So those firms which incorporate flexible and interoperable instant messaging into their workflow will have an enormous competitive advantage. Looks like consolidation time in the financial services industry, then.
I used to work in a compiler group. The compile we built was based on the COMPASS toolkit, which separated a number of phases into a front-end and a back-end. But we decided that the levels of abstraction of the front-end and back-end should be different, in order to accommodate some fundamental transformation steps that we needed to make in order to bridge data-parallel semantics in the front-end and instruction-parallel semantics in the back end. Hence the bulk of our value-add work was done is a new top-level component (which in turn used multiple phases) called....... the middle end.
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You seem to conflate pro-Linux with anti-Microsoft. (It is quite rare to find anyone who is not anti- Microsoft who hasn't recieved payments from Microsoft, I think.)
I don't need to be a Marxist evangelist in order to militate against Fascism, or a Coke afficionado to say that Pepsi is gut-rotting sugar swill.
any box that is connected to a network can *become* visible to the outside world. there are trojans, such as windows xp, which can be triggered by a web page, to connect to a remote system, and thereby create a tunnel into your network. it happens every day.
Or unionization might be the only effective way to gain power *against* shipping all the jobs offshore. Imagine that an IT workers union snagged 90% of the coders, designers, architects, admins and operators at IBM. Imagine they would all walk-out if IBM shipped a job to India....
Actually, you don't have to pay the bills. You can probably get paid a nicely livable rate by your state to be unemployed for 6 to 9 months -- with the added bonus that your dipstick ex-employer is paying most of the bill. Moreover, those credit card bills will just *poof* go away if you file bankruptcy when the money runs out.
I'd suggest getting a degree in something with a future, like international outsourcing management, or Chemical Engineering.
And you're only as good as your most recent result. A string of 10's followed by a 2? Well, if it's a bad day, you're canned. (Not caned, canned -- unless you live in Singapore.)
The days when a degree made you a professional engineer are over. Engineers are now commodities. Moreover, your "representatives" are busily shipping your jobs to the Ukraine in exchange for campaign $$$.
find a coworker who is suicidal (that shouldn't take too long). give him an armalite rifle for his birthday. go to the gym with him and convince him that steriods are they key to happiness. get a magnetron tube, a parabolic antenna and a voice modulator, and sit outside his apartment at night beaming into his brain stuff like "your boss is the antichrist, and we're depending on you to stop him".
This little card weighs about as much as a paperclip and is about half as thick as a dime. Carry a little USB adapter, and hit an Internet cafe once every 3 months. You can store about 550 1600x1200 photos on one card. If you take 1000 photos per month, that's just 6 cards to carry, which will weigh less than half an ounce and take about 1cc of space in your kit.
Carrying around CDRs would be a pain. They are too wide and flat, and inflexible, and very likely to be destroyed -- not to mention the camera that weighs too much and is too big.
If you really need to recharge your NiMH batteries away from "civilization", a solar panel rig would be quite feasible, but cost you about 2 kilos of luggage.
128 bits is an address space of (pardon my limited bits of precision) 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion, 463 sextillion, 148 quintillion, 371 quadrillion, 291 trillion, 262 billion, 820 million, 185 thousand, 520 values. Divided over 6 billion people that would work out to about 5 septillion addresses per person.
But since you're (probably) an American, I'd guess you could get several times as many addresses as, for example, a Bhutanese subsistence farmer.
It is terribly short-sighted to allow the use of closed-source solutions in cases where a reasonable development investment can create an open-source tool. The open-source tool will continue to develop in response to the particular needs of the agency, and serve other agencies in the future at no additional cost, while the proprietary solution will only cost more money as it is used increasingly.
In short, the open-source solution costs less and less per installation over time, whereas the proprietary one often costs more and more.
The 80% number leaves abundant wiggle-room for those rare cases where the development investment or latency of producing a novel open source solution where none exists, but a proprietary one is feasible. That number should be gradually pushed upwards, over time, however, so that the long-term economies of open-source solutions can be more thoroughly exploited for the public benefit.
Public funds should be used in the public interest, not to enrich a foreign monopolist.
Not at all. This "Insightful" post completely misses the point. The future is not centralization of the infrastructure to the state, but decentralization to the people. Backbone operations will of course remain corporate, but the last mile of end-user service will be distributed, and there ain't nothing that the monopolists can do about it, except try to buy off the regulators -- which is not a long-term strategy.
Well, it's the rabid capitalists who will make it happen. The entrenched interests will of course fight to prevent competition from an more economically efficient system that fulfills the same market demand that they've been milking, and may resort to regulatory corruption in the process, but any such efforts can only delay the inevitable.
That's a very astute comparison. The taliban were mostly pakistani seminary students who fled an autocratic military regime (pakistan) to form a society based on conscience and shared values in a wilderness (afghanistan). The puritans were mostly english religious protestants who fled an autocratic military regime (england) to form a society based on conscience and shared values in a wildnerness (new england).
Any definition which fails to include oxygen, water, and nutrient addiction by any means other than special-casing them must be a political definition, excercising a value judgement, and as such is not useful for constructive factual discussion with anyone who doesn't share your value judgements. Instead, it's useful as a bludgeon to suppress competing ideas unfairly.
Who considers nymphomaniacs dangerous? Certainly not I. Some of my best friends have been nymphomaniacs, and while they were certainly dangerous, it was not due to nymphomania -- that was just candy.
One of my greatest regrets is that I did not marry a nymphomaniac.
Oh, and then there are those who manage to blend nymphomania with workaholism, by working in a sex industry....
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Oddly, my girlfriends tended to get more pissed off
when I screwed someone else.
I'm not sure which form of sensitivity is to be
preferred.
Dance Dance Revolution
Hey, Baby, my hard drive has *never* failed.
I'll see your 350 and raise you 50.
Did they also cut all the phone lines?
If not, there's unlogged digital instant
messaging, and it's probably going over the
Internet, unencrypted.
So those firms which incorporate flexible and
interoperable instant messaging into their workflow
will have an enormous competitive advantage.
Looks like consolidation time in the financial
services industry, then.
I used to work in a compiler group. ... the middle end.
The compile we built was based on
the COMPASS toolkit, which separated
a number of phases into a front-end
and a back-end. But we decided that
the levels of abstraction of the
front-end and back-end should be different,
in order to accommodate some fundamental
transformation steps that we needed to make
in order to bridge data-parallel semantics
in the front-end and instruction-parallel
semantics in the back end. Hence the bulk
of our value-add work was done is a new
top-level component (which in turn used
multiple phases) called....
You seem to conflate pro-Linux with anti-Microsoft.
(It is quite rare to find anyone who is not anti-
Microsoft who hasn't recieved payments from
Microsoft, I think.)
I don't need to be a Marxist evangelist in order
to militate against Fascism, or a Coke afficionado
to say that Pepsi is gut-rotting sugar swill.
any box that is connected to a network can
*become* visible to the outside world.
there are trojans, such as windows xp, which
can be triggered by a web page, to connect
to a remote system, and thereby create a tunnel
into your network. it happens every day.
Or unionization might be the only
effective way to gain power *against*
shipping all the jobs offshore. Imagine
that an IT workers union snagged 90% of
the coders, designers, architects,
admins and operators at IBM. Imagine
they would all walk-out if IBM shipped
a job to India....
It was Bill Clinton and a democratic Senate that
brought in the H1-Bs. I don't remember if that
was before or after the Gingrich "revolution".
Actually, you don't have to pay the bills.
You can probably get paid a nicely livable
rate by your state to be unemployed for 6
to 9 months -- with the added bonus that your
dipstick ex-employer is paying most of the bill.
Moreover, those credit card bills will just
*poof* go away if you file bankruptcy when
the money runs out.
I'd suggest getting a degree in something
with a future, like international outsourcing
management, or Chemical Engineering.
And you're only as good as your most recent
result. A string of 10's followed by a 2?
Well, if it's a bad day, you're canned.
(Not caned, canned -- unless you live in Singapore.)
The days when a degree made you a professional
engineer are over. Engineers are now commodities.
Moreover, your "representatives" are busily shipping
your jobs to the Ukraine in exchange for campaign
$$$.
I strongly suggest getting a job with a future.
find a coworker who is suicidal (that shouldn't
take too long). give him an armalite rifle for
his birthday. go to the gym with him and convince
him that steriods are they key to happiness. get
a magnetron tube, a parabolic antenna and a voice
modulator, and sit outside his apartment at night
beaming into his brain stuff like "your boss is
the antichrist, and we're depending on you to
stop him".
This little card weighs about as much as a
paperclip and is about half as thick as a dime.
Carry a little USB adapter, and hit an Internet
cafe once every 3 months. You can store about
550 1600x1200 photos on one card. If you take
1000 photos per month, that's just 6 cards to
carry, which will weigh less than half an ounce
and take about 1cc of space in your kit.
Carrying around CDRs would be a pain. They are
too wide and flat, and inflexible, and very
likely to be destroyed -- not to mention the
camera that weighs too much and is too big.
If you really need to recharge your NiMH batteries
away from "civilization", a solar panel rig would
be quite feasible, but cost you about 2 kilos
of luggage.
Actually, you can easily get a quintillion.
128 bits is an address space of (pardon my
limited bits of precision) 340 undecillion,
282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion,
938 septillion, 463 sextillion, 148 quintillion,
371 quadrillion, 291 trillion, 262 billion,
820 million, 185 thousand, 520 values.
Divided over 6 billion people that would work
out to about 5 septillion addresses per person.
But since you're (probably) an American, I'd
guess you could get several times as many
addresses as, for example, a Bhutanese subsistence
farmer.
It is terribly short-sighted to allow the use of
closed-source solutions in cases where a
reasonable development investment can create an
open-source tool. The open-source tool will
continue to develop in response to the particular
needs of the agency, and serve other agencies
in the future at no additional cost, while the
proprietary solution will only cost more money
as it is used increasingly.
In short, the open-source solution costs less and
less per installation over time, whereas the
proprietary one often costs more and more.
The 80% number leaves abundant wiggle-room for
those rare cases where the development investment
or latency of producing a novel open source
solution where none exists, but a proprietary one
is feasible. That number should be gradually
pushed upwards, over time, however, so that the
long-term economies of open-source solutions can
be more thoroughly exploited for the public
benefit.
Public funds should be used in the public interest,
not to enrich a foreign monopolist.
Not at all. This "Insightful" post completely
misses the point. The future is not centralization
of the infrastructure to the state, but
decentralization to the people. Backbone operations
will of course remain corporate, but the last mile
of end-user service will be distributed, and there
ain't nothing that the monopolists can do about it,
except try to buy off the regulators -- which is not
a long-term strategy.
Well, it's the rabid capitalists who will make it
happen. The entrenched interests will of course
fight to prevent competition from an more
economically efficient system that fulfills the
same market demand that they've been milking, and
may resort to regulatory corruption in the process,
but any such efforts can only delay the inevitable.
Au contraire, that's the O part.
Neither is it very entering.
well, duh. he's the good guy. good guys don't lie.
> In the US, we have freedom of CHOICE.
That's like saying "in MY country we OBEY
the laws of THERMODYNAMICS".
In "Real-Life", you can get away with a lot
more than in some game, because in "Real-Life"
THERE ARE NO RULES. Until you die anyhow.
That's a very astute comparison. The taliban
were mostly pakistani seminary students who fled
an autocratic military regime (pakistan) to form
a society based on conscience and shared values
in a wilderness (afghanistan). The puritans were
mostly english religious protestants who fled an
autocratic military regime (england) to form a
society based on conscience and shared values
in a wildnerness (new england).
Any definition which fails to include oxygen,
water, and nutrient addiction by any means
other than special-casing them must be a
political definition, excercising a value
judgement, and as such is not useful for
constructive factual discussion with anyone
who doesn't share your value judgements.
Instead, it's useful as a bludgeon to suppress
competing ideas unfairly.
Who considers nymphomaniacs dangerous?
Certainly not I. Some of my best friends
have been nymphomaniacs, and while they
were certainly dangerous, it was not due
to nymphomania -- that was just candy.
One of my greatest regrets is that I did not
marry a nymphomaniac.
Oh, and then there are those who manage
to blend nymphomania with workaholism, by
working in a sex industry....