Where did you get this article? It doesn't make any sense. In the first few sentences it confuses viruses with worms, logic bombs, and trojan horses. In the whole article it doesn't even mention any actual cases of viruses, just theoretical potential vulnerabilities. Unix-based systems aren't completely immune to viruses, but because your apps don't run with superuser access it's *very* hard for them to infect other apps or system code. Who's the one with the FUD now?
From the review, it sounds like the book's missing something critical.
1. The fact that viruses even exist today is a testament to crappy OS Design. OS X and Linux don't even get viruses. And then if you put crappy application design on top of crappy OS design, you get viruses you don't even have to execute, like Outlook and Word macro viruses.
2. Worms and viruses are totally different. Worms attack you from the outside. But the odds of you getting a worm on a patched, up-to-date system that's behind a firewall is practically nil. (see for example, Apple Software Update.)
In other words, in a "sane" world with decent operating systems and applications, viruses and worms wouldn't even exist.
Apple is all about market segmentation, and this way they can keep the PowerMac expensive and exclusive. The problem they're going to run into is that IBM probably isn't going to be delivering faster chips on a regular basis, so the line will likely stagnate over the next year. My guess is that Apple will then have to start the Intel transition at the high-end, not the low end.
Anyway, what I care about are laptops. I was really looking forward to a Powerbook G5, but I'll certainly be happy with a Mac Centrino.
Excuse me - I have to go take out a kidnapping & ransom insurance policy on my Word files and Email folder. By the way, when I heard this story on the radio this morning, they said it was hackers, not a virus, which sounds more plausible. (Well, marginally.)
Also, does anyone think that $200 seems a little cheap? Even a small company would probably value its data at 25x this.
Other browsers based on the Mozilla code, including America Online Inc.'s Netscape, had a 2.2 percent share, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer share was 89 percent, a drop from 95 percent in June.
Is this where safari fits in? I would have thought it would be more than some fraction of 2.2%.
If you want to demonstrate the meaning of tolerance to OSC, you should judge his books by their quality, not by his religious views. To do otherwise would be intolerant yourself.
The business unit? That's like saying the stockholders own the database. The programmers are the only ones who understand how the data in it is used, and the only ones who have the responsibility of keeping the application going. Yet, if they have to make any changes to the database, they have to crawl on their hands and knees and ask the DBAs for permission. It's insane. Give the people who have the responsibility the access they need.
Queues? Workflows? Business logic? Excuse me for thinking that a database should just store data. I guess that makes me a caveman or something.
He didn't mention the biggest problem with databases - it's that the clowns down the hall (the DBAs and sysadmins) own it and you don't. I've seen teams store their data in flat files just because they didn't want to deal with those bozos.
Markoff is a co-author of "Takedown", about how Shimomura captured Mitnick, "the world's most dangerous hacker". He also libeled one of my friends in "Cyberpunk". I wouldn't give this guy a dime in royalties. If he's trying to pretend that he was part of the in-crowd back in the day, then it's a little late now.
when you live at SKYWALKER RANCH.
Anyway, I think Lucas does have a lot of strengths, it's just that coming up with an emotionally compelling story isn't one of them. What if he teamed up with existing sci fi writers and brought their stories to the screen? He would be a great producer, and then he could help find up-and-coming directors and authors.
Six Sigma works great - for certain types of defined, measurable processes. Six Sigma worked great for GE when it wanted to make better jet engines. Not so great when they took it to NBC and tried to use it to make better episodes of Seinfeld. It's one of those cases where when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The big IT consultancies like Forrestor, Meta, gartner, etc are intellectually bankrupt. If you want an example, read the free article off of Forrestor's web page on IT metrics. It's absolutely worthless. Believe it not, it says that you should evaluate your IT department based on a balanced scorecard that is calculated by, among other things, the number of steering commitee meetings you have. Yes, you read that right, the more meetings the better your department is.
These consultancies ran out of ideas a long time ago, and are trying to turn IT ito some Six Sigma pseudo-science. It doesn't work, but idiots still buy into it because it sounds impressive.
Exceptions are better because you can break out of levels and levels of nested functions. With gotos you can only jump within the same routine (or you get stack problems).
If I could find the programmer who wrote this, I'd throw a copy of Bill Gate's "The Road Ahead" at them. Let's see - forums that you can barely read and you can't search. Good one guys. Makes me wish for the return of the dream team that came up with Microsoft Bob.
http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/27528/Rem embering_Microsoft_Bob.html
My friend rents a house that's relatively new (two or three years?). If you check out the street map, you can get to his place, but if you look at the satellite map, all you see is a bulldozer, a port-a-john, and bunch of construction workers standing around scratching themselves. (Ok, slight exaggeration, but yeah, there's nothing there.) It would be nice if google could get these maps more up to date.
These kind of publicity stunts annoy me because they're devoid of any real solutions. Stores need cameras to catch shoplifters and prevent petty crimes. Is Mann advocating that these cameras be removed? No - he's just saying we should be "aware" of all the surveillance. Okay, fine, we're aware, but what's your specific solution? Oh, you don't have one? Then go away.
In countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, & Malaysia (the countries listed in the article, and I've been to three of them), you buy your software for $2 from a guy who burns CDs at the local Internet cafe. Microsoft says this is for the first time user, but it's really for the government and big corps who are actually concerned about whether they follow licensing rules. Microsoft's strategy for developing countries is to go: govt-> multi-national company->local company->middle class individual->everybody. They're still on the govt step.
Internet2 isn't AOL - it's a research consortium with the government, top universities, and companies like Cisco, Nortel, Global Crossing, Microsoft, Qwest, Sun, etc. I think the students are going to be in *big* trouble on this one, and it could mean AUPs for everybody with stiff pentalties. They might even pull out some anti-hacking laws against these students.
1. Find subcontractor who will work for $110/hr.
2. Sub has employees who are making $65/hr.
3. Sell a client $300k worth of software.
4. Charge client $250/hr to install it using the subcontractor.
5. Profit!
So hell yeah, the money's in services, assuming you can find customers dumb enough to pay $250/hr for a websphere guy and $300/hr for his project manager.
This is the phone & cable companies worst nightmare - they spend billions building their networks and somebody can now undercut their costs with $99 wireless access points and antennae. I think Qwest DSL costs $40-50 in Minneapolis - 2x as much. Still, competition is good - maybe phone & cable companies will step up and we'll see the type of residential speeds that they already have in Korea and Japan here in the US in a few years.
You have to match the credential with the career path you want to take. What kind of university do you want to go to afterwards? American Community College? In that case, a GED would be fine. UK/European/Australian University? Go get your A levels. For US some private schools, you may not even need a high school diploma if you have strong SAT scores. Your best bet is to contact the admissions office of the next university you want to go to and see what their requirements are.
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Where did you get this article? It doesn't make any sense. In the first few sentences it confuses viruses with worms, logic bombs, and trojan horses. In the whole article it doesn't even mention any actual cases of viruses, just theoretical potential vulnerabilities. Unix-based systems aren't completely immune to viruses, but because your apps don't run with superuser access it's *very* hard for them to infect other apps or system code. Who's the one with the FUD now?
From the review, it sounds like the book's missing something critical.
1. The fact that viruses even exist today is a testament to crappy OS Design. OS X and Linux don't even get viruses. And then if you put crappy application design on top of crappy OS design, you get viruses you don't even have to execute, like Outlook and Word macro viruses.
2. Worms and viruses are totally different. Worms attack you from the outside. But the odds of you getting a worm on a patched, up-to-date system that's behind a firewall is practically nil. (see for example, Apple Software Update.)
In other words, in a "sane" world with decent operating systems and applications, viruses and worms wouldn't even exist.
Apple is all about market segmentation, and this way they can keep the PowerMac expensive and exclusive. The problem they're going to run into is that IBM probably isn't going to be delivering faster chips on a regular basis, so the line will likely stagnate over the next year. My guess is that Apple will then have to start the Intel transition at the high-end, not the low end.
Anyway, what I care about are laptops. I was really looking forward to a Powerbook G5, but I'll certainly be happy with a Mac Centrino.
Excuse me - I have to go take out a kidnapping & ransom insurance policy on my Word files and Email folder. By the way, when I heard this story on the radio this morning, they said it was hackers, not a virus, which sounds more plausible. (Well, marginally.)
Also, does anyone think that $200 seems a little cheap? Even a small company would probably value its data at 25x this.
If you want to demonstrate the meaning of tolerance to OSC, you should judge his books by their quality, not by his religious views. To do otherwise would be intolerant yourself.
The business unit? That's like saying the stockholders own the database. The programmers are the only ones who understand how the data in it is used, and the only ones who have the responsibility of keeping the application going. Yet, if they have to make any changes to the database, they have to crawl on their hands and knees and ask the DBAs for permission. It's insane. Give the people who have the responsibility the access they need.
Queues? Workflows? Business logic? Excuse me for thinking that a database should just store data. I guess that makes me a caveman or something.
He didn't mention the biggest problem with databases - it's that the clowns down the hall (the DBAs and sysadmins) own it and you don't. I've seen teams store their data in flat files just because they didn't want to deal with those bozos.
Markoff is a co-author of "Takedown", about how Shimomura captured Mitnick, "the world's most dangerous hacker". He also libeled one of my friends in "Cyberpunk". I wouldn't give this guy a dime in royalties. If he's trying to pretend that he was part of the in-crowd back in the day, then it's a little late now.
Gee - how did our predecessors ever accomplish anything without the magic of CMM, RUP, and/or UML.
:-)
"Within 12 months, we will be at 3GHz. Believe me, this architecture has legs." - Steve Jobs, June 23, 20031 00-1042_3-1020015.html
http://news.com.com/Jobs+unveils+new+Power+Macs/2
when you live at SKYWALKER RANCH.
Anyway, I think Lucas does have a lot of strengths, it's just that coming up with an emotionally compelling story isn't one of them. What if he teamed up with existing sci fi writers and brought their stories to the screen? He would be a great producer, and then he could help find up-and-coming directors and authors.
Six Sigma works great - for certain types of defined, measurable processes. Six Sigma worked great for GE when it wanted to make better jet engines. Not so great when they took it to NBC and tried to use it to make better episodes of Seinfeld. It's one of those cases where when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The big IT consultancies like Forrestor, Meta, gartner, etc are intellectually bankrupt. If you want an example, read the free article off of Forrestor's web page on IT metrics. It's absolutely worthless. Believe it not, it says that you should evaluate your IT department based on a balanced scorecard that is calculated by, among other things, the number of steering commitee meetings you have. Yes, you read that right, the more meetings the better your department is.
These consultancies ran out of ideas a long time ago, and are trying to turn IT ito some Six Sigma pseudo-science. It doesn't work, but idiots still buy into it because it sounds impressive.
Exceptions are better because you can break out of levels and levels of nested functions. With gotos you can only jump within the same routine (or you get stack problems).
Thanks scientists! Now that your break's over, you can get back to working on dark matter, wormholes, and cold fusion.
If I could find the programmer who wrote this, I'd throw a copy of Bill Gate's "The Road Ahead" at them. Let's see - forums that you can barely read and you can't search. Good one guys. Makes me wish for the return of the dream team that came up with Microsoft Bob.m embering_Microsoft_Bob.html
http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/27528/Re
Not quite an easter egg, but still pretty cool. Here's the CIA. See you guys in guantanamo. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mclean,va&ll=38.9519 08349990845,-77.14489102363586&spn=0.0068557262420 6543,0.005804300308227539&t=k&hl=en
My friend rents a house that's relatively new (two or three years?). If you check out the street map, you can get to his place, but if you look at the satellite map, all you see is a bulldozer, a port-a-john, and bunch of construction workers standing around scratching themselves. (Ok, slight exaggeration, but yeah, there's nothing there.) It would be nice if google could get these maps more up to date.
These kind of publicity stunts annoy me because they're devoid of any real solutions. Stores need cameras to catch shoplifters and prevent petty crimes. Is Mann advocating that these cameras be removed? No - he's just saying we should be "aware" of all the surveillance. Okay, fine, we're aware, but what's your specific solution? Oh, you don't have one? Then go away.
In countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, & Malaysia (the countries listed in the article, and I've been to three of them), you buy your software for $2 from a guy who burns CDs at the local Internet cafe. Microsoft says this is for the first time user, but it's really for the government and big corps who are actually concerned about whether they follow licensing rules. Microsoft's strategy for developing countries is to go: govt-> multi-national company->local company->middle class individual->everybody. They're still on the govt step.
Internet2 isn't AOL - it's a research consortium with the government, top universities, and companies like Cisco, Nortel, Global Crossing, Microsoft, Qwest, Sun, etc. I think the students are going to be in *big* trouble on this one, and it could mean AUPs for everybody with stiff pentalties. They might even pull out some anti-hacking laws against these students.
1. Find subcontractor who will work for $110/hr.
2. Sub has employees who are making $65/hr.
3. Sell a client $300k worth of software.
4. Charge client $250/hr to install it using the subcontractor.
5. Profit!
So hell yeah, the money's in services, assuming you can find customers dumb enough to pay $250/hr for a websphere guy and $300/hr for his project manager.
This is the phone & cable companies worst nightmare - they spend billions building their networks and somebody can now undercut their costs with $99 wireless access points and antennae. I think Qwest DSL costs $40-50 in Minneapolis - 2x as much. Still, competition is good - maybe phone & cable companies will step up and we'll see the type of residential speeds that they already have in Korea and Japan here in the US in a few years.
You have to match the credential with the career path you want to take. What kind of university do you want to go to afterwards? American Community College? In that case, a GED would be fine. UK/European/Australian University? Go get your A levels. For US some private schools, you may not even need a high school diploma if you have strong SAT scores. Your best bet is to contact the admissions office of the next university you want to go to and see what their requirements are.