While I'd argue that any good developer should have more than a passing understanding and empathy for operations, what is being described here is not DevOps. Let's steal a definition from Wikipedia: DevOps (a portmanteau of development and operations) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology (IT) operations professionals. DevOps is a response to the interdependence of software development and IT operations. It aims to help an organization rapidly produce software products and services.
DevOps is NOT A ROLE. DevOps is a methodology concerning increased communications between development and operations. For example, DevOps tools may help coordinate software releases across environments -- e.g., helping to ensure that the same software is deployed in the same way in Dev, QA and Production, thereby avoiding potential issues created due to different configurations or dependency combinations. Going the other way, a system monitoring tool which collects information on software failures may be augmented so that IT can choose to collect more detailed information (e.g. stack traces or memory dumps) and have all of that data attached to a bug report published into the developers' bug tracking system. Analytics are a growing area of interest in DevOps, facilitating the collection and consolidation of product and feature usage, making that available in a consumable format for business analysts.
That's what DevOps is in an established organization. It's a Really Good Thing, and once you've experienced it, it's hard to work anywhere that doesn't take DevOps seriously.
As I've been the real 'quad father' since 1991 (that's the prefered pronounciation of 'qodfathr'), I'm expecting a big payday for such blatant copyright infringment!
Think about what you are saying. Your argument suggests that 1-2% of the population are pineapple pickers. Obviously, this is not the case.
In fact, the problem IS with oils on the skin. These oils are necessary for the imaging devices to capture decent images. Press a bone dry finger against a glass window, and compare the residual image with that of an oily finger. Most fingerprint scanners are simply little glass windows with oblique cameras pointed at them. One solution for some of these people is for them to first swipe their finger across their forehead to pick up some of the skin oil from there.
Many fingerprint scanners have some sort of gel silicone pad (perhaps even one that is replacable) on top iof the imaging glass, which does help. But, for that 1-2%, the images from the scanner just suck no matter what is done.
Another reason for the 1-2% figure is the fact that a lot of fingerprint algorithms take the input image and convert it into a line/curve drawing. This is acomplished by 'thinning' the input image. These image processing algorithsm have been tuned with a set of thresholds which work well for 98-99% of the population, leaving 1-2% whose images get processed 'poorly'.
Handling these last 1-2% is an open area of research, fighting for research time with improves which benefit the 98%. So, if there any any grad students out there looking for some PhD work, there you go.
And, yes, I do know what I am talking about. I've deployed biometric systems around the world, currently in use by tens of millions of people (minus 1-2%, of course).
And Microsoft Messenger has PC-to-Phone back in 1999, if not earlier, via a partnership with Net2Phone. I believe they then switched to some other partner, and then eventually dropped the option altogether. I actually used it, because I could call land lines in Australia from the US for something like $0.04/minute. I had to deposit $25 into my account, and then I was debited off of that.
I didn't use it as much as I had thought I would, and to this day I still have something like $13 in that Net2Phone account, and, yes, it's still good. (I can fire up a stand alone Net2Phone client and see my credit right there on screen, just begging me to make a call.)
Actually, it's The Johns Hopkins University. During my undergrad years there, some people took great pleasure in constantly correcting other people with regards to the name.
I am among a group of individuals who insist that if you walk through the North End of Boston on a hot late summer's day, you can still get a whiff of the sweet scent of molasses. If you are in the North End in August, see (smell?) for yourself.
BTW, I noticed the smell BEFORE I heard about this disaster.
Hun? But if the 360 CANNOT play those games, then the stats are going to be low, no?
In fairness, I understand your point w.r.t. the games that DO work. For my part, I've tried to put in some solid time with some of my original Xbox games in the hopes that XBL will 'see' this and convince them to continue to work on more back compat.
Back in college (Johns Hopkins) some of the urinals had little spinner games in them. Think roulette, but with little messages like 'You Win' or 'You Lose'. My favorite? 'Spin Again'.
Look at http://www.echoaudio.com./ I've been using thier products for 10 years (I've produced some CDs with them), and I've always been pleased with the level of support.
Talk about clever marketing -- maybe they found some drunk shroud tourists to run around in their material. I'd be FAR more impressed if real athletes at the Torino Olympics were wearing this stuff.
Actually, some biometric data, fingerprints included, is not static, at least as far as much as the current reading technology is concerned.
Over time, our fingerprints do change -- the lines become broader, for example. A system which is required for the entire population (children included) needs to be able to compensate for the fact that for nearly the first two decades of life, our hands are physically growing.
In fact, many fingerprint systems start to fail after 6 MONTHS of deployment due to changes in user's fingerprints brought on by heat, humidity, water retention, etc. Our fingerprints are much more dynamic than people realize, and often these changes result in the minutia match score falling below the match threshold (i.e. lots of false negatives).
Some companies have fingerprint reading technology designed from the ground-up to deal with these kinds of issues; Liska Biometry comes to mind.
They are correct, but I have seen a premium antenna help ONCE for a friend who lives pretty far from any broadcast antenna. So I cannot completely rule them out, but, for most folks, I can.
But that's pretty much exactly what they ARE doing. The vouchers will be used help pay for the HD-to-analog converter box. Depending upon where you are located, you may be able to use your existing UHF/VHF antenna. If you are too far from the broadcast antenna, there may be value in purchasing a 'HDTV' antenna specifically designed to capture the broadcast.
I don't know why one would need (or even want) the converter box built into the antenna, as you've suggested. At a minimum, it's probably going to require power, and, last time I checked, most roofs don't have electrical outlets.
Unless you think a magical antenna, absent of electronics, can decode an MPEG2 stream.
There is a system DLL (code) which processes the metadata of images (say, to create a preview thumbnail). A buffer overflow in the DLL is the root cause of the problem -- the buffer overflow gets exploited by placing executable code in the metadata of the image. There is not an 'EXEC' segement type in the metadata specification itself, if you will. It's more like 'put this really long ImageSubject in the metadata with these special magic bytes at the end, and then place this executable code over here in the image file, and voila, you can exploit the overdlow.'
I tried the free mail hosting with one of my rarely used domains. In the end, you end up with a Hotmail front-end -- you literally log into Hotmail (well, Passport actually), but rather than having a login id of 'john.smith@hotmail.com' you have 'john.smith@mydomainname.com' (you can use whatever user id format you like). Otherwise, it looks and feels like Hotmail -- including text advertisements at the bottom of any email you send. I assume the Outlook integration that Hotmail offers also works, but I did not try this. Mail boxes are limited to 250MB, and you can have 20 of them (IIRC).
If nothing else, it was extremely to set up, assuming you can easily change your domain's MX record.
I don't see what pregnacy (a condition of the host) has to do with the 'life status' of a fertilzed egg.
And, yes I guess a human life does die every time an egg is not implanted and 'washes away'. Seems to me to be a very natural process. Reminds me of those thousands of sea turtles which hatch every year, yet only something like 1% live to make it across the beach into the sea. It's natures way; it's neither good nor bad, kind nor evil. It's just the way it is. Evolution has resulted in some interesting processes, hasn't it?
Imagine a world whereby a fertiled human egg, before implanting in the uterian lining, is extracted, placed in a petri dish full of the right kind of 'goo', and grows into a well formed human. This will certainly be possible (if not already). It's illogical to say that, after x number of days or y number of cell divisions, that the mass of cells is suddenly 'alive' -- clearly it is simpliest to conclude that it was alive with the first base cell. Are you suggesting that's a bad thing?
Now consider a genetic scientist who articially creates both a sperm and an egg, via atomic or molecular manipulation of amino acids and the such. In effect, he uses molecules as Lego blocks, and constructs the sperm and the egg. Then, the sperm fertilizes the egg. That grows into a human. Again, at the moment of fertilization, the scientist 'created' life. The 'system' didn't become alive after, say, 50 cell divisions -- it was alive as soon as it had the capacity to divide and grow.
Lastly, I'm not sure what this 'soul' thing is that you speak of. Is it kinda like the Loch Ness Monster? Do you have a fuzzy photograph of one of these 'soul' thingies? Or do you foolish assume that someone who logically and scientifically believes in life at conception must also be 'religious' and believe in God and all of that other 'stuff'?
Are you saying it's impossible for a sane, rational person to believe that life begins at conception and not have that belief based in religion? Isn't it logical to conclude that life begins at conception?
I don't think one can necessarily draw the conclusion that someone who believes in life beginning at conception has been 'clouded' be religion. There are atheists who believe that life begins at conception. So, while Bush the parts of the Supreme Court may, in fact, make decisions founded in their religious beliefs, agruing the differences or non-differences between Plan B and RU-486 need not involve religion. They can be considered similar based upon more sound reasoning, and, as such, regulation of these drugs is perhaps warrented.
Of course, if the law permits a doctor to prescribe these drugs and a pharamcist refuses to fill the prescription, that's another story entirely and I hope when that pharamcist gets cancer, his Jehova Witness pharamcist refuses to fill his order on the basis that the cancer is 'God's will' and should be seen as a 'test of his faith'. That will teach the c*cksucker...
Slashdot Mirror
While I'd argue that any good developer should have more than a passing understanding and empathy for operations, what is being described here is not DevOps. Let's steal a definition from Wikipedia: DevOps (a portmanteau of development and operations) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology (IT) operations professionals. DevOps is a response to the interdependence of software development and IT operations. It aims to help an organization rapidly produce software products and services.
DevOps is NOT A ROLE. DevOps is a methodology concerning increased communications between development and operations. For example, DevOps tools may help coordinate software releases across environments -- e.g., helping to ensure that the same software is deployed in the same way in Dev, QA and Production, thereby avoiding potential issues created due to different configurations or dependency combinations. Going the other way, a system monitoring tool which collects information on software failures may be augmented so that IT can choose to collect more detailed information (e.g. stack traces or memory dumps) and have all of that data attached to a bug report published into the developers' bug tracking system. Analytics are a growing area of interest in DevOps, facilitating the collection and consolidation of product and feature usage, making that available in a consumable format for business analysts.
That's what DevOps is in an established organization. It's a Really Good Thing, and once you've experienced it, it's hard to work anywhere that doesn't take DevOps seriously.
What baffles me is that anyone still thinks that .net was EVER interpreted. It has always employed a runtime JITter.
As I've been the real 'quad father' since 1991 (that's the prefered pronounciation of 'qodfathr'), I'm expecting a big payday for such blatant copyright infringment!
Think about what you are saying. Your argument suggests that 1-2% of the population are pineapple pickers. Obviously, this is not the case.
In fact, the problem IS with oils on the skin. These oils are necessary for the imaging devices to capture decent images. Press a bone dry finger against a glass window, and compare the residual image with that of an oily finger. Most fingerprint scanners are simply little glass windows with oblique cameras pointed at them. One solution for some of these people is for them to first swipe their finger across their forehead to pick up some of the skin oil from there.
Many fingerprint scanners have some sort of gel silicone pad (perhaps even one that is replacable) on top iof the imaging glass, which does help. But, for that 1-2%, the images from the scanner just suck no matter what is done.
Another reason for the 1-2% figure is the fact that a lot of fingerprint algorithms take the input image and convert it into a line/curve drawing. This is acomplished by 'thinning' the input image. These image processing algorithsm have been tuned with a set of thresholds which work well for 98-99% of the population, leaving 1-2% whose images get processed 'poorly'.
Handling these last 1-2% is an open area of research, fighting for research time with improves which benefit the 98%. So, if there any any grad students out there looking for some PhD work, there you go.
And, yes, I do know what I am talking about. I've deployed biometric systems around the world, currently in use by tens of millions of people (minus 1-2%, of course).
And Microsoft Messenger has PC-to-Phone back in 1999, if not earlier, via a partnership with Net2Phone. I believe they then switched to some other partner, and then eventually dropped the option altogether. I actually used it, because I could call land lines in Australia from the US for something like $0.04/minute. I had to deposit $25 into my account, and then I was debited off of that.
I didn't use it as much as I had thought I would, and to this day I still have something like $13 in that Net2Phone account, and, yes, it's still good. (I can fire up a stand alone Net2Phone client and see my credit right there on screen, just begging me to make a call.)
Actually, it's The Johns Hopkins University. During my undergrad years there, some people took great pleasure in constantly correcting other people with regards to the name.
Okay, yeah, I was one of them. Oh well.
I am among a group of individuals who insist that if you walk through the North End of Boston on a hot late summer's day, you can still get a whiff of the sweet scent of molasses. If you are in the North End in August, see (smell?) for yourself.
BTW, I noticed the smell BEFORE I heard about this disaster.
Hun? But if the 360 CANNOT play those games, then the stats are going to be low, no?
In fairness, I understand your point w.r.t. the games that DO work. For my part, I've tried to put in some solid time with some of my original Xbox games in the hopes that XBL will 'see' this and convince them to continue to work on more back compat.
Back in college (Johns Hopkins) some of the urinals had little spinner games in them. Think roulette, but with little messages like 'You Win' or 'You Lose'. My favorite? 'Spin Again'.
Sig is intentional -- it's my favorite quote from Ghost Busters. But, yes, I agree, it does read funnily when mashed with the post.
(That was Justin Long's name on the TV show 'Ed' -- sorry if I went a little too Dennis Miller obscure on that one.)
Since when is Warren Cheswick cool?
Didn't Mozilla.org make a TON of money off of Google referals directly related to the Firefox search box?
Look at http://www.echoaudio.com./ I've been using thier products for 10 years (I've produced some CDs with them), and I've always been pleased with the level of support.
These guys understand recording.
So if I rename my CD-ROM and change the MAC address of my physical machine, I'll be safe from these overly smart viruses! Yee haw!!!!!
Talk about clever marketing -- maybe they found some drunk shroud tourists to run around in their material. I'd be FAR more impressed if real athletes at the Torino Olympics were wearing this stuff.
Actually, some biometric data, fingerprints included, is not static, at least as far as much as the current reading technology is concerned.
Over time, our fingerprints do change -- the lines become broader, for example. A system which is required for the entire population (children included) needs to be able to compensate for the fact that for nearly the first two decades of life, our hands are physically growing.
In fact, many fingerprint systems start to fail after 6 MONTHS of deployment due to changes in user's fingerprints brought on by heat, humidity, water retention, etc. Our fingerprints are much more dynamic than people realize, and often these changes result in the minutia match score falling below the match threshold (i.e. lots of false negatives).
Some companies have fingerprint reading technology designed from the ground-up to deal with these kinds of issues; Liska Biometry comes to mind.
They are correct, but I have seen a premium antenna help ONCE for a friend who lives pretty far from any broadcast antenna. So I cannot completely rule them out, but, for most folks, I can.
But that's pretty much exactly what they ARE doing. The vouchers will be used help pay for the HD-to-analog converter box. Depending upon where you are located, you may be able to use your existing UHF/VHF antenna. If you are too far from the broadcast antenna, there may be value in purchasing a 'HDTV' antenna specifically designed to capture the broadcast.
I don't know why one would need (or even want) the converter box built into the antenna, as you've suggested. At a minimum, it's probably going to require power, and, last time I checked, most roofs don't have electrical outlets.
Unless you think a magical antenna, absent of electronics, can decode an MPEG2 stream.
Well, my mistake AND it is ugly! (Although, as your link indicates, this is a throwback to a time when such things were needed.)
I do not beleive you are reading it correctly.
There is a system DLL (code) which processes the metadata of images (say, to create a preview thumbnail). A buffer overflow in the DLL is the root cause of the problem -- the buffer overflow gets exploited by placing executable code in the metadata of the image. There is not an 'EXEC' segement type in the metadata specification itself, if you will. It's more like 'put this really long ImageSubject in the metadata with these special magic bytes at the end, and then place this executable code over here in the image file, and voila, you can exploit the overdlow.'
I tried the free mail hosting with one of my rarely used domains. In the end, you end up with a Hotmail front-end -- you literally log into Hotmail (well, Passport actually), but rather than having a login id of 'john.smith@hotmail.com' you have 'john.smith@mydomainname.com' (you can use whatever user id format you like). Otherwise, it looks and feels like Hotmail -- including text advertisements at the bottom of any email you send. I assume the Outlook integration that Hotmail offers also works, but I did not try this. Mail boxes are limited to 250MB, and you can have 20 of them (IIRC).
If nothing else, it was extremely to set up, assuming you can easily change your domain's MX record.
Maybe you should RTFA.
I don't see what pregnacy (a condition of the host) has to do with the 'life status' of a fertilzed egg.
And, yes I guess a human life does die every time an egg is not implanted and 'washes away'. Seems to me to be a very natural process. Reminds me of those thousands of sea turtles which hatch every year, yet only something like 1% live to make it across the beach into the sea. It's natures way; it's neither good nor bad, kind nor evil. It's just the way it is. Evolution has resulted in some interesting processes, hasn't it?
Imagine a world whereby a fertiled human egg, before implanting in the uterian lining, is extracted, placed in a petri dish full of the right kind of 'goo', and grows into a well formed human. This will certainly be possible (if not already). It's illogical to say that, after x number of days or y number of cell divisions, that the mass of cells is suddenly 'alive' -- clearly it is simpliest to conclude that it was alive with the first base cell. Are you suggesting that's a bad thing?
Now consider a genetic scientist who articially creates both a sperm and an egg, via atomic or molecular manipulation of amino acids and the such. In effect, he uses molecules as Lego blocks, and constructs the sperm and the egg. Then, the sperm fertilizes the egg. That grows into a human. Again, at the moment of fertilization, the scientist 'created' life. The 'system' didn't become alive after, say, 50 cell divisions -- it was alive as soon as it had the capacity to divide and grow.
Lastly, I'm not sure what this 'soul' thing is that you speak of. Is it kinda like the Loch Ness Monster? Do you have a fuzzy photograph of one of these 'soul' thingies? Or do you foolish assume that someone who logically and scientifically believes in life at conception must also be 'religious' and believe in God and all of that other 'stuff'?
Are you saying it's impossible for a sane, rational person to believe that life begins at conception and not have that belief based in religion? Isn't it logical to conclude that life begins at conception?
I don't think one can necessarily draw the conclusion that someone who believes in life beginning at conception has been 'clouded' be religion. There are atheists who believe that life begins at conception. So, while Bush the parts of the Supreme Court may, in fact, make decisions founded in their religious beliefs, agruing the differences or non-differences between Plan B and RU-486 need not involve religion. They can be considered similar based upon more sound reasoning, and, as such, regulation of these drugs is perhaps warrented.
Of course, if the law permits a doctor to prescribe these drugs and a pharamcist refuses to fill the prescription, that's another story entirely and I hope when that pharamcist gets cancer, his Jehova Witness pharamcist refuses to fill his order on the basis that the cancer is 'God's will' and should be seen as a 'test of his faith'. That will teach the c*cksucker...