You know, what? While, mostly, I was joking, there is some grain of truth to that joke. Thing is, it's illegal to install something on someone's computer without their consent. Microsoft gets away with it because when you installed "Microsoft Update", you had to click through a dialog box saying that you consent to allowing Microsoft to install whatever software it damned well pleases on your box.
Not to me - it's proof that they can actually do what they say. Although, depending on how you look at it, every article is a fundraising article.
Whenever a non-profit communicates with the public through the press, the Internet, etc., the intended purpose, directly or indirectly, is to generate funds, yes. The reason being, if they don't keep in the public eye, donations will drop off. Out of sight; out of mind. They depend on those donations for continued operation. Without them they would cease to exist.
When the US and UK are walled camps, like Gaza on a Brobdingnagian scale, I will reread your post.
You don't understand a thing about U.S. politics. We bitch and moan and gripe and do nothing until they start taking our freedoms away. Just ask the Brits what happened the last time they took too many of our freedoms away...,
A better example even: If you'd go to a local department store here in the Netherlands and purchase a Globe (not sure what the proper English name is; a soccerball sized globe with the world map and a lamp inside)
Sounds like a lighted globe. I'll have to remember to check that out next time I'm at Walmart.
Not having any experience doing network programming, I have no idea if this is something that should ideally be handled by a system library or if it should be coded by the programmer (can anyone chime in on this?),
Most wire protocols will be handled by some sort of library unless they are custom protocols. Custom protocols can be either down to the wire or they can be written at a higher level (open a socket, write this, read that, close the socket), though the trend these days in business programming is to not use custom protocols at all whenever possible.
Actually, amusingly enough, there was a time that Bill Gates would have said "A payroll system? I could code that in a weekend in BASIC!" Which eventually became "s/BASIC/Excel macros".
I have to agree that a payroll system is generally pretty trivial to code. Hell, I probably could whip one up in a weekend in Python + PyGTK + MySQL or Python + Django + MySQL. Hell, gimme a couple of months and I'll have both a GUI interface and a Web interface.
Thing is it isn't that trivial. You have no idea what the actual requirements might be. Does it need to interface with another system (say, an accounting system)? What kind of reports does it need to generate? What does the existing data store look like? Does it need to support legacy records? Is it trivial to import these records into an SQL database? (I doubt it).
Yes. Just as the agrarian economy never fully went away, the industrial economy will never fully go away. It just won't be the main focus of society as it has been for the last 100-150 years or so.
It's a result of technological progress, not the super-rich. As technology has improved, efficiencies have reduced the need for industrial capacity. Hence, the crumbling cities. Toyota went in this direction early on, while GM, Ford and Chrysler lagged behind.
No. This is the result of deindustrialization of the West. As our economy becomes increasingly information-based and decreasingly manufacturing-based, old manufacturing centers are crumbling. But a new economy is rising, one based on information and information technology.
The RIAA/MPAA fiascos and the rise of iTunes and P2P, the failing auto industry, and the current economic disaster are all results of the growing pains associated with this transformation.
Anybody who doesn't realize it at this point should re-open Heidi and Alvin Toeffler's books, because they provided the roadmap years ago. The fact that is happening now is not a surprise to me at all.
I never said I was complaining about it (see the smiley at the end), but if I were, I'd have every right to since, as a U.S. citizen and tax payer, they are using my hard-earned tax dollars to build it.
I can fully understand why the military would use this approach, and I actually agree with the capability so long as it isn't abused. Unfortunately, I'm intimately familiar with my government.:(
Pretty much. Of course, any current problems with GPS are likely to be fixed once GPS III is up and running. It will combine land-based positioners with satellites that have 500 times the transmitter power. Of course, that 'not so ubiquitous' factor is still there as GPS III will allow the U.S. military to shut down GPS to selected geographic areas at will to all but sanctioned receivers.;)
I think he was pointing to the "reviews". Here's the thing: none of those reviews were from enterprise-class users.
Once you start getting into 10 drive RAID arrays (and up), speed of each drive is no longer your limiting factor, provided you're using some kind of striping. That's the reason SATA RAID arrays have started to become popular in the enterprise for less critical systems -- there's almost no performance difference at all. You need to go fibre channel before you see any marked difference in performance.
Mod parent up. SSDs are a very immature technology and are not, yet, ready for the enterprise data center. Wait a few years until the technology matures. Magnetic hard drives have been around for what? 30-40 years? They're stable and proven. How many multi-petabyte enterprise data centers have you seen running SSDs as their primary storage? None. Yeah, that's what I thought.
They also have a long way to go before they compete with mangetic hard drives in terms of cost.
Agreed. ISC dhcpd is so trivial to setup, and places hardly any load on the system at all, that I don't use why you wouldn't use it in that case. I've personally ran dhcpd servers serving 1,000 nodes or more without a lick of trouble running on old PCs that were just lying around. We had a couple of failover servers on each VLAN and ultimately we never had any DHCP downtime, ever. Well, actually we did once, but that's because the POS Cisco switch the DHCP servers were plugged into totally failed for reasons we were never able to ascertain, other than the fact the hardware simply didn't work anymore.:)
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Actually that depends. In some neighborhoods, you'd only need his corpse, a live chicken and $200 in cash,
after the government started a new secret weapon program collecting adamantium meteors.
Well, at least we know the meteors weren't square.
The programmer would usually specify a flag along the lines of "keepalives=10" to determine if and how often keepalives are sent.
You know, what? While, mostly, I was joking, there is some grain of truth to that joke. Thing is, it's illegal to install something on someone's computer without their consent. Microsoft gets away with it because when you installed "Microsoft Update", you had to click through a dialog box saying that you consent to allowing Microsoft to install whatever software it damned well pleases on your box.
Not to me - it's proof that they can actually do what they say. Although, depending on how you look at it, every article is a fundraising article.
Whenever a non-profit communicates with the public through the press, the Internet, etc., the intended purpose, directly or indirectly, is to generate funds, yes. The reason being, if they don't keep in the public eye, donations will drop off. Out of sight; out of mind. They depend on those donations for continued operation. Without them they would cease to exist.
Legal ninjas, yes.
You sure about that? I don't think ninjas are legal, not even in Japan!
When the US and UK are walled camps, like Gaza on a Brobdingnagian scale, I will reread your post.
You don't understand a thing about U.S. politics. We bitch and moan and gripe and do nothing until they start taking our freedoms away. Just ask the Brits what happened the last time they took too many of our freedoms away...,
A better example even: If you'd go to a local department store here in the Netherlands and purchase a Globe (not sure what the proper English name is; a soccerball sized globe with the world map and a lamp inside)
Sounds like a lighted globe. I'll have to remember to check that out next time I'm at Walmart.
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Get yours at BrowserForTheBetter.com!
No, but you can run IE6 and IE7.
No.
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Not having any experience doing network programming, I have no idea if this is something that should ideally be handled by a system library or if it should be coded by the programmer (can anyone chime in on this?),
Most wire protocols will be handled by some sort of library unless they are custom protocols. Custom protocols can be either down to the wire or they can be written at a higher level (open a socket, write this, read that, close the socket), though the trend these days in business programming is to not use custom protocols at all whenever possible.
Does that answer your question?
Actually, amusingly enough, there was a time that Bill Gates would have said "A payroll system? I could code that in a weekend in BASIC!" Which eventually became "s/BASIC/Excel macros".
I have to agree that a payroll system is generally pretty trivial to code. Hell, I probably could whip one up in a weekend in Python + PyGTK + MySQL or Python + Django + MySQL. Hell, gimme a couple of months and I'll have both a GUI interface and a Web interface.
Thing is it isn't that trivial. You have no idea what the actual requirements might be. Does it need to interface with another system (say, an accounting system)? What kind of reports does it need to generate? What does the existing data store look like? Does it need to support legacy records? Is it trivial to import these records into an SQL database? (I doubt it).
Sure it is, see:
Yes. Just as the agrarian economy never fully went away, the industrial economy will never fully go away. It just won't be the main focus of society as it has been for the last 100-150 years or so.
Never read the Toefflers, eh?
It's a result of technological progress, not the super-rich. As technology has improved, efficiencies have reduced the need for industrial capacity. Hence, the crumbling cities. Toyota went in this direction early on, while GM, Ford and Chrysler lagged behind.
No. This is the result of deindustrialization of the West. As our economy becomes increasingly information-based and decreasingly manufacturing-based, old manufacturing centers are crumbling. But a new economy is rising, one based on information and information technology.
The RIAA/MPAA fiascos and the rise of iTunes and P2P, the failing auto industry, and the current economic disaster are all results of the growing pains associated with this transformation.
Anybody who doesn't realize it at this point should re-open Heidi and Alvin Toeffler's books, because they provided the roadmap years ago. The fact that is happening now is not a surprise to me at all.
I never said I was complaining about it (see the smiley at the end), but if I were, I'd have every right to since, as a U.S. citizen and tax payer, they are using my hard-earned tax dollars to build it.
I can fully understand why the military would use this approach, and I actually agree with the capability so long as it isn't abused. Unfortunately, I'm intimately familiar with my government. :(
Have you ever tested new code with new features and found some bugs? That's why you do testing.
Can someone please explain this to Microsoft? In words they can understand? :-P
Pretty much. Of course, any current problems with GPS are likely to be fixed once GPS III is up and running. It will combine land-based positioners with satellites that have 500 times the transmitter power. Of course, that 'not so ubiquitous' factor is still there as GPS III will allow the U.S. military to shut down GPS to selected geographic areas at will to all but sanctioned receivers. ;)
I think he was pointing to the "reviews". Here's the thing: none of those reviews were from enterprise-class users.
Once you start getting into 10 drive RAID arrays (and up), speed of each drive is no longer your limiting factor, provided you're using some kind of striping. That's the reason SATA RAID arrays have started to become popular in the enterprise for less critical systems -- there's almost no performance difference at all. You need to go fibre channel before you see any marked difference in performance.
Mod parent up. SSDs are a very immature technology and are not, yet, ready for the enterprise data center. Wait a few years until the technology matures. Magnetic hard drives have been around for what? 30-40 years? They're stable and proven. How many multi-petabyte enterprise data centers have you seen running SSDs as their primary storage? None. Yeah, that's what I thought.
They also have a long way to go before they compete with mangetic hard drives in terms of cost.
Agreed. ISC dhcpd is so trivial to setup, and places hardly any load on the system at all, that I don't use why you wouldn't use it in that case. I've personally ran dhcpd servers serving 1,000 nodes or more without a lick of trouble running on old PCs that were just lying around. We had a couple of failover servers on each VLAN and ultimately we never had any DHCP downtime, ever. Well, actually we did once, but that's because the POS Cisco switch the DHCP servers were plugged into totally failed for reasons we were never able to ascertain, other than the fact the hardware simply didn't work anymore. :)
Can you please post what we can do in order to help the Iranians throw over their dictatorship?
Not much.
In context, my string of logic is not flawed. Read Article 1 ssection 8, two sections above section 10. Then you'll see that my logic is impervious.