I could carry just enough outside work to make teaching pay off. (Errmm... Break even.) But I refuse to get a teaching cert. Yes, my wife has one, and yes, teaching special ed. might require that. But I can't see how teaching HS chem, business, or computers needs a teaching cert. That's problem one.
Problem two is administration. In many school districts, the principals are covered by the same unions as teachers. This leads to a problem of agency: who does the union represent, management, or workers? Now, this isn't the big issue. Rather, it is what it leads to: for every bad teacher, there is a principal (and often a school board) supporting the incompetency. And from my experience (via my wife and several friends who teach) it is not mere support, but demands of incompetency. School boards have developed guidelines and standards that must be adhered to to the letter. Teachers are hamstrung. After a while, they cease to care.
So, rather than become a rant on the profession, I will round up. Teaching can be bad. Very bad. OTOH, if you are in it for the short term, it can be very rewarding. You can be a maverick. You can reach kids, and learn 'em sumthin. And when they ride you out of town on a rail, you'll know that you did something good.
I didn't know there were still Apple clones. Are they relegated to System 7.5, or are they allowed to sell OS X (or something in between?) Are they just massive DTP machines, or has someone tried to hit the low end of the market?
All of this commentary about more education and other BS. Go out and teach. There are hundreds of school districts across the country that want math teachers (and probably some who want computer teachers). Take the opportunity to travel some.
The pay is not great, and if you decide to stick it out, you'll have to take a fair amount of courses. But if you are only into it for a couple of years, it will be a good break, and possibly very rewarding.
(I almost went this route after deciding that chemistry sucks. Got my MBA instead. While the toys are nice, I would have preferred teaching. But I wasn't going to take the teaching courses.)
Okay, not programmers, or network types, but we just hired some doctors (three to be exact). NONE of them were too annoying. One even called once (and only once) per week to check on the status. She was originally in a specialty for which we weren't hiring. Actually, her 'bothering' us led us to hire her. She was the most enthusiastic person we've seen in a while.
The other two didn't phone repeatedly, but did send a nice (snail) letter thanking us for the time, the interview, etc. That's a minimum.
Of course, this may not apply for other professions, but I can't see how common courtesy is a bad thing. Nor how showing interest is a bad thing.
It does have an ethernet jack on the back. But it doesn't say what it is for (specifically, it mentions that the modem is for internet connectivity. Or rather, that internet connectivity is via the modem.)
Most book reviews on/. are much more in depth than the header to this article. The book reviews at least indicate why I might want to buy it, rather than simply saying 'it's worth it'.
Entertaining stories about an outsider/geek type kid. His parents were killed, he is now 11 years old, and it is time to fulfill his birthright.
I'm not sure why it is SO popular. I mean, they are entertaining stories, but I see nothing deep or profound in them.
My wife started reading them to find out what the kids were going on about (she's a teacher) and I picked them up, as I found out I was going to be taking her and infant son to the movie.
I haven't done any research, as most things that are hyped to this degree should have an immediately recognizable benefit. This doesn't. Why bother? Every time I've looked at any aspect of.NET or Mono, I have failed to see where any of it helps the public in any way, shape, or form.
Having to 'dig' most likely means the benefits are far too intangible to be realized.
Forget about open standards for calendar sharing. I want a product that is to exchange what samba is to nt file sharing.
Not because I actually want that, but because we use a couple of proprietary programs (OSS versions are in development, but are still a year or two off, and we need software now) that link into MS Exchange.
Sorry, but just another 'me too' post. I've always wondered what the hell Miguel et al. were doing in attempting to develop for this thing. It's like grasping at smoke. Every day,.NET is something new and different and wonderful.
Maybe Steve Jobs can pull off that kinda BS ('ooh, look, an MP3 player') but Bill? I dunno...
I think it can be traced to Hearst (the newspaper mogul). He not only owned a bunch of newspapers, but also paper mills. He was afraid that marijuana (actually hemp) based paper would cut too far into his profits. So he used the editorial page to speak about the 'evils' of marijuana.
Opiates were associated with 'the Orient', so they were obviously evil.
Dunno about cocaine.
This is just the beginnings. There are other causes, but they are all nearly as ridiculous.
MS releases buggy Outlook or IE.
Bugtraq finds bug and notifies MS.
After MS waits too damned long to fix, they publish code for exploit.
Exploit(s) occur, MS is sued (or, more likely, their ISV's are sued for unscheduled downtime. Or not even sued. They just bend over.)
It all gets written off as a business expense.
Now, if viruses are terrorism:
MS releases buggy code.
Bugtraq moves to Kenya (name picked at random) so that they continue to publish (they do this for fear of being branded a 'harborer of terrorists')
Code gets published, exploits happen, etc.
Instead of it just being written off, everyone (except the end-user) ignores it. It is either:
a) act of war. Sorry, the EULA specifically exempts acts of war problems.
b) Not our problem, even if it isn't an act of war. We have an 'acts of terrorism' rider, so go talk to our insurance company, and piss off.
Dollars and cents: the legal definition of terrorism matters. M$ knows this.
Yes. He is subject to US law while working in the US. The other question I see is that AC works for RHAT, right? Then his company is helping to create a device that serves as an anti-circumvention device. So his comments (or lack thereof) in the changelog may all be for naught.
Obviously you mean to compare installing a non-patched/updated MS server to leaving your door open. Now, how is leaving your door open any different than hiring $6 drones to perform and carry out security for jumbo jets?
How does this site (or idea of this site) jibe with the Hague Convention (and other international treaties)?
Others are bemoaning the fact that USian law is screwing with the rest of the world (IOW, residents of... Portugal, for example, can't get a non-edited changelog because of this), but given the implications of the law (Dmitry can be hassled, whether or not he broke a just/unjust law, as can AC and others) why wouldn't Alan et. al. do something like this?
Unfortunately, while it may in fact piss off many people, we don't have the fundage to change the law. Now, perhaps Alan could replace the offending changelog with some ideas on how to convince grandparents, soccer-moms, etc. that open information on circumvention is a good thing.
I'm not sure that it is a troll. I can definately see the uses for this. Load everything except your data into the ramdisk. Granted, moving the mp3's off the drive and onto the ethernet might be a pain, but I imagine that loading of shared libraries, etc. would go pretty damned quick. Ditto for spawned processes.
Now, in a large environment, 4GB likely wouldn't be enough for the RAM that the programs use as well as a usable RAMdisk, but for the home environment, it could work.
Problem with that is that the benefits would probably be least in that environment. But, it would eliminate my concern about yanking the power cord accidentally, or the CA brown/blackouts you alluded to. OTOOH (on the other other hand) Does replaying the journal (you are using a journaling fs, aren't you?) take any less time than loading up the RAM disk in the first place? Probably not. But, if you are still on ext2, it makes sense. Put / on RAM. Then, even though loading the RAMdisk would be a long time, it wouldn't be much longer than fsck, but you don't have to worry about a hosed disk. (But, again... If you have 4GB of RAM, you are probably savvy enough to have ext3, Reiser, etc.)
I don't know. I give up. It's a valid question, but I don't think it's a troll. But the answer is most definately, 100% "it depends".
It depends. My father drives about 50,000 miles per year. Ever checked what the lease prices are on something like that?
OTOH, I drive about 5,000 miles per year. When my car is paid off, (bought used, BTW) I should have around 50,000 miles on it. So I'll be driving nearly for free for maybe as much as ten years.
Now, if I worked just a little further away, and were putting between 12,000-15,000 miles per year on my auto... I'd probably go ahead and lease.
In a subscription model, there is less motivation to fix bugs. In a license purchase model, bug fixes motivate sales. In a subscription model, 'sales' are preordained. Whether there are bug fixes or not, companies must continue to pay the licensor.
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I could carry just enough outside work to make teaching pay off. (Errmm... Break even.) But I refuse to get a teaching cert. Yes, my wife has one, and yes, teaching special ed. might require that. But I can't see how teaching HS chem, business, or computers needs a teaching cert. That's problem one.
Problem two is administration. In many school districts, the principals are covered by the same unions as teachers. This leads to a problem of agency: who does the union represent, management, or workers? Now, this isn't the big issue. Rather, it is what it leads to: for every bad teacher, there is a principal (and often a school board) supporting the incompetency. And from my experience (via my wife and several friends who teach) it is not mere support, but demands of incompetency. School boards have developed guidelines and standards that must be adhered to to the letter. Teachers are hamstrung. After a while, they cease to care.
So, rather than become a rant on the profession, I will round up. Teaching can be bad. Very bad. OTOH, if you are in it for the short term, it can be very rewarding. You can be a maverick. You can reach kids, and learn 'em sumthin. And when they ride you out of town on a rail, you'll know that you did something good.
They also sell an mp3 player:)
I didn't know there were still Apple clones. Are they relegated to System 7.5, or are they allowed to sell OS X (or something in between?) Are they just massive DTP machines, or has someone tried to hit the low end of the market?
Maybe he'll go to VA Linux....
Oops. Wait a minute...
So the developer benefits. Why should I, as a consumer, care?
All of this commentary about more education and other BS. Go out and teach. There are hundreds of school districts across the country that want math teachers (and probably some who want computer teachers). Take the opportunity to travel some.
The pay is not great, and if you decide to stick it out, you'll have to take a fair amount of courses. But if you are only into it for a couple of years, it will be a good break, and possibly very rewarding.
(I almost went this route after deciding that chemistry sucks. Got my MBA instead. While the toys are nice, I would have preferred teaching. But I wasn't going to take the teaching courses.)
Okay, not programmers, or network types, but we just hired some doctors (three to be exact). NONE of them were too annoying. One even called once (and only once) per week to check on the status. She was originally in a specialty for which we weren't hiring. Actually, her 'bothering' us led us to hire her. She was the most enthusiastic person we've seen in a while.
The other two didn't phone repeatedly, but did send a nice (snail) letter thanking us for the time, the interview, etc. That's a minimum.
Of course, this may not apply for other professions, but I can't see how common courtesy is a bad thing. Nor how showing interest is a bad thing.
It does have an ethernet jack on the back. But it doesn't say what it is for (specifically, it mentions that the modem is for internet connectivity. Or rather, that internet connectivity is via the modem.)
Most book reviews on /. are much more in depth than the header to this article. The book reviews at least indicate why I might want to buy it, rather than simply saying 'it's worth it'.
Entertaining stories about an outsider/geek type kid. His parents were killed, he is now 11 years old, and it is time to fulfill his birthright.
I'm not sure why it is SO popular. I mean, they are entertaining stories, but I see nothing deep or profound in them.
My wife started reading them to find out what the kids were going on about (she's a teacher) and I picked them up, as I found out I was going to be taking her and infant son to the movie.
You are right. That would work, but (in my particular instance) I would need some sort of translation layer to get it out to the clients.
I haven't done any research, as most things that are hyped to this degree should have an immediately recognizable benefit. This doesn't. Why bother? Every time I've looked at any aspect of .NET or Mono, I have failed to see where any of it helps the public in any way, shape, or form.
Having to 'dig' most likely means the benefits are far too intangible to be realized.
Forget about open standards for calendar sharing. I want a product that is to exchange what samba is to nt file sharing.
Not because I actually want that, but because we use a couple of proprietary programs (OSS versions are in development, but are still a year or two off, and we need software now) that link into MS Exchange.
I'm sure we're not the only ones.
Sorry, but just another 'me too' post. I've always wondered what the hell Miguel et al. were doing in attempting to develop for this thing. It's like grasping at smoke. Every day, .NET is something new and different and wonderful.
Maybe Steve Jobs can pull off that kinda BS ('ooh, look, an MP3 player') but Bill? I dunno...
I think it can be traced to Hearst (the newspaper mogul). He not only owned a bunch of newspapers, but also paper mills. He was afraid that marijuana (actually hemp) based paper would cut too far into his profits. So he used the editorial page to speak about the 'evils' of marijuana.
Opiates were associated with 'the Orient', so they were obviously evil.
Dunno about cocaine.
This is just the beginnings. There are other causes, but they are all nearly as ridiculous.
Let me take your comments a bit further.
Currently, the timeline is like this:
MS releases buggy Outlook or IE.
Bugtraq finds bug and notifies MS.
After MS waits too damned long to fix, they publish code for exploit.
Exploit(s) occur, MS is sued (or, more likely, their ISV's are sued for unscheduled downtime. Or not even sued. They just bend over.)
It all gets written off as a business expense.
Now, if viruses are terrorism:
MS releases buggy code.
Bugtraq moves to Kenya (name picked at random) so that they continue to publish (they do this for fear of being branded a 'harborer of terrorists')
Code gets published, exploits happen, etc.
Instead of it just being written off, everyone (except the end-user) ignores it. It is either:
a) act of war. Sorry, the EULA specifically exempts acts of war problems.
b) Not our problem, even if it isn't an act of war. We have an 'acts of terrorism' rider, so go talk to our insurance company, and piss off.
Dollars and cents: the legal definition of terrorism matters. M$ knows this.
Yes. He is subject to US law while working in the US. The other question I see is that AC works for RHAT, right? Then his company is helping to create a device that serves as an anti-circumvention device. So his comments (or lack thereof) in the changelog may all be for naught.
Obviously you mean to compare installing a non-patched/updated MS server to leaving your door open. Now, how is leaving your door open any different than hiring $6 drones to perform and carry out security for jumbo jets?
How does this site (or idea of this site) jibe with the Hague Convention (and other international treaties)?
Others are bemoaning the fact that USian law is screwing with the rest of the world (IOW, residents of... Portugal, for example, can't get a non-edited changelog because of this), but given the implications of the law (Dmitry can be hassled, whether or not he broke a just/unjust law, as can AC and others) why wouldn't Alan et. al. do something like this?
Unfortunately, while it may in fact piss off many people, we don't have the fundage to change the law. Now, perhaps Alan could replace the offending changelog with some ideas on how to convince grandparents, soccer-moms, etc. that open information on circumvention is a good thing.
Excellent episode of DS9.
Now where were we?
License the camera (or lease it). You don't sell it. That's how you make money.
Wake up and pay attention.
I'm not sure that it is a troll. I can definately see the uses for this. Load everything except your data into the ramdisk. Granted, moving the mp3's off the drive and onto the ethernet might be a pain, but I imagine that loading of shared libraries, etc. would go pretty damned quick. Ditto for spawned processes.
Now, in a large environment, 4GB likely wouldn't be enough for the RAM that the programs use as well as a usable RAMdisk, but for the home environment, it could work.
Problem with that is that the benefits would probably be least in that environment. But, it would eliminate my concern about yanking the power cord accidentally, or the CA brown/blackouts you alluded to. OTOOH (on the other other hand) Does replaying the journal (you are using a journaling fs, aren't you?) take any less time than loading up the RAM disk in the first place? Probably not. But, if you are still on ext2, it makes sense. Put / on RAM. Then, even though loading the RAMdisk would be a long time, it wouldn't be much longer than fsck, but you don't have to worry about a hosed disk. (But, again... If you have 4GB of RAM, you are probably savvy enough to have ext3, Reiser, etc.)
I don't know. I give up. It's a valid question, but I don't think it's a troll. But the answer is most definately, 100% "it depends".
It depends. My father drives about 50,000 miles per year. Ever checked what the lease prices are on something like that?
OTOH, I drive about 5,000 miles per year. When my car is paid off, (bought used, BTW) I should have around 50,000 miles on it. So I'll be driving nearly for free for maybe as much as ten years.
Now, if I worked just a little further away, and were putting between 12,000-15,000 miles per year on my auto... I'd probably go ahead and lease.
There is such a thing as a free car. I've got one at my parents house. Along with two free motorcycles.
Now if I can just get a million geeks to donate their time to making them work.
The comments typically go "the software is an insignificant cost of a project, especially switching. The retraining costs are higher."
If this is true (and it depends on the situation), then the cost 'savings' of a subscription model don't factor in.
In a subscription model, there is less motivation to fix bugs. In a license purchase model, bug fixes motivate sales. In a subscription model, 'sales' are preordained. Whether there are bug fixes or not, companies must continue to pay the licensor.