You are fighting an impossible cause. We aren't designed to know and care about this many people. If you intend to let your business grow beyond 10 individuals (Yes! Ten. Those people each have at least 3 people they care about, making the minimum count 30 already) then you will fail to accomplish what you are looking for. More importantly, if some of them fall for it and begin to trust others at the office, they run the risk of being *deceived by someone they are attempting to trust*, while at work. You will have effectively attached their desire to work there to the outcome of any one relationship they build at work. If *one* relationship goes sour, the person is that more likely to leave altogether. This is why you want all relationships to "not mean anything" at work. It's important to the business.
This just doesn't seem like a big deal. The countries he points out are all in the same timezones so it's probably just their normal day starting. So this probably correlates to dns refresh or some other aspect (vertical) of general internet operations landing on the same hour.
He needs tcp port analysis and to compare days - the pattern is probably the same from day to day.
Sadly enough, you will either end up building up a temporary dependency on your skills, donate time an energy and decide the recipients are ungrateful, or have some other less than fullfilling and beneficial experience.
If you have a compassion itch to scratch, collect all of your friends and family, choose one particular family or person to help, then *help them fully*. That means bring them up to the level of your peers and yourself in a way that is permanent and causes them to become another close friend. If you do this with friends the interconnections will make your more successful as a group.
Don't swing your personal energy around haphazardly. It doesn't help as much as you would hope.
I'd add one more point regarding the "noble savage" excuse the technology gap keeps landing on.
The Na'vi *can't* be more technologically advanced. Since the planet is almost completely alive and the Na'vi plugged into it, they can't put a shovel into the ground without killing something dear to them. For them to make an advancement at the detriment of something living, it would have to be worth it to them. Eating to survive is worth it, so they have thanksgiving at every kill, but kill nonetheless.
The one exception I could think of would be digging unobtanium off the side of one of the floating mountains to create some sort of flying vehicle. But they already have flying vehicles that perform their own maintenance! And the superconductor hovering would only work in highly magnetic regions.
So I'd argue they are technologically advanced. They have a standing army, worldwide network, flying vehicles. Their technology - carbon fiber skeletons & fibre optic adapters come naturally.
One counterexample to your point is worth mentioning: Startups driven by ex-academics. There are case studies of successful ventures where researchers came out of the university and into the private sector to apply research to commercial problems. They are niche, but perhaps that's how you could clarify your assertion - by also mentioned niche solutions based on solid research.
With twenty machines, I'm going to go out on a limb and say don't! You have a large enough user base that you should use a hard disk image backup system, yet a small enough base that the infections would be manageable. Since your primary server isn't windows you may want to set up your network so each user workstation cannot connect to the others, then let them be on their way. The CPU usage of constant disk scanning is a drag on the user's machine. Weighed 20 of them versus the time for you to recreate an image of a particular users disk then swap them out. Besides, if one particular user is a problem it will play out as negative reinforcement for whatever they are doing to get infected. My reasoning is that users often disable the scan anyway, so you would be trying to combat that behavior by tweaking the application/system security policies. Don't waste your time, if they get infected waste theirs. They won't do it again....
I agree with what you are saying. It's not that you're paranoid, it's that in your gut you know that connections are important, but our society contradicts your natural tendency to small, close knit groups. If you skip the social networking deal, draw out a graph of your 60 closest friends (or your closest and then the people they are close to... you do know your friends parents don't you? Your dry-cleaners name? etc) you should be able to build up a group of people who complement each other.
I don't quite follow this assertion: control. They want to control application access - but they release an sdk. And regarding foot-dragging, how many months ago was the iphone released? Can you honestly say it's foot-dragging or a staged schedule?
I can't agree with you more! To suggest that humans can generalize to encompass basic understanding of all things which may affect their lives when the latter isn't a constrained set (Amish life is a constrained set for example) is just not doable.
Instead, I'd recommend that we all (unrealistic, I know) deliberately reduce our set of knowledge to a few skills, then form groups of no more than 60 people and become the master of those skills for that group. Call it tribalism, but I think that's how we evolved. We can't truly know or trust more than a handful of people - at that point, we need hierarchies to keep order instead of being able to rely completely on meritocracy. By forming guilds of sixty (including children and old folks) and not expending our mental resources on anyone outside the group, we can form relationships strong enough to include trust of all these people.
I've been dwelling on this for some time now. Human Hierarchical organizations are subject to abuse and require some subgroup to be in charge of other people. History is riddled with stories of failure of that idea.
Could it be that government at all is a flawed concept?
I hate to be so reactive to the things I have recently seen, but I wonder what would happen if you exposed this system to the autistic community? It seems like a lot of data that would do well to be digested by someone predisposed to taking it all in at once.
Is this really upsetting? It seems that in comparison to blasting the air waves with an untargeted advertisement or littering the countryside with billboards this is still a good idea.
Perhaps is just that advertising on a whole is questionable.
But there is a gray area in between. And when that gray area gets too large it encompasses part of the citizenry that as you have said, is armed. When that happens the police will have their hands full, the perps will take advantage of the power shift and it will be some time before the whole thing comes back into equilibrium.
Remember Rodney King? Remember all of the crimes that piggy backed on the protests and riots? A police state and continued abuse by law enforcement will result in state-oriented backlashes.
You have a real point. The next step in such a situation is preemtive assault on the police. Nothing comes for free, and you're already seeing signs of this in some cities.
A friend of mine was describing the tentative cease fire going on near his neighborhood in Ft. Lauderdale. There is a street that the perps don't break cross on the condition that the cops leave them be. This authoritarian crap gets too heavy and I'm sure that line will do some serious moving.
Anyone who abuses their position of authority needs to be really careful over the next several years. Once the backlash starts it will go under its own force for quite some time.
Very suspicious organization. There are NO black people, latinos or other minorities on the board or among the "experts" and they are advising problems with VOTING systems?! This reeks of arrogance.
Paper trails are expensive. Thanks for the insight ITIF.
I can't wait to see a matrix filter on this thing.
As for pointless? You just use a different camera and you have night vision or RF direction finding vision. Seriously powerful stuff waiting to happen!
Despite their new problems with the monkeys, it is a criminal offence to harm or kill any of them, so the besieged villagers must figure out a way to outwit the monkeys instead.
This law needs to be updated to stipulate that defending your food supply from the monkeys warrants their harm or death. Then these women need to be supplied with baseball catcher's masks, leather armor, and a can of whoop-ass.
Nobody dominates mankind. Add monkey meat to your diet.
Please check your dates. Before Microsoft there wasn't much in the way of personal computing either! You cannot regard the last 30 - 40 years as the middle of a steady-state market where Microsoft "changed" anything. Rather, they defined the market, but software as a business model was not their doing. Any old geek will tell you the hundreds of applications which were available.
I think the last line of your post was their focus (granted, a very myoptic and costly mistake perhaps). But there is a python script svnmerge.py available to enforce more proper branching and merging and the project seems to at least have a track for "fixing" its lack of sufficient merging.
I look at subversion as two things - an improvement on CVS that only takes a few steps but definitely in the right direction and a tranisitional step from corporate environments where some other horrific tool is used (Clearcase & Accurev for example). Perhaps one day in the future git will have the momentum behind subversion right now, or subversion with v3.0 themselves into a tool reliable for the big and small codebase alike.
people don't stay on svn for the merging, they stay for the tools - EVERYTHING supports svn and git is barely a blip on the ide/gui/docs screen.
If some git fan got off their keester and actually wrote the things necessary for mainstream adoption you might have a legit flame war on your hands - until then your just waxing on about everyone adopting a nitch tool.
basically the guy is complaining because he can't "svn tag" and "svn branch" and get his hand held the entire way. Nevermind that any project ought to have more enforcement of branching and tagging above just the simple commands.
For all the rhetoric, he doesn't seem capable of writing a few scripts to wrap subversion. And I looked at git - it's barely a project at all - how can they expect it to be the mainstream with doc no bigger than a man page?
Okay, what is the point of your post? Anyone who is interested in scm and has settled on subversion to get around issues they were having with CVS is going to throw up the defense at your remarks and ignore your suggestion, and you leave the rest of your potential audience up to the crap-shoot that your remarks are so loaded with bullshit (Linus is an asshole [which he is]) that they'll ignore it as well.
Look, subversion branches and tags are a punt on the entire idea of branching and merging, granted, but that's only if you are still doing that crap by hand! Depending on your branch policy, it might have been implemented a few different ways. If the team's goal was to resolve their issues with cvs, why would they impose a particular branching process on top of that? Just for kicks? Are you suggesting they can do improve subversion later or something? Where's your patch?
You need to write a few scripts that do shit like remember the revision from whence you came which are specific to your software process and then reach back into your painfully shallow humility pail and pull out whatever you have and give some credit to these people for at least moving people away from cvs.
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You are fighting an impossible cause. We aren't designed to know and care about this many people. If you intend to let your business grow beyond 10 individuals (Yes! Ten. Those people each have at least 3 people they care about, making the minimum count 30 already) then you will fail to accomplish what you are looking for. More importantly, if some of them fall for it and begin to trust others at the office, they run the risk of being *deceived by someone they are attempting to trust*, while at work. You will have effectively attached their desire to work there to the outcome of any one relationship they build at work. If *one* relationship goes sour, the person is that more likely to leave altogether. This is why you want all relationships to "not mean anything" at work. It's important to the business.
Other than that, best of luck.
http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
This just doesn't seem like a big deal. The countries he points out are all in the same timezones so it's probably just their normal day starting. So this probably correlates to dns refresh or some other aspect (vertical) of general internet operations landing on the same hour.
He needs tcp port analysis and to compare days - the pattern is probably the same from day to day.
Sadly enough, you will either end up building up a temporary dependency on your skills, donate time an energy and decide the recipients are ungrateful, or have some other less than fullfilling and beneficial experience.
If you have a compassion itch to scratch, collect all of your friends and family, choose one particular family or person to help, then *help them fully*. That means bring them up to the level of your peers and yourself in a way that is permanent and causes them to become another close friend. If you do this with friends the interconnections will make your more successful as a group.
Don't swing your personal energy around haphazardly. It doesn't help as much as you would hope.
I'd add one more point regarding the "noble savage" excuse the technology gap keeps landing on.
The Na'vi *can't* be more technologically advanced. Since the planet is almost completely alive and the Na'vi plugged into it, they can't put a shovel into the ground without killing something dear to them. For them to make an advancement at the detriment of something living, it would have to be worth it to them. Eating to survive is worth it, so they have thanksgiving at every kill, but kill nonetheless.
The one exception I could think of would be digging unobtanium off the side of one of the floating mountains to create some sort of flying vehicle. But they already have flying vehicles that perform their own maintenance! And the superconductor hovering would only work in highly magnetic regions.
So I'd argue they are technologically advanced. They have a standing army, worldwide network, flying vehicles. Their technology - carbon fiber skeletons & fibre optic adapters come naturally.
One counterexample to your point is worth mentioning: Startups driven by ex-academics. There are case studies of successful ventures where researchers came out of the university and into the private sector to apply research to commercial problems. They are niche, but perhaps that's how you could clarify your assertion - by also mentioned niche solutions based on solid research.
With twenty machines, I'm going to go out on a limb and say don't! You have a large enough user base that you should use a hard disk image backup system, yet a small enough base that the infections would be manageable. Since your primary server isn't windows you may want to set up your network so each user workstation cannot connect to the others, then let them be on their way. The CPU usage of constant disk scanning is a drag on the user's machine. Weighed 20 of them versus the time for you to recreate an image of a particular users disk then swap them out. Besides, if one particular user is a problem it will play out as negative reinforcement for whatever they are doing to get infected.
My reasoning is that users often disable the scan anyway, so you would be trying to combat that behavior by tweaking the application/system security policies. Don't waste your time, if they get infected waste theirs. They won't do it again....
Funny enough, someone made a shoe back since the eighties specifically for training calves that is how you described:
http://www.eastbay.com/sitemap/Cross_Training/For_Everyone/Shoes/Strength_Shoe/Strength_Training_System_Strength_Shoe___Black_red___Cross_Training_Shoes.html
I agree with what you are saying. It's not that you're paranoid, it's that in your gut you know that connections are important, but our society contradicts your natural tendency to small, close knit groups. If you skip the social networking deal, draw out a graph of your 60 closest friends (or your closest and then the people they are close to... you do know your friends parents don't you? Your dry-cleaners name? etc) you should be able to build up a group of people who complement each other.
I don't quite follow this assertion: control. They want to control application access - but they release an sdk. And regarding foot-dragging, how many months ago was the iphone released? Can you honestly say it's foot-dragging or a staged schedule?
I can't agree with you more! To suggest that humans can generalize to encompass basic understanding of all things which may affect their lives when the latter isn't a constrained set (Amish life is a constrained set for example) is just not doable.
Instead, I'd recommend that we all (unrealistic, I know) deliberately reduce our set of knowledge to a few skills, then form groups of no more than 60 people and become the master of those skills for that group. Call it tribalism, but I think that's how we evolved. We can't truly know or trust more than a handful of people - at that point, we need hierarchies to keep order instead of being able to rely completely on meritocracy. By forming guilds of sixty (including children and old folks) and not expending our mental resources on anyone outside the group, we can form relationships strong enough to include trust of all these people.
I've been dwelling on this for some time now. Human Hierarchical organizations are subject to abuse and require some subgroup to be in charge of other people. History is riddled with stories of failure of that idea.
Could it be that government at all is a flawed concept?
I hate to be so reactive to the things I have recently seen, but I wonder what would happen if you exposed this system to the autistic community? It seems like a lot of data that would do well to be digested by someone predisposed to taking it all in at once.
Is this really upsetting? It seems that in comparison to blasting the air waves with an untargeted advertisement or littering the countryside with billboards this is still a good idea.
Perhaps is just that advertising on a whole is questionable.
But there is a gray area in between. And when that gray area gets too large it encompasses part of the citizenry that as you have said, is armed. When that happens the police will have their hands full, the perps will take advantage of the power shift and it will be some time before the whole thing comes back into equilibrium.
Remember Rodney King? Remember all of the crimes that piggy backed on the protests and riots? A police state and continued abuse by law enforcement will result in state-oriented backlashes.
And you speak of the criminals as low-lifes, here's a comment from a cop - you be the judge of this guy's character and what happens when he pulls over a Muslim:
http://members.boardhost.com/stlouiscoptalk/msg/1190420533.html
You have a real point. The next step in such a situation is preemtive assault on the police. Nothing comes for free, and you're already seeing signs of this in some cities.
A friend of mine was describing the tentative cease fire going on near his neighborhood in Ft. Lauderdale. There is a street that the perps don't break cross on the condition that the cops leave them be. This authoritarian crap gets too heavy and I'm sure that line will do some serious moving.
Anyone who abuses their position of authority needs to be really careful over the next several years. Once the backlash starts it will go under its own force for quite some time.
Very suspicious organization. There are NO black people, latinos or other minorities on the board or among the "experts" and they are advising problems with VOTING systems?! This reeks of arrogance.
Paper trails are expensive. Thanks for the insight ITIF.
I can't wait to see a matrix filter on this thing.
As for pointless? You just use a different camera and you have night vision or RF direction finding vision. Seriously powerful stuff waiting to happen!
Despite their new problems with the monkeys, it is a criminal offence to harm or kill any of them, so the besieged villagers must figure out a way to outwit the monkeys instead.
This law needs to be updated to stipulate that defending your food supply from the monkeys warrants their harm or death. Then these women need to be supplied with baseball catcher's masks, leather armor, and a can of whoop-ass.
Nobody dominates mankind. Add monkey meat to your diet.
Please check your dates. Before Microsoft there wasn't much in the way of personal computing either! You cannot regard the last 30 - 40 years as the middle of a steady-state market where Microsoft "changed" anything. Rather, they defined the market, but software as a business model was not their doing. Any old geek will tell you the hundreds of applications which were available.
Someone needs to rob this guy.
I think the last line of your post was their focus (granted, a very myoptic and costly mistake perhaps). But there is a python script svnmerge.py available to enforce more proper branching and merging and the project seems to at least have a track for "fixing" its lack of sufficient merging.
I look at subversion as two things - an improvement on CVS that only takes a few steps but definitely in the right direction and a tranisitional step from corporate environments where some other horrific tool is used (Clearcase & Accurev for example). Perhaps one day in the future git will have the momentum behind subversion right now, or subversion with v3.0 themselves into a tool reliable for the big and small codebase alike.
Found it. Here is the update to merging - they even ask for input, so hop to it pal!
http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/
people don't stay on svn for the merging, they stay for the tools - EVERYTHING supports svn and git is barely a blip on the ide/gui/docs screen.
If some git fan got off their keester and actually wrote the things necessary for mainstream adoption you might have a legit flame war on your hands - until then your just waxing on about everyone adopting a nitch tool.
basically the guy is complaining because he can't "svn tag" and "svn branch" and get his hand held the entire way. Nevermind that any project ought to have more enforcement of branching and tagging above just the simple commands.
For all the rhetoric, he doesn't seem capable of writing a few scripts to wrap subversion. And I looked at git - it's barely a project at all - how can they expect it to be the mainstream with doc no bigger than a man page?
Okay, what is the point of your post? Anyone who is interested in scm and has settled on subversion to get around issues they were having with CVS is going to throw up the defense at your remarks and ignore your suggestion, and you leave the rest of your potential audience up to the crap-shoot that your remarks are so loaded with bullshit (Linus is an asshole [which he is]) that they'll ignore it as well.
Look, subversion branches and tags are a punt on the entire idea of branching and merging, granted, but that's only if you are still doing that crap by hand! Depending on your branch policy, it might have been implemented a few different ways. If the team's goal was to resolve their issues with cvs, why would they impose a particular branching process on top of that? Just for kicks? Are you suggesting they can do improve subversion later or something? Where's your patch?
You need to write a few scripts that do shit like remember the revision from whence you came which are specific to your software process and then reach back into your painfully shallow humility pail and pull out whatever you have and give some credit to these people for at least moving people away from cvs.
You forget so soon! XP Pre SP 2 is a zombie node waiting to happen.
You are using the term XP to mean XP, XP SP1 and XP SP2 & since all the updates.
XP is only acceptable because of all of the work Microsoft has done post release to bring it about.
Vista is *currently* a pos. Not SP1 through 14, but Vista today.