Use of keyloggers is rarely determined these days, and even more rarely punished. However, they're often the source of identity theft crimes.
I agree with the criminal prosecution of this. I hope he gets off, but then they go after him civilly.
People need to understand this is bad, mkay. Prosecuting this *adult* is the way to do it.
Your argument is they're buying a bunch of resources that won't be valuable unless the demand for bandwidth goes up. Encouraging usage is not evil. It encouraging people to just use the network.
That's like saying buying deep oil wells or tar sands because you expect oil prices to go up above $80 is sinister. It's not. It's speculating on the price of a resource.
While there is some economic argument that speculation is somewhat harmful, the entire US is speculating on stocks and house prices, so this isn't particularly notable.
I personally have had a HDHP Plan from Blue Cross Blue Sheild of GA with a 2600 deductable and 100% in network co-insurance past that with an allowance for preventative care.
My mother in-law, who works in benefits for a major national organization, recommends the simplicity of a highly rated HMO like Kaiser if you can find one locally.
Computer programmers repeatedly screw up with empirical data. The CS curriculums in most university act like logic and graph theory are the end all be all (they are important, but not THAT important), but only require a stats course because the large institution does.
The "stats" course I had was 4 weeks at the end of a semester of Probability and Statistics.
Statistics are extremely important because they show 1> How to test for capacity of programs 2> How to determine error sources 3> How to correctly estimate (well, stats are a requirement to do this, but not all that's required) 4> Understanding of different ideas of random and 5> Understanding how to detect causation and people who have mistaken themselves about causation. These errors cause programmer to say and do rediculous things all the time.
--Michael
QT is $3300 per seat. ---> What about WxWindows? Its just as cross platform, and you can buy support contracts from several places:
RT Linux is NOT linux. It is an os under linux, that has some integration harnesses inserted. You were paying for that.
RH Linux work station comes with the ability to call someone up and get support. A version of windows with that level of support is going to cost you much more than 299 a chair for the first few copies. Also, "an OEM version of windows" is not a fair comparison. WinXpPro == $299 for the *unsupported* product. For community supported linux, you can get it for FREE! Many people who think they need RT linux don't. Soft real time works just fine with a fast enough processor. YMMV
Yes, commercial cygwin costs a lot. Who gives a crap. Why exactly do you need it? Or did you actually just need the support contract, which costs much less than the license to use the GPLed code without the GPL encumberances?
We have dropped the development and rewrote everything to C# (MSVS 2005 is ~$700) (THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO UNSUPPORTED!). WxWindows is FREE and unsupported and hell, it's cross platform.
This article is disengenuous, and possibly a MS snowjob. Yes, embedded linux is harder than desktop windows. Yes, if you try to pay for support for everything, it costs more. Embedded linux is VERY possible without a support contract, as long as you're working on a well definied processor that has a working port of linux+uclibc/glibc for it.
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Either A> You're windows programmers who thought you could all of a sudden become linux users by paying for a lot of support (but less support than the cost of unsupported windows products).
Or B> You're windows lackyes who are attempting to setup a straw man and present a case why embedded linux development is overly expensive.
For a source browser, doxygen[1] is a no brainer. Turn off Latex, turn on recursive and static members, tell it to include code, tell it to link functions, and tell it to go to town.
VI is pretty powerful (but less intuitive) if you use ctags on your source. I personally prefer doxygen, but tags work well.
People think of it as just a cross language javadoc, but your code doesn't need to be documented to use it well.
While not having local files isn't really the issue, people HATE not having a place to put papers, a couple personal items (like medications, perscription or no) and a couple supplies. By making them keep these elsewhere from the workspace, you have a huge cost every day moving this to/from where you're actually working. You're still going to need personal spaces even if you get netboot/vm with dumb terminals.
Teleworking, however, seems to abrogate this problem. These people understand the tradeoff they have made and prepare for it better and burden some of the cost on their own.
Use 10% of the available money to do these. While the book is pricy, it allows you to trade stocks at 1/10th the cost and risk of actually trading them. Which is exactly what you need.
Yes this is more complicated, however you'll be able to pick it up from the straightforward presentation of the manual
Put the rest of the money in an ING orange account (4.something interest rate).
Same profitability as stocks with less risk than mutuals.
It's high time for the judicial branch to strip the protections security clearence gives. Citizens rights to redress their government are more important than maintaining spying programs. This is an end run around the separation of powers.
I adjusted my desk up on Tuesday, the 11th of July 2006
Observations so far: Burning more calories. I'm definitly warmer all day long Oh my lord I'm so alert. Not a bit of tiredness/zoning, even on the night I only got 5 hours sleep. The commute home now feels good, so I don't mind the traffic near as much (relaxation of the legs) Better gas mileage (My legs are tired, so I use my cruise control more). Leg muscles right above the knees are tired (Getting better already). Easier to leave my desk: Rather than considering to leave or not, I just walk out without considering it at all. Less tired at home at night (wierd).
Other things: While I can stand at my comp all day long, I can also sit, and do when I want a break from standing, want to think quietly, or want to talk to a co-worker (I'm a couple inches taller than most of them. This isn't at all like when I worked in a 7-11 store or a Grocery store and had to stand. I can sit whenever I wish to.
Mitsubishi makes (and sels in japan and in the US through importers) a 0.18 pen. Its great for fine writing, but I find its rate of flow too low for normal size writing.
The first book teaches you how to write in a plain, eminently understandable style. It underscores how to structure writing, sentences, and even individual phrases to clearly get across the points you wish to communicate. It eschews proscriptive rules like certain other writing books do *cough* Strunk and White *cough* that get too much attention.
The second book explains how to write in what is called classical style. This is a style of writing that you'll come across in documents such as the american Declaration of Independence, all of Descartes writing, and most of the writing of the Enlightenment. It is highly adaptable, and very comprehensible to anyone. Many popsci books go towards this style of writing, including some of Hawkings work, and most of Bronowski's. Classical style is more sophisticated than the plain style advocated in Williams, but some ideas are important enough to pay the cost of nuance at the expense of conscision.
I entered college without knowing how to program anything more than a very basic TI-89 equation.
I'm perfectly "up to speed" per se on programming, and was by the beginning of year three of college, often being the guy asked how languages work by my other friends who've been prgramming before they hit puberty.
When I was a TA in college for the intro class, 75% of the students who did know how to program had some VERY bad habits or misconceptions that needed kicking. The other 25%, of course, were years ahead of everyone else, but the people who didn't know how in the beginning but just applied themselves did much better at it after a class or two. Most HS teachers SUCK at teaching programming.
Why does this matter? I don't get it.
Programming is not an especially hard task. A new way of thinking, sure, but so is almost any highly technical skill in engineering. I'd personally say electronics, robots, fabrication are a more valuable "skill set" to play with as a teen, as they give you practice in the hacker mentality, however require much more basic practice to be proficient in.
It's not the fact your hands are busy that makes you have an accident, it's that you're not paying attention to the road as much consciously and unconsciously.
The asteroid should be used for space use.
Getting a refining factory up there would be MUCH cheaper than taking all the metal down unrefined. And once you have refined metal in space, why should you have to bring it down? That would be the perfect place to build craft that don't ever have to land on a planet.
Sure, you'd still bring the electronics and plastics up, but there is no reason to ferry the bulk of a ship up there.
Same goes for habitats.
You really need to be looking for some more criteria when you're evaluating them. In addition to the criteria you mentioned, here are others
Adaptability Efficency Availability of tools (IDEs, Graphical Contruction Wizards, Component analyzers, memory analyzers, profilers) Robustness (Error checking, logging, etc) Support Availability Quickness of Dev Time Maintainability Platform Compatability License Compatability with Product Business Goals (Talk with the Mgmt/Marketing folks about this in terms of which each allows) Cost to Procure Experienced Developers for the Framework (*Even if you don't think you'll need to hire) Experience with underlying technology
If you define all of those in writting, you will have many fewer choices, and you'll sound like you know why you're recommending your final choice when you do.
I would then contend the marketing wonk was misleading.
The intent of bullshit is pretty much the same as intentional deception, and are ususally indecipherable
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Use of keyloggers is rarely determined these days, and even more rarely punished. However, they're often the source of identity theft crimes. I agree with the criminal prosecution of this. I hope he gets off, but then they go after him civilly. People need to understand this is bad, mkay. Prosecuting this *adult* is the way to do it.
The beers would get warm.
You must be British. Only they'd like that.
--Michael
Your argument is they're buying a bunch of resources that won't be valuable unless the demand for bandwidth goes up. Encouraging usage is not evil. It encouraging people to just use the network.
That's like saying buying deep oil wells or tar sands because you expect oil prices to go up above $80 is sinister. It's not. It's speculating on the price of a resource.
While there is some economic argument that speculation is somewhat harmful, the entire US is speculating on stocks and house prices, so this isn't particularly notable.
--Michael
I just started a business (read about it on my blog ) and was looking into this.
n surance/hr_commercial_plan_2006.htm
The best resource I've found so far is: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-health-i
I personally have had a HDHP Plan from Blue Cross Blue Sheild of GA with a 2600 deductable and 100% in network co-insurance past that with an allowance for preventative care.
My mother in-law, who works in benefits for a major national organization, recommends the simplicity of a highly rated HMO like Kaiser if you can find one locally.
--Michael
There is a headphone jack. Take earphones with you next time you go and listen. The menus are read (sort of)
--Michael
Computer programmers repeatedly screw up with empirical data. The CS curriculums in most university act like logic and graph theory are the end all be all (they are important, but not THAT important), but only require a stats course because the large institution does. The "stats" course I had was 4 weeks at the end of a semester of Probability and Statistics. Statistics are extremely important because they show 1> How to test for capacity of programs 2> How to determine error sources 3> How to correctly estimate (well, stats are a requirement to do this, but not all that's required) 4> Understanding of different ideas of random and 5> Understanding how to detect causation and people who have mistaken themselves about causation. These errors cause programmer to say and do rediculous things all the time. --Michael
QT is $3300 per seat. ---> What about WxWindows? Its just as cross platform, and you can buy support contracts from several places:
RT Linux is NOT linux. It is an os under linux, that has some integration harnesses inserted. You were paying for that.
RH Linux work station comes with the ability to call someone up and get support. A version of windows with that level of support is going to cost you much more than 299 a chair for the first few copies. Also, "an OEM version of windows" is not a fair comparison. WinXpPro == $299 for the *unsupported* product. For community supported linux, you can get it for FREE! Many people who think they need RT linux don't. Soft real time works just fine with a fast enough processor. YMMV
Yes, commercial cygwin costs a lot. Who gives a crap. Why exactly do you need it?
Or did you actually just need the support contract, which costs much less than the license to use the GPLed code without the GPL encumberances?
We have dropped the development and rewrote everything to C# (MSVS 2005 is ~$700)
(THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO UNSUPPORTED!). WxWindows is FREE and unsupported and hell, it's cross platform.
This article is disengenuous, and possibly a MS snowjob. Yes, embedded linux is harder than desktop windows. Yes, if you try to pay for support for everything, it costs more. Embedded linux is VERY possible without a support contract, as long as you're working on a well definied processor that has a working port of linux+uclibc/glibc for it.
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Either A> You're windows programmers who thought you could all of a sudden become linux users by paying for a lot of support (but less support than the cost of unsupported windows products).
Or B> You're windows lackyes who are attempting to setup a straw man and present a case why embedded linux development is overly expensive.
Either way, the article is just wrongheaded.
--Michael
For a source browser, doxygen[1] is a no brainer. Turn off Latex, turn on recursive and static members, tell it to include code, tell it to link functions, and tell it to go to town.
VI is pretty powerful (but less intuitive) if you use ctags on your source. I personally prefer doxygen, but tags work well.
People think of it as just a cross language javadoc, but your code doesn't need to be documented to use it well.
--Michael
[1] http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
> 90% of the energy output of a incandescant bulb is heat. Think about how an easy bake oven works.
The A/C costs of COOLING that 90% are another huge energy gain.
--Michael
While not having local files isn't really the issue, people HATE not having a place to put papers, a couple personal items (like medications, perscription or no) and a couple supplies. By making them keep these elsewhere from the workspace, you have a huge cost every day moving this to/from where you're actually working. You're still going to need personal spaces even if you get netboot/vm with dumb terminals.
Teleworking, however, seems to abrogate this problem. These people understand the tradeoff they have made and prepare for it better and burden some of the cost on their own.
--Michael
I'd love to put this in my RSS feed. I am curious about this raw input into the political process.
I've done this sort of install before
CAVEAT: Make *sure* you copy all data out of user directories before doing this. You will *not* be able to access them sometimes.
--Michael
Buy the book Options as a Strategic Investment
Use 10% of the available money to do these. While the book is pricy, it allows you to trade stocks at 1/10th the cost and risk of actually trading them. Which is exactly what you need.
Yes this is more complicated, however you'll be able to pick it up from the straightforward presentation of the manual
Put the rest of the money in an ING orange account (4.something interest rate).
Same profitability as stocks with less risk than mutuals.
--Michael
Yup
--Michael
It's high time for the judicial branch to strip the protections security clearence gives. Citizens rights to redress their government are more important than maintaining spying programs. This is an end run around the separation of powers.
--Michael
I adjusted my desk up on Tuesday, the 11th of July 2006
Observations so far:
Burning more calories. I'm definitly warmer all day long
Oh my lord I'm so alert. Not a bit of tiredness/zoning, even on the night I only got 5 hours sleep.
The commute home now feels good, so I don't mind the traffic near as much (relaxation of the legs)
Better gas mileage (My legs are tired, so I use my cruise control more).
Leg muscles right above the knees are tired (Getting better already).
Easier to leave my desk: Rather than considering to leave or not, I just walk out without considering it at all.
Less tired at home at night (wierd).
Other things:
While I can stand at my comp all day long, I can also sit, and do when I want a break from standing, want to think quietly, or want to talk to a co-worker (I'm a couple inches taller than most of them. This isn't at all like when I worked in a 7-11 store or a Grocery store and had to stand. I can sit whenever I wish to.
--Michael
Mitsubishi makes (and sels in japan and in the US through importers) a 0.18 pen. Its great for fine writing, but I find its rate of flow too low for normal size writing.
--Michael
There are two books that help endlessly in your life as a technical person:
For everything but formal texts, you need you use the book (I think every Highschool Student should get a copy for free):
Style: Towards Clarity and Grace, by Joseph M. Williams
For Formal Articles, Books, Papers, etc, you need you use this book:
Clear and Simple as the Truth, by Francis-Noel Thomas
The first book teaches you how to write in a plain, eminently understandable style. It underscores how to structure writing, sentences, and even individual phrases to clearly get across the points you wish to communicate. It eschews proscriptive rules like certain other writing books do *cough* Strunk and White *cough* that get too much attention.
The second book explains how to write in what is called classical style. This is a style of writing that you'll come across in documents such as the american Declaration of Independence, all of Descartes writing, and most of the writing of the Enlightenment. It is highly adaptable, and very comprehensible to anyone. Many popsci books go towards this style of writing, including some of Hawkings work, and most of Bronowski's. Classical style is more sophisticated than the plain style advocated in Williams, but some ideas are important enough to pay the cost of nuance at the expense of conscision.
--Michael
I entered college without knowing how to program anything more than a very basic TI-89 equation.
I'm perfectly "up to speed" per se on programming, and was by the beginning of year three of college, often being the guy asked how languages work by my other friends who've been prgramming before they hit puberty.
When I was a TA in college for the intro class, 75% of the students who did know how to program had some VERY bad habits or misconceptions that needed kicking. The other 25%, of course, were years ahead of everyone else, but the people who didn't know how in the beginning but just applied themselves did much better at it after a class or two. Most HS teachers SUCK at teaching programming.
Why does this matter? I don't get it.
Programming is not an especially hard task. A new way of thinking, sure, but so is almost any highly technical skill in engineering. I'd personally say electronics, robots, fabrication are a more valuable "skill set" to play with as a teen, as they give you practice in the hacker mentality, however require much more basic practice to be proficient in.
--Michael
It's not the fact your hands are busy that makes you have an accident, it's that you're not paying attention to the road as much consciously and unconsciously.
A study that proves it
All the current bans are useless. We need to ban USE in the car, not USE WITHOUT A HEADSET. Hands Free doesn't help.
--Michael
Doesn't matter if they're encrypted and you can't remember where the key is.... --michael
The asteroid should be used for space use. Getting a refining factory up there would be MUCH cheaper than taking all the metal down unrefined. And once you have refined metal in space, why should you have to bring it down? That would be the perfect place to build craft that don't ever have to land on a planet. Sure, you'd still bring the electronics and plastics up, but there is no reason to ferry the bulk of a ship up there. Same goes for habitats.
You really need to be looking for some more criteria when you're evaluating them. In addition to the criteria you mentioned, here are others
Adaptability
Efficency
Availability of tools (IDEs, Graphical Contruction Wizards, Component analyzers, memory analyzers, profilers)
Robustness (Error checking, logging, etc)
Support Availability
Quickness of Dev Time
Maintainability
Platform Compatability
License Compatability with Product Business Goals (Talk with the Mgmt/Marketing folks about this in terms of which each allows)
Cost to Procure Experienced Developers for the Framework (*Even if you don't think you'll need to hire)
Experience with underlying technology
If you define all of those in writting, you will have many fewer choices, and you'll sound like you know why you're recommending your final choice when you do.
--Michael
I would then contend the marketing wonk was misleading. The intent of bullshit is pretty much the same as intentional deception, and are ususally indecipherable
Unless your company is an ungodly narrow sort of business, you should rule out the use of other languages entirely.
Whoops...that should read:
Unless your company is an ungodly narrow sort of business, you shouldn't rule out the use of other languages entirely.