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Well said, sir. There comes a time when one must forfeit karma to trolls.
Are you in university? And a guy attacks you?!?!?!
OK, this could be plausible (common?) in a normal school (hey, I grew up in East London!), but this sort of thing is usually way out of the field in sixth form... Besides, why needs you a laptop in 6th form, less years below?? GCSEs are achievable from mediocre repatative toil and A levels from mental challenge, rather then computational..., laptops are certainly not necessary.
I did computing A level, got an A but never touched a computer out of class, not that there were many to go around (Acorn anyone?) or that Computing A level needed much practical experience (memorise pseudo code for various sorts... easy work). Computing, though, was damn easy, also got an A in Further Maths though!!!
But that was back in '97, and the syllabus was damn easy.
But someone that'll attack you repeatedly has a promlem, in their mind. Don;t let them take it out on you, having seen that sort of bullying behaviour in my school I recommend kicking their legs from under them and kicking their face in... if they drag you to the floor fall on to them, landing on their face with your full weight behind a punch to their face or a knee into their solar plexus. Don't worry about their 'friends', no one will challenge someone seemingly psycho enough not to stop, and if they do give it to them the same.
We have 100MBps in our office, and only 10 of us, and we don't even do network tech!
And we are firewalled from the rest of the organisation (~1990 others) through a 1MBps connection! With an independent external connection it is quicker to connect to them externally than internally (traversing the internal email firewall, for example, takes minimum 15 mins)!
DOS 5 was the first OS i remember (or had consousness of an OS), but it may have had 4.1 before that. I had my first taste of the 'internet' back in '96! By that time my 386 had some kind of strap-on upgrade. Back then DOS was good, it was transparent, easy to program, predictable, and a non-networked OS unless you had Novell.
In '97 i packed off to university and saw the internet for 'real' through mono-colour (green) UNIX terminals, the only thing in colour was the math lab which I only ever bothered with for Mathematica. But by then I had a home computer and here I am now!!!, err... doing VBA and C++ in a finance company!
It may be less ambigious to describe the 1st world as developed and the 3rd world as not developed (or emerging), following a measure of standard of living, income, education, etc (this is a subject in itself). MSCI and FTSE use the term 'advanced emerging' as a subset of emerging to describe emerging countries with standard of living between developed and average emerging level, a useful term.
Great visuals: motion, colours, costumes, settings.
Great soundtrack.
But it was totaly 2 dimensional, no depth, no emotion, no resonance, no thought.
IMHO Pulp Fiction was his best, Jackie Brown second, Reservior Dogs a poor 3rd (sucks compared to any movie Beat Takeshi has done) and Kill Bill most definately last.
Well,/. does not source 'new' news, it merely brings stories together in a mish-mash that is more-often-than-not revevant to the/. target audience.
Does it matter if this story is highlighted one week later than another? It is relevant but even this article doesn't bring some hot-off-the-press story, it is a sit back and think about it piece. The tech outsourcing trend, as mentioned in the article, goes well back to the 90s, so if an opinion piece is published now, or last month or next week, it is equally relevant as we're talking about long term trend.
To extend your argument would be to say "why didn't BusinessWeek come up with this idea sooner?", why not a month sooner if all the facts were still in place,or a month before that? Or, as this is not new information, just a collection of old information with some insight, why couldn't you have done it?/. is not a live feed from Reuters, if you want that then hire a Reuters machine, this sort of story on/. to sit back and think about, a week or even month here or there doesn't matter much.
Ok, a $99 replacement. But the battery is the first failure. Even were the battery problem solved the HDD (it is an off-the-shelf IDE after all) would fail a little while after the battery (many IDEs fail after 18 months regular use, and an iPOD is regular random access so this is very likely).
We are veering OT, but I do not believe in posting my opinions as AC, so here you go:
France was conquered by Germany in WWII in a very short period of time. There was a valant fight by some (French and British), but the country was militarily impared to begin with.
Hitler was happy not to go to war with Britain, but (and this was a very very controversial decision at the time in the UK), Britain decided to stand by her European neighbours, hence the squadrons of French, Polish etc pilots fighting Germany stationed in Britain.
The sea got in the way of Germany's conquer of Britain, plus after France the German army was getting overstretched and needed to consolidate. But Britain could not have survived the turn of the decade were it not for very heavy supply support from the US. Fact. It had the men, the pilots and soldiers to protect the country despite heavy losses, but not enough ammo, not enough food, not enough materials. The US was invaluable to the UK's survival on the stance it had chosen, and hence invluable to the future recapture of Europe.
The UK could have defended itself, possibly indefinately, but it could have never retaken Europe.
An alliance (as the 'allies' were in WWII) means the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The UK chose to defend Europe, the US chose to defend Europe and the UK... it was an alliance. What was achieved would not have been possible were one part left out of the equation. It takes guts to stand up and fight rather than being assimilated, but Britain had it, the US (already stung by WWI) gained it and France did not like being assimilated(well, this is for debate for large sections of France).
As regards WWII, please do not pick on one counrty, it was a world war and it was an alliance. It is pointless to point anything regarding WWII to one country, one action would have not have been achieveable without another.
Well, no. If a country (and by this I refer to the elected government) sends troops to fight and possibly be killed then I say no, they did not oppose the war.
Tony Blair (UK's prime minister) has come under huge political attack from this stance, almost losing his job, and the UK benefits little from post-war reforms ($10bn of projects matters little to an economy which is performing well, having avoided the global recession at the beginning of the decade).
Italy has suffered losses and come under domestic political attack for supporting the war. Spain has had less losses but is also under political attack.
The main political attack in countries pro-war was not alone financial nor political lines, but that the war was formed on lies. Most poeple in these countries supported ridding Iraq of Saddam because of the crimes he had done to Iraq and it's people, but the force that was needed to get over war inertia was WMD.
Britain, Italy, Spain, Turkey and many others supported the war. France and Germany opposed mainly because of their isolated, non-political confrontational views. These countries are very muslim hostile (witness Turkey's denial from the EU, instigated by France/Germany, despite a better political system in Turkey than many Eastern European countires that were granted access); these countries are very isolationalist, very Europe-centric but world-isolationist. Please do not confuse Europe for the Franco-Germanic pact.
1. $9bn will not "reduce lift costs to orbit from $10000/pound to $100/pound". NASA funding was ~$14bn in 2002 alone, and you can't increase efficiency that much, even in cuckoo land, unless you have a very good idea?
2. 1bn is way way way below the invested amounts in NASDAQ, even on IPO, full of tech companies that have neat ideas.
3....six billion people now have practically free electrical power and consequently, pure water as extracted from seawater through desalination plant. I'm sorry, but unless the electricity is beamed and desalinated water materialised you still need low level electricity distribution and water transportation. Production costs are low compared to costs of transportation.
I'm all for teaching people to fish rather than giving them a fish, but although $10bn is obscene for an individual, is is small fish on the global investment scale of things. Cool technology is cool, but it is not a cure-all, it is a part of a means to an end, but only a part. Nor will space-travel/exploitation be a cure-all for world poverty et al, low level solutions need to be made, the UN needs more money, development charities need more money, developing countries need more money (or be freed from their debt, but this is another discussion). Bringing back trillions of tons of ore from asteriods will make no difference if the price of ore is immediately depressed and people from developing countries still have no direct water supply, still have no electricity pylons to their village, or still have inadequate access to education. Old fashion engineering and logistics are the only things that can solve this.
Yes, choose a legal option... do not endanger your future.
But something I'm confused is your say this was a major financial institution (well, the story seems to have been edited to remove major, but it was major on first read:) ). Does this company have only one 'Network Security Analyst'? Even a small company should have at least 2, from a contingency perspective. My financial company employer has a team of 20 on network security, though headcount of the company is under 2000. So what are the rest of your team doing? If they really only had you then they ran a poor show, and if completely outsourced (bad practice IMHO, in-house monitoring must exist at a minimum) a case can be made to monitor.
Well, you have my sympathies, if this 3rd party consultant really does urge firing all staff (well, replacing staff as the security risk with a 3rd party as the security risk) and not keeping anything in-house as you suggest, then I urge you to name them, sir.
going from 68000 to 330000 feet is gonna be way way way more difficult
I'm not sure, 330,000ft in 2 weeks is about 23,571.43ft/day, or 0.27ft/second. Many can do 0.27ft/second, they just need to it again and again and they're there!
The term 'trojan' goes all the way back to the horse presented to the people of Troy as a present but was a sneeky Greek attack (a brief history here). A Trojan in the true sense refers to this, so I suppose the parent was referring to iTunes being a sneak ploy to get people to use iPod.
Not that the 'hacker colloqualism' of trojan horse is a misuse, it is not, but to see this as the primary source is just wrong.
Only for the very latest released titles. After only months legal VCDs cost ~3USD and legal DVDs ~5USD. Still, you were right this would be illegal (though the copies are legal) because these copies are licenced only for personal use, copies with a licence to rent are much more expensive/have some kind of revenue share model built in.
If you are in HK, try the Golden Shopping Arcade (in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon).
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It is because most mods, like most readers, browse at +2, therfore missing posts that need to be modded up and acting like sheep on posts that already have been.
Well said, sir. There comes a time when one must forfeit karma to trolls.
Don't worry, sounds like no one else read it for ~130 years... probably wasn't a compulsive read.
Are you in university? And a guy attacks you?!?!?!
OK, this could be plausible (common?) in a normal school (hey, I grew up in East London!), but this sort of thing is usually way out of the field in sixth form... Besides, why needs you a laptop in 6th form, less years below?? GCSEs are achievable from mediocre repatative toil and A levels from mental challenge, rather then computational..., laptops are certainly not necessary.
I did computing A level, got an A but never touched a computer out of class, not that there were many to go around (Acorn anyone?) or that Computing A level needed much practical experience (memorise pseudo code for various sorts... easy work). Computing, though, was damn easy, also got an A in Further Maths though!!!
But that was back in '97, and the syllabus was damn easy.
But someone that'll attack you repeatedly has a promlem, in their mind. Don;t let them take it out on you, having seen that sort of bullying behaviour in my school I recommend kicking their legs from under them and kicking their face in... if they drag you to the floor fall on to them, landing on their face with your full weight behind a punch to their face or a knee into their solar plexus. Don't worry about their 'friends', no one will challenge someone seemingly psycho enough not to stop, and if they do give it to them the same.
I feel you are being factidious with me, sir!
Good on you, I need a spanking for my mis-capitilisation!
We have 100MBps in our office, and only 10 of us, and we don't even do network tech!
And we are firewalled from the rest of the organisation (~1990 others) through a 1MBps connection! With an independent external connection it is quicker to connect to them externally than internally (traversing the internal email firewall, for example, takes minimum 15 mins)!
Networking at its greatest is my employer!!!
haha! i had no modem!
DOS 5 was the first OS i remember (or had consousness of an OS), but it may have had 4.1 before that. I had my first taste of the 'internet' back in '96! By that time my 386 had some kind of strap-on upgrade. Back then DOS was good, it was transparent, easy to program, predictable, and a non-networked OS unless you had Novell.
In '97 i packed off to university and saw the internet for 'real' through mono-colour (green) UNIX terminals, the only thing in colour was the math lab which I only ever bothered with for Mathematica. But by then I had a home computer and here I am now!!!, err... doing VBA and C++ in a finance company!
20MHz, 10240KB, 40MB HDD, MS DOS 5.0, 14" NEC monitor.
It kicked ass.
It had Word Perfect, Sword of Aragon, Wing Commander and QBASIC. There have been few computers better.
Sir, I found it informative. Would you elaborate on what was not informative, indeed misinformative?
You are incorrect.
Pakistan, India and China have nuclear weapons but are 3rd world countries, nukes or not.
Japan has no nuclear weapons yet is a first world power.
1st/3rd world refers to the distinction discussed earlier.
It may be less ambigious to describe the 1st world as developed and the 3rd world as not developed (or emerging), following a measure of standard of living, income, education, etc (this is a subject in itself). MSCI and FTSE use the term 'advanced emerging' as a subset of emerging to describe emerging countries with standard of living between developed and average emerging level, a useful term.
sounds pretty pro-active to me.
Kill Bill sucked.
Great visuals: motion, colours, costumes, settings.
Great soundtrack.
But it was totaly 2 dimensional, no depth, no emotion, no resonance, no thought.
IMHO Pulp Fiction was his best, Jackie Brown second, Reservior Dogs a poor 3rd (sucks compared to any movie Beat Takeshi has done) and Kill Bill most definately last.
Well, /. does not source 'new' news, it merely brings stories together in a mish-mash that is more-often-than-not revevant to the /. target audience.
/. is not a live feed from Reuters, if you want that then hire a Reuters machine, this sort of story on /. to sit back and think about, a week or even month here or there doesn't matter much.
Does it matter if this story is highlighted one week later than another? It is relevant but even this article doesn't bring some hot-off-the-press story, it is a sit back and think about it piece. The tech outsourcing trend, as mentioned in the article, goes well back to the 90s, so if an opinion piece is published now, or last month or next week, it is equally relevant as we're talking about long term trend.
To extend your argument would be to say "why didn't BusinessWeek come up with this idea sooner?", why not a month sooner if all the facts were still in place,or a month before that? Or, as this is not new information, just a collection of old information with some insight, why couldn't you have done it?
Ok, a $99 replacement. But the battery is the first failure. Even were the battery problem solved the HDD (it is an off-the-shelf IDE after all) would fail a little while after the battery (many IDEs fail after 18 months regular use, and an iPOD is regular random access so this is very likely).
So what about a HDD replacement?
Oh, I am British, please excuse my imperial leanings.
We are veering OT, but I do not believe in posting my opinions as AC, so here you go:
France was conquered by Germany in WWII in a very short period of time. There was a valant fight by some (French and British), but the country was militarily impared to begin with.
Hitler was happy not to go to war with Britain, but (and this was a very very controversial decision at the time in the UK), Britain decided to stand by her European neighbours, hence the squadrons of French, Polish etc pilots fighting Germany stationed in Britain.
The sea got in the way of Germany's conquer of Britain, plus after France the German army was getting overstretched and needed to consolidate. But Britain could not have survived the turn of the decade were it not for very heavy supply support from the US. Fact. It had the men, the pilots and soldiers to protect the country despite heavy losses, but not enough ammo, not enough food, not enough materials. The US was invaluable to the UK's survival on the stance it had chosen, and hence invluable to the future recapture of Europe.
The UK could have defended itself, possibly indefinately, but it could have never retaken Europe.
An alliance (as the 'allies' were in WWII) means the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The UK chose to defend Europe, the US chose to defend Europe and the UK... it was an alliance. What was achieved would not have been possible were one part left out of the equation. It takes guts to stand up and fight rather than being assimilated, but Britain had it, the US (already stung by WWI) gained it and France did not like being assimilated(well, this is for debate for large sections of France).
As regards WWII, please do not pick on one counrty, it was a world war and it was an alliance. It is pointless to point anything regarding WWII to one country, one action would have not have been achieveable without another.
Well, no. If a country (and by this I refer to the elected government) sends troops to fight and possibly be killed then I say no, they did not oppose the war.
Tony Blair (UK's prime minister) has come under huge political attack from this stance, almost losing his job, and the UK benefits little from post-war reforms ($10bn of projects matters little to an economy which is performing well, having avoided the global recession at the beginning of the decade).
Italy has suffered losses and come under domestic political attack for supporting the war. Spain has had less losses but is also under political attack.
The main political attack in countries pro-war was not alone financial nor political lines, but that the war was formed on lies. Most poeple in these countries supported ridding Iraq of Saddam because of the crimes he had done to Iraq and it's people, but the force that was needed to get over war inertia was WMD.
Britain, Italy, Spain, Turkey and many others supported the war. France and Germany opposed mainly because of their isolated, non-political confrontational views. These countries are very muslim hostile (witness Turkey's denial from the EU, instigated by France/Germany, despite a better political system in Turkey than many Eastern European countires that were granted access); these countries are very isolationalist, very Europe-centric but world-isolationist. Please do not confuse Europe for the Franco-Germanic pact.
"The localtime is 1154 - the webcam/webcontrol will be operational in 5 hours, 6 minutes". Come back later.
1. $9bn will not "reduce lift costs to orbit from $10000/pound to $100/pound". NASA funding was ~$14bn in 2002 alone, and you can't increase efficiency that much, even in cuckoo land, unless you have a very good idea?
...six billion people now have practically free electrical power and consequently, pure water as extracted from seawater through desalination plant. I'm sorry, but unless the electricity is beamed and desalinated water materialised you still need low level electricity distribution and water transportation. Production costs are low compared to costs of transportation.
2. 1bn is way way way below the invested amounts in NASDAQ, even on IPO, full of tech companies that have neat ideas.
3.
I'm all for teaching people to fish rather than giving them a fish, but although $10bn is obscene for an individual, is is small fish on the global investment scale of things. Cool technology is cool, but it is not a cure-all, it is a part of a means to an end, but only a part. Nor will space-travel/exploitation be a cure-all for world poverty et al, low level solutions need to be made, the UN needs more money, development charities need more money, developing countries need more money (or be freed from their debt, but this is another discussion). Bringing back trillions of tons of ore from asteriods will make no difference if the price of ore is immediately depressed and people from developing countries still have no direct water supply, still have no electricity pylons to their village, or still have inadequate access to education. Old fashion engineering and logistics are the only things that can solve this.
Yes, choose a legal option... do not endanger your future.
:) ). Does this company have only one 'Network Security Analyst'? Even a small company should have at least 2, from a contingency perspective. My financial company employer has a team of 20 on network security, though headcount of the company is under 2000. So what are the rest of your team doing? If they really only had you then they ran a poor show, and if completely outsourced (bad practice IMHO, in-house monitoring must exist at a minimum) a case can be made to monitor.
But something I'm confused is your say this was a major financial institution (well, the story seems to have been edited to remove major, but it was major on first read
Well, you have my sympathies, if this 3rd party consultant really does urge firing all staff (well, replacing staff as the security risk with a 3rd party as the security risk) and not keeping anything in-house as you suggest, then I urge you to name them, sir.
going from 68000 to 330000 feet is gonna be way way way more difficult
I'm not sure, 330,000ft in 2 weeks is about 23,571.43ft/day, or 0.27ft/second. Many can do 0.27ft/second, they just need to it again and again and they're there!
There is lots of decent music here. And they stream OGG!
The term 'trojan' goes all the way back to the horse presented to the people of Troy as a present but was a sneeky Greek attack (a brief history here). A Trojan in the true sense refers to this, so I suppose the parent was referring to iTunes being a sneak ploy to get people to use iPod.
Not that the 'hacker colloqualism' of trojan horse is a misuse, it is not, but to see this as the primary source is just wrong.
Not a lot of money... Apple had revenues of USD5.74bn and profits of USD1.60bn last financial year. USD0.00125bn doesn't scratch much.
Only for the very latest released titles. After only months legal VCDs cost ~3USD and legal DVDs ~5USD. Still, you were right this would be illegal (though the copies are legal) because these copies are licenced only for personal use, copies with a licence to rent are much more expensive/have some kind of revenue share model built in.
If you are in HK, try the Golden Shopping Arcade (in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon).