There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
Oh? Why not? The world runs on money. You find something someone else wants, you charge them to let them have it. That, in itself, is not evil. Not all artists are pure; indeed, most are not. They found a way to make money off of something they are good at. There's nothing wrong with that, we all do that every day ( if we are lucky ).
Where metalica tripped up was in blaming technology for their own distributer's lack of innovation. The entire music industry missed the file sharing boat and spent years trying to plug the damn with a finger. Now, we have things like itunes and such, and notice how we don't hear about services like kazaa it's ilk.
Let's look at some numbers A 10 PB storage system could be built for about $4700 with an annual operational cost (power for running and cooling the system) of about $50.
Ya, 10 PETA BYTES for 4700 bucks? I don't think so. And an annual operating cost of 50 bucks, that includes power and cooling? Again, no. Now, let's focus on the administrative overhead of replacing disks and failed system. The larger the setup, the more administrative work there would be.
The rest of the idea has merit, but it almost seems to be that they are trying to compare apples to oranges with their comparison to tape. Tape's appeal is that it is long term storage that requires little maintenance. The same can't be said for this.
As I have said before, I don't get paid enough to deal with people like this. Nobody does, unless you work in a group home for troubled kids. I work in a professional environment, and if these folks can't act professionally, then I don't work with them. It's that simple.
Here's what he could have done differently:
Document the abusive jerk's attitude. Recording it would have been ideal. Then, refuse to work with him until his attitude is under control. When he whines up the tree high enough, play back the recording and repeat after me: "I don't get paid to deal with this".
They'll either fix the problem, or you'll leave the company. Either way, you have gotten what you truly wanted.
I use linux because, in certain instances, it's the right tool for the job. I'm busy. I don't have time to play around tinkering anymore ( and yes, I do have grey hair, thank you very much ). So when I want something that'll "just work", I analyse all the tools at my disposal, and choose one based on merits.
Quite often that's linux. Sometimes that's windows. But regardless of the choice, the end result is hopefully the same: A system that just works without me needing to constantly hold it's hand.
...each copy with secret water marks throughout the software, traceable back to the folks that signed the NDA that promised the left AND right nut should they spill the beans.
ya, can't imagine how that doesn't happen more often.
Here I am, some lowly line level system tech for a smallish town, and I'd be handed my marching orders were I even a quarter as incompetent as the white house staff seems to be. Which leads me to suspect:
1) Either they are that incompetent, and it's just a symptom of big government not knowing it's ass from it's face OR 2) These people are purposefully appearing this inept.
Either option isn't pleasant, and both lead to a serious problem with our government where there will likely be no repercussions from this.
I've had my suspicions for a while, but honestly, who's shocked? This world is run on money. If you see a politician pushing something, just follow the money trail and you'll find their backers.
Puts a whole new spin on our candidates, don't it? Look at their "platforms", then look at their voting history. The patterns are usually blatantly obvious for any who so chose to look. It's then the job of the candidates ( and their parties ) to bullshit us into believing we aren't seeing what we're seeing. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Don't look behind the curtain, folks, just punch the ticket and elect the next nutjob into office.
Forgive me, but "no shit". Any process you run on your machine reduces security by it's very nature. However, it's still true that there is an overall net gain in security by wrapping up highly exposed processes in a VM and calling it a day ( sendmail anyone? ). While it's true that VMs are software and software has bugs ( always has and always will ), compare gaining access to a guest OS with gaining access to the host OS ( which, any OS running without a guest is considered for the purposes of this discussion ). In a guest, you would still have to exploit a bug which hasn't been patched to gain access to the host, and then you may still be limited depending on the particular exploit involved.
Theo may have had a valid point, I haven't read his comments, but the fact of the matter is that VMs are inherently more secure than running the service straight on the host.
we LOVE our standards. Without standards, where would we be?
K, just RTFA, and let me save the rest of you folks the suspense: There isn't one. It's a blurb about breaking standards and terabit ethernet. The slashdot summary just about nailed it.
Actually, the purpose of anybody in IT is increased productivity. The primary goal of increased productivity is delivering data to the end user. Security is critical to this process, but it is merely a part of this process, not the goal.
I think it's meant as more a side effect of our work in trying to use nature to further our own machines. No point in reinventing the wheel when we have a perfectly good device behind our own eyes capable of things that take huge and expensive computers hours to do what we can do in a few seconds, and that we're more accurate. Image recognition? Physical movements for robots?
Who knows what this line of research will yield? It may yield "aware" computers, but more likely it'll further the technology beyond anything we could achieve on our own in the same time period.
or perhaps she just love spending time with you - and this is a way to get that time
True enough! But she genuinely loves watching someone play the game. I have friends that come over and play on my computer, and she goes and watches them too.
My daughter is already facinated by games, and she's 3. She loves watching daddy play WoW, and most Wii games. She doesn't have the cooridnation yet, but she still loves to play games.
I think any time a child shows interest in any activity, as long as it's monitored and moderated, they should be allowed to do it. And as far as how it compares to the TV; games are more like books that a child can play. I personally think they rank right up there with books as far as importance in this day and age ( note that this means if my daughter plays games for an hour, we read for an hour too ).
Instead, my daughter and I go to Borders or B&N. The library is so far out of the way and I'm so lazy about returning books, it usually amounts to the same thing anyway.
For now, you need to treat any pbx like a pbx. The intranet infrastructure you control, so you can do what you want there. But from the copper out, you need to go with what's reliable. And for now, that's copper/traditional telco lines.
I have done several pbx installations, voip and otherwise, and let me tell you: People love asterisk. I get them setup with copper/t1s, and everything else is gravy.
It's possibly worth noting here that there is precidence for this. I know of at least 1 large financial package ( which Cities use ) that does this in TSQL.
Yes, that's right. This is the same software that pays my checks AND takes payments for city services. And the company wants to have our servers here connect up over http ( not https ) to pull sql scripts to run.
Out of curiosity, would you also argue that Linux is an inferior solution to Windows because existing software does not work on it?
That's a bit of fallacious argument. More accurate comparison would be, say, apps under the 2.4 kernel not working under the 2.6 kernel ( which is false. Any app not directly related to the kernel should work just fine under both kernels ).
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There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
Oh? Why not? The world runs on money. You find something someone else wants, you charge them to let them have it. That, in itself, is not evil. Not all artists are pure; indeed, most are not. They found a way to make money off of something they are good at. There's nothing wrong with that, we all do that every day ( if we are lucky ).
Where metalica tripped up was in blaming technology for their own distributer's lack of innovation. The entire music industry missed the file sharing boat and spent years trying to plug the damn with a finger. Now, we have things like itunes and such, and notice how we don't hear about services like kazaa it's ilk.
Let's look at some numbers
A 10 PB storage system could be built for about $4700 with an annual operational cost (power for running and cooling the system) of about $50.
Ya, 10 PETA BYTES for 4700 bucks? I don't think so. And an annual operating cost of 50 bucks, that includes power and cooling? Again, no. Now, let's focus on the administrative overhead of replacing disks and failed system. The larger the setup, the more administrative work there would be.
The rest of the idea has merit, but it almost seems to be that they are trying to compare apples to oranges with their comparison to tape. Tape's appeal is that it is long term storage that requires little maintenance. The same can't be said for this.
True enough, my point was more aimed at comparing these kind of jerks with the troubled kids than the salaries of those who have to support them.
As I have said before, I don't get paid enough to deal with people like this. Nobody does, unless you work in a group home for troubled kids. I work in a professional environment, and if these folks can't act professionally, then I don't work with them. It's that simple.
Here's what he could have done differently:
Document the abusive jerk's attitude. Recording it would have been ideal. Then, refuse to work with him until his attitude is under control. When he whines up the tree high enough, play back the recording and repeat after me: "I don't get paid to deal with this".
They'll either fix the problem, or you'll leave the company. Either way, you have gotten what you truly wanted.
I use linux because, in certain instances, it's the right tool for the job. I'm busy. I don't have time to play around tinkering anymore ( and yes, I do have grey hair, thank you very much ). So when I want something that'll "just work", I analyse all the tools at my disposal, and choose one based on merits.
Quite often that's linux. Sometimes that's windows. But regardless of the choice, the end result is hopefully the same: A system that just works without me needing to constantly hold it's hand.
...each copy with secret water marks throughout the software, traceable back to the folks that signed the NDA that promised the left AND right nut should they spill the beans.
ya, can't imagine how that doesn't happen more often.
We already see this behavior. Phishing anybody? How many of us get "BRITTAANNYIES OUT LATE NIGHT PARTYING" emails?
Here I am, some lowly line level system tech for a smallish town, and I'd be handed my marching orders were I even a quarter as incompetent as the white house staff seems to be. Which leads me to suspect:
1) Either they are that incompetent, and it's just a symptom of big government not knowing it's ass from it's face
OR
2) These people are purposefully appearing this inept.
Either option isn't pleasant, and both lead to a serious problem with our government where there will likely be no repercussions from this.
But then, we all knew that already, didn't we?
I've had my suspicions for a while, but honestly, who's shocked? This world is run on money. If you see a politician pushing something, just follow the money trail and you'll find their backers.
Puts a whole new spin on our candidates, don't it? Look at their "platforms", then look at their voting history. The patterns are usually blatantly obvious for any who so chose to look. It's then the job of the candidates ( and their parties ) to bullshit us into believing we aren't seeing what we're seeing. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Don't look behind the curtain, folks, just punch the ticket and elect the next nutjob into office.
Forgive me, but "no shit". Any process you run on your machine reduces security by it's very nature. However, it's still true that there is an overall net gain in security by wrapping up highly exposed processes in a VM and calling it a day ( sendmail anyone? ). While it's true that VMs are software and software has bugs ( always has and always will ), compare gaining access to a guest OS with gaining access to the host OS ( which, any OS running without a guest is considered for the purposes of this discussion ). In a guest, you would still have to exploit a bug which hasn't been patched to gain access to the host, and then you may still be limited depending on the particular exploit involved.
Theo may have had a valid point, I haven't read his comments, but the fact of the matter is that VMs are inherently more secure than running the service straight on the host.
we LOVE our standards. Without standards, where would we be?
K, just RTFA, and let me save the rest of you folks the suspense: There isn't one. It's a blurb about breaking standards and terabit ethernet. The slashdot summary just about nailed it.
Actually, the purpose of anybody in IT is increased productivity. The primary goal of increased productivity is delivering data to the end user. Security is critical to this process, but it is merely a part of this process, not the goal.
I think it's meant as more a side effect of our work in trying to use nature to further our own machines. No point in reinventing the wheel when we have a perfectly good device behind our own eyes capable of things that take huge and expensive computers hours to do what we can do in a few seconds, and that we're more accurate. Image recognition? Physical movements for robots?
Who knows what this line of research will yield? It may yield "aware" computers, but more likely it'll further the technology beyond anything we could achieve on our own in the same time period.
If that's true, that'd give me a whole new respect for MS. They are certainly capable of it, that's a given.
( Note: I am an asshole, and I approve of this message )
or perhaps she just love spending time with you - and this is a way to get that time
True enough! But she genuinely loves watching someone play the game. I have friends that come over and play on my computer, and she goes and watches them too.
My daughter is already facinated by games, and she's 3. She loves watching daddy play WoW, and most Wii games. She doesn't have the cooridnation yet, but she still loves to play games.
I think any time a child shows interest in any activity, as long as it's monitored and moderated, they should be allowed to do it. And as far as how it compares to the TV; games are more like books that a child can play. I personally think they rank right up there with books as far as importance in this day and age ( note that this means if my daughter plays games for an hour, we read for an hour too ).
Absolutely brilliant post; I doubt most people here really appreciate it. Given that you were modded funny instead of insightful speaks volumes
"Make no more silly resolutions just because a calendar # changes"
Still holding it.
Instead, my daughter and I go to Borders or B&N. The library is so far out of the way and I'm so lazy about returning books, it usually amounts to the same thing anyway.
For now, you need to treat any pbx like a pbx. The intranet infrastructure you control, so you can do what you want there. But from the copper out, you need to go with what's reliable. And for now, that's copper/traditional telco lines.
I have done several pbx installations, voip and otherwise, and let me tell you: People love asterisk. I get them setup with copper/t1s, and everything else is gravy.
It's possibly worth noting here that there is precidence for this. I know of at least 1 large financial package ( which Cities use ) that does this in TSQL.
Yes, that's right. This is the same software that pays my checks AND takes payments for city services. And the company wants to have our servers here connect up over http ( not https ) to pull sql scripts to run.
compulsively masturbating virgins.
I can quit any time.
Sit down, jr, you might be in for a shock:
Vader is Luke's father. Oh, and snape kills dumbledor ( after a gay affair ).
Who wants to tell them we've been doing this for years already?
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Out of curiosity, would you also argue that Linux is an inferior solution to Windows because existing software does not work on it?
That's a bit of fallacious argument. More accurate comparison would be, say, apps under the 2.4 kernel not working under the 2.6 kernel ( which is false. Any app not directly related to the kernel should work just fine under both kernels ).