Being a linux user and only reading reviews of OS X and Windows (haven't used either for more than 5 minutes in the last 4 years) I find some of the screen shots on this page shocking similar to this Anyone else find that?
Well I can tell you that if I hired you and then found out you'd exaggerated your skills, you wouldn't last more than a month. In the long run it pays to be honest.
You have to be kidding. Recently I have had the pleasure of sitting in on about 10-20 interviews and not one of them told the absolute truth.
When your looking for someone to hire and you hear that they got retrenched the first thing that runs through you mind is "why, if you so good why did company X retrench you?" and "if company X doesn't want you why do we?" this doubles if the company is profitable and it looks a lot worse if you sat there and did nothing during the retrenchment period
Personally I would not mention long periods of doing nothing, I would list consultant type work. IE you help fix the local schools computer network, means you were a network consultant for the city.
All you said is true, usually about a small minority of professors.
However, it doesn't mean the site is a valid rating of a professor. Say for example I don't like professor foo because he failed me (even though I did absolutely nothing in the way of study or hard work). What is to stop me from posting 100 times saying that the prof is a porn loven', homosexual paedophile or some such crap?
To me that would just be just a prank but it could possibly ruined a good prof's career just because he didn't pass me.
Personally I don't think the sites operator has given enough thought to verifying the results and making sure posters can't hijack the system and run down a prof they just don't like
Re:This is pretty stupid, and not worth a /. artic
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IMHO, the Ferrari products that carried the Ferrari name, but were manufactured by someone else just seem tacky and sucky.
So I presume you are actually in including Ferrari's road cars in this statement as they are all made and owned by fiat who just license the Ferrari name + symbol from the F1 team. The only true Ferraris left are the F1 cars
company is good (or arguably the best) at making cars
like I said above they don't make road cars anymore, however if you are referring to F1 cars then you would correct
The biggest qualm I have with AA is the annoyance of the training missions. I just want to get my friends on the internet to play me... NOW. I don't want to go to people and say, I found this great game called America's Army, why don't you spend 3 hours tonight passing all the training, then sometime tomorrow night we'll play. It just isn't enticing when I try to sell it to friends and coworkers.
I find this feature quite good and useful. I feel that it adds to the game rather than detracts from it. I have found that you get better players when they have had to earn their stripes IE had to play and won enough games to be Special forces, passed certain accuracy rating to train to be a sniper etc.. I think that the worst thing in any online game is when a newbie jumps on a big weapon and wipes out half his team because he doesn't know what he is doing (I speak from experience on both sides of the fence)
if you want to sell the game to your mates, run and home server and turn the honour requirements on, better yet run it at work:)
Redhat supports all software released on the CD/iso for one cost, does MS do this HELL NO!!! They charge you per product so of course they are going to continue support for the long run. It is the best source of income especially for customers who take their time between upgrades
Also redhat wants to move to AS range of products, which is a good idea if you are largish corporation(or have high traffic/server load) that needs support then you should be looking as these products anyway as they are certified with major 3rd party software vendors (IE oracle etc..) are a fare better product for production environments
PS if you are a linux/unix admin and can't manage redhat 7.3/8/9 from doco's on the net, magazines and books then you really should think about some training
I take you point that they will have costs anyway but most companies won't re-train for each new version of word/excel/power point that comes out. They often don't retrain for each new version of windows that comes out (well not since 95). However, KDE/Gnome/OO are just that little bit different that re-training will be a must, so initial cost of training we be heavy(espeacially if it done by SUN).
I think you missed my point, I am all for linux on the desktop(hell I am using one now) it is just not easy to throw out a whole IT structure for a completely different one especially in large organisations.
I speak from experence on this one as my company did the same thing. We put in technical plans + proposals + budgets to learn in the end that management only wanted to force MS onto the bargaining table (at least we got linux servers out of it, cheers dell/red hat)
I might be a little cynical but could it just be the NHS trying to get a better deal from MS?
I would be willing to bet that you are not far off on that point. It costs a fare amount for a large organisation like that to move from one application to another let alone a whole OS. You have to consider all the retraining of stuff + installition cost etc.. I would be willing to bet that 50-60% of the big corporations that have treaten to go to linux have just done so to screw a better deal of MS
I agree with Moderation abuser, you truely don't get at all what open source is able about. Maybe you and Ballmer should sit down with Linus(or any of the BSD contributers) for a couple of hours and then maybe you will understand.
I have noticed that a lot of the posts are stating the tests crap because
He didn't use a proper testing program with "real" numbers
He chose to use a task that means something only to him
He didn't mention that for the cost of scsi you could set up IDE configuration XYZ
Personally I think the review was great, it didn't get boged down in numbers that most people do not understand (not understanding doesn't mean that you are stupid it just means you have better things to do with your time than learn everything there is to know about HDs) from a testing suite that most people have never heard off.
He is doing a personal review so he is using his own tests. Things that mean something to him. Ok I don't have 50000 emails or use mutt but I get the point of the operation. Personally I would have used database writes but that is just me
He stated in the very begning that he was looking only for a scsi solution, not the best price performance break point. So stating something like "I'd like to see the test of an IDE RAID array running off a 3Ware card " is really pointless. Also why do I want to fill up my already hot dual frypan (athlon) machine with 3-4 hot running IDE drives to get the performance of 1 scsi drive?
Most PDA's are used just for appointments. Normally these appointments only contain 1-4 words IE "see Doctor" or "meet friends at bar". As this is generally what they are used for why do I need to carry one more model device than I need to when my phone will do?
I am a contract programmer and I flight from Sydney to Perth and back on a weekly basis (Equivalent of LA to New York) so the less stuff I have to carry, watch out for and remember at 5 AM the better
I work for a farley large world wide 3G mobile phone company Hutchison and we have had VOIP since 2G, how slow are these guys?
But seriously this makes sense. As you no longer have to have specialized hardware as well as software now you just have to have specialized software (a lot cheaper).
Don't know which databases you are using, but oracle's RAC is not all the hard to set up and is very reliable. I admit that I am only using it on linux so it might be different for solaris, HP-UX etc..
Slashdot Mirror
.....a bot that can post on slashdot for me. Maybe I start to get some karama back :)
Being a linux user and only reading reviews of OS X and Windows (haven't used either for more than 5 minutes in the last 4 years) I find some of the screen shots on this page shocking similar to this Anyone else find that?
so that is what that thing is propping up my desk
Of course it dosesn't, they have to sell courses if they don't sell courses then they are stuffed. Simple marketing my friend.
What you expected them to say "Come rack up a dept which you won't be able to pay back and gain useable skills?
Well I can tell you that if I hired you and then found out you'd exaggerated your skills, you wouldn't last more than a month. In the long run it pays to be honest.
You have to be kidding. Recently I have had the pleasure of sitting in on about 10-20 interviews and not one of them told the absolute truth.
When your looking for someone to hire and you hear that they got retrenched the first thing that runs through you mind is "why, if you so good why did company X retrench you?" and "if company X doesn't want you why do we?" this doubles if the company is profitable and it looks a lot worse if you sat there and did nothing during the retrenchment period
Personally I would not mention long periods of doing nothing, I would list consultant type work. IE you help fix the local schools computer network, means you were a network consultant for the city.
All you said is true, usually about a small minority of professors.
However, it doesn't mean the site is a valid rating of a professor. Say for example I don't like professor foo because he failed me (even though I did absolutely nothing in the way of study or hard work). What is to stop me from posting 100 times saying that the prof is a porn loven', homosexual paedophile or some such crap?
To me that would just be just a prank but it could possibly ruined a good prof's career just because he didn't pass me.
Personally I don't think the sites operator has given enough thought to verifying the results and making sure posters can't hijack the system and run down a prof they just don't like
IMHO, the Ferrari products that carried the Ferrari name, but were manufactured by someone else just seem tacky and sucky.
So I presume you are actually in including Ferrari's road cars in this statement as they are all made and owned by fiat who just license the Ferrari name + symbol from the F1 team. The only true Ferraris left are the F1 cars
company is good (or arguably the best) at making cars
like I said above they don't make road cars anymore, however if you are referring to F1 cars then you would correct
well they are cheaters. No one is better than me!!!! :P`````
The biggest qualm I have with AA is the annoyance of the training missions. I just want to get my friends on the internet to play me... NOW. I don't want to go to people and say, I found this great game called America's Army, why don't you spend 3 hours tonight passing all the training, then sometime tomorrow night we'll play. It just isn't enticing when I try to sell it to friends and coworkers.
I find this feature quite good and useful. I feel that it adds to the game rather than detracts from it. I have found that you get better players when they have had to earn their stripes IE had to play and won enough games to be Special forces, passed certain accuracy rating to train to be a sniper etc.. I think that the worst thing in any online game is when a newbie jumps on a big weapon and wipes out half his team because he doesn't know what he is doing (I speak from experience on both sides of the fence)
if you want to sell the game to your mates, run and home server and turn the honour requirements on, better yet run it at work :)
Did anyone get a mirror up before the mysql server got slammed?
Well then, mark me up as a masochist!!
A couple of hours is more sun light than most geeks see anyway
you can do damage with a pickup full of explosive materials from a distance, think timer or remote detonation and you will get my drift.
Redhat supports all software released on the CD/iso for one cost, does MS do this HELL NO!!! They charge you per product so of course they are going to continue support for the long run. It is the best source of income especially for customers who take their time between upgrades
Also redhat wants to move to AS range of products, which is a good idea if you are largish corporation(or have high traffic/server load) that needs support then you should be looking as these products anyway as they are certified with major 3rd party software vendors (IE oracle etc..) are a fare better product for production environments
PS if you are a linux/unix admin and can't manage redhat 7.3/8/9 from doco's on the net, magazines and books then you really should think about some training
I take you point that they will have costs anyway but most companies won't re-train for each new version of word/excel/power point that comes out. They often don't retrain for each new version of windows that comes out (well not since 95). However, KDE/Gnome/OO are just that little bit different that re-training will be a must, so initial cost of training we be heavy(espeacially if it done by SUN).
I think you missed my point, I am all for linux on the desktop(hell I am using one now) it is just not easy to throw out a whole IT structure for a completely different one especially in large organisations.
I speak from experence on this one as my company did the same thing. We put in technical plans + proposals + budgets to learn in the end that management only wanted to force MS onto the bargaining table (at least we got linux servers out of it, cheers dell/red hat)
I would be willing to bet that you are not far off on that point. It costs a fare amount for a large organisation like that to move from one application to another let alone a whole OS. You have to consider all the retraining of stuff + installition cost etc.. I would be willing to bet that 50-60% of the big corporations that have treaten to go to linux have just done so to screw a better deal of MS
I agree with Moderation abuser, you truely don't get at all what open source is able about. Maybe you and Ballmer should sit down with Linus(or any of the BSD contributers) for a couple of hours and then maybe you will understand.
I have noticed that a lot of the posts are stating the tests crap because
Personally I think the review was great, it didn't get boged down in numbers that most people do not understand (not understanding doesn't mean that you are stupid it just means you have better things to do with your time than learn everything there is to know about HDs) from a testing suite that most people have never heard off.
He is doing a personal review so he is using his own tests. Things that mean something to him. Ok I don't have 50000 emails or use mutt but I get the point of the operation. Personally I would have used database writes but that is just me
He stated in the very begning that he was looking only for a scsi solution, not the best price performance break point. So stating something like "I'd like to see the test of an IDE RAID array running off a 3Ware card " is really pointless. Also why do I want to fill up my already hot dual frypan (athlon) machine with 3-4 hot running IDE drives to get the performance of 1 scsi drive?
think about it for a second
Most PDA's are used just for appointments. Normally these appointments only contain 1-4 words IE "see Doctor" or "meet friends at bar". As this is generally what they are used for why do I need to carry one more model device than I need to when my phone will do?
I am a contract programmer and I flight from Sydney to Perth and back on a weekly basis (Equivalent of LA to New York) so the less stuff I have to carry, watch out for and remember at 5 AM the better
Of course this has to happen just after I have left bigpond for a cheaper ISP
Um you probably should have though of that before you post to /. That is like waving a red flag to a bull. Good luck!
sort out that heat problem that the current 12" G4 Powerbooks suffer from
Heat problem!! Have you used a x86 laptop recently? The 12" G4 is like a freezer in comparison.
I work for a farley large world wide 3G mobile phone company Hutchison and we have had VOIP since 2G, how slow are these guys?
But seriously this makes sense. As you no longer have to have specialized hardware as well as software now you just have to have specialized software (a lot cheaper).
Why don't you ask the guys from slashdot(creator/s). I feel pretty sure that they are not running a single intance of MySql to support slashdot.org.
Here is a good one to start with CmdrTaco They might take a while to get back to you but I am sure it will be worth your while.
Don't know which databases you are using, but oracle's RAC is not all the hard to set up and is very reliable. I admit that I am only using it on linux so it might be different for solaris, HP-UX etc..