Yeah, I could come up with some really great arguments about the value of the individual vs the value of the society, and of the sacrifice of the few for then enrichment of the lives of the many, maybe throw in a little dispassionate darwinianism with disclaimers that the species as a whole benifits from such things and end up making a compelling case for the nazi genocide of WWII... Doesn't make right, but sure does make a nice argument.
In these situations, one of the best things you can do is write failing tests that he can implement. You have more experience, so you should set the tone and teh goals. Write the tests that you want to creat such that, when passing, will not only get the job done, but teach him something in the processess. Keep them small and instructive.
And in Japan again, websites such as ONTV JAPAN will let you access a personalized TV schedule through your cell phone and send "record this show" emails to the email address that is being monitored by your Toshiba DDV/HDD recorder.
Did I mention that this functionality is essentially free? Not a "less than 5$ a month" slow-bleed "service".
Funny what suplier competition does for the consumer...
With soap (the yardstick of civilisation), surgery, rescue helicopters, dentistry, wheelchairs etc, weaker individuals aren't killed off so easily before they can breed.
EEEEP, WRONG! Weaker individuals still die off before they can breed... The definition of "weaker" just changed, that's all.
In civilization, weaker may mean "gay", "adventurous", "bad driver", or any number of lifestyles that lead to more deaths before babies. IT:s a fallicy to think that "fittest" mean the same thing as "24 hour fitness gym". Fittests is simply that which fites best...
A perfect example of this is sickle cell anemia in areas with malaria. In those places the HEALTIEST people are at a greater risk of dying before they can breed than those who are sick with sickle-cell, because sickle-cell peole are more immunune to malaria.
Greylisting is the answer, because it works on the behavior of the spammer, something that cannot change easily, not on the content, something that changes with every message. If spammer cannot send as many emails as possible, as fast as possible, then the price of spam goes up dramatically. To overcome greylisting, a spammer must be willing to implement a full mail-server on thier end. In current implementations they must be willing to queue messages for resending, and must be on a traceable, non-changing IP that will not go down for at least an hour after the last message they sent went out. It forces spammers to be responsible. No more "fire and forget" style mass mailings. And the great thing about it is there is no defense, no way a spammer can change his stripes and still be capable of the volume of email that made spamming so profitable.
If you don't implement even a five minute greylist on yur mailserver, stop what you are doing and go implement it now.
I would hardly consider myself a conservative (at least in the Neocon sense), but it is a but discouraging to have individuals keep asserting "constitutional" rights which are completely illusory.
There is no constitutional right to complete anonymity, there never was.
Not very big on actually READING the constitution are you?
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It means, in layman's terms, that you have the right to do ANYTHING that the government doesn't prohibit.
So show me where there is a law that says complete anonimity is against the law... If you can't show me that, then it is ABSOLUTELY a right guaranteed by the constitution.
McCarthy was right - he did find a lot of communists
I thought it was supposed to be a "free" country, where you can hold whatever political beliefs you want, why would being a communist make you unfit for office?
Yet I can see how "bad things happening" would be directly a reaction to choices made through free will. I can't think of any bad things happening in my life that weren't directly because of choices I made, even if it seems like a cop out.
If you drive a car, instead of walking, the chance of getting into a major road accident increases, and you'll never get carjacked when walking.
Basically, his advice is simply to stay behind, because these new-fangled new technologies require you to actually increase your realm of understanding to use properly. If you are on a high-speed line, you actually have to care a little bit more about security, oh my! By by that same token, if you just stuck with a manual typewriter, you could avoid the threat of viruses altogether.
What use are the TDLs today, considering nobody really attempts to use them correcly anymore? And if just for a self-policing namespacing, then why not allow *any* TLD, having any of them that don't resolve to one of the "big" ones (.com,.org,.net,.mil,.edu, country domains, etc) all resolve to one set of "catch all" roots. Then people could come up with whatever they.want to.use as.a.top level.domain and register them.
Eclipse has a billion and one plugins, it runs on all platforms, it's awesome... Oh, but also it sucks. Absolutely anti-intuitive (perhaps holdover from it's IBM days? IBM couldn't design a UI to save thier lives). Inconsistancy, primarily, is my main beef. In one set of menus, FooBar is right on top, but on another it's two levels deep, but on the right-click context menu it's three levels deep in a completely different heirarchy... on one pane, but on another pane the right-click context menu for FooBar it's only one level deep, but is named slightly differently. It makes it's a nightmare to find what you are looking for even when know exactly what it is...
This is definitevely good as far as IT goes, but as a construction company only a fraction of our business is in the office (450 field people, 50 office, 3 IT), the rest is guys digging trenches and pouring concrete. How can you relate money saved on graders or hours of guys driving in a truck to good IT (both system and software development, which we outsource the development of, but I architect myself with our management team)?
For example, one of our great successes last year was not getting better servers and dramatically increase uptime and all kinds of good IT things, but was spending a couple of days writing a small Access app to import budgets from one system to another via ODBC so we can tell if we are losing money on the field or not. That's what really matters in the end! But how do you quantify such things?
Well, one thing ot remember is that you should only quantify the ends, not the means. Meaning, you should measure the quality of the final product, and not spend too much time attpting to measure the ingredients that went into that. Of course, if the final product is crap, then you will want to start measuring on finer and finer grained levels, but if you are being successful, then be VERY careful how deeply you look into your process.
Look too deep and you will feel the natural inclination to "fiddle" with things, only to find that it's a game of Jenga, and every thing you touch has the potential of bringing your entire development process down around your head in a way that you won't be able to recover from.
Not all "inefficiency" is as bad as some management classes/books will lead you to believe. In fact, more often than not, the percieved inefficiency is actually a vital component that you just can't see as such because you failed to notice some subtle element of the complete system.
Read studies on the incredible problems, for example, that plauged the park services in the early 1900's as a good analogy of what happens when you fiddle with carefully balanced systems. Maybe people wanted to protect the elk from becoming extinct in the park, so they killed most of the wolves that hunted them... so the elk population exploded, ate the forest clean and ended up extincting themselves, but not before extincting the beavers who also needed the same shrubs that they ate, which caused the salmon to die, which caused the river-grasses to overgrow, which caused... etc, on and on. Each step of the way the rangers would tweak one bit, then another then another, all trying to bring everything back into balance, and eventually the whole thing would collapse around them, taking decades to recover naturally.
Thats if you consider IT only system administration. What about application development, most companies need custom apps to meet business needs.
That's simple, don't attempt to measure them with the same stick. Internal application development should be measured with the same bar that you would measure app development for outside customers. System administration, however, should not be a part of that calculation, that is it's own ball fo wax.
And I guess I should also add.... no matter how tempting it looks to remove that guy who does nothing all day, don't do it. Finding those kinds of guys is HARD, and when it comes time to make a change to your infrastucture, you'll hire somone who will have a LOT more to do every day, but you will find yourselves paying the price for it.
...noone will be quite sure you've done anything at all. Good IT, I mean really good IT, will be a whole lot of nothing. You can value an IT department by just how little they have to do, because if they have done it right, there will very very little, beyond patching now and then, for them to actually do durning the day. Of course this isn't true when you upgrade systems, but in general, you should measure them not by how much they did, but by how much they didn't do.
So, instead of saying "Joe fixed three server meltdowns this week, good job, here is a raise!" go with "Joe's machines haven't needed maintenence for three years, here is your raise!"
The "undirected" part, I believe, is that mutations and genetic combination is more or less random rather than intentional
I'm thinking THIS is the area where we can apply God without much harm. I mean, it may LOOK random to you, but it's all part of God's Plan, see? Then you can continue working as though it were random, and they can continue saying, ah, what a wonderfully subtle plan, and we can all get on with the business of killing people in the name of God's Love and be done with it.
What I'm getting at here is that science states that the process of change in evolution is driven by mutation, and can explain what causes these mutations.
Sure, but just to make the creationistic people happy, can't you just say, "And it's God who decides the quantum fluctuations that caused that chromosome to misalign properly and create that mutation."
I just think that if God performed miracles, he'd do so that they had longevity in addition to an immediate awe factor.
Personally I find the awe factor in the much less miraculous. Just making something happen as if by "magic" seems almost like cheating. At that point, you have to ask, "Ok, so God can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and follow none of his own rules. Then why doesn't he just magic me up eternal happiness right now? Why make me jump thought these silly hoops? That's just mean, and in the end, pointless. Because it's obvious He could just change the rules on me at a moment's notice, so why even bother. This sucks."
Whereas when I see the vast forces of "mundane reality" at work, like neutron stars, galactic warping, the beauty of the simple unloved adinosine tri-phosphate molecule, the spooky twists and turns of quantum mechanics, I think, WHAH, now there is a God who has some class... Mysteries wrapped in riddles wrapped in enigmas, and just waiting for us to unravel!
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Yeah, I could come up with some really great arguments about the value of the individual vs the value of the society, and of the sacrifice of the few for then enrichment of the lives of the many, maybe throw in a little dispassionate darwinianism with disclaimers that the species as a whole benifits from such things and end up making a compelling case for the nazi genocide of WWII... Doesn't make right, but sure does make a nice argument.
In these situations, one of the best things you can do is write failing tests that he can implement. You have more experience, so you should set the tone and teh goals. Write the tests that you want to creat such that, when passing, will not only get the job done, but teach him something in the processess. Keep them small and instructive.
And in Japan again, websites such as ONTV JAPAN will let you access a personalized TV schedule through your cell phone and send "record this show" emails to the email address that is being monitored by your Toshiba DDV/HDD recorder.
Did I mention that this functionality is essentially free? Not a "less than 5$ a month" slow-bleed "service".
Funny what suplier competition does for the consumer...
With soap (the yardstick of civilisation), surgery, rescue helicopters, dentistry, wheelchairs etc, weaker individuals aren't killed off so easily before they can breed.
EEEEP, WRONG! Weaker individuals still die off before they can breed... The definition of "weaker" just changed, that's all.
In civilization, weaker may mean "gay", "adventurous", "bad driver", or any number of lifestyles that lead to more deaths before babies. IT:s a fallicy to think that "fittest" mean the same thing as "24 hour fitness gym". Fittests is simply that which fites best...
A perfect example of this is sickle cell anemia in areas with malaria. In those places the HEALTIEST people are at a greater risk of dying before they can breed than those who are sick with sickle-cell, because sickle-cell peole are more immunune to malaria.
And this is a step foreward for Gentoo, they've never had a graphical installer before.
It is also, ironically, a step backwards... Again, because of the graphical installer.
so Jesus had kids. What's wrong with that?
Because that might change the meaning of "WWJD?" in a way that some christians might not like thier teenage daughters thinking too carefully about...
Greylisting is the answer, because it works on the behavior of the spammer, something that cannot change easily, not on the content, something that changes with every message. If spammer cannot send as many emails as possible, as fast as possible, then the price of spam goes up dramatically. To overcome greylisting, a spammer must be willing to implement a full mail-server on thier end. In current implementations they must be willing to queue messages for resending, and must be on a traceable, non-changing IP that will not go down for at least an hour after the last message they sent went out. It forces spammers to be responsible. No more "fire and forget" style mass mailings. And the great thing about it is there is no defense, no way a spammer can change his stripes and still be capable of the volume of email that made spamming so profitable.
If you don't implement even a five minute greylist on yur mailserver, stop what you are doing and go implement it now.
I would hardly consider myself a conservative (at least in the Neocon sense), but it is a but discouraging to have individuals keep asserting "constitutional" rights which are completely illusory.
There is no constitutional right to complete anonymity, there never was.
Not very big on actually READING the constitution are you?
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It means, in layman's terms, that you have the right to do ANYTHING that the government doesn't prohibit.
So show me where there is a law that says complete anonimity is against the law... If you can't show me that, then it is ABSOLUTELY a right guaranteed by the constitution.
McCarthy was right - he did find a lot of communists
I thought it was supposed to be a "free" country, where you can hold whatever political beliefs you want, why would being a communist make you unfit for office?
Yet I can see how "bad things happening" would be directly a reaction to choices made through free will. I can't think of any bad things happening in my life that weren't directly because of choices I made, even if it seems like a cop out.
Not from new orleans are you?
If you drive a car, instead of walking, the chance of getting into a major road accident increases, and you'll never get carjacked when walking.
Basically, his advice is simply to stay behind, because these new-fangled new technologies require you to actually increase your realm of understanding to use properly. If you are on a high-speed line, you actually have to care a little bit more about security, oh my! By by that same token, if you just stuck with a manual typewriter, you could avoid the threat of viruses altogether.
To grasp how much data is in the Archive, if it were printed out as a single line of text, it would stretch around the world more than 250 times.
Not at a 100 million DPI it won't.
What use are the TDLs today, considering nobody really attempts to use them correcly anymore? And if just for a self-policing namespacing, then why not allow *any* TLD, having any of them that don't resolve to one of the "big" ones (.com, .org, .net, .mil, .edu, country domains, etc) all resolve to one set of "catch all" roots. Then people could come up with whatever they.want to.use as.a.top level.domain and register them.
Congress should find a way to regulate these new digital radio networks so labels can get paid when consumers keep copies of songs
While they are at it, how about passing a law so that MUSCIANS can get paid when then labels sell their music?
Eclipse has a billion and one plugins, it runs on all platforms, it's awesome... Oh, but also it sucks. Absolutely anti-intuitive (perhaps holdover from it's IBM days? IBM couldn't design a UI to save thier lives). Inconsistancy, primarily, is my main beef. In one set of menus, FooBar is right on top, but on another it's two levels deep, but on the right-click context menu it's three levels deep in a completely different heirarchy... on one pane, but on another pane the right-click context menu for FooBar it's only one level deep, but is named slightly differently. It makes it's a nightmare to find what you are looking for even when know exactly what it is...
This is definitevely good as far as IT goes, but as a construction company only a fraction of our business is in the office (450 field people, 50 office, 3 IT), the rest is guys digging trenches and pouring concrete. How can you relate money saved on graders or hours of guys driving in a truck to good IT (both system and software development, which we outsource the development of, but I architect myself with our management team)?
For example, one of our great successes last year was not getting better servers and dramatically increase uptime and all kinds of good IT things, but was spending a couple of days writing a small Access app to import budgets from one system to another via ODBC so we can tell if we are losing money on the field or not. That's what really matters in the end! But how do you quantify such things?
Well, one thing ot remember is that you should only quantify the ends, not the means. Meaning, you should measure the quality of the final product, and not spend too much time attpting to measure the ingredients that went into that. Of course, if the final product is crap, then you will want to start measuring on finer and finer grained levels, but if you are being successful, then be VERY careful how deeply you look into your process.
Look too deep and you will feel the natural inclination to "fiddle" with things, only to find that it's a game of Jenga, and every thing you touch has the potential of bringing your entire development process down around your head in a way that you won't be able to recover from.
Not all "inefficiency" is as bad as some management classes/books will lead you to believe. In fact, more often than not, the percieved inefficiency is actually a vital component that you just can't see as such because you failed to notice some subtle element of the complete system.
Read studies on the incredible problems, for example, that plauged the park services in the early 1900's as a good analogy of what happens when you fiddle with carefully balanced systems. Maybe people wanted to protect the elk from becoming extinct in the park, so they killed most of the wolves that hunted them... so the elk population exploded, ate the forest clean and ended up extincting themselves, but not before extincting the beavers who also needed the same shrubs that they ate, which caused the salmon to die, which caused the river-grasses to overgrow, which caused... etc, on and on. Each step of the way the rangers would tweak one bit, then another then another, all trying to bring everything back into balance, and eventually the whole thing would collapse around them, taking decades to recover naturally.
Thats if you consider IT only system administration. What about application development, most companies need custom apps to meet business needs.
That's simple, don't attempt to measure them with the same stick. Internal application development should be measured with the same bar that you would measure app development for outside customers. System administration, however, should not be a part of that calculation, that is it's own ball fo wax.
And I guess I should also add.... no matter how tempting it looks to remove that guy who does nothing all day, don't do it. Finding those kinds of guys is HARD, and when it comes time to make a change to your infrastucture, you'll hire somone who will have a LOT more to do every day, but you will find yourselves paying the price for it.
...noone will be quite sure you've done anything at all. Good IT, I mean really good IT, will be a whole lot of nothing. You can value an IT department by just how little they have to do, because if they have done it right, there will very very little, beyond patching now and then, for them to actually do durning the day. Of course this isn't true when you upgrade systems, but in general, you should measure them not by how much they did, but by how much they didn't do.
So, instead of saying "Joe fixed three server meltdowns this week, good job, here is a raise!" go with "Joe's machines haven't needed maintenence for three years, here is your raise!"
Turns out there is a small problem with DNF compatibility holding things up. Supposedly once that is fixed it'll be released the next day.
The "undirected" part, I believe, is that mutations and genetic combination is more or less random rather than intentional
I'm thinking THIS is the area where we can apply God without much harm. I mean, it may LOOK random to you, but it's all part of God's Plan, see? Then you can continue working as though it were random, and they can continue saying, ah, what a wonderfully subtle plan, and we can all get on with the business of killing people in the name of God's Love and be done with it.
What I'm getting at here is that science states that the process of change in evolution is driven by mutation, and can explain what causes these mutations.
Sure, but just to make the creationistic people happy, can't you just say, "And it's God who decides the quantum fluctuations that caused that chromosome to misalign properly and create that mutation."
I just think that if God performed miracles, he'd do so that they had longevity in addition to an immediate awe factor.
Personally I find the awe factor in the much less miraculous. Just making something happen as if by "magic" seems almost like cheating. At that point, you have to ask, "Ok, so God can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and follow none of his own rules. Then why doesn't he just magic me up eternal happiness right now? Why make me jump thought these silly hoops? That's just mean, and in the end, pointless. Because it's obvious He could just change the rules on me at a moment's notice, so why even bother. This sucks."
Whereas when I see the vast forces of "mundane reality" at work, like neutron stars, galactic warping, the beauty of the simple unloved adinosine tri-phosphate molecule, the spooky twists and turns of quantum mechanics, I think, WHAH, now there is a God who has some class... Mysteries wrapped in riddles wrapped in enigmas, and just waiting for us to unravel!
All revolutions have involved a degree of violence. Even the Indian Revolution was not without violence, despite Ghandi's best efforts.
Uh oh, Nintendo is in trouble.
'How can I do my thesis now?' a university student asked on another Chinese website shortly before being arrested for dissidance.