I'm with you on the X thing, and with needing Java to install DB2, but how do you expect a Java Application Server (WebSphere) to run without Java installed? If you don't want Java in your DMZ, then WebSphere is not an option for you in the first place.
Got news for ya sparky, the majority of legislation at both the state and federal level is written in part or whole by lobbyists. New energy laws written by energy lobbyists, entertainment laws written by entertainment lobbyists, toothpick standards laws written by toothpick lobbyists (I'm sure there are at least a few). Not all legislation, but certainly the majority. At this point we'd be better off firing all the elected officials and just letting the lobbyists do it directly. It'd be cheaper and more honest.
The alternative is to pay attention to what your elected officials are doing and to hold them accountable, but I don't think that's likely to happen.
I would argue that kids who can't behave themselves in Toys R Us are unlikely to be able to behave themselves in any store that has toys. And this is the fault of the parent, not the child. I have a 2 year old daughter who is quite well capable of being a pain in the ass about something she wants, but she also has learned the hard way who is in charge.
In my experience, it's far less painful to go to Toys R Us than Wal-Mart specifically because you're not having to deal with the hordes of people. And as long as you do price comparisons online ahead of time, you can go get it when it's on sale at TRU and beat the WM price as well.
That's not the point. The point is that he was perfectly willing to lie about his background in order to acheive his goals, what else would he lie about to the company, to investors, to the customers, etc in order to keep his cushy job? It speaks to credibility and trustworthiness.
As an employee, don't you get pissed when you know HR/management lies to you? Don't you start to wonder what you can believe that they tell you? Same here. If it never gets found out, it probably doesn't actually matter. But once it's been revealed that an employee (at any level, not just executives) is willing to lie about something to get the job, you simply can't trust them at all.
Makes me want to fire up my linux box again. I particularly like the admin tools and the "save your search as a folder" feature. OS X admin tools are sometimes a little restricted for my taste.
"If you don't have any good arguments to make, then you shouldn't post."
I'm sorry, are you new here? Not having good arguments, or any arguments at all, doesn't discourage people from posting. I use my own reply to your comment as a prime example:)
I work in a federal building. Contractors have a red border around the edge of their badges because it makes it easier on the lowest-bidder security guards in determining who can go into a particular part of a building unescorted.
Consumer Reports has a much better model for their surveys. Their latest report on computers indicates that Sony, Toshiba, and IBM all slightly edge Apple on repair history. They do say that overall Apple wins for support over everyone else and the iBook was the winner for reliability and value.
Putting taxes on your credit card?!?!??!
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I was going to ask "What sort of idiot would pay their taxes with their credit cards?" and then realized this is America. Poor fiscal decisions are a way of life. Unless your credit rating is excellent (and often even then) you will likely be paying at least 7-9% on that debt. The IRS only charges 5% if you enter an installment agreement to make monthly payments on your tax bill.
You'd be surprised at the number of computer geeks who are completely unable to deal rationally or logically with anything outside of computers. I think a part of it stems from "Oh, I'm technically minded so I understand this easily". Skill in one field does not translate automagically to skill in another. I know people who are brilliant at math and physics but believe whole heartedly in astrology or tarot or homeopathic healing.
Never underestimate the extent of human stupidity.
Note that I don't think I'm any smarter than people who believe silly things, just that I'm more 'reality based'.
The parent comment is highly overrated, as it's half wrong. IBM distributes a modified version of the Apache web server as the httpd for their application server. And they kick back their changes to the community (or they did last time I bothered to check). Just because they are a big company doesn't make them evil.
That's all well and good in theory, until you realize that Jobs has been lobbying to lower prices by the record labels won't let him. It is the labels that are determining prices, not Apple. The labels are currently actively lobbying to RAISE prices.
You're already modded up, but as a non-theist(like an athiest, but more cynical) this comment nicely summarizes everything I feel about the Christmas season. The materialism is disgusting. Spend TIME with people, open up to them, have real and meaningful interaction with them. That's what the season is supposed to be about. Not more disposable crap that will be forgotten by January.
I will not take a piece of that action. Contracts in the early 90's at least routinely allowed the label to charge the artist for whatever the hell miscellaneous expenses they wanted with no explanation.
The Harry Fox Agency is an aggressive defender of their publishing rights. You may wonder why many musicians don't include lyric sheets with the cd. It's because they have to pay HFA a fee to reprint THEIR OWN FUCKING LYRICS. It may have gotten better, I don't buy many CDs these days thanks to iTunes. I know back in the 90's better than half the CDs I bought didn't have lyrics included, and that's why.
At one point in time (I'm too lazy to google it) HFA shut down the On Line Guitar Archive because people were including lyrics in their transcriptions.
I quote song lyrics on my blog fairly often, and if I sold advertising on the site they would shut my ass down in the blink of an eye. This is what copyright law in our country has come to.
Many others have noted that this is a pretty standard policy in many companies, I've certainly encountered it more than once.
One amusing note at my current gig is that there is one guy who has had his account (and email and access etc) cut off four seperate times when other people have left. Security kept shutting off his user id instead of the people who were actually leaving.
It's been a while since I've managed a retail store, but I did so for about 4 years during and after college. At the time the industry estimated that greater than 50% (I don't recall how much greater, but I'm thinking close to 70) of all loss was from internal theft. I fired a couple of people for product theft, but cash theft and 'unauthorized discount' theft probably counted for a greater percent.
What always blew me away was the 'paper loss' where a vendor claimed they sent x number widgets but actually sent (x-3) but billed us for x. Apparently a lot of stores don't carefully inventory what comes in the door and so vendors were taking advantage of that.
Everyone I know that has a TiVO bought it for one reason: time shifting. The ability skip ads is a nice to have, but not a have to have. The ability to watch a show when I have time to instead of having to choose between watching it when it is on or not watching it at all is why I bought a tivo.
I don't get people who seem to find advertising on television and in magazines to be morally reprehensible and an affront to their constitutional rights.
I don't get the freaking out over 100 songs. That is on average about 6 hours of music. I am an avowed music freak, I have over 200G of music on my server and much more that I haven't bothered converting to MP3 yet. I'm looking at getting an iPod, and the nano seems like overkill for something to take on my commute and to the gym. I'll put a new playlist on there everyday anyway, why do I need to store thousands of songs?
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No argument here, the installation nonsense you have to jump through is truly absurd.
I'm with you on the X thing, and with needing Java to install DB2, but how do you expect a Java Application Server (WebSphere) to run without Java installed? If you don't want Java in your DMZ, then WebSphere is not an option for you in the first place.
As far as I can tell, Digg is not the government. You have a right to not have your free speech restricted by the government.
Got news for ya sparky, the majority of legislation at both the state and federal level is written in part or whole by lobbyists. New energy laws written by energy lobbyists, entertainment laws written by entertainment lobbyists, toothpick standards laws written by toothpick lobbyists (I'm sure there are at least a few). Not all legislation, but certainly the majority. At this point we'd be better off firing all the elected officials and just letting the lobbyists do it directly. It'd be cheaper and more honest.
The alternative is to pay attention to what your elected officials are doing and to hold them accountable, but I don't think that's likely to happen.
I would argue that kids who can't behave themselves in Toys R Us are unlikely to be able to behave themselves in any store that has toys. And this is the fault of the parent, not the child. I have a 2 year old daughter who is quite well capable of being a pain in the ass about something she wants, but she also has learned the hard way who is in charge.
In my experience, it's far less painful to go to Toys R Us than Wal-Mart specifically because you're not having to deal with the hordes of people. And as long as you do price comparisons online ahead of time, you can go get it when it's on sale at TRU and beat the WM price as well.
That's not the point. The point is that he was perfectly willing to lie about his background in order to acheive his goals, what else would he lie about to the company, to investors, to the customers, etc in order to keep his cushy job? It speaks to credibility and trustworthiness.
As an employee, don't you get pissed when you know HR/management lies to you? Don't you start to wonder what you can believe that they tell you? Same here. If it never gets found out, it probably doesn't actually matter. But once it's been revealed that an employee (at any level, not just executives) is willing to lie about something to get the job, you simply can't trust them at all.
Makes me want to fire up my linux box again. I particularly like the admin tools and the "save your search as a folder" feature. OS X admin tools are sometimes a little restricted for my taste.
No no no, they're talking about SYSCO. The world's largest food service vendor. Delivering food AND video games, now there's a winning combination.
"If you don't have any good arguments to make, then you shouldn't post."
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I'm sorry, are you new here? Not having good arguments, or any arguments at all, doesn't discourage people from posting. I use my own reply to your comment as a prime example
Damn I wish I had mod points to give you for that comment. Insightful, to say the least.
I work in a federal building. Contractors have a red border around the edge of their badges because it makes it easier on the lowest-bidder security guards in determining who can go into a particular part of a building unescorted.
Consumer Reports has a much better model for their surveys. Their latest report on computers indicates that Sony, Toshiba, and IBM all slightly edge Apple on repair history. They do say that overall Apple wins for support over everyone else and the iBook was the winner for reliability and value.
I was going to ask "What sort of idiot would pay their taxes with their credit cards?" and then realized this is America. Poor fiscal decisions are a way of life. Unless your credit rating is excellent (and often even then) you will likely be paying at least 7-9% on that debt. The IRS only charges 5% if you enter an installment agreement to make monthly payments on your tax bill.
You'd be surprised at the number of computer geeks who are completely unable to deal rationally or logically with anything outside of computers. I think a part of it stems from "Oh, I'm technically minded so I understand this easily". Skill in one field does not translate automagically to skill in another. I know people who are brilliant at math and physics but believe whole heartedly in astrology or tarot or homeopathic healing.
Never underestimate the extent of human stupidity.
Note that I don't think I'm any smarter than people who believe silly things, just that I'm more 'reality based'.
The parent comment is highly overrated, as it's half wrong. IBM distributes a modified version of the Apache web server as the httpd for their application server. And they kick back their changes to the community (or they did last time I bothered to check). Just because they are a big company doesn't make them evil.
That's all well and good in theory, until you realize that Jobs has been lobbying to lower prices by the record labels won't let him. It is the labels that are determining prices, not Apple. The labels are currently actively lobbying to RAISE prices.
You're already modded up, but as a non-theist(like an athiest, but more cynical) this comment nicely summarizes everything I feel about the Christmas season. The materialism is disgusting. Spend TIME with people, open up to them, have real and meaningful interaction with them. That's what the season is supposed to be about. Not more disposable crap that will be forgotten by January.
I will not take a piece of that action. Contracts in the early 90's at least routinely allowed the label to charge the artist for whatever the hell miscellaneous expenses they wanted with no explanation.
The Harry Fox Agency is an aggressive defender of their publishing rights. You may wonder why many musicians don't include lyric sheets with the cd. It's because they have to pay HFA a fee to reprint THEIR OWN FUCKING LYRICS. It may have gotten better, I don't buy many CDs these days thanks to iTunes. I know back in the 90's better than half the CDs I bought didn't have lyrics included, and that's why.
At one point in time (I'm too lazy to google it) HFA shut down the On Line Guitar Archive because people were including lyrics in their transcriptions.
I quote song lyrics on my blog fairly often, and if I sold advertising on the site they would shut my ass down in the blink of an eye. This is what copyright law in our country has come to.
Many others have noted that this is a pretty standard policy in many companies, I've certainly encountered it more than once.
One amusing note at my current gig is that there is one guy who has had his account (and email and access etc) cut off four seperate times when other people have left. Security kept shutting off his user id instead of the people who were actually leaving.
It's been a while since I've managed a retail store, but I did so for about 4 years during and after college. At the time the industry estimated that greater than 50% (I don't recall how much greater, but I'm thinking close to 70) of all loss was from internal theft. I fired a couple of people for product theft, but cash theft and 'unauthorized discount' theft probably counted for a greater percent.
What always blew me away was the 'paper loss' where a vendor claimed they sent x number widgets but actually sent (x-3) but billed us for x. Apparently a lot of stores don't carefully inventory what comes in the door and so vendors were taking advantage of that.
Everyone I know that has a TiVO bought it for one reason: time shifting. The ability skip ads is a nice to have, but not a have to have. The ability to watch a show when I have time to instead of having to choose between watching it when it is on or not watching it at all is why I bought a tivo.
I don't get people who seem to find advertising on television and in magazines to be morally reprehensible and an affront to their constitutional rights.
I have a black bass guitar that sports a single white apple sticker right below the neck joint. Nice contrast.
Ad supported internet access was one of the hottest business models of the dot com era. And look how well that's done.
I don't get the freaking out over 100 songs. That is on average about 6 hours of music. I am an avowed music freak, I have over 200G of music on my server and much more that I haven't bothered converting to MP3 yet. I'm looking at getting an iPod, and the nano seems like overkill for something to take on my commute and to the gym. I'll put a new playlist on there everyday anyway, why do I need to store thousands of songs?