Apple (ie: the minions working there) is afraid to make a decision about a overly complex, confusing, and burdensome law (SOX).
Some knob-head plucked a silly idea out of his ass, and suggested that it might solve the problem, and since nobody dared shoot it down for the idiotic idea that it is, it made it through to policy.
Such is the working of socialist capitalism. It will only get worse my friends.
...the real reason for offshoring has little or nothing to do with rates of pay, and everything to do with environmental and OSHA regulation.
Large corporates have made the decision to rape and plunder other nations resources, and to poison, maim, and humiliate their masses. I suppose we should be grateful really.
I just don't look forward to 1 billion pissed off Indians when they finally 'get it'
My understanding is that it is not simply a question of Processor, but also the underlying chipset or at least MOBO architecture since the requirement for an AM2 socket and DDR2 memory can turn an otherwise 'svm' enabled AMD Athlon 64 x2 into a 'paravirtualised only' 'pae' chip.
At least this is what I found when I did my research, please tell me I'm wrong
You are simply deluding yourself, to your employers delight, that you as a permanent employee, have any more job security, or value to the company, than a contract programmer.
I have survived several RIFs in some large banks as a contractor, while FTEs I sat and worked with were let go.
Contracting is a much more honest relationship between employer and employee. I don't work, they don't pay. They don't owe me anything, I don't expect anything from them. I don't put up with the corporate bullshit, they don't expect me to. When I work overtime, I get paid. I don't 'request' time off, I inform that I won't be in. I don't have to fit in to any corporate team bonding excercise, although on the occasions I do attend, which usually involve lots of beer, I am heartily welcome.
And I take home about 50% more than similarly employed FTEs in the workforce.
In the early(ish) days of E-Bay (before they bought pay-pal), one of my co-workers and I discussed the possibility of selling our companies office supplies (you know, printer paper, envelopes, pens, staplers, etc..) on e-bay.
As a test of the ease of doing this, we created an e-bay and pay-pal account, and placed a few items. Considering that the company also payed (unwittingly) for the postage - which was also charged to the buyer - this was a real cash cow, which we operated for about four or five transactions. We sold enough to pay for a fine meal in a top quality local restaurant.
It was simply too damned easy, and too tempting to continue, and took a fair bit of self-discipline to stop. I am sure others have and continue to do the same thing though.
no one is indispensable.
Correct, howerver if you don't stand up for yourself in the workplace, you will be taken advantage of. I have over twenty years experience in the commercial workplace (and more in the military). I can assure you that those who are willing to work will find it. But if you kowtow to every whim of your employer you will not enjoy your work, you will raise your stress level, and very likely have a problematic home life or abuse alcohol or drugs.
Such whims include: frequent uncompensated overtime, short notice cancellation of leave, dangerous work conditions or practices, unethical work conditions or practices, little paid leave, below inflation annual cost of living adjustment, little or no health benefit.
I realise this is a little off target, but this really gets my goat!
One need only look at the astronomical rates of pay for senior management when compared to the worker to realise that the excuse that the company can't afford it doesn't wash.
Simple mathematics should indicate that when the CEO of a company is being paid more than a million a year in a company that employs workers being paid near the minimum wage, that there is a problem.
for example:
Company 'A' has a CEO whose annual benefits are approx. $2 million, and employs 500 employees. In such a scenario there would typically be approximately 50 employees who are earning near the minimum wage. We can see that by reducing the CEO's compensation to $1 million (still 80 times the minimum wage) each of those low earners can more than double their income wihtout effecting in any substantial way the corporate bottom line. Executive compensation is a problem that is festering in the US (not just the US of course), and will some day cause a very large backlash.
I don't make any claims about speed. However there are distinct 'advantages' to hardware (full) virtualization including the ability to run an unmodified Guest OS, and complete application isolation.
Except that the figure of $750 per song is very likely not allowable since it is over 1000 times the value of a downloaded song ( retail price of $0.89 or so ). The law is quite clear about this. The probability is that the award per song will come in at around $2.00. This is - or should be - enough to stop the RIAA from filing lawsuits against most individuals, since the cost / reward ratio will not be in their favour.
Except that the memory access is still the stumbling block. When each process gets dedicated memory, then we'll really get good performance, but, it seems that is not a high priority for most MoBo manufacturers these days
If you are about to buy a AMD chip, ensure you buy a AM2 version, this is becuase non-AM2 versions do no support low level Hardware Virtualization (which means that XEN - and competitiors - can only operate in a paravirtualization mode)
You are a blogger or other web content publisher. You write an article which cites non-copyrighted content by way of a href URL, say http://www.somedomain.com/link.html, for example. Later the owner of of that web page changes it to contain copyrighted material. You do not notice, and do not remove the citation in your content.
Are you still violating copyright ??
Yet another idiot who simply does not understand the subject matter he is making pronouncement upon.
Talk about immediate environmental impact. WAKE UP people - wind farms take energy directly out of a very complex self-regulating system. Let's see how long it takes the greenies to realise this is NOT a long term solution,
As I have repeated said, energy efficiency is the only soultion to our energy problems. Until manufacturers are required to produce more efficient products, we are on the wrong path.
...I am quite happy to say that overall Microsoft has been a positive force in IT.
I remember being incredibly frustrated at how clunky a computer was. It was a chore to write a makefile, it was essentially impossible to decode someone elses.
Editing source code was a pain in the ass - EVEN - when using emacs. Sorry to you emacs fanatics out there, but emacs is simply not easy to use, and harder to learn when all you want to do is the type of editing that most application programmers were doing in the late 80's.
Don't you guys remember when every application had a different set of keystrokes, and menu options. Becoming productive in WordPerfect 4.0 took weeks (and a cut-out template you placed over your F# keys.)
What about the difference between Quattro and VisiCalc ? Anyone remember coding using ed ? (I know Ken Thompson wrote it for teletypes, but sheesh, could you make a more terse interface ?, I think it had one prompt, the question mark, for about 10 different situations, and you had to somehow know what was happening in order to know what to do)
I know, I know, Apple led the way, but they made one nearly FATAL mistake (for which they are still paying), they refused to open up the hardware.
IBM and Microsoft saw the gap, and jumped in.
OK, I know Microsoft have done plenty of bad things and I really hate most of their shitty software too, especially the multiple flavors of XP , and I am not switching to Vista ever, but I do credit them with bringing the PC to the masses, which generally speaking is a good thing, and they were the driving force behind that, in my book anyway.
RPM is really only a packaging standard (ignoring the rpm binary, of course). It seems to me the real issue is not the RPM standard itself, rather the ease of abuse/misuse. In this regard I suggest that the rpm binary be enhanced so that package production is simpler and less error prone. In particular the identification of dependencies. I am continually fighting with various package managers because someone/something has decided that (as an example) when I want to install libusb I must also want to install some GTK based application as well.
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... says what is obvious to me.
Apple (ie: the minions working there) is afraid to make a decision about a overly complex, confusing, and burdensome law (SOX).
Some knob-head plucked a silly idea out of his ass, and suggested that it might solve the problem, and since nobody dared shoot it down for the idiotic idea that it is, it made it through to policy.
Such is the working of socialist capitalism. It will only get worse my friends.
... large intestine, small intestine analogy ?
That one gets me every time
fnord
...the real reason for offshoring has little or nothing to do with rates of pay, and everything to do with environmental and OSHA regulation.
Large corporates have made the decision to rape and plunder other nations resources, and to poison, maim, and humiliate their masses. I suppose we should be grateful really.
I just don't look forward to 1 billion pissed off Indians when they finally 'get it'
Also usefull as bait for carp. They seem to really like, and fight to get on the hook.
My understanding is that it is not simply a question of Processor, but also the underlying chipset or at least MOBO architecture since the requirement for an AM2 socket and DDR2 memory can turn an otherwise 'svm' enabled AMD Athlon 64 x2 into a 'paravirtualised only' 'pae' chip.
At least this is what I found when I did my research, please tell me I'm wrong
I thought full virtulization required hardware support ala HVM
How does KVM get around this ? What am I missing ?
You are simply deluding yourself, to your employers delight, that you as a permanent employee, have any more job security, or value to the company, than a contract programmer.
I have survived several RIFs in some large banks as a contractor, while FTEs I sat and worked with were let go.
Contracting is a much more honest relationship between employer and employee. I don't work, they don't pay. They don't owe me anything, I don't expect anything from them. I don't put up with the corporate bullshit, they don't expect me to. When I work overtime, I get paid. I don't 'request' time off, I inform that I won't be in. I don't have to fit in to any corporate team bonding excercise, although on the occasions I do attend, which usually involve lots of beer, I am heartily welcome.
And I take home about 50% more than similarly employed FTEs in the workforce.
In the early(ish) days of E-Bay (before they bought pay-pal), one of my co-workers and I discussed the possibility of selling our companies office supplies (you know, printer paper, envelopes, pens, staplers, etc..) on e-bay.
As a test of the ease of doing this, we created an e-bay and pay-pal account, and placed a few items. Considering that the company also payed (unwittingly) for the postage - which was also charged to the buyer - this was a real cash cow, which we operated for about four or five transactions. We sold enough to pay for a fine meal in a top quality local restaurant.
It was simply too damned easy, and too tempting to continue, and took a fair bit of self-discipline to stop. I am sure others have and continue to do the same thing though.
Give me our good old fashioned paper voting up here in Canada any day.
should read
Jesus Murphey, this system is hosed, give me our flippin paper and pencil crayon voting up here in Canada any day, eh gorby ?
no one is indispensable.
Correct, howerver if you don't stand up for yourself in the workplace, you will be taken advantage of. I have over twenty years experience in the commercial workplace (and more in the military). I can assure you that those who are willing to work will find it. But if you kowtow to every whim of your employer you will not enjoy your work, you will raise your stress level, and very likely have a problematic home life or abuse alcohol or drugs.
Such whims include: frequent uncompensated overtime, short notice cancellation of leave, dangerous work conditions or practices, unethical work conditions or practices, little paid leave, below inflation annual cost of living adjustment, little or no health benefit.
I realise this is a little off target, but this really gets my goat!
One need only look at the astronomical rates of pay for senior management when compared to the worker to realise that the excuse that the company can't afford it doesn't wash.
Simple mathematics should indicate that when the CEO of a company is being paid more than a million a year in a company that employs workers being paid near the minimum wage, that there is a problem.
for example:
Company 'A' has a CEO whose annual benefits are approx. $2 million, and employs 500 employees. In such a scenario there would typically be approximately 50 employees who are earning near the minimum wage.
We can see that by reducing the CEO's compensation to $1 million (still 80 times the minimum wage) each of those low earners can more than double their income wihtout effecting in any substantial way the corporate bottom line.
Executive compensation is a problem that is festering in the US (not just the US of course), and will some day cause a very large backlash.
how relatively minor changes in the already tiny amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is responsible for this?
CO2 is about 0.04% of the earths atmosphere, humans might conceivably changed that value to 0.041%, so what ?
Will they blend
I don't make any claims about speed. However there are distinct 'advantages' to hardware (full) virtualization including the ability to run an unmodified Guest OS, and complete application isolation.
Except that the figure of $750 per song is very likely not allowable since it is over 1000 times the value of a downloaded song ( retail price of $0.89 or so ). The law is quite clear about this. The probability is that the award per song will come in at around $2.00. This is - or should be - enough to stop the RIAA from filing lawsuits against most individuals, since the cost / reward ratio will not be in their favour.
Except that the memory access is still the stumbling block. When each process gets dedicated memory, then we'll really get good performance, but, it seems that is not a high priority for most MoBo manufacturers these days
If you are about to buy a AMD chip, ensure you buy a AM2 version, this is becuase non-AM2 versions do no support low level Hardware Virtualization (which means that XEN - and competitiors - can only operate in a paravirtualization mode)
You are a blogger or other web content publisher. You write an article which cites non-copyrighted content by way of a href URL, say http://www.somedomain.com/link.html, for example. Later the owner of of that web page changes it to contain copyrighted material. You do not notice, and do not remove the citation in your content.
Are you still violating copyright ??
Yet another idiot who simply does not understand the subject matter he is making pronouncement upon.
It's ego, enthusiasm, and money.
Not to mention short-sightedness, irresponsibility, and greed
... made by people who refuse to think clearly!
Talk about immediate environmental impact. WAKE UP people - wind farms take energy directly out of a very complex self-regulating system. Let's see how long it takes the greenies to realise this is NOT a long term solution,
As I have repeated said, energy efficiency is the only soultion to our energy problems. Until manufacturers are required to produce more efficient products, we are on the wrong path.
...we all know the universe is shaped like a small fart.
Hold on a minute there, tiger, did you say you got a girlfriend ? Sorry, I stopped reading as soon as I got to that bit
...I am quite happy to say that overall Microsoft has been a positive force in IT.
I remember being incredibly frustrated at how clunky a computer was. It was a chore to write a makefile, it was essentially impossible to decode someone elses.
Editing source code was a pain in the ass - EVEN - when using emacs. Sorry to you emacs fanatics out there, but emacs is simply not easy to use, and harder to learn when all you want to do is the type of editing that most application programmers were doing in the late 80's.
Don't you guys remember when every application had a different set of keystrokes, and menu options. Becoming productive in WordPerfect 4.0 took weeks (and a cut-out template you placed over your F# keys.)
What about the difference between Quattro and VisiCalc ? Anyone remember coding using ed ? (I know Ken Thompson wrote it for teletypes, but sheesh, could you make a more terse interface ?, I think it had one prompt, the question mark, for about 10 different situations, and you had to somehow know what was happening in order to know what to do)
I know, I know, Apple led the way, but they made one nearly FATAL mistake (for which they are still paying), they refused to open up the hardware.
IBM and Microsoft saw the gap, and jumped in.
OK, I know Microsoft have done plenty of bad things and I really hate most of their shitty software too, especially the multiple flavors of XP , and I am not switching to Vista ever, but I do credit them with bringing the PC to the masses, which generally speaking is a good thing, and they were the driving force behind that, in my book anyway.
RPM is really only a packaging standard (ignoring the rpm binary, of course). It seems to me the real issue is not the RPM standard itself, rather the ease of abuse/misuse. In this regard I suggest that the rpm binary be enhanced so that package production is simpler and less error prone. In particular the identification of dependencies. I am continually fighting with various package managers because someone/something has decided that (as an example) when I want to install libusb I must also want to install some GTK based application as well.
clearly never heard the maxim about how simple code containing subtle bugs you can find, and complex code containing glaring bugs you can't.
This sentence does not flow properly; the comma sticks in the throat
;~}
"Flow properly" is too subjective a criticism to take seriously; however, I have taken the liberty of modifying your suggestion to read as follows:
Grade: C+ (please revisit for grammar)
This is the sort of useless comment I frequently read on my English Literature papers, so I assume it must be suitable here