There are many companies that allow you to save your card for later use. I personally find this dumb and avoid doing such as a rule, but I'd imagine that if they have the ability to do so, there must be some rule which allows them to do so under certain conditions.
All you need to see about EA's security is how they deal with "lost passwords"
Last time I did a lost password request with EA, they happily sent me my password in email. No, not a "password reset request", but my actual password. This tells me that: a) They're dumb enough to send passwords in plaintext via email b) They're dumb enough to store plaintext-retrievable passwords instead of doing a hash comparison.
Give 'em stock options with a few years lock on them. Want to get a bunch of money? Make sure the company is healthy 2-4 years from now when you're able to sell off your stock.
Want to still make money a few years after that? Keep it another few years and this years' stock will be worth money.
Programmers use what they know. I've seen plenty of things that are in ActiveX (UI's for Cisco network equipment, for example) in situations where the target audience may very well not be windows users.
I've seen some *horrible* abuse of java.
But programmers use what they know, or what's popular. This lends to a bit of a cycle, but eventually may break down as a newer language moves up.
Who's responsible, the developer that doesn't fix a bug, or the manager that tells the developer "don't waste time working on that bug, work on *money gathering fancy feature X* instead"?
Actually, I think that he was saying that if the spammer isn't following language laws (perhaps sending SPAM to Canadians in dual-language, or having a french operator) they could be shut down for non-compliance...
How many people have had a phone/computer that *LASTS* 4 years. Products aren't just replaced for upgrade purchases, planned obsolesce is a factor as well.
High-end Samsung or HTC Android phones are just as good as their Apple or Blackberry counterparts.
I do notice that you don't include Motorola in this, which probably makes the statement more accurate since IMHO (and experience) the quality of Moto phones leaves much to be desired.
If comparing themselves to others makes them actually *do* something, then I'm all for it. A lot of US research/exploration in the past was to beat Russia, so perhaps progress from China will spur others to invest in some more research of their own.
I find that the HR-built questions tend to drive me crazy at times, mainly because some of little to no bearing on the position being interviewed, and others may not *have* an answer.
Being asked how you resolved a conflict with a co-worker when you've never had one (can't say that now, but during an interview 5-10 years ago I could as I had only worked in smaller shops full of some pretty nice people) is frustrating as heck.
But back to the technical questions. I've found that making them is fun. Rather that trying to come up with obtuse technical questions, some basics mixed with real situations the company has faced works well (what would you check in situation X). Questions that try and get you to fill in entries that would be more easily available from a man-page are lame.
In my own experience, the best part of coming up with the questions is getting back answers that I'd never thought of. Sure they don't match the solution/issue given in my own experience, but finding cool new ideas that never crossed my mind is part of what makes tech fun.
The problem is when people want you to be an absolute believer in the far side of either camp. There are plenty of aspects to religion that I accept. There are plenty of scientific facts and even theories that I accept. Science constantly shows that what we as a species know about the universe around us - while it seems a lot - is the tiniest fraction of what there is to know. It shows that *amazing* things happen, and that life is general is an amazingly complex process.
For all the things that make *life* on earth, all the things that are required to allow us to live and exist as we do, I would say that I would accept some of the "religious" answers over "blind chance with infinitesimal odds against incredible possibilities" (small odds of life, incredible size of universe in which it can occur). I don't have to give it a name, but rather just accept that the reason for my existence is bigger than the understanding of anyone.
Unless you believe in time-loops or whatever, I don't believe that there could ever be an answer to the "where did it come from" question that doesn't involve something bigger than ourselves. OK, so the universe exploded from a point of highly compressed matter, which happened billions of years ago. Where did *THAT* come from... and before that, and before that...
/bin and/lib fine. But you've actually got/bin/sbin/usr/local/bin/usr/local/sbin (in many cases the "local" is stuff not installed from a native package, etc) then/etc/usr/local/etc then/lib/usr/lib/usr/lib64 then/tmp/var/tmp etc
It's easy enough to see some of the reasoning behind the superuser and regular binaries... and perhaps the native/non-native (local) stuff, but the overall situation is a bit messy, especially when one is trying to figure out how to allocate space in some situations.
My personal peeve is apps that decide to use/opt and then have their own temp/log/etc directories. Grrrrr
Exactly how fast do you think that the drives in your average PC transfer? On consumer hardware, 1GB/s isn't bad. On enterprise environments, you're going to see SAN connections rather than NAS, and with speeds that greatly surpass 1GB/s (albeit with potentially a lot more users), plus all sorts of fun caching etc. Even on a lot of the mid-level NAS setups, you can find multiple bonded gigabit NICS or beyond. Sure if you've got too many users then speed is going to suffer, but in many cases it does just fine.
Except that corporations are considered people, and have considerably more money to influence *WHATEVER* politicians get in (usually before they get in, campaign contributions and all).
I would somewhat object to the "health care" part, but that depends on how it's done. In Canada, health-care is subsidized, but AFAIK there are limits to how much can be charged.
In absence of a could be determined by the line between volume-based or price-based profit. For example, in BC there is a province-based vehicle insurance carrier. Everyone in the province must get their (base) vehicle insurance through this carrier. Ignoring the various other issues with this, shops that want the business of said carrier can only charge up to certain amounts. Obviously they get higher volumes that they would from non-carrier or out-of-province claims, but they don't get to charge as much.
Skype may very well run on "Microsoft" operating systems, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it phased out on other platforms. See what happened to RAV antivirus, and many others.
6-year old children should *NOT* have laser pointers. The culprit is idiot parents who let their children use something which is clearly labeled against such use.
Beyond that, your $2 Walmart laser pointer probably won't be able to hit a low-flying plane, I believe it's more a problem with the green/etc lasers. You can't get those from Walmart, and anyone who gives *those* to a kid should be charged with child endangerment.
Based on my last experience I'd say that customer comfort isn't exactly high up in the list. Customer service in the jet was decent, but in the airport it was absurd (3 hours late, nobody could say when our flight would get in, and we were told to go to another gate halfway across the bloody airport 15 minutes before the flight actually departed)/
Yes, but looking at the stock iPhone VS Galaxy S2 etc, one could say about the same thing, yet Apple is nailing Samsung for infringement upon their design...
One thing I *might* be willing to give them is the concept of a paid "app store" on a mobile device. Yes, application repositories did exist in various incarnations previously, but having a one-stop-shop is something that really joined the bridge between developers and consumers.
iPods may have been popular for music without it, but I doubt that smartphones would be nearly as nice to use if one had to go out and buy CD's or hunt it out online then manually install like the old Palm days.
I don't use growl (not much of a mac user myself), but I do appreciate seeing a candid and professional response. There are many geeks/devs that end up getting tied in knots or in pissing matches, so it's refreshing to see a response that's well-thought-out, and addresses the issue in #3 without going off as "person X is a poopoohead and we don't like him"
The EU is a bit of an odd duck these days. It's made up of separate countries, but has adapted a form of centralization for currency and to some extent law, making it almost like a set of countries within a larger country.
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There are many companies that allow you to save your card for later use. I personally find this dumb and avoid doing such as a rule, but I'd imagine that if they have the ability to do so, there must be some rule which allows them to do so under certain conditions.
All you need to see about EA's security is how they deal with "lost passwords"
Last time I did a lost password request with EA, they happily sent me my password in email. No, not a "password reset request", but my actual password.
This tells me that:
a) They're dumb enough to send passwords in plaintext via email
b) They're dumb enough to store plaintext-retrievable passwords instead of doing a hash comparison.
FAIL!
Give 'em stock options with a few years lock on them.
Want to get a bunch of money? Make sure the company is healthy 2-4 years from now when you're able to sell off your stock.
Want to still make money a few years after that? Keep it another few years and this years' stock will be worth money.
Programmers use what they know. I've seen plenty of things that are in ActiveX (UI's for Cisco network equipment, for example) in situations where the target audience may very well not be windows users.
I've seen some *horrible* abuse of java.
But programmers use what they know, or what's popular. This lends to a bit of a cycle, but eventually may break down as a newer language moves up.
Who's responsible, the developer that doesn't fix a bug, or the manager that tells the developer "don't waste time working on that bug, work on *money gathering fancy feature X* instead"?
Actually, I think that he was saying that if the spammer isn't following language laws (perhaps sending SPAM to Canadians in dual-language, or having a french operator) they could be shut down for non-compliance...
How many people have had a phone/computer that *LASTS* 4 years.
Products aren't just replaced for upgrade purchases, planned obsolesce is a factor as well.
High-end Samsung or HTC Android phones are just as good as their Apple or Blackberry counterparts.
I do notice that you don't include Motorola in this, which probably makes the statement more accurate since IMHO (and experience) the quality of Moto phones leaves much to be desired.
If comparing themselves to others makes them actually *do* something, then I'm all for it. A lot of US research/exploration in the past was to beat Russia, so perhaps progress from China will spur others to invest in some more research of their own.
I find that the HR-built questions tend to drive me crazy at times, mainly because some of little to no bearing on the position being interviewed, and others may not *have* an answer.
Being asked how you resolved a conflict with a co-worker when you've never had one (can't say that now, but during an interview 5-10 years ago I could as I had only worked in smaller shops full of some pretty nice people) is frustrating as heck.
But back to the technical questions. I've found that making them is fun. Rather that trying to come up with obtuse technical questions, some basics mixed with real situations the company has faced works well (what would you check in situation X). Questions that try and get you to fill in entries that would be more easily available from a man-page are lame.
In my own experience, the best part of coming up with the questions is getting back answers that I'd never thought of. Sure they don't match the solution/issue given in my own experience, but finding cool new ideas that never crossed my mind is part of what makes tech fun.
The problem is when people want you to be an absolute believer in the far side of either camp.
There are plenty of aspects to religion that I accept. There are plenty of scientific facts and even theories that I accept.
Science constantly shows that what we as a species know about the universe around us - while it seems a lot - is the tiniest fraction of what there is to know. It shows that *amazing* things happen, and that life is general is an amazingly complex process.
For all the things that make *life* on earth, all the things that are required to allow us to live and exist as we do, I would say that I would accept some of the "religious" answers over "blind chance with infinitesimal odds against incredible possibilities" (small odds of life, incredible size of universe in which it can occur). I don't have to give it a name, but rather just accept that the reason for my existence is bigger than the understanding of anyone.
Unless you believe in time-loops or whatever, I don't believe that there could ever be an answer to the "where did it come from" question that doesn't involve something bigger than ourselves. OK, so the universe exploded from a point of highly compressed matter, which happened billions of years ago. Where did *THAT* come from... and before that, and before that...
Between PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, stuff can be quite literally anywhere.
Where really SUCKS when you're trying to doing a least some management of space allocation and performance/privilege separation.
/bin and /lib fine. /bin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin (in many cases the "local" is stuff not installed from a native package, etc) /etc /usr/local/etc /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64 /tmp /var/tmp
But you've actually got
then
then
then
etc
It's easy enough to see some of the reasoning behind the superuser and regular binaries... and perhaps the native/non-native (local) stuff, but the overall situation is a bit messy, especially when one is trying to figure out how to allocate space in some situations.
My personal peeve is apps that decide to use /opt and then have their own temp/log/etc directories. Grrrrr
Exactly how fast do you think that the drives in your average PC transfer? On consumer hardware, 1GB/s isn't bad.
On enterprise environments, you're going to see SAN connections rather than NAS, and with speeds that greatly surpass 1GB/s (albeit with potentially a lot more users), plus all sorts of fun caching etc.
Even on a lot of the mid-level NAS setups, you can find multiple bonded gigabit NICS or beyond. Sure if you've got too many users then speed is going to suffer, but in many cases it does just fine.
Except that corporations are considered people, and have considerably more money to influence *WHATEVER* politicians get in (usually before they get in, campaign contributions and all).
When you're jailed for assault...
Why not charge him?
I would somewhat object to the "health care" part, but that depends on how it's done. In Canada, health-care is subsidized, but AFAIK there are limits to how much can be charged.
In absence of a could be determined by the line between volume-based or price-based profit.
For example, in BC there is a province-based vehicle insurance carrier. Everyone in the province must get their (base) vehicle insurance through this carrier. Ignoring the various other issues with this, shops that want the business of said carrier can only charge up to certain amounts. Obviously they get higher volumes that they would from non-carrier or out-of-province claims, but they don't get to charge as much.
Skype may very well run on "Microsoft" operating systems, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it phased out on other platforms.
See what happened to RAV antivirus, and many others.
Embrace and extenguish.
6-year old children should *NOT* have laser pointers. The culprit is idiot parents who let their children use something which is clearly labeled against such use.
Beyond that, your $2 Walmart laser pointer probably won't be able to hit a low-flying plane, I believe it's more a problem with the green/etc lasers. You can't get those from Walmart, and anyone who gives *those* to a kid should be charged with child endangerment.
pictures needed!
I've love to see the servo'ed eyes on your bucky skill.
I'm guessing you haven't flown Air China...
Based on my last experience I'd say that customer comfort isn't exactly high up in the list. Customer service in the jet was decent, but in the airport it was absurd (3 hours late, nobody could say when our flight would get in, and we were told to go to another gate halfway across the bloody airport 15 minutes before the flight actually departed)/
Yes, but looking at the stock iPhone VS Galaxy S2 etc, one could say about the same thing, yet Apple is nailing Samsung for infringement upon their design...
One thing I *might* be willing to give them is the concept of a paid "app store" on a mobile device. Yes, application repositories did exist in various incarnations previously, but having a one-stop-shop is something that really joined the bridge between developers and consumers.
iPods may have been popular for music without it, but I doubt that smartphones would be nearly as nice to use if one had to go out and buy CD's or hunt it out online then manually install like the old Palm days.
I don't use growl (not much of a mac user myself), but I do appreciate seeing a candid and professional response.
There are many geeks/devs that end up getting tied in knots or in pissing matches, so it's refreshing to see a response that's well-thought-out, and addresses the issue in #3 without going off as "person X is a poopoohead and we don't like him"
Thanks!
The EU is a bit of an odd duck these days. It's made up of separate countries, but has adapted a form of centralization for currency and to some extent law, making it almost like a set of countries within a larger country.