Of course, I can't prove ROI until the new site is launched (a great Catch22).
What? What? Of course you can prove ROI before the new site is born. of course you can. What you can't do is provide ROI before the site is launched. YOUR JOB IS TO PROVE ROI BEFORE THE JOB EVEN STARTS!!! I can't believe you turn to us to say..."Yeah, bummer..." That's what you should be doing for a living. Right? Right???
If parents were responsible enough to actually SPEND TIME WITH THE KIDS THEY MADE it would not be an issue in the first place
This is one of the most retarded stances on parenting I have ever heard, but I hear it all the time. You can spend all the time in the world with your child and they can have the greatest respect for you, but that doesn't change the fact that you might want to filter their internet use. It's just impossible to watch after your child 100% of the time AND make a living and maintain a marriage. Our parents did it, but they didn't have to worry about the internet and all the trouble a kid can get into there. I am in no way for a government blanket over the internet, but c'mon, it's not ONLY poor parenting at play here. Most people don't have a clue about what's going on out there. Is it their fault that they aren't computer savoy? Just because they don't like computers, does that mean their child should be able to download a guy with his fist up his own ass when they're 12?
People who are smart will of course get around it, but this is not for smart people. It's for the masses and so it'll work just fine. It's also pretty cheap and easy to implement site-specific filtering and most any ISP can do if if they know what a route is and how to make squid work.
Actually, I couldn't disagree more. It's the content PROVIDERS that will get around the filters. It's too large a job for any body or company to find EVERY site or page with questionable material and filter it. How do you know what a jpeg of a naked person is made of? You don't! There is no way to block porn at the ISP level. It's harder than blocking spam and we know they can't do that.
Let's not forget, the internet is for porn. Simple supply and demand. All you can do by trying to filter it is make yourself look like a zealot and/or a fascist. Lots have tried, all have failed.
What people seem to always leave out when comparing the two dbs is the fact that PostGreSQL has way more features than MySQL. Just simple features like views and transactions. The big missing feature is a language like PL. These web apps that everyone use Mysql for, would be much better served by keeping logic in the DB. PL is easy to learn, easy to use, and keeps the logic seperate from the interface, which makes deploying stuff way easier. That is the single factor for me that makes PostGreSQL way more valuable than Mysql. I don't understand why the postgres folks have not tried to spread the word that keeping the logic in the DB is the way to go.
Of course, she did urge people to "act forcefully to remove a government administration playing games of smoke and mirrors and vicious deceit.". I think it's the "act forcefully" part that gets you investigated. Plus, she *was* using a government computer for non-work related activities. You can get fired for simply checking your personal email on a gvt. computer sometimes.
Plus, you just spoke out about Bush. Are you being investigated?
Actually, I think the point of the article is that they are NOT going where the money is. Though I think that it's worthy to note that even though big business IT department people may not be the largest part of the market share directly, we are in-directly. We advise the "general public" on what to buy and what to avoid and in my opinion it makes cents (sorry) for everyone to cater to me. Doesn't it?
Why are they hitting the database for a static page view? Methinks that caching to HTML would be a much better implementation. Serves them right...
Could be that they just run their sessions via the DB. I see no SQL error pointing to content. So the better question might be...
A) Why are they hitting the database for session data? Me thinks using cookies and files would be a much better implementation. Serves them right.
B) It's a Mambo CMS thing.
Actually, it could cause a lot of inconvenience. Suppose a dirty printer head leads to the code being misprinted. A printed document, with the incorrect information, is involved in a murder or child rape investigation. Suddenly you become a suspect, even though you had no involvement, and the problem was with the printer. You could potentially be stuck defending yourself against baseless charges. That can take a massive financial toll, not to mention ruin your reputation. Hardly without inconvenience, indeed.
Or even worse...you buy and register a printer, and six months later sell it to some registered sex offender. It's a cash deal with no records. Six months and one day later that printer is used for some kidnapping randsom note or some shit. Who would believe it wasn't you? Your mom?
I imagine they wouldn't give away office for Linux so you could target both sides of the camp... that is if they weren't in the business of monopolizing their shit OS.
Of course, even if they did offer it at their regular price ($340 something now-a-days), everyone would be running it but somehow they would only have sold sell ONE copy. It'd be torrent city.
C'mon now. One of the most important open source projects in the world? I suppose that assumes that MS Office is one of the most important programs (suite...whatever) in the world? For real?
Assuming this guy's invention produces even a 15% gain (which I'm profoundly skeptical of given a lack of comprehensive 3rd-party, scientific proof), simply having a gas engine which shuts off when the car is stopped will save more fuel than this gadget will ever manage.
Do you really think your hybrid is that much better. If you've read the article, then you'd know that this gadget is more about burning gas cleaner and more completely than it's about not burning as much. Sure your cute little hybrid shuts off every once in a while but when it's on, it's only burning about 30% of the fuel it's using. So like...
DMZ-like subnets are a great idea but really, if you lock down the laptop before giving it to the employee and insure that they can't install crap or otherwise modify and crap on your rock_solid configuration through local/group/security policys, then you have one less thing to worry about. I haven't really had more of a problem with laptops than I have had with PCs.
HR does not write the screening requirements for a job posting, I do. And I can guarantee you that I have never put "A Random certificate from a body that has no credibility" as a requirement, so that shoots your to be interviewed pile argument all to hell. Especially since step two of the screening process is discard all resumes with the letters MCSE on them
I call bullshit on you. Certificates are really helpful when you get your employment through headhunters. They love them some certificates. Having said that, I thought I knew it all, or enough of it all anyways, until I got myself into some cert courses. Low and behold, I learned a whole bunch of helpful stuff that I didn't know before the courses. Worth the money? Probably not but the certs I got definitly got me my present job. Nothing wrong with being qualified AND certified.
Still, professional programmers probably don't use PHP at all - i've never met one who does.
So then, all the enterprise PHP you see out there (that's right I said enterprise PHP) must be written by amatures?) So like...Yahoo is just a bunch of retards? Do you not notice how much of the really advanced web-apps are php these days? It's like some guy who writes machine code saying..."yeah....perl is just for dummies". Cmon Idiot!
A better point would be that PHP is so easy to learn and flexable enough to do POORLY, that anyone with a logical brain, a book, and a text editer can "code" a simple widget.
"That might summarise the way you would like the world to be, but it's not the way it actually is.
Besides, I'm sure that you would agree that spammers sending spam through an open relay are commiting a service-theft crime. Having the open relay is really stupid on the part of the owner of the mail server, but it doesn't make the abuse any less wrong."
Actually, I think a better analogy would be the drive in theatre. If you are parked outside the theatre, on public property, would it be illegal for you to listen to the short range FM broadcast they produce for sound on their movie? Or better yet, if you are driving behind someone who has XM Radio and you can hear their short range FM broadcast, is it wrong for you to listen?
I mean, if your network is BROADCASTING a welcome and providing DHCP for ANYONE...then that's fair game to me.
Well, how much would you pay?
This isn't free as in beer, and developers gotta eat.
I should have made that clear from the get-go. I would spend ~$30 US to give it a try. I used to love the BeOS but even the last version I purchased from Be INC wasn't as much as the YellowTab version is going for. I mean, you can't charge more than the original retail price...can you?
The sad part is that you can hardly run it on an old box. To run it properly you need at least a good video card (which I never spent much on).
Actually, the sad part is that you have to pay out the heinie (~$114 USD I think) for it. I give YellowTab props for picking up the project but damn...I can buy Windows XP Pro for $85 USD.
I don't see a problem as long as there is backup... I don't recall ever losing our phone line at work, I do recall many times losing internet. There are many times in business when an hour of not being able to use the phone could cost more than the savings from VOIP over a decade....
Yeah, that's kinda where I am on the subject. PLUS...There are lots of things in our infrastructure that REQUIRE a phone line and are too important to leave up to VOIP right now. Security systems come to mind.
I really wanted to sell my company on VOIP as a cost savings measure and since everyone hates our phone system. I figured I could get asterick and VOIP and save the company thousands of dollars a month but when I started doing the research, it just didn't make sense.
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Of course, I can't prove ROI until the new site is launched (a great Catch22).
What? What? Of course you can prove ROI before the new site is born. of course you can. What you can't do is provide ROI before the site is launched. YOUR JOB IS TO PROVE ROI BEFORE THE JOB EVEN STARTS!!! I can't believe you turn to us to say..."Yeah, bummer..." That's what you should be doing for a living. Right? Right???
If parents were responsible enough to actually SPEND TIME WITH THE KIDS THEY MADE it would not be an issue in the first place
This is one of the most retarded stances on parenting I have ever heard, but I hear it all the time. You can spend all the time in the world with your child and they can have the greatest respect for you, but that doesn't change the fact that you might want to filter their internet use. It's just impossible to watch after your child 100% of the time AND make a living and maintain a marriage. Our parents did it, but they didn't have to worry about the internet and all the trouble a kid can get into there. I am in no way for a government blanket over the internet, but c'mon, it's not ONLY poor parenting at play here. Most people don't have a clue about what's going on out there. Is it their fault that they aren't computer savoy? Just because they don't like computers, does that mean their child should be able to download a guy with his fist up his own ass when they're 12?
People who are smart will of course get around it, but this is not for smart people. It's for the masses and so it'll work just fine. It's also pretty cheap and easy to implement site-specific filtering and most any ISP can do if if they know what a route is and how to make squid work.
Actually, I couldn't disagree more. It's the content PROVIDERS that will get around the filters. It's too large a job for any body or company to find EVERY site or page with questionable material and filter it. How do you know what a jpeg of a naked person is made of? You don't! There is no way to block porn at the ISP level. It's harder than blocking spam and we know they can't do that.
Let's not forget, the internet is for porn. Simple supply and demand. All you can do by trying to filter it is make yourself look like a zealot and/or a fascist. Lots have tried, all have failed.
What people seem to always leave out when comparing the two dbs is the fact that PostGreSQL has way more features than MySQL. Just simple features like views and transactions. The big missing feature is a language like PL. These web apps that everyone use Mysql for, would be much better served by keeping logic in the DB. PL is easy to learn, easy to use, and keeps the logic seperate from the interface, which makes deploying stuff way easier. That is the single factor for me that makes PostGreSQL way more valuable than Mysql. I don't understand why the postgres folks have not tried to spread the word that keeping the logic in the DB is the way to go.
Of course, she did urge people to "act forcefully to remove a government administration playing games of smoke and mirrors and vicious deceit.". I think it's the "act forcefully" part that gets you investigated. Plus, she *was* using a government computer for non-work related activities. You can get fired for simply checking your personal email on a gvt. computer sometimes. Plus, you just spoke out about Bush. Are you being investigated?
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Actually, I think the point of the article is that they are NOT going where the money is. Though I think that it's worthy to note that even though big business IT department people may not be the largest part of the market share directly, we are in-directly. We advise the "general public" on what to buy and what to avoid and in my opinion it makes cents (sorry) for everyone to cater to me. Doesn't it?
By far, the best I've seen is the ATM. "Graphics by ATI"
Why are they hitting the database for a static page view? Methinks that caching to HTML would be a much better implementation. Serves them right...
Could be that they just run their sessions via the DB. I see no SQL error pointing to content. So the better question might be... A) Why are they hitting the database for session data? Me thinks using cookies and files would be a much better implementation. Serves them right. B) It's a Mambo CMS thing.
Actually, it could cause a lot of inconvenience. Suppose a dirty printer head leads to the code being misprinted. A printed document, with the incorrect information, is involved in a murder or child rape investigation. Suddenly you become a suspect, even though you had no involvement, and the problem was with the printer. You could potentially be stuck defending yourself against baseless charges. That can take a massive financial toll, not to mention ruin your reputation. Hardly without inconvenience, indeed.
Or even worse...you buy and register a printer, and six months later sell it to some registered sex offender. It's a cash deal with no records. Six months and one day later that printer is used for some kidnapping randsom note or some shit. Who would believe it wasn't you? Your mom?
I imagine they wouldn't give away office for Linux so you could target both sides of the camp... that is if they weren't in the business of monopolizing their shit OS.
Of course, even if they did offer it at their regular price ($340 something now-a-days), everyone would be running it but somehow they would only have sold sell ONE copy. It'd be torrent city.
People still buy stuff in stores? Wow...something new every day.
ThunderCooperFalconBird?
Dude, get your shitty quote right... it's ThunderCougarFalconBird
C'mon now. One of the most important open source projects in the world? I suppose that assumes that MS Office is one of the most important programs (suite...whatever) in the world? For real?
Assuming this guy's invention produces even a 15% gain (which I'm profoundly skeptical of given a lack of comprehensive 3rd-party, scientific proof), simply having a gas engine which shuts off when the car is stopped will save more fuel than this gadget will ever manage.
Do you really think your hybrid is that much better. If you've read the article, then you'd know that this gadget is more about burning gas cleaner and more completely than it's about not burning as much. Sure your cute little hybrid shuts off every once in a while but when it's on, it's only burning about 30% of the fuel it's using. So like...
DMZ-like subnets are a great idea but really, if you lock down the laptop before giving it to the employee and insure that they can't install crap or otherwise modify and crap on your rock_solid configuration through local/group/security policys, then you have one less thing to worry about. I haven't really had more of a problem with laptops than I have had with PCs.
I call shenanigans.
HR does not write the screening requirements for a job posting, I do. And I can guarantee you that I have never put "A Random certificate from a body that has no credibility" as a requirement, so that shoots your to be interviewed pile argument all to hell. Especially since step two of the screening process is discard all resumes with the letters MCSE on them
I call bullshit on you. Certificates are really helpful when you get your employment through headhunters. They love them some certificates. Having said that, I thought I knew it all, or enough of it all anyways, until I got myself into some cert courses. Low and behold, I learned a whole bunch of helpful stuff that I didn't know before the courses. Worth the money? Probably not but the certs I got definitly got me my present job. Nothing wrong with being qualified AND certified.
I guess information wants to be free, but not as in beer.
You can have Linux for free still, you just can't use the name in your product/service/name etc, without paying for the privilege. It's still free.
Still, professional programmers probably don't use PHP at all - i've never met one who does.
So then, all the enterprise PHP you see out there (that's right I said enterprise PHP) must be written by amatures?) So like...Yahoo is just a bunch of retards? Do you not notice how much of the really advanced web-apps are php these days? It's like some guy who writes machine code saying..."yeah....perl is just for dummies". Cmon Idiot!
A better point would be that PHP is so easy to learn and flexable enough to do POORLY, that anyone with a logical brain, a book, and a text editer can "code" a simple widget.
PHP is here to stay. Get over it!
"That might summarise the way you would like the world to be, but it's not the way it actually is.
Besides, I'm sure that you would agree that spammers sending spam through an open relay are commiting a service-theft crime. Having the open relay is really stupid on the part of the owner of the mail server, but it doesn't make the abuse any less wrong."
Actually, I think a better analogy would be the drive in theatre. If you are parked outside the theatre, on public property, would it be illegal for you to listen to the short range FM broadcast they produce for sound on their movie? Or better yet, if you are driving behind someone who has XM Radio and you can hear their short range FM broadcast, is it wrong for you to listen?
I mean, if your network is BROADCASTING a welcome and providing DHCP for ANYONE...then that's fair game to me.
http://www.edirectsoftware.com/WindowsXPP.html
Well, how much would you pay? This isn't free as in beer, and developers gotta eat.
I should have made that clear from the get-go. I would spend ~$30 US to give it a try. I used to love the BeOS but even the last version I purchased from Be INC wasn't as much as the YellowTab version is going for. I mean, you can't charge more than the original retail price...can you?
The sad part is that you can hardly run it on an old box. To run it properly you need at least a good video card (which I never spent much on).
Actually, the sad part is that you have to pay out the heinie (~$114 USD I think) for it. I give YellowTab props for picking up the project but damn...I can buy Windows XP Pro for $85 USD.
I don't see a problem as long as there is backup... I don't recall ever losing our phone line at work, I do recall many times losing internet. There are many times in business when an hour of not being able to use the phone could cost more than the savings from VOIP over a decade....
Yeah, that's kinda where I am on the subject. PLUS...There are lots of things in our infrastructure that REQUIRE a phone line and are too important to leave up to VOIP right now. Security systems come to mind.
I really wanted to sell my company on VOIP as a cost savings measure and since everyone hates our phone system. I figured I could get asterick and VOIP and save the company thousands of dollars a month but when I started doing the research, it just didn't make sense.
Wrong, journalists are supposed to ask "ho, what, where, when, how, and why."
Wrong. Interviewers are supposed to ask who, what, when, where, how, and why" Journalists are supposed to report the facts.