Don't be a dipshit. Actually, the unofficial patches work better, because the Microsoft patch doesn't reload the current control set.
More importantly, since Microsoft decided to be dipshits, you can't SUS or WSUS out the patches, which makes it alot harder to reach mobile populations.
I don't think that the iPhone is the best thing since sliced bread, but the price doesn't really matter.
There's plenty of margin on this device, and Apple is pretty good at playing the demand/price curve. iPods are always released at some ridiculous high price, then slashed 20-25% before its EOL.
My guess is that the iPhone will be the flagship product, and you'll have a touch iPod in the $300 price range that will bring people in.
At the height of the contractor frenzy, IT contractors with certain skills were getting $500+/hr, plus expenses. You had to stay for a year and you'd get paid in Switzerland, Dubai, Isle of Man, etc... so no taxes.
Yeah, IBM was stupid in giving away a good chunk of their business to Bill Gates after Gates ripped off CP/M from Gary Killdall.
That was 30 years ago dude, give it up. Are you still upset that Alexander Bell ripped off that other guy over the telephone
Not necessarily. Supply and demand works both ways. If you import a bunch of workers in one field, then a lot of workers in that field will leave. That's exactly what we've been seeing in CS over the last few years.
And further, the more technically savvy people are, the less likely they are to buy MS products because they know they can get better products for free from open source projects.
Microsoft's success in the marketplace doesn't back that up. Most of the linux growth has been at the expense of Sun, HP and IBM Unix.
Yes, but keeping salaries down also means that students have no incentive to learning CS and entering IT.
No problem - the industry import more workers and automates away as much of the functions as possible. Lots of the stuff that DBAs used to do is now automated. I'm not saying that its right, just that it is.
There's a reason why Bill is a multi-billionaire. Even if there isn't a shortage of 100,000 IT workers, if we import more, all of the sudden you have more computer savvy people in the marketplace buying Microsoft products. An extra 60,000 IT workers/year represents alot of sales -- and if those workers are educated using Microsoft Dev tools, they're going to be driving the sales of more Windows, MSDN, SQL Server, etc licenses and buying more support contracts.
Also, more cheap newbie workers trained in the latest stuff keep costs down and provides a powerful incentive for companies to keep upgrading. If I run a company with apps using MFC from the 90's, I can't find those people anymore, so I'll be hiring new people writing stuff in.Net 3.0, etc.
The CPI excludes so many commodities, it is a nearly useless figure. Consider that the CPI barely budged as gasoline prices increased 50-100% since 2000.
We're in the middle of an extended, expensive war, so the government is going what all governments do during war -- printing money and borrowing heavily. It will catch up to us in 3-5 years. The financial markets agree with me, which is why gold has increased in value so much -- a bullish precious metal market means that people are hedging against inflation.
Whenever you go soft on certain ethnic or social groups (ie fraternities) it results in abuses. I took a Computer Networking class back in 1998 at a SUNY school, and a group of Chinese kids were talking during the midterm and passing around some big TI calculator that had a pretty big screen that had been expressly forbidden.
The professor watched this happen and did nothing. After the test, he announced that he had "heard" that cheating might have gone on, and was increasing everyone's score by one letter grade.
At the same school there was a German course taught by some fossilized tenured professor who had been there since 50's. He have the same assignments since sometime in the mid 60's, so all of the fraternity people would have a banked copy of the test and would take it for an easy A.
That may be the new 'theory' but we all know about theory vs reality. Here in reality if you put a couple of dozen new drives into service you have one or two spare hard drives to replace the ones that WILL fail in the first week. Especially with consumer grade drives typical in workstation deployment. If you only have one dud out of twenty it was a good rollout.
This study looks pretty realistic to me, in fact its better data than the Google paper's because they are looking at different usage scenarios. The study also jives with vendor's warranty periods -- right around the 3 year mark (end of warranty) failures start going up.
I take issue with your "real world vs. theory" argument version workstation disks and server disks as well, only because I have my own numbers. Based on numbers that my company gathers for its 50,000 workstations, the disk failure rate is around 1.9% annually. (Still alot of disks) There are exceptions -- those numbers are driven upward by one deployment of workstations from a vendor that had a 22% failure rate. (the PCs were replaced by the vendor) Server disks are in the same ballpark - slightly less that 2%.
Vendors provide more evidence of that fact. Many servers are being shipped with SATA disks, often the same as what you'll find in workstations. If SATA was less reliable, that would increase the vendor's support costs and they wouldn't ship them.
You're totally right about RAID-5... it can be a dangerous thing for an inept admin. Bad disks often come in batches, and bad controllers can ruin your day. A redundant array of bad data isn't very helpful;)
It's an attack where you don't attack the victims directly. Instead you prepare the land (manipulate DNS configurations) and later you harvest what you've sown. The name also expresses the view on the victims: They're seen as an exploitable resource.</blockquote>
That's pretty tenuous... I guess they're running out of words to prepend with "ph".
I'm so sick of phishing, vishing, pharming, pheering, etc.
The security community is completely pathetic, the #1 motivation of all of this crap are consultants who want to go around and say that they coined the phrase "pharming", or were able to drum up panic over every obscure flaw in Powerpoint 97.
Imagine the outcry if NPR or PBS started having 5 minute commercial breaks even after they had all those annoying fund raisers they do.
So what to you call the 5-10 minute gaps between many programs listing the "benefactors" of the program? Off the top of my head, I can think of: ADM - "Supermarket to the World", IBM, the MacArthur Foundation, GE. There's plenty more.
In my area, an overpriced pizza shop is named as a "supporter" of many local programs.
It's nice to see someone on/. that is in touch with reality.
The thing that really annoys me with this issue is the selective enforcement of the whole "open drivers in the kernel" thing. They take these political stands on the one hand, and then on the other plenty of questionable drivers have made it in.
A stable driver interface only goes so far, and at some point people will complain when new releases break it.
So to avoid release management problems with a driver interface, the solution is not to have one? Ok...
And even if nvidia never gives up with their blobs, it doesn't hurt the linux kernel team at all, so avoiding a binary interface is a win-win for them.
That is precisely the problem... the linux kernel team isn't the stakeholder here -- the user community is. Because the kernel team doesn't feel like implementing something that would benefit the community, CAD and Engineering software won't get moved to linux, games won't be moved to linux and other 3d applications will never move to linux.
Also consider that NVidia and ATI may not be releasing quality open source drivers for reasons other than a lack of desire. Both companies undoubtedly license technology from others, and those licenses don't allow for source distribution. That's one reason why Solaris took so long to open up. Re-inventing the wheel is expensive, particularly if the licensed code is difficult to implement -- which is probably why its was licensed to begin with!
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with binary drivers.
The problem is that those drivers need to be changed for most kernel releases. In the meantime, I can install drivers for the circa-2000 NVidia GeForce 1 DDR on an XP SP2 box with no problem at all. The kernel people need to support a stable driver interface and sidestep the whole issue.
Sun was unable to convince or force Microsoft to continue updating Java, and Sun is notoriously clueless when it comes to producing client-side software. The few places that use Java web applications probably won't be in 2 years, when the MS JVM is finally gone forever and IT organizations find it impossible to conduct all of the testing required to keep Java patched against security threats and working with applications.
So you want to run Bitlocker or use some other crap in Vista Enterprise? Vista's software assurance license requires you to pay a per-seat charge for all workstations, including Mac & Linux.
The point is -- if BitLocker is percieved to be vulnerable, it's essentially worthless. For many companies, the prospect of getting the ability to encrypt desktops without additional software can save a ton of money by allowing the firms to lease PCs.
If you have PCs with personal data on them, you must destroy or forensically wipe the hard disks before turning them back in to the leasing company -- which is expensive because it requires manual intervention or reduces the value of the asset.
If you can count on BitLocker to be secure, you don't need to care about what's on the PC.
The term "camp follower" derives from the collection of merchants, the ancient equivalent of "contractors", family and prostitutes that followed legions.
If by that you mean that, when somebody quite clearly says something in unambiguous language in a license vetted by top lawyers, I believe them to actually mean it, then yes, I'm a literalist.
No, he means that unless you can prove that the photo was released by the copyright owner by CC, the license is meaningless. I could scan a photo from a magazine and slap a CC license on it, but that does not mean that I had the right to do that.
If you are going to profit on others work based on rights granted to you, it is prudent to be sure that you actually have the rights.
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Don't be a dipshit. Actually, the unofficial patches work better, because the Microsoft patch doesn't reload the current control set.
More importantly, since Microsoft decided to be dipshits, you can't SUS or WSUS out the patches, which makes it alot harder to reach mobile populations.
Bullshit. Microsoft is currently deploying new installations of Windows 2000 to military customers. Remember that thing about the British warship?
This is just another way to try and make people upgrade to Vista.
I don't think that the iPhone is the best thing since sliced bread, but the price doesn't really matter.
There's plenty of margin on this device, and Apple is pretty good at playing the demand/price curve. iPods are always released at some ridiculous high price, then slashed 20-25% before its EOL.
My guess is that the iPhone will be the flagship product, and you'll have a touch iPod in the $300 price range that will bring people in.
He said he wanted adventure...
At the height of the contractor frenzy, IT contractors with certain skills were getting $500+/hr, plus expenses. You had to stay for a year and you'd get paid in Switzerland, Dubai, Isle of Man, etc... so no taxes.
That was 30 years ago dude, give it up. Are you still upset that Alexander Bell ripped off that other guy over the telephone
Not necessarily. Supply and demand works both ways. If you import a bunch of workers in one field, then a lot of workers in that field will leave. That's exactly what we've been seeing in CS over the last few years. And further, the more technically savvy people are, the less likely they are to buy MS products because they know they can get better products for free from open source projects.Microsoft's success in the marketplace doesn't back that up. Most of the linux growth has been at the expense of Sun, HP and IBM Unix.
Yes, but keeping salaries down also means that students have no incentive to learning CS and entering IT.No problem - the industry import more workers and automates away as much of the functions as possible. Lots of the stuff that DBAs used to do is now automated. I'm not saying that its right, just that it is.
There's a reason why Bill is a multi-billionaire. Even if there isn't a shortage of 100,000 IT workers, if we import more, all of the sudden you have more computer savvy people in the marketplace buying Microsoft products. An extra 60,000 IT workers/year represents alot of sales -- and if those workers are educated using Microsoft Dev tools, they're going to be driving the sales of more Windows, MSDN, SQL Server, etc licenses and buying more support contracts.
.Net 3.0, etc.
Also, more cheap newbie workers trained in the latest stuff keep costs down and provides a powerful incentive for companies to keep upgrading. If I run a company with apps using MFC from the 90's, I can't find those people anymore, so I'll be hiring new people writing stuff in
The CPI excludes so many commodities, it is a nearly useless figure. Consider that the CPI barely budged as gasoline prices increased 50-100% since 2000.
We're in the middle of an extended, expensive war, so the government is going what all governments do during war -- printing money and borrowing heavily. It will catch up to us in 3-5 years. The financial markets agree with me, which is why gold has increased in value so much -- a bullish precious metal market means that people are hedging against inflation.
Whenever you go soft on certain ethnic or social groups (ie fraternities) it results in abuses. I took a Computer Networking class back in 1998 at a SUNY school, and a group of Chinese kids were talking during the midterm and passing around some big TI calculator that had a pretty big screen that had been expressly forbidden.
The professor watched this happen and did nothing. After the test, he announced that he had "heard" that cheating might have gone on, and was increasing everyone's score by one letter grade.
At the same school there was a German course taught by some fossilized tenured professor who had been there since 50's. He have the same assignments since sometime in the mid 60's, so all of the fraternity people would have a banked copy of the test and would take it for an easy A.
This study looks pretty realistic to me, in fact its better data than the Google paper's because they are looking at different usage scenarios. The study also jives with vendor's warranty periods -- right around the 3 year mark (end of warranty) failures start going up.
I take issue with your "real world vs. theory" argument version workstation disks and server disks as well, only because I have my own numbers. Based on numbers that my company gathers for its 50,000 workstations, the disk failure rate is around 1.9% annually. (Still alot of disks) There are exceptions -- those numbers are driven upward by one deployment of workstations from a vendor that had a 22% failure rate. (the PCs were replaced by the vendor) Server disks are in the same ballpark - slightly less that 2%.
Vendors provide more evidence of that fact. Many servers are being shipped with SATA disks, often the same as what you'll find in workstations. If SATA was less reliable, that would increase the vendor's support costs and they wouldn't ship them.
You're totally right about RAID-5... it can be a dangerous thing for an inept admin. Bad disks often come in batches, and bad controllers can ruin your day. A redundant array of bad data isn't very helpful ;)
I'm so sick of phishing, vishing, pharming, pheering, etc.
The security community is completely pathetic, the #1 motivation of all of this crap are consultants who want to go around and say that they coined the phrase "pharming", or were able to drum up panic over every obscure flaw in Powerpoint 97.
So what to you call the 5-10 minute gaps between many programs listing the "benefactors" of the program? Off the top of my head, I can think of: ADM - "Supermarket to the World", IBM, the MacArthur Foundation, GE. There's plenty more.
In my area, an overpriced pizza shop is named as a "supporter" of many local programs.
It's nice to see someone on /. that is in touch with reality.
The thing that really annoys me with this issue is the selective enforcement of the whole "open drivers in the kernel" thing. They take these political stands on the one hand, and then on the other plenty of questionable drivers have made it in.
So to avoid release management problems with a driver interface, the solution is not to have one? Ok...
That is precisely the problem... the linux kernel team isn't the stakeholder here -- the user community is. Because the kernel team doesn't feel like implementing something that would benefit the community, CAD and Engineering software won't get moved to linux, games won't be moved to linux and other 3d applications will never move to linux.
Also consider that NVidia and ATI may not be releasing quality open source drivers for reasons other than a lack of desire. Both companies undoubtedly license technology from others, and those licenses don't allow for source distribution. That's one reason why Solaris took so long to open up. Re-inventing the wheel is expensive, particularly if the licensed code is difficult to implement -- which is probably why its was licensed to begin with!
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with binary drivers.
The problem is that those drivers need to be changed for most kernel releases. In the meantime, I can install drivers for the circa-2000 NVidia GeForce 1 DDR on an XP SP2 box with no problem at all. The kernel people need to support a stable driver interface and sidestep the whole issue.
Sun was unable to convince or force Microsoft to continue updating Java, and Sun is notoriously clueless when it comes to producing client-side software. The few places that use Java web applications probably won't be in 2 years, when the MS JVM is finally gone forever and IT organizations find it impossible to conduct all of the testing required to keep Java patched against security threats and working with applications.
That sort of thing is pretty trivial to identify.
The invitations had more to do with mapping social networks than limiting capacity.
So you want to run Bitlocker or use some other crap in Vista Enterprise? Vista's software assurance license requires you to pay a per-seat charge for all workstations, including Mac & Linux.
The point is -- if BitLocker is percieved to be vulnerable, it's essentially worthless. For many companies, the prospect of getting the ability to encrypt desktops without additional software can save a ton of money by allowing the firms to lease PCs.
If you have PCs with personal data on them, you must destroy or forensically wipe the hard disks before turning them back in to the leasing company -- which is expensive because it requires manual intervention or reduces the value of the asset.
If you can count on BitLocker to be secure, you don't need to care about what's on the PC.
Government workers are government workers:
http://www.nsa.gov/CAREERS/faqs_1.cfm
Look down towards the bottom: "New Employee Benefits"
The super crypto geniuses are contractors.
The term "camp follower" derives from the collection of merchants, the ancient equivalent of "contractors", family and prostitutes that followed legions.
What business doesn't use Linux?
No, he means that unless you can prove that the photo was released by the copyright owner by CC, the license is meaningless. I could scan a photo from a magazine and slap a CC license on it, but that does not mean that I had the right to do that.
If you are going to profit on others work based on rights granted to you, it is prudent to be sure that you actually have the rights.