The most common misunderstanding from inside of IT: Assuming that every computer system needs the security of Fort Knox, the reliability of a nuclear Submarine, and the mission-criticality of the Space Shuttle.
In the absence of someone doing proper analysis, it's safest to assume it does require all those things. Because if you assume the other way around and your guess is wrong, the whole company can go under. Or maybe you've only ever worked on trivial stuff?
I'm sorry, you're terribly confused. Or a troll...
Fine for bits and pieces, but read Isaacson's biography of Jobs. Yes your parent quote was exaggerating, but Jobs's philosophy was very, very closed source, with the purpose that Apple could control the consumer experience from end to end. The bits and pieces you cite were things Jobs would have opposed.
Blackberry Playbook. Seriously.
We evaluated one a month after its release. Fully updated system, but the built-in Adobe reader was unable to open and reliably render or scroll two basic, Acrobat-generated PDFs (less than 500kB, text with some images, no fancy stuff). No background apps were running to slow things down.
isn't a single plan to utilize all the data we have available.
Fluffeh, if you haven't done so already, I think you would enjoy taking John Zachman's course in Enterprise Architecture. If one were building an addition on one's house, would one just start hammering things in place or would one look at the existing plans first? Too many IT projects just look at their own plans and don't look at the larger plans they should fit into. And in most IT shops those larger plans don't exist anyway. So we just hammer things into place and wonder why the data doesn't work out.
While religious motivations have been used as an excuse to start wars, I'd like to see any "proof" that the religion itself has been the root cause of the war and not some megalomaniac who got into a position to convince his co-believers into action.
That's not the way it works. Religion is one of many things that societies use to figure out who is "us" and who is "them". It's called tribalism and it's a corollary of being a higher primate. We higher primates split into groups and subgroups at the drop of a hat, forging temporary alliances with erstwhile enemies when threatened by a third, more distantly related party, and then returning to our mutual violence when there's nothing to distract us. Sometimes we get along for a while, and then something will happen to put us at each other's throats for a while. Youngsters & those who don't pay attention to history tend not to see the big pattern. But sure as shootin', one of the social functions of religion is to teach the youngsters who is "us" and who is "them". I'm not being reductionist, but you can't dispute that that's one of the things religion does. It keeps people apart and ready to go at each other's throats at a moment's notice.
I don't see how well-written C code is so much harder to read than well-written code in Python, Java, or whatever..
27 years ago I watched my wife code C and I laughed, because she was trained in COBOL and her C looked so much like COBOL it was funny.
Now, the joke's on me. 27 years later her stuff is still easy to read & modify. There's not much other C code you can say that about, in the otherwise known as "write-only language".
(Yeah, she forgave me for laughing. She knew how the story would end.)
I recall the days when Australia's wines were best for making fun of.
Here's an excellent rendition of Monty Python's sketch on Australian Table Wines (originally from "Monty Python's Previous Record"), done by RuudeBoyProductions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4GvN4wGUZI
but it stores its data in a way that doesn't require me to deconstruct all of my data structures into tables.
I take it this is not business-type data? Otherwise you're doing it backwards. Start with your Entity-Relationship diagrams, devolve into logical than physical data models, and THEN start programming.
I forget who said it but it's true: The data belongs to the business, not to the application. The data should be structured and stored in a way that it will still be readable years after your program has become obsolete. (Unless it's data that has a short "best before" date.)
I'm still trying to figure out the "news for nerds" angle on this. I mean, okay, he mentioned a laptop, but only in passing.
If we nerds knew what to do with keys, he wouldn't have had to post this. If you know what to do with keys, please clue the real nerds in. I hate keys, and where I currently work has no cardlock system - feels like the dark ages.
Wrong. It comes from porne meaning "prostitute". The etymology of "pornography" means "writing about prostitutes". You're probably thinking of the Greek word poneros. Writing about evil would perhaps be "ponerography" but definitely not "pornography".
On my old K1000, the front ring on the lens is focus, back ring is D.O.F / F-stop, Mostly-Single-Function rotary dial on the top for shutter speed
The Panasonic DMC-L1, which is identical to the Leica Digilux 3 except for firmware tweaks, has a shutter speed dial on top and has several lenses with aperture dial. It's only 7.5 MP but those pixels are nice and "fat" - add some sharpening in post-processing and 100% crops are perfectly acceptable. The camera can often be had cheap on eBay in good used condition. As part of the four-thirds family of cameras, it has a crop factor of 2x compared to full-frame 35mm film. If you want a retro feel in an affordable price range (here's glaring at you, Leica M9) this is your camera. The "kit" lens is a sweet Leica-designed 14-50mm/2.8-3.5 with built-in image stabilization. Also available is a 25mm/1.4 which is tack sharp wide open, and a 14-150mm/3.5-5.6 that is the best so-called "superzoom" lens ever made. All of these have aperture rings. Add the Olympus 25mm/2.8 "pancake" lens - no aperture ring (have to use the dial on they body) but slender as a supermodel - and you transform the camera into a great street shooter that will intimidate no one. In my opinion, this is the earliest dSLR that will qualify for "classic" status in years to come. Oh, and it has built-in bounce flash; why don't ALL manufacturers think of that??
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The most common misunderstanding from inside of IT: Assuming that every computer system needs the security of Fort Knox, the reliability of a nuclear Submarine, and the mission-criticality of the Space Shuttle.
In the absence of someone doing proper analysis, it's safest to assume it does require all those things. Because if you assume the other way around and your guess is wrong, the whole company can go under. Or maybe you've only ever worked on trivial stuff?
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I'm sorry, you're terribly confused. Or a troll...
Fine for bits and pieces, but read Isaacson's biography of Jobs. Yes your parent quote was exaggerating, but Jobs's philosophy was very, very closed source, with the purpose that Apple could control the consumer experience from end to end. The bits and pieces you cite were things Jobs would have opposed.
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Mine does email just fine, tethered to my corporate BB Bold via BlackBerry Bridge. And at long last there's a Citrix client for it, too.
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It's working OK now.
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I'm still mad about the (basically) neutered search capability for desktop/LAN files in Windows 7.
I keep a command prompt window open and use DIR a lot. Or, if you prefer, you can have a bash prompt (e.g. using Cygwin).
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Don't just get off my lawn. Get off my neighbour's lawn too.
isn't a single plan to utilize all the data we have available.
Fluffeh, if you haven't done so already, I think you would enjoy taking John Zachman's course in Enterprise Architecture. If one were building an addition on one's house, would one just start hammering things in place or would one look at the existing plans first? Too many IT projects just look at their own plans and don't look at the larger plans they should fit into. And in most IT shops those larger plans don't exist anyway. So we just hammer things into place and wonder why the data doesn't work out.
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It's just that there's a social stigmata attached to
I'm off topic, but fyi stigmata is the plural of stigma.
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While religious motivations have been used as an excuse to start wars, I'd like to see any "proof" that the religion itself has been the root cause of the war and not some megalomaniac who got into a position to convince his co-believers into action.
That's not the way it works. Religion is one of many things that societies use to figure out who is "us" and who is "them". It's called tribalism and it's a corollary of being a higher primate. We higher primates split into groups and subgroups at the drop of a hat, forging temporary alliances with erstwhile enemies when threatened by a third, more distantly related party, and then returning to our mutual violence when there's nothing to distract us. Sometimes we get along for a while, and then something will happen to put us at each other's throats for a while. Youngsters & those who don't pay attention to history tend not to see the big pattern. But sure as shootin', one of the social functions of religion is to teach the youngsters who is "us" and who is "them". I'm not being reductionist, but you can't dispute that that's one of the things religion does. It keeps people apart and ready to go at each other's throats at a moment's notice.
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Just like in the movie.
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Just glad I don't need to read their code!
I don't see how well-written C code is so much harder to read than well-written code in Python, Java, or whatever..
27 years ago I watched my wife code C and I laughed, because she was trained in COBOL and her C looked so much like COBOL it was funny.
Now, the joke's on me. 27 years later her stuff is still easy to read & modify. There's not much other C code you can say that about, in the otherwise known as "write-only language".
(Yeah, she forgave me for laughing. She knew how the story would end.)
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Here's an excellent rendition of Monty Python's sketch on Australian Table Wines (originally from "Monty Python's Previous Record"), done by RuudeBoyProductions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4GvN4wGUZI
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but it stores its data in a way that doesn't require me to deconstruct all of my data structures into tables.
I take it this is not business-type data? Otherwise you're doing it backwards. Start with your Entity-Relationship diagrams, devolve into logical than physical data models, and THEN start programming.
I forget who said it but it's true: The data belongs to the business, not to the application. The data should be structured and stored in a way that it will still be readable years after your program has become obsolete. (Unless it's data that has a short "best before" date.)
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Seriously, just fire up nmap and start scanning your internal work networks and some key systems.
If you try that in my shop you will be violating written policy and we will escort you to the door.
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So cybersex is an example of proper usage of the prefix?
Are you thinking it's proper because of the gp's statement about
linkages
or his phrase
I do not know what I am talking about
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unless the Latin plural has been fully adopted into the language (like "phenomenon" ~ "phenomena", where nobody would use *"phenomonons").
Bad example - 'phenomenon' comes from Greek, not Latin.
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Capitalism only works if everyone in power is benevolent.
Technocracy only works if everyone in power is benevolent.
Meritocracy only works if everyone in power is benevolent.
Scientology only works if everyone in power is benevolent.
Mormonism only works if everyone in power is benevolent.
Ayn Randianism only works if everyone in power is benevolent.
Your-Religion-Or-Political-Philosophy-Here-ism only works if everyone in power is benevolent.
FTFY. Now define 'benevolent'.
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Corporations pillage and plunder? I thought governments did that.
Nah, government is amateur in comparison. I've worked in both. To compensate for their weakness, government prints extra money at will.
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Take your long list. Now restrict it to things in which "catastrophic failure" also includes "catastrophic consequences".
I'd be interested in your thoughts on Katrina compared to this oil spill. Or if you've already commented, perhaps a link? Thanks.
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Because Futurama is a comedy and not a drama like Star Trek
Star Trek not a comedy? Why didn't someone tell me I wasn't supposed to laugh?
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I'm still trying to figure out the "news for nerds" angle on this. I mean, okay, he mentioned a laptop, but only in passing.
If we nerds knew what to do with keys, he wouldn't have had to post this. If you know what to do with keys, please clue the real nerds in. I hate keys, and where I currently work has no cardlock system - feels like the dark ages.
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from "pornos" meaning, you guessed it, "evil"
Wrong. It comes from porne meaning "prostitute". The etymology of "pornography" means "writing about prostitutes". You're probably thinking of the Greek word poneros. Writing about evil would perhaps be "ponerography" but definitely not "pornography".
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On my old K1000, the front ring on the lens is focus, back ring is D.O.F / F-stop, Mostly-Single-Function rotary dial on the top for shutter speed
The Panasonic DMC-L1, which is identical to the Leica Digilux 3 except for firmware tweaks, has a shutter speed dial on top and has several lenses with aperture dial. It's only 7.5 MP but those pixels are nice and "fat" - add some sharpening in post-processing and 100% crops are perfectly acceptable. The camera can often be had cheap on eBay in good used condition. As part of the four-thirds family of cameras, it has a crop factor of 2x compared to full-frame 35mm film. If you want a retro feel in an affordable price range (here's glaring at you, Leica M9) this is your camera. The "kit" lens is a sweet Leica-designed 14-50mm/2.8-3.5 with built-in image stabilization. Also available is a 25mm/1.4 which is tack sharp wide open, and a 14-150mm/3.5-5.6 that is the best so-called "superzoom" lens ever made. All of these have aperture rings. Add the Olympus 25mm/2.8 "pancake" lens - no aperture ring (have to use the dial on they body) but slender as a supermodel - and you transform the camera into a great street shooter that will intimidate no one. In my opinion, this is the earliest dSLR that will qualify for "classic" status in years to come. Oh, and it has built-in bounce flash; why don't ALL manufacturers think of that??
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