This has gone beyond news to just soap opera drama that belongs on a bad trash news site, not./
I don't expect top notch, confirmed journalism from any internet news site but this one is pure fantasy on the part of McAfee. Stop feeding this delusional, drug addled news whore. He hasn't done anything for technology since selling his business. Stop letting these "news" stories through to the front page.
Check out your local high end car stereo shop. There are off the shelf products that will resolve all your issues; battery isolators, second alternator, inverters, regulators, etc. They'll be able to give you good advice on wiring paths and proper mounting of your equipment as well so its solid.
Its most definately not price for me. I shell out the $$ for each distribution because I believe in supporting them (SuSE in this case). I use it because:
1) It works great on older hardware saving me money and upgrade pains. 2) Unlike Windoze when I install a distribution I'm not only getting an OS and desktop platform I'm getting 99% of all the applications I need all at once. 3) Its reliable with uptimes in the months (I do stupid things occasionally otherwise it would be longer). 4) Its secure. My email is not my enemy and there is nothing on the system running that I haven't turned on myself. 5) Its multipurpose; desktop, server, dev environment, games machine, network monitor, firewall, you name it. 6) It can be modified/configured to do things the way =I= want to do them. Not the way I'm forced to do them. 7) Choice!!!
The US will ban the research and the rest of the world will go on to advance science.
Of course then the corporations will find a way to patent others' work and reap the benefits anyway without any of the political backlash of doing the research in the first place.
I don't think its a vote of confidence. If his current employer thought highly of him he would have given him this raise without the threat of him leaving the company.
Counter-offers are made usually just because the employer needs the body and its cheaper to give an instant raise than it is to find a new body IMHO.
Why is the desktop and what's running on it always referred to as a "war"? And what does "Microsoft has won." mean? Does it mean that right at this point in time they dominate? Yes. Does it mean they will dominate next year? Maybe. 5 years? 10 years? It certainly doesn't mean that we've quit and gone home because there are still desktop environments that are being developed and improved continuously that Microsoft doesn't own or contribute to.
To make broad statements like this seems a little silly to me when its applied to things like technology and open source. Technology (and the desktop) is always evolving and evolution implies a change both in what is dominating and how.
Wars and battles are discrete things that refer to a point in time and imply that once its over its over. Technology wars can only be fought between corporations and are only won when one corporation gives up or goes under. When applied to open source that comparison just doesn't work. Stop equating the changes in desktop technology to a battle and lets discuss it in terms of where it should be going and how we're going to meet the needs of people using them tommorrow. Evolution will take over.
I've worked in the Toronto area for many years in various tech industries, but primarily the financial industry. I can honestly say that I did not experience any discrimination in terms of peoples' dealings with each other nor in terms of promotion (in my limited world of course). Toronto is a very multi-cultural city and I've worked with most racial and religious backgrounds as well as sexual orientations. And more often than not I have reported to women in management positions.
The only place I've ever seen any discrimination is once you get to the very senior positions in these institutions (not necessarily in technology but overall). Then you'll find a predominance of over 50, white, males running the show.
This is changing however as I look at the tech industry outside of financial institutions. A great many tech startups of 2 and 5 years ago are now large players in the area and the CEO's, CIO's, VP's, partners, etc. are of various racial backgrounds. They have gotten to where they are because the ideas and skills they could contribute were more important than the colour of their skin or their religious beliefs.
I used DSL for sometime in Ontario with Sympatico.
The service was quite good and while I have to agree Sympatico's PPPoE client sucked there are a number of good alternatives. The one I recommend is Roaring Penguin's client http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ by far the best in terms of setup and maintenance and just sheer lack of grief.
I think skins are great. Just walking around my office (which is primarily Windows) everyone, whether they look at the computer as just a tool or a neat toy, customizes it to some degree even if its just the wall paper and the screensaver. I think given half the chance some of them at least would love to change the look and feel of Windows all together. However, for those that don't, that just want the standard UI, applications like WinAMP, Netscape, etc. should as the default skin use the standard look and feel of whatever OS they're current sitting on. Let it be up to the user of the app to add a weird and wonderful (and potentially unuseable) skin to it. But don't force a radical new look on the user who just wants it to work and look exactly like their other apps. Snjit
Y2K problems real... hype not.
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As someone who has been working on Y2K in the financial industry for the last 3 years I can honestly say that there were alot of problems out there. I don't know how many person hours were spent in our company alone to fix, test, refix and retest all the possible scenarios to ensure our customers suffered no loss of service or assets.
The fact that there were no problems atests to the amount of work and sheer sweat that technical teams around the world put into averting any disasters in all the industries, be it financial, utility, or government just to name a few. For the media (who in my opinion are responsible for the doomsday hype in the first place, not the geeks fixing it) to jump on the "Was it just a scam to grab more tax dollars?" bandwagon is just sheer hypocrisy. Good news doesn't sell papers. Conspiracy theories and money scams certainly do.
I personally think we should all give ourselves a pat on the back and then forget about Y2K. Move on to bigger and better things in the coming future.
I've been watching it for a couple of days and I don't see that the networks have anything serious to worry about. As the article states the picture quality is not very good, its a small area of real estate on your screen, and it cuts in and out every few minutes when there is network congestion.
Having said that I do find it useful to keep a news broadcast going in the corner but actually watching my favourite sitcom is out of the question. The TV is here to stay for awhile I would think until streaming media catches up in quality.
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Way to build more fear and distrust of your neighbours.
This has gone beyond news to just soap opera drama that belongs on a bad trash news site, not ./
I don't expect top notch, confirmed journalism from any internet news site but this one is pure fantasy on the part of McAfee. Stop feeding this delusional, drug addled news whore. He hasn't done anything for technology since selling his business. Stop letting these "news" stories through to the front page.
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Check out your local high end car stereo shop. There are off the shelf products that will resolve all your issues; battery isolators, second alternator, inverters, regulators, etc. They'll be able to give you good advice on wiring paths and proper mounting of your equipment as well so its solid.
Its most definately not price for me. I shell out the $$ for each distribution because I believe in supporting them (SuSE in this case). I use it because:
1) It works great on older hardware saving me money and upgrade pains.
2) Unlike Windoze when I install a distribution I'm not only getting an OS and desktop platform I'm getting 99% of all the applications I need all at once.
3) Its reliable with uptimes in the months (I do stupid things occasionally otherwise it would be longer).
4) Its secure. My email is not my enemy and there is nothing on the system running that I haven't turned on myself.
5) Its multipurpose; desktop, server, dev environment, games machine, network monitor, firewall, you name it.
6) It can be modified/configured to do things the way =I= want to do them. Not the way I'm forced to do them.
7) Choice!!!
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The US will ban the research and the rest of the world will go on to advance science.
Of course then the corporations will find a way to patent others' work and reap the benefits anyway without any of the political backlash of doing the research in the first place.
Most of what I've seen featured in Longhorn has been around in various other window managers for awhile, if not years.
However, having said that, this still looks like an improvement over Windows today.
I don't think its a vote of confidence. If his current employer thought highly of him he would have given him this raise without the threat of him leaving the company.
Counter-offers are made usually just because the employer needs the body and its cheaper to give an instant raise than it is to find a new body IMHO.
Why is the desktop and what's running on it always referred to as a "war"? And what does "Microsoft has won." mean? Does it mean that right at this point in time they dominate? Yes. Does it mean they will dominate next year? Maybe. 5 years? 10 years? It certainly doesn't mean that we've quit and gone home because there are still desktop environments that are being developed and improved continuously that Microsoft doesn't own or contribute to.
To make broad statements like this seems a little silly to me when its applied to things like technology and open source. Technology (and the desktop) is always evolving and evolution implies a change both in what is dominating and how.
Wars and battles are discrete things that refer to a point in time and imply that once its over its over. Technology wars can only be fought between corporations and are only won when one corporation gives up or goes under. When applied to open source that comparison just doesn't work. Stop equating the changes in desktop technology to a battle and lets discuss it in terms of where it should be going and how we're going to meet the needs of people using them tommorrow. Evolution will take over.
That is exactly the way that I understood the roles to work.
CIO - Business person with technology knowledge
CTO - Technology person with business knowledge
CTO reports to CIO.
Just my three cents.
I've worked in the Toronto area for many years in various tech industries, but primarily the financial industry. I can honestly say that I did not experience any discrimination in terms of peoples' dealings with each other nor in terms of promotion (in my limited world of course). Toronto is a very multi-cultural city and I've worked with most racial and religious backgrounds as well as sexual orientations. And more often than not I have reported to women in management positions.
The only place I've ever seen any discrimination is once you get to the very senior positions in these institutions (not necessarily in technology but overall). Then you'll find a predominance of over 50, white, males running the show.
This is changing however as I look at the tech industry outside of financial institutions. A great many tech startups of 2 and 5 years ago are now large players in the area and the CEO's, CIO's, VP's, partners, etc. are of various racial backgrounds. They have gotten to where they are because the ideas and skills they could contribute were more important than the colour of their skin or their religious beliefs.
Just my two cents.
I used DSL for sometime in Ontario with Sympatico.
The service was quite good and while I have to agree Sympatico's PPPoE client sucked there are a number of good alternatives. The one I recommend is Roaring Penguin's client http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ by far the best in terms of setup and maintenance and just sheer lack of grief.
I think skins are great. Just walking around my office (which is primarily Windows) everyone, whether they look at the computer as just a tool or a neat toy, customizes it to some degree even if its just the wall paper and the screensaver. I think given half the chance some of them at least would love to change the look and feel of Windows all together. However, for those that don't, that just want the standard UI, applications like WinAMP, Netscape, etc. should as the default skin use the standard look and feel of whatever OS they're current sitting on. Let it be up to the user of the app to add a weird and wonderful (and potentially unuseable) skin to it. But don't force a radical new look on the user who just wants it to work and look exactly like their other apps. Snjit
As someone who has been working on Y2K in the financial industry for the last 3 years I can honestly say that there were alot of problems out there. I don't know how many person hours were spent in our company alone to fix, test, refix and retest all the possible scenarios to ensure our customers suffered no loss of service or assets.
The fact that there were no problems atests to the amount of work and sheer sweat that technical teams around the world put into averting any disasters in all the industries, be it financial, utility, or government just to name a few. For the media (who in my opinion are responsible for the doomsday hype in the first place, not the geeks fixing it) to jump on the "Was it just a scam to grab more tax dollars?" bandwagon is just sheer hypocrisy. Good news doesn't sell papers. Conspiracy theories and money scams certainly do.
I personally think we should all give ourselves a pat on the back and then forget about Y2K. Move on to bigger and better things in the coming future.
Just a thought.
I've been watching it for a couple of days and I don't see that the networks have anything serious to worry about. As the article states the picture quality is not very good, its a small area of real estate on your screen, and it cuts in and out every few minutes when there is network congestion.
Having said that I do find it useful to keep a news broadcast going in the corner but actually watching my favourite sitcom is out of the question. The TV is here to stay for awhile I would think until streaming media catches up in quality.