Unless you're doing this because of business or educational reasons, there's really no point. Well, unless you're paranoid. But then you'd be better off with meds and counseling than with the extra work running your own server stack will take.
We can have that again: Simply abandon our industry and technology.
Or, we could perhaps agree to a new social compact that would allow us to lower birthrates to where we could decrease the population to a sustainable one or two billion. Now if you already think that's impossible, then yes, we will have to abandon our industry and technology. Not by our choice, of course, but by the social chaos caused by cramming ever more people into a smaller and smaller planet. You need a fair amount of social order to maintain a viable technology base.
The real question is will the market bear the new regulations? Americans as a nation have obviously NOT demanded higher MPG ratings from their cars or there would be no need for the regulation.
No, the buyers have not demanded more fuel efficient vehicles. However, the government has several other constraints that must be met. One of which is national security. Whenever oil prices spike, it becomes more expensive to project our influence in the world. Oil prices spike because of increased demand. As such, reducing demand will decrease the number and size of oil price spikes, allowing us to project our national power more effectively and over a longer term than had this not been done. Even if you disagree with the decision of America projecting its military power, it is something that, once the decision is made, the government must plan for. And market forces do not allow for these kinds of trade-offs. There are other considerations as well (pollution and other externailities) which, again, are not well-mediated by market forces. As such, the government is correct in stepping in here.
Yes, I'm being facetious... but only a little bit. Really. How much music today is actually listened to on stereos? How much is listened to on crappy little computer speakers and ear buds? I'm beginning to think it's actually a detriment to mix on monitor speakers at all...
Originally, these people were around for quality control to make sure only decent books made it to the publishing equipment -- making sure the publishing money was spent well.
Yeah! And good thing we had them there or we would have gotten even more books from Stephan King...
So we were always left with hundreds of copies of the latest ghost written biography of some cricketer that we could literally not give away in the end.
Well, the problem is that they should have stocked ghost written autobiographies of footie players...
Obviously I can't speak for the parent personally, but I imagine that it starts off with a nice concerned conversation, then moves on to a polite but firm phone call with direct threats of escalation, and then it moves on to allegations of abuse filed with the state child protective services organization. Typically these groups confiscate children first, and then you can battle it out in court for a year to get to see them again. Maybe there are some intermediate steps in-between.
Unless the kid is almost completely out of control or there are other signs of abuse, the school really doesn't give a shit - certainly not enough to call protective services. And the ability of the state to step in and take the child is really sort of limited. It's paranoid fools like you that spread crap like this (unsupported and unsubstantiated, by the way) that leads to this country's inability to do anything worthwhile via government (which actually is useful when you have parents beating and torturing children). In fact, given your level of paranoia, you might want to consider some anti-psychotics yourself.
Here's the deal. Anti-depressants are some of the largest money makers for the pharmaceutical industry (I don't know why... Maybe because life here in the States can be depressing?). The patents on the SSRI's and SNRI's were expiring. The drug companies needed something new, fast. However, newer SxRI's didn't show enough additional benefit to allow them to be worth trying to get them approved by the FDA. So, they took their old anti-psychotics and tested them in conjunction with the SxRI's and they had enough of an effect to become approved by the FDA. So the drug companies now have new psychodrug lines that will make the profits for the next ten or so years and you get a lot of new antidepressant ads on the TV.
Just nationalize them. The infrastructure is too important to be left to for-profit organizations. And for those of you who ask, "Well, do you want the [implied evil] guvmint running them?" Not really, but at least I have a modicum of control over that entity. I have none over the corporation. And, before you ask, "What are you, a socialist?" I didn't used to be, but the growing scourge of corpratism has sort of forced me into it.
Kevin's a day late and a dollar short. He thinks that IT can still control "cloud-like" infrastructure via the IT org and mandates. It's not going to be that way. If you can only offer 100MB email quotas on your internal servers, the employees in your organization will start using Gmail to route around your damage. Can't provide a decent CRM experience? They will route around you with Salesforce.com. Are your file servers a mess of access permissions so that no one can share a document with someone else across the organization? Hello Google Docs.
The bottom line is to understand you rplace in the connected world. The purpose of IT is to facilitate exchange of information. If your organization looks more like a blockage or network damage, it will be routed around.
Oddly enough, a lot of us (even TECHIES) aren't that interested in setting up computer infrastructure any more. I've been doing it for my household and family for the past twenty years or so. It's stopped being a learning experience long ago and just turned into a chore. So I'm not doing it any more. For the last couple years I've been moving anything I could to various cloud services. I told my family that their local accounts would be going away, so sign up with gmail. Today I turned off my old site's server, having migrated to the cloud everything other than stuff that's too big to go up there or too private. I have a file server left (but it's a special hardware box, not a re-purposed GP computer built by me), a printer and a scanner, and one computer apiece for each member of my household that are automatically updated. I no longer have to worry about keeping a web and/or FTP sever secure or dicking about with spam filters. I am a much happier person.
Amen. The folks on my team range from seven to twenty-five years of experience. They argue about some process practices, but code review is not one of them. They see the value of making sure that code they might well be working on someday is rigorously checked and they've found enough logical errors (usually of omission) to understand that this is a worthwhile practice.
...which allows them to make money on concert gigs.
This.
If you look at contract as a promotional expense, rather than as a payoff, it can still make sense. However you have to understand that going in and be really shrewd on accepting the contract (timing is everything). You're usually better off dealing with an indie label because that label is usually regional and/or genre specific (where you'll get understanding of your market) and you'll get more bang for your buck.
That being said, you're probably better off being good at something else and just getting a day job and playing music at night. Most people who "make it" in the music industry are trainwrecks who actually don't have a lot of other options. And, even if a couple of hundredth of a percent of those trainwrecks go on to be millionaires with hot and cold running hookers and scotch, they still don't get a lot out of it because - let's face it - they're still trainwrecks. The percentage who are actually clueful and make it - they're the exception that prove the rule.
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Unless you're doing this because of business or educational reasons, there's really no point. Well, unless you're paranoid. But then you'd be better off with meds and counseling than with the extra work running your own server stack will take.
The people who most heavily rely on pseudonyms in online spaces are those who are most marginalized by systems of power.
Actually, to me they seem to be the ones who troll the most at Slashdot.
The US, ever since the Republicans turned the country into a bunch of scared, thumb-sucking wusses after 9-11.
If real people thought like you weenies then we never would have had the original killer app for the PC.
Solitaire? I think Microsoft would have built it anyway...
We can have that again: Simply abandon our industry and technology.
Or, we could perhaps agree to a new social compact that would allow us to lower birthrates to where we could decrease the population to a sustainable one or two billion. Now if you already think that's impossible, then yes, we will have to abandon our industry and technology. Not by our choice, of course, but by the social chaos caused by cramming ever more people into a smaller and smaller planet. You need a fair amount of social order to maintain a viable technology base.
So basically, you're saying that anyone from that school is an inept moron who is unqualified to judge anything?
Well, they did go to school in Alabama. So, yes! I do think that their judgment is questionable!
The real question is will the market bear the new regulations? Americans as a nation have obviously NOT demanded higher MPG ratings from their cars or there would be no need for the regulation.
No, the buyers have not demanded more fuel efficient vehicles. However, the government has several other constraints that must be met. One of which is national security. Whenever oil prices spike, it becomes more expensive to project our influence in the world. Oil prices spike because of increased demand. As such, reducing demand will decrease the number and size of oil price spikes, allowing us to project our national power more effectively and over a longer term than had this not been done. Even if you disagree with the decision of America projecting its military power, it is something that, once the decision is made, the government must plan for. And market forces do not allow for these kinds of trade-offs. There are other considerations as well (pollution and other externailities) which, again, are not well-mediated by market forces. As such, the government is correct in stepping in here.
What's that? Is it a new kind of iPod?
Yes, I'm being facetious... but only a little bit. Really. How much music today is actually listened to on stereos? How much is listened to on crappy little computer speakers and ear buds? I'm beginning to think it's actually a detriment to mix on monitor speakers at all...
I hear they've just started filming Frosted Lucky Charms.
What a magically delicious concept!
So what do you do when the World's Policeman is on the take?
Maybe we could get the Netherlands to annex us?
At least it wasn't Comic Sands...
Originally, these people were around for quality control to make sure only decent books made it to the publishing equipment -- making sure the publishing money was spent well.
Yeah! And good thing we had them there or we would have gotten even more books from Stephan King...
So we were always left with hundreds of copies of the latest ghost written biography of some cricketer that we could literally not give away in the end.
Well, the problem is that they should have stocked ghost written autobiographies of footie players...
And the majority goes to bribing the foreign countries for military purposes.
Obviously I can't speak for the parent personally, but I imagine that it starts off with a nice concerned conversation, then moves on to a polite but firm phone call with direct threats of escalation, and then it moves on to allegations of abuse filed with the state child protective services organization. Typically these groups confiscate children first, and then you can battle it out in court for a year to get to see them again. Maybe there are some intermediate steps in-between.
Unless the kid is almost completely out of control or there are other signs of abuse, the school really doesn't give a shit - certainly not enough to call protective services. And the ability of the state to step in and take the child is really sort of limited. It's paranoid fools like you that spread crap like this (unsupported and unsubstantiated, by the way) that leads to this country's inability to do anything worthwhile via government (which actually is useful when you have parents beating and torturing children). In fact, given your level of paranoia, you might want to consider some anti-psychotics yourself.
... although I must say there are a *LOT* of cheaper/better alternatives for insomnia.
Yeah. Trazadone works pretty damn well at a cost much less than 25 cents a tablet.
Here's the deal. Anti-depressants are some of the largest money makers for the pharmaceutical industry (I don't know why... Maybe because life here in the States can be depressing?). The patents on the SSRI's and SNRI's were expiring. The drug companies needed something new, fast. However, newer SxRI's didn't show enough additional benefit to allow them to be worth trying to get them approved by the FDA. So, they took their old anti-psychotics and tested them in conjunction with the SxRI's and they had enough of an effect to become approved by the FDA. So the drug companies now have new psychodrug lines that will make the profits for the next ten or so years and you get a lot of new antidepressant ads on the TV.
Pah... Real men would use beer cans!
Just nationalize them. The infrastructure is too important to be left to for-profit organizations. And for those of you who ask, "Well, do you want the [implied evil] guvmint running them?" Not really, but at least I have a modicum of control over that entity. I have none over the corporation. And, before you ask, "What are you, a socialist?" I didn't used to be, but the growing scourge of corpratism has sort of forced me into it.
This event may signify a tipping point in the public's willingness to tolerate invasive and inappropriate security procedures at airports.
I'll believe that when I see it. People bitch, but they comply. And only compliance is necessary.
Kevin's a day late and a dollar short. He thinks that IT can still control "cloud-like" infrastructure via the IT org and mandates. It's not going to be that way. If you can only offer 100MB email quotas on your internal servers, the employees in your organization will start using Gmail to route around your damage. Can't provide a decent CRM experience? They will route around you with Salesforce.com. Are your file servers a mess of access permissions so that no one can share a document with someone else across the organization? Hello Google Docs.
The bottom line is to understand you rplace in the connected world. The purpose of IT is to facilitate exchange of information. If your organization looks more like a blockage or network damage, it will be routed around.
Oddly enough, a lot of us (even TECHIES) aren't that interested in setting up computer infrastructure any more. I've been doing it for my household and family for the past twenty years or so. It's stopped being a learning experience long ago and just turned into a chore. So I'm not doing it any more. For the last couple years I've been moving anything I could to various cloud services. I told my family that their local accounts would be going away, so sign up with gmail. Today I turned off my old site's server, having migrated to the cloud everything other than stuff that's too big to go up there or too private. I have a file server left (but it's a special hardware box, not a re-purposed GP computer built by me), a printer and a scanner, and one computer apiece for each member of my household that are automatically updated. I no longer have to worry about keeping a web and/or FTP sever secure or dicking about with spam filters. I am a much happier person.
The Reckoning by David Halberstam. Mainly be cause Lutz can't write as well.
Amen. The folks on my team range from seven to twenty-five years of experience. They argue about some process practices, but code review is not one of them. They see the value of making sure that code they might well be working on someday is rigorously checked and they've found enough logical errors (usually of omission) to understand that this is a worthwhile practice.
...which allows them to make money on concert gigs.
This.
If you look at contract as a promotional expense, rather than as a payoff, it can still make sense. However you have to understand that going in and be really shrewd on accepting the contract (timing is everything). You're usually better off dealing with an indie label because that label is usually regional and/or genre specific (where you'll get understanding of your market) and you'll get more bang for your buck.
That being said, you're probably better off being good at something else and just getting a day job and playing music at night. Most people who "make it" in the music industry are trainwrecks who actually don't have a lot of other options. And, even if a couple of hundredth of a percent of those trainwrecks go on to be millionaires with hot and cold running hookers and scotch, they still don't get a lot out of it because - let's face it - they're still trainwrecks. The percentage who are actually clueful and make it - they're the exception that prove the rule.