Sometimes at work I get handed a project written by "someone else" and asked to fix whatever's wrong with it.
The few C/C++ projects I've done maint on were well constructed and well documented. Time and again, though it's spaghetti code written in VB or g0d help me VBA. I'm not saying you can't write a bad project in C/C++, but I have had exactly one VB project handed to me that I would call professionally done. There are a *lot* of crappy VB programmers out there.
What happens when someone downloads a keylogger and the personal information for one of your 'citizens' gets mailed to some dot-ru location?
What happens when someone downloads hardcore porn? are they of age? is it legal? What if one of your 'citizens' sees it and is offended? could they sue your employer? I bet they could.
Think just a bit about the liability you expose your 'citizens' and your employer to. There are good reasons workstations are locked down and even better reasons for controlling who has admin access to a domain.
I hope you're just trolling , but I expect you're for real. If you've really hacked you're employers system, I think you _really_ need to be fired.
If he's a systems administrator, he needs broad access (read 'root') to the systems he is responsible for or he can not do his job. More importantly, he also needs good judgement. I.E. don't run SETI on any server. period. If the software you install is not required to help the machine fullfill its' role in the business, and has not been vetted for stability / security / compatibility, you're just begging for trouble installing it.
How do you think it would play out if your machine went down and someone had been installing 'stuff' on it? Easy place to peg the blame.
Based on the facts reported I would question wether he has the good judgement required to be trusted in the admin role and would agree he should be disciplined. Firing? I donno. The public humiliation inflicted on the guy was certainly not in order, though. If he sues for that, I can't say I would be surprised.
owning a bigger car easier, if not something of a status symbol.
In this case, I think these are intended to be purchased as a sybol or trophy precisely because they are small/green
Last week I heard an excellent radio interview with someone from Mercedes involved in selling these in Canada. Their target consumer for these cars already owns 2+ vehicles, possibly high end.
Essentially what this guy said was: People won't buy these as primary transportation. They will get purchased as conversation pieces by affluent folks.
Having one of these in the garage might make them feel better about driving a 6000 pound SUV to work, I guess
If someone's only business model is to put some crap on a website, charge a bunch of money for access, and hope to sit back and watch the cash roll in, I think they will be in for a rude wakeup call.
You're absolutely right.
If that worked, the internet would be full of pornography in a heartbeat.
To read enough about any subject to know it in depth, I'll take a book thanks. A lot of days I'm 12 hours in front of the monitors. After a while the screens start to bug my eyes - I find myself printing a lot of stuff just so I can sit back from the desk and read it off a page...
If you need to run Oracle and you're considering low end hardware, you're terribly confused...
I have built two systems with the ultra cheap Samuel CPU/mercury mb. both times, they did exactly what I expected.
They are cheap and seem to be stable. sure, you won't run a new video game or (heheh) Oracle on them, but if you want a comp for children or something for grandma to check the email, why not? they preform acceptably if you're not stingy with the ram.
I expect the new chip will have its' place in the scheme of things as well.. Just don't expect it to compete with sometihng that cost 3 times the price.
A friend gave me a stack of 200 + photo's to look through from their last trip abroad. Mebbe 6 "tourist" photos out of the whole stack and mebbe 6 photos of the family. the rest were taken form the car and on foot in and around City streets, cafes, countryside. No "postcard" type shots anywhere, just ordinary people and places
best trip photos ever. Really made me feel like I knew a tiny little bit about the place after looking at them...
I am sure simulation software would not 'get' what made these shots cool, because some of them were of empty fields or just garbage in the streets...
More significant than maximum spin is what the minimum is before it makes power.
Speed range quoted from their web site is: 6.9 - 12.1 1/min (+15%) How much wind does it need to hit the minimum RPM I wonder?
also:Couldn't help but notice this line from the companies front page: "Proofen Technology in New Dimensions"
Should a company that can't use spell check be building something this big?
... a small Linux Distribution for i386 derived from SuSE 6.4. In the base version it just contains the things which are necessary to run Linux. Therefore the base package is rather small and requires approx. 7MB./SNIP
.. a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, Dillo web browser, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spellcheck (US Engli/SNIP
Or go with my favourite and install just
what you require...
people who plagiarize or don't cite references go to jail
Imagine the difficulties this would place high school teachers in...
"Excellent work Bobby. You failed to cite sources correctly though, so I must deduct 10% from your final mark and send the police to your house."
Re:Without reading the article...
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NYT On Flying Cars
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· Score: 2, Funny
Imagine a fender bender at 150 feet. Does your car fall to the ground?
No problem. We'll build them out of those green styrofoam peanuts you use to ship fragile things. The pieces will just flutter gracefully to the ground. It might even be pretty.
The driver falling 150 feet might make a small crater though...
Slashdot Mirror
and we all know how it ends..
From the article:
also:
anyone? This post is only minutes old and the site is already borked.
Sometimes at work I get handed a project written by "someone else" and asked to fix whatever's wrong with it.
The few C/C++ projects I've done maint on were well constructed and well documented. Time and again, though it's spaghetti code written in VB or g0d help me VBA. I'm not saying you can't write a bad project in C/C++, but I have had exactly one VB project handed to me that I would call professionally done. There are a *lot* of crappy VB programmers out there.
C is only error-prone if the developer is.
YIAAVBP (yes I am a VB programmer. pray for me)
notepad.exe can compete against Word
I use notepad every day.
I only use Word when I have to, mebbe once every month or 6 weeks because notepad is the tool best suited to most tasks I perform.
What happens when someone downloads a keylogger and the personal information for one of your 'citizens' gets mailed to some dot-ru location?
What happens when someone downloads hardcore porn? are they of age? is it legal? What if one of your 'citizens' sees it and is offended? could they sue your employer? I bet they could.
Think just a bit about the liability you expose your 'citizens' and your employer to. There are good reasons workstations are locked down and even better reasons for controlling who has admin access to a domain.
I hope you're just trolling , but I expect you're for real. If you've really hacked you're employers system, I think you _really_ need to be fired.
If he's a systems administrator, he needs broad access (read 'root') to the systems he is responsible for or he can not do his job. More importantly, he also needs good judgement. I.E. don't run SETI on any server. period. If the software you install is not required to help the machine fullfill its' role in the business, and has not been vetted for stability / security / compatibility, you're just begging for trouble installing it.
How do you think it would play out if your machine went down and someone had been installing 'stuff' on it? Easy place to peg the blame.
Based on the facts reported I would question wether he has the good judgement required to be trusted in the admin role and would agree he should be disciplined. Firing? I donno. The public humiliation inflicted on the guy was certainly not in order, though. If he sues for that, I can't say I would be surprised.
In this case, I think these are intended to be purchased as a sybol or trophy precisely because they are small/green
Last week I heard an excellent radio interview with someone from Mercedes involved in selling these in Canada. Their target consumer for these cars already owns 2+ vehicles, possibly high end.
Essentially what this guy said was: People won't buy these as primary transportation. They will get purchased as conversation pieces by affluent folks.
Having one of these in the garage might make them feel better about driving a 6000 pound SUV to work, I guess
If someone's only business model is to put some crap on a website, charge a bunch of money for access, and hope to sit back and watch the cash roll in, I think they will be in for a rude wakeup call.
You're absolutely right.
If that worked, the internet would be full of pornography in a heartbeat.
Oh. Wait a minu..
"a fire and electrocution risk."
class action suit in:
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To read enough about any subject to know it in depth, I'll take a book thanks. A lot of days I'm 12 hours in front of the monitors. After a while the screens start to bug my eyes - I find myself printing a lot of stuff just so I can sit back from the desk and read it off a page...
If you need to run Oracle and you're considering low end hardware, you're terribly confused...
I have built two systems with the ultra cheap Samuel CPU/mercury mb. both times, they did exactly what I expected.
They are cheap and seem to be stable. sure, you won't run a new video game or (heheh) Oracle on them, but if you want a comp for children or something for grandma to check the email, why not? they preform acceptably if you're not stingy with the ram.
I expect the new chip will have its' place in the scheme of things as well.. Just don't expect it to compete with sometihng that cost 3 times the price.
Ah but does it say anywhere that Iowa won't be part of Canada around the time of Kirk's birth?
If all goes to plan, it will.
Yes FINALLY someone gets it!
A friend gave me a stack of 200 + photo's to look through from their last trip abroad. Mebbe 6 "tourist" photos out of the whole stack and mebbe 6 photos of the family. the rest were taken form the car and on foot in and around City streets, cafes, countryside. No "postcard" type shots anywhere, just ordinary people and places
best trip photos ever. Really made me feel like I knew a tiny little bit about the place after looking at them...
I am sure simulation software would not 'get' what made these shots cool, because some of them were of empty fields or just garbage in the streets...
More significant than maximum spin is what the minimum is before it makes power.
Speed range quoted from their web site is: 6.9 - 12.1 1/min (+15%)
How much wind does it need to hit the minimum RPM I wonder?
also:Couldn't help but notice this line from the companies front page: "Proofen Technology in New Dimensions"
Should a company that can't use spell check be building something this big?
AC was trying to post this, I think.
cute.
How about tiny linux
or DSL
Or go with my favourite and install just what you require...
but still worth the effort
By any chance, is this in the same group as bureaucratium?
no, bureaucratium is light weight, has few constructive applications and available in quantities far outstripping demand...
people who plagiarize or don't cite references go to jail
Imagine the difficulties this would place high school teachers in...
"Excellent work Bobby. You failed to cite sources correctly though, so I must deduct 10% from your final mark and send the police to your house."
No problem. We'll build them out of those green styrofoam peanuts you use to ship fragile things. The pieces will just flutter gracefully to the ground. It might even be pretty.
The driver falling 150 feet might make a small crater though...
They know that they know that they do not know.
Thank you, Mr. Rumsfeld.
it is unusual to get such a high overclock on the top of the line (i.e. highest multiplier) chip.
I thought so too. I wonder if they tried (fried?) more than one chip before getting a winner? (yeah I did RTFA. If it was there I didn't notice..)
World Wind requires DirectX 9b and the
I know it would have been a hog anyway, but I don't think they did themselves any favours on the download size.
It is a shameful secret. That's why the box is kept in the closet.
Perhaps we could start a support group for people that need to admit to, and deal with their use of windows?