You make a very good point. Talk to someone Islamic. I am not Islamic, but a rather identify with the type of 'Reformed' Christianity espoused as websites like Antithesis.com and the Credenda Agenda.
That said, I know enough to know that it is ONLY the most radical and a minority of Islamics who preach violence. Most, if not all, condemn such CSCB terrorist acts. It would be victory for the chicken-shit-coward-bastard (CSCB)-terrorists if they could take these sad events and make us hate our Islamic neihbor.
While we may disagree about God and country, I would prefer to debate our differences over some cold beer and hummus, as opposed to hot lead and fire.
It's clear, by now, that we're in a state of war. But unlike Perl Harbor, where the enemy was easily identifiable, we now must figure out who's responsible.
I've always felt terrorists were chicken-shits. I've got friends and relatives who work both in the Trade Center, and the Pentagon. Regular family people. Moms with kids in school. Dads who surf about/. Little kids on field trips.
I realize part of the isssue here is the concern over attacks against GPL'd studio/production software. But this issue does als make me wonder about recording softwares, such as Cakewalk's Sonar, Motu's Performer and OpCodes CuBase ?
Or what does this say to Real Network, who gives the Basic version of their Real Producer product away for free ?
Either way, I find this decision disturbing and somewhat depresssing as Linux was just getting around to providing some serious multi-media production capability, at a cost that agrees with most home studio/users.
I couldn't agree more. I remember back in grad school (a million years ago), we had a dreamy-eyed project management professor who got all bent out of shape because I delivered my analysis of a 'case study' affixed inside of a (clean) pizza box.
The point was to emphasize that when a pizza is delivered to my house, I don't care if it was cooked in a Vulcan or Middlebe-Marby oven, if they used X or Y management style or if they were driven by this factor or not.
All I care about is that if the local manufacturer of circular pseudo-Italian cuisine:
delivered it fast enough;
delivered it as specified;
wasn't stuck to the top of the box;
didn't taste like the top of the box.
I mean if I wanted "quality" Italian, then I'd get dressed up, take the wife downtown, spend some time and some bucks... yet amazingly enough, even in those cases, I didn't give a fig about how the restaurant was managed.
How can a developer communicate to managers... Keep in mind that managers, such as yours, are likely to have a different priorities. Delivering a 'quantity' bottom line is as important to management as you producing 'quality' code. Moreover, the manager is likely NOT to consider the programmer's cry for quality if there is no such echo from the paying client.
"but it's not very project oriented as much as it's become 'throw in pre-written, pre-used functions'" Welcome to the maintenance phase. I don't know your particular circumstance, but it sounds like your project has hit a certain plateau. As a result, much of the work takes on an ad-hoc flavor. Managers love this if it's a time + labor type contract. The problem is, this can become very maddening to the programmer as he/she is compelled to write code at an unspecified, moving target. Which is then followed by fixing or modifying such code because despite the client's belief that we, actually cannot read his/her mind. At times, it is like chasing one's tail.
'The work simply doesn't stop and the more we get it seems the less we ensure quality work' I would LOVE to have nothing but bleeding edge work all my life. However, with almost twenty some-odd years in the industry I've learned that maintenance happens. Which is bad because it's happening to me, but good because I am the most fixable element.
Sounds like I've succumbed to the pointy-headed-boss ? Perhaps, but consider my most recent situation, which sounds similar to yours. Realizing it was going to be a bit repetitive, I built some libraries and some code generation tools. Since management only cared about getting the web reports out, I told them I needed several reporting languages on the server (e.g. php, perl, python, jsp, etc...).
I got about 2/3rds of what I asked for, and kept interested learning new stuff on their nickel. They didn't care, as long as the client was getting what they wanted within a reasonable time frame.
Because a portion of it was repetitive, I built libraries and code-generation for the rest of the programmers. This in turn bought the programmers on staff, including myself, time to focus on quality. Taking a bit of extra time these tools bought us to call the client and figure out exactly what they wanted before we put code to compile.
I know this sound a bit preachy. But I'm not speaking as some great genius, but rather someone who's learned from their mistakes. More than once I got myself in a jam because I didn't understand the simple reality that when I point the finger at someone else, I'm also pointing three back at me. And that since I have more control of my situation than that of my manager and my client, it's often smarter, easier and more profitable to see if it's possible to make changes on my side first.
When that's not possible, then I don't waste my manager's time with complaints, I just field my resume and leave them scratching their heads... but with nothing negative to say about me.
Hypocrite! Considering the vitriol and disdain you express towards everyone in the/. community, one can hardly believe you are enjoying anything about life, let alone your high-tech job.
You make good points but none of them are worth a shit. Interesting example of an oxymoron. Even more interesting your prediction as to the nature of the next trojan, as one could easily replace.rpm with.exe and.tar.gz with.zip. Only in the ammended case, one doesn't even have the advantage of looking at the code.
The point being, trojans and viruses are designed to catch us asleep at the switch. With some switches and situations being easier to catch than others. Which is why no system is entirely foolproof as long as we mere mortals sit behind the keyboard.
The Linux community is the most pompous overzealous group of computer users I have seen in a long time. Well, I must disagree. Though there has been a 10 year remission, the screes of the Atari ST users still ring sourly in my ears.
I remember when that daggoned cube came out. There were a slew of less then reputable ads that came out in the backs of magazines and comic books promising a solution. Most of them looked like this:
The story told us what, that is, our daily java fix is going to make our pipelines rock solid. Okay, but it didn't mention WHY ? Is it the caffine, so I switch to decaf ? Is it the sugar, so I switch to saccharine ? Is it the cream, so I switch to a white-pasty like chemical ?
Telling me it's going to kill me without telling me why... well that's about as generic as saying "anyone who breathes air is prone to die".
I work with teenagers in my spare time. One of our indoor plans for the geekier kids is to take several instances of Pentium I and II technology and apply them to a beowulf cluster sometime during the cold of winter. Not sure what we'll compute, but it should be fun.
I do alot of gratis work for a variety of charities around town. I encourage them to use StarOffice so save some bucks and avoid legal (and ethical) problems with licensing.
The first question in every case is "can it read my word/word perfect/excel/powerpoint files? Even when I tell them yes, many of them balk. Oh thee of little faith.
Man, I thought we were hot stuff as kids when we'd put an M80 where the parachute was supposed to go in our Estes Rockets... but puling down lightening... and getting pictures of it. Now that's a neat trick !
BTW, saw this story almost a year ago. Must be summer re-runs.
I'm thinking DES. Since he worked for the USAF, he probably had a little stand alone DOS or Windows program the US.Gov hands out to many employees and contractors.
Problem is, if you don't double, and preferably triple encrypt, and if you don't use nonsensical alpha-numeric strings as keys, then you're going to get brute-forced.
However, in this case, because it took place a public library computers, I suspect it was just an issue where the FBI recorded this nut's keystrokes.
silly spies, DES is for kids
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As someone who lives in the D.C. area, I run into alot of retired 20yr/career military types who are "double dipping" (local vernacular for someone taking a pension while working). I didn't realize spying was an option.
What I find most interesting is whow BAD a spy this guy was. Going back to the same account nine times ? Especially regularly using, and repeatedly ging back to local public libraries, where all activity is recorded and logged for just such abuses ? Where the library's access to the network is often via some other local government agency or educational institution ?
And the list of stupidity goes on. Including continuing with the same Modus Operendi after making the initial contact via the internet... moreover, to do it in a town which is chock full of feds looking for the big bust. Man, this guy did everything but walk in front of the Hoover building with a sandwhich board that read "Hi I'm Brian. Come Spy with Me".
The entire incident is mind boggling and makes me wonder what type of security they're NOT teaching our USAF boys in blue.
Having written some articles in a past life for a now defunct technical/multi-media journal, I remember getting in particularly hot water. Something to do with PC MIDI cards, one in particular that was fresh, revolutionary, offered SMPTE, and didn't cut corners like some other companies.
And though in my review, I was technically correct, and even though I did NOT mention any competitors, UBETCHA, one of these companies, particularly the one which took out several half page ads, demanded from the editors a retraction... and my head on a stick.
Needless to say, the magazine didn't ask me to write any further articles. Needless to say, as other, competent writers were also stifled for telling the truth, that the magazine languished in limbo for almost a year... then died an unnoticed death.
It was fun to write articles, but I noticed alot of authors in it for the conventions and parties that came along with the press pass. I also began to notice several other editors who sucked up to advertising clients, even when the technology begged otherwise.
I also noticed that many such magazines are short-lived.
While one cannot pooh-pooh the vast economical savings of using 'alternative' operating systems to mickysoft's, I suspect that some of the reasons may also be cultural.
Certainly, one can buy the version of the MickySoft OS product. However, with Linux, one can alter it so it not only speaks one's language, but so it reflects the way one is raised to think... which may not always be left-to-right, top-to-bottom, red-white-n-blue the way God intended it, US of A type approach.
Another thought is that it could be attractive because it is easier to get talent from a variety of people in a variety of countries, without all the hassle of regulation that encumbers even the most generous employer (especially here in the U.S.).
It may also have to do with the fact, and I'll need some help from you foreigner types, that us Americans want our individual PC's on our individual desks in our individiual cubicles as opposed to some X thingie who's processor ias a II instead of a III after it (unless of course you are a geek god, who is then granted a IV from the pointy heads in those aquarium like offices).
... as an almost lifetime resident of the D.C. (we're not going to mention that NYC thing anymore !-)... I find the article encouraging, but also ironic.
Considering how bad traffic is in this region of the country, and how high-tech many of the jobs are, many employers in the area still balk at the thought of telecommuting.
Perhaps the image of employees leaning back in their ergo seats in sweats and undies writing important code is just too much... but it's probably an old Gov't. mentality that employees need to be within range of the manager's to be effective.
Just an errant thought as I read the article. Could it be the old giant, IBM has shown us some of the blue-fu that has kept this company around near or on the top for so many years ? For example:
Bird 1 - undercutting Sun high-end
"SIAC's Artmail applications previously ran on Sun Microsystems Inc. servers that used Unix. But they will now run on IBM Linux servers linked to an IBM mainframe system."
IBM's girthieness has been a liability in the past. Not so much for the hardware itself; though expensive. Rather, much of the rub has been on the expense and limitations of its operating system, as anyone using MVS will attest. Linux literally flips that around against it's competitors, forcing companies such as Sun's high-end to compete chip-to-chip with IBM's mid to low end iron.
Stone 2 - Microsoft's cost of Open Source argument
"Though basic Linux software is free, IBM makes money by selling the middleware that links Linux with existing software and computer systems at places like SIAC. It also makes money by selling Linux servers and services for Linux-based systems."
Here IBM parlays one of its biggest, and most enduring strengths... selling services. Let's face it, there's not much in the way of COTS that Microsoft can FUD with when it comes to Wall Streeters, and their propensity to roll and re-roll their own apps.
Kudos to someone where at Itty Bitty Machines for figuring this one out.
I remember 15 years ago, while still working with a Wall Street firm. I was visiting a programming friend at another shop, who amazed me with some wild stuff he was doing on a Sun. I asked him, did he think that the industry (we didn't use hip terms like "the street") would shed the IBMs mains and VAXen minis for a Unix-based platform. He turned to the screen and ran features on his creation that we only dreamed of on these other systems. Alarms, alerts, graphics, etc... stuff that even PDAs can do now.
Now, well away from Wall Street, and away from the buzz, I wonder how many back rooms are filled with geek projects running on Linux, the same way they were being hacked out on Suns 15 years ago ? If it is what I suspect it might be, then Mr.Gates has a problem that can't be factored with FUD.
As I recall, it was financial apps like VisCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 that greatly aided the PC revolution. Likewise, as business men and women endured dragging sowing machine size luggables around airports, the portable industry grew.
Could it be that an operating system, such as Linux, and all that it offers in frugality and flexibility, is indeed the killer app ? If so,
how ironic that it appears that big-business may be aiding of all things, the Open Source movement.
Too late, just bought a slew of O'Reilly books and some LInux titles at ReadMeDoc.com... not only were they discounted 25 to 30%... but they gave me a further discount for buying 5 or more books...
... and again, the nice young lady at the register recognized the faces of me and my coworker... with a warm greeting (something else I don't get at Border's these days).
Oh, I'll go back... especially now that they're not playing facial disgracial anymore... but from now own, they won't be my first stop.
Again with the MHz/clockspeed ?! C'mon, who cares if my processor can calculate PI out to the nth degree, if bussing that information from the CPU gets bogged down traveling down through the backplane/motherboard into memory that has been gobbled-up by a greedy and leadky operating system, which is only slowed even further by crappy disks using an archaic file system ?
Yeah, spoken like someone who's never dealt with the humilation and expense of being falsely arrested. Believe me, when that cop slaps on them bracelets, and when you spend a night in jail, go though the painful task of finding a lawyer that believes you, pay the legal bills, just to get expundged because some creten who understands the expense of falsely accusing you, you'll understand why some of us get so pissed off.
Hey, I stopped doing BOrders and B&N years ago. Then again, I have access to a local ReadMeDoc.com for all the O'Reilly and Sybex books I can shove on my shelf at a 30% discount.
The only facial recognition I get is from the nice lady at the cash register who seems to remember everyone, and gives them all an kind greeting and warm smile... and reminds of discounts we've overlooked.
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You make a very good point. Talk to someone Islamic. I am not Islamic, but a rather identify with the type of 'Reformed' Christianity espoused as websites like Antithesis.com and the Credenda Agenda.
That said, I know enough to know that it is ONLY the most radical and a minority of Islamics who preach violence. Most, if not all, condemn such CSCB terrorist acts. It would be victory for the chicken-shit-coward-bastard (CSCB)-terrorists if they could take these sad events and make us hate our Islamic neihbor.
While we may disagree about God and country, I would prefer to debate our differences over some cold beer and hummus, as opposed to hot lead and fire.
Just to add to your observations. I live here in a nearby burb, inbetween all three major DC aiports and in direct flight line to Camp David.
Which may explain the occasional jet fighter and helicopter that buzzes overhead.
I'm curious. How do we now respond ? Do we
take out someone like Ben Ladin as an example, whether he's guilty or not ?
eye for an eye, 86 some of their planes ?
empty our prisons of our most dangerous criminals, arm them and air-drop them on the guilty ?
nuke someone ?
turn the other cheek ?
And what are the long-term reprecussions of how we resond ?
It's clear, by now, that we're in a state of war. But unlike Perl Harbor, where the enemy was easily identifiable, we now must figure out who's responsible.
/. Little kids on field trips.
I've always felt terrorists were chicken-shits. I've got friends and relatives who work both in the Trade Center, and the Pentagon. Regular family people. Moms with kids in school. Dads who surf about
Terrorist == Cowards
I realize part of the isssue here is the concern over attacks against GPL'd studio/production software. But this issue does als make me wonder about recording softwares, such as Cakewalk's Sonar, Motu's Performer and OpCodes CuBase ?
Or what does this say to Real Network, who gives the Basic version of their Real Producer product away for free ?
Either way, I find this decision disturbing and somewhat depresssing as Linux was just getting around to providing some serious multi-media production capability, at a cost that agrees with most home studio/users.
The point was to emphasize that when a pizza is delivered to my house, I don't care if it was cooked in a Vulcan or Middlebe-Marby oven, if they used X or Y management style or if they were driven by this factor or not.
All I care about is that if the local manufacturer of circular pseudo-Italian cuisine:
delivered it fast enough;
delivered it as specified;
wasn't stuck to the top of the box;
didn't taste like the top of the box.
... yet amazingly enough, even in those cases, I didn't give a fig about how the restaurant was managed.
I mean if I wanted "quality" Italian, then I'd get dressed up, take the wife downtown, spend some time and some bucks
How can a developer communicate to managers...
Keep in mind that managers, such as yours, are likely to have a different priorities. Delivering a 'quantity' bottom line is as important to management as you producing 'quality' code. Moreover, the manager is likely NOT to consider the programmer's cry for quality if there is no such echo from the paying client.
"but it's not very project oriented as much as it's become 'throw in pre-written, pre-used functions'"
Welcome to the maintenance phase. I don't know your particular circumstance, but it sounds like your project has hit a certain plateau. As a result, much of the work takes on an ad-hoc flavor. Managers love this if it's a time + labor type contract. The problem is, this can become very maddening to the programmer as he/she is compelled to write code at an unspecified, moving target. Which is then followed by fixing or modifying such code because despite the client's belief that we, actually cannot read his/her mind. At times, it is like chasing one's tail.
'The work simply doesn't stop and the more we get it seems the less we ensure quality work'
...).
... but with nothing negative to say about me.
I would LOVE to have nothing but bleeding edge work all my life. However, with almost twenty some-odd years in the industry I've learned that maintenance happens. Which is bad because it's happening to me, but good because I am the most fixable element.
Sounds like I've succumbed to the pointy-headed-boss ? Perhaps, but consider my most recent situation, which sounds similar to yours. Realizing it was going to be a bit repetitive, I built some libraries and some code generation tools. Since management only cared about getting the web reports out, I told them I needed several reporting languages on the server (e.g. php, perl, python, jsp, etc
I got about 2/3rds of what I asked for, and kept interested learning new stuff on their nickel. They didn't care, as long as the client was getting what they wanted within a reasonable time frame.
Because a portion of it was repetitive, I built libraries and code-generation for the rest of the programmers. This in turn bought the programmers on staff, including myself, time to focus on quality. Taking a bit of extra time these tools bought us to call the client and figure out exactly what they wanted before we put code to compile.
I know this sound a bit preachy. But I'm not speaking as some great genius, but rather someone who's learned from their mistakes. More than once I got myself in a jam because I didn't understand the simple reality that when I point the finger at someone else, I'm also pointing three back at me. And that since I have more control of my situation than that of my manager and my client, it's often smarter, easier and more profitable to see if it's possible to make changes on my side first.
When that's not possible, then I don't waste my manager's time with complaints, I just field my resume and leave them scratching their heads
Hypocrite! Considering the vitriol and disdain you express towards everyone in the /. community, one can hardly believe you are enjoying anything about life, let alone your high-tech job.
You make good points but none of them are worth a shit. .rpm with .exe and .tar.gz with .zip. Only in the ammended case, one doesn't even have the advantage of looking at the code.
Interesting example of an oxymoron. Even more interesting your prediction as to the nature of the next trojan, as one could easily replace
The point being, trojans and viruses are designed to catch us asleep at the switch. With some switches and situations being easier to catch than others. Which is why no system is entirely foolproof as long as we mere mortals sit behind the keyboard.
The Linux community is the most pompous overzealous group of computer users I have seen in a long time.
Well, I must disagree. Though there has been a 10 year remission, the screes of the Atari ST users still ring sourly in my ears.
I remember when that daggoned cube came out. There were a slew of less then reputable ads that came out in the backs of magazines and comic books promising a solution. Most of them looked like this:
High Impact
Incisive
Hot
Telling me it's going to kill me without telling me why
I work with teenagers in my spare time. One of our indoor plans for the geekier kids is to take several instances of Pentium I and II technology and apply them to a beowulf cluster sometime during the cold of winter. Not sure what we'll compute, but it should be fun.
The first question in every case is "can it read my word/word perfect/excel/powerpoint files? Even when I tell them yes, many of them balk. Oh thee of little faith.
BTW, saw this story almost a year ago. Must be summer re-runs.
I'm thinking DES. Since he worked for the USAF, he probably had a little stand alone DOS or Windows program the US.Gov hands out to many employees and contractors.
Problem is, if you don't double, and preferably triple encrypt, and if you don't use nonsensical alpha-numeric strings as keys, then you're going to get brute-forced.
However, in this case, because it took place a public library computers, I suspect it was just an issue where the FBI recorded this nut's keystrokes.
As someone who lives in the D.C. area, I run into alot of retired 20yr/career military types who are "double dipping" (local vernacular for someone taking a pension while working). I didn't realize spying was an option.
... moreover, to do it in a town which is chock full of feds looking for the big bust. Man, this guy did everything but walk in front of the Hoover building with a sandwhich board that read "Hi I'm Brian. Come Spy with Me".
What I find most interesting is whow BAD a spy this guy was. Going back to the same account nine times ? Especially regularly using, and repeatedly ging back to local public libraries, where all activity is recorded and logged for just such abuses ? Where the library's access to the network is often via some other local government agency or educational institution ?
And the list of stupidity goes on. Including continuing with the same Modus Operendi after making the initial contact via the internet
The entire incident is mind boggling and makes me wonder what type of security they're NOT teaching our USAF boys in blue.
Having written some articles in a past life for a now defunct technical/multi-media journal, I remember getting in particularly hot water. Something to do with PC MIDI cards, one in particular that was fresh, revolutionary, offered SMPTE, and didn't cut corners like some other companies.
... and my head on a stick.
... then died an unnoticed death.
And though in my review, I was technically correct, and even though I did NOT mention any competitors, UBETCHA, one of these companies, particularly the one which took out several half page ads, demanded from the editors a retraction
Needless to say, the magazine didn't ask me to write any further articles. Needless to say, as other, competent writers were also stifled for telling the truth, that the magazine languished in limbo for almost a year
It was fun to write articles, but I noticed alot of authors in it for the conventions and parties that came along with the press pass. I also began to notice several other editors who sucked up to advertising clients, even when the technology begged otherwise.
I also noticed that many such magazines are short-lived.
While one cannot pooh-pooh the vast economical savings of using 'alternative' operating systems to mickysoft's, I suspect that some of the reasons may also be cultural.
... which may not always be left-to-right, top-to-bottom, red-white-n-blue the way God intended it, US of A type approach.
Certainly, one can buy the version of the MickySoft OS product. However, with Linux, one can alter it so it not only speaks one's language, but so it reflects the way one is raised to think
Another thought is that it could be attractive because it is easier to get talent from a variety of people in a variety of countries, without all the hassle of regulation that encumbers even the most generous employer (especially here in the U.S.).
It may also have to do with the fact, and I'll need some help from you foreigner types, that us Americans want our individual PC's on our individual desks in our individiual cubicles as opposed to some X thingie who's processor ias a II instead of a III after it (unless of course you are a geek god, who is then granted a IV from the pointy heads in those aquarium like offices).
... as an almost lifetime resident of the D.C. (we're not going to mention that NYC thing anymore !-) ... I find the article encouraging, but also ironic.
... but it's probably an old Gov't. mentality that employees need to be within range of the manager's to be effective.
Considering how bad traffic is in this region of the country, and how high-tech many of the jobs are, many employers in the area still balk at the thought of telecommuting.
Perhaps the image of employees leaning back in their ergo seats in sweats and undies writing important code is just too much
Just an errant thought as I read the article. Could it be the old giant, IBM has shown us some of the blue-fu that has kept this company around near or on the top for so many years ? For example:
... selling services. Let's face it, there's not much in the way of COTS that Microsoft can FUD with when it comes to Wall Streeters, and their propensity to roll and re-roll their own apps.
Bird 1 - undercutting Sun high-end
"SIAC's Artmail applications previously ran on Sun Microsystems Inc. servers that used Unix. But they will now run on IBM Linux servers linked to an IBM mainframe system."
IBM's girthieness has been a liability in the past. Not so much for the hardware itself; though expensive. Rather, much of the rub has been on the expense and limitations of its operating system, as anyone using MVS will attest. Linux literally flips that around against it's competitors, forcing companies such as Sun's high-end to compete chip-to-chip with IBM's mid to low end iron.
Stone 2 - Microsoft's cost of Open Source argument
"Though basic Linux software is free, IBM makes money by selling the middleware that links Linux with existing software and computer systems at places like SIAC. It also makes money by selling Linux servers and services for Linux-based systems."
Here IBM parlays one of its biggest, and most enduring strengths
Kudos to someone where at Itty Bitty Machines for figuring this one out.
I remember 15 years ago, while still working with a Wall Street firm. I was visiting a programming friend at another shop, who amazed me with some wild stuff he was doing on a Sun. I asked him, did he think that the industry (we didn't use hip terms like "the street") would shed the IBMs mains and VAXen minis for a Unix-based platform. He turned to the screen and ran features on his creation that we only dreamed of on these other systems. Alarms, alerts, graphics, etc ... stuff that even PDAs can do now.
Now, well away from Wall Street, and away from the buzz, I wonder how many back rooms are filled with geek projects running on Linux, the same way they were being hacked out on Suns 15 years ago ? If it is what I suspect it might be, then Mr.Gates has a problem that can't be factored with FUD.
As I recall, it was financial apps like VisCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 that greatly aided the PC revolution. Likewise, as business men and women endured dragging sowing machine size luggables around airports, the portable industry grew.
Could it be that an operating system, such as Linux, and all that it offers in frugality and flexibility, is indeed the killer app ? If so,
how ironic that it appears that big-business may be aiding of all things, the Open Source movement.
... and again, the nice young lady at the register recognized the faces of me and my coworker
Oh, I'll go back
Again with the MHz/clockspeed ?! C'mon, who cares if my processor can calculate PI out to the nth degree, if bussing that information from the CPU gets bogged down traveling down through the backplane/motherboard into memory that has been gobbled-up by a greedy and leadky operating system, which is only slowed even further by crappy disks using an archaic file system ?
Yeah, spoken like someone who's never dealt with the humilation and expense of being falsely arrested. Believe me, when that cop slaps on them bracelets, and when you spend a night in jail, go though the painful task of finding a lawyer that believes you, pay the legal bills, just to get expundged because some creten who understands the expense of falsely accusing you, you'll understand why some of us get so pissed off.
The only facial recognition I get is from the nice lady at the cash register who seems to remember everyone, and gives them all an kind greeting and warm smile