1918 is not a valid comparison
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A Flu Pandemic?
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You had millions of troops returning home after spending years in the worst possible health environment. They returned a world that was unaware of what they were returning with.
If you study the 1918 pandemic you will see that it immediately spiked and then disappeared very quickly.
The 1918 pandemic was a collision of multiple historical factors that are not in play today.
Today we have early warning nets, intense media scrutiny, government awareness and rapid action.
We will not see this flu pandemic soon, its all fear-mongering designed to achieve more funding.
I am not saying we should not fight to make sure it DOESN'T happen but its far from 'assured' that it will.
Nah, what he is really saying is that his organization is incapable of managing this change in a simple and profitable way.
No problem! There are a million other companies that can probably handle this transition, please take your ball and go home so the next player can enter the arena.
We use SilkTest for automated testing as well as monitoring. Our QA guys love it and it free's them up from doing regular system testing to focus on devising new and devise tests to confound the engineering teams!
Downside? Its Windows stuff AND its hellaciously expensive..
Years and years ago I was using 'test@test.com' as a dummy address when testing forms etc etc etc. Until the postmaster of test.com send me a pretty bitter email about the entire thing. It really made me realize 'Private data can go to these places. That is Bad.'
Since then I have stopped my development team from doing things like testing data migrations by simply changing the email addresses to dummy addresses so that account holders don't get test notifications (great, now random people on the internet would get them!)
The solution for me is to give each developer a mail subdomain that can be used for dummy and throw away addresses. Confidential email stays in and everyone is happy.
The nightmare scenarios with dummy addresses can really get out of hand, from testing 'email me my password' scripts to potentially revealing sensitive billing information.
Their goal is to sell these expensive "home office" packages.
The way it works now is that they make it difficult to get a device online, you have to use their software to register the service.
I forget the details but I had to do some trickery for each machine on my network to get the cable modem to route traffic to them via my router. Occasionally devices 'unregister' and I have to run the comcast software again and pretend like I am a one system home.
I'm ditching comcast, my local ISP has fixed wireless now and I'm gonna go with the little guy and I've already picked up DirectTV AND I'll save $30 a month. Seeya comcast.
When Comcast cuts people off for using too much bandwidth, trading child porn or stealing music, movies and software everyone screams 'BIG BROTHER! THIS IS EVIL!'
Comcast cuts of a worm and everyone says 'Good show Mr Comcast Corporate Citizen! I wish everyone would do this.'
Worm or warez, its the same thing in my opinion. You either support Comcast's right to mess with your connection without warning or you do not.
Maybe I WANTED to run the worm, maybe I am a scientist experiementing, maybe its my hobby to watch worm traffic. You don't know, just like you don't know if I am REALLY stealing music and movies and if that girl in the picture is REALLY under 18...
We are about to ship a cross platform Struts (java) based application and needed a simple, low maintenance, low overhead, cross-platform,truly free and fast sql engine.
Enter Firebird. Installation is a breeze under both operating systems and its all plug and play after that.
MySQL is nice but can be a maintenance headache and good luck included it in a shipping product, it violates the license or so the lawyers tell me.
I use mysql on my webservers, I embed firebird in my shipping products. Its been great so far!
I run smoothwall corp on my network. With the hosting add-on its a real time-save. Feels more like an F5 then a linux'y firewall thing.
Sure, I can configure IpChains and all that crap, but why bother. I just need a simple webUI to move some rules around and allocate IP space between the public and private networks.
We're loving it. Well worth the few hundred bucks.
It'll only keep you from killing your buddy, shooting 'Coalition' troops and removing the fog of war for the commanders on the field and back in camp.
Geocaching is great, but it ain't got nothing on the integrated systems in place for soldiers on the ground.
In related news, the EU is beginning to scale back their plans for the EU NATO competitor. They probably are starting to look at the price tag and, while it is tempting to try to emulate America's build up, their economies are even more sickly then ours and its not looking so smart anymore.
Its still a useless, slow, range-limited application specific technology that does nothing of substance other then syncing your addressbook with your PC on specific models or using it to send messages around a conference table during a meeting.
Every PC I have ever had contains an ISA slot, does that mean I use it? No, not really. Sure, its old technology but the idea holds, presence does equate to penetration.
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You had millions of troops returning home after spending years in the worst possible health environment. They returned a world that was unaware of what they were returning with.
If you study the 1918 pandemic you will see that it immediately spiked and then disappeared very quickly.
The 1918 pandemic was a collision of multiple historical factors that are not in play today.
Today we have early warning nets, intense media scrutiny, government awareness and rapid action.
We will not see this flu pandemic soon, its all fear-mongering designed to achieve more funding.
I am not saying we should not fight to make sure it DOESN'T happen but its far from 'assured' that it will.
They found that people would order a coffee and then work all day long, decreasing their per customer revenue dramatically.
Nah, what he is really saying is that his organization is incapable of managing this change in a simple and profitable way.
No problem! There are a million other companies that can probably handle this transition, please take your ball and go home so the next player can enter the arena.
Next!
Lame, this is basic stuff. Give me a break.
What better way to advertise your product? Its the perfect expansion of the business model
1) make a product, product type, category, effectiveness or industry is irrelevant.
2) call it an ipod killer
3) PROFIT!!!
We use SilkTest for automated testing as well as monitoring. Our QA guys love it and it free's them up from doing regular system testing to focus on devising new and devise tests to confound the engineering teams!
Downside? Its Windows stuff AND its hellaciously expensive..
Schema change is irrelevant, its hidden in the procedure. Your code no longer cares about mundane 'schema'.
Years and years ago I was using 'test@test.com' as a dummy address when testing forms etc etc etc. Until the postmaster of test.com send me a pretty bitter email about the entire thing. It really made me realize 'Private data can go to these places. That is Bad.'
Since then I have stopped my development team from doing things like testing data migrations by simply changing the email addresses to dummy addresses so that account holders don't get test notifications (great, now random people on the internet would get them!)
The solution for me is to give each developer a mail subdomain that can be used for dummy and throw away addresses. Confidential email stays in and everyone is happy.
The nightmare scenarios with dummy addresses can really get out of hand, from testing 'email me my password' scripts to potentially revealing sensitive billing information.
No, dummy addresses are No Fun.
My initial setup was a pain in the ass and I did indeed have to go through and reconfigure my devices regularly.
Since then this problem has disappeared and now my machines don't have a problem.
It sounds like it was a 'feature' that they had enabled for awhile and have now disabled.
Their goal is to sell these expensive "home office" packages.
The way it works now is that they make it difficult to get a device online, you have to use their software to register the service.
I forget the details but I had to do some trickery for each machine on my network to get the cable modem to route traffic to them via my router. Occasionally devices 'unregister' and I have to run the comcast software again and pretend like I am a one system home.
I'm ditching comcast, my local ISP has fixed wireless now and I'm gonna go with the little guy and I've already picked up DirectTV AND I'll save $30 a month. Seeya comcast.
Yea yea yea. Heard it all before.
I bet I'm driving a gas powered car in 2025 and STILL eating crappy fast food.
Some random congressperson was quoted as saying
"The security used in this is freely downloadable on the internet making it insecure!"
or something to that effect.
So what we have net here is a rejection of defective Diebold machines but an embracing of the security through proprietary obscurity.
Look for Diebold to fix, recertify and dominant.
I've been waiting over two years for someone to hack the digital bb here in the Bay Area on the 101..
I think its all hardwired, need to social engineer your way into that one.
When Comcast cuts people off for using too much bandwidth, trading child porn or stealing music, movies and software everyone screams 'BIG BROTHER! THIS IS EVIL!'
Comcast cuts of a worm and everyone says 'Good show Mr Comcast Corporate Citizen! I wish everyone would do this.'
Worm or warez, its the same thing in my opinion. You either support Comcast's right to mess with your connection without warning or you do not.
Maybe I WANTED to run the worm, maybe I am a scientist experiementing, maybe its my hobby to watch worm traffic. You don't know, just like you don't know if I am REALLY stealing music and movies and if that girl in the picture is REALLY under 18...
Anyone who posts on a yahoo stock board automatically qualifies as not being 'in the know'.
Suing a company that A) is huge and can settle and B) does not understand the true situation and has no motivation to 'stand up for its rights'.
They'll settle for some medium to low amount that is confidential and further justify the case.
Bad times ahead....
We are about to ship a cross platform Struts (java) based application and needed a simple, low maintenance, low overhead, cross-platform,truly free and fast sql engine.
Enter Firebird. Installation is a breeze under both operating systems and its all plug and play after that.
MySQL is nice but can be a maintenance headache and good luck included it in a shipping product, it violates the license or so the lawyers tell me.
I use mysql on my webservers, I embed firebird in my shipping products. Its been great so far!
I remember that game! While it was a blast, I agree, the 12 fps left a lot to be desired...
But nothing like having 3 monitors. It supported up to 9 I think, I bet it would have blazed at 5fps with all 9 hooked up.
That was always a problem with my quadra, the potential always showed through the reality.
As such it is commonly known in the wind power community to have been poorly sited with no avian studies.
No other modern wind farm has these 'kill rates', its an unfortunate side affect of the early technology deployed.
Except .. um.. its not really.. protected anymore.
.. ummm.. want.
And, umm.. I can move it around to any format I
Sorry Mr Record Exec...
I run smoothwall corp on my network. With the hosting add-on its a real time-save. Feels more like an F5 then a linux'y firewall thing.
Sure, I can configure IpChains and all that crap, but why bother. I just need a simple webUI to move some rules around and allocate IP space between the public and private networks.
We're loving it. Well worth the few hundred bucks.
It'll only keep you from killing your buddy, shooting 'Coalition' troops and removing the fog of war for the commanders on the field and back in camp.
Geocaching is great, but it ain't got nothing on the integrated systems in place for soldiers on the ground.
In related news, the EU is beginning to scale back their plans for the EU NATO competitor. They probably are starting to look at the price tag and, while it is tempting to try to emulate America's build up, their economies are even more sickly then ours and its not looking so smart anymore.
Its still a useless, slow, range-limited application specific technology that does nothing of substance other then syncing your addressbook with your PC on specific models or using it to send messages around a conference table during a meeting.
Every PC I have ever had contains an ISA slot, does that mean I use it? No, not really. Sure, its old technology but the idea holds, presence does equate to penetration.
Useless useless useless.
Of course we wouldnt refer to a girl as an '18 year old virgin', she'd be an '18 year old SLUT'.
Thought I'd clear that up.
On google you get the expected 'AOL Instant Messenger' site, on Microsoft you get .
TADA
5 links to MSN Messenger.
Fantastic. No, they are not a monopoly..