In pretty much all the large companies I've worked in Id rather I fix my machine than let IT get their greasy, incompetent mitts on it. I'm a software developer. The oversight Ive seen with regard to build integrity and security has *never* been competent.
One of my favourite IT stories involves IBM. It invloved a database in a large F500 company. AN innocent little database that happily sat in a MER and never did anyone any hard what so ever. There was a DBA of the database but he only ever did a few changes a year on it(create a new view... add a new column etc) and it didnt really eat too much into his time schedule. Some bright middle manager decided this would be an excellent box to outsource to IBM. So they did. They signed some 5 year contract with maintenance rate that were higher that the absolute salary of the DBA. But whatever. Time came when somebody wanted a new view added to the DB. The DBA no longer had access so he raise a change request with IBM. Sure! Well add a view! That'll be £5000! What? Replied everyone involved. A few more CRs to IBM(and a lot more £££s) later it was decided something had to be done(BTW the middle manager who started all this had *long* moved on). What was decided was that our heroic in-house DBA was to set up an identical database in-house. And then rip the entire outsourced database onto that. Then get that into production and switch off the in-house database.
The moral of the story? Perhaps it's : Isn't wasting money fun. Or be very careful when outsourcing.
It's sad that a great platform like Java has such a bad rep because of one toolkit (Swing).
I could agree more with this statement. A co-worker of mine has a passionate hate for all things java... he recently changed his bittorrent client to azereus and was saying how please he was with it(thankyou swt). I mentioned it was a java app and he didnt believe me at first... it turns out he has a passionate hate for crappy (usually swing based) java applications... a very different thing. But this attitude affects the perception of the entire platform. His dislike used to spill over into my area(back end j2ee stuff... and while I have many things to say on some of the crappy decisions in that dept I wont for now) where he had no real expertise.
While you have a point I think its a lot more difficult to catch someone selling a fake shirt outside a gig(if you wanted to) or selling a fake ticket than someone downloading a mp3 from a torrent.
With regards to your sig... one space after the period was not really started by the internet... but became the new typographic convention once everyone started using mostly proportional fonts. Its the defacto typographic standard these days and has been for quite some time. THe fonts these days are designed with having a single space in mind. Im not a graphic designer but have many of them as friends.
I think the point is that CDs are dead/dying... digital exchange of music == a sudden and dramatic drop in supply scarcity. There are many other revenue streams artist can and do pursue to make money... live shows... endorsements... tee shirt sales... licensing of their intellectual property. None of this is vague. The people really making the noise are the ones with the most to lose from traditional music distribution channels changing. Some big name bands accasionally do but Prince recently gave his new album away free in a newspaper in the UK... radiohead did their thing etc.
What about legitimate use? What about the the legal documentaries that were indexed on tv-links. I *know* there were also links to copyright protected materials but how is this tv-links.co.uk problem. There are perfectly legal ways to have them taken down by contacting the hosting sites themselves. When ever I hear about laws that are enforced to stop people facilitating or making illegal activity easier I become nervous. If I put a link to illegal content on my web site and wrote that clicking on it would be illegal or infringe on someones rights then am I responsible for someone clicking on it?
My mini review of that book was that it was awful. It is an interesting and even important subject... but the writing style is so irritating and preachy that it just made me want to spell poorly and use bad grammar to annoy the woman that wrote that book.
That may be so... and the defense in this case may have been lame. But Im still puzzled as to why I should be listening to the opinion of a steelworker who has never used the Internet and used to race snowmobiles(?) regarding the amount of damage done to capital records over 24 little mp3s. I find this passage particularly confusing
Thomas and her attorney have announced they're appealing the verdict, in part to contest a jury instruction that said Thomas could be found liable solely for sharing the music over the Kazaa file-sharing network, "regardless of whether actual distribution has been shown."
But Hegg said the jury in U.S. District Court in Duluth would have found her liable even if the plaintiffs had been required to establish that Kazaa users had actually downloaded the music.
So you don't actually have to distribute files to be distributing files. And even if you don't distribute the files you are distributing then that irrelevant cause you're guilty of distributing files despite the fact that no files were actually shown to be distributed. I mean really... would it have been so hard for the RIAA to simply download the files and show that part of the files came from her computer and hence she was distributing?
And something people seem to forget. When you plaster too many ads on something then those ads become *far less* effective. Ideally ads should be discreet and targeted. I have no problems with advertising as long as the ad is relevant to me and not "in your face". In fact a relevant ad is useful to me as I *am* interested in buying things and *would* like to know where I can by them conveniently and cheaply.
The problem is that advertisers don't seem to understand this.
Goon shows? On reel-to-reel? Does he have anything pre around 1954? If so can you encourage him to digitize them... not for distribution mind you... its just that before then most of the goon shows were lost. If he has anything from around 51-52 then Id strongly encourage him to get in touch with the BBC or a goon show fan site... there are very few episodes from that period.
Errr... what makes you think the Vikings went to the Americas by accident. They purposely went there to found a colony(which eventually failed of course). They had fine technology to get their via ship. But so did the Irish before them at one point. There is a fair amount of evidence that St Brendan of Ireland reached the Americas around 500ish AD and he heard of it from another dude who claimed to have already been to the Americas. Frankly it really isnt that difficult to get to the New World from Europe... if you go up thru Greenland and ICeland ways... lotsa islands.
I second you on that. I read that book when I was in the six grade(my dad owned it... he is a space nut). Even for someone not interested in space or technology should find that a fascinating read for the stories of how the communists actually ran things. Some things were pretty insane. And you get the find out why Khrushchev was really banging his shoe on that table:)
Ill back you up on that and add banking and finance to the govt and defense sectors(Ive world in all three to be honest). The GP mentioned that installing new software would maybe be a hassle for end users(while I dont really agree with that in 100% of cases) as a bad thing. In large enterprises that I think would be considered great:)
Well Im in the UK so Ill say Sellafield which if you read that youll probably say "But that had a large leak recently!". And yes they did due to a design flaw. Also Japan does a lot of reprocessing. It has a bad reputation around the world due to things like West Valley that you mentioned. However I dont think this makes the idea of reprocessing invalid as such. I mean I dont see nearly as many people being concerned at the enormous amount of uranium and thorium being released into the atmosphere from coal fire power plants. As power generation system has their pollutants.
he expenses to cure people when depleted uranium is dumped into the environment during wars and so on.
OK. There are lots of things to can criticize the the nuclear power industry over but Im find it a bit difficult to justify that one. I mean they didnt really intend any one to go round making tank armor and sabot round out of depleted uranium.
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You can go further than that. I could probably find a person who would say that 1,2,3,4,5,6 is much less likely than say 5,3,1,2,6,4.
Y'know, that dance wasn't as safe as they said it was.
What you said. I use bit torrent all the time at work to get linux isos for our test environments.
In pretty much all the large companies I've worked in Id rather I fix my machine than let IT get their greasy, incompetent mitts on it. I'm a software developer. The oversight Ive seen with regard to build integrity and security has *never* been competent.
One of my favourite IT stories involves IBM. It invloved a database in a large F500 company. AN innocent little database that happily sat in a MER and never did anyone any hard what so ever. There was a DBA of the database but he only ever did a few changes a year on it(create a new view... add a new column etc) and it didnt really eat too much into his time schedule. Some bright middle manager decided this would be an excellent box to outsource to IBM. So they did. They signed some 5 year contract with maintenance rate that were higher that the absolute salary of the DBA. But whatever. Time came when somebody wanted a new view added to the DB. The DBA no longer had access so he raise a change request with IBM. Sure! Well add a view! That'll be £5000! What? Replied everyone involved. A few more CRs to IBM(and a lot more £££s) later it was decided something had to be done(BTW the middle manager who started all this had *long* moved on). What was decided was that our heroic in-house DBA was to set up an identical database in-house. And then rip the entire outsourced database onto that. Then get that into production and switch off the in-house database.
The moral of the story? Perhaps it's : Isn't wasting money fun. Or be very careful when outsourcing.
It's sad that a great platform like Java has such a bad rep because of one toolkit (Swing).
I could agree more with this statement. A co-worker of mine has a passionate hate for all things java... he recently changed his bittorrent client to azereus and was saying how please he was with it(thankyou swt). I mentioned it was a java app and he didnt believe me at first... it turns out he has a passionate hate for crappy (usually swing based) java applications... a very different thing. But this attitude affects the perception of the entire platform. His dislike used to spill over into my area(back end j2ee stuff... and while I have many things to say on some of the crappy decisions in that dept I wont for now) where he had no real expertise.
While you have a point I think its a lot more difficult to catch someone selling a fake shirt outside a gig(if you wanted to) or selling a fake ticket than someone downloading a mp3 from a torrent.
With regards to your sig... one space after the period was not really started by the internet... but became the new typographic convention once everyone started using mostly proportional fonts. Its the defacto typographic standard these days and has been for quite some time. THe fonts these days are designed with having a single space in mind. Im not a graphic designer but have many of them as friends.
I think the point is that CDs are dead/dying... digital exchange of music == a sudden and dramatic drop in supply scarcity. There are many other revenue streams artist can and do pursue to make money... live shows... endorsements... tee shirt sales... licensing of their intellectual property. None of this is vague. The people really making the noise are the ones with the most to lose from traditional music distribution channels changing. Some big name bands accasionally do but Prince recently gave his new album away free in a newspaper in the UK... radiohead did their thing etc.
What about legitimate use? What about the the legal documentaries that were indexed on tv-links. I *know* there were also links to copyright protected materials but how is this tv-links.co.uk problem. There are perfectly legal ways to have them taken down by contacting the hosting sites themselves. When ever I hear about laws that are enforced to stop people facilitating or making illegal activity easier I become nervous. If I put a link to illegal content on my web site and wrote that clicking on it would be illegal or infringe on someones rights then am I responsible for someone clicking on it?
One I can think of would be CPU development...
My mini review of that book was that it was awful. It is an interesting and even important subject... but the writing style is so irritating and preachy that it just made me want to spell poorly and use bad grammar to annoy the woman that wrote that book.
They diden't even *try* to discredit the moon landing.
:)
And *thats* what makes the whole thing so suspicious!
The earths atmosphere is transparent to certain microwave frequencies.
ut they can damn good at spotting a liar
That may be so... and the defense in this case may have been lame. But Im still puzzled as to why I should be listening to the opinion of a steelworker who has never used the Internet and used to race snowmobiles(?) regarding the amount of damage done to capital records over 24 little mp3s. I find this passage particularly confusing
Thomas and her attorney have announced they're appealing the verdict, in part to contest a jury instruction that said Thomas could be found liable solely for sharing the music over the Kazaa file-sharing network, "regardless of whether actual distribution has been shown."
But Hegg said the jury in U.S. District Court in Duluth would have found her liable even if the plaintiffs had been required to establish that Kazaa users had actually downloaded the music. So you don't actually have to distribute files to be distributing files. And even if you don't distribute the files you are distributing then that irrelevant cause you're guilty of distributing files despite the fact that no files were actually shown to be distributed. I mean really... would it have been so hard for the RIAA to simply download the files and show that part of the files came from her computer and hence she was distributing?
And something people seem to forget. When you plaster too many ads on something then those ads become *far less* effective. Ideally ads should be discreet and targeted. I have no problems with advertising as long as the ad is relevant to me and not "in your face". In fact a relevant ad is useful to me as I *am* interested in buying things and *would* like to know where I can by them conveniently and cheaply.
The problem is that advertisers don't seem to understand this.
Goon shows? On reel-to-reel? Does he have anything pre around 1954? If so can you encourage him to digitize them... not for distribution mind you... its just that before then most of the goon shows were lost. If he has anything from around 51-52 then Id strongly encourage him to get in touch with the BBC or a goon show fan site... there are very few episodes from that period.
Errr... what makes you think the Vikings went to the Americas by accident. They purposely went there to found a colony(which eventually failed of course). They had fine technology to get their via ship. But so did the Irish before them at one point. There is a fair amount of evidence that St Brendan of Ireland reached the Americas around 500ish AD and he heard of it from another dude who claimed to have already been to the Americas. Frankly it really isnt that difficult to get to the New World from Europe... if you go up thru Greenland and ICeland ways... lotsa islands.
Some have speculated that if nanotech ever take off and we use IPv6 for internanite communication we may have a problem :)
Perhaps. Or perhaps photos of American draped coffins are not shown because of some of the very powerful images of coffins circa the Vietnam war.
I second you on that. I read that book when I was in the six grade(my dad owned it... he is a space nut). Even for someone not interested in space or technology should find that a fascinating read for the stories of how the communists actually ran things. Some things were pretty insane. And you get the find out why Khrushchev was really banging his shoe on that table :)
I find it very difficult to read anything that is littered with blatant spelling and grammar errors.
I take it you are not a big fan of Shakespeare or Chaucer then?
Ill back you up on that and add banking and finance to the govt and defense sectors(Ive world in all three to be honest). The GP mentioned that installing new software would maybe be a hassle for end users(while I dont really agree with that in 100% of cases) as a bad thing. In large enterprises that I think would be considered great :)
Well Im in the UK so Ill say Sellafield which if you read that youll probably say "But that had a large leak recently!". And yes they did due to a design flaw. Also Japan does a lot of reprocessing. It has a bad reputation around the world due to things like West Valley that you mentioned. However I dont think this makes the idea of reprocessing invalid as such. I mean I dont see nearly as many people being concerned at the enormous amount of uranium and thorium being released into the atmosphere from coal fire power plants. As power generation system has their pollutants.
he expenses to cure people when depleted uranium is dumped into the environment during wars and so on.
OK. There are lots of things to can criticize the the nuclear power industry over but Im find it a bit difficult to justify that one. I mean they didnt really intend any one to go round making tank armor and sabot round out of depleted uranium.