Apply your silly argument to electrical wiring and you'll see exactly how silly it is.
In my jurisdiction, there's no licensing for low-voltage. If the organization is self-inspecting then there's no penalty for a shoddy job without proper penetrations and firestopping and supporting the cable in the ceiling, and even for an entity that can't self-inspect, if there's no licensing or permitting required, changes can be made without an inspector ever taking a look at the work.
It flat-out comes down to priorities from those at the top of the organization. Now that Target has gotten spanked because of something dumb, they'll give it the priority that it deserves.
There's no need for client-side CGI for a simple comments system. I'd bet that if you reverted the UI to the previous system to what they're calling the "classic" system, no one would really be too upset.
Change for the sake of change is of no benefit to the user. UI designers don't seem to get that. Slashdot is not Facebook, it's not Twitter, it's not even Usenet. Its job is to present the reader with a headline, a story, and an ability to read comments and post comments. The mod system works fairly well to curtail the worst abuses, and it's quick, easy, and intuitive to use.
Dice would do well to heed the lessons that Microsoft is learning now, the hard way. For MS, Windows 8 has proven to be a huge boondoggle, to the point that they're talking about both updating 8/8.1 to a UI akin to the Windows 7 UI, and are already talking about replacing 8 with 9.
Stop trying to change the UI. This UI would not have been in service this long, and Slashdot would not have been worth acquiring, had there not been some magic in its design. Sure, tweak on it a bit, make it interconnect better if that's deemed necessary, but throwing out our teal horizontal headlines and post subjects and getting rid of our white backgrounds doesn't help anything.
They (BMW) already have a lower-end model, it's called the Mini Cooper.
And Mercedes has Smart, and even had Smart in North America for a time.
And the analogy falls apart when one considers that Apple isn't really a premium brand anyway. Unfortunately the premium brands are essentially gone now. SGI, Sun, hell, even HP and IBM had their high, high end workstations. Apple doesn't make high-end, they make commodity. They make some things that are better than others, but for every Cadillac they have plenty of Buicks and Chevrolets.
You'd need to read up on SCO vs Novell et al, I don't think that the argument by Novell and company that SCO had implicitly granted permissions for the code that they were suing about by continuing to distribute the successor to Caldera OpenLinux, which contained a GPL license with the theoretically offending code, was recognized. If it had been then the suit would not have lasted for as long as it did.
I have an idea, trying working network infrastructure for even a metro-sized organization, where there are less than a handful of staff members for dozens of sites, and those staff members don't have the authority to keep service technicians for other disciplines out of the telecom closets and enclosures. Now take away their budget so that they have to scrounge for patch cords, and set up a situation where building facilities staff routinely make changes without informing the IT department, let alone infrastructure.
Do that, then try to keep things consistently set up.
In short, I know how to do it, you know how to do it, most of us in the profession know how to do it. What we don't have is resources, and we're unlikely to get them.
HVAC now relies on controls that are themselves Ethernet devices. Those devices in turn need to be reachable over the computer network, and a third-party HVAC company that is paid to monitor and service the air conditioning will need access to those HVAC controllers and to EMS (Energy management system) controllers to do their work. Since the devices are components on the network that can authenticate via 802.1X, they'll need credentials both to be on the network and to allow that third party to VPN into the network to monitor them.
The stupid part is that the HVAC controllers were not vlanned off to their own segment, only connected to HVAC-monitoring computers and a VPN gateway for just this function, but given how congested IDFs are and how expensive the staff is to continually maintain vlans and associated ports, I'm not surprised at all that this happened.
Indeed, depending on what we put in our signatures and posts, we could trigger automatic content filtration on corporate proxy servers. Given how the average Slashdot reader is very likely to read the site at work if it isn't already blocked as a discussion forum, that should break a lot of access altogether and significantly curtail advertising revenue for the "first shift" time of day...
I wish more companies incorporated the swiveling camera that they came with
Yeah, a swiveling camera would have been handy on Chatroulette. With fixed cameras embedded in the screen frame it's much harder to actually see the reactions from the other participants...
Car Talk? Are you f***ing kidding me?! Two assholes with abrasive Boston accents sit there laughing like hyenas at everything the other one says? How anyone listens to that garbage I do not know. Every time it's about to come on I have to dive for the radio and switch it off because I can't even stand the sound of "Suppoht foh cah tawk..." intro, to say nothing of the fingernails-on-a-blackboard country music that follows.
Click: "You know what?"
Clack: "What?"
Click: "I got up early this mohning! Hwahwahwaaaa!"
Clack: "Hwahwahwa! Really?!"
Click: "Yeah! Hwa hwa hwa!!!"
Click and Clack in unison: "Hwa hwa hwa!"
Makes me want to punt the radio into next week.
RadioLab's okay, but the annoying editing is just...uh oh, here it comes... annoying, like when you're tuning into what someone's saying and his voice starts fading out yadda yadda yadda... narrator cuts in across the front of him to comment on who he is or what he's talking about. It'd be much easier to listen to without the gimmicky editing.
This American Life is okay, but I find Ira Glass' creaky voice a little hard to listen to sometimes. Sounds like he's constantly nervous.
As for the local announcers here on KQED, some are better than others. There's one guy who shall remain nameless who I have yet to hear complete a sentence without stumbling over himself, and there's a female announcer who's not much better. People like that wouldn't last long on the BBC. Maybe they're dyslexic or something and have a hard time reading what's in front of them, and I have nothing but sympathy, but they shouldn't be on the air.
But in general I find the quality of NPR's production values a lot higher than PBS. I guess it's a lot easier to do a good job on radio than on TV, so you don't need the BBC's massive budget to nail it.
Garrison Keillor, get to the f'ing point! This ain't Lake Woebegon!
And worse, that could directly impact the contractor's future work prospects, if they cite how bad a job the contractor has done, even though it wasn't his fault in the first place.
You don't work for that company directly. Your decline to take on their project will probably have more positive effect for that company, in the long run, than your attempting to salvage it and shooting your foot off. They'll be forced to either make the existing employee work on it or will be forced to scrap it and ask hard questions of the existing employee in the process.
I believe "nightsoil men" used to sell the human waste they carried away to tanners and farmers. In any case, the idea of using human waste as fertiliser is very a very old one. The massive wastage of human sewage is probably a modern phenomenon.
In efforts to expand our recycling program:
Compostable yard waste goes into the beige bin.
Clean, recycled paper goes into the blue bin.
Clean glass goes into the green bin.
Aluminum cans and metal products go into the orange bin.
Human and animal feces go into the brown bin.
Human and animal urine go into the yellow bin.
Medical waste, bandages, and used feminine hygiene products go into the red bin.
Thank you for your mandatory participation in our municipal recycling program.
...about this topic. They do cite that the National Weather Service had only issued a winter weather advisory for the area, not a watch or a warning, until 3:30am the day that all hell broke loose. Apparently local meteorologists disagreed with the NWS, but without their formal statements I'm not exactly surprised that public officials and employees didn't feel comfortable making statements.
Unfortunate situation all of the way around. What I don't get is why it took so incredibly long to resolve. It's almost like the city's traffic engineers were asleep and couldn't figure out where to start clearing first in order to unclog the logjam...
If the company can restrict the curriculum to avoid hard sciences and engineering in those countries facing export tariffs then I wouldn't object to it.
Why? A good general education program in Iran/Afghanistan would do a lot more to help fight the Taliban then the $4,000,000,000,000 they just wasted.
Because that good education could also serve to provide applicable knowledge to one's adversaries, especially in the science and engineering fields.
Think of it through another medium, in the form of those that our military is willing to take as enlistees. Known gang members are generally barred from enlisting, as there's concern that once they've acquired knowledge in learning how to fight and learning how to use weapons, they'll take that knowledge back to train their gang and will use it against the local civilian population. A single enlistment term is a fairly short amount of time, and given the fairly low death rate of our soldiers, it's very likely that someone will survive to return with this training without having 'been converted' in taking their true allegiance from their pre-military-service days.
For now I agree with not providing such educational services to those living in countries facing such export controls. Yes, it sucks for those people in those countries, but without practical ways to confirm that those using these services are not proxies of the state, there's no way to keep those states from benefiting from the service.
...in that some feeling of superiority or supremacy for either the group that one hails from, be it family, community, race, whatever, gives one the belief that one can achieve, or can achieve more than others.
Feeling of inadequacy guilts one into taking action, to actually attempt to strive to meet that perceived superiority.
Impulse control prevents one from going for instant short-term benefits when those benefits are small, when one can see longer-term benefits by being willing to settle for something lesser now.
I'm not going to get into the racism and other unfortunate points of the argument, but it's not that surprising to me that those that feel that they can achieve will achieve, while those that don't feel that they can achieve won't, by the averages.
In all seriousness, as compromised as the F-35 has been in what's been delivered to customers so far, it sounds like it'd be a fairly even match. Compromised plane against compromised plane.
And don't rule out older designs, the military used to train pilots in new planes by pitting them against experienced pilots in F4s and other older jets, and routinely the older jets would get kills against the new ones.
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In my jurisdiction, there's no licensing for low-voltage. If the organization is self-inspecting then there's no penalty for a shoddy job without proper penetrations and firestopping and supporting the cable in the ceiling, and even for an entity that can't self-inspect, if there's no licensing or permitting required, changes can be made without an inspector ever taking a look at the work.
It flat-out comes down to priorities from those at the top of the organization. Now that Target has gotten spanked because of something dumb, they'll give it the priority that it deserves.
There's no need for client-side CGI for a simple comments system. I'd bet that if you reverted the UI to the previous system to what they're calling the "classic" system, no one would really be too upset.
Change for the sake of change is of no benefit to the user. UI designers don't seem to get that. Slashdot is not Facebook, it's not Twitter, it's not even Usenet. Its job is to present the reader with a headline, a story, and an ability to read comments and post comments. The mod system works fairly well to curtail the worst abuses, and it's quick, easy, and intuitive to use.
Dice would do well to heed the lessons that Microsoft is learning now, the hard way. For MS, Windows 8 has proven to be a huge boondoggle, to the point that they're talking about both updating 8/8.1 to a UI akin to the Windows 7 UI, and are already talking about replacing 8 with 9.
Stop trying to change the UI. This UI would not have been in service this long, and Slashdot would not have been worth acquiring, had there not been some magic in its design. Sure, tweak on it a bit, make it interconnect better if that's deemed necessary, but throwing out our teal horizontal headlines and post subjects and getting rid of our white backgrounds doesn't help anything.
They (BMW) already have a lower-end model, it's called the Mini Cooper.
And Mercedes has Smart, and even had Smart in North America for a time.
And the analogy falls apart when one considers that Apple isn't really a premium brand anyway. Unfortunately the premium brands are essentially gone now. SGI, Sun, hell, even HP and IBM had their high, high end workstations. Apple doesn't make high-end, they make commodity. They make some things that are better than others, but for every Cadillac they have plenty of Buicks and Chevrolets.
*sigh* This.
You'd need to read up on SCO vs Novell et al, I don't think that the argument by Novell and company that SCO had implicitly granted permissions for the code that they were suing about by continuing to distribute the successor to Caldera OpenLinux, which contained a GPL license with the theoretically offending code, was recognized. If it had been then the suit would not have lasted for as long as it did.
Ask for Babs...
I have an idea, trying working network infrastructure for even a metro-sized organization, where there are less than a handful of staff members for dozens of sites, and those staff members don't have the authority to keep service technicians for other disciplines out of the telecom closets and enclosures. Now take away their budget so that they have to scrounge for patch cords, and set up a situation where building facilities staff routinely make changes without informing the IT department, let alone infrastructure.
Do that, then try to keep things consistently set up.
In short, I know how to do it, you know how to do it, most of us in the profession know how to do it. What we don't have is resources, and we're unlikely to get them.
HVAC now relies on controls that are themselves Ethernet devices. Those devices in turn need to be reachable over the computer network, and a third-party HVAC company that is paid to monitor and service the air conditioning will need access to those HVAC controllers and to EMS (Energy management system) controllers to do their work. Since the devices are components on the network that can authenticate via 802.1X, they'll need credentials both to be on the network and to allow that third party to VPN into the network to monitor them.
The stupid part is that the HVAC controllers were not vlanned off to their own segment, only connected to HVAC-monitoring computers and a VPN gateway for just this function, but given how congested IDFs are and how expensive the staff is to continually maintain vlans and associated ports, I'm not surprised at all that this happened.
Indeed, depending on what we put in our signatures and posts, we could trigger automatic content filtration on corporate proxy servers. Given how the average Slashdot reader is very likely to read the site at work if it isn't already blocked as a discussion forum, that should break a lot of access altogether and significantly curtail advertising revenue for the "first shift" time of day...
Yeah, a swiveling camera would have been handy on Chatroulette. With fixed cameras embedded in the screen frame it's much harder to actually see the reactions from the other participants...
Garrison Keillor, get to the f'ing point! This ain't Lake Woebegon!
...I really don't like hair in my food or beverages, and it'd be a lot harder to send it back than finding a hair in an omelet or some other food...
And worse, that could directly impact the contractor's future work prospects, if they cite how bad a job the contractor has done, even though it wasn't his fault in the first place.
You don't work for that company directly. Your decline to take on their project will probably have more positive effect for that company, in the long run, than your attempting to salvage it and shooting your foot off. They'll be forced to either make the existing employee work on it or will be forced to scrap it and ask hard questions of the existing employee in the process.
I hope whoever wins this one has a handle that's a character name from Legend...
In efforts to expand our recycling program:
Thank you for your mandatory participation in our municipal recycling program.
That begs the question, would an otherwise natural rock launched into orbit be considered a natural satellite or an artificial satellite?
I guess that we've come a long way from the weather rock...
My name is Indigo Magenta. You killed my color. Prepare to dye!
You are aware that most tires on new vehicles have "M&S" emblazoned on them, which means Mud and Snow, right?
...about this topic. They do cite that the National Weather Service had only issued a winter weather advisory for the area, not a watch or a warning, until 3:30am the day that all hell broke loose. Apparently local meteorologists disagreed with the NWS, but without their formal statements I'm not exactly surprised that public officials and employees didn't feel comfortable making statements.
Unfortunate situation all of the way around. What I don't get is why it took so incredibly long to resolve. It's almost like the city's traffic engineers were asleep and couldn't figure out where to start clearing first in order to unclog the logjam...
If the company can restrict the curriculum to avoid hard sciences and engineering in those countries facing export tariffs then I wouldn't object to it.
Because that good education could also serve to provide applicable knowledge to one's adversaries, especially in the science and engineering fields.
Think of it through another medium, in the form of those that our military is willing to take as enlistees. Known gang members are generally barred from enlisting, as there's concern that once they've acquired knowledge in learning how to fight and learning how to use weapons, they'll take that knowledge back to train their gang and will use it against the local civilian population. A single enlistment term is a fairly short amount of time, and given the fairly low death rate of our soldiers, it's very likely that someone will survive to return with this training without having 'been converted' in taking their true allegiance from their pre-military-service days.
For now I agree with not providing such educational services to those living in countries facing such export controls. Yes, it sucks for those people in those countries, but without practical ways to confirm that those using these services are not proxies of the state, there's no way to keep those states from benefiting from the service.
...in that some feeling of superiority or supremacy for either the group that one hails from, be it family, community, race, whatever, gives one the belief that one can achieve, or can achieve more than others.
Feeling of inadequacy guilts one into taking action, to actually attempt to strive to meet that perceived superiority.
Impulse control prevents one from going for instant short-term benefits when those benefits are small, when one can see longer-term benefits by being willing to settle for something lesser now.
I'm not going to get into the racism and other unfortunate points of the argument, but it's not that surprising to me that those that feel that they can achieve will achieve, while those that don't feel that they can achieve won't, by the averages.
...for the current development level of the F-35?
In all seriousness, as compromised as the F-35 has been in what's been delivered to customers so far, it sounds like it'd be a fairly even match. Compromised plane against compromised plane.
And don't rule out older designs, the military used to train pilots in new planes by pitting them against experienced pilots in F4s and other older jets, and routinely the older jets would get kills against the new ones.