Ok, now that we have that out of our system, let's look at this logically.
The goverment is not planning on upgrading all their computers in order to do this. Neither are they planning to do some much, much harder: to verify that all the installed software is configured in such a way that it dosn't store information outside of the encrypted space, nor nail down systems so that their people cannot add software.
Yes, that would be much easier on Linux or OSX (or any just about any operating system) than on Windows. But it would be much, MUCH more labor intensive than their proposed solution no matter what OS they used.
What they're doing is a classic bad management decision which in a practical world is not an avoidable one. They're not spending the 40 hours per PC they need to now (utterly arbitraty number -- who really knows?) to change OS and apps, but spending an hour or less to do something which will slow down productivity (and increase data loss through hardware/user failure) for the life of the machine/employee.
What I'd like to see is a phase two of this project. Phase one, cripple everyone's machine so it's slow, but secure. Phase two, offer a program where you get a secured, fast laptop, where only one part is encrypted, but you can't boot it from anything but its one internal HD, can't single-user it, etc. can't add your own software, it phones home when it can to do centralized incremental backups of that secure area, patches, etc.
The second phase is harder and hits productivity more in the short term, but it makes a path where the machines and users get modernized, IT costs go way down, and in order to escape the sluggishness of the phase one change, some users will actually want this phase two solution. User buy in is the real key to such changes. If you don't get them to volunteer, they'll deliberately sabotage the project.
This whole thing is not a bad decision. Yet. If they install this on 486s and the machines turn into molassas, and they blunder forward on policy, such that workable machines become unworkable, and they don't upgrade them, such that people don't have computers, anymore, really... THEN, this will be a very bad decision.
I remember an American commedian (pity I don't remember who it was) responding to a bunch of germans who saw his act and thought it was hilarious. "Why don't we" the Germans asked him after the show, "have funny people like you in Germany?" "Because you gassed them all." He replied.
I was thinking something of the same thing -- Why concentrate on the universities, when the fodder they'll be getting in 20 years will be utter crap? It's the grade schools we need to pour money into.
If I HAVE to run Windows, and there are times that I do, I would want to run whatever version comes out of this. They'll have to cut services and cruft and neato-cool things which take space and power.
Stuff I'd remove if I could.
So whatever version they ultimately cook up to run on this little box, I'd want it. But I doubt they'll productize it for PC.
Agreed on the crappy choice. The fault is really with the Democratic machine in the state, for not fighting to get in an intelligent person with principles. That would be antithetical to the machine, anyhow. But in this case, Rod wants to take away your porn too, in order to curry favor with the Illinois entrenched republicans.
It's large, meaning a big chunk of metal, but it's not a big heatsink (meaning having to deal with a lot of heat) as it has no flanges, no fins, no extra surface area, etc. Not designed to move a lot of heat.
I know this is off-topic but what most CS folks (who tend to self-select as happy in the computer world) need is classes on writing, thinking, and communicating. The math is gravy.
Further, I've never seen such a thing, but I think a fantasti thing would be what is analogous to the above (from the humanitees world) in the math frame: a class on how to teech YOURSELF any mathematical discipline. How to read math books, apply the theories, evaluate and decide whether to pursue, etc. any given disclipline within math.
How, as an employer, I would love people who could learn math on the fly as needed.
Crap. The one character I just HATED as painfully boring, stupid, empty, annoying, useless, etc. Is he maybe coming back so he can be killed in the first 5 minutes like a Police Squad Cameo?
Hey, I'm impressed by the smallness of the heatsink. I thought four chipsof this oomph would need a big heatsink. That's not bad at all. Someone who has one: How hot is the chassis when it's running?
From a quick read-through, I can now see that Florida Secretary of State Sue Cobb is an idiot or seeing only what she wants to see, which essentially makes her a liar.
Maybe I'm smoking crack here, and suggesting something INSANE, but wouldn't be cheaper to may be grow some PLANTS?
The advantage of plants is that you don't have to send them into outer space. And you can eat them.
How long would it take for us to set up some high-density plant parks (from kudzu to cactus to kelp) around the world and get serious about protecting them? 25 years? And how much would it cost? Maybe a little less than this project?
If we are going to throw something this expensive into space, shouldn't it be solar collectors?
If we're at war, is tampering with an election during that time treason, and can we impose the death penalty? Or can we only jail them? Or could we maybe fire them? Reprimand them? Something? Anything.
Resumes are so unhelpful, these days. We bring a broad smattering of people in. Some have just a littl experience post-BS, some have a lot. Virtually all of them fail the interview where we have them write a trivial algorithm.
When you say "looking for" you probably mean, how do we pick the resumes. HR does keyword searches on resumes posted on Monster and other resume farms. We also post jobs and look through all applicants who are interested in US. We contact, with the desire to bring in for an interview, everyone who mentions the things we're looking for (Java, SQL, Oracle, perl, etc -- whatever the particular position is). They routinely (90% of them) cannot crank out a five line program for a well-known mathematical function.
What they can do is rattle off buzzwords. Inspection usually reveals that they don't have any detailed knowledge in the topics or real understanding of how they work.
If what you mean is "how can I get a job?" -- I'd strongly suggest you put open source projects in a prominent place (near the top of the page) of your resume, and put keywords in a skills section down low so that HR will find you on a search (spell those keys in different ways for maximum possible hits). In the interview, KNOW HOW COMPUTING WORKS. KNOW HOW TO WRITE A PROGRAM. And KNOW HOW TO BREAK A PROBLEM INTO PARTS. You'd be surprised how far that'll get you.
My point in the original post is that a CS degree used to imply that you'd be able to do those few things. It doesn't anymore. I'll take an English major who has some experience working on an Open Source project over someone with a CS degree and some work experience from which they aparently learned nothing any day.
Have to agree. CS degrees on resumes of people I've interviewed in the past year or so are badges of inadequacy in the same way a Network+ cert used to be.
I'm going to bring up an unpleasant topic because I'm hoping someone here has real information and can talk about the history of SIDS.
When I was growing up, the thinking about SIDS was that while the phenomenon existed, a good number of SIDS cases were actually murders of children by parents (if I recall, mothers were primarily blamed) using SIDS as the alibi.
Was that crap? Do we know? What's the thinking now? (Not what causes it, but whether the number of cases of SIDS is actually the number of ACTUAL cases of SIDS.) Was that a transient suspicion which has been disproved or otherwise regected?
Castro is (probably) going to die soon. When that happens, there will be an escuse to open the doors up, and end the insane blockade of the place. Before Castro, we'd made it an extension of the United States, where the people lacked the privilidges of US citizenship. Look around: we're actually much better at doing that now. When the doors open, it's going to happen FAST. There will be a huge growth curve, lots of wealth to be made, and the country will explode with success.
They have something we don't have: a large educated populace. We will be exploiting that.
They are also a vacation paradise, by their position on the globe, and an easy hop from florida. Your dollar will go very far, for a long while, there, so you can get established with a mansion and some servants. Look to see an explosion of all-inclusive resorts and right behind them (physically, a half-mile from the beach), an IT industry.
So wait. Don't bail yet. You can be an American in another country, be on the top of the economic food chain, be close to the States and family and friends, and make a lot of money.
Besides, you don't have to learn Dutch, French, Japanese, etc. It's Spanish -- a language you already know a little of, and it's arguably the easiest language to learn short of Esperanto.
Your resume should hit hard on all the open source projects you contributed to. The fact that an employer can look at a website with an interesting or useful project and see (or at least imagine) your name in the list of contributers is a MASSIVE help in getting that first job.
Include all your contributions, no matter how small.
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Ok, on one hand, Yeah! WINDOWS SUCKS!
Ok, now that we have that out of our system, let's look at this logically.
The goverment is not planning on upgrading all their computers in order to do this. Neither are they planning to do some much, much harder: to verify that all the installed software is configured in such a way that it dosn't store information outside of the encrypted space, nor nail down systems so that their people cannot add software.
Yes, that would be much easier on Linux or OSX (or any just about any operating system) than on Windows. But it would be much, MUCH more labor intensive than their proposed solution no matter what OS they used.
What they're doing is a classic bad management decision which in a practical world is not an avoidable one. They're not spending the 40 hours per PC they need to now (utterly arbitraty number -- who really knows?) to change OS and apps, but spending an hour or less to do something which will slow down productivity (and increase data loss through hardware/user failure) for the life of the machine/employee.
What I'd like to see is a phase two of this project. Phase one, cripple everyone's machine so it's slow, but secure. Phase two, offer a program where you get a secured, fast laptop, where only one part is encrypted, but you can't boot it from anything but its one internal HD, can't single-user it, etc. can't add your own software, it phones home when it can to do centralized incremental backups of that secure area, patches, etc.
The second phase is harder and hits productivity more in the short term, but it makes a path where the machines and users get modernized, IT costs go way down, and in order to escape the sluggishness of the phase one change, some users will actually want this phase two solution. User buy in is the real key to such changes. If you don't get them to volunteer, they'll deliberately sabotage the project.
This whole thing is not a bad decision. Yet. If they install this on 486s and the machines turn into molassas, and they blunder forward on policy, such that workable machines become unworkable, and they don't upgrade them, such that people don't have computers, anymore, really... THEN, this will be a very bad decision.
I remember an American commedian (pity I don't remember who it was) responding to a bunch of germans who saw his act and thought it was hilarious. "Why don't we" the Germans asked him after the show, "have funny people like you in Germany?" "Because you gassed them all." He replied.
Yep. Gave me the willies, too. But that was nothing compared to my shock that the whole country didn't rise up and shout their own horror.
We're surrounded by people who don't learn from history, or from reading at all. Presumably because their lips get too tired.
I was thinking something of the same thing -- Why concentrate on the universities, when the fodder they'll be getting in 20 years will be utter crap? It's the grade schools we need to pour money into.
As much as I want windows in any situation.
If I HAVE to run Windows, and there are times that I do, I would want to run whatever version comes out of this. They'll have to cut services and cruft and neato-cool things which take space and power.
Stuff I'd remove if I could.
So whatever version they ultimately cook up to run on this little box, I'd want it. But I doubt they'll productize it for PC.
So long as he runs as a republican.
Agreed on the crappy choice. The fault is really with the Democratic machine in the state, for not fighting to get in an intelligent person with principles. That would be antithetical to the machine, anyhow. But in this case, Rod wants to take away your porn too, in order to curry favor with the Illinois entrenched republicans.
I live in Illinois. We just re-elected Rod Blagojevich, the governor who endorsed this crappy law. The guy's a schmuck.
...if I thought that would stop them from calling.
But it wouldn't.
It's large, meaning a big chunk of metal, but it's not a big heatsink (meaning having to deal with a lot of heat) as it has no flanges, no fins, no extra surface area, etc. Not designed to move a lot of heat.
I know this is off-topic but what most CS folks (who tend to self-select as happy in the computer world) need is classes on writing, thinking, and communicating. The math is gravy.
Further, I've never seen such a thing, but I think a fantasti thing would be what is analogous to the above (from the humanitees world) in the math frame: a class on how to teech YOURSELF any mathematical discipline. How to read math books, apply the theories, evaluate and decide whether to pursue, etc. any given disclipline within math.
How, as an employer, I would love people who could learn math on the fly as needed.
Crap. The one character I just HATED as painfully boring, stupid, empty, annoying, useless, etc. Is he maybe coming back so he can be killed in the first 5 minutes like a Police Squad Cameo?
Hey, I'm impressed by the smallness of the heatsink. I thought four chipsof this oomph would need a big heatsink. That's not bad at all. Someone who has one: How hot is the chassis when it's running?
From a quick read-through, I can now see that Florida Secretary of State Sue Cobb is an idiot or seeing only what she wants to see, which essentially makes her a liar.
Maybe I'm smoking crack here, and suggesting something INSANE, but wouldn't be cheaper to may be grow some PLANTS?
The advantage of plants is that you don't have to send them into outer space. And you can eat them.
How long would it take for us to set up some high-density plant parks (from kudzu to cactus to kelp) around the world and get serious about protecting them? 25 years? And how much would it cost? Maybe a little less than this project?
If we are going to throw something this expensive into space, shouldn't it be solar collectors?
If we're at war, is tampering with an election during that time treason, and can we impose the death penalty? Or can we only jail them? Or could we maybe fire them? Reprimand them? Something? Anything.
Resumes are so unhelpful, these days. We bring a broad smattering of people in. Some have just a littl experience post-BS, some have a lot. Virtually all of them fail the interview where we have them write a trivial algorithm.
When you say "looking for" you probably mean, how do we pick the resumes. HR does keyword searches on resumes posted on Monster and other resume farms. We also post jobs and look through all applicants who are interested in US. We contact, with the desire to bring in for an interview, everyone who mentions the things we're looking for (Java, SQL, Oracle, perl, etc -- whatever the particular position is). They routinely (90% of them) cannot crank out a five line program for a well-known mathematical function.
What they can do is rattle off buzzwords. Inspection usually reveals that they don't have any detailed knowledge in the topics or real understanding of how they work.
If what you mean is "how can I get a job?" -- I'd strongly suggest you put open source projects in a prominent place (near the top of the page) of your resume, and put keywords in a skills section down low so that HR will find you on a search (spell those keys in different ways for maximum possible hits). In the interview, KNOW HOW COMPUTING WORKS. KNOW HOW TO WRITE A PROGRAM. And KNOW HOW TO BREAK A PROBLEM INTO PARTS. You'd be surprised how far that'll get you.
My point in the original post is that a CS degree used to imply that you'd be able to do those few things. It doesn't anymore. I'll take an English major who has some experience working on an Open Source project over someone with a CS degree and some work experience from which they aparently learned nothing any day.
So I could sell them next month.
Novell will look good for a few months with this, then Microsoft will SCREW them like they do every single company they've ever touched.
I hope it doesn't destroy Novell. Probably will, though. It's Microsoft's secondary reason for any partnership they go into.
Have to agree. CS degrees on resumes of people I've interviewed in the past year or so are badges of inadequacy in the same way a Network+ cert used to be.
I'm going to bring up an unpleasant topic because I'm hoping someone here has real information and can talk about the history of SIDS.
When I was growing up, the thinking about SIDS was that while the phenomenon existed, a good number of SIDS cases were actually murders of children by parents (if I recall, mothers were primarily blamed) using SIDS as the alibi.
Was that crap? Do we know? What's the thinking now? (Not what causes it, but whether the number of cases of SIDS is actually the number of ACTUAL cases of SIDS.) Was that a transient suspicion which has been disproved or otherwise regected?
But not this moment.
Castro is (probably) going to die soon. When that happens, there will be an escuse to open the doors up, and end the insane blockade of the place. Before Castro, we'd made it an extension of the United States, where the people lacked the privilidges of US citizenship. Look around: we're actually much better at doing that now. When the doors open, it's going to happen FAST. There will be a huge growth curve, lots of wealth to be made, and the country will explode with success.
They have something we don't have: a large educated populace. We will be exploiting that.
They are also a vacation paradise, by their position on the globe, and an easy hop from florida. Your dollar will go very far, for a long while, there, so you can get established with a mansion and some servants. Look to see an explosion of all-inclusive resorts and right behind them (physically, a half-mile from the beach), an IT industry.
So wait. Don't bail yet. You can be an American in another country, be on the top of the economic food chain, be close to the States and family and friends, and make a lot of money.
Besides, you don't have to learn Dutch, French, Japanese, etc. It's Spanish -- a language you already know a little of, and it's arguably the easiest language to learn short of Esperanto.
The republicans will keep control of the house and senate.
The exit polls will be wildly divergent from the actual tallies in all states with Republican govenors.
There will vote fraud on the part of Democrats as well, but it will be unorganized and innefectual.
The Republican-dominated house and senate will pass voter protection laws designed to make sure this happens again in 2008.
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No, of course not. We're fat BECAUSE we're stupid.
Your resume should hit hard on all the open source projects you contributed to. The fact that an employer can look at a website with an interesting or useful project and see (or at least imagine) your name in the list of contributers is a MASSIVE help in getting that first job.
Include all your contributions, no matter how small.