The FBI is adopting SOA. Their previous technilogical overhaul (the initiative name escapes me at the moment) was a monumental disaster. At least this round can't possibly be any worse than the last.
My sincere hope in that the console makers are moving to PowerPC arch is that this will increase the pace of Linux dev for 64bit PPC architectures. There has been a lot of good work done, but the pace has been a little slow. I'm not much of a gamer, but this is one of the many benefits that gaming brings to other markets.
I don't understand why companies like this don't opt for just sticking with redundant online storage as opposed to offline such as this. With online, as you upgrade over the years, your archived data gets moved along with, and thus you've no worries about obsolescence of your media or reader. I've heard the argument that the storage space is too costly, though that wouldn't seem to pan out. As time goes by, the MB/GB/TB per dollar will increase, and that data you have archived will become trivial in size pretty quickly. I would think, at least in this sort of application, that a good SAN (where storage is essentially abstracted) would negate the need for this.
Interestingly, INMARSAT is also the choice of many a smaller countries military for classified global communications (makes our (the US Military's Intel community) job easier). There are already other reasonable options out there. Pick up a copy of "SIGNAL" or "C4ISR" and you'll find no shortage of ads for VSAT and other technologies that provide truely global IP services on a reasonable cost basis (many are available to the general public though not marketed as such).
My sentiments exactly except I don't think they even tried to extend it. It's a somewhat anemic version of the Google Personal Homepage with nary a hope of ever catching up. I am confounded by the "Windows Live" aspect, but in fairness it is in Beta. Perhaps an Internet based bootable OS is right around the corner. From Microsoft I mean. BWAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!
In seriousness, once Jobs gets the brains to partner up with Google, MS is going to be a distant memory (not that this scenario is necessarily a good thing mind you...I'm all for healthy competition).
How so? In what way is/. lambasting them? The only communicae that/. proper has with users is the tone of their submission postings. It is common to see a negative tone of posted submissions that deal with MS, SCO, etc. It's equally common to see a posotive spin on articles realting to Google, Linux, etc. I'm not arguing with you, I'm sincerely asking how (where, give me an example)/. proper is lambasting Google. Some readers are certainly doing so, but/.... I think not. Also, not sure how my original post was Flame Bait.
...Slashdot would be lambasting them. There is a massive potential for misuse in what Google is doing. I'm not saying Google will misuse it, or that anyone WILL misuse it. The potential does have to be considered with a healthy level of skepticism.
I couldn't agree more. Apple certainly has the technology. The Newton (yeah, sorry, I had to bring it up) was an amazing gadget in its day. With the advances in processing power, memory capacity, etc. Apple could certainly succeed in creating a new class of tablet somewhere between a PDA and a small laptop with a flip-screen. Throw in very good voice recognition, GSM/GPRS (are you favorite flavor of data)and immediate handwriting to typed-text conversion with learning capability and you'd have a winner. I currently use the daylights out of my Treo and would give anything for a device such as I just described (my Treo 650 is a tecnological disaster...but the most functional technological disaster I have at this point) to replace it with. C'mon Apple...step up to the plate on this. Enough versions of the iPod already.
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I don't get the tone of this headline, that if the Fed has a secret, it must be a bad thing. How would you propose the Gov't protect the country in the absence of secrecy. Full disclosure? A grand idea that has never worked (of course in a sense secrecy hasn't worked either, as all societies in the past have fallen). The fact of the matter is that secrets are not only normal, they are a requirement for survival. We all practice a level of secrecy even in our lives; at work, in relationships, etc. and we use them to protect ourselves (psychologically and emotionally mostly I'd presume). Companies exercise extreme measures to protect trade secrets. Pitchers and catchers use "secret" codes to communicate so as not to divulge their plans to the batter. The NSA is not a den of evildoers. They're a good bunch of folks, no different than you and I save for the fact that they're willing to work for a lot less money because they feel it's for the greater good. I'd venture to guess that greater than 50% of NSA employees are/.'ers, albeit not the most vocal of the bunch.;) The military/intel communities have abused power at times, but that is not the norm. Blah blah blah...I'll shut up now, I'm boring even my self.
I believe one could get a very nice phone and a separate 4-5MP camera with a large memory card and still have some spending money left. Yeah, I get that this is an "all-in-one" device, but they've made the classic mistake that has torpedoed so many others in the past. They compromised on the camera (it's only 2MP and has very little storage capacity) and on the phone (it's big/bulky) in order to combine them. Even with the end product, $900 just seems a stupidly high price to charge.
I've never seen the commercial. Every gay guy that I know/associate with shops Ikea. It's a common joke among them (my group of peers, gay and straight alike). I'll inform them of your having taken offense to it on their behalf, I'm sure they'll feel that the world is a much safer place for it. And please, waste some more of your precious karma on me.
It's not a troll, jackass. To deny that certain segments of society do not have certain preferred styles is asinine. How exactly is it "trolling" to point out that Ikea is popular within the gay community? And yes, thank you for pointing out my typo.
...in my neck of the woods. It's not nearly as cool as the find in the article, but it was cool to me. Being a trail-runner and ultra-marathoner, I'm always on the lookout for new trails. There are some good trails not far from my home that I like to run. I always wished that I could just run to the trail, but the roads between home and trail were simply not safe for running. I had tried to use my GPS to map out the trail and some of the woods near my house that I knew should be the closest point near the trail, but the density of the trees (even in winter) rendered my GPS useless. Using Google Earth a while back, I was able to get a nice birds eye view of the entire area near my home including some old access roads that I didn't know existed. Now, I can leave my house, run to the back of my subdivision, down a dirt log-road and through about 100M of woods where I pick up the "top" of the main trail that I run. I even printed it out in tiles on 8.5x11 paper which I scotch-taped together into a poor-mans map. Again, it's not a big deal to most, but to me it was priceless.
In the future. I'd imagine that Apple could fairly easily add AMD to the line where it fits (an Opteron in their server line perhaps). I can't believe that Apple has taken a completely "Intel only" approach on this...but I'm usually wrong on this sort of thing.
Fujitsu seems to have replaced it with a fi-5110C, but it looks to be essentially the same scanner with a few updates. A bit of froogle'ing shows that it can be had for just over $700.
Agreed...but when your as arrogant as ESR, you make a big (public) deal out of it. I work with a guy that shouts "I just got ANOTHER job offer" from his cubicle every time he gets an e-mailed job lead (many of them automated). I see little difference between the two.
...but many people will have to reply in "dupe" pointing out that it is NOT a "Terabyte DVD recorder". It is a terabyte DVR with a normal DVD recorder built in to the case.
The only point to have any certification, or degree for that matter, is because someone for whom you want to work either requires it or will give you preference over someone without. There...that was easy. Now, about Slashdot posting a question such as this, and not my question a few months ago asking the/. community for suggestive help in designing a Linux based handheld + store-&-forward via mobile GSM pico-cells as a mobile data collection tool for use by volunteer physicians traveling in very remote locations within Africa. Obviously someone whining about the value of certifications being a percieved one is considerably more important (yes...I am whining). My two cents, if you're so damned smart, take the test. What's a few hours out of your life to make yourself that much more marketable.
I can tell you based on my experiences with similar projects within DoD that they are pretty good about evaluating "conventional wisdom" and then evaluating any "unconventional" options. In a case like this, there would have been a set of requirements to be met. A team of folks would have been assigned to go out and find as many solutions as possible. After the solution set was identified, they would evaluate each one on it's merits and arrived at a final selection group which would then be decided on based on either price, longevity or some other more utilitarian criteria. Chances are very good that a "clean slate" approach is what led to Linux on PPC.
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How about a link to information on the "other" intentional back doors that exist?
The FBI is adopting SOA. Their previous technilogical overhaul (the initiative name escapes me at the moment) was a monumental disaster. At least this round can't possibly be any worse than the last.
My sincere hope in that the console makers are moving to PowerPC arch is that this will increase the pace of Linux dev for 64bit PPC architectures. There has been a lot of good work done, but the pace has been a little slow. I'm not much of a gamer, but this is one of the many benefits that gaming brings to other markets.
I don't understand why companies like this don't opt for just sticking with redundant online storage as opposed to offline such as this. With online, as you upgrade over the years, your archived data gets moved along with, and thus you've no worries about obsolescence of your media or reader. I've heard the argument that the storage space is too costly, though that wouldn't seem to pan out. As time goes by, the MB/GB/TB per dollar will increase, and that data you have archived will become trivial in size pretty quickly. I would think, at least in this sort of application, that a good SAN (where storage is essentially abstracted) would negate the need for this.
Any chance Google is pursuing AOL just to make sure MS buys them? You know...give'em enough rope and all.
Interestingly, INMARSAT is also the choice of many a smaller countries military for classified global communications (makes our (the US Military's Intel community) job easier). There are already other reasonable options out there. Pick up a copy of "SIGNAL" or "C4ISR" and you'll find no shortage of ads for VSAT and other technologies that provide truely global IP services on a reasonable cost basis (many are available to the general public though not marketed as such).
My sentiments exactly except I don't think they even tried to extend it. It's a somewhat anemic version of the Google Personal Homepage with nary a hope of ever catching up. I am confounded by the "Windows Live" aspect, but in fairness it is in Beta. Perhaps an Internet based bootable OS is right around the corner. From Microsoft I mean. BWAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!
In seriousness, once Jobs gets the brains to partner up with Google, MS is going to be a distant memory (not that this scenario is necessarily a good thing mind you...I'm all for healthy competition).
How so? In what way is /. lambasting them? The only communicae that /. proper has with users is the tone of their submission postings. It is common to see a negative tone of posted submissions that deal with MS, SCO, etc. It's equally common to see a posotive spin on articles realting to Google, Linux, etc. I'm not arguing with you, I'm sincerely asking how (where, give me an example) /. proper is lambasting Google. Some readers are certainly doing so, but /. ... I think not. Also, not sure how my original post was Flame Bait.
...Slashdot would be lambasting them. There is a massive potential for misuse in what Google is doing. I'm not saying Google will misuse it, or that anyone WILL misuse it. The potential does have to be considered with a healthy level of skepticism.
I couldn't agree more. Apple certainly has the technology. The Newton (yeah, sorry, I had to bring it up) was an amazing gadget in its day. With the advances in processing power, memory capacity, etc. Apple could certainly succeed in creating a new class of tablet somewhere between a PDA and a small laptop with a flip-screen. Throw in very good voice recognition, GSM/GPRS (are you favorite flavor of data)and immediate handwriting to typed-text conversion with learning capability and you'd have a winner. I currently use the daylights out of my Treo and would give anything for a device such as I just described (my Treo 650 is a tecnological disaster...but the most functional technological disaster I have at this point) to replace it with. C'mon Apple...step up to the plate on this. Enough versions of the iPod already.
I don't get the tone of this headline, that if the Fed has a secret, it must be a bad thing. How would you propose the Gov't protect the country in the absence of secrecy. Full disclosure? A grand idea that has never worked (of course in a sense secrecy hasn't worked either, as all societies in the past have fallen). The fact of the matter is that secrets are not only normal, they are a requirement for survival. We all practice a level of secrecy even in our lives; at work, in relationships, etc. and we use them to protect ourselves (psychologically and emotionally mostly I'd presume). Companies exercise extreme measures to protect trade secrets. Pitchers and catchers use "secret" codes to communicate so as not to divulge their plans to the batter. The NSA is not a den of evildoers. They're a good bunch of folks, no different than you and I save for the fact that they're willing to work for a lot less money because they feel it's for the greater good. I'd venture to guess that greater than 50% of NSA employees are /.'ers, albeit not the most vocal of the bunch. ;) The military/intel communities have abused power at times, but that is not the norm. Blah blah blah...I'll shut up now, I'm boring even my self.
I believe one could get a very nice phone and a separate 4-5MP camera with a large memory card and still have some spending money left. Yeah, I get that this is an "all-in-one" device, but they've made the classic mistake that has torpedoed so many others in the past. They compromised on the camera (it's only 2MP and has very little storage capacity) and on the phone (it's big/bulky) in order to combine them. Even with the end product, $900 just seems a stupidly high price to charge.
I've never seen the commercial. Every gay guy that I know/associate with shops Ikea. It's a common joke among them (my group of peers, gay and straight alike). I'll inform them of your having taken offense to it on their behalf, I'm sure they'll feel that the world is a much safer place for it. And please, waste some more of your precious karma on me.
It's not a troll, jackass. To deny that certain segments of society do not have certain preferred styles is asinine. How exactly is it "trolling" to point out that Ikea is popular within the gay community? And yes, thank you for pointing out my typo.
Does that mean that MySQL intends to be the defacto database used by homosexuals everyone?
> PostgreSQL ~= MySQL; postgres came a long way, e.g. there's now a stable Windows version
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Yes indeed, now if only there were a stable Windows platfrom on which to run it.
Of course you can...but I'm a cheapskate. ;)
...in my neck of the woods. It's not nearly as cool as the find in the article, but it was cool to me. Being a trail-runner and ultra-marathoner, I'm always on the lookout for new trails. There are some good trails not far from my home that I like to run. I always wished that I could just run to the trail, but the roads between home and trail were simply not safe for running. I had tried to use my GPS to map out the trail and some of the woods near my house that I knew should be the closest point near the trail, but the density of the trees (even in winter) rendered my GPS useless. Using Google Earth a while back, I was able to get a nice birds eye view of the entire area near my home including some old access roads that I didn't know existed. Now, I can leave my house, run to the back of my subdivision, down a dirt log-road and through about 100M of woods where I pick up the "top" of the main trail that I run. I even printed it out in tiles on 8.5x11 paper which I scotch-taped together into a poor-mans map. Again, it's not a big deal to most, but to me it was priceless.
In the future. I'd imagine that Apple could fairly easily add AMD to the line where it fits (an Opteron in their server line perhaps). I can't believe that Apple has taken a completely "Intel only" approach on this...but I'm usually wrong on this sort of thing.
No we aren't! We're...Oh look, a weather station! I'll bash it good!
Fujitsu seems to have replaced it with a fi-5110C, but it looks to be essentially the same scanner with a few updates. A bit of froogle'ing shows that it can be had for just over $700.
Agreed...but when your as arrogant as ESR, you make a big (public) deal out of it. I work with a guy that shouts "I just got ANOTHER job offer" from his cubicle every time he gets an e-mailed job lead (many of them automated). I see little difference between the two.
...but many people will have to reply in "dupe" pointing out that it is NOT a "Terabyte DVD recorder". It is a terabyte DVR with a normal DVD recorder built in to the case.
The only point to have any certification, or degree for that matter, is because someone for whom you want to work either requires it or will give you preference over someone without. There...that was easy. Now, about Slashdot posting a question such as this, and not my question a few months ago asking the /. community for suggestive help in designing a Linux based handheld + store-&-forward via mobile GSM pico-cells as a mobile data collection tool for use by volunteer physicians traveling in very remote locations within Africa. Obviously someone whining about the value of certifications being a percieved one is considerably more important (yes...I am whining). My two cents, if you're so damned smart, take the test. What's a few hours out of your life to make yourself that much more marketable.
I can tell you based on my experiences with similar projects within DoD that they are pretty good about evaluating "conventional wisdom" and then evaluating any "unconventional" options. In a case like this, there would have been a set of requirements to be met. A team of folks would have been assigned to go out and find as many solutions as possible. After the solution set was identified, they would evaluate each one on it's merits and arrived at a final selection group which would then be decided on based on either price, longevity or some other more utilitarian criteria. Chances are very good that a "clean slate" approach is what led to Linux on PPC.