Here in the Research Triangle Park, home to Red Hat, IBM, Cisco, Siemens, Motorola, Alcatel, Nortel, GE Aircraft Engines, Glaxo, Bayer, Fujitsu, AstraZeneca, and smaller software and support companies - this is the WORST its been in 30 years. On a national basis our labor costs are not even above average. I tend to think that failing companies relocate regardless of the cost of labor. The bigger problem is the cost of RENT in places like the Bay Area, SF.
This is a company that's been in the news because the main plant burned to the ground several years ago and the owner, a family owner 2nd or 3rd generation refused to take anyone off the payroll even though the company nearly went bankrupt recently until it secured new capital. This new project will probably save the company which proves that sometimes good deeds are rewarded.
Though I'm waiting for HIPERSOCKETS which would allow me to afford better use of OSA.
Is WLM support working yet?
Have they licked the scheduler problem yet? That was an inherent problem of the Linux kernel expecting to be the only OS instance on the hardware and constantly grabbing the clock to do more or less nothing.
Next stop - Checkpoint firewall code on a Linux instance on the mainframe and goodbye to that gated-ipchains crap.
I noticed that too. There is a Samurai Jack episode with the bug robots where there is a segment probably 9 minutes long with no dialog at all. Pretty frickin cool.
The discussion is about the nature of work not the predictability of long term macroeconomic trends. Whether the world's economies become more 'global' or not and how much does not materially effect the nature of non subsistence work. That is, if you work in exchange for at least as much money as it takes to live above a subsistence level in a semi industrialized county or better.
The nature of work however IS changing. Think of it this way; all technologies tend toward less skill and more standardization. As factories have become automated now the 'art' of doing programming is becoming automated from the bottom up so that menial tasks can be handled by machines and processes. It used to be that simply re IPLing a mainframe was a big deal. Now that kind of task is handled by schedulers and error correcting code that allows for the smooth reinsertion of a machine back into the network. Eventually basic development programming such as device driver development will be done w/o humans. This will leave the creative work for only the most highly skilled and creative people to do while most of the old school programmers will be dedicated to the maintenance of automated tool building machines just like the guy who's job it is to maintain industrial robots. The skills will be very finite and the processes will consist of: alert, travel, diagnose, replace, restart, test, close ticket, next call.
Sure why not? A piece of software should have a meaningful warranty and should comply with its own warranty. If software causes irreperable damage to something we're way beyond, in the year 2002, the days where "Hey if anything at all happens, if the software even works at all it's not our problem.
If software has a problem which causes me to lose money or to lose my identity or some other problem there is utterly no reason why the software maker can't or shouldn't be held responsible for fundamental flaws. We're not talking about usage or configuration or intended use but about basic patchable problems associated with forseeable risks. No product liability is intended to hold the manufacturer liable for anything, but instead for reasonable use. You can't reasonably sue a hairdryer maker if you drop it in the bathtub but if in normal use it bursts into flames and burns you - yeah you sure can. Same with software. If you're using it correctly and some fundamental problem that could have been uncovered if they bothered to do some rudimentary checking then they should be held liable as well.
Earlier this year was the Post Office case where the court determined that facilities to accomodate handicapped individuals at the local post office were cost prohibitive and so didn't have to be provided. Then there was I believe a case related to a new definition of occupational disabilities. This is the next.
This court has made it its personal crusade to tear down the ADA as well as most or all occupational disability statutes. Rehnquist basically said as much, the disability regulations are frivolous.
People still seem to complain about it. It's amazing really. It won't let you take the machine apart and add your personal favorite CDRW and super golly whiz-o video card? Gee that sucks. Well I'll never buy a PC that doesn't have a System/390 OSA either.
Would it be ironic if in the end Apple really gets it right, people buy them like bottled water and the crowd here takes their ball and goes home?
Right Stanford. Sorry, but there was a lawsuit and Cisco lost. None of the technology has ever been put in the public domain and the exact damages were never made public either.
There was nothing public domain about it. Berkeley sued Cisco to get unspecified monetary awards over some basic Cisco technology. I don't believe Berkeley ever had any intention of releasing that technology to the world. They wanted to profit from it.
So we can expect that MicroScorch Office v23.l1.32 around the year 2011 to be available only in Chinese. That's in keeping with MicroScorch's philosophy of only going after the biggest chunk of the market and then either destroying the rest of the market or dragging it to some other place.
the best thing that government can do about computer security is stay the fuck out. There is not a single solitary computer security issue for the government that is not 100% entirely one way - that is everything and all control and authority is supposed to flow to the government and public is supposed to just accept the gradual criminalization of doing a credible good job. There is not single computer security issue for the government that does not involve eroding the ability to actually perform computer security.
So Mr. Lobby please go back to your Congressperson and tell them that the number one issue for the government is to pull its collective head out of its ass and leave the heavy lifting to the people who have some skin in the game.
GWB: what's this computer security stuff?
Ashcroft: that's computer survellience.
GWB: well this Texan don't know the difference so why doncha tell me.
Ashkroft: we need to spy on people to make sure they're not terrorists or having abortions or being queer.
GWB: so this guy from MS can help us with that
Ashkroft: yeah he can get MS to put whatever backdoors in so we can spy on whomever we want.
GWB: backdoors? sounds kinda queer.
Ashkroft: those nerds are all kinda queer anyway - so here's the deal. we hire this guy and then tell him what to tell Gates to do.
GWB: why should Gates do what we say - that nerds's got more money than a whorehouse with an oilwell?
Ashkroft: cause Gates has money but we wants access and prestige like everyone else
GWB: ok I'll go with it - how we commin with rounding up the ragheads
Ashkroft: fine, project TexAryan is right on target - all non Christians are being targetted as we speak.
GWB: well shit howdy, get me a drink then.
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Here's another !!
/. today is great - truly the reason /. exists.
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
The info on
But pleeeez shut the fuck up.
Gotta love that stripped down minimalist look in the screen shots.
Here in the Research Triangle Park, home to Red Hat, IBM, Cisco, Siemens, Motorola, Alcatel, Nortel, GE Aircraft Engines, Glaxo, Bayer, Fujitsu, AstraZeneca, and smaller software and support companies - this is the WORST its been in 30 years. On a national basis our labor costs are not even above average. I tend to think that failing companies relocate regardless of the cost of labor. The bigger problem is the cost of RENT in places like the Bay Area, SF.
I printed this, framed it and put it on my fucking wall!
Pay to dump it in Native American land? Unlicenced toxic waste disposal is big money maker for them - almost as big as casinos.
This is a company that's been in the news because the main plant burned to the ground several years ago and the owner, a family owner 2nd or 3rd generation refused to take anyone off the payroll even though the company nearly went bankrupt recently until it secured new capital. This new project will probably save the company which proves that sometimes good deeds are rewarded.
Though I'm waiting for HIPERSOCKETS which would allow me to afford better use of OSA.
Is WLM support working yet?
Have they licked the scheduler problem yet? That was an inherent problem of the Linux kernel expecting to be the only OS instance on the hardware and constantly grabbing the clock to do more or less nothing.
Next stop - Checkpoint firewall code on a Linux instance on the mainframe and goodbye to that gated-ipchains crap.
I noticed that too. There is a Samurai Jack episode with the bug robots where there is a segment probably 9 minutes long with no dialog at all. Pretty frickin cool.
The discussion is about the nature of work not the predictability of long term macroeconomic trends. Whether the world's economies become more 'global' or not and how much does not materially effect the nature of non subsistence work. That is, if you work in exchange for at least as much money as it takes to live above a subsistence level in a semi industrialized county or better.
The nature of work however IS changing. Think of it this way; all technologies tend toward less skill and more standardization. As factories have become automated now the 'art' of doing programming is becoming automated from the bottom up so that menial tasks can be handled by machines and processes. It used to be that simply re IPLing a mainframe was a big deal. Now that kind of task is handled by schedulers and error correcting code that allows for the smooth reinsertion of a machine back into the network. Eventually basic development programming such as device driver development will be done w/o humans. This will leave the creative work for only the most highly skilled and creative people to do while most of the old school programmers will be dedicated to the maintenance of automated tool building machines just like the guy who's job it is to maintain industrial robots. The skills will be very finite and the processes will consist of: alert, travel, diagnose, replace, restart, test, close ticket, next call.
Sure why not? A piece of software should have a meaningful warranty and should comply with its own warranty. If software causes irreperable damage to something we're way beyond, in the year 2002, the days where "Hey if anything at all happens, if the software even works at all it's not our problem.
If software has a problem which causes me to lose money or to lose my identity or some other problem there is utterly no reason why the software maker can't or shouldn't be held responsible for fundamental flaws. We're not talking about usage or configuration or intended use but about basic patchable problems associated with forseeable risks. No product liability is intended to hold the manufacturer liable for anything, but instead for reasonable use. You can't reasonably sue a hairdryer maker if you drop it in the bathtub but if in normal use it bursts into flames and burns you - yeah you sure can. Same with software. If you're using it correctly and some fundamental problem that could have been uncovered if they bothered to do some rudimentary checking then they should be held liable as well.
they have to provide a midget to change the channels for me, and serve me food.
Of course putting the test answers into flash would be problematic.
Earlier this year was the Post Office case where the court determined that facilities to accomodate handicapped individuals at the local post office were cost prohibitive and so didn't have to be provided. Then there was I believe a case related to a new definition of occupational disabilities. This is the next.
This court has made it its personal crusade to tear down the ADA as well as most or all occupational disability statutes. Rehnquist basically said as much, the disability regulations are frivolous.
I remember Dolch from way back when. They invented the high performance rugged lunchbox format machine. They make several different models and types.
www.dolch.com
they fucking rule.
Can't those damn kids drive in their own lane dagnabbit !!!!
If I can't compile that horrendously large prog in 108 minutes instead of 120 minutes.
People still seem to complain about it. It's amazing really. It won't let you take the machine apart and add your personal favorite CDRW and super golly whiz-o video card? Gee that sucks. Well I'll never buy a PC that doesn't have a System/390 OSA either.
Would it be ironic if in the end Apple really gets it right, people buy them like bottled water and the crowd here takes their ball and goes home?
Right Stanford. Sorry, but there was a lawsuit and Cisco lost. None of the technology has ever been put in the public domain and the exact damages were never made public either.
There was nothing public domain about it. Berkeley sued Cisco to get unspecified monetary awards over some basic Cisco technology. I don't believe Berkeley ever had any intention of releasing that technology to the world. They wanted to profit from it.
Because of all the labor and brain work involved. This a VERY good thing for shops and ISPs that standardize on HP to do.
So we can expect that MicroScorch Office v23.l1.32 around the year 2011 to be available only in Chinese. That's in keeping with MicroScorch's philosophy of only going after the biggest chunk of the market and then either destroying the rest of the market or dragging it to some other place.
the best thing that government can do about computer security is stay the fuck out. There is not a single solitary computer security issue for the government that is not 100% entirely one way - that is everything and all control and authority is supposed to flow to the government and public is supposed to just accept the gradual criminalization of doing a credible good job. There is not single computer security issue for the government that does not involve eroding the ability to actually perform computer security.
So Mr. Lobby please go back to your Congressperson and tell them that the number one issue for the government is to pull its collective head out of its ass and leave the heavy lifting to the people who have some skin in the game.
GWB: what's this computer security stuff?
Ashcroft: that's computer survellience.
GWB: well this Texan don't know the difference so why doncha tell me.
Ashkroft: we need to spy on people to make sure they're not terrorists or having abortions or being queer.
GWB: so this guy from MS can help us with that
Ashkroft: yeah he can get MS to put whatever backdoors in so we can spy on whomever we want.
GWB: backdoors? sounds kinda queer.
Ashkroft: those nerds are all kinda queer anyway - so here's the deal. we hire this guy and then tell him what to tell Gates to do.
GWB: why should Gates do what we say - that nerds's got more money than a whorehouse with an oilwell?
Ashkroft: cause Gates has money but we wants access and prestige like everyone else
GWB: ok I'll go with it - how we commin with rounding up the ragheads
Ashkroft: fine, project TexAryan is right on target - all non Christians are being targetted as we speak.
GWB: well shit howdy, get me a drink then.
Something grand like alternative fuel engines, home dialysis equipment or an autonomous exoskeleton?
It's a fucking scooter - we knew that already.