If you go through life, or your design career, just sort of understanding the parts and doing something because the packaging claims it will work, you are, and will remain, a hack.
My complaint is that MAKE started off with these big aspirations about being a geek magazine, and quickly turned into either a "buy this from ThinkGeek" or "assemble this from Heathkit" 'lite' version.
I cancelled my subscription when I read the article about adding a PID controller chip to an espresso machine. The author of the article used an off-the-shelf IC designed for the task. He was quite glib about saying how much he didn't understand PID control, but was assured that the chip handled it, so there was no reason to get bogged down in the details. Sorry, but the mechanics of PID control are not just 'details'. Make is decidedly un-intellectual.
People know what's happening, but they're too scared to try and change it, or assume it will only affect other (less desirable) people. Face it folks, people have realized that a majority CAN vote away the rights of the minority.
The "industry" provided no value - it merely allowed you to pretend you were somehow secure, above and beyond the actual SSL part. Smoke and mirrors. If this "industry" dies, it will be a market correction, nothing more.
Fear. Nobody got fired for buying IBM. If you complain enough, they'll cut you a deal. If you bet the farm on some hippy software from Finland, at the first sign of trouble, the blame arrow points to you and you get the axe.
Get a diesel generator - since you have home heating oil, you can run the generator from fuel in your tank (same stuff) and thus pretty much outlast anything other than the apocalypse.
I hope our far-left overlords are more benevolent than the far-right ones were. If you think that the incoming President is far-left and the old President was far-right, then you need a refresher course in both politics and civics.
The other helpdesk people are going to be focused on their tasks, not glancing around the room for the possibility of some LED screen update. If there's an actual issue they need to know about, you should already have something in place for that.
What managers love to see are things like average call time, # calls in the queue, and # dropped calls. If you can extract that out of your call tree application and put that up there, you're one step closer to pointy hair yourself.
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An increase in REPORTED breaches. There is less stigma on it these days, and more scrutiny.
Did anyone else read that as : "It would be entertaining to see Oprah get very wide" ?
old news.
If you go through life, or your design career, just sort of understanding the parts and doing something because the packaging claims it will work, you are, and will remain, a hack.
My complaint is that MAKE started off with these big aspirations about being a geek magazine, and quickly turned into either a "buy this from ThinkGeek" or "assemble this from Heathkit" 'lite' version.
If it was a bunch of hippies (EFF) the judge would have told them to go screw, but because its a MUSLIM group, the court is kissing their butts.
Farce.
Or now that SCOX is dead, the secret funding behind Groklaw has dried up, leaving them hanging on the vine? /btw, I hate SCOX too, I'm just sayin'
I cancelled my subscription when I read the article about adding a PID controller chip to an espresso machine. The author of the article used an off-the-shelf IC designed for the task. He was quite glib about saying how much he didn't understand PID control, but was assured that the chip handled it, so there was no reason to get bogged down in the details. Sorry, but the mechanics of PID control are not just 'details'. Make is decidedly un-intellectual.
terms like "twitterverse" and "microblog" are heralding the end of the sane Internet, so lets hope they get consumed by the vermin of the Internet.
Patrick Volkerding laughs at Jobs' silly medical problems.
Just screenshot all the Apple articles on Slashdot, and you'll see fanboyism and corporate pimping at its finest.
No need to hard-code, there's an established algorithm for computing this.
Did the the 10th Doctor's regeneration count since he never changed ?
btw, get the 1st (new) season on DVD - there's episodes Sci-Fi never chose to air for some reason... and they're awesome.
People know what's happening, but they're too scared to try and change it, or assume it will only affect other (less desirable) people. Face it folks, people have realized that a majority CAN vote away the rights of the minority.
The "industry" provided no value - it merely allowed you to pretend you were somehow secure, above and beyond the actual SSL part. Smoke and mirrors. If this "industry" dies, it will be a market correction, nothing more.
Fear. Nobody got fired for buying IBM. If you complain enough, they'll cut you a deal. If you bet the farm on some hippy software from Finland, at the first sign of trouble, the blame arrow points to you and you get the axe.
Micron always made rock solid, good performing machines. They even had a high-tech name. Anyone know why they failed?
A random app released for PC-BSD? Woohoo!
Get a diesel generator - since you have home heating oil, you can run the generator from fuel in your tank (same stuff) and thus pretty much outlast anything other than the apocalypse.
Your use of the word 'twitterverse' marks you as a complete douchebag.
Most chicks know to just 'mount' their iPod directly.
bad 3rd party driver code + video code in Ring0 = FAIL.
Weren't they supposed to release a new OS after XP, but then only ever came out with a series of shitty, user un-friendly, broken betas ?
I hope our far-left overlords are more benevolent than the far-right ones were.
If you think that the incoming President is far-left and the old President was far-right, then you need a refresher course in both politics and civics.
The other helpdesk people are going to be focused on their tasks, not glancing around the room for the possibility of some LED screen update. If there's an actual issue they need to know about, you should already have something in place for that.
What managers love to see are things like average call time, # calls in the queue, and # dropped calls. If you can extract that out of your call tree application and put that up there, you're one step closer to pointy hair yourself.
I guess you could do all this, or just install Ubuntu.