Textile workeres in 1811 were losing their jobs to stocking-machines that did knitting more cheaply than themselves, and indeed decided to destroy the machines. They organized into a group known as the Luddites, until England cracked down hard on them - wikipedia reporting that "at one time, there were more British troops fighting the Luddites than Napoleon Bonaparte".
Funny I never would have thought of Gates as a Luddite trying to fight advancements in technology. (especially interesting since we know Bill Joy has luddite tendancies)
Macs threaten the livelihood of IT staffs. If you recommend purchasing a computer that requires only half the support of the machine it is replacing, aren't you putting your job in danger? Exactly.
Ideally, the IT department ought to recommend the best computer for the job, but more often than not, they recommend the best computer for the IT department's job. ... Again, it comes down to the IT Department Full Employment Act. Adopting Linux allows organizations to increase their IT efficiency without requiring the IT department to increase ITS efficiency. It takes just as many nerds to support 100 Linux boxes as 100 Windows boxes, yet Linux boxes are cheaper and can support more users. The organization is better off while the IT department is unscathed and unchallenged.
If you haven't followed it, it was essentially "If you put $150-$180 million in this offshore bank account, I'll give your company a $5 billion contract for a Nigerian Natural Gas plant; and even kick back $5million to you personally."
Apparently even this big company that should have nown better said "sure".
This incident underscores why many use or have switched to Firefox: vulnerabilities discovered and promptly fixed. Not weeks and months from their publication--and not by another vendor--....
But
some people seem to be of the opinion that too many patches would be confusing.
"Ballmer said one key improvement will be a simplification of the way patches are distributed. Microsoft plans to move to a monthly patch release schedule, which he said will make it easier for network administrators to plan updates, which often require system shutdowns before installation."
If this other vendor is right that people want no more than monthly patches, such a fix may have to wait weeks.
"Will commercializing spaceflight be a step forward for space research?... when companies step in...the results are inevitably viagra when there is still no cure... etc.
"
Because recreational drugs like viagra and alchohol are more valued (practically by definition - they measure this value with their paychecks) by people than the hard-to-make-and-not-very-effective treatments for difficult to cure diseases.
Similarly, Space Tourism has the potential to benefit many many people compared to the handful of astronauts who got to golf on the moon so far.
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Public grants and public institutions (Nations and Universities) are still the bedrock for pure scientifc research. I only see economic and superficial consumerism inspired by the x-prize.
"
Public grants fund wierd artwork too. The outcome of both efforts (pure research and wierd artwork) is of direct interest to a pretty small class of people. I'm not saying it's a bad thing; just not wide-reaching.
"NASA, on some level, is really an organization for several major and minor companies, why would it be ruled out of the prize?"
Because NASA is doing it by taking other people's money. If NASA needed 10 more million, they have channels to ask for it. Scaled is doing it with their own.
Indeed, I (grandparent post) recognized that consumption taxes are even more regressive than income taxes; and occasionally think asset taxes would be better in some ways. An amusing way of declaring your assets, is to assign a value to everything (list big-ticket items, and list "everything else" as another item with value), and those items are essentially up-for-sale at ebay at that price. That way people'll be conservative about overvaluing their assets, not undervaluing them.
To your point about farmers... the price of farm products would also go up significantly which would partially compensate them.
We created a national government under the Articles Of Confederation that had so little power it couldn't tax and therefore quickly ran into problems getting anything done.
You say this like it's a bad thing.
Remember, we didn't need an income tax until 1913, when the chick who wrote the screenplay for "The Mummy"
wrote "her other horror story" - the first income tax form.
It'd be funny if it wasn't true; and yes, I know that the government had tarrifs on imports well before 1913. But taxing income just bugs me - it's not taxing the rich, it's taxing the people who are working hard to create a new barrier to prevent new people from becoming rich.
different operating systesm... Wow, your sys admins and help desk must LOVE supporting that!
I know you were trying to be sarcastic, but I bet that they indeed do prefer things this way.
When the pager goes off at 3AM that there's a suspected new worm attacking your dos-based systems, it's nice to simply turn them off and let the other systems handle the load until morning when you can investigate the problem at your leisure.
Someone really should watch these companies for insider trading violations.
Our sales guys are known to send SMS messages about "got [big client]" and similar.
If someone can listen in to such communicatios, there's a big opportunity for really hard to detect illegal stock-market trading with insider information they pick up from sales people in other companies.
So is this creative commons license the LSD book was licensed under, free as in beer, or free as in drugs.
And remember Microsoft = "Free as in Drugs"(*)
BSD = "Free as in Beer.
Linux = "free as in Speach.
(*) "With Microsoft, the first hit is always free - remember that all your life. They're going to all these different websites and having them become.Net websites. They say they're not going to make any money. For now, they'll not charge you for access to your Passport environment. Maybe soon they'll charge you $50. That's $50 that they're charging you for info that they stole from you." -- Scott McNealy
Perhaps you guys need to justify your needs better. "All" you have to do is convince the CFO that he'll get a better ROI buying you the big-screen flat-panel monitor than the sales-VP.
Hint:
Tell me the ROI of:
A sales guy using a 3GHz laptop with a nice monitor making your software look 3X faster/more scalable than it really is, vs.
An IT guy with a 3GHz laptop making all the software he chooses too bloated to run on most of the other employee's systems.
I thought
this article
described Microsoft's approcach to patches:
The push includes another revamp of the company's patch management process, which has been widely criticized as too cumbersome for enterprise users and too confusing for some home users, ... Ballmer said one key improvement will be a simplification of the way patches are distributed. Microsoft plans to move to a monthly patch release schedule, which he said will make it easier for network administrators to plan updates, which often require system shutdowns before installation.
Looked nice on paper, but seems to me problems like this one deserve to be patched ASAP.
Can't be redundant, because he's the first guy who made the analogy with the CISSP.
I thought it was very funny. It's like going "you guys who paid for a red-hat cert! i think I speek for all the mandrake-certified guys whan I say... ha ha ha".
Insightful? What, that there's more than one certification organization conning people out of their money?
facial-recognition & biometric stuff to identify suspects in your building
background-check software for individuals.
burglar alarm systems, for homes and businesses (requires some hardware)
timed-safe software (requires some hardware)
xray & metal-detectors & chemical-sniffers for airports (requires lotsa hardware)
Oh, you mean computer stuff. C'mon guys, just quit using outlook to browse prOn from computers inside your firewall; and close off ports you don't need.
To the best of my knowledge, this trend was first reported by Ned Ludd in 1811.
Textile workeres were losing their jobs to stocking-machines that did knitting more cheaply than themselves, and indeed decided to destroy the machines. They organized into a group known as the Luddites, until England cracked down hard on them - wikipedia reporting that "at one time, there were more British troops fighting the Luddites than Napoleon Bonaparte".
I'd like the system to let me decide if I want to collect the payment after seeing the email.
For example, a check that I can choose whether or not to cash.
In such a "sender pays only if the recipient wants to collect", friends (and good pr0n) spam will be free to send me stuff, but other spam (msft updates) could make me money.
Humans may make mistakes on the borderline cases, will not make the *important* mistakes.
Examples.
A mom reading an email from her daughter saying "help, i'm being sexually assaulted by a football team" is far less likely go "gee, that contains the word rape so its spam"
A CEO readin an email from his biggest customer saying "you're getting rich. we're placing the order you need to survive" won't dismiss it because of spam words.
Spam filters have a higher chance of deleting the important emails than these overall percentages suggest.
From the article "'The best-performing filters reduced the volume of incoming spam from about 150 messages per day to about 2 messages per day.'"
I don't give a damn if they reduce 150 spams to 2 or 3 or 4 or 5. I care that they do NOT delete the one important email hidden there.
Spam filter writers -- start focusing on avoiding false positives, not on trying to delete everything.
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I sent the author of The Article an email (not hard to find if you google for him and his publication) pointing out the same thing.
Microsoft realizes this, and indeed SFU _is_ somewhat BSD based.
Also interesting is that Cringley has often written about Microsoft's technology making "full employement" for msft technicians. Interestingly, though, he thinks Apples kill more IT jobs than Linux.
If you haven't followed it, it was essentially "If you put $150-$180 million in this offshore bank account, I'll give your company a $5 billion contract for a Nigerian Natural Gas plant; and even kick back $5million to you personally."
Apparently even this big company that should have nown better said "sure".
But some people seem to be of the opinion that too many patches would be confusing.
If this other vendor is right that people want no more than monthly patches, such a fix may have to wait weeks.Because recreational drugs like viagra and alchohol are more valued (practically by definition - they measure this value with their paychecks) by people than the hard-to-make-and-not-very-effective treatments for difficult to cure diseases.
Similarly, Space Tourism has the potential to benefit many many people compared to the handful of astronauts who got to golf on the moon so far.
" Public grants and public institutions (Nations and Universities) are still the bedrock for pure scientifc research. I only see economic and superficial consumerism inspired by the x-prize. "
Public grants fund wierd artwork too. The outcome of both efforts (pure research and wierd artwork) is of direct interest to a pretty small class of people. I'm not saying it's a bad thing; just not wide-reaching.
"NASA, on some level, is really an organization for several major and minor companies, why would it be ruled out of the prize?"
Because NASA is doing it by taking other people's money. If NASA needed 10 more million, they have channels to ask for it. Scaled is doing it with their own.
Indeed, I (grandparent post) recognized that consumption taxes are even more regressive than income taxes; and occasionally think asset taxes would be better in some ways. An amusing way of declaring your assets, is to assign a value to everything (list big-ticket items, and list "everything else" as another item with value), and those items are essentially up-for-sale at ebay at that price. That way people'll be conservative about overvaluing their assets, not undervaluing them.
To your point about farmers... the price of farm products would also go up significantly which would partially compensate them.
You say this like it's a bad thing. Remember, we didn't need an income tax until 1913, when the chick who wrote the screenplay for "The Mummy" wrote "her other horror story" - the first income tax form.
It'd be funny if it wasn't true; and yes, I know that the government had tarrifs on imports well before 1913. But taxing income just bugs me - it's not taxing the rich, it's taxing the people who are working hard to create a new barrier to prevent new people from becoming rich.
I know you were trying to be sarcastic, but I bet that they indeed do prefer things this way.
When the pager goes off at 3AM that there's a suspected new worm attacking your dos-based systems, it's nice to simply turn them off and let the other systems handle the load until morning when you can investigate the problem at your leisure.
Personally I think hardware companies should encourage this practice. I picked my wireless router because if it's readily available
third party linux-firmware
If Tivo encouraged this practice, they'd have far more than media center very quickly.
Might try Java if the Mono JVM works well, but seems Novell's focus is on C# first.
Our sales guys are known to send SMS messages about "got [big client]" and similar.
If someone can listen in to such communicatios, there's a big opportunity for really hard to detect illegal stock-market trading with insider information they pick up from sales people in other companies.
Anyone know of a phone that can encrypt/decrypt the messages when they're sent & recieved?
And remember
Microsoft = "Free as in Drugs"(*)
BSD = "Free as in Beer.
Linux = "free as in Speach.
(*) "With Microsoft, the first hit is always free - remember that all your life. They're going to all these different websites and having them become .Net websites. They say they're not going to make any money. For now, they'll not charge you for access to your Passport environment. Maybe soon they'll charge you $50. That's $50 that they're charging you for info that they stole from you." -- Scott McNealy
Hint: Tell me the ROI of:
A sales guy using a 3GHz laptop with a nice monitor making your software look 3X faster/more scalable than it really is, vs.
An IT guy with a 3GHz laptop making all the software he chooses too bloated to run on most of the other employee's systems.
I know which purchase request I'd approve.
Looked nice on paper, but seems to me problems like this one deserve to be patched ASAP.
Can't be redundant, because he's the first guy who made the analogy with the CISSP.
I thought it was very funny. It's like going "you guys who paid for a red-hat cert! i think I speek for all the mandrake-certified guys whan I say... ha ha ha".
Insightful? What, that there's more than one certification organization conning people out of their money?
facial-recognition & biometric stuff to identify suspects in your building
background-check software for individuals.
burglar alarm systems, for homes and businesses (requires some hardware)
timed-safe software (requires some hardware)
xray & metal-detectors & chemical-sniffers for airports (requires lotsa hardware)
Oh, you mean computer stuff. C'mon guys, just quit using outlook to browse prOn from computers inside your firewall; and close off ports you don't need.
Textile workeres were losing their jobs to stocking-machines that did knitting more cheaply than themselves, and indeed decided to destroy the machines. They organized into a group known as the Luddites, until England cracked down hard on them - wikipedia reporting that "at one time, there were more British troops fighting the Luddites than Napoleon Bonaparte".
For example, a check that I can choose whether or not to cash.
In such a "sender pays only if the recipient wants to collect", friends (and good pr0n) spam will be free to send me stuff, but other spam (msft updates) could make me money.
not sure why the link didn't show in the last posting.
Yahoo and Microsoft hit their all-time highs during the week of Y2K, and never recovered since.
Anyone who says the Y2K problem wasn't real, hasn't been following tech stocks.
With caffiene instead of fruit you'll be retired on a beach instead of working in 10 years. :)
You think that might be because they're right, and can therefore afford to do hiring, while the "nice" managers's companies all went bankrupt.
I think you're proving that they are effective, not evil.
Examples.
A mom reading an email from her daughter saying "help, i'm being sexually assaulted by a football team" is far less likely go "gee, that contains the word rape so its spam"
A CEO readin an email from his biggest customer saying "you're getting rich. we're placing the order you need to survive" won't dismiss it because of spam words.
Spam filters have a higher chance of deleting the important emails than these overall percentages suggest.
From the article "'The best-performing filters reduced the volume of incoming spam from about 150 messages per day to about 2 messages per day.'"
I don't give a damn if they reduce 150 spams to 2 or 3 or 4 or 5. I care that they do NOT delete the one important email hidden there. Spam filter writers -- start focusing on avoiding false positives, not on trying to delete everything.