Or compile VB/higher level apps, or write/play games
I guess GTA3 in visual basic would need 50Ghz!
But compile time, please with all the precompiled active X objects and DLL's the compile time of the average VB app is not that high. Try installing gentoo linux on a 500Mhz pentium 2, then you've got a serious gripe. Rendering 3d graphics? Try getting a really serious graphics card or a cluster. Parallel processing is the key to fast graphics, ask pixar studios they have quite a few large render farms. Everything else you mentioned is throttled not by the CPU but the disk speed. You can have a ferrari capable of 200 mph, but if your behind a donkey cart in a tunnel, your not going to get anywhere faster than the donkey!
No, your describing avionics / electronics. In IT, you setup networks, firewalls, administer workstations etc. No programming was done except a little visual basic (argh!)and web stuff. My only gripe is that many people are under trained, they get very specialized training in windows, or in my case a systems admin course in solaris. But the training was woefully inadequate, I learned more from books & from civilian college than tech training. Their are alot of good people that are good trainers. Unfortunately, some aren't so good. Usually they are the ones more interested in making rank and unit politics than actually working for a living. You have them in civilian jobs too! A positive trend is that some units pay for their people to get certifications, this can be very positive. Alot of units think that if their people get certified they leave for better paying jobs. It's not entirely true, many are more productive and are happier. They then choose the security available in an Airforce career. I started out as an electronic warfare systems specialist, I got tired of the box swapping, your right it used to be alot better when you actually took things back to the shop and fixed them! That's how I got into intelligence, the U2 spy plane. I retired in 1999, it hasn't changed that much in 4 years. The airforce will continue to rely on contractors, remember these companies have to get their people from somewhere. Things change though, I can't see them keeping anybody in at the current pace. Job satisfaction is important, and if they think they can keep attracting good people while deploying them to hell holes for most of their tours while not giving them opportunities for growth, they're in for a rude awakening, I figure they will be hurting real bad in about 4-6 years when the current generation of airmen leave. If you are good at your job, continue your education and never let your skills stagnate, you will most likely become a contractor. It's what I did, there is a great satisfaction to be had getting top pay while also drawing a retirement check every month from uncle sam. Retiring at 38 rocks!
I have 20 years experience in IT in the airforce. I retired out of Langley AFB, they have a huge assortment Unix systems in intelligence. The intel assets at langley are SGI & Sun workstations and AMASS robotic tape systems for mass storage. All pretty much off the shelf equipment. The missions and data about them is highly classified so unlike many companies, security is not an after thought! The experience I gained along with the BS in Computer Science I earned over alot of years paid for by the AirForce got me a great job as a contractor supporting atmospheric science at nasa. At nasa I have supported clusters of SGI Origin 64 processor systems, Sun workstations and built linux clusters. I have developed software for analysis and distribution of satelite data. I have been involved in cutting edge research of the atmosphere. I have been all over the earth, stationed in places I would have never seen thanks to the US Air Force. I don't have any complaints at all.
Sounds like an invitation? So if anyone in the US is too poor for healthcare move to canada. We also have this problem of non-citizens from our southern neighbor, the services to support them is driving California bankrupt. But now at least they can drive through to Canada! We have a rather large population of people who would like medical marijuana, most of them need medical coverage for cancer too. If Canada could take care of them our insurance rates would be alot cheaper. And we really hate turning back those cubans & haitians, could we drop them on your door step for awhile? We just can't afford to care for everyone, you see we have spent alot of money defending Europe and our other allies for fifty years. Were getting tired of all those handouts to third world nations too. Could you please take over the babysitting job awhile? Thanks Neighbor!
I have quite a bit of experience with 3 companies who thought outsourcing was the answer. In each case, I advised against it. Each time I was correct. The reason that outsourcing failed in each of these instances, were two-fold. One was that the companies that they outsourced to were real big on promising and real small on delivering. The second is former employees who became whistle blowers and or filed suit. The first problem was the companies they dealt with. Their concern was getting you to commit for a period of time, after that their priorities were not the same. One of these companies, changed support contracts 3 times, one with a company in the US, two overseas. They eventually had to go back and hire people. Not one of the former IT staff would comeback. After being laid off they had either found new jobs or vowed never to return. The second company outsourced their companies primary product, their database! They provided investment firms with data from SEC statements and IRS data. This information was then compared against economic indicators and other companies data to forcast performance. Too bad they didn't forcast their own demise, they were unable to keep the database maintained and many of their clients fled ship. They were replaced by a more reliable system who strangely enough were partnered with the same company who provided the outsourcing. The third company tried outsourcing, but when it didn't create the savings they expected, hired H1B visa personnel almost exclusively, they are currently in litigation brought on by their former employees. Seems they didn't like training their replacements. One employee was so irrate he threatened violence, the company president had a restraining order issued to this person. They also had an anonymous tip provided to the BSA and they have been informed that they are going to be audited.
You seem to forget that schools are mostly funded by state and local governments. The states are the ones wasting schools money. My state has cut funding to schools, but votes for stupid construction projects all over the state. Every road construction project in my area has been years behind schedule and up to 10 times over budget. We had a 2 million dollar construction project to fix a drainage problem balloon to almost 20 million, and it's been in construction for 4 years and it's still not done. It was only supposed to take 6 months! That is where my school's tax money has been dumped.
Entourage has the absolute worst filters I've ever come across. I made the mistake of enabling the Junk filters and now it trashes every other good message and totally misses spam. I have rules for things in the address book but it totally ignores them. Some rules don't work at all, but when you highlight a bunch of messages, right - click and apply rule, suddenly it discovers that yes, those messages are in the rules. What is really bad is that once I enabled junk mail filtering, it still does it after un-enabling it! I'm going back to mail.app
You all miss the point, prove it! It is nearly impossible for a caucasian male in this country to sue anyone under EOE. The federal courts have ruled that it is perfectly acceptable to count race as a factor when hiring if it's to increase minority hiring. You would have to have a US company on camera or in writing stating that the sole reason you weren't hired is because your a US citizen. And nobody's that stupid.
You can't file bankruptcy against a judgement unless a judge specifically releases you from the judgement. Bankruptcy itself usually doesn't cover judgements or secured debt. If you could there would be alot of people filing bankruptcy for to get out of alimony, back child support etc. Creditors have 90 days to respond after the bankruptcy filing and must be notified of your filing. The RIAA would have their bloodsucker with a law degree there to fight it.
How long do you think it will be before some kids parent gets this huge bill and beats his kid silly. Then the kid goes into the RIAA offices with an uzi because he now has no home and this huge legal problem giving him nothing to live for?
That is such a load of crap! I can't begin to address all of it. If your worried, first use Kylix it is a commercial development suite. Next, there are plenty of commercial products available for linux. Third,you obviously know nothing about the GPL and it's requirements so why do you post such dribble. You can change anything in the source code of a GPL's product and use it for your benefit, what you can't do is redistribute it. If the GPL were so restrictive companies such as theKomany.com couldn't exist. So go back and research your topic before posting.
The RIAA claim they are losing sales because of filesharing.
My two teenage daughter don't buy as many CD's as they used to. That is 100% because I've stopped giving them the money for them. In this economy I can't afford the luxury of letting them buy music every month. I also won't allow P2P filesharing on our computer. But I've seen filesharing still going on. Through direct file transfers via aol instant messenger and email attachments. Kids are ripping CD's and have found that they don't need P2P file sharing. I've been told they sync their ipods to their friends computers. I have a mac and have purchased a few songs legally, but the price should be about half of what it is. That would definately sell more titles. My question is : There are almost an infinite number of ways to share files that don't involve p2p networks, do the RIAA , artist etc. actually believe they can stop filesharing?
While I agree with you, I don't know of any organization that uses Oracle on all of their servers. The largest setup I've seen is a cluster of 12 machines running the database and that was 20 years of worldwide weather info. What I'm saying is run the free version on everything you can and only pay for what you absolutely have to. The most expensive proposition for any data center should be people and hardware (machines, UPS, AC, Building etc.) Buying a supported product will not alleviate the need for systems personnel or hardware. So go with the free stuff everywhere you can. At nasa we have a large disparity between organizations that get it and those that don't. Some organizations spend like there's no tomorrow! They justify it by those kind of arguments. But when the budget axe starts coming down, guess who gets looked at real hard!
I haven't really needed a programming reference since quanta has JavaScript, PHP, HTML and CSS references built in. My java IDE has an excellent tutorial on servlets linked online, along with the java references. Between that and Google I haven't found a need for books, especially on CD.
Science Data usually consist of huge multidimensional arrays. I have seen satellite data in huge netcdf files that are very close if not slightly larger than that.
The Acceptable Use Policy does not include billing for service, accepting payment and then not providing that service. It is only for server crashes etc. and in almost everycase the ISP will refund for lost time. But the above article was negligence. Ask any doctor how much you can be sued for lost wages due to negligence. She has a case, what she will need is a tech savy judge & lawyer.
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I guess GTA3 in visual basic would need 50Ghz! But compile time, please with all the precompiled active X objects and DLL's the compile time of the average VB app is not that high. Try installing gentoo linux on a 500Mhz pentium 2, then you've got a serious gripe. Rendering 3d graphics? Try getting a really serious graphics card or a cluster. Parallel processing is the key to fast graphics, ask pixar studios they have quite a few large render farms. Everything else you mentioned is throttled not by the CPU but the disk speed. You can have a ferrari capable of 200 mph, but if your behind a donkey cart in a tunnel, your not going to get anywhere faster than the donkey!
No, your describing avionics / electronics. In IT, you setup networks, firewalls, administer workstations etc. No programming was done except a little visual basic (argh!)and web stuff. My only gripe is that many people are under trained, they get very specialized training in windows, or in my case a systems admin course in solaris. But the training was woefully inadequate, I learned more from books & from civilian college than tech training. Their are alot of good people that are good trainers. Unfortunately, some aren't so good. Usually they are the ones more interested in making rank and unit politics than actually working for a living. You have them in civilian jobs too! A positive trend is that some units pay for their people to get certifications, this can be very positive. Alot of units think that if their people get certified they leave for better paying jobs. It's not entirely true, many are more productive and are happier. They then choose the security available in an Airforce career. I started out as an electronic warfare systems specialist, I got tired of the box swapping, your right it used to be alot better when you actually took things back to the shop and fixed them! That's how I got into intelligence, the U2 spy plane. I retired in 1999, it hasn't changed that much in 4 years. The airforce will continue to rely on contractors, remember these companies have to get their people from somewhere. Things change though, I can't see them keeping anybody in at the current pace. Job satisfaction is important, and if they think they can keep attracting good people while deploying them to hell holes for most of their tours while not giving them opportunities for growth, they're in for a rude awakening, I figure they will be hurting real bad in about 4-6 years when the current generation of airmen leave. If you are good at your job, continue your education and never let your skills stagnate, you will most likely become a contractor. It's what I did, there is a great satisfaction to be had getting top pay while also drawing a retirement check every month from uncle sam. Retiring at 38 rocks!
I have 20 years experience in IT in the airforce. I retired out of Langley AFB, they have a huge assortment Unix systems in intelligence. The intel assets at langley are SGI & Sun workstations and AMASS robotic tape systems for mass storage. All pretty much off the shelf equipment. The missions and data about them is highly classified so unlike many companies, security is not an after thought! The experience I gained along with the BS in Computer Science I earned over alot of years paid for by the AirForce got me a great job as a contractor supporting atmospheric science at nasa. At nasa I have supported clusters of SGI Origin 64 processor systems, Sun workstations and built linux clusters. I have developed software for analysis and distribution of satelite data. I have been involved in cutting edge research of the atmosphere. I have been all over the earth, stationed in places I would have never seen thanks to the US Air Force. I don't have any complaints at all.
Sounds like an invitation? So if anyone in the US is too poor for healthcare move to canada. We also have this problem of non-citizens from our southern neighbor, the services to support them is driving California bankrupt. But now at least they can drive through to Canada! We have a rather large population of people who would like medical marijuana, most of them need medical coverage for cancer too. If Canada could take care of them our insurance rates would be alot cheaper. And we really hate turning back those cubans & haitians, could we drop them on your door step for awhile? We just can't afford to care for everyone, you see we have spent alot of money defending Europe and our other allies for fifty years. Were getting tired of all those handouts to third world nations too. Could you please take over the babysitting job awhile? Thanks Neighbor!
I have quite a bit of experience with 3 companies who thought outsourcing was the answer. In each case, I advised against it. Each time I was correct. The reason that outsourcing failed in each of these instances, were two-fold. One was that the companies that they outsourced to were real big on promising and real small on delivering. The second is former employees who became whistle blowers and or filed suit. The first problem was the companies they dealt with. Their concern was getting you to commit for a period of time, after that their priorities were not the same. One of these companies, changed support contracts 3 times, one with a company in the US, two overseas. They eventually had to go back and hire people. Not one of the former IT staff would comeback. After being laid off they had either found new jobs or vowed never to return. The second company outsourced their companies primary product, their database! They provided investment firms with data from SEC statements and IRS data. This information was then compared against economic indicators and other companies data to forcast performance. Too bad they didn't forcast their own demise, they were unable to keep the database maintained and many of their clients fled ship. They were replaced by a more reliable system who strangely enough were partnered with the same company who provided the outsourcing. The third company tried outsourcing, but when it didn't create the savings they expected, hired H1B visa personnel almost exclusively, they are currently in litigation brought on by their former employees. Seems they didn't like training their replacements. One employee was so irrate he threatened violence, the company president had a restraining order issued to this person. They also had an anonymous tip provided to the BSA and they have been informed that they are going to be audited.
No dilemma put an end to both of them. Problem solved
You seem to forget that schools are mostly funded by state and local governments. The states are the ones wasting schools money. My state has cut funding to schools, but votes for stupid construction projects all over the state. Every road construction project in my area has been years behind schedule and up to 10 times over budget. We had a 2 million dollar construction project to fix a drainage problem balloon to almost 20 million, and it's been in construction for 4 years and it's still not done. It was only supposed to take 6 months! That is where my school's tax money has been dumped.
Entourage has the absolute worst filters I've ever come across. I made the mistake of enabling the Junk filters and now it trashes every other good message and totally misses spam. I have rules for things in the address book but it totally ignores them. Some rules don't work at all, but when you highlight a bunch of messages, right - click and apply rule, suddenly it discovers that yes, those messages are in the rules. What is really bad is that once I enabled junk mail filtering, it still does it after un-enabling it! I'm going back to mail.app
You all miss the point, prove it! It is nearly impossible for a caucasian male in this country to sue anyone under EOE. The federal courts have ruled that it is perfectly acceptable to count race as a factor when hiring if it's to increase minority hiring. You would have to have a US company on camera or in writing stating that the sole reason you weren't hired is because your a US citizen. And nobody's that stupid.
Queer eye for the geek guy?
Great we have a sysadmin here who wears the same clothes for a week. Now he has an excuse, I didn't want my cpu to get wet and corrode!
IBM, I knew that billion dollars had strings attached.
You can't file bankruptcy against a judgement unless a judge specifically releases you from the judgement. Bankruptcy itself usually doesn't cover judgements or secured debt. If you could there would be alot of people filing bankruptcy for to get out of alimony, back child support etc. Creditors have 90 days to respond after the bankruptcy filing and must be notified of your filing. The RIAA would have their bloodsucker with a law degree there to fight it.
How long do you think it will be before some kids parent gets this huge bill and beats his kid silly. Then the kid goes into the RIAA offices with an uzi because he now has no home and this huge legal problem giving him nothing to live for?
1) Hardware support 2) Ease of installation 3) Name recognition 4) See above
That is such a load of crap! I can't begin to address all of it. If your worried, first use Kylix it is a commercial development suite. Next, there are plenty of commercial products available for linux. Third,you obviously know nothing about the GPL and it's requirements so why do you post such dribble. You can change anything in the source code of a GPL's product and use it for your benefit, what you can't do is redistribute it. If the GPL were so restrictive companies such as theKomany.com couldn't exist. So go back and research your topic before posting.
The RIAA claim they are losing sales because of filesharing. My two teenage daughter don't buy as many CD's as they used to. That is 100% because I've stopped giving them the money for them. In this economy I can't afford the luxury of letting them buy music every month. I also won't allow P2P filesharing on our computer. But I've seen filesharing still going on. Through direct file transfers via aol instant messenger and email attachments. Kids are ripping CD's and have found that they don't need P2P file sharing. I've been told they sync their ipods to their friends computers. I have a mac and have purchased a few songs legally, but the price should be about half of what it is. That would definately sell more titles. My question is : There are almost an infinite number of ways to share files that don't involve p2p networks, do the RIAA , artist etc. actually believe they can stop filesharing?
While I agree with you, I don't know of any organization that uses Oracle on all of their servers. The largest setup I've seen is a cluster of 12 machines running the database and that was 20 years of worldwide weather info. What I'm saying is run the free version on everything you can and only pay for what you absolutely have to. The most expensive proposition for any data center should be people and hardware (machines, UPS, AC, Building etc.) Buying a supported product will not alleviate the need for systems personnel or hardware. So go with the free stuff everywhere you can. At nasa we have a large disparity between organizations that get it and those that don't. Some organizations spend like there's no tomorrow! They justify it by those kind of arguments. But when the budget axe starts coming down, guess who gets looked at real hard!
So let me get this straight, if I connect a chiclet to the toilet seat, I can transfer a buch of crap?
First you will have to move to Utah, and become (if not already) a mormon.
I haven't really needed a programming reference since quanta has JavaScript, PHP, HTML and CSS references built in. My java IDE has an excellent tutorial on servlets linked online, along with the java references. Between that and Google I haven't found a need for books, especially on CD.
Deep Space Network? Brings to mind UFO's and conspiracy theories. Or a linux server on Deep Space Nine!
Get an Xft enabled build if your using linux. Mozilla renders fine on MAC & Windows. Though Camino and Safari are both far better on my ibook.
Science Data usually consist of huge multidimensional arrays. I have seen satellite data in huge netcdf files that are very close if not slightly larger than that.
The Acceptable Use Policy does not include billing for service, accepting payment and then not providing that service. It is only for server crashes etc. and in almost everycase the ISP will refund for lost time. But the above article was negligence. Ask any doctor how much you can be sued for lost wages due to negligence. She has a case, what she will need is a tech savy judge & lawyer.