This is why we're supposed to be tired by our peers. Unfortunately, the judicial system has so distorted the meaning of the word that we're in the situation you describe.
What's worrisome is that someone would think that requiring an Investigative license for doing investigative work would be a good thing. It's fine if you want to have some professional association certify that a person knows what they're doing. However I should be free to hire someone with or without that certification and I certainly shouldn't be require to hire someone with a license. If I'm too poor to pay for someone with all that jazz and satisfied with another's qualifications (or lack thereof) that should be enough.
Once again we have government having to spend money and create a bureaucracy to solve a problem it created. If they hadn't mandated the switch to this new TV transmission format, we wouldn't be faced with this problem of either having to buy an expensive new TV or be force steal from your fellow citizens and participate in this program. If this format was really that great the TV stations would have switched by themselves b/c its viewers would have demanded it. However I suspect most folks are like me and think the current picture delivered is quite exceptional quality. The only folks who really wanted this was the companies who make these new TVs.
I've tried to do this with a domain that a squatter has. The registrar, however lets the domain remain in some kind of limbo for 30 or 60 days beyond the expiration date. During this time only the previous "owner" is allowed to register it. It never fails the squatter buys it up again just before the limbo period is up.
Good luck, but I doubt you're going to get it from this squatter.:(
You're asking the wrong question. When a government wants something, the correct question is "what benefit does this offer to me as a citizen?" and measure it up against the costs. This is because government exists for the benefit of the citizens.
Actually you're also asking the wrong question.
The correct question is "Is this a legitimate function of government?"
I can't think of any legitimate function of government which would require a national ID card.
Obviously I and millions of others disagree with the current/. groupthink. IE doesn't seem broken to me. While I don't use it as my primary browser it does provide an adequate browsing experience for when I do use it.
I decided to put the 4 browsers I use to the acid2 test. IE 7- failed Firefox 2(both on WinXP and RHEL 5) - failed Seamonkey 1.1.7 (RHEL 5 only) - failed Konqueror 3.5.4 (RHEL 5) - passed
Now of the 4 (5 if you count browser & OS combos), the only one that passed the acid2 test is the only one I find to be woefully inadequate for daily web browsing.
These folks screaming that IE is "broken" frankly are coming off as a little insane to me. Since by their same logic, firefox and seamonkey are also broken. Only for some arcane definition of "broken" is that true.
As a web developer, I don't code for IE as it will handle almost anything. I do code for Firefox (and in the past I coded for Netscape) since it seems not to be able to handle code as well as IE. When I'm done making it look perfect in FF, I look at it in IE. At most I'll have a couple of minor tweaks to make. Maybe having to code specifically for FF means it is "broken," but I think it is more that it is just different. Broken implies it doesn't work and in the case of FF and Seamonkey they almost always provide a superior browsing experience.
So really the only thing that is broken is the Opera's folks view of reality.
While a reboot might "fix" the problem "faster," it is only a band-aid. You have not fixed the root cause of the problem. For that you need to observe the salutation and then test your hypothesis. In most cases in the long run a few hours really fixing the problem will be less time consuming than rebooting the computer every time the error happens.
That is not the Libertarian viewpoint on corporations.
While Libertarians believe that individuals should be free to make money as long as there is no force for fraud, they do not believe that corporations should have rights or even exist in most cases. Corporations are a construct from the government to protect the investors from whatever wrong doing the corp might do. This is directly counter to the way a Libertarian free-market would work.
If we actually had a free market in America this wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, the powerful folks have gotten the government to make it illegal to compete against them.
if you're really not guilty, the only smart thing to do is cooperate.
you obviously haven't watched enough Law & Order. If you're innocent and don't want to spend years in jail, you demand a lawyer immediately before talking to the police. With a good lawyer, you won't fall into any of their traps and won't be held more than a day or two. Of course if you fall for any of their traps, you'll be sent up the river before you even know what happened.
You know Xen has a bunch of hype, but I can't help but notice when I use xen the only thing that appears in the process table is qemu. Makes one wonder if all this hype isn't just a newer version of qemu.
Some policies just aren't reasonable or well thought out. This article is clearly blowing the issue out of perspective by not separating out different behaviors.
Checking personal e-mail from a work computer-- 73% of those who have done this at work believe it is not risky, despite the fact that they could unknowingly download a virus that infects the corporate network.
Wow, really? I'll stick to those corporate virus-free e-mail accounts from now on. Are they also completely free of spam? That would be nice too.
Yeah you know. I've only been hit by one email virus ever. Where was that? At work b/c their virus checker missed it. Yahoo found and blocked the same thing. Gmail didn't exist at the time, but it hasn't let any viruses get me yet so I'm sure it would have caught it too.
This article is BS - someone needs to maintain the machines, network, reset passwords, update software, maintain databases, train clusers, etc.
Actually here we have automated password resetting. It's great. 1) You login you machine. 2) Bring up the password reset page in your browser. 3) Fill out a little form. 4) Click submit. 5) Rejoice for now your password has been reset.
Only problem is that 99.99999999% of the time you can't do step 1.:(
Microsoft: 88 million copies of Vista shipped Eric Lai
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October 25, 2007 (Computerworld) Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying Thursday that it has now shipped 88 million copies of the operating system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of time at its launch.
In late July, Microsoft said it had hit the 60 million shipment mark with Vista.
Microsoft had previously said that it had shipped 20 million copies of Vista in its first month and 40 million copies of Vista in the first 100 days.
Microsoft credited Vista with helping it beat Wall Street expectations and raise financial projections for the rest of the year. The company reported revenue of $13.76 billion for the first quarter ended Sept. 30, up 27% from the same quarter in 2006.
Revenue in its client segment, which includes all consumer versions of Windows, was $4.14 billion, edging out the $4.11 billion in revenue from the Microsoft Business Division where Office is produced.
CFO Chris Liddell credited strong sales in emerging markets, due in part to anti-piracy and legalization programs there.
Client revenues, however, did not top those of the first calendar quarter this year, when Vista was officially launched. Revenues at that time were $5.32 billion.
Three-quarters of the copies sold of Vista were higher-priced 'premium' versions, compared to 59% of the copies of Windows -- primarily XP -- available a year ago.
The 88 million figure mostly includes Vista-installed PCs bought by consumers and small businesses, as well as packaged copies of Vista sold in stores or online.
It does exclude the tens of millions of Windows corporate volume licenses. There, many enterprises continue to hold off on deploying Vista, acknowledged CFO Chris Liddell, though he expects them to start deploying it when Vista Service Pack 1's arrival in the first quarter of next year.
Nevertheless, revenue from companies renewing their volume licenses for Windows, which gives them the right to upgrade to Vista, was up 27%.
Other highlights from the statistics:
* Unit sales of Windows Server's premium enterprise edition were up 35% year-over-year;
* A release candidate for Windows Server 2008 has been downloaded more than one million times in its first month;
* Unit and revenue growth of SQL Server were both up more than 15%;
* Halo 3 generated $330 million in revenue;
* Xbox 360 console unit sales increased 90%, driven by a price cut in August and Halo 3-related demand;
* Client revenues, including those for Vista, are expected to grow 62-64% year-over-year in the current fiscal Q2, or 13-14% excluding certain revenue deferrals in the prior year;
* Microsoft Business Division revenues, including those for Office, are expected to grow 15-16% in Q2 after normalizing for impact of technology guarantees and pre-shipment deferrals in the prior year;
* A beta version of Office Communications Server has been downloaded 80,000 times;
* There are 10,000 customers in the Customer Technical Preview (CTP) program for PerformancePoint Server, its new business intelligence offering.
Your user name can be found by searching profiles.yahoo.com. Once they find a username they'll send email to it @yahoo.com. There's also the brute force method of just sending email to every combination of letters @yahoo.com. I doubt Yahoo! is actually selling your address. Of course if they improved their spam filter that would help too.
Well I've used debs once and after trying to get all the necessary debs for xemacs including not being able to find the real main package for days, I finally gave up and went back to Fedora/RHEL and RPM. I'm with the parent on this one, I don't see much of a difference between the two. I've had the same dependency hell with both. Apt and Yum take away much of the pain and function IMHO the same.
At least in the US we have very strict privacy rules governing medical information...we can't just make someone where a bracelet saying "I have two DNA profiles!!!". Since it's in his medical records it's sealed and someone would either have to remember his name from a news story, or he would need to volunteer the info. (And yes, they can subpoena the medical records, but they would have no cause for doing so unless they already knew)
Who will have access to patients' electronic medical records--including genetic information--without obtaining patients' consent?
Many people and organizations--including health plans, providers, hospitals, researchers, medical students, government agents, law enforcement officials, and others--will have access to patients' medical records without obtaining their consent. Individual authorization is not required for sharing information related to medical treatment, payment, or "health care operations." In addition, the regulations state:
"After balancing privacy and other social values, we are proposing rules that would permit use or disclosure of health information without individual authorization [emphasis added] for the following national priority activities and activities that allow the health care system to operate smoothly:
* Oversight of the health care system
* Public health functions
* Research
* Judicial and administrative proceedings
* Law enforcement [emphasis added]
* Emergency circumstances
* To provide information to next-of-kin
* For identification of the body of a deceased person, or the cause of death
* For government health data systems
* For facility patient directories
* To banks, to process health care payments and premiums
* For management of active duty military and other special classes of individuals
* Where other law requires such disclosure and no other category of permissible disclosures would allow the disclosure."7,8
I keep POINTERS to data, not data. isn't that the better way? it surely has served me well enough in my 20+ years in the field.
Yes and no. For doing a job of implementing something (doesn't have to be a computer network, but could be building widgets), you way is the best. However for what Google wants, it is entirely wrong. Google wants people who can develop new things. To do that you've got to completely understand your area of "expertise" and keep it all in your head.
For example you said:
its been decades (literally) since I had to recreate a search or sort algorithm by hand. and you know what? for the field I'm in (network management) I have not HAD to re-do existing algs. not once in my career! we usually BUILD on existing ideas, not waste time re-doing perfectly good wheels.
They want a new search algorithm. They don't want you buidling on something that already exists. Googlging to find how to write a new algorithm ain't going to cut it. You need to have that in your basic skills.
This is not age discrimination. Your skills just do not match what they need.
Are the really allowed to continue calling this fork OpenOffice.org? All over their website they refer to it as OpenOffice.org. How will I know that I'm actually getting their fork and not the real OpenOffice.org? Shouldn't the real OpenOffice.org be suing them or something?
TFA, goes on and on about why he things Verizon is being less than truthful. However the Fire Dept has a number of reasons to not be truthful as well...For example they might have overreacted and sent out multiple trucks and now need to justify the expense. Also the property owner and his friends certainly have an interest in making the damage seem worse (since they'll be compensated more).
I'm certainly not saying Verizon is telling the truth, but all aspects need to be considered before rushing to judgment. The article was very one sided.
I don't think RH is competing on price. I'm using their RHEL 5 right now. No one in their right mind would think their RHEL product is competing on price. RHEL is competing on quality. You pay a little extra and you get a whole lot more.
They've got IMHO the best distro by far. Almost everything works and for the few things that don't, their support actually fixes the obscure problems. I've tried most of the major distros except gentoo and nothing really compares.
I've been using RH since 6.2. I know they took a lot of flack for the RHEL/Fedora split after RH9. However I think in the long run this was best. I use Fedora at home and yeah it is more like beta testing a lot of times. However what makes it into RHEL is bug free and well integrated into the distro. This makes RHEL just top notch. Most distros are trying out new stuff like Fedora and are still trying to work the bugs out and smoothly integrate all the parts. Others are a little too slow to adopt anything or have some kind of ideology which makes them do weird things.
From the RHEL/Fedora split, what you end up with is what I think debian was trying to accomplish with its testing, unstable, and stable branches. The main difference is that RH seems to get it right, plus you RH support for RHEL. That's something any PHB as well as many good CIO's will think is worth paying for.
I expect their new desktop offering be just as wonderful. It might cost more, but the extra cost will be worth it. Like a good business they'll compete on quality since in the end you can never be successful competing on price alone as there is always someone with a lower price out there somewhere.
which most MST3k fans never considered to be that essential anyhow.
What is this IGN guy smoking? It was the sketches that first got me watching MST3k. I remember a number of times, I'd see the sketch, then turn down the vol while I worked on catching up on my reading for my ancient greek history class.
In a number of cases the movie they're forced to watch is so awful that nothing can make it interesting. That's when the sketches save the show. Try watching Manos or the one about the brain swapping without the sketches and see if you think the show is still enjoyable. Hmmm come to think of it, maybe this IGN guy did watch some episodes without the sketches and has totally lost his mind.
Did you even read the page you link to?
"This technique can actually be used to provide as many columns on a page as you like. Drawback #1) it gets difficult quickly if you want to make any of the columns a fixed width. Drawback #2) it relies heavily on percentages, which the various browsers all calculate differently, so you can't place your columns very precisely."
Sorry, but this proves the other guy's point about needing to use tables instead of CSS to handle layout.
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This is why we're supposed to be tired by our peers. Unfortunately, the judicial system has so distorted the meaning of the word that we're in the situation you describe.
What's worrisome is that someone would think that requiring an Investigative license for doing investigative work would be a good thing. It's fine if you want to have some professional association certify that a person knows what they're doing. However I should be free to hire someone with or without that certification and I certainly shouldn't be require to hire someone with a license. If I'm too poor to pay for someone with all that jazz and satisfied with another's qualifications (or lack thereof) that should be enough.
Once again we have government having to spend money and create a bureaucracy to solve a problem it created. If they hadn't mandated the switch to this new TV transmission format, we wouldn't be faced with this problem of either having to buy an expensive new TV or be force steal from your fellow citizens and participate in this program. If this format was really that great the TV stations would have switched by themselves b/c its viewers would have demanded it. However I suspect most folks are like me and think the current picture delivered is quite exceptional quality. The only folks who really wanted this was the companies who make these new TVs.
I've tried to do this with a domain that a squatter has. The registrar, however lets the domain remain in some kind of limbo for 30 or 60 days beyond the expiration date. During this time only the previous "owner" is allowed to register it. It never fails the squatter buys it up again just before the limbo period is up.
:(
Good luck, but I doubt you're going to get it from this squatter.
Actually you're also asking the wrong question. The correct question is "Is this a legitimate function of government?"
I can't think of any legitimate function of government which would require a national ID card.
You do too, just go out and get another job. You'll be a lot happier that you did. I know I've been happier every time I switched jobs.
Obviously I and millions of others disagree with the current /. groupthink. IE doesn't seem broken to me. While I don't use it as my primary browser it does provide an adequate browsing experience for when I do use it.
I decided to put the 4 browsers I use to the acid2 test.
IE 7- failed
Firefox 2(both on WinXP and RHEL 5) - failed
Seamonkey 1.1.7 (RHEL 5 only) - failed
Konqueror 3.5.4 (RHEL 5) - passed
Now of the 4 (5 if you count browser & OS combos), the only one that passed the acid2 test is the only one I find to be woefully inadequate for daily web browsing.
These folks screaming that IE is "broken" frankly are coming off as a little insane to me. Since by their same logic, firefox and seamonkey are also broken. Only for some arcane definition of "broken" is that true.
As a web developer, I don't code for IE as it will handle almost anything. I do code for Firefox (and in the past I coded for Netscape) since it seems not to be able to handle code as well as IE. When I'm done making it look perfect in FF, I look at it in IE. At most I'll have a couple of minor tweaks to make. Maybe having to code specifically for FF means it is "broken," but I think it is more that it is just different. Broken implies it doesn't work and in the case of FF and Seamonkey they almost always provide a superior browsing experience.
So really the only thing that is broken is the Opera's folks view of reality.
While a reboot might "fix" the problem "faster," it is only a band-aid. You have not fixed the root cause of the problem. For that you need to observe the salutation and then test your hypothesis. In most cases in the long run a few hours really fixing the problem will be less time consuming than rebooting the computer every time the error happens.
Exactly. This is a day late and a dollar short. :(
That is not the Libertarian viewpoint on corporations.
While Libertarians believe that individuals should be free to make money as long as there is no force for fraud, they do not believe that corporations should have rights or even exist in most cases. Corporations are a construct from the government to protect the investors from whatever wrong doing the corp might do. This is directly counter to the way a Libertarian free-market would work.
If we actually had a free market in America this wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, the powerful folks have gotten the government to make it illegal to compete against them.
You know Xen has a bunch of hype, but I can't help but notice when I use xen the only thing that appears in the process table is qemu. Makes one wonder if all this hype isn't just a newer version of qemu.
Actually here we have automated password resetting. It's great.
1) You login you machine.
2) Bring up the password reset page in your browser.
3) Fill out a little form.
4) Click submit.
5) Rejoice for now your password has been reset.
Only problem is that 99.99999999% of the time you can't do step 1.
I'm not a M$ fan, but TFA was too biased even for /.
To counter balance, here's another article that is very biased in the other direction.
* Microsoft: 88 million copies of Vista shipped
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2255779/6331742/84837/2/
Microsoft: 88 million copies of Vista shipped
Eric Lai
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October 25, 2007 (Computerworld) Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying Thursday that it has now shipped 88 million copies of the operating system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of time at its launch.
In late July, Microsoft said it had hit the 60 million shipment mark with Vista.
Microsoft had previously said that it had shipped 20 million copies of Vista in its first month and 40 million copies of Vista in the first 100 days.
Microsoft credited Vista with helping it beat Wall Street expectations and raise financial projections for the rest of the year. The company reported revenue of $13.76 billion for the first quarter ended Sept. 30, up 27% from the same quarter in 2006.
Revenue in its client segment, which includes all consumer versions of Windows, was $4.14 billion, edging out the $4.11 billion in revenue from the Microsoft Business Division where Office is produced.
CFO Chris Liddell credited strong sales in emerging markets, due in part to anti-piracy and legalization programs there.
Client revenues, however, did not top those of the first calendar quarter this year, when Vista was officially launched. Revenues at that time were $5.32 billion.
Three-quarters of the copies sold of Vista were higher-priced 'premium' versions, compared to 59% of the copies of Windows -- primarily XP -- available a year ago.
The 88 million figure mostly includes Vista-installed PCs bought by consumers and small businesses, as well as packaged copies of Vista sold in stores or online.
It does exclude the tens of millions of Windows corporate volume licenses. There, many enterprises continue to hold off on deploying Vista, acknowledged CFO Chris Liddell, though he expects them to start deploying it when Vista Service Pack 1's arrival in the first quarter of next year.
Nevertheless, revenue from companies renewing their volume licenses for Windows, which gives them the right to upgrade to Vista, was up 27%.
Other highlights from the statistics:
* Unit sales of Windows Server's premium enterprise edition were up 35% year-over-year;
* A release candidate for Windows Server 2008 has been downloaded more than one million times in its first month;
* Unit and revenue growth of SQL Server were both up more than 15%;
* Halo 3 generated $330 million in revenue;
* Xbox 360 console unit sales increased 90%, driven by a price cut in August and Halo 3-related demand;
* Client revenues, including those for Vista, are expected to grow 62-64% year-over-year in the current fiscal Q2, or 13-14% excluding certain revenue deferrals in the prior year;
* Microsoft Business Division revenues, including those for Office, are expected to grow 15-16% in Q2 after normalizing for impact of technology guarantees and pre-shipment deferrals in the prior year;
* A beta version of Office Communications Server has been downloaded 80,000 times;
* There are 10,000 customers in the Customer Technical Preview (CTP) program for PerformancePoint Server, its new business intelligence offering.
Your user name can be found by searching profiles.yahoo.com. Once they find a username they'll send email to it @yahoo.com. There's also the brute force method of just sending email to every combination of letters @yahoo.com. I doubt Yahoo! is actually selling your address. Of course if they improved their spam filter that would help too.
Well I've used debs once and after trying to get all the necessary debs for xemacs including not being able to find the real main package for days, I finally gave up and went back to Fedora/RHEL and RPM. I'm with the parent on this one, I don't see much of a difference between the two. I've had the same dependency hell with both. Apt and Yum take away much of the pain and function IMHO the same.
For example you said:
They want a new search algorithm. They don't want you buidling on something that already exists. Googlging to find how to write a new algorithm ain't going to cut it. You need to have that in your basic skills.This is not age discrimination. Your skills just do not match what they need.
Are the really allowed to continue calling this fork OpenOffice.org? All over their website they refer to it as OpenOffice.org. How will I know that I'm actually getting their fork and not the real OpenOffice.org? Shouldn't the real OpenOffice.org be suing them or something?
TFA, goes on and on about why he things Verizon is being less than truthful. However the Fire Dept has a number of reasons to not be truthful as well...For example they might have overreacted and sent out multiple trucks and now need to justify the expense. Also the property owner and his friends certainly have an interest in making the damage seem worse (since they'll be compensated more).
I'm certainly not saying Verizon is telling the truth, but all aspects need to be considered before rushing to judgment. The article was very one sided.
I don't think RH is competing on price. I'm using their RHEL 5 right now. No one in their right mind would think their RHEL product is competing on price. RHEL is competing on quality. You pay a little extra and you get a whole lot more.
They've got IMHO the best distro by far. Almost everything works and for the few things that don't, their support actually fixes the obscure problems. I've tried most of the major distros except gentoo and nothing really compares.
I've been using RH since 6.2. I know they took a lot of flack for the RHEL/Fedora split after RH9. However I think in the long run this was best. I use Fedora at home and yeah it is more like beta testing a lot of times. However what makes it into RHEL is bug free and well integrated into the distro. This makes RHEL just top notch. Most distros are trying out new stuff like Fedora and are still trying to work the bugs out and smoothly integrate all the parts. Others are a little too slow to adopt anything or have some kind of ideology which makes them do weird things.
From the RHEL/Fedora split, what you end up with is what I think debian was trying to accomplish with its testing, unstable, and stable branches. The main difference is that RH seems to get it right, plus you RH support for RHEL. That's something any PHB as well as many good CIO's will think is worth paying for.
I expect their new desktop offering be just as wonderful. It might cost more, but the extra cost will be worth it. Like a good business they'll compete on quality since in the end you can never be successful competing on price alone as there is always someone with a lower price out there somewhere.
Did you even read the page you link to? "This technique can actually be used to provide as many columns on a page as you like. Drawback #1) it gets difficult quickly if you want to make any of the columns a fixed width. Drawback #2) it relies heavily on percentages, which the various browsers all calculate differently, so you can't place your columns very precisely." Sorry, but this proves the other guy's point about needing to use tables instead of CSS to handle layout.