fail at practicing those skills and you put your job at risk.
I see your point, but I think being mindful and cautious will mitigate the risk. Firing off unsolicited cost-benefit analysis (plural???) will not work.
I'd like to know an answer one way or another on this question. I'd also like to know the nature of the benefits the CIO is getting.
I've seen perfectly reasonable low-cost vendors/solutions get discarded in favor of ridiculous ones (cough)Oracle!(cough) many times the cost and zero productivity gain.
This was mentioned elsewhere, but I thought I'd restate it.
This is an opportunity to practice the politics of change within an organization.
1. You don't want to make enemies or make this a 'battle.' You'll lose. 2. This is an opportunity to practice working with management thinking as opposed to service ticket processor thinking. 3. This is an opportunity to practice selling new ideas. Yes, there's salesmanship involved in any career. In management circles they call it 'leadership.' But it's basically the ability to change someone's thinking and have them believe in you, not the other guy/girl/vendor/whatever.
Bar codes printed on media of all kinds are generally quite robust and not error prone. The printing device does not need to be special in any way. The reader does not need to be special in any way. Print the key on acid-free paper using a laser printer and store it for a looong time. I'll leave it up to the slashdot tifosi to declare how long it would last in a bank vault.
I would suggest building tape archives, but as I mentioned above, this can be more hazardous than it should be. (ANY backup exec admin who have blindly relied on Symantec's solution without testing, testing, testing have horror stories)
Finally, I'd probably go with WORM optical media as the final storage media with a tape backup. There are lots of process decisions after just recommending hardware, so you are hardly done.
You bet prices are fixed. It's one of the things a company earns when it enters the top three. It's a sign of respect. The average slashdotter recoils in horror and thinks, "That's illegal!" Well, is it? If you all meet in China to plan pricing for the West, have you committed a crime? You aren't planning to fix prices in China while you are there.
The other important thing to remember is nearly all markets mature into an oligopoly and then the members of the oligopoly don't want to kill the geese laying the golden eggs.
Insurance is for EMERGENCY and RARE EXPENSIVE claims.
Humans get these things called diseases. You may not have heard of them. But they are out there.
If instead, you worked from a world view something like, 'health insurance is for keeping workers productive and healthy.' I think you would begin to see things differently.
Until then, you should check into those human diseases and move out of your parent's basement.
an app developed on one release of one distro is not guaranteed to work on any version of any other distro
Different issue, same break from reality. If you want to build from sources, this is entirely different than using package systems.
or even any other version of the same distro.
Why the comment got modded to infinity and beyond is still totally misguided. It's also a clue as to how little people understand the effort that goes into creating a distro.
For those misguided moderators, distro release teams figure out a combination of specific versions of libraries that 'just work.' Stop complaining that one cannot release an infinite build environment and call it a distro.
Finally, the burden here is on Google to enforce some package standards.
The fault lies with Google. They need to step up and either enforce *some* kinds of compatibility.
The devs at the mobile phone brands certainly don't have the time allocated to being compatible with their competitors phones. The executive staff would have apoplectic fits of rage if *they* had to bear the burden of maintaining compatibility.
The moderators have taken a break from reality. This is nonsense.
ARM/X86 desktop distros can communicate just fine with each other. Avahi, network file systems are two high-level examples used in desktop distros that make communicating between distros easy.
Maybe the moderators are confusing Microsoft and Apple hostility to interoperability with Linux? The problem is at Microsoft and Apple, not the Linux community.
Now some of the universities that I teach at, such as Georgia Tech and Idaho State University, our Scholarship for Service programs, as soon as they get done, they’re going in government, fairly high-level positions as security experts.
The wisdom of this is simultaneously frightening and brilliant.
“Hey, I’m seeing this really anonymous activity on this particular port. Are you guys seeing that?” “Yeah, we are.” Well, that solves problems and that’s what this is all about.
Mission accomplished! (In a GWB ironical reference kind of way)
and many people don’t realize that there is not the one power company that looks after the entire country.
This guy can sell ice to eskimos!
No wonder I have grave concerns regarding the future of my country.
$15000/year is the bare minimum. By 'bare minimum' I mean a plan with topline 'coverage' numbers that actually translates into additional money you don't have to spend on medical care AFTER the insurance company covers some care AND the time and effort required to not get a meaningful percentage of medical care costs shifted onto you anyway.
A year ago, I got into a freak accident where I stood the likely possibility of bleeding to death. 8 hours of emergency surgery, other terrible stuff. I blew through the deductible in the first hour of surgery. ($2000) That's what rainy day savings is for. What followed though is actually worse.
-Hospital's bills were rejected by the Insurance company because they didn't call to notify the Insurance company. (While I was bleeding to death, the hospital was required to have called to get approval AND THEN started saving my life) They were going to send all of the Hospital's bills to us. And they will too. I ONLY found out about this because I checked to see that the claims were getting processed. If I didn't check, the insurance company would have closed the window on the possibility of getting the claim paid and then the entire invoice of the hospital's services would have come to me.
-Despite the paying the advertised 'maximum deductible' of $2000, there were additional costs that I had to pay. How is that possible? The insurance company categorizes medical expenses as they see fit. So for any given bill, they can choose to cover costs as they see fit. They satisfy their marketing claims and still passed another $2000 in stuff they wouldn't cover onto me.
I put as many hours into not getting screwed by the insurance company as I did in physical therapy. This is how screwed up American health insurance really is and $15000/yr is the bare minimum.
Per the parent's discussion, I have great experience with PI Host. http://www.pihost.com/ They aren't the cheapest, but service is excellent with a very reliable infrastructure.
Some of us here have lived the consequences of going cheap. 'All that money saved' becomes inconsequential when vague service/reliability promises made to the Exec's don't quite pan out.
here's a trap there, too: a kind of local maxima where, for a while, being an expert in Cobol or IBM mainframes is not only easier than learning Java, but will pay more and more, as you become more and more rare.
Why they are paying a Cobol programmer more is for two basic reasons.
1. Not many Cobol programmers around. 2. Paying you for the opportunity you will NOT take getting into a more modern language. They are paying you more because it will be harder for you to find work later on.
If you are clever/lucky enough to be able to transition anyway, then more power to you. But deriving maximum benefits from timing the switch to a more modern language is not likely for average guys like me.
Watch those details before you dust off the P4. Parent is using a firewire tuner box.
That means the firewire tuner box is doing all of the rendering then sending the video straight to the P4 hard disk storage. Putting most PCI tuner cards in a P4 and attempting HD rendering generally speaking will not work.
Having used a pre-HD external Hauppauge device, I can attest that it is a very nice device and well supported in Linux/Mythtv.
If one wanted to push things, I'd be interested to hear if a P3 can write an HD stream to disk fast enough to make one usable.
Scenario 1: Let's say Microsoft leaves for greener pastures. The King County liberals will move onto other work. End of story.
Scenario 2: WA expands the Corporate Welfare system to pander to Microsoft's every whim, your lower wage earners will still get crushed by financing Microsoft's subsidies. Someone needs to pay for public services and it's not going to be Microsoft Corp. or its top-earners. It's going to be the working-class employee.
Pick either scenario and you've just destroyed the lower and middle class. Both cases harm the lowest wage earners.
You might want to examine the notion of a cyclical economy and its effect on government financing sometime too.
The short answer to your question is, no one knows with any accuracy.
The long answer: No one has done the work involved in collecting testing procedures across different athletes/sports AND different Ant-doping programs.
Let's attempt to keep it simple. Let's just stick to competitive cycling. Again, no one has gone to the effort of collecting the various testing procedures of every country and reduced those into some semblance of data such that racer testing methodology is somehow equalized as to make a Belgian rider's testing comparable to an American rider. (insert any countries you wish into that last sentence.)
Bottom line: the "most-tested" claim can not be tested as true or false today or anytime soon. Wherever it came from, it deserves to die.
Governor Christine Gregoire expanded the budget by 33% in her first 4 year term, and has kept on this pace for her current term (re-elected for her second term in November 2008).
Governor gets re-elected. That means enough people thought favorably of her. A simple explanation is her budgeting wasn't an issue for those happy voters.
The truth is far more complicated than that though. What is the role Washington's congressional body plays in the budget busting?
The parent post (and the moderators) simply refuse to look at the issue with any logical discipline. They clearly favor a Corporate Welfare state and an impotent and impoverished working class. Whether you/they understand that's what they are endorsing is another question entirely.
It's obvious you don't have a clear understanding of typical Government financing works too.
Note I said perhaps. If you are going to back out of the statement, then I think you recognize it's irresponsible to just spout OLN truthiness as credible facts.
If it was the case that you were relying on the statement without critically examining it, then now you know better. Otherwise, why propagate such destructive reasoning?
Name another athlete who gets tested nearly as often as him.
Each sport has its own testing protocols. Therefore, it's impossible to test the statement. Not even in cycling because every Nation's anti-doping authority operates with a great deal of latitude.
Hopefully, this encourages more critical thinking.
He decided to cheat on one day, and one day alone, in the middle of the race when he knew he was already being tested.
Yes. He cracked and lost the most visible symbol of cycling prowess on the planet. So, do some PED to try to get back into the yellow jersey. Absolutely logical within the context of Le Tour.
The performance edge is minor in raw numbers like Watts. But apply that newly found performance to epic climbs and that turns into the minutes needed to regain the yellow jersey.
What is not often discussed is how imperfect the testing actually is. It's also important to understand that testing is a generation or more behind the PED's. Therefore, it's entirely possible to dope and never get caught.
This is a nice summary of Landis' side of the argument up to the PDF link. These are fundamental issues to testing that should be addressed.
I don't agree with the last paragraph. Using a PowerTap to add credibility to his performance just doesn't fit within the context of decades of 'bad-day->next-day' performances. I could be wrong though. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.
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fail at practicing those skills and you put your job at risk.
I see your point, but I think being mindful and cautious will mitigate the risk. Firing off unsolicited cost-benefit analysis (plural???) will not work.
I'd like to know an answer one way or another on this question. I'd also like to know the nature of the benefits the CIO is getting.
I've seen perfectly reasonable low-cost vendors/solutions get discarded in favor of ridiculous ones (cough)Oracle!(cough) many times the cost and zero productivity gain.
This was mentioned elsewhere, but I thought I'd restate it.
This is an opportunity to practice the politics of change within an organization.
1. You don't want to make enemies or make this a 'battle.' You'll lose.
2. This is an opportunity to practice working with management thinking as opposed to service ticket processor thinking.
3. This is an opportunity to practice selling new ideas. Yes, there's salesmanship involved in any career. In management circles they call it 'leadership.' But it's basically the ability to change someone's thinking and have them believe in you, not the other guy/girl/vendor/whatever.
Bar codes printed on media of all kinds are generally quite robust and not error prone. The printing device does not need to be special in any way. The reader does not need to be special in any way. Print the key on acid-free paper using a laser printer and store it for a looong time. I'll leave it up to the slashdot tifosi to declare how long it would last in a bank vault.
Some nice ways to encode keys and store it as a symbol on paper here: http://www.adams1.com/stack.html
Symbology is very non-sexy knowledge, but valuable in logistics.
It would be hell if you lost the symbology though. Otherwise, this is very practical to the few who understand what been done.
http://www.cddimensions.com/Blu-ray-Libraries/products/192/
I think one could DIY a par + WORM jukebox with a waaay off-site tape storage and rest easy.
There are going to be quite a few storage service names thrown out as well as compression schemes.
1. Storage vendors you run real risk of having the data go away. There's a huge liability balancing act going this route.
2. Compression schemes. As someone who has lost data to compression errors, the consequences of 'just' compressing a file can be huge. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/recovering-files-from-corrupt-tar-archive...-326716/ (not my post, but similar story)
I would suggest building tape archives, but as I mentioned above, this can be more hazardous than it should be. (ANY backup exec admin who have blindly relied on Symantec's solution without testing, testing, testing have horror stories)
Finally, I'd probably go with WORM optical media as the final storage media with a tape backup. There are lots of process decisions after just recommending hardware, so you are hardly done.
You bet prices are fixed. It's one of the things a company earns when it enters the top three. It's a sign of respect. The average slashdotter recoils in horror and thinks, "That's illegal!" Well, is it? If you all meet in China to plan pricing for the West, have you committed a crime? You aren't planning to fix prices in China while you are there.
The other important thing to remember is nearly all markets mature into an oligopoly and then the members of the oligopoly don't want to kill the geese laying the golden eggs.
Insurance is for EMERGENCY and RARE EXPENSIVE claims.
Humans get these things called diseases. You may not have heard of them. But they are out there.
If instead, you worked from a world view something like, 'health insurance is for keeping workers productive and healthy.' I think you would begin to see things differently.
Until then, you should check into those human diseases and move out of your parent's basement.
an app developed on one release of one distro is not guaranteed to work on any version of any other distro
Different issue, same break from reality. If you want to build from sources, this is entirely different than using package systems.
or even any other version of the same distro.
Why the comment got modded to infinity and beyond is still totally misguided. It's also a clue as to how little people understand the effort that goes into creating a distro.
For those misguided moderators, distro release teams figure out a combination of specific versions of libraries that 'just work.' Stop complaining that one cannot release an infinite build environment and call it a distro.
Finally, the burden here is on Google to enforce some package standards.
and compatibility are two conflicting goals.
The fault lies with Google. They need to step up and either enforce *some* kinds of compatibility.
The devs at the mobile phone brands certainly don't have the time allocated to being compatible with their competitors phones. The executive staff would have apoplectic fits of rage if *they* had to bear the burden of maintaining compatibility.
The moderators have taken a break from reality. This is nonsense.
ARM/X86 desktop distros can communicate just fine with each other. Avahi, network file systems are two high-level examples used in desktop distros that make communicating between distros easy.
Maybe the moderators are confusing Microsoft and Apple hostility to interoperability with Linux? The problem is at Microsoft and Apple, not the Linux community.
Now some of the universities that I teach at, such as Georgia Tech and Idaho State University, our Scholarship for Service programs, as soon as they get done, they’re going in government, fairly high-level positions as security experts.
The wisdom of this is simultaneously frightening and brilliant.
“Hey, I’m seeing this really anonymous activity on this particular port. Are you guys seeing that?” “Yeah, we are.” Well, that solves problems and that’s what this is all about.
Mission accomplished! (In a GWB ironical reference kind of way)
and many people don’t realize that there is not the one power company that looks after the entire country.
This guy can sell ice to eskimos!
No wonder I have grave concerns regarding the future of my country.
$15000/year is the bare minimum. By 'bare minimum' I mean a plan with topline 'coverage' numbers that actually translates into additional money you don't have to spend on medical care AFTER the insurance company covers some care AND the time and effort required to not get a meaningful percentage of medical care costs shifted onto you anyway.
A year ago, I got into a freak accident where I stood the likely possibility of bleeding to death. 8 hours of emergency surgery, other terrible stuff. I blew through the deductible in the first hour of surgery. ($2000) That's what rainy day savings is for. What followed though is actually worse.
-Hospital's bills were rejected by the Insurance company because they didn't call to notify the Insurance company. (While I was bleeding to death, the hospital was required to have called to get approval AND THEN started saving my life) They were going to send all of the Hospital's bills to us. And they will too. I ONLY found out about this because I checked to see that the claims were getting processed. If I didn't check, the insurance company would have closed the window on the possibility of getting the claim paid and then the entire invoice of the hospital's services would have come to me.
-Despite the paying the advertised 'maximum deductible' of $2000, there were additional costs that I had to pay. How is that possible? The insurance company categorizes medical expenses as they see fit. So for any given bill, they can choose to cover costs as they see fit. They satisfy their marketing claims and still passed another $2000 in stuff they wouldn't cover onto me.
I put as many hours into not getting screwed by the insurance company as I did in physical therapy. This is how screwed up American health insurance really is and $15000/yr is the bare minimum.
I am mpapet and I approve this post.
Per the parent's discussion, I have great experience with PI Host. http://www.pihost.com/ They aren't the cheapest, but service is excellent with a very reliable infrastructure.
Some of us here have lived the consequences of going cheap. 'All that money saved' becomes inconsequential when vague service/reliability promises made to the Exec's don't quite pan out.
Insightful analysis of the use of the word counterfeiting.
here's a trap there, too: a kind of local maxima where, for a while, being an expert in Cobol or IBM mainframes is not only easier than learning Java, but will pay more and more, as you become more and more rare.
Why they are paying a Cobol programmer more is for two basic reasons.
1. Not many Cobol programmers around.
2. Paying you for the opportunity you will NOT take getting into a more modern language. They are paying you more because it will be harder for you to find work later on.
If you are clever/lucky enough to be able to transition anyway, then more power to you. But deriving maximum benefits from timing the switch to a more modern language is not likely for average guys like me.
FYI, I'm using a plain HP dual-core desktop with the stock Intel graphics chip as a frontend/backend.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Compaq_DC7700_Small_Form_Factor
I can render and playback HD just fine.
Watch those details before you dust off the P4. Parent is using a firewire tuner box.
That means the firewire tuner box is doing all of the rendering then sending the video straight to the P4 hard disk storage. Putting most PCI tuner cards in a P4 and attempting HD rendering generally speaking will not work.
Having used a pre-HD external Hauppauge device, I can attest that it is a very nice device and well supported in Linux/Mythtv.
If one wanted to push things, I'd be interested to hear if a P3 can write an HD stream to disk fast enough to make one usable.
Scenario 1: Let's say Microsoft leaves for greener pastures. The King County liberals will move onto other work. End of story.
Scenario 2: WA expands the Corporate Welfare system to pander to Microsoft's every whim, your lower wage earners will still get crushed by financing Microsoft's subsidies. Someone needs to pay for public services and it's not going to be Microsoft Corp. or its top-earners. It's going to be the working-class employee.
Pick either scenario and you've just destroyed the lower and middle class. Both cases harm the lowest wage earners.
You might want to examine the notion of a cyclical economy and its effect on government financing sometime too.
The short answer to your question is, no one knows with any accuracy.
The long answer:
No one has done the work involved in collecting testing procedures across different athletes/sports AND different Ant-doping programs.
Let's attempt to keep it simple. Let's just stick to competitive cycling. Again, no one has gone to the effort of collecting the various testing procedures of every country and reduced those into some semblance of data such that racer testing methodology is somehow equalized as to make a Belgian rider's testing comparable to an American rider. (insert any countries you wish into that last sentence.)
Bottom line: the "most-tested" claim can not be tested as true or false today or anytime soon. Wherever it came from, it deserves to die.
Governor Christine Gregoire expanded the budget by 33% in her first 4 year term, and has kept on this pace for her current term (re-elected for her second term in November 2008).
Governor gets re-elected. That means enough people thought favorably of her. A simple explanation is her budgeting wasn't an issue for those happy voters.
The truth is far more complicated than that though. What is the role Washington's congressional body plays in the budget busting?
The parent post (and the moderators) simply refuse to look at the issue with any logical discipline. They clearly favor a Corporate Welfare state and an impotent and impoverished working class. Whether you/they understand that's what they are endorsing is another question entirely.
It's obvious you don't have a clear understanding of typical Government financing works too.
Note I said perhaps.
If you are going to back out of the statement, then I think you recognize it's irresponsible to just spout OLN truthiness as credible facts.
If it was the case that you were relying on the statement without critically examining it, then now you know better. Otherwise, why propagate such destructive reasoning?
Name another athlete who gets tested nearly as often as him.
Each sport has its own testing protocols. Therefore, it's impossible to test the statement. Not even in cycling because every Nation's anti-doping authority operates with a great deal of latitude.
Hopefully, this encourages more critical thinking.
He decided to cheat on one day, and one day alone, in the middle of the race when he knew he was already being tested.
Yes. He cracked and lost the most visible symbol of cycling prowess on the planet. So, do some PED to try to get back into the yellow jersey. Absolutely logical within the context of Le Tour.
The performance edge is minor in raw numbers like Watts. But apply that newly found performance to epic climbs and that turns into the minutes needed to regain the yellow jersey.
What is not often discussed is how imperfect the testing actually is. It's also important to understand that testing is a generation or more behind the PED's. Therefore, it's entirely possible to dope and never get caught.
This is a nice summary of Landis' side of the argument up to the PDF link. These are fundamental issues to testing that should be addressed.
I don't agree with the last paragraph. Using a PowerTap to add credibility to his performance just doesn't fit within the context of decades of 'bad-day->next-day' performances. I could be wrong though. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.