Not sure if you are responding to my post or the one you quoted which was the parent, either way, yes legitimate controls are important.
As I said:
"There are some things that each side is correct in putting their foot down and drawing a line in the sand - and this one is firmly owned by the users."
A good IT department realizes the following:
The limits of their own knowledge.
That users are supposed to be part of the process in determining how systems should operate - they are the ones that have to use it day in and day out.
That, unless there is a damn good reason for requiring something, IT's job is to empower the users and then get out of the way so they can bring in revenue for the company.
I generally try to keep my slashdot comments relatively positive but the level of stupid in this thread is just enormous.
The point is that, as stupid as it may be, the owner of the machine SHOULD have omnipotent power over what happens, and is or is not allowed.
IT doesn't "own" the computers any more than the users "own" the computer. The company "owns" the computers.
Challenging IT's computer sovereignty is something only upper management has any business doing. Users who attempt to do so should get sanctioned, and rightly so.
Perfect philosophy if your goal is to get outsourced. Seriously, whenever I have an employee that thinks this way I have to educate them. IT's job is to empower the users to get their job done more efficiently. Period. You serve the users.
Users "own" the applications, in a logical sense. It's their responsibility and their right to be an integral part of the process in determining how it functions. It's a two way street.
There are some things that each side is correct in putting their foot down and drawing a line in the sand - and this one is firmly owned by the users.
You've just forced the users to change their desktop and the way they interact with their computers because for some personal reason you don't want the icon on your desktop.
Some people make mistakes like this. Of those, some eventually learn. I wish you luck on your journey.
Why do you think Poulson will ship in Q1 of 2012? I don't remember if any Itaniums have shipped on time, but I definitely remember multiple not shipping on time.
Here's a recent refresher: Tukwilla specs released early 2008 which had an initial ship estimate of Q42008, actual ship Q12010
Additionally, if Poulson came out today, it would probably be the fastest processor in the world (4-6x the raw performance of the Itanium 9300 should put it slightly ahead of Power7).
Ok. So you are telling me that today, Power7 is almost 4-6x the raw performance of Itanium 9300? But if we wait until the end of 2012 or early 2013 when Poulson ships, it will be slightly ahead of today's Power7?
Are you trying to help or hurt Itanium with this info?
Surely they would have run test data before letting it go live. Maybe even feed it the actual data and simply not publish its results.
Quote from the project manager:
"Dang. If only we had read Tubal-Cain's post before going live. Who would have thought to run test data through this darn thing?"
It was a 6809e (e=external clock). I learned assembly on that proc, really liked it. Compared to friends on the 6502, it seemed cleaner and a little more powerful with some 16 bit ops.
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The point was regarding OS. Nokia isn't disappearing, they are abandoning their OS, which is what the story and the comments are about.
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I listed Android as one choice because I was thinking in terms of OS, same for the number of players. It's extremely unlikely that we will continue to have so many mobile OS's and Nokia is in a weak position with theirs compared to the competition.
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Nokia isn't leading, Apple and Android are doing very well, RIM still has solid market share and MS is going to fight like hell for WP7. There isn't room for 5 players and even 4 is a stretch. It doesn't matter what happened in the past, Nokia was in a weak position and needed to do something. Bottom line is that the stage is set for the phone OS players and Nokia is not one of them, so they have to change where they fit into the eco-system.
an OS that is definitely in the saturation/decline stage of the product life cycle.
Do you go to Best Buy and complain that they don't sell Beta tapes?
XP=75%. Win7=10%. It's not impractical to write a browser that works properly and runs on XP. I'm using one right now from an organization called "Mozilla", you may have heard of them.
The problem with this sentiment is that it assumes the start date for the OS is how best to measure it's age and relevancy. But it's only been a relatively short time since there has been a reasonable replacement, Win7 (Vista was not).
Critical information has been stolen, for example:
"Jones Residence,
Your power consumption January 2011 was 3.2% higher than January 2010.
The Power Company"
Ok so we should believe you over the actual experts?
This is what the "experts" said about the KNOWN causes:
improperly installed floor mats, sticky pedals, and driver error
What they have not been able to determine is what happened in the documented case of the person that brought his car to the dealership while the engine was pegged (he put it in neutral and back out to limp back to the dealer).
Toyota admits that the person did come in and they were unable to determine why the accelerator was stuck.
You are a little naive if you think a complex situation like this can be put to rest by some "experts" with limited resources. If you look at the rate of acceleration issues with Toyota over the last 10 years compared to other mfg's with similar domestic volume you will find that their rate of logged complaints considerably exceeds all other mfg's.
I swear, people are so dedicated to perpetuating this stupid myth that consumer electronic devices interfere with our brains
Researchers USE external EM fields as a non-invasive method of testing/altering brain function. Whether consumer electronic devices are powerful enough to alter computation in the brain, I don't know if they have studied that or not, but it is well within the realm of possibility.
Here is just one example of many of EM fields used to study human cognition, in this case it impacted morality:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/bending-morality-magnetism
Not all problems map well to current GPU offerings. I have a problem that would benefit from parallel processing but due to a branchy algorithm and very random access for read/write, I can't really take advantage of GPU's to the extent some algorithms can (note: I have coded and run it on GPU's so this is more than just theory, additionally I have coded it to run on a network of computers and unfortunately the calc time vs network transmission time ratio for each cycle is not favorable enough for that to be a very good solution either, best solution is many cores accessing same memory).
For this particular problem, a large number of minimally functional "cpus" or "cores" would be ideal, some basic math, logic and branching. An FPGA is one way to try to achieve something like this.
In ten years of many distant we are having change to different speech by fast comparison and through air will hit mark.
I am work by center and by side and ALL THINGS are using writing to become Arabic and English. Interpret this now that understandable new words are asked for many times.
A slow typist will be bottlenecked by typing speed, so will give things shorter names to improve throughput at the expense of readability. Someone who types quickly thinks very little of writing a few lines of documentation at the start of each function and of providing comments with full sentences explaining why various approaches were chosen.
Really?
Do you seriously believe you can sum up the behavior of 50million coders with this sweeping set of generalizations?
Here's a tip: when you post something so unsubstantiated (and quite likely incorrect), you may want to click the anonymous box.
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Not sure if you are responding to my post or the one you quoted which was the parent, either way, yes legitimate controls are important.
As I said:
"There are some things that each side is correct in putting their foot down and drawing a line in the sand - and this one is firmly owned by the users."
That's how a bad IT department works.
A good IT department realizes the following:
The limits of their own knowledge.
That users are supposed to be part of the process in determining how systems should operate - they are the ones that have to use it day in and day out.
That, unless there is a damn good reason for requiring something, IT's job is to empower the users and then get out of the way so they can bring in revenue for the company.
The point is that, as stupid as it may be, the owner of the machine SHOULD have omnipotent power over what happens, and is or is not allowed.
IT doesn't "own" the computers any more than the users "own" the computer. The company "owns" the computers.
Challenging IT's computer sovereignty is something only upper management has any business doing. Users who attempt to do so should get sanctioned, and rightly so.
Perfect philosophy if your goal is to get outsourced. Seriously, whenever I have an employee that thinks this way I have to educate them. IT's job is to empower the users to get their job done more efficiently. Period. You serve the users.
Users "own" the applications, in a logical sense. It's their responsibility and their right to be an integral part of the process in determining how it functions. It's a two way street.
There are some things that each side is correct in putting their foot down and drawing a line in the sand - and this one is firmly owned by the users.
You've just forced the users to change their desktop and the way they interact with their computers because for some personal reason you don't want the icon on your desktop.
Some people make mistakes like this. Of those, some eventually learn. I wish you luck on your journey.
Why do you think Poulson will ship in Q1 of 2012? I don't remember if any Itaniums have shipped on time, but I definitely remember multiple not shipping on time.
Here's a recent refresher: Tukwilla specs released early 2008 which had an initial ship estimate of Q42008, actual ship Q12010
Additionally, if Poulson came out today, it would probably be the fastest processor in the world (4-6x the raw performance of the Itanium 9300 should put it slightly ahead of Power7).
Ok. So you are telling me that today, Power7 is almost 4-6x the raw performance of Itanium 9300? But if we wait until the end of 2012 or early 2013 when Poulson ships, it will be slightly ahead of today's Power7?
Are you trying to help or hurt Itanium with this info?
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Surely they would have run test data before letting it go live. Maybe even feed it the actual data and simply not publish its results.
Quote from the project manager:
"Dang. If only we had read Tubal-Cain's post before going live. Who would have thought to run test data through this darn thing?"
It was a 6809e (e=external clock). I learned assembly on that proc, really liked it. Compared to friends on the 6502, it seemed cleaner and a little more powerful with some 16 bit ops.
"...with the sunshine shining"
The point was regarding OS. Nokia isn't disappearing, they are abandoning their OS, which is what the story and the comments are about.
I listed Android as one choice because I was thinking in terms of OS, same for the number of players. It's extremely unlikely that we will continue to have so many mobile OS's and Nokia is in a weak position with theirs compared to the competition.
Nokia isn't leading, Apple and Android are doing very well, RIM still has solid market share and MS is going to fight like hell for WP7. There isn't room for 5 players and even 4 is a stretch. It doesn't matter what happened in the past, Nokia was in a weak position and needed to do something. Bottom line is that the stage is set for the phone OS players and Nokia is not one of them, so they have to change where they fit into the eco-system.
an OS that is definitely in the saturation/decline stage of the product life cycle.
Do you go to Best Buy and complain that they don't sell Beta tapes?
XP=75%. Win7=10%. It's not impractical to write a browser that works properly and runs on XP. I'm using one right now from an organization called "Mozilla", you may have heard of them.
Support has to end at some point.
No, it doesn't really.
It might be time to move forward grandpa.
The problem with this sentiment is that it assumes the start date for the OS is how best to measure it's age and relevancy. But it's only been a relatively short time since there has been a reasonable replacement, Win7 (Vista was not).
Their classes are an hour and a half long? When I was in school classes were 50 minutes.
If my calculations are correct, sounds like they are getting 60% more education than you did.
Critical information has been stolen, for example:
"Jones Residence,
Your power consumption January 2011 was 3.2% higher than January 2010.
The Power Company"
Ok so we should believe you over the actual experts?
This is what the "experts" said about the KNOWN causes:
improperly installed floor mats, sticky pedals, and driver error
What they have not been able to determine is what happened in the documented case of the person that brought his car to the dealership while the engine was pegged (he put it in neutral and back out to limp back to the dealer).
Toyota admits that the person did come in and they were unable to determine why the accelerator was stuck.
You are a little naive if you think a complex situation like this can be put to rest by some "experts" with limited resources. If you look at the rate of acceleration issues with Toyota over the last 10 years compared to other mfg's with similar domestic volume you will find that their rate of logged complaints considerably exceeds all other mfg's.
I swear, people are so dedicated to perpetuating this stupid myth that consumer electronic devices interfere with our brains
Researchers USE external EM fields as a non-invasive method of testing/altering brain function. Whether consumer electronic devices are powerful enough to alter computation in the brain, I don't know if they have studied that or not, but it is well within the realm of possibility.
Here is just one example of many of EM fields used to study human cognition, in this case it impacted morality:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/bending-morality-magnetism
proactive isn't supposed to be a word.
Sounds like we better go back to 1930 and keep it from being invented then.
An Itanium link? I didn't know they were still making those.
Not all problems map well to current GPU offerings. I have a problem that would benefit from parallel processing but due to a branchy algorithm and very random access for read/write, I can't really take advantage of GPU's to the extent some algorithms can (note: I have coded and run it on GPU's so this is more than just theory, additionally I have coded it to run on a network of computers and unfortunately the calc time vs network transmission time ratio for each cycle is not favorable enough for that to be a very good solution either, best solution is many cores accessing same memory).
For this particular problem, a large number of minimally functional "cpus" or "cores" would be ideal, some basic math, logic and branching. An FPGA is one way to try to achieve something like this.
In ten years of many distant we are having change to different speech by fast comparison and through air will hit mark.
I am work by center and by side and ALL THINGS are using writing to become Arabic and English. Interpret this now that understandable new words are asked for many times.
A slow typist will be bottlenecked by typing speed, so will give things shorter names to improve throughput at the expense of readability. Someone who types quickly thinks very little of writing a few lines of documentation at the start of each function and of providing comments with full sentences explaining why various approaches were chosen.
Really?
Do you seriously believe you can sum up the behavior of 50million coders with this sweeping set of generalizations?
Here's a tip: when you post something so unsubstantiated (and quite likely incorrect), you may want to click the anonymous box.
That's how we'll bring down Skynet!