Not even Microsoft uses Source Safe -- they use something called Source Depot which I heard is based on Perforce or something.
Not quite. MS uses their own backend which was developed in-house. It is intended to replace source safe at some point, but it's been a long time coming.
I know I'm plugging my own university here, but A&M has a really great environment if you want to do networking. Also, the CPSC degree plan is pretty flexible.
Check out the VNE and this list of schools that the NSA has designated as "CENTERS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN INFORMATION ASSURANCE EDUCATION" which also largely have good networking programs. This list of course includes Texas A&M University:-). Also, note the NE program at TAMU: http://vnelab.cs.tamu.edu/network_engineering_vne. html
I don't think the comparasion to Dot Bombs is entirely accurate - the trend to globalization overall has been going on for decades.
That's not what he's talking about; it doesn't matter where the programmers are. The point is that if the programmers aren't really part of the company, the company is less likely to have the capacity for long-term innovation.
so I downloaded the video and started to watch it. It was totally offensive to cast George W. Bush along with Napolean, Hitler and the like. I stopped watching the film, and I certainly won't say anything good about it if they are going to be so full of ignorant hatred.
Yet another move by politicians to make voting less meaningful.
You've got it a$$-backwards. Republicans wanted to redistrict primarily because 56% of Republicans voted Republican in 2002-2003 yet the Democrats have over 50% of the seats in the U.S. House. Whatever the motivations are, the end result is that it's more fair and that the votes of Texas become *more* meaningful, not less.
Is it any wonder why our voting percentages are so low compared to other democracies?
I've met more uninformed conservatives who vote Democrat blindly than I care to remember. Those folks *should* stay home (voluntarily, of course;-)).
How much longer until our vote is purely symbolic and has nothing left to do with reality?
You seem to think that your vote is supposed to decide how things get done; you misunderstand how a republic works. Your vote only decides who gets to decide how things are done.
Although in the article, they mainly focus on Texas, it's pretty clear that the whole system is being gamed and gamed hardest by the Republicans.
Nonsense. It was the Democrat who forced the issue to the Tex. Supreme Court which would predictably (for a variety of reasons) decide to keep the districts as they were; if they had passed a redistricting bill like they should have, Democrats would have inevitably lost seats. I would say that handing over a constitutional power to another branch of government that is not supposed to have that power is "gaming" pretty hard...
How's the job market in Europe these days, I wonder...
Don't kid yourself. It's not nearly as good as it is here, not to mention that you would have to deal with the French more frequently if you were in Europe. The only reason you would want to live in Europe is if you *like* paying taxes.
bah...last time I read anything about the subject, the material I read suggested that the earth could possibly support far more people than it currently does.
I can't see how this ban will do much good with today's interstate commerce...
I can't see how this ban will do any good at all, regardless of interstate commerce. It seems like a completely kneejerk reaction intended to pacify certain special interests.
Good grief, man. Of all the things you said you wanted, what can't be done on a ti-89 or an hp49g (or whatever it is...I'm a ti-89 guy...can't stand postfix notation.)
Having said that, there's a nice open source clone of matlab out there called octave. You might be able to run it on a zaurus running linux or something.
How is it "weasel words" to say that you're "considering" something, and then later say that other options are being considered and that the tax one isn't his favorite? You need to get a grip.
What other ways can people think of to attack the spammer business models, and what are the expected downsides of such approaches?
One major downside I can think of is that if everyone responded to 1% of the spam they received, you would have a 10% increase in bandwidth consumed by spam-related activities. In addition, I think most spammers would only sell your address to other spammers if they got a response (thus proving the validity of your address) and the end result would be to get MORE spam.
I tried searching for 'freebsd' on both search.msn.com and www.google.com, and there was much less of a discrepancy. In fact, MSN pulled up twice as many pages (11 mil) on FreeBSD as did google (5 mil), and the official freebsd site was the number one result on MSN and was even marked as a top pick.
This makes the idea that MS is using their search engine (which could be argued is a public service, sort of) to compete against Linux even more credible. Of course, MS has every right to do so, but then, we have every right to point it out.
How much responsibility does the owner of an Internet-connected computer have for crimes committed using their equipment...
In my mind, the same as the owner of a gun that was stolen and used in a violent crime. Do gun owners have a responsibility to properly store and care for their weapons? Of course. Are gun owners responsible when someone steals that gun (even if not stored properly) and then tries to shoot someone with it? Only minimally.
It seems obvious to me that the Republican admins know a lot more about what they're doing. 445 day uptimes? That's just plain silly for most applications, webservers included. Good admins won't have very long uptimes.
That aside, I _do_ find it interesting that all but one of the Democrats use Apache/Linux --- I would have expected there to be a more balanced mix. Of course, one can't draw any conclusions from it (it is even less than statistically insignificant and utterly meaningless), but it's interesting nevertheless.
Flash's yet-to-be-released competition from M$ is code named "Sparkle" but it wasn't demonstrated during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week. Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"
Microsoft's product has not even been unveiled, much less tested, released, reviewed, patched, etc, etc, etc, and you already ask "is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?" I think that's jumping the gun at best and asinine at worst.
Why are the speed detector cameras bastards and cop radars not? If you don't break the speed limit (which is actually a _law_, not a suggestion, as some people think) then why would you care? I think anything that allows the police to enforce the law is fair game (provided it doesn't infringe on civil liberties, which cameras don't, of course).
When quantum computers first come to fruition, the best part will be reminiscing about how terrible computers were "back in the day."
Umm, not quite. Quantum computation, as far as we know, only offers speedups for certain types of problems. In fact, in some cases, the classical computer still beats the pants off of quantum computing.
My prediction is that the first "quantum" computers will be hybrids, being mostly classical electronics, but with quantum devices like a quantum co-processor for special search and sort, etc.
That must have been one of the stupidest mailing-list exchanges I've ever read (and I'm on the OpenBSD mailing list, so I've seen a few stupid ones...)
The guy contributes for an extended period of time and asks for CVS access so that his work will be easier and so that the other devs don't have to babysit him, and they basically tell him "piss off" or just ignore him? He had a lot more patience with that crap than I would have. After the first denial (or after two weeks of being ignored, whichever came first) I would have posted an email to the list stating that Cygwin/XFree86 would no longer be collaborating with XFree86 and that would have been the end of it.
I find it interesting that Dubya won his category. I had no idea public opinion of him was so low.
Ummmm.....depends on which "public" you're talking about. I think it's probably reasonable to say that readers of Dilbert are a self-selecting sample of the general population.
Congratulations to all the deserving winners.
My question is this: How on earth did that summary get past moderation? If Dilbert readers want to vote Dubya a weasel, that's fine; no way should a summary include this comment.
** Slaps editors on the nose...bad editors! bad! bad! ****
He mentioned that during the recent ddos attacks on the DNS root servers, 9 of the 13 went down. He was using that as evidence for his argument that internet infrastructure should be commercialized...
Well, if you ask me, that fact only suggests that a better name resolution system is needed, not that the entire infrastructure needs to be commercial. DNS was the only thing affected, it just so happens that DNS is fairly important. I think we should fix DNS instead of doing things that are tangent to the real problem.
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Not even Microsoft uses Source Safe -- they use something called Source Depot which I heard is based on Perforce or something.
Not quite. MS uses their own backend which was developed in-house. It is intended to replace source safe at some point, but it's been a long time coming.
I know I'm plugging my own university here, but A&M has a really great environment if you want to do networking. Also, the CPSC degree plan is pretty flexible.
:-). Also, note the NE program at TAMU: http://vnelab.cs.tamu.edu/network_engineering_vne. html
Check out the
VNE and this list
of schools that the NSA has designated as "CENTERS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN INFORMATION ASSURANCE EDUCATION" which also largely have good networking programs. This list of course includes Texas A&M University
I don't think the comparasion to Dot Bombs is entirely accurate - the trend to globalization overall has been going on for decades.
That's not what he's talking about; it doesn't matter where the programmers are. The point is that if the programmers aren't really part of the company, the company is less likely to have the capacity for long-term innovation.
I highly doubt that 75% of all web connections do not involve browsers. I know that curl and wget are neato, but 75% of all web connections? Nonsense.
On the other hand, saying that 75% of internet connections are not by browsers isn't news at all.
Just pointing out that "web" implies www which implies http or https and nothing else.
so I downloaded the video and started to watch it. It was totally offensive to cast George W. Bush along with Napolean, Hitler and the like. I stopped watching the film, and I certainly won't say anything good about it if they are going to be so full of ignorant hatred.
When it seems painfully clear to me that almost everything the UN does is done solely to spite America? This is certainly no exception.
That aside, this seems like the most extreme PHB nightmare possible.
Yet another move by politicians to make voting less meaningful.
;-)).
You've got it a$$-backwards. Republicans wanted to redistrict primarily because 56% of Republicans voted Republican in 2002-2003 yet the Democrats have over 50% of the seats in the U.S. House. Whatever the motivations are, the end result is that it's more fair and that the votes of Texas become *more* meaningful, not less.
Is it any wonder why our voting percentages are so low compared to other democracies?
I've met more uninformed conservatives who vote Democrat blindly than I care to remember. Those folks *should* stay home (voluntarily, of course
How much longer until our vote is purely symbolic and has nothing left to do with reality?
You seem to think that your vote is supposed to decide how things get done; you misunderstand how a republic works. Your vote only decides who gets to decide how things are done.
Although in the article, they mainly focus on Texas, it's pretty clear that the whole system is being gamed and gamed hardest by the Republicans.
Nonsense. It was the Democrat who forced the issue to the Tex. Supreme Court which would predictably (for a variety of reasons) decide to keep the districts as they were; if they had passed a redistricting bill like they should have, Democrats would have inevitably lost seats. I would say that handing over a constitutional power to another branch of government that is not supposed to have that power is "gaming" pretty hard...
How's the job market in Europe these days, I wonder...
Don't kid yourself. It's not nearly as good as it is here, not to mention that you would have to deal with the French more frequently if you were in Europe. The only reason you would want to live in Europe is if you *like* paying taxes.
bah...last time I read anything about the subject, the material I read suggested that the earth could possibly support far more people than it currently does.
I can't see how this ban will do much good with today's interstate commerce...
I can't see how this ban will do any good at all, regardless of interstate commerce. It seems like a completely kneejerk reaction intended to pacify certain special interests.
Good grief, man. Of all the things you said you wanted, what can't be done on a ti-89 or an hp49g (or whatever it is...I'm a ti-89 guy...can't stand postfix notation.)
Having said that, there's a nice open source clone of matlab out there called octave. You might be able to run it on a zaurus running linux or something.
Politician weasel words...
How is it "weasel words" to say that you're "considering" something, and then later say that other options are being considered and that the tax one isn't his favorite? You need to get a grip.
What other ways can people think of to attack the spammer business models, and what are the expected downsides of such approaches?
One major downside I can think of is that if everyone responded to 1% of the spam they received, you would have a 10% increase in bandwidth consumed by spam-related activities. In addition, I think most spammers would only sell your address to other spammers if they got a response (thus proving the validity of your address) and the end result would be to get MORE spam.
I tried searching for 'freebsd' on both search.msn.com and www.google.com, and there was much less of a discrepancy. In fact, MSN pulled up twice as many pages (11 mil) on FreeBSD as did google (5 mil), and the official freebsd site was the number one result on MSN and was even marked as a top pick.
This makes the idea that MS is using their search engine (which could be argued is a public service, sort of) to compete against Linux even more credible. Of course, MS has every right to do so, but then, we have every right to point it out.
Simple solution. Set rules for your kids, but also set an iptables logging rule.
We don't want an election without a paper trail...
Umm, I think an electronic trail would be much more reliable than a paper trail.
How much responsibility does the owner of an Internet-connected computer have for crimes committed using their equipment...
In my mind, the same as the owner of a gun that was stolen and used in a violent crime. Do gun owners have a responsibility to properly store and care for their weapons? Of course. Are gun owners responsible when someone steals that gun (even if not stored properly) and then tries to shoot someone with it? Only minimally.
Just in case anyone cares, an FYI:
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt."-Abraham Lincoln
The attribution is incorrect. This saying came from Proverbs 17:28.
It seems obvious to me that the Republican admins know a lot more about what they're doing. 445 day uptimes? That's just plain silly for most applications, webservers included. Good admins won't have very long uptimes.
That aside, I _do_ find it interesting that all but one of the Democrats use Apache/Linux --- I would have expected there to be a more balanced mix. Of course, one can't draw any conclusions from it (it is even less than statistically insignificant and utterly meaningless), but it's interesting nevertheless.
Flash's yet-to-be-released competition from M$ is code named "Sparkle" but it wasn't demonstrated during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week. Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"
Microsoft's product has not even been unveiled, much less tested, released, reviewed, patched, etc, etc, etc, and you already ask "is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?" I think that's jumping the gun at best and asinine at worst.
... those bastard speed camera detectors
Why are the speed detector cameras bastards and cop radars not? If you don't break the speed limit (which is actually a _law_, not a suggestion, as some people think) then why would you care? I think anything that allows the police to enforce the law is fair game (provided it doesn't infringe on civil liberties, which cameras don't, of course).
That's exactly right. I was going to post the same thing, except I knew that someone else had to have though of it.
When quantum computers first come to fruition, the best part will be reminiscing about how terrible computers were "back in the day."
Umm, not quite. Quantum computation, as far as we know, only offers speedups for certain types of problems. In fact, in some cases, the classical computer still beats the pants off of quantum computing.
My prediction is that the first "quantum" computers will be hybrids, being mostly classical electronics, but with quantum devices like a quantum co-processor for special search and sort, etc.
That must have been one of the stupidest mailing-list exchanges I've ever read (and I'm on the OpenBSD mailing list, so I've seen a few stupid ones...)
The guy contributes for an extended period of time and asks for CVS access so that his work will be easier and so that the other devs don't have to babysit him, and they basically tell him "piss off" or just ignore him? He had a lot more patience with that crap than I would have. After the first denial (or after two weeks of being ignored, whichever came first) I would have posted an email to the list stating that Cygwin/XFree86 would no longer be collaborating with XFree86 and that would have been the end of it.
I find it interesting that Dubya won his category. I had no idea public opinion of him was so low.
Ummmm.....depends on which "public" you're talking about. I think it's probably reasonable to say that readers of Dilbert are a self-selecting sample of the general population.
Congratulations to all the deserving winners.
My question is this: How on earth did that summary get past moderation? If Dilbert readers want to vote Dubya a weasel, that's fine; no way should a summary include this comment.
** Slaps editors on the nose...bad editors! bad! bad! ****
He mentioned that during the recent ddos attacks on the DNS root servers, 9 of the 13 went down. He was using that as evidence for his argument that internet infrastructure should be commercialized...
Well, if you ask me, that fact only suggests that a better name resolution system is needed, not that the entire infrastructure needs to be commercial. DNS was the only thing affected, it just so happens that DNS is fairly important. I think we should fix DNS instead of doing things that are tangent to the real problem.