Its because boomers are still ramming their music down the throats of everyone who came after them. There is probably not a jukebox in this country without the zep, beatles, or stones in it. Its all I hear in commercials. In fact, that's normal boomer behavior, to ram their crap down our throats and tell us how we will never have it as good as they did....
Ok, I may have misread the parent, since I took it to mean he reboots after any change that had a remote chance of causing problems with reboots. Of course you test reboots...and failover. But those are scheduled tests of reboot and failover, not added onto other changes. I maybe read as he reboots trivially, which is avoidable by having pre-prod. I did have a disclaimer on there, I might be crazy....*cackle*
He probably has a pre-production environment. That's what you do when you want to know how your changes will affect production. That way you don't fsck with production. I think he stated that above. Some of us don't fsck around. If you wanted to be really paranoid, you would reboot first to make sure nobody else changed anything that would fail a reboot, then make your changes, test to be sure a reboot is really necessary, then reboot again anyway to satisfy your paranoia. In pre-prod. But that's if you're paranoid. And work with a team. And have pre-prod. Maybe I'm crazy.
I thought this was the case as well. I have never run out of questions when interviewing, its like an oral final that can go off on tangents but is still an interview. If the questions end early, then they have already rejected you in their mind and are just unable to figure out how to get you out of the building.
I won't even looked at HL2 because of this. I read their "policy" on that forum and it basically sounds like if you screw up, they cancel your account for a year or five. Why anyone would put up with that I don't know, paying 50$ for a game that, if their servers crash, or someone bought copied and returned to the store, or they make a mistake AT ALL, cancels your ability to play it sounds like idiocy to me. It seems like it should be a pleasant diversion not some fscked up nightmare of registration servers and copied CD keys. Maybe I don't understand the new math, but aren't we customers? Why would anyone put up with this crap?
I agree. And, even if there are drivers avail for those cards, you need to burn them to CD beforehand or have another computer around, because you have to get the drivers on the box without a network! Rediculous; the only people who have problems with this in linux are folks who immediately go out and dl the tar.gz. One of the nice things about linux is that it just freaking works with no bs.
I don't find the windows install and update process to be all that simple, you just get used to it. Normal Linux distros now are a piece of cake to install and update; they are automated and unattended. Moreover, if you script the install, its perfect right out of the box. Doing that with windows without third party software and a lot of fussing around isn't possible. Its far easier to write a little script to do something on 3000 boxes and return the results in a coherent fashion on Unix than windows. Management of Unix boxes is trivial compared to Windows. Just two tools in Unix will do 90% of your work for you: shell scripting/perl and expect. There is nothing like that for windows. Nothing. I can do essentially whatever I want on a list of servers by feeding a script a list of IPs (ie. for IP in `cat IP_LIST`; do..... done, where..... is ANYTHING). Impossible in windows without third party software, and probably impossible period. Windows TCO nonsense is provably nonsense with just the above.
Our manufacturing base isn't going to compete. It went upmarket. We don't mass produce generic electric fans anymore, but we do produce custom upmarket electric fans. If another country can do something cheaper, and does so, then that's a market we have to get out of. Its good for the other country because they are now productive and good for us because we quit wasting our resources doing something inefficently. At least, that's how its supposed to work. Our better infrastructure and environment should better prepare us for competition with these folks, and it has. We can't perpetually salvage these businesses, we just have to find things that other countries will buy that cannot be locally produced.
I don't think it was #2 that killed off the USSR, I think its #1 and #3. They couldn't (wouldn't, since they didn't float their currency, hi China!) join the western markets and the Party got corrupt (Hi China!). Corruption is insideous and massively taxing. Look at Mexico; the baja peninsula is 1000 miles of california coastline (currently priced north of the border at 600k$/postage stamp) that is essentially unoccupied because Mexico a) has no water (solvable because they have lots of ocean) and b) the government is corrupt. Corruption is a huge invisible tax on economies. It affects every legitimate transaction negatively. It would be like paying 1.5% of the value everytime anything changed hands. Fine for corn; but for cars, adds 30%. Taxes on innovation and economic incubators is even higher, since fledgling businesses have no money for racketeering costs and so usually get killed by entrenched competitive interests instead of paying off their founders. I don't worry about China because of this. Corruption doesn't pay off, just like Cheating at the GRE doesn't pay off (Hi China!). Here's a link to that, since there might be grad student hopefuls who will understand now why they didn't get a slot.... http://www.ethics.org/resources/article_ detail.cfm ?ID=826
Japan doesn't have a free market like the US does. Compare the cost of: food (higher, although this could partially be quality as they have better produce than we do) gasoline (taxed above market rates, just like europe, even if it is better gas) appliances (import duties on foreign manufactured) electronics (even Japanese; Akihabara is more expensive for Japanese electronics than I can buy them in the US. Even Shimokitazawa seemed high....) cars (find a Ford or GM car at anything like the price differential of a Honda or Toyota here)
You miss the point; strategic control over markets exerted by who? Its easy to start playing catch up. Then, you have to figure out where to go. Following is easier than leading. Reacting is easier than acting. These planned economies leave out the free part of the market that leads and acts. Look at large companies in the US. They buy innovators. They rarely innovate themselves, they let others take that chance. Unfortunately, when you are trying to plan everything from the top, you will miss the economic inflection points that matter, and relegate yourself to perpetual catch up. Especially when most of the proceeds that would go to you in the US (maybe Europe, but I think they still have confiscatory tax rates?(Like ours aren't, I know)) instead go to the One Party Leadership. Talk about removing the incentive to compete, when a fat connected slob is buying a BMW with your money.
Not to mention, since Chinese companies that you are forced to "invest" with are owned by the PLA and don't value IP, anything you happen to come up with is quickly copied by another PLA subsidiary and sold below your research cost. Sometimes using your own labs and factories to manufacture it. Enough of that, and nobody invests money in China any more.
Right now, they are in the fat part of the curve, they will all jump on the bandwagon for a while and it will bite them in the ass in the end. And they will learn yet again. Its what people are good at, reinventing history. Old news.
No no, physical property theft should have physical punishments. Intellectual Property theft should have intellectual punishments. I believe they already have that covered; in most cases it is descrambling brain-dead obfucation and "encryption". If you are talking music, well, once you steal it you have to listen to it; let me tell you, Britney showing up on random in the mp3 player is punishment enough....
Well, see, in the US robberies occur almost without exception when the owners are not home. This is because (and the anti gun folks will immediately claim its not true) a large minority of folks own guns. So in the US, the dog sign is enough to deter crime. In countries where gun ownership is severely restricted, a higher proportion of robberies are home invasion style (ie. the owners are home). So the beware of dog sign is the second best thing you can do to deter crime, along with having liberal gun ownership laws (Note: This doesn't mean that you personally have to own a gun. Simply the fact that you could easily own one is enough to deter criminals). I would include links, but google if you are interested since it makes for interesting reading separating fiction from fact.
They may have an overwhelming monopoly position with browsers, but they don't have the same control over servers. So they can't push standards to the server market. This goes back to "Why everyone owes the Apache Developers a bottle of beer".
It's crazy, but I bought half life/counter strike, tried to play, but it would never download the correct software versions to play correctly online. I really didn't feel like figuring it out, so I quit playing completely. I must be another "pirate" that shows up in their "statistics" as a lost future sale.
No, oil is not going to go up exponentially, its a commodity. Supply vs. Demand. Price goes up, people demand less. China can't afford 50$-60$ oil, western europe/US can. So their demand drops off, as does ours among industries that can reduce consumption. We see these same swings in the DRAM market, nobody predicts exponential growth. At 65$, Canada becomes a major producer, and the US starts to put more wells in the ground. Who cares? Worry about something else.
Yeah, but for windows you can turn off swap and run in RAM and get blazing (for windows) performance. You just don't have any overhead for leaky apps. I used to do that until my memory load exceeded the available RAM (which was maxed out for the system). Only time it was slow was for initial system load and app load, other than that it was pretty darn quick. Good SCSI does make a huge difference tho even on desktop systems, I have another box with a decent SCSI card in it and it is noticably faster on the subjective scale than the IDE boxes. Not sure about the cost trade off for it tho; RAM is cheap once and with SCSI you keep paying.
Virus writer releases virus that causes your Windows 2k/XP/LongHorn desktop to send spam. (done) Spam gets sent to address that auto claims bond. Your escrow account gets raided. (0.50$) You can't send email anymore. Virus writer gets paid and retires. (100M x 0.50$)
If this goes into effect, everyone begins writing viruses for a living, since one good one pays for them to retire, essentially.
That took all of 30 seconds to figure out from reading the article. I am sure more advanced ideas would come out, none of which would be good for Joe Sixpack users.
Can you break that expense down for me? My buddy is getting his license now, and even with subsidized flight time he's pushing 5k.... For un-subsidized flight time it would cost me like 10k.
Yeah yeah, metric system rah rah. Hey I got one for you:
What is standard pressure in the metric system?
Its 14.7 lbs/in2 in english units. But, since the metric units are N/m2, what's that again? 10E-5? The meter is too big for a standard unit, that's why nobody* likes the metric system.
andy
* nobody being defined here as probably a dozen people with my same hang up....
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Its because boomers are still ramming their music down the throats of everyone who came after them. There is probably not a jukebox in this country without the zep, beatles, or stones in it. Its all I hear in commercials. In fact, that's normal boomer behavior, to ram their crap down our throats and tell us how we will never have it as good as they did....
I can't wait until they stop destroying my world.
andy
Which ssh? Some of them allow changing expired passwords....
andy
Ok, I may have misread the parent, since I took it to mean he reboots after any change that had a remote chance of causing problems with reboots. Of course you test reboots...and failover. But those are scheduled tests of reboot and failover, not added onto other changes. I maybe read as he reboots trivially, which is avoidable by having pre-prod. I did have a disclaimer on there, I might be crazy....*cackle*
andy
He probably has a pre-production environment. That's what you do when you want to know how your changes will affect production. That way you don't fsck with production. I think he stated that above. Some of us don't fsck around. If you wanted to be really paranoid, you would reboot first to make sure nobody else changed anything that would fail a reboot, then make your changes, test to be sure a reboot is really necessary, then reboot again anyway to satisfy your paranoia. In pre-prod. But that's if you're paranoid. And work with a team. And have pre-prod. Maybe I'm crazy.
andy
I thought this was the case as well. I have never run out of questions when interviewing, its like an oral final that can go off on tangents but is still an interview. If the questions end early, then they have already rejected you in their mind and are just unable to figure out how to get you out of the building.
andy
And they would all have to be on the same filesystem....
andy
I won't even looked at HL2 because of this. I read their "policy" on that forum and it basically sounds like if you screw up, they cancel your account for a year or five. Why anyone would put up with that I don't know, paying 50$ for a game that, if their servers crash, or someone bought copied and returned to the store, or they make a mistake AT ALL, cancels your ability to play it sounds like idiocy to me. It seems like it should be a pleasant diversion not some fscked up nightmare of registration servers and copied CD keys. Maybe I don't understand the new math, but aren't we customers? Why would anyone put up with this crap?
andy
I agree. And, even if there are drivers avail for those cards, you need to burn them to CD beforehand or have another computer around, because you have to get the drivers on the box without a network! Rediculous; the only people who have problems with this in linux are folks who immediately go out and dl the tar.gz. One of the nice things about linux is that it just freaking works with no bs.
andy
Some of us could have bought yahoo in 95or 96 and sold in 2000...those were the days....
Wow, you could have supported your statement with a Bruce Schneier quote and didn't....
http://www.sysprog.net/quotsec.html
andy
I don't find the windows install and update process to be all that simple, you just get used to it. Normal Linux distros now are a piece of cake to install and update; they are automated and unattended. Moreover, if you script the install, its perfect right out of the box. Doing that with windows without third party software and a lot of fussing around isn't possible. Its far easier to write a little script to do something on 3000 boxes and return the results in a coherent fashion on Unix than windows. Management of Unix boxes is trivial compared to Windows. Just two tools in Unix will do 90% of your work for you: shell scripting/perl and expect. There is nothing like that for windows. Nothing. I can do essentially whatever I want on a list of servers by feeding a script a list of IPs (ie. for IP in `cat IP_LIST`; do ..... done, where ..... is ANYTHING). Impossible in windows without third party software, and probably impossible period. Windows TCO nonsense is provably nonsense with just the above.
andy
Our manufacturing base isn't going to compete. It went upmarket. We don't mass produce generic electric fans anymore, but we do produce custom upmarket electric fans. If another country can do something cheaper, and does so, then that's a market we have to get out of. Its good for the other country because they are now productive and good for us because we quit wasting our resources doing something inefficently. At least, that's how its supposed to work. Our better infrastructure and environment should better prepare us for competition with these folks, and it has. We can't perpetually salvage these businesses, we just have to find things that other countries will buy that cannot be locally produced.
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I don't think it was #2 that killed off the USSR, I think its #1 and #3. They couldn't (wouldn't, since they didn't float their currency, hi China!) join the western markets and the Party got corrupt (Hi China!). Corruption is insideous and massively taxing. Look at Mexico; the baja peninsula is 1000 miles of california coastline (currently priced north of the border at 600k$/postage stamp) that is essentially unoccupied because Mexico a) has no water (solvable because they have lots of ocean) and b) the government is corrupt. Corruption is a huge invisible tax on economies. It affects every legitimate transaction negatively. It would be like paying 1.5% of the value everytime anything changed hands. Fine for corn; but for cars, adds 30%. Taxes on innovation and economic incubators is even higher, since fledgling businesses have no money for racketeering costs and so usually get killed by entrenched competitive interests instead of paying off their founders. I don't worry about China because of this. Corruption doesn't pay off, just like Cheating at the GRE doesn't pay off (Hi China!). Here's a link to that, since there might be grad student hopefuls who will understand now why they didn't get a slot....
http://www.ethics.org/resources/article
andy
Japan doesn't have a free market like the US does. Compare the cost of:
food (higher, although this could partially be quality as they have better produce than we do)
gasoline (taxed above market rates, just like europe, even if it is better gas)
appliances (import duties on foreign manufactured)
electronics (even Japanese; Akihabara is more expensive for Japanese electronics than I can buy them in the US. Even Shimokitazawa seemed high....)
cars (find a Ford or GM car at anything like the price differential of a Honda or Toyota here)
andy
You miss the point; strategic control over markets exerted by who? Its easy to start playing catch up. Then, you have to figure out where to go. Following is easier than leading. Reacting is easier than acting. These planned economies leave out the free part of the market that leads and acts. Look at large companies in the US. They buy innovators. They rarely innovate themselves, they let others take that chance. Unfortunately, when you are trying to plan everything from the top, you will miss the economic inflection points that matter, and relegate yourself to perpetual catch up. Especially when most of the proceeds that would go to you in the US (maybe Europe, but I think they still have confiscatory tax rates?(Like ours aren't, I know)) instead go to the One Party Leadership. Talk about removing the incentive to compete, when a fat connected slob is buying a BMW with your money.
Not to mention, since Chinese companies that you are forced to "invest" with are owned by the PLA and don't value IP, anything you happen to come up with is quickly copied by another PLA subsidiary and sold below your research cost. Sometimes using your own labs and factories to manufacture it. Enough of that, and nobody invests money in China any more.
Right now, they are in the fat part of the curve, they will all jump on the bandwagon for a while and it will bite them in the ass in the end. And they will learn yet again. Its what people are good at, reinventing history. Old news.
andy
No no, physical property theft should have physical punishments. Intellectual Property theft should have intellectual punishments. I believe they already have that covered; in most cases it is descrambling brain-dead obfucation and "encryption". If you are talking music, well, once you steal it you have to listen to it; let me tell you, Britney showing up on random in the mp3 player is punishment enough....
andy
Well, see, in the US robberies occur almost without exception when the owners are not home. This is because (and the anti gun folks will immediately claim its not true) a large minority of folks own guns. So in the US, the dog sign is enough to deter crime. In countries where gun ownership is severely restricted, a higher proportion of robberies are home invasion style (ie. the owners are home). So the beware of dog sign is the second best thing you can do to deter crime, along with having liberal gun ownership laws (Note: This doesn't mean that you personally have to own a gun. Simply the fact that you could easily own one is enough to deter criminals). I would include links, but google if you are interested since it makes for interesting reading separating fiction from fact.
andy
They may have an overwhelming monopoly position with browsers, but they don't have the same control over servers. So they can't push standards to the server market. This goes back to "Why everyone owes the Apache Developers a bottle of beer".
andy
It's crazy, but I bought half life/counter strike, tried to play, but it would never download the correct software versions to play correctly online. I really didn't feel like figuring it out, so I quit playing completely. I must be another "pirate" that shows up in their "statistics" as a lost future sale.
andy
No, oil is not going to go up exponentially, its a commodity. Supply vs. Demand. Price goes up, people demand less. China can't afford 50$-60$ oil, western europe/US can. So their demand drops off, as does ours among industries that can reduce consumption. We see these same swings in the DRAM market, nobody predicts exponential growth. At 65$, Canada becomes a major producer, and the US starts to put more wells in the ground. Who cares? Worry about something else.
andy
Yeah, but for windows you can turn off swap and run in RAM and get blazing (for windows) performance. You just don't have any overhead for leaky apps. I used to do that until my memory load exceeded the available RAM (which was maxed out for the system). Only time it was slow was for initial system load and app load, other than that it was pretty darn quick. Good SCSI does make a huge difference tho even on desktop systems, I have another box with a decent SCSI card in it and it is noticably faster on the subjective scale than the IDE boxes. Not sure about the cost trade off for it tho; RAM is cheap once and with SCSI you keep paying.
andy
Virus writer releases virus that causes your Windows 2k/XP/LongHorn desktop to send spam. (done)
Spam gets sent to address that auto claims bond.
Your escrow account gets raided. (0.50$)
You can't send email anymore.
Virus writer gets paid and retires. (100M x 0.50$)
If this goes into effect, everyone begins writing viruses for a living, since one good one pays for them to retire, essentially.
That took all of 30 seconds to figure out from reading the article. I am sure more advanced ideas would come out, none of which would be good for Joe Sixpack users.
andy
Can you break that expense down for me? My buddy is getting his license now, and even with subsidized flight time he's pushing 5k.... For un-subsidized flight time it would cost me like 10k.
andy
Yeah yeah, metric system rah rah. Hey I got one for you:
What is standard pressure in the metric system?
Its 14.7 lbs/in2 in english units. But, since the metric units are N/m2, what's that again? 10E-5? The meter is too big for a standard unit, that's why nobody* likes the metric system.
andy
* nobody being defined here as probably a dozen people with my same hang up....
Well, yeah, but you get that in any case. Its already factored in....*grin*
andy
Missed the most important one:
Make it easier for them to do their job. Your answers are just manifestations of the above.
andy