Or they could let a different government agency acquire them and save some money. I know I need some more for where I work, and I'm sure there are other agencies in the same boat.
I can get hot swap HDD's for the mac pro, and thunderbolt allows for a PCIex4 external chasis on the rest of the models (there are hints of a product being available in the near future). Dual PSU is an issue, but I have linux servers for that stuff anyway (ie. stuff that needs maximum availability). I have yet to lose a PSU on a Mac Pro and it's 24/7 number crunching (Mac Pro beats my linux servers in number crunching) and the scientists like working with it more.
You do realize that Macs in the enterprise mentioned in the article is referring to desktop computers and not servers right?
As someone who has been working with Macs in the workplace for a very long time, I can assure you that Macs do have a place in the enterprise. I prefer administering OSX and Linux more than Windows. Though my colleague insists that Windows is more secure due to all the anti-malware and security programs on the market to counter the OS' weaknesses.
This. I'm interested because I have had a number of occasions where I needed a PCIe bus and chassis to test something in the field.
Now if someone came out with a general purpose I/O board based on something similar to a Virtex-5 FPGA that can communicate using thunderbolt (and USB 2.0/3.0) then I would most definitely purchase one.
Blaming technology for the rioting is bullshit. You have to have people willing to riot and loot in the first place, this just helps them group together....
I agree however I don't really think blame is being placed on social networking. It's just a nice headline to attract clicks. I think they are saying that social networking is playing a role in the riots by enabling rioters to find like minded individuals and inciting them to riot. This is no different than having billboards promoting riots. You don't blame the billboards, you blame the people who advertised on that billboard.
So if you look at the news in context, you'd see that the police are saying that social networking is enabling the riots to spread not that the riots are actually caused by social networking. A better analogy would be dry underbrush that enables a forest fire to get large quickly by providing readily available fuel. The underbrush didn't cause the forest fire but possibly a carelessly tossed cigarette did.
At least apple should yet you run mac os X sever on ANY VM on any hardware.
Nice cut-n-paste job. If it's a genuine comment then I apologize for the error of mistaking a word-for-word comment used in what seems every damn Apple in the enterprise article submitted on slashdot.
The problem with the "any hardware" theory is that (1) Apple would not allow a stupid thing like that to occur again because they are a hardware company and the clone experiment didn't work out and (2) it's not even close to being required for enterprise. Get a Mac Pro and run a VM and do all your configuration tests in a virtual machine as supported by the new EULA included with OS X Lion. Can't afford a Mac Pro or even a Mac Mini? Well maybe you don't actually work for an enterprise.
Don't blame the ratings agencies or the governments - it's all the greedy bankers' fault.
I think you'll find that there is plenty of blame to go around. Government for not enforcing regulations, and repealing one that would have prevented the snafu. Rating agencies LOWERED their rating standards to make more money on mortgage backed securities. Even the SEC wanted to clean up the rating agencies back in 2003 citing anti-competitive behavior and conflicts of interest.
I'm sure we'll hear a lot of political ideology in today's comments, but I just wanted to remind folks that S&P reputation isn't that stellar. S&P and Moody's used mathematical models to rate mortgage backed securities as safe as governmental bonds back in 2007. Then about 90% of those bonds were then rerated as junk bonds which forced a large sell off.
I also want to remind folks that the treasury bond yield rates are the lowest they have ever been with a yield rate of 0.01 for 1 month, and 3.82 for 30 year. A downgrade by S&P may force the government to raise the yield rates on these treasury bonds in order to maintain current levels of borrowing (by the government). So keep all this in consideration while we debate the merits of a fox guarding the hen house.
what's their agenda? Part of me wonder if they aren't trying to increase the number of educational shows in their prime time schedule in order to weaken the argument for public television. Of course once Murdoch finally kills the corporation for public broadcasting and the public televisions, he'll be free to drop these educational shows and go back to his usual prime time crap.
I admit this seems too far fetched of a scheme to take seriously. Only Murdoch would be crazy enough to try that... o wait.;)
People should also be tattooed and micro-chipped. Street crime would be abolished!
I know you're being dramatic but since we all have distinguishing features such drastic measures aren't really necessary. You also confused accountability with prevention. Being able to identify a person doesn't prevent a crime from happening, but it does make apprehension and prosecution possible.
Really? I though we were talking about online anonymity. I don't see why the two concepts should be conflated.
Nope Zuckerburg was talking about accountability and suggested that getting rid of anonymity as a means to ensure accountability.
From the comment in the EFF article which I'm sure wasn't taken out of context:
I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away. People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors. (emphasis mine)
MySQL has always been GPL 2.0 licensed. I doubt the license played a role. Maybe it's the new copyright owner or maybe Apple liked PostgreSQL better this time around.
Apple Servers are just for the Ultimate Fanboi's or for the small Mac Only shop.
You couldn't pass up the opportunity to use "Apple" and "Fanboi" in a comment, could you?
They really don't offer much of a real advantage. You can get a standard server with Linux and it probably will run much better.
How is this relevant to the topic of Apple choosing PostgreSQL over MySQL? Qualifying your analysis with the word "probably" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement either.
As far as I can determine from my research, however, the address + length format was preferred by the majority of programming languages at the time, whereas the address + magic_marker format was used mostly in assembly programs. As the C language was a development from assembly to a portable high-level language, I have a hard time believing that Ken, Dennis, and Brian gave it no thought at all.
I spent the 80's doing assembly language programming and I used both NUL terminated strings and length based strings. It just depended on the situation. Sure I could do a quick test of the accumulator using BEQ which looks at the zero flag and if set exit the loop, or I could load a counter register with the length and do a decrement during each iteration and BEQ test on the counter instead. Pardon my foggy memory since I haven't used assembly language exclusively in twenty eight years (1983!).
This is a very speculative paper that is trying to place the blame for poor programming practices on a programming language that gives the programmer plenty of rope to hang themselves with.
I read the EFF filing and the definition of a public figure in this case is a woman who has a verified twitter account with 17,221 followers and who posted videos on a service like Youtube which had 143,000 views. This public figure holds no political office and appears to be outspoken about her religious beliefs.
I noticed that the actual contents of the tweets aren't documented in the EFF filing. As tenuous as their assertion about this involving a public figure, I'd like to see the actual tweets before actually judging the merits of this case. Hell according to EFF, all of the regular slashdot commenters are "public figures".
I know they wanted to assert the public figure definition so they can attempt to use a first amendment argument in this case, but I just don't see it with the evidence being presented.
None of this is "my employer". My employer requires everything I do in the scope of my work become public domain. I'm cool with this.
While all of my work becomes public domain due to the requirements of my ultimate employer, my immediate employer states in the employee handbook that they own all patent, copyright, and trademark rights to any all work produced during working hours or using company resources. I too am cool with this.
And, you are assuming that the employer asserting their ownership is the final say in the matter.
I made no such assumption. This is why I stressed the need to seek professional legal advice. If I had made such an assumption then I would have said you're screwed and learn from your mistakes.
After further thought, your employer could assert that the software was open sourced without their permission and could seek damages. I think you should really really really (I can't stress this too hard) go seek legal advice from a lawyer who will look out for your interests.
IANAL either. However I think the above means that the MIT license can't be stripped by anyone other than the actual copyright holder. Notice the part that states "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files..."?
If the employer asserts that they are the actual copyright holder then they are free to do anything they please with future versions of their software. However, the versions that are already "in the wild" is fair game. So after consulting a lawyer, continue your work from an already distributed copy of the software and just live with the need to credit the copyright holder as per the MIT license.
Count your blessings. You learned about copyright and your employer using an open source license. It could have been worse. If it was a traditional closed source project you would have very little recourse except to fight for copyright ownership in court.
I think you may have confirmed the sarcastic humor of the GP. He never mentioned patents, instead he was poking fun at people who insist that "Dalvik is not Java". You on the other hand fell into his trap by essentially saying "Yes Dalvik is Java! Now what patents are being infringed?"
Ummm, I think you need to look up clean room design [wikipedia.org], which is supposedly what Dalvik is.
I think you may need to review the definition of "clean room design". I assumed that the GP was talking about Google reviewing the JSRs related to Java 7 and not the actual source code of OpenJDK 7.
Um no. Implementation issues aside (stack vs. register), Dalvik is a virtual machine that runs the Java language using an incompatible byte code dictionary. That said the byte code that can run in Oracle's JVM can be easily mapped into byte codes that can be executed within Dalvik. The fact that Android (ie Dalvik) isn't using Java SE libraries is immaterial to Oracle v. Google.
Yes, all spending bills must start in the house so of course the budget must originate there, after the President sends his budget for consideration. Unfortunately, we haven't had a budget passed in something like 840 days now and have been operating under a continuing resolution until the end of FY2011 which was most recently presented and passed with minor spending cuts.
If you were to check the actual numbers, you'd discover that the rich pay way more than their fair share [wordpress.com]. The top 10% richest americans pay half of all taxes, while half the country pays no income tax at all [yahoo.com]. I don't know what kind of a perverted mind can call this arrangement fair. If anything, it is the poor who are not paying their share.
It didn't take long for that dud of a CBO report to be cited again. Too bad, because you hide key facts that show that the report is being misrepresented by linking to a conservative blogger.
First of all you need to talk about the same demographic. The Bush tax cuts benefited the top 2% income earners, while you cite a statistic concerning the top 10% income earners. 10% != 2%.
Most importantly, the conservative blogger failed to acknowledge that the report was written in August of 2004 and is based on the 2001 tax code and doesn't take into account the additional tax cuts that Bush signed into law in 2004.
Anyway now that we know the report doesn't include all of Bush's tax cuts lets go ahead and look at the 2011 projected numbers which are inflated since the 2001 tax breaks were supposed to be sunsetted: Top 10% paid 47.6% of the taxes, Top 5% paid 36.5% of the taxes, and the Top 1% only paid 21% of the taxes proposed to be collected.
Next question is what are the income levels we are talking about? Well further down that CBO report you'll see that the top 10% included people who made $259,000 or more; Top 5% included people who made $379,800 or more; and the Top 1% made 1,050,000 or more.
So if you were still considering the August 2004 report a good statistical measure, you'd be embarrassed to find out that the report basically states that a whopping 63.5% of the total taxes where projected to be paid by everyone who made less than $379,800/year.
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Or they could let a different government agency acquire them and save some money. I know I need some more for where I work, and I'm sure there are other agencies in the same boat.
I can get hot swap HDD's for the mac pro, and thunderbolt allows for a PCIex4 external chasis on the rest of the models (there are hints of a product being available in the near future). Dual PSU is an issue, but I have linux servers for that stuff anyway (ie. stuff that needs maximum availability). I have yet to lose a PSU on a Mac Pro and it's 24/7 number crunching (Mac Pro beats my linux servers in number crunching) and the scientists like working with it more.
You do realize that Macs in the enterprise mentioned in the article is referring to desktop computers and not servers right?
As someone who has been working with Macs in the workplace for a very long time, I can assure you that Macs do have a place in the enterprise. I prefer administering OSX and Linux more than Windows. Though my colleague insists that Windows is more secure due to all the anti-malware and security programs on the market to counter the OS' weaknesses.
This. I'm interested because I have had a number of occasions where I needed a PCIe bus and chassis to test something in the field.
Now if someone came out with a general purpose I/O board based on something similar to a Virtex-5 FPGA that can communicate using thunderbolt (and USB 2.0/3.0) then I would most definitely purchase one.
I agree however I don't really think blame is being placed on social networking. It's just a nice headline to attract clicks. I think they are saying that social networking is playing a role in the riots by enabling rioters to find like minded individuals and inciting them to riot. This is no different than having billboards promoting riots. You don't blame the billboards, you blame the people who advertised on that billboard.
So if you look at the news in context, you'd see that the police are saying that social networking is enabling the riots to spread not that the riots are actually caused by social networking. A better analogy would be dry underbrush that enables a forest fire to get large quickly by providing readily available fuel. The underbrush didn't cause the forest fire but possibly a carelessly tossed cigarette did.
Nice cut-n-paste job. If it's a genuine comment then I apologize for the error of mistaking a word-for-word comment used in what seems every damn Apple in the enterprise article submitted on slashdot.
The problem with the "any hardware" theory is that (1) Apple would not allow a stupid thing like that to occur again because they are a hardware company and the clone experiment didn't work out and (2) it's not even close to being required for enterprise. Get a Mac Pro and run a VM and do all your configuration tests in a virtual machine as supported by the new EULA included with OS X Lion. Can't afford a Mac Pro or even a Mac Mini? Well maybe you don't actually work for an enterprise.
I think you'll find that there is plenty of blame to go around. Government for not enforcing regulations, and repealing one that would have prevented the snafu. Rating agencies LOWERED their rating standards to make more money on mortgage backed securities. Even the SEC wanted to clean up the rating agencies back in 2003 citing anti-competitive behavior and conflicts of interest.
I'm sure we'll hear a lot of political ideology in today's comments, but I just wanted to remind folks that S&P reputation isn't that stellar. S&P and Moody's used mathematical models to rate mortgage backed securities as safe as governmental bonds back in 2007. Then about 90% of those bonds were then rerated as junk bonds which forced a large sell off.
I also want to remind folks that the treasury bond yield rates are the lowest they have ever been with a yield rate of 0.01 for 1 month, and 3.82 for 30 year. A downgrade by S&P may force the government to raise the yield rates on these treasury bonds in order to maintain current levels of borrowing (by the government). So keep all this in consideration while we debate the merits of a fox guarding the hen house.
what's their agenda? Part of me wonder if they aren't trying to increase the number of educational shows in their prime time schedule in order to weaken the argument for public television. Of course once Murdoch finally kills the corporation for public broadcasting and the public televisions, he'll be free to drop these educational shows and go back to his usual prime time crap.
I admit this seems too far fetched of a scheme to take seriously. Only Murdoch would be crazy enough to try that... o wait. ;)
I know you're being dramatic but since we all have distinguishing features such drastic measures aren't really necessary. You also confused accountability with prevention. Being able to identify a person doesn't prevent a crime from happening, but it does make apprehension and prosecution possible.
Nope Zuckerburg was talking about accountability and suggested that getting rid of anonymity as a means to ensure accountability.
From the comment in the EFF article which I'm sure wasn't taken out of context:
I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away. People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors. (emphasis mine)
MySQL has always been GPL 2.0 licensed. I doubt the license played a role. Maybe it's the new copyright owner or maybe Apple liked PostgreSQL better this time around.
Based on what? TCO? Features vs. Cost? Beige Box vs. Brand Name? Please enlighten me.
You couldn't pass up the opportunity to use "Apple" and "Fanboi" in a comment, could you?
How is this relevant to the topic of Apple choosing PostgreSQL over MySQL? Qualifying your analysis with the word "probably" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement either.
I find his hypothesis a little weak:
I spent the 80's doing assembly language programming and I used both NUL terminated strings and length based strings. It just depended on the situation. Sure I could do a quick test of the accumulator using BEQ which looks at the zero flag and if set exit the loop, or I could load a counter register with the length and do a decrement during each iteration and BEQ test on the counter instead. Pardon my foggy memory since I haven't used assembly language exclusively in twenty eight years (1983!).
This is a very speculative paper that is trying to place the blame for poor programming practices on a programming language that gives the programmer plenty of rope to hang themselves with.
Seriously Telex is not only a brand name of communications equipment, but its also a name of a very old and still used protocol.
I read the EFF filing and the definition of a public figure in this case is a woman who has a verified twitter account with 17,221 followers and who posted videos on a service like Youtube which had 143,000 views. This public figure holds no political office and appears to be outspoken about her religious beliefs.
I noticed that the actual contents of the tweets aren't documented in the EFF filing. As tenuous as their assertion about this involving a public figure, I'd like to see the actual tweets before actually judging the merits of this case. Hell according to EFF, all of the regular slashdot commenters are "public figures".
I know they wanted to assert the public figure definition so they can attempt to use a first amendment argument in this case, but I just don't see it with the evidence being presented.
While all of my work becomes public domain due to the requirements of my ultimate employer, my immediate employer states in the employee handbook that they own all patent, copyright, and trademark rights to any all work produced during working hours or using company resources. I too am cool with this.
I made no such assumption. This is why I stressed the need to seek professional legal advice. If I had made such an assumption then I would have said you're screwed and learn from your mistakes.
After further thought, your employer could assert that the software was open sourced without their permission and could seek damages. I think you should really really really (I can't stress this too hard) go seek legal advice from a lawyer who will look out for your interests.
IANAL either. However I think the above means that the MIT license can't be stripped by anyone other than the actual copyright holder. Notice the part that states "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files..."?
If the employer asserts that they are the actual copyright holder then they are free to do anything they please with future versions of their software. However, the versions that are already "in the wild" is fair game. So after consulting a lawyer, continue your work from an already distributed copy of the software and just live with the need to credit the copyright holder as per the MIT license.
Count your blessings. You learned about copyright and your employer using an open source license. It could have been worse. If it was a traditional closed source project you would have very little recourse except to fight for copyright ownership in court.
I think you may have confirmed the sarcastic humor of the GP. He never mentioned patents, instead he was poking fun at people who insist that "Dalvik is not Java". You on the other hand fell into his trap by essentially saying "Yes Dalvik is Java! Now what patents are being infringed?"
I think you may need to review the definition of "clean room design". I assumed that the GP was talking about Google reviewing the JSRs related to Java 7 and not the actual source code of OpenJDK 7.
Um no. Implementation issues aside (stack vs. register), Dalvik is a virtual machine that runs the Java language using an incompatible byte code dictionary. That said the byte code that can run in Oracle's JVM can be easily mapped into byte codes that can be executed within Dalvik. The fact that Android (ie Dalvik) isn't using Java SE libraries is immaterial to Oracle v. Google.
Or we're called RINO and aren't invited to the republican reindeer games.
Wrong. Congress passed a budget for 2011 back in April. I included a link from Fox news. Obama even signed it into law.
Any more disinformation you would like to share?
It didn't take long for that dud of a CBO report to be cited again. Too bad, because you hide key facts that show that the report is being misrepresented by linking to a conservative blogger.
First of all you need to talk about the same demographic. The Bush tax cuts benefited the top 2% income earners, while you cite a statistic concerning the top 10% income earners. 10% != 2%.
Most importantly, the conservative blogger failed to acknowledge that the report was written in August of 2004 and is based on the 2001 tax code and doesn't take into account the additional tax cuts that Bush signed into law in 2004.
Anyway now that we know the report doesn't include all of Bush's tax cuts lets go ahead and look at the 2011 projected numbers which are inflated since the 2001 tax breaks were supposed to be sunsetted: Top 10% paid 47.6% of the taxes, Top 5% paid 36.5% of the taxes, and the Top 1% only paid 21% of the taxes proposed to be collected.
Next question is what are the income levels we are talking about? Well further down that CBO report you'll see that the top 10% included people who made $259,000 or more; Top 5% included people who made $379,800 or more; and the Top 1% made 1,050,000 or more.
So if you were still considering the August 2004 report a good statistical measure, you'd be embarrassed to find out that the report basically states that a whopping 63.5% of the total taxes where projected to be paid by everyone who made less than $379,800/year.
Isn't statistics fun?