actually, how would "they" ever know it really was you who was posting, not someone with same name? Only a problem if you posted from your company's computer system, and you still work at the same place after 10+ years (how many slashdotters would fit category of having same job for more than decade?)
Had you been in the cubes instead of at home, you might think differently: Nowadays many companies go through people like so much toilet paper, there is no value placed on developing people, loyalty to company, having people around with deep understanding of processes.....once you realize they don't give a crap about you, and that you won't be around for 2-3 years anyway, and that your coworkers will come & go at random...why, after a while you don't even miss them. Better to get some real friends outside of work & do things with them. Jobs come & go, but good friends can last a lifetime
I enjoyed C & H for many years, but towards the end the strip just became monotonous with no new ideas or insights. The author quit about 2 years too late. At least Breathed knew it was time to close up shop before embarassing himself; but now from that first new strip it looks he's going to make a big mistake.
sure I could do TPC-C for one to n threads for Oracle and PostgreSQL, but my machines are so very old no one would quote or use them (who wants to see TCP-C on a 500MHz Celeron with 256M of RAM for Oracle 8i?). MySQL might be a problem since the usual table type everyone uses (MyISAM) doesn't even support transactions.......
well, there's alot of companies that think SCO is the very same SCO they've been doing business with and going back to the early 80's. So it's normal to let in reps from a vendor you've been dealing with for 1 or 2 decades! They may not realize it's the Living Dead zombies who ate the brain of the old SCO's corpse!
PostgreSQL and MySQL can't be active-active clustered (yet). They've only recently had replication master-slave(s) added. But stay tuned, I'm sure it's coming.....and then the open source databases will eat Oracle's lunch.
There's some other cats that are only now just peeking their head out of bags:
1. Real savings cost of outsourcing to India is less than 20% with VERY strick management, with a HUGE assumed risk
2. Reports of Indian companies selling "confidential" data are starting to appear
3. Possibility of conventional or nuclear war between India & her neighbor
4. huge incentive for people in India to lie about capabilities/qualifications/background checks to land work (interesting aside: owner of U.S. recruiting business who is immigrant to U.S. from India has told me there is NO WAY to perform background check on people whose only work experience is from India, so he won't hire them without verifiable U.S. work experience of some sort)
um, look at the exponents in this sentence: You could move 1 million metric TONS (10^9 kg) of material from the moon (7.3 x 10^22 kg) to the earth (6 x 10^24 kg).....and nothing would change. About 60,000 tons (6 x 10^7 kg) of material fall to the earth from space each year anyway.
Most IT jobs aren't programming. Anyway, If most devices from supercomputers & mainframes all the way down to point-of-sale cash registers & cellphones & microwave ovens run free software (and the whole world *is* heading in that direction), then soon you are going to see a wonderful global job market for free software programmers
Any "Mach"-based OS will be mostly something else, not much to Mach other than a core threading/IPC mechanism. NeXTSTep is 90% BSD (I had a NexStation in the early 90's), as is Apple's new OS.
Good thing your brought up Latin, Latin also is logical and unambiguous enough for computer ingestion with only slight modification, and even uses the beloved world standard ISO-latin character set (haha). In fact, it is much better choice for archival language, what with 2000+ year history & preservation/use in science and religion. I think there's a VERY good chance it will be around in 1000+ more years. Recognizable english, probably not. Chinese yes. Hindi yes. Arabic yes.
I really wonder at the statistics of 1-2 million fluent esperanto speakers, sinced based on poll. More likely that many people had it as a hobby for a few years.
I would think a real human language that has stood the test of time (say still around in written & spoken form after 2,000 or more years) would be better suited for archival use. An artificial language that's a hundred years old? Fad.
there are sci-fi fans who really do use Klingon for fun, just as there are people who do Esperanto. I really doubt there are NATIVE esperanto speakers; that sounds like a claim of overenthusiastic fans. You do realize esperanto is HEAVILY embued with western thought patterns & concepts, so I really doubt it will become a U.N. language of choice; if English is displaced rather than streamlined & made more logical, it will be by asiatic language.
I've nothing against esperanto, I realize movies, books & worldwide discussion happen in this artificial language, and it is an interesting idea. But the world at large isn't going to use it.
My subject line aping the "BSD is dying" was for good clean trolling fun, since good slashdot karma and $2.50 will get you coffee at starbucks.
The Whistling language is a REAL langauge which arose out of a REAL need.....esperanto fulfills no more real need than does Klingon. It's fun & interesting, but not useful (despite whatever high hopes the inventor had). If English gets replaced as worldwide diplomatic/technical langauge, it'll be by Chinese or Hindi.
sorry, I already volunteered to do similar test with Amtel-Security palm print scanner - twice. And I'm so excited about the facial recognition test coming up with IBG....
Nice theory. In reality, I've twice had ATM's count the cash for withdrawal (heard the "bills hitting metal" sound) and then something went wrong and the machine reported an error, the door wouldn't open and then the machine returned my card. So what if a fake machine did that?
Also, suppose instead of "out of order", we have fake "out of CASH" machine. That would get YOU. for sure.
Faking a pulse & proper temperature/pressure in someone's freshly hacked off finger really wouldn't be too difficult; I should think $50 at the local hardware store should cover the materials.......
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actually, how would "they" ever know it really was you who was posting, not someone with same name? Only a problem if you posted from your company's computer system, and you still work at the same place after 10+ years (how many slashdotters would fit category of having same job for more than decade?)
even funnier, the Sun a fusion reactor: already working, past break even point, with a few years (a few BILLION years) free fuel supply thrown in
Had you been in the cubes instead of at home, you might think differently: Nowadays many companies go through people like so much toilet paper, there is no value placed on developing people, loyalty to company, having people around with deep understanding of processes.....once you realize they don't give a crap about you, and that you won't be around for 2-3 years anyway, and that your coworkers will come & go at random...why, after a while you don't even miss them. Better to get some real friends outside of work & do things with them. Jobs come & go, but good friends can last a lifetime
I enjoyed C & H for many years, but towards the end the strip just became monotonous with no new ideas or insights. The author quit about 2 years too late. At least Breathed knew it was time to close up shop before embarassing himself; but now from that first new strip it looks he's going to make a big mistake.
sure I could do TPC-C for one to n threads for Oracle and PostgreSQL, but my machines are so very old no one would quote or use them (who wants to see TCP-C on a 500MHz Celeron with 256M of RAM for Oracle 8i?). MySQL might be a problem since the usual table type everyone uses (MyISAM) doesn't even support transactions.......
Purple Foreskin
well, there's alot of companies that think SCO is the very same SCO they've been doing business with and going back to the early 80's. So it's normal to let in reps from a vendor you've been dealing with for 1 or 2 decades! They may not realize it's the Living Dead zombies who ate the brain of the old SCO's corpse!
PostgreSQL and MySQL can't be active-active clustered (yet). They've only recently had replication master-slave(s) added. But stay tuned, I'm sure it's coming.....and then the open source databases will eat Oracle's lunch.
As of version 4, MySQL now has a new table type, InnoDB that supports full ACID compliance.
There's some other cats that are only now just peeking their head out of bags:
1. Real savings cost of outsourcing to India is less than 20% with VERY strick management, with a HUGE assumed risk
2. Reports of Indian companies selling "confidential" data are starting to appear
3. Possibility of conventional or nuclear war between India & her neighbor
4. huge incentive for people in India to lie about capabilities/qualifications/background checks to land work (interesting aside: owner of U.S. recruiting business who is immigrant to U.S. from India has told me there is NO WAY to perform background check on people whose only work experience is from India, so he won't hire them without verifiable U.S. work experience of some sort)
234,000 tech jobs to be lost this year, don't you feel better now?
what, no "first post" or pouring hot grits down my pants?
um, look at the exponents in this sentence: You could move 1 million metric TONS (10^9 kg) of material from the moon (7.3 x 10^22 kg) to the earth (6 x 10^24 kg).....and nothing would change. About 60,000 tons (6 x 10^7 kg) of material fall to the earth from space each year anyway.
Most IT jobs aren't programming. Anyway, If most devices from supercomputers & mainframes all the way down to point-of-sale cash registers & cellphones & microwave ovens run free software (and the whole world *is* heading in that direction), then soon you are going to see a wonderful global job market for free software programmers
I've been paid to work on Linux stuff for the last 5 years: advantage: paid Linux programmer
yup, SCO is out to steal & control all those Open Source riches, both GPL and BSD licensed flavors.
Any "Mach"-based OS will be mostly something else, not much to Mach other than a core threading/IPC mechanism. NeXTSTep is 90% BSD (I had a NexStation in the early 90's), as is Apple's new OS.
Good thing your brought up Latin, Latin also is logical and unambiguous enough for computer ingestion with only slight modification, and even uses the beloved world standard ISO-latin character set (haha). In fact, it is much better choice for archival language, what with 2000+ year history & preservation/use in science and religion. I think there's a VERY good chance it will be around in 1000+ more years. Recognizable english, probably not. Chinese yes. Hindi yes. Arabic yes. I really wonder at the statistics of 1-2 million fluent esperanto speakers, sinced based on poll. More likely that many people had it as a hobby for a few years.
I would think a real human language that has stood the test of time (say still around in written & spoken form after 2,000 or more years) would be better suited for archival use. An artificial language that's a hundred years old? Fad.
there are sci-fi fans who really do use Klingon for fun, just as there are people who do Esperanto. I really doubt there are NATIVE esperanto speakers; that sounds like a claim of overenthusiastic fans. You do realize esperanto is HEAVILY embued with western thought patterns & concepts, so I really doubt it will become a U.N. language of choice; if English is displaced rather than streamlined & made more logical, it will be by asiatic language.
I've nothing against esperanto, I realize movies, books & worldwide discussion happen in this artificial language, and it is an interesting idea. But the world at large isn't going to use it.
My subject line aping the "BSD is dying" was for good clean trolling fun, since good slashdot karma and $2.50 will get you coffee at starbucks.
The Whistling language is a REAL langauge which arose out of a REAL need.....esperanto fulfills no more real need than does Klingon. It's fun & interesting, but not useful (despite whatever high hopes the inventor had). If English gets replaced as worldwide diplomatic/technical langauge, it'll be by Chinese or Hindi.
sorry, I already volunteered to do similar test with Amtel-Security palm print scanner - twice. And I'm so excited about the facial recognition test coming up with IBG....
here in Chicago, things are not so nice - in the Midwest, you can be had.
Nice theory. In reality, I've twice had ATM's count the cash for withdrawal (heard the "bills hitting metal" sound) and then something went wrong and the machine reported an error, the door wouldn't open and then the machine returned my card. So what if a fake machine did that?
Also, suppose instead of "out of order", we have fake "out of CASH" machine. That would get YOU. for sure.
Faking a pulse & proper temperature/pressure in someone's freshly hacked off finger really wouldn't be too difficult; I should think $50 at the local hardware store should cover the materials.......