Over time, systems get refactored for uses that they were not originally intended, so that box named web1 is now an ftp server and nobody bothered to rename it. The same happens when you try to name them by physical location. r1a2r10n5 got moved from Room 1, Aisle 2, Rack 10, Number 5 to another room entirely.
The easiest time I had dealig with servers was when they were named after japanese monsters. We had Godzilla, Mothra, etc. We all know that Godzilla was the PostresSQL server. If a box's purpose changed, we didn't have to worry about renaming it and people would eventually learn its new purpose.
The paradox assumes radio (and variations) would continue to be used for the entire period. What if something better is just waiting for us to discover and most advanced civilizations switch to it. The universe could be filled with thousands of advanced civilizations jabbering away at each other and we simply don't have a clue because we're listening to that quaint old fashioned radio stuff.
There's a lesson to be learned here. DON'T FARKING LET MIDDLE MANAGEMENT BYPASS YOUR TRIED AND TRUE TEST/RELEASE PROCEDURE. Yes, the initial problem was bad, but the rush to get a fix out made it much much worse. Upper management is at fault here for allowing middle management pencil pushing idiots to do this to the company's reputation. Procedures are in place for a damn good reason.
In the business world that pretty much sums it up. You don't need to know how to do something. However, despite what you say, figuring out what consumers really want and are willing to pay for is damn hard. Companies spend billions trying to answer this question. Most of the results are complete failures. A few ideas make a few people very rich.
Geeks can be absolutely brilliant in their field. Given the right direction they can come up with the next big thing. However, most geeks spend their time on little pet projects that will never make a dime. The sad part is when the business man comes up with an idea and the geek implements it, the businessman usually doesn't give the geek enough credit, aka $$$.
The most rare of exceptions is when the geek comes up with an idea that becomes the next big thing.
It's not a question of most women not wanting to work as strippers, it's a simple fact that most women could never make a living as a stripper. The majority of people (both men and women) do not look all that good naked.
In Santa Monica, California (affectionately known as Soviet Monica) the rent control laws were so strict that landlords couldn't charge enough to break even. This resulted in a black market where you had to pay a huge bribe up front to get an apartment or rental house. Santa Monica was a favored place for well off young couples to live for about five years so they could save up a down payment for their own house.
This wasn't the worst of it. My mom's boss bought a small house in Santa Monica with the intention of living in it. It was pretty run down so needed a lot of work to make it livable. The rent control board decided that since the house had previously been rented, it would remain a rental unit even though no one had lived in it for several years! He had to hire lawyers and sue Santa Monica just for the right to live in his own hose. In the meantime, they wouldn't issue him the permits needed to repair the building.
I'm fairly certain they've changed the rental laws there by now, but I haven't lived in that area for over 10 years so I'm not positive.
Chris Rock has a routine that bullets should cost $5000, because if a bullet cost $5000 there would be no death by random bullets.
And it's a damn stupid idea. I like to target shoot. On a typical trip to the range I go through several hundred rounds of ammo. Under his idiotic plan, my hobby would cost me at least a million dollars. He wants to tax an innocent hobby so that only the very rich and elite chosen class can afford it.
His idea also assumes that criminals would follow the law and only buy their ammo from legitimate ammo suppliers. At $5000/bullet I don't think illegal immigrants would have a problem with a pocket of bullets when they sneak across the border.
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Having met Mr. Scalzi, I can guarantee that he would see it the highest praise possible to compare him to Heinlein.
Not a big deal. Back when I used to work on high powered lasers I accidentally used myself to discharge a bank of 30kv capacitors and it didn' t affect affect affect affect me one little b-b-b-b-b-bit.
Kidding aside, every single muscle in my body hurt like hell. Muscles I didn't know I had hurt.
To put it simply, NO. The judge put a very narrow restriction on the information. Any other use is a violation of that restriction. Judges take a dim view of being ignored.
Seasoned programmers are uber geeks. They don't have much of a life so you can easily get on their good side. Make sure they get at least one good meal while at work. Allow them to drink beer on the job. Most geeks don't actually like beer, so you won't have much to worry about. They just want to be able to brag that they can drink at work. Most importantly, geeks have no social life. So once a week or so take them to a nudie bar.
Oh, you said "manage". I thought you said "manipulate". My bad.
Many years ago I donated money to Green Peace on a regular basis. Then it dawned on me that they had been taken over by the lunatic fringe. My charity money now goes to more worthy organizations (my current favorite is Spirit of America). I canceled my ACLU membership for similar reasons.
Next we'd have to implement affirmative action in areas where those stinkin' neanderthals are taking our jobs just because they are stronger and have more stamina.
On a serious note, I think there are some serious moral implications to be considered.
hehe, I was just thinking of a neanderthal being told the purpose of the javelin event. "I throw this to the other side of the field and I don't have to hit a target? So where's the challenge? Do you have a longer field?"
Because the people think the politicians are above us, they allow them to get privileges that we, the great unwashed masses, do not get. That's wrong. The politicians are us (in theory). They should be treated the same way. Therefore, the people who accessed Obama's phone records and the people who accessed Joe's records are guilty of exactly the same thing and deserve exactly the same punishment. I might further argue that the government employees deserve a more severe punishment because they did it as an official of the government. I consider government corruption to be more serious than private sector corruption.
Including age based questions like that can get you in big trouble with the labor board (at least this is true here in California). The correct way to do this is to ask questions about experience, e.g. "what does your ten years of experience give me over the person with two years of experience?"
I wonder how all those security researchers feel after destroying a legitimate commercial enterprise and affecting a lot of people who weren't spammers.
Let's say you rent some space anf open a small convenience store. You work hard and make a modest living. Then your landlord rents out the shop next door to a crack dealer who's thriving business attracts a swarm of lowlifes who destroy the neighborhood. Are you going to be upset with the neighborhood watch when they make a fuss, or are you going to be upset with your landlord?
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It's not always a simple thing to change a machine name. Especially if another department controls things like ldap/active directory.
Over time, systems get refactored for uses that they were not originally intended, so that box named web1 is now an ftp server and nobody bothered to rename it. The same happens when you try to name them by physical location. r1a2r10n5 got moved from Room 1, Aisle 2, Rack 10, Number 5 to another room entirely.
The easiest time I had dealig with servers was when they were named after japanese monsters. We had Godzilla, Mothra, etc. We all know that Godzilla was the PostresSQL server. If a box's purpose changed, we didn't have to worry about renaming it and people would eventually learn its new purpose.
Whimsical names work.
The paradox assumes radio (and variations) would continue to be used for the entire period. What if something better is just waiting for us to discover and most advanced civilizations switch to it. The universe could be filled with thousands of advanced civilizations jabbering away at each other and we simply don't have a clue because we're listening to that quaint old fashioned radio stuff.
This is the excuse radical islam uses to blow up children. I don't care what you are fighting for, there are some things you just do not do.
There's a lesson to be learned here. DON'T FARKING LET MIDDLE MANAGEMENT BYPASS YOUR TRIED AND TRUE TEST/RELEASE PROCEDURE. Yes, the initial problem was bad, but the rush to get a fix out made it much much worse. Upper management is at fault here for allowing middle management pencil pushing idiots to do this to the company's reputation. Procedures are in place for a damn good reason.
I'm not sure that is possible since there is no end to those pricks.
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FTFY.
In the business world that pretty much sums it up. You don't need to know how to do something. However, despite what you say, figuring out what consumers really want and are willing to pay for is damn hard. Companies spend billions trying to answer this question. Most of the results are complete failures. A few ideas make a few people very rich.
Geeks can be absolutely brilliant in their field. Given the right direction they can come up with the next big thing. However, most geeks spend their time on little pet projects that will never make a dime. The sad part is when the business man comes up with an idea and the geek implements it, the businessman usually doesn't give the geek enough credit, aka $$$.
The most rare of exceptions is when the geek comes up with an idea that becomes the next big thing.
If you are male, I have no desire to see you naked. If you are female, that would depend. So was that an offer?
It's not a question of most women not wanting to work as strippers, it's a simple fact that most women could never make a living as a stripper. The majority of people (both men and women) do not look all that good naked.
In Santa Monica, California (affectionately known as Soviet Monica) the rent control laws were so strict that landlords couldn't charge enough to break even. This resulted in a black market where you had to pay a huge bribe up front to get an apartment or rental house. Santa Monica was a favored place for well off young couples to live for about five years so they could save up a down payment for their own house.
This wasn't the worst of it. My mom's boss bought a small house in Santa Monica with the intention of living in it. It was pretty run down so needed a lot of work to make it livable. The rent control board decided that since the house had previously been rented, it would remain a rental unit even though no one had lived in it for several years! He had to hire lawyers and sue Santa Monica just for the right to live in his own hose. In the meantime, they wouldn't issue him the permits needed to repair the building.
I'm fairly certain they've changed the rental laws there by now, but I haven't lived in that area for over 10 years so I'm not positive.
And it's a damn stupid idea. I like to target shoot. On a typical trip to the range I go through several hundred rounds of ammo. Under his idiotic plan, my hobby would cost me at least a million dollars. He wants to tax an innocent hobby so that only the very rich and elite chosen class can afford it.
His idea also assumes that criminals would follow the law and only buy their ammo from legitimate ammo suppliers. At $5000/bullet I don't think illegal immigrants would have a problem with a pocket of bullets when they sneak across the border.
Having met Mr. Scalzi, I can guarantee that he would see it the highest praise possible to compare him to Heinlein.
Not a big deal. Back when I used to work on high powered lasers I accidentally used myself to discharge a bank of 30kv capacitors and it didn' t affect affect affect affect me one little b-b-b-b-b-bit.
Kidding aside, every single muscle in my body hurt like hell. Muscles I didn't know I had hurt.
To put it simply, NO. The judge put a very narrow restriction on the information. Any other use is a violation of that restriction. Judges take a dim view of being ignored.
Seasoned programmers are uber geeks. They don't have much of a life so you can easily get on their good side. Make sure they get at least one good meal while at work. Allow them to drink beer on the job. Most geeks don't actually like beer, so you won't have much to worry about. They just want to be able to brag that they can drink at work. Most importantly, geeks have no social life. So once a week or so take them to a nudie bar.
Oh, you said "manage". I thought you said "manipulate". My bad.
I am so glad I am no longer a parent of a teenage girl. I got a headache from reading that.
Just hand these out to teenage girls and we'll have enough power to supply the entire world for all its needs.
And yet the same idiots keep getting re-elected.
Who's fault is that?
Many years ago I donated money to Green Peace on a regular basis. Then it dawned on me that they had been taken over by the lunatic fringe. My charity money now goes to more worthy organizations (my current favorite is Spirit of America). I canceled my ACLU membership for similar reasons.
Next we'd have to implement affirmative action in areas where those stinkin' neanderthals are taking our jobs just because they are stronger and have more stamina.
On a serious note, I think there are some serious moral implications to be considered.
hehe, I was just thinking of a neanderthal being told the purpose of the javelin event. "I throw this to the other side of the field and I don't have to hit a target? So where's the challenge? Do you have a longer field?"
Because the people think the politicians are above us, they allow them to get privileges that we, the great unwashed masses, do not get. That's wrong. The politicians are us (in theory). They should be treated the same way. Therefore, the people who accessed Obama's phone records and the people who accessed Joe's records are guilty of exactly the same thing and deserve exactly the same punishment. I might further argue that the government employees deserve a more severe punishment because they did it as an official of the government. I consider government corruption to be more serious than private sector corruption.
Including age based questions like that can get you in big trouble with the labor board (at least this is true here in California). The correct way to do this is to ask questions about experience, e.g. "what does your ten years of experience give me over the person with two years of experience?"
Let's say you rent some space anf open a small convenience store. You work hard and make a modest living. Then your landlord rents out the shop next door to a crack dealer who's thriving business attracts a swarm of lowlifes who destroy the neighborhood. Are you going to be upset with the neighborhood watch when they make a fuss, or are you going to be upset with your landlord?
Think about it. I'm sure they had to try a bunch of times to get it to pass the taste test. Who volunteered to test it? How much were they paid?
They couldn't hire winos since you could give them pure, unpurified urine and they'd say it was an excellent vintage.