You gotta make a deal. If you cash that check you are eliminating the chance to give it back and get a bigger one. If you're not in a position to make a deal, you take the check. It's that simple.
Oh, there was plenty of nomadism and cave-dwelling activity in North America. British Columbia, the northwest and the islands there are all the exception. The extremely rich fisheries, abundant lumber, otter and beaver, and decent climate all led to an amazing abundance of resources for the natives there. In fact, they had so much they were also one of the most violent native cultures in the Americas. They didn't have anything better to do with their time since nature had provided so much.
Good book on the area, and about a specific tree also, which makes it more interesting.
Yeah, in Unix, everything is a file, including things that aren't (/dev and/proc, for instance). This lends itself very nicely to gui stuff because you do have to case out every special class of "file" widget to have a special handler. Their folderOpen() probably looks like:
switch(folder_class) {
case "E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD":
openScannersAndCameras();
break;
case "20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D":
openMyComputer();
break;
default:
openFilesystemObject();
break; }
Pretty lame and inefficient. But I've been a developer for a while and sometimes these things come up and you have to make them work int he most unobstrusive way possible.
S-corp is not that bad anyway. Yes, you have a more complicated return but all the income flows through in K1's to the owners (the guy and his wife). While functionally an LLC is a partnership and therefore uses a simpler return, it also has a lot of limitations, a lot of which haven't been tested yet. For maximum limitation of liability and the ability to do business in the most possible jurisdictions with no worries, the S-corp is quite a nice little way to organize a business.
Let me demonstrate what I dislike about Oracle. They bought a product called "Berkeley DB", something you probably have installed on your linux box for various purposes (SVN uses it, depending on how you set it up). Now, check out the download page. Try to download any of those from the command line. Just try it. You can't.
Now, that may be meaningless to most people but I have a lot of linux servers without X windows on them and I need to download the source to bdb once in a while. Now I have to do this process of transferring the file around, all because Oracle needs me to click their stupid agreement before I download. This is where Mysql is going, mark my words.
Mysql has been dying for a long time, and thankfully my current business has outgrown it (we need more horizontal scalability) so we'll be moving off soon. Plus we do a ton of framework development and object orientated databases with table inheritance and such would make our ORM (object relation mapping) a lot simpler and automatic. I hate to see 3 dba's sitting around a cafeteria table solving class inheritance mapped to relational tables for the upteenth time. It's weird how when you get to that step of development it's always hard. And yeah yeah, there's Ruby blah blah, I need a real solution.
I have been watching MariaDB for the possibility that Monty can regain some street cred with a solid fork. It looks ok but they just haven't done much. He's been spending a lot of time ranting about why Mysql's management is so horrible instead of actually making something better. Although his rants did open my eyes to some things....
Anyway, as the parent said, there's postgresql, there's also Ingres, which people always forget about. Ingres != Postgres;)
Pft, everyone has fiber splitters at the main peer points anyway, so they can just match packets on either side. Tor is irrelevant. The other thing about Tor is that I've noticed there's often a router overseas in the chain and THAT traffic will definitely be sniffed, regardless of the laws of the U.S.
It means you can have a different network on each port. Only up to three networks, I think (local, outside, management). But each port is a regular standard ethernet interface with a MAC address.
As opposed to a layer 2 switch commonly found in a home router, where you plug in crap, it maps the MAC addresses and that's about it.
Also, as far as low end professional stuff, the ASA 5505 is pretty good (overkill for home use probably). It'll do 150Mbps NAT and it does that with hardware VPN also. The lowest version (10 user license) is around $350. It has a built in layer 3 switch also.
If you read the Google stuff, they have a number of reasons for it. Firstly, they wanted to minimize or eliminate conversion costs (Converting AC to DC and vice versa takes energy, sometimes 10-20% right off the top in heat. Secondly, they didn't want to have to do standard systems planning to deploy more capacity. With a central UPS, you have to worry about how many systems are plugged in, how many VA, etc. You have to do these calcuations and planning all the time with new hardware configurations. Google wants to be able to add capacity as fast as possible, so they mass produce a single computing "unit" that only needs power and network. All the costs are packaged into one unit. This minimizes everything from planning meetings to deployment patterns. If you have a given rack they run a certain amount of AC to it that will support x number of units. That's all the deployment engineer needs to know. The Google mainframe asks for more processors, the deployment person just loads up a rack and turns them on. Thirdly, the batteries and compute units are both on the same replacement cycle, so they will replace the entire unit at once, recycle the batteries, etc. Lastly, one of the largest costs in a generator set and UPS is the switching over to emergency power. Generators have to start up and come up to phase. This might not happen simultaneously for all the generators either. This could cause a huge brownout which would take everything out if say only one generator came on. Normally you would make sure everything is segmented but with the decentralized system you don't have to do that. The battery will make up for any shortage as well as a total loss. So your motherboard will have totally constant power no matter what.
Look for the google research on conversion losses, though. It's published out there somewhere.
Actually considering there are content distribution networks like Akamai and of course Google that have servers within one hop of most metropolitan ISP's edge routers, it's pretty likely you'll be able to achieve those speeds for a lot of your content.
I recommend they take a look at some of the small business products from Cisco and Sonicwall. They are a step above the home stuff in features and price. Most of them will list their firewall throughput, how much they can NAT is a function of the processor and more importantly the software.. Beware that there is some Cisco branded stuff that is actually Linksys in disguise (with minor software changes), however Cisco won't put it's name on total crap (yet) so they are pretty good.
It looks like it's just self-stick Kevlar. So it's going to be hideously expensive. However, maybe the Army overpaying for it will help them find advanced production methods to cut costs and benefit us in the long run. But then what? Possible uses: line car gas/hydrogen tanks with it. But aside from that and protecting masonry walls from disintegrating in an explosion, I can't see any practical use. As a commenter on the article site said, what if this is a load bearing wall? Looks like it would just fold up and take the building with it. Great, no shrapnel, I get it. But as cool a future would be where every building is bomb proof, I don't see it happening before a nanotech alternative that's self-healing and much better at linear support.
I remember when Websphere came out I was like "Why the hell would anyone want a central web application server?" But now I'm in business and I see that it's a great solution to a very big and common business problem. I think this will turn out to be the same. Think of how great it would be to have an AI that sleeps all day, only listens to you when it's hungry and bites you when it randomly gets annoyed. I could replace half of my web developers!
It could cause an explosion of garbage lessons as well, if something false "goes viral". The company I work for has one facet of it's business to help teachers create lesson plans. It's a small part, but very rigorous. There are state and federal standards and guidelines that need to be met. Another aspect we do is analysing lesson plans to align them with standards. This kind of computerized matching is done sort of like a computer dating service. Obviosuly this is big stuff right now with the stimulus funds. Something like $55B is out there, about 1B per state, whch is a lot and almost nothing has made it down yet. I expect that more and more evaluations will be done and with districts investing time and money to validate syllabi and lesson plans, they aren't going to want teachers making a profit selling them to other districts. Sounds like a great idea if they were free, but to charge does seem kind of... opportunist.
I consider myself an IT professional but you're right, there's no official certification (yet). The best one I've found is CS+MBA. That's a killer combo. I could see getting it going somewhere like California. Make CS more like law, require a lot of history and context of business (and/or non-business) and make a Doctoral-level IT position that's not just about management and more about information. You deal with so many aspects of the world in IT. First of all, the *requirement* to be a true success implementing business process management is to fully understand every aspect of the business. For the average IT professional, that's going to be a minimum of 6 different business types (retail, healthcare, finance, etc.) each with their own nuances, throughout their career. Sure, there could be specialization in any of these fields, but you'd need a 4 year degree in business to implement business software and if you're writing medical or clinical software you'd need 4 years of pre-med to do it effectively. Seems like this is the biggest problem is that the gap in abilities is so huge between the business users and the people making the software that all kinds of consultants and analysts are needed just to annoy each side enough to make compromises. I'm one of maybe 5 employees in my organization who can change the position of $1000000 by succeeding or failing, yet my job is considered a trade whereas the accountant (who's always asking for computer help, the computer software of course does all the accounting work) is considered a professional. So really, what the difference is beyond skills is having an ethical basis to stand on and a powerful cabal to stand behind you. Ethics is pretty easy to come by, there's an unspoken code of honor and privacy in IT, and that has a lot to do with the obsession with Japanese culture you'll find in any IT department, among other things. To codify it and certify people legally with an oath would be no harder than the exam for a notary. Costs the state maybe $50 and the licensee covers it. So, are you a professional (lawyer, doctor, accountant) or a tradesman (cosmetologist, welder, ditch digger)? We need to change the world's perceptions of us and it starts with our perceptions of ourselves.
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You gotta make a deal. If you cash that check you are eliminating the chance to give it back and get a bigger one. If you're not in a position to make a deal, you take the check. It's that simple.
I'm still a big fan of OpenSSL but yeah, it's prety good.
Oh, there was plenty of nomadism and cave-dwelling activity in North America. British Columbia, the northwest and the islands there are all the exception. The extremely rich fisheries, abundant lumber, otter and beaver, and decent climate all led to an amazing abundance of resources for the natives there. In fact, they had so much they were also one of the most violent native cultures in the Americas. They didn't have anything better to do with their time since nature had provided so much.
Good book on the area, and about a specific tree also, which makes it more interesting.
I KNOW. What a DICK!
Yeah, in Unix, everything is a file, including things that aren't (/dev and /proc, for instance). This lends itself very nicely to gui stuff because you do have to case out every special class of "file" widget to have a special handler. Their folderOpen() probably looks like:
switch(folder_class)
{
case "E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD":
openScannersAndCameras();
break;
case "20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D":
openMyComputer();
break;
default:
openFilesystemObject();
break;
}
Pretty lame and inefficient. But I've been a developer for a while and sometimes these things come up and you have to make them work int he most unobstrusive way possible.
@player1: Marco!
@player2: POLO!
@player1: Marco!
@player2: POLO!
Call me a cynic, but that would leave little people to associate with.
Little people can be idiots too!
It's our government, and if it's screwing us it's basically us screwing ourselves.
Non-sequitur and off-topic, has there ever been a media anti-trust action in history?
Yeah, and judging by the other stories today, someone's "Soul" skill is posting slashvertising on slow Wednesdays..
S-corp is not that bad anyway. Yes, you have a more complicated return but all the income flows through in K1's to the owners (the guy and his wife). While functionally an LLC is a partnership and therefore uses a simpler return, it also has a lot of limitations, a lot of which haven't been tested yet. For maximum limitation of liability and the ability to do business in the most possible jurisdictions with no worries, the S-corp is quite a nice little way to organize a business.
3. Profit
Bacteria will survive and we'll be back again some other day. The wheel can be a ho, but the world keeps spinning around.
Let me demonstrate what I dislike about Oracle. They bought a product called "Berkeley DB", something you probably have installed on your linux box for various purposes (SVN uses it, depending on how you set it up). Now, check out the download page. Try to download any of those from the command line. Just try it. You can't.
Now, that may be meaningless to most people but I have a lot of linux servers without X windows on them and I need to download the source to bdb once in a while. Now I have to do this process of transferring the file around, all because Oracle needs me to click their stupid agreement before I download. This is where Mysql is going, mark my words.
Mysql has been dying for a long time, and thankfully my current business has outgrown it (we need more horizontal scalability) so we'll be moving off soon. Plus we do a ton of framework development and object orientated databases with table inheritance and such would make our ORM (object relation mapping) a lot simpler and automatic. I hate to see 3 dba's sitting around a cafeteria table solving class inheritance mapped to relational tables for the upteenth time. It's weird how when you get to that step of development it's always hard. And yeah yeah, there's Ruby blah blah, I need a real solution.
I have been watching MariaDB for the possibility that Monty can regain some street cred with a solid fork. It looks ok but they just haven't done much. He's been spending a lot of time ranting about why Mysql's management is so horrible instead of actually making something better. Although his rants did open my eyes to some things....
Anyway, as the parent said, there's postgresql, there's also Ingres, which people always forget about. Ingres != Postgres ;)
Pft, everyone has fiber splitters at the main peer points anyway, so they can just match packets on either side. Tor is irrelevant. The other thing about Tor is that I've noticed there's often a router overseas in the chain and THAT traffic will definitely be sniffed, regardless of the laws of the U.S.
Glenn Beck called and wants his motive back.
The place in my signature has some cool stuff, you don't have a ton of time to online order stuff however. Get on it! ;)
It means you can have a different network on each port. Only up to three networks, I think (local, outside, management). But each port is a regular standard ethernet interface with a MAC address.
As opposed to a layer 2 switch commonly found in a home router, where you plug in crap, it maps the MAC addresses and that's about it.
Also, as far as low end professional stuff, the ASA 5505 is pretty good (overkill for home use probably). It'll do 150Mbps NAT and it does that with hardware VPN also. The lowest version (10 user license) is around $350. It has a built in layer 3 switch also.
If you read the Google stuff, they have a number of reasons for it. Firstly, they wanted to minimize or eliminate conversion costs (Converting AC to DC and vice versa takes energy, sometimes 10-20% right off the top in heat. Secondly, they didn't want to have to do standard systems planning to deploy more capacity. With a central UPS, you have to worry about how many systems are plugged in, how many VA, etc. You have to do these calcuations and planning all the time with new hardware configurations. Google wants to be able to add capacity as fast as possible, so they mass produce a single computing "unit" that only needs power and network. All the costs are packaged into one unit. This minimizes everything from planning meetings to deployment patterns. If you have a given rack they run a certain amount of AC to it that will support x number of units. That's all the deployment engineer needs to know. The Google mainframe asks for more processors, the deployment person just loads up a rack and turns them on. Thirdly, the batteries and compute units are both on the same replacement cycle, so they will replace the entire unit at once, recycle the batteries, etc. Lastly, one of the largest costs in a generator set and UPS is the switching over to emergency power. Generators have to start up and come up to phase. This might not happen simultaneously for all the generators either. This could cause a huge brownout which would take everything out if say only one generator came on. Normally you would make sure everything is segmented but with the decentralized system you don't have to do that. The battery will make up for any shortage as well as a total loss. So your motherboard will have totally constant power no matter what.
Look for the google research on conversion losses, though. It's published out there somewhere.
Actually considering there are content distribution networks like Akamai and of course Google that have servers within one hop of most metropolitan ISP's edge routers, it's pretty likely you'll be able to achieve those speeds for a lot of your content.
I recommend they take a look at some of the small business products from Cisco and Sonicwall. They are a step above the home stuff in features and price. Most of them will list their firewall throughput, how much they can NAT is a function of the processor and more importantly the software.. Beware that there is some Cisco branded stuff that is actually Linksys in disguise (with minor software changes), however Cisco won't put it's name on total crap (yet) so they are pretty good.
It looks like it's just self-stick Kevlar. So it's going to be hideously expensive. However, maybe the Army overpaying for it will help them find advanced production methods to cut costs and benefit us in the long run. But then what? Possible uses: line car gas/hydrogen tanks with it. But aside from that and protecting masonry walls from disintegrating in an explosion, I can't see any practical use. As a commenter on the article site said, what if this is a load bearing wall? Looks like it would just fold up and take the building with it. Great, no shrapnel, I get it. But as cool a future would be where every building is bomb proof, I don't see it happening before a nanotech alternative that's self-healing and much better at linear support.
I remember when Websphere came out I was like "Why the hell would anyone want a central web application server?" But now I'm in business and I see that it's a great solution to a very big and common business problem. I think this will turn out to be the same. Think of how great it would be to have an AI that sleeps all day, only listens to you when it's hungry and bites you when it randomly gets annoyed. I could replace half of my web developers!
It could cause an explosion of garbage lessons as well, if something false "goes viral". The company I work for has one facet of it's business to help teachers create lesson plans. It's a small part, but very rigorous. There are state and federal standards and guidelines that need to be met. Another aspect we do is analysing lesson plans to align them with standards. This kind of computerized matching is done sort of like a computer dating service. Obviosuly this is big stuff right now with the stimulus funds. Something like $55B is out there, about 1B per state, whch is a lot and almost nothing has made it down yet. I expect that more and more evaluations will be done and with districts investing time and money to validate syllabi and lesson plans, they aren't going to want teachers making a profit selling them to other districts. Sounds like a great idea if they were free, but to charge does seem kind of... opportunist.
Not to be pedantic, but if Slashdot was smoking crack it would LOSE weight.
I consider myself an IT professional but you're right, there's no official certification (yet). The best one I've found is CS+MBA. That's a killer combo. I could see getting it going somewhere like California. Make CS more like law, require a lot of history and context of business (and/or non-business) and make a Doctoral-level IT position that's not just about management and more about information. You deal with so many aspects of the world in IT. First of all, the *requirement* to be a true success implementing business process management is to fully understand every aspect of the business. For the average IT professional, that's going to be a minimum of 6 different business types (retail, healthcare, finance, etc.) each with their own nuances, throughout their career. Sure, there could be specialization in any of these fields, but you'd need a 4 year degree in business to implement business software and if you're writing medical or clinical software you'd need 4 years of pre-med to do it effectively. Seems like this is the biggest problem is that the gap in abilities is so huge between the business users and the people making the software that all kinds of consultants and analysts are needed just to annoy each side enough to make compromises. I'm one of maybe 5 employees in my organization who can change the position of $1000000 by succeeding or failing, yet my job is considered a trade whereas the accountant (who's always asking for computer help, the computer software of course does all the accounting work) is considered a professional. So really, what the difference is beyond skills is having an ethical basis to stand on and a powerful cabal to stand behind you. Ethics is pretty easy to come by, there's an unspoken code of honor and privacy in IT, and that has a lot to do with the obsession with Japanese culture you'll find in any IT department, among other things. To codify it and certify people legally with an oath would be no harder than the exam for a notary. Costs the state maybe $50 and the licensee covers it. So, are you a professional (lawyer, doctor, accountant) or a tradesman (cosmetologist, welder, ditch digger)? We need to change the world's perceptions of us and it starts with our perceptions of ourselves.