To hell with that - they forgot an even bigger question:
What in the unholy hell are all the BES admins going to do about this? Upgrade their server (bleah), or pray for patches, or build a ginormous blacklist, or...?
By every metric I am an utter failure and would be perceived as such in any court of public opinion.
Actually, not true - and the rebuttal comes from your own post:
...our crews have cut on average 10-20% off the construction time, we have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in production due to just-in-time delivery and accurate estimating of raw materials...
You tried to play it off as those metrics applying to other departments, but no department is an island. You only need to point to the success of your 'customers' (the other departments) as a metric showing your own.
At least you were allowed that option (of a hard drive RMA). Samsung insists that you send the whole machine in, despite describing to them that you put a spare hard disk into the laptop and it works fine. (Samsung RC-512-S01 here - less than a year old.)...and so I had a choice: send in the whole damned thing and go without a laptop for a couple of weeks (and have what used to be an Ubuntu laptop returned with Windows and all the Samsung crapware put back on it), or just buy another disk in spite of the their OEM version crapping out.
Long story short, I'm buying another hard drive, and my next laptop is coming from Apple.
A nice thought, but the problem lies in the fact that it isn't just a single generation soaked with this particular poison.
If it were just a matter of waiting until Orrin Hatch died off, that would be easy. OTOH, the MPAA and RIAA likely employs an awful lot of 30-somethings, as well as a lot of duped people out there who swallowed their propaganda... and that's going to take at least half a century before they die off.
I'm afraid we're stuck with either fighting, or watching the whole thing get strangled.
There is no reliable means or method to hide anymore - no matter how many TOR nodes you traversed to get your packets here. If they cannot reach you now, they will find ways to insure that they can (a heavily-modified and enforced TPM on all devices, anyone?)
Better to fight them now than suffer under their burdens later.
True, and it's not like they can't get a rough geographical location from your IP address to add to the relevance. They can also add server-side data for regular/frequent visitors if the site has multiple topics, so as to fine-tune which topic is the most relevant.
Microsoft certifications are about Microsoft products, they are not about technology in general.
No shit? Wow... now consider that I was responding to this exact post:
"I took some of the Microsoft certification Windows 2008 server courses, and I came out of understanding how these guys with their shiny certifications can be such incredibly ignorant idiots. I was astounded. How exactly any of it resembles in any way a proper education into something as multifaceted and at times complex as building, administering and troubleshooting an Active Directory environment was beyond me."
(emphasis mine)
Now kindly tell me where this post mentions "technology in general". Instead, it mentions Microsoft, and Active Directory. Nothing else.
Or do you mean there is actually some bug that causes the account to get locked simply by clicking cancel?
In this case the account locks out instantly (even with failure/restart attempts turned off)... Try it out sometime: Open the properties of an existing task tied to a different account, then click "ok", but click "cancel" when the auth/password window comes up. Locks that account out every time.
(come to think of it, schtasks.exe does have a command-line prompt... I wonder if one could exploit that somehow. )
It can be maddening when you get a new developer who monkeys around in there, then demands to know why a service account that runs our multi-server software suite vapor-locked on him (or rather, he blames you for it...)
Maybe you should get a bit more realistic... it's not the case that when you study for the Oracle Certified Master exam
...if we were talking about a vendor other than Microsoft, you might have had a point. As it is, MCPs, like most certs, were (and still are?) massively oriented around making your product stand out at the expense of all competition (perceived or otherwise).
Yes, worthless exams, but pretending the people holding such exams were trained by marketing people is simply dumb.
You may want to crack open one of the old official MSFT-blessed textbooks sometime: it's all about insuring that the 'students' never even think to consider any alternative. Also note that I didn't mention the folks "holding such exams", since those people are often third parties.
So you are suggesting that people get trained also on bugs and that training material gets constantly updated? Really?
You kind of missed the point, and you inadvertently amplified why it is that experience trumps certification.;)
If you're worried about hiring someone with certs that have no knowledge, couldn't that info be sussed out during the interview?
If you know how, yes.
Problem is, most folks don't, and those who do in the company aren't part of the interview process. Given this, most processes usually end up with half-clued IT managers who are easily impressed by buzzwords, interviewing someone who only needs to exhibit a knowledge spectrum just slightly deeper than that of the aforementioned managers.
The last time I bothered was for Windows 2000, and only then because the employer at the time demanded it. Not sure if it has changed, but back then you only needed to know that according to Microsoft, only a Microsoft-based solution to any given problem was considered sufficient. This was in spite of the fact that it often didn't make sense.
I suspect things haven't changed much, and in my humble-but-professional opinion, someone with only the cert (and little-to-no experience) usually meant that they were superbly trained as marketing zombies, but were absolutely worthless as sysadmins.
(...example? Clicking "cancel" when Task Scheduler demands a password in Server 2k8 will lock out an AD account in a hurry. Neat little bug, but one of the zillions of subtle things a sysadmin would know, but an MCSA would not.)
I took the plunge in 2004 and replaced my PC for four years with a Mac.
I mostly use PCs now because I mostly use laptops now, and my current desktop runs Linux (it's just a server these days).
OS-wise?
I prefer Linux for my server goodies (unless I really want it locked-down hard, then it's FreeBSD all the way). I recently put Linux on my laptop (HDD crash, gave me all the excuse I needed to get rid of Windows on it, etc).
Sometimes, I miss using OSX: It gave me a slick-assed UI coupled with a nice and powerful terminal environment. It's efficient as hell. I can get good apps for it (and until recently, OSX or Windows were your only real choices for CG hobby work).
But...
OSX has its disadvantages (file/folder merging, anyone? And yes I know about ditto - it sucks. Also, a dual G5 tower makes an excellent (and literal) room-heater in the winter, but a lousy one in the summer). It has its advantages (e.g. running OSX 10.3 for six years straight without bit-rot or needing a re-install, and still having the latest apps to that time run just as snappy on it).
Linux has its disadvantages (for the love of all that is holy - WTF will it take to get a DECENT.pdf editor!?). It has its advantages (I can modify the unholy shit out of it to my tastes - BTW, I'm installing fluxbox on this thing when I get a few spare hours this week).
Windows has its disadvantages (...do I need to count them all? Really? That's like 3 hours of typing...) It has its advantages (you can get apps for anything in it, and they generally work if you need them to).
Long story short? The OS wars are pretty much over. Your OS is just about as exciting as the engine in your car. Nobody outside of a few hobbyists really give a shit anymore about what's under the hood, as long as it runs.
There was a similar flap years ago between Chrissie Hinds (of the Pretenders) and Rush Limbaugh, who was using her song "Back to Ohio" as his opening and bump music. Thing is, Limbaugh paid the ASCAP and other associated licensing fees, so Hinds was basically told to bugger off (numerous times, and publicly on his show). I think she tried to sue, but discovered that she really couldn't do a damned thing about it.
My guess is that something very similar is the case here. Gingrich's campaign likely paid all the fees, and barring evidence otherwise, this guy is likely going to get told basically the same thing.
I don't think he was asking if suing was a profit center for Apple, but rather asking whether the money recovered via license agreements would cover the costs of all that litigation.
If they were successful in un-coupling themselves from any designation as a public entity, then claiming they and their equipment is purely private? They lose public rights-of-way for any stretch of their network that crosses private property (including easements in some cases). That means any property owner with a cable or fiber crossing his or her property can charge rent or cut the thing, and local governments can get real evil and charge massive rent to the private ISPs for easement
(e.g. "Dear Comcast: You recently lost public utility easement rights. You now owe me $3k/month rental fee. As an alternative, you have 90 days to re-route your cable and to repair any and all damages at your expense, and with proper approval and permits by all relevant city authorities. Failure to perform either act means that I rent a bobcat to dig up and dispose of the existing fiber found on my property for non-payment").
Actually, not at all. Once the other senators (for or against) realize that they are no longer immune to the laws of the little people, they'll be damned sure to do one of two things:
1) start chartering private jets or hop on military transports for all of their flights.
2) actually do something about that abomination they helped to deposit at every major airport in the US.
The betting pool is open, though sadly I'm gonna have to call dibs on #1.
The argument against condoms wasn't against using the devices as a means to safe sex. The argument was that you as a moral human being should have (or in the case of kids, instill) enough self-control to stop treating sex like it were a round of golf or a session of Modern Warfare 3, and instead treat it with the respect and dignity that intimate contact between two people should be in the first place.
Now certainly you might disagree, but misrepresenting the motivation by spewing the strawman you had? That isn't helping your argument any.
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To hell with that - they forgot an even bigger question:
What in the unholy hell are all the BES admins going to do about this? Upgrade their server (bleah), or pray for patches, or build a ginormous blacklist, or...?
By every metric I am an utter failure and would be perceived as such in any court of public opinion.
Actually, not true - and the rebuttal comes from your own post:
...our crews have cut on average 10-20% off the construction time, we have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in production due to just-in-time delivery and accurate estimating of raw materials...
You tried to play it off as those metrics applying to other departments, but no department is an island. You only need to point to the success of your 'customers' (the other departments) as a metric showing your own.
but, "Billions and Billions" does have a nice ring to it.
Only when Carl Sagan said it.
Anyone else just can't quite seem to pull it off.
Sorry, but some of us (Oregon) have no sales tax, and definitely do not want one.
What I see on the shelf is exactly what I pay.
I couldn;t care less if they support any of the software - I just want them to support the fucking hardware.
At least you were allowed that option (of a hard drive RMA). Samsung insists that you send the whole machine in, despite describing to them that you put a spare hard disk into the laptop and it works fine. (Samsung RC-512-S01 here - less than a year old.) ...and so I had a choice: send in the whole damned thing and go without a laptop for a couple of weeks (and have what used to be an Ubuntu laptop returned with Windows and all the Samsung crapware put back on it), or just buy another disk in spite of the their OEM version crapping out.
Long story short, I'm buying another hard drive, and my next laptop is coming from Apple.
A nice thought, but the problem lies in the fact that it isn't just a single generation soaked with this particular poison.
If it were just a matter of waiting until Orrin Hatch died off, that would be easy. OTOH, the MPAA and RIAA likely employs an awful lot of 30-somethings, as well as a lot of duped people out there who swallowed their propaganda... and that's going to take at least half a century before they die off.
I'm afraid we're stuck with either fighting, or watching the whole thing get strangled.
There is no reliable means or method to hide anymore - no matter how many TOR nodes you traversed to get your packets here. If they cannot reach you now, they will find ways to insure that they can (a heavily-modified and enforced TPM on all devices, anyone?)
Better to fight them now than suffer under their burdens later.
One would think that you would cover your costs through sales of that artwork, since the website would obviously be up there for marketing purposes.
For what it's worth, you can get it now: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/epanfjkfahimkgomnigadpkobaefekcd
(though I wouldn't be surprised if there was a default exception in place for you-know-who...)
True, and it's not like they can't get a rough geographical location from your IP address to add to the relevance. They can also add server-side data for regular/frequent visitors if the site has multiple topics, so as to fine-tune which topic is the most relevant.
Ad hominem = I win. ;)
But let's stomp your efforts anyway:
Microsoft certifications are about Microsoft products, they are not about technology in general.
No shit? Wow... now consider that I was responding to this exact post:
"I took some of the Microsoft certification Windows 2008 server courses, and I came out of understanding how these guys with their shiny certifications can be such incredibly ignorant idiots. I was astounded. How exactly any of it resembles in any way a proper education into something as multifaceted and at times complex as building, administering and troubleshooting an Active Directory environment was beyond me."
(emphasis mine)
Now kindly tell me where this post mentions "technology in general". Instead, it mentions Microsoft, and Active Directory. Nothing else.
Like I said - you missed the point. Grossly.
Or do you mean there is actually some bug that causes the account to get locked simply by clicking cancel?
In this case the account locks out instantly (even with failure/restart attempts turned off)... Try it out sometime: Open the properties of an existing task tied to a different account, then click "ok", but click "cancel" when the auth/password window comes up. Locks that account out every time.
(come to think of it, schtasks.exe does have a command-line prompt... I wonder if one could exploit that somehow. )
It can be maddening when you get a new developer who monkeys around in there, then demands to know why a service account that runs our multi-server software suite vapor-locked on him (or rather, he blames you for it...)
Maybe you should get a bit more realistic... it's not the case that when you study for the Oracle Certified Master exam
...if we were talking about a vendor other than Microsoft, you might have had a point. As it is, MCPs, like most certs, were (and still are?) massively oriented around making your product stand out at the expense of all competition (perceived or otherwise).
Yes, worthless exams, but pretending the people holding such exams were trained by marketing people is simply dumb.
You may want to crack open one of the old official MSFT-blessed textbooks sometime: it's all about insuring that the 'students' never even think to consider any alternative. Also note that I didn't mention the folks "holding such exams", since those people are often third parties.
So you are suggesting that people get trained also on bugs and that training material gets constantly updated? Really?
You kind of missed the point, and you inadvertently amplified why it is that experience trumps certification. ;)
If you're worried about hiring someone with certs that have no knowledge, couldn't that info be sussed out during the interview?
If you know how, yes.
Problem is, most folks don't, and those who do in the company aren't part of the interview process. Given this, most processes usually end up with half-clued IT managers who are easily impressed by buzzwords, interviewing someone who only needs to exhibit a knowledge spectrum just slightly deeper than that of the aforementioned managers.
It doesn't.
The last time I bothered was for Windows 2000, and only then because the employer at the time demanded it. Not sure if it has changed, but back then you only needed to know that according to Microsoft, only a Microsoft-based solution to any given problem was considered sufficient. This was in spite of the fact that it often didn't make sense.
I suspect things haven't changed much, and in my humble-but-professional opinion, someone with only the cert (and little-to-no experience) usually meant that they were superbly trained as marketing zombies, but were absolutely worthless as sysadmins.
(...example? Clicking "cancel" when Task Scheduler demands a password in Server 2k8 will lock out an AD account in a hurry. Neat little bug, but one of the zillions of subtle things a sysadmin would know, but an MCSA would not.)
They do, but at least they've (finally!) began putting in the disclosure that Mueller is a paid Microsoft shill.
I took the plunge in 2004 and replaced my PC for four years with a Mac.
I mostly use PCs now because I mostly use laptops now, and my current desktop runs Linux (it's just a server these days).
OS-wise?
I prefer Linux for my server goodies (unless I really want it locked-down hard, then it's FreeBSD all the way). I recently put Linux on my laptop (HDD crash, gave me all the excuse I needed to get rid of Windows on it, etc).
Sometimes, I miss using OSX: It gave me a slick-assed UI coupled with a nice and powerful terminal environment. It's efficient as hell. I can get good apps for it (and until recently, OSX or Windows were your only real choices for CG hobby work).
But...
OSX has its disadvantages (file/folder merging, anyone? And yes I know about ditto - it sucks. Also, a dual G5 tower makes an excellent (and literal) room-heater in the winter, but a lousy one in the summer). It has its advantages (e.g. running OSX 10.3 for six years straight without bit-rot or needing a re-install, and still having the latest apps to that time run just as snappy on it).
Linux has its disadvantages (for the love of all that is holy - WTF will it take to get a DECENT .pdf editor!?). It has its advantages (I can modify the unholy shit out of it to my tastes - BTW, I'm installing fluxbox on this thing when I get a few spare hours this week).
Windows has its disadvantages (...do I need to count them all? Really? That's like 3 hours of typing...) It has its advantages (you can get apps for anything in it, and they generally work if you need them to).
Long story short? The OS wars are pretty much over. Your OS is just about as exciting as the engine in your car. Nobody outside of a few hobbyists really give a shit anymore about what's under the hood, as long as it runs.
He likely already did.
There was a similar flap years ago between Chrissie Hinds (of the Pretenders) and Rush Limbaugh, who was using her song "Back to Ohio" as his opening and bump music. Thing is, Limbaugh paid the ASCAP and other associated licensing fees, so Hinds was basically told to bugger off (numerous times, and publicly on his show). I think she tried to sue, but discovered that she really couldn't do a damned thing about it.
My guess is that something very similar is the case here. Gingrich's campaign likely paid all the fees, and barring evidence otherwise, this guy is likely going to get told basically the same thing.
I don't think he was asking if suing was a profit center for Apple, but rather asking whether the money recovered via license agreements would cover the costs of all that litigation.
...not yet. They want the services rendered before they pay for it.
(and there is that $39k from "uncoded"...)
There is a danger in doing that.
If they were successful in un-coupling themselves from any designation as a public entity, then claiming they and their equipment is purely private? They lose public rights-of-way for any stretch of their network that crosses private property (including easements in some cases). That means any property owner with a cable or fiber crossing his or her property can charge rent or cut the thing, and local governments can get real evil and charge massive rent to the private ISPs for easement
(e.g. "Dear Comcast: You recently lost public utility easement rights. You now owe me $3k/month rental fee. As an alternative, you have 90 days to re-route your cable and to repair any and all damages at your expense, and with proper approval and permits by all relevant city authorities. Failure to perform either act means that I rent a bobcat to dig up and dispose of the existing fiber found on my property for non-payment").
Actually, not at all. Once the other senators (for or against) realize that they are no longer immune to the laws of the little people, they'll be damned sure to do one of two things:
1) start chartering private jets or hop on military transports for all of their flights.
2) actually do something about that abomination they helped to deposit at every major airport in the US.
The betting pool is open, though sadly I'm gonna have to call dibs on #1.
In this case, being 'confrontational' when standing up for your rights is certainly not a bad thing.
The argument against condoms wasn't against using the devices as a means to safe sex. The argument was that you as a moral human being should have (or in the case of kids, instill) enough self-control to stop treating sex like it were a round of golf or a session of Modern Warfare 3, and instead treat it with the respect and dignity that intimate contact between two people should be in the first place.
Now certainly you might disagree, but misrepresenting the motivation by spewing the strawman you had? That isn't helping your argument any.
Sorry, but Sagan turned out to be, well, wrong:
Pope John Paul II - "Faith can never conflict with reason"
an interview with the gent who runs the Vatican Observatory
Why Catholics Like Einstein
A small peek into the whole controversy
a bit of insight
Everyone points at Galileo (quite a few centuries back) and screams, but turns a blind eye towards everything else that's been going on ever since.