when you view the book, ambient light bounces off the page and is focussed to make a temporary copy image in your eye, then a representation of the image is processed by the retinal nerves and passed into your brain.
whilst your brain is comprehending the book and copy is kept in your short term memoru, and perhaps even transferred into your long term memory in an inexact form.
so reading a book does make a copy, albeit one that's going to be imperfect unless you have a phenomenal memory and can quote it word for word.
at my previous job there had been a programmer who used the same password for *everything*, and I do mean everything... from the mysql logins (both "root" and regular webapp), web site logins, shell accounts and the ssh passwords needed to move data around!
I discovered he had a blog site, and guess what, his standard password worked on that too, both to login as him and as admin. Whilst tempted, I neither added nor deleted anything on his site, but I *did* go occasionally go through his blog posts and correct his spelling and grammar! He must have noticed because after many months of occasionally tweaking his content, the login finally stopped working. Yes, I'm talking about you, "smurphy":-)
maybe now the SNP (Scottish National Party) are in charge in Scotland
probably not... the very first session when the new scottish parliament sat was to give themselves all a big payrise, so the scots mps have clearly decided to continue the "gravy train" that is European politics.
seems like there's even less reason to get a Sony Mylo these days, I wonder what marketing genius at Sony decided to create it? OK, so the Mylo has Skype and a thumboard, but it's very expensive. If it weren't for the locked nature of the PSP I'm sure some entrepreneur would have produced some interesting packages for the PSP which would have made it more useful as a general purpose communicator.
Trying to describe "western-run sweat-shops" as the great new saviour for third-world countries
I didn't way they were a good thing, merely that before people condemned them they should consider the facts.
Back on topic a bit: many people seem unaware that just as there's a European wide RoHS directive, so there's one in China too which is more stringent and posing problems for European exporters.
Ok, so, lets look at this as purely a supply/demand situation. If being a sex worker is all that great, how come the price is so high? Surely, there'd be so much supply that the earnings would be no different from being in some other retail work or waitressing? Why do people choose to work long hours in a factory instead of a few hours in a brothel?
take a look at The Undercover Economist where he discusses the sweat shops in the Philippines and other developing nations; for many people it truly is a decision between working in awful conditions vs starving (or taking even worse work, such as in the sex trade), and that usually western-run sweat shops are actually much better than local ones and drive up wages and improve working conditions by offering choice, and therefore as the competition for workers increases they get treated better.
my uncle was an award-winning chemistry teacher. he loved teaching, as well as chemistry also taught basic sciences and music, was a great entertainer too; his ability to capture the kid's attention and make them feel the subject was interesting was fundamental. He also had fatherly instincts towards the kids and enjoyed seeing them succeed.
he took early retirement because the gov't proscribed such a specific curriculum and schedule that he felt unable to *teach* the kids, to tailor the classes to their skills and abilities, to help them through difficult topics and explore avenues that interested them.. I think he felt that he could have been replaced by a video.
I say "was" because teaching was his life, and after a severe ankle injury reduced his mobility for nearly two years, and a succession of illnesses weakened his health, he died comparitively young (61). He was fondly remembered by many former pupils who remembered distinctly his lessons and the element of fun which gave them a life long interest in science.
I have reasonable evidence to support that theory: FOAF works there and is treated like an indentured servant.
I've walked past their office at lunchtime and it's quite interesting how huge numbers of people all leave at the same time (presumably to escape from their grind as long as possible, by heading off to the pub to get some anaesthetic!) all wearing goth t-shirts!
let's suppose an IT manager of a 200 person company has the choice between windows and OSX (I'm assuming mostly non-technical lusers hence didn't offer linux); the former requires a team of 20 people (providing extended hours support) and a budget for hardware and software of say 100,000; the latter needs only 8 people and one half the budget.
now, if this is a typical corporate, the IT manager's status/influence is proportional to his budget and staffing, so is he really going to go for OSX, shrink his department and budget? Sure, he'll win kudos for a short while, but one year later when there's far less support activity, the desktop apps are more reliable, crash less, need less anti-virus emergency activities etc, the directors will question the need for a big-shot manager and recruit someone cheaper.
it's in the interests of a typical corporate IT department to have imperfect systems and build up a big team. have you ever been anywhere where IT departments *voluntarily* shrank?
aside: ever noticed how personnel ("HR") departments never shrink, even when there's a hiring freeze or even the business is shrinking? Of course not, most admin departments become a circular chain of work generation and recruitment.
huh? why does the average business computer need audio, and what "good graphical device" relies on USB?
at work, a division of a large bank, they want to disable USB altogether. Snag is that there are many legacy free PCs and so need USB for keyboard and mouse, so now they're going to be breaking the OS's device drivers to disable USB mass storage.
snag is we also have a lot of linux desktops, so we will all lose local root access so they can remove kernel modules for usb mass storage if possible.
yes, when carried out to the extreme it all gets pretty stupid, but this is what happens when you try and apply rules designed for the PC of a bank teller to a software engineer!!!
fine piece of A/C trolling, but I'll shoot a few of your points down anyway
1/ you DON'T have to upgrade your kernel if you don't want to. for example, SUSE back-port bug fixes into the kernel release that each version of suse came with. this keeps updates quite safe. you CAN download a later version if you want, or even build your own. Debian is even more conservative.
2/ linux has goals/direction, but linux is more than a sum of its parts, so you might have to narrow your focus on the aspects of it which are interesting, and follow changes if you wish. noone is forcing you to decide to upgrade!
OK, a tad off topic maybe, but bear with me... the PSP was so potentially so cool, and could have been so great. If it'd had a touch screen, or some clever matching keyboard peripheral. If it had an accessory port or bluetooth so you could have used it for GPS navigation (or even built-in). Slightly crippled features to lock down media playback.
and then there's the mylo. again, it initially sounded like an interesting idea. especially since it runs linux. but then it's a closed system, no 3rd party apps only those blessed by Sony. firmware locked down. no touchscreen. not quite enough rom and ram. doesn't feel like an expensive product when picked up yet is quite expensive.
where does Sony *do* their market research? well, I can answer that. Having bought a Sony ultraportable laptop (TX2, but not at full price, and with full awareness of how to run linux on it. just so you know!), and been on the very occasionally useful club vaio forums, I see that Sony somehow persuade their customers that they form a sort of an elite, they somehow imply that you must have been gifted with special insight to have bought a Sony product.
Sony then invite some of them to join special future thinking forums (I was invited, but declined, seemed a bit pointless). *IF* sony think that most of the people who hang out on their forums are the ideal people to ask about future products, then no wonder it's going wrong for them!
Sony also have a history of dumping a product for no reason than it was only mildly successful; also, new products and tweaks are continuous. Look at the range of the PalmOs Clie's, and the sudden withdrawal from Non-Japanese markets. So, maybe the PSP isn't so unsuccessful in Sony's eyes?
So, the PSP, definitely a missed opportunity! It could have garnered a whole community of developers, hackers, media producers, interesting accessory developers, etc. Instead it's just another nice but routine product from Sony that does its job, but doesn't capture the imagination.
the problem with many small devices is power... I read an article about "energy harvesting", so that you don't need power cords or batteries to make remote controls for things... this would be really cool for home automation!
so, you get the spammer in court, and now you have their full details, whilst you're confronting them, you have an accomplice go to their house and burn it down?
no? why not? ah, of course, I get it! you'd wait for spammer to return home and then burn it down with him/her in it.
if you have any sense when buying software, and you're big enough to make the vendor agree, then a code escrowe agreement is critical in case the vendor folds (sometimes even have a release condition predicated on the vendor being bought by another company who may abandon the product).
if you're subcontracting the software to another company, then make sure that you have full rights over the code and that you get regular SCCS/RCS/CVS/Subversion snapshots (you need to have direct access to the contractor's repository, don't rely on them to send you dumps) and verify that you can build everything from scratch and get the fully working version.
I've seen the results of failing to do this and the results can get pretty ugly!
why would any organisation upgrade to Windows Vista...the big corporations are usually the last people to move on major upgrades like XP->Vista
I'm currently contracting at one of the larger international banks (HQ in Scotland) and they only just started migrating off NT4 to XP as their certified desktop environment, missing out Win2kpro altogether! It is sad and funny to see people with top specification laptops running NT4 and unable to use half the hardware on their machines!
and it's been proven with the US falling from the top slot in technology.
the theory is that you send all the jobs nooone WANTS to do overseas and get things done cheaply, giving you more money to invest in quality staff and projects to get a lead on your competitors by being smarter and more efficient with better products
however, investors (i.e. your pension funds) invest to make a quick buck, and the directors therefore do whatever is necessary to raise the share price long enough to collect their bonuses!
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[smug git mode] ssh tunnelling works just fine with my Sharp Zaurus [/smug git mode]
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If you have no choice but to use WEP, then you should strongly consider using a VPN between clients and the connected network!
In a corporate environment where it's hard to control who knows the passwords, do NOT bridge the wireless network to your secure cabled network but put it on a DMZ and allow limited services out to the internet, and even fewer into the corporate wired lan.
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when you view the book, ambient light bounces off the page and is focussed to make a temporary copy image in your eye, then a representation of the image is processed by the retinal nerves and passed into your brain.
whilst your brain is comprehending the book and copy is kept in your short term memoru, and perhaps even transferred into your long term memory in an inexact form.
so reading a book does make a copy, albeit one that's going to be imperfect unless you have a phenomenal memory and can quote it word for word.
at my previous job there had been a programmer who used the same password for *everything*, and I do mean everything... from the mysql logins (both "root" and regular webapp), web site logins, shell accounts and the ssh passwords needed to move data around!
I discovered he had a blog site, and guess what, his standard password worked on that too, both to login as him and as admin. Whilst tempted, I neither added nor deleted anything on his site, but I *did* go occasionally go through his blog posts and correct his spelling and grammar! He must have noticed because after many months of occasionally tweaking his content, the login finally stopped working. Yes, I'm talking about you, "smurphy" :-)
it will do if it's going to pay the scot mps so much!
maybe now the SNP (Scottish National Party) are in charge in Scotland
probably not... the very first session when the new scottish parliament sat was to give themselves all a big payrise, so the scots mps have clearly decided to continue the "gravy train" that is European politics.
seems like there's even less reason to get a Sony Mylo these days, I wonder what marketing genius at Sony decided to create it? OK, so the Mylo has Skype and a thumboard, but it's very expensive. If it weren't for the locked nature of the PSP I'm sure some entrepreneur would have produced some interesting packages for the PSP which would have made it more useful as a general purpose communicator.
Trying to describe "western-run sweat-shops" as the great new saviour for third-world countries
I didn't way they were a good thing, merely that before people condemned them they should consider the facts.
Back on topic a bit: many people seem unaware that just as there's a European wide RoHS directive, so there's one in China too which is more stringent and posing problems for European exporters.
Ok, so, lets look at this as purely a supply/demand situation. If being a sex worker is all that great, how come the price is so high? Surely, there'd be so much supply that the earnings would be no different from being in some other retail work or waitressing? Why do people choose to work long hours in a factory instead of a few hours in a brothel?
putting aside the morality, the health aspects (risk of aids, hepatitis, HPV etc) of being a sex worker and the risks of violence are considerable.
take a look at The Undercover Economist where he discusses the sweat shops in the Philippines and other developing nations; for many people it truly is a decision between working in awful conditions vs starving (or taking even worse work, such as in the sex trade), and that usually western-run sweat shops are actually much better than local ones and drive up wages and improve working conditions by offering choice, and therefore as the competition for workers increases they get treated better.
my uncle was an award-winning chemistry teacher. he loved teaching, as well as chemistry also taught basic sciences and music, was a great entertainer too; his ability to capture the kid's attention and make them feel the subject was interesting was fundamental. He also had fatherly instincts towards the kids and enjoyed seeing them succeed.
he took early retirement because the gov't proscribed such a specific curriculum and schedule that he felt unable to *teach* the kids, to tailor the classes to their skills and abilities, to help them through difficult topics and explore avenues that interested them.. I think he felt that he could have been replaced by a video.
I say "was" because teaching was his life, and after a severe ankle injury reduced his mobility for nearly two years, and a succession of illnesses weakened his health, he died comparitively young (61). He was fondly remembered by many former pupils who remembered distinctly his lessons and the element of fun which gave them a life long interest in science.
I have reasonable evidence to support that theory: FOAF works there and is treated like an indentured servant.
I've walked past their office at lunchtime and it's quite interesting how huge numbers of people all leave at the same time (presumably to escape from their grind as long as possible, by heading off to the pub to get some anaesthetic!) all wearing goth t-shirts!
let's suppose an IT manager of a 200 person company has the choice between windows and OSX (I'm assuming mostly non-technical lusers hence didn't offer linux); the former requires a team of 20 people (providing extended hours support) and a budget for hardware and software of say 100,000; the latter needs only 8 people and one half the budget.
now, if this is a typical corporate, the IT manager's status/influence is proportional to his budget and staffing, so is he really going to go for OSX, shrink his department and budget? Sure, he'll win kudos for a short while, but one year later when there's far less support activity, the desktop apps are more reliable, crash less, need less anti-virus emergency activities etc, the directors will question the need for a big-shot manager and recruit someone cheaper.
it's in the interests of a typical corporate IT department to have imperfect systems and build up a big team. have you ever been anywhere where IT departments *voluntarily* shrank?
aside: ever noticed how personnel ("HR") departments never shrink, even when there's a hiring freeze or even the business is shrinking? Of course not, most admin departments become a circular chain of work generation and recruitment.
huh? why does the average business computer need audio, and what "good graphical device" relies on USB?
at work, a division of a large bank, they want to disable USB altogether. Snag is that there are many legacy free PCs and so need USB for keyboard and mouse, so now they're going to be breaking the OS's device drivers to disable USB mass storage.
snag is we also have a lot of linux desktops, so we will all lose local root access so they can remove kernel modules for usb mass storage if possible.
yes, when carried out to the extreme it all gets pretty stupid, but this is what happens when you try and apply rules designed for the PC of a bank teller to a software engineer!!!
fine piece of A/C trolling, but I'll shoot a few of your points down anyway
1/ you DON'T have to upgrade your kernel if you don't want to. for example, SUSE back-port bug fixes into the kernel release that each version of suse came with. this keeps updates quite safe. you CAN download a later version if you want, or even build your own. Debian is even more conservative.
2/ linux has goals/direction, but linux is more than a sum of its parts, so you might have to narrow your focus on the aspects of it which are interesting, and follow changes if you wish. noone is forcing you to decide to upgrade!
and then there's the mylo. again, it initially sounded like an interesting idea. especially since it runs linux. but then it's a closed system, no 3rd party apps only those blessed by Sony. firmware locked down. no touchscreen. not quite enough rom and ram. doesn't feel like an expensive product when picked up yet is quite expensive.
where does Sony *do* their market research? well, I can answer that. Having bought a Sony ultraportable laptop (TX2, but not at full price, and with full awareness of how to run linux on it. just so you know!), and been on the very occasionally useful club vaio forums, I see that Sony somehow persuade their customers that they form a sort of an elite, they somehow imply that you must have been gifted with special insight to have bought a Sony product.
Sony then invite some of them to join special future thinking forums (I was invited, but declined, seemed a bit pointless). *IF* sony think that most of the people who hang out on their forums are the ideal people to ask about future products, then no wonder it's going wrong for them!
Sony also have a history of dumping a product for no reason than it was only mildly successful; also, new products and tweaks are continuous. Look at the range of the PalmOs Clie's, and the sudden withdrawal from Non-Japanese markets. So, maybe the PSP isn't so unsuccessful in Sony's eyes?
So, the PSP, definitely a missed opportunity! It could have garnered a whole community of developers, hackers, media producers, interesting accessory developers, etc. Instead it's just another nice but routine product from Sony that does its job, but doesn't capture the imagination.
the problem with many small devices is power... I read an article about "energy harvesting", so that you don't need power cords or batteries to make remote controls for things... this would be really cool for home automation!
energy for free
Business is a team
remember: there's no "I" in team. but there's no "we" either!!!
oblig star wars quote... "look at the size of that thing".
so, you get the spammer in court, and now you have their full details, whilst you're confronting them, you have an accomplice go to their house and burn it down?
no? why not? ah, of course, I get it! you'd wait for spammer to return home and then burn it down with him/her in it.
if you have any sense when buying software, and you're big enough to make the vendor agree, then a code escrowe agreement is critical in case the vendor folds (sometimes even have a release condition predicated on the vendor being bought by another company who may abandon the product).
if you're subcontracting the software to another company, then make sure that you have full rights over the code and that you get regular SCCS/RCS/CVS/Subversion snapshots (you need to have direct access to the contractor's repository, don't rely on them to send you dumps) and verify that you can build everything from scratch and get the fully working version.
I've seen the results of failing to do this and the results can get pretty ugly!
why would any organisation upgrade to Windows Vista...the big corporations are usually the last people to move on major upgrades like XP->Vista
I'm currently contracting at one of the larger international banks (HQ in Scotland) and they only just started migrating off NT4 to XP as their certified desktop environment, missing out Win2kpro altogether! It is sad and funny to see people with top specification laptops running NT4 and unable to use half the hardware on their machines!
their laser goes up to 11, which might have allowed them to get below 1 degree!
and it's been proven with the US falling from the top slot in technology.
the theory is that you send all the jobs nooone WANTS to do overseas and get things done cheaply, giving you more money to invest in quality staff and projects to get a lead on your competitors by being smarter and more efficient with better products
however, investors (i.e. your pension funds) invest to make a quick buck, and the directors therefore do whatever is necessary to raise the share price long enough to collect their bonuses!
[smug git mode] ssh tunnelling works just fine with my Sharp Zaurus [/smug git mode]
If you have no choice but to use WEP, then you should strongly consider using a VPN between clients and the connected network!
In a corporate environment where it's hard to control who knows the passwords, do NOT bridge the wireless network to your secure cabled network but put it on a DMZ and allow limited services out to the internet, and even fewer into the corporate wired lan.