Not to mention the fact that if the Russians really got cheesed off they could just sell Iran warheads.
Russia has obligations according to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Article I explicitly forbids "Selling warheads". And even if they did disregard this treaty, expect the revival of the nuclear shield.
Any country with enough money and enough time is going to be able to acquire nuclear weapons. We might have to face the fact that there may not always be a military solution.
So basically you suggest we just abandon the NNPT? And with the submissive attitude that "they will get it anyway". Ignorance at its best/worst. Albeit difficult at best, we owe it to mankind and future generations to strive for a world free of nuclear weapons. More realistically: That we do our utmost to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Particularly when combined with totalitarian regimes and hostile intents.
If you somehow are offered a pivotal position in these questions, please refrain;-)
You either love him or hate him. Then you choose what you believe based on where you stand. This applies to the majority of people familiar with him and the circumstances.
It seems like management handed the task of putting together the marketing video to a bunch of engineers. Luckily they were also given a set of requirements, this is all an engineer needs!
This is how I imagine the checklist:
A housewife - CHECK
Kinda geeky male with glasses - CHECK
A grandmother! - CHECK
A member from a minority group, preferably black - CHECK
Pleasant conversation, insert laughs at discretion - CHECK
Every party has it.. BALLONS!! - CHECK
"Awesome" hand gesture at the end - CHECK
Note: If there happens to be a clock in the background, don't bother with it, no one cares and it saves us money.
Like others are saying, stick to the topic you were asked to present. I have rarerly heard of any presentation were they gave too little information, most of the time it's the opposite. If your audience leave with a good experience, they learn and are more open to similar presentations later. Too much information and they leave learning little and will likely oppose similar presentations in the future.
Give real life examples! It's obvously very easy to dig up highly relevant cases and news articles etc. Create a good but short summary of any articles you include. The summary should highlight the issues and consequences that relates to your topic. And be sure to include various ways in which the company was exposed or individuals embarrassed etc. The most basic human instinct is fear, appeal to it by letting them know that one of them can end up loosing their job and/or embarrassed on the front page of the news as a result of their actions online. Putting the audience in the hot seat so to speak. The point is that I think it needs to directly relate to them individually, if consequences only relates to the company, many will forget/ignore.
Let them know that absolutely anything that get's posted online about them can live online as long as they live and probably longer. As was the case with pictures on Facebook.
I also think that a good opening to the presenation creates attention. Humour is what many choose, but do whatever feels natural, constrained/forced humour rarely works well.
So it's better to lift a lighter weight more often, than a heavier one just a couple of times.
I don't know where you get this from but it's complete and utter bullcrap. Your statement alone is incomplete at best, with references to 'lighter weights', 'couple of times', it does not get any more vague than that. Don't listen to this folks, weightlifters don't exclusively do lighter weights and many repetitions simply because it is not optimal for pure strength. If you lift weights regurarly following a program even only for one year, you will know from experience that you need to stress and overload your muscles to build strength. That means you need to put on heavy weights to get maximum return from your effort. But remember that a complete traning program does not exclusively contain weightlifting exercises with many/few repetitions. Many repetitions is usually for warmup, softening the tendons and attracting blood to the muscle, this avoids injury and improves metabolic response. It also prepares the muscles for heavier weights, that is why you usually build up before you do heavy weights, muscles need to adapt for best response. There are many philosophies when it comes to weight lifting for strength, but I guarantee you that none of the successfull one's is according to quoted statement.
Not only that, but UAV's will be able to do a large part of the mission unassisted. Most of the mission is just take off/landing and getting to the fight. But the critical situation is the actual engagement. A good way to utilise a trained pilot is probably to have the UAV do the trivial tasks and only involve an operator/pilot in engagement. Operators could switch focus between UAV's, from f.ex. UAV's leaving/destroyed to UAV entering the battle. I imagine UAV's in the future might even be able to do much more than just getting to the battle on their own. If the UAV's are coordinated, individual unpiloted UAV's could track targets, manoeveur itself to a tactically good position and offer fire opportunities to an operator, assist piloted UAV's or even engage targets in some situations. We have only seen the beginning when it comes to unmanned weapons.
Take the human body for example, I find that evolution has also given us "good enough" solutions in many respects. Our sense of smell is not very good, we are not very fast and I don't think we are getting much smarter at the moment as a result of evolution. At some point, the requirements of the market are met, and developement slows down relative to previous periods, similarly the requirements for survival in an environment are met, and evolution slows down.
I once had to quickly come up with a story about inserting dirty coding tricks to make a deadline. And it had nothing to do with karma. The story goes like this:
It was a very rainy day, both outside and inside, my deadline was comming up fast. My collegue asked if I wanted some coffee before I pull an all nighter, I told him to shut his pie hole... he is kinda annoying, but I might have been stressed. My job was to code and maintain the software for a secret amusement park on the island of Isla Nublar. After many arguments with my boss over sallary and what not, I got fed up, he never appreciated what I did for them, debugging and maintaining millions of lines of computer code. How many others can do that, am I right? Because of that, and greed, I made a sweet deal with another company involving some silly embryos, they paid alot up front!!:):) So I quickly hade to insert some dirty code to shut down the security system so I could get the embryos and stop others from accessing the system I had set up. One dirty thing I did was this: if ( user_session_admincommand_count == 3 && !magic_word) { StartPermissonDeniedSequence(); } . I am happy to say, I got away before they discovered what I had done. I ran into some other problems, but it had nothing to do with my code!! And hey, it was unix!!
The supercomputer and cloud part is obviously realistic. The gaming part is just marketing hype as it is now, the internet would "break" if everyone played games and watched HD movies over the internet on a large scale. The problem is that given the distance, on top of the latency the distance brings, there is bound to be a bottleneck at some point, from the distributor to the consumer. And that is something internet users even experience today, before people even have begun adopting IPTV and similar. That's why amd's new supercomputer will have traditional supercomputer use before it gets outdated and outpaced. VOD (Video on demand) and perhaps games will need to be offered close to the consumer for good while still. VOD offerings from cable companies is growing, and will likeley keep it's momentum. Games could be competetive, especially more primitive kids/family games as a starter. "All" that's needed, is for cable companies to offer decoders/pvr boxes that support usb devices such as game controllers.
It's bullshit. Where a missile is 'targeted' has almost no real-world meaning.
It certainly made the news didn't it? The only intent is to create a reaction from european states causing a withdrawal of missile installations. This to give a political blow to the US, by the 'mighty' Russia. Mine are bigger than yours. It's that simple.
Doesn't take a genius to see an aggressively expanding NATO (made up, in part, of some of their former satellites) at their doorstep as something other than problematic.
The countries have been included by their own free will. This makes me wonder how you would word expansion by military force? Very aggressive expansion? At least Russia understands who wants in on nato. And does Russia have a good reason for being concerned about nato's expansion? The fear of wanting in on nato by free will?
I believe it is very obvious that this has very little to do with the missile defense, and everything to do with politics. Putin ups the ante everytime he makes an official statement on this issue. It seems to be an attempt to exploit the growing skepticism towards usa, so that enough countries takes opposition and ultimately force the usa to stop/withdraw their defensive missile installations. And the aim is to portray russia as a potent international player. Just imagine how this will appear to anti-usa countries and movements around the world. Russia will be viewed upon as the nation that was able to strike a stark political blow against the usa in modern times.
Putin/Russia threatens with nuclear aggressive weapons, using footage of their latest nuclear delivery device on display for extra visual effect. A few defensive missiles is hardly enough to cause such a response. Radars is nothing new to either countries. Russia and putin understand very well that their approach to this is an overreaction and unjustified. Which i belive is evident in their own official statement, with emphasis on "we have done nothing, point finger at usa" wording included. They apologize for their behaviour, but want the attention off their actions.
I believe the worst scenario for the Russians is that the us and europe just dont take their statements and threats seriously. Putin has put his own reputation at stake in this matter. He wants international recognition, and this is an opening they have been looking for. And it goes in harmony with with what we have seen from Russia the last years. Putin has certainly been successfull in pushing events to their liking, when everything goes your way, you want more. It will be interesting to see how this progress. I expect him to raise the bar if the response he is looking for doesen't come. But I cannot imagine that some defensive missiles can be exploited to appear as the main reasoning for their aggressive behaviour in the long run.
Quoted from Groklaw: On April 23, 2007, The SCO Group, Inc. (the "Company") received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq") indicating that the bid price of its common stock for the last 30 consecutive business days had closed below the minimum $1.00 per share required for continued listing under Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(4). Pursuant to Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(8)(D), the Company has been provided an initial period of 180 calendar days, or until October 22, 2007, to regain compliance.
Right now, you are allowed to sell a car where the hood is welded shut, but police wouldn't stop people from opening it.
If opening the hood possibly enabled you to create as many copies of the car as you see fit, im pretty sure it would be illegal, or they would want it to be illegal. Digital media is not comparable to cars.
and other headlines on the Aftenposten site include: "Women wont [sic] give up laundry" and "angry hare attacked dogsled". I thought Norway was only silly in Monty Python sketches?
..I honestly cannot see how this is a benchmark worthy quality, especially for mainstream Windows XP users, or mainstream x86(-64) computer users for that matter. Anyone?
I use and value FreeBSD personally, but I surely consider other advantages more prevailing than how many cpu cycles a process creation and startup requires. Little can I recollect of other people, articles etc., that mention this at all.
If we are generous enough to say that 10% of the firefox user base changes their user agent string, you can according to current statistics add another percent. Not a exactly a big effect, even with generous assumptions. And I disagree with you that your point stands, unless you come up with something better.
Statistics are always flawed in one way or another, this is common knowledge. However, it can give you a good indication on the general makeup or composition. And remember, statistics can misrepresent some or all variables compared to actual, real life values, i.e. firefox numbers might be too high.
Nedless to say, comparing claimed bad web user agent statstics with selling drugs with hazardous health effects, in any respect, is just FUD.
This is wishfull thinking. The effect of this is very limited, the only difference worth noticing would be if firefox was distributed with User String Agent set to Internet Explorer by default. Or do you have actual numbers to back up your claims, other than the fact that you have choosen to change it.
You changed it to get in to windows update? Give me a break, why on earth would you need firefox to visit windows update?
Actually I can say I worked on one of the largest directories in the world... over 52 million user objects and hundreds of millions of objects.
Wow.. must be a big company, but considering that the worlds biggest companies would not come close to those numbers I have serious doubts about your story. Microsoft is said to have stress tested active directory with 1,5 million user objects, well beyond the needs of any corporation existing today, and you say the requirement at your previous employer is 52 million user objects? I think not. I am curious now, what is behind these requirements?
...we had contractors restarting servers in hundreds of locations around the clock.
On top of 52 million user objects and hundreds of millions of objects, its distributed over hundreds of locations? Sounds like bad management, scary and unlikely.
Senior Mgmt wanted to move from eDirectory to AD due to some price breaks on desktop os and MSOffice for over 50000 employees
So because of a price break on OS and MS Office management decided to move 52 million user objects and change the backbone of the distributed network? For a large corporation, what you save on the "price break" for those 50000 employers is negligent compared to what the total cost of the project, long term and short term.
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Bipolar thinking is a major problem with the world.
That is exactly what I wanted to convey.
Not to mention the fact that if the Russians really got cheesed off they could just sell Iran warheads.
Russia has obligations according to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Article I explicitly forbids "Selling warheads". And even if they did disregard this treaty, expect the revival of the nuclear shield.
Any country with enough money and enough time is going to be able to acquire nuclear weapons. We might have to face the fact that there may not always be a military solution.
So basically you suggest we just abandon the NNPT? And with the submissive attitude that "they will get it anyway". Ignorance at its best/worst. Albeit difficult at best, we owe it to mankind and future generations to strive for a world free of nuclear weapons. More realistically: That we do our utmost to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Particularly when combined with totalitarian regimes and hostile intents.
If you somehow are offered a pivotal position in these questions, please refrain ;-)
You either love him or hate him. Then you choose what you believe based on where you stand. This applies to the majority of people familiar with him and the circumstances.
8% of the Linux kernel code comes from Linus... Don't shoot the messenger.
It seems like management handed the task of putting together the marketing video to a bunch of engineers. Luckily they were also given a set of requirements, this is all an engineer needs!
This is how I imagine the checklist:
Note: If there happens to be a clock in the background, don't bother with it, no one cares and it saves us money.
What sort of stench does slashdotters emit that predominantly serve as a warning signal to females? And why is there no research on it?
Some things worth considering:
Like others are saying, stick to the topic you were asked to present. I have rarerly heard of any presentation were they gave too little information, most of the time it's the opposite. If your audience leave with a good experience, they learn and are more open to similar presentations later. Too much information and they leave learning little and will likely oppose similar presentations in the future.
Give real life examples! It's obvously very easy to dig up highly relevant cases and news articles etc. Create a good but short summary of any articles you include. The summary should highlight the issues and consequences that relates to your topic. And be sure to include various ways in which the company was exposed or individuals embarrassed etc. The most basic human instinct is fear, appeal to it by letting them know that one of them can end up loosing their job and/or embarrassed on the front page of the news as a result of their actions online. Putting the audience in the hot seat so to speak. The point is that I think it needs to directly relate to them individually, if consequences only relates to the company, many will forget/ignore.
Let them know that absolutely anything that get's posted online about them can live online as long as they live and probably longer. As was the case with pictures on Facebook.
I also think that a good opening to the presenation creates attention. Humour is what many choose, but do whatever feels natural, constrained/forced humour rarely works well.
In Belgium, many of the hospitals have most of their computers running Linux...
This was a situation where a user carelessly executed a binary offered by email, social engineering is platform independent.
So it's better to lift a lighter weight more often, than a heavier one just a couple of times.
I don't know where you get this from but it's complete and utter bullcrap. Your statement alone is incomplete at best, with references to 'lighter weights', 'couple of times', it does not get any more vague than that. Don't listen to this folks, weightlifters don't exclusively do lighter weights and many repetitions simply because it is not optimal for pure strength. If you lift weights regurarly following a program even only for one year, you will know from experience that you need to stress and overload your muscles to build strength. That means you need to put on heavy weights to get maximum return from your effort. But remember that a complete traning program does not exclusively contain weightlifting exercises with many/few repetitions. Many repetitions is usually for warmup, softening the tendons and attracting blood to the muscle, this avoids injury and improves metabolic response. It also prepares the muscles for heavier weights, that is why you usually build up before you do heavy weights, muscles need to adapt for best response. There are many philosophies when it comes to weight lifting for strength, but I guarantee you that none of the successfull one's is according to quoted statement.
Good going MS! Add a few hours to that and they might beat the time it took for a few people I know to upgrade Ubuntu!
In astronomy we have light years, in GNU/Linux we have compile days.
Not only that, but UAV's will be able to do a large part of the mission unassisted. Most of the mission is just take off/landing and getting to the fight. But the critical situation is the actual engagement. A good way to utilise a trained pilot is probably to have the UAV do the trivial tasks and only involve an operator/pilot in engagement. Operators could switch focus between UAV's, from f.ex. UAV's leaving/destroyed to UAV entering the battle. I imagine UAV's in the future might even be able to do much more than just getting to the battle on their own. If the UAV's are coordinated, individual unpiloted UAV's could track targets, manoeveur itself to a tactically good position and offer fire opportunities to an operator, assist piloted UAV's or even engage targets in some situations. We have only seen the beginning when it comes to unmanned weapons.
Take the human body for example, I find that evolution has also given us "good enough" solutions in many respects. Our sense of smell is not very good, we are not very fast and I don't think we are getting much smarter at the moment as a result of evolution. At some point, the requirements of the market are met, and developement slows down relative to previous periods, similarly the requirements for survival in an environment are met, and evolution slows down.
It was a very rainy day, both outside and inside, my deadline was comming up fast. My collegue asked if I wanted some coffee before I pull an all nighter, I told him to shut his pie hole... he is kinda annoying, but I might have been stressed. My job was to code and maintain the software for a secret amusement park on the island of Isla Nublar. After many arguments with my boss over sallary and what not, I got fed up, he never appreciated what I did for them, debugging and maintaining millions of lines of computer code. How many others can do that, am I right? Because of that, and greed, I made a sweet deal with another company involving some silly embryos, they paid alot up front!! :):) So I quickly hade to insert some dirty code to shut down the security system so I could get the embryos and stop others from accessing the system I had set up. One dirty thing I did was this: if ( user_session_admincommand_count == 3 && !magic_word) { StartPermissonDeniedSequence(); } . I am happy to say, I got away before they discovered what I had done. I ran into some other problems, but it had nothing to do with my code!! And hey, it was unix!!
The supercomputer and cloud part is obviously realistic. The gaming part is just marketing hype as it is now, the internet would "break" if everyone played games and watched HD movies over the internet on a large scale. The problem is that given the distance, on top of the latency the distance brings, there is bound to be a bottleneck at some point, from the distributor to the consumer. And that is something internet users even experience today, before people even have begun adopting IPTV and similar. That's why amd's new supercomputer will have traditional supercomputer use before it gets outdated and outpaced. VOD (Video on demand) and perhaps games will need to be offered close to the consumer for good while still. VOD offerings from cable companies is growing, and will likeley keep it's momentum. Games could be competetive, especially more primitive kids/family games as a starter. "All" that's needed, is for cable companies to offer decoders/pvr boxes that support usb devices such as game controllers.
"My God, it's full of stars!"
It's bullshit. Where a missile is 'targeted' has almost no real-world meaning.
It certainly made the news didn't it? The only intent is to create a reaction from european states causing a withdrawal of missile installations. This to give a political blow to the US, by the 'mighty' Russia. Mine are bigger than yours. It's that simple.
Doesn't take a genius to see an aggressively expanding NATO (made up, in part, of some of their former satellites) at their doorstep as something other than problematic.
The countries have been included by their own free will. This makes me wonder how you would word expansion by military force? Very aggressive expansion? At least Russia understands who wants in on nato. And does Russia have a good reason for being concerned about nato's expansion? The fear of wanting in on nato by free will?
I believe it is very obvious that this has very little to do with the missile defense, and everything to do with politics. Putin ups the ante everytime he makes an official statement on this issue. It seems to be an attempt to exploit the growing skepticism towards usa, so that enough countries takes opposition and ultimately force the usa to stop/withdraw their defensive missile installations. And the aim is to portray russia as a potent international player. Just imagine how this will appear to anti-usa countries and movements around the world. Russia will be viewed upon as the nation that was able to strike a stark political blow against the usa in modern times.
Putin/Russia threatens with nuclear aggressive weapons, using footage of their latest nuclear delivery device on display for extra visual effect. A few defensive missiles is hardly enough to cause such a response. Radars is nothing new to either countries. Russia and putin understand very well that their approach to this is an overreaction and unjustified. Which i belive is evident in their own official statement, with emphasis on "we have done nothing, point finger at usa" wording included. They apologize for their behaviour, but want the attention off their actions.
I believe the worst scenario for the Russians is that the us and europe just dont take their statements and threats seriously. Putin has put his own reputation at stake in this matter. He wants international recognition, and this is an opening they have been looking for. And it goes in harmony with with what we have seen from Russia the last years. Putin has certainly been successfull in pushing events to their liking, when everything goes your way, you want more. It will be interesting to see how this progress. I expect him to raise the bar if the response he is looking for doesen't come. But I cannot imagine that some defensive missiles can be exploited to appear as the main reasoning for their aggressive behaviour in the long run.
Quoted from Groklaw:
On April 23, 2007, The SCO Group, Inc. (the "Company") received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq") indicating that the bid price of its common stock for the last 30 consecutive business days had closed below the minimum $1.00 per share required for continued listing under Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(4). Pursuant to Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(8)(D), the Company has been provided an initial period of 180 calendar days, or until October 22, 2007, to regain compliance.
Right now, you are allowed to sell a car where the hood is welded shut, but police wouldn't stop people from opening it.
If opening the hood possibly enabled you to create as many copies of the car as you see fit, im pretty sure it would be illegal, or they would want it to be illegal. Digital media is not comparable to cars.
and other headlines on the Aftenposten site include: "Women wont [sic] give up laundry" and "angry hare attacked dogsled". I thought Norway was only silly in Monty Python sketches?
Don't forget: "Moose surfed on chunk of ice"
I use and value FreeBSD personally, but I surely consider other advantages more prevailing than how many cpu cycles a process creation and startup requires. Little can I recollect of other people, articles etc., that mention this at all.
If we are generous enough to say that 10% of the firefox user base changes their user agent string, you can according to current statistics add another percent. Not a exactly a big effect, even with generous assumptions. And I disagree with you that your point stands, unless you come up with something better. Statistics are always flawed in one way or another, this is common knowledge. However, it can give you a good indication on the general makeup or composition. And remember, statistics can misrepresent some or all variables compared to actual, real life values, i.e. firefox numbers might be too high. Nedless to say, comparing claimed bad web user agent statstics with selling drugs with hazardous health effects, in any respect, is just FUD.
This is wishfull thinking. The effect of this is very limited, the only difference worth noticing would be if firefox was distributed with User String Agent set to Internet Explorer by default. Or do you have actual numbers to back up your claims, other than the fact that you have choosen to change it. You changed it to get in to windows update? Give me a break, why on earth would you need firefox to visit windows update?
Actually I can say I worked on one of the largest directories in the world... over 52 million user objects and hundreds of millions of objects.
Wow.. must be a big company, but considering that the worlds biggest companies would not come close to those numbers I have serious doubts about your story. Microsoft is said to have stress tested active directory with 1,5 million user objects, well beyond the needs of any corporation existing today, and you say the requirement at your previous employer is 52 million user objects? I think not. I am curious now, what is behind these requirements?
On top of 52 million user objects and hundreds of millions of objects, its distributed over hundreds of locations? Sounds like bad management, scary and unlikely.
Senior Mgmt wanted to move from eDirectory to AD due to some price breaks on desktop os and MSOffice for over 50000 employees
So because of a price break on OS and MS Office management decided to move 52 million user objects and change the backbone of the distributed network? For a large corporation, what you save on the "price break" for those 50000 employers is negligent compared to what the total cost of the project, long term and short term.