Give them full legal residency and give them the option to stay instead of sending them home after 6 years and perpetuating the "shortage".
I've been saying that for years! Right now if they lose their jobs they have 2 weeks to find another one or they have to leave. Of course they're willing to accept lower pay and all kinds of abuse from their employers. At the least, make the green card automatic after one year. Then it'll be obvious if there is really a skilled worker shortage or if employers are using H1Bs to undercut the job market. Employers don't have to pay competitive salaries to H1Bs (as required by law) unless the workers are free to accept a better offer.
Rats; I thought it might finally be Raw Iron, but it's Oracle Enterprise Linux. I wonder if their branded linux runs the database faster than Redhat or proprietary unixes?
I agree as well and I have an example: Howard County Library in Maryland made this change years ago; they standardized on Dell GX150s purchased used for less than $300, which they network boot from a standard linux image. Every time you reboot you get a clean image; to update the OS or apps you modify the source image and just reboot all the clients.
More details: http://hclibrary.org/opensource/?p=18 and http://hclibrary.org/opensource/?p=20
If the power generation is done on board the kite by prop driven generators and transmitted to the ground through the tether, then if the wind dies the kite can be powered by reversing the power flow and running the generators as electric motors. The same technique can be used to fly the kite from the ground to operating altitude. In that mode it's like an electric powered aircraft with a long extension cord.
They should be held accountable for the taxpayer dollars they already received.
Good luck with that.
The feds aren't going to clean up the mess. The best hope is that local governments or communities (hell, even a home owners' association or group of neighbors) will build out infrastructure, fiber, wireless, whatever, and either run it as a cooperative or allow open access to ISPs to provide service. The important thing is don't repeat the mistake made with cable companies: Don't grant a monopoly. Own the infrastructure like you own the roads. Let companies compete to provide service over the infrastructure, like Fedex and UPS compete to provide service using the same roads.
Yea, I'm talking about mandates. And no, it isn't a bad Idea. If the lines were open with access to all and the right of ways were secured by the government for anyone wanting to lay down infrastructure, I would side with you. But that isn't the case.
Note that I specified "federal government". If a county government wants to spend the money to build out infrastructure that's fine. But I think they will find other priorities. Most people see broadband as a luxury; slashdotters see it as a necessity. The thing I least want to see is an increase in phone bills to fund more "Universal Access" because we've seen how much of that money has been wasted already.
Local government could grant right of way to any company that thinks it can make money building out a broadband infrastructure. Or a cooperative.
If no one has fixed the problem of getting high speed to people being ignored by the ISPs, then wouldn't being a whiny bitch and attacking attention to the problem be a good thing?
No, being part of the solution would be a good thing. For example, he has a T1; he can sell wireless access to his neighbors. Who is the someone you think should fix the problem? If you're advocating federal government subsidies or mandates, I disagree. People living in rural areas get clean air, no traffic jams, low crime, not a bad trade for broadband. They're not stupid either; if broadband is really a priority they can figure out ways to get it. They figured out farmers cooperatives. Broadband cooperatives could make sense too.
You got the business opportunity backwards. With a T1, he could become the ISP. He could subsidize the cost of his T1 by selling wireless access to his neighbors. Back in the day, a lot of ISPs were started by individuals who wanted a T1 and could only afford it by installing phone lines and modems and reselling access. Some of them grew the business and made big money by selling out to the big ISPs.
You can enable NTLM auth per server by adding the server name to the
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris about:config field. You have to enter the name the same way you connect to it, i.e. if you connect by IP you have to enter the IP, if you connect by FQDN you can't just enter the host name.
I don't think it matters whether the hardware is discontinued. Certifying Leopard on PPC would have cost more than Apple cares to spend on a platform it is leaving behind. There isn't a business case for getting the certification.
We have legacy financial applications running on Windows NT and original hardware. No one knows how to reinstall the applications, we don't even have all the source media, and there's no documentation. Some of the original vendors no longer exist. Aside from illustrating the advantages of open source, converting these old servers to virtual machines will let us keep them alive indefinitely. Or at least the time required by the statute of limitations. These applications haven't been used in years, but if the company is audited data will need to be extracted from the proprietary databases.
You really don't want to have your applications and their operating environment tied to specific hardware. Containerization is the only way to be sure we will be able to run Windows NT apps on modern hardware for which there are no NT drivers.
Note that the residents of the District of Columbia only get to vote in the primaries. They have no vote in the general election, nor do they have congressional representation --- not counting the single House delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who may or may not have a vote in the House depending on the party in power.
Re:With Cuba, it's personal (plus sugar lobby...)
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The Cuba embargo is mostly around because fanatics in Florida take it very personally, and there are enough votes in Florida that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are willing to mess with it.
Florida has 25 elecotoral votes, 4th behind California (54), New York (33) and Texas (32).
The US Electoral College is a winner takes all system, so the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in any state, no matter how small the margin, gets all the electoral votes for that state. In 2000 Bush beat Gore in FL by a tiny fraction of a percent, winning all 25 of FL's electoral votes, and thus the election. Anti-Castro Cubans are not a big group, but they are concentrated in FL and they are single issue voters (whereas anti-embargo voters are neither), so they can swing a close presidential election. So their influence on Cuba policy is disproportionate.
Something that is overlooked is that even if Castro lives to be 120, the US policy will change eventually because the Anti-Castro Cubans are getting older too, and their children are more moderate. And a lot of them would like to visit their homeland some day.
That is correct. That's what makes it "open source". You can view and modify the code to your hearts content. If you don't distribute it you don't have to share your changes.
If you add code that violates someone else's copyright, for example you violate the terms of the CDDL, that's between you and the copyright holder. It has nothing to do with Linux or the GPL as long as you are not distributing the code.
So there's nothing to stop someone from releasing source code for a patch that will allow people to recompile their kernels with ZFS support unless that would be a violation of the CDDL. And as long as you're not distributing, you can add that non-GPL code to your kernel.
Also, "distribution" means public distribution, so your GPL non-compliant kernel can be distributed for internal use within your company if it has a desire to run Linux on ZFS.
Linux will gain market share over Windows by being better than Windows. My experience with open source came through open source applications on Windows. I use those applications because they are superior, not because they are free. I think those apps will work even better if I replace Windows with Linux. So think of open source apps on Windows as a gateway drug to Linux (or *BSD).
Right. As long has Apple has the option to buy chips from Intel or AMD, Apple is free to choose based on price/performance. What happens if Apple owns AMD, and Intel takes a decisive lead in chip design? PowerPC all over again. For that matter, if IBM or someone else makes a quantum leap over Intel and AMD, Apple is free to switch or negotiate better pricing only if it doesn't own AMD.
Chips are commodities, where you need high volumes to make money because the margins are small. That is the opposite of what Apple does.
I think this application of 454's technology is even more interesting than intestinal bacteria:
FiB Episode 011 - Ancient DNA: The Neanderthal Genome
(The Futures in Biotech podcast: http://www.twit.tv/fib11
Drs. Paabo and Jarvie talk about the Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Project...
Guests: Dr. Svente Paabo, Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Dr. Thomas Jarvie, Technical Application Manage at 454 Life Sciences
In this episode, Dr. Svante Paabo explains how he isolates the ancient DNA of Neanderthals from museum specimens. He is leading the team that is using this material to sequence the entire Neanderthal genome, which should take just over two years. By comparing our genome to that of the Neanderthals, great light will be shed on what it means to be human.
There is something fundamentally flawed with the idea of waiting until your security has already been breached and then trying to clean up after the fact. Once it's breached that's it, game over - reformat, reinstall O/S, and replace data with last known good backup.
The key, then, is to know when your security has been breached. Anti virus s/w may provide that warning. What do you use? Something like tripwire?
Break the monopoly! Local governments want universal access? Then they should build it. Fund it through long term bonds like other infrastructure. Let ISPs, Telcos and Cable TV companies compete to provide service through the community owned fiber.
Now you're not locked into carrier owned infrastructure. End of monopoly.
Watch for the big companies to hate this as much as they do municipal wireless. Then you'll know it's good for the consumer.
That is a point that I would like to see raised more frequently in the "Net Neutrality" debate. The telecoms have already been given a chunk of money to roll out fiber optic broadband, but they conveniently ignore that when they argue that they need to be able to charge the Googles and Yahoos extra for assured access to "their" customers. And by "their" I mean the telecoms because they believe they own us, and have the right to sell access to us.
>Perhaps the most interesting engine to flock to would be http://www.majestic12.co.uk/, a seti@home style distributed indexing system.
Now that is an interesting concept. Indexing the web would seem to be the kind of parallel operation ideally suited for distributed computing. You'd still need a central server to search the index and provide results quickly. (Okay, I decided to RTFL rather than just speculate, and I see that's what they're doing.) My initial assessment is that this is the most credible medium term threat to Google I've seen.
>...the fairness of their ranking algorithms are open to view and discuss -- perhaps with time such closed algorithms could be viewed with as much dislike as Microsoft's closed OS sources
Another excellent point. I wish I still had mod points. The closed nature of Google's ranking algorithms has disgruntled some folks, and an open system could become popular. Robert Cringely did a series on the mysterious workings of the AdWords algorithm, and whether Google is using the algorithms to "unfair" advantage. "Unfair" being quoted because even if they are doing it, it is not illegal, and perhaps not even unethical. But they could be deceiving or "gouging" (another loaded term) their advertisers, and it could be seen as counter to "Don't be evil". Cringely includes Google responses.
The point is, the advantages of open algorithms are pretty obvious.
I was just wondering "What ever happened to the v-chip?" I haven't seen mention of it anywhere since it was forced on the manufacturers. Proof of the short memory/attention span of Congress? Or proof that the whole thing was a bunch of political posturing? ("Let's prove to the voters that we're 'doing something' by passing a law.")
I forget: Was the V-chip requirement passed in an election year?
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Give them full legal residency and give them the option to stay instead of sending them home after 6 years and perpetuating the "shortage".
I've been saying that for years! Right now if they lose their jobs they have 2 weeks to find another one or they have to leave. Of course they're willing to accept lower pay and all kinds of abuse from their employers. At the least, make the green card automatic after one year. Then it'll be obvious if there is really a skilled worker shortage or if employers are using H1Bs to undercut the job market. Employers don't have to pay competitive salaries to H1Bs (as required by law) unless the workers are free to accept a better offer.
Rats; I thought it might finally be Raw Iron, but it's Oracle Enterprise Linux. I wonder if their branded linux runs the database faster than Redhat or proprietary unixes?
I agree as well and I have an example: Howard County Library in Maryland made this change years ago; they standardized on Dell GX150s purchased used for less than $300, which they network boot from a standard linux image. Every time you reboot you get a clean image; to update the OS or apps you modify the source image and just reboot all the clients. More details: http://hclibrary.org/opensource/?p=18 and http://hclibrary.org/opensource/?p=20
If the power generation is done on board the kite by prop driven generators and transmitted to the ground through the tether, then if the wind dies the kite can be powered by reversing the power flow and running the generators as electric motors. The same technique can be used to fly the kite from the ground to operating altitude. In that mode it's like an electric powered aircraft with a long extension cord.
Just the fact that Walt Mossberg reviewed Ubuntu is a huge win for Ubuntu.
Good luck with that.
The feds aren't going to clean up the mess. The best hope is that local governments or communities (hell, even a home owners' association or group of neighbors) will build out infrastructure, fiber, wireless, whatever, and either run it as a cooperative or allow open access to ISPs to provide service. The important thing is don't repeat the mistake made with cable companies: Don't grant a monopoly. Own the infrastructure like you own the roads. Let companies compete to provide service over the infrastructure, like Fedex and UPS compete to provide service using the same roads.
Note that I specified "federal government". If a county government wants to spend the money to build out infrastructure that's fine. But I think they will find other priorities. Most people see broadband as a luxury; slashdotters see it as a necessity. The thing I least want to see is an increase in phone bills to fund more "Universal Access" because we've seen how much of that money has been wasted already.
Local government could grant right of way to any company that thinks it can make money building out a broadband infrastructure. Or a cooperative.
No, being part of the solution would be a good thing. For example, he has a T1; he can sell wireless access to his neighbors. Who is the someone you think should fix the problem? If you're advocating federal government subsidies or mandates, I disagree. People living in rural areas get clean air, no traffic jams, low crime, not a bad trade for broadband. They're not stupid either; if broadband is really a priority they can figure out ways to get it. They figured out farmers cooperatives. Broadband cooperatives could make sense too.
You got the business opportunity backwards. With a T1, he could become the ISP. He could subsidize the cost of his T1 by selling wireless access to his neighbors. Back in the day, a lot of ISPs were started by individuals who wanted a T1 and could only afford it by installing phone lines and modems and reselling access. Some of them grew the business and made big money by selling out to the big ISPs.
The -1 is really unfair. raehl makes a valid point, on topic, and a little sarcasm does not a troll or flame make.
You can enable NTLM auth per server by adding the server name to the network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris about:config field. You have to enter the name the same way you connect to it, i.e. if you connect by IP you have to enter the IP, if you connect by FQDN you can't just enter the host name.
I don't think it matters whether the hardware is discontinued. Certifying Leopard on PPC would have cost more than Apple cares to spend on a platform it is leaving behind. There isn't a business case for getting the certification.
We have legacy financial applications running on Windows NT and original hardware. No one knows how to reinstall the applications, we don't even have all the source media, and there's no documentation. Some of the original vendors no longer exist. Aside from illustrating the advantages of open source, converting these old servers to virtual machines will let us keep them alive indefinitely. Or at least the time required by the statute of limitations. These applications haven't been used in years, but if the company is audited data will need to be extracted from the proprietary databases.
You really don't want to have your applications and their operating environment tied to specific hardware. Containerization is the only way to be sure we will be able to run Windows NT apps on modern hardware for which there are no NT drivers.
Heh. I need to review Schoolhouse Rock http://www.amazon.com/Schoolhouse-Rock-Special-30t h-Anniversary/dp/B00005JKTY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-45 83311-5198262?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1183062930&sr=8-1
Note that the residents of the District of Columbia only get to vote in the primaries. They have no vote in the general election, nor do they have congressional representation --- not counting the single House delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who may or may not have a vote in the House depending on the party in power.
The Cuba embargo is mostly around because fanatics in Florida take it very personally, and there are enough votes in Florida that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are willing to mess with it.
Florida has 25 elecotoral votes, 4th behind California (54), New York (33) and Texas (32).
The US Electoral College is a winner takes all system, so the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in any state, no matter how small the margin, gets all the electoral votes for that state. In 2000 Bush beat Gore in FL by a tiny fraction of a percent, winning all 25 of FL's electoral votes, and thus the election. Anti-Castro Cubans are not a big group, but they are concentrated in FL and they are single issue voters (whereas anti-embargo voters are neither), so they can swing a close presidential election. So their influence on Cuba policy is disproportionate.
Something that is overlooked is that even if Castro lives to be 120, the US policy will change eventually because the Anti-Castro Cubans are getting older too, and their children are more moderate. And a lot of them would like to visit their homeland some day.
That is correct. That's what makes it "open source". You can view and modify the code to your hearts content. If you don't distribute it you don't have to share your changes.
If you add code that violates someone else's copyright, for example you violate the terms of the CDDL, that's between you and the copyright holder. It has nothing to do with Linux or the GPL as long as you are not distributing the code.
So there's nothing to stop someone from releasing source code for a patch that will allow people to recompile their kernels with ZFS support unless that would be a violation of the CDDL. And as long as you're not distributing, you can add that non-GPL code to your kernel.
Also, "distribution" means public distribution, so your GPL non-compliant kernel can be distributed for internal use within your company if it has a desire to run Linux on ZFS.
Link to the comments section:l e.jhtml?articleID=199903281#comments
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArtic
FYI the NoScript Firefox extension blocked the comments from appearing
Linux will gain market share over Windows by being better than Windows. My experience with open source came through open source applications on Windows. I use those applications because they are superior, not because they are free. I think those apps will work even better if I replace Windows with Linux. So think of open source apps on Windows as a gateway drug to Linux (or *BSD).
Right. As long has Apple has the option to buy chips from Intel or AMD, Apple is free to choose based on price/performance. What happens if Apple owns AMD, and Intel takes a decisive lead in chip design? PowerPC all over again. For that matter, if IBM or someone else makes a quantum leap over Intel and AMD, Apple is free to switch or negotiate better pricing only if it doesn't own AMD.
Chips are commodities, where you need high volumes to make money because the margins are small. That is the opposite of what Apple does.
I think this application of 454's technology is even more interesting than intestinal bacteria:
FiB Episode 011 - Ancient DNA: The Neanderthal Genome
(The Futures in Biotech podcast: http://www.twit.tv/fib11
Drs. Paabo and Jarvie talk about the Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Project...
Guests: Dr. Svente Paabo, Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Dr. Thomas Jarvie, Technical Application Manage at 454 Life Sciences
In this episode, Dr. Svante Paabo explains how he isolates the ancient DNA of Neanderthals from museum specimens. He is leading the team that is using this material to sequence the entire Neanderthal genome, which should take just over two years. By comparing our genome to that of the Neanderthals, great light will be shed on what it means to be human.
There is something fundamentally flawed with the idea of waiting until your security has already been breached and then trying to clean up after the fact. Once it's breached that's it, game over - reformat, reinstall O/S, and replace data with last known good backup.
The key, then, is to know when your security has been breached. Anti virus s/w may provide that warning. What do you use? Something like tripwire?
Break the monopoly! Local governments want universal access? Then they should build it. Fund it through long term bonds like other infrastructure. Let ISPs, Telcos and Cable TV companies compete to provide service through the community owned fiber. Now you're not locked into carrier owned infrastructure. End of monopoly. Watch for the big companies to hate this as much as they do municipal wireless. Then you'll know it's good for the consumer.
That is a point that I would like to see raised more frequently in the "Net Neutrality" debate. The telecoms have already been given a chunk of money to roll out fiber optic broadband, but they conveniently ignore that when they argue that they need to be able to charge the Googles and Yahoos extra for assured access to "their" customers. And by "their" I mean the telecoms because they believe they own us, and have the right to sell access to us.
>Perhaps the most interesting engine to flock to would be http://www.majestic12.co.uk/, a seti@home style distributed indexing system.
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Now that is an interesting concept. Indexing the web would seem to be the kind of parallel operation ideally suited for distributed computing. You'd still need a central server to search the index and provide results quickly. (Okay, I decided to RTFL rather than just speculate, and I see that's what they're doing.) My initial assessment is that this is the most credible medium term threat to Google I've seen.
>...the fairness of their ranking algorithms are open to view and discuss -- perhaps with time such closed algorithms could be viewed with as much dislike as Microsoft's closed OS sources
Another excellent point. I wish I still had mod points. The closed nature of Google's ranking algorithms has disgruntled some folks, and an open system could become popular. Robert Cringely did a series on the mysterious workings of the AdWords algorithm, and whether Google is using the algorithms to "unfair" advantage. "Unfair" being quoted because even if they are doing it, it is not illegal, and perhaps not even unethical. But they could be deceiving or "gouging" (another loaded term) their advertisers, and it could be seen as counter to "Don't be evil". Cringely includes Google responses.
The point is, the advantages of open algorithms are pretty obvious.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050922
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051006
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051013
I was just wondering "What ever happened to the v-chip?" I haven't seen mention of it anywhere since it was forced on the manufacturers. Proof of the short memory/attention span of Congress? Or proof that the whole thing was a bunch of political posturing? ("Let's prove to the voters that we're 'doing something' by passing a law.") I forget: Was the V-chip requirement passed in an election year?