If you want to work for the industry (Intel, Microsoft, Cisco), you'd want CS. If you would rather be a a programmer or admin in the CS department of a non-industry company, than IS would likely be more useful.
That's a horrible metric. I work in the financial services industry (i.e. not the tech industry). I'm not even in a programming position (I'm in network engineering), and myself and a lot of the people I work with have either engineering, computer science, or math degrees. When you move into the developers, I would say that 85-90% of them have a degree in one of those three fields. Information technology degrees are highly uncommon.
as an IT manager, one should have put in place automated monitoring and backup processes... Then, the first thing one does on arrival is to check the results of the automated monitoring.
Newsflash: If you're checking the results of monitoring software, you're not a manager, you're an SA or an operator. I'm not even a manager and yet I've not even seen my company's monitoring tools. If something is wrong, someone who's watching that stuff will tell me.
And it's a good thing we don't come to you to give the final say on such matters. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Your rights are not being managed--at all. You can do what you wish with the file. Another point: technically, when you strip DRM from normal iTunes songs, because it relies on an encryption mechanism, you're in theory, violating the DMCA. There's no encryption with the files being tagged as they are in the non-DRM version. Go to the console and type 'strings FILENAME' and voila, it dumps these so-called watermarks. If you want to put these on Bit Torrent, or some P2P network, fine. No one is stopping you. No one is stopping you from easily stripping the tags, either. Calling it DRM just makes you look completely ignorant on the subject.
If Safari is so standards compliant, why does would developers need Safari on Windows to develop for iPhone? Couldn't they just use another standards based browser like FireFox and Opera?
Well, Safari on my Mac renders the Acid 2 test correctly, whereas Firefox 2 does not. So, Firefox might support a lot of standards, but apparently it has some CSS issues. So, to answer your question. No, Firefox is not compatible enough to use instead of Firefox. I can't speak to Opera, however.
the more valuable investment of effort is in making the experience great for the vast majority.
Maybe. Let's face it, people who buy Macs typically have more money than the person who's buying a $400 PC at Wal-Mart. If your target is the more affluent web surfer, then making sure your site works in Safari is probably worth your time.
You really think web developers are going to give a shit if their sites work on IE 5&6, Netscape, and Firefox but break/look odd on Safari?
I think they're starting to. Part of the thing is that it seems like a lot of the people who write a lot of crap and have decent readership of their blogs also happen to be Mac users. So, they get to a site that doesn't work, they blog about it, it doesn't look good, etc. etc. There's really no excuse to not make your stuff work with Safari, as it's *very* standards compliant. I can't really think of the last page I went to that didn't work in Safari.
I don't know why this meme of "Safari, the iPhone SDK" has suddenly become so popular, but Jobs himself has said in his keynote that they really want Safari to get a much bigger market share.
I think you can throw that under the heading of Reality Distortion Field. I think it's a ploy to take attention away from the sucky fact that the only "apps" they're allowing on the iPhone are web pages. Oooh, innovative.
With the Intel Platform now standard for Mac, the transfer of Safari to Windows was far less work than it would have been in the beginning.
Not really. If you put CPU specific code in a browser, you should just shoot yourself and admit failure as a developer and/or software engineer. In addition, Safari's rendering comes from WebCore, which is a combination of KHTML (from the KDE folks) and KWQ (which Apple wrote as an adapter). KHTML was running on multiple platforms way before Apple decided to use it.
Leo Laporte's rant on the latest Macbreak Weekly about how it's some new lock in for non-open standards was very disappointing.
That really bothered me. And he and Andy Ihnatko kept going on and on about until Merlin Mann was basically like "Um, do we have any reason to believe its proprietary?" (links added in case people don't know who they are). Leo's usually not like that, and it surprised me, a lot. I wonder what pushed him in that direction.
It's not about winning. Giving how Apple has decided to let apps be developed for the iPhone, Safari on Windows effectively serves as a development environment for non-OS X developers who want to deploy iPhone apps. And in the end, even 5% total marketshare for Safari is good because it pushes web standards just a little bit more.
We use Check Point firewalls. I don't have any direct experience with them because our network team is almost 100 people and it's simply not my area. Been hearing good things about the Junipers as well.
I'm too far away for DSL. There is no cable modem service in my street. Am I stuck with dial-up to this mega-network? If so, progress seems a long way off to me.
Internet2 is for research institutions only. Most of such institutions are universities. Some are not (such as CERN, or even Microsoft has a connection). Ordinary users will never have data go across Internet2.
Here's part of a traceroute to microsoft.com:
12 so-0-0-0.0.rtr.salt.net.internet2.edu (64.57.28.24) 79.663 ms 75.458 ms 75.504 ms 13 64.57.28.26 (64.57.28.26) 98.695 ms 92.008 ms 96.118 ms 14 microsoft-1-lo-jmb-706.sttlwa.pacificwave.net (207.231.240.7) 92.181 ms 92.037 ms 92.126 ms 15 ge-7-3-0-59.wst-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.36.253) 92.225 ms 92.226 ms 92.206 ms
Here's part of a traceroute to cern.ch:
8 remote.internet2.magpi.net (216.27.100.54) 6.867 ms 6.926 ms 6.892 ms
9 so-0-0-0.0.rtr.wash.net.internet2.edu (64.57.28.11) 27.654 ms 12.220 ms 12.063 ms 10 64.57.28.12 (64.57.28.12) 28.607 ms 28.865 ms 28.652 ms 11 e513-e-rci76-2-te6.cern.ch (192.91.246.126) 141.455 ms 141.635 ms 141.594 ms
Notice that both go over Internet2 nodes. If you trace these from your computer, you'll see an entirely different path.
If they do the only thing they can do, which is to install a bunch of Cisco PIX boxes and filter all P2P traffic down to 0.001 bit/sec, couldn't that be considered Denial-of-service to legal content providers on P2P nets ?
Silly wabbit, PIX are for kids! Seriously, though, no one uses them. My company buys millions upon millions of dollars of Cisco gear per year and zero PIXes. They're kinda sucky. Just FYI.
The audience took one to the head. Not Tony. Tony being shot... big deal. Probably 50% of people hyping the show expected that. Anyone expect the audience to get whacked? Not I.
Too cliche. The show is powerful enough that its allusion to self, in just going to completely black without a sound, is more impactful than alluding to Gatsby. Though I do think there are parallels between the Sopranos and Gatsby.
It's called SERO (Sprint Employee Referral Offer). Sprint employees get a certain number of referrals they can use for this plan each year. Sprint opened it up to the general public for a short while if you know where to look. The text messaging plan was added on later as a special offer just for SERO customers.
Why does Apple hate DRM on audio, but not on Software or Video?
In reference to your above cited signature, Apple doesn't have DRM on their software. When's the last time you had to enter a code to use OS X, or do some sort of stupid activation? Video is a different matter.
I'm sure the iPhone has a market, but I don't think it's the Blackberry/Treo crowd--except for maybe a few fringe convergence freaks and a few people where the teen/geek market overlaps with the productivity Blackberry/Treo crowd.
I have a Treo for personal use and a BlackBerry for work. The BlackBerry makes me hate my Treo with a passion. If it weren't for the fact that you need a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to do push email with the BlackBerry, I would replace the Treo with one in a heartbeat. The Palm platform has died, even though it takes in a little breath of air every 6 months or so. The only thing that makes me think twice about getting an iPhone is the monthly cost. I pay $30/month with Sprint for unlimited data, unlimited texts, and 500 minutes. There won't be anything even close to that with the iPhone. The upfront cost doesn't bother me one bit. The iPhone appears to have a nice browser, and it looks like there will be 3rd party apps eventually, so maybe a decent GTD app will come to be.
Well fortunately, random guys on the Internet with uninformed opinions aren't the ones that give out grants.
It's hardly uninformed.
Perhaps it isn't so much a matter of competence but rather some professors realising that getting the job done quickly and easily is better accomplished with Word and Mathtype.
I'll put up an experienced TeX user against any Word/Mathtype guru any day and I would bet the TeX user can win in speed and accuracy.
Of course, there are the intangibles, like not being effectively tied to a single editor, that make TeX more attractive.
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I had the exact same thought. At first I thought this might be kinda cool. Then I saw 20. Twenty? You have to be kidding.
If you want to work for the industry (Intel, Microsoft, Cisco), you'd want CS. If you would rather be a a programmer or admin in the CS department of a non-industry company, than IS would likely be more useful.
That's a horrible metric. I work in the financial services industry (i.e. not the tech industry). I'm not even in a programming position (I'm in network engineering), and myself and a lot of the people I work with have either engineering, computer science, or math degrees. When you move into the developers, I would say that 85-90% of them have a degree in one of those three fields. Information technology degrees are highly uncommon.
Is is really SOP for sysadmins to tell the janitor about such things?
Cute. Where I work, engineers don't run around putting out fires. Engineers engineer.
as an IT manager, one should have put in place automated monitoring and backup processes ... Then, the first thing one does on arrival is to check the results of the automated monitoring.
Newsflash: If you're checking the results of monitoring software, you're not a manager, you're an SA or an operator. I'm not even a manager and yet I've not even seen my company's monitoring tools. If something is wrong, someone who's watching that stuff will tell me.
As for whether it's DRM or not, IMHO, it IS.
And it's a good thing we don't come to you to give the final say on such matters. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Your rights are not being managed--at all. You can do what you wish with the file. Another point: technically, when you strip DRM from normal iTunes songs, because it relies on an encryption mechanism, you're in theory, violating the DMCA. There's no encryption with the files being tagged as they are in the non-DRM version. Go to the console and type 'strings FILENAME' and voila, it dumps these so-called watermarks. If you want to put these on Bit Torrent, or some P2P network, fine. No one is stopping you. No one is stopping you from easily stripping the tags, either. Calling it DRM just makes you look completely ignorant on the subject.
Incidentally two big diseases that American Pharma couldn't give a rats about.
Remind me why it's bad they don't care?
If Safari is so standards compliant, why does would developers need Safari on Windows to develop for iPhone? Couldn't they just use another standards based browser like FireFox and Opera?
Well, Safari on my Mac renders the Acid 2 test correctly, whereas Firefox 2 does not. So, Firefox might support a lot of standards, but apparently it has some CSS issues. So, to answer your question. No, Firefox is not compatible enough to use instead of Firefox. I can't speak to Opera, however.
the more valuable investment of effort is in making the experience great for the vast majority.
Maybe. Let's face it, people who buy Macs typically have more money than the person who's buying a $400 PC at Wal-Mart. If your target is the more affluent web surfer, then making sure your site works in Safari is probably worth your time.
You really think web developers are going to give a shit if their sites work on IE 5&6, Netscape, and Firefox but break/look odd on Safari?
I think they're starting to. Part of the thing is that it seems like a lot of the people who write a lot of crap and have decent readership of their blogs also happen to be Mac users. So, they get to a site that doesn't work, they blog about it, it doesn't look good, etc. etc. There's really no excuse to not make your stuff work with Safari, as it's *very* standards compliant. I can't really think of the last page I went to that didn't work in Safari.
I don't know why this meme of "Safari, the iPhone SDK" has suddenly become so popular, but Jobs himself has said in his keynote that they really want Safari to get a much bigger market share.
I think you can throw that under the heading of Reality Distortion Field. I think it's a ploy to take attention away from the sucky fact that the only "apps" they're allowing on the iPhone are web pages. Oooh, innovative.
With the Intel Platform now standard for Mac, the transfer of Safari to Windows was far less work than it would have been in the beginning.
Not really. If you put CPU specific code in a browser, you should just shoot yourself and admit failure as a developer and/or software engineer. In addition, Safari's rendering comes from WebCore, which is a combination of KHTML (from the KDE folks) and KWQ (which Apple wrote as an adapter). KHTML was running on multiple platforms way before Apple decided to use it.
Leo Laporte's rant on the latest Macbreak Weekly about how it's some new lock in for non-open standards was very disappointing.
That really bothered me. And he and Andy Ihnatko kept going on and on about until Merlin Mann was basically like "Um, do we have any reason to believe its proprietary?" (links added in case people don't know who they are). Leo's usually not like that, and it surprised me, a lot. I wonder what pushed him in that direction.
It's not about winning. Giving how Apple has decided to let apps be developed for the iPhone, Safari on Windows effectively serves as a development environment for non-OS X developers who want to deploy iPhone apps. And in the end, even 5% total marketshare for Safari is good because it pushes web standards just a little bit more.
We use Check Point firewalls. I don't have any direct experience with them because our network team is almost 100 people and it's simply not my area. Been hearing good things about the Junipers as well.
does that mean p2p between two people from different universities on the network could go across internet2? hmm...
Yes, that's the case. There used to be an Internet2-only Direct Connect network called I2Hub.
I'm too far away for DSL. There is no cable modem service in my street. Am I stuck with dial-up to this mega-network? If so, progress seems a long way off to me.
Internet2 is for research institutions only. Most of such institutions are universities. Some are not (such as CERN, or even Microsoft has a connection). Ordinary users will never have data go across Internet2.
Here's part of a traceroute to microsoft.com:
12 so-0-0-0.0.rtr.salt.net.internet2.edu (64.57.28.24) 79.663 ms 75.458 ms 75.504 ms
13 64.57.28.26 (64.57.28.26) 98.695 ms 92.008 ms 96.118 ms
14 microsoft-1-lo-jmb-706.sttlwa.pacificwave.net (207.231.240.7) 92.181 ms 92.037 ms 92.126 ms
15 ge-7-3-0-59.wst-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.36.253) 92.225 ms 92.226 ms 92.206 ms
Here's part of a traceroute to cern.ch:
8 remote.internet2.magpi.net (216.27.100.54) 6.867 ms 6.926 ms 6.892 ms
9 so-0-0-0.0.rtr.wash.net.internet2.edu (64.57.28.11) 27.654 ms 12.220 ms 12.063 ms
10 64.57.28.12 (64.57.28.12) 28.607 ms 28.865 ms 28.652 ms
11 e513-e-rci76-2-te6.cern.ch (192.91.246.126) 141.455 ms 141.635 ms 141.594 ms
Notice that both go over Internet2 nodes. If you trace these from your computer, you'll see an entirely different path.
If they do the only thing they can do, which is to install a bunch of Cisco PIX boxes and filter all P2P traffic down to 0.001 bit/sec, couldn't that be considered Denial-of-service to legal content providers on P2P nets ?
Silly wabbit, PIX are for kids! Seriously, though, no one uses them. My company buys millions upon millions of dollars of Cisco gear per year and zero PIXes. They're kinda sucky. Just FYI.
I am talking about a compromise.
Oh, you mean like minimum wage, which hurts the poor, instead of "helping" them.
The audience took one to the head. Not Tony. Tony being shot... big deal. Probably 50% of people hyping the show expected that. Anyone expect the audience to get whacked? Not I.
Needed a green light off in the distance
Too cliche. The show is powerful enough that its allusion to self, in just going to completely black without a sound, is more impactful than alluding to Gatsby. Though I do think there are parallels between the Sopranos and Gatsby.
I'm having the time of my life playing this game.
Games can be a nice diversion... but how can it be the time of your life?
It's called SERO (Sprint Employee Referral Offer). Sprint employees get a certain number of referrals they can use for this plan each year. Sprint opened it up to the general public for a short while if you know where to look. The text messaging plan was added on later as a special offer just for SERO customers.
Why does Apple hate DRM on audio, but not on Software or Video?
In reference to your above cited signature, Apple doesn't have DRM on their software. When's the last time you had to enter a code to use OS X, or do some sort of stupid activation? Video is a different matter.
I'm sure the iPhone has a market, but I don't think it's the Blackberry/Treo crowd--except for maybe a few fringe convergence freaks and a few people where the teen/geek market overlaps with the productivity Blackberry/Treo crowd.
I have a Treo for personal use and a BlackBerry for work. The BlackBerry makes me hate my Treo with a passion. If it weren't for the fact that you need a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to do push email with the BlackBerry, I would replace the Treo with one in a heartbeat. The Palm platform has died, even though it takes in a little breath of air every 6 months or so. The only thing that makes me think twice about getting an iPhone is the monthly cost. I pay $30/month with Sprint for unlimited data, unlimited texts, and 500 minutes. There won't be anything even close to that with the iPhone. The upfront cost doesn't bother me one bit. The iPhone appears to have a nice browser, and it looks like there will be 3rd party apps eventually, so maybe a decent GTD app will come to be.
Time will tell...
Well fortunately, random guys on the Internet with uninformed opinions aren't the ones that give out grants.
It's hardly uninformed.
Perhaps it isn't so much a matter of competence but rather some professors realising that getting the job done quickly and easily is better accomplished with Word and Mathtype.
I'll put up an experienced TeX user against any Word/Mathtype guru any day and I would bet the TeX user can win in speed and accuracy.
Of course, there are the intangibles, like not being effectively tied to a single editor, that make TeX more attractive.