One of my clients is a large electric utility. Their security, both physical and for IT systems, is top notch. None of their SCADA systems are online, they do routine and regular audits of all security, and even 'trusted' people like myself have to jump through hoops to get into the Data Center, and are always escorted.
They have really cool doors to get in too. They are like decontamination booths. You step into a vertical tube and wait to be cleared then the tube rotates and opens the other side.
On the other hand, I've done work for other utilities where yes, the cleaning crew goes in through what amounts to an open door, without an escort.
Not unless they dramatically increase performance. Many servers of course don't need much if any graphics, but a workstation or gaming box (think Steam for Linux) want more power than their current technologies can deliver.
It is tempting to say we're built to be lazy. Just look at all the slothful people. On the other hand, being able and willing to NOT be lazy when the time comes has a distinct evolutionary advantage, just as saving energy when one needs to does. I supposed we're meant to be a blend.
You obviously have very little business experience. I've worked in several large enterprise environments and what you're stating is blatantly false in my experience. Typically there will be a standard desktop, a tower system, a couple of laptop models, and OS updates happen when ready, meaning once they've been certified to run said organization's software.
I already have clients rolling out Windows 8. I would not be surprised to see the Surface Pro sell reasonably well in the enterprise.
The cubesats are to explore, not mine. First you need to find likely targets. If you bothered reading the article you'd see they will be using slightly larger vehicles to bring back small payloads.
You've lost the mobile war, you've lost the browser war and you're going to lose the OS war soon enough.
No one use IE any more.
You don't get out much. While it doesn't have the market share it once did a lot of organizations/companies still use it as their standard browser. It also isn't all that bad these days. I use all three major browsers but tend to use Chrome more than others, but IE is not going away any time soon.
And exactly how is the myth you're exposing 'well known'? Is it because of Saturday Night Live?
I know you are a notorious troll but this one was weak. There is no evidence that there was any common practice of what amounts to bulimia in Ancient Rome, but I'm pretty sure you know this.
Show me a man who's "100% libertarian" and I'll show you an insane man.
Thank you. It's always nice to see a civil response instead of the normal ad hominems online. I posed it more as a question or a discussion topic. I don't really know the answer but it's an increasing problem. Oracle knew about this and did nothing. In just about any other industry that could lead to criminal charges, let alone a lawsuit.
I'm not a big fan of regulation but I'm mature enough to recognize that sensible regulation is sometimes needed in modern society. I am still struggling with this one because my nature is to want Government to stay out of people's business, but when that business has the potential to have an effect on infrastructure or the livelihoods of others then sometimes it's a necessary evil.
GP said they were incomplete, not incompatible, and by your own admission that Mono implements a subset of the MS libs you are just confirming the statement.
I couldn't agree more. It will probably take legal action to change this mentality. Eventually someone will sue one of the big software companies and win because a known vulnerability wasn't patched.
I really hate saying this because I am mostly libertarian and wary of too much regulation, but I think it is high time that there are regulations akin to those imposed on other engineering disciplines put into place over software that is used in 'e-infrastructure' such as banking, etc. Right now there isn't any, and thus huge multi-billion dollar companies are free to drag their feet on fixes or even outright ignore vulnerabilities that can cause serious harm to people.
Fair enough. I generally manage to get what I want working. It's certainly a lot easier now than in the early days in many respects, but then again in those days we didn't even have to worry about 3D acceleration, but still overall I find that it's pretty simple to get whatever I want working on a given distro.
Too bad what is to be the next Debian Stable has already long been frozen... major, groundbreaking improvements always seem to be implemented at a time that guarantees waiting through an entire release and then some.
How does that stop you from installing it? It doesn't. Just because it won't be prepackaged in your favorite distro doesn't mean you can't use it.
Does Facebook even have any sense of direction towards monetizing their platform? They seem to keep grasping at straws, though in this case I'm not sure where they see revenue coming from. I certainly wouldn't use a VoIP service provided by them.
I don't disagree with some of your points, but you're dead wrong about the debt. Right now they are basically printing money. We're going to wind up with some seriously high inflation if they do not stop spending more than is taken in. You're seriously misguided if you think that government debt isn't a problem.
How can they be happy about it if their pleasure center is gone? At best they'll just be cruising through life without taking any real pleasure from anything.
Although now that I think about it, I think you could still execute BASICA from IBM's flavor of DOS, so I might be wrong. It happens. The years tend to blur together after awhile:) I'm still not sure and I don't want to dig out my old 8088 IBM PC to test it on:D
BASICA was built into the BIOS/ROM on the IBM PC. It had nothing to do with DOS, and you didn't 'run it off of MS-DOS'. The lack of it on early PC clones was indeed a copyright issue but had nothing to do with DOS. It was the environment that would boot if you didn't have a bootable DOS diskette or hard drive installed/inserted.
Its lack also didn't affect compatibility. That was a function of hardware design and BIOS coding. Early iterations of clones had issues sometimes, especially since in a DOS (single task, one thread) environment many developers made assumptions about the underlying hardware.
Having been a hiring manager for years of course, I agree for the most part with what you're saying. Thankfully in my own case I've nearly always gotten a response. If you're good at what you do the crap they put as filler in the qualifications portion of the job posting/description just don't matter very much.
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One of my clients is a large electric utility. Their security, both physical and for IT systems, is top notch. None of their SCADA systems are online, they do routine and regular audits of all security, and even 'trusted' people like myself have to jump through hoops to get into the Data Center, and are always escorted.
They have really cool doors to get in too. They are like decontamination booths. You step into a vertical tube and wait to be cleared then the tube rotates and opens the other side.
On the other hand, I've done work for other utilities where yes, the cleaning crew goes in through what amounts to an open door, without an escort.
Not unless they dramatically increase performance. Many servers of course don't need much if any graphics, but a workstation or gaming box (think Steam for Linux) want more power than their current technologies can deliver.
Using average values for velocity, density, impact angle, etc. you get about six megatons. Hardly a 'zit'.
It is an easy problem to fix. Upon transfer the seller's copy is deleted and a fresh copy is provided to the buyer.
It is tempting to say we're built to be lazy. Just look at all the slothful people. On the other hand, being able and willing to NOT be lazy when the time comes has a distinct evolutionary advantage, just as saving energy when one needs to does. I supposed we're meant to be a blend.
Last I checked Dell and HP are both very much still MS partners. This is more akin to a lover's spat than a breakup.
You obviously have very little business experience. I've worked in several large enterprise environments and what you're stating is blatantly false in my experience. Typically there will be a standard desktop, a tower system, a couple of laptop models, and OS updates happen when ready, meaning once they've been certified to run said organization's software.
I already have clients rolling out Windows 8. I would not be surprised to see the Surface Pro sell reasonably well in the enterprise.
The cubesats are to explore, not mine. First you need to find likely targets. If you bothered reading the article you'd see they will be using slightly larger vehicles to bring back small payloads.
You've lost the mobile war, you've lost the browser war and you're going to lose the OS war soon enough.
No one use IE any more.
You don't get out much. While it doesn't have the market share it once did a lot of organizations/companies still use it as their standard browser. It also isn't all that bad these days. I use all three major browsers but tend to use Chrome more than others, but IE is not going away any time soon.
And exactly how is the myth you're exposing 'well known'? Is it because of Saturday Night Live?
I know you are a notorious troll but this one was weak. There is no evidence that there was any common practice of what amounts to bulimia in Ancient Rome, but I'm pretty sure you know this.
To be fair, he did say "mostly libertarian".
Show me a man who's "100% libertarian" and I'll show you an insane man.
Thank you. It's always nice to see a civil response instead of the normal ad hominems online. I posed it more as a question or a discussion topic. I don't really know the answer but it's an increasing problem. Oracle knew about this and did nothing. In just about any other industry that could lead to criminal charges, let alone a lawsuit.
I'm not a big fan of regulation but I'm mature enough to recognize that sensible regulation is sometimes needed in modern society. I am still struggling with this one because my nature is to want Government to stay out of people's business, but when that business has the potential to have an effect on infrastructure or the livelihoods of others then sometimes it's a necessary evil.
GP said they were incomplete, not incompatible, and by your own admission that Mono implements a subset of the MS libs you are just confirming the statement.
I couldn't agree more. It will probably take legal action to change this mentality. Eventually someone will sue one of the big software companies and win because a known vulnerability wasn't patched.
I really hate saying this because I am mostly libertarian and wary of too much regulation, but I think it is high time that there are regulations akin to those imposed on other engineering disciplines put into place over software that is used in 'e-infrastructure' such as banking, etc. Right now there isn't any, and thus huge multi-billion dollar companies are free to drag their feet on fixes or even outright ignore vulnerabilities that can cause serious harm to people.
It depends on the jurisdiction. The legal definition of rape varies. In some places any penetration at all is rape.
Fair enough. I generally manage to get what I want working. It's certainly a lot easier now than in the early days in many respects, but then again in those days we didn't even have to worry about 3D acceleration, but still overall I find that it's pretty simple to get whatever I want working on a given distro.
Too bad what is to be the next Debian Stable has already long been frozen... major, groundbreaking improvements always seem to be implemented at a time that guarantees waiting through an entire release and then some.
How does that stop you from installing it? It doesn't. Just because it won't be prepackaged in your favorite distro doesn't mean you can't use it.
Does Facebook even have any sense of direction towards monetizing their platform? They seem to keep grasping at straws, though in this case I'm not sure where they see revenue coming from. I certainly wouldn't use a VoIP service provided by them.
So far Dishonored hasn't disappointed me, but I also got it at half price on Steam as a Christmas promotion.
I don't disagree with some of your points, but you're dead wrong about the debt. Right now they are basically printing money. We're going to wind up with some seriously high inflation if they do not stop spending more than is taken in. You're seriously misguided if you think that government debt isn't a problem.
How can they be happy about it if their pleasure center is gone? At best they'll just be cruising through life without taking any real pleasure from anything.
Although now that I think about it, I think you could still execute BASICA from IBM's flavor of DOS, so I might be wrong. It happens. The years tend to blur together after awhile :) I'm still not sure and I don't want to dig out my old 8088 IBM PC to test it on :D
BASICA was built into the BIOS/ROM on the IBM PC. It had nothing to do with DOS, and you didn't 'run it off of MS-DOS'. The lack of it on early PC clones was indeed a copyright issue but had nothing to do with DOS. It was the environment that would boot if you didn't have a bootable DOS diskette or hard drive installed/inserted.
Its lack also didn't affect compatibility. That was a function of hardware design and BIOS coding. Early iterations of clones had issues sometimes, especially since in a DOS (single task, one thread) environment many developers made assumptions about the underlying hardware.
Unfortunately a lot enterprises use web applications internally that are dependent on specific IE versions. No, not a good idea, but still true.
Having been a hiring manager for years of course, I agree for the most part with what you're saying. Thankfully in my own case I've nearly always gotten a response. If you're good at what you do the crap they put as filler in the qualifications portion of the job posting/description just don't matter very much.
You knew what I meant. The question of a degree never came up even in a couple of cases when it was 'required' according to the job description.