It appears it's not about advancement of society, and only about protecting business when it promote's the general welfare or secures the blessings of liberty.
in order to form a more perfect union
establish justice
insure domestic tranquility
provide for the common defense
promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
Ask them if they want a bonus. Maybe instead, you can put $1500 aside for employee benefits or something. Let them choose a $1500 bonus or a $1500 discretionary spending budget. If you give them $1500, they actually only get $750 after taxes. The tax benefits for you are the same either way.
However, if you setup a descretionary fund, then the employee can spend the full $1500 ( on a laptop, free road runner, free home telephone service, better health insurance, child care, or whatever else can be considered a business item or an employee benefit). Pay for something for them that they're buying any way. It's the same to you either way, but your employee gets twice the benefit if you don't give them the bonus.
People have been watching the WOW location since 1977, and it is common knowledge no new signals have be detected since the original blip. This isn't news.
This isn't by accident. Terrorists are not attempting to accomplish their goal directly. Otherwise, terrorists would attack tactically significant targets. Terrorists's goals are to make the peace loving people of one nation hate the peace loving people of another nation. This will cause conflict, disorder, and unrest. In this state, terrorists gain power that would not be possible when peaceful civillians are talking to each other without the pain of loss in their heart.
The terrorists of 9/11 accomplished the goal of turning the opinion of peace loving Americans against the people of Saudia Arabia. It is no coincidence that most of the terrorists on the plane where from Saudi...
Actively promoting something isn't the same thing as creating chaos. War isn't the same as creating chaos either. We all know terrorism is wrong. It is wrong because it attempts to create chaos and make people hate each other. It is hate mongering. Promotion is building something up.
You should look into the ITIL standards. ITIL is a library of best practices ( real best practices, not the ones contractors might make up on the fly and call it a best practice).
ITIL helps you model your business processes in a way that things just work because the library has been built over the years with experience of many companies. You avoid the complexity that always forms in IT without a guideline such as ITIL. Also, you gain highly available environments, business controlled change, avoidance of duplication, highly satisfied customers, and efficiency of resource allocation.
Also, by using ITIL processes, you can plug in tools that are ITIL complient. The tools will already be written in way that matches your business processes exactly. The ITIL libraries have lots of information on incident management ( service requests are low priority incidents which usually don't require), problem managment, change managment, configuration management, release management, and some others. It's realy worth checking out.
Processor clock speed is not an accurate measurement of processor usefulness. Just because a Corvette can go faster than a dump truck, which one would you buy to haul dirt for your mine?
The SPARC architecture will always outperform an Intel architecgture, even at 1/100 of the clock speed.
Using clock speeds to measure processors is a clever ploy by Intel to market it's processors.
If it's really that important for it to be secure, hire someone that knows what they are doing. Nothing you read in slashdot will give you enough knowledge to make risk calculations for your data. You need a professional.
Not neccesarly.... Basically, this is the SIMS. Put a bunch of sims in the game and have them act to fulfill needs. They don't need to be even as complex as in the sims...
All technology has two humps. On the first hump, you make a lot of money because the technology is hot. For example,.net. Then because the technology pays alot of money, a lot of people get into it and the pay goes down because the employee supply goes up.
The technology becomes main stream and doesn't pay very much. Then, after a while, people start getting out of that technology. They retire. They become Pointy Hair Bosses. They get out of it. So the supply of knowledgeable employees goe down, and the pay goes back up. But the technology is dieing. It's days are numbered.
For the most part, mainframes are on the second technology hump. You only get paid alot because old foggies are the only ones who know anything about. Basically, it's a waste of time to pursue mainframe knwoledge, because it's pay heighth is fairly limited.
Solaris on the other hand is on the top of first hump. You can make a career out of knowing it. Linx on Micros is an up and comer on the hump. Windows is on the first hump. Mainframes are dieing.. just like cobol. Don't waste your time.
You just got done saying that IBM built the PC to compete with the Apple. If the Apple was meeting the needs of its business customers (by selling a corporate image), then DOS would have not been able to sell a single copy.
Mr. Gates' mother was on the (Red Cross?) board of directors with one of the top execs of IBM.
This reeks of conspiracy theory. I bet at the Red Cross meeting, their discussions was based on the fact that they wanted to keep the poor people down. They were probably Jewish, right? I do business with people I know. Has a friend ever talked on your behalf for a job. It's not criminal. It's how business works. Make more for friends, stop blaiming everyone else for your lack of success, and quit being so bitter. (I know your aren't that successful, because it's impossible to think this way and be successful)
So, with IBM's legitimacy, and Microsoft's ownership of of MS-DOS and a deal to ship this DOS with every PC, Microsoft began its PC life with the monopoly on desktop operating systems.
Besides the fact that you've already went into detail about how they were competing with Apple, other OS's existed but failed. Microsoft's was the best ( otherwise companies wouldnt have bought it).
At this point, a bunch of you are screaming, "But they made the deal! It was all fair!" To which I reply, no fucking way was it fair.
It was absolutely fair. IBM went to the owner of a competing OS, and he wouldn't even see them because of some arbitrary reason. The point is that IBM dealt with Bill Gates and company because they got it done. IBM wouldn't have even found DOS if it wasn't for Bill Gates and crew. So IBM really needed an OS and was willing to pay top dollar for it. Bill Gates knew where to find an OS, and he BOUGHT it from the owner at great risk. There was no gauruntee that Bill Gates and crew weren't going to get screwed by IBM. They took great risk at buying that software. 10k was a fair price, because the risk was so high. 10k is a lot of money, especially for the very basic software at that time. Not fair would have been for Gates to steal it from the guy or even have the guy sell it to IBM and Bill take all the money. Thats not what happened. IBM was buying service and professionalism from MS along with the OS.
If you don't think 10k is a substantial business risk, then go ahead and send me 10k for my current development projects.
In short, you like to make it seem in your own mind that financial success is out of your reach because only people who know people get breaks (and you probably came to this conclussion after getting or giving breaks to people your know); and you are afraid to make a profit because somewhere you've equated profit with immoral; and finally, it's easier to blame everyone else and immoralize failure than actually get off your ass and take risks to reach your goals.
It is a lot like.Net, except it's open source, and free, and non-proprietary.
You will have three options with Parrot as far as I understand it. You can run straight against the Parrot Runtime Engine (which is the same as compiling to byte code and immediately running it), you can compile to Parrot byte code, or you can compile it all the way to an executeable.
This does mean that right away, you will be able to use other language libraries in whatever language you decide to code in.
The cool thing about the byte code is that I can send it to you, and you can run it against your Parrot Runtime Engine, and don't have to worry about library issues.
Right now, in open source shops, you will find a lot of Linux/Apache. I think with Parrot, Perl sets itself up for the choice language for Linux like Apache is the choice web server.
This page seems to indicate there must be at least 2 employees and the business must make in excess of $500,000 in order for minimum wage laws to apply for all employees. OR the business is involved in interstate commerce OR the employee is a domestic servant... (baby sitter, yard worker, etc.)
I see two ways around this... Pay by job, not by the hour. Then you are not paying a wage persay, but paying for a product or service. Another way around it would be to gift the $100 to the person.
What in the hell does DHCP have to do with various operating systems talking to each other? The machine either gets an IP address or it doesn't. It's apparent from these kinds of statements that you have no $#@!'ing clue, and the rest of your book isn't worth reading.
And maybe you don't want to use this for authentication, but it could set off bells and whistles so that an admin could look into the security violations. You could find out exactly when someone decided to share their password. Then you could walk up to their desk in a black suite and sun glasses, and remind them that they are not supposed to share their password, and that it's been changed.
This would also be a good measurement for hacker detection. If you keep a history of the password key stroke timing, and all of a sudden a seperate set of timings start to appear, you can start to look for other differences in the logins patterns. Finally, you could use this to see who is logging into root directly. Bad! Bad! Bad Boy!
Nobody forces you to take a student loan. And by having them so easily available, it gives a choice of college when they would not have that choice. Now, that Visa that you got in exchange for a free T-Shirt that you racked up 15k on for beer and clothes... kill those.
This is why a simple modeling technique is so valuable. I use a simplified version of UML to model my application at different levels of design. This allows me to work out the problem in arrows and pictures instead of in code. Although, it is quite tedious, by the end of a couple of weeks, you can go straight to version 2 of your software. (Where it would take you 2 weeks to model, it might take you a year or 3 to get to version 1. I'd rather spend a few weeks.)
The drawback to this approach is of course that the client (boss, etc.) doesn't see any 'real' results of your efforts for a while. However, this usually isn't an issue if you set real expectations about your progress.
about re-write's in general, it's usually more about building something pretty than solving a business need. (you get paid to solve business needs; re-build ugly stuff into pretty stuff when you go home.)
P.S. there is valuable stuff in the ugly stuff. all those little hacks and bug fixes and logic fixes that happened as a result of customer feedback will be erased.
I'm talking about our inability to create a computer that can detect, interact with heavenly stuff... with things that aren't matter, but super-matter. For example, If we exists only in 4 dimensions (and not exist in 5, but can only detect 4, but really only exists in 4), then it would be impossible for us to build something that would exist in 5.
It was misleading for me to compare the number of sensories to level of realites, even though a higher level of reality, would almost always bring with it more ways to sense the reality. Perhaps, at higher levels of reality, beings can 'see' time, or 'see' good and evil energies, or 'see' thought, not just see and hear and touch different frequencies of the same types of energy. Just like any computer we build will only see/hear a set or subset of the types (albeit, different frequencies) of energies we can see and hear and touch and smell.
Finally, to say Des Cartes was wrong is a bit ignorant. After all, there are lots of Des Cartes ideas and theories that are very prevalant in philosophy and science. After all, you probably learned geometry on the Cartesian coordinate system in high school. Des Cartes proof of reality and God in Meditations was probably flawed; however, I think he was on to something when talking about levels of reality.
(btw, fyi, Des Cartes's meditations tries to prove that we are not in the matrix... might make a good read. this guy was way ahead of his time.)
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Des Cartes, I think, talks about different levels of reality. He places god at the ultimate reality, and everything else has equal or lesser reality. Also, something can only create something at or less than it's reality. Therefore, computers may have consciousness, but it is less real than human consciousness. A program is only aware of several measurements of reality where a human is aware of a lot more. (ie, a program might be able read a light sensor, and a pressure sensor where a human can sea, feel, hear, taste, smell, etc.
If you believe in God/Angles, perhaps, they have 100's of sensory inputs reading stuff we aren't even aware exists. (ie, a computer program who only has one light sensor with it's limited consciousness will assume all of reality is what comes from that light sensor. humans will assume all of reality exists in light, sound, smell, and touch.)
Also, if you think about the religious explanation of existance, god said let there be light, and there was light. god said that there be land, and sky, and there was land and sky. god said let there be animals, and there was animals. sounds like a hacker working in the wee hours of the morning building simcity. and if god exists, that's really what we are. we don't even exists in his reality. we are way less real than him, limited in knowledge, senses, and ability. the same kind of limitation's a computer program would have. also, when jesus comes down to earth, it would be like us entering in a matrix like fashion our sim city game.
And if you take satan's anger at human-kind, it is understandable. it's like your robot being pissed at you for playing sim city all the time. it tries to destroy your computer, so you lock it in the closet. and when you're done playing sim city, your going to pull out some of your favorite sims and place them into robot bodies.
It's also important to note, that the post office is a profitable business for the government. When you see in the papers that the Post Office is losing money, it's not the truth. Because the post office is profitable, lawmakers dip into it's profits to subsidize other programs. When stamp prices increase, it's really for the sake of spending more on government programs, and not paying for postal services. Nobody loves to spend money more than a politician, and I wouldn't believe for a moment that the post office is losing money. In fact, the opposite is true.
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It appears it's not about advancement of society, and only about protecting business when it promote's the general welfare or secures the blessings of liberty.
- in order to form a more perfect union
- establish justice
- insure domestic tranquility
- provide for the common defense
- promote the general welfare
- and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
-- U.S. ConstitutionAsk them if they want a bonus. Maybe instead, you can put $1500 aside for employee benefits or something. Let them choose a $1500 bonus or a $1500 discretionary spending budget. If you give them $1500, they actually only get $750 after taxes. The tax benefits for you are the same either way.
However, if you setup a descretionary fund, then the employee can spend the full $1500 ( on a laptop, free road runner, free home telephone service, better health insurance, child care, or whatever else can be considered a business item or an employee benefit). Pay for something for them that they're buying any way. It's the same to you either way, but your employee gets twice the benefit if you don't give them the bonus.
People have been watching the WOW location since 1977, and it is common knowledge no new signals have be detected since the original blip. This isn't news.
Terrorists attack civillians.
This isn't by accident. Terrorists are not attempting to accomplish their goal directly. Otherwise, terrorists would attack tactically significant targets. Terrorists's goals are to make the peace loving people of one nation hate the peace loving people of another nation. This will cause conflict, disorder, and unrest. In this state, terrorists gain power that would not be possible when peaceful civillians are talking to each other without the pain of loss in their heart.
The terrorists of 9/11 accomplished the goal of turning the opinion of peace loving Americans against the people of Saudia Arabia. It is no coincidence that most of the terrorists on the plane where from Saudi...
Actively promoting something isn't the same thing as creating chaos. War isn't the same as creating chaos either. We all know terrorism is wrong. It is wrong because it attempts to create chaos and make people hate each other. It is hate mongering. Promotion is building something up.
You should look into the ITIL standards. ITIL is a library of best practices ( real best practices, not the ones contractors might make up on the fly and call it a best practice).
ITIL helps you model your business processes in a way that things just work because the library has been built over the years with experience of many companies. You avoid the complexity that always forms in IT without a guideline such as ITIL. Also, you gain highly available environments, business controlled change, avoidance of duplication, highly satisfied customers, and efficiency of resource allocation.
Also, by using ITIL processes, you can plug in tools that are ITIL complient. The tools will already be written in way that matches your business processes exactly. The ITIL libraries have lots of information on incident management ( service requests are low priority incidents which usually don't require), problem managment, change managment, configuration management, release management, and some others. It's realy worth checking out.
Processor clock speed is not an accurate measurement of processor usefulness. Just because a Corvette can go faster than a dump truck, which one would you buy to haul dirt for your mine?
The SPARC architecture will always outperform an Intel architecgture, even at 1/100 of the clock speed.
Using clock speeds to measure processors is a clever ploy by Intel to market it's processors.
If it's really that important for it to be secure, hire someone that knows what they are doing. Nothing you read in slashdot will give you enough knowledge to make risk calculations for your data. You need a professional.
Not neccesarly.... Basically, this is the SIMS. Put a bunch of sims in the game and have them act to fulfill needs. They don't need to be even as complex as in the sims...
It's industry standard to describe uptime with scheduled downtime and not include that downtime in your statistics.
However, the more 9's you need and the smaller the maintenance window, the more it's going to cost (and the more you'll be paid).
All technology has two humps. On the first hump, you make a lot of money because the technology is hot. For example, .net. Then because the technology pays alot of money, a lot of people get into it and the pay goes down because the employee supply goes up.
The technology becomes main stream and doesn't pay very much. Then, after a while, people start getting out of that technology. They retire. They become Pointy Hair Bosses. They get out of it. So the supply of knowledgeable employees goe down, and the pay goes back up. But the technology is dieing. It's days are numbered.
For the most part, mainframes are on the second technology hump. You only get paid alot because old foggies are the only ones who know anything about. Basically, it's a waste of time to pursue mainframe knwoledge, because it's pay heighth is fairly limited.
Solaris on the other hand is on the top of first hump. You can make a career out of knowing it. Linx on Micros is an up and comer on the hump. Windows is on the first hump. Mainframes are dieing.. just like cobol. Don't waste your time.
You could use cvs to check the file in and out.
No, they were an IBM-granted monopoly.
You just got done saying that IBM built the PC to compete with the Apple. If the Apple was meeting the needs of its business customers (by selling a corporate image), then DOS would have not been able to sell a single copy.
Mr. Gates' mother was on the (Red Cross?) board of directors with one of the top execs of IBM.
This reeks of conspiracy theory. I bet at the Red Cross meeting, their discussions was based on the fact that they wanted to keep the poor people down. They were probably Jewish, right? I do business with people I know. Has a friend ever talked on your behalf for a job. It's not criminal. It's how business works. Make more for friends, stop blaiming everyone else for your lack of success, and quit being so bitter. (I know your aren't that successful, because it's impossible to think this way and be successful)
So, with IBM's legitimacy, and Microsoft's ownership of of MS-DOS and a deal to ship this DOS with every PC, Microsoft began its PC life with the monopoly on desktop operating systems.
Besides the fact that you've already went into detail about how they were competing with Apple, other OS's existed but failed. Microsoft's was the best ( otherwise companies wouldnt have bought it).
At this point, a bunch of you are screaming, "But they made the deal! It was all fair!" To which I reply, no fucking way was it fair.
It was absolutely fair. IBM went to the owner of a competing OS, and he wouldn't even see them because of some arbitrary reason. The point is that IBM dealt with Bill Gates and company because they got it done. IBM wouldn't have even found DOS if it wasn't for Bill Gates and crew. So IBM really needed an OS and was willing to pay top dollar for it. Bill Gates knew where to find an OS, and he BOUGHT it from the owner at great risk. There was no gauruntee that Bill Gates and crew weren't going to get screwed by IBM. They took great risk at buying that software. 10k was a fair price, because the risk was so high. 10k is a lot of money, especially for the very basic software at that time. Not fair would have been for Gates to steal it from the guy or even have the guy sell it to IBM and Bill take all the money. Thats not what happened. IBM was buying service and professionalism from MS along with the OS.
If you don't think 10k is a substantial business risk, then go ahead and send me 10k for my current development projects.
In short, you like to make it seem in your own mind that financial success is out of your reach because only people who know people get breaks (and you probably came to this conclussion after getting or giving breaks to people your know); and you are afraid to make a profit because somewhere you've equated profit with immoral; and finally, it's easier to blame everyone else and immoralize failure than actually get off your ass and take risks to reach your goals.
Good day.
It is a lot like .Net, except it's open source, and free, and non-proprietary.
You will have three options with Parrot as far as I understand it. You can run straight against the Parrot Runtime Engine (which is the same as compiling to byte code and immediately running it), you can compile to Parrot byte code, or you can compile it all the way to an executeable.
This does mean that right away, you will be able to use other language libraries in whatever language you decide to code in.
The cool thing about the byte code is that I can send it to you, and you can run it against your Parrot Runtime Engine, and don't have to worry about library issues.
Right now, in open source shops, you will find a lot of Linux/Apache. I think with Parrot, Perl sets itself up for the choice language for Linux like Apache is the choice web server.
This page seems to indicate there must be at least 2 employees and the business must make in excess of $500,000 in order for minimum wage laws to apply for all employees. OR the business is involved in interstate commerce OR the employee is a domestic servant... (baby sitter, yard worker, etc.)
I see two ways around this... Pay by job, not by the hour. Then you are not paying a wage persay, but paying for a product or service. Another way around it would be to gift the $100 to the person.
What in the hell does DHCP have to do with various operating systems talking to each other? The machine either gets an IP address or it doesn't. It's apparent from these kinds of statements that you have no $#@!'ing clue, and the rest of your book isn't worth reading.
And maybe you don't want to use this for authentication, but it could set off bells and whistles so that an admin could look into the security violations. You could find out exactly when someone decided to share their password. Then you could walk up to their desk in a black suite and sun glasses, and remind them that they are not supposed to share their password, and that it's been changed.
This would also be a good measurement for hacker detection. If you keep a history of the password key stroke timing, and all of a sudden a seperate set of timings start to appear, you can start to look for other differences in the logins patterns. Finally, you could use this to see who is logging into root directly. Bad! Bad! Bad Boy!
Apple should buy Sun.
And when you are spending millions on your database infrastructure, who cares about the extra 20-40k in memory.
Nobody forces you to take a student loan. And by having them so easily available, it gives a choice of college when they would not have that choice. Now, that Visa that you got in exchange for a free T-Shirt that you racked up 15k on for beer and clothes... kill those.
This is why a simple modeling technique is so valuable. I use a simplified version of UML to model my application at different levels of design. This allows me to work out the problem in arrows and pictures instead of in code. Although, it is quite tedious, by the end of a couple of weeks, you can go straight to version 2 of your software. (Where it would take you 2 weeks to model, it might take you a year or 3 to get to version 1. I'd rather spend a few weeks.)
The drawback to this approach is of course that the client (boss, etc.) doesn't see any 'real' results of your efforts for a while. However, this usually isn't an issue if you set real expectations about your progress.
about re-write's in general, it's usually more about building something pretty than solving a business need. (you get paid to solve business needs; re-build ugly stuff into pretty stuff when you go home.)
P.S. there is valuable stuff in the ugly stuff. all those little hacks and bug fixes and logic fixes that happened as a result of customer feedback will be erased.
Right on! Keep fighting the good fight.
Check out this one.
I'm talking about our inability to create a computer that can detect, interact with heavenly stuff... with things that aren't matter, but super-matter. For example, If we exists only in 4 dimensions (and not exist in 5, but can only detect 4, but really only exists in 4), then it would be impossible for us to build something that would exist in 5.
It was misleading for me to compare the number of sensories to level of realites, even though a higher level of reality, would almost always bring with it more ways to sense the reality. Perhaps, at higher levels of reality, beings can 'see' time, or 'see' good and evil energies, or 'see' thought, not just see and hear and touch different frequencies of the same types of energy. Just like any computer we build will only see/hear a set or subset of the types (albeit, different frequencies) of energies we can see and hear and touch and smell.
Finally, to say Des Cartes was wrong is a bit ignorant. After all, there are lots of Des Cartes ideas and theories that are very prevalant in philosophy and science. After all, you probably learned geometry on the Cartesian coordinate system in high school. Des Cartes proof of reality and God in Meditations was probably flawed; however, I think he was on to something when talking about levels of reality.
(btw, fyi, Des Cartes's meditations tries to prove that we are not in the matrix... might make a good read. this guy was way ahead of his time.)
Des Cartes, I think, talks about different levels of reality. He places god at the ultimate reality, and everything else has equal or lesser reality. Also, something can only create something at or less than it's reality. Therefore, computers may have consciousness, but it is less real than human consciousness. A program is only aware of several measurements of reality where a human is aware of a lot more. (ie, a program might be able read a light sensor, and a pressure sensor where a human can sea, feel, hear, taste, smell, etc.
If you believe in God/Angles, perhaps, they have 100's of sensory inputs reading stuff we aren't even aware exists. (ie, a computer program who only has one light sensor with it's limited consciousness will assume all of reality is what comes from that light sensor. humans will assume all of reality exists in light, sound, smell, and touch.)
Also, if you think about the religious explanation of existance, god said let there be light, and there was light. god said that there be land, and sky, and there was land and sky. god said let there be animals, and there was animals. sounds like a hacker working in the wee hours of the morning building simcity. and if god exists, that's really what we are. we don't even exists in his reality. we are way less real than him, limited in knowledge, senses, and ability. the same kind of limitation's a computer program would have. also, when jesus comes down to earth, it would be like us entering in a matrix like fashion our sim city game.
And if you take satan's anger at human-kind, it is understandable. it's like your robot being pissed at you for playing sim city all the time. it tries to destroy your computer, so you lock it in the closet. and when you're done playing sim city, your going to pull out some of your favorite sims and place them into robot bodies.
It's also important to note, that the post office is a profitable business for the government. When you see in the papers that the Post Office is losing money, it's not the truth. Because the post office is profitable, lawmakers dip into it's profits to subsidize other programs. When stamp prices increase, it's really for the sake of spending more on government programs, and not paying for postal services. Nobody loves to spend money more than a politician, and I wouldn't believe for a moment that the post office is losing money. In fact, the opposite is true.