As usual, a stew cooked up by politicians more interested in the next election than anything else. Fixing retail prices but leaving wholesale price unregulated was just stupid.
Very much used. OS/390 is the current name of the venerable MVS (Multiple Virtual Systems) which is typically run under a VM shell so that multiple MVS systems can be run. That way you can have a regression instance, a development instance, a staging instance and a production instance all on the same hardware platform.
Then of course there's VMWare's port of VM onto the x86 platform. Currently the best way to run Linux and Windoze on the same platform at the same time.
Nader's presidential run was foolish, and wasted a potful of political capital. On the other hand, his analysis of the Microsoft "settlement" is compelling.
Actually, I think the real reason for this is that Ashcroft hasn't been able to come up with anything better. Neither have I, have you?
It has been said by the "pundits" that the FBI is stuck in a rut investigating the 9/11 incident, when it should be out trying to prevent the next one. I think that is accurate. But there is no well-drawn roadmap for dealing with this.
Not to say this is the right way, though I can think of situations where the policy may be essential, I just haven't got a better idea.
The "terrorists" perceptions and arguments about the nature of our society is irrelevant and immaterial. If you are argueing that we are in danger of becoming like them, you are wearing some pretty odd glasses.
The terrorists real aim is to enhance their own power and psychological status among their own perceived peers. Their methods are ultimately irrational because their psychology is pathological. Short term success does not lead to long term survival. But turning our society into one that looks like theirs isn't truly in their plan, it's just a convenient canard to throw at the ignorant masses they prey on.
There is a fundamental difference between warfare and police action. In warfare we shoot first and ask questions later - or never. When confronted with an enemy - in uniform or out - on a battlefield, a different set of rules apply than would apply in a civil action.
The battlefield has been defined by the terrorists. We must act in knowledge that the rules have changed. US law does recognize the fact that in national emergency, certain constitutional rights can be abrogated.
Any job or activity can be a miserable trudge or a delightful experience. It's the environment that makes the difference. It helps to understand yourself, your strengths, where you need support, what motivates you and how you can motivate others. Of course, it's always nice to be doing something that your skills and talents support. but even that wears thin if your butting your head against an organizational wall.
So, at this stage in your career make sure you don't get stuck in any single environment for long, do several very different jobs (even if all technically oriented) in different styles of organization - large, small, flat, hierarchical, new, old, fluid, rigid--well, you might skip that one unless you get drafted;).
But it sounds like what you need is a change RIGHT NOW. And if you are stuck in school and have to finish, do some volunteer work helping someone. It works wonders for the self-esteem.
How can you expect to get reliable, reproducible results in an uncontrolled environment? On the one hand we've got a chorus of whining about unreliable programs being released to an unsuspecting public, and yet the same "programmer" wants a unique development environment, using his/her own set of tools. There's a dissonance here between what you say you want others to do and what you're willing to submit to.
If a developer needs to do unit testing, and needs admin control over a machine to do that, then that machine should be isolated from the operational environment (e.g. a lab). For the sake of the coherence and ultimate success of the development project, developers must use a consistent, managed environment. If they don't, for example, there's no way to reproduce a release to fix a reported bug. There's no way that the behaviour of the released product can be guaranteed, because the testers don't know what the required test environment should look like.
Of course, the tools that make up the environment shouldn't be whatever the favorite tool set of the PHB happen to be. They need to be worked out in cooperation with the people who have to use them. And the project can't be locked in from day one with no chance to change. But the changes have to be managed, like any other change in the project.
The idea of lock-down in a computing environment isn't necessarily analogous to a cell-block. But if you make the project manager think that herding cats would be easier than trying to get you to cooperate, you're entering into a shortened career path.
What makes you think that what happened today constitutes, or is even representative, of the "greatest threat?" The fact that this happened is evidence that more must be done to prevent it in the future, but in no way serves as an indicator of the total extent of the threat, what the worst-case scenario might be, and what the sprectrum of threats is.
It may be far easier to institute tighter security around the staffing and boarding of aircraft than it is to prevent offshore staging of a few nuclear-tipped missiles.
Almost all games involve competition. When competition occurs, some form of violence is inevitable. The issue to be avoided are graphic violence and use of violence a a reflexive or first resort. Games like Quake both graphically depict violence, and also fundamentally teach that violence is a problem-solving technique. That's not the idea you are trying to get across.
Chess is a war game. But there is no graphic violence. Lemmings depicts the final explosion as failure. It trvializes it, but it's not the same as a first person shooter.
Civilization (Civ II?) may be a good compromise. Yes, there are battles, but strategy and economic development are the keys. Starving citizens are to be avoided.
The SIM games also appeal. Avoid SimCopter.
How about Need for Speed? Not much literacy there.
Kinda reminds me of all those aircar articles from Popular Science in the '60s & '70s. Who is planning to build it, what are the major design parameters? Mach 1, Mach 1.5, Mach 2?, number of passengers, weight, range, planform etc.? When - 5 to 10 years - like the Mars Society, right?
If this article was in a newsgroup I'd call it a troll. As it is, I wonder about the reputation of the publication and market it serves - it looks like the paper is probably a tabloid ir an Aussie equivalent of the Weekly World (sic?). Like "Scientists Photograph Heaven with Space Telescope" headlines.
Commercial aircraft aren't designed for the kind of stresses seen in the transonic and supersonic region. The craft would have had control difficulties that would almost certainly resulted in a hole in the ground, probably several because it would have broken up in flight.
My cousin is a financial analyst at Excite. When I visited her in Redwood City in June, she said they would love to get rid of it, but it they can't give it away, might even have to pay someone to take it. There must be some shutdown costs or it would have been gone long ago. She laughs when she talks about how much @home paid to become excite@home, something like $7.1 Billion (yes, that's thousand million). Worth less than nothing. How's that for making a small fortune?
I've had @home through Comcast for about 18 months. For the first 3 months whenever I'd call them they would tell me that they didn't offer service in my area. Sometimes they would hang up at that point, sometimes they didn't. Sometimes I wished they would. Their biggest problem was a lack of internal communications and access to internal information. Often good people were hamstrung because there was no way for them to get the info they needed to help me.
My son worked for 3 months to get them to admit that they were'nt going to help him. He wanted to host a game for two or three other people, forget what it was (I'm not much of a gamer) maybe Comand & Conquer or Warcraft II?
We just accept what we get, don't try to push the envelope. Uptime is good to excellent. download speeds consistently 1.5-2.7Mbps (that's bits, not bytes).
True. Note too that the piece of the market they're missing out on now is the potential clients who don't understand about TCO and want the absolute lowest inital cost, but don't want NT on Intel.
Plus, with Linux on their RS6000 hardware, they can offer a single O/S on all platforms, top to bottom. That's what DEC had in the '80s and it was a powerful marketing message.
AMD has already survived Intel's best efforts to run them off the map. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say they're stronger now than ever before. Beside's AMD is to Intel what Apple is to Microsoft - the only thing standing between them and an anti-trust suit. Oh, wait.
Yea, well Thoreau eventually returned to his family business and worked there until he died. And suffered from the lung disease that affected most long-time workers in that industry suffered, some form of brown/black lung.
Some people work the live, others live to work.
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As usual, a stew cooked up by politicians more interested in the next election than anything else. Fixing retail prices but leaving wholesale price unregulated was just stupid.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011130/wr/media_ exciteathome_fcc_dc_2.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011130/wr/tech_e xciteathome_dc_4.html
Very much used. OS/390 is the current name of the venerable MVS (Multiple Virtual Systems) which is typically run under a VM shell so that multiple MVS systems can be run. That way you can have a regression instance, a development instance, a staging instance and a production instance all on the same hardware platform.
Then of course there's VMWare's port of VM onto the x86 platform. Currently the best way to run Linux and Windoze on the same platform at the same time.
It's as rare here as anywhere else.
as trolls so often are.
Nader's presidential run was foolish, and wasted a potful of political capital. On the other hand, his analysis of the Microsoft "settlement" is compelling.
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Actually, I think the real reason for this is that Ashcroft hasn't been able to come up with anything better. Neither have I, have you?
It has been said by the "pundits" that the FBI is stuck in a rut investigating the 9/11 incident, when it should be out trying to prevent the next one. I think that is accurate. But there is no well-drawn roadmap for dealing with this.
Not to say this is the right way, though I can think of situations where the policy may be essential, I just haven't got a better idea.
While works of fiction are useful to show us how things might turn out, they are not good basis for law.
And truth is always stranger than fiction.
The "terrorists" perceptions and arguments about the nature of our society is irrelevant and immaterial. If you are argueing that we are in danger of becoming like them, you are wearing some pretty odd glasses.
The terrorists real aim is to enhance their own power and psychological status among their own perceived peers. Their methods are ultimately irrational because their psychology is pathological. Short term success does not lead to long term survival. But turning our society into one that looks like theirs isn't truly in their plan, it's just a convenient canard to throw at the ignorant masses they prey on.
There is a fundamental difference between warfare and police action. In warfare we shoot first and ask questions later - or never. When confronted with an enemy - in uniform or out - on a battlefield, a different set of rules apply than would apply in a civil action.
The battlefield has been defined by the terrorists. We must act in knowledge that the rules have changed. US law does recognize the fact that in national emergency, certain constitutional rights can be abrogated.
Any job or activity can be a miserable trudge or a delightful experience. It's the environment that makes the difference. It helps to understand yourself, your strengths, where you need support, what motivates you and how you can motivate others. Of course, it's always nice to be doing something that your skills and talents support. but even that wears thin if your butting your head against an organizational wall.
;).
So, at this stage in your career make sure you don't get stuck in any single environment for long, do several very different jobs (even if all technically oriented) in different styles of organization - large, small, flat, hierarchical, new, old, fluid, rigid--well, you might skip that one unless you get drafted
But it sounds like what you need is a change RIGHT NOW. And if you are stuck in school and have to finish, do some volunteer work helping someone. It works wonders for the self-esteem.
How can you expect to get reliable, reproducible results in an uncontrolled environment? On the one hand we've got a chorus of whining about unreliable programs being released to an unsuspecting public, and yet the same "programmer" wants a unique development environment, using his/her own set of tools. There's a dissonance here between what you say you want others to do and what you're willing to submit to.
If a developer needs to do unit testing, and needs admin control over a machine to do that, then that machine should be isolated from the operational environment (e.g. a lab). For the sake of the coherence and ultimate success of the development project, developers must use a consistent, managed environment. If they don't, for example, there's no way to reproduce a release to fix a reported bug. There's no way that the behaviour of the released product can be guaranteed, because the testers don't know what the required test environment should look like.
Of course, the tools that make up the environment shouldn't be whatever the favorite tool set of the PHB happen to be. They need to be worked out in cooperation with the people who have to use them. And the project can't be locked in from day one with no chance to change. But the changes have to be managed, like any other change in the project.
The idea of lock-down in a computing environment isn't necessarily analogous to a cell-block. But if you make the project manager think that herding cats would be easier than trying to get you to cooperate, you're entering into a shortened career path.
What makes you think that what happened today constitutes, or is even representative, of the "greatest threat?" The fact that this happened is evidence that more must be done to prevent it in the future, but in no way serves as an indicator of the total extent of the threat, what the worst-case scenario might be, and what the sprectrum of threats is.
It may be far easier to institute tighter security around the staffing and boarding of aircraft than it is to prevent offshore staging of a few nuclear-tipped missiles.
Almost all games involve competition. When competition occurs, some form of violence is inevitable. The issue to be avoided are graphic violence and use of violence a a reflexive or first resort. Games like Quake both graphically depict violence, and also fundamentally teach that violence is a problem-solving technique. That's not the idea you are trying to get across.
Chess is a war game. But there is no graphic violence. Lemmings depicts the final explosion as failure. It trvializes it, but it's not the same as a first person shooter.
Civilization (Civ II?) may be a good compromise. Yes, there are battles, but strategy and economic development are the keys. Starving citizens are to be avoided.
The SIM games also appeal. Avoid SimCopter.
How about Need for Speed? Not much literacy there.
Kinda reminds me of all those aircar articles from Popular Science in the '60s & '70s. Who is planning to build it, what are the major design parameters? Mach 1, Mach 1.5, Mach 2?, number of passengers, weight, range, planform etc.? When - 5 to 10 years - like the Mars Society, right?
If this article was in a newsgroup I'd call it a troll. As it is, I wonder about the reputation of the publication and market it serves - it looks like the paper is probably a tabloid ir an Aussie equivalent of the Weekly World (sic?). Like "Scientists Photograph Heaven with Space Telescope" headlines.
Commercial aircraft aren't designed for the kind of stresses seen in the transonic and supersonic region. The craft would have had control difficulties that would almost certainly resulted in a hole in the ground, probably several because it would have broken up in flight.
My cousin is a financial analyst at Excite. When I visited her in Redwood City in June, she said they would love to get rid of it, but it they can't give it away, might even have to pay someone to take it. There must be some shutdown costs or it would have been gone long ago. She laughs when she talks about how much @home paid to become excite@home, something like $7.1 Billion (yes, that's thousand million). Worth less than nothing. How's that for making a small fortune?
I've had @home through Comcast for about 18 months. For the first 3 months whenever I'd call them they would tell me that they didn't offer service in my area. Sometimes they would hang up at that point, sometimes they didn't. Sometimes I wished they would. Their biggest problem was a lack of internal communications and access to internal information. Often good people were hamstrung because there was no way for them to get the info they needed to help me.
My son worked for 3 months to get them to admit that they were'nt going to help him. He wanted to host a game for two or three other people, forget what it was (I'm not much of a gamer) maybe Comand & Conquer or Warcraft II?
We just accept what we get, don't try to push the envelope. Uptime is good to excellent. download speeds consistently 1.5-2.7Mbps (that's bits, not bytes).
I also use an LRP router/firewall.
True. Note too that the piece of the market they're missing out on now is the potential clients who don't understand about TCO and want the absolute lowest inital cost, but don't want NT on Intel.
Plus, with Linux on their RS6000 hardware, they can offer a single O/S on all platforms, top to bottom. That's what DEC had in the '80s and it was a powerful marketing message.
AMD has already survived Intel's best efforts to run them off the map. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say they're stronger now than ever before. Beside's AMD is to Intel what Apple is to Microsoft - the only thing standing between them and an anti-trust suit. Oh, wait.
Yea, well Thoreau eventually returned to his family business and worked there until he died. And suffered from the lung disease that affected most long-time workers in that industry suffered, some form of brown/black lung. Some people work the live, others live to work.
Zippy is a little too... whatever... for me. OTOH I used to recognize a lot of my friends in the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.