Yes they can get poor results and products due to the inability to collaborate easily, poor communication, etc. etc. etc. without offshoring. My only experience with large teams telecommuting was a bad one. All the worst of that article and then some. For the largest newly re-amalgamated telco in North America. They would have saved a ton of money and had better more efficient work if they paid extra to have everyone together.
This is not so trivial as not being able to play YouTube videos. There are many commercial sites that use flash for almost their entire content.
Along with that, I can tell you about a buddy of mine who works in the advertising industry: we were talking about Firefox and web sites and I mentioned to him about how much I hate flash and all the flashy crap (no pun intended) that distracts and pisses me off when I surf the web... so much so that I use Flashblock. His reply was, "yeah me and everyone I know in this industry try to get the programmers to put as much flashy flash stuff up on our different marketing web sites and advertising banners as possible... and loving it! We won't stop." (Paraphrased, but pretty damn close.)
So you see, just like photo shop, the graphic arts and marketing industry are major players driving this piece of crap scourge (sorry for not letting my real feeling for flash content show... it wouldn't be appropriate here).
This comment sounds like the next generation of those spam bots that make paragraphs of random words _sort of_ look like a coherent thoughts. It's getting close, but work on it some more.
Try being a foreign worker in the United States. No, it is not slave labour. It is more like indentured servitude. Work for crap rates... or work 12 hour days 10 days a week, or we'll let you go and get another work visa worker. Then by good old American law, you can get the fuck out of America within 30 days since you are no longer working. So you can pack up your whole household and find a place to live in your own country many thousands of miles away and get work there too... within 30 days. Bye Bye. Oh, not in a hurry to get kicked out of the country.... come work another 120 hour week. Not slavery... but the U.S. system allows companies to damn near treat visa workers like slaves. Clue in dude... this happens a lot.
You're assuming that performance -- or, more precisely, CPU usage -- is important; in many cases, reliability (and being able to track down bugs after a crash) are far more important than CPU usage.
I wonder why, given the huge increase in the performance of computers over the last ten years and more, why it sill takes some games one to five minutes to load... one reason I am more likely to play spider solitaire now when I just want to play something for 10 or 15 minutes. Anyway... it is this kind of attitude causing it (e.g. "Screw it... we have good CPUs and lots of memory... who gives a shit if I don't feel like considering performance"). If people would program things as efficiently now as they did in years past, performance tuning analysts would be out of work, the enterprise systems I see being build now wouldn't be sucked out performance dogs out of the gate, games would be more fun, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Ha ha.... you are a KGB/FSB propaganda shill. Shut up and go back to work in the Lubyanka... stick to torturing people like independent television news people who don't want to say what Putin and the rest of your KGB/FSB friends put in their mouth. You yell because you are afraid others will find the truth. Too late, everyone already knows that Soviet Russia is back. Now that Soviet Russia is invading other countries it is in plain sight. You are just afraid that NATO will go into countries like Czech, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, and prevent your best friend Putin from invading them.
Putin is KGB. He is running Russia. He is running Russian media. That makes my process to doubt Russian reports from the start until proved otherwise.
This is a prime example of why we shouldn't outsource information technology work to places like Russia and China. What I think is scary is that the company that programmed the provisioning/network system for a major Canadian telco (starts with a T), and a significant number of other telco provisioning systems, outsources the work to Russia. How does it feel now to have them able to control our communications systems?
If you had RTFA, you would know that's not the issue raised by the submitter. The question isn't how the countries were ordered, it is whether NBC's broadcast actually showed the countries in that order.
you might have missed that part of the post you replied to.
For cars the danger will go down... for motorcyclists it might go up... that is why I said race track in my post. I know a guy who got a ticket for doing 200+ km/hr. He got caught not because of high performance police vehicles (they actually passed a ghosted police mini van) but because after the new four lane high speed twisty he stopped because his buddy on another bike wanted to adjust his helmet. A police plane who actually clocked them let the minivan know they were stopped. Those are the guys who will die... but the road will be safer over all I think.
They have been twinning most of the highway between Vancouver and Whistler in preparation for the Olympics. Before the twinning, yes, it was a death trap. Very twisty... just the sort of road a good for an evening motorcycle ride from downtown Van to Squamish (~50km), a coffee at Starbucks, and back... hoping to avoid the slow moving cages on the road. The view is AMAZING as half the trip between Vancouver and Whistler (i.e. up to Squamish, where there is a shear 2000 foot rock climbing face) is along the Howe Sound... the road is all on cliffs over the water. A few places where they have twinned the road is a very high speed twisty race track that will generate a lot of revenue for the province by way of radar detector. But it will no longer be the death trap that it was. Most of those were cars hitting head on, on the very, very twisty corners on the cliff faces.
The article is about someone pissed because the admins looked at his database which was located on the admin's box... not his. They did not gain access to his physical server. If this was collocated, they wouldn't necessarily (and very unlikely) have access to his box, which would merely reside in their data centre and be attached to their network. Being collocated doesn't mean the admins can log into your server, and generally doesn't... which is why when he was using collocating, he had to go to the place to resolve routing issues, as he mentioned. So your point is meaningless because he wouldn't have been giving access to his private data to a third party if it was collacted... only if it was hosted on their servers. What my comment referred to was someone trying to compare apples to oranges because it looks like they didn't even read the summary correctly... telling us that in the U.K. admins can't log into your server if it is collocated has not relevance to the discussion. The article is asking about whether the admins should be able to look at his data stored on THEIR server.
About a year and a half ago, I got a reseller account with a company that will remain nameless. They are, however, fairly large, and they did come highly recommended. Other than the usual slow tech support, occasional server overloading, and... well... typical support staff, it's been pretty good and has saved me from having to deal with problems like hardware and driving down to the colo at 4AM to figure out a routing problem.
He said he switched from colo to hosted to avoid having to take care of his own server.
Most don't understand that risk management is not just 'what is the likelihood of a bad thing happening'. It is 'what is the likelihood of a bad thing happening, AND what are consequences if they do happen'.
An exaggerated example might be: suppose I am a contractor with journeymen carpenters who never ever miss when driving in a nail, no matter the tool. Normally I have them use a hammer to drive in a nail, but want them to start using a 10 tonne block of steel because they only have to hit the nail once to drive it in. I will be able to save a lot on wages since the job will be done faster, I can sell my homes for cheaper, and drive my competition into the dust... but one problem, even though the likelihood of them missing the nail is microscopically low, the reality is that if they miss the nail with the hammer, they hurt their thumbs... if they miss the nail with the 10 tonne weight, they die. I need to find a better way to cut costs... the likelihood is small, but the risk is still too great.
Go to Blockbuster and rent 'Brazil'. It will provide a very good answer for you. Torrent all your porn I don't care, but rent this. Terry Gilliam deserves whatever royalties he gets. And look for the scenes with Robert De Niro in them, his character is crazy and funny as hell... I never even figured out he was in it till about the 4th time I saw it.
If the others were so stupid as to not do anything about this waaaaayyyyy before, then maybe, just maaayyyybe he was right. They are too stupid to be let loose on the network.:-D
That price at least sounds like what Canadian companies pay IT and software employees. That is, shit wages compared to the U.S. Mind you, contractors in Canada are on the opposite end. It is generally far better to contract in Canada than in the U.S.A. Mainly because you are nearly always incorporated as a contractor north of the border (as opposed often to being an employee of a contracting company in the U.S.), and so pay business/corporate tax rates on your company's earnings. And a good accountant will help you write off so much that you pay far lower taxes than an employee in Canada (say 15% to 25% as opposed to close to 45% as is often the case). And this is even though you generally earn far more than an employee. And of course you are generally on an hourly basis, so if you work overtime, you get paid for it.
Only if you can afford $37,000.00+. That would buy a lot of film and developing solutions... I know that the larger the format when doing black and white, the better the tonality... I wonder how that translates in digital, given you have way less latitude than b+w film. But if you have the bucks, why not? Whoever who has the best toys when they die wins, right? And hey, it is environmentally more friendly than wet photography.
I am really tired of hearing from a guy who's main means of making a living is talking (and for which he makes a good living), telling me to work for free. I don't listen to the Tony Robinsons either... blah blah blah, try working instead of jawing for a living before you tell me I shouldn't be able to make money off what I produce. Talk is cheap.
He makes a good living telling people to give away their work so we can't pay our rent. In fact, I would bet he really doesn't have to work another day in his life. He is another version of Tony Robinson motivational speaker. Yes, Stallman wrote some programs before, but I doubt if there is anything really new he has done lately and he doesn't even make his main living from that anyway. He forgets that there are people who do make their main living from software development. I get paid for what I do because most other people cannot or won't do software development on their own. The majority of people can't or won't program computer applications. Why should I give away my work so that others who are too lazy or not intelligent enough to do it themselves, or are working on things that I can buy from them, can take it and take away my ability to eat. I understand the paradigm of selling support for the application you develop and give away for free. But that only works for large apps that are far too complex for even a small group of people to branch and modify. Many web sites and web apps are not so complex, aside from a few like Joomla. If everyone and their dog has your code for building a web site, your market share is killed and you are not going to be able to sell enough support... i.e. you are not going to be able to make a living.
I don't mind sharing tips and help people on forums if they show they are really stumped and not asking for a free ride. And I think that open source is pretty good in some respects but admire the BSD and Apache licenses far more than the GPL. To my mind they are really open source: 'Here is my code, do ANYTHING you want with it... use it, modify it, give it away, sell it, include your modifications, give away your modifications, hide your modifications, give away parts of your code, whatever you want... it is an open license.'
It doesn't matter, the CRTC (some say it means the 'Canadian Radio and Television Commission, but it is really the Canadian Roadblock To Communication) will side with Bell anyway. They bend over, and force all Canadians to bend over for Bell, Telus, and Rogers.
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Yes they can get poor results and products due to the inability to collaborate easily, poor communication, etc. etc. etc. without offshoring. My only experience with large teams telecommuting was a bad one. All the worst of that article and then some. For the largest newly re-amalgamated telco in North America. They would have saved a ton of money and had better more efficient work if they paid extra to have everyone together.
This is not so trivial as not being able to play YouTube videos. There are many commercial sites that use flash for almost their entire content.
Along with that, I can tell you about a buddy of mine who works in the advertising industry: we were talking about Firefox and web sites and I mentioned to him about how much I hate flash and all the flashy crap (no pun intended) that distracts and pisses me off when I surf the web... so much so that I use Flashblock. His reply was, "yeah me and everyone I know in this industry try to get the programmers to put as much flashy flash stuff up on our different marketing web sites and advertising banners as possible... and loving it! We won't stop." (Paraphrased, but pretty damn close.)
So you see, just like photo shop, the graphic arts and marketing industry are major players driving this piece of crap scourge (sorry for not letting my real feeling for flash content show... it wouldn't be appropriate here).
This comment sounds like the next generation of those spam bots that make paragraphs of random words _sort of_ look like a coherent thoughts. It's getting close, but work on it some more.
Try being a foreign worker in the United States. No, it is not slave labour. It is more like indentured servitude. Work for crap rates... or work 12 hour days 10 days a week, or we'll let you go and get another work visa worker. Then by good old American law, you can get the fuck out of America within 30 days since you are no longer working. So you can pack up your whole household and find a place to live in your own country many thousands of miles away and get work there too... within 30 days. Bye Bye. Oh, not in a hurry to get kicked out of the country.... come work another 120 hour week. Not slavery... but the U.S. system allows companies to damn near treat visa workers like slaves. Clue in dude... this happens a lot.
I wonder why, given the huge increase in the performance of computers over the last ten years and more, why it sill takes some games one to five minutes to load... one reason I am more likely to play spider solitaire now when I just want to play something for 10 or 15 minutes. Anyway... it is this kind of attitude causing it (e.g. "Screw it... we have good CPUs and lots of memory... who gives a shit if I don't feel like considering performance"). If people would program things as efficiently now as they did in years past, performance tuning analysts would be out of work, the enterprise systems I see being build now wouldn't be sucked out performance dogs out of the gate, games would be more fun, etc. etc. etc. etc.
ok... I feel better now...
I must admit... I was trolling. grrrr :-)
Ha ha.... you are a KGB/FSB propaganda shill. Shut up and go back to work in the Lubyanka... stick to torturing people like independent television news people who don't want to say what Putin and the rest of your KGB/FSB friends put in their mouth. You yell because you are afraid others will find the truth. Too late, everyone already knows that Soviet Russia is back. Now that Soviet Russia is invading other countries it is in plain sight. You are just afraid that NATO will go into countries like Czech, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, and prevent your best friend Putin from invading them.
Putin is KGB. He is running Russia. He is running Russian media. That makes my process to doubt Russian reports from the start until proved otherwise.
This is a prime example of why we shouldn't outsource information technology work to places like Russia and China. What I think is scary is that the company that programmed the provisioning/network system for a major Canadian telco (starts with a T), and a significant number of other telco provisioning systems, outsources the work to Russia. How does it feel now to have them able to control our communications systems?
you might have missed that part of the post you replied to.
Never mind in 'Soviet Russia'. Try current Russia.
For cars the danger will go down... for motorcyclists it might go up... that is why I said race track in my post. I know a guy who got a ticket for doing 200+ km/hr. He got caught not because of high performance police vehicles (they actually passed a ghosted police mini van) but because after the new four lane high speed twisty he stopped because his buddy on another bike wanted to adjust his helmet. A police plane who actually clocked them let the minivan know they were stopped. Those are the guys who will die... but the road will be safer over all I think.
They have been twinning most of the highway between Vancouver and Whistler in preparation for the Olympics. Before the twinning, yes, it was a death trap. Very twisty... just the sort of road a good for an evening motorcycle ride from downtown Van to Squamish (~50km), a coffee at Starbucks, and back... hoping to avoid the slow moving cages on the road. The view is AMAZING as half the trip between Vancouver and Whistler (i.e. up to Squamish, where there is a shear 2000 foot rock climbing face) is along the Howe Sound... the road is all on cliffs over the water. A few places where they have twinned the road is a very high speed twisty race track that will generate a lot of revenue for the province by way of radar detector. But it will no longer be the death trap that it was. Most of those were cars hitting head on, on the very, very twisty corners on the cliff faces.
Incest is wrong.
The article is about someone pissed because the admins looked at his database which was located on the admin's box... not his. They did not gain access to his physical server. If this was collocated, they wouldn't necessarily (and very unlikely) have access to his box, which would merely reside in their data centre and be attached to their network. Being collocated doesn't mean the admins can log into your server, and generally doesn't... which is why when he was using collocating, he had to go to the place to resolve routing issues, as he mentioned. So your point is meaningless because he wouldn't have been giving access to his private data to a third party if it was collacted... only if it was hosted on their servers. What my comment referred to was someone trying to compare apples to oranges because it looks like they didn't even read the summary correctly... telling us that in the U.K. admins can't log into your server if it is collocated has not relevance to the discussion. The article is asking about whether the admins should be able to look at his data stored on THEIR server.
He said he switched from colo to hosted to avoid having to take care of his own server.
Most don't understand that risk management is not just 'what is the likelihood of a bad thing happening'. It is 'what is the likelihood of a bad thing happening, AND what are consequences if they do happen'.
An exaggerated example might be: suppose I am a contractor with journeymen carpenters who never ever miss when driving in a nail, no matter the tool. Normally I have them use a hammer to drive in a nail, but want them to start using a 10 tonne block of steel because they only have to hit the nail once to drive it in. I will be able to save a lot on wages since the job will be done faster, I can sell my homes for cheaper, and drive my competition into the dust... but one problem, even though the likelihood of them missing the nail is microscopically low, the reality is that if they miss the nail with the hammer, they hurt their thumbs... if they miss the nail with the 10 tonne weight, they die. I need to find a better way to cut costs... the likelihood is small, but the risk is still too great.
Go to Blockbuster and rent 'Brazil'. It will provide a very good answer for you. Torrent all your porn I don't care, but rent this. Terry Gilliam deserves whatever royalties he gets. And look for the scenes with Robert De Niro in them, his character is crazy and funny as hell... I never even figured out he was in it till about the 4th time I saw it.
If the others were so stupid as to not do anything about this waaaaayyyyy before, then maybe, just maaayyyybe he was right. They are too stupid to be let loose on the network. :-D
That price at least sounds like what Canadian companies pay IT and software employees. That is, shit wages compared to the U.S. Mind you, contractors in Canada are on the opposite end. It is generally far better to contract in Canada than in the U.S.A. Mainly because you are nearly always incorporated as a contractor north of the border (as opposed often to being an employee of a contracting company in the U.S.), and so pay business/corporate tax rates on your company's earnings. And a good accountant will help you write off so much that you pay far lower taxes than an employee in Canada (say 15% to 25% as opposed to close to 45% as is often the case). And this is even though you generally earn far more than an employee. And of course you are generally on an hourly basis, so if you work overtime, you get paid for it.
Only if you can afford $37,000.00+. That would buy a lot of film and developing solutions... I know that the larger the format when doing black and white, the better the tonality... I wonder how that translates in digital, given you have way less latitude than b+w film. But if you have the bucks, why not? Whoever who has the best toys when they die wins, right? And hey, it is environmentally more friendly than wet photography.
I am really tired of hearing from a guy who's main means of making a living is talking (and for which he makes a good living), telling me to work for free. I don't listen to the Tony Robinsons either... blah blah blah, try working instead of jawing for a living before you tell me I shouldn't be able to make money off what I produce. Talk is cheap.
He makes a good living telling people to give away their work so we can't pay our rent. In fact, I would bet he really doesn't have to work another day in his life. He is another version of Tony Robinson motivational speaker. Yes, Stallman wrote some programs before, but I doubt if there is anything really new he has done lately and he doesn't even make his main living from that anyway. He forgets that there are people who do make their main living from software development. I get paid for what I do because most other people cannot or won't do software development on their own. The majority of people can't or won't program computer applications. Why should I give away my work so that others who are too lazy or not intelligent enough to do it themselves, or are working on things that I can buy from them, can take it and take away my ability to eat. I understand the paradigm of selling support for the application you develop and give away for free. But that only works for large apps that are far too complex for even a small group of people to branch and modify. Many web sites and web apps are not so complex, aside from a few like Joomla. If everyone and their dog has your code for building a web site, your market share is killed and you are not going to be able to sell enough support... i.e. you are not going to be able to make a living.
I don't mind sharing tips and help people on forums if they show they are really stumped and not asking for a free ride. And I think that open source is pretty good in some respects but admire the BSD and Apache licenses far more than the GPL. To my mind they are really open source: 'Here is my code, do ANYTHING you want with it... use it, modify it, give it away, sell it, include your modifications, give away your modifications, hide your modifications, give away parts of your code, whatever you want... it is an open license.'
Here is an accident where a driver who was texting killed someone because he was not paying attention to the road.
Fox News should review this Slashdot entry, which hopefully could help their anchors and reporters function at a more professional level.
I still say Canadian Roadblock to Communication. :-p
It doesn't matter, the CRTC (some say it means the 'Canadian Radio and Television Commission, but it is really the Canadian Roadblock To Communication) will side with Bell anyway. They bend over, and force all Canadians to bend over for Bell, Telus, and Rogers.