:
-- You are not a language expert, in fact, you know very little about them.
-- You are asserting an opinion that one language, Java, is better than almost all others.
-- You are upset that I called you a troll (which was nicer than just saying, "Shut it, Corky.").
Do I have it?
Not that it is for me to tell you what to do, but not stating your opinion, about which you admit you know very little, sould have been your first course of action, not your final one.
Happy Easter,
-- RLJ
Well done, sir, I salute you.
-- RLJ
You kids and your side scrollers. Back in my day we had this tabletop with paddles...
If you fill out the nuclear waste reclamation facility survey on isle 12 near the adult diapers, you become eligible receive a 5 dollar off coupon on cigarettes!
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Buy their gear if you must but I would not put my data on it.
-- RLJ
Gone is a quality product from a company which cares about making quality products. Gone is the HP that cared more about hiring good engineering people than about quarterly projections.
Everone welcome in the HP that cares about shipping commodity product (read: crap) to customers whose success only matters in so much as they buy next season's overpriced plastic crap.
Welcome in the HP which lies to long term corporate customer about product lines (not online: pick up Sept. 5th ComputerWorld and read Don Tennant's column and the reader reaction).
Since the merger it's like HP sucked all the Suck out of Compaq's sucky products and injected it into HP products. Everyone thought the merger was a question of customer bases but clearly HP bought Compaq for the Suck alone.
HP: now with extra suckiness!
Me, what, rant? never,
-- RLJ
-- RLJ
-- RLJ
I know 50% of you are below average but why do we keep teaching you to type?
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Around the state level this view stops. It has to be open. Email from Moscow and Johannasburg must be on equal terms with email from around the corner.
My point was not that public orgs at some level do not block IP, but that public orgs at a larger level cannot block IP and remain functional. If these larger organizations have found ways to do this, it seems a shame that we (the technosavvy) encourage the balkanization of the net to thwart this problem.
Nice talking with you,
-- RLJ
In the same way local government can get away with IP blocking say, South Korea, for an extended period of time, your local school district will probably get away with blocking -- let's see what's 98 million and change divided by 4.2 billion addresses -- call it 3% of all IP addresses and surive unscathed.
As far as the tangent about the legality of allowing unfiltered email to fritter into our children's inboxes - I don't want to talk legaleese, let's keep it tech-centric for now. All attorneys do is drain your wallet and my wallet and accomplish nothing.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
P.S. Hogwash? Tell the truth, you're the last WWII vet on slashdot, aren't you?
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Public ISPs, universities and government centers do not (and can not) take this route. So these orgs must take another path towards dealing with international spam.
Filtering works. Greylisting works. These technologies help a great deal against the zombie armies everyone said would be unstoppable spam sources.
I am glad you have a solution which works for you (and to some extent, I agree with your soultion), but I would hate for the balkanization of the Internet to come about due to the misbehavior of a few rotten apples. I think there must be a better way.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
6). Just Hit Delete!
7). A change on the lunch menu.
8). But Warden, I don't have anythig to do with all the spam you get today. Just click remove me, OW, OW that's really rough, OW, wow, OW, oh you're in a mood today...
Thanks, I'm here all week,
-- RLJ
That being said, I still think the parent to my first post is way off base: that MS should use their private funds to sue a spammer for the public good otherwise MS are the beneficiaries of SPAM is silly in the extreme.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Are you so blinded by your disliked of MSFT that you cannot compliment them when they do something good?
It was Microsoft's hotmail service which was forced to spend money to deal with the onslaught of Richter's spam.
It was Microsoft who put up the front money to investigate and file suit against Richter's company. Keep in mind that circa 2003, taking a spammer to court was not exactly a lucrative enterprise (I do not have hard facts on this, but I doubt it is overly profitable today, either).
It was Microsoft who followed through with their threat to make spamming unprofitable. I think you are swinging a bit wild with that axe you have to grind.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Some things you might consider:
-- All the good advice above about inventory.
-- Depreciation schedules you can live with. I am amazed how many accountants still think computers are good for 5 years.
-- Consider leasing software. Many will disagree with me for very valid reasons. Software leasing (most are 12 or 24 months) work well for our business. They give me software numbers I can stick too 99% of the time. None of this, "Oops, Office XYZ came out this year and we need 24.5K to upgrade Office JBF to XYZ. Suck." Another advantage in the CAD busienss is you do not have to rush out and buy that one copy of CAD.Latest when everyone else (except that 1 customer) is still good with CAD.LastYearsVersion and then shuffle all that customer's files to the ONE user who has CAD.Latest.
-- Treat hardware as commodity. In most cases it does not merit your time to do anything under the hood apart from a memory upgrade.
-- My trick: write your budget out in a spreadsheet. You will have lots of line items. Spend an hour organizing them (software, VARs, hardware, printing services, server hardware, battery backup, off site storage, whatever). Now put this list away for a solid week and then revisit it.
-- TALK TO OTHERS IN YOUR INDUSTRY ABOUT THEIR SPENDING.
Best of luck,
-- RLJ
Keep in mind, reverse sexism, racism and anti-american sentiment are still very chic at the university level. While I often applaud people who question the direction our country is headed, these political overtones will target the average /. geek (read: white guy).
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
-- RLJ
The parallels between Thresh's firingsquad and MS / SUN / Red Hat's bought and paid for style reviews are somewhat disturbing.
-- RLJ
Since you do not care about American television politics I am going to quit responding to this thread. That and you seem to be unawares how Google advanced searches work. In order to provide the link, I had to construct the search. In doing so, I was privy to the result set. The first one is the best, see the other thread of this grandparent for a humorous discussion.
To summarize: beating up the little guy w/ the legal system is bad. Making a straw man out of a news entertainment channel is just silly. Defending one news entertainment channel over another makes you look like a fool.
Have a nice day,
-- RLJ