The great part is.. I didn't pay attention to the "Idle" classification.. clicked through thinking it was real.. watched the video and it was convincing enough that I though Apple would actually be dumb enough to do this..
made me smile.
THEN I noticed the onion logo. More smiles of Badger Pride (even though they're not based in Madison anymore..)
after even one iteration it gets hard.. after two expensive.. after three 'what are you kidding me'.. after four, five, six.. we're just having fun now:)
6 years of journalspace if all that was being stored is text data probably still fit on a couple hundred gigs. Have they seriously never upgraded this machine in the past 6 years? Is this the first time anything has gone wrong? No one *ever* did a backup? There's probably a DVD sitting around on someone's desk that has their entire business on it..
They don't sound unreasonable at all.. and at least legally there are many (most?) municipalities in this puritan country of ours where showing more than their rules is considered "Indecent Exposure".
Since Facebook built its membership with the younger sect (schools, etc) it is in their best interest to keep the content on their site at a level that their primary membership's parents won't object to them observing.
If you need to see titties there are plenty of them on the rest of the interweb to keep you busy for the rest of your life.. why force them on Facebook which has equally compelling reasons to keep their site PG.
Seriously.. whose software are they using?!? I happen to work for one of the most predominant companies in this business and *none* of these requirements affect our algorithm's ability to match (source image or candidate).
Apparently our sales team needs to do a better job of picking up these prospective customers. (Or the government needs to stop buying their "big-brother" tools from the lowest bidder)
I was also curious about your "healthy fear of anything Java" Really? You are way too young to be developing "healthy fears". Java, like *every other language, has its issues but there is nothing abnormally nasty about it to treat it like a plague. Specifically relating to your.NET experience Java is a significantly more mature language than C#. You are more likely to get better performance and stability out of Java's virtual machines just because they've had more time to be beat up by a vast community of developers. M$ did a good job of getting C# out the door but like any child it has some growing up to do.
As many of these posts have mentioned: Don't limit yourself. Try everything. Obviously for Linux purposes knowing C (and a healthy amount of Bash scripting and Perl) is useful purely because the OS is built on it BUT for developing applications on top of it many languages have benefits depending on what you are trying to implement and so eliminating anything from your list will hurt you in the long run.
"Free your mind and the rest will follow" -En Vogue
Since you mention IIS I presume this is a windows environment. One of the things M$ actually did right with 2008/Vista is their new monitoring suite. It won't neccessarily report on everything you're asking BUT it has plenty of important looking displays to fill the boss' eye-candy needs.
Accessed most easily through the old-style task manager --> Performance Tab --> "Resource Monitor" button.
Of course if you're not up to 2008 on your servers (like most of the world) this is useless advice:)
Yeah.. on a lark I just went to Dell's enterprise site and built the following machine: 2x Quad Core Xeon 3.16Ghz Solaris:) 16GB Memory 6 400GB 10K SAS Drives in RAID5 (about 1.8T) (the rest of the 2950III features) $13422 (and I'm sure I could get a few grand lobbed off with my rep)
SO for a couple grand more than (or the same price as) Sun's 2T array I get a powerful server as well?
I don't see the benefit of features for price.. their solution would have to have MUCH better performance and reliability for me to choose that apple over this orange.
What does something cost? In the old model you have this really large $X to print and distribute a written work. $X + $A (advert) + $W (writer) + $P (desired profit) / ?? (predicted quant. of sales) = price of book.
Now you can have a smaller equation: Small fixed cost of production $x / $p (price market will pay) = # (number of downloads you need to sell to break even) The publisher will try to wrap the author's pay into that $x (and keep x as small as possible) so that they can make as much profit as possible after kicking the artist to the curb. Then they continue to charge $p indefinitely because it doesn't help them to give anything away. Eventually they stop distributing because even the hosting is costing money and the work disappears because heaven forbid anyone get anything for free.
Your average writer (not a Stephen King) gets screwed by a publisher about as bad as musicians get screwed by their record companies:
"We need to sell 1M copies of your book to 'break-even' with $X.. then you get 15% of what we make over that.. oh and did I mention that $X includes advertising as well and our offices and our secretaries and my new yacht in the Carribean.."
The little guy maybe gets an advance from his publisher which turns into debt OR gets sponsored by some institution and works for cost of living.
The same way it is now moving in the music business, with the use of the internet a little guy should be able to reasonably produce and distribute his own work and reap a vast amount more profit over the reasonable expenses of living while writing, editing, advertising (easier w/ net) and hosting at the same time yielding a cheaper cost to the end-user as an author WAY more than a publisher is inclined to want his work to get out there at least as much as he want to get paid (if not more for the true artist) so he won't cost people out of accessibility.
Eventually (and this term should be relatively short) the "ownership" of the source material should expire. The author is not prohibited from continuing to make money off of the distribution of his work (read distribution not the work itself) but anyone else (read Google) who can more effectively distribute the work should not just be allowed but empowered to provide the global exposure.
Add some additional caveats like "sure you can copy it and give it to everyone but you can't charge them for it" (um can we say GPL?!?) at the point of public domain and maybe we have something going.
Personally I hate reading books online (at least not traditional ones) so I'm going to spend the (ever increasing) amount of money to buy the paperback so I can read like we used to before the web (and TV). Too bad the author is seeing so little of that money I choose to spend..
We are not telling the authors to give all of their books for free (nor work in dark dank dungeons with burly leather clad masters whipping them into submission)
The issue is part of the complicated world we are moving into. In the past a work had severe cost to bring to the people and so the business model made as much money as possible from distribution over a short period of time and then those resources were moved to a newer piece of material. Those books in their remaining form dropped in price significantly leading to an excellent used book market for extremely cheap (or free at your library) spreading the knowledge to the masses.
Now those costs are high in the short term but the work can now be distributed extremely cheaply AND indefinitely.. The issue we've run into with just about everything is publishers trying to now keep their old entry level pricing going forever with a perpetual hold on the material. Think all the fun battles with MPAA/RIAA this is the same thing ONLY with the help of a massive "donation" by Google (services and settlement $$$) plus a very solid outlook on the part of the literary big business (at least the educational institutions involved) we get a MUCH better solution that benefits all involved.
I know someday (maybe/probably even now in the dark) Google's power will corrupt as power always does but for the time being it is enjoyable to watch what they may accomplish trying to follow a "Do no evil" philosophy.
Yeah.. Obviously different companies allow more or less movement from a given team but I'll put myself out there as an example of why seeing someone lived on 1st Line Support for 2 years would be a negative.
My first "white-collar" job (Junior summer of U) I was hired as a Front-Line tech support person. It was at an in-house dev firm and I along with 30 others were the start of their phone-support. I never made it to the call pool. During our week of training my abilities as a burgeoning developer brought me to performing more QA/Tuning functions. At some point, when I had free time, I did spend some time on the phone but at what could best be called 3rd level support (I call you.. you can't call me)
1 week training, 2.5 months as dev-support liason, back-to-school for one last year. I don't want to degrade my fellow starting team but those that stayed in 1st level for any length of time were not destined to be developers. Everyone who had more to offer was given more responsibility (at the very least 2nd level.. most better)
Sitting on 1st-Line phone support for two years can demonstrate: Lack of ability, Lack of drive, Lack of work-ethic, Poor communication skills, etc. Maybe you are not any of those things but you certainly haven't shown that to your current employer so why should an interviewer presume anything different?
You should already be putting a lot of your cycles to use with folding@home, seti@home, whatever@home.. then when you find something better for your processing and bandwidth powers you'll just have less extra cycles to spare.
I don't even have an iPhone and I do this.. Most of the time I send small SMS messages to my email account. if it's truly worth jotting down then it's worth being backed up out in the ether;)
Really? I mean I know this is/. but if you can't lift 100lbs without serious injury you've let yourself go a bit too far..
You use a forklift every time you install a UPS in a rack?
Try lifting a 400 lb Hammond Organ up a 2 story narrow icy stairs with one person below and one person above.. Now that's worth filming (too bad we didn't have a video camera!)
Yeah.. speaking as a Minnesotan: Pawlenty has been almost as bad a governor of our state as Bush has been a president. I was **really** hoping McCain would tap him for VP if anything because it might pull him out of our state.. unfortunately life's not that easy.
The fact of the matter is these raids were a blatant violation of citizen rights. The fact this may be commonplace (IS) does not make it right or make this article Republican bashing. That just makes it that much more sad that we, as citizens, go about our days letting our country slide further and further to the dark side.
Honestly I'm an independent but I find myself voting against the republican party consistently because they continue to crusade to take away my rights as a human being and a citizen of this country. They also blindly follow certain party politics in ways that hurt me and my fellow man.
What have we dealt with in MN? Pawlenty made a pledge to *never raise taxes and has worked hard to reduce taxes. Sounds pretty straight forward, right? Well.. to balance the budget while not raising taxes and ALSO cutting taxes and spending state coffers on a small feel-good refund he eliminated several public services from the state responsibility (you know.. the things I pay taxes for like roads, education, snow plowing, public safety) The result? Roads: 35W Bridge falls into the Mississippi. Statewide inspection of all bridges yields a vast majority are in need of serious work and a large number are just as in danger of critical failure as that one was. The rest of our roads are crumbling.. you just fall into a pothole not a river. Education, Snow removal, Public Safety: These activities still had to occur so they fell to the local municipalities. SO my state taxes went down $30 / year. MY PROPERTY TAXES went up by over $1500 / year to compensate! It's called blind loyalty to ideals without recognizing the practicality of the real world.
Anyway.. that went WAY off topic but frankly Mr. P has done as much damage to our state as Bush has done to this country and building up the Police state and taking away my personal freedoms is part of that package.
That and.. (I'm surprised I haven't seen this on here yet) When I got hired on with my current job one of the many pieces of writing I signed my name to was an explicit agreement to file for and/or assist the company in filing for any patents that it deems worthy.
SO: In my specific case there is an explicit contract saying that I will be fired if I refuse to take part in the patent process.
Reality is probably less strict but I'd check the employee docs you probably signed to en-mass on hire. You might find the answer to your question there.
I happen to be in the middle of deploying an Upgrade of a comprehensive biometric database in a western and democratic nation. They have had one for years.. we're just replacing the tech with better tech...and no this is not a black-ops project. It is the voter registration system in Panama and very public. They are not the only country we work with either. I wish the article would get their facts straight. (some leniency given for the definition of "comprehensive")
Great analogy. Another point to add: Until Vista I do believe (maybe OEM XP SP2 but I haven't seen) Microsoft was still shipping Windows with IE 6. Ergo your Harry type person is still being given the older browser to start with their nice shiny new PC up until you *really can't get XP anymore.
IE7 is a whole WORLD better than IE6. I wish they'd make IE6 disappear altogether but I'll just have to wait until widespread extinction.
FF3 has found at least a few ways to disappoint me so far (install issues, occasional freeze ups on page load, old plugins broken and taking a while to get up to speed, annoying intercepts that I haven't figured out how to turn off yet) but I'm enjoying it not stealing all of my memory and bogging down my machine like FF2 did.
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The great part is..
I didn't pay attention to the "Idle" classification..
clicked through thinking it was real..
watched the video and it was convincing enough that I though Apple would actually be dumb enough to do this..
made me smile.
THEN I noticed the onion logo. More smiles of Badger Pride (even though they're not based in Madison anymore..)
Sweet.
or ARCHIVE.ORG!
Their entire business may be sitting on archive's servers..
Nah.. the data recovery co would have been able to get through those zeros with one hand tied behind their back.
try this:
while( true ) {
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
}
after even one iteration it gets hard.. :)
after two expensive..
after three 'what are you kidding me'..
after four, five, six.. we're just having fun now
..and BTW I'm not saying that a "couple hundred gigs" would fit on a DVD.. their first 3 years worth of text data probably did tho.
Speaking of which "two large drives mirrored"
6 years of journalspace if all that was being stored is text data probably still fit on a couple hundred gigs. Have they seriously never upgraded this machine in the past 6 years? Is this the first time anything has gone wrong? No one *ever* did a backup? There's probably a DVD sitting around on someone's desk that has their entire business on it..
They don't sound unreasonable at all.. and at least legally there are many (most?) municipalities in this puritan country of ours where showing more than their rules is considered "Indecent Exposure".
Since Facebook built its membership with the younger sect (schools, etc) it is in their best interest to keep the content on their site at a level that their primary membership's parents won't object to them observing.
If you need to see titties there are plenty of them on the rest of the interweb to keep you busy for the rest of your life.. why force them on Facebook which has equally compelling reasons to keep their site PG.
Yeah.. Home Depot & Lowes.
H.D. started with a Married Couple.. they had a bloody divorce and the wife went and founded Lowes to go to battle with her ex.
Business is war.
Seriously.. whose software are they using?!? I happen to work for one of the most predominant companies in this business and *none* of these requirements affect our algorithm's ability to match (source image or candidate).
Apparently our sales team needs to do a better job of picking up these prospective customers. (Or the government needs to stop buying their "big-brother" tools from the lowest bidder)
I was also curious about your "healthy fear of anything Java" .NET experience Java is a significantly more mature language than C#. You are more likely to get better performance and stability out of Java's virtual machines just because they've had more time to be beat up by a vast community of developers. M$ did a good job of getting C# out the door but like any child it has some growing up to do.
Really? You are way too young to be developing "healthy fears". Java, like *every other language, has its issues but there is nothing abnormally nasty about it to treat it like a plague. Specifically relating to your
As many of these posts have mentioned: Don't limit yourself. Try everything. Obviously for Linux purposes knowing C (and a healthy amount of Bash scripting and Perl) is useful purely because the OS is built on it BUT for developing applications on top of it many languages have benefits depending on what you are trying to implement and so eliminating anything from your list will hurt you in the long run.
"Free your mind and the rest will follow"
-En Vogue
You know.. this one time..
The sign DID turn green.
My life's never been the same since!
Since you mention IIS I presume this is a windows environment. One of the things M$ actually did right with 2008/Vista is their new monitoring suite. It won't neccessarily report on everything you're asking BUT it has plenty of important looking displays to fill the boss' eye-candy needs.
Accessed most easily through the old-style task manager --> Performance Tab --> "Resource Monitor" button.
Of course if you're not up to 2008 on your servers (like most of the world) this is useless advice :)
This is all presuming that I can be killed! silly people always jumping to the conclusion that everyone is mortal..
I got mine in '97 or so but somehow am in the 6 digits.. ??
Yeah.. on a lark I just went to Dell's enterprise site and built the following machine: :)
2x Quad Core Xeon 3.16Ghz
Solaris
16GB Memory
6 400GB 10K SAS Drives in RAID5 (about 1.8T)
(the rest of the 2950III features)
$13422 (and I'm sure I could get a few grand lobbed off with my rep)
SO for a couple grand more than (or the same price as) Sun's 2T array I get a powerful server as well?
I don't see the benefit of features for price.. their solution would have to have MUCH better performance and reliability for me to choose that apple over this orange.
Honestly that's what I'm getting at..
What does something cost? In the old model you have this really large $X to print and distribute a written work. $X + $A (advert) + $W (writer) + $P (desired profit) / ?? (predicted quant. of sales) = price of book.
Now you can have a smaller equation: Small fixed cost of production $x / $p (price market will pay) = # (number of downloads you need to sell to break even) The publisher will try to wrap the author's pay into that $x (and keep x as small as possible) so that they can make as much profit as possible after kicking the artist to the curb. Then they continue to charge $p indefinitely because it doesn't help them to give anything away. Eventually they stop distributing because even the hosting is costing money and the work disappears because heaven forbid anyone get anything for free.
Your average writer (not a Stephen King) gets screwed by a publisher about as bad as musicians get screwed by their record companies:
"We need to sell 1M copies of your book to 'break-even' with $X.. then you get 15% of what we make over that.. oh and did I mention that $X includes advertising as well and our offices and our secretaries and my new yacht in the Carribean.."
The little guy maybe gets an advance from his publisher which turns into debt OR gets sponsored by some institution and works for cost of living.
The same way it is now moving in the music business, with the use of the internet a little guy should be able to reasonably produce and distribute his own work and reap a vast amount more profit over the reasonable expenses of living while writing, editing, advertising (easier w/ net) and hosting at the same time yielding a cheaper cost to the end-user as an author WAY more than a publisher is inclined to want his work to get out there at least as much as he want to get paid (if not more for the true artist) so he won't cost people out of accessibility.
Eventually (and this term should be relatively short) the "ownership" of the source material should expire. The author is not prohibited from continuing to make money off of the distribution of his work (read distribution not the work itself) but anyone else (read Google) who can more effectively distribute the work should not just be allowed but empowered to provide the global exposure.
Add some additional caveats like "sure you can copy it and give it to everyone but you can't charge them for it" (um can we say GPL?!?) at the point of public domain and maybe we have something going.
Personally I hate reading books online (at least not traditional ones) so I'm going to spend the (ever increasing) amount of money to buy the paperback so I can read like we used to before the web (and TV). Too bad the author is seeing so little of that money I choose to spend..
OK.. slow down a bit:
We are not telling the authors to give all of their books for free (nor work in dark dank dungeons with burly leather clad masters whipping them into submission)
The issue is part of the complicated world we are moving into. In the past a work had severe cost to bring to the people and so the business model made as much money as possible from distribution over a short period of time and then those resources were moved to a newer piece of material.
Those books in their remaining form dropped in price significantly leading to an excellent used book market for extremely cheap (or free at your library) spreading the knowledge to the masses.
Now those costs are high in the short term but the work can now be distributed extremely cheaply AND indefinitely.. The issue we've run into with just about everything is publishers trying to now keep their old entry level pricing going forever with a perpetual hold on the material. Think all the fun battles with MPAA/RIAA this is the same thing ONLY with the help of a massive "donation" by Google (services and settlement $$$) plus a very solid outlook on the part of the literary big business (at least the educational institutions involved) we get a MUCH better solution that benefits all involved.
I know someday (maybe/probably even now in the dark) Google's power will corrupt as power always does but for the time being it is enjoyable to watch what they may accomplish trying to follow a "Do no evil" philosophy.
Yeah.. Obviously different companies allow more or less movement from a given team but I'll put myself out there as an example of why seeing someone lived on 1st Line Support for 2 years would be a negative.
My first "white-collar" job (Junior summer of U) I was hired as a Front-Line tech support person. It was at an in-house dev firm and I along with 30 others were the start of their phone-support. I never made it to the call pool. During our week of training my abilities as a burgeoning developer brought me to performing more QA/Tuning functions. At some point, when I had free time, I did spend some time on the phone but at what could best be called 3rd level support (I call you.. you can't call me)
1 week training, 2.5 months as dev-support liason, back-to-school for one last year. I don't want to degrade my fellow starting team but those that stayed in 1st level for any length of time were not destined to be developers. Everyone who had more to offer was given more responsibility (at the very least 2nd level.. most better)
Sitting on 1st-Line phone support for two years can demonstrate: Lack of ability, Lack of drive, Lack of work-ethic, Poor communication skills, etc. Maybe you are not any of those things but you certainly haven't shown that to your current employer so why should an interviewer presume anything different?
Just a thought..
You should already be putting a lot of your cycles to use with folding@home, seti@home, whatever@home.. then when you find something better for your processing and bandwidth powers you'll just have less extra cycles to spare.
pr0n. ..although I'm sure they're looking for something that won't get them kicked off campus / sued / arrested.
I don't even have an iPhone and I do this.. Most of the time I send small SMS messages to my email account. if it's truly worth jotting down then it's worth being backed up out in the ether ;)
Really? I mean I know this is /. but if you can't lift 100lbs without serious injury you've let yourself go a bit too far..
You use a forklift every time you install a UPS in a rack?
Try lifting a 400 lb Hammond Organ up a 2 story narrow icy stairs with one person below and one person above.. Now that's worth filming (too bad we didn't have a video camera!)
Yeah.. speaking as a Minnesotan: Pawlenty has been almost as bad a governor of our state as Bush has been a president. I was **really** hoping McCain would tap him for VP if anything because it might pull him out of our state.. unfortunately life's not that easy.
The fact of the matter is these raids were a blatant violation of citizen rights. The fact this may be commonplace (IS) does not make it right or make this article Republican bashing. That just makes it that much more sad that we, as citizens, go about our days letting our country slide further and further to the dark side.
Honestly I'm an independent but I find myself voting against the republican party consistently because they continue to crusade to take away my rights as a human being and a citizen of this country. They also blindly follow certain party politics in ways that hurt me and my fellow man.
What have we dealt with in MN? Pawlenty made a pledge to *never raise taxes and has worked hard to reduce taxes. Sounds pretty straight forward, right? Well.. to balance the budget while not raising taxes and ALSO cutting taxes and spending state coffers on a small feel-good refund he eliminated several public services from the state responsibility (you know.. the things I pay taxes for like roads, education, snow plowing, public safety)
The result?
Roads: 35W Bridge falls into the Mississippi. Statewide inspection of all bridges yields a vast majority are in need of serious work and a large number are just as in danger of critical failure as that one was. The rest of our roads are crumbling.. you just fall into a pothole not a river.
Education, Snow removal, Public Safety: These activities still had to occur so they fell to the local municipalities. SO my state taxes went down $30 / year. MY PROPERTY TAXES went up by over $1500 / year to compensate!
It's called blind loyalty to ideals without recognizing the practicality of the real world.
Anyway.. that went WAY off topic but frankly Mr. P has done as much damage to our state as Bush has done to this country and building up the Police state and taking away my personal freedoms is part of that package.
That and.. (I'm surprised I haven't seen this on here yet) When I got hired on with my current job one of the many pieces of writing I signed my name to was an explicit agreement to file for and/or assist the company in filing for any patents that it deems worthy.
SO: In my specific case there is an explicit contract saying that I will be fired if I refuse to take part in the patent process.
Reality is probably less strict but I'd check the employee docs you probably signed to en-mass on hire. You might find the answer to your question there.
I happen to be in the middle of deploying an Upgrade of a comprehensive biometric database in a western and democratic nation. They have had one for years.. we're just replacing the tech with better tech. ..and no this is not a black-ops project. It is the voter registration system in Panama and very public. They are not the only country we work with either. I wish the article would get their facts straight. (some leniency given for the definition of "comprehensive")
Great analogy. Another point to add: Until Vista I do believe (maybe OEM XP SP2 but I haven't seen) Microsoft was still shipping Windows with IE 6. Ergo your Harry type person is still being given the older browser to start with their nice shiny new PC up until you *really can't get XP anymore.
IE7 is a whole WORLD better than IE6. I wish they'd make IE6 disappear altogether but I'll just have to wait until widespread extinction.
FF3 has found at least a few ways to disappoint me so far (install issues, occasional freeze ups on page load, old plugins broken and taking a while to get up to speed, annoying intercepts that I haven't figured out how to turn off yet) but I'm enjoying it not stealing all of my memory and bogging down my machine like FF2 did.