At 40 I would have expected the OP to realize that once you learn how to program, everything else in syntax. It sounds like the OP has a robust background in coding, I can't help but wonder why s|he is expressing trepidation on this topic.
I'm not a programmer by trade, but for the quick and dirty little apps that makes people's lives easier, I liked.NET. I could have a single use utility coded up in an afternoon that would save hours off of a day, from highly paid employees.
The problem with our education system is simple; it's run by politicians. Education should not be run by people who a) don't have a solid grasp of the material they are mandating and b) are more interested in reelection.
The only way we'll get meaningful reform is by pushing control ( ie: money ) down to the county level and letting them figure it out.
Supply and demand addresses this. We simply do not need a great deal of network speed at this time. For years network bandwidth stagnated simply because no one had a burning need to do more with it. Then our workstations became capable of processing more data faster, thus we moved from 100mbit to 1gig over a very short period of time.
I'd be willing to bet that there is a correlation between HD sizes and network bandwidth, now that I think about it.
First of all, I agree with the theory; roundabouts should be easier to navigate and increase traffic flow. *should*. The problem is, most drivers display an amazing lack of intelligence when behind the wheel. We have a few of these things around my home town. I have seen drivers go the wrong direction in a roundabout ( I want you to visualize how awkward that would be ) no less than 5 times in the past 6 months. I have seen 2 accidents because someone didn't understand the whole concept of no stop signs in the roundabout, and I have see moron drivers IN the roundabout yield to incoming traffic ( picture it; everyone in the roundabout is stopped while this moron waves someone else in ).
So no. I do not support them in the US. We simply aren't smart enough to handle them.
I don't think you quite understand the market Cisco is playing to with this. They aren't trying to compete with the ipad in the consumer space, they are presenting an option for business customers ( where angry birds would not be installed ). As much as i hate cisco, this device interests me. A highly controlled device would make me feel better about pushing out HIPAA and PCI applications, for example.
I think you'll find the answers to those are radically different. Could we? Sure, with enough expense ( time, effort and currency ), we absolutely could.
Should we? Absolutely not. Japan showed us what could go wrong with old designs and bad policies. We paid for those lessons, it'd be irresponsible to throw them away.
...things that will turn me off of TV for the rest of my life. The whole 3D crap is really getting on my nerves, and has pretty much stopped me from spending any money at movies. I don't want to spend an extra 5 bucks to watch the movie in 3d, thanks. Except now, often times, it's either 3d or nothing ( I choose nothing ). Then 3D tvs, which aren't worth the extra costs in my opinion. Now this?
The end of TV is nigh! And you know what? That's perfectly fine by me.
So given all the improbabilities involved in interstellar travel, you think that's more likely than one government fucking with another, and expending great resources in which to do it?
I'm afraid I have some bad news for you about how the world works...
Having been through a few PCI audits as the "Point man" on the technology, I can tell you that the external audits are a joke. The auditor is usually not a tech. Often, it's a peon with a clipboard. On this clip board are check boxes. He askes you "Do you do X"? You say "Yes", he ( or she ) checks the box. Meanwhile, your company continues to have horrible business practices.
I am honestly curious, can you give examples of AD has far greater performance overhead, is only limited in LDAP compliance (minimal compliance), requires more complex infrastructue, has poor out of the box management tools, has poor resiliency, a poor rudundency model?
Bulk user tools in AD ain't nothing to sneeze at either. Assuming I can target a large group of users, I could handle 100,000 without breaking a sweat as well. And while the technology behind NSS may be more sophisticated than NTFS, how does that translate? Where does the tire meet the road in that case? I have more flexibility with NTFS than I do with NSS ( talk to me about deny rights ), so how does NSS make my job easier? How does it make a user's job easier? And iPrint is a joke, when compared to shared printers in Windows.
Zenworks is garbage. I hate to be the one to break that to you, but it's bloated crap that causes no end of headaches for the end users. I replaced that with a few other apps and everyone was happier.
You had crap admins then, at the university that ran windows. I know the industry average is 50 servers to an admin, but I've always been able to handle closer to 1000 ( depending on work loads ) myself.
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Hhhm, ya, I'm not entirely sure I'd ever classify /. as a "Friendly Ear".
At 40 I would have expected the OP to realize that once you learn how to program, everything else in syntax. It sounds like the OP has a robust background in coding, I can't help but wonder why s|he is expressing trepidation on this topic.
I have real code when I'm done with my own little projects too. Real as in, it solves the real problems I set out to solve with minimal fuss.
I'm not a programmer by trade, but for the quick and dirty little apps that makes people's lives easier, I liked .NET. I could have a single use utility coded up in an afternoon that would save hours off of a day, from highly paid employees.
Still no profiles/google+ for us Apps folks.
Seems somewhat wrong that paying customers get left in the lurch as often as we do.
The problem with our education system is simple; it's run by politicians. Education should not be run by people who a) don't have a solid grasp of the material they are mandating and b) are more interested in reelection.
The only way we'll get meaningful reform is by pushing control ( ie: money ) down to the county level and letting them figure it out.
As a google apps customer, I don't have access to profiles...which means I don't have access to google+.
Let me be clear; I am a paying customer, and I don't have the access the freebie users do.
...if netflix's streaming service had a much wider catalog to offer. And wasn't under constant threat from the content holders.
Another vector they might want to approach is to make profiles available to those of us with Apps domains. You know. So we can USE google+.
Just throwing that out there.
Supply and demand addresses this. We simply do not need a great deal of network speed at this time. For years network bandwidth stagnated simply because no one had a burning need to do more with it. Then our workstations became capable of processing more data faster, thus we moved from 100mbit to 1gig over a very short period of time.
I'd be willing to bet that there is a correlation between HD sizes and network bandwidth, now that I think about it.
That actually illustrates my point perfectly, thank you. And yes, they did turn the wrong way in that.
First of all, I agree with the theory; roundabouts should be easier to navigate and increase traffic flow. *should*. The problem is, most drivers display an amazing lack of intelligence when behind the wheel. We have a few of these things around my home town. I have seen drivers go the wrong direction in a roundabout ( I want you to visualize how awkward that would be ) no less than 5 times in the past 6 months. I have seen 2 accidents because someone didn't understand the whole concept of no stop signs in the roundabout, and I have see moron drivers IN the roundabout yield to incoming traffic ( picture it; everyone in the roundabout is stopped while this moron waves someone else in ).
So no. I do not support them in the US. We simply aren't smart enough to handle them.
I don't think you quite understand the market Cisco is playing to with this. They aren't trying to compete with the ipad in the consumer space, they are presenting an option for business customers ( where angry birds would not be installed ). As much as i hate cisco, this device interests me. A highly controlled device would make me feel better about pushing out HIPAA and PCI applications, for example.
It's comforting to know that the USA is not the only government in the world with completely inept lawmakers.
( we're going to ignore the fact that we, the public, continue to give them our blessings to be complete and utter morons by virtue of our votes )
I wonder if the rate of mutations is higher or lower than in the past, and what it's trending.
Wish I had mod points.
The lack of data itself is as interesting as a "Well that's odd" moment in other experiments.
Yes, and? I thought it was well known that fedora is the test bed for RHEL.
I think you'll find the answers to those are radically different. Could we? Sure, with enough expense ( time, effort and currency ), we absolutely could.
Should we? Absolutely not. Japan showed us what could go wrong with old designs and bad policies. We paid for those lessons, it'd be irresponsible to throw them away.
...things that will turn me off of TV for the rest of my life. The whole 3D crap is really getting on my nerves, and has pretty much stopped me from spending any money at movies. I don't want to spend an extra 5 bucks to watch the movie in 3d, thanks. Except now, often times, it's either 3d or nothing ( I choose nothing ). Then 3D tvs, which aren't worth the extra costs in my opinion. Now this?
The end of TV is nigh! And you know what? That's perfectly fine by me.
So given all the improbabilities involved in interstellar travel, you think that's more likely than one government fucking with another, and expending great resources in which to do it?
I'm afraid I have some bad news for you about how the world works...
You misspelled "Disney".
Having been through a few PCI audits as the "Point man" on the technology, I can tell you that the external audits are a joke. The auditor is usually not a tech. Often, it's a peon with a clipboard. On this clip board are check boxes. He askes you "Do you do X"? You say "Yes", he ( or she ) checks the box. Meanwhile, your company continues to have horrible business practices.
This was a tier 1 audit too.
I am honestly curious, can you give examples of AD has far greater performance overhead, is only limited in LDAP compliance (minimal compliance), requires more complex infrastructue, has poor out of the box management tools, has poor resiliency, a poor rudundency model?
Bulk user tools in AD ain't nothing to sneeze at either. Assuming I can target a large group of users, I could handle 100,000 without breaking a sweat as well. And while the technology behind NSS may be more sophisticated than NTFS, how does that translate? Where does the tire meet the road in that case? I have more flexibility with NTFS than I do with NSS ( talk to me about deny rights ), so how does NSS make my job easier? How does it make a user's job easier? And iPrint is a joke, when compared to shared printers in Windows.
Zenworks is garbage. I hate to be the one to break that to you, but it's bloated crap that causes no end of headaches for the end users. I replaced that with a few other apps and everyone was happier.
You had crap admins then, at the university that ran windows. I know the industry average is 50 servers to an admin, but I've always been able to handle closer to 1000 ( depending on work loads ) myself.