UCSD had a section of the campus (when I was there it belonged to Third College) that consisted of Quonset huts left over from WWII. I don't know if they're still there but they lasted at least into the early '90's. These things will be used for something for a long time after they're put up.
If you don't, well, Perl will teach you more quickly than any other language why writing simple, expressive code is a good idea. Just try to maintain it six months later...:-)
Quite true! Unfortunately it takes at least six months for the newbie programmer working in Perl to learn this lesson which allows a lot of time to leave a big trail of destruction.
It's the difference between stealing $50 from someone's wallet and finding it laying on the ground and not turning it in to Lost and Found. Sounds more like peeking inside your Christmas presents to me. What advantage would you get from knowing that you were accepted early other than a warm fuzzy? Who would be harmed by you knowing early?
I'll presume you haven't been here to HBS as a student. That's surely not what is taught here, nor is it the type of people you find on campus.
OK, sounds like you are either staff or student at HBS. A fine thing. And you claim that HBS does not teach short-sighted practices and disregard for employees (or so it sounds like) Then, you show yourself to have really missed the point (and to confirm everyone's sterotype of HBS students):
You imply that employees' interests should trump shareholders' interests, a notion that would quickly destroy our economy.
Employees' interests are one thing and I would agree with you that shareholders' interests out weigh those of the employees. However, in protecting shareholders' value it is very important to Learn that employees are not simply numbers in a spreadsheet. As a mangager you have to know the value that they bring to the table and the value of employee morale. You can't lay off a group of workers in one location and expect to hire a group in another that will come up to speed instantly. You can't treat employees as being interchangable cogs because they are NOT and treating them like interchangable cogs is detrimental to the business and to the shareholders' value.
The point was that people who are doing illegal things already are unlikely to comply with the law. Selling cigarettes and alcohol is usually legal in the U.S. so adding an additional tax/regulation is something that the sellers will comply with.
Adding this requirement for bonding will simply mean that people who are trying to do business legitimately through eBay find themselves with a new cost while the scammers will ignore this just as they're already ignoring the laws against fraud.
You're absolutely correct. However decisions inside organizations are not always made for rational reasons. As I said, a lot of people would have egg all over their faces. The legal department, I am sure, is telling everyone that they can win any of these patent cases. There's too many people with vested interests inside of Apple (or any other large corporation) to see a change in corporate policy like this.
After all, Microsoft just had a $521 million judgement against them in the Eolas case. Was their reponse to say that software patents are a crock? No - their response was that the Eolas patent is a crock but all of the ones that Microsoft has been granted are excellent and help move innovation forward.
Unlikely - Apple has a huge portfolio of software patents which they put together at considerable expense. In order for them to come out against them they'd have to write off all the money that they spent. And the execs who decided that making lots of software patents would have egg all over their faces.
This might be that actual strategy but I guarantee that this will flop big time.
A) A large percentage (growing all the time) of people connect to the Internet via their own little NAT boxes. Killing everyone's NAT boxes will not fly well.
B) What about all the non-Windows boxes hooked to the network? And I'm not talking about Macs, I'm talking about all the little doo-hickeys that get hooked to the net like my printer, people's TIVO's, etc.
These kind of big bang schemes are often dreamed up by marketing types and control freaks but the reality is that they're damned hard to roll out. I doubt this will go anywhere really. Samsung just got suckered is all. If Dell said they were doing it it might be something to take seriously.
Well, that depends on what you want it to do, how many messages you can stuff in the queue, how reliable it needs to be and how fast it needs to be. Low reliability, low capacity and high performance is easy (keep it all in RAM). Low reliability, high capacity and low performance is somewhat harder. High reliability, high capacity and high performance can be challenging.
The author raised good points - not only is the system insecurity a problem for the owners but also, in all likelihood, it is a problem for all of the users because if you use the system the way you're supposed to and pay with your credit card the database for the credit card is probably accessible.
Every type of security involves a series of compromises between risk and effort. Most businesses keep their cash in a cash register with someone watching it, not in an open box next to the door.
The result of people being able to "break the rules" in computer security is not freedom but chaos. Viruses, malware and spyware are all the result of other people being able to break YOUR rules in YOUR computer (well, I assume you have a rule against people doing naughty things on your machine).
Being able to break "laws" is what freedom and responsibility are about. Having mechanical enforcement of all of our laws would be called a police state. Having locks on your doors is not.
They don't need computers and they don't need college.
I might agree that they don't need computers, but they don't need college?
They need roads,
Who's going to plan the roads? Foreigners?
they need medical care,
Who's going to provide the medical care? Foreigners?
they need clean drinking water,
Who's going to plan the drinking water systems and make sure that the water is really clean?
they need immunizations,
Where are the vaccines going to come from?
they need family planning,
Who's going to set this up? Where will medicines and prophylatics come from?
they need assistance with sustainable farming techniques
Who's going to teach these?
they need primary education.
Who will be the teachers?
You seem to advocate that the 1st world should treat these countries like dependents and poor benighted savages who need saving. They will be best off if they save themselves and a large part of that will be handled by having people educated at all levels of the spectrum, not just primary education. Having vast numbers of foreign aid workers along with vast amounts of foreign aid just means that they will be dependent in the future. And someday, politics or fashion will cause the aid and aid workers to disappear and then where will they be?
When men were men and supercomputers were really super. It used to take a real genius, like Seymour Cray, to design a computer that could be called "super". A bunch of PC's in a custom case just doesn't do it for me.
Since you're already paying money for the LCD component of the iMac, investing that much plus $400 more into a 20" LCD that you cannot keep and use with another computer may not be wise.
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you don't like the idea of not being able to reuse the monitor then you shouldn't buy an iMac. Once you're on the path of buying an iMac, you should get the monitor that will make you happy. Why save $400 and put up with a dinky monitor for several years?
What's your point? Obviously people can disobey the law. Gun control doesn't work very well and neither does "Trust us, we're the government". Do you think that everyone who distrusts the police is also pro-gun control???
Have you ever tried transcribing someone talking? I have, and it's a far cry from "written" English (if they're speaking English). Thinking "written" English at 100 WPM is pretty hard.
So sorry - XServe RAID attaches via FibreChannel and so will require a PCI slot to plug a FibreChannel card into. But there are lots of nice FireWire solutions (although the Mac Mini only has FW 400)
Another thing to contemplate is how few organizations the most useful languages emerged from - Bell Labs, IBM, the US Military, US Universities...
Well, two reasons for this.
1) There aren't that many useful languages so there can't be that many sources.
2) Most of the languages that we use have their roots prior to 1980. Prior to 1980 there weren't many computers you could just mess with outside of those kinds of institutions. Businesses didn't encourage you to mess around developing new languages and it was hard to even get information about computers if you were outside. I was interested in learning Pascal when I was in high school in the early '80's. I think the San Francisco public library had one book on it.
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UCSD had a section of the campus (when I was there it belonged to Third College) that consisted of Quonset huts left over from WWII. I don't know if they're still there but they lasted at least into the early '90's. These things will be used for something for a long time after they're put up.
Ha - tell your boss he needs a raise if he only has a $2000 credit limit.
If you don't, well, Perl will teach you more quickly than any other language why writing simple, expressive code is a good idea. Just try to maintain it six months later... :-)
Quite true! Unfortunately it takes at least six months for the newbie programmer working in Perl to learn this lesson which allows a lot of time to leave a big trail of destruction.
It's the difference between stealing $50 from someone's wallet and finding it laying on the ground and not turning it in to Lost and Found.
Sounds more like peeking inside your Christmas presents to me. What advantage would you get from knowing that you were accepted early other than a warm fuzzy? Who would be harmed by you knowing early?
I'll presume you haven't been here to HBS as a student. That's surely not what is taught here, nor is it the type of people you find on campus.
OK, sounds like you are either staff or student at HBS. A fine thing. And you claim that HBS does not teach short-sighted practices and disregard for employees (or so it sounds like)
Then, you show yourself to have really missed the point (and to confirm everyone's sterotype of HBS students):
You imply that employees' interests should trump shareholders' interests, a notion that would quickly destroy our economy.
Employees' interests are one thing and I would agree with you that shareholders' interests out weigh those of the employees. However, in protecting shareholders' value it is very important to Learn that employees are not simply numbers in a spreadsheet. As a mangager you have to know the value that they bring to the table and the value of employee morale. You can't lay off a group of workers in one location and expect to hire a group in another that will come up to speed instantly. You can't treat employees as being interchangable cogs because they are NOT and treating them like interchangable cogs is detrimental to the business and to the shareholders' value.
The point was that people who are doing illegal things already are unlikely to comply with the law. Selling cigarettes and alcohol is usually legal in the U.S. so adding an additional tax/regulation is something that the sellers will comply with.
Adding this requirement for bonding will simply mean that people who are trying to do business legitimately through eBay find themselves with a new cost while the scammers will ignore this just as they're already ignoring the laws against fraud.
You're absolutely correct. However decisions inside organizations are not always made for rational reasons. As I said, a lot of people would have egg all over their faces. The legal department, I am sure, is telling everyone that they can win any of these patent cases. There's too many people with vested interests inside of Apple (or any other large corporation) to see a change in corporate policy like this.
After all, Microsoft just had a $521 million judgement against them in the Eolas case. Was their reponse to say that software patents are a crock? No - their response was that the Eolas patent is a crock but all of the ones that Microsoft has been granted are excellent and help move innovation forward.
Unlikely - Apple has a huge portfolio of software patents which they put together at considerable expense. In order for them to come out against them they'd have to write off all the money that they spent. And the execs who decided that making lots of software patents would have egg all over their faces.
Sounds like you had a big helping of "Stick Up My Butt". Chill.
That was his point RETARD.
This might be that actual strategy but I guarantee that this will flop big time.
A) A large percentage (growing all the time) of people connect to the Internet via their own little NAT boxes. Killing everyone's NAT boxes will not fly well.
B) What about all the non-Windows boxes hooked to the network? And I'm not talking about Macs, I'm talking about all the little doo-hickeys that get hooked to the net like my printer, people's TIVO's, etc.
These kind of big bang schemes are often dreamed up by marketing types and control freaks but the reality is that they're damned hard to roll out. I doubt this will go anywhere really. Samsung just got suckered is all. If Dell said they were doing it it might be something to take seriously.
How complex is a message queue?
Well, that depends on what you want it to do, how many messages you can stuff in the queue, how reliable it needs to be and how fast it needs to be. Low reliability, low capacity and high performance is easy (keep it all in RAM). Low reliability, high capacity and low performance is somewhat harder. High reliability, high capacity and high performance can be challenging.
The author raised good points - not only is the system insecurity a problem for the owners but also, in all likelihood, it is a problem for all of the users because if you use the system the way you're supposed to and pay with your credit card the database for the credit card is probably accessible.
Every type of security involves a series of compromises between risk and effort. Most businesses keep their cash in a cash register with someone watching it, not in an open box next to the door.
The result of people being able to "break the rules" in computer security is not freedom but chaos. Viruses, malware and spyware are all the result of other people being able to break YOUR rules in YOUR computer (well, I assume you have a rule against people doing naughty things on your machine).
Being able to break "laws" is what freedom and responsibility are about. Having mechanical enforcement of all of our laws would be called a police state. Having locks on your doors is not.
Who did it?
That's what comes from not going to McDonald's so much.
They don't need computers and they don't need college.
I might agree that they don't need computers, but they don't need college?
They need roads,
Who's going to plan the roads? Foreigners?
they need medical care,
Who's going to provide the medical care? Foreigners?
they need clean drinking water,
Who's going to plan the drinking water systems and make sure that the water is really clean?
they need immunizations,
Where are the vaccines going to come from?
they need family planning,
Who's going to set this up? Where will medicines and prophylatics come from?
they need assistance with sustainable farming techniques
Who's going to teach these?
they need primary education.
Who will be the teachers?
You seem to advocate that the 1st world should treat these countries like dependents and poor benighted savages who need saving. They will be best off if they save themselves and a large part of that will be handled by having people educated at all levels of the spectrum, not just primary education. Having vast numbers of foreign aid workers along with vast amounts of foreign aid just means that they will be dependent in the future. And someday, politics or fashion will cause the aid and aid workers to disappear and then where will they be?
When men were men and supercomputers were really super. It used to take a real genius, like Seymour Cray, to design a computer that could be called "super". A bunch of PC's in a custom case just doesn't do it for me.
Since you're already paying money for the LCD component of the iMac, investing that much plus $400 more into a 20" LCD that you cannot keep and use with another computer may not be wise.
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you don't like the idea of not being able to reuse the monitor then you shouldn't buy an iMac. Once you're on the path of buying an iMac, you should get the monitor that will make you happy. Why save $400 and put up with a dinky monitor for several years?
leaking assholes in R&D
It's all that damned veggie cuisine he made the Apple cafeteria serve.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
What's your point? Obviously people can disobey the law. Gun control doesn't work very well and neither does "Trust us, we're the government". Do you think that everyone who distrusts the police is also pro-gun control???
Have you ever tried transcribing someone talking? I have, and it's a far cry from "written" English (if they're speaking English). Thinking "written" English at 100 WPM is pretty hard.
So sorry - XServe RAID attaches via FibreChannel and so will require a PCI slot to plug a FibreChannel card into. But there are lots of nice FireWire solutions (although the Mac Mini only has FW 400)
Another thing to contemplate is how few organizations the most useful languages emerged from - Bell Labs, IBM, the US Military, US Universities...
Well, two reasons for this.
1) There aren't that many useful languages so there can't be that many sources.
2) Most of the languages that we use have their roots prior to 1980. Prior to 1980 there weren't many computers you could just mess with outside of those kinds of institutions. Businesses didn't encourage you to mess around developing new languages and it was hard to even get information about computers if you were outside. I was interested in learning Pascal when I was in high school in the early '80's. I think the San Francisco public library had one book on it.
what's stopping them from gassing some public place? nothing really.
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You are so right. It's been done: http://edition.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/19