Could you put together a device that ZFS'd up a buttload of old ram chips? The cost of ram doesn't seem to have much to do with how much ram storage is available on earth as much as it's speed and utility in today's hardware. Could you build a device that was essentially a huge ram bus for old chips addressable over... I dunno a pcix or agp bus? Agp might not be good, but something that had big i/o in both directions. Someone please do this. I have tons of old ram sticks that I paid waaaaaay too much for back in the day, and I'd like to be able to claim that they weren't a waste of money.:)
If I could hurt the banks by doing something as simple as closing a facebook account I would. Closing a bank account just means I have to open another one somewhere else. Also, me closing my account hurts banks a LOT less than me deleting my profile hurts facebook, especially since I'm subsidizing banks when I pay taxes whether I have an account or not.
Way to shit on a project that isn't even targeting you as a user. Maybe wait for a mature version to evaluate before setting up a straw man to knock down.
How much downtime is caused (money is lost) by patches that break things versus how much money is lost when machines get hacked? This isn't a windows only issue. I've seen Debian security releases break things too. They're a bit easier to rollback, but the problem is fundamentally an ROI or EV problem, not a technical one.
JavaFX (Applets 2.0) has awesome potential, but they pretty much said "screw you" to Linux which means I won't be early adopting it and neither will any of my co-workers. That said, they're already so far behind on install base that all Flash needs to nip this in the bud is release a browser independent runtime and a nicer web service binding api and there will be no practical reason not to choose it. I would like to see someone write a browser in Flash for some reason. So you could browse while you browse.
Not that it matters now. Sun has already lost. They have zero desktop adoption and aren't going to get any, because they treat their biggest evangelists and early adopters like crap (flash for linux? sadly, yes). As a developer, I haven't been using JavaFX at ALL. No browser adoption, doesn't run on my chosen platform, doesn't show any interest in making my platform a priority. Why the hell should I write an app that requires yet another 30 meg download?
I get all the vendor lock in, it's not open source so it's evil arguments. Save them. This is about Sun totally missing the boat, and doing nothing to fix the problem.
Discrete math, autonoma theory, logic (truth tables, conditionals, boolean logic) that sort of stuff is more important to a good grounding in computer science than programming (all that on just a chalkboard). If the knowledge base is strong, the languages will reveal themselves as tools to solve those types of problems with. The language is just a construct for realizing the application of the theory. If the math and logic concepts aren't understood, you basically have a tool that you don't know how to use. Which is not bad. You're still better off than where you were, but now you're banging in nails with a socket wrench. Instead of learning what a bolt is, what it's for and how to tighten it, and then given a socket wrench.
I disagree. Linux (and BSD) users are the early adopters and the ones who encourage their Windows using friends to use better alternatives like Firefox. Also, Linux users tend to be the first ones to develop on new languages and platforms. Less apps, less JVM's in the browser, less exposure, fewer early adopters excited about the product.
As a Java developer and Linux user, I won't be using this and I can garauntee that not a single one of my Windows using co-workers has any desire to install another browser plug-in on every browser they use. If I had the desire to implement our next app with JavaFX they would.
I know the intent (and moderation) was "funny" but this is actually how a former employer operated. Once he realized that all he had to do was not get caught for a certain period of time and it suddenly became worth it to not renew licenses, he stopped renewing licenses. He did get audited. It cost him an order of magnitude less than it would've to have kept current on his licenses for the five years he managed to skate by.
Unless this law is struck down your uni will either do what the STATE wants or lose state support, perhaps accreditation, funding. This is a compliance issue now, not a "good luck" issue.
The state is not responsible for accreditation. We are not a state institution and do not rely on the state for any funding. The contention is between the development of our alumni relations (donations) and spending money on enforcing another organizations business model. I would be shocked if we voluntarily spent money we didn't have on something that we don't need, when we could spend it on pan handling our well heeled alumni.
As an IT professional working at one of these TN universities I can report that the budget crunch currently going on in education (the aggresive growth policies that served the endowments so well in the past were mostly real estate driven) will limit the resources these new directives are allocated. In fact, we're actually considering open source solutions for the first time since I've worked here. Pretty sure the RIAA's financial well being is not at the top of our list.
OSX does NOT support windows protocols any better than Linux... Active Directory in particular is pretty much broken under OSX. Linux supports AD just fine, and integrates LDAP quite nicely. Oddly enough, Linux + Windows = harmony, but throwing OSX in the mix pretty much hoses it all up.
Also, please elaborate on the selection of high quality closed source applications that OSX has that linux does not (or doesn't have an equivalent too). Photoshop is hardly a developer tool.
Virtualization benefits apply to all OS's, so no points for OSX there.
And suggest that instead of using CD-R's anymore, you buy some 1TB portable drives and keep them backed up. I don't know your application and you don't explain it, so this is more of a statement about how crap CD-R's are for archiving anything at all, ever. If you have important data on a CD-R, back it up asap.
It's not really even close here... McCain wants to privatize and deregulate. Imagine your social security benefits in the hands of the people McCain trusted so much that he felt that less scrutiny and transparency was necessary. Now imagine your health care benefits managed the same way.
Not really. The president can only do what Congress allows. That is what I find so funny about people freaking out over the president. There are checks and balances in the system one person can not mess it up that bad in just four years.
Yeah really. Google bush signing statements. Perhaps our definitions of "mess it up that bad" are totally different. He's done a bang up job of consolidating executive power at the expense of personal liberty.
I'm normally all for newer better systems, but I have to agree... CVS > SVN because of branching/tagging. I don't have a good, rational reason for thinking this, other than it works how I think it should and SVN does not. Perhaps my brain is calcifying (it is getting to that age), but I'm glad our shop never switched to SVN.
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Could you put together a device that ZFS'd up a buttload of old ram chips? The cost of ram doesn't seem to have much to do with how much ram storage is available on earth as much as it's speed and utility in today's hardware. Could you build a device that was essentially a huge ram bus for old chips addressable over ... I dunno a pcix or agp bus? Agp might not be good, but something that had big i/o in both directions. Someone please do this. I have tons of old ram sticks that I paid waaaaaay too much for back in the day, and I'd like to be able to claim that they weren't a waste of money. :)
If I could hurt the banks by doing something as simple as closing a facebook account I would. Closing a bank account just means I have to open another one somewhere else. Also, me closing my account hurts banks a LOT less than me deleting my profile hurts facebook, especially since I'm subsidizing banks when I pay taxes whether I have an account or not.
You want big cat piss. This is the best deterrent I've found. It smells really bad though. Trade-offs. Effective, inexpensive, no-smell. Pick any two.
Gerrymandering has turned the electoral college into a joke.
Way to shit on a project that isn't even targeting you as a user. Maybe wait for a mature version to evaluate before setting up a straw man to knock down.
How much downtime is caused (money is lost) by patches that break things versus how much money is lost when machines get hacked? This isn't a windows only issue. I've seen Debian security releases break things too. They're a bit easier to rollback, but the problem is fundamentally an ROI or EV problem, not a technical one.
Or they're hiding what they charge for transaction margin. They could be making much more for doing much less, we simply don't have the data.
8.5 million is a small price to pay for that level of control.
JavaFX (Applets 2.0) has awesome potential, but they pretty much said "screw you" to Linux which means I won't be early adopting it and neither will any of my co-workers. That said, they're already so far behind on install base that all Flash needs to nip this in the bud is release a browser independent runtime and a nicer web service binding api and there will be no practical reason not to choose it. I would like to see someone write a browser in Flash for some reason. So you could browse while you browse.
Not that it matters now. Sun has already lost. They have zero desktop adoption and aren't going to get any, because they treat their biggest evangelists and early adopters like crap (flash for linux? sadly, yes). As a developer, I haven't been using JavaFX at ALL. No browser adoption, doesn't run on my chosen platform, doesn't show any interest in making my platform a priority. Why the hell should I write an app that requires yet another 30 meg download?
I get all the vendor lock in, it's not open source so it's evil arguments. Save them. This is about Sun totally missing the boat, and doing nothing to fix the problem.
Discrete math, autonoma theory, logic (truth tables, conditionals, boolean logic) that sort of stuff is more important to a good grounding in computer science than programming (all that on just a chalkboard). If the knowledge base is strong, the languages will reveal themselves as tools to solve those types of problems with. The language is just a construct for realizing the application of the theory. If the math and logic concepts aren't understood, you basically have a tool that you don't know how to use. Which is not bad. You're still better off than where you were, but now you're banging in nails with a socket wrench. Instead of learning what a bolt is, what it's for and how to tighten it, and then given a socket wrench.
On second thought, anything but Java.
So, why stymie that process with a new bureaucracy that simply funds the big record labels?
Because the record labels donate more money to policy makers than you do.
I disagree. Linux (and BSD) users are the early adopters and the ones who encourage their Windows using friends to use better alternatives like Firefox. Also, Linux users tend to be the first ones to develop on new languages and platforms. Less apps, less JVM's in the browser, less exposure, fewer early adopters excited about the product.
As a Java developer and Linux user, I won't be using this and I can garauntee that not a single one of my Windows using co-workers has any desire to install another browser plug-in on every browser they use. If I had the desire to implement our next app with JavaFX they would.
I know the intent (and moderation) was "funny" but this is actually how a former employer operated. Once he realized that all he had to do was not get caught for a certain period of time and it suddenly became worth it to not renew licenses, he stopped renewing licenses. He did get audited. It cost him an order of magnitude less than it would've to have kept current on his licenses for the five years he managed to skate by.
Your plan makes sense in some cases. :)
Unless this law is struck down your uni will either do what the STATE wants or lose state support, perhaps accreditation, funding. This is a compliance issue now, not a "good luck" issue.
The state is not responsible for accreditation. We are not a state institution and do not rely on the state for any funding. The contention is between the development of our alumni relations (donations) and spending money on enforcing another organizations business model. I would be shocked if we voluntarily spent money we didn't have on something that we don't need, when we could spend it on pan handling our well heeled alumni.
As an IT professional working at one of these TN universities I can report that the budget crunch currently going on in education (the aggresive growth policies that served the endowments so well in the past were mostly real estate driven) will limit the resources these new directives are allocated. In fact, we're actually considering open source solutions for the first time since I've worked here. Pretty sure the RIAA's financial well being is not at the top of our list.
OSX does NOT support windows protocols any better than Linux... Active Directory in particular is pretty much broken under OSX. Linux supports AD just fine, and integrates LDAP quite nicely. Oddly enough, Linux + Windows = harmony, but throwing OSX in the mix pretty much hoses it all up.
Also, please elaborate on the selection of high quality closed source applications that OSX has that linux does not (or doesn't have an equivalent too). Photoshop is hardly a developer tool.
Virtualization benefits apply to all OS's, so no points for OSX there.
Vax? wtf?
It's not an ASUS board.
Something I loved from my childhood is 20 years old.... am I old?
And suggest that instead of using CD-R's anymore, you buy some 1TB portable drives and keep them backed up. I don't know your application and you don't explain it, so this is more of a statement about how crap CD-R's are for archiving anything at all, ever. If you have important data on a CD-R, back it up asap.
It's not really even close here... McCain wants to privatize and deregulate. Imagine your social security benefits in the hands of the people McCain trusted so much that he felt that less scrutiny and transparency was necessary. Now imagine your health care benefits managed the same way.
Not really.
The president can only do what Congress allows. That is what I find so funny about people freaking out over the president.
There are checks and balances in the system one person can not mess it up that bad in just four years.
Yeah really. Google bush signing statements. Perhaps our definitions of "mess it up that bad" are totally different. He's done a bang up job of consolidating executive power at the expense of personal liberty.
No Democrats/Republicans, no stock market, no poverty, no orwellian wars on drugs.... Sounds like paradise
I don't have any modpoints, but I do have karma to burn. You're a dipshit. Stop typing.
I'm normally all for newer better systems, but I have to agree... CVS > SVN because of branching/tagging. I don't have a good, rational reason for thinking this, other than it works how I think it should and SVN does not. Perhaps my brain is calcifying (it is getting to that age), but I'm glad our shop never switched to SVN.