My problem with this decision is this: They violated the girls rights (which thankfully SCOTUS recognized). There is however no punishment for doing so.
Will the next school go ahead and do the same thinking there will be no consequences? What's the point of having rights, if they can be violated at will, and the only thing that happens to the violator is that they are told they shouldn't have done that?
I think we read different articles. He's not saying he didn't plan well enough, he's saying that Intel and AMD promise that Gen Y processor is 35% faster than Gen X processor, and he's not seeing anywhere near 35% in real world performance. The 35% is a made up number but it doesn't matter what the number is that they claim. He's probably correct. Manufacturers pull this stuff all the time. Look at the recent articles on battery life claims on notebook's. AMD came out and called BS on the whole thing and basically said if you guys don't stop lying through your teeth, the FTC is going to regulate us. From the perspective you are taking, that would mean we have to call AMD incompetent for not understanding how batteries work and not properly selecting them.
Manufacturers ALWAYS overstate claims in computer related products. CRT actual inches vs viewable inches (thank you lcd's for finally being honest... about inches anyway.. brightness and contrast however....) Computer speaker wattage being 1/2 or 1/4 of what's claimed. Power supply efficiency or wattage not measuring up to claims... you name it. He's calling out what he see's to be bogus claims based on a real world experiences in a demanding environment, the type of environment where one is always looking for better performance. I think we should get some more information before declaring him to be the problem as I'm sure he has a whole team of people that are working on this issue.
What I'd like to see from him is some numbers. On this Intel (or AMD) rig, we get so many operations per hour/minute/whatever. On this new Intel (or AMD) rig which they claim is 20% faster than the previous rig, we're only seeing this number of operations per hour which amounts to only a 7% gain, thus we're seeing 13% less than they are claiming. Again, numbers made up for examples sake. I'd also be very interested in what a typical rig of theirs looks like... X Processor, Y Ram, what type of storage system is it connected to, etc. I think such numbers are vital to understanding the issues at hand. We all know that vendors will run the benchmarks that makes their stuff look the best, and that is often not reflective of real world performance. If I was Intel/AMD I'd be chiming in right about now and opening a dialog with Facebook and looking to see what the issues are. Facebook is a big customer with huge name recognition and you want to be able to use them as an example of your solution delivering the promised performance for your marketing. I'm going to assume (I know I know) that they are already working with the server vendor to try and see what's going on here.
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Management is usually the first to break these rules, and in my experience, NOTHING happens to others that then break them. That's why you don't make exceptions for management either. First it will be them, and then someone who works directly for them with pull etc..
Corporate laptops only. These are the same laptops they use at their desk which are policy controlled, and kept updated and have current antivirus etc. Every home computer ever brought in to me to be looked at by an employee has been a virus/spyware ridden infestation. There are no exceptions to the rules allowed or the CXO's will be the first to break them.
I could have phrased that better (and logged in first). The issue was not with the mail server software. The issue was we were using the wildcard certificate with the mail server for a mobile webmail interface and various mobile browsers such as blazer would constant generate certificate warnings.
If you want good support, go with Digicert. Absolutely phenomenal support. You don't go through hold queues to get to some person god knows where. Usually the person who picks up the phone is the one that helps you and they know what they are talking about. I've been extremely happy with them.
WIth that logic, in theory, isn't visiting any website a copyright violation because your system caches the content?
The only difference between right click and save as, and the cache is the file name and location. You could just as easily move the file out of your cache and rename it, producing the same end result as right click and save as. That being said.. since that content is ON your computer, have you not committed a copyright violation?
If the answer is no, because of fair use, the right click and save as also should be legal, providing of course that you do not redistribute those images.
FYI I'm waiting for all of googles servers to be seized as well as msn's servers etc because they cache things. Well ok not really, I think archive.org already won a court case about that type of thing.
You're forgetting the fact that more than 50% of web servers run on Apache and probably linux, and that number used to be a lot higher. Also Google doesn't run their servers on windows.
But most damning besides the fact that MS was dragged kicking and screaming into the web is Windows 3.1 TCP stack.
How many people here used Trumpet winsock because MS didn't have a stack to use?
Usually IT is part of the decision making process.
Step 1... Tell IT we need to do something.
Step 2... IT gives recomendation
Step 3... IT finds out that someone in management "knows a guy who says...."
Step 4... Managment impliments decision of "guy who says...."
Step 5... IT wonders why they were hired since it's not for their knowledge
Step 6... IT spends time cleaning up all the problems caused by "guy who said...." who naturally charged a lot of money as a consultant but doesn't help impliment his own recomendation.
Consultants: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem.
We had a situation where management wanted to do something that was a bad idea. We said fine, this is what it's going to cost to do that. They said basically, we think you are biased and full of **** and we're going to pay an outside party to come in and do an evaluation and give us the "real" numbers.
Their numbers were the same as ours, except we were now 10,000$ in the hole in consulting fees.
Most companies, people who have called the IT department because they could not figure out how to turn on their computers will set IT policy or will mandate technology shifts because they got sold by someone that sounded good. Meanwhile, the IT people who actually know about the stuff are forced to impliment bad decisions knowing it will usually cost more and mean more work for them.
How is this any different than a PG-13 or R rated movie? In an R rated movie, you someone under 17 can't but a ticket. With the equivilant video game rating, someone under 17 can't buy the game.
It seems to me that if this is going to be ruled unconstitutional, then a 10 year old should be able to go see an R Rated movie because that too should be unconstititional.
I'm all for MS removing the rootkit, but doesn't Sony now have grounds to go after anyone that makes a tool to remove this under the DMCA? I suppose they could waive rights to it or such...
I'm kind of hoping they do so that DMCA proponents can watch in horror as the worst of all possibilities come to fruition. Perhaps we can then look at getting rid of that legislative piece of trash.
Someone can black bag you anyway. A good percentage of companies have all users as local administrators... Why? Not because the admins like it, but because so many main stream packages require it. A local user can install a key logger on their machine. Then they just wait until they have an issue, ask the admin to look at it while they are out, leave their machine logged out so that the admin will log in thus giving away his username and password.
I have a local "administrator" account on every machine that I use when I need to check things out locally but that has no elevated network rights whatsoever for just this very reason.
"which is just fine with it's own set of selective facts and could care less what polls say."
Since when do public opinion polls ever represent facts?
If you take public opinion polls on politicians, they all say, throw the bums out. But not our guy, he's good.
The amount of things that the public believes that are known to be completely wrong is staggering.
I suppose the public opinion polls on the earth being flat should have been adheared to:)
This is neither a pro nor against Bush statement. I just totally disagree with you on the use of polls.
If you take a public opinion poll on what to due with Nuclear Waste, the overwhelming answer will be to put it someplace away from where they live. Well we all can't have that. Likewise you will get a lot of suggestions such as shoot it into space or other suggestions that are completely unrealistic.
Leave the debate to the people who are actually knowledgeable on the subject. The public is generally uninformed on most subjects other than what they personally consider important and the more people you put together in once place, the lower the intelligence of the group becomes.
Yes that's exactly what's next. Remember recently one of our esteemed elected officials (in the USA that is) who wanted the ability to physically remotely destroy the pc of someone infringing on copywrighted material?
I don't want to name the name because I'm not sure which one it was. I have it narrowed to 3 in my head, but I don't want to falsely slam the wrong person.
I have the exact same problem. A little piece of advice one of the guys gave me was to sign up for a frequent flyer mileage card. Because you have to give additional information when you sign up for one of those, they already have that when you check in and you will avoid a lot of the hassles.
But yes, I agree it sucks. I often get it on the flight out but the return flight I have no problems.
19 survivors will be standed on an Island for 39 days while they attempt to avoid the RIAA....
Reward challenges will give legal mp3 credits which of course can only be played on limited devices and burned once...
That's ok, I work for a company that has dozens of people sharing one act database among 3 locations which I have to hand sync weekly.
You'd think when you sync act databases you'd have the same number of contacts in both databases... You'd be wrong of course...
The reason most places become pure Microsoft shops is because Microsoft markets to management who then says "I just sat through this greeat presentation and we should use this because everyone else does!"
I was told we have to migrate our e-mail system to exchange because that's what everyone else uses. This person who makes far more per year than I do and knows nothing about computers believes that we can somehow work better with out clients if we use exchange because that's what everyone else uses... I kid you not, he said that.
I guess my days of virus free e-mail systems are over. 10 years without ever having a virus outbreak. Ironically, not one of our customers that run exchange can say the same thing but hey now we'll fit right in.
How ironic... You're a heretic!! I was playing Heretic II on a server earlier. Ya people still play that...
The saving grace there will be if their school software only works with oracle and not SQL server 2000. I am guessing that's the case because Oracle is usually a lot more expensive for the same setup.
I could suggest open source db, but then we'd have a nice subthread flame war between the mysql and postgress people:)
I can tell you from experience, that Netware was not the problem in that situation. Blades aren't for everyone. A lot of people say oooh blades, high tech, we must have them, when the circumstances don't really call for them.
Unfortunately you have to buy what you can afford. I've been in the spit and scotch tape limited budget Macgyver everything together environment. Believe me from the system admin side it's not always a lot of fun. (Ok sometimes it can be when you do something in spite of the lack of resources.)
Schools in general are difficult when it comes to purchasing. You don't always get the flexibility of being able to go back and say listen, if we spend another $20,000 we can really do this right, instead of just adding to our problems, like you can in "some" corporate environments. Often, it's "Here is your budget and that's all you get."
The other problem that all admins face are non computer people above them making decisions for the people they hired who know about the stuff. For exmample, in your case, it would not surprise me if a person who calls the help desk because he can't find his power on button made the decision to stick with 98 because it's cheaper.
I've had those conversations, they aren't fun, and ultimately you often lose because of the ego sitting behind the desk that thinks they know better despite the fact that they can't figure out the reason their keyboard and mouse aren't working on their docking station is because the surge protector it's plugged in to is turned off.
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My problem with this decision is this: They violated the girls rights (which thankfully SCOTUS recognized). There is however no punishment for doing so. Will the next school go ahead and do the same thinking there will be no consequences? What's the point of having rights, if they can be violated at will, and the only thing that happens to the violator is that they are told they shouldn't have done that?
I think we read different articles. He's not saying he didn't plan well enough, he's saying that Intel and AMD promise that Gen Y processor is 35% faster than Gen X processor, and he's not seeing anywhere near 35% in real world performance. The 35% is a made up number but it doesn't matter what the number is that they claim. He's probably correct. Manufacturers pull this stuff all the time. Look at the recent articles on battery life claims on notebook's. AMD came out and called BS on the whole thing and basically said if you guys don't stop lying through your teeth, the FTC is going to regulate us. From the perspective you are taking, that would mean we have to call AMD incompetent for not understanding how batteries work and not properly selecting them.
Manufacturers ALWAYS overstate claims in computer related products. CRT actual inches vs viewable inches (thank you lcd's for finally being honest... about inches anyway.. brightness and contrast however....) Computer speaker wattage being 1/2 or 1/4 of what's claimed. Power supply efficiency or wattage not measuring up to claims... you name it. He's calling out what he see's to be bogus claims based on a real world experiences in a demanding environment, the type of environment where one is always looking for better performance. I think we should get some more information before declaring him to be the problem as I'm sure he has a whole team of people that are working on this issue.
What I'd like to see from him is some numbers. On this Intel (or AMD) rig, we get so many operations per hour/minute/whatever. On this new Intel (or AMD) rig which they claim is 20% faster than the previous rig, we're only seeing this number of operations per hour which amounts to only a 7% gain, thus we're seeing 13% less than they are claiming. Again, numbers made up for examples sake. I'd also be very interested in what a typical rig of theirs looks like... X Processor, Y Ram, what type of storage system is it connected to, etc. I think such numbers are vital to understanding the issues at hand. We all know that vendors will run the benchmarks that makes their stuff look the best, and that is often not reflective of real world performance. If I was Intel/AMD I'd be chiming in right about now and opening a dialog with Facebook and looking to see what the issues are. Facebook is a big customer with huge name recognition and you want to be able to use them as an example of your solution delivering the promised performance for your marketing. I'm going to assume (I know I know) that they are already working with the server vendor to try and see what's going on here.
Management is usually the first to break these rules, and in my experience, NOTHING happens to others that then break them. That's why you don't make exceptions for management either. First it will be them, and then someone who works directly for them with pull etc..
Corporate laptops only. These are the same laptops they use at their desk which are policy controlled, and kept updated and have current antivirus etc. Every home computer ever brought in to me to be looked at by an employee has been a virus/spyware ridden infestation. There are no exceptions to the rules allowed or the CXO's will be the first to break them.
I could have phrased that better (and logged in first). The issue was not with the mail server software. The issue was we were using the wildcard certificate with the mail server for a mobile webmail interface and various mobile browsers such as blazer would constant generate certificate warnings.
If you want good support, go with Digicert. Absolutely phenomenal support. You don't go through hold queues to get to some person god knows where. Usually the person who picks up the phone is the one that helps you and they know what they are talking about. I've been extremely happy with them.
WIth that logic, in theory, isn't visiting any website a copyright violation because your system caches the content?
The only difference between right click and save as, and the cache is the file name and location. You could just as easily move the file out of your cache and rename it, producing the same end result as right click and save as. That being said.. since that content is ON your computer, have you not committed a copyright violation?
If the answer is no, because of fair use, the right click and save as also should be legal, providing of course that you do not redistribute those images.
FYI I'm waiting for all of googles servers to be seized as well as msn's servers etc because they cache things. Well ok not really, I think archive.org already won a court case about that type of thing.
You're forgetting the fact that more than 50% of web servers run on Apache and probably linux, and that number used to be a lot higher. Also Google doesn't run their servers on windows.
But most damning besides the fact that MS was dragged kicking and screaming into the web is Windows 3.1 TCP stack.
How many people here used Trumpet winsock because MS didn't have a stack to use?
Usually IT is part of the decision making process. Step 1... Tell IT we need to do something. Step 2... IT gives recomendation Step 3... IT finds out that someone in management "knows a guy who says...." Step 4... Managment impliments decision of "guy who says...." Step 5... IT wonders why they were hired since it's not for their knowledge Step 6... IT spends time cleaning up all the problems caused by "guy who said...." who naturally charged a lot of money as a consultant but doesn't help impliment his own recomendation. Consultants: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem. We had a situation where management wanted to do something that was a bad idea. We said fine, this is what it's going to cost to do that. They said basically, we think you are biased and full of **** and we're going to pay an outside party to come in and do an evaluation and give us the "real" numbers. Their numbers were the same as ours, except we were now 10,000$ in the hole in consulting fees.
Most companies, people who have called the IT department because they could not figure out how to turn on their computers will set IT policy or will mandate technology shifts because they got sold by someone that sounded good. Meanwhile, the IT people who actually know about the stuff are forced to impliment bad decisions knowing it will usually cost more and mean more work for them.
How is this any different than a PG-13 or R rated movie? In an R rated movie, you someone under 17 can't but a ticket. With the equivilant video game rating, someone under 17 can't buy the game. It seems to me that if this is going to be ruled unconstitutional, then a 10 year old should be able to go see an R Rated movie because that too should be unconstititional.
You know this is exactly how the Lizard came about in Spiderman...
I'm all for MS removing the rootkit, but doesn't Sony now have grounds to go after anyone that makes a tool to remove this under the DMCA? I suppose they could waive rights to it or such... I'm kind of hoping they do so that DMCA proponents can watch in horror as the worst of all possibilities come to fruition. Perhaps we can then look at getting rid of that legislative piece of trash.
Ah the joys of Novell Zenworks... Means never having to say I can't install because I'm not an admin :)
Someone can black bag you anyway. A good percentage of companies have all users as local administrators... Why? Not because the admins like it, but because so many main stream packages require it. A local user can install a key logger on their machine. Then they just wait until they have an issue, ask the admin to look at it while they are out, leave their machine logged out so that the admin will log in thus giving away his username and password. I have a local "administrator" account on every machine that I use when I need to check things out locally but that has no elevated network rights whatsoever for just this very reason.
"which is just fine with it's own set of selective facts and could care less what polls say." Since when do public opinion polls ever represent facts? If you take public opinion polls on politicians, they all say, throw the bums out. But not our guy, he's good. The amount of things that the public believes that are known to be completely wrong is staggering. I suppose the public opinion polls on the earth being flat should have been adheared to :)
This is neither a pro nor against Bush statement. I just totally disagree with you on the use of polls.
If you take a public opinion poll on what to due with Nuclear Waste, the overwhelming answer will be to put it someplace away from where they live. Well we all can't have that. Likewise you will get a lot of suggestions such as shoot it into space or other suggestions that are completely unrealistic.
Leave the debate to the people who are actually knowledgeable on the subject. The public is generally uninformed on most subjects other than what they personally consider important and the more people you put together in once place, the lower the intelligence of the group becomes.
That was who I was thinking of but I couldn't confirm it at the time of posting.
Yes that's exactly what's next. Remember recently one of our esteemed elected officials (in the USA that is) who wanted the ability to physically remotely destroy the pc of someone infringing on copywrighted material? I don't want to name the name because I'm not sure which one it was. I have it narrowed to 3 in my head, but I don't want to falsely slam the wrong person.
I have the exact same problem. A little piece of advice one of the guys gave me was to sign up for a frequent flyer mileage card. Because you have to give additional information when you sign up for one of those, they already have that when you check in and you will avoid a lot of the hassles. But yes, I agree it sucks. I often get it on the flight out but the return flight I have no problems.
19 survivors will be standed on an Island for 39 days while they attempt to avoid the RIAA.... Reward challenges will give legal mp3 credits which of course can only be played on limited devices and burned once...
That's ok, I work for a company that has dozens of people sharing one act database among 3 locations which I have to hand sync weekly. You'd think when you sync act databases you'd have the same number of contacts in both databases... You'd be wrong of course... The reason most places become pure Microsoft shops is because Microsoft markets to management who then says "I just sat through this greeat presentation and we should use this because everyone else does!" I was told we have to migrate our e-mail system to exchange because that's what everyone else uses. This person who makes far more per year than I do and knows nothing about computers believes that we can somehow work better with out clients if we use exchange because that's what everyone else uses... I kid you not, he said that. I guess my days of virus free e-mail systems are over. 10 years without ever having a virus outbreak. Ironically, not one of our customers that run exchange can say the same thing but hey now we'll fit right in. How ironic... You're a heretic!! I was playing Heretic II on a server earlier. Ya people still play that...
The saving grace there will be if their school software only works with oracle and not SQL server 2000. I am guessing that's the case because Oracle is usually a lot more expensive for the same setup. I could suggest open source db, but then we'd have a nice subthread flame war between the mysql and postgress people :)
I can tell you from experience, that Netware was not the problem in that situation. Blades aren't for everyone. A lot of people say oooh blades, high tech, we must have them, when the circumstances don't really call for them. Unfortunately you have to buy what you can afford. I've been in the spit and scotch tape limited budget Macgyver everything together environment. Believe me from the system admin side it's not always a lot of fun. (Ok sometimes it can be when you do something in spite of the lack of resources.) Schools in general are difficult when it comes to purchasing. You don't always get the flexibility of being able to go back and say listen, if we spend another $20,000 we can really do this right, instead of just adding to our problems, like you can in "some" corporate environments. Often, it's "Here is your budget and that's all you get." The other problem that all admins face are non computer people above them making decisions for the people they hired who know about the stuff. For exmample, in your case, it would not surprise me if a person who calls the help desk because he can't find his power on button made the decision to stick with 98 because it's cheaper. I've had those conversations, they aren't fun, and ultimately you often lose because of the ego sitting behind the desk that thinks they know better despite the fact that they can't figure out the reason their keyboard and mouse aren't working on their docking station is because the surge protector it's plugged in to is turned off.
What about Marble Madness.. Depending on how high you fall from is how disoriented you get :)
I think prior art should be easy on this one... Well for anyone not working in the patent office that is.