only problem is if you don't do the internal billing from IT you end up with the situation we had before that..
IT is a huge cost.. lets cut/slash/kill......
you end up with companies who think they can slash IT in half and it woln't change any other parts of the company..
if theses areas don't have some realization of the cost of what they are doing IT gets stuck with the cost - and an unjustifiable budget.. if marketing needs another 2k worth of storage they can justify it.. pay IT and we provide it.. else they would use it and we have to justify it?? to whom?? how?? it doesn't work.. it would be nice if it did.. but it doesn't.
on the flip side 30$ per month per GB seems overly high.. we run around 20$ per year per GB - but we are also a small outfit
that would require you get on the Jury - and be able to think for your self.. this is a quality that they try to screen out. they want yes/no's not people who ask why?
Sulfur Carbon Iodine Boron but that would be SCIB not SCiB.. and i couldn't remember what Ci was (turns out it doesn't exist) then i was thinking some damn marketing guy got a hold of it and wanted to shove some apple "i" init...
nope turns out its ALL marketing - might be a revolution in Li ion batteries but not a revolution in energy storage density.
oh i understand - but i also know people who don't even bother..
all i was pointing out (using a bad example) is that that the issue of writing scalable code is a different problem than getting programmers to grasp that any language you use is at it's core (as lqw said)you "must clearly and unambiguously state what you want to have happen"
far too many programmers think they understand that and end up programing for exactly what they want in ideal conditions and never think about running in a wild world.. and you end up with spaghetti code and the crap you have listed.
being able to write scalable code is to me as much an art form as knowledge - the other problem which is more commonly the barrier to quality programing is that people don't realize that have to tell the computer "clearly and unambiguously" what to do.
MOST of the problems I've come across have been people not thinking about error conditions.. they think A = B-C but don't bother to check that B or C is a value that can be used with -. you might see them check one usable value or think that the class with handle it - but they don't honestly think about it. Yes always consider inputs as bad until proven other wise but too many people think that it only applies to user inputs..
don't get me wrong i'm not discounting scalability at all - it's hard and there is no silver bullet and more theories and frameworks and design crap than any one person can think about when trying to do it.
i feel that both apply to all languages and environments.. but they are 2 separate issues to be reviewed and improved.
i'm betting on 5 things - 1-5 most likely to doubt
#1) and and most likely (as it has the highest chance to fail) - MS tries to make it's own hardware for it's Win7 phone OS so that they don't get the bad rap they did with windows mobile on phones that didn't have the hardware to run them
#2) they might be looking into using it for the next xBox - and at that point doing it in-house so they don't have to rely on IBM as they have in the past (them supporting IBM who is also being supported by Sony can make it seem like they are supporting the competition)
#3) they might be looking into using them for their next HPC platform - it is at least 3-5 years out which is a good lead time for them to design and refine a new way of using exiting ARM cores.
4#) maybe they want to design and test extensions to the ARM archt that they don't want to trust a partner with - once they refine them submit them back to ARM (think of it as custom extensions for either Win7/8 Phone OS or xbox OS or HPC OS)
#5) maybe they are rethinking their canning of the courier - and are rather going to embrace it and actually make it with a competitive chance.
I find it odd that in my mind the list 1-5 of most likely to doubt is inverse of what i think would work out best for them.. and would be happy to see them do. Maybe its All of the above and a slice of pie?
i think your missing the humor of what she is saying while in that situation.
I don't understand why people think they have to make everything onto a this person vs that person.. sorry but i didn't mention Obama you did - i didn't mention anyone compared to anyone else.. if you show me something with any other person in a similar situation i will laugh at it.. even if it was me.
wow - i just don't think you have an idea of what is going on here.
this isn't some mass produced USB stick.
in fact the firmware they are infecting on the RAC is just that firmware - akin to the bios on your desktop but different in that some of the RAC's are actually small Linux boxes them selves..
for someone to sneak malware into the firmware of the RAC in a manner that would be useful - this person had to know what they where doing - they had to get it into some build of the firm ware and then either flash them each on their own or into the process and get it to pass QA..
the fact that the malware only effects windows installations on these boxes is a short sightedness of the the person who wrote it. from a hacking stand point.. the value of being able to get custom code to run in the RAC of servers destined for larger companies, its a gold mine.
not going to argue with you on that at all - but the question here i think is.. who big does it have to be?
does it have to be so large that no one wants it near their home? can it be a little more expensive to run but smaller and there for more acceptable and maybe allow more over all capacity to be built?
personally i believe one of the reasons the support infrastructure for a lot of things is so expensive is that there isn't a lot of demand for it to be cheep. Start creating a demand and the people filling it will figure out how to make it cheaper to make money - when money can be made competition happens and we hope prices drop to fair amounts.
If someone said they where going to X school to shoot it up - i would go to the school to stop them
if people where coordinating bombing a subway i would go to the subway to stop them
if i want to speak out about censor ship or have a different view than the current government i don't want them tracking a posting down and throwing me in a dark hole
how would you feel if i was able to call up and get your IP from this post - then call your ISP and get your address, along with usage logs so i can approximate when you will be home.
then i'll just go sit on your door step and say hi and talk to your neighbors that i'm just watching you for suspicious activity because you where online talking about keywords "child pornography & terrorism"
now - does it make a difference if i'm wearing a uniform or not?
what if i was a politician and you happened to say something negative about my campaign?
the point is - that we need an avenue for free speech - we need an avenue to be able to anonymous. do people abuse that? yes they do - should we penalize all of society to a nanny/police state for the few? NO..
I'd do it but i don't want to move to the hell hole next to the bunker.. you would think that something like that would be on the level to allow telecommuting.
as for the gap in the resume - working for uncle Sam normally isn't a bad thing to to have on it - even if you can't talk about what you did.. as long as you can point out what you have experience in and how much.
I say that because i've never applied for a job that didn't have some type of skill based evaluation, and i've never offered someone a job without one.
well it wouldn't be hard for them to port Open Office.. If you can get your users to use Apple's iWork suite over MS office.. you can use Open Office instead..
the Only application that MS Office has over others is Outlook.. and RIM already has an e-mail client.. (personally i can't stand blackberry's mail support but god there are alot of them).
i can think of many ways in which a tablet would be useful - and in many ways i could replace my laptop with one.. BUT they all have it with a fuck load better specs and software than we all know they are going to put in them.
If it was something that is non essential - and there is a rather long dispute - whom do they "license" it from? do they pay NetApp extortion money? maybe adding some validity to it? or do they just ignore the 10% of people using it and say we are going in this direction with no rime or reason (not uncalled for by Apple) and then after the dispute is over and there is a clear victory - they will add it back in as "fully supported" and the new way to go (cover your ears * whisper* isn't at all like the old way)
sorry i can see apple just taking a step back and watching Sun/NetApp go at it..
we have guys flying all the time - and most of them will only fly southwest.. one of the guys would rather, and does, drive 8 hours to a client rather than fly american (the only option for that client's city)
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only problem is if you don't do the internal billing from IT you end up with the situation we had before that..
IT is a huge cost.. lets cut/slash/kill......
you end up with companies who think they can slash IT in half and it woln't change any other parts of the company..
if theses areas don't have some realization of the cost of what they are doing IT gets stuck with the cost - and an unjustifiable budget.. if marketing needs another 2k worth of storage they can justify it .. pay IT and we provide it.. else they would use it and we have to justify it?? to whom?? how?? it doesn't work.. it would be nice if it did .. but it doesn't.
on the flip side 30$ per month per GB seems overly high.. we run around 20$ per year per GB - but we are also a small outfit
that would require you get on the Jury - and be able to think for your self.. this is a quality that they try to screen out. they want yes/no's not people who ask why?
agreed - at first i was wondering how
Sulfur Carbon Iodine Boron but that would be SCIB not SCiB.. and i couldn't remember what Ci was (turns out it doesn't exist) then i was thinking some damn marketing guy got a hold of it and wanted to shove some apple "i" init...
nope turns out its ALL marketing - might be a revolution in Li ion batteries but not a revolution in energy storage density.
oh i understand - but i also know people who don't even bother..
all i was pointing out (using a bad example) is that that the issue of writing scalable code is a different problem than getting programmers to grasp that any language you use is at it's core (as lqw said)you "must clearly and unambiguously state what you want to have happen"
far too many programmers think they understand that and end up programing for exactly what they want in ideal conditions and never think about running in a wild world.. and you end up with spaghetti code and the crap you have listed.
Your addressing 2 problems here.
being able to write scalable code is to me as much an art form as knowledge - the other problem which is more commonly the barrier to quality programing is that people don't realize that have to tell the computer "clearly and unambiguously" what to do.
MOST of the problems I've come across have been people not thinking about error conditions.. they think A = B-C but don't bother to check that B or C is a value that can be used with -. you might see them check one usable value or think that the class with handle it - but they don't honestly think about it. Yes always consider inputs as bad until proven other wise but too many people think that it only applies to user inputs ..
don't get me wrong i'm not discounting scalability at all - it's hard and there is no silver bullet and more theories and frameworks and design crap than any one person can think about when trying to do it.
i feel that both apply to all languages and environments.. but they are 2 separate issues to be reviewed and improved.
i'm betting on 5 things - 1-5 most likely to doubt
#1) and and most likely (as it has the highest chance to fail) - MS tries to make it's own hardware for it's Win7 phone OS so that they don't get the bad rap they did with windows mobile on phones that didn't have the hardware to run them
#2) they might be looking into using it for the next xBox - and at that point doing it in-house so they don't have to rely on IBM as they have in the past (them supporting IBM who is also being supported by Sony can make it seem like they are supporting the competition)
#3) they might be looking into using them for their next HPC platform - it is at least 3-5 years out which is a good lead time for them to design and refine a new way of using exiting ARM cores.
4#) maybe they want to design and test extensions to the ARM archt that they don't want to trust a partner with - once they refine them submit them back to ARM (think of it as custom extensions for either Win7/8 Phone OS or xbox OS or HPC OS)
#5) maybe they are rethinking their canning of the courier - and are rather going to embrace it and actually make it with a competitive chance.
I find it odd that in my mind the list 1-5 of most likely to doubt is inverse of what i think would work out best for them.. and would be happy to see them do. Maybe its All of the above and a slice of pie?
Maybe it just temnology
only one iccid can be active per imei
as for phone numbers you canhave more than one attached to a iccid - you just have to get your provider to assign the number(s)
i think your missing the humor of what she is saying while in that situation.
I don't understand why people think they have to make everything onto a this person vs that person.. sorry but i didn't mention Obama you did - i didn't mention anyone compared to anyone else.. if you show me something with any other person in a similar situation i will laugh at it.. even if it was me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJd_vm9VhpU
was my favorite interview - congrats to the camera man for that shot setup..
wow - i just don't think you have an idea of what is going on here.
this isn't some mass produced USB stick.
in fact the firmware they are infecting on the RAC is just that firmware - akin to the bios on your desktop but different in that some of the RAC's are actually small Linux boxes them selves..
for someone to sneak malware into the firmware of the RAC in a manner that would be useful - this person had to know what they where doing - they had to get it into some build of the firm ware and then either flash them each on their own or into the process and get it to pass QA..
the fact that the malware only effects windows installations on these boxes is a short sightedness of the the person who wrote it. from a hacking stand point.. the value of being able to get custom code to run in the RAC of servers destined for larger companies, its a gold mine.
the Dell RAC cards/built-in can do that + remote console (text+vga+input) and even remote CD mapping.
fun stuff.. always odd to flash the bios on a machine over the net.
basically having software on the RAC is akin to having physical access to the box - and physical access is king.
if your not monitoring them they why have a system in place to pull records on something you don't look at?
this isn't a question of monitoring - this is a question of being able to trace online activity.
not a question of witnessing it either but rather able to go back and look at a person's history.
not going to argue with you on that at all - but the question here i think is.. who big does it have to be?
does it have to be so large that no one wants it near their home? can it be a little more expensive to run but smaller and there for more acceptable and maybe allow more over all capacity to be built?
personally i believe one of the reasons the support infrastructure for a lot of things is so expensive is that there isn't a lot of demand for it to be cheep. Start creating a demand and the people filling it will figure out how to make it cheaper to make money - when money can be made competition happens and we hope prices drop to fair amounts.
it all depends on the fuel and the process.
If someone said they where going to X school to shoot it up - i would go to the school to stop them
if people where coordinating bombing a subway i would go to the subway to stop them
if i want to speak out about censor ship or have a different view than the current government i don't want them tracking a posting down and throwing me in a dark hole
how would you feel if i was able to call up and get your IP from this post - then call your ISP and get your address, along with usage logs so i can approximate when you will be home.
then i'll just go sit on your door step and say hi and talk to your neighbors that i'm just watching you for suspicious activity because you where online talking about keywords "child pornography & terrorism"
now - does it make a difference if i'm wearing a uniform or not?
what if i was a politician and you happened to say something negative about my campaign?
the point is - that we need an avenue for free speech - we need an avenue to be able to anonymous. do people abuse that? yes they do - should we penalize all of society to a nanny/police state for the few? NO..
I'd do it but i don't want to move to the hell hole next to the bunker.. you would think that something like that would be on the level to allow telecommuting.
as for the gap in the resume - working for uncle Sam normally isn't a bad thing to to have on it - even if you can't talk about what you did.. as long as you can point out what you have experience in and how much.
I say that because i've never applied for a job that didn't have some type of skill based evaluation, and i've never offered someone a job without one.
and presentation app suite does RIM have?
well it wouldn't be hard for them to port Open Office.. If you can get your users to use Apple's iWork suite over MS office.. you can use Open Office instead..
the Only application that MS Office has over others is Outlook.. and RIM already has an e-mail client.. (personally i can't stand blackberry's mail support but god there are alot of them).
i can think of many ways in which a tablet would be useful - and in many ways i could replace my laptop with one.. BUT they all have it with a fuck load better specs and software than we all know they are going to put in them.
If it was something that is non essential - and there is a rather long dispute - whom do they "license" it from? do they pay NetApp extortion money? maybe adding some validity to it? or do they just ignore the 10% of people using it and say we are going in this direction with no rime or reason (not uncalled for by Apple) and then after the dispute is over and there is a clear victory - they will add it back in as "fully supported" and the new way to go (cover your ears * whisper* isn't at all like the old way)
sorry i can see apple just taking a step back and watching Sun/NetApp go at it..
i think i just died a little inside..
Scott Adam's removed the Dilbert mission statement generator. :(
well how about a better one..
Amazon
Lowes hardware does - there is a local server in the store that serves as a caching server only if the main trunk fails.
i have 2 resident people who e-mail me constantly to tell me the e-mail is down.. (they send it from gmail)
in reality? they didn't bother connecting the VPN - instead they just closed the popup asking for their password..
i hear from one of them at least every 2 weeks..
more than the government? no
a lot of money? yes
Google has some where between 10-20 billion
MS is ~40 billion
and Apple is catching up with MS.
US government spends ~4.1 billion per DAY above what they earn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_Clock
US government spends ~255 million per day for the war in Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15377059/
isn't it fun.. i think instead of paying my 40k i'm liable for - i'll wait till China comes for it and pay them in lead..
we have guys flying all the time - and most of them will only fly southwest.. one of the guys would rather, and does, drive 8 hours to a client rather than fly american (the only option for that client's city)