So which do you prefer being - A system admin (follow IT) or a programmer (follow CS). They are not mutually exclusive. As a system admin I do a lot of programming. My boss in my last job favorite question was - "How can we automate this?". I like being a system admin myself - I get out of the cubicle more that way.
And nowadays, >90% of desktop users run a closed source OS on their desktop, that automatically downloads and installs updates with unknown contents, whenever the user goes online. And extend it by clicking 'download plugin' whenever something appears to be missing or not working. And keep their mail online on their ISP's servers. And share their family pics online using a photo sharing site that popped up 2 months ago. That is in practice different from software-as-a-service, ehm... how?
Windows keeps running even if I stop updating it. And I can continue to use it, even when I don't have network connectivity.
I use flickr, but I only upload the good pictures, and I keep copies of all the pictures locally.
I use Gmail, but I don't let my mail rest on the machine - I print out or copy locally the small percentage I need to keep and delete most everything else. Besides, that doesn't count because email passes through a cloud of other machines anyway.
Word is local to my machine so I can always see my old word documents, without getting permission from a third party.
The main thing is, I really don't trust a third party to keep my secrets secret. Microsoft (or any other 'software as a service company') has nothing preventing them from sharing with law enforcement when asked, or even my competitor.
There is no such thing as an encrypted file to a suitably motivated 'other party'.
There are lots of differences, in practice and in theory.
OK, explain to me what your definition of "control" is. I've created several websites - several brand new ones just in the past few months. Nobody stopped me. I've placed pretty much whatever I wanted on those websites. Nobody stopped me. Thousands of people are visiting those websites. Nobody is stopping them.... Nobody has tried to shut my sites down. Nobody has tried to coerce or prevent others from accessing my sites. And you can thank the current fragile state of Net Neutrality for that.
Just because it takes 2 x the bandwidth for a neutral network does not mean more infrastructure needs to be built and more cost needs to be expended. Who says we are not currently operating at 1/2 or less of the available bandwidth. What about all that "dark fiber" I've heard so much about??
Perhaps we'll have hard drives with four platters internally RAID1-ed.
And if one of the four platters goes, there's no way to replace just it. If all four platters are in the same HDA, one going could contaminate the other three and cause them to fail too.
If this is done, please put a big "THIS IS THE FAILED DRIVE" led on the outside
A much better strategy would be to abandon the genetic and morphological aspects of the understanding of what H. sapiens is and encourage useful artificial adaptations of the body (bionic bits, for example) and the genome to let people be better adapted to their local environments, where that is more energy efficient than adapting the local environments to H. sapiens as we currently define the species. So you're saying "Let's be BORG"?
The colony does not have to be self-sufficient until earth "gets it".
It's just not at all realistic with as-far-as-can-be-forseen technology Hmmm What do we have today that was unforeseen even ten years ago...
There is nothing impossible about having a colony on the moon or mars, it just takes time. To get there we first have to start going - it will probably take 20-30-50 years. Or never if we don't ever start.
For Candyland all you need is the pony - but it has got to be the *right* pony.
... a manned Mars Mission is a "feel-good trip". It has nothing at all to do with the future of humanity. If we can get self-sustaining colonies running on the moon and mars, perhaps we can worry a little less about life-ending-events, like meteor strikes, on earth. Sure it's a long way in the future before a colony on the moon could repopulate the earth - but if we never start, we will never get there.
Two Real Reasons - Push everyone into Mass Transit. Two - Tax those who still insist on the freedom to go where they please when they please rather than wait for the Mass Transit overlords to take them there.
So, now does that mean that TorrentSpy must re-write their software to write out the RAM at the oportune moment? Possibly "breaking" the software so it no longer works at all? What if TorrentSpy just packs up bags and closes? Perhaps the addition of the functionality is un-doable, adding the code to save the RAM introduces too much overhead for the program to work.
Common good, as it formerly used to be used, meant it was to be used by the public at large. Specifically...roads, railroads, and canals. It was expanded later on to included "blighted areas", and now, since it's been upheld by the SCOTUS (with all the liberals voting for, and all the conservatives voting against, and the swing votes going to the fors), it's basically been expanded to be anything the government wants, the government gets. Which goes back to my point. You don't own your land, you're merely renting it. And the government can come in and take it away for reasons as capricious as giving it to a private developer or because you have 3 hemp plants growing wild on your land that you didn't even know about. That's why "common good" and "improved" are quoted in my post. I agree with you. Although the part about the hemp plants probably eminent domain, it's probably drug forfeiture.
They could setup a transmitter that jams the cell frequencies. I suppose though, that if signals from that transmitter went beyond the boundaries of their land they would have angry neighbors to content with.
I hope they don't win.. They would collect their tax from cell companies (or the government who would then get it from cell companies). Companies don't pay taxes, their customers do. Cell phone rates would have to go up.
Here in Canada, your deed explicitly states that the land is property of the Crown Does that mean if your air conditioner^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H heater breaks that you can get "the Crown" to fix it for you?
Or better yet, you're Kelo in Connecticut and the city decides they are going to seize your land using Eminent Domain at way below market value and turn around and sell it to a private developer who will then stand to profit handsomly from ill gotten gains they didn't have to pay a market rate for. I guess the "common good" here was for the shareholders of the development corporation, huh? The "common good" was supposed to be the increased property taxes the owners of the "improved" property would have to pay.
(disclaimer - Kelo was a total misuse of Eminent Domain, IANAL but I know that)
Ok, I may need a real lawyer here.. Do any of you who practice law also read Slashdot?
If one incorporated for purposes of employment. (I as an individual incorporate then the corporation offers it's services).
Would the employment contract be binding on the corporation (the encorporated prospective employee) without binding the person "working for" the corporation?
If you have strict enough gun laws in your area (city, state, country) so no one is armed, some other area will have more lax gun laws where guns may be stolen. If laws are strict enough everywhere (fat chance) people who really want guns can still hand-make them.
Guns will always be available, regardless of your local law, to anyone willing to break the law.
I'll see your Apple RF Modulator and raise you an apple IIc+, external floppy drive, external dual 5 1/4" floppy (the IIc+ has an internal 3 1/2" drive), Imagewriter printer and the "model correct" monochrome video monitor. (as well as a modern color tv)
pthhh!
(not to mention the Radio Shack Model 102, and the Apple Mac Classic)
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So which do you prefer being - A system admin (follow IT) or a programmer (follow CS). They are not mutually exclusive. As a system admin I do a lot of programming. My boss in my last job favorite question was - "How can we automate this?". I like being a system admin myself - I get out of the cubicle more that way.
:^P
p.s. first post and actually fairly on topic
And nowadays, >90% of desktop users run a closed source OS on their desktop, that automatically downloads and installs updates with unknown contents, whenever the user goes online. And extend it by clicking 'download plugin' whenever something appears to be missing or not working. And keep their mail online on their ISP's servers. And share their family pics online using a photo sharing site that popped up 2 months ago. That is in practice different from software-as-a-service, ehm... how?
Windows keeps running even if I stop updating it. And I can continue to use it, even when I don't have network connectivity.I use flickr, but I only upload the good pictures, and I keep copies of all the pictures locally.
I use Gmail, but I don't let my mail rest on the machine - I print out or copy locally the small percentage I need to keep and delete most everything else. Besides, that doesn't count because email passes through a cloud of other machines anyway.
Word is local to my machine so I can always see my old word documents, without getting permission from a third party.
The main thing is, I really don't trust a third party to keep my secrets secret. Microsoft (or any other 'software as a service company') has nothing preventing them from sharing with law enforcement when asked, or even my competitor.
There is no such thing as an encrypted file to a suitably motivated 'other party'.
There are lots of differences, in practice and in theory.
Just because it takes 2 x the bandwidth for a neutral network does not mean more infrastructure needs to be built and more cost needs to be expended. Who says we are not currently operating at 1/2 or less of the available bandwidth. What about all that "dark fiber" I've heard so much about??
Here's some carts ready to try it on.
(safe for most workplaces)
Perhaps we'll have hard drives with four platters internally RAID1-ed.
And if one of the four platters goes, there's no way to replace just it. If all four platters are in the same HDA, one going could contaminate the other three and cause them to fail too.If this is done, please put a big "THIS IS THE FAILED DRIVE" led on the outside
A container ship filled with these things, operating would probably cause real global warming!
So we ship spares.
lots of them.
1) build colony that can make air and water and food...
2) ship spares
3) BIG ROCK HITS EARTH
4) Profit!!!!
You can't go until you start going.
There is nothing impossible about having a colony on the moon or mars, it just takes time. To get there we first have to start going - it will probably take 20-30-50 years. Or never if we don't ever start.
For Candyland all you need is the pony - but it has got to be the *right* pony.
... a manned Mars Mission is a "feel-good trip". It has nothing at all to do with the future of humanity. If we can get self-sustaining colonies running on the moon and mars, perhaps we can worry a little less about life-ending-events, like meteor strikes, on earth. Sure it's a long way in the future before a colony on the moon could repopulate the earth - but if we never start, we will never get there.Well, until the lit end accidentally falls in your lap.
Two Real Reasons - Push everyone into Mass Transit. Two - Tax those who still insist on the freedom to go where they please when they please rather than wait for the Mass Transit overlords to take them there.
So, now does that mean that TorrentSpy must re-write their software to write out the RAM at the oportune moment? Possibly "breaking" the software so it no longer works at all? What if TorrentSpy just packs up bags and closes? Perhaps the addition of the functionality is un-doable, adding the code to save the RAM introduces too much overhead for the program to work.
I agree with you. Although the part about the hemp plants probably eminent domain, it's probably drug forfeiture.
They could setup a transmitter that jams the cell frequencies. I suppose though, that if signals from that transmitter went beyond the boundaries of their land they would have angry neighbors to content with.
I hope they don't win.. They would collect their tax from cell companies (or the government who would then get it from cell companies). Companies don't pay taxes, their customers do. Cell phone rates would have to go up.
to fix it for you?
would have to pay.
(disclaimer - Kelo was a total misuse of Eminent Domain, IANAL but I know that)
Thanks to Microsoft I can't use the command "SURFACE! SURFACE!!" anymore.
HP 48G: 2 enter 1039 y^x 1 - displays 5.89068086431E312
Ok, I may need a real lawyer here.. Do any of you who practice law also read Slashdot?
If one incorporated for purposes of employment. (I as an individual incorporate then
the corporation offers it's services).
Would the employment contract be binding on the corporation (the encorporated prospective
employee) without binding the person "working for" the corporation?
And why is someone (who ever it is) getting locked up for three days on a false positive test "funny"??
If you have strict enough gun laws in your area (city, state, country) so no one is armed, some other area will have more lax gun laws where guns may be stolen. If laws are strict enough everywhere (fat chance) people who really want guns can still hand-make them.
Guns will always be available, regardless of your local law, to anyone willing to break the law.
I'll see your Apple RF Modulator and raise you an apple IIc+, external floppy drive, external dual 5 1/4" floppy (the IIc+ has an internal 3 1/2" drive), Imagewriter printer and the "model correct" monochrome video monitor. (as well as a modern color tv)
pthhh!
(not to mention the Radio Shack Model 102, and the Apple Mac Classic)
: ^ )