I ASSume it could also be used to power air conditioners. Presumably, that would be somewhat useful.
I looked at my air conditioner, and couldn't figure out where to pour in the heating oil. How does that work? It would be useful during a power outage.
Canada is already mobilizing, and Russia has offered to help. In what is regarded as an interesting political move, Venezuela has offered to provide food and heating oil to the poor on the gulf coast. What people in the stifling heat of the Superdome would do with heating oil, I am not really sure...
The point of certifications is marketing. Every piece of information that flows out of any company is marketing. The training materials and tests are intended to bring about a state of mind or a set of preconceptions that are favorable to the market position of the product.
They probably have a stable of usual suspects to draw in on situations like this. It's important to make a big media splash with a rapid arrest when a gaping security hole like this comes along. Probably wouldn't be that hard to convince Turkey or Morocco to keep a list handy.
Would not a reduction in stall speed improve short-field handling if needed?
Actually that would be the very worst situation for that kind of technology from a safety standpoint. Transducer gives out, and you suddenly find yourself in a departure stall. A departure stall will KILL you. No altitude, no airspeed, just about the time you are supposed to be clearing the trees at the end of the strip.
This is very impractical (surprise!). What if you are in a region of flight where only the generated sound was keeping your plane in the air? Then you have an electrical failure. You fall like a brick. The ignition systems are already isolated from the main electrical system and fully end-to-end redundant specifically because of concern over electrical failures.
Also, it would pose engineering problems. Aircraft like the C172 I fly have wings that are specifically designed to stall in a very particular way. It's wings stall from the inside out, so that aileron control is maintained as long as possible. In fact, despite my repeated attempts, I've never been able to get into a stall deep enough for the ailerons to stop working. The point is that sound transducers would change all of this high precision engineering. What would happen if a single speaker went out? Would the plane go into an irrecoverable barrel roll?
Also, stalls really aren't that big a deal if you know your ass from a hole in the ground. The people who get into trouble with stalls are idiot doctors who bought their fancy Cirruses and flying lessons at the same time and never give flying the respect it truly deserves. But that is another story.
How the hell is putting a figure on what your systems cost you selling your integrity?
If you submit to the framing of the question on the part of a company interested in generating a preconceived answer, then considering the question to be valid compromises your integrity. The purpose of the article is not to help you meaningfully quantify the cost of a system. It is intended to make you think you can't do it without the help of software vendors/consultants.
That's the whole scam behind the TCO argument. How do you convince someone that your stuff costs less than free? Tell them that they don't know what "costs" means.
Ah, so, play ball or you won't work in this town, is that it? Yes, I've been in the industry long enough to have heard that one. Unfortunately, my credibility is not for sale. My employment record indicates that there is a market for honesty. I have been consistently rewarded by putting my employer's concerns above my own fear of pissing off people like Microsoft. If more people thought similarly, we might not be in the midst of yet another globe spanning Microsoft spawned uberworm.
My logic does not depend upon the absence of bias. The fact that I think Didio is an anti linux mouthpiece in no way detracts from my ability to prove such.
The original article, however, attempts to come across as neutral, a position precluded by bias.
Why should I measure something which is hardly measurable just to be able to say that I use something in right way?
We read the article, which roughly paraphrases to "There is scary doubt", and the first thing that comes to our mind is to measure and analyze to remove the doubt. We are technologists. The article is not indended for us. A manager reads this, and the first thing that comes to their mind is bringing in outside consultants to assuage the fear.
DiDio often is written off by the Linux camp as being pro-Microsoft,
Uh, no. She's widely regarded by everyone as being a mindless Microsoft shill.
She isn't just a TCO shell game drumbeater, she is actively and demonstrably anti-Linux. An article from her has about as much credibility as Baghdad Bob.
Because they might have travelling users who have been out of town last week and not received the update via the company's internal servers? (among about 100 valid reasons why a company as large as CNN might not have 100% patch compliance within a 6 day window)
A better question to ask would be: Why do companies like CNN and ABC spend billions on Microsoft software when that use repeatedly results in global network-crushing superworms.
Fly the mission yourself, as many times as you like. There are those who have made the flight using pencil and paper. For those less math-enthusiastic, there are 2 main navigation tools available - TransferX and I-MFD.
I get a fair amount of traffic on my personal web site (4gigs monthly traffic, 27,000 hits/month). As with all things, data I directly personally measure trumps any media report. It seems the more direct information I have about anything reported in the media, the more aware I am of what they get wrong, distort, or just plain lie about. While last month was certainly statistically interesting for my site, it was for another reason. For the first time ever, IE was NOT the most popular web browser used to reach my site. Firefox came in at 45%, and IE scored 43%. Firefox has been steadily gaining each month, with the gains being more and more dramatic as each month goes by.
Is my personal web traffic representative of the Internet as a whole? Certainly not. Does it rebut the cited article? No. Is it the only information in which I have any confidence at all? Yes. My advice to you? Look at your own web logs and react accordingly, in so much as it matters to do so.
In that case, opening a document like that won't get any better when you try in OpenOffice.
The idea is to use OpenOffice to create the document in the first place. Why would you create documents in a format that you know will cause compatibility problems later on? (to say nothing of unintended information disclosure, etc.)
Also, having IT make a descision about which Office suite best suits the clients needs might not be the best thing.
No, we can't defer to the professionals on a decision like this, can we? That would be like letting an architect design the building.
What? MS Office isn't compatible with itself. 2000, XP, and 2003 aren't forward or reverse compatible with each other. We used to use Word for really heavy audit report documents - headers/footers, huge style sheet, etc. You could open a document in 2003 written in 2000 and literally get different embedded images for all the illustrations.
This smells like a decision made by management, not IT.
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OK, so I should buy a diesel generator for my air conditioner in case Venezuela decides to give me free heating oil. Got it. Thanks.
I ASSume it could also be used to power air conditioners. Presumably, that would be somewhat useful.
I looked at my air conditioner, and couldn't figure out where to pour in the heating oil. How does that work? It would be useful during a power outage.
We've been going through this all day on Fark.
Canada is already mobilizing, and Russia has offered to help. In what is regarded as an interesting political move, Venezuela has offered to provide food and heating oil to the poor on the gulf coast. What people in the stifling heat of the Superdome would do with heating oil, I am not really sure...
The point of certifications is marketing. Every piece of information that flows out of any company is marketing. The training materials and tests are intended to bring about a state of mind or a set of preconceptions that are favorable to the market position of the product.
They probably have a stable of usual suspects to draw in on situations like this. It's important to make a big media splash with a rapid arrest when a gaping security hole like this comes along. Probably wouldn't be that hard to convince Turkey or Morocco to keep a list handy.
OSS/FS stands to gain nothing.
MS stands to gain everything.
OSS/FS stands to lose everything.
MS stands to lose nothing.
Questions -
Who has it?
Who doesn't?
Who wants it?
What will happen if they get it?
Which brings us to: Why agree to this in the first place?
Can open-source software do the trick? Cnet attempts to answer this open ended question
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Yes.
(Not an open ended question)
Would not a reduction in stall speed improve short-field handling if needed?
Actually that would be the very worst situation for that kind of technology from a safety standpoint. Transducer gives out, and you suddenly find yourself in a departure stall. A departure stall will KILL you. No altitude, no airspeed, just about the time you are supposed to be clearing the trees at the end of the strip.
fly uncoordinated in cold air and do a power on stall. Feels like cutting the cable on an elevator. Great fun, actually.
This is very impractical (surprise!). What if you are in a region of flight where only the generated sound was keeping your plane in the air? Then you have an electrical failure. You fall like a brick. The ignition systems are already isolated from the main electrical system and fully end-to-end redundant specifically because of concern over electrical failures.
Also, it would pose engineering problems. Aircraft like the C172 I fly have wings that are specifically designed to stall in a very particular way. It's wings stall from the inside out, so that aileron control is maintained as long as possible. In fact, despite my repeated attempts, I've never been able to get into a stall deep enough for the ailerons to stop working. The point is that sound transducers would change all of this high precision engineering. What would happen if a single speaker went out? Would the plane go into an irrecoverable barrel roll?
Also, stalls really aren't that big a deal if you know your ass from a hole in the ground. The people who get into trouble with stalls are idiot doctors who bought their fancy Cirruses and flying lessons at the same time and never give flying the respect it truly deserves. But that is another story.
How the hell is putting a figure on what your systems cost you selling your integrity?
If you submit to the framing of the question on the part of a company interested in generating a preconceived answer, then considering the question to be valid compromises your integrity. The purpose of the article is not to help you meaningfully quantify the cost of a system. It is intended to make you think you can't do it without the help of software vendors/consultants.
That's the whole scam behind the TCO argument. How do you convince someone that your stuff costs less than free? Tell them that they don't know what "costs" means.
Ah, so, play ball or you won't work in this town, is that it? Yes, I've been in the industry long enough to have heard that one. Unfortunately, my credibility is not for sale. My employment record indicates that there is a market for honesty. I have been consistently rewarded by putting my employer's concerns above my own fear of pissing off people like Microsoft. If more people thought similarly, we might not be in the midst of yet another globe spanning Microsoft spawned uberworm.
My logic does not depend upon the absence of bias. The fact that I think Didio is an anti linux mouthpiece in no way detracts from my ability to prove such.
The original article, however, attempts to come across as neutral, a position precluded by bias.
In essence - if you don't even know what you're doing with what you have, don't make it worse by changing it to something else that's so different.
And who is going to make the determination that you coming to the correct answer in the TCO shell game? Your software vendor? Your consultant?
Why should I measure something which is hardly measurable just to be able to say that I use something in right way?
We read the article, which roughly paraphrases to "There is scary doubt", and the first thing that comes to our mind is to measure and analyze to remove the doubt. We are technologists. The article is not indended for us. A manager reads this, and the first thing that comes to their mind is bringing in outside consultants to assuage the fear.
Now, who does Didio work for again?
DiDio often is written off by the Linux camp as being pro-Microsoft,
Uh, no. She's widely regarded by everyone as being a mindless Microsoft shill.
She isn't just a TCO shell game drumbeater, she is actively and demonstrably anti-Linux. An article from her has about as much credibility as Baghdad Bob.
Because they might have travelling users who have been out of town last week and not received the update via the company's internal servers? (among about 100 valid reasons why a company as large as CNN might not have 100% patch compliance within a 6 day window)
A better question to ask would be: Why do companies like CNN and ABC spend billions on Microsoft software when that use repeatedly results in global network-crushing superworms.
www.orbitersim.com
Fly the mission yourself, as many times as you like. There are those who have made the flight using pencil and paper. For those less math-enthusiastic, there are 2 main navigation tools available - TransferX and I-MFD.
Enjoy!
So your logic is that you have faith in your numbers because they are not representative of the Internet as a whole?
Wow. You invoked logic in that statement. I will now pause and let the ironic humor of this situation join with the universe.
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I get a fair amount of traffic on my personal web site (4gigs monthly traffic, 27,000 hits/month). As with all things, data I directly personally measure trumps any media report. It seems the more direct information I have about anything reported in the media, the more aware I am of what they get wrong, distort, or just plain lie about. While last month was certainly statistically interesting for my site, it was for another reason. For the first time ever, IE was NOT the most popular web browser used to reach my site. Firefox came in at 45%, and IE scored 43%. Firefox has been steadily gaining each month, with the gains being more and more dramatic as each month goes by.
Is my personal web traffic representative of the Internet as a whole? Certainly not. Does it rebut the cited article? No. Is it the only information in which I have any confidence at all? Yes. My advice to you? Look at your own web logs and react accordingly, in so much as it matters to do so.
In that case, opening a document like that won't get any better when you try in OpenOffice.
The idea is to use OpenOffice to create the document in the first place. Why would you create documents in a format that you know will cause compatibility problems later on? (to say nothing of unintended information disclosure, etc.)
Also, having IT make a descision about which Office suite best suits the clients needs might not be the best thing.
No, we can't defer to the professionals on a decision like this, can we? That would be like letting an architect design the building.
greater integration with other departments.
What? MS Office isn't compatible with itself. 2000, XP, and 2003 aren't forward or reverse compatible with each other. We used to use Word for really heavy audit report documents - headers/footers, huge style sheet, etc. You could open a document in 2003 written in 2000 and literally get different embedded images for all the illustrations.
This smells like a decision made by management, not IT.
60 gigahertz? Looks like the next generation of pringles canners will have to switch to Sterno.
Quite true.
ally=apply. apologies