Sometimes I play 'sysadmin'. It winds up as the "this doesn't work, make it work" role. Today it was reading the RFC's to figure out how DSN's are supposed to be returned, writing the java.mailx code to make the developers' app do that, and explaning how SMTP works. Other times it's working through a SQL query planner, finding why packets are headed in the wrong direction, re-doing an architecture, etc. It's not possible to do the job well without good CS training, a solid background in coding, a solid background in networking, and just plain blood, sweat, and tears.
Then again, you could study for a test exam in 21 days and call yourself a sysadmin too. It's always the definitions.
Applications. Back when Microvision was in this space, they had customers like airplane engine repair. The techs could overlay a schematic of the engine on the engine they were working on, for instance. How much is that capability worth? Probably at prices over $15K, they'd start to to question the cost effectiveness.
Besides - nothing like early adopters to help fund development of the mass-market product, all while being competent beta testers for your effort.
I happened to be fortunate enough this past weekened to try to reinstall an XP system from a SP2 CD (OEM). Upon installation the first thing to do was to run an update, right? (OK after ftp ftp.mozilla.org)
I found:
Windows update failed to update anything. (404 errors that blew up the engine).
MSN's default page segfaulted the stock IE.
To install Security Essentials I had to first download Microsoft Installer 3.1 from the KB.
To actually get the machine to run automatic updates, I had to download the 300-ish MB SP3 network installer from the KB, and then tip-toe though several iterations. (Dial-up users need not apply).
And this they call 'supported until April 2014'. Yeah, I imagine they're working hard on fixing these...
Any scientist makes predictions of one sort or another, and now it seems pretty clear that they can be prosecuted for being wrong. And if they can be jailed, they can surely be sued.
Meteorologists ought to be running for the exits about now. Physicians can't be too far behind. Poincare will be held in detention until he can prove his conjecture.
This isn't hard; copyright says, "I will use my gang of armed men to prevent you from using your property in a way I claim is similar enough to what I think is a unique idea, in order to achieve my desires." *AA uses this to seek money. Finnish 'pirates' use this to restrict who may reuse. Different ends, same means.
Had they used WTFPL they could have issued an awesome press releaase congratulating Netflix.
True, but something like ''FedWorld' sounds like an obvious scam too. The thing is, obvious scams are obvious because it's easy to detect the incompetence, but then you try to apply that to government, and all bets are off.
The telcos can ship their integrated modem/wifi at full legal power and reduce support costs. When the gear fails in a couple years, the customer has to pay to replace it.
These passages are shared by Christians, Jews, and Muslims, so it's none of these religions. What religion values ignorance?
An amorphous term like 'a religion' is near to meaningless. It's what [some] religious people do. It goes like:
Q: If God is all loving and all powerful, why did he let that little girl suffer and die from cancer? A1: Ours is not to question the way of the Lord. A2: God works in mysterious ways. A3: God's plan is cannot be understand by us - we must have faith that it's all for the best. A4: Everything happens for a reason.
etc.
Any one religious passage will have a contradiction elsewhere, or be selectively ignored if inconvenient.
With the exception of some land in Nevada, nearly all land in the US belongs to 'the crown'. So-called landowners may own a piece of intellectual property called a 'title' which is described by a 'deed', often recorded by a county government.
I the case of eminent domain, the crown siezes the title and provides the titleholder with compensation for the IP and attached property (e.g. houses).
This system is known as holding land 'in fee simple'. Holding an 'alodial title' to the land is much closer to true land ownership, but even that the crown encumbers with restrictions that do not apply to other kinds of property.
Folks who pretend that the US system is one of strong property rights are kidding themselves. Those who eschew intellectual property on its face should examine their notions of real estate.
Not really. It's actually a well-considered bit of technology. Go read up on how it works - you may be impressed.
Who really wants to convert to e-currency with all the tracking that implies?
Everybody who uses credit and debit cards? NFC has the potential to be those, but much more secure. Yes, the current implementation of Google Wallet is a turkey, but that's a software problem.
His point was that they bought John and now John doesn't contribute anymore. Presumably because he spends all his time on proprietary code.
I don't know if that's true, but his argument, as framed, is that Apple took FreeBSD's most valuable asset and didn't give back after that. That's woudln't be 'paying for it', though John would have been well-rewarded for his efforts.
Riiight that why all the assembly jobs are still in the US.
It's not really the money. China has something like a $70 price advantage on a US-built iPhone. Apple people would pay it.
What you get in China, is that the factory that makes those mini screws you need for the iPhone is just down the road. This doesn't happen in Oklahoma - the industries have all left. The logistics of doing it in the US are nearly impossible.
Second, if you wanted to build that screw factory, in China, you just grease the right palms and build a screw factory, maybe with State financial support. In the US you begin a 7-year permitting process.
In the city where my office is Red Lobster wanted to put a restaurant. One of their canned designs they've done a hundred of. After two years in the city planner's office, they were at a meeting and the planner decided that she didn't like the propane tank in the back of the proposed restaurant, because, she said, somebody could pull off on the Interstate and shoot it with a high powered rifle, and cause an explosion that would kill everybody in the restaurant. This has never happened, even in a Michael Bay movie, and there are a dozen other restaurants in the plaza with the same setup, but she decided that Red Lobster should bury an underground tank (in a flood plane) big enough for all the restaurants to share, and that would make the world a happier place. They told the planner to go to hell, walked out of the meeting, and never came back to town.
21st Century America - inexplicably uncompetitive.
Given the complexity of the system, I wonder how it could possibly be fixed without someone using nearly dictatorial powers to overcome it.
It'll be OK. We'll have some rough patches to get through, but really a Constitutional Republic was itself a reflection of the technology of the time. As our race progresses, we discard old systems and move on to ones that make more sense - big thinkers categorize "the State" as such an artifact. Granted, the in-between periods are the ugliest.
Offensive speech is the only kind that actually needs free speech protections. Nobody bothers to challenge speech that causes no offense.
Americans used to say, "I hate what you say, but I would die for your right to say it." Now it seems to be overwhelmingly, "don't rock the boat, man. What's on TV tonight?"
"Even if the law would let you get away with it, I won't." That's not how most people view a free and open society, although arguably it is necessary to maintain one.
That society would be neither free nor open.
Free and open societies may allow some injustices to occur. But the notion that totalitarian (not fascist) societies don't is just totalitarian propaganda. So, the actual choices available are freedom or (soft) slavery.
My standard contract has a brief paragraph explaining the open source ecosystem, how we could start each code block from scratch instead at much greater cost but we'll use open source whenever possible to improve cost, time, and quality, and stating that software modifications tangential to the core business of the client will be fed back upstream, unless the client requests otherwise.
he's free to boost the amplifier and/or antenna gain on his end
This is why I was fairly shocked (:wince:) when Dick Cheney very publicly got a remotely programmable pacemaker while he was in office. We'd just read stories about bluetooth being beamed over something like a kilometer at the time.
The people you are referring to are called âoeFirst Nationsâ not Indians. Maybe you should look at a map also.
The people you are referring to are the third wave of settlers from Asia in North America, having successively driven out or killed the first two waves. Maybe you should look at a timeline also.
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Sometimes I play 'sysadmin'. It winds up as the "this doesn't work, make it work" role. Today it was reading the RFC's to figure out how DSN's are supposed to be returned, writing the java.mailx code to make the developers' app do that, and explaning how SMTP works. Other times it's working through a SQL query planner, finding why packets are headed in the wrong direction, re-doing an architecture, etc. It's not possible to do the job well without good CS training, a solid background in coding, a solid background in networking, and just plain blood, sweat, and tears.
Then again, you could study for a test exam in 21 days and call yourself a sysadmin too. It's always the definitions.
what justifies that price difference?
Applications. Back when Microvision was in this space, they had customers like airplane engine repair. The techs could overlay a schematic of the engine on the engine they were working on, for instance. How much is that capability worth? Probably at prices over $15K, they'd start to to question the cost effectiveness.
Besides - nothing like early adopters to help fund development of the mass-market product, all while being competent beta testers for your effort.
Bad luck if you're hosted in the US-East-1 Region, I guess.
Heh, I should really start advertising the LVS clusters I tend to as 'private clouds with better uptime than Amazon'.
I happened to be fortunate enough this past weekened to try to reinstall an XP system from a SP2 CD (OEM). Upon installation the first thing to do was to run an update, right? (OK after ftp ftp.mozilla.org)
I found:
Windows update failed to update anything. (404 errors that blew up the engine).
MSN's default page segfaulted the stock IE.
To install Security Essentials I had to first download Microsoft Installer 3.1 from the KB.
To actually get the machine to run automatic updates, I had to download the 300-ish MB SP3 network installer from the KB, and then tip-toe though several iterations. (Dial-up users need not apply).
And this they call 'supported until April 2014'. Yeah, I imagine they're working hard on fixing these...
The lesson here is don't be a scientist in Italy
TFTFY.
Any scientist makes predictions of one sort or another, and now it seems pretty clear that they can be prosecuted for being wrong. And if they can be jailed, they can surely be sued.
Meteorologists ought to be running for the exits about now. Physicians can't be too far behind. Poincare will be held in detention until he can prove his conjecture.
This isn't hard; copyright says, "I will use my gang of armed men to prevent you from using your property in a way I claim is similar enough to what I think is a unique idea, in order to achieve my desires." *AA uses this to seek money. Finnish 'pirates' use this to restrict who may reuse. Different ends, same means.
Had they used WTFPL they could have issued an awesome press releaase congratulating Netflix.
True, but something like ''FedWorld' sounds like an obvious scam too. The thing is, obvious scams are obvious because it's easy to detect the incompetence, but then you try to apply that to government, and all bets are off.
The telcos can ship their integrated modem/wifi at full legal power and reduce support costs. When the gear fails in a couple years, the customer has to pay to replace it.
These passages are shared by Christians, Jews, and Muslims, so it's none of these religions. What religion values ignorance?
An amorphous term like 'a religion' is near to meaningless. It's what [some] religious people do. It goes like:
Q: If God is all loving and all powerful, why did he let that little girl suffer and die from cancer?
A1: Ours is not to question the way of the Lord.
A2: God works in mysterious ways.
A3: God's plan is cannot be understand by us - we must have faith that it's all for the best.
A4: Everything happens for a reason.
etc.
Any one religious passage will have a contradiction elsewhere, or be selectively ignored if inconvenient.
With the exception of some land in Nevada, nearly all land in the US belongs to 'the crown'. So-called landowners may own a piece of intellectual property called a 'title' which is described by a 'deed', often recorded by a county government.
I the case of eminent domain, the crown siezes the title and provides the titleholder with compensation for the IP and attached property (e.g. houses).
This system is known as holding land 'in fee simple'. Holding an 'alodial title' to the land is much closer to true land ownership, but even that the crown encumbers with restrictions that do not apply to other kinds of property.
Folks who pretend that the US system is one of strong property rights are kidding themselves. Those who eschew intellectual property on its face should examine their notions of real estate.
Interesting outcome...
Indeed. Who could have predicted that? ;)
That's a separate argument.
If Microsoft offered Linus $100M to retire, would you consider that to be "Microsoft paying for Linux"?
The bastard child of RFID and bluetooth.
Not really. It's actually a well-considered bit of technology. Go read up on how it works - you may be impressed.
Who really wants to convert to e-currency with all the tracking that implies?
Everybody who uses credit and debit cards? NFC has the potential to be those, but much more secure. Yes, the current implementation of Google Wallet is a turkey, but that's a software problem.
Replacing cash is a separate issue.
So you steal stuff by paying for it?
His point was that they bought John and now John doesn't contribute anymore. Presumably because he spends all his time on proprietary code.
I don't know if that's true, but his argument, as framed, is that Apple took FreeBSD's most valuable asset and didn't give back after that. That's woudln't be 'paying for it', though John would have been well-rewarded for his efforts.
Riiight that why all the assembly jobs are still in the US.
It's not really the money. China has something like a $70 price advantage on a US-built iPhone. Apple people would pay it.
What you get in China, is that the factory that makes those mini screws you need for the iPhone is just down the road. This doesn't happen in Oklahoma - the industries have all left. The logistics of doing it in the US are nearly impossible.
Second, if you wanted to build that screw factory, in China, you just grease the right palms and build a screw factory, maybe with State financial support. In the US you begin a 7-year permitting process.
In the city where my office is Red Lobster wanted to put a restaurant. One of their canned designs they've done a hundred of. After two years in the city planner's office, they were at a meeting and the planner decided that she didn't like the propane tank in the back of the proposed restaurant, because, she said, somebody could pull off on the Interstate and shoot it with a high powered rifle, and cause an explosion that would kill everybody in the restaurant. This has never happened, even in a Michael Bay movie, and there are a dozen other restaurants in the plaza with the same setup, but she decided that Red Lobster should bury an underground tank (in a flood plane) big enough for all the restaurants to share, and that would make the world a happier place. They told the planner to go to hell, walked out of the meeting, and never came back to town.
21st Century America - inexplicably uncompetitive.
I do fucking CAD/CAM and get paid way less than that!
Guys who load boxes onto ships get $120/hr, 8hrs per day, plus overtime differential and benefits.
Given the complexity of the system, I wonder how it could possibly be fixed without someone using nearly dictatorial powers to overcome it.
It'll be OK. We'll have some rough patches to get through, but really a Constitutional Republic was itself a reflection of the technology of the time. As our race progresses, we discard old systems and move on to ones that make more sense - big thinkers categorize "the State" as such an artifact. Granted, the in-between periods are the ugliest.
Cause offense?
Offensive speech is the only kind that actually needs free speech protections. Nobody bothers to challenge speech that causes no offense.
Americans used to say, "I hate what you say, but I would die for your right to say it." Now it seems to be overwhelmingly, "don't rock the boat, man. What's on TV tonight?"
Sometimes, there's just no way to win. You pick the least bad route.
Quite so. There's no ideal world, and putting more people in prison won't achieve one.
The physicians have a good saying: "first, do no harm."
"Even if the law would let you get away with it, I won't." That's not how most people view a free and open society, although arguably it is necessary to maintain one.
That society would be neither free nor open.
Free and open societies may allow some injustices to occur. But the notion that totalitarian (not fascist) societies don't is just totalitarian propaganda. So, the actual choices available are freedom or (soft) slavery.
My standard contract has a brief paragraph explaining the open source ecosystem, how we could start each code block from scratch instead at much greater cost but we'll use open source whenever possible to improve cost, time, and quality, and stating that software modifications tangential to the core business of the client will be fed back upstream, unless the client requests otherwise.
Deal with the issue once.
he's free to boost the amplifier and/or antenna gain on his end
This is why I was fairly shocked (:wince:) when Dick Cheney very publicly got a remotely programmable pacemaker while he was in office. We'd just read stories about bluetooth being beamed over something like a kilometer at the time.
The people you are referring to are called âoeFirst Nationsâ not Indians. Maybe you should look at a map also.
The people you are referring to are the third wave of settlers from Asia in North America, having successively driven out or killed the first two waves. Maybe you should look at a timeline also.
There are no other nations involved here, so there's no reason not to use the name they call themselves.
But, I want to get points for being politically correct and still be too lazy to learn the names of the people I pretend to care about!