indiscriminately firing workers - Wall Street loves that
Wall Street doesn't love firing workers. Wall Street loves lowering expense levels while maintaining revenue levels. Think "P/E." If E goes up, P should go up, regardless of the reason.
Don't be hate'n just 'cause financial analysts be evaluate'n.
There comes a time where you have to decide whether it's better to save $5 for yourself, or spend it so that somebody else has a job.
That's brilliant economic thinking. I know, lets go around breaking windows so that we can employ people to fix the windows. Sure, it costs, money to break windows, but it provides other people with jobs./In an dynamic economy, one must adapt or die. It isn't fair, but it's reality. Adaptability is much more valuable than "hard work" and "dedication."
It isn't a management problem. It is a client problem. Engineering a system with security requirements will always cost more than engineering a system without security requirements.
If several groups are bidding on a project, and security is not explicitly and verifiably included in the RFQ, any group that ignores security will be able to undercut groups which take security seriously.
Wow. That entire clipboard analysis flew right over your head.
It doesn't matter if something is implemented as intended or not. If I attempt to do something right, and I do it wrong, the result is wrong. If I attempt to do something wrong, and I succeed in doing it wrong, the result is wrong. If cooperation among different groups is required for something to be done right, but these groups do not cooperate, the result is wrong.
Your bit about "every user would keep both apps open when copying, just to be safe" demonstrates a fundamental misconception about how the human brain thinks. I would imagine any interface you design would be a disaster. Your mind has been so affected by years of working with badly-designed software that you can't even imagine how everyone else thinks. Don't ever EVER attempt to design a HCI. You're damaged goods.
Well, the data is out there. Engineers who know it exists will take it into consideration when designing their systems. Engineers who don't will continue to design inefficient (too much redundancy) or risky (too little redundancy) into their systems. I'm not going to do it for them, but I didn't mind pointing them in the right direction.
Well, my systems are not switched over from something else--they are new systems. I needed several multi-TB arrays and I wanted them to be highly flexible (so Linux software RAID, not hardware RAID), and low maintenance so that I don't have to fly around the freakin world if something breaks in India or Tokyo (I don't want their bootup to be dependent on a mechanical device working).
I ended up getting these tiny little 4GiB flash drives that clip right into the IDE ports on the motherboards (no cables or screws needed). I configured Linux (Ubuntu LTS) to reduce writes to the flash drive (by mounting tmp and var on the raid, and mounting root noatime, etc.). This way, I can always log in and see what's wrong, no matter how many drives fail. And since it's software RAID, I can resize (or whatever) to fix the problem remotely without cracking the case open.
They actually have an order of magnitude lower sustained reads (5M/s compared to 50M/s for SATA) but their seek time is, of course, nearly 0. Since sustained reads are only done from the flash disk during bootup, there is a significant increase in overall performance.
It's a great system, and designing it was a lot more fun than most of the IT maintenance crapwork I do every day.
It cracks me up that people still spend x-bajillion-dollars on SAN equipment from IBM when you can do the same thing for a few thousand by taking advantage of the newest tech.
Considering that both papers (one published by google and one by a CMU researcher) made it to the front page of slashdot, I'm sure the minority of readers who missed them the first time could look them up very easily. I don't care about the issue enough to do their searching for them.
Boy is your information wrong! Do you sell hard drives, or do you get all your information from drive salespeople? Haven't you read the intertubes in the past few months?
There have been TWO scientific research papers published recently which demonstrated that the likelihood of a drive failing increases linearly with time. You CAN NOT COUNT ON THEM to last their warranty period. These studies also demonstrated that SMART (the "I'm about to die") signals are only useful for a minority of possible drive failures. You can't count on that, either.
Additionally, I've had servers running off of solid-state drives for over a year. It's great. I did have one solid-state drive fail in that time--but NOT due to write-limits. I believe it was a power issue.
If OpenBSD is such a great desktop, why is your post formatted so terribly? Do you think you're writing on a typewriter, or does OpenBSD only ship with a crap web browser?
Check this out. I can put random line breaks in my posts, too! It's like turning everything into poetry.
That doesn't matter. If he wanted the 12 people still using IE4 to see his site, he could have used GIF.
Attention everyone: Lossy image compression, such as JPG, should NEVER EVER EVER be used for things with solid colors or high contrasts (especially text)! Use PNG, GIF, BMP, or any other losslessly/un-compressed format. JPG is only for "natural" images such as photographs!
Compressing text with lossy image compression is a sin almost as bad as butchering "beg the question." BOTH of these atrocities make the baby Jesus cry.
Private security cameras are the biggest market. I would love to be able to surround my home with digital cameras that work day and night, recording everything that comes near the property.
Consider the fact that a $200 video card attached to a new-ish PC is pretty much REQUIRED for SL to not totally suck ass, we can assume that people using it have slightly more resources than your average hobo.
It's more than chat. You can show LIVE VIDEO in Second Life. You can stream LIVE AUDIO in Second Life.
If you were teaching something like architecture or carpentry, you could show full 3D models to students and allow them to view the models from any angle, copy the models, modify the models, etc.
For an online-only class, Second Life could be better than WebEx or whatever other crap we have out there. Especially in certain domains.
By saying it's "just chat" you prove that you aren't qualified to comment on the subject.
Firewalls are near-worthless when you are talking about PCs. People take laptops home, get malware all over them, then bring them to work and plug them in BEHIND THE FIREWALL or on a private network.
Oh, that must be why our economy is made entirely of astronauts! How does the view of Earth look from your space ship, Cytotoxic?
Good advice would be: Among career options with good economic outlooks, pursue the one you like most. "Do what you love" is terrible advice unless you just happen to love something with good economic demand (this is EXTREMELY rare). Most people would rather be making music or playing sports or inspecting bikinis.
So, suppose 45 volunteers ("The Commentators") each comment on one minute of a 45 minute TV show. Each quote includes a one-minute clip, along with discussion.
Suppose another party ("The Distributor") publishes those clips and commentary on its website (such as youtube).
Suppose someone else ("The Programmer") writes software to piece together all 45 clips, and then output a full reconstruction of the TV show.
Suppose another person ("The User") takes The Programmer's software and runs it, recreating the show, and watches the show at home on his PC.
Who violated copyright law here? How can this violation of the law be policed and prosecuted?
This is why I sometimes really hate slashdot. You get people saying things like '"innocent until PROVEN guilty" which is the basis of our entire legal system.' and getting modded to +5.
It seems too many moderators mod up what they want to hear, whether it is true or not.
this begs the question of why do we need ReactOS anyway?
It always amuses me when the uneducated try to pick up phrases they have overheard lawyers, scientists, or other educated people use, hoping to lend a false sense of respectability to their claims.
Its ironic, because people who actually went to college immediately recognize that the person misusing academic or legal terminology is trying so hard to make a point that it probably can't stand on its own.
you can use a questionnaire after the fact and filter out the cars which are often driven by someone else. or, you can just get a large enough sample that it doesn't matter.
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Wall Street doesn't love firing workers. Wall Street loves lowering expense levels while maintaining revenue levels. Think "P/E." If E goes up, P should go up, regardless of the reason.
Don't be hate'n just 'cause financial analysts be evaluate'n.
It isn't a management problem. It is a client problem. Engineering a system with security requirements will always cost more than engineering a system without security requirements.
If several groups are bidding on a project, and security is not explicitly and verifiably included in the RFQ, any group that ignores security will be able to undercut groups which take security seriously.
Wow. That entire clipboard analysis flew right over your head.
It doesn't matter if something is implemented as intended or not.
If I attempt to do something right, and I do it wrong, the result is wrong.
If I attempt to do something wrong, and I succeed in doing it wrong, the result is wrong.
If cooperation among different groups is required for something to be done right, but these groups do not cooperate, the result is wrong.
Your bit about "every user would keep both apps open when copying, just to be safe" demonstrates a fundamental misconception about how the human brain thinks. I would imagine any interface you design would be a disaster. Your mind has been so affected by years of working with badly-designed software that you can't even imagine how everyone else thinks. Don't ever EVER attempt to design a HCI. You're damaged goods.
Well, the data is out there. Engineers who know it exists will take it into consideration when designing their systems. Engineers who don't will continue to design inefficient (too much redundancy) or risky (too little redundancy) into their systems. I'm not going to do it for them, but I didn't mind pointing them in the right direction.
Well, my systems are not switched over from something else--they are new systems. I needed several multi-TB arrays and I wanted them to be highly flexible (so Linux software RAID, not hardware RAID), and low maintenance so that I don't have to fly around the freakin world if something breaks in India or Tokyo (I don't want their bootup to be dependent on a mechanical device working).
I ended up getting these tiny little 4GiB flash drives that clip right into the IDE ports on the motherboards (no cables or screws needed). I configured Linux (Ubuntu LTS) to reduce writes to the flash drive (by mounting tmp and var on the raid, and mounting root noatime, etc.). This way, I can always log in and see what's wrong, no matter how many drives fail. And since it's software RAID, I can resize (or whatever) to fix the problem remotely without cracking the case open.
They actually have an order of magnitude lower sustained reads (5M/s compared to 50M/s for SATA) but their seek time is, of course, nearly 0. Since sustained reads are only done from the flash disk during bootup, there is a significant increase in overall performance.
It's a great system, and designing it was a lot more fun than most of the IT maintenance crapwork I do every day.
It cracks me up that people still spend x-bajillion-dollars on SAN equipment from IBM when you can do the same thing for a few thousand by taking advantage of the newest tech.
Considering that both papers (one published by google and one by a CMU researcher) made it to the front page of slashdot, I'm sure the minority of readers who missed them the first time could look them up very easily. I don't care about the issue enough to do their searching for them.
Boy is your information wrong! Do you sell hard drives, or do you get all your information from drive salespeople? Haven't you read the intertubes in the past few months?
There have been TWO scientific research papers published recently which demonstrated that the likelihood of a drive failing increases linearly with time. You CAN NOT COUNT ON THEM to last their warranty period. These studies also demonstrated that SMART (the "I'm about to die") signals are only useful for a minority of possible drive failures. You can't count on that, either.
Additionally, I've had servers running off of solid-state drives for over a year. It's great. I did have one solid-state drive fail in that time--but NOT due to write-limits. I believe it was a power issue.
Don't spread misinformation.
If OpenBSD is such a great desktop, why is your post formatted so terribly? Do you think you're writing on a typewriter, or does OpenBSD only ship with a crap web browser?
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Well, no, an improved rebate would be a rebate which is credited at the checkout line and compensates for sales tax.
But then they wouldn't get a chance to steal $50 from you every once in a while when you accidentally transpose some number on the envelope.
What is it you think "MAC" stands for?
That doesn't matter. If he wanted the 12 people still using IE4 to see his site, he could have used GIF.
Attention everyone: Lossy image compression, such as JPG, should NEVER EVER EVER be used for things with solid colors or high contrasts (especially text)! Use PNG, GIF, BMP, or any other losslessly/un-compressed format. JPG is only for "natural" images such as photographs!
Compressing text with lossy image compression is a sin almost as bad as butchering "beg the question." BOTH of these atrocities make the baby Jesus cry.
Private security cameras are the biggest market. I would love to be able to surround my home with digital cameras that work day and night, recording everything that comes near the property.
Consider the fact that a $200 video card attached to a new-ish PC is pretty much REQUIRED for SL to not totally suck ass, we can assume that people using it have slightly more resources than your average hobo.
It's more than chat. You can show LIVE VIDEO in Second Life. You can stream LIVE AUDIO in Second Life.
If you were teaching something like architecture or carpentry, you could show full 3D models to students and allow them to view the models from any angle, copy the models, modify the models, etc.
For an online-only class, Second Life could be better than WebEx or whatever other crap we have out there. Especially in certain domains.
By saying it's "just chat" you prove that you aren't qualified to comment on the subject.
Firewalls are near-worthless when you are talking about PCs. People take laptops home, get malware all over them, then bring them to work and plug them in BEHIND THE FIREWALL or on a private network.
How do you propose they get data to and from those applications if you don't want the PCs networked?
Yeah.. that's what I thought.
Good advice would be: Among career options with good economic outlooks, pursue the one you like most. "Do what you love" is terrible advice unless you just happen to love something with good economic demand (this is EXTREMELY rare). Most people would rather be making music or playing sports or inspecting bikinis.
You are a steaming pile of bad advice.
I don't think economics work the way you think they work.
So, suppose 45 volunteers ("The Commentators") each comment on one minute of a 45 minute TV show. Each quote includes a one-minute clip, along with discussion.
Suppose another party ("The Distributor") publishes those clips and commentary on its website (such as youtube).
Suppose someone else ("The Programmer") writes software to piece together all 45 clips, and then output a full reconstruction of the TV show.
Suppose another person ("The User") takes The Programmer's software and runs it, recreating the show, and watches the show at home on his PC.
Who violated copyright law here? How can this violation of the law be policed and prosecuted?
This is why I sometimes really hate slashdot. You get people saying things like '"innocent until PROVEN guilty" which is the basis of our entire legal system.' and getting modded to +5.
It seems too many moderators mod up what they want to hear, whether it is true or not.
Its ironic, because people who actually went to college immediately recognize that the person misusing academic or legal terminology is trying so hard to make a point that it probably can't stand on its own.
Well, either that, or the speaker is an idiot.
you can use a questionnaire after the fact and filter out the cars which are often driven by someone else. or, you can just get a large enough sample that it doesn't matter.