Sue them and you will lose. It's probably your ISP's fault. Cart your ass over to your local Starbucks (I'd suggest a friend's house, but this/.), connect to Netflix using their non-Qwest ISP (which I assume you use at home based on your tracert log), and run your "test" again. Then think, "Why would Qwest want to interrupt my Netflix viewing?" THEN submit your results as worthy of review.
I'm confused by all the bitching. Here NF is offering a viewer that will work _without_ IE or Windows and people are complaining? Sure the quality is a little worse, but the WMP-based video wasn't much better and I haven't come to expect HD quality when watching streaming yet. I'm just happy I can watch on my Mac.
Or not, it's pretty obvious you aren't actually responsible for a network of any size that people actually have to use and have reliability expectations of.
You're right. I'm not responsible for a network, and my portfolio of applications run on just 8,000 machines. But the data on those machines cannot -- under any circumstances -- be compromised. I'm not talking about the inconvenience of a system-wide outage or a day or two of lost revenue, I'm talking about the inconvenience of the $20B company those 8,000 people work for appearing on the front page of the Wall Street Journal due to a breach. The former might get me fired, but the latter will get them all fired too.
Here is my point: Make a workaround, "pre-patch", or apology available as quickly as possible so that _I_ can make the decision about the risk. We will test your patch in our environment, determine the best course of action for our company, and keep paying you for your product. If I don't test it in my environment and it hobbles my 8,000 machines, then it's my own damn fault for deploying it.
- the consequences of an "oops" that could result from a hasty fix could easily get far worse than the original issue.
Do you really believe that? I appreciate the need for caution and measured risk taking before releasing new code, but taking _weeks_ to test a reg hack/kill switch just tells me that a company isn't taking their defects very seriously. I'd be much more forgiving of a company that screwed up a patch than one that sat on it until it was too late.
Here's another way to do it... dump Adobe's bloated reader (if you can get it uninstalled) and pick up Foxit. I find it much more useful and a lot faster to load.
I could contract with Koolaid to put a reservoir on my land where my water comes in, and I would pay them to provide Koolaid instead of water. Would I keep paying the water company?
I would imagine that the Kool-Aid people would only be interested in supplying you with drums their magically delicious unsweetened mixes so as to reduce their manufacturing and transportation costs. So, yes, you sould still have to pay the water company. Besides, you don't want all your LinuxWorld t-shirts coming out of the wash in shades of red #40.
How does this related to the thread...well, it doesn't really...except that maybe the internets these companies are selling us is really just some sort of unsweetened citric acid mix, that requires you to add sugar and water before it's worth a dime.
In my company (not a software company), people are most likely to be hired (and later let go) because of a new project. Many non-essential projects (i.e. just about everything) die and new ones become more sparse in a down economy. But, if you can show you know "the business" -- the way the company makes money and generates funding for new projects -- you can often provide more value outside of the project become a captain instead of a passenger on the sinking ship. A good goal these days is to be the last man/woman standing in hopes that the economy will pull up before the whole company goes under.
It's hard to do when you're first starting out, but I would be open to taking on non-IT tasks and kissing whatever ass you need in order to get out of the sweatshop. Start lunching with the people who pay the bills for your company and become their IT-bitch if necessary.
Good luck. Glad I'm not looking for a job this week...don't know about what I'll be doing next week.
There was nothing of substance in the video. The guy smashed his drive, Ontrack said it was smashed and couldn't be recovered...but then went on to say, "But we are really good at restoring water damaged drives!"
The whole discussion is made pointless when Ontrack says, "Oh, we can't restore a zero'd drives either."
This one makes the point well...a comparison of the sky as seen from Leamington, UT, (pop. 217) vs. Orem, UT, (pop. ~400,000). I agree that most of the others just seem to confuse the point trying to be made and do little to promote the initative.
Check out NextPage. It tracks the location of documents and their derivatives. Not the same as DRM, but you can send a kill command to them while they are within your domain (not sure about once they are outside).
how many photos of US missile tests have you seen that have or haven't been shopped? If we can't trust them with a simple headshot, then what can we believe?
This is a mountain in the eye of most journalists. Photojournalism is no different that journalism...you shouldn't be allowed to screw around with the facts, as mal-composed and uninteresting as they may be. I see little ethical difference between the adding a flag to an image and adding an extra missile. Post-processing to improve the clarity and visibility of the subject (exposure adjustments, dodge and burning, sharpening, cropping) is not the same as adding and subtracting visual facts.
Ads for the game in Washington DC's subway system were pulled after they upset some touchy travelers
I don't think they actually took the ads down...at least not as of Thursday night when I pointed them out to my kids. They pretty much covered all of Metro center with them. The ads were a mix of scenes from the game and retro-styled "ads" for fallout shelters. Pretty cool and not at all believable...but this is DC, home to some of the biggest whiners in the world, so I'm not surprised that someone complained.
I deal with a lot of b1tchy user in my job and they complain when you give them a new tool, then they complain when you enhance it with the features that 80% of the users said they wanted, then they moan when you try to take it down before 6:00pm PST on a Friday, and fain death when you replace it 10 years later when an easier to use tool. No wonder I'm always angry.
To me, the new facebook is better, iGoogle's canvas and tab placement is an improvement, and Flickr is still perfectly suited for posting my photos.
This all sounds great for a single programmer or small team, but how does this play in today's corporate programming environment? Today you can have teams split up into 3 or 4 time-zones, contractors and perms, outsource coders in India, China, and who knows where else...all working on the same project with their own opinions of what is "best" for the project. Will allowing each to code in their own programming "dialect" really work?
Like the OS, the ad I saw was bloated with themes and disconnected ideas that never seemed to come together to be anything amazing.
Maybe there was going to be an SP1 for the ad that was going to explain it all?
I suspect these people are afraid a few parents would see the Wii symbol and assume it was just another one of Mario's adventures.
In their vision for a perfect world, even "bad parents" (those who live completely disconnected lives from their children) are able to limit their kids' exposure to violent games without thinking about it. Makes sense, but will never work. Since evil is everywhere, I think they'll get better results if they focused their efforts on teaching parents to be better parents.
Damn you! I fell for your trick post about hearing the "high pitched squeal" and went back and listened again. I heard the hiss, but now the song is stuck in my head. ARGHHHH!!!
We learned in War Games that "the only winning move is not to play". Building bigger and better browsers for a 2x2 inch screen isn't going to get anyone rich.
For mobile browsing to work at any level you need speed and content worth browsing. Usability is nice when have lots of features, but how many features do you really need/want in a mobile browser? The focus for now should be on improving speed and making more content mobile-accessible.
Perhaps your regulator friends would like to share some of their requirements as they relate to the mandate that all companies must host their own mail servers? Last I checked they are really good at addressing the penalties for screwing up but rather thin on the "how" to do it.
Your "regulatory reasons" will generally fall into one of the following buckets of worry:
Discovery (to comply with Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure)
In my opinion, outsourcing email presents the same risks as allowing Iron Mountain to store your paper documents and using the argument that "Google might read my mail" is no different than "IronMountain might read my documents." The lawyers seem to have figured the Iron Mountain thing out, so its just a matter of time before outsouring email becomes the norm. But then, IANALE.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and we simply cannot allow another company to have potential access to our email. If Google's network has a meltdown (unlikely, but can anyone say it's impossible?), your mail can't be reached.
I work for a rather hugemongous company (100,000+ employees) with loads of mail servers and highly paid people to feed and water them. My personal Google Apps email has better uptime and more accurate spam filtering.
I don't see any reason to tether your email hosting to your mail hosting. They serve completely separate business purposes and usually involve complete different admins. I've found the bundling of these services by hosts to be more of a headache than anything else.
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Sue them and you will lose. It's probably your ISP's fault. Cart your ass over to your local Starbucks (I'd suggest a friend's house, but this /.), connect to Netflix using their non-Qwest ISP (which I assume you use at home based on your tracert log), and run your "test" again. Then think, "Why would Qwest want to interrupt my Netflix viewing?" THEN submit your results as worthy of review.
I'm confused by all the bitching. Here NF is offering a viewer that will work _without_ IE or Windows and people are complaining? Sure the quality is a little worse, but the WMP-based video wasn't much better and I haven't come to expect HD quality when watching streaming yet. I'm just happy I can watch on my Mac.
Or not, it's pretty obvious you aren't actually responsible for a network of any size that people actually have to use and have reliability expectations of.
You're right. I'm not responsible for a network, and my portfolio of applications run on just 8,000 machines. But the data on those machines cannot -- under any circumstances -- be compromised. I'm not talking about the inconvenience of a system-wide outage or a day or two of lost revenue, I'm talking about the inconvenience of the $20B company those 8,000 people work for appearing on the front page of the Wall Street Journal due to a breach. The former might get me fired, but the latter will get them all fired too.
Here is my point: Make a workaround, "pre-patch", or apology available as quickly as possible so that _I_ can make the decision about the risk. We will test your patch in our environment, determine the best course of action for our company, and keep paying you for your product. If I don't test it in my environment and it hobbles my 8,000 machines, then it's my own damn fault for deploying it.
Sorry if I wasn't clear in my previous comment.
- the consequences of an "oops" that could result from a hasty fix could easily get far worse than the original issue.
Do you really believe that? I appreciate the need for caution and measured risk taking before releasing new code, but taking _weeks_ to test a reg hack/kill switch just tells me that a company isn't taking their defects very seriously. I'd be much more forgiving of a company that screwed up a patch than one that sat on it until it was too late.
Here's another way to do it... dump Adobe's bloated reader (if you can get it uninstalled) and pick up Foxit. I find it much more useful and a lot faster to load.
I could contract with Koolaid to put a reservoir on my land where my water comes in, and I would pay them to provide Koolaid instead of water. Would I keep paying the water company?
I would imagine that the Kool-Aid people would only be interested in supplying you with drums their magically delicious unsweetened mixes so as to reduce their manufacturing and transportation costs. So, yes, you sould still have to pay the water company. Besides, you don't want all your LinuxWorld t-shirts coming out of the wash in shades of red #40.
How does this related to the thread...well, it doesn't really...except that maybe the internets these companies are selling us is really just some sort of unsweetened citric acid mix, that requires you to add sugar and water before it's worth a dime.
In my company (not a software company), people are most likely to be hired (and later let go) because of a new project. Many non-essential projects (i.e. just about everything) die and new ones become more sparse in a down economy. But, if you can show you know "the business" -- the way the company makes money and generates funding for new projects -- you can often provide more value outside of the project become a captain instead of a passenger on the sinking ship. A good goal these days is to be the last man/woman standing in hopes that the economy will pull up before the whole company goes under.
It's hard to do when you're first starting out, but I would be open to taking on non-IT tasks and kissing whatever ass you need in order to get out of the sweatshop. Start lunching with the people who pay the bills for your company and become their IT-bitch if necessary.
Good luck. Glad I'm not looking for a job this week...don't know about what I'll be doing next week.
There was nothing of substance in the video. The guy smashed his drive, Ontrack said it was smashed and couldn't be recovered...but then went on to say, "But we are really good at restoring water damaged drives!"
The whole discussion is made pointless when Ontrack says, "Oh, we can't restore a zero'd drives either."
This one makes the point well...a comparison of the sky as seen from Leamington, UT, (pop. 217) vs. Orem, UT, (pop. ~400,000). I agree that most of the others just seem to confuse the point trying to be made and do little to promote the initative.
Check out NextPage. It tracks the location of documents and their derivatives. Not the same as DRM, but you can send a kill command to them while they are within your domain (not sure about once they are outside).
how many photos of US missile tests have you seen that have or haven't been shopped? If we can't trust them with a simple headshot, then what can we believe?
This is a mountain in the eye of most journalists. Photojournalism is no different that journalism...you shouldn't be allowed to screw around with the facts, as mal-composed and uninteresting as they may be. I see little ethical difference between the adding a flag to an image and adding an extra missile. Post-processing to improve the clarity and visibility of the subject (exposure adjustments, dodge and burning, sharpening, cropping) is not the same as adding and subtracting visual facts.
If the DoD wanted to provide a photo of the general in front of a flag, then they should have submitted a photo of her taken in front of a flag.
Ads for the game in Washington DC's subway system were pulled after they upset some touchy travelers
I don't think they actually took the ads down...at least not as of Thursday night when I pointed them out to my kids. They pretty much covered all of Metro center with them. The ads were a mix of scenes from the game and retro-styled "ads" for fallout shelters. Pretty cool and not at all believable...but this is DC, home to some of the biggest whiners in the world, so I'm not surprised that someone complained.
I deal with a lot of b1tchy user in my job and they complain when you give them a new tool, then they complain when you enhance it with the features that 80% of the users said they wanted, then they moan when you try to take it down before 6:00pm PST on a Friday, and fain death when you replace it 10 years later when an easier to use tool. No wonder I'm always angry.
To me, the new facebook is better, iGoogle's canvas and tab placement is an improvement, and Flickr is still perfectly suited for posting my photos.
This all sounds great for a single programmer or small team, but how does this play in today's corporate programming environment? Today you can have teams split up into 3 or 4 time-zones, contractors and perms, outsource coders in India, China, and who knows where else...all working on the same project with their own opinions of what is "best" for the project. Will allowing each to code in their own programming "dialect" really work?
Like the OS, the ad I saw was bloated with themes and disconnected ideas that never seemed to come together to be anything amazing. Maybe there was going to be an SP1 for the ad that was going to explain it all?
"We, the jury, find the defendant guilty turning the brain of John Doe into a Cheeto(tm) by way of MRI."
I suspect these people are afraid a few parents would see the Wii symbol and assume it was just another one of Mario's adventures.
In their vision for a perfect world, even "bad parents" (those who live completely disconnected lives from their children) are able to limit their kids' exposure to violent games without thinking about it. Makes sense, but will never work. Since evil is everywhere, I think they'll get better results if they focused their efforts on teaching parents to be better parents.
and some awesome fireworks...which is probably of more interest to our current president.
Damn you! I fell for your trick post about hearing the "high pitched squeal" and went back and listened again. I heard the hiss, but now the song is stuck in my head. ARGHHHH!!!
We learned in War Games that "the only winning move is not to play". Building bigger and better browsers for a 2x2 inch screen isn't going to get anyone rich.
For mobile browsing to work at any level you need speed and content worth browsing. Usability is nice when have lots of features, but how many features do you really need/want in a mobile browser? The focus for now should be on improving speed and making more content mobile-accessible.
had to clear my head after that one... found much better version of the song -- sans Prinz.
I thought it was kind of creepy./rimshot
Your "regulatory reasons" will generally fall into one of the following buckets of worry:
- Improper disclosure (for example, IRC 7216 - Penalty for disclosure or
use of tax return information.)
- Retention (i.e., SEC rule 204-2, assuming it applies to email. Questions still exist.),
- Discovery (to comply with Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure)
In my opinion, outsourcing email presents the same risks as allowing Iron Mountain to store your paper documents and using the argument that "Google might read my mail" is no different than "IronMountain might read my documents." The lawyers seem to have figured the Iron Mountain thing out, so its just a matter of time before outsouring email becomes the norm. But then, IANALE.I work for a rather hugemongous company (100,000+ employees) with loads of mail servers and highly paid people to feed and water them. My personal Google Apps email has better uptime and more accurate spam filtering.
I don't see any reason to tether your email hosting to your mail hosting. They serve completely separate business purposes and usually involve complete different admins. I've found the bundling of these services by hosts to be more of a headache than anything else.