Are these usable kw numbers (with current technology), or theoretical numbers, assuming some future technology?
Ethics of Googling Old Girlfriends
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Anyone care to chime in on this? Sometimes, when I'm feeling meloncholy for my youth, I type in an old girlfriend's name just to see where they might be.
Not much. Though it seems that people in academia use CV more. I think technically there's a difference. One's supposed to have certain kind of information (chronologically as opposed to skills-based). I can't remember which, though. I've always used them interchangeably.
This is huge. If you can have a benevolent benefactor fund a large software effort, and then allow the thing to be open sourced for the good of the world, that seems to me to be the ultimate win-win.
Without this, I just don't see how an exchange-killer could be built. It's just so huge, and does so much.
Now, whether the German government is a benevolent benefactor is another matter entirely....
This might be a little O.T., but, I think it's related to some of the other threads on/. about all the big software packages that companies buy, like Siebel, or SAP, or whatever the flavor of the month is. And, it's the same mentality that spends 15K when 5K will do.
Yes, there's this huge delusion out their, foisted on the business world by I.T. companies, that you have to spend $$$ to get 'real' technology. Everyone on/. already knows, this is a load of crap.
I now believe there is momentum forming in general business about this, too. You will soon see front page articles about it in business week, WSJ, etc. Business guys just aren't that stupid. They just didn't understand technology, and they bought all the lines the IT industry could throw at them for fear of looking stupid.
Now, however, I think most sane, strong, business leaders are saying the emporer has no clothes. You will see it more and more.
Guys like Larry Ellison and Tom Siebel are going to have many bad years ahead. Of course, they've already made their millions (or in Larry's case, billions). But, the gravy train is over.
Re:Linux versus Mac OS X is not a valid comparison
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WRONG. You can't compare OSX to Gnome or KDE. With Mac, you get nthe whole deal. You get all or nothing (including the hardware). The fact that you split things up into these little architectural layers means that you'll
When I set up my new G4 Mac with OS X, I don't recall having to futz with X, or window managers, or desktops. I just got it.
Just try to explain to a reasonably intelligent person the difference between X-Windows, a Window Manager, and KDE/Gnome. It's ridiculous. You need all three things to make a decent desktop appear on the screen. No such bullshit with Mac (or Windows, for that matter).
I totally agree with your assertion that they are two totally different animals with different strengths. Mac is a desktop OS that can be used as a decent unix box now with OS X. Linux is a decent server OS, that SUCKS as a desktop. Will people give up with this linux desktop shit? It is over until someone comes out with a completely unified desktop/window manager package that can be installed with a wizard. It has to be that easy.
I can't disagree with your point. But what about meeting me halfway. Why can't we require the software industry to support their products with the same warranties as other industries?
Or, another idea: why do we let the software industry rev their products so fast? I work in a Win2K shop. I was absolutely horrified with the speed that XP was released. All I could ask was why?
I actually like Win2K. And I certainly liked NT4's release model. That thing got released in October of 96. Then it went through 6 service packs until Win2K was released in February of 00. Now, less than 2 years later, we have XP.
You might say "it's the market asking for it". That may be true. But, it's not me. And I'm part of the market.
You are wrong. The law is still valid. There are plenty of new technologies that aren't computer-related, largely (yes, I realize *everything* has some computer element to it these days, that's not my point). How about new surgical techniques? How about new mechanical systems in buildings? Sure, these things break, and go through a period of debugging while people suffer (or die on the operating table). but usually in short order (a few years), they are sorted out.
I agree with this law wholeheartedly. Everytime I see a programmer refer to himself as an engineer, I cringe.
If anyone thinks that modern software is built with the same standards as almost any other industry, look at the disclaimers on your licenses. Name another industry that gets away with this crap ("no warranty whatsoever.....").
Certainly, it can look to the outside world like it's LDAP, but knowing MSFT, that was an afterthought. Exchange and AD are internally MSFT custom shit, and only look to the outside like LDAP.
To think that some twenty-something geek having Linux dreams in his head could convince someone in finance to implement an open source accounting package is pure fantasy (if you have anyone of a rational mindset in finance).
This is an area where the technology and cost almost don't matter (within reason). The whole thing just has to work And I'm not talking about uptime, that's easy. I'm talking about having the debits and credits match at the end of the month. I'm talking about having A=L+OE.
Who you gonna call when your financial statements don't make sense at the end of the month? You're gonna call your momma, crying for a new job.
I've complained on numerous occasions about the editing on Slashdot, either for formatting, grammar, or spelling.
The complaints are ignored, so I've stopped.
No use even complaining anymore. The Slashdot editors have shown by their actions that they believe that web-based discourse does not require careful editing, and that it's more important to get the story live.
Of course, I tend to think differently. I believe that the presentation, clarity, and absence of grammatical and formatting errors are very important (almost as much as the story itself).
When a story is written that is essentially absent of basic errors, the reader can concentrate on the information at hand. Otherwise, the reader is confused, concentrates on the wrong things, questions the writer's intelligence, etc.
Online journals are no less subject to this notion than print journals!
Yes,yes, absolutely. This has bothered me for some time.
But this really gets at intrusion detection and monitoring, which I think are the most important aspects of security (and often overlooked).
A really cool thing to be working on would be an IDS that utilized heuristics. That to me means that the IDS is looking at the patterns of communication, not just the communication. That's been a well known method in code breaking for years. If an IDS could raise a flag when some rogue engineer's workstation started doing funny things over HTTP at 3am (because he was tunnelled in using some un-approved desktop sharing software, for example), and it had never seen that activity before, it should at least log and alert.
I hardly think that the subject could fill a book. It certainly doesn't need a review. This seems like the classic topic that Slashdotters would simply research on the web, and not run to ora.com just because the books look so cool sitting on your shelf.
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
You miss the most fundamental phrase, which is 'without due process of law', which is what all this debate in congress is about. You actually don't have the right to buy whatever you like. Think of Cocaine, for instance.
First, if you're paid hourly, they're definitely taking advantage of you. You need to fight. It's so obvious, it almost doesn't need a lawyer.
Second, even if you are salaried, you still should fight. Why should all your weekends be hosed? You should be paid additional time for this.
If the company has problems with this, get a quote from a professional monitoring company to see what they would charge to monitor your IT systems overnight and on weekends. You'll find that it is huge $$.
that's why I cringe when I hear the term 'software engineer'. It doesn't mean much to me. I'm really glad civil engineers don't follow the same practices as 'software engineers'.
Most software engineering in the commercial world has nothing to do with engineering. Military projects and things like air traffic control might be different (I hope they are!).
Re:Hey, Katz, it was July 20, 1969, not the 19th..
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How could he have gotten this wrong. This guy is an idiot.
It's like getting the JFK assasination date wrong, isn't it? Or VE-Day or VJ-Day?
Doesn't anyone get it? This has nothing to do with Iomega's faulty zip drives, and everything to do with making some law firms money. they did it to Toshiba a year or so ago over some defective floppy drives. Stuff breaks all the time. The way to fix it is via warranty. This has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with class-action lawyers making fat fees.
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just read it in the Globe today. They're going to charge something like 2.95 per month for a different converter.
If you look at the CEO's bio, he's some Houston good-ol boy who made a billion at BFI (trash collection), and now is dabbling in high tech.
Since everything in Texas is controlled by good ol boys, I'm sure the decision to use this software was anything but objective.
Are these usable kw numbers (with current technology), or theoretical numbers, assuming some future technology?
Anyone care to chime in on this? Sometimes, when I'm feeling meloncholy for my youth, I type in an old girlfriend's name just to see where they might be.
Is this OK, or am I some sort of stalker freak?
Not much. Though it seems that people in academia use CV more. I think technically there's a difference. One's supposed to have certain kind of information (chronologically as opposed to skills-based). I can't remember which, though.
I've always used them interchangeably.
this shit is golfcourse-ware.
any company with an IT staff that has IQs above 120 doesn't need it. Of course, that rules out 80% of companies.
This is huge. If you can have a benevolent benefactor fund a large software effort, and then allow the thing to be open sourced for the good of the world, that seems to me to be the ultimate win-win.
Without this, I just don't see how an exchange-killer could be built. It's just so huge, and does so much.
Now, whether the German government is a benevolent benefactor is another matter entirely....
This might be a little O.T., but, I think it's related to some of the other threads on /. about all the big software packages that companies buy, like Siebel, or SAP, or whatever the flavor of the month is. And, it's the same mentality that spends 15K when 5K will do.
/. already knows, this is a load of crap.
Yes, there's this huge delusion out their, foisted on the business world by I.T. companies, that you have to spend $$$ to get 'real' technology. Everyone on
I now believe there is momentum forming in general business about this, too. You will soon see front page articles about it in business week, WSJ, etc. Business guys just aren't that stupid. They just didn't understand technology, and they bought all the lines the IT industry could throw at them for fear of looking stupid.
Now, however, I think most sane, strong, business leaders are saying the emporer has no clothes. You will see it more and more.
Guys like Larry Ellison and Tom Siebel are going to have many bad years ahead. Of course, they've already made their millions (or in Larry's case, billions). But, the gravy train is over.
WRONG. You can't compare OSX to Gnome or KDE. With Mac, you get nthe whole deal. You get all or nothing (including the hardware). The fact that you split things up into these little architectural layers means that you'll
When I set up my new G4 Mac with OS X, I don't recall having to futz with X, or window managers, or desktops. I just got it.
Just try to explain to a reasonably intelligent person the difference between X-Windows, a Window Manager, and KDE/Gnome. It's ridiculous. You need all three things to make a decent desktop appear on the screen. No such bullshit with Mac (or Windows, for that matter).
I totally agree with your assertion that they are two totally different animals with different strengths. Mac is a desktop OS that can be used as a decent unix box now with OS X. Linux is a decent server OS, that SUCKS as a desktop. Will people give up with this linux desktop shit? It is over until someone comes out with a completely unified desktop/window manager package that can be installed with a wizard. It has to be that easy.
I can't disagree with your point. But what about meeting me halfway. Why can't we require the software industry to support their products with the same warranties as other industries?
Or, another idea: why do we let the software industry rev their products so fast? I work in a Win2K shop. I was absolutely horrified with the speed that XP was released. All I could ask was why?
I actually like Win2K. And I certainly liked NT4's release model. That thing got released in October of 96. Then it went through 6 service packs until Win2K was released in February of 00. Now, less than 2 years later, we have XP.
You might say "it's the market asking for it". That may be true. But, it's not me. And I'm part of the market.
You are wrong. The law is still valid. There are plenty of new technologies that aren't computer-related, largely (yes, I realize *everything* has some computer element to it these days, that's not my point). How about new surgical techniques? How about new mechanical systems in buildings? Sure, these things break, and go through a period of debugging while people suffer (or die on the operating table). but usually in short order (a few years), they are sorted out.
I agree with this law wholeheartedly. Everytime I see a programmer refer to himself as an engineer, I cringe.
If anyone thinks that modern software is built with the same standards as almost any other industry, look at the disclaimers on your licenses. Name another industry that gets away with this crap ("no warranty whatsoever.....").
I don't think this is true, is it?
Certainly, it can look to the outside world like it's LDAP, but knowing MSFT, that was an afterthought. Exchange and AD are internally MSFT custom shit, and only look to the outside like LDAP.
This is what it's all about.
To think that some twenty-something geek having Linux dreams in his head could convince someone in finance to implement an open source accounting package is pure fantasy (if you have anyone of a rational mindset in finance).
This is an area where the technology and cost almost don't matter (within reason). The whole thing just has to work And I'm not talking about uptime, that's easy. I'm talking about having the debits and credits match at the end of the month. I'm talking about having A=L+OE.
Who you gonna call when your financial statements don't make sense at the end of the month? You're gonna call your momma, crying for a new job.
Leave this one to the experts, boys.
I've complained on numerous occasions about the editing on Slashdot, either for formatting, grammar, or spelling.
The complaints are ignored, so I've stopped.
No use even complaining anymore. The Slashdot editors have shown by their actions that they believe that web-based discourse does not require careful editing, and that it's more important to get the story live.
Of course, I tend to think differently. I believe that the presentation, clarity, and absence of grammatical and formatting errors are very important (almost as much as the story itself).
When a story is written that is essentially absent of basic errors, the reader can concentrate on the information at hand. Otherwise, the reader is confused, concentrates on the wrong things, questions the writer's intelligence, etc.
Online journals are no less subject to this notion than print journals!
Yes,yes, absolutely. This has bothered me for some time.
But this really gets at intrusion detection and monitoring, which I think are the most important aspects of security (and often overlooked).
A really cool thing to be working on would be an IDS that utilized heuristics. That to me means that the IDS is looking at the patterns of communication, not just the communication. That's been a well known method in code breaking for years. If an IDS could raise a flag when some rogue engineer's workstation started doing funny things over HTTP at 3am (because he was tunnelled in using some un-approved desktop sharing software, for example), and it had never seen that activity before, it should at least log and alert.
I hardly think that the subject could fill a book. It certainly doesn't need a review. This seems like the classic topic that Slashdotters would simply research on the web, and not run to ora.com just because the books look so cool sitting on your shelf.
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
You miss the most fundamental phrase, which is 'without due process of law', which is what all this debate in congress is about. You actually don't have the right to buy whatever you like. Think of Cocaine, for instance.
ooh, QNX has a find files utility and a basic calculator. How 1990.
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First, if you're paid hourly, they're definitely taking advantage of you. You need to fight. It's so obvious, it almost doesn't need a lawyer.
Second, even if you are salaried, you still should fight. Why should all your weekends be hosed? You should be paid additional time for this.
If the company has problems with this, get a quote from a professional monitoring company to see what they would charge to monitor your IT systems overnight and on weekends. You'll find that it is huge $$.
that's why I cringe when I hear the term 'software engineer'. It doesn't mean much to me. I'm really glad civil engineers don't follow the same practices as 'software engineers'. Most software engineering in the commercial world has nothing to do with engineering. Military projects and things like air traffic control might be different (I hope they are!).
How could he have gotten this wrong. This guy is an idiot.
It's like getting the JFK assasination date wrong, isn't it? Or VE-Day or VJ-Day?
Moron.
Doesn't anyone get it? This has nothing to do with Iomega's faulty zip drives, and everything to do with making some law firms money. they did it to Toshiba a year or so ago over some defective floppy drives. Stuff breaks all the time. The way to fix it is via warranty. This has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with class-action lawyers making fat fees.