Wow, that looks awful in FF. If you're running Windows and really want to read the article, use IE or the IE Tab plug-in for Firefox. If you have any doubt that FrontPage is the worst thing to ever happen to the web, take a look at the page's source:
I don't see an ethical dilemma with technologies that allow me to share information voluntarily. I want them to respect my preferences and disclose what they do with the data, but it's no different with doctors, banks, or retailers. Why is this an ethical problem for a web site?
According to the article, the missing device problem was solved a long time ago:
One day in the late 1980s, she got a call from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida: "We heard you're looking for FR-900s. We've got three of them. Where do you want us to send them?"
The trouble was repairing them. This is really a story about the inefficiency of bureaucracies. NASA experts estimated it would cost up to $6 million, but volunteers were able to do it for a fraction of that.
The project has so far cost $250,000, far less than the $6-million estimate by NASA.
It probably would cost NASA a lot more because of process and administrative overhead. In this case, a dedicated person refused to give up on the project. So, what other archived information can be opened to the public with so little investment? I suspect that if NASA simply offered up the equipment and media, the data would have been recovered in time.
Star Wars had a lot of fantasy elements like magic, knights, trolls, princesses, etc, and had a lot less scientific jargon than something like Star Trek. I would still consider Star Wars a blend of sci fi and fantasy, but definitely more in the future fantasy camp.
I didn't like the idea of IBM purchasing Sun, there is too much overlap between the two companies. Like the summary says, IBM wanted to acquire their software and research and "consolidate" the market. That's business-speak for picking off the talent and products they need and discarding everything else. It's not a criticism of IBM, I wouldn't want any of Sun's direct competitor's buying them. Someone like HP or Cisco will be adding Sun's products and research, keeping the industry more competitive than it would be with a bigger IBM.
The parent's probably not trolling, this is a common sentiment among citizens of non-nuclear nations. Leaders in countries like Iran and North Korea simply exploit it for popular support. There's no strategic rationale for them to build a nuclear bomb, but the debate rallies their citizens around a nationalist issue.
The end of the Cold War has left us with a legacy of weapons grade nuclear materials that must be dealt with. Thanks to the 1950s weâ(TM)re stuck with all the issues of storing this stuff no matter what Obama or any other U.S. President does. It just makes sense to me to take this stuff that used to be bombs and degrade it into something that can no longer make bombs
That's certainly a compelling argument, I'm surprised I've never heard it made by nuclear power supporters. If there really is a surplus of military-grade materials that need to be disposed of, I'm all for safely converting it for civilian use first. I know nothing about nuclear science or politics, so I have no idea if it's realistic or not. If I ever find out for sure, it would dramatically change my support of nuclear power.
Sounds like they're saying your SafeSearch preferences may be used to filter content from the browser at some point. I wouldn't mind that at all, if I'm at work and click a link that redirects me to a porn site, I'd like my browser to block it.
The language in the EULA is pretty wide-open, so I'm trusting that Google will use this feature for my benefit and allow me to change my preferences. If they don't, I'll stick with Firefox. That's the beauty of competition in the marketplace.
According to Engadget they're gone. Wikipedia says they were pronounced dead on June 2, 2008. I'm not sure what an Akimbo-based video service means if the content-delivery end of the service is defunct. Maybe someone acquired what was left of the company, but even in their prime, Akimbo had a pretty underwhelming collection of offerings.
Anything involving a new "czar" invariably fails to achieve its objectives and shows disregard for our rights. Joe Biden is credited with coining the term "Drug Czar" and was a vocal proponent of making it a cabinet level appointment. Ironically, the current administration has downgraded the post to a non-cabinet level position. I hate the term and wish it would go away, it sounds anti-democratic and seems to act accordingly.
I guess we think more highly of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. in the states.
We would vilify him during his lifetime and gun him down, but we'd certainly never call him pompous. The UK should make this right by reluctantly adopting a holiday in his honor over the next few decades.
The latest version of each have brought the two much closer in terms of performance and features. Historically, MySQL has been regarded as faster for simple querying and DML statements, but lacked full ACID compliance. PostgreSQL supported more advanced features like a PL/SQL style procedure language, transaction support, and data compression.
Today, the big difference is PostgreSQL is considered better on higher-end hardware with concurrent I/O support and better multi-core support. MySQL is considered better on clusters of lower-end hardware. There is a Wiki comparing the two in much better detail.
Personally, I work with both in large production systems and can fill a few pages on likes and gripes. I'm on MySQL 4.1, so concurrency is a concern, and PostgreSQL's replication is a pain. Unless you're trying to solve a problem MySQL can't satisfy, I wouldn't switch for the sake of change. Your time is probably better spent upgrading to MySQL 5.1.
Like I said, someone taking pornographic photos of a child is a child molester. A person in possession of a pornographic image of a child is guilty of possessing a pornographic image of a child. Whether the image is produced by camera, Photoshop, or a charcoal pencil is irrelevant, it's the intent and context that define its legality. Either possessing child porn is legal or it's not, does it really matter if it's a realistic digital rendering or photo? The person in possession of it didn't directly harm a child in either case.
The definitions could include Lost Girls, Watchmen, and South Park.
But I don't see how any of those works are threatened by the definitions.
the image may, by virtue of being part of that narrative, be found not to be pornographic, even though it might have been found to be pornographic if taken by itself.
If anything, the law is less threating to legitimate art than existing obscenity laws in the US. If this law simply means possession of child porn is illegal regardless of how it was produced, I'm fine with it.
I don't always agree with how the laws are applied, but possession of "virtual" child porn is just as objectionable as a photograph to me. The person responsible for the photograph is still a child molester, but it shouldn't matter how an image was created when defining child porn.
The UN provides a forum to grandstand and debate meaningless resolutions, and that's incredibly valuable. Don't underestimate the role of posturing and politics in military violence. When countries can have their complaints heard by the world media they're less likely to use military threats to get attention. The last thing I want is the UN to have "teeth," I prefer it to remain a form of international family therapy.
It's even easier not post at all, here's your answer "it's open source, fix it yourself":) But seriously, licensing costs are lumped into the total cost and no one cares how the software's developed. Companies pay for support, quality, and brand reputation. Red Hat has been able to compete in all three areas.
If RH produces their product for less than Microsoft they have a competitive advantage. It's not just Windows vs Linux, JBOSS is also doing well against IBM MQ.
I can't find concrete arguments for either side of this debate. The blogger for MS says:
In our view, large parts of the draft Manifesto are sensible. Other parts arguably reflect the authors' biases. Still other parts are too ambiguous to know exactly what the authors intended.
To which the CCIF Instigator replies:
as cloud computing matures to address several key principles that we believe must be followed to ensure the cloud is open and delivers the choice, flexibility and agility organizations demand.
The first article in the summary says the CCIF states somewhere that "whenever possible the CCIF will emphasis the use of open, patent-free and/or vendor-neutral technical solutions." But that doesn't appear anywhere in the Manifesto.
This reminds me of a bunch of vacuous marketing types throwing buzzwords around in some meaningless argument. Who gives a crap what the CCIF or a Microsoft product manager think about this vague drivel?
A strong background in Mathematics is a huge benefit in the software industry. I have several programmers on my team with Physics and Engineering degrees, but none with trade school certificates. I'd recommend a business school degree in MIS or something before going to ITT. Right or wrong, you'll be eliminated from a lot of jobs without a CS degree or equivalent, and even more with no degree at all.
If you're already working in the industry or an avid programmer in your spare time, don't hesitate to pursue your degree. If you're new to software development, make sure it's something you love. At 35, it would be hard for me to put in the hours and focus like I did in my 20s.
I co-wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up', which Rick Astley performed in the eighties, and which must have been played more than 100 million times on YouTube - owner Google. My PRS for Music income in the year ended September 2008 was £11.
I've had that damn song forced upon my ears for most of my life. I deserve restitution, he owes me £11!
As many others mentioned, the Logitech Harmony is good example of what's to come. I wouldn't be surprised if AV equipment stops shipping remotes and the controller becomes a standard component. Remotes may look more like touchscreen smartphones, but who wants their family grabbing their phone every time they need to change the channel?
Intel releases a new processor this year and the author is surprised that existing software applications aren't immediately taking advantage of it? This isn't a matter of changing a compiler setting or modifying a few methods, parallel computing requires major refactoring and fundamental redesign. And how are Windows 7 and Linux not well prepared? The development tools and applications aren't prepared, not the operating systems.
My company has been moving from Solaris to Oracle Linux recently. It's been largely unnoticed by the users and DBAs. The decision to go with Oracle Linux was a cost savings measure, but we also like the idea of Oracle supporting OS-related problems. Red Hat may provide better support than Oracle, but we've spent a lot of time eliminating potential OS issues working with Oracle support.
So far, we haven't run into anything that required Oracle's help with the OS. IMO, Oracle Linux is a good option if it supports the features you need, offers a lower TOC than the alternatives, and your admins are already familiar with RHEL. Running Oracle on RHEL would have cost an extra $300-400 per server under my company's licensing agreements. Depending on the number of servers you have, the cost difference between the two may be negligible.
A keylogger or spyware that reads the browser's auto-complete history could do it. There's even a shareware application that targets Comcast customers which claims to unmask saved passwords in your browser. The fact that this seems limited to Comcast logins is very suspicious. If they are responsible, they deserve to be punished to the greatest extent possible.
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Wow, that looks awful in FF. If you're running Windows and really want to read the article, use IE or the IE Tab plug-in for Firefox. If you have any doubt that FrontPage is the worst thing to ever happen to the web, take a look at the page's source:
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
I don't see an ethical dilemma with technologies that allow me to share information voluntarily. I want them to respect my preferences and disclose what they do with the data, but it's no different with doctors, banks, or retailers. Why is this an ethical problem for a web site?
The trouble was repairing them. This is really a story about the inefficiency of bureaucracies. NASA experts estimated it would cost up to $6 million, but volunteers were able to do it for a fraction of that.
It probably would cost NASA a lot more because of process and administrative overhead. In this case, a dedicated person refused to give up on the project. So, what other archived information can be opened to the public with so little investment? I suspect that if NASA simply offered up the equipment and media, the data would have been recovered in time.
:P good point, here's my card. I promise to limit my television viewing to reality shows and buy a subscription to Us Magazine.
Star Wars had a lot of fantasy elements like magic, knights, trolls, princesses, etc, and had a lot less scientific jargon than something like Star Trek. I would still consider Star Wars a blend of sci fi and fantasy, but definitely more in the future fantasy camp.
I didn't like the idea of IBM purchasing Sun, there is too much overlap between the two companies. Like the summary says, IBM wanted to acquire their software and research and "consolidate" the market. That's business-speak for picking off the talent and products they need and discarding everything else. It's not a criticism of IBM, I wouldn't want any of Sun's direct competitor's buying them. Someone like HP or Cisco will be adding Sun's products and research, keeping the industry more competitive than it would be with a bigger IBM.
The parent's probably not trolling, this is a common sentiment among citizens of non-nuclear nations. Leaders in countries like Iran and North Korea simply exploit it for popular support. There's no strategic rationale for them to build a nuclear bomb, but the debate rallies their citizens around a nationalist issue.
That's certainly a compelling argument, I'm surprised I've never heard it made by nuclear power supporters. If there really is a surplus of military-grade materials that need to be disposed of, I'm all for safely converting it for civilian use first. I know nothing about nuclear science or politics, so I have no idea if it's realistic or not. If I ever find out for sure, it would dramatically change my support of nuclear power.
Sounds like they're saying your SafeSearch preferences may be used to filter content from the browser at some point. I wouldn't mind that at all, if I'm at work and click a link that redirects me to a porn site, I'd like my browser to block it.
The language in the EULA is pretty wide-open, so I'm trusting that Google will use this feature for my benefit and allow me to change my preferences. If they don't, I'll stick with Firefox. That's the beauty of competition in the marketplace.
According to Engadget they're gone. Wikipedia says they were pronounced dead on June 2, 2008. I'm not sure what an Akimbo-based video service means if the content-delivery end of the service is defunct. Maybe someone acquired what was left of the company, but even in their prime, Akimbo had a pretty underwhelming collection of offerings.
Anything involving a new "czar" invariably fails to achieve its objectives and shows disregard for our rights. Joe Biden is credited with coining the term "Drug Czar" and was a vocal proponent of making it a cabinet level appointment. Ironically, the current administration has downgraded the post to a non-cabinet level position. I hate the term and wish it would go away, it sounds anti-democratic and seems to act accordingly.
I guess we think more highly of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. in the states.
We would vilify him during his lifetime and gun him down, but we'd certainly never call him pompous. The UK should make this right by reluctantly adopting a holiday in his honor over the next few decades.
The latest version of each have brought the two much closer in terms of performance and features. Historically, MySQL has been regarded as faster for simple querying and DML statements, but lacked full ACID compliance. PostgreSQL supported more advanced features like a PL/SQL style procedure language, transaction support, and data compression.
Today, the big difference is PostgreSQL is considered better on higher-end hardware with concurrent I/O support and better multi-core support. MySQL is considered better on clusters of lower-end hardware. There is a Wiki comparing the two in much better detail.
Personally, I work with both in large production systems and can fill a few pages on likes and gripes. I'm on MySQL 4.1, so concurrency is a concern, and PostgreSQL's replication is a pain. Unless you're trying to solve a problem MySQL can't satisfy, I wouldn't switch for the sake of change. Your time is probably better spent upgrading to MySQL 5.1.
Like I said, someone taking pornographic photos of a child is a child molester. A person in possession of a pornographic image of a child is guilty of possessing a pornographic image of a child. Whether the image is produced by camera, Photoshop, or a charcoal pencil is irrelevant, it's the intent and context that define its legality. Either possessing child porn is legal or it's not, does it really matter if it's a realistic digital rendering or photo? The person in possession of it didn't directly harm a child in either case.
But I don't see how any of those works are threatened by the definitions.
If anything, the law is less threating to legitimate art than existing obscenity laws in the US. If this law simply means possession of child porn is illegal regardless of how it was produced, I'm fine with it.
I don't always agree with how the laws are applied, but possession of "virtual" child porn is just as objectionable as a photograph to me. The person responsible for the photograph is still a child molester, but it shouldn't matter how an image was created when defining child porn.
The UN provides a forum to grandstand and debate meaningless resolutions, and that's incredibly valuable. Don't underestimate the role of posturing and politics in military violence. When countries can have their complaints heard by the world media they're less likely to use military threats to get attention. The last thing I want is the UN to have "teeth," I prefer it to remain a form of international family therapy.
It's even easier not post at all, here's your answer "it's open source, fix it yourself" :) But seriously, licensing costs are lumped into the total cost and no one cares how the software's developed. Companies pay for support, quality, and brand reputation. Red Hat has been able to compete in all three areas.
If RH produces their product for less than Microsoft they have a competitive advantage. It's not just Windows vs Linux, JBOSS is also doing well against IBM MQ.
To which the CCIF Instigator replies:
The first article in the summary says the CCIF states somewhere that "whenever possible the CCIF will emphasis the use of open, patent-free and/or vendor-neutral technical solutions." But that doesn't appear anywhere in the Manifesto.
This reminds me of a bunch of vacuous marketing types throwing buzzwords around in some meaningless argument. Who gives a crap what the CCIF or a Microsoft product manager think about this vague drivel?
A strong background in Mathematics is a huge benefit in the software industry. I have several programmers on my team with Physics and Engineering degrees, but none with trade school certificates. I'd recommend a business school degree in MIS or something before going to ITT. Right or wrong, you'll be eliminated from a lot of jobs without a CS degree or equivalent, and even more with no degree at all.
If you're already working in the industry or an avid programmer in your spare time, don't hesitate to pursue your degree. If you're new to software development, make sure it's something you love. At 35, it would be hard for me to put in the hours and focus like I did in my 20s.
I've had that damn song forced upon my ears for most of my life. I deserve restitution, he owes me £11!
Why would there be a different security policy for the backup server or media?
As many others mentioned, the Logitech Harmony is good example of what's to come. I wouldn't be surprised if AV equipment stops shipping remotes and the controller becomes a standard component. Remotes may look more like touchscreen smartphones, but who wants their family grabbing their phone every time they need to change the channel?
Intel releases a new processor this year and the author is surprised that existing software applications aren't immediately taking advantage of it? This isn't a matter of changing a compiler setting or modifying a few methods, parallel computing requires major refactoring and fundamental redesign. And how are Windows 7 and Linux not well prepared? The development tools and applications aren't prepared, not the operating systems.
My company has been moving from Solaris to Oracle Linux recently. It's been largely unnoticed by the users and DBAs. The decision to go with Oracle Linux was a cost savings measure, but we also like the idea of Oracle supporting OS-related problems. Red Hat may provide better support than Oracle, but we've spent a lot of time eliminating potential OS issues working with Oracle support.
So far, we haven't run into anything that required Oracle's help with the OS. IMO, Oracle Linux is a good option if it supports the features you need, offers a lower TOC than the alternatives, and your admins are already familiar with RHEL. Running Oracle on RHEL would have cost an extra $300-400 per server under my company's licensing agreements. Depending on the number of servers you have, the cost difference between the two may be negligible.
A keylogger or spyware that reads the browser's auto-complete history could do it. There's even a shareware application that targets Comcast customers which claims to unmask saved passwords in your browser. The fact that this seems limited to Comcast logins is very suspicious. If they are responsible, they deserve to be punished to the greatest extent possible.