>Once it's gone, you don't have to forget a password and you don't have any password to be persuaded to remember?
And you don't have any value to your captors, so they can just kill you for sport (or to set an example for the next person in line for interrogation.)
And you suggest that even if the matter cannot be settled amicably between business units, that those business units should be denied access to the courts? And this is just because they use the same franchise trademark?
I think you'd be surprised how much litigation happens between business units of the same enterprise, in the banking and finance sectors. It's unavoidable in some cases, since so much of the industry is regulated by laws of different jurisdictions.
Everything kills obese people disproportionately. Heart attacks, liver disease, cancer, pneumonia, you name it. Flu is just one more thing, and Swine Flu is just one more flu.
>If I went back and redid my education there is just one major thing I would have done differently: I would have learnt python from the beginning.
I would have taken some business courses, enough to learn the nomenclature of manufacturing inventory control and supply chain management, and also some senior-management level finance and accounting courses. This is what slowed down my career as a software developer. It doesn't matter how well you know IT and programming; if you have to rely on the expertise of others to understand the business, you will always be subordinate to them.
I think it's less an issue of the language as the kind of applications that were developed in that language. For example, the last shop I worked at that had COBOL, had a *LOT* of COBOL, and it had been developed *along with* the policies and procedures and business rules of, among other things, the global supply chain for an oil and gas exploration company. You couldn't work with this stuff if you didn't know both the development platform *and* the business. I suspect it's just as hard to find someone who really knows the business (some of those people had been in the business since before it was ever computerized at all), as to find someone who knows how to program computers.
What's really sad is that many of us had RAM-hungry applications *at the time* and were waiting for small computer systems to catch up to the problems we *already had*.
>$18 million to redesign a website? WTF are they doing with it?
Connecting it to the most complex accounting system ever created.
How is your ERP experience? How about your familiarity with financial systems used by the Federal Government? Are you in a credible position to make a competing bid, or are you just complaining because you've got some idea that the price is too high? Are you saying you'd bid lower, without knowing the actual scope of the project?
LTO-4 tape cartridges are about half a gram of mass per gigabyte uncompressed, including the shell, so on the order of 250kg for a petabyte, but if you didn't have to store the cartridge shell it could be much less.
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>Until not too long you could find pipes dating back to pre-1940.
The ability to keep a system like that working is the mark of a *good* plumber.
>Once it's gone, you don't have to forget a password and you don't have any password to be persuaded to remember?
And you don't have any value to your captors, so they can just kill you for sport (or to set an example for the next person in line for interrogation.)
>didn't you just read the slashdot front page news that they can hack your brain now?
You're underestimating the amount of damage a crowbar can do.
>Anybody got any reasonable ideas?
I'm loving my HP 1/8 LTO-4 SAS Autoloader. It's faster (both reading and writing) than anything I can feed it.
And you suggest that even if the matter cannot be settled amicably between business units, that those business units should be denied access to the courts? And this is just because they use the same franchise trademark?
I think you'd be surprised how much litigation happens between business units of the same enterprise, in the banking and finance sectors. It's unavoidable in some cases, since so much of the industry is regulated by laws of different jurisdictions.
>much of the $$$ was spent on purchasing and moving to a new house.
Neat trick, defaulting on a mortgage and getting a new one. Some people can't get a mortgage even with good credit.
So the only option is to destroy it? Moving it is out of the question?
>Try the tang...
Tang is the Mandarin word for "sugar."
Who said anything about politics/politicians/corruption? Not me. You started out awfully defensive. I don't care why.
Everything kills obese people disproportionately. Heart attacks, liver disease, cancer, pneumonia, you name it. Flu is just one more thing, and Swine Flu is just one more flu.
They are still making "Windows?"
That's cute. I guess there's always a market for retro stuff.
>...Obama checking out some 17 year old girl's ass?
The video tells a completely different story from that still. Believe what you want to believe though.
>If I went back and redid my education there is just one major thing I would have done differently: I would have learnt python from the beginning.
I would have taken some business courses, enough to learn the nomenclature of manufacturing inventory control and supply chain management, and also some senior-management level finance and accounting courses. This is what slowed down my career as a software developer. It doesn't matter how well you know IT and programming; if you have to rely on the expertise of others to understand the business, you will always be subordinate to them.
>Remember rights are not granted to you by the state, and they cannot be taken away.
This only applies if you believe there is a higher authority in this world than "The State."
The government of China neither encourages nor allows such a belief...
>How much Scotch do I need to drink before I become an honorary Scot?
Just one glass, as long as it's an Islay malt, say, Laphroaig.
I think it's less an issue of the language as the kind of applications that were developed in that language. For example, the last shop I worked at that had COBOL, had a *LOT* of COBOL, and it had been developed *along with* the policies and procedures and business rules of, among other things, the global supply chain for an oil and gas exploration company. You couldn't work with this stuff if you didn't know both the development platform *and* the business. I suspect it's just as hard to find someone who really knows the business (some of those people had been in the business since before it was ever computerized at all), as to find someone who knows how to program computers.
The scenario you describe, literally happened at HP with some of the Convex programmers, one of whom also happened to be my unix guru.
Better than learning COBOL is to learn the business concepts that have historically been coded in COBOL.
Some admin at Epson is watching the logs as a 1984 manual gets slashdotted, and wonders WTF?!
What's really sad is that many of us had RAM-hungry applications *at the time* and were waiting for small computer systems to catch up to the problems we *already had*.
It's *China*. When it comes down to it, nobody has any rights, in the sense that Europeans or Americans think of rights.
>$18 million to redesign a website? WTF are they doing with it?
Connecting it to the most complex accounting system ever created.
How is your ERP experience? How about your familiarity with financial systems used by the Federal Government? Are you in a credible position to make a competing bid, or are you just complaining because you've got some idea that the price is too high? Are you saying you'd bid lower, without knowing the actual scope of the project?
So you only trust corporations that are politically indifferent.
Zabbix.
http://www.zabbix.com/
If it leaves something to be desired, please tell us what.
LTO-4 tape cartridges are about half a gram of mass per gigabyte uncompressed, including the shell, so on the order of 250kg for a petabyte, but if you didn't have to store the cartridge shell it could be much less.