From the linked article - emplasis mine to illustrate my point:
The U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission reported its findings in January 2011. It concluded that "the crisis was avoidable and was caused by: Widespread failures in financial regulation, including the Federal Reserve’s failure to stem the tide of toxic mortgages; Dramatic breakdowns in corporate governance including too many financial firms acting recklessly and taking on too much risk; An explosive mix of excessive borrowing and risk by households and Wall Street that put the financial system on a collision course with crisis; Key policy makers ill prepared for the crisis, lacking a full understanding of the financial system they oversaw; and systemic breaches in accountability and ethics at all levels."
I understand what you're saying, but I can relate to the parent's cynicism. I've been involved in many i-device rollouts to upper management at various companies.
Most of the time it's pretty darn obvious that the upper managers just want the latest toys to show off to their upper manager friends so they can compare their iPenis sizes. Another reason is because CIOs don't like it when their kids have better technology then they do. So they tell IT to take this technology, implement it now and we can figure out how to integrate it with our actual IT systems later on.
Guess what? Most of the time these technologies are not enterprise-ready enough to actually fit in corporate environments. Things like security and integration with existing systems aren't considered prior to the rollout. I cannot take an iPad or iPhone, plug it into an MS or Linux based ldap network, and expect it to work as a client. All that time spent building and maintaining user policies is thrown out the window. Hacks and security holes are created just to make things work.
And what if the IT department pushes back? Well they're getting in the way of progress. Never mind that IT are responsible for keeping the IT infrastructure up and running. And hey if putting this crap in breaks things, then IT is bl00dy useless! How hard can it be?
The correct approach for any rollout is to identify the requirements before choosing the technology. But this rarely happens because if the requirements can be delivered without compromising the infrastructure, and the solution doesn't involve the guys at the top getting new gadgets, then it's the wrong solution.
The same thing happened when Blackberry was the new must-have executive toy.
We've already got the task bar, which pretty much works like tabs. Plus with the task bar you get the novel thing of being able to place multiple windows side by side, whereas with tabs and mdi interfaces in general this ability seems to be generally limited and/or removed lately (unless you open a new window of course, but this renders tabs useless)
First, when they shut down, we saw the screenshots. Now, we're seeing the gameplay footage.
I'm quitely (well not so quietly now that I'm talking about it) suspecting that we may next see the leaked marketing materials, then the playable demo, then behold! The laid off staff members actually finished the game! Here it is in all its glory!
Given the fact that this game has been one of the most famous vapourware titles for over a decade, could this simply be a marketing stunt leading up to it's release?
Not a lot to go on, though as a freebie, XP doesn't do jack with that extra gig of RAM...You could put in 100gigs and it won't use any more than 3 (less you're using the 64 bit version, iirc).
Just FYI, the reason for this is because with 32 bits, you're system is limited to 2^32 bits of address space = 4GB of memory in total, which has to include both RAM and the memory on your graphics card.
So in many cases, users with 4GB of RAM will only see 3GB becuase they have a 1GB graphics card. It follows that if a user only have a 512MB graphics card, then they will see (and XP will use) 3.5GB RAM.
This is not a design flaw for XP, it's a limitation if the 32 bit architecture. Switching to 64 bits solves this because then your total address space increases to 2^64 = 16EB. Which ought to be enough for anyone;-)
Star Trek has always followed the convention that space fleet officers have naval ranks. But they've always carefully avoided the dual use of the word "captain" that's standard in real world navies.
Not true. ST:TNG #83 - Final Mission. Captain Dirgo.
I'm a big fan of moving as many of my applications into virtual machines as I can, especially ones that are rarely used and/or have a significant system overhead.
As a result I have several VMs powered by Virtual Box, and very minimal apps installed on my host OS. One for development, one for multimedia, one for internet.
It's a good setup, only it still has a long way to go before it can be used for games. DX or 3d graphics rendering aside, another problem it has that I haven't found too much discussion on is the audio latency. On Virtual Box it absolutely sucks. In fact there's about a half a second lag between the guest and host OS/s, and we're talking straight Windows XP on Windows XP, no esoteric OSes or drivers in play here. VMWare Workstation nails this quite nicely, and VMware server is only slightly behind (because it has to route all video and audio through a network socket)
Having said that however, it's still an excellent product, and I highly recommend it for anything that isn't realtime. It's much lighter than VMware (both server and workstation. Hell, even VMware player) and its system overhead is very minimal.
If you raise your children with good morals, principles, and instill some pretty basic common sense, then there is no need to censor the internet, because the kids will have the smarts to avoid any dodgy material anyway. Sure they might check everything out once or twice out of curiousity, but that is a part of the process. Once they've satisfied that curiousity, then the appeal is gone and they'll just avoid it completely because they want to.
On the other hand, if you create a barrier, and tell the kids they're not allowed to access this content, what do you think is the first thing they are going to try and do?
The solution is not a technical one. Let them learn to think for themselves. That is how they truly become independant. If you try to prescribe a set of rules to control their actions, then they'll never truly grow up, because they'll always depend on someone else to think for them.
Having these types of first hand learn-the-hard-way experiences is actually a part of the joy of growing up, and if you think back, I'm sure you'll agree that some of your most significant memories in life were those where you had to learn the hard way. And you also might find that you wouldn't have these experiences exchanged for anything, as these have made you who you are today.
There's an old saying that the best way to learn something is the hard way. Who are we to take that away from anyone?
You'll need to purchase a different Wi-Fi card for it, and you may need to purchase a 6-cell battery seperately, but the rest of the hardware pretty much works as it should. Only thing you're really losing are the headphone and microphone jacks.
Spot on. My 2 MP phone has frequent problems resolving both 1d and 2d barcodes. Not due to lack of resolving power or resolution, mind you, but becuase of the camera's focus, or should I say, it's lack thereof. Anything that small just comes up blurry, regardless of lighting conditions or focal distance.
Hahahah good one. When I read DataLossDB I actually thought it was referring to a new type of database that is designed to lose data automatically say if it hasn't been accessed in a while, sort of like how our long term memory works.
I was trying to think up some usefull applications. But then I realised that you could set this up using a normal database with some triggers and some data purging tasks thrown in.
Hmmm, maybe if we say make a map of possible Ruik's cube arrangements, where - each arrangement has a location on the map - the roads represent the possible moves between the arrangements/locations (so roads only connect arrangements/locations that are a single move apart) - the completed solution is the "destination" of the map
We could possibly come up with a combination of moves that works regardless of the initial arrangement?
Upon thinking about it for a second, I can't help but think that either there's something about my proposed Rubik's cube map that's not applicable to that theory, or we'll just end up with a combination of moves that cycles through every possible combination. Neither of those are quite so cool. ANyone out there know more about the road coloring problem?
A good quick and easy resource for coders who aren't seurity expects (myself included) is the Open Web Application Security Project, or OWASP for short. It's an open project aimed at documenting security risks in web applications and providing guidelines and examples on how to protect against them. Check it out: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Guid e_Project
Although most of the examples are java, there's a really good PHP section in the guide. I always recommend web coders check that out and just take it all in, so coding secure websites becomes the "normal" way they code, so they do it without having to think about it.
I've basically been promoted in work load and responsibilities -- and have even taken on another job role, IN ADDITION to my current one. All of this without a raise in pay, or new title.
If I was you, I'd be learning to say no at some point. If you're the sort of person who'll take on extra work in order to make a good impression, then the same thing will happen to you again and again in your future jobs.
Sometimes saying no will earn you respect, because it'll make your boss realize that you have a life and that you're not there to be taken advantage of. If they're the sort to make your life harder because you're sticking up for yourself, then you probably don't want to work for them anyway, so you've got nothing to lose by trying.
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What I love is how they call what is essentially an opt-out feature opt-in.
No Facebook. I did not want to "opt in" to that at all.
I wish I had mod points - you've hit the nail on the head.
Kids will self filter things they're not ready for or not interested in.
Giving kids the opportunity to make discoveries about the world will give them the types of experiences that they will remember fondly as adults.
This is why not.
From the linked article - emplasis mine to illustrate my point:
I mean, seriously US - what the hell is wrong with you lot?
(And if any of you think I'm trolling - drink less cool aid)
I understand what you're saying, but I can relate to the parent's cynicism. I've been involved in many i-device rollouts to upper management at various companies.
Most of the time it's pretty darn obvious that the upper managers just want the latest toys to show off to their upper manager friends so they can compare their iPenis sizes. Another reason is because CIOs don't like it when their kids have better technology then they do. So they tell IT to take this technology, implement it now and we can figure out how to integrate it with our actual IT systems later on.
Guess what? Most of the time these technologies are not enterprise-ready enough to actually fit in corporate environments. Things like security and integration with existing systems aren't considered prior to the rollout. I cannot take an iPad or iPhone, plug it into an MS or Linux based ldap network, and expect it to work as a client. All that time spent building and maintaining user policies is thrown out the window. Hacks and security holes are created just to make things work.
And what if the IT department pushes back? Well they're getting in the way of progress. Never mind that IT are responsible for keeping the IT infrastructure up and running. And hey if putting this crap in breaks things, then IT is bl00dy useless! How hard can it be?
The correct approach for any rollout is to identify the requirements before choosing the technology. But this rarely happens because if the requirements can be delivered without compromising the infrastructure, and the solution doesn't involve the guys at the top getting new gadgets, then it's the wrong solution.
The same thing happened when Blackberry was the new must-have executive toy.
We've already got the task bar, which pretty much works like tabs. Plus with the task bar you get the novel thing of being able to place multiple windows side by side, whereas with tabs and mdi interfaces in general this ability seems to be generally limited and/or removed lately (unless you open a new window of course, but this renders tabs useless)
How is this a novel step forward?
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.
Maybe we can get the difinitive answer for the meaning of life? :)
First, when they shut down, we saw the screenshots. Now, we're seeing the gameplay footage.
I'm quitely (well not so quietly now that I'm talking about it) suspecting that we may next see the leaked marketing materials, then the playable demo, then behold! The laid off staff members actually finished the game! Here it is in all its glory!
Given the fact that this game has been one of the most famous vapourware titles for over a decade, could this simply be a marketing stunt leading up to it's release?
If you ever find such a human society, can you let us know? Thanks.
REad the blog, it's actually quite critical. Get a few posts in and it's enough to put you off Canon cameras entirely.
Not a lot to go on, though as a freebie, XP doesn't do jack with that extra gig of RAM...You could put in 100gigs and it won't use any more than 3 (less you're using the 64 bit version, iirc).
;-)
Just FYI, the reason for this is because with 32 bits, you're system is limited to 2^32 bits of address space = 4GB of memory in total, which has to include both RAM and the memory on your graphics card.
So in many cases, users with 4GB of RAM will only see 3GB becuase they have a 1GB graphics card. It follows that if a user only have a 512MB graphics card, then they will see (and XP will use) 3.5GB RAM.
This is not a design flaw for XP, it's a limitation if the 32 bit architecture. Switching to 64 bits solves this because then your total address space increases to 2^64 = 16EB. Which ought to be enough for anyone
Star Trek has always followed the convention that space fleet officers have naval ranks. But they've always carefully avoided the dual use of the word "captain" that's standard in real world navies.
Not true. ST:TNG #83 - Final Mission. Captain Dirgo.
... because all a company needs to do right is have a charismatic leader.
</sarcasm>
I'm a big fan of moving as many of my applications into virtual machines as I can, especially ones that are rarely used and/or have a significant system overhead.
As a result I have several VMs powered by Virtual Box, and very minimal apps installed on my host OS. One for development, one for multimedia, one for internet.
It's a good setup, only it still has a long way to go before it can be used for games. DX or 3d graphics rendering aside, another problem it has that I haven't found too much discussion on is the audio latency. On Virtual Box it absolutely sucks. In fact there's about a half a second lag between the guest and host OS/s, and we're talking straight Windows XP on Windows XP, no esoteric OSes or drivers in play here. VMWare Workstation nails this quite nicely, and VMware server is only slightly behind (because it has to route all video and audio through a network socket)
Having said that however, it's still an excellent product, and I highly recommend it for anything that isn't realtime. It's much lighter than VMware (both server and workstation. Hell, even VMware player) and its system overhead is very minimal.
Any comment comparing people to sheep ("WAKE UP SHEEPLE") is inslightful these days.
Teach your kid to self-filter. Seriously.
If you raise your children with good morals, principles, and instill some pretty basic common sense, then there is no need to censor the internet, because the kids will have the smarts to avoid any dodgy material anyway. Sure they might check everything out once or twice out of curiousity, but that is a part of the process. Once they've satisfied that curiousity, then the appeal is gone and they'll just avoid it completely because they want to.
On the other hand, if you create a barrier, and tell the kids they're not allowed to access this content, what do you think is the first thing they are going to try and do?
The solution is not a technical one. Let them learn to think for themselves. That is how they truly become independant. If you try to prescribe a set of rules to control their actions, then they'll never truly grow up, because they'll always depend on someone else to think for them.
Having these types of first hand learn-the-hard-way experiences is actually a part of the joy of growing up, and if you think back, I'm sure you'll agree that some of your most significant memories in life were those where you had to learn the hard way. And you also might find that you wouldn't have these experiences exchanged for anything, as these have made you who you are today.
There's an old saying that the best way to learn something is the hard way. Who are we to take that away from anyone?
Get an MSI Wind and then go here: http://www.modaco.com/content/asus-eee-pc-http-www-eeeasy-com/270099/pauls-complete-guide-to-installing-osx-leopard-on-your-msi-wind-advent-4211/
You'll need to purchase a different Wi-Fi card for it, and you may need to purchase a 6-cell battery seperately, but the rest of the hardware pretty much works as it should. Only thing you're really losing are the headphone and microphone jacks.
Spot on. My 2 MP phone has frequent problems resolving both 1d and 2d barcodes. Not due to lack of resolving power or resolution, mind you, but becuase of the camera's focus, or should I say, it's lack thereof. Anything that small just comes up blurry, regardless of lighting conditions or focal distance.
Hahahah good one. When I read DataLossDB I actually thought it was referring to a new type of database that is designed to lose data automatically say if it hasn't been accessed in a while, sort of like how our long term memory works.
I was trying to think up some usefull applications. But then I realised that you could set this up using a normal database with some triggers and some data purging tasks thrown in.
Hmmm, maybe if we say make a map of possible Ruik's cube arrangements, where
- each arrangement has a location on the map
- the roads represent the possible moves between the arrangements/locations (so roads only connect arrangements/locations that are a single move apart)
- the completed solution is the "destination" of the map
And plug that all into this road coloring problem that was solved recently: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1319250
We could possibly come up with a combination of moves that works regardless of the initial arrangement?
Upon thinking about it for a second, I can't help but think that either there's something about my proposed Rubik's cube map that's not applicable to that theory, or we'll just end up with a combination of moves that cycles through every possible combination. Neither of those are quite so cool. ANyone out there know more about the road coloring problem?
Each bit doubles the strength
A good quick and easy resource for coders who aren't seurity expects (myself included) is the Open Web Application Security Project, or OWASP for short. It's an open project aimed at documenting security risks in web applications and providing guidelines and examples on how to protect against them. Check it out: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Guid e_Project
Although most of the examples are java, there's a really good PHP section in the guide. I always recommend web coders check that out and just take it all in, so coding secure websites becomes the "normal" way they code, so they do it without having to think about it.
It's sort of like charging the local businesses a tax on roads because without roads, traffic wouldn't be able to get to them. Complete BS.
I've basically been promoted in work load and responsibilities -- and have even taken on another job role, IN ADDITION to my current one. All of this without a raise in pay, or new title.
If I was you, I'd be learning to say no at some point. If you're the sort of person who'll take on extra work in order to make a good impression, then the same thing will happen to you again and again in your future jobs.
Sometimes saying no will earn you respect, because it'll make your boss realize that you have a life and that you're not there to be taken advantage of. If they're the sort to make your life harder because you're sticking up for yourself, then you probably don't want to work for them anyway, so you've got nothing to lose by trying.
Take a look at this, it makes the point better than I can: http://comicarchive.com/dilbert/index.php?Y=2005&M =09&D=17