The same way that my users verify that employee information was written to the database. I don't ship source code to my users. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of pc users wouldn't have a clue what they were reading if they saw the source code. Yet, magically,.doc files get saved, e-mails get sent. All without seeing the source code to verify that's what it's doing.
Of note, most security flaws (Windows, Linux, OpenBSD) are buffer overruns that are overlooked even in peer review/source review. If you're curious about what your MS/OS boxis doing, run filemon/apimon. You don't see anything like GETWINDOWMESSAGE_STEALPERSONALINFORMATION_HERE.
Interesting... that sounds more like a republic than a democracy. Wait, isn't that how this country was founded originally? But it didn't take long for politicians to realize that they had less power with a decentralized government.
I multi-track record at home, and can easily fill up 6GB of (uncompressed) space with one song. DVD-R/+R etc... is great for backup up the tracks for later use, where CD-R/RW just didn't cut it (unless I compressed the files before storing them).
I still have contacts in Nashville, and some great friends that are professional songwriters. That has lead to some pretty heated discussions about P2P and the RIAA.
The songwriters are getting screwed because they haven't had a raise since 1958. They still get $0.015 per cut per record sale. They (for some reason) think the RIAA is looking out for their best interests. It's ALWAYS been that musicians make the bulk of their income off or ticket sales, rather than record sales (unless, I suppose, you're J-Lo).
All that being said, P2P is an obvious attack on the revenue stream for major record labels (in their eyes). The artists take a small hickey on illegal song "sharing" but it's the labels that stand to lose quite a bit. If the RIAA had been around when recordable 8-tracks hit the market, there would have been the same kind of panic we see today.
I couldn't agree with you more that the established companies need to embrace the change. Unfortunately, the Good 'Ole Boy network never does embrace change. It will be interesting to see how it pans out in the next few years. Eventually, technology seems to come out on top (look at hybrid cars that the Detroit 3 and major oil companies fought for years).
Kudos to you for seeing the picture correctly, and don't worry about the uninformed opinions that linger around here. That's what makes/. interesting;)
It's probably very similar to the bid won by Halliburton recently in Iraq... they were the only one given a chance to bid because of the work they did on the "studies" initially.
Except that, specifically in the CIA, outside internet connections are handled on seperate pc's that the agent has to switch over to using a KVM, making it all but impossible to send a virus to their network. I'd have to imagine that the DHS would be set up similarly.
My $.02...
As a "retired" professional musician I can say that band sites work as marketing tools, and that's about it. Set up some audio streams, list tour dates, show bios, etc... All of that works great. Selling tunes on the site has been a large waste of time. Selling CD's online isn't easy either. Mainstream bands have the world of oversized record labels behind them, and their sites are a more trusted venue to send your credit card info to. The majority of bands out there, however, are middle tier and even though have labels, aren't getting radio play on ClearChannel. They're selling music one show at a time. The shows are where the bulk of CD/merchandise are sold. Websites probably generate 20% of revenue, at best.
Whats the betting that this will be held back until the oil companies have pumped every last drop out of the ground. I would like to be optimistic about a hydrogen economy but we all know how powerful and influential the oil companies are.
Actually most oil companies have chemical ventures (Chevron Phillips Chemical
as well. Contrary to popular belief, the major oil companies know that the future of energy is not in petroleum products.
Well, back to the drawing board on these Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses.
I suppose we should all go back to riding horses, but who ever had to walk their car/truck/suv all night because it was collicing?
I've been involved with disaster recovery plans since 1993 in Houston (hurricane seasons, a propensity for flooding). Most reputable companies down here have viable plans including offsite call centers, daily backups to servers/db's offsite, etc..
I have to relate a funny story though. I wrote code for a large bank with a few offices in downtown Houston. As tropical storm Allison approached (you may have seen pictures of the aftermath), we started sending people home. Unfortunately, the shortsighted management had placed two offsite databases IN HOUSTON for data and call center recovery. The last I saw of our particular network administrator was him loading the physical DB server into his truck in hopes that he could get it home and upstairs. The two DR sites both flooded and we lost those servers. Needless to say, that manager is no longer employed with .
I couldn't agree more. Nothing to do with the current economy, doing what's right for yourself, etc... In any situation, you have to try to look at it from all angles. Yours, your co-workers, your managers, etc.. before you make any kind of decision, especially a life changing (income affecting) one like this.
Believe it or not, (most) managers are human, and tend to be under a different set of pressures. My current manager is level headed and understands the problems we as developers face.
Actaually, they aren't "paid" money up front. It's more of a loan. And if you are an artist and get $500,000 to record a new cd, buy a Benz, and whatever that entails, you'd better make that money back in sales or the record company will hold you accountable.
True, though, artists make a larger portion of their income from the live concerts.
The sham regarding the RIAA is the songwriters get only $0.015 per cut/per cd/per sale... which is the same rate they got in 1958. The RIAA is definitely not acting in the best interest of the artists, but rather in the best interest of the label executives.
Add to that the mighty price tag of US $850, and this will be another failing on IBM's part. The purchasing power parity in India is $2,540 ( CIA WorldFactBook). Wal-Mart's offering of Linux based PC's would be much more attractive. IBM has a history of misunderstanding the market as a whole though.
As a former (underpaid) programmer for Walman Marcus, I can tell you about a couple of company policies. One, is to beat the competitors (what used to be K-Mart, Target) etc... on similar items. There are many stories circulating at the home office about light bulbs selling for $.01 because WM Manager would cut the price, then KM Manager would cut the price, in an almost endless loop.
The addendum to that policy is finding out competitor prices. One way is to scour sale fliers. Another is to take a handheld with a barcode reader to zap an item and record it's price. Managers are constantly being tossed from competitor's stores for doing that very thing. It happens to WM Managers, KM Managers, Target Managers, etc...
Very few PD's use GPS (at least with my experience in writing code for them here in Texas). Most have very tight budgets, and have no need for a system that can be subverted by using the radios they already have installed. I have, however, heard of a few (generally those that have extremely high tax bases) that use them, both for locating incidents and for locating their own patrol cars. It made me wonder how easy it would be to build a "patrol car buster" to find exactly where those speed traps are....
I have set up VoIP for a few small companies in the US. They don't seem to mind the lower quality vs. the tremendous savings they recieve. The most recent has a home office in Europe, and a shell office in the US of just a handful of people. Small revenue center that needs to cut costs wherever it can. The VoIP is set up on the local PBX with 4 trunk lines that it forwards to, so one line acts as 4.
As I said, the quality is lower, but the communication is clear enough to make it a valuable tool.
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Who gets everything right in the shipping versions? I can't imagine a world without software patches...
The same way that my users verify that employee information was written to the database. I don't ship source code to my users. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of pc users wouldn't have a clue what they were reading if they saw the source code. Yet, magically, .doc files get saved, e-mails get sent. All without seeing the source code to verify that's what it's doing.
Of note, most security flaws (Windows, Linux, OpenBSD) are buffer overruns that are overlooked even in peer review/source review. If you're curious about what your MS/OS boxis doing, run filemon/apimon. You don't see anything like GETWINDOWMESSAGE_STEALPERSONALINFORMATION_HERE.
Interesting... that sounds more like a republic than a democracy. Wait, isn't that how this country was founded originally? But it didn't take long for politicians to realize that they had less power with a decentralized government.
I multi-track record at home, and can easily fill up 6GB of (uncompressed) space with one song. DVD-R/+R etc... is great for backup up the tracks for later use, where CD-R/RW just didn't cut it (unless I compressed the files before storing them).
I still have contacts in Nashville, and some great friends that are professional songwriters. That has lead to some pretty heated discussions about P2P and the RIAA.
/. interesting ;)
The songwriters are getting screwed because they haven't had a raise since 1958. They still get $0.015 per cut per record sale. They (for some reason) think the RIAA is looking out for their best interests. It's ALWAYS been that musicians make the bulk of their income off or ticket sales, rather than record sales (unless, I suppose, you're J-Lo).
All that being said, P2P is an obvious attack on the revenue stream for major record labels (in their eyes). The artists take a small hickey on illegal song "sharing" but it's the labels that stand to lose quite a bit. If the RIAA had been around when recordable 8-tracks hit the market, there would have been the same kind of panic we see today.
I couldn't agree with you more that the established companies need to embrace the change. Unfortunately, the Good 'Ole Boy network never does embrace change. It will be interesting to see how it pans out in the next few years. Eventually, technology seems to come out on top (look at hybrid cars that the Detroit 3 and major oil companies fought for years).
Kudos to you for seeing the picture correctly, and don't worry about the uninformed opinions that linger around here. That's what makes
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I never tried to suggest their IT department was current, but secure. The keyword is "isolated."
It's probably very similar to the bid won by Halliburton recently in Iraq... they were the only one given a chance to bid because of the work they did on the "studies" initially.
Except that, specifically in the CIA, outside internet connections are handled on seperate pc's that the agent has to switch over to using a KVM, making it all but impossible to send a virus to their network. I'd have to imagine that the DHS would be set up similarly.
Yeah, better for the US Government to install systems that have a smaller developer base and cost more to have software written for them...
My $.02...
As a "retired" professional musician I can say that band sites work as marketing tools, and that's about it. Set up some audio streams, list tour dates, show bios, etc... All of that works great. Selling tunes on the site has been a large waste of time. Selling CD's online isn't easy either. Mainstream bands have the world of oversized record labels behind them, and their sites are a more trusted venue to send your credit card info to. The majority of bands out there, however, are middle tier and even though have labels, aren't getting radio play on ClearChannel. They're selling music one show at a time. The shows are where the bulk of CD/merchandise are sold. Websites probably generate 20% of revenue, at best.
Good luck finding a new contract in this economy by refusing to submit to a drug test.
Funny, SCO's Press Room doesn't seem to have any of their latest frivilous lawsuit news. You'd think they'd be proud of it.
That's because Bush doesn't read Discover Magazine.
Well, back to the drawing board on these Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses. I suppose we should all go back to riding horses, but who ever had to walk their car/truck/suv all night because it was collicing?
I've been involved with disaster recovery plans since 1993 in Houston (hurricane seasons, a propensity for flooding). Most reputable companies down here have viable plans including offsite call centers, daily backups to servers/db's offsite, etc..
I have to relate a funny story though. I wrote code for a large bank with a few offices in downtown Houston. As tropical storm Allison approached (you may have seen pictures of the aftermath), we started sending people home. Unfortunately, the shortsighted management had placed two offsite databases IN HOUSTON for data and call center recovery. The last I saw of our particular network administrator was him loading the physical DB server into his truck in hopes that he could get it home and upstairs. The two DR sites both flooded and we lost those servers. Needless to say, that manager is no longer employed with .
I couldn't agree more. Nothing to do with the current economy, doing what's right for yourself, etc... In any situation, you have to try to look at it from all angles. Yours, your co-workers, your managers, etc.. before you make any kind of decision, especially a life changing (income affecting) one like this. Believe it or not, (most) managers are human, and tend to be under a different set of pressures. My current manager is level headed and understands the problems we as developers face.
Actaually, they aren't "paid" money up front. It's more of a loan. And if you are an artist and get $500,000 to record a new cd, buy a Benz, and whatever that entails, you'd better make that money back in sales or the record company will hold you accountable. True, though, artists make a larger portion of their income from the live concerts. The sham regarding the RIAA is the songwriters get only $0.015 per cut/per cd/per sale... which is the same rate they got in 1958. The RIAA is definitely not acting in the best interest of the artists, but rather in the best interest of the label executives.
Add to that the mighty price tag of US $850, and this will be another failing on IBM's part. The purchasing power parity in India is $2,540 ( CIA WorldFactBook). Wal-Mart's offering of Linux based PC's would be much more attractive. IBM has a history of misunderstanding the market as a whole though.
Does this mean I'll have to turn off my server logging, since it could quite possibly "monitor" an intruder?
As a former (underpaid) programmer for Walman Marcus, I can tell you about a couple of company policies. One, is to beat the competitors (what used to be K-Mart, Target) etc... on similar items. There are many stories circulating at the home office about light bulbs selling for $.01 because WM Manager would cut the price, then KM Manager would cut the price, in an almost endless loop. The addendum to that policy is finding out competitor prices. One way is to scour sale fliers. Another is to take a handheld with a barcode reader to zap an item and record it's price. Managers are constantly being tossed from competitor's stores for doing that very thing. It happens to WM Managers, KM Managers, Target Managers, etc...
Give one example where Microsoft has innovated Thread pooling?
Very few PD's use GPS (at least with my experience in writing code for them here in Texas). Most have very tight budgets, and have no need for a system that can be subverted by using the radios they already have installed. I have, however, heard of a few (generally those that have extremely high tax bases) that use them, both for locating incidents and for locating their own patrol cars. It made me wonder how easy it would be to build a "patrol car buster" to find exactly where those speed traps are....
I have set up VoIP for a few small companies in the US. They don't seem to mind the lower quality vs. the tremendous savings they recieve. The most recent has a home office in Europe, and a shell office in the US of just a handful of people. Small revenue center that needs to cut costs wherever it can. The VoIP is set up on the local PBX with 4 trunk lines that it forwards to, so one line acts as 4. As I said, the quality is lower, but the communication is clear enough to make it a valuable tool.