I was working part time as a lifeguard not long after Baywatch debuted.
My manager was flipping channels in the break room one day, and happened to stumble across the opening credits. He turned to me with a look of awe and said, "Have you seen this? They're making lifeguards now with their own flotation devices."
And we all know how well this as worked in the past. After all, no vendor of any commercial product has ever made a clunker.
There is only one form of accountability that people consider when making purchasing decisions like this one: "if things go south, can I be blamed for this decision?" Most people in a position to decide on a Microsoft vs. open source solution for any project of interesting size know that, to mangle an old IT axiom, noone ever got fired for going Microsoft. And only the largest seriously believe that Microsoft loses any sleep over them.
In any case, how is the registry brittle? Usually, when we talk about technologies that are "brittle", we are talking about things that are easy for the non-technie user to break. One of the main points of the registry was to have a binary format that most non-techie users would never even venture to touch...
You're correct in this regard. So let me ask you: how often, as an administrator of Windows machines, have you seen problems with user workstations that involved either the corruption or misconfiguration of the registry? My guess is that if you've been doing administration for any length of time, you've seen it often enough that it doesn't get more than a raised eyebrow.
So, consider: how robust the registry system can really be if ordinary users can break it in the course of doing their daily business, without ever opening it, examining it, or even knowing it exists?
Contrast this with text based configuration files. Each file is a discrete entity, as opposed to a monolithic binary database. Even if one of the configuration files becomes hopelessly borked, the damage is confined to whatever you were configuring: I may completely kill someone's network connection by deleting/etc/sysconfig/network, but at least it's an obvious first place to look, and the file is short, well-documented, and easy to crib from a comparable system.
Okay, color me easily irritated, but read the bottom of the article:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com/ software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net/ a wireless text messaging software company
So, as nearly as I can tell, the marketing director for a company called Feed For All, who in the past has posted exactly one comment on Slashdot, writes an article for the company she works for as marketing director, then submits a Slashdot story about it.
Look, if the submission had said something like, "Hey, we make software that makes RSS feeds, come see how we think the software can be used," it would be one thing. But this is just a stealth product advertisement, couched as a real article. It's basically astroturf, the kind of thing that people are thinking about when they talk about how much they hate marketing directors.
We actually do not know for sure what her status was as that information has never been released to the public and knowing the history of the employer, likely will not be.
We don't know, but we can draw a pretty educated guess. To wit: if Plame wasn't a covert operative, then "outing" her wouldn't have been illegal. So why would a grand jury be investigating? Boredom?
You're right, but that doesn't go far enough. Now, anyone associated with the front organization will be suspected of involvement with the CIA, correctly or not.
1. Assuming that "you" in this case are the guy in the van, and "I" am the guy with the open access point, "you" are not responsible for upholding a contract between "me" and "my" ISP. "You," however, are responsible for the unauthorized use of service from "my" ISP.
2. I do think that it could be persuasively argued that he's guilty of a crime, although ultimately that would be up to a court to describe. Unlawful use of network resources has been prosecuted under a number of different laws: do a google search on "network trespass to chattel" for one possible tack.
No it isn't. It's not even a copyright problem. What, now I need an extra license if somebody's visiting and they want to check their mail?
Most ISPs have a "terms of service" contract which specify restrictions on what you're allowed to do with your wireless network. A simplified version of one of the most common terms is, "You can't share this connection with your neighborhood."
In that sense, it's actually more like the stated example than outright theft: in both cases, no one has been deprived of the "stolen" goods, but the provider of the software/service has been deprived of a source of revenue, due to someone else's violation of a contract. Except the terms of service with your ISP are likely a lot more enforceable than a EULA, seeing as how you actually have to sign something.
Personally, I think the guy is guilty of a crime, and deserving of punshiment: a slap on the wrist, a stern reprimand, and a fine of maybe $50 for being creepy.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I just snagged a new laptop with built-in Bluetooth, and it's shocking exactly how few bluetooth travel mice there are out there.
If you're going to include a dongle in the packaging anyway, why not make it a bluetooth one? The mouse I eventually bought came bundled with one, and I just tossed it. (Okay, actually, I just put it aside.)
I could see the need for a 2.4Ghz transmitter if this were a presentation remote or something similar, but come on, people. Most of us don't sit fifty feet from our laptops.
Without addressing the claims of the Dvorak boosters, I just wanted to let people know that there are other options for mitigating repetitive strain injuries.
I've had recurring mild pain in my wrists and forearms for the last seven years or so, and have tried a fair number of remedies, including cold compresses, wrist braces, tablet based input (to replace a mouse, not tablet PCs), and ergonomic keyboards.
So far, the only thing that has consistently brought me relief is regularly following a joint mobility program. I've had a lot of success with Scott Sonnon's "Warrior Wellness" program, although I also hear excellent things about Steve Maxwell's program. Sonnon is an Sambo wrestler and trainer with multiple championchips under his belt, and Maxwell is a multiple-time BJJ world champion and trainer of same, so their mobility concerns are a bit more rareified than yours and mine. But definitely worth checking out.
Two warnings. 1) I believe a couple of Maxwell's drills require the use of a kettlebell. 2) You will feel like a complete idiot doing Sonnon's drills. They're seriously funny-lookin'. But they work.:)
Does the audience know? If nobody told you, and you watched the episodes from I to VI, would you catch on at the beginning of IV that Luke was one of the children at the end of III?
Are you serious?
At the end of Episode 3, baby Luke is left on the planet Tatooine with two people who are identifed as Owen and Beru Skywalker. Obi Wan says he will stay nearby to keep an eye on him.
Episode 4 opens in the skies above Tatooine. We are quickly (re)introduced to Luke, who makes references to his "Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru," and soon meets up with "Old Man Kenobi."
Kenobi gives him a lightsaber, and says that it belonged to Luke's father, his former apprentice.
Granted, it would have been a great plot twist if it had actually turned out to be Han, but... come on now.
That's funny - I had a similar experience. My friends downloaded and installed one of the old "qtest" alphas, installed it, and set me down in front of it without any explanation. I got in the first door, down the elevator, and face to face with a doberman, which I promptly shot.
I remember vividly that it took the hit, rolled onto its side, and got back up and attempted to attack me again. Scared the hell out of me.
The cracks about "why not just sell it on ebay" aside, this is a very good program.
Manufacturing computers and consumer electronics is a messy process, and the rapid speed of upgrades ensures that many tons of computer equipment are entering landfills regularly. Many of the components in computers are quite toxic. On a smaller scale, I'm sure the same is true of the iPod.
Apple's recycling program is probably worded as broadly as it is so as to avoid confusion, but the important part is that they don't exclude iPods that are utterly broken and irreperably from the program. That means that assuming you can get it to them, they'll put it in the recycling program no matter how badly bashed up it is.
Incidentally, Apple, IBM, and probably a few other manufacturers have recycling programs in place for computers. Many of them require you to pay the company to take your old, beat up jonx.
Every organization with a sufficent number of tech geeks (approximately three, in my experience) has one obnoxious asshole who is constantly throwing out awful ideas and defending them vehemently. If you haven't, you either work alone, or you are the obnoxious asshole.
Nowhere in the article does he suggest that deferring to your manager is always the right course, and, in fact, we have this:
It follows that if your team manager is wise and reasonable, smart people who might ordinarily defend bad ideas will have a hard time doing so. But sadly if your team manager is neither wise nor reasonable, smart, arrogant people may convince others to follow their misguided ways more often than not.
Actually, there was a case not too long ago where a kid who was a photography buff was arrested for posession of... film canisters. Apparently, someone found them in his locker or on his person and assumed that he was using them to transport drugs. He was arrested, and eventually tried, for possession of drug paraphenalia.
The punchline? Possession of paraphenalia isn't a crime where he lives. (Of course, he wasn't convicted, either.)
So you maintain your own repository. Is there software to auto deploy updates to tens of thousands of machines based upon their machine name, location, role or other details? And maintain an inventory of what machines need updating, and what machines have what software?
cmcsonar writes "Computer Economics recently conducted a survey of visitors to its website regarding the perceived advantages in the use of open source software. Although not a scientific sample, the results are nevertheless startling."
More accurately, cmcsonor cuts and pastes that from the original article, then adds a single link.
C'mon, guys. Writing up a story sub for something like this isn't hard. The least you could do is actually type a sentence or two of your own.
But read that passage again, and think about the options it provided to O'Gara.
O'Gara first asserted that the Groklaw author (PJ) was, in essence, a recluse with possible issues of senility and dementia. But the beauty of it is the second paragraph, in which she says that perhaps this woman is PJ's mother. And in the third, she drops the familial relationship altogether.
The result? Either PJ is senile and untrustworthy, or someone willing to pose as her own mother to avoid scrutiny, or perhaps some random identity thief. Not only do all three paint a pretty bad picture of PJ, but each requires a reduced burden of proof: either she's this person you shouldn't trust, or she's not, in which case she's worse.
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I was working part time as a lifeguard not long after Baywatch debuted.
My manager was flipping channels in the break room one day, and happened to stumble across the opening credits. He turned to me with a look of awe and said, "Have you seen this? They're making lifeguards now with their own flotation devices."
Even worse: e-mails that say "call me."
Or voicemail messages that say "call me."
Hey buddy - you just called me. How about you actually leave a hint as to what you want to talk about?
(But your pet peeve reminds me of the character on Harvey Birdman who is constantly interrupting to ask, "Didja get that thing I sentcha?" Hee.)
And we all know how well this as worked in the past. After all, no vendor of any commercial product has ever made a clunker.
There is only one form of accountability that people consider when making purchasing decisions like this one: "if things go south, can I be blamed for this decision?" Most people in a position to decide on a Microsoft vs. open source solution for any project of interesting size know that, to mangle an old IT axiom, noone ever got fired for going Microsoft. And only the largest seriously believe that Microsoft loses any sleep over them.
You're correct in this regard. So let me ask you: how often, as an administrator of Windows machines, have you seen problems with user workstations that involved either the corruption or misconfiguration of the registry? My guess is that if you've been doing administration for any length of time, you've seen it often enough that it doesn't get more than a raised eyebrow.
So, consider: how robust the registry system can really be if ordinary users can break it in the course of doing their daily business, without ever opening it, examining it, or even knowing it exists?
Contrast this with text based configuration files. Each file is a discrete entity, as opposed to a monolithic binary database. Even if one of the configuration files becomes hopelessly borked, the damage is confined to whatever you were configuring: I may completely kill someone's network connection by deleting
So, as nearly as I can tell, the marketing director for a company called Feed For All, who in the past has posted exactly one comment on Slashdot, writes an article for the company she works for as marketing director, then submits a Slashdot story about it.
Look, if the submission had said something like, "Hey, we make software that makes RSS feeds, come see how we think the software can be used," it would be one thing. But this is just a stealth product advertisement, couched as a real article. It's basically astroturf, the kind of thing that people are thinking about when they talk about how much they hate marketing directors.
We don't know, but we can draw a pretty educated guess. To wit: if Plame wasn't a covert operative, then "outing" her wouldn't have been illegal. So why would a grand jury be investigating? Boredom?
You're right, but that doesn't go far enough. Now, anyone associated with the front organization will be suspected of involvement with the CIA, correctly or not.
It's actually just Ben Browder (John Crichton) and Claudia Black (Aeryn Sun) who are coming back. But they were sorta the big two anyway.
Black is only going to be in a half dozen episodes or so. It's a shame, because let me tell you, rrowl.
Browder, however, will be replacing Richard Dean Anderson eventually, and will be one of the main cast members.
Ha - liberal relativism, from well known commie pinkos like Dale Carnegie.
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke."
1. Assuming that "you" in this case are the guy in the van, and "I" am the guy with the open access point, "you" are not responsible for upholding a contract between "me" and "my" ISP. "You," however, are responsible for the unauthorized use of service from "my" ISP.
2. I do think that it could be persuasively argued that he's guilty of a crime, although ultimately that would be up to a court to describe. Unlawful use of network resources has been prosecuted under a number of different laws: do a google search on "network trespass to chattel" for one possible tack.
3. No, you dumbass. I was joking about the fine.
Most ISPs have a "terms of service" contract which specify restrictions on what you're allowed to do with your wireless network. A simplified version of one of the most common terms is, "You can't share this connection with your neighborhood."
In that sense, it's actually more like the stated example than outright theft: in both cases, no one has been deprived of the "stolen" goods, but the provider of the software/service has been deprived of a source of revenue, due to someone else's violation of a contract. Except the terms of service with your ISP are likely a lot more enforceable than a EULA, seeing as how you actually have to sign something.
Personally, I think the guy is guilty of a crime, and deserving of punshiment: a slap on the wrist, a stern reprimand, and a fine of maybe $50 for being creepy.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I just snagged a new laptop with built-in Bluetooth, and it's shocking exactly how few bluetooth travel mice there are out there.
If you're going to include a dongle in the packaging anyway, why not make it a bluetooth one? The mouse I eventually bought came bundled with one, and I just tossed it. (Okay, actually, I just put it aside.)
I could see the need for a 2.4Ghz transmitter if this were a presentation remote or something similar, but come on, people. Most of us don't sit fifty feet from our laptops.
I cannot believe I just typed "championchips."
That is all.
Without addressing the claims of the Dvorak boosters, I just wanted to let people know that there are other options for mitigating repetitive strain injuries.
:)
I've had recurring mild pain in my wrists and forearms for the last seven years or so, and have tried a fair number of remedies, including cold compresses, wrist braces, tablet based input (to replace a mouse, not tablet PCs), and ergonomic keyboards.
So far, the only thing that has consistently brought me relief is regularly following a joint mobility program. I've had a lot of success with Scott Sonnon's "Warrior Wellness" program, although I also hear excellent things about Steve Maxwell's program. Sonnon is an Sambo wrestler and trainer with multiple championchips under his belt, and Maxwell is a multiple-time BJJ world champion and trainer of same, so their mobility concerns are a bit more rareified than yours and mine. But definitely worth checking out.
Two warnings. 1) I believe a couple of Maxwell's drills require the use of a kettlebell. 2) You will feel like a complete idiot doing Sonnon's drills. They're seriously funny-lookin'. But they work.
Are you serious?
At the end of Episode 3, baby Luke is left on the planet Tatooine with two people who are identifed as Owen and Beru Skywalker. Obi Wan says he will stay nearby to keep an eye on him.
Episode 4 opens in the skies above Tatooine. We are quickly (re)introduced to Luke, who makes references to his "Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru," and soon meets up with "Old Man Kenobi."
Kenobi gives him a lightsaber, and says that it belonged to Luke's father, his former apprentice.
Granted, it would have been a great plot twist if it had actually turned out to be Han, but... come on now.
Yeah, but the real question is, can you run Linux on it?
Oh, wait.
That's funny - I had a similar experience. My friends downloaded and installed one of the old "qtest" alphas, installed it, and set me down in front of it without any explanation. I got in the first door, down the elevator, and face to face with a doberman, which I promptly shot.
I remember vividly that it took the hit, rolled onto its side, and got back up and attempted to attack me again. Scared the hell out of me.
The cracks about "why not just sell it on ebay" aside, this is a very good program.
Manufacturing computers and consumer electronics is a messy process, and the rapid speed of upgrades ensures that many tons of computer equipment are entering landfills regularly. Many of the components in computers are quite toxic. On a smaller scale, I'm sure the same is true of the iPod.
Apple's recycling program is probably worded as broadly as it is so as to avoid confusion, but the important part is that they don't exclude iPods that are utterly broken and irreperably from the program. That means that assuming you can get it to them, they'll put it in the recycling program no matter how badly bashed up it is.
Incidentally, Apple, IBM, and probably a few other manufacturers have recycling programs in place for computers. Many of them require you to pay the company to take your old, beat up jonx.
Every organization with a sufficent number of tech geeks (approximately three, in my experience) has one obnoxious asshole who is constantly throwing out awful ideas and defending them vehemently. If you haven't, you either work alone, or you are the obnoxious asshole.
Nowhere in the article does he suggest that deferring to your manager is always the right course, and, in fact, we have this:
So, you know. RTFA, and all.
Actually, there was a case not too long ago where a kid who was a photography buff was arrested for posession of... film canisters. Apparently, someone found them in his locker or on his person and assumed that he was using them to transport drugs. He was arrested, and eventually tried, for possession of drug paraphenalia.
The punchline? Possession of paraphenalia isn't a crime where he lives. (Of course, he wasn't convicted, either.)
Full story here.
Yes.
According to the court documents, Ms. Ryan claimed that her husband attempted to pressure her into having public sex with him in front of an audience.
I think Terry Farrel is cuter too, but calling Jeri a "prude" because she didn't want to screw her husband in a club where there were "cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling," is a little unfair.
More accurately, cmcsonor cuts and pastes that from the original article, then adds a single link.
C'mon, guys. Writing up a story sub for something like this isn't hard. The least you could do is actually type a sentence or two of your own.
But read that passage again, and think about the options it provided to O'Gara.
O'Gara first asserted that the Groklaw author (PJ) was, in essence, a recluse with possible issues of senility and dementia. But the beauty of it is the second paragraph, in which she says that perhaps this woman is PJ's mother. And in the third, she drops the familial relationship altogether.
The result? Either PJ is senile and untrustworthy, or someone willing to pose as her own mother to avoid scrutiny, or perhaps some random identity thief. Not only do all three paint a pretty bad picture of PJ, but each requires a reduced burden of proof: either she's this person you shouldn't trust, or she's not, in which case she's worse.
Truly a masterpiece of a hatchet job.