The article mentions a point of common sense that I fought tooth 'n nail about and lost in the Big Company I'm at now.
For a year I fought against virtualizing our sandbox servers because of resource contention issues. One machine pretending to be many with one NIC and one router. We had a web app that pounded a database... pre virtualization it was zippy. Post virtualization it was unusuable. I explained that even though you can Tune virtualized servers, it happens after the fact, and it becomes a big active management problem to make sure your IT department doesn't load up tons of virtual servers to the point it affects everyone virtualized. They argued, well, you don't have a lot of use (a few users, and not a lot of resource utilization.)
My boss eventually gave in. The client went from zippy workability in an app being developed, to slow piece of crap because of resource contention, and its hard to explain that an IT change forced under the hood was the reason for SLOW, and in UAT, SLOW = BUSTED.
That was a huge nail in the coffin for the project. When the user can't use the app on demand, for whatever reason, and they don't want to hear jack about tuning or saving rack space.
So all you IT managers and people thinking you'll get big bonuses by virtualizing everything... consider this... ONE MACHINE, ONE NETWORK CARD, pretending to be many...
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[Most of the world thinks Bill is a great guy.]
And that is the power of money and mindshare. My x-father-in-law and I had many debates about the merrits of Bill. He believed that in order to be one of the richest men in the world, he had to be really smart, innovative, have a great business savvy, work ethic, and could do no wrong.
I argued (from experience) that his business practices were shady (and driven from the top, so him and Balmer), that his success was from right time and connections, many successes were built upon the unrecognized work of others, and pointed out his philanthropy came very late in life. Everything Bill does has a catch. The school-of-the-future plans I first saw had the "microsoft only" stamp - as well as the strings attached to any Bill/Microsoft donation to education.
I still have a recruiting brochure Circa 1991 from Microsoft that touted Bill as a post secondary drop out. How can anyone consider Bill a champion of education?
Ah well, North American culture worships anti-heroes. I wonder how many slaves worshiped their masters like the wage slaves worship the well-to-do.
Hanging out at the planetarium growing up, I got exposed to a lot of notions of the physical universe.... One that stuck was the notion that the universe is like an expanding balloon; this model answered the red shift problem. If you look from a point to any other point as the baloon inflates, its all moving away from you. Now the black hole theory with this expansive universe; if you hold a stationary pin to the balloon while it expands, expansion occurs at a different rate about the head, and effectively the space gets bent about the head. This is true for any mass or gravity well. The other analogy was steel ballbearings on a sheet of plastic wrap; the bend the surface about them, and this is why light seems to bend about a gravity well. If you take these analogies and apply them to a space vehical zooming away from a gravity well, then linear and vector graphics do not apply in predicting the course. Space is bent, and as you get out from the divot to the surface, your distance in not constant. It would look like you're speeding up to the observer, and also not going the direction you had planned.
If your point is that non-citizens can be treated much worse, then I agree with you that this is unjust. My original thought (maybe not in my first post) was about application of the terror measures to citizens thats contrary to our charter - regardless of if they're immigrants or not.
Not really talking about rights of citizenship... talking about things like murder. When you commit a crime on foreign soil, usually you're tried by the laws in the jurisdiction where you committed the crime (unless you have some funky diplomatic immunity like that russian diplomat who killed a woman dui and fled the country.)
The anti-terror legislation was TEMPORARY to be evaluated every 5 years. So its 5 years was up, and the majority of opposition (not just liberal) voted against renewing the measures. These measures are CONTRARY to our charter of rights an freedoms, specifically to detain and search ANYONE WITHOUT EVIDENCE on SUSPICION of terrorist activity. And the caption here is WRONG. There are at least 5 individuals (I know of, not personally, just through the CBC) here in Canada that were placed in jail without arrest because of this legislation. SO...
Its a good thing this abhorent measure is gone, because it was a crutch to avoid the due dilligence in proving guilt before innocence.
If I remember correctly, its all about integration to reverse engineered protocols such as SMB and storage architecture such as NTFS. Microsoft holds a patent on these, and doesn't want anyone integrating without paying a ridiculous license fee. The argument is because of documentation around the protocols, that much of it wasn't reverse engineered but based on proprietary documentation. At the end of the day, these are valid patents.
You are right! Why were you so stupid? File sharing is very similar to broadcasting. Do you want radio play for your crap? Hell yes, because it spurs sales. Why not do away with DRM and consider digital media like broadcasting? In fact, why charge the end user at all! Do like a radio station, and charge the broadcaster royalties. Then you have a legitimate reason in most countries to go and extract your tithe.
People still buy the CDs. I don't put burned disks in my stereo. If I hear something I like on the radio, I want that f**king Jewel Case, the lyrics, and any other fancy swag that comes in the box.
For all you Americans reading this, the present government is considering passing "stronger" copyright laws that actually limit freedoms here, so all this hype is really a form of political lobby to pressure silly politicians in Canada to get way scared and knee jerk passing some legislation (our equivalent of a bill). Don't worry though, the present neo-conservative government here is on the outs.
I think you're confused with Kill Bill. In Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indy's first encounter was with an Arab Egyptian and a scimitar. In Temple of Doom, it was Sikh with a khunda.
Once upon a time I worked at a company encrypting CDs for digital data. This was over ten years ago... We too had a staged security, weak protection on key store, stronger protection on packages and data. We knew that the cost involved in high security was too high, from a functional and complexity cost POV.
First, making the volume information secure, and file content, was pretty pointless because if you had strong security on it, it would be too slow to do anything useful. For the data, you could wait longer, but at the end of the day, all of it was moot because once either catalog or data is decrypted... its there. So, you decrypt on the fly, or use adaptive methods that attempt to hide information, it all leads to...
The Cost of protection geometrically increases to the linear Time to break it.
And in the end, all the protection does is buy you a little bit of time, because for every couple of guys thinking up the next best protection scheme, once it hits the world, you have 100+* the resources trying to break it.
In the end, the best protection we came up with was something everyone hates... a hardware key that imlpemented the decryption, and sell that key with the media. Economically not viable to copy, but still does nothing once unprotected.
Apples and oranges. I'd bet the iTunes marked music is less prevalent on the p2p networks than plain rip mp3s. My point was how do you manage or verify a return without stricter DRM and EULAs.
Once upon a time I worked on the projects TypeOnCall and SoftwareDispatch. The problem with returns where no physical media changes hands is tricky because the brick and morter way you get some physical media back, where electronic media you have no evidence the consumer has completely removed the item from their system. Introducing this policy would likely force an online store into the position of requiring audit of the end users systems to ensure removal. You can't stop someone from copying something and returning it, but there is value is in the doc, jewel case, or whatever. Take that away, and DRM gets a whole lot more incentive.
If you look at the overall system, CO2 emission is part of the problem, the other is removal of things that consume CO2 (think clear cut rain forest, poisoned ocean surface algae...)
Well, political anarchism is unrealistic. You can't expect people to be aware of these things for their own good. Its not stupid or lazy. Look for root cause. For the most part, people don't care to become informed. They let alarmists and "grass roots" movements drive public opinion, which influences some political parties more that others, especially come election time. Take the "green initiatives" currently on the plate. The brewing interest, pressure on commerce, and such is only comming after the point of no return because people can actually see impact in their day to day lives. So, for whatever reason, people don't care, but its ignorant to generalize that the population is stupid or lazy. I know what's going on, but I'm not prepared to do anything, because in my opinion, that time would be wasted given who the adversary is.
For example, if you want to generate a UID from what unique stuff you can get on a machine... you can peek at the bios version, look at the scsi serial (did you know every scsi drive has a unique serial number?), mac address...
Stupid or lazy? How about capitalism. Later you nail it when you mention lobby groups... Government creates policy based on commerce, not for the popular good.
Doesn't matter, election comming, all gonna change.
Sorry, Xylene will just get you a big explosion. Xylanase however from fungus or bacteria might work, but it is expensive to harvest and even more expensive to reclaim (www.iogen.ca).
As for methanol, which is very volatile, heating cellulose isn't going to get you methanol per se. You need to pressure cook it:-) Really, burn it, so it breaks into CO and H which you can recombine into methanol - process is called Fischer Tropsch.
When you see Gartner you know something is funny... First, from Gartner itself, with some extra hilighting from me,
Andrew Butler is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research, covering most server technologies, including operating system evolution, architectures, platforms and vendor strategies. He is also one of four senior analysts -- named research area managers -- responsible for defining and steering Gartner's global research agenda for the server industry. Prior to joining Gartner in 1997, he worked for Hewlett-Packard Company for 14 years in the U.K. and Germany, most recently as European marketing manager for midrange Unix servers. His period of employment at HP also included channel marketing, European & worldwide product management roles for messaging and imaging software products, and a consulting role in the professional services organization. His previous industry experience includes software development on IBM midrange computers for Altergo, a leading U.K. software developer during the 1980s, plus programming and systems analysis roles on IBM mainframes and midrange computers for Boehringer Ingelheim, Schwarzkopf and Nielsen Research. I love being a barometer for the industry; seeing my ideas and insight empower clients to make better decisions and save money. Years of Experience 8 years with Gartner 33 years in IT industry Professional Background A C Nielsen, Programmer, 4 years Altergo, Software Engineer, 3 years Hewlett-Packard, EMEA Marketing Manager - Midrange Systems, 14 years
So, this guy was a developer in a past age for 7 years, a marketing manager for 14, and has been out of the game for 8 years.
Gartner is a think tank for hire - and they sell analysis on trends, technology, etc. usually paid for by some ubermanager trying to justify a decision, and written to and for other ubermanagers (so read CIO,CTO, and other flickkopf that also has a twisted and stale view of the IT industry.) Hardly objective. Hardly realistic.
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The article mentions a point of common sense that I fought tooth 'n nail about and lost in the Big Company I'm at now.
For a year I fought against virtualizing our sandbox servers because of resource contention issues. One machine pretending to be many with one NIC and one router. We had a web app that pounded a database... pre virtualization it was zippy. Post virtualization it was unusuable. I explained that even though you can Tune virtualized servers, it happens after the fact, and it becomes a big active management problem to make sure your IT department doesn't load up tons of virtual servers to the point it affects everyone virtualized. They argued, well, you don't have a lot of use (a few users, and not a lot of resource utilization.)
My boss eventually gave in. The client went from zippy workability in an app being developed, to slow piece of crap because of resource contention, and its hard to explain that an IT change forced under the hood was the reason for SLOW, and in UAT, SLOW = BUSTED.
That was a huge nail in the coffin for the project. When the user can't use the app on demand, for whatever reason, and they don't want to hear jack about tuning or saving rack space.
So all you IT managers and people thinking you'll get big bonuses by virtualizing everything... consider this... ONE MACHINE, ONE NETWORK CARD, pretending to be many...
[Most of the world thinks Bill is a great guy.]
And that is the power of money and mindshare. My x-father-in-law and I had many debates about the merrits of Bill. He believed that in order to be one of the richest men in the world, he had to be really smart, innovative, have a great business savvy, work ethic, and could do no wrong.
I argued (from experience) that his business practices were shady (and driven from the top, so him and Balmer), that his success was from right time and connections, many successes were built upon the unrecognized work of others, and pointed out his philanthropy came very late in life. Everything Bill does has a catch. The school-of-the-future plans I first saw had the "microsoft only" stamp - as well as the strings attached to any Bill/Microsoft donation to education.
I still have a recruiting brochure Circa 1991 from Microsoft that touted Bill as a post secondary drop out. How can anyone consider Bill a champion of education?
Ah well, North American culture worships anti-heroes. I wonder how many slaves worshiped their masters like the wage slaves worship the well-to-do.
Seneca nailed it in his Natural History when he said Gods were the answer to questions we haven't explained yet.
So > ignorance ~ > theism.
Apply to your average American.
But we do see anomalies in the orbits of neptune and pluto.
Hanging out at the planetarium growing up, I got exposed to a lot of notions of the physical universe.... One that stuck was the notion that the universe is like an expanding balloon; this model answered the red shift problem. If you look from a point to any other point as the baloon inflates, its all moving away from you. Now the black hole theory with this expansive universe; if you hold a stationary pin to the balloon while it expands, expansion occurs at a different rate about the head, and effectively the space gets bent about the head. This is true for any mass or gravity well. The other analogy was steel ballbearings on a sheet of plastic wrap; the bend the surface about them, and this is why light seems to bend about a gravity well. If you take these analogies and apply them to a space vehical zooming away from a gravity well, then linear and vector graphics do not apply in predicting the course. Space is bent, and as you get out from the divot to the surface, your distance in not constant. It would look like you're speeding up to the observer, and also not going the direction you had planned.
Seems obvious to me, but I'm not a physicist.
If your point is that non-citizens can be treated much worse, then I agree with you that this is unjust. My original thought (maybe not in my first post) was about application of the terror measures to citizens thats contrary to our charter - regardless of if they're immigrants or not.
Not really talking about rights of citizenship... talking about things like murder. When you commit a crime on foreign soil, usually you're tried by the laws in the jurisdiction where you committed the crime (unless you have some funky diplomatic immunity like that russian diplomat who killed a woman dui and fled the country.)
Since when do we have different laws for foreigners within our jurisdiction?
The anti-terror legislation was TEMPORARY to be evaluated every 5 years. So its 5 years was up, and the majority of opposition (not just liberal) voted against renewing the measures. These measures are CONTRARY to our charter of rights an freedoms, specifically to detain and search ANYONE WITHOUT EVIDENCE on SUSPICION of terrorist activity. And the caption here is WRONG. There are at least 5 individuals (I know of, not personally, just through the CBC) here in Canada that were placed in jail without arrest because of this legislation. SO...
Its a good thing this abhorent measure is gone, because it was a crutch to avoid the due dilligence in proving guilt before innocence.
Can Mac's use WEBDAV?
Uh, yes?
Does Exchange 2007 have a web service?
Uh, Yes?
If I remember correctly, its all about integration to reverse engineered protocols such as SMB and storage architecture such as NTFS. Microsoft holds a patent on these, and doesn't want anyone integrating without paying a ridiculous license fee. The argument is because of documentation around the protocols, that much of it wasn't reverse engineered but based on proprietary documentation. At the end of the day, these are valid patents.
You are right! Why were you so stupid? File sharing is very similar to broadcasting. Do you want radio play for your crap? Hell yes, because it spurs sales. Why not do away with DRM and consider digital media like broadcasting? In fact, why charge the end user at all! Do like a radio station, and charge the broadcaster royalties. Then you have a legitimate reason in most countries to go and extract your tithe.
People still buy the CDs. I don't put burned disks in my stereo. If I hear something I like on the radio, I want that f**king Jewel Case, the lyrics, and any other fancy swag that comes in the box.
For all you Americans reading this, the present government is considering passing "stronger" copyright laws that actually limit freedoms here, so all this hype is really a form of political lobby to pressure silly politicians in Canada to get way scared and knee jerk passing some legislation (our equivalent of a bill). Don't worry though, the present neo-conservative government here is on the outs.
I think you're confused with Kill Bill. In Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indy's first encounter was with an Arab Egyptian and a scimitar. In Temple of Doom, it was Sikh with a khunda.
The crappy front page makes it look like a scam.
Once upon a time I worked at a company encrypting CDs for digital data. This was over ten years ago... We too had a staged security, weak protection on key store, stronger protection on packages and data. We knew that the cost involved in high security was too high, from a functional and complexity cost POV.
First, making the volume information secure, and file content, was pretty pointless because if you had strong security on it, it would be too slow to do anything useful. For the data, you could wait longer, but at the end of the day, all of it was moot because once either catalog or data is decrypted... its there. So, you decrypt on the fly, or use adaptive methods that attempt to hide information, it all leads to...
The Cost of protection geometrically increases to the linear Time to break it.
And in the end, all the protection does is buy you a little bit of time, because for every couple of guys thinking up the next best protection scheme, once it hits the world, you have 100+* the resources trying to break it.
In the end, the best protection we came up with was something everyone hates... a hardware key that imlpemented the decryption, and sell that key with the media. Economically not viable to copy, but still does nothing once unprotected.
Apples and oranges. I'd bet the iTunes marked music is less prevalent on the p2p networks than plain rip mp3s. My point was how do you manage or verify a return without stricter DRM and EULAs.
Once upon a time I worked on the projects TypeOnCall and SoftwareDispatch. The problem with returns where no physical media changes hands is tricky because the brick and morter way you get some physical media back, where electronic media you have no evidence the consumer has completely removed the item from their system. Introducing this policy would likely force an online store into the position of requiring audit of the end users systems to ensure removal. You can't stop someone from copying something and returning it, but there is value is in the doc, jewel case, or whatever. Take that away, and DRM gets a whole lot more incentive.
If you look at the overall system, CO2 emission is part of the problem, the other is removal of things that consume CO2 (think clear cut rain forest, poisoned ocean surface algae...)
Well, political anarchism is unrealistic. You can't expect people to be aware of these things for their own good. Its not stupid or lazy. Look for root cause. For the most part, people don't care to become informed. They let alarmists and "grass roots" movements drive public opinion, which influences some political parties more that others, especially come election time. Take the "green initiatives" currently on the plate. The brewing interest, pressure on commerce, and such is only comming after the point of no return because people can actually see impact in their day to day lives. So, for whatever reason, people don't care, but its ignorant to generalize that the population is stupid or lazy. I know what's going on, but I'm not prepared to do anything, because in my opinion, that time would be wasted given who the adversary is.
For example, if you want to generate a UID from what unique stuff you can get on a machine... you can peek at the bios version, look at the scsi serial (did you know every scsi drive has a unique serial number?), mac address...
Doesn't exist. 90% more than it consumes? Gee Bob, my bacteria all died in the dry dessert...
Stupid or lazy? How about capitalism. Later you nail it when you mention lobby groups... Government creates policy based on commerce, not for the popular good.
Doesn't matter, election comming, all gonna change.
Sorry, Xylene will just get you a big explosion. Xylanase however from fungus or bacteria might work, but it is expensive to harvest and even more expensive to reclaim (www.iogen.ca).
:-) Really, burn it, so it breaks into CO and H which you can recombine into methanol - process is called Fischer Tropsch.
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As for methanol, which is very volatile, heating cellulose isn't going to get you methanol per se. You need to pressure cook it
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When you see Gartner you know something is funny... First, from Gartner itself, with some extra hilighting from me,
Andrew Butler is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research, covering most server technologies, including operating system evolution, architectures, platforms and vendor strategies. He is also one of four senior analysts -- named research area managers -- responsible for defining and steering Gartner's global research agenda for the server industry. Prior to joining Gartner in 1997, he worked for Hewlett-Packard Company for 14 years in the U.K. and Germany, most recently as European marketing manager for midrange Unix servers. His period of employment at HP also included channel marketing, European & worldwide product management roles for messaging and imaging software products, and a consulting role in the professional services organization. His previous industry experience includes software development on IBM midrange computers for Altergo, a leading U.K. software developer during the 1980s, plus programming and systems analysis roles on IBM mainframes and midrange computers for Boehringer Ingelheim, Schwarzkopf and Nielsen Research. I love being a barometer for the industry; seeing my ideas and insight empower clients to make better decisions and save money. Years of Experience 8 years with Gartner 33 years in IT industry Professional Background A C Nielsen, Programmer, 4 years Altergo, Software Engineer, 3 years Hewlett-Packard, EMEA Marketing Manager - Midrange Systems, 14 years
So, this guy was a developer in a past age for 7 years, a marketing manager for 14, and has been out of the game for 8 years.
Gartner is a think tank for hire - and they sell analysis on trends, technology, etc. usually paid for by some ubermanager trying to justify a decision, and written to and for other ubermanagers (so read CIO,CTO, and other flickkopf that also has a twisted and stale view of the IT industry.) Hardly objective. Hardly realistic.