that despite having been around for 25 years there are A TON of devices that don't use the NIST time server to get an accurate time signal, especially considering the ICs for picking up the signal have gotten ridiculously cheap (pennies)... Wake me up when my microwave, VCR, and alarm clock (from Walgreens) sync up their time automatically after a power outage.
I would be careful: "Knowing UNIX" and "Memorizing a bunch of inane specific trivia" are two very different things. Assuming your memory is finite, why would you waste it on memorizing how to do "a", "b" or "c" in a shell?
Given the wealth of resources and reference information made available by the internet I think anyone with a basic understanding of a UNIX environment can get the job done on any OS/shell with the proper motivation; how can you be sure you're actually testing what you *think* you're testing? I think the problem with your approach is that it isn't designed to handle candidates who may be specialized in a particular distribution (AIX, Solars, HP-UX, AIX, RedHat, SuSE) or shell (csh, tsh, ksh, bash), especially considering that no one *I know* who "Knows UNIX" uses a default shell that someone would open for them at a interview. You're also probably filtering candidates who may be stronger in terms of problem-solving abilities rather than trivia (which may ultimately be more valuable to your company).
My guess is that you're simply skewing your results to decrease the number of "false positives" at the cost of increased "false negatives". While that may still allow you to reach your goal (you'll get a "positive" match or a hire) it might be at the cost of filtering out candidates who truly are more qualified.
What you're talking about is a boundary condition of the system. The greater majority of EBay users are *not* new/"zero feedback" bidders and actually do care about their "community" reputation. While I certainly don't dispute your assertion "zero feedback bidders" I also don't think it's representative (overall) of what selling on EBay is like, especially considering the ~50 auctions I've conducted in the last 2 years and the number of zero feedback winners (one? two?)
is that when you win an auction is practically a binding contract; you can't just flippantly decide that you don't want the thing anymore or that you found a better price somewhere else.
Just try selling a handful of things on Craigslist and see for yourself whether people are flaky when there's no obligation to carry through on commitments. Unless Google can offer something that's binding I don't see it attracting EBay's seller community.
While accurate ~5 years ago your comments, in today's terms, are totally off.
First, the overhead is minimal (~5%). Virtualization is everywhere, *especially* in backend infrastructure and business applications. The flexibility that the virtual machine gives you FAR outweighs any small performance penalty. Go take a look at the list of reference customers VMware has of people who are very happy with virtualizing; many of them run Oracle databases in VM.
Second, not *all* VMware products require a license. The VMware Player is free and so is the VMware Server; what you do have to pay for is if you decide to use ESX (no OS overhead) or VMotion (to handle multiple ESX nodes).
In terms of startup time there's no "overhead" for a virtual machine; a slimmed down OS is a slimmed down OS. The same is basically true for memory footprint as well. The real savings is in terms of installation time and configuration of settings, which is obviously what the OP had trouble with.
I think the comment about using the RPM is a good idea (so is trying it with 10G or the "community edition"). I don't doubt you had problems but maybe it was a bad set of binaries (did you check the MD5 on the download)? I'm also sure that Oracle is all-too-happy to sell you a support contract but I wouldn't go so far as to say "You can't install Oracle on Linux without a support contract"; I took an Oracle class at community college and this was one of the things multiple people in the class did right at the start.
I agree; what's even more likely is that you'll see an Oracle "Virtual Appliance" which is basically an Oracle installation on Linux/Solaris/AIX inside a VMware virtual machine. This means you simply download the VM files and hit "play" and you have an optimized OS + (reasonably) optimized DB; just create your tables, indexes, and go...
Microsoft never provided an upgrade path (tools, codefix, anything) for FoxPRO users stranded with DOS databases that were't Y2K compliant. Of what use is a new release if you're stuck migrating anyway?
Yahoo still has a ton of content and features that Google doesn't offer. The comprehensive nature of their offerings keeps me going back even though I'm plenty net-savy.
Actually the functionality that you're looking for is available, albeit in protoypes in academia. Marc Davis at UC Berkeley (formerly of MIT Media Lab) has been working on automatically capturing video metadata and storing using the facilities of MPEG4 in conjunction with sophisticated searching. Have a look here.
LOS ANGELES, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said on Wednesday.
The Entertainment Software Association said the Dec. 1 raids at three Pandora's Cube stores in Maryland and Virginia were a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Justice's computer crimes unit, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Maryland and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Authorities arrested two store employees on charges of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures, the ESA said.
"One of them is someone who has a more substantial role with the company," said Chunnie Wright, anti-piracy counsel to the ESA. She could not provide more details due to the ongoing nature of the criminal case.
Like other entertainment industries, the video game business has aggressively pursued the pirates that it says account for billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.
But because video games tend to have very large digital files, a large part of the industry's piracy problem stems from illegal hardware and illegal copying of game discs.
Pandora's Cube, Wright said, sold $500 "Super Xbox" consoles, modified versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console, that had been modified to hold larger hard drives and play pirated games.
The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the hard drive, were on open display in the stores.
"They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.
Pandora's Cube operates three stores, in Baltimore and College Park, Maryland, and Springfield, Virginia. Company officials were not immediately available to comment.
Besides industry efforts, some individual game companies have taken steps of late to stop piracy. Last month Nintendo Co. Ltd. won a court order barring the sale of devices running pirated copies of classic Nintendo video games.
When I posted that Toshiba laptops suck and that I had firmware problems, nobody even saw my post due to unjust karma... and what's new, no one will see this post either.
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that despite having been around for 25 years there are A TON of devices that don't use the NIST time server to get an accurate time signal, especially considering the ICs for picking up the signal have gotten ridiculously cheap (pennies)... Wake me up when my microwave, VCR, and alarm clock (from Walgreens) sync up their time automatically after a power outage.
Maybe you should ask yourself "Where are Cray and IBM today?"
I would be careful: "Knowing UNIX" and "Memorizing a bunch of inane specific trivia" are two very different things. Assuming your memory is finite, why would you waste it on memorizing how to do "a", "b" or "c" in a shell?
Given the wealth of resources and reference information made available by the internet I think anyone with a basic understanding of a UNIX environment can get the job done on any OS/shell with the proper motivation; how can you be sure you're actually testing what you *think* you're testing? I think the problem with your approach is that it isn't designed to handle candidates who may be specialized in a particular distribution (AIX, Solars, HP-UX, AIX, RedHat, SuSE) or shell (csh, tsh, ksh, bash), especially considering that no one *I know* who "Knows UNIX" uses a default shell that someone would open for them at a interview. You're also probably filtering candidates who may be stronger in terms of problem-solving abilities rather than trivia (which may ultimately be more valuable to your company).
My guess is that you're simply skewing your results to decrease the number of "false positives" at the cost of increased "false negatives". While that may still allow you to reach your goal (you'll get a "positive" match or a hire) it might be at the cost of filtering out candidates who truly are more qualified.
I can only imagine what would have happened if they had reported *pro forma* numbers instead like Google...
The stock has also given back all its gains from the after-hours session yesterday; glad I took some profit!
What you're talking about is a boundary condition of the system. The greater majority of EBay users are *not* new/"zero feedback" bidders and actually do care about their "community" reputation. While I certainly don't dispute your assertion "zero feedback bidders" I also don't think it's representative (overall) of what selling on EBay is like, especially considering the ~50 auctions I've conducted in the last 2 years and the number of zero feedback winners (one? two?)
is that when you win an auction is practically a binding contract; you can't just flippantly decide that you don't want the thing anymore or that you found a better price somewhere else.
Just try selling a handful of things on Craigslist and see for yourself whether people are flaky when there's no obligation to carry through on commitments. Unless Google can offer something that's binding I don't see it attracting EBay's seller community.
Yet *another* reason to stick with Win2k!!!
While accurate ~5 years ago your comments, in today's terms, are totally off.
First, the overhead is minimal (~5%). Virtualization is everywhere, *especially* in backend infrastructure and business applications. The flexibility that the virtual machine gives you FAR outweighs any small performance penalty. Go take a look at the list of reference customers VMware has of people who are very happy with virtualizing; many of them run Oracle databases in VM.
Second, not *all* VMware products require a license. The VMware Player is free and so is the VMware Server; what you do have to pay for is if you decide to use ESX (no OS overhead) or VMotion (to handle multiple ESX nodes).
In terms of startup time there's no "overhead" for a virtual machine; a slimmed down OS is a slimmed down OS. The same is basically true for memory footprint as well. The real savings is in terms of installation time and configuration of settings, which is obviously what the OP had trouble with.
I think the comment about using the RPM is a good idea (so is trying it with 10G or the "community edition"). I don't doubt you had problems but maybe it was a bad set of binaries (did you check the MD5 on the download)? I'm also sure that Oracle is all-too-happy to sell you a support contract but I wouldn't go so far as to say "You can't install Oracle on Linux without a support contract"; I took an Oracle class at community college and this was one of the things multiple people in the class did right at the start.
I agree; what's even more likely is that you'll see an Oracle "Virtual Appliance" which is basically an Oracle installation on Linux/Solaris/AIX inside a VMware virtual machine. This means you simply download the VM files and hit "play" and you have an optimized OS + (reasonably) optimized DB; just create your tables, indexes, and go...
Consumer jihad?
Read it again: "...watching one show and recording another at the same time"
Many VCRs let you watch one channel and record another; it's actually a matter of there being two tuners, one in the TV and one in the VCR.
Amen. The bias is palpable.
Microsoft never provided an upgrade path (tools, codefix, anything) for FoxPRO users stranded with DOS databases that were't Y2K compliant. Of what use is a new release if you're stuck migrating anyway?
Yahoo still has a ton of content and features that Google doesn't offer. The comprehensive nature of their offerings keeps me going back even though I'm plenty net-savy.
Actually, what you're observing is a "law of three" and is a basic principle of economics and market capitalism.
considering IBM's Websphere Product Center is IE-only, this is hilarious...
Ummm, I think you mean kB...
As soon as you can add birthdays in bulk from your Yahoo! Address Book you'll be all set.
Not a "passing fad", just a business unit that deals with low-margin commodity products that add little to the bottom line.
Actually the functionality that you're looking for is available, albeit in protoypes in academia. Marc Davis at UC Berkeley (formerly of MIT Media Lab) has been working on automatically capturing video metadata and storing using the facilities of MPEG4 in conjunction with sophisticated searching. Have a look here.
LOS ANGELES, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said on Wednesday.
The Entertainment Software Association said the Dec. 1 raids at three Pandora's Cube stores in Maryland and Virginia were a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Justice's computer crimes unit, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Maryland and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Authorities arrested two store employees on charges of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures, the ESA said.
"One of them is someone who has a more substantial role with the company," said Chunnie Wright, anti-piracy counsel to the ESA. She could not provide more details due to the ongoing nature of the criminal case.
Like other entertainment industries, the video game business has aggressively pursued the pirates that it says account for billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.
But because video games tend to have very large digital files, a large part of the industry's piracy problem stems from illegal hardware and illegal copying of game discs.
Pandora's Cube, Wright said, sold $500 "Super Xbox" consoles, modified versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console, that had been modified to hold larger hard drives and play pirated games.
The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the hard drive, were on open display in the stores.
"They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.
Pandora's Cube operates three stores, in Baltimore and College Park, Maryland, and Springfield, Virginia. Company officials were not immediately available to comment.
Besides industry efforts, some individual game companies have taken steps of late to stop piracy. Last month Nintendo Co. Ltd. won a court order barring the sale of devices running pirated copies of classic Nintendo video games.
Use Indian voting machines. One Billion people in the world's largest democracy, all electronic, and 0 problems.
Scheme's 'cons' is far cooler.
When I posted that Toshiba laptops suck and that I had firmware problems, nobody even saw my post due to unjust karma... and what's new, no one will see this post either.