If you really want to make a change, let's pass a bill that would require the names and addresses of the judges in these "courts" to be made public information. Society needs to know who these people are so that they can be shunned by those around them, unwelcome in polite company.
I'm usually a big government, bleeding heart liberal, but not in the areas of governmental police powers (monitoring citizens, etc). Basically, if the government is helping it's citizens, I support that (healthcare, etc) but if it's looking at it's citizens to protect itself, I don't like that at all.
Bad news - you can't have one without the other. Remember that all of this is being done under guise of "helping its citizens" by protecting us from terrorists.
Forgive me if I see "gold nanorods injected into my testes" as being a "significant downside" in and of itself. This coming from a guy who was snipped 10 years ago with non-working anesthetic.
"Cutler hated Unix" probably sounds like Neanderthal blasphemy to most Slahsdotters, but there were plenty of reasons to hate Unix in the 80's. The big split (AT&T vs. BSD style), numerous other incompatibilities (later overcome to a large extent by GNU utilities), horribly inefficient, bad security even for (largely) pre-Internet days, and practically non-existent documentation. Take it from an old fart who was there - any Unix of the last 15-20 years is definitely not your father's Unix.
Unix was awful when I first started using it. I used a BSD system in the late 80s and, just, wow.
Not to bore you, but I'll give one example. Processes were tied to a terminal, not a parent. Here's now this was important. People coming from DOS would think that ctrl-z was used to exit a program and, in fact, it seemed to do just that. So whenever we would log in the first thing we'd do is "fg". Typically there was a mail program that had been suspended and tied to our terminal. After getting into mail we would do a "!s" and get a new shell as the dupe who had left mail running in the background. That worked probably 90% of the time I logged in.
Find an old copy of "The Unix-Haters Handbook" and read through it. It was awful.
Of course, VMS had its moments, also, but I'll save those for another day.
DCL didn't run in kernel space, it ran as supervisor code (the four levels were user, supervisor, exec, and kernel). DCL sat above the stack in the user's address space (the user had two address spaces) so when it ran a command the command code was loaded into the regular user heap and executed without starting a new process. The command would just "return" at the end and you'd be back to the command interpreter.
Anyway, if you could crash the whole system with DCL the problem was likely in QIO, not in DCL.
That's because historically speaking terrorists have killed thousands of people while governments have killed 10s of millions of people. If I have to limit government and that helps the terrorists a little, I'm cool with that. But I'm not convinced it does help the terrorists.
Even with all this surveillance they're not catching terrorists. What good is it?
Basically at one point in time we said there ought to be limits on how much of societies limited resources we dedicate to 1 person.
Ah, yes, the fallacy of the limited pie - every dollar I make is one that you didn't. People like Bill Gates make their money by expanding the economy, not by taking money from others.
Um, you may have missed it but the stuff we're talking about generally happens under left-wing regimes. Bush is no conservative, which is why we have the "neo-con" label. In reality, both Bush and Obama are statists, with Obama being far-left and Bush being nearer the center. Remember that the President is constrained by law, so when I say Obama is "far-left" it doesn't mean all of his policies are; there's only so much he can do.
If they're a "client" and not an "employer", then you own the code unless you contractually specified that this was a "work for hire" arrangement. IANAL but you might want to contact the client and clear things up with them.
One of the premises that we really have to start out with is that the folks who wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights were very intelligent. Not only that, they spent quite a bit of time writing all of it and thinking through it.
Your simplistic assessment of it is - and I'm just being honest - amusing.
I don't have to come up with any particular scenario because, frankly, the only one that matters is "I didn't commit a crime and I don't want government agents to beat me until I confess to a crime". That's what the 5th is all about.
I'd mod you up, but I already commented in this thread and got buried by dickheads.
As to the cowboy Americans: If you don't trust your government, what hope have you got WITHOUT one? Having a government that doesn't do what you want it to do sucks sometimes.... it's called compromise and it's how grown-ups solve tricky issues. The crap we all put up with from our leaders at times is a much better alternative to having all-out anarchy, and deep down even you understand this.
Yeah, gee, if only Washington, Franklin and Jefferson had simply *compromised* with the British....
How is any of that a problem? Those a fabricated arguments against subset of a whole, arguments that can easily be dealt with.
- Elective surgery is not covered with public health care. Why would it be? Why would this even be a problem?
What's "elective"? I have psoriasis. Like most people with the disease I can live just fine with few treatments that cost me a couple hundred dollars per year. I can also get some medicines that cost about $2000/month and treat it a little better.
This is part of why the cost of healthcare goes up dramatically if it's suddenly "free". People get treatments for things they wouldn't have had treated otherwise. Sometimes that good - sometimes it's a poor person who really *needs* the treatment. But it's as likely that it's someone like me.
You talk about interoperability as an important thing...sure, it's important on some levels. Having said that, it's hard to convince the stakeholders that they can't get the product they want because our homogenized MS environment supports it fine, but we're concerned that we wont be able to run it if we potentially decided to switch to Linux in an undetermined amount of time. I'm sure that would go over REAL well. Obviously you're correct about smartphones and tablets being game changers. The difference between the mobile revolution and the Linux/Apple revolution is....wait for it....the mobile revolution actually happened. I don't care how much you like Linux or Apple, their market share in the enterprise is miniscule.
Let me explain this from another standpoint. Having a web site that works with whatever browser doesn't mean that I'm anxiously waiting for Linux or Apple to take over the world. I don't believe Linux is going to take over the enterprise desktop any time soon if at all, anyway.
But I don't know what's coming down the pike in IT. Just 7 years ago I don't think anybody but Steve Jobs would have truly known how much folks would be hitting web sites from phones and tablets now. Even Windows has had dramatic changes from version to version.
We're in a position now where almost everybody who still uses IE6 does so because they have some shitty software at their company that requires it. Think about that. "Interoperability" doesn't just mean "Mac, Linux, Windows, whatever". It also means "Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.". This is key: even if you're just going to stick with Microsoft interoperability is just as important. People stuck on IE6 now are using a browser that isn't even safe to use on the internet and doesn't work well with modern sites, anyway.
I've also found that folks who write code that works just about anywhere also tend to write code that also works "later".
So, yeah, this stuff is important. I have to think about it a lot in my business, and I help others think about it, too.
You setup a server in such a way that someone could trip over the power cord, and we're supposed to take your IT background serious? Really? For your sake, I hope there is much more to the story, because that's some seriously bad stuff.
I did the software setup as an outside consultant. Someone else placed the server in its room. I would have never done that.
And, if you think that's bad - I had another client one time that had their Sun e450 plugged in to the same power strip as their laptop. They nearly lost their web site when they accidentally pulled the plug on the 450 instead of the laptop one Friday evening. Oh, and no backups.
LOL. I was an "outside consultant" - I would have never set it up like that. The reason it was like that was that they moved the server at one point and didn't want to power cycle it. But it was outside my control.
I spent plenty of years in corporate IT, sorry. Interoperability was always a big thing - even bigger now with smart phones and tablets and all kinds of other ways to get at apps and data.
You remind me of a guy at a local company I used to do work with here. He ran the company on an AS/400 and couldn't understand why people weren't happy getting their reports as TIFFs. I was able to get his data out of the AS/400 and into an actual database that folks could connect to using odbc from their desktops, allowing them to not only run the same reports themselves but also pull the data into Excel and manipulate it further.
It doesn't take infinite money - hell, the server I set up to run it was pulled from the trash bin (literally) and reconfigured with FreeBSD in about an hour. It went down one time in 3 years when someone tripped over the power cord in the server room.
I know how to run IT, and I also know how to explain patiently to "upper management" why it might make sense to spend an extra $10 now for longer term benefits. These are skills you should learn.
Yep, Ubuntu makes Debian even easier to use and I get more up-to-date packages. I don't think I have to toot my own horn around here after Xmas of 1999, but I've been using Linux since 1995 starting with Slackware. Ubuntu is a great distribution, and that's largely because Debian is great.
I don't get it. I've used postgresql for years and I've never bothered tuning it. It's always worked fine out of the box for tiny databases and fairly large ones. I use Ubuntu for most server stuff, so "setting it up" involves "apt-get install postgresql" or whatever. After that I create a user, create a db, and get to work. It's about 4 statements that I have to type in. MySQL is no more work, but I'm not sure why anybody would use it given that postgresql is as easy to set up and does far more with no effort.
I like Inc. - they've definitely done a good job of keeping the magazine fresh and unique. Popular Mechanics is also just wonderful. They cover not only automotive stuff but pretty much all kinds of DIY issues. They even pushed Linux as a good OS for a home entertainment system a few years ago. Lots of different topics in there, it's an interesting magazine.
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If you really want to make a change, let's pass a bill that would require the names and addresses of the judges in these "courts" to be made public information. Society needs to know who these people are so that they can be shunned by those around them, unwelcome in polite company.
I'm usually a big government, bleeding heart liberal, but not in the areas of governmental police powers (monitoring citizens, etc). Basically, if the government is helping it's citizens, I support that (healthcare, etc) but if it's looking at it's citizens to protect itself, I don't like that at all.
Bad news - you can't have one without the other. Remember that all of this is being done under guise of "helping its citizens" by protecting us from terrorists.
Forgive me if I see "gold nanorods injected into my testes" as being a "significant downside" in and of itself. This coming from a guy who was snipped 10 years ago with non-working anesthetic.
"Cutler hated Unix" probably sounds like Neanderthal blasphemy to most Slahsdotters, but there were plenty of reasons to hate Unix in the 80's. The big split (AT&T vs. BSD style), numerous other incompatibilities (later overcome to a large extent by GNU utilities), horribly inefficient, bad security even for (largely) pre-Internet days, and practically non-existent documentation. Take it from an old fart who was there - any Unix of the last 15-20 years is definitely not your father's Unix.
Unix was awful when I first started using it. I used a BSD system in the late 80s and, just, wow.
Not to bore you, but I'll give one example. Processes were tied to a terminal, not a parent. Here's now this was important. People coming from DOS would think that ctrl-z was used to exit a program and, in fact, it seemed to do just that. So whenever we would log in the first thing we'd do is "fg". Typically there was a mail program that had been suspended and tied to our terminal. After getting into mail we would do a "!s" and get a new shell as the dupe who had left mail running in the background. That worked probably 90% of the time I logged in.
Find an old copy of "The Unix-Haters Handbook" and read through it. It was awful.
Of course, VMS had its moments, also, but I'll save those for another day.
DCL didn't run in kernel space, it ran as supervisor code (the four levels were user, supervisor, exec, and kernel). DCL sat above the stack in the user's address space (the user had two address spaces) so when it ran a command the command code was loaded into the regular user heap and executed without starting a new process. The command would just "return" at the end and you'd be back to the command interpreter.
Anyway, if you could crash the whole system with DCL the problem was likely in QIO, not in DCL.
That's because historically speaking terrorists have killed thousands of people while governments have killed 10s of millions of people. If I have to limit government and that helps the terrorists a little, I'm cool with that. But I'm not convinced it does help the terrorists.
Even with all this surveillance they're not catching terrorists. What good is it?
Basically at one point in time we said there ought to be limits on how much of societies limited resources we dedicate to 1 person.
Ah, yes, the fallacy of the limited pie - every dollar I make is one that you didn't. People like Bill Gates make their money by expanding the economy, not by taking money from others.
Um, you may have missed it but the stuff we're talking about generally happens under left-wing regimes. Bush is no conservative, which is why we have the "neo-con" label. In reality, both Bush and Obama are statists, with Obama being far-left and Bush being nearer the center. Remember that the President is constrained by law, so when I say Obama is "far-left" it doesn't mean all of his policies are; there's only so much he can do.
The antidote is libertarianism.
If they're a "client" and not an "employer", then you own the code unless you contractually specified that this was a "work for hire" arrangement. IANAL but you might want to contact the client and clear things up with them.
One of the premises that we really have to start out with is that the folks who wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights were very intelligent. Not only that, they spent quite a bit of time writing all of it and thinking through it.
Your simplistic assessment of it is - and I'm just being honest - amusing.
I don't have to come up with any particular scenario because, frankly, the only one that matters is "I didn't commit a crime and I don't want government agents to beat me until I confess to a crime". That's what the 5th is all about.
Article summary should be re-written;
Console market isn't profitable because there are few games being made gamers want.
Fixed that. Seriously, Xbox one is being marketed not as a gaming console but a dvr.
Except that its:
a) Not being marketed at all yet
You've heard of xbox one, therefore, it *is* being marketed. They haven't ramped it up to the launch level, but it's there.
I'd mod you up, but I already commented in this thread and got buried by dickheads.
As to the cowboy Americans: If you don't trust your government, what hope have you got WITHOUT one?
Having a government that doesn't do what you want it to do sucks sometimes.... it's called compromise and it's how grown-ups solve tricky issues.
The crap we all put up with from our leaders at times is a much better alternative to having all-out anarchy, and deep down even you understand this.
Yeah, gee, if only Washington, Franklin and Jefferson had simply *compromised* with the British....
Pretty much any gun control legislation fits the bill.
How is any of that a problem? Those a fabricated arguments against subset of a whole, arguments that can easily be dealt with.
- Elective surgery is not covered with public health care. Why would it be? Why would this even be a problem?
What's "elective"? I have psoriasis. Like most people with the disease I can live just fine with few treatments that cost me a couple hundred dollars per year. I can also get some medicines that cost about $2000/month and treat it a little better.
This is part of why the cost of healthcare goes up dramatically if it's suddenly "free". People get treatments for things they wouldn't have had treated otherwise. Sometimes that good - sometimes it's a poor person who really *needs* the treatment. But it's as likely that it's someone like me.
What's the solution?
Exxon doesn't get "subsidies" - they get tax breaks. The government isn't giving them money, just allowing them to keep some.
You talk about interoperability as an important thing...sure, it's important on some levels. Having said that, it's hard to convince the stakeholders that they can't get the product they want because our homogenized MS environment supports it fine, but we're concerned that we wont be able to run it if we potentially decided to switch to Linux in an undetermined amount of time. I'm sure that would go over REAL well. Obviously you're correct about smartphones and tablets being game changers. The difference between the mobile revolution and the Linux/Apple revolution is....wait for it....the mobile revolution actually happened. I don't care how much you like Linux or Apple, their market share in the enterprise is miniscule.
Let me explain this from another standpoint. Having a web site that works with whatever browser doesn't mean that I'm anxiously waiting for Linux or Apple to take over the world. I don't believe Linux is going to take over the enterprise desktop any time soon if at all, anyway.
But I don't know what's coming down the pike in IT. Just 7 years ago I don't think anybody but Steve Jobs would have truly known how much folks would be hitting web sites from phones and tablets now. Even Windows has had dramatic changes from version to version.
We're in a position now where almost everybody who still uses IE6 does so because they have some shitty software at their company that requires it. Think about that. "Interoperability" doesn't just mean "Mac, Linux, Windows, whatever". It also means "Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.". This is key: even if you're just going to stick with Microsoft interoperability is just as important. People stuck on IE6 now are using a browser that isn't even safe to use on the internet and doesn't work well with modern sites, anyway.
I've also found that folks who write code that works just about anywhere also tend to write code that also works "later".
So, yeah, this stuff is important. I have to think about it a lot in my business, and I help others think about it, too.
You setup a server in such a way that someone could trip over the power cord, and we're supposed to take your IT background serious? Really? For your sake, I hope there is much more to the story, because that's some seriously bad stuff.
I did the software setup as an outside consultant. Someone else placed the server in its room. I would have never done that.
And, if you think that's bad - I had another client one time that had their Sun e450 plugged in to the same power strip as their laptop. They nearly lost their web site when they accidentally pulled the plug on the 450 instead of the laptop one Friday evening. Oh, and no backups.
I do what I can...
LOL. I was an "outside consultant" - I would have never set it up like that. The reason it was like that was that they moved the server at one point and didn't want to power cycle it. But it was outside my control.
I spent plenty of years in corporate IT, sorry. Interoperability was always a big thing - even bigger now with smart phones and tablets and all kinds of other ways to get at apps and data.
You remind me of a guy at a local company I used to do work with here. He ran the company on an AS/400 and couldn't understand why people weren't happy getting their reports as TIFFs. I was able to get his data out of the AS/400 and into an actual database that folks could connect to using odbc from their desktops, allowing them to not only run the same reports themselves but also pull the data into Excel and manipulate it further.
It doesn't take infinite money - hell, the server I set up to run it was pulled from the trash bin (literally) and reconfigured with FreeBSD in about an hour. It went down one time in 3 years when someone tripped over the power cord in the server room.
I know how to run IT, and I also know how to explain patiently to "upper management" why it might make sense to spend an extra $10 now for longer term benefits. These are skills you should learn.
You need to lose your job - you're lucky I don't know the people who own/run your company.
Yep, Ubuntu makes Debian even easier to use and I get more up-to-date packages. I don't think I have to toot my own horn around here after Xmas of 1999, but I've been using Linux since 1995 starting with Slackware. Ubuntu is a great distribution, and that's largely because Debian is great.
I don't get it. I've used postgresql for years and I've never bothered tuning it. It's always worked fine out of the box for tiny databases and fairly large ones. I use Ubuntu for most server stuff, so "setting it up" involves "apt-get install postgresql" or whatever. After that I create a user, create a db, and get to work. It's about 4 statements that I have to type in. MySQL is no more work, but I'm not sure why anybody would use it given that postgresql is as easy to set up and does far more with no effort.
I like Inc. - they've definitely done a good job of keeping the magazine fresh and unique. Popular Mechanics is also just wonderful. They cover not only automotive stuff but pretty much all kinds of DIY issues. They even pushed Linux as a good OS for a home entertainment system a few years ago. Lots of different topics in there, it's an interesting magazine.
They actually tried, but NK pulled the phone cable out of the modem.
But they've never lied about the effects of drug usage, right?
Right?
Um, right?