First the disclaimer: I am an IBMer. This post is personal opinion and not that of IBM.
I know Brent Hatch and he is a good guy. I would like to ask him about all this SCO stuff since I think it it ludricrous, but somehow I don't think that he could talk much about it. At any rate, I doubt that he has a hard time finding work on his own, given that he has a law degree from Columbia. He is an intelligent, articulate person. I am honestly impressed with him.
Re:Oddly, Jesus asks you to experiment as well.
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Please read it again and approach it with an open mind. Jesus is saying that if you will do an experiment and follow his that you will know if he was just making things up or if what he said came from God. Admittedly this isn't a proposal for a double-blind study involving thousands of data points. It is an invitation to the individual to try something out with a promise that you will be able to know something if you do it.
If you can't see any hint of an experiment in that then you are less of a thinker than you probably consider yourself to be.
Oddly, Jesus asks you to experiment as well.
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Check out John 7:17. Seems to me to be suggesting that you do an experiment. YMMV.
Stallman has changed his tune a bit. I saw him give a presentation a few years ago in which he said that it was OK to use proprietary software until there is an open source alternative. He even mentioned a few examples of such software that the GNU project had used in the past.
I agree with those who say that cold turkey is the only way to go. I was a heavy Mt. Dew drinker for years, with all the psychological ups and downs that go with it.
Then you say:
For a while after not drinking soda, I had used caffeine pills (one per day in the morning). The day came when I realized I had forgotten to take any for the entire week.
So which is it? Do you wish you had stopped cold turkey instead of doing what you did?
Related? They are a forgery produced by Mark Hoffman and sold to the church, made semi-famous because Hoffman killed two people to try to cover the forgeries up. Yes, you'd probably have to be LDS or from Utah to know about them.
I bought a $150 mp3 player recently. It has 512MB of flash and doubles as a USB pen drive. I found a screaming deal on it though. As a downside it lacks a screen and you can only skip from song to song, not directory to directory. If Apple can sell a 2GB or 4GB model with a display at that price then more power to them. If it is flash based, even better, all the joggers will love them.
Part of my point, which I didn't articulate very well, was that in order for IBM's vision of grid computing and on demand computing to work, it seems that there needs to be an intermediate language. I would guess that much work has already been done on this. There also needs to be a lot of infrastructure to allow jobs to get passed around.
So the payoffs to developing an efficient cross-platform language layer are pretty substantial. (Which does not imply that I expect IBM to jump on to Sun's bandwagon on this:-))
IBM has been doing work on this stuff for a while now. This is part of the point of the "on demand computing" initiative and is also related to "grid computing". If you can run your job on ANY computer then computing becomes more similar to a utility. You don't care/know what machine it runs on or even where it runs. It just gets done.
IBM has invested huge amounts of R&D into this already as well as quite a bit on marketing it.
So Sun's invitation to IBM and other to "join" them might be a way of trying to jump on IBM's bandwagon and benefit from work that IBM has already done. If IBM says no, then those who don't understand what is going on will think that IBM looks bad.
I have one of these and it works great. It is small and light, uses a AAA battery (which is easily replaced and doesn't cost $99) and doubles as a USB drive. Doesn't hold 2GB, but it holds plenty.
I also have a Nex II which uses compact flash and could use a MicroDrive. It has a nice screen and more navigation capabilities, but it has no advantages for jogging over the pen drive.
and you can get one that will play MP3s as well for cheap. I saw some 128MB ones for $52 and bought a 512MB one for $160. They are some no-name brand from Hong Kong, but the one I got a month ago works great.
The CGI in The Hulk didn't bother me at all. Oddly, the CGI in Spider-Man bothered me a lot. What bothered me about Hulk was the way the plot derailed and went into goofy-land for the last 30 minutes of the movie. What was going on with his father was never explained and didn't have much to do with the main plot of the movie. They should have saved the daddy stuff for a second movie and let this one stand on its own. I was enjoying it until his dad got super-powers.
I had a motherboard problem with a three year old Thinkpad which is under an IBM service plan. I was traveling and concerned that I wouldn't be able to get the laptop fixed quickly due to the logistics of getting it picked up at one address (which was relatively remote) and delivered to another. The problem occurred on a Monday morning. I called the 800 number and that day someone came to the place I was staying with a padded box to ship it in and picked it up. The fixed laptop was waiting for me when I got home on Wednesday, 2,000 miles away.
While in Brazil someone in the office I was working in went to the ATM one day and withdrew all his money. Then on a lark he checked his balance. To his amazement the same total was still present. Wash, rinse, repeat, several times actually.
A few days later he got a nasty call from the bank telling him that he owed them money.
So yeah, you might find a bug and think that you've gotten away with something, but they will catch you.
Slashdot (and now The Washington Times) seems unable to do an RFID story without a strong sense of panick. While this story has even less detail than the one posted a few days ago, it is pretty clear that nobody was being "secretly tracked". People attending the event presented their badges to enter a meeting and that event was logged. It isn't like they can tell where you are withing a meter at any time. It also isn't entirely clear that these are RFID badges.
These tetris games come in all shapes and sizes and cost almost nothing. Nobody buying it thinks it is a real N-Gage, but the novel packaging is just another way of selling the same old LCD tetris 9999-in-1 game!
The system includes also a X-Ray and metal screening system. Two days before we were in the Congress bringing all kind of boxes and equipment. No physical access security was implemented until the very late time and we could move inside freely carrying any items.
Why were they bringing in equipment two days before? Were they testing security or were they employeed to carry stuff around by the conference? If the latter is true then it isn't much of an accomplishment to have gotten in.
Also in one of the photos of the "ominous security screen" the name is clearly "John DOE". Why is this the case? No explaination is given. This whole writeup is poorly done. They also offer no proof that they actually got in. Just some pictures of the security area. They don't even have a high-resolution shot of the card itself.
So what exactly does this article prove? That/. will post any crap that makes RFID look bad. That's about it. It isn't even clear if they are using RFID as opposed to say ISO14443 cards.
IMS is the database that was used to keep track of things for the moonshot. It is an IBM product. It is hierarchical as opposed to relational. Because of this it can do certain things very quickly, though in general it isn't as flexible as say DB2. Because it has been around so long, applications where having a DB was really important tend to have bought IMS a long time ago and developed systems around it. If your system is old enough, large enough and still works well for you there is no need to migrate to relational. Most of the world's financial transactions pass through an IMS system at some point. It is very stable and has uptimes that measure in years if not decades by now.
Because of this I am surprised that it is not on the list. There are really big IMS databases out there that run a lot of transactions. Because it isn't relational there is some bigotry against it and it is ignored in the popular press.
I would guess that the badges are standard Mifare badges and can be read from a distance of about 5 cm at most. This is not something that is useful for passive tracking. You would have to knowingly present your badge to a reader. Funny how the article didn't mention that.
There are a variety of smart card and RFID standards, and the two are different animals. This "press release" did nothing to clarify what the cards were. If these guys were such amazing hackers we would know if it is a tag or a card and what the make and model are. We would know what was stored on the card and what security was in place on it. Instead we know just about nothing.
This could have been really interesting, but the press release is short on information and long on FUD.
I thought that 90% of the world's data was irretrievably trapped in IMS? Seriously though, I am surprised that an IMS system isn't on the list. Probably because it isn't relational, and the people making the list figure that RDBMS are the only DB around.
I know they offer a similar course in Java because I took it. It just isn't offered for winter quarter. It was a good course, especially considering how new Java was.
I can tell you that 193 courses are optional and do not count towards your degree. They are offered to give students practical exposure to real world concepts and languages that they otherwise would not get. They are often taken by majors in other engineering departments, so that they can get the programming skills they need for their own projects.
The Stanford CS courses required for graduation are much more theory based than the 193 series. Even without the 193 series (which many students completely ignore), Stanford CS majors learn to program well. The 106 series is considered a model of how to teach students to program. Business Week even did a large article on it a few years ago. Oh, and we get an algorithms course or two as well.
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I know Brent Hatch and he is a good guy. I would like to ask him about all this SCO stuff since I think it it ludricrous, but somehow I don't think that he could talk much about it. At any rate, I doubt that he has a hard time finding work on his own, given that he has a law degree from Columbia. He is an intelligent, articulate person. I am honestly impressed with him.
If you can't see any hint of an experiment in that then you are less of a thinker than you probably consider yourself to be.
Check out John 7:17. Seems to me to be suggesting that you do an experiment. YMMV.
Stallman has changed his tune a bit. I saw him give a presentation a few years ago in which he said that it was OK to use proprietary software until there is an open source alternative. He even mentioned a few examples of such software that the GNU project had used in the past.
Of course, I appreciate a dig at Michael as much as the next guy though, so we can classify him as anti-Michael as well.
I agree with those who say that cold turkey is the only way to go. I was a heavy Mt. Dew drinker for years, with all the psychological ups and downs that go with it.
Then you say:
For a while after not drinking soda, I had used caffeine pills (one per day in the morning). The day came when I realized I had forgotten to take any for the entire week.
So which is it? Do you wish you had stopped cold turkey instead of doing what you did?
Related? They are a forgery produced by Mark Hoffman and sold to the church, made semi-famous because Hoffman killed two people to try to cover the forgeries up. Yes, you'd probably have to be LDS or from Utah to know about them.
I bought a $150 mp3 player recently. It has 512MB of flash and doubles as a USB pen drive. I found a screaming deal on it though. As a downside it lacks a screen and you can only skip from song to song, not directory to directory. If Apple can sell a 2GB or 4GB model with a display at that price then more power to them. If it is flash based, even better, all the joggers will love them.
Part of my point, which I didn't articulate very well, was that in order for IBM's vision of grid computing and on demand computing to work, it seems that there needs to be an intermediate language. I would guess that much work has already been done on this. There also needs to be a lot of infrastructure to allow jobs to get passed around.
IBM has been doing work on this stuff for a while now. This is part of the point of the "on demand computing" initiative and is also related to "grid computing". If you can run your job on ANY computer then computing becomes more similar to a utility. You don't care/know what machine it runs on or even where it runs. It just gets done.
IBM has invested huge amounts of R&D into this already as well as quite a bit on marketing it.
So Sun's invitation to IBM and other to "join" them might be a way of trying to jump on IBM's bandwagon and benefit from work that IBM has already done. If IBM says no, then those who don't understand what is going on will think that IBM looks bad.
I also have a Nex II which uses compact flash and could use a MicroDrive. It has a nice screen and more navigation capabilities, but it has no advantages for jogging over the pen drive.
and you can get one that will play MP3s as well for cheap. I saw some 128MB ones for $52 and bought a 512MB one for $160. They are some no-name brand from Hong Kong, but the one I got a month ago works great.
The CGI in The Hulk didn't bother me at all. Oddly, the CGI in Spider-Man bothered me a lot. What bothered me about Hulk was the way the plot derailed and went into goofy-land for the last 30 minutes of the movie. What was going on with his father was never explained and didn't have much to do with the main plot of the movie. They should have saved the daddy stuff for a second movie and let this one stand on its own. I was enjoying it until his dad got super-powers.
I had a motherboard problem with a three year old Thinkpad which is under an IBM service plan. I was traveling and concerned that I wouldn't be able to get the laptop fixed quickly due to the logistics of getting it picked up at one address (which was relatively remote) and delivered to another. The problem occurred on a Monday morning. I called the 800 number and that day someone came to the place I was staying with a padded box to ship it in and picked it up. The fixed laptop was waiting for me when I got home on Wednesday, 2,000 miles away.
You're lucky the Coke didn't go out your nose. That can really hurt. The carbonation and all... Oh, you mean THAT kind of coke? Nevermind then...
A few days later he got a nasty call from the bank telling him that he owed them money.
So yeah, you might find a bug and think that you've gotten away with something, but they will catch you.
Slashdot (and now The Washington Times) seems unable to do an RFID story without a strong sense of panick. While this story has even less detail than the one posted a few days ago, it is pretty clear that nobody was being "secretly tracked". People attending the event presented their badges to enter a meeting and that event was logged. It isn't like they can tell where you are withing a meter at any time. It also isn't entirely clear that these are RFID badges.
These tetris games come in all shapes and sizes and cost almost nothing. Nobody buying it thinks it is a real N-Gage, but the novel packaging is just another way of selling the same old LCD tetris 9999-in-1 game!
The system includes also a X-Ray and metal screening system. Two days before we were in the Congress bringing all kind of boxes and equipment. No physical access security was implemented until the very late time and we could move inside freely carrying any items.
Why were they bringing in equipment two days before? Were they testing security or were they employeed to carry stuff around by the conference? If the latter is true then it isn't much of an accomplishment to have gotten in.
Also in one of the photos of the "ominous security screen" the name is clearly "John DOE". Why is this the case? No explaination is given. This whole writeup is poorly done. They also offer no proof that they actually got in. Just some pictures of the security area. They don't even have a high-resolution shot of the card itself.
So what exactly does this article prove? That /. will post any crap that makes RFID look bad. That's about it. It isn't even clear if they are using RFID as opposed to say ISO14443 cards.
IMS is the database that was used to keep track of things for the moonshot. It is an IBM product. It is hierarchical as opposed to relational. Because of this it can do certain things very quickly, though in general it isn't as flexible as say DB2. Because it has been around so long, applications where having a DB was really important tend to have bought IMS a long time ago and developed systems around it. If your system is old enough, large enough and still works well for you there is no need to migrate to relational. Most of the world's financial transactions pass through an IMS system at some point. It is very stable and has uptimes that measure in years if not decades by now.
Because of this I am surprised that it is not on the list. There are really big IMS databases out there that run a lot of transactions. Because it isn't relational there is some bigotry against it and it is ignored in the popular press.
There are a variety of smart card and RFID standards, and the two are different animals. This "press release" did nothing to clarify what the cards were. If these guys were such amazing hackers we would know if it is a tag or a card and what the make and model are. We would know what was stored on the card and what security was in place on it. Instead we know just about nothing.
This could have been really interesting, but the press release is short on information and long on FUD.
I thought that 90% of the world's data was irretrievably trapped in IMS? Seriously though, I am surprised that an IMS system isn't on the list. Probably because it isn't relational, and the people making the list figure that RDBMS are the only DB around.
in the original series. Every /. story involving BSG or Utah ends up having a nasty Mormon thread involving lots of ACs. So where is it?
I know they offer a similar course in Java because I took it. It just isn't offered for winter quarter. It was a good course, especially considering how new Java was.
The Stanford CS courses required for graduation are much more theory based than the 193 series. Even without the 193 series (which many students completely ignore), Stanford CS majors learn to program well. The 106 series is considered a model of how to teach students to program. Business Week even did a large article on it a few years ago. Oh, and we get an algorithms course or two as well.