Just a note... After you disable active scripting to protect yourself from this vulnerability and you try accessing Windows update, this is what you get:
To view and download updates for your computer, your Internet Explorer security settings must meet the following requirements:
Security must be set to medium or lower
Active scripting must be set to enabled
The download and initialization of ActiveX Controls must be set to enabled
First one regarding the technical, the other the social/financial aspects of the problem.
Point #1:
Stability and reliability of a system is as good as how much time and effor you put into setting it up and maintaining it.
Also it depends on what kind of a system you are setting up (hardware AND software).
It's not about Windows sucks and linux 0wns generalities but the fact is that IF you spend your time carefully configuring your system(s), let's say with Windows 2000 on a good quality hardware box, you will be able to have a very reliable machine. Just as you would put your time and efforts to set RedHat on appropriate supported hardware.
But if you go with a default config and jsut drown your system with useless software or don't even take your time to configure it... even the best linux distro will have a high risk of being unreliable, just like a Windows box.
Just because you work with linux 24/7 and one day/year with windows, doesnt mean that windows sucks. It probably will if you will try to set it up.
For someone who spends 24/7 working with Win and 1 day/year with linux, going with linux is the same way... doesnt mean that its horrible. if such person would try to set it up, it might be horrible.
It all depends on time and where you are standing or who you are trying to convince.
Althought, in the technical aspect, UNIX has better chances of winning over Windows.
Point #2:
Beside the technical problems, there are social aspects.
Setting up a netowork of Windows machines may cost around a million dollars. But why should you go with the top-of the line XP and such? Tone it down to Win2k or NT, as well as the machines, and you might end up with only a 100-200k dollar difference over UNIX boxes.
THEN, charge people admission (10 bucks per student? 1 buck per hour?) or a general fee, and hell, you will get that 100-200k back, if not more!
Now, with UNIX... even though youll spend 600k on it, you might end up with not a whole lot of revenue, since most people will just avoid the UNIX workstations (because either they dont know how to use it/are afraid/have Win at home/so on).
So in this aspect of the case, Windows has a stronger foothold.
Being realistic does NOT mean anti-unix. If we can't critique linux for being not as user-friendly as Windows (or whatever it is that is not exactly as liekable as Win), why do we even dare to bash MS?
Maybe it's your board, connector, BIOS, or other piece of hardware. It is highly unlikely that the hard drive itself would be bad after you exchange it. But in case it is, ask them for another one. If that one will arrive not working, then I bet you that it's something on your side.
Beside that, a really nice thing about Maxtor is that they provide warranty and exchanges for ANY of their drives, including OEM. They are the best in support and warranties in the industry.
IBM does not cover any of their OEM drives under warranty, they won't even send you a replace. Seagate and WD provide warranty services on a case-to-case basis, and most of the cases there is a timeline you can get an exchange.
With Maxtors, there are no limitations, which means that for the money you put in them you will get the worth of them.
it lacks to take into account needs of different users, as well as it assumes that everyone is an office drone that only does two, three tasks on their default-set Dell with a bunch of aliases everywhere.
I like the overall idea of simple computing, but the fact is that power users, who use their machines multiple tasks, would not find most of the recommendations in this article useful.
Sorting out and organizing stuff according to your preference and style of computing is something that may work best for you.
I think that saying that 'this is the only good way' or 'this is the good way, other way is a bad way' is shortsighted and unreasonable. Some people cannot afford to have only 4 folders for specific purposes. And desktop was a designed as a place for aliases that allows you to organize and speed up the workflow.
After all, I feel that "GoodEasy" computing environment is not one that is as simple, basic, and unified as it can be. The real "GoodEasy" computing environment is the one that allows you to feel most comfortable in and lets you be most productive, depending on the tasks, work ethic, type of work, and your preferences.
Hold on a moment, what is written in "Historical Note" sounds more like a page out of a terrorist manual under the "What it is about".
Let's look at it briefly and distinguish the dirty, blind propaganda and actual reality:
They recklessly inspire anti-U.S. sentiment in every other country in this world
It's not every country of the world. Only those that have dictatorships or socialist fundamental governments that spew out propaganda about how deprived Western society is and how good it is to be a slave with no wages no food and no human rights (Iraq, Somalia, Africa, Cambodia, so on...).
we blockade Cuba for no good reason
I don't think that anyone who knows history wouldn't argue this. We blocked Cuba in 60s in repsponse to Russians installing nuclear warheads aimed at the US on the island. Avoiding globar thermo-nuclear reason is a pretty damn good reason to me.
we starve the children of Iraq
WE? US starves children of Iraq? I am sorry but the reason why chidlren in Iraq are starving is because of the dictatorhip regime that rules that country and has a point in keeping people suffer without food and human rights in a country where you have to say you hate USA and love the great leader, otherwise your family disappears and you get a bullet in your head.
And anybody who sits by and pays taxes and watches our imperialistic military (...)
Excuse me, but I read words like that before from the mouths of people liek Stalin, Hitler, Saddam, Khaddafi, and all other fundamental radicalist groups that are the ones who kill women and children, who chop people to death with machetes, who bomb schools, malls, cinemas.
Think about it, that's not a historical note, that's something that you try to put into small kids heads in Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Libya, so when they grow up they can kill thousands of INNOCENT people and feel right about it.
True, but the difference that is we are not in an open war with Palestine. They are not even acknowledged as a stand-alone nation on the same level as let's say Japan in WWII.
One thing that we seen in the past is that just the PLA may be taken credit for it, it doesn't exclude any other fractions or anti-US, anti-Western group from sponsoring such attacks (Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, China(?)), hence it's hard to pin point on who we are fighting with right now.
This could be the last desperate act of a desperate band of dispicable international criminals.
The terrorism does not start and stop: it does not see the borders, time, governments, it disregards innocent bystanders lives. The idea is to put fear into the hearts of your enemy, on their own turf. And because of that, we won't see the end of it. There are tons of arabs who will die for Jihad, and it's not just "a few." There is more Muslims in the world than any of us here in U.S.
(...)If your programming lanugage/library doesn't support abstraction very well, perhaps you can come up with a code generator.(...)
Just determine how usable and how much of a good code factor it would have. If it generates code a'la FrontPage, Dreamwaver and so on, you may be running into the problem you described: Quality versus Quantity.
As any coder that took a look at the code those two generate, knows how lowly re-usable, piss-poor managable, and nearly non-updatable it is versus good hand-written code.
It may be a challenge to marry those two into one in order to get something you are looking for: fast good quality code.
many people are desperate for jobs and these companies were promising great salaries, nice relocation spots to live, and promising growth.
I agree with that statement, but isn't that one of the basic human instincts? Hoarding, scrounging, going out there to get more stuff and stash it, repeat. One could say that the whole length of the "dot-com era" or just the huge IT boom we experienced was based on human greed and human gullibility.
Of course, the reasons for wanting more money are ranging from "just to feed the family", through "to pay off my loans", to get a nice car, a nice house.. but soon afterwards the line is deteriorating and people begin to make money just to have more money. You don't need a 7 bedroom house for you and your wife, you don't need a 100k BMW.
But overall, where I am going with this is that humans striving for more stuff and money created the situation in which people were gullible enough to believe that anything that is "e-something" or has to do with computers/internet will bring millions for each cent you put into it. Of course it worked for a while, when the first ones on this path made the money to be made and innovated the ways that were there to be improved.
I know a few of people that went from 12 years of experience in Emergency Medicine into Java by reading a few books because they wanted more money, or 40-year old construction workers that became instant "expert Web specialists." And another dozen of corporate "company representative speaking.. JUST a moment" office space-like lady workers who knew how to put together a memo or a company policy filled to the brim with meaningless bullshit.
A very interesting fact supporting this theory is that as of today a number of CS classes in University of Berkeley in California is 70-80% full, which differes from last few years when there was 20-30% more people than seats in the classes (quoting a co-worker who goes there right now).
Another words, people will go where the hen laying golden eggs is at, and they will make it lay as many as it can a day before they will kill it off by doing so. And unfortunately, those of us who are content with a golden egg once in a while will have to find another ways of doing what they like/love/want to do.
Hopefully, the hen is not dead yet, just out of eggs.;)
I tend to store old parts in a pile, or closet. You never know when they will become useful.
There is a saying that you collect more stuff as you get older. The bad thing about it is that according to this "it may come in handy one day" policy, you have to park your car outside the garage and the guests have to sleep on the floor in the bathroom because the garage and all the guest rooms are in use as storage.
What I don't understand is why people insist on running IIS when it is *known* to have security problems a la Code Red
I think the author addresses that point:
We've been so carried away by our own hype that we fail to see that's not the way the web is going. (...) What we need today is no longer a webserver, but a web services delivery platform
It's not about what is a better Web server, because there Apache beats IIS hands down. But as the author suggests and the real-time experience points, IIS is chosen not just because it's a web server, but its a business platform that offers a variety of e-commerce services and solutions for businesses. Hence, it is not just about showing off your company page, but about turning it into a money-making better business and sale-automation platform.
I agree with it... I have been using Windows since 3.1 came out. I grew so used to it, that I didn't look beyond that until last year, when I got a copy of Corel Linux. Strike one. It was a nice-looking release, but I found it very very cumbersome and limited. Wrongfully, I assummed all linux distros are like that. Then, few months later I gave it a second shot again, using Second Edition. It was really bad, and crashed on my machine evrey time I ran it. Strike Two. I still decided to stick to Windows. It was not until few weeks ago when I put up a server running RedHat at work and... Homerun! I had all best experiences with it, everything from daily tasks to networking and even gaming. Of course I had problems with certain apps that I tried running in Wine, but nonetheles I am really happy with going that route. Hence, as a person who dealt strictly with Windows, I would highly recommend that with KDE 2.1 or 2.2 as a start. Of course, I am aware that there is as many other opinions as there is users and distribution.
Hence, I would suggest to try RedHat if you haven't used UNIX on a daily basis. And even then, if you wouldn't like it, I would not get discouraged and tried other recommendations. I bet after a few days you will find it a really attractive alternative (or a definite change).
"Estimates by Netcraft, an Internet consultancy based in Bath, England (http://netcraft.com), indicate that some 20 percent of all Internet Web servers run on IIS. As that site tracks some 28 million Web sites, the implication is that there are at least four million vulnerable IIS servers out there. "
That's twenty percent, and it's just an estimate, but goood enough just to get an idea.
I wonder if those vehicles would have to conform to the existing air traffic regulations as far as ID, communication, flight patters, or if new ones would be created. Would there be police patrols on the same vehicles to enforce them?
Beside the obvious concerns regarding to safety of the commute, I wonder how you could make it cooler. Can't seem to lower it or add alloy wheels to it. I guess you could make the flight stick smaller and put some UV light underneath it, but it's still not the same thing now is it...
As far as cell phones go, I'm unsure what I think needs to be done. Personally, I feel that it should fall under reckless driving
As most people know, it is not illegal to talk on the cell phone while driving. BUT, if a person is talking on a cell phone runs into someone else or causes an accident, they CAN be charged and fined for "inability to perform duties of a driver" and reckless driving.
It is a law in Oregon, unfortunately, it is totally at a discretion of the police officer on the scene of whether it will be applied or not.
But yes, if a person is talking on the cell phone when they cause an accident, they can be fined for doing so (note that it also applies to a person applying makeup, drying hair, eating, and so on).
A small correction... MS has been going according to standards, and you can observe that by following all the supported features in IE releases, such as HTML 4, XML, CSS's, and so on.
M$ is implementing an industry standard in their browser
Actually, believe it or not, MS has been implementing the industry standards as early as versions 3.x of IE.I would recommend that you look into what has been supported in the releases of IE over past few years.
Microsoft Internet Explorer delivers support for all the latest HTML 3.2 features, plus support for features found in no other commercial browser, including: W3C's Cascading Style Sheets, (...) W3C's new Table spec, (...)
new standard OBJECT tag (...)."
which include me, a short note. They took the guide down "Because of the amount of interest in the Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guides" And they "expect to make the guides available once again during the week of June 18, 2001.
It makes you wonder, if it's all because of the/. readers or if their security releases are indeed so popular.
As someone already mentioned it, if you just want to be a developer/coder, MBA may not be the best idea.
From my own experience I know that having MBA is really helpful in actually landing a job in a prestigious company (Intel, Maxtor, Seagate, Microsfot(?), AMD).
If you don't have MBA and - as one of the readers pointed out - you want to freelance, work as a contractor, etc... it would not be as good as more hands-on experience or actual specific training.
If you would be aiming at upper management, Masters is definately a must, although it should come in Management/Business area.
I work for a large multi-national Semiconductor manufacturer (this company also makes light bulbs *hint hint*), and all of the managers and bosses here have Masters in general management/business areas. The only ones who have those degrees in engineering or IT are among the corporate IT or certain department managers. It is very unlikely that they would rise beyond that, to let's say being a head of a facility or supervise a large area.
Of course, those are taken from what I have seen and heard by myself in a large company, and it may be different in smaller-sized ones. But to get an idea if it's worth going for MBA or not, I would recommend thinking about where you want to go with it (CEO of the company doing politics or a supervisor still getting down and dirty with code once in a while) and then deciding on where you want to go with it.
For all of those that don't want to go throught he entire article to find out when they would be able to lay their hands on those puppies:
"First shipments of the chips should be reaching the mobo vendors and PC OEMs by July or August, and the first nForce mobos, and possibly top tier OEM PCs, should hit the shelves in the Fall."
That's pretty soon, if you ask me. I wonder if nVIDIA comes out ahead of Intel by offering much lower priced solutions (as the article suggests) and still reak up the profit and keep the slowing economy rolling.
Quoting from the article: ``I think the more we can control our kids, the better off in the long run they'll be.''
I agree that with the kids that may have bad influence on them or even have serious health risks(everything from bodily harm to unwanted pregnancies to motor vehicle accidents all done under peer pressure), there are parents out there that would make the kids life miserable.
The idea is to have a relationship with your kids based on trust, understanding, and friendship, not by controlling them or doing all you can to keep trakc of their every move.
How would those parents feel if they were in their position, even right now? "Youre invading my privacy!"
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To view and download updates for your computer, your Internet Explorer security settings must meet the following requirements:
Security must be set to medium or lower
Active scripting must be set to enabled
The download and initialization of ActiveX Controls must be set to enabled
Ironic, isn't it?
I only feel safe to make two comments.
First one regarding the technical, the other the social/financial aspects of the problem.
Point #1:
Stability and reliability of a system is as good as how much time and effor you put into setting it up and maintaining it.
Also it depends on what kind of a system you are setting up (hardware AND software).
It's not about Windows sucks and linux 0wns generalities but the fact is that IF you spend your time carefully configuring your system(s), let's say with Windows 2000 on a good quality hardware box, you will be able to have a very reliable machine. Just as you would put your time and efforts to set RedHat on appropriate supported hardware.
But if you go with a default config and jsut drown your system with useless software or don't even take your time to configure it... even the best linux distro will have a high risk of being unreliable, just like a Windows box.
Just because you work with linux 24/7 and one day/year with windows, doesnt mean that windows sucks. It probably will if you will try to set it up.
For someone who spends 24/7 working with Win and 1 day/year with linux, going with linux is the same way... doesnt mean that its horrible. if such person would try to set it up, it might be horrible.
It all depends on time and where you are standing or who you are trying to convince.
Althought, in the technical aspect, UNIX has better chances of winning over Windows.
Point #2:
Beside the technical problems, there are social aspects.
Setting up a netowork of Windows machines may cost around a million dollars. But why should you go with the top-of the line XP and such? Tone it down to Win2k or NT, as well as the machines, and you might end up with only a 100-200k dollar difference over UNIX boxes.
THEN, charge people admission (10 bucks per student? 1 buck per hour?) or a general fee, and hell, you will get that 100-200k back, if not more!
Now, with UNIX... even though youll spend 600k on it, you might end up with not a whole lot of revenue, since most people will just avoid the UNIX workstations (because either they dont know how to use it/are afraid/have Win at home/so on).
So in this aspect of the case, Windows has a stronger foothold.
Being realistic does NOT mean anti-unix. If we can't critique linux for being not as user-friendly as Windows (or whatever it is that is not exactly as liekable as Win), why do we even dare to bash MS?
"Dot.Station, a countertop terminal powered by Red Hat Linux that lets people surf the Web, exchange emails and make phone calls." is one of them.
It should be noted, that the hanhelds and the PC devices market is one that linux has a strong foothold in and surpasses any other OS.
One could fear that witht he eclipse of these, the linux popularity could be crumbling very, very fast.
I surely hope that wouldn't happen too fast and too much, but facts are out there, unfortunately...
Maybe it's your board, connector, BIOS, or other piece of hardware. It is highly unlikely that the hard drive itself would be bad after you exchange it. But in case it is, ask them for another one. If that one will arrive not working, then I bet you that it's something on your side.
Beside that, a really nice thing about Maxtor is that they provide warranty and exchanges for ANY of their drives, including OEM. They are the best in support and warranties in the industry.
IBM does not cover any of their OEM drives under warranty, they won't even send you a replace. Seagate and WD provide warranty services on a case-to-case basis, and most of the cases there is a timeline you can get an exchange.
With Maxtors, there are no limitations, which means that for the money you put in them you will get the worth of them.
it lacks to take into account needs of different users, as well as it assumes that everyone is an office drone that only does two, three tasks on their default-set Dell with a bunch of aliases everywhere.
I like the overall idea of simple computing, but the fact is that power users, who use their machines multiple tasks, would not find most of the recommendations in this article useful.
Sorting out and organizing stuff according to your preference and style of computing is something that may work best for you.
I think that saying that 'this is the only good way' or 'this is the good way, other way is a bad way' is shortsighted and unreasonable. Some people cannot afford to have only 4 folders for specific purposes. And desktop was a designed as a place for aliases that allows you to organize and speed up the workflow.
After all, I feel that "GoodEasy" computing environment is not one that is as simple, basic, and unified as it can be. The real "GoodEasy" computing environment is the one that allows you to feel most comfortable in and lets you be most productive, depending on the tasks, work ethic, type of work, and your preferences.
I hope they have a very good reason for it.
If it's true that it is U.S., the very good reason for it is all around you since 8am this morning. Wake up.
Let's look at it briefly and distinguish the dirty, blind propaganda and actual reality:
They recklessly inspire anti-U.S. sentiment in every other country in this world
It's not every country of the world. Only those that have dictatorships or socialist fundamental governments that spew out propaganda about how deprived Western society is and how good it is to be a slave with no wages no food and no human rights (Iraq, Somalia, Africa, Cambodia, so on...).
we blockade Cuba for no good reason
I don't think that anyone who knows history wouldn't argue this. We blocked Cuba in 60s in repsponse to Russians installing nuclear warheads aimed at the US on the island. Avoiding globar thermo-nuclear reason is a pretty damn good reason to me.
we starve the children of Iraq
WE? US starves children of Iraq? I am sorry but the reason why chidlren in Iraq are starving is because of the dictatorhip regime that rules that country and has a point in keeping people suffer without food and human rights in a country where you have to say you hate USA and love the great leader, otherwise your family disappears and you get a bullet in your head.
And anybody who sits by and pays taxes and watches our imperialistic military (...)
Excuse me, but I read words like that before from the mouths of people liek Stalin, Hitler, Saddam, Khaddafi, and all other fundamental radicalist groups that are the ones who kill women and children, who chop people to death with machetes, who bomb schools, malls, cinemas.
Think about it, that's not a historical note, that's something that you try to put into small kids heads in Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Libya, so when they grow up they can kill thousands of INNOCENT people and feel right about it.
True, but the difference that is we are not in an open war with Palestine. They are not even acknowledged as a stand-alone nation on the same level as let's say Japan in WWII.
One thing that we seen in the past is that just the PLA may be taken credit for it, it doesn't exclude any other fractions or anti-US, anti-Western group from sponsoring such attacks (Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, China(?)), hence it's hard to pin point on who we are fighting with right now.
This could be the last desperate act of a desperate band of dispicable international criminals.
The terrorism does not start and stop: it does not see the borders, time, governments, it disregards innocent bystanders lives. The idea is to put fear into the hearts of your enemy, on their own turf. And because of that, we won't see the end of it. There are tons of arabs who will die for Jihad, and it's not just "a few." There is more Muslims in the world than any of us here in U.S.
Just determine how usable and how much of a good code factor it would have. If it generates code a'la FrontPage, Dreamwaver and so on, you may be running into the problem you described: Quality versus Quantity.
As any coder that took a look at the code those two generate, knows how lowly re-usable, piss-poor managable, and nearly non-updatable it is versus good hand-written code.
It may be a challenge to marry those two into one in order to get something you are looking for: fast good quality code.
I agree with that statement, but isn't that one of the basic human instincts? Hoarding, scrounging, going out there to get more stuff and stash it, repeat. One could say that the whole length of the "dot-com era" or just the huge IT boom we experienced was based on human greed and human gullibility.
Of course, the reasons for wanting more money are ranging from "just to feed the family", through "to pay off my loans", to get a nice car, a nice house.. but soon afterwards the line is deteriorating and people begin to make money just to have more money. You don't need a 7 bedroom house for you and your wife, you don't need a 100k BMW.
But overall, where I am going with this is that humans striving for more stuff and money created the situation in which people were gullible enough to believe that anything that is "e-something" or has to do with computers/internet will bring millions for each cent you put into it. Of course it worked for a while, when the first ones on this path made the money to be made and innovated the ways that were there to be improved.
I know a few of people that went from 12 years of experience in Emergency Medicine into Java by reading a few books because they wanted more money, or 40-year old construction workers that became instant "expert Web specialists." And another dozen of corporate "company representative speaking.. JUST a moment" office space-like lady workers who knew how to put together a memo or a company policy filled to the brim with meaningless bullshit.
A very interesting fact supporting this theory is that as of today a number of CS classes in University of Berkeley in California is 70-80% full, which differes from last few years when there was 20-30% more people than seats in the classes (quoting a co-worker who goes there right now).
Another words, people will go where the hen laying golden eggs is at, and they will make it lay as many as it can a day before they will kill it off by doing so. And unfortunately, those of us who are content with a golden egg once in a while will have to find another ways of doing what they like/love/want to do.
Hopefully, the hen is not dead yet, just out of eggs. ;)
I tend to store old parts in a pile, or closet. You never know when they will become useful.
There is a saying that you collect more stuff as you get older. The bad thing about it is that according to this "it may come in handy one day" policy, you have to park your car outside the garage and the guests have to sleep on the floor in the bathroom because the garage and all the guest rooms are in use as storage.
I think the author addresses that point:
We've been so carried away by our own hype that we fail to see that's not the way the web is going. (...) What we need today is no longer a webserver, but a web services delivery platform
It's not about what is a better Web server, because there Apache beats IIS hands down. But as the author suggests and the real-time experience points, IIS is chosen not just because it's a web server, but its a business platform that offers a variety of e-commerce services and solutions for businesses. Hence, it is not just about showing off your company page, but about turning it into a money-making better business and sale-automation platform.
I thought that the second article isn't about a chick doing sounds for MSN but another article about Xena the princess warrior.
Yeah..... makes you wonder...
I agree with it... I have been using Windows since 3.1 came out. I grew so used to it, that I didn't look beyond that until last year, when I got a copy of Corel Linux. Strike one. It was a nice-looking release, but I found it very very cumbersome and limited. Wrongfully, I assummed all linux distros are like that. Then, few months later I gave it a second shot again, using Second Edition. It was really bad, and crashed on my machine evrey time I ran it. Strike Two. I still decided to stick to Windows. It was not until few weeks ago when I put up a server running RedHat at work and... Homerun! I had all best experiences with it, everything from daily tasks to networking and even gaming. Of course I had problems with certain apps that I tried running in Wine, but nonetheles I am really happy with going that route. Hence, as a person who dealt strictly with Windows, I would highly recommend that with KDE 2.1 or 2.2 as a start. Of course, I am aware that there is as many other opinions as there is users and distribution.
Hence, I would suggest to try RedHat if you haven't used UNIX on a daily basis. And even then, if you wouldn't like it, I would not get discouraged and tried other recommendations. I bet after a few days you will find it a really attractive alternative (or a definite change).
I thought that they were issuing all those things in a Casio watch. Oh wait.. this is not James Bond...
"Estimates by Netcraft, an Internet consultancy based in Bath, England (http://netcraft.com), indicate that some 20 percent of all Internet Web servers run on IIS. As that site tracks some 28 million Web sites, the implication is that there are at least four million vulnerable IIS servers out there. "
That's twenty percent, and it's just an estimate, but goood enough just to get an idea.I wonder if those vehicles would have to conform to the existing air traffic regulations as far as ID, communication, flight patters, or if new ones would be created. Would there be police patrols on the same vehicles to enforce them?
Beside the obvious concerns regarding to safety of the commute, I wonder how you could make it cooler. Can't seem to lower it or add alloy wheels to it. I guess you could make the flight stick smaller and put some UV light underneath it, but it's still not the same thing now is it...
Even the article supports this information:
Who wrote the Model 100's software? Answer: Bill Gates.
It was reportedly the last time Microsoft's co-founder personally wrote code.
As most people know, it is not illegal to talk on the cell phone while driving. BUT, if a person is talking on a cell phone runs into someone else or causes an accident, they CAN be charged and fined for "inability to perform duties of a driver" and reckless driving.
It is a law in Oregon, unfortunately, it is totally at a discretion of the police officer on the scene of whether it will be applied or not.
But yes, if a person is talking on the cell phone when they cause an accident, they can be fined for doing so (note that it also applies to a person applying makeup, drying hair, eating, and so on).
A small correction... MS has been going according to standards, and you can observe that by following all the supported features in IE releases, such as HTML 4, XML, CSS's, and so on.
Actually, believe it or not, MS has been implementing the industry standards as early as versions 3.x of IE.I would recommend that you look into what has been supported in the releases of IE over past few years.
Microsoft Internet Explorer delivers support for all the latest HTML 3.2 features, plus support for features found in no other commercial browser, including: W3C's Cascading Style Sheets, (...) W3C's new Table spec, (...) new standard OBJECT tag (...)."
If you want to actually SEE it for yourself, go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie3/features-f .htm?/Windows/ie/ie3/htmlext.htm. It applies to version 3.x, and MS has not been going against the industry standards since then.
It makes you wonder, if it's all because of the /. readers or if their security releases are indeed so popular.
As another point of interest... they also have "security-enhanced Linux modules" at http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/download.html
As someone already mentioned it, if you just want to be a developer/coder, MBA may not be the best idea.
From my own experience I know that having MBA is really helpful in actually landing a job in a prestigious company (Intel, Maxtor, Seagate, Microsfot(?), AMD).
If you don't have MBA and - as one of the readers pointed out - you want to freelance, work as a contractor, etc... it would not be as good as more hands-on experience or actual specific training.
If you would be aiming at upper management, Masters is definately a must, although it should come in Management/Business area.
I work for a large multi-national Semiconductor manufacturer (this company also makes light bulbs *hint hint*), and all of the managers and bosses here have Masters in general management/business areas. The only ones who have those degrees in engineering or IT are among the corporate IT or certain department managers. It is very unlikely that they would rise beyond that, to let's say being a head of a facility or supervise a large area.
Of course, those are taken from what I have seen and heard by myself in a large company, and it may be different in smaller-sized ones. But to get an idea if it's worth going for MBA or not, I would recommend thinking about where you want to go with it (CEO of the company doing politics or a supervisor still getting down and dirty with code once in a while) and then deciding on where you want to go with it.
For all of those that don't want to go throught he entire article to find out when they would be able to lay their hands on those puppies:
"First shipments of the chips should be reaching the mobo vendors and PC OEMs by July or August, and the first nForce mobos, and possibly top tier OEM PCs, should hit the shelves in the Fall."
That's pretty soon, if you ask me. I wonder if nVIDIA comes out ahead of Intel by offering much lower priced solutions (as the article suggests) and still reak up the profit and keep the slowing economy rolling.
Quoting from the article: ``I think the more we can control our kids, the better off in the long run they'll be.''
I agree that with the kids that may have bad influence on them or even have serious health risks(everything from bodily harm to unwanted pregnancies to motor vehicle accidents all done under peer pressure), there are parents out there that would make the kids life miserable.
The idea is to have a relationship with your kids based on trust, understanding, and friendship, not by controlling them or doing all you can to keep trakc of their every move.
How would those parents feel if they were in their position, even right now? "Youre invading my privacy!"