By the way, I did something similar on my second day on the job (no, I didn't get fired). I'll skip the details, but yes the management fucked up and had a hard time coming to grips with their fuckup. Fortunately, circumstances in my case were slightly different; but it was close enough to this story that I don't blame the new hire one bit.
This kid will have no problem getting a new job. What happened was not his fault in any way, shape, or form. The fault lies squarely with the CTO (in no particular order):
1) He allowed a new hire to have superuser, unsupervised access to the production database without an ounce of training. 2) He allowed an unvetted new-hire script to contain actual superuser credentials that could be used to wipe out the production database with a simple copy and paste error. 3) He allowed a new hire to run that script unsupervised. 4) He set a new hire loose on their production database with no mentor looking over his shoulder. 5) He did not require the backups to be verified and/or tested to make sure they work.
I'm sure there are more (feel free to expand on it), but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
This is a sign that the traditional broadcast TV model is moving towards extinction. The sooner that happens, the better. We're in an age where on-demand viewing should be the norm, not the exception. The sooner the legacy TV broadcast model dies, the better.
I correctly picked out the vivaldi one right away and I suspect most other people can as well.
I only listened to the first 15 seconds of each one, but I didn't detect any significant difference. However, I find the vast majority of classical music to be monotonous and mundane. So it's possible that the issue isn't that the computer composed music is just as good as the human composed music, but rather that most human composed music is just as bad as computer composed music.
That being said, I was impressed with how authentic the computer composed music sounded. I suspect that the vast majority of people don't care enough about classical music to care about its origin, and would be completely indifferent to it while watching a movie as long as it elicited the proper emotions.
Same here. We order online at our local grocery store, and they give us a 2-hour window during which they will deliver our groceries. There is a small threshold above which the delivery is free, and below which there is a five dollar charge. Since we always order above the threshold, our deliveries are always free.
Amazon is quite late to the party, and offers nothing of value. In fact, Amazon's offering is a step backwards by comparison.
...but would it have been too much to ask, to mention that he is of course a Democrat.
His party affiliation is entirely irrelevant. Political party loyalty is perhaps THE major obstacle to a free society. Instead of focusing on parties, we are all better served by focusing on the individual. Not all Democrats are equal, and not all Republicans are equal.
Members of all parties do things I like and things I don't like. However, there are generally individuals in all parties that do the right things, and I vote for those people regardless of their party affiliation.
This messaging was removed and replaced after much pushback, largely from white men, about the need to remain apolitical and objective....
So it's mainly white men who want science to remain scientific, while rejecting the push to make science political; by implication, it's mainly non-white, non-men that want to politicize science.
It is the white men that are showing wisdom that appears to be severely lacking in the other groups. It is not the place of science to push for any social policy. It is the place of science to predict and/or show the results of various social policies (to the extent that science is even capable of doing so). It is then the place of politics to decide which social policy to pursue, using (presumably) the apolitical objective data.
Virus writers will target the largest market portion.
That's been a standard retort for many years, and it's still wrong. Linux has had a massive market share lead over Windows on Web servers for a very long time; yet the vast, vast majority of Web server compromises were, are, and always will be Windows infections
If market share were the driving force behind malware, we'd see a LOT of Linux server compromises. But we don't see that. Instead, most of what we see are Windows infections.
How does Opera offer that much less memory/CPU usage for multiple tabs? Tabs will still have Javascript (which is what sucks all the CPU time) and most of the memory. So unless Opera is suspending Javascript, the tabs will still use CPU cycles and memory.
I love Windows 10. Because of it, I have people asking me to install Linux over Windows 10 that would never before have considered such an option. Thank you, Microsoft!
Damn, phantom5, don't you go spouting off common sense in the middle of an emotional tirade. By now, it should be obvious to everyone that this is Microsoft's M.O. How many times does this have to happen before the Microsoft defenders get their heads out of their asses. This isn't the first time Microsoft has done this, and it won't be the last time.
Microsoft consciously made this flaw in their quest to dumb down computing, and now they are trying to deflect blame away from themselves. This is also Microsoft standard procedure.
Neither (A) nor (B) apply in this case, but rather:
C) Organizations insist on using an operating system that has been known for decades to have more severe security holes than Swiss cheese, but which the (only!) vendor refuses to fix until its too late (if even then).
Obviously these are legacy operating systems, but where they're used they're highly entrenched and can't be written off with an "oh, just migrate to x86 Linux and Java" kind of mindset.
It's funny that you put in that way, because that's exactly what we did with our HP/UX installations. All of our internal stuff was based on UniVerse (I feel dirty just admitting that), and UniVerse existed on both HP/UX and Linux. So we moved UniVerse from HP/UX to Linux, thereby setting us up to eliminate some expensive UniVerse licenses. Interestingly enough, HP reduced our HP/UX license costs to zero to try keeping us from moving to Linux.
After moving our servers to Linux, we started writing all of our new applications in C++ (which sucks for writing internal applications), then to Java/C# (the latter of which is a steaming pile of shit). At some point, we told all stakeholders that UniVerse was rapidly dying and would therefore need all of its applications rewritten. Most of that was accomplished in the course of the next couple years, with only the largest application needing a few more years to rewrite in Java. All HP/UX servers were decommissioned after that, and now most of what we have is Linux/Java (we have a few Windows "servers" for those stupid enough to continue tying themselves to that boat anchor).
Seeing movies and experiments isn't making it less hard, it's just entertainment.
I have to fervently disagree with you. By definition, "Entertaining Equals Less Hard." How many people can quote the lines of a good movie? How many can do the same for a typical University lecture? A really good learning experience is entertaining, which makes is far less hard.
The best University lectures I ever had, by far, were my two business law classes (I was a CIS major). The instructor had comedic timing and presentation, which left the class in stitches. I barely wrote a single word in my notebook (my eyes were too blurry from tears of laughter from the start of almost every class, and for the entire semester), and I still pulled an A in the classes. To this day (18 years later), I can recall many of the lectures he gave. And my memory for such things generally sucks.
These were two throw-away classes that were required for the degree, but they were two of my favorite memories of my University years. My Greek Mythology class was very similar in structure and delivery, and the results were the same. I went into that class solely because it fulfilled the same requirements as foreign language, and was the lesser of the two shitty choices. It turned out to be another one of my favorite University experiences. The same course taught by more traditional professors was reviled by students.
Almost every other class I had was taught in a very matter-of-fact manner, and bored the living shit out of me. I core dumped almost everything I learned in those other classes, as they were droll and boring.
One of the major strengths of pre-recorded lectures is that they can be paused at points of confusion, and then confusing parts can be Google'd at the student's own pace until understanding sets in. Traditional lectures don't allow that.
I have learned more about difficult stuff from Youtube (and the Web in general) than I ever learned from most of my University classes, the latter of which serves very little useful purpose to me. Its pacing sucks (it's usually either too fast or too slow), its accessibility is terrible (try calling the professor at home when you have a question at 10pm), its structure is too rigid (I've had many professors defer answering my question, "because we cover that later", then never get around to answering the question later), and the bureaucracy is intolerable (I'm sorry, you can't park in your paid spot tonight, because the money-making dumb-asses are moving a ball from one end of the field to the other tonight, and we're making money on parking) .
And I've barely scratched the surface of how absurd modern University "education" is. I could lecture on this for hours.
The traditional lecture needs to die, and modern technology now allows that to happen. Students are much better off if the lecturer just records the lecture and puts it on Youtube (or on the University distribution network). Classroom lectures are almost always inefficient, boring, and ineffective. They've been the vehicle of choice for so long only because Youtube didn't exist, or hadn't filled out yet.
Instead, efforts should focus on funding efforts to get WINE to where it can run 99% of windows apps flawlessly.
IBM accomplished this with OS/2 during the Windows 3.1 era, and developers stopped writing programs for OS/2. The simple reasoning was, "If OS/2 can run Windows programs, why develop for OS/2? We'll just develop for Windows." So, in essence, OS/2 was the first version of WINE. WINE has always been a terrible idea, and we all need to be thankful that it sucks at running Windows programs.
The best way to get people to adopt Linux is to get them using FOSS while they're still on Windows. That will build them a bridge to Linux, as all their FOSS software and data will transfer seamlessly.
Also, no serious buyer would use the Zillow price rather than a price a Realtor suggested.
Realtors aren't any better. They exist to maximize their profits and minimize their costs. I have yet to meet a Realtor whose best interests align with mine. They're almost as bad as the Nigerian scammers, but not quite.
This led investigators to a call center in Mumbai, India, where the water supply company had outsourced its customer support operations.
The saddest part of all this is that the water supply company only lost $645,000 (which it will probably pass on to its customers) rather than going out of business entirely.
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By the way, I did something similar on my second day on the job (no, I didn't get fired). I'll skip the details, but yes the management fucked up and had a hard time coming to grips with their fuckup. Fortunately, circumstances in my case were slightly different; but it was close enough to this story that I don't blame the new hire one bit.
This kid will have no problem getting a new job. What happened was not his fault in any way, shape, or form. The fault lies squarely with the CTO (in no particular order):
1) He allowed a new hire to have superuser, unsupervised access to the production database without an ounce of training.
2) He allowed an unvetted new-hire script to contain actual superuser credentials that could be used to wipe out the production database with a simple copy and paste error.
3) He allowed a new hire to run that script unsupervised.
4) He set a new hire loose on their production database with no mentor looking over his shoulder.
5) He did not require the backups to be verified and/or tested to make sure they work.
I'm sure there are more (feel free to expand on it), but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
This is a sign that the traditional broadcast TV model is moving towards extinction. The sooner that happens, the better. We're in an age where on-demand viewing should be the norm, not the exception. The sooner the legacy TV broadcast model dies, the better.
I correctly picked out the vivaldi one right away and I suspect most other people can as well.
I only listened to the first 15 seconds of each one, but I didn't detect any significant difference. However, I find the vast majority of classical music to be monotonous and mundane. So it's possible that the issue isn't that the computer composed music is just as good as the human composed music, but rather that most human composed music is just as bad as computer composed music.
That being said, I was impressed with how authentic the computer composed music sounded. I suspect that the vast majority of people don't care enough about classical music to care about its origin, and would be completely indifferent to it while watching a movie as long as it elicited the proper emotions.
Regardless of our political leanings, I think the majority of us Americans in the technology industry approve of Trump in at least this one area.
...Wine promised to solve that it's way too complex for most people. Enter PlayOnLinux....
PlayOnLinux is just a front-end to WINE. While is may increase your success a bit, it's still limited by WINE's abilities.
Same here. We order online at our local grocery store, and they give us a 2-hour window during which they will deliver our groceries. There is a small threshold above which the delivery is free, and below which there is a five dollar charge. Since we always order above the threshold, our deliveries are always free.
Amazon is quite late to the party, and offers nothing of value. In fact, Amazon's offering is a step backwards by comparison.
...but would it have been too much to ask, to mention that he is of course a Democrat.
His party affiliation is entirely irrelevant. Political party loyalty is perhaps THE major obstacle to a free society. Instead of focusing on parties, we are all better served by focusing on the individual. Not all Democrats are equal, and not all Republicans are equal.
Members of all parties do things I like and things I don't like. However, there are generally individuals in all parties that do the right things, and I vote for those people regardless of their party affiliation.
This messaging was removed and replaced after much pushback, largely from white men, about the need to remain apolitical and objective....
So it's mainly white men who want science to remain scientific, while rejecting the push to make science political; by implication, it's mainly non-white, non-men that want to politicize science.
It is the white men that are showing wisdom that appears to be severely lacking in the other groups. It is not the place of science to push for any social policy. It is the place of science to predict and/or show the results of various social policies (to the extent that science is even capable of doing so). It is then the place of politics to decide which social policy to pursue, using (presumably) the apolitical objective data.
Good science is bound by facts, not emotion.
Virus writers will target the largest market portion.
That's been a standard retort for many years, and it's still wrong. Linux has had a massive market share lead over Windows on Web servers for a very long time; yet the vast, vast majority of Web server compromises were, are, and always will be Windows infections
If market share were the driving force behind malware, we'd see a LOT of Linux server compromises. But we don't see that. Instead, most of what we see are Windows infections.
How does Opera offer that much less memory/CPU usage for multiple tabs? Tabs will still have Javascript (which is what sucks all the CPU time) and most of the memory. So unless Opera is suspending Javascript, the tabs will still use CPU cycles and memory.
I love Windows 10. Because of it, I have people asking me to install Linux over Windows 10 that would never before have considered such an option. Thank you, Microsoft!
I meant that the cost/benefit ratio is too high, not low.
...are being labelled the IT equivalents of anti-vaxxers...
So, people who have done their research, and have decided that the cost/benefit ratio is too low. Sounds about right.
Damn, phantom5, don't you go spouting off common sense in the middle of an emotional tirade. By now, it should be obvious to everyone that this is Microsoft's M.O. How many times does this have to happen before the Microsoft defenders get their heads out of their asses. This isn't the first time Microsoft has done this, and it won't be the last time.
Microsoft consciously made this flaw in their quest to dumb down computing, and now they are trying to deflect blame away from themselves. This is also Microsoft standard procedure.
Neither (A) nor (B) apply in this case, but rather:
C) Organizations insist on using an operating system that has been known for decades to have more severe security holes than Swiss cheese, but which the (only!) vendor refuses to fix until its too late (if even then).
This is a game of cat and mouse, so don't assume you have won.
The only way to win is to not play: get rid of Windows.
Obviously these are legacy operating systems, but where they're used they're highly entrenched and can't be written off with an "oh, just migrate to x86 Linux and Java" kind of mindset.
It's funny that you put in that way, because that's exactly what we did with our HP/UX installations. All of our internal stuff was based on UniVerse (I feel dirty just admitting that), and UniVerse existed on both HP/UX and Linux. So we moved UniVerse from HP/UX to Linux, thereby setting us up to eliminate some expensive UniVerse licenses. Interestingly enough, HP reduced our HP/UX license costs to zero to try keeping us from moving to Linux.
After moving our servers to Linux, we started writing all of our new applications in C++ (which sucks for writing internal applications), then to Java/C# (the latter of which is a steaming pile of shit). At some point, we told all stakeholders that UniVerse was rapidly dying and would therefore need all of its applications rewritten. Most of that was accomplished in the course of the next couple years, with only the largest application needing a few more years to rewrite in Java. All HP/UX servers were decommissioned after that, and now most of what we have is Linux/Java (we have a few Windows "servers" for those stupid enough to continue tying themselves to that boat anchor).
Using Windows in a hospital should be enough to get you fired.
Connecting Windows to a network in a hospital should be enough to get you prosecuted.
Seeing movies and experiments isn't making it less hard, it's just entertainment.
I have to fervently disagree with you. By definition, "Entertaining Equals Less Hard." How many people can quote the lines of a good movie? How many can do the same for a typical University lecture? A really good learning experience is entertaining, which makes is far less hard.
The best University lectures I ever had, by far, were my two business law classes (I was a CIS major). The instructor had comedic timing and presentation, which left the class in stitches. I barely wrote a single word in my notebook (my eyes were too blurry from tears of laughter from the start of almost every class, and for the entire semester), and I still pulled an A in the classes. To this day (18 years later), I can recall many of the lectures he gave. And my memory for such things generally sucks.
These were two throw-away classes that were required for the degree, but they were two of my favorite memories of my University years. My Greek Mythology class was very similar in structure and delivery, and the results were the same. I went into that class solely because it fulfilled the same requirements as foreign language, and was the lesser of the two shitty choices. It turned out to be another one of my favorite University experiences. The same course taught by more traditional professors was reviled by students.
Almost every other class I had was taught in a very matter-of-fact manner, and bored the living shit out of me. I core dumped almost everything I learned in those other classes, as they were droll and boring.
One of the major strengths of pre-recorded lectures is that they can be paused at points of confusion, and then confusing parts can be Google'd at the student's own pace until understanding sets in. Traditional lectures don't allow that.
I have learned more about difficult stuff from Youtube (and the Web in general) than I ever learned from most of my University classes, the latter of which serves very little useful purpose to me. Its pacing sucks (it's usually either too fast or too slow), its accessibility is terrible (try calling the professor at home when you have a question at 10pm), its structure is too rigid (I've had many professors defer answering my question, "because we cover that later", then never get around to answering the question later), and the bureaucracy is intolerable (I'm sorry, you can't park in your paid spot tonight, because the money-making dumb-asses are moving a ball from one end of the field to the other tonight, and we're making money on parking) .
And I've barely scratched the surface of how absurd modern University "education" is. I could lecture on this for hours.
Hey, dumbfuck moderators: moderation is not supposed to be used for, "I disagree". If you disagree with me, grow a pair and post a fucking rebuttal.
The traditional lecture needs to die, and modern technology now allows that to happen. Students are much better off if the lecturer just records the lecture and puts it on Youtube (or on the University distribution network). Classroom lectures are almost always inefficient, boring, and ineffective. They've been the vehicle of choice for so long only because Youtube didn't exist, or hadn't filled out yet.
Instead, efforts should focus on funding efforts to get WINE to where it can run 99% of windows apps flawlessly.
IBM accomplished this with OS/2 during the Windows 3.1 era, and developers stopped writing programs for OS/2. The simple reasoning was, "If OS/2 can run Windows programs, why develop for OS/2? We'll just develop for Windows." So, in essence, OS/2 was the first version of WINE. WINE has always been a terrible idea, and we all need to be thankful that it sucks at running Windows programs.
The best way to get people to adopt Linux is to get them using FOSS while they're still on Windows. That will build them a bridge to Linux, as all their FOSS software and data will transfer seamlessly.
Also, no serious buyer would use the Zillow price rather than a price a Realtor suggested.
Realtors aren't any better. They exist to maximize their profits and minimize their costs. I have yet to meet a Realtor whose best interests align with mine. They're almost as bad as the Nigerian scammers, but not quite.
This led investigators to a call center in Mumbai, India, where the water supply company had outsourced its customer support operations.
The saddest part of all this is that the water supply company only lost $645,000 (which it will probably pass on to its customers) rather than going out of business entirely.