This was modded funny but I think the poster is dead on. Smart for them to diversify and hang onto the trends that stick. Or at least last another 10 years before the next big thing.
And while someone below complained "And you didn't, and now are going to complain when shit doesn't work?"
Damn right. IT techs aren't the gods our ego's lead us on to believe, and keeping up with a tremendous workload is tough enough without having to predict what software vendor / FOSS app is going to sabotage the works.
In a production environment all changes are tested before deployment with rollback plans at the ready. Any software that has the ability to throw a kill switch into a production environment ( Bug or not ) makes the blacklist for any consideration.
I was always wondering how many people patrol/. on the M$ Payroll and I think I just got a small answer.
The fact of the matter is I can launch an e commerce site or an email server and practically forget about it. With windows exchange server I would experience random failures for no good reason at all. Same with windows server. I spent more time on windows maint, and more money on windows licenses which always had to have a degree of more expensive hardware to perform the same.
I ran a national radio network off a machine with a Cryix server and red hat Linux.
What you were programmed or paid to believe just aint so.
That's because you can do more with less hardware running Linux than Windows. And since Linux doesn't BSOD redundancy is not as critical an issue.
Google also uses custom power supplies that tie in directly to 12v batteries for UPS requirements. Which means less space is required for traditional UPS systems and the HVAC overhead to keep those cool as well.
On a humorous note, weather could become fantastic displays of fireworks, as lightning ignites the fireballs, reuniting the oxygen and hydrogen into giant swimming pool size raindrops...
"Kaboom! SPLASH!"
'Scuse me, while I build my rain shelter, with my shiny new hat...
You can't control mutation. What happens if the virus mutates, spreads through the air and oceans dividing Hydrogen from Oxygen? Besides being toxic to breathe, one good spark in either cloud could ignite fireballs ranging in size from annoying to devastating explosions to the atmosphere about the globe igniting. Welcome to new Mars.
It begs the question in our research on mars though, what kind of evidence would such an action leave behind? Have we been looking for that in our efforts on the red planet? Would there be a 'chemical trail' we could detect? White powder just beneath the red soil?
Do I need some tinfoil? or should we really be worried?
You are facing West.
> Look.
A Giant beam of light descends from the sky. You:
1. Pray
2. Run screaming
3. Assume Aliens are attacking and notify the authorities while arming yourself.
4. You realize that this is a Tsunami early warning beacon and promptly gather your things from the beach and head to higher ground helping old people on the way.
Quote: There are still people.. lots of them.. who will print out emails to read them. No technology will fix this.
Agreed. My place of work takes orders from the website, prints them and plops them into their ERP system. I have been brought in to fix this but there are active parties fighting me tooth and claw.
For too many reasons to list. Needing a "Human Glue" means job security.
An IP Based Society is great for every other nation on earth, for in 20 to 30 years all the world has to do to destroy America is simply start ignoring her laws.
Do we then start sending troops into nation X for downloading Disney movies? How about when they all decide to stop paying royalties?
I can read any kind of news from a first person perspective on a blog or forum.
If they expect me to pay for the privilege of consuming their sensationalist hyperbole then what they have to say must not be that important. I could care less and they won't be receiving a page impression from me.
I don't live in that area, but in deference to the precedent it would set I am going to call the D.A. to protect my daughters here. Everyone needs to call the D.A. or Sheriff's dept in that jurisdiction to report the class action and point out that it should be considered highly likely these people have a personal collection in their possession. Administrators have enough to do as it is. I don't see any of them cheerfully going out of their way to monitor students in their homes after hours unless there was some great personal gain.
If the students were being monitored in their homes it's highly likely the admins were too.
Here's the advert to give to your HR department to hire the person for your 'estimating':
Looking for a BS or AS in the latest trendy programming languages developed by college students in their second year. Must have experience in legacy hardware as the most recent vapor-ware that everyone is buzz-wording about. Non-Discriminatory Affirmative action candidates preferred with background clearances and able to board an airline with a weapon. - Equal Opportunity Employer
If you read the rest of the article, you would realize that's a reduction from 1.92 MILLION. later on it properly places the decimal point.
Quote -> it doesn't matter to Thomas-Rasset whether the damages are $25,000 or $1.92 million.' In addition, Thomas-Rasset's attorneys say that, win or lose, they plan to appeal the constitutionality of the fine."
Yes there is. I did exactly what the OP is posting about as early as 2003.
That was in the days of X11 before the split to XORG. I will have to experiment again, but as long as you get an NVIDIA card with good supported drivers you shouldn't have a problem. Do a google search for the configuration settings. they exist * Without special software *
I also tried the M-x-Ctrl-v-p-o-k-l-m-z-w combo. My nose was already being used for the Control key so I used something else I had available and got fired for it. Anyone looking to hire a flexible programmer?
I would much rather not have to deal with other people's children or silly rules to protect them. Build kiddie pools and throw the little snots and the content filters in them.
Except that isn't how it will work.
The reason we need things like this in the first place is because parents aren't doing their job. If parents were paying enough attention to realize that Grand Theft Auto probably wasn't child safe... Or if parents were actually explaining what is appropriate language and behavior... It wouldn't be necessary to come up with these rules and filters to protect them.
The fact of the matter is that many parents just toss their kids in front of videogames. It's easier than actually parenting them yourself. It keeps them distracted and quiet while you go do your thing. Except that not all videogames are child-safe. And weeding out the child-safe ones from the adult titles would require effort these folks are obviously not interested in expending. So the ultimate goal here would be to render absolutely everything child-safe.
Which means that all your videogames would become kiddie pools. And even though you're an adult, you'd have to put up with the content filters and rules that are designed to protect the children of these lazy parents.
first of all, there is no one Codified legal standard on how to be a parent. Every parent has a different idea, and the right, about how to do their job. Today's society has largely segregated children from parents except for a couple of hours a day between 6 pm and 8 pm. The rest of the time is typically spent asleep when at home, and at school, daycare / work the rest of the day. 2 hours a day is not even close to enough time to "Pay close attention" to your child(ren).
I have yet to find any child that I had to *force* to play a video game. Often times it's the reverse, trying to pry the child from the TV (which we since threw away) just to say grace and *Eat* something.
As for the child filters? I want parent filters. I have trashed my "Need for speed" series from Electronic Arts because of the marketing to the teen gangster, and general "thug" image EA tries to push the game to. Not to mention the torturous cut scenes you are *forced* to endure between events.
This article was never about your job as a parent, it's the FTC trying to get control of another medium, so they can receive more funding. Which in government work, is what it's all about. - More Funding.
Thats not to say I don't watch them like a hawk when I can. No matter how tight the belt gets I have a one income family. It will stay that way. The kids are only allowed to use email at our families domain, which I receive a copy of every single piece of mail they get, and I have instant message logging at the firewall. If they deviate from the family email they are grounded to their rooms and lose internet access. All the computers in the house are in the living room. No matter how much they beg, AND we watch where they play.
This is a good start but only covers the alcohol. If there's children, chances are there has been some Sex in the house also. Since the monitoring of this facility would classify as pornographic and possibly child pornography the children should immediately be made wards of the state and abducted *ahem* removed from the home to live in an overcrowded, under-monitored house populated by disturbed and damaged children "for their protection".
The state saves on cost and we might as well just prosecute the parents to justify the expense.
I challenge anyone to get 6 out of 2+2, and the last person that challenged physics by jumping off a building never published beyond an obituary...
I think we should be just fine there.
- Dan.
My parents needed them and if they had then you bet they would have used them.
When my oldest was born we thought the same way you expressed in this post. She's 12 now, and with school buses, field trips and wanting to go to the stores by herself and trotting off with friends you damn well bet I am going to have one for each child I have. Injected under the skin if I thought it would work. I take every effort to secure the safety of my blond haired blue-eyed gems, and that also means utilizing every resource available to my advantage. You also assume that every nation is safe for young girls or boys.
"Instilling good values" and "putting in effort" are buzzwords that I used when I was a new parent also. But the reality is we aren't always the only ones providing that instruction. Peers at school or at church, Magazines, TV, and movies are all your child's educators and you have no control over what they decide to adopt as good behaviour. If your serious, the best thing you can do for your family is get rid of the TV. Don't assume friends or even clergy at church to be a positive influence.
Overprotective? No. Allow your children the time to be children, and save the life lessons for when they may have a better grasp of the concepts involved. Like the value of Virginity. Thats nothing any 12 yr old or 13yr old will grasp, and hey, everyone on TV seems to be have a *lot* of fun doing it. I promise you, if they catch wind it's fun, and they *enjoy* it, you *will not* get them back from it. drugs, sex, or bad rap music. If they feel a desire to fit in then remove them from that group or lose them. You are dealing with a hormonal driven animal with little to zero thought other than self gratification. Appeasing the parent, is also self gratification in the effect that it often results in more lenient restrictions.
Remember that you are the parent, and they are called a child for a reason.
Religion and Science are 100% incompatible. Religion = "I Believe", Science = "I can show/demonstrate/repeat".
Then show us your replication of the big bang. - Repeatedly.
You certainly didn't observe it, you can't repeat it. By those terms there is no reasonable means by which you can authoritatively demonstrate it.
Science is just yet another form of religion. You believe in the educated guess of someone else.
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This was modded funny but I think the poster is dead on. Smart for them to diversify and hang onto the trends that stick. Or at least last another 10 years before the next big thing.
- Dan.
I agree with geekmansworld.
And while someone below complained "And you didn't, and now are going to complain when shit doesn't work?"
Damn right. IT techs aren't the gods our ego's lead us on to believe, and keeping up with a tremendous workload is tough enough without having to predict what software vendor / FOSS app is going to sabotage the works.
In a production environment all changes are tested before deployment with rollback plans at the ready. Any software that has the ability to throw a kill switch into a production environment ( Bug or not ) makes the blacklist for any consideration.
So long ClamAV
- Dan.
I was always wondering how many people patrol /. on the M$ Payroll and I think I just got a small answer.
The fact of the matter is I can launch an e commerce site or an email server and practically forget about it. With windows exchange server I would experience random failures for no good reason at all. Same with windows server. I spent more time on windows maint, and more money on windows licenses which always had to have a degree of more expensive hardware to perform the same.
I ran a national radio network off a machine with a Cryix server and red hat Linux.
What you were programmed or paid to believe just aint so.
- Dan.
That's because you can do more with less hardware running Linux than Windows. And since Linux doesn't BSOD redundancy is not as critical an issue.
Google also uses custom power supplies that tie in directly to 12v batteries for UPS requirements. Which means less space is required for traditional UPS systems and the HVAC overhead to keep those cool as well.
- Dan.
On a humorous note, weather could become fantastic displays of fireworks, as lightning ignites the fireballs, reuniting the oxygen and hydrogen into giant swimming pool size raindrops ...
"Kaboom! SPLASH!"
'Scuse me, while I build my rain shelter, with my shiny new hat...
- Dan.
I was fearing the same thing.
You can't control mutation. What happens if the virus mutates, spreads through the air and oceans dividing Hydrogen from Oxygen? Besides being toxic to breathe, one good spark in either cloud could ignite fireballs ranging in size from annoying to devastating explosions to the atmosphere about the globe igniting. Welcome to new Mars.
It begs the question in our research on mars though, what kind of evidence would such an action leave behind? Have we been looking for that in our efforts on the red planet? Would there be a 'chemical trail' we could detect? White powder just beneath the red soil?
Do I need some tinfoil? or should we really be worried?
- Dan.
You are facing West.
> Look.
A Giant beam of light descends from the sky. You:
1. Pray
2. Run screaming
3. Assume Aliens are attacking and notify the authorities while arming yourself.
4. You realize that this is a Tsunami early warning beacon and promptly gather your things from the beach and head to higher ground helping old people on the way.
- Dan.
I would *SO* Buy a crate of Energizer condoms...
- Dan.
Quote: There are still people.. lots of them.. who will print out emails to read them. No technology will fix this.
Agreed. My place of work takes orders from the website, prints them and plops them into their ERP system. I have been brought in to fix this but there are active parties fighting me tooth and claw.
For too many reasons to list. Needing a "Human Glue" means job security.
- Dan.
An IP Based Society is great for every other nation on earth, for in 20 to 30 years all the world has to do to destroy America is simply start ignoring her laws.
Do we then start sending troops into nation X for downloading Disney movies? How about when they all decide to stop paying royalties?
- Dan.
I can read any kind of news from a first person perspective on a blog or forum.
If they expect me to pay for the privilege of consuming their sensationalist hyperbole then what they have to say must not be that important. I could care less and they won't be receiving a page impression from me.
- Dan.
Correction:
it's highly likely the admins were in their homes too.
I don't live in that area, but in deference to the precedent it would set I am going to call the D.A. to protect my daughters here. Everyone needs to call the D.A. or Sheriff's dept in that jurisdiction to report the class action and point out that it should be considered highly likely these people have a personal collection in their possession. Administrators have enough to do as it is. I don't see any of them cheerfully going out of their way to monitor students in their homes after hours unless there was some great personal gain.
If the students were being monitored in their homes it's highly likely the admins were too.
Company president or management:: 15 minutes.
Engineering or Marketing: 2 Weeks.
Programmer or SysAdmin: When it's done.
Customer or end user: When it works.
Here's the advert to give to your HR department to hire the person for your 'estimating':
Looking for a BS or AS in the latest trendy programming languages developed by college students in their second year. Must have experience in legacy hardware as the most recent vapor-ware that everyone is buzz-wording about. Non-Discriminatory Affirmative action candidates preferred with background clearances and able to board an airline with a weapon. - Equal Opportunity Employer
- Dan.
If you read the rest of the article, you would realize that's a reduction from 1.92 MILLION. later on it properly places the decimal point.
Quote -> it doesn't matter to Thomas-Rasset whether the damages are $25,000 or $1.92 million.' In addition, Thomas-Rasset's attorneys say that, win or lose, they plan to appeal the constitutionality of the fine."
God BLESS this woman.
- Dan.
Yes there is. I did exactly what the OP is posting about as early as 2003.
That was in the days of X11 before the split to XORG. I will have to experiment again, but as long as you get an NVIDIA card with good supported drivers you shouldn't have a problem. Do a google search for the configuration settings. they exist * Without special software *
- Dan.
Fire up EVE ONLINE !! From SPACE !!
I also tried the M-x-Ctrl-v-p-o-k-l-m-z-w combo. My nose was already being used for the Control key so I used something else I had available and got fired for it. Anyone looking to hire a flexible programmer?
The article sis complete rubbish.
I would much rather not have to deal with other people's children or silly rules to protect them. Build kiddie pools and throw the little snots and the content filters in them.
Except that isn't how it will work.
The reason we need things like this in the first place is because parents aren't doing their job. If parents were paying enough attention to realize that Grand Theft Auto probably wasn't child safe... Or if parents were actually explaining what is appropriate language and behavior... It wouldn't be necessary to come up with these rules and filters to protect them.
The fact of the matter is that many parents just toss their kids in front of videogames. It's easier than actually parenting them yourself. It keeps them distracted and quiet while you go do your thing. Except that not all videogames are child-safe. And weeding out the child-safe ones from the adult titles would require effort these folks are obviously not interested in expending. So the ultimate goal here would be to render absolutely everything child-safe.
Which means that all your videogames would become kiddie pools. And even though you're an adult, you'd have to put up with the content filters and rules that are designed to protect the children of these lazy parents.
first of all, there is no one Codified legal standard on how to be a parent. Every parent has a different idea, and the right, about how to do their job. Today's society has largely segregated children from parents except for a couple of hours a day between 6 pm and 8 pm. The rest of the time is typically spent asleep when at home, and at school, daycare / work the rest of the day. 2 hours a day is not even close to enough time to "Pay close attention" to your child(ren).
I have yet to find any child that I had to *force* to play a video game. Often times it's the reverse, trying to pry the child from the TV (which we since threw away) just to say grace and *Eat* something.
As for the child filters? I want parent filters. I have trashed my "Need for speed" series from Electronic Arts because of the marketing to the teen gangster, and general "thug" image EA tries to push the game to. Not to mention the torturous cut scenes you are *forced* to endure between events.
This article was never about your job as a parent, it's the FTC trying to get control of another medium, so they can receive more funding. Which in government work, is what it's all about. - More Funding.
Thats not to say I don't watch them like a hawk when I can. No matter how tight the belt gets I have a one income family. It will stay that way. The kids are only allowed to use email at our families domain, which I receive a copy of every single piece of mail they get, and I have instant message logging at the firewall. If they deviate from the family email they are grounded to their rooms and lose internet access. All the computers in the house are in the living room. No matter how much they beg, AND we watch where they play.
- Dan.
This is a good start but only covers the alcohol. If there's children, chances are there has been some Sex in the house also. Since the monitoring of this facility would classify as pornographic and possibly child pornography the children should immediately be made wards of the state and abducted *ahem* removed from the home to live in an overcrowded, under-monitored house populated by disturbed and damaged children "for their protection".
The state saves on cost and we might as well just prosecute the parents to justify the expense.
I challenge anyone to get 6 out of 2+2, and the last person that challenged physics by jumping off a building never published beyond an obituary... I think we should be just fine there. - Dan.
The smell of fear is that stuff running down the back of the subjects, or in this case, the suspects legs...
My parents needed them and if they had then you bet they would have used them.
When my oldest was born we thought the same way you expressed in this post. She's 12 now, and with school buses, field trips and wanting to go to the stores by herself and trotting off with friends you damn well bet I am going to have one for each child I have. Injected under the skin if I thought it would work. I take every effort to secure the safety of my blond haired blue-eyed gems, and that also means utilizing every resource available to my advantage. You also assume that every nation is safe for young girls or boys.
"Instilling good values" and "putting in effort" are buzzwords that I used when I was a new parent also. But the reality is we aren't always the only ones providing that instruction. Peers at school or at church, Magazines, TV, and movies are all your child's educators and you have no control over what they decide to adopt as good behaviour. If your serious, the best thing you can do for your family is get rid of the TV. Don't assume friends or even clergy at church to be a positive influence.
Overprotective? No. Allow your children the time to be children, and save the life lessons for when they may have a better grasp of the concepts involved. Like the value of Virginity. Thats nothing any 12 yr old or 13yr old will grasp, and hey, everyone on TV seems to be have a *lot* of fun doing it. I promise you, if they catch wind it's fun, and they *enjoy* it, you *will not* get them back from it. drugs, sex, or bad rap music. If they feel a desire to fit in then remove them from that group or lose them. You are dealing with a hormonal driven animal with little to zero thought other than self gratification. Appeasing the parent, is also self gratification in the effect that it often results in more lenient restrictions.
Remember that you are the parent, and they are called a child for a reason.
Good Luck. - Dan.
Religion and Science are 100% incompatible. Religion = "I Believe", Science = "I can show/demonstrate/repeat".
Then show us your replication of the big bang. - Repeatedly. You certainly didn't observe it, you can't repeat it. By those terms there is no reasonable means by which you can authoritatively demonstrate it. Science is just yet another form of religion. You believe in the educated guess of someone else.