I'm 5'8" about 140 pounds and I compete in martial arts. And inevitably I'm the smallest and weakest not through lack of trying...I go to the gym 3-4 nights a week and I train.
So eat more. It should matter too much if your form is correct - beyond a certain threshold, mental prowess beats brute strength in martial arts. This from a 5'10" 200 lb martial artist. Of course, if you meet me in a fight, I'll use my weight to my advantage.
there is just no excuse for this sort of behavior.
Sure there is
one person comes up to you on your time off and asks you to help them with some Linux thing = no problem.
lots of people want to get help on linux
some of them are rude
it's not even a linux-help forum - they expect you to drop everything and help them.
This is why doctors only talk shop with other doctors, usually in places where attendance is limited. This is why sysadmins spend their off hours drunk or performing some activity that gets them miles away from anything technological.
Moore's Law is only an observation, not a performance goal. Of course it'll go away at some point. Maybe the slowing of density increases points to a maturing of one part of the industry.
Imagine what would happend if all those evil thiefs can steal your car's VIN number... Then they can.......they can.... I got nothing....
They can steal your VIN and they can go to a shady dealer and make some key blanks that fit your locks (often based on the VIN. If you've got a chipped key, they can either get a known good ecu and swap that as part of the theft or they can tow your car.
If my timeline is right, Longhorn was originally supposed to be shipping sometime in 2003, so that makes it 'only' somewhere between 3 and 4 years late. Still a record, although compared with Duke Nukem Forever it's going to be almost on time.
No, it's worse than that - XP was a stopgap release when it became clear that the Next Big Thing(tm) wasn't going to be on time. They cut way back on features and codenamed it BlackCombe (we can get there from here).
Is that the sort of contract that specifies penalties for doing bad things with your data (against a bankrupt company) or the sort you take out to make sure the ebay seller doesn't get to enjoy any of his filthy lucre?
AFAIK, Vista wasn't delayed six years. That seem to rather match the time it has been in development.
Yeah it was. They called it Longhorn back in 2000, then renamed it as vista. Calling it new is disingenuous - everyone knows MS is working on the next version of their OS. The actual project name is irrelevant.
It's a foregone conclusion that you can get root if you're determined; the question is not preventing malicious users (though that is helped), but stopping people from doing it out of laziness. Sure, a lazy admin can get a root shell and go party, but do you really want him on your team?
EULAs are given to minors just the same as adults, and minors are not eligible to sign a contract.
Yes they are. They can repudiate the contract without consequence, so be careful about contracting with a minor.
Most all software comes with no warrantee. A EULA might have some merit if the software came with a warrantee and the EULA stated things like, "Warrantee is invalid and void if user uses this software for illegal activity according to the user's local, state, and federal governments". Something like that might make sense.
Yes, that might actually be consideration. As it is, the software company offers me nothing in exchange for restrictions on what I can do with their stuff. What sort of idiot accepts that?
Now I've gone from a vi as root to a shell as root.
In a corporate environment, I could simply make that a sackable offense. What you're describing is a personnel problem, not a technical one, so it deserves a personnel solution. The root of the problem (heh heh) is that you're circumventing command logs when you don't have to, so it's at best a violation of trust. At worst, you're up to something nasty.
Why is medium rare better than medium or medium well?
Because you can actually taste the steak. If you care that much about bacteria, irradiated steak will fix that, but I use marinade that's got a lot of salt, so there you go.
That China is a sovereign country with its own set of rules & customs. It has the right to determine it's own destiny without need of approval from the West.
Not surprising, since some of us forget that we are a sovereign country and have the right to determine who we let into our country. But don't remind anyone who forgets, lest you be branded a racist.
The "disguise their messages" is vague. Who says someone can't choose to communicate any way they want? No one agreed to the rules you expect for proper english, well formed headers, or proper server syntax. Expressing yourself the way you choose is the core of what free speech is.
Who said fraud was protected speech? If you're doing things like putting V1AG-RA in your subject line so it won't be filtered, that's hardly protected. That's acting in bad faith.
What do you say when any answer, including dead silence or "No comment." would cause wild rumors in the department and mass defections, or cause your stock to dip, or make the IT guys revolt, or otherwise tie your hands at some point in the future? Why, you use a weighted cost benefit analysis strategy to rationalize the ROI for all the relevant options, and leverage those key insights into a forward looking strategy for addressing the primary mission tasks in a teamwork-based approach.
There is no solid distinction between memory and storage.
Sure there is: you operate on data in memory and store stuff for later in storage. The fact that Oracle operates on stuff in storage is explained by the fact that that stuff is maintained there and the actual modifications are done in memory. Swap files are just a hack to get around insufficient memory.
But instead of being restricted to, say, the oxygen tanks on Apollo 13 or the software that controlled the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine, the definition of mission critical has been extended to corporate networks. True, there can be financial losses if a corporate network is down or its security is compromised, but significant financial losses?
Yes, financial losses. Where I work, Tier 1 is the equivalent of mission critical. If a Tier 1 service goes away or fails messily, orders stop and we lose money. If we piss enough people off (Tier 1 again), they go somewhere else and we lose money. Nobody dies, but that's not the only kind of mission critical.
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I'm 5'8" about 140 pounds and I compete in martial arts. And inevitably I'm the smallest and weakest not through lack of trying...I go to the gym 3-4 nights a week and I train.
So eat more. It should matter too much if your form is correct - beyond a certain threshold, mental prowess beats brute strength in martial arts. This from a 5'10" 200 lb martial artist. Of course, if you meet me in a fight, I'll use my weight to my advantage.
Hell, half the IT job descriptions I've seen were written by some mental-midget in HR who would round-file Bill Gates' app due to lack of a degree.
And rightly so - Bill Gates is a businessman, not a programmer.
It will go away once we stop using transistors.
Or when we no longer double the density every 18 months or so.
there is just no excuse for this sort of behavior.
Sure there is
This is why doctors only talk shop with other doctors, usually in places where attendance is limited. This is why sysadmins spend their off hours drunk or performing some activity that gets them miles away from anything technological.
Moore's Law is only an observation, not a performance goal. Of course it'll go away at some point. Maybe the slowing of density increases points to a maturing of one part of the industry.
Imagine what would happend if all those evil thiefs can steal your car's VIN number... Then they can.......they can.... I got nothing....
They can steal your VIN and they can go to a shady dealer and make some key blanks that fit your locks (often based on the VIN. If you've got a chipped key, they can either get a known good ecu and swap that as part of the theft or they can tow your car.
If they lost a million dollars a year they could go for 600 years. Remember they have a FuckTon (TM) amount of money.
No, they could go one forever. A million/day is $3.6B/year - roughly 5-10% of their ready cash. This could put a serious cramp in their liquidity.
Are you really saying Longhorn/Vista was supposed to be released in 2000 but delayed to 2006?
Okay, perhaps 2001. XP was done because it became obvious that it wasn't coming any time soon.
If my timeline is right, Longhorn was originally supposed to be shipping sometime in 2003, so that makes it 'only' somewhere between 3 and 4 years late. Still a record, although compared with Duke Nukem Forever it's going to be almost on time.
No, it's worse than that - XP was a stopgap release when it became clear that the Next Big Thing(tm) wasn't going to be on time. They cut way back on features and codenamed it BlackCombe (we can get there from here).
It's called a Contract.
Is that the sort of contract that specifies penalties for doing bad things with your data (against a bankrupt company) or the sort you take out to make sure the ebay seller doesn't get to enjoy any of his filthy lucre?
"Many companies now consider various IT functions and business applications commodities and not core competencies."
Power is a commodity, but good luck doing business when it goes out.
AFAIK, Vista wasn't delayed six years. That seem to rather match the time it has been in development.
Yeah it was. They called it Longhorn back in 2000, then renamed it as vista. Calling it new is disingenuous - everyone knows MS is working on the next version of their OS. The actual project name is irrelevant.
It's a foregone conclusion that you can get root if you're determined; the question is not preventing malicious users (though that is helped), but stopping people from doing it out of laziness. Sure, a lazy admin can get a root shell and go party, but do you really want him on your team?
You are presented with the EULA before the software, unlike shrinkwrap EULAs.
You also aren't paying for the software, so they are arguably trading something of value for your acceptance.
EULAs are given to minors just the same as adults, and minors are not eligible to sign a contract.
Yes they are. They can repudiate the contract without consequence, so be careful about contracting with a minor.
Most all software comes with no warrantee. A EULA might have some merit if the software came with a warrantee and the EULA stated things like, "Warrantee is invalid and void if user uses this software for illegal activity according to the user's local, state, and federal governments". Something like that might make sense.
Yes, that might actually be consideration. As it is, the software company offers me nothing in exchange for restrictions on what I can do with their stuff. What sort of idiot accepts that?
Now I've gone from a vi as root to a shell as root.
In a corporate environment, I could simply make that a sackable offense. What you're describing is a personnel problem, not a technical one, so it deserves a personnel solution. The root of the problem (heh heh) is that you're circumventing command logs when you don't have to, so it's at best a violation of trust. At worst, you're up to something nasty.
Then it's clearly not all you can eat if they refuse service to people who eat more than the limit.
Sure it is. They just don't get to come back.
Why is medium rare better than medium or medium well?
Because you can actually taste the steak. If you care that much about bacteria, irradiated steak will fix that, but I use marinade that's got a lot of salt, so there you go.
If I send an email out, how many webservers does it pass through?
None? They're webservers.
That China is a sovereign country with its own set of rules & customs. It has the right to determine it's own destiny without need of approval from the West.
Not surprising, since some of us forget that we are a sovereign country and have the right to determine who we let into our country. But don't remind anyone who forgets, lest you be branded a racist.
The "disguise their messages" is vague. Who says someone can't choose to communicate any way they want? No one agreed to the rules you expect for proper english, well formed headers, or proper server syntax. Expressing yourself the way you choose is the core of what free speech is.
Who said fraud was protected speech? If you're doing things like putting V1AG-RA in your subject line so it won't be filtered, that's hardly protected. That's acting in bad faith.
What do you say when any answer, including dead silence or "No comment." would cause wild rumors in the department and mass defections, or cause your stock to dip, or make the IT guys revolt, or otherwise tie your hands at some point in the future? Why, you use a weighted cost benefit analysis strategy to rationalize the ROI for all the relevant options, and leverage those key insights into a forward looking strategy for addressing the primary mission tasks in a teamwork-based approach.
Well yeah, but that doesn't mean anything.
There is no solid distinction between memory and storage.
Sure there is: you operate on data in memory and store stuff for later in storage. The fact that Oracle operates on stuff in storage is explained by the fact that that stuff is maintained there and the actual modifications are done in memory. Swap files are just a hack to get around insufficient memory.
I'd much rather just replace the whole bloated mess with a harder to evade, less invasive sales tax or VAT.
Then we'd have a high VAT and an income tax - no tax ever dies.
But instead of being restricted to, say, the oxygen tanks on Apollo 13 or the software that controlled the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine, the definition of mission critical has been extended to corporate networks. True, there can be financial losses if a corporate network is down or its security is compromised, but significant financial losses?
Yes, financial losses. Where I work, Tier 1 is the equivalent of mission critical. If a Tier 1 service goes away or fails messily, orders stop and we lose money. If we piss enough people off (Tier 1 again), they go somewhere else and we lose money. Nobody dies, but that's not the only kind of mission critical.