Couldn't agree more. There's a lot more freedom now thanks to open standards, but there's a lot more responsibility too for the average user. There are times that I wish that the closed silos of AOL and CompuServe were still around. I don't remember having to deal with viruses and spam during those times. There was a fair amount of trust and (mis)adventure to be found roaming around the net. Much less finding a connection to the net and getting SLIP to work. If you were lucky and knew the right people you could get your BBS uucp access through some other BBS. War dialing or watching demos was what you did on a Friday night. Hell AOL was the most useless waist of time, and no one of any consequence had an account unless it was stolen or used illicitly. AOL was and always will be a joke, but it kept the sheeple safe and out of everyone else's way. Of course without the mass exodus to the net, some of us wouldn't be getting paid what we are now.
Looks like Backtrack 5 came out yesterday. Anyone know how well 5 works with the book. Ie. should the book be considered a decent generalized approach to PEN testing and still be purchased on that account, or just ignored.
I just did a round of purchases and all of our new servers included integrated 10gb. These were all supermicro based w/ integrated intel 10gb. You can pickup XFP transceivers for around 250 ea. and I think the chassis cost around 2500 bare bones. Switches were pricey as hell though.
It's every merchant. Size does not matter, you must be PCI-DSS compliant. It only effects the kind of audit you are required to undergo each year. There is absolutely nothing that says a single member can't have the keys. It depends on how you construct your policy. And the size of the organization doesn't matter when it comes to lying to the auditor. I'd almost bet that the larger the organization, the better the chance. If they find a problem sony will have to shell out some cash to replace/re-issue each card, which could be from 5 to 20 dollars per card.
Back in the day, and I'll assume now as well, CMU has a hell of a reputation as Comp-Sci school. Heavy on the theory. And Most definitely on par with MIT, UCB, and UIUC. Admittedly I came out of UIUC knowing how to build a web page. Of course this was because my room mate was busy porting Mosaic to c++/windows NT for the NCSA. Point being I think it's a safe bet that CMU's Comp-Sci dept. isn't focused on dumbing down their program.
I couldn't agree with this more. Sure I'd had a number of classes with lots of C code in them require pointers and all of that fun stuff; but it wasn't until I had a computer architecture course where we had to model a basic computer with nothing but logic gates where everything clicked into place. Busses, Pointers, CPUs, Memory etc. Even how assembly to binary fit in the grand scheme of things. It all just clicked one day.
One thing to keep in mind beyond the environmental impact, is the speed with which these things can be deployed. And again, the extremely modest footprint. Medellin Colombia has used these for a few years now with great success for moving people about, and making access from the central part of the city where the work is, to the outlying barrios where the jobless poor live. I would think if you adopted a cell tower approach to construction, you could almost make your cable system temporary. Tear it down, and move it when you needed resources from another location. Think logging, and warehouse districts etc.
Someone should sue the Australian government is not complying with their new rules because they the documents they are producing in Word are not fully compliant with OOXML.
There aren't/ weren't that manny fibre channel vendors out there, back in the day. FC was an interesting solution to storage pools and what not, and seemed like a good idea at the time. Hitachi was a lot cheaper than EMC though, but the support was still crazy expensive, although an order of magnitude cheaper than EMC. ISCSI has a pretty high cost as well for bootable HBA's and doesn't really run at wire speed. We're currently trying out AoE as a FC replacement. I've watched the prices go from 100K to 5K in the past 5 years for equivalent tech and 10 times the space. If there is a market left for EMC, it's got to be fading quickly. At some point in time I think even the enterprize folks will no longer be able to justify the cost. I almost feel like things are drifting back to the do it yourself attitude of the late 90's. And I mean that for companies with the budget to 'Just Buy It.'
My thoughts on the subject of commoditization of software are this: What ever you do, whenever you do it, it will become a commodity if it's worth anything. You have two ways to combat this. The hard way; innovate innovate innovate. Get ahead of the competition and stay there. Grow your biz at a rate that you can afford to keep adding developers/marketing/management to stay ahead of everyone else esp. FOSS. The easy way; Open the product, sell consulting, training, support, and custom development around it, develop and utilize a FOSS community around the product, and use that for your free support and marketing system. Sure if it's any good you'll probably have to grow, but it won't be as fast, and hopefully will maintainable by a few number of people. You're not going to make nearly as much as with a closed source product, but you and a couple of other people can probably live fairly well, and hopefully have a lot of fun in the process. Chances are you wouldn't get the yacht anyway, but do it right, and you can see the world for free, maybe even ride biz class once in a while.
In my experience, It's a balancing act. And has a lot of back and forth. When I design an API, I generally write a reference/spike implementation. Extract out the API. Check the API for usability and clarity of intent, change it, and then reimplement the app to use the new API. Then expand the app with additional features that need to be extracted out. Rinse/repeat about 3 times. I deal mostly with plugins and protocals, as oppsed to drivers which may have a little less feature creep or abstraction. When I'm building something new from scratch I find it impossible to really design a decent API from a pure theorectical standpoint without first trying to solve the real problems I'm trying to address. Although alot of API's can generally benefit from some research of related problem areas and exiting API's. And I wouldn't write one from scratch if there was already a perfect match. Anything I publish for the general public tries to focus on readability and ease of use. I abhore API's that commite based, and don't take this into account. The w3c dom API comes to mind as crack addeled, esp. when viewed against jdom.
I wonder if the way to get around the problem, is by requiring thought interfaces to always require a choice. Like in the article, I think that's where things get interesting. I once saw some show on Hawking's typing (maybe speaking) interface, and it consisted of predictive text. that showed him a choice of words or letters and narowed things down as he made choices. If the choices could be made to operate at the speed with which you though them, this might work. It might only work in specialized vocabulaires programming langues etc, but might be the way to go. And have the effect of keeping stray unrealted thoughts out of the stream. Just sort of seems like a start. What would have been interesting, is if they could have worked with dynamic choices/ pictures as opposed to a serires of prelocated pairs. At that point, you could them show them a list of words, buttons, etc to choose from.
I think HDR is a strong possibility the way you describe it. There may be faster frame rates by sweeping one set of sensors then the next. They could add a whole new variety of color filters. Right now I think they sit at 4. I really think it has something to do with speed though given that it's on their 1D sized sensor, which is all about speed. I don't think it's about large format cameras, canon seems reluctant to really move into that area. I'm curious what the paparazzi and sports photographers are missing. Because that's their bread and butter. Canon doesn't like it when the sidelines of the big game are filed with anything other than big white lenses with little red rings and those are all APS-C sensors behind them. There's always 3D too, but I have no idea how this new sensor would help that.
I use it as a way to take my photo portfolio around, and stay connected while I'm doing it. It's great from a marketing yourself point of view. And the sex appeal of the device is important for that. It's still a little distracting at first, but it breaks the ice well. I've never seen any other device that does all of that as well as the ipad.
I have one point of contention.: or go to a private school and rack up mountains of debt for no guaranteed payoff.
I think you'll find that most private schools can be more affordable than state schools when alumni scholarships are figured in. State school push you to get student loans and like to raise tuition when sate funding drops out. Private schools on the other hand have worked very for a long time to keep their costs down and like to have a decent percentage of the students come from lower incomes. So they tend to go out of their way to give you scholarships. The college I went to hand 80% of it's students receiving some sort of tuition reimbursement or scholarship. Mine was 80% of my tuition, I didn't even ask for it. My point being don't rule out small private colleges as being too expensive, you have to look at what they give back.
The problem is that no one has come up with a good way to do software engineering yet. Originally they tried to adapt the waterfall model to project development, but ran into problems because by the time you've finished truly working out all of the design details, you have the finished project. After I graduated extreme programming et al. started showing up as well as unit testing, and test driven coding. These still fall into the art category and do not work far all situations, esp. when users are involved as opposed to rockets and septic tanks. CS, to me, is about being able to understand the code that your reading and learning from, and to give you a background to make informed decisions. The good CS programs make you do projects in groups, as well as giving you a background in different development models so that you can try them for yourself. But as far as I've seen when true engineering is applied and enforced to software development the whole system breaks down. When engineering is left completely out of the equation the system also breaks. So I think your statement, based on my experiences, is a little passed balance, but on he right track.
It can be a pain while running, but I always look at it as an all in one kind of device. And I think in the end, I'd not like it as much in a smaller form factor. Video, games, and web come to mind.
I clip mine on my hip in between my shorts, and my skivvies, with the faceplate towards my hip. I get very minimal bounce and distraction from it. It may pick up more sweat than normal there, but I've never found any other place that works as well given the size and weight. I'd also ditch the apple head phones for some Sonys that have a better in-ear staying power, and longer cord.
Perhaps I'm just showing my age here, but since when did western digital become known as "well respected". We used to dread seeing someone show-up with a WD drive, because you knew it was crap. Packard-Bell was the only major label truly cheap and evil enough to actually sell them. I still avoid them like the plague.
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Isn't this why we try to have juries that have no existing opinion on the case, and one of the reasons we keep the sequestered.
Couldn't agree more. There's a lot more freedom now thanks to open standards, but there's a lot more responsibility too for the average user. There are times that I wish that the closed silos of AOL and CompuServe were still around. I don't remember having to deal with viruses and spam during those times. There was a fair amount of trust and (mis)adventure to be found roaming around the net. Much less finding a connection to the net and getting SLIP to work. If you were lucky and knew the right people you could get your BBS uucp access through some other BBS. War dialing or watching demos was what you did on a Friday night. Hell AOL was the most useless waist of time, and no one of any consequence had an account unless it was stolen or used illicitly. AOL was and always will be a joke, but it kept the sheeple safe and out of everyone else's way. Of course without the mass exodus to the net, some of us wouldn't be getting paid what we are now.
Looks like Backtrack 5 came out yesterday. Anyone know how well 5 works with the book. Ie. should the book be considered a decent generalized approach to PEN testing and still be purchased on that account, or just ignored.
I just did a round of purchases and all of our new servers included integrated 10gb. These were all supermicro based w/ integrated intel 10gb. You can pickup XFP transceivers for around 250 ea. and I think the chassis cost around 2500 bare bones. Switches were pricey as hell though.
It's every merchant. Size does not matter, you must be PCI-DSS compliant. It only effects the kind of audit you are required to undergo each year. There is absolutely nothing that says a single member can't have the keys. It depends on how you construct your policy. And the size of the organization doesn't matter when it comes to lying to the auditor. I'd almost bet that the larger the organization, the better the chance. If they find a problem sony will have to shell out some cash to replace/re-issue each card, which could be from 5 to 20 dollars per card.
Back in the day, and I'll assume now as well, CMU has a hell of a reputation as Comp-Sci school. Heavy on the theory. And Most definitely on par with MIT, UCB, and UIUC. Admittedly I came out of UIUC knowing how to build a web page. Of course this was because my room mate was busy porting Mosaic to c++/windows NT for the NCSA. Point being I think it's a safe bet that CMU's Comp-Sci dept. isn't focused on dumbing down their program.
I couldn't agree with this more. Sure I'd had a number of classes with lots of C code in them require pointers and all of that fun stuff; but it wasn't until I had a computer architecture course where we had to model a basic computer with nothing but logic gates where everything clicked into place. Busses, Pointers, CPUs, Memory etc. Even how assembly to binary fit in the grand scheme of things. It all just clicked one day.
One thing to keep in mind beyond the environmental impact, is the speed with which these things can be deployed. And again, the extremely modest footprint.
Medellin Colombia has used these for a few years now with great success for moving people about, and making access from the central part of the city where the work is, to the outlying barrios where the jobless poor live. I would think if you adopted a cell tower approach to construction, you could almost make your cable system temporary. Tear it down, and move it when you needed resources from another location. Think logging, and warehouse districts etc.
http://www.themedellinblog.com/medellin-aerial-tram-giving-hope-to-the-barrios
Thank God, I was really worried about this.
Someone should sue the Australian government is not complying with their new rules because they the documents they are producing in Word are not fully compliant with OOXML.
There aren't/ weren't that manny fibre channel vendors out there, back in the day. FC was an interesting solution to storage pools and what not, and seemed like a good idea at the time. Hitachi was a lot cheaper than EMC though, but the support was still crazy expensive, although an order of magnitude cheaper than EMC. ISCSI has a pretty high cost as well for bootable HBA's and doesn't really run at wire speed. We're currently trying out AoE as a FC replacement. I've watched the prices go from 100K to 5K in the past 5 years for equivalent tech and 10 times the space. If there is a market left for EMC, it's got to be fading quickly. At some point in time I think even the enterprize folks will no longer be able to justify the cost. I almost feel like things are drifting back to the do it yourself attitude of the late 90's. And I mean that for companies with the budget to 'Just Buy It.'
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My thoughts on the subject of commoditization of software are this: What ever you do, whenever you do it, it will become a commodity if it's worth anything. You have two ways to combat this. The hard way; innovate innovate innovate. Get ahead of the competition and stay there. Grow your biz at a rate that you can afford to keep adding developers/marketing/management to stay ahead of everyone else esp. FOSS. The easy way; Open the product, sell consulting, training, support, and custom development around it, develop and utilize a FOSS community around the product, and use that for your free support and marketing system. Sure if it's any good you'll probably have to grow, but it won't be as fast, and hopefully will maintainable by a few number of people. You're not going to make nearly as much as with a closed source product, but you and a couple of other people can probably live fairly well, and hopefully have a lot of fun in the process. Chances are you wouldn't get the yacht anyway, but do it right, and you can see the world for free, maybe even ride biz class once in a while.
2500 cycles before degradation according to their youtube video.
In my experience, It's a balancing act. And has a lot of back and forth. When I design an API, I generally write a reference/spike implementation. Extract out the API. Check the API for usability and clarity of intent, change it, and then reimplement the app to use the new API. Then expand the app with additional features that need to be extracted out. Rinse/repeat about 3 times. I deal mostly with plugins and protocals, as oppsed to drivers which may have a little less feature creep or abstraction. When I'm building something new from scratch I find it impossible to really design a decent API from a pure theorectical standpoint without first trying to solve the real problems I'm trying to address. Although alot of API's can generally benefit from some research of related problem areas and exiting API's. And I wouldn't write one from scratch if there was already a perfect match. Anything I publish for the general public tries to focus on readability and ease of use. I abhore API's that commite based, and don't take this into account. The w3c dom API comes to mind as crack addeled, esp. when viewed against jdom.
I wonder if the way to get around the problem, is by requiring thought interfaces to always require a choice. Like in the article, I think that's where things get interesting. I once saw some show on Hawking's typing (maybe speaking) interface, and it consisted of predictive text. that showed him a choice of words or letters and narowed things down as he made choices. If the choices could be made to operate at the speed with which you though them, this might work. It might only work in specialized vocabulaires programming langues etc, but might be the way to go. And have the effect of keeping stray unrealted thoughts out of the stream. Just sort of seems like a start. What would have been interesting, is if they could have worked with dynamic choices/ pictures as opposed to a serires of prelocated pairs. At that point, you could them show them a list of words, buttons, etc to choose from.
I think HDR is a strong possibility the way you describe it. There may be faster frame rates by sweeping one set of sensors then the next. They could add a whole new variety of color filters. Right now I think they sit at 4. I really think it has something to do with speed though given that it's on their 1D sized sensor, which is all about speed. I don't think it's about large format cameras, canon seems reluctant to really move into that area. I'm curious what the paparazzi and sports photographers are missing. Because that's their bread and butter. Canon doesn't like it when the sidelines of the big game are filed with anything other than big white lenses with little red rings and those are all APS-C sensors behind them. There's always 3D too, but I have no idea how this new sensor would help that.
I use it as a way to take my photo portfolio around, and stay connected while I'm doing it. It's great from a marketing yourself point of view. And the sex appeal of the device is important for that. It's still a little distracting at first, but it breaks the ice well. I've never seen any other device that does all of that as well as the ipad.
I have one point of contention.:
or go to a private school and rack up mountains of debt for no guaranteed payoff.
I think you'll find that most private schools can be more affordable than state schools when alumni scholarships are figured in. State school push you to get student loans and like to raise tuition when sate funding drops out. Private schools on the other hand have worked very for a long time to keep their costs down and like to have a decent percentage of the students come from lower incomes. So they tend to go out of their way to give you scholarships. The college I went to hand 80% of it's students receiving some sort of tuition reimbursement or scholarship. Mine was 80% of my tuition, I didn't even ask for it. My point being don't rule out small private colleges as being too expensive, you have to look at what they give back.
The problem is that no one has come up with a good way to do software engineering yet. Originally they tried to adapt the waterfall model to project development, but ran into problems because by the time you've finished truly working out all of the design details, you have the finished project. After I graduated extreme programming et al. started showing up as well as unit testing, and test driven coding. These still fall into the art category and do not work far all situations, esp. when users are involved as opposed to rockets and septic tanks. CS, to me, is about being able to understand the code that your reading and learning from, and to give you a background to make informed decisions. The good CS programs make you do projects in groups, as well as giving you a background in different development models so that you can try them for yourself. But as far as I've seen when true engineering is applied and enforced to software development the whole system breaks down. When engineering is left completely out of the equation the system also breaks. So I think your statement, based on my experiences, is a little passed balance, but on he right track.
It can be a pain while running, but I always look at it as an all in one kind of device. And I think in the end, I'd not like it as much in a smaller form factor. Video, games, and web come to mind.
I clip mine on my hip in between my shorts, and my skivvies, with the faceplate towards my hip. I get very minimal bounce and distraction from it. It may pick up more sweat than normal there, but I've never found any other place that works as well given the size and weight. I'd also ditch the apple head phones for some Sonys that have a better in-ear staying power, and longer cord.
You've obviously never installed cat5 in a coal mine.
Believe it or not, it wasn't actually rhetorical, so thanks for the answer.
I think I may still have one of those laying around. Obviously no point in checking to see if it still works.
Perhaps I'm just showing my age here, but since when did western digital become known as "well respected". We used to dread seeing someone show-up with a WD drive, because you knew it was crap. Packard-Bell was the only major label truly cheap and evil enough to actually sell them. I still avoid them like the plague.