This seems to be the very beauty of the system. Use the back-office employees, the ones that deal with everyday business, to evaluate the upper management or specialized employees.
This resembles the movement of allowing the actual employees of a company define the design of ERP systems rather than management.
Don't forget, management does see the big picture, at the cost of the intricate details that may be pushing the company forward. That is why there is a need for multiple levels of management. And this brings the need for multiple levels of evaluation.
I say go for it! When you figure out the problems that may arise from abuse of the system that is...
When your job is selling IT Infrastructure security services to corporations, it is required by you to issue a warning to your clients (as well as potential clients). And an announcement on their website, which is a valid communication method, is not merely a press release. It becomes a press release when someone in the press uses it. It is mainly a warning to clients an dpotential customers.
Besides, where do you expect the incompetent reporters of today to get their information? Reading comments on Slashdot or reports by professional organizations?
If that makes them a publicity slut, I wonder what it makes people that post on Slashdot just so they post something, even if it is irrelevant, not thought out and a plain waste of electrons.
What do you people have against Star Wars? Most people here think Star Wars (IV, V, VI) is cool because all the older geeks they live up to thought it was cool. Now everyone that watched the newer episodes (or even heard about them) and their grandmothers think they suck. Well you know what? If they did truly suck, people wouldn't go like crazy to watch them (don't forget, Episode I is 5th on the All Time Box Office for the USA) all.
Can anyone give me a precise reason why they think Star Wars I, II or III were horrible movies? Was it Jar Jar? If yes, how would you do it to make it suck less, stick to the original story and ensure IV, V and VI don't have to change? Remember, you still need a gullible character that can be trusted by the Jedis, loyal, possible elected to be a representative in the Senate at a future time and easily manipulated in the future. Any character you make like that (even making Harrison Ford play the character, since so many love him) would still make you hate him. It is the exact purpose of the character. And it is also the ingredient the movie needs to evolve.
The movie as a whole is truly amazing, and if people cannot tolerate a movie that provides them with the foundation of their "greatest movie of all time", then maybe they should reconsider their opinions. It is indeed a work of art. People should watch "The power of myth" with Joseph Campbell and George Lucas (filmed in '88) to understand what George Lucas was actually trying to do with Star Wars. If you got it wrong the first time, don't blame the director/author. Blame someone else.
And to save you some trouble... Slate's analysis is close to what George Lucas was trying to do in the first place.
There is a wonderful article I've read lately that tries to identify why intellectuals in general seem to dislike capitalism, which seems to get to the point of your argument.
The basic idea behind it is school. School is a microcosm meant to prepare people to enter society. Only their reward systems are different. Whoever get rewarded in school (the straight-A student usually) has a hard time being rewarded in society, which tends to make the better students stay in school, while the others get out to make the money. This naturaly introduces jealousy, which in term brings eliticism on behalf of those who feel they are not rewarded as they should be.
The most important thing that seems to be ignored. Various cities around the country provide "Starter Kits" for their citizens that include such software as Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, etc.
What would stop Massachusets from providing a CD of OpenOffice.org for a minimal fee ($1.75 or something) for all citizens. You want to do business with MA and complain about not having the software to view their documents? Fine, just follow the download link on their website, or simply ask for the CD. This doesn't have to stop to office documents. Their map viewer (which is rather excellent) can also be bundled on the CD (along with data).
Imagine this. Want to open up a new store in MA? Here, grab this CD with maps of our demographics, major roads, excisting facilities. Many cities in Washington state have done something similar, on the web only currently. Then, the required forms are also included in the CD, as well as software to view and edit them. Just print them and bring them over to the closest state office.
Why should the state of Massachusets not do such a thing? Promote business, empower your citizens. Is that so wrong?
Why don't you just buy an unlocked phone to begin with? It is really easy to do in the USA as well. Just go to Amazon and choose one of the many unlocked phones they sell.
And now you will see how much other people pay for cell phones (unlike in the USA). I brought my own phone when I came from Europe and had no problems getting service from anyone, except that the prices here are ridiculous if you don't choose a 2-year plan (which would also get you a free phone again).
It's called "voting with your wallet," and I try to practice it. If you want Linux to be well supported, you have to help out. It ain't gonna happen on its own.
So if you don't buy a game, you think the publisher will assume that there are Linux gamers out there that did not buy it because there is no Linux version? Voting with your wallet happens when there are alternatives to a product you want, and you go for the alternatives. Quite frankly, with the size of the Linux gamers out there and the Linux games availability, voting with your wallet is more mazochistic than it even sounds.
If you want Linux ports to be developed, then wait for the next porting company to come along, and buy their games. Leaving them to go bankrupt is not exactly the best way to make the industry notice Linux. Especially since is has such a small install base, most of which is for server environments and not desktops.
I love Linux myself too, but remember the *nix philosophy. The right tool for the right task. Linux is definately not the right tool (yet) for gaming. Is it?
The problem with this changes from ground up is that do many people/companies have invested a lot of money in the current technology. Who in their right mind would throw everything away just to start with something new, untested and perhaps not much better than the current setup?
Isn't this the reason Object Oriented DBMSs didn't catch up? It may be a cool concept, but I have a Relational DBMS that works fine. Why would I want to pay for new infrastructure and transforming my data from OBDMS to RDBMS?
Restructuring an existing, working system and making it incompatible with today's hardware and software is not a solution, but rather a new problem that can easily be overcomed by completely ignoring the new structure.
You think your location is not considered information that can identify you? Granted, it depends on the resolution of the location information, but if they go under zip code (like zip+four) info, then this is indeed a violation of your privacy.
Human Subjects Research guidelines crealy state that zip code from participants in a study are muddy water. Anything below that (zip+4), actual address, etc. is considered private information and written consent from the participant is required for the use of the data. Notice that a permission is required to USE the data. Even if you somehow have the data, you need written permission to use them. Yes yes, EULAs probably grant permission, I know.
Google weather forecast in my area is exactly the opposite from all local stations and NOAA. Google predicts heavy rain in the following 5 days (and today) while the rest predict mostly sunshine and partly cloudy.
I would rather look at it a bit differently than you. The reason we have hatred, in my opinion, is simply the fact that we have no other way to identify ourselves.
Every single person defines him/her self by defining the other. When Bush declared there was an axis of evil, he was actually declaring his country as the "good" country. When you say I am a good programmer, you define the others as bad.
If you actually do believe you are a good person, then you admit that there are other people that are bad, and hence slowly start evolving a hidden kind of hate, that can manifest itself in many ways, one of which is through these online communities.
I am not sure about this, but the lighthouse could be very useful in a GPS system.
Out-of-the-box GPS has horrible accuracy for travelling into dangerous waters. But if there is a differential GPS correction set up on the lighthouse, then the accuracy will drop down to centimeters (cm). And a lighthouse would be the perfect place to set this up. Clear view of the sky, no buildings obstructing it, on the edge of land (as close as you can get on a boat) and already located in areas that need great accuracy.
Obsolete in the older sense of beaming visible light, quite useful in beaming corrections to a GPS unit (if equiped to receive them).
Just stop by your local smoke shop (one owned preferably by a foreigner) and just ask them about calling cards. I found a local calling card that is meant only for calls within the USA that has the cheapest rates for calls in Europe that I have seen anywhere. I can call Cyprus for $0.04/minute, which is between 2 and 12 times cheaper than anything I could find online. The calling card is UNI Washington (local access by icallplus) and it actually gives me cheaper rates than the ones advertised in their webpage (as they only advertise international calling cards to international calls).
Remember, the internet isn't the answer to everything all the time.
In the small island of Cyprus, in the Eastern Mediterranean sea, the local telecommunications company was offering TV services over the phone for more than a year.
In my opinion, shorter sentences are not a required component of comprehensible communications. Rather, the post above, which coincidentally is a single sentence, is probably the most comprehensible of the posts here on Slashdot.
Short sentences have their place, and that place is not argumentative writing necessarily, although they can and should be used to assist in conveying a message. I rather think of short, concise sentences as an essential component of non-literary presentations (in the fashion of a presentation using audio-visual equipement).
In summation, long sentences do belong in the English language, especially in written communications, when the reader has enough of an attention span to be able to follow that long sentence.
You know... you could have used PROJ to do it, and get it done really fast.
There are some people out there that dedicated their time to create programs that can do pretty much any transformation imaginable, in a very efficient way.
And correct me if I am wrong, but the transformation you refer to is to the datum, not to the projection, isn't it? Datum and projections are enirely different things, therefore they need entirely different transformation algorithms. And yes, datum transformations tend to be tedious, but still doable in yesterday's hardware.
A projection transformation doesn't take that much CPU power. I did projection transformations on huge datasets, and it only takes a few seconds on an old trusted P2. It's just simple math really.
The lines of code needed to achieve a task are measured, as they serve as an indicator on how fast one can create a script.
If you need 20 lines of C# to check if a file exists, but only one in Perl, then according to the study, Perl should receive a better weighted score for ease of implementation.
Read the articles people! They are interesting (at least most of the time).
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I am an owner of a Netgear wireless router myself. And let me tell you...
As soon as you open the box the router comes in, there is a leaflet about security and asking you to change the default password (which is there to allow you access the first time you use it).
Opening the installation instructions, there is also mention that you are required to change the password as soon as you connect the router to your PC.
I don't blame Netgear for having a default password. It is needed for the initial login, and if a user is not smart enough to know how to get this working, if they bother reading the installation instruction they can get some bare minimum security.
This is by no means a "completely blatant and downright dangerous security hole" as you mention above. It's simply users not following all the steps in their instructions as they are supposed to be.
And then so many people complain about the lack of installation documentation or manuals. They are there! The problem is, they don't read themselves out loud to you.
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Why is that? There are so many free sources. Granted, most of them are derived from TIGER, but everyone uses the same data source. What changes is the year of the update.
The GIS Data Depot (http://data.geocomm.com/) has a lot of free data, just because they give the previous version of the data for free, trying to convince you to buy the new one.
ESRI gives their version of the TIGER data for free. The problem is, they change everything into shapefiles, removing the inherent topology from the TIGER data structures. But still, worth the money you pay for it (http://arcdata.esri.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_down load.cfm)
There are numerous sources for data, and the most accurate ones you will get are from your local university library. Every library that has a map section today sports a GIS installation, with a few gigabytes of data available to the public. Try that as well.
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The right link is this one.
This seems to be the very beauty of the system. Use the back-office employees, the ones that deal with everyday business, to evaluate the upper management or specialized employees.
This resembles the movement of allowing the actual employees of a company define the design of ERP systems rather than management.
Don't forget, management does see the big picture, at the cost of the intricate details that may be pushing the company forward. That is why there is a need for multiple levels of management. And this brings the need for multiple levels of evaluation.
I say go for it! When you figure out the problems that may arise from abuse of the system that is...
Makes one wonder why you visit a chiropractor if you have the perfect chair that maintains correct posture and is comfortable...
Not to ruin your rant but...
When your job is selling IT Infrastructure security services to corporations, it is required by you to issue a warning to your clients (as well as potential clients). And an announcement on their website, which is a valid communication method, is not merely a press release. It becomes a press release when someone in the press uses it. It is mainly a warning to clients an dpotential customers.
Besides, where do you expect the incompetent reporters of today to get their information? Reading comments on Slashdot or reports by professional organizations?
If that makes them a publicity slut, I wonder what it makes people that post on Slashdot just so they post something, even if it is irrelevant, not thought out and a plain waste of electrons.
I apologize beforehand for the rant but...
What do you people have against Star Wars? Most people here think Star Wars (IV, V, VI) is cool because all the older geeks they live up to thought it was cool. Now everyone that watched the newer episodes (or even heard about them) and their grandmothers think they suck. Well you know what? If they did truly suck, people wouldn't go like crazy to watch them (don't forget, Episode I is 5th on the All Time Box Office for the USA) all.
Can anyone give me a precise reason why they think Star Wars I, II or III were horrible movies? Was it Jar Jar? If yes, how would you do it to make it suck less, stick to the original story and ensure IV, V and VI don't have to change? Remember, you still need a gullible character that can be trusted by the Jedis, loyal, possible elected to be a representative in the Senate at a future time and easily manipulated in the future. Any character you make like that (even making Harrison Ford play the character, since so many love him) would still make you hate him. It is the exact purpose of the character. And it is also the ingredient the movie needs to evolve.
The movie as a whole is truly amazing, and if people cannot tolerate a movie that provides them with the foundation of their "greatest movie of all time", then maybe they should reconsider their opinions. It is indeed a work of art. People should watch "The power of myth" with Joseph Campbell and George Lucas (filmed in '88) to understand what George Lucas was actually trying to do with Star Wars. If you got it wrong the first time, don't blame the director/author. Blame someone else.
And to save you some trouble... Slate's analysis is close to what George Lucas was trying to do in the first place.
The basic idea behind it is school. School is a microcosm meant to prepare people to enter society. Only their reward systems are different. Whoever get rewarded in school (the straight-A student usually) has a hard time being rewarded in society, which tends to make the better students stay in school, while the others get out to make the money. This naturaly introduces jealousy, which in term brings eliticism on behalf of those who feel they are not rewarded as they should be.
The article is at http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n1-1. html and is written by Robert Nozick.
The most important thing that seems to be ignored. Various cities around the country provide "Starter Kits" for their citizens that include such software as Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, etc.
What would stop Massachusets from providing a CD of OpenOffice.org for a minimal fee ($1.75 or something) for all citizens. You want to do business with MA and complain about not having the software to view their documents? Fine, just follow the download link on their website, or simply ask for the CD. This doesn't have to stop to office documents. Their map viewer (which is rather excellent) can also be bundled on the CD (along with data).
Imagine this. Want to open up a new store in MA? Here, grab this CD with maps of our demographics, major roads, excisting facilities. Many cities in Washington state have done something similar, on the web only currently. Then, the required forms are also included in the CD, as well as software to view and edit them. Just print them and bring them over to the closest state office.
Why should the state of Massachusets not do such a thing? Promote business, empower your citizens. Is that so wrong?
Why don't you just buy an unlocked phone to begin with? It is really easy to do in the USA as well. Just go to Amazon and choose one of the many unlocked phones they sell.
And now you will see how much other people pay for cell phones (unlike in the USA). I brought my own phone when I came from Europe and had no problems getting service from anyone, except that the prices here are ridiculous if you don't choose a 2-year plan (which would also get you a free phone again).
It's called "voting with your wallet," and I try to practice it. If you want Linux to be well supported, you have to help out. It ain't gonna happen on its own.
So if you don't buy a game, you think the publisher will assume that there are Linux gamers out there that did not buy it because there is no Linux version? Voting with your wallet happens when there are alternatives to a product you want, and you go for the alternatives. Quite frankly, with the size of the Linux gamers out there and the Linux games availability, voting with your wallet is more mazochistic than it even sounds.
If you want Linux ports to be developed, then wait for the next porting company to come along, and buy their games. Leaving them to go bankrupt is not exactly the best way to make the industry notice Linux. Especially since is has such a small install base, most of which is for server environments and not desktops.
I love Linux myself too, but remember the *nix philosophy. The right tool for the right task. Linux is definately not the right tool (yet) for gaming. Is it?
The problem with this changes from ground up is that do many people/companies have invested a lot of money in the current technology. Who in their right mind would throw everything away just to start with something new, untested and perhaps not much better than the current setup?
Isn't this the reason Object Oriented DBMSs didn't catch up? It may be a cool concept, but I have a Relational DBMS that works fine. Why would I want to pay for new infrastructure and transforming my data from OBDMS to RDBMS?
Restructuring an existing, working system and making it incompatible with today's hardware and software is not a solution, but rather a new problem that can easily be overcomed by completely ignoring the new structure.
Just look at the cover page. The report is dated April 2003. Why is this news once again please?
You think your location is not considered information that can identify you? Granted, it depends on the resolution of the location information, but if they go under zip code (like zip+four) info, then this is indeed a violation of your privacy.
Human Subjects Research guidelines crealy state that zip code from participants in a study are muddy water. Anything below that (zip+4), actual address, etc. is considered private information and written consent from the participant is required for the use of the data. Notice that a permission is required to USE the data. Even if you somehow have the data, you need written permission to use them. Yes yes, EULAs probably grant permission, I know.
Not only that,
Google weather forecast in my area is exactly the opposite from all local stations and NOAA. Google predicts heavy rain in the following 5 days (and today) while the rest predict mostly sunshine and partly cloudy.
Hmm... Lets see who gets to be correct this time.
Dont miss the followiing FAQ about the kilogram from the same site
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http://www1.bipm.org/en/scientific/mass/faqs_mass
Answers all types of questions people asked here, like why they chose that composition, why the shape, etc.
I would rather look at it a bit differently than you. The reason we have hatred, in my opinion, is simply the fact that we have no other way to identify ourselves.
Every single person defines him/her self by defining the other. When Bush declared there was an axis of evil, he was actually declaring his country as the "good" country. When you say I am a good programmer, you define the others as bad.
If you actually do believe you are a good person, then you admit that there are other people that are bad, and hence slowly start evolving a hidden kind of hate, that can manifest itself in many ways, one of which is through these online communities.
I am not sure about this, but the lighthouse could be very useful in a GPS system.
Out-of-the-box GPS has horrible accuracy for travelling into dangerous waters. But if there is a differential GPS correction set up on the lighthouse, then the accuracy will drop down to centimeters (cm). And a lighthouse would be the perfect place to set this up. Clear view of the sky, no buildings obstructing it, on the edge of land (as close as you can get on a boat) and already located in areas that need great accuracy.
Obsolete in the older sense of beaming visible light, quite useful in beaming corrections to a GPS unit (if equiped to receive them).
Just stop by your local smoke shop (one owned preferably by a foreigner) and just ask them about calling cards. I found a local calling card that is meant only for calls within the USA that has the cheapest rates for calls in Europe that I have seen anywhere. I can call Cyprus for $0.04/minute, which is between 2 and 12 times cheaper than anything I could find online. The calling card is UNI Washington (local access by icallplus) and it actually gives me cheaper rates than the ones advertised in their webpage (as they only advertise international calling cards to international calls).
Remember, the internet isn't the answer to everything all the time.
In the small island of Cyprus, in the Eastern Mediterranean sea, the local telecommunications company was offering TV services over the phone for more than a year.
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Here is their website http://www.mivision.cyta.com.cy/english/what_mivi
In my opinion, shorter sentences are not a required component of comprehensible communications. Rather, the post above, which coincidentally is a single sentence, is probably the most comprehensible of the posts here on Slashdot.
Short sentences have their place, and that place is not argumentative writing necessarily, although they can and should be used to assist in conveying a message. I rather think of short, concise sentences as an essential component of non-literary presentations (in the fashion of a presentation using audio-visual equipement).
In summation, long sentences do belong in the English language, especially in written communications, when the reader has enough of an attention span to be able to follow that long sentence.
There are some people out there that dedicated their time to create programs that can do pretty much any transformation imaginable, in a very efficient way.
And correct me if I am wrong, but the transformation you refer to is to the datum, not to the projection, isn't it? Datum and projections are enirely different things, therefore they need entirely different transformation algorithms. And yes, datum transformations tend to be tedious, but still doable in yesterday's hardware.
A projection transformation doesn't take that much CPU power. I did projection transformations on huge datasets, and it only takes a few seconds on an old trusted P2. It's just simple math really.
If you bothered to read the article...
The lines of code needed to achieve a task are measured, as they serve as an indicator on how fast one can create a script.
If you need 20 lines of C# to check if a file exists, but only one in Perl, then according to the study, Perl should receive a better weighted score for ease of implementation.
Read the articles people! They are interesting (at least most of the time).
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I am an owner of a Netgear wireless router myself. And let me tell you...
As soon as you open the box the router comes in, there is a leaflet about security and asking you to change the default password (which is there to allow you access the first time you use it).
Opening the installation instructions, there is also mention that you are required to change the password as soon as you connect the router to your PC.
I don't blame Netgear for having a default password. It is needed for the initial login, and if a user is not smart enough to know how to get this working, if they bother reading the installation instruction they can get some bare minimum security.
This is by no means a "completely blatant and downright dangerous security hole" as you mention above. It's simply users not following all the steps in their instructions as they are supposed to be.
And then so many people complain about the lack of installation documentation or manuals. They are there! The problem is, they don't read themselves out loud to you.
Why is that? There are so many free sources. Granted, most of them are derived from TIGER, but everyone uses the same data source. What changes is the year of the update.
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The GIS Data Depot (http://data.geocomm.com/) has a lot of free data, just because they give the previous version of the data for free, trying to convince you to buy the new one.
ESRI gives their version of the TIGER data for free. The problem is, they change everything into shapefiles, removing the inherent topology from the TIGER data structures. But still, worth the money you pay for it (http://arcdata.esri.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_dow
There are numerous sources for data, and the most accurate ones you will get are from your local university library. Every library that has a map section today sports a GIS installation, with a few gigabytes of data available to the public. Try that as well.