The best project manager I ever had, had weekly meetings in which you were assigned lines in Microsoft Project- had to give an estimate when assigned- and then were asked to give percentage done for anything currently in progress, and reasons for missed deadlines.
Too bad it was a government job
Whew! For a moment you had me worried I might encounter her!
The question here is this: did the sub-human wankers who created this ever consider this possibility? Now that it's happened, do you think they give a shit? Is there a chance that someone is saying, "Gee, maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." right about now?
No, they're saying "Windows 7 will be more secure, and even better for medical devices"
More sites should provide an option for https, like gmail does. Some still don't even provide it for authentication.
Once upon a time there were wimpy CPUs, and https was a more significant computational burden. Now, not so much. Especially when compared to the resource requirements of most dynamic page generation systems.
Many 'pharmacy benefit management' companies profit by selling information about your drug purchases - and probable ailments - to the highest bidder. This is a gray area of the law. You are typically NOT able to opt-out of this selling of your information. HIPPA doesn't cover this, just like it doesn't cover off-shore companies who sell your data. It is a rapidly growing market.
Insurance companies like Humana even make a point of mentioning that they will disclose your health data to third parties who may not be subject to privacy regulations.
good headphones are a must for such close listening tests. you'll only be able to hear really major differences with most speakers.
With the right two channel source recording, a good system and speakers can reproduce a 3D soundstage. The soundstage can extend outside the speakers and have depth in front and behind the speakers. Headphones, while very useful for evaluating some aspects of quality, lack the phase interaction necessary to reproduce such a soundstage.
Most studio mastering, mixdowns, etc, are done with reference monitor speakers and not headphones. Ask a dozen respected engineers and most will tell you that you can't get the sound right with headphones (which is too bad because they're a Lot less expensive than even low end reference monitors).
Fwiw, most commercial recordings lack a 3D soundstage for various reasons (original microphone configuration and technique, excessive processing intended for lowest common denominator playback, etc) and some will attempt to create it via procsesing.
Sources I know inside Comcast say the Sandvine throttling has Greatly reduced their peering costs with AT&T and increased profits. The terms of the AT&T-Comcast broadband merger locked Comcast into using AT&T transit for a lot of their traffic.
This is about their desire to purchase as little bandwidth as possible and nothing else. They can easily justify this by creating "congestion" on their network but it is all about profit (duh).
They call it Zattoo it's using encryptet contents over bittorrent.
I watched the World Cup Futbol championship on Zattoo and it was sometimes more "real time" than broadcast TV. How do they do that? This bittorrent prototype buffers for a full minute. And I notice the live stream isn't even doing any sharing (according to the status page).
The ritzy school will catch my eye but they'll all get grilled just the same.
I recently interviewed a candidate graduating this month with a CS major and a mathematics minor (3.03 GPA). He could not come anywhere close to describing the difference between TCP and UDP.
That wasn't a make or break question but it surprised me. He is a Western Michigan University student. Is this a bit like the story of the EE who never touches a soldering iron in 4 years?
Nice guy and we would have liked to hire him if he was just a bit deeper in some areas. We needed someone who could 'hit the ground running...'
The newly designed splashscreen and about dialog are mighty impressive! But is there any word on better support for alternate keybindings? It shouldn't come as a shock that folks don't want to learn new editor keybindings for each appliction. Some of us prefer emacs bindings.
A feature to automatically load alternate bindings at startup would be nice.. Maybe even including some alternates with the release? I'd gladly contribute my efforts. This detail should not be left as a (somewhat clumsy) exercise for the user.
The guy goes bonkers over Microsoft but fails to mention Apple and Mozilla.. Similarly, none of the comments 352 comments mention this problem with Apple.
I recently configured a new iBook for a friend and was surprised by the "you can't get past the registration without filling it in" aspect (secret keystroke is required). Many apps on the dock phoned home. Every new copy of Mozilla/firefox/etc reports your IP, platform, etc. How do those not get a privacy mention?
Why can't we easily download NPR content in a friendly format?
It seems like their audio is WMV or RP and the download links are buried. I don't want to launch a proprietary player from my browser or otherwise, thankyourverymuch.
I did a bunch of development back in 2002 to use an Archos Recorder for automotive data acquisition. It seemed like a fairly obvious application of a low cost platform and worked very well. And so no need to keep dragging the vaio out for harsh testing.
Back in Feb '05, I discovered all of my January mail disappeared. Gmail support was completely f'n useless. They couldn't/wouldn't share any info about how it might have happened.. At that time I was mostly testing gmail but now I have crud in there I'd like to retain.. I was hoping these problems were behind them.
Their final reply before completely ignoring me:
> Hello, > > Thank you for your reply. > > We have completed a thorough investigation of your Gmail account, and can > confirm that a technical problem did not cause the behavior you reported. > We apologize for any inconvenience you might have experienced. > > Sincerely, > > The Gmail Team
As bad as many yahoo boards can be, there are people who hang out there. Yahoo has a long history of arbitrarily and instantly destroying online communities which have many years of history. You can't just re-create a community. Does anyone have a clue at yahoo?
Yahoo did the same thing with the finance message boards a few months ago. With no warning, they forced everyone over to a new user interface that was extremely bad and poorly tested.
It immediately stifled discussion and massive numbers of long time posters fled to alternate services. There are many reasons users camp out on a particular stock message board.. I know folks who have over 10K posts on a single stock board and who have been there for 7 or 8 years. Long time investors, former and current employees and friends and family, the company is local, etc. And, of course, community.. Those communities have value. That yahoo has been unable to preserve them shows just how far they are from monetizing them..
During the transition to the new interface, some message boards were lost in the shuffle. A lot of those people were investors, you know, people with money.. Seems like a pretty good demographic. Does anyone understand business at yahoo? FWIW, yahoo had a terrible quarter shortly after the finance board overhaul. They blamed it on reduced ad views.. Wonder if the reduced finance board traffic was part of that?
Gerald Bull had a vision and an obsession, a vision that led to estrangement from his native Canada, prison in America, and ultimately assassination by Israel. His vision was of an entirely new way to get into space: small rockets boosted by giant guns. To achieve it he worked for some of the worst regimes on earth: South Africa, China, and ultimately Iraq. His work affected the course of two modern wars and revived the ancient field of artillery.
I always thought the OS and software were the easy part. What do folks like for hardware platforms? I don't care about 2 or 4 drive solutions - those are trivial. I'm talking 8-10 drives in the 320-500 gb range. Most turn-key solutions are Far too expensive when compared to the 'build a box' DIY alternative.
I've been building linux boxes for this and have used Antec cases in the past with 120mm fans. Proper drive cooling and monitoring are very important. Anything beyond 5 or 6 drives means using the 5 1/4 drive bays and that gets old fast.
What controllers? Cheap SATA controllers are a must. I couldn't care less about the $200-$400 controllers. Some controllers don't do dma correctly when you have more than one in a machine. I have played with the Syba SD-SATA-4p under Linux and it works okay (though it does not work with one amd64 machine that has a Promise ATA controller).. Price is right at about $15-$25 for four ports ($4-8/port!). I haven't tried two or more in the same machine. There does not seem to be any SMART support in the current linux driver.
This morning I bought 5th row center tickets to see Wayne Shorter.. They were $35. WS is one of the last living jazz greats and he is 73 years old. I recently paid $40 for front row Sonny Rollins, $40 for front row Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (that is 13 performers and a whole lotta gear), $60 for Elvis Costello, $40 Jethro Tull, etc..
The performers who charge over $100 aren't doing it for a love of the music or performing. They're doing it to make a buck. And while there is nothing wrong with that, blaming p2p (which the article doesn't really do) is just pathetic..
I see 10-15 shows a month and record every one of them for my personal collection. Schoeps baby.
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The best project manager I ever had, had weekly meetings in which you were assigned lines in Microsoft Project- had to give an estimate when assigned- and then were asked to give percentage done for anything currently in progress, and reasons for missed deadlines.
Too bad it was a government job
Whew! For a moment you had me worried I might encounter her!
The question here is this: did the sub-human wankers who created this ever consider this possibility? Now that it's happened, do you think they give a shit? Is there a chance that someone is saying, "Gee, maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." right about now?
No, they're saying "Windows 7 will be more secure, and even better for medical devices"
Or did you mean the Conficker authors?
Someone is going to get a promotion for this. Because people who "work" in government almost never, ever get fired.
Maybe they'll find a low level grunt to blame it on..
More sites should provide an option for https, like gmail does. Some still don't even provide it for authentication.
Once upon a time there were wimpy CPUs, and https was a more significant computational burden. Now, not so much. Especially when compared to the resource requirements of most dynamic page generation systems.
Many 'pharmacy benefit management' companies profit by selling information about your drug purchases - and probable ailments - to the highest bidder. This is a gray area of the law. You are typically NOT able to opt-out of this selling of your information. HIPPA doesn't cover this, just like it doesn't cover off-shore companies who sell your data. It is a rapidly growing market.
Insurance companies like Humana even make a point of mentioning that they will disclose your health data to third parties who may not be subject to privacy regulations.
So I have to ask, who is more evil here?
Any word on what those penetrating low frequencies will do to hard drives?
good headphones are a must for such close listening tests. you'll only be able to hear really major differences with most speakers.
With the right two channel source recording, a good system and speakers can reproduce a 3D soundstage. The soundstage can extend outside the speakers and have depth in front and behind the speakers. Headphones, while very useful for evaluating some aspects of quality, lack the phase interaction necessary to reproduce such a soundstage.
Most studio mastering, mixdowns, etc, are done with reference monitor speakers and not headphones. Ask a dozen respected engineers and most will tell you that you can't get the sound right with headphones (which is too bad because they're a Lot less expensive than even low end reference monitors).
Fwiw, most commercial recordings lack a 3D soundstage for various reasons (original microphone configuration and technique, excessive processing intended for lowest common denominator playback, etc) and some will attempt to create it via procsesing.
Sources I know inside Comcast say the Sandvine throttling has Greatly reduced their peering costs with AT&T and increased profits. The terms of the AT&T-Comcast broadband merger locked Comcast into using AT&T transit for a lot of their traffic.
This is about their desire to purchase as little bandwidth as possible and nothing else. They can easily justify this by creating "congestion" on their network but it is all about profit (duh).
By 11:05am PDT, ..., the system's state cleared.
At 2:57pm PDT, Amazon S3's EU location began successfully completing customer requests.
So WTF happened during the four hours between 11:05AM and 2:57PM?
And... have they learned nothing from the TIBCO fiasco?
They call it Zattoo
it's using encryptet contents over bittorrent.
I watched the World Cup Futbol championship on Zattoo and it was sometimes more "real time" than broadcast TV. How do they do that? This bittorrent prototype buffers for a full minute. And I notice the live stream isn't even doing any sharing (according to the status page).
The ritzy school will catch my eye but they'll all get grilled just the same.
I recently interviewed a candidate graduating this month with a CS major and a mathematics minor (3.03 GPA). He could not come anywhere close to describing the difference between TCP and UDP.
That wasn't a make or break question but it surprised me. He is a Western Michigan University student. Is this a bit like the story of the EE who never touches a soldering iron in 4 years?
Nice guy and we would have liked to hire him if he was just a bit deeper in some areas. We needed someone who could 'hit the ground running...'
The newly designed splashscreen and about dialog are mighty impressive! But is there any word on better support for alternate keybindings? It shouldn't come as a shock that folks don't want to learn new editor keybindings for each appliction. Some of us prefer emacs bindings.
A feature to automatically load alternate bindings at startup would be nice.. Maybe even including some alternates with the release? I'd gladly contribute my efforts. This detail should not be left as a (somewhat clumsy) exercise for the user.
Or maybe we just need openoffice mode for emacs?
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Let's talk about the failure of Itanic.
In the preferred embodiment a method of fucking over customers is described whereby private customer data is disclosed to third parties for profit.
Taco is faking a party to get the free swag.
Anyone know where the real Ann Arbor party will be?
But all they really need is your IP address.
The guy goes bonkers over Microsoft but fails to mention Apple and Mozilla.. Similarly, none of the comments 352 comments mention this problem with Apple.
I recently configured a new iBook for a friend and was surprised by the "you can't get past the registration without filling it in" aspect (secret keystroke is required). Many apps on the dock phoned home. Every new copy of Mozilla/firefox/etc reports your IP, platform, etc. How do those not get a privacy mention?
Why can't we easily download NPR content in a friendly format?
It seems like their audio is WMV or RP and the download links are buried. I don't want to launch a proprietary player from my browser or otherwise, thankyourverymuch.
I did a bunch of development back in 2002 to use an Archos Recorder for automotive data acquisition. It seemed like a fairly obvious application of a low cost platform and worked very well. And so no need to keep dragging the vaio out for harsh testing.
Back in Feb '05, I discovered all of my January mail disappeared. Gmail support was completely f'n useless. They couldn't/wouldn't share any info about how it might have happened.. At that time I was mostly testing gmail but now I have crud in there I'd like to retain.. I was hoping these problems were behind them.
Their final reply before completely ignoring me:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> We have completed a thorough investigation of your Gmail account, and can
> confirm that a technical problem did not cause the behavior you reported.
> We apologize for any inconvenience you might have experienced.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> The Gmail Team
As bad as many yahoo boards can be, there are people who hang out there. Yahoo has a long history of arbitrarily and instantly destroying online communities which have many years of history. You can't just re-create a community. Does anyone have a clue at yahoo?
Yahoo did the same thing with the finance message boards a few months ago. With no warning, they forced everyone over to a new user interface that was extremely bad and poorly tested.
It immediately stifled discussion and massive numbers of long time posters fled to alternate services. There are many reasons users camp out on a particular stock message board.. I know folks who have over 10K posts on a single stock board and who have been there for 7 or 8 years. Long time investors, former and current employees and friends and family, the company is local, etc. And, of course, community.. Those communities have value. That yahoo has been unable to preserve them shows just how far they are from monetizing them..
During the transition to the new interface, some message boards were lost in the shuffle. A lot of those people were investors, you know, people with money.. Seems like a pretty good demographic. Does anyone understand business at yahoo? FWIW, yahoo had a terrible quarter shortly after the finance board overhaul. They blamed it on reduced ad views.. Wonder if the reduced finance board traffic was part of that?
The article and basic approach remind me of Gerald Bull's work and his disturbing tale of doom as documented on the Doomed Engineers site:
Gerald Bull had a vision and an obsession, a vision that led to estrangement from his native Canada, prison in America, and ultimately assassination by Israel. His vision was of an entirely new way to get into space: small rockets boosted by giant guns. To achieve it he worked for some of the worst regimes on earth: South Africa, China, and ultimately Iraq. His work affected the course of two modern wars and revived the ancient field of artillery.
Voice Over NSA.
I always thought the OS and software were the easy part. What do folks like for hardware platforms? I don't care about 2 or 4 drive solutions - those are trivial. I'm talking 8-10 drives in the 320-500 gb range. Most turn-key solutions are Far too expensive when compared to the 'build a box' DIY alternative.
I've been building linux boxes for this and have used Antec cases in the past with 120mm fans. Proper drive cooling and monitoring are very important. Anything beyond 5 or 6 drives means using the 5 1/4 drive bays and that gets old fast.
What controllers? Cheap SATA controllers are a must. I couldn't care less about the $200-$400 controllers. Some controllers don't do dma correctly when you have more than one in a machine. I have played with the Syba SD-SATA-4p under Linux and it works okay (though it does not work with one amd64 machine that has a Promise ATA controller).. Price is right at about $15-$25 for four ports ($4-8/port!). I haven't tried two or more in the same machine. There does not seem to be any SMART support in the current linux driver.
10 320 gb drives = $1150 = 36 cents/GB.
$500 machine + $1150 = 51.5 cents/GB.
This morning I bought 5th row center tickets to see Wayne Shorter.. They were $35. WS is one of the last living jazz greats and he is 73 years old. I recently paid $40 for front row Sonny Rollins, $40 for front row Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (that is 13 performers and a whole lotta gear), $60 for Elvis Costello, $40 Jethro Tull, etc..
The performers who charge over $100 aren't doing it for a love of the music or performing. They're doing it to make a buck. And while there is nothing wrong with that, blaming p2p (which the article doesn't really do) is just pathetic..
I see 10-15 shows a month and record every one of them for my personal collection. Schoeps baby.