Locking down USB ports has got to be one of the dumbest ideas anyone rubbed two brain cells together to come up with. Before implementing IT policy, I wish to god the IT powers that be would ask themselves some simple questions:
1. What's the point? 2. Is it actually going to work? 3. Is the point sufficient to override the downsides of the policy?
The USB memory device policy where I used to work was one that failed the tests miserably. At a company where everyone can send out or receive data without a trace (email, FTP, http, etc), the banning of USB memory sticks only served to annoy the ever-loving hell out of everyone who had a legitimate use of them.
I'll give you that for applets, they're a true bane in my eyes. In fact, I've only ever seen one that I can think of break that mold.
However with a general "Java is slow" statement, I'm obligated by experience to disagree. Glassfish, the open source application server blessed by Sun is quite snappy. However to call an application server just a web server would be doing it a great disservice, an application server is much more than that. It's doing significantly more than just serving static and dynamic pages. There are a lot of things starting to provide me with the tools to make my job faster and easier than it would be in a LAMP environment.
My Glassfish running on my laptop (with all the other shit I'm running) takes about 20 seconds to start up with my enterprise application deployed. I find this time trivial, and once that 20 seconds is over and done with, the response is just as quick as I would expect from a LAMP application. Meanwhile the language and platform provides me significant benefits and few downsides.
I've been coding professionally for about 4 years, on my own personal projects for many years before that. In that time I've had the opportunity to fully explore Perl, PHP, and Java for development and I've found that each has it's place. I generally use Perl when I want to write command line or system tools, PHP for simple web apps, and Java when I want to write a serious web/client/server application.
As to your complaints about client-side applications running slowly.. I think you're expecting applications which have a lot to them, an IDE, to load up instantly. In my experience that's never really been the case. Just as complex video games have a loading time, so too do other complex applications.
I find an initial startup time of ~30 seconds trivial when I'm going to leave an application running hours at a time, let alone indefinitely.
It's clear to me that your experience with Java is limited, and will probably remain so. But you should know that many of your assumptions and assertions are incorrect. To expand on your limited experience might sway your opinions.
You should re-read what he said. The unknown person would not leave his porch and he was inside his house watching the guy from a peep hole. The unknown guy was probably completely unaware of what awaited him on the other side of the door if he decided to come through uninvited.
People, in general, are not terribly dangerous. A friend relayed to me something his parents told him when he moved out to go to college: You will meet people you thought only existed in movies.
Again, people for the most part are harmless and good willed, it's the ones that aren't that you have to watch out for. Chance favors the prepared mind, buddy.
Approximate population USA: 300,904,156 UK: 60532074
Which makes the UK about 1/5th the size of the USA. Assuming half of those 30K deaths annually are suicides, when adjusting for population that would be equivalent to about 3K deaths annually.
Which is pretty piddly when you consider 512,692 people died in 2005 in the UK.
Let's be pragmatic here. In all likelihood you'll end up divorced, there's nothing wrong with giving it your all but the odds really are stacked against you. The alimony and child support you'll pay is based off of what she makes.
Now, have your wife take here maternity leave or FMLA which protects her from being fired. After her leave is up, she can go back to working. Your health insurance problems become kinda mooted.
Some call me bitter or jaded, I call it experience. You probably won't take my advice. When you don't, one day you'll look back and say "Damn, I wish I listened to that gringo guy; he was right."
That's a horrible idea. I used to work at Go Daddy, their policy for chargebacks is to: 1. Mark the card as fraudulent. 2. Place a hold on the domain and/or cancel it.
I'd imagine many other registrars have the same policy.
Now, you probably don't know this but domains have about 90 days from the day they expire until someone can actually buy them again. So if this poor guy wants to lose the usefulness of his domain for 90 days (potentially more, up to 2 years) then he should indeed do a chargeback. Hell, if he's lucky some squatter will pick it up and charge him thousands for it.
If he really wants to resolve the problem, keep working with the registrar; Go to the CEO if you have to. If that fails, then contact ICANN.
The first states that if you learn anything about Google's technologies, you won't disclose it. They want to keep their tech secret, just like anyone else.
The second states that you won't disclose any secrets from your previous employers to Google. If you use an idea from your previous employer, it could open Google up to a lawsuit.
Men involved in fight clubs often carry bottled-up violent impulses learned in childhood from video games, cartoons and movies, said Michael Messner, a University of Southern California sociology and gender studies professor.
Dear Michael Messner,
Please accept this large steaming cup of shut the hell up.
Now, if only this post would be read by someone...
Your logic is fatally flawed, these are games of skill and chance.
In wow, earning gold is merely a time investment. A better analogy would be a game of paintball, time is money. All things being equal, he who dedicates more time to the game has in increased chance of winning, bigger better guns, more paintballs, better gear or whatever.
You've gotta compare apples and apples man, not apples and oranges.
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Locking down USB ports has got to be one of the dumbest ideas anyone rubbed two brain cells together to come up with. Before implementing IT policy, I wish to god the IT powers that be would ask themselves some simple questions:
1. What's the point?
2. Is it actually going to work?
3. Is the point sufficient to override the downsides of the policy?
The USB memory device policy where I used to work was one that failed the tests miserably. At a company where everyone can send out or receive data without a trace (email, FTP, http, etc), the banning of USB memory sticks only served to annoy the ever-loving hell out of everyone who had a legitimate use of them.
Oh I'm aware, just figured this was a pretty good post to toss in my $0.02. ;)
Personally, I like the CG stuff just fine, if not more.
CG Jabba > Puppet Jabba
CG Yoda > Puppet Yoda
CG Ships > Model Ships
I'm sure that reserves me a special place in geek hell; though I really don't care because it's true IMHO.
I have to admit, I giggled at the frothy penis remark.
I'll give you that for applets, they're a true bane in my eyes. In fact, I've only ever seen one that I can think of break that mold.
However with a general "Java is slow" statement, I'm obligated by experience to disagree. Glassfish, the open source application server blessed by Sun is quite snappy. However to call an application server just a web server would be doing it a great disservice, an application server is much more than that. It's doing significantly more than just serving static and dynamic pages. There are a lot of things starting to provide me with the tools to make my job faster and easier than it would be in a LAMP environment.
My Glassfish running on my laptop (with all the other shit I'm running) takes about 20 seconds to start up with my enterprise application deployed. I find this time trivial, and once that 20 seconds is over and done with, the response is just as quick as I would expect from a LAMP application. Meanwhile the language and platform provides me significant benefits and few downsides.
I've been coding professionally for about 4 years, on my own personal projects for many years before that. In that time I've had the opportunity to fully explore Perl, PHP, and Java for development and I've found that each has it's place. I generally use Perl when I want to write command line or system tools, PHP for simple web apps, and Java when I want to write a serious web/client/server application.
As to your complaints about client-side applications running slowly.. I think you're expecting applications which have a lot to them, an IDE, to load up instantly. In my experience that's never really been the case. Just as complex video games have a loading time, so too do other complex applications.
I find an initial startup time of ~30 seconds trivial when I'm going to leave an application running hours at a time, let alone indefinitely.
It's clear to me that your experience with Java is limited, and will probably remain so. But you should know that many of your assumptions and assertions are incorrect. To expand on your limited experience might sway your opinions.
Personally, I question the wisdom of going with a company the size of godaddy to begin with. But that's me.
Sorry? I certainly hope you're not implying they're small; because if that's the case you're terribly mistaken.
As of August 2006, they control 14.6 million domains and raked in over 15 million bucks in one quarter.
You should re-read what he said. The unknown person would not leave his porch and he was inside his house watching the guy from a peep hole. The unknown guy was probably completely unaware of what awaited him on the other side of the door if he decided to come through uninvited.
People, in general, are not terribly dangerous. A friend relayed to me something his parents told him when he moved out to go to college: You will meet people you thought only existed in movies.
Again, people for the most part are harmless and good willed, it's the ones that aren't that you have to watch out for. Chance favors the prepared mind, buddy.
Care to explain that reasoning?
Approximate population
_ population? vlnk=618
USA: 300,904,156
UK: 60532074
Which makes the UK about 1/5th the size of the USA. Assuming half of those 30K deaths annually are suicides, when adjusting for population that would be equivalent to about 3K deaths annually.
Which is pretty piddly when you consider 512,692 people died in 2005 in the UK.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp
Let's be pragmatic here. In all likelihood you'll end up divorced, there's nothing wrong with giving it your all but the odds really are stacked against you. The alimony and child support you'll pay is based off of what she makes.
Now, have your wife take here maternity leave or FMLA which protects her from being fired. After her leave is up, she can go back to working. Your health insurance problems become kinda mooted.
Some call me bitter or jaded, I call it experience. You probably won't take my advice. When you don't, one day you'll look back and say "Damn, I wish I listened to that gringo guy; he was right."
Don your tin-foil hat, sir.
That's a horrible idea. I used to work at Go Daddy, their policy for chargebacks is to:
1. Mark the card as fraudulent.
2. Place a hold on the domain and/or cancel it.
I'd imagine many other registrars have the same policy.
Now, you probably don't know this but domains have about 90 days from the day they expire until someone can actually buy them again. So if this poor guy wants to lose the usefulness of his domain for 90 days (potentially more, up to 2 years) then he should indeed do a chargeback. Hell, if he's lucky some squatter will pick it up and charge him thousands for it.
If he really wants to resolve the problem, keep working with the registrar; Go to the CEO if you have to. If that fails, then contact ICANN.
You didn't read those NDAs, did you?
The first states that if you learn anything about Google's technologies, you won't disclose it. They want to keep their tech secret, just like anyone else.
The second states that you won't disclose any secrets from your previous employers to Google. If you use an idea from your previous employer, it could open Google up to a lawsuit.
Hmm, I'd support tossing them into a pit filled with Tarantula Hawks and Bullet Ants, then finish him off with a healthy dose of Dermestid Beetles
Right up until the judge grants IBM "reasonable legal fees"
So Kul'Oth Bearchaser?
:P
Sorry, I don't see it
So a data dog?
Men involved in fight clubs often carry bottled-up violent impulses learned in childhood from video games, cartoons and movies, said Michael Messner, a University of Southern California sociology and gender studies professor.
Dear Michael Messner,
Please accept this large steaming cup of shut the hell up.
Sincerely,
BigTanGringo
I suppose I probably had that typo coming ;(
Karma, it's a beutiful thing.
Doesn't Canada have more guns than people?
Like I said, time is money.
Same as WoW, gear can make up for skill, skill can make up for gear, fear the man who has both.
You know, I like Python, but I swear to god their lack of coding standards drives me absolutely nuts.
Go look through the modules:
Modules, methods, properties named with underscores, camel case with upper or lower first letter, etc.
Batteries included, but they're all different sizes.
That said, I really dig Python in general.
Now, if only this post would be read by someone...
Your logic is fatally flawed, these are games of skill and chance.
In wow, earning gold is merely a time investment. A better analogy would be a game of paintball, time is money. All things being equal, he who dedicates more time to the game has in increased chance of winning, bigger better guns, more paintballs, better gear or whatever.
You've gotta compare apples and apples man, not apples and oranges.
God I hope not..
As far as MySQL, it's kinda bleh anyway. Like so many open source things, they're great as long as you don't want to do something complicated.