Without specifics on your particular trial, I could see cases where phrasing of a question, even one so simple as clarification of something, could actually be communicating a subconscious bias you're not even aware of.
Not saying that's the case here, and I'm not going to argue your point (I think it's a stupid one, but you're entitled to it), but that bias is subtle, and not even necessarily known to the subject.
I once worked at a place that absolutely refused to use Oracle products, and was looking to replace their aged calendaring tool (from Oracle) with Exchange. A half-million dollars, six months later, two huge server farms replacing a pair of Netscape Mail servers.
I'm not knocking Exchange, I love it, and have written many apps for it over the years, but if there was ever a project that shouldn't have seen light of day, it was that migration.
I'm with you 100%. The article's author is spouting bullshit. I've been doing userspace to adminspace service communication to get around security obstacles since Windows NT 3.1. It's XP's adoption of the Windows95/8 - user is admin by default - that earned XP it's horrid security and exploit history. Microsoft has done what it feels is a minimally intrusive design to indicate to end-users that something fishy *MIGHT* be going on, versus letting them just blindly carry on.
Some of the comments on the authors site have absolutely no perspective on history - this is a step backwards to the Windows 2000/NT days, XP (in non-domain mode) was the aberration.
They aren't required to support anything, except what you've paid them to support, and sometimes the contract/license terms don't even require that.
It's the whole reason the Linux/BSD market took off. NO ONE can tell you you can't fix that version of Linux 1.0.18 if that's what you REALLY want to run.
I agree with banning drug adverts from TV. When 75% of your commercial content is warnings about side effects, you've got a bad business model going on. People hear the good, ignore the bad and bombard their GPs with self-dispensed medical advice.
Many of these drugs are WORSE than cigarette smoking, and we ban that from TV....
... is that the... companies have an obligation to their shareholders to maximize profit </quote>
Please stop propagating this myth. This is NOT true. Shareholders love to see increasing value in their investments. Sometimes that means only making 5% gross margins instead of 30%, especially if the 30% is unsustainable and ultimately hurts the company (Carly Fiorina, hello?).
Maximizing profit often means cutting costs, particularly in expensive places like R&D. This is bad business and those that do it (IBM, DEC of the late 80s) find themselves fucked as the winds shift and they get left behind and spend more money to catch up than they would have if they just stayed the course (a gross generalization).
Are you kidding? Most software almost never goes through a public beta process. Perhaps Microsoft products, perhaps Oracle products, but almost nothing else. You're lucky if it spent a month in the QA process.
CiscoVPN 4.6 works great under both Windows and Mac OS X.
Too bad I have to stop using it because we're turning on network access control and Cisco Clean Access Agent isn't available on Mac OS X. My Macbook users are PISSED.:(
It's not the location, the culture, the color of the people being outsourced to, it's the nature of outsourcing.
When you write to a design, and you have a contractual barrier insulating one from another, everything becomes about deliverables, whether or not the deliverable actually works. If it's a bug and there's a complicated three day workaround involving dead chickens and ritual sacrifices, then it's not a bug, it's an enhancement request. Performance so bad the product is unusable? not a bug, performance is an enhancement.
Management so inept at managing the outsourcing partner that they never get what they want, it's always overbudget, and a steaming pile of crap. And they don't have these massive contractual retaliatory ability, because the outsourcee has already contracted that away through creative use of feature requests and bug management.
Outsourcing works best when you find a nice Indian expatriot who wants to return home, and you train him up on your business, get him into management and charge him with opening up a remote field office to continue development at.
Cheap labor, under your control, with your business culture, your ingrained knowledge. You're not buying software from someone, you're building your brand in another country.
That was the stupidest thing Doc ever did - Install a Mr. Fusion, and not replace the engine with a 500hp electric motor? Seriously? When I saw the move in the theater and the arrow hit the car and it started leaking, I nearly got killed when I yelled "bullshit!"
Flying fucking car, why couldn't it FLY at 88mph? It did at the end of the first movie! Right, 99 Octane antigrav generators... whoopsie.
You're right, I really didn't address your point wrt comfort or even driving safety. My car has a kick-ass defroster, and in a recent snowstorm I needed it running full-blast just to keep my windshield clear so I *COULD* drive. I'm holding out for Mr. Fusion.
Early in 2007 I noticed a marked increase in the "Green Message" being proffered on television and print. It's almost WHORISH now with Chevron, Subaru, and the "Human Element" messages being every second or third commercial I see nowadays. 2007 was the tipping point in the "Green Message," 2008 it grows to dotCOM proportions.
90% of the risk of being in a cold environment is exposure to wind. Wind steals heat like rodents steal cheese. A decent set of cold weather gear in your trunk, proper jacket and winter clothes (not the trendy shit I see women wear up here in the Northeast all the time), and there's no reason you could not survive overnight in your car at -20 to -40 degrees fahrenheit.
I keep four blankets in my car all winter long, and well into the spring. I *HAVE* been trapped overnight, and love cold-weather camping, so I'm more prepared than most. This is like filling your bathtub with water before a hurricane or other potential disaster. A little preparation, something NO ONE seems to do anymore, prevents 90% of all stupid fatalities, like those people in New Orleans who *COULD* have walked out of a flood zone, but *CHOSE* not to and ended up dying because of it. I don't care how poor you are, if you have two well functioning legs and a decent heart and lungs you can walk 20 miles uphill in a day.
RAIDZ/ZFS... I like them, I like that this functionality is incorporated into Solaris in such a clean fashion. But it's no different than LVM/MD in Linux. I would like to see the Openfiler admin bits stripped out of it's LiveCD/rpath environment and adapted for Solaris - I think there's value to be had there.
I've played around a bit with OpenFiler in a VM with the NAS and it was about what I expected for a web interface over Samba and NFS. I'm a bit more interested in the iSCSI functionality to serve as my base for a VMware/Xen/Solaris lab I manage, which I haven't tried yet.
I distinctly remember some Bushism about real estate and home ownership in that timeframe as a push to revive the economy after the 2001 dotBomb. But this problem has been building since the late 90s. Every three or four years I get qualified for a home loan just for the hell of it, and I was making a LOT less money in 1999. I was still getting approved for US$400K loans.
If they REALLY wanted to encourage savings, they'd get rid of income taxes on Interest and Dividends. But they don't really want that. They want spend and churn.
Sounds like the WAAF of 1992 versus WAAF of 2008. Wait, I haven't listened to them since I bought XM (Thanks Hilldog!) in 2007. God, they even hired a hole.
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Without specifics on your particular trial, I could see cases where phrasing of a question, even one so simple as clarification of something, could actually be communicating a subconscious bias you're not even aware of.
:-D
Not saying that's the case here, and I'm not going to argue your point (I think it's a stupid one, but you're entitled to it), but that bias is subtle, and not even necessarily known to the subject.
Just saying.
I once worked at a place that absolutely refused to use Oracle products, and was looking to replace their aged calendaring tool (from Oracle) with Exchange. A half-million dollars, six months later, two huge server farms replacing a pair of Netscape Mail servers.
I'm not knocking Exchange, I love it, and have written many apps for it over the years, but if there was ever a project that shouldn't have seen light of day, it was that migration.
I'm with you 100%. The article's author is spouting bullshit. I've been doing userspace to adminspace service communication to get around security obstacles since Windows NT 3.1. It's XP's adoption of the Windows95/8 - user is admin by default - that earned XP it's horrid security and exploit history. Microsoft has done what it feels is a minimally intrusive design to indicate to end-users that something fishy *MIGHT* be going on, versus letting them just blindly carry on.
Some of the comments on the authors site have absolutely no perspective on history - this is a step backwards to the Windows 2000/NT days, XP (in non-domain mode) was the aberration.
They aren't required to support anything, except what you've paid them to support, and sometimes the contract/license terms don't even require that.
It's the whole reason the Linux/BSD market took off. NO ONE can tell you you can't fix that version of Linux 1.0.18 if that's what you REALLY want to run.
I agree with banning drug adverts from TV. When 75% of your commercial content is warnings about side effects, you've got a bad business model going on. People hear the good, ignore the bad and bombard their GPs with self-dispensed medical advice.
Many of these drugs are WORSE than cigarette smoking, and we ban that from TV....
</quote>
Please stop propagating this myth. This is NOT true. Shareholders love to see increasing value in their investments. Sometimes that means only making 5% gross margins instead of 30%, especially if the 30% is unsustainable and ultimately hurts the company (Carly Fiorina, hello?).
Maximizing profit often means cutting costs, particularly in expensive places like R&D. This is bad business and those that do it (IBM, DEC of the late 80s) find themselves fucked as the winds shift and they get left behind and spend more money to catch up than they would have if they just stayed the course (a gross generalization).
£1.19 per liter in $ per gallon == $8.8308/gallon.
That sucks!
And using solaris you get SAPP
Are you kidding? Most software almost never goes through a public beta process. Perhaps Microsoft products, perhaps Oracle products, but almost nothing else. You're lucky if it spent a month in the QA process.
Three words:
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Look it up.
Interesting. I'm wondering if they are in "warning" mode as opposed to enforcement mode? Do you get warning when you perform a login?
CiscoVPN 4.6 works great under both Windows and Mac OS X.
:(
Too bad I have to stop using it because we're turning on network access control and Cisco Clean Access Agent isn't available on Mac OS X. My Macbook users are PISSED.
It's not the location, the culture, the color of the people being outsourced to, it's the nature of outsourcing.
When you write to a design, and you have a contractual barrier insulating one from another, everything becomes about deliverables, whether or not the deliverable actually works. If it's a bug and there's a complicated three day workaround involving dead chickens and ritual sacrifices, then it's not a bug, it's an enhancement request. Performance so bad the product is unusable? not a bug, performance is an enhancement.
Management so inept at managing the outsourcing partner that they never get what they want, it's always overbudget, and a steaming pile of crap. And they don't have these massive contractual retaliatory ability, because the outsourcee has already contracted that away through creative use of feature requests and bug management.
Outsourcing works best when you find a nice Indian expatriot who wants to return home, and you train him up on your business, get him into management and charge him with opening up a remote field office to continue development at.
Cheap labor, under your control, with your business culture, your ingrained knowledge. You're not buying software from someone, you're building your brand in another country.
That was the stupidest thing Doc ever did - Install a Mr. Fusion, and not replace the engine with a 500hp electric motor? Seriously? When I saw the move in the theater and the arrow hit the car and it started leaking, I nearly got killed when I yelled "bullshit!"
Flying fucking car, why couldn't it FLY at 88mph? It did at the end of the first movie! Right, 99 Octane antigrav generators... whoopsie.
Okay, now I'm being absurd. Have a nice day!
You're right, I really didn't address your point wrt comfort or even driving safety. My car has a kick-ass defroster, and in a recent snowstorm I needed it running full-blast just to keep my windshield clear so I *COULD* drive. I'm holding out for Mr. Fusion.
Early in 2007 I noticed a marked increase in the "Green Message" being proffered on television and print. It's almost WHORISH now with Chevron, Subaru, and the "Human Element" messages being every second or third commercial I see nowadays. 2007 was the tipping point in the "Green Message," 2008 it grows to dotCOM proportions.
90% of the risk of being in a cold environment is exposure to wind. Wind steals heat like rodents steal cheese. A decent set of cold weather gear in your trunk, proper jacket and winter clothes (not the trendy shit I see women wear up here in the Northeast all the time), and there's no reason you could not survive overnight in your car at -20 to -40 degrees fahrenheit.
I keep four blankets in my car all winter long, and well into the spring. I *HAVE* been trapped overnight, and love cold-weather camping, so I'm more prepared than most. This is like filling your bathtub with water before a hurricane or other potential disaster. A little preparation, something NO ONE seems to do anymore, prevents 90% of all stupid fatalities, like those people in New Orleans who *COULD* have walked out of a flood zone, but *CHOSE* not to and ended up dying because of it. I don't care how poor you are, if you have two well functioning legs and a decent heart and lungs you can walk 20 miles uphill in a day.
RAIDZ/ZFS... I like them, I like that this functionality is incorporated into Solaris in such a clean fashion. But it's no different than LVM/MD in Linux. I would like to see the Openfiler admin bits stripped out of it's LiveCD/rpath environment and adapted for Solaris - I think there's value to be had there.
I've played around a bit with OpenFiler in a VM with the NAS and it was about what I expected for a web interface over Samba and NFS. I'm a bit more interested in the iSCSI functionality to serve as my base for a VMware/Xen/Solaris lab I manage, which I haven't tried yet.
I distinctly remember some Bushism about real estate and home ownership in that timeframe as a push to revive the economy after the 2001 dotBomb. But this problem has been building since the late 90s. Every three or four years I get qualified for a home loan just for the hell of it, and I was making a LOT less money in 1999. I was still getting approved for US$400K loans.
If they REALLY wanted to encourage savings, they'd get rid of income taxes on Interest and Dividends. But they don't really want that. They want spend and churn.
www.openfiler.org
www.freenas.org
HTH. HAND.
You can do the same thing with VMware and vmware-cmd pause, and an LVM snapshot.
Why not just use MSRP which has been the standard definition for my entire fsckin' life?
And if it's signed, dated and notarized?
Sounds like the WAAF of 1992 versus WAAF of 2008. Wait, I haven't listened to them since I bought XM (Thanks Hilldog!) in 2007. God, they even hired a hole.
Opie & Anthony - catch the virus!