You know, the ending to "Mars Attacks" was much more believable than the Red Powder ending. After all, Grandma's music is horrible enough to make anyone's head explode...
To me, it sounds like this is only relevant to organizations that maintain closed-source code trees, since the impetus on fixing the bug lies with their in-house development staff rather than with a decentralized team of programmers. It's to "protect" the company's bottom line from being affected by the propagation of bug exploits for which they have not done their part in fixing.
On the flip side, this mentality rarely exists in open-source code projects due to the lack of a need to safeguard against decreased shareholder value. Also, IMHO, open-source developers continue to maintain a sense of pride in their work that is for the most part missing in closed-source projects due to the direct recognition (and therefore, culpability) that is possible by putting your name to a piece of software that others can peruse and make comments and criticisms about. With closed-source projects, the company's reputation is primarily at stake while their programmers are largely hidden behind the web of corporate logos and NDA's, and therefore may not have reasons as strong as those of OSS developers to fix and release bugs in a timely manner.
So in other words, it's to protect lazy software companies from being held accountable for their own poor coding practices and lacadaisical maintenance policies.
The problem I see is that people want to live a lifestyle that is incompatible with reality. Related to this discussion is that people are flocking to Las Vegas and Phoenix in alarming numbers, in spite of the naturally inhospitable conditions. The short term solution? Purchase water and food from elsewhere and offer it at a relatively low cost (relative to not having the resources at all, in this case). The problem there is that the costs for getting the things they need aren't enough to offset the influx of people, nor enough to make living in those areas with the resources more attractive. So they continue to move there, exhaust the relatively low cost of obtaining the necessary basic needs, and now we have the Colorado river water shortage problem as a result. The same problem exists in southern California, Florida, and many other "desirable" warm weather, low fresh water areas of the world. If the resource providers would get in touch with the reality of the situation and continue to raise the cost of those resources, eventually, we'd get a normalization of the dwindling resource and perhaps a more sustainable long-term environment would emerge.
However, the problem isn't isolated to nature, but can be an economic problem as well. Take consumer credit for example. People want more than they can afford and use credit cards as a crutch towards the short term attainment of their desires, rather than realize that they simply can't afford to live that way, thus proving Diamond's theory on psychological denial. What ends up happening there is that the slow build up of credit results in the erosion of ability to pay it off and ultimately one of two things happen -- either the individual changes their ways and must figure out how to pay it off, meaning that a lifestyle change is in order, or the individual defaults on the credit, possibly loses the things bought on credit, and is denied the use of credit, meaning the same lifestyle change occurs, but the results are far more dramatic and much longer-term, where not only you, but any children and possibly grand-children are affected in the long-term due to your short-term folly.
The basic problem is that people are fickle when it comes to realizing that you can only live within your means, and societies that allow people to continue this fantasy are part of the problem. The solution is to realize that you can't sustain an unrealistic lifestyle in the long-term and modify your behavior to match your income in order to survive. The price of not being able to realize this is extinction.
It's not about technology -- it's about money. They don't care about the physical limitations, they're looking to make an extra dime from you for the same amount of service.
I bought a Sunfire Jr. about 3 years ago and while it's great for music, it's not so good for home theater and movie sound. It slams against the housing during large explosions and and other repetitive low frequency tracks on DVD movies.
But for music, it's very, very nice. Very smooth, musical, precise, and not at all dull or boomy. Blends nicely with my old NHT Super One's.
Of course, this is an entry-level high-end setup, but it's good enough for me. I'm not blessed with the ears that some of my other audiophile friends have, nor their budgets, so I'm happy.
Interesting....this is a paradigm shift for D&M, as they've typically invested their R&D on the high-end of the audiophile spectrum. I'm somewhat perplexed by what they hope to accomplish with buying a line of low-end audio devices...
Oh, understood entirely...wasn't trying to imply any sort of jingoistic or other extreme nationalistic fervor here. Just that if the cost of IT labor is such an issue that it become cheaper to farm the jobs out than to keep good people in the traditionally strong IT areas like the Bay Area and NYC, then it would be prudent to look elsewhere in the USA first (assuming the company is American-owned and the majority of stockholders are US-based) before sending those highly skilled positions abroad on a permanent basis. The macroeconomic shift of those skilled workers to external countries and the subsequent dwindling of the talent pool in the US is what I fear the most.
That's why I'm advocating for IT shops to look elsewhere within the US first for the "hidden" opportunities that exist in places like Columbus, Atlanta, Louisville, Austin, and Raleigh. These are cities that have a growing population of highly skilled IT workers who will work for lower wages than what is "required" by Bay Area and NYC IT workers due to the cost of living in those areas. It may be a bit more expensive than sending the talent overseas, but it maintains an investment in American talent that can't be made up easily if the work is sent en masse to tech workers in foreign countries for extended periods of time. It's the long term effect that I'm stressing that people consider.
Now of course, I'm all for choosing the best people. There's a growing international population of highly skilled IT workers as well, such as those throughout Western Europe, Israel, India, Japan, and Australia. If the skillset is so far ahead in those places than what is current available locally, and to train local people would cause major short-term losses or cause businesses to miss great opportunities, then by all means, use whatever talent exists, whether it is at home or abroad. However, in the meantime, those companies should be making concerted efforts to stress the need for these skillsets at US colleges and universities and perhaps invest in programs that enhance and retrain this country's IT workers so that they can become competitive. Alternatively, I advocate continuing to bring in foreign workers on visas and work permits to fill the need on a temporary basis, while the missing skillsets are developed within the country. One bonus there is that many "temporary foreign workers" end up deciding to stay and become American citizens or permanent residents, which is a double bonus, really. But if the only option is to farm it out entirely, then so be it, but not without realizing the need to have those skillsets be replenished locally in the near future.
However, if an equivalent skillset does exist within the same country, it serves the better interests of US-based companies to keep the jobs within the US and accept the higher cost of keeping talent (and the subsequent disposable income) local. Otherwise, you risk another imbalance of trade, similar to that which occurred between the US and Japan during the past couple of decades, and that takes a paradigm shift in order to right the imbalance. Additionally, the locally unused talent may atrophy, and that is a double-penalty. Some countries never get out of that hole once they become dependent on foreign goods, or in this case, foreign skillsets. This is the problem that I see about to occur with the IT industry in America if the talent isn't being developed and harvested within the US whenever possible.
IMHO, the future of the American economy is to continue to focus on highly-skilled trades and industries, while reinvesting the profits into the infrastructure needed to continue to produce those highly skilled workers. If we abandon the homefront, we lose out in the long run.
While the 69/8 netblock has been long known to be reserved, and has been subsequently been "used" by script kiddies and the like for DoS attacks, then if ARIN has decided to open that netblock for sale, then it is up to them to notify and market the netblock as no longer being reserved. Pretty simple actually. This is a case where a non-technical solution is ideal to address what has been a technical problem.
If ARIN isn't doing that, then shame on them. If they are doing that, and we're just ignorant of it, them shame on us.
You don't need to live in Hungary to get a cost of living that is half that of SF/Bay Area (roughly 160, IIRC). Try Columbus, Ohio -- roughly 92. Clean air, open land, affordable housing, good job market with relatively high computer-literate population, low taxes, good universities nearby, and, oh, BTW, part of the good ole USA.
Stop sending good jobs overseas....send them here. We've got the people, we've got the resources, just need the opportunity. Come home to Ohio, all you Bay Area refugees....
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Well, one thing is for sure though -- Human v4.1 is the most fault-tolerant program ever designed...or the least, depending upon your viewpoint...
Where do we draw the line between human and (for lack of a better word) robot? Nanotech, implants, and genetic mods are all coming to meet at a common point, and that point is SOON!
Michael Jackson, Cher, and Joan Rivers -- we're too late, the line has been crossed!
I'm not going to do anything alone. That's the definition of a renegade. But if democracy fails due to corrupt governmental practices, then it is not only the right, but the responsibility of the people to ensure that the problem is dealt with, lest the entire system collapses. This is no different now than it was about 225 years ago.
And as far as me and my.45, granted, having M1A1 tanks and F-15E's may level the playing field to some degree, but having an army of 150,000,000 people with.45's would probably make anyone take notice...
Premise #1: "A Gun is designed to damage." -- Fine, I'll grant you that. No problems there.
Premise #2: "[The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution] is outdated, unneeded, and useless". -- That's where you're wrong. The last chance of a democracy to effect change upon a corrupt government is to physically remove them. When that ability no longer exists, then you have a totalitarian state, not a democracy anymore. Of course, a lot of things need to happen first for this scenario to occur, but the ability to evict a corrupt government MUST exist as a fundamental and immutable right guaranteed by that government's constitution. Therefore, it's not outdated, not unnecessary, and definitely not useless.
This is getting way out of hand. Pretty soon, I won't be able to make modifications to my PC or my car, not because it would void the warranty (don't care), but because I'M NOT FREAKING ALLOWED TO IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Of course, by this logic, all of NASCAR should be banned and taken over by the DOJ. Perhaps we can get a few of those judges to try driving those cars too. Sounds like Darwinism in action to me....
This has not changed at Ohio State even in the 25 years since you earned your BS. I've attended quite a few commencement ceremonies over the past few years there, including my own, and it never fails that the number graduates earning the [summa|magna] cum laude distinction is much, much higher from the College of Education than it ever is from the College of Engineering. In fact, in some programs, it's downright unusual to graduate without some sort of distinction.
OTOH, from an informal perspective, the graduation-to-job ratio was MUCH, MUCH higher in the College of Engineering than any other degree program, and the published statistics still support the value of an engineering degree over those from most other disciplines.
SPARC64GP are either rack-mountable servers (starts at 1U for V100 or 120-like machines) and scales upto 200 CPUs for a system that fills two racks...
SPARC64GP starts at the PrimePower 200 line, which is a tower server that can do 1-2 CPU's. Fujitsu does not have a 1U implementation (I'm working with their engineers daily right now, so I have a little up-to-date knowledge about this). And as for the top end, yes, the upcoming PP2500 is a mainframe-class server that does upto 128 CPU's running at 1.035 GHz, and outperforms the SunFire 15K by leaps and bounds.
Running OpenBSD on anything but a single blade 1000/2000/ the upcoming jalapeno-workstations or a small server is - IMHO - completely nuts.
Perhaps, but then why bother going after the UltraSPARC III line? At a minimum, you'll be running on either a Blade 2000 or a SunFire 280R. So if platform choice is an issue, why even bother with the UltraSPARC III at all, unless Theo de Raadt has future plans to take OpenBSD into the realm of larger, midrange class servers? Logic will tell you that either it's a ruse to get Sun to cooperate, or he has bigger plans in mind.
If Sun won't cooperate with the UltraSPARC III, then why not engage Fujitsu to develop kernel code for their SPARC64GP processor line? It's at least as good, if not superior, to the UltraSPARC III, and it sends another message to Sun to say, watch out -- you're not the only fish in the pond...
Of course, for those that are advertising tomorrow and put up the website on the ad, it can be a very heavy day. I used to administer AT&T's website and each SuperBowl Sunday came in as the heaviest day of the year for us due to the number of ads that AT&T ran.
You wouldn't think that there would be that many people distracted enough to check out the website, but that is exactly what happened, to the tune of 3-4x the average daily traffic.
Nah...the problem isn't entirely with Microsoft, but with lazy admins. The patch has been available for exactly 6 months now, and poor admin practices could be the only reason why this would still exist.
That being said, it doesn't speak well of the typical MS admin that SQL Server boxes are being put on the outsides of firewalls and with unpatched software. That's grossly sloppy from a design perspective, and just begs for these kinds of things to happen.
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if you work cannot reasonably be done in ~40 hrs/ week you are supposed to be compensated for overtime put in.
If that's truly the case, then I'm owed somewhere in the vicinity of 4000-5000 hours over the past 10 years.
You know, the ending to "Mars Attacks" was much more believable than the Red Powder ending. After all, Grandma's music is horrible enough to make anyone's head explode...
To me, it sounds like this is only relevant to organizations that maintain closed-source code trees, since the impetus on fixing the bug lies with their in-house development staff rather than with a decentralized team of programmers. It's to "protect" the company's bottom line from being affected by the propagation of bug exploits for which they have not done their part in fixing.
On the flip side, this mentality rarely exists in open-source code projects due to the lack of a need to safeguard against decreased shareholder value. Also, IMHO, open-source developers continue to maintain a sense of pride in their work that is for the most part missing in closed-source projects due to the direct recognition (and therefore, culpability) that is possible by putting your name to a piece of software that others can peruse and make comments and criticisms about. With closed-source projects, the company's reputation is primarily at stake while their programmers are largely hidden behind the web of corporate logos and NDA's, and therefore may not have reasons as strong as those of OSS developers to fix and release bugs in a timely manner.
So in other words, it's to protect lazy software companies from being held accountable for their own poor coding practices and lacadaisical maintenance policies.
Hmmm, I'm not so sure about this. One quick look at the offensive lines of most NFL teams would tend to refute that argument....
The problem I see is that people want to live a lifestyle that is incompatible with reality. Related to this discussion is that people are flocking to Las Vegas and Phoenix in alarming numbers, in spite of the naturally inhospitable conditions. The short term solution? Purchase water and food from elsewhere and offer it at a relatively low cost (relative to not having the resources at all, in this case). The problem there is that the costs for getting the things they need aren't enough to offset the influx of people, nor enough to make living in those areas with the resources more attractive. So they continue to move there, exhaust the relatively low cost of obtaining the necessary basic needs, and now we have the Colorado river water shortage problem as a result. The same problem exists in southern California, Florida, and many other "desirable" warm weather, low fresh water areas of the world. If the resource providers would get in touch with the reality of the situation and continue to raise the cost of those resources, eventually, we'd get a normalization of the dwindling resource and perhaps a more sustainable long-term environment would emerge.
However, the problem isn't isolated to nature, but can be an economic problem as well. Take consumer credit for example. People want more than they can afford and use credit cards as a crutch towards the short term attainment of their desires, rather than realize that they simply can't afford to live that way, thus proving Diamond's theory on psychological denial. What ends up happening there is that the slow build up of credit results in the erosion of ability to pay it off and ultimately one of two things happen -- either the individual changes their ways and must figure out how to pay it off, meaning that a lifestyle change is in order, or the individual defaults on the credit, possibly loses the things bought on credit, and is denied the use of credit, meaning the same lifestyle change occurs, but the results are far more dramatic and much longer-term, where not only you, but any children and possibly grand-children are affected in the long-term due to your short-term folly.
The basic problem is that people are fickle when it comes to realizing that you can only live within your means, and societies that allow people to continue this fantasy are part of the problem. The solution is to realize that you can't sustain an unrealistic lifestyle in the long-term and modify your behavior to match your income in order to survive. The price of not being able to realize this is extinction.
It's not about technology -- it's about money. They don't care about the physical limitations, they're looking to make an extra dime from you for the same amount of service.
I bought a Sunfire Jr. about 3 years ago and while it's great for music, it's not so good for home theater and movie sound. It slams against the housing during large explosions and and other repetitive low frequency tracks on DVD movies.
But for music, it's very, very nice. Very smooth, musical, precise, and not at all dull or boomy. Blends nicely with my old NHT Super One's.
Of course, this is an entry-level high-end setup, but it's good enough for me. I'm not blessed with the ears that some of my other audiophile friends have, nor their budgets, so I'm happy.
Interesting....this is a paradigm shift for D&M, as they've typically invested their R&D on the high-end of the audiophile spectrum. I'm somewhat perplexed by what they hope to accomplish with buying a line of low-end audio devices...
Oh, understood entirely...wasn't trying to imply any sort of jingoistic or other extreme nationalistic fervor here. Just that if the cost of IT labor is such an issue that it become cheaper to farm the jobs out than to keep good people in the traditionally strong IT areas like the Bay Area and NYC, then it would be prudent to look elsewhere in the USA first (assuming the company is American-owned and the majority of stockholders are US-based) before sending those highly skilled positions abroad on a permanent basis. The macroeconomic shift of those skilled workers to external countries and the subsequent dwindling of the talent pool in the US is what I fear the most.
That's why I'm advocating for IT shops to look elsewhere within the US first for the "hidden" opportunities that exist in places like Columbus, Atlanta, Louisville, Austin, and Raleigh. These are cities that have a growing population of highly skilled IT workers who will work for lower wages than what is "required" by Bay Area and NYC IT workers due to the cost of living in those areas. It may be a bit more expensive than sending the talent overseas, but it maintains an investment in American talent that can't be made up easily if the work is sent en masse to tech workers in foreign countries for extended periods of time. It's the long term effect that I'm stressing that people consider.
Now of course, I'm all for choosing the best people. There's a growing international population of highly skilled IT workers as well, such as those throughout Western Europe, Israel, India, Japan, and Australia. If the skillset is so far ahead in those places than what is current available locally, and to train local people would cause major short-term losses or cause businesses to miss great opportunities, then by all means, use whatever talent exists, whether it is at home or abroad. However, in the meantime, those companies should be making concerted efforts to stress the need for these skillsets at US colleges and universities and perhaps invest in programs that enhance and retrain this country's IT workers so that they can become competitive. Alternatively, I advocate continuing to bring in foreign workers on visas and work permits to fill the need on a temporary basis, while the missing skillsets are developed within the country. One bonus there is that many "temporary foreign workers" end up deciding to stay and become American citizens or permanent residents, which is a double bonus, really. But if the only option is to farm it out entirely, then so be it, but not without realizing the need to have those skillsets be replenished locally in the near future.
However, if an equivalent skillset does exist within the same country, it serves the better interests of US-based companies to keep the jobs within the US and accept the higher cost of keeping talent (and the subsequent disposable income) local. Otherwise, you risk another imbalance of trade, similar to that which occurred between the US and Japan during the past couple of decades, and that takes a paradigm shift in order to right the imbalance. Additionally, the locally unused talent may atrophy, and that is a double-penalty. Some countries never get out of that hole once they become dependent on foreign goods, or in this case, foreign skillsets. This is the problem that I see about to occur with the IT industry in America if the talent isn't being developed and harvested within the US whenever possible.
IMHO, the future of the American economy is to continue to focus on highly-skilled trades and industries, while reinvesting the profits into the infrastructure needed to continue to produce those highly skilled workers. If we abandon the homefront, we lose out in the long run.
While the 69/8 netblock has been long known to be reserved, and has been subsequently been "used" by script kiddies and the like for DoS attacks, then if ARIN has decided to open that netblock for sale, then it is up to them to notify and market the netblock as no longer being reserved. Pretty simple actually. This is a case where a non-technical solution is ideal to address what has been a technical problem.
If ARIN isn't doing that, then shame on them. If they are doing that, and we're just ignorant of it, them shame on us.
You don't need to live in Hungary to get a cost of living that is half that of SF/Bay Area (roughly 160, IIRC). Try Columbus, Ohio -- roughly 92. Clean air, open land, affordable housing, good job market with relatively high computer-literate population, low taxes, good universities nearby, and, oh, BTW, part of the good ole USA.
Stop sending good jobs overseas....send them here. We've got the people, we've got the resources, just need the opportunity. Come home to Ohio, all you Bay Area refugees....
Well, one thing is for sure though -- Human v4.1 is the most fault-tolerant program ever designed...or the least, depending upon your viewpoint...
Where do we draw the line between human and (for lack of a better word) robot? Nanotech, implants, and genetic mods are all coming to meet at a common point, and that point is SOON!
Michael Jackson, Cher, and Joan Rivers -- we're too late, the line has been crossed!
I think what's more sad is not that yet another website is slashdotted, but it's one that describes how to make Enterprise's out of floppy disks.
People...it's a Sunday. Go outside, meet some new people, GET A LIFE!!!
I'm not going to do anything alone. That's the definition of a renegade. But if democracy fails due to corrupt governmental practices, then it is not only the right, but the responsibility of the people to ensure that the problem is dealt with, lest the entire system collapses. This is no different now than it was about 225 years ago.
.45, granted, having M1A1 tanks and F-15E's may level the playing field to some degree, but having an army of 150,000,000 people with .45's would probably make anyone take notice...
And as far as me and my
Anyway, we're way offtopic here.
Premise #1: "A Gun is designed to damage." -- Fine, I'll grant you that. No problems there.
Premise #2: "[The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution] is outdated, unneeded, and useless". -- That's where you're wrong. The last chance of a democracy to effect change upon a corrupt government is to physically remove them. When that ability no longer exists, then you have a totalitarian state, not a democracy anymore. Of course, a lot of things need to happen first for this scenario to occur, but the ability to evict a corrupt government MUST exist as a fundamental and immutable right guaranteed by that government's constitution. Therefore, it's not outdated, not unnecessary, and definitely not useless.
This is getting way out of hand. Pretty soon, I won't be able to make modifications to my PC or my car, not because it would void the warranty (don't care), but because I'M NOT FREAKING ALLOWED TO IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Of course, by this logic, all of NASCAR should be banned and taken over by the DOJ. Perhaps we can get a few of those judges to try driving those cars too. Sounds like Darwinism in action to me....
You mean like the way that gas stations and supermarkets do?
Hmmm...
This has not changed at Ohio State even in the 25 years since you earned your BS. I've attended quite a few commencement ceremonies over the past few years there, including my own, and it never fails that the number graduates earning the [summa|magna] cum laude distinction is much, much higher from the College of Education than it ever is from the College of Engineering. In fact, in some programs, it's downright unusual to graduate without some sort of distinction.
OTOH, from an informal perspective, the graduation-to-job ratio was MUCH, MUCH higher in the College of Engineering than any other degree program, and the published statistics still support the value of an engineering degree over those from most other disciplines.
SPARC64GP starts at the PrimePower 200 line, which is a tower server that can do 1-2 CPU's. Fujitsu does not have a 1U implementation (I'm working with their engineers daily right now, so I have a little up-to-date knowledge about this). And as for the top end, yes, the upcoming PP2500 is a mainframe-class server that does upto 128 CPU's running at 1.035 GHz, and outperforms the SunFire 15K by leaps and bounds.
Perhaps, but then why bother going after the UltraSPARC III line? At a minimum, you'll be running on either a Blade 2000 or a SunFire 280R. So if platform choice is an issue, why even bother with the UltraSPARC III at all, unless Theo de Raadt has future plans to take OpenBSD into the realm of larger, midrange class servers? Logic will tell you that either it's a ruse to get Sun to cooperate, or he has bigger plans in mind.
If Sun won't cooperate with the UltraSPARC III, then why not engage Fujitsu to develop kernel code for their SPARC64GP processor line? It's at least as good, if not superior, to the UltraSPARC III, and it sends another message to Sun to say, watch out -- you're not the only fish in the pond...
"The best way to get someone to touch something is to put a sign on it that says Don't touch"...
Some computer geeks with a knack for sports have found a way to merge the two together...
Comprank Ratings for Sports
Massey Ratings
Sagarin's Ratings
Of course, for those that are advertising tomorrow and put up the website on the ad, it can be a very heavy day. I used to administer AT&T's website and each SuperBowl Sunday came in as the heaviest day of the year for us due to the number of ads that AT&T ran.
You wouldn't think that there would be that many people distracted enough to check out the website, but that is exactly what happened, to the tune of 3-4x the average daily traffic.
Nah...the problem isn't entirely with Microsoft, but with lazy admins. The patch has been available for exactly 6 months now, and poor admin practices could be the only reason why this would still exist.
That being said, it doesn't speak well of the typical MS admin that SQL Server boxes are being put on the outsides of firewalls and with unpatched software. That's grossly sloppy from a design perspective, and just begs for these kinds of things to happen.