Maybe Japanese lawmakers go the full length and make comming to work on time a felony too.
After all, holding a steady job is a fantastic way to finance terrorism. And a cover. And with the right job, even access to large buildings,city centers, subways during rush hour.
Errm.. the type that DanielRavenNest was taking about (a semi-submersible) you CAN drive up to a dock. Its deck may be a bit higher than the "Just Read the Instructions", but thats what dock side cranes are for.
I would add
Martin - The Clean Coder but switch
DeMarco to "The Deadline"
But while we'are at it, "The Phoenix Project" by Kim,Behr,Spafford make at least as good a read as DeMarco. Not strict science, but good practice still.
I think that the wide range adoption of server SSDs also shows how far server installations have progressed toward eliminating all single points of failure.
In the passt HA and 'five nines' was something only done by a few niches, like telephony provider switches or banking big iron. Today it is common in many cloud installations and most sizeable server setups. A single component failing will not stop your service.
If your business can support the extra cost for the SSDs, a failing drive will not stop you and the performance of the service will see great improvements anyway. The power savings may even make the SSD not so costly after all.
First of, I hold the idea, that the list was sold, very likely. They will never admit to that. You might want to check their privacy statement and take actions according to that (see post by nemesisrocks).
But for a self confessed geek with his/her own email domain, the OP shows shows an alarming lack of knowing the proper channels.
This is a problem with email, so maybe the OP should have send a mail to 'abuse@company.com' or even 'postmaster@company.com'. Not place something on the facebook page, that only gets read by some marketing drone.
Don't you guys ever read the RFCs that are relevant for you?
Communication is challenging because Chinese and English are completely different. Why do we expect him to do a better job learning Chinese than the Chinese developers did of learning English, even though they had a lot more incentive to do so?
The point you are missing, is the respect you get for respecting the other guys culture. Learning a language, especially one as far apart from English as Mandarin, is getting to know a foreign culture. Also you get to understand the structure of your own language much better.
A high percentage of americans, in my experience, suffer from a very narrow minded view on culture. Not from caracter or personality, but from lack of exposure.
So he should either go for
- Mandarin for demograhpic reasons. I am finding more an more C.S. research papers, where only the abstract is in English (my 2nd Lang.) and the rest is in Mandarin. - Korean if you are gamer;-) - Japanese if you are into all that budo stuff.
I would stay away from Hindi or Urdu. It is my understanding, that speaking english in India is considered cultured, but my original point about culture would probably still hold. Mandarin, btw, used to be the language of cultured people all through indo-china as well (dont know about now), as was French in Germany and German in Russia at one time in the past.
Thank you for listing more reasons to use not to use either fosil nor nuclear fuels.
I live within a tidal zone that is feeling the climate change right now. We have had higher and higher storm tides for the last 100 years. Blasting GHGs into the athmosphere does not make it better.
Pointing at Centralia as an argument in favor of using nuclear power is Insanity.
Well, Gas and Coal (which are not the intended replacements) at least don't remain a deadly menace for ten times longer than man has walked this planet until now. And on the matter of greenhouse gas emissions: Germany did sign the Kyoto Accord and at least is in roughly the right region to fullfill what it promised. Other major industrial nations did neither sign, nor even have a plan on what to do.
He, who is without sin shall throw the first stone.
True, a smart card (compared to a normal PC) sucks less, but it still sucks.
Hmm... another comment that shows how little anybody here knows anything about security hard- and software.
There are so many different types of smartcards. And those with validated key protection schemes (CC, FIPS, etc.) you will not get at at all. But if you are only willing to pay for a memory card I would consider 5 Minutes rather long.
A number of comments that came before mine mention company CEOs that are supposed to be swayed by this document. No such thing!
This paper is a goodsend (yes I knew about the earlier edition. Got one in hardcopy on my desk) for a lowly public sector employee like me.
Why? because evertime I want to install any OSS somebody in the commity that decides on these things will whip out a ProprietoryGlossyPamphlet(tm) and ask me 'what about...' (license, support, copyright, patents, etc.) and will not believe any word I say. So I whip out my "Leitfaden für die Migration von Basissoftwarekomponenten auf Server- und Arbeitsplatzsystemen" and tell them what a federal agency had to say on that matter and they usually shut up.
The answers on legal subjects are aimed at the public service sector. While probably true for a private company, it is not the target audience.
If the US was not a souvereign nation state and self-proclaimed Sheriff of the World(tm), I would think that this whole travesty was a satire piece.
The main character of the game is a homicidal sociopathic criminal, who not only steals for a living, but takes out hit jobs, does drug trafficking and is an element of organized crime among other things. While he does so, the game is sold over the counter to customers who are not legally an adult (in a country that disallows legal adults to dring alcohol for the first three years).
But once the character does something that would be considered natural in the rest of the world and is not a crime even in the US (yet), the federal Congress schedules time to ponder the question whether the makers of the game have made it sufficiently clear to an oversight organisation if the games should only be seen by those mature enough to understand the content.
What a great country that must be! Where the central goverment has no more pressing matters than a video game. And we can all be glad that Franz Kafka can write new material although he has been dead for decades. This is quite his style.
WARNING: (applies only to US citizens and resident aliens): The above text contains satirical elements that may require personal reflection and the use of intellect.
I have written, among other things, two thesis papers, a couple of tech docs, a roleplaying game rule book and a security policy. And I allways use LaTeX.
And while I prefer (x)emacs with auctex for writing the document, that is not for the faint of heart. Use a front end, Kile looks like a good one for Linux (And just install the kde libs if you prefer a gnome frontend) Don't us Lyx, it is not real LaTeX. You may want to try TeXmacs, sounds good, I have not tried it.
For handling bibliographies, bibtex is unbeatable, but UI can be improved. Bibview is my method of choice, even though it does not have all the latest snazy look and feel features, as it is a Xaw Programm and you will probably have to have your packet manager install another lib.
Main adavantage of Bibtex is that you can get ready made entries while searching for sources. If you do computer science for instance there is The Collection of
Computer Science Bibliographies with allmost 2 million entries, many of which are linked to CiteSeer.
All of these programs come ready made on my prefered distribution (SuSE), and I gues they will be avaliable on yours as well.
Don't use Word or OpenOffice for anything larger than ~10 Pages. It will not make you happy, and when somebody tells you to change the format you will have to do it by hand. On each page. Repeativly.
And you should also read 'The Deadline' by Tom deMarco, so you will know how the customers and or senior management will try to screw you over.
And if you think that the management are your friends or nice guys, they still will try to take advantage of you one day, since they are under outside pressure.
The fine point here being, that eBay stopped selling such items only after german and french courts stopped them.
I come from a country where publishing hate mongering is illegal. And from time to time we take a lot of american flak for it.
ThePlanet has bowed to pressure. Regardless of the question whether it came from the administration or was self-induced, actions like these rob the US (meaning administration as well as the electorate) of the moral high ground to position itself as teh protector of freedom.
Dear Americans, when a vocal and visible group of americans in media or politics speak against the blocking of sales on Nazi material or the fact that Scientology is not recognized as a church in Germany, please check whether you are still the pinnacle of freedom that would grant you such right to point fingers.
Note: I am in favor of limiting what can be said in public. But the lithmus test should be whether hate and violence are propagated, not whether you disagree with the point of view.
Your recomendation ist not heresy, but it doesn't work right (the Word Viewer never really did)
The document will never look like it did on your own Desktop (regardless of whether OpenOffice or MS-Office was used), since Fonts, Paper-Formats and a thousand others things are never set quite right.
So, IMHO and IME (in my experience) if you can do without the edit, allways go the PDF way. And if was never easier than with the PDF-Export right on the toolbar of OpenOffice.
I would second the Mythical Man Month in the strongest form.
If you want to help that computer science student to survive the real world, at least let him read about the things nobody accepts but all know in ther heart before being hit with it.
On the same vein: give him a coupon for 'The Dealine' by Tom deMarco, only to be cashed in after he has failed his first project through management interference. He won't believe the things PHBs do beforehand anyway.
I would assume that your school trains him in all the technical knowledge he can get. Give him something for all the other skills he's going to need.
Could somebody please explain to me what Ma & Pa Kettle do with Access?
Now I have seen a lot of stuff done in Excel that I would rather do in an RDBMS, but I never quite figured out what people use Access for.
Apart from making pretty little forms with and then trying hard to click the nessecary forms together. But I must admit, I have shuned MS Office since the mit 90's, so maybe I missed some new development there.
But If Ma & Pa Kettle think they need Access, those that write FOSS applications for the desktop should look at that. And maybe a better forms generator for OO that will talk to ODBC or JDBC will absolutely sufficient to have end users believe that there is a Database in OO (And not done in a technical brain dead way that Access does it)
Now I guess those of us who write code for free project have to be double carefull what code we read and who tracks us doing so.
I can allready forsee the seize-and-desist letters to free projects, claiming that one or more developers are have been tainted by knowledge of 'proprietory information' from microsoft, and the enclosed clicktrail on www.w2k-source.com provides the nessecary evidence. And you thought you were just checking out driver support info on a community site.
Have you ever heard of an effect called interference? I allows you to detect changes in waves of wave length shorter than you can sample. And since most people have two ears, comparing the two inputs should be fairly simple for the brain.
And also there is fact that the brain does not 'tic' not at all. At least on in the way a centralised von-Neumann architecture does. Don't quote findings on neural response, since they disallow for the fact that the nerve input may be parralised (ever count the nerve strands that come in from the inner ear? Talk to somebody who configures Cochlea-implants for a livin)
Actually tests with a head dummy support the theory that nose is important to differentiating between sound from the front and the back, because the distortion is different. (sorry my reference is pre-internet)
I believe that the wish for case insensitivity is a cultural thing, mainly craved for by those for whom english is the native language.
In more than a few other (human) languages (yes there are others beside english) case conveyes difference in meaning, generally reducing redundancy and often ambiguity when compared to english. Now, those are aspects that should appeal to hackers.
Also it probably is a windows centric idea to expect things to be case insensitive (or as the original poster pointed out have older roots in primitivity)
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Maybe Japanese lawmakers go the full length and make comming to work on time a felony too.
After all, holding a steady job is a fantastic way to finance terrorism. And a cover. And with the right job, even access to large buildings,city centers, subways during rush hour.
Yes, this is sarcasm.
I want to congratulate E.M. on the near thing. I see a lot of discussion on whether ./ is full of fanboys or whether the legs are shite.
You are all missing the main point of success: do any of you remember seeing such a rate of launches? Ever?
Who cares if a few of them tip over. Just get better on the next try.
Errm.. the type that DanielRavenNest was taking about (a semi-submersible) you CAN drive up to a dock. Its deck may be a bit higher than the "Just Read the Instructions", but thats what dock side cranes are for.
I would add
Martin - The Clean Coder
but switch
DeMarco to "The Deadline"
But while we'are at it, "The Phoenix Project" by Kim,Behr,Spafford make at least as good a read as DeMarco. Not strict science, but good practice still.
I think that the wide range adoption of server SSDs also shows how far server installations have progressed toward eliminating all single points of failure.
In the passt HA and 'five nines' was something only done by a few niches, like telephony provider switches or banking big iron. Today it is common in many cloud installations and most sizeable server setups. A single component failing will not stop your service.
If your business can support the extra cost for the SSDs, a failing drive will not stop you and the performance of the service will see great improvements anyway. The power savings may even make the SSD not so costly after all.
First of, I hold the idea, that the list was sold, very likely. They will never admit to that. You might want to check their privacy statement and take actions according to that (see post by nemesisrocks).
But for a self confessed geek with his/her own email domain, the OP shows shows an alarming lack of knowing the proper channels.
This is a problem with email, so maybe the OP should have send a mail to 'abuse@company.com' or even 'postmaster@company.com'. Not place something on the facebook page, that only gets read by some marketing drone.
Don't you guys ever read the RFCs that are relevant for you?
Communication is challenging because Chinese and English are completely different. Why do we expect him to do a better job learning Chinese than the Chinese developers did of learning English, even though they had a lot more incentive to do so?
The point you are missing, is the respect you get for respecting the other guys culture. Learning a language, especially one as far apart from English as Mandarin, is getting to know a foreign culture. Also you get to understand the structure of your own language much better.
A high percentage of americans, in my experience, suffer from a very narrow minded view on culture. Not from caracter or personality, but from lack of exposure.
So he should either go for
- Mandarin for demograhpic reasons. I am finding more an more C.S. research papers, where only the abstract is in English (my 2nd Lang.) and the rest is in Mandarin. ;-)
- Korean if you are gamer
- Japanese if you are into all that budo stuff.
I would stay away from Hindi or Urdu. It is my understanding, that speaking english in India is considered cultured, but my original point about culture would probably still hold. Mandarin, btw, used to be the language of cultured people all through indo-china as well (dont know about now), as was French in Germany and German in Russia at one time in the past.
Thank you for listing more reasons to use not to use either fosil nor nuclear fuels.
I live within a tidal zone that is feeling the climate change right now. We have had higher and higher storm tides for the last 100 years. Blasting GHGs into the athmosphere does not make it better.
Pointing at Centralia as an argument in favor of using nuclear power is Insanity.
Well, Gas and Coal (which are not the intended replacements) at least don't remain a deadly menace for ten times longer than man has walked this planet until now. And on the matter of greenhouse gas emissions: Germany did sign the Kyoto Accord and at least is in roughly the right region to fullfill what it promised. Other major industrial nations did neither sign, nor even have a plan on what to do.
He, who is without sin shall throw the first stone.
Hmm... another comment that shows how little anybody here knows anything about security hard- and software.
There are so many different types of smartcards. And those with validated key protection schemes (CC, FIPS, etc.) you will not get at at all. But if you are only willing to pay for a memory card I would consider 5 Minutes rather long.
mfg lutz
A number of comments that came before mine mention company CEOs that are supposed to be swayed by this document. No such thing!
This paper is a goodsend (yes I knew about the earlier edition. Got one in hardcopy on my desk) for a lowly public sector employee like me.
Why? because evertime I want to install any OSS somebody in the commity that decides on these things will whip out a ProprietoryGlossyPamphlet(tm) and ask me 'what about...' (license, support, copyright, patents, etc.) and will not believe any word I say. So I whip out my "Leitfaden für die Migration von Basissoftwarekomponenten auf Server- und Arbeitsplatzsystemen" and tell them what a federal agency had to say on that matter and they usually shut up.
The answers on legal subjects are aimed at the public service sector. While probably true for a private company, it is not the target audience.
If the US was not a souvereign nation state and self-proclaimed Sheriff of the World(tm), I would think that this whole travesty was a satire piece.
The main character of the game is a homicidal sociopathic criminal, who not only steals for a living, but takes out hit jobs, does drug trafficking and is an element of organized crime among other things. While he does so, the game is sold over the counter to customers who are not legally an adult (in a country that disallows legal adults to dring alcohol for the first three years).
But once the character does something that would be considered natural in the rest of the world and is not a crime even in the US (yet), the federal Congress schedules time to ponder the question whether the makers of the game have made it sufficiently clear to an oversight organisation if the games should only be seen by those mature enough to understand the content.
What a great country that must be! Where the central goverment has no more pressing matters than a video game. And we can all be glad that Franz Kafka can write new material although he has been dead for decades. This is quite his style.
WARNING: (applies only to US citizens and resident aliens): The above text contains satirical elements that may require personal reflection and the use of intellect.
And while I prefer (x)emacs with auctex for writing the document, that is not for the faint of heart. Use a front end, Kile looks like a good one for Linux (And just install the kde libs if you prefer a gnome frontend) Don't us Lyx, it is not real LaTeX. You may want to try TeXmacs, sounds good, I have not tried it.
For handling bibliographies, bibtex is unbeatable, but UI can be improved. Bibview is my method of choice, even though it does not have all the latest snazy look and feel features, as it is a Xaw Programm and you will probably have to have your packet manager install another lib.
Main adavantage of Bibtex is that you can get ready made entries while searching for sources. If you do computer science for instance there is The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies with allmost 2 million entries, many of which are linked to CiteSeer.
All of these programs come ready made on my prefered distribution (SuSE), and I gues they will be avaliable on yours as well.
Don't use Word or OpenOffice for anything larger than ~10 Pages. It will not make you happy, and when somebody tells you to change the format you will have to do it by hand. On each page. Repeativly.
It should read: /bin/true; done
while true; do
otherwise the shell built-in is used and not fork is executed.
And if you think that the management are your friends or nice guys, they still will try to take advantage of you one day, since they are under outside pressure.
But knowing it will help you prepare.
The fine point here being, that eBay stopped selling such items only after german and french courts stopped them.
I come from a country where publishing hate mongering is illegal. And from time to time we take a lot of american flak for it.
ThePlanet has bowed to pressure. Regardless of the question whether it came from the administration or was self-induced, actions like these rob the US (meaning administration as well as the electorate) of the moral high ground to position itself as teh protector of freedom.
Dear Americans,
when a vocal and visible group of americans in media or politics speak against the blocking of sales on Nazi material or the fact that Scientology is not recognized as a church in Germany, please check whether you are still the pinnacle of freedom that would grant you such right to point fingers.
Note: I am in favor of limiting what can be said in public. But the lithmus test should be whether hate and violence are propagated, not whether you disagree with the point of view.
Your recomendation ist not heresy, but it doesn't work right (the Word Viewer never really did)
The document will never look like it did on your own Desktop (regardless of whether OpenOffice or MS-Office was used), since Fonts, Paper-Formats and a thousand others things are never set quite right.
So, IMHO and IME (in my experience) if you can do without the edit, allways go the PDF way. And if was never easier than with the PDF-Export right on the toolbar of OpenOffice.
If you want to help that computer science student to survive the real world, at least let him read about the things nobody accepts but all know in ther heart before being hit with it.
On the same vein: give him a coupon for 'The Dealine' by Tom deMarco, only to be cashed in after he has failed his first project through management interference. He won't believe the things PHBs do beforehand anyway.
I would assume that your school trains him in all the technical knowledge he can get. Give him something for all the other skills he's going to need.
Could somebody please explain to me what Ma & Pa Kettle do with Access?
Now I have seen a lot of stuff done in Excel that I would rather do in an RDBMS, but I never quite figured out what people use Access for.
Apart from making pretty little forms with and then trying hard to click the nessecary forms together. But I must admit, I have shuned MS Office since the mit 90's, so maybe I missed some new development there.
But If Ma & Pa Kettle think they need Access, those that write FOSS applications for the desktop should look at that. And maybe a better forms generator for OO that will talk to ODBC or JDBC will absolutely sufficient to have end users believe that there is a Database in OO (And not done in a technical brain dead way that Access does it)
Now I guess those of us who write code for free project have to be double carefull what code we read and who tracks us doing so.
I can allready forsee the seize-and-desist letters to free projects, claiming that one or more developers are have been tainted by knowledge of 'proprietory information' from microsoft, and the enclosed clicktrail on www.w2k-source.com provides the nessecary evidence. And you thought you were just checking out driver support info on a community site.
mfg lutz
Have you ever heard of an effect called interference? I allows you to detect changes in waves of wave length shorter than you can sample. And since most people have two ears, comparing the two inputs should be fairly simple for the brain.
And also there is fact that the brain does not 'tic' not at all. At least on in the way a centralised von-Neumann architecture does. Don't quote findings on neural response, since they disallow for the fact that the nerve input may be parralised (ever count the nerve strands that come in from the inner ear? Talk to somebody who configures Cochlea-implants for a livin)
Actually tests with a head dummy support the theory that nose is important to differentiating between sound from the front and the back, because the distortion is different. (sorry my reference is pre-internet)
But then IANAAE (I am not a audio engineer)
mfg lutz
I could not be bothered to do the proper math. So I made a save estimate. I am an engineer, not a scientist ;-)
Excuse me, could you please point out the point where I deride windows users?
I was stating an observation on capitalisation preferences. And continuing with a somewhat negative statement on the FORTRAN era.
Why is it with some people, that they expect negative vibes everywhere? Is it just slashdot, or is it me? Or prejudice on you part?
I believe that the wish for case insensitivity is a cultural thing, mainly craved for by those for whom english is the native language.
In more than a few other (human) languages (yes there are others beside english) case conveyes difference in meaning, generally reducing redundancy and often ambiguity when compared to english. Now, those are aspects that should appeal to hackers.
Also it probably is a windows centric idea to expect things to be case insensitive (or as the original poster pointed out have older roots in primitivity)
Why would you reduce your name space by 50%?
mfg lutz
Unfortunately does the series 60 not provide GPS capability w/o a hardware add-on.