In a way yes - but the transition seems to have halted. I really would like to see the weather reports reporting temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. They did that at least for a time in the UK when they made the transition.
And the availability of metric screws in the US is a joke. So if you have equipment using metric screws that you have to repair and need a new screw or nut you will go nuts!
And no consideration for the overall impact company-wide of the delays issued by the incident report system.
And I have been on the IT department side. Time report/tracking systems SUCKS.
The best way to measure the effectiveness of the IT department people is their idle time. If it's too high they are overstaffed, if they are pulling overtime they are understaffed. Tracking issues will cost a lot of time that just wastes money.
It starts the downward spiral in efficiency since there will be a lot more overhead in the process of doing IT support.
An IT person that's roaming the corridors and works inhouse can always stop by and fix things on the fly while an outsourced IT person always has to get the issue through the issue tracking system in order to motivate the salary. This means that it can add hours upon hours of delay before an issue is resolved.
At least during WWII, there was something to actually fear; the world was at war. This fear of terrorism is a joke.
Very insightful, during WWII there were a lot of German submarines outside the east coast, and there were also a few Japanese outside the west coast of the US.
Using aircrafts as tools for terrorism is probably no longer a feasible issue, the idea behind terrorism is just to kick in when least expected. Give it 10 more years and we shall start to worry because then every mistake made in security will repeat itself.
Worry more about all the containers arriving from other countries. A large-scale destruction of a major harbor will certainly cause problems.
Increasing the security checks on airline passengers is just what the terrorists are after. Why not require sedating of all passengers on international flights?
Personally I have Swedish as first language, English as second language and German as third. But later on I have recognized that it would have been better to learn Spanish than German.
The body is busy fighting the infection while you are feeling sick, but the infecting agent is still actively trying to propagate. It's only at the end of the sickness when the body is cleaning out the remains of the battle while you still are feeling sick that you aren't able to infect anybody.
So if you feel sick - stay home to avoid infecting your coworkers. (unless you dislike them a lot).
Don't worry - you are immune to that strain, and it may teach your coworkers a lesson not to fiddle with your computer if you leave it unattended at work!
Politician and honest - I thought that they were mutually exclusive attributes.
And shutting of people from broadband for one type of offense will also shut them off also from a lot of other services. We are going toward a society of people with broadband access versus people lacking that access - and the people lacking broadband access are becoming second-grade citizens with less ability to get information, access bank services and communicate with friends and family.
Essentially - the penalty of the 21'st century will be to get disconnected instead of imprisoned.
And if you aren't disconnected all your traffic is being monitored. Eric Arthur Blair was right - just a little premature. We just have to wait for the all-seeing cameras in our homes and the TV screens that can't be shut off (as in Max Headroom).
It seems to me that the darker Science Fiction that we can see and read is more likely to come true than the more utopic of Star Trek and likewise.
Their ultimate goal is to probe the possibility of various means to inflict harm on streamed video from services outside their network.
By destroying P2P traffic they are doing it to some traffic that has a large part of the traffic volume in their networks and see what happens. P2P has probably been chosen as a legitimate target since it has a considerable amount of "illegal" or "gray" data which in turn means that the number of companies that are affected and buying services from the ISP is lower. Which in turn means that the risk of costly legal suits are held at bay.
So the P2P corruption is mostly a test, not the real deal.
The true reason is that they want to keep the customers to themselves and just tell their customers that they will only get good video if they buy it from them and not any independent vendor.
And this means that everybody has to sit and watch the movies and TV channels that the ISP provides and nothing else - with injected commercials and other crap.
Combine that with information and you have the right lever to overthrow any government.
And a tyrannical government - well, it's easy to say, but hard to decide when you are there. To some people the current state is a tyrannical government - who decides when it's time to overthrow it? It's hardly something you vote about.
But I'm sad to see that the government control over all of us with listening posts all over to our conversations is the beginning of mind control. All in the name of tracking down and catching terrorists - but who is a terrorist? Is it anyone who is critical of the situation (as I am now), is it anyone that decides to drive his car outside the normal roads?, Is it a vice president that (allegedly) accidentally shoots his friend?, Is it people that crosses the border to get some low-paid seasonal work?, Is it someone that brings some strange soil under their shoes just because they passed a construction site on their way to the airport?, Is it the guy that inherited a WWII machinegun from his granddad? Is it anybody running a web server with links to downloadable music and films? Is it anyone that thinks it's funny to blow up junk in a gravel pit just to see how small pieces they can get? Is it the guy with untreated multi-resistent TBC that travels the subway every day and can't afford to get treatment? Is it the guy that takes a leak on some flag? Is it anybody that's caught for speeding and walking against red light?
And more important - WHO DECIDES?
As for stormtroopers - they don't knock - and when they does your house/dwelling goes down with it.
The second amendment is a really strange thing to consider.
The second amendment was created at a time when the means of communication was a lot less effective and the military and police was much more limited. Today the US has one of the more powerful armies and a lot of police available so the need for a citizen to have a gun and being part of a militia is no longer there.
And it seems to many of us that it's considered to be far more dangerous to society to see a naked tit than running the risk of some shooting maniacs.
It's certainly possible to ignore all framework and libraries and implement all those yourself, and that may be cool and good for some situations but for other you may be better off by using some of the libraries you hate so much - just because then even some other people may be able to do maintenance on that code.
Application servers and frameworks - well, there are those that are good and those that are bad. Latest version of Tomcat isn't really bad. You may still write your own web server - and no one will stop you, but is it really a cost-effective solution?
The only thing that I have found is that Java can suck sometimes at memory management. You are completely left on your own to the garbage collector - which in some cases will be causing you a lot of headache. Especially if you are in a situation where you know that a specific release of an object will be a lot better.
And I personally think that C is a lot better than C++ since C++ can really be a pain to track down bugs in.
C++ is more or less squeezed between C and languages like Java and C#.
Fortran is a completely different track, and I suspect that maybe some things done in Fortran may be hard to pass over to another language. Some is probably straight-forward and can be rewritten in an object-oriented language while other parts needs a language like Erlang.
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Hard to know if that may be a blessing or a curse.
And the availability of metric screws in the US is a joke. So if you have equipment using metric screws that you have to repair and need a new screw or nut you will go nuts!
Maybe it's time for the US to upgrade.
In that way they would be more careful to grant bad patents.
Another use may be to try to listen in to satellites directed to another continent. Why not watch Eurosport in the US?
And I have been on the IT department side. Time report/tracking systems SUCKS.
The best way to measure the effectiveness of the IT department people is their idle time. If it's too high they are overstaffed, if they are pulling overtime they are understaffed. Tracking issues will cost a lot of time that just wastes money.
An IT person that's roaming the corridors and works inhouse can always stop by and fix things on the fly while an outsourced IT person always has to get the issue through the issue tracking system in order to motivate the salary. This means that it can add hours upon hours of delay before an issue is resolved.
You are still brand bound regardless of camera brand since intermixing will give you lack of functionality one way or another.
So this news may not be the really latest news.
At least during WWII, there was something to actually fear; the world was at war. This fear of terrorism is a joke.
Very insightful, during WWII there were a lot of German submarines outside the east coast, and there were also a few Japanese outside the west coast of the US.
Using aircrafts as tools for terrorism is probably no longer a feasible issue, the idea behind terrorism is just to kick in when least expected. Give it 10 more years and we shall start to worry because then every mistake made in security will repeat itself.
Worry more about all the containers arriving from other countries. A large-scale destruction of a major harbor will certainly cause problems.
Increasing the security checks on airline passengers is just what the terrorists are after. Why not require sedating of all passengers on international flights?
That's their headache. If they only selected an operating system written in Ada too... :-)
Japanese could also be a god language to select.
The body is busy fighting the infection while you are feeling sick, but the infecting agent is still actively trying to propagate. It's only at the end of the sickness when the body is cleaning out the remains of the battle while you still are feeling sick that you aren't able to infect anybody.
So if you feel sick - stay home to avoid infecting your coworkers. (unless you dislike them a lot).
Don't worry - you are immune to that strain, and it may teach your coworkers a lesson not to fiddle with your computer if you leave it unattended at work!
And shutting of people from broadband for one type of offense will also shut them off also from a lot of other services. We are going toward a society of people with broadband access versus people lacking that access - and the people lacking broadband access are becoming second-grade citizens with less ability to get information, access bank services and communicate with friends and family.
Essentially - the penalty of the 21'st century will be to get disconnected instead of imprisoned.
And if you aren't disconnected all your traffic is being monitored. Eric Arthur Blair was right - just a little premature. We just have to wait for the all-seeing cameras in our homes and the TV screens that can't be shut off (as in Max Headroom).
It seems to me that the darker Science Fiction that we can see and read is more likely to come true than the more utopic of Star Trek and likewise.
Just start to dig at all the landfills around the world and you will find a large amount of metals.
Improved security - compartmentalization of data, better cookie filters.
SVG support in IE.
So then move the business to a state without sales tax then? New Hampshire maybe?
By destroying P2P traffic they are doing it to some traffic that has a large part of the traffic volume in their networks and see what happens. P2P has probably been chosen as a legitimate target since it has a considerable amount of "illegal" or "gray" data which in turn means that the number of companies that are affected and buying services from the ISP is lower. Which in turn means that the risk of costly legal suits are held at bay.
So the P2P corruption is mostly a test, not the real deal.
The true reason is that they want to keep the customers to themselves and just tell their customers that they will only get good video if they buy it from them and not any independent vendor.
And this means that everybody has to sit and watch the movies and TV channels that the ISP provides and nothing else - with injected commercials and other crap.
A report about Urinary Nickel Excretion.
And another on the environment
Naples is just waiting for Mt Vesuvius to take care of the problem!
Combine that with information and you have the right lever to overthrow any government.
And a tyrannical government - well, it's easy to say, but hard to decide when you are there. To some people the current state is a tyrannical government - who decides when it's time to overthrow it? It's hardly something you vote about.
But I'm sad to see that the government control over all of us with listening posts all over to our conversations is the beginning of mind control. All in the name of tracking down and catching terrorists - but who is a terrorist? Is it anyone who is critical of the situation (as I am now), is it anyone that decides to drive his car outside the normal roads?, Is it a vice president that (allegedly) accidentally shoots his friend?, Is it people that crosses the border to get some low-paid seasonal work?, Is it someone that brings some strange soil under their shoes just because they passed a construction site on their way to the airport?, Is it the guy that inherited a WWII machinegun from his granddad? Is it anybody running a web server with links to downloadable music and films? Is it anyone that thinks it's funny to blow up junk in a gravel pit just to see how small pieces they can get? Is it the guy with untreated multi-resistent TBC that travels the subway every day and can't afford to get treatment? Is it the guy that takes a leak on some flag? Is it anybody that's caught for speeding and walking against red light?
And more important - WHO DECIDES?
As for stormtroopers - they don't knock - and when they does your house/dwelling goes down with it.
The second amendment was created at a time when the means of communication was a lot less effective and the military and police was much more limited. Today the US has one of the more powerful armies and a lot of police available so the need for a citizen to have a gun and being part of a militia is no longer there.
And it seems to many of us that it's considered to be far more dangerous to society to see a naked tit than running the risk of some shooting maniacs.
Application servers and frameworks - well, there are those that are good and those that are bad. Latest version of Tomcat isn't really bad. You may still write your own web server - and no one will stop you, but is it really a cost-effective solution?
The only thing that I have found is that Java can suck sometimes at memory management. You are completely left on your own to the garbage collector - which in some cases will be causing you a lot of headache. Especially if you are in a situation where you know that a specific release of an object will be a lot better.
C++ is more or less squeezed between C and languages like Java and C#.
Fortran is a completely different track, and I suspect that maybe some things done in Fortran may be hard to pass over to another language. Some is probably straight-forward and can be rewritten in an object-oriented language while other parts needs a language like Erlang.