and all the orange terror alerts before the last election
Terrorists are opportunists. An election is a great opportunity to grab attention. Look what happened two years ago when a train was blown up in Spain, it changed election results.
OK... you are cynical.
I don't blame you, it's easy to just point fingers and say that what they are doing is wrong. I'd also like to point out that not all terrorists are part of Al Qaieda. Non AQ threats are just as serious as AQ threats, even if they are not as organized. If these people were talking in the park about a plan to rob a bank, and a policeman overheard this, wouldn't you expect them to be arrested?
I think the point is that military contingency plans are just that, contingency plans. The government and military should be trying to come up with all the possible scenarios that could take place and develop plans for what to do then, even if it is a wost case scenario. Should the FBI wait until someone does attack the New York subway before they take any action?
Funniest disk problem I've seen was with 3 1/2" diskette (quite a few years ago). I got a call from someone saying they saved a file to the disk yesterday but now the computer wouldn't take the disk anymore. They clarified it physically wouldn't go into the computer. Confused, I went up to the person's desk, and it turns out they labeled it after saving the file to the disk, and managed to cover up the metal sliding door on the diskette.
I don't understand the "bundling" problem. Linux distributions brag about all the bundled products they include with them. The problem isn't that it's bundled, it's that certain MS products deep link into or even replace OS libraries that competitors don't have access to. You can't expect them to really sell an OS for home or business use that doesn't have a media player, it makes no sense.
Neither do technical recruiters. I can't tell you how many times I've sent a PDF resume to one and they responded explicitly asking for MS Word format.
Actually I live in the great lakes region. (which is sometimes lumped into the midwest depending on who you ask) As long as you're thinking long term, why would you want to put more dependence on the aquifer which is already being depleted faster than it is being restored? It's bad enough that the great lakes states have to use legal means http://uswaternews.com/archives/arcsupply/5negorea c11.html to keep the rest of the nation from exploiting our resources in the name of business. Maybe the great plains people need to think more about protecting and using wisely what water they do have instead of better ways to deplete it all.
Has Bill Gates ever really been a software architect? He is an incredible businessman who's been very successful in a field he saw as up-and-comming. He may have given some high level conepts or ideas to the real architects, but that's like saying "We are going to build a new fire station for the city, the building should be made with bricks and stuff." I think the Chief Architect title he had was probably more ceremonial than practical description of the work he did.
this can certainly help places (like the mid-western states)
That's probably the worst place to use this technology, the mid-west is the farthest point from all the salt water the U.S. borders. Makes more sense in the southwest states.
I'd believe it. From working with IBM's datafeeds for a few years I can tell they have enough problems even getting their own systems to integrate with each other, don't know how they expect to be able to solve everyone else's integration problems. We avoided a simmilar situation, IBM was trying to get us to implement our systems in Websphere, and (with us being a big partner) were willing to give us free hardware and free sofware licenses, but would have required us to spend mutli-million dollars in Global Services consulting.
HP is still big in the corporate and server business, for both x86 and Unix markets. While TFA makes some broad sweeping remarks about HP doing more consumer business than IBM, it doesn't reflect the entire spectrum of HP's product line. Up until 9 months ago I worked for a company that was a distributor/reseller of servers from both companies. Where IBM diferentiates itself is with their army of Global Services consultants. That's where the biggest margins are.
if heat is a problem, I'm sure a couple of P4 heatsink/fans would do the trick. I can heat half my house in the winter with the heat from my hyperthreaded P4 if I left it on all the time.
Everything I've seen about Lenovo the last few months says they lost over $100 million the first quarter of calendar year 2006 and are facing a tough market in China and North America.
I'm not sure how you could turn this particular technology into a weapon.
"Excuse me... sir... Mr. enemy, could you just step into that pool of water over there for a minute?"
This may lead to other areas of research though that could be used as weapons.
"Excuse me... sir... Mr. enemy, would you mind if I attached these electrodes in clay tubes to your skin?"
All these reports of flirting going on, aren't there any modest software companies anymore? I'm not asking them to be prudes, but all this flirting in public just seems like they want attention.
Well, most venture capitalists aren't going to continue to throw money at something without expecting some maturity advances. If these companies are persuing the model where the customer is paying for a service instead of paying for a license to use the software, it's still a good thing right? We're not talking about these companies taking on Microsoft's business model where they charge you 2 or 3 times in licenses to use their software, or software assurance services which don't even cover product upgrades.
I think what the parent post might have been trying to get at, is that not every company will necessarily need these patches even when they are available. If you're not using the products that are outward facing or have the vulnerabilities, and your Oracle database server is secure so that hackers on the internet can't even get to it, then it isn't as high of a priority. I've worked at a number of companies that use Oracle databases but don't use Oracle products for their application server or web interface.
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"What's this layer of Ozone? That was never there before", Prof. Farnsworth
Doesn't the language Beta Candidate scare anyone? Sounds like it's actually still an Alpha version. This isn't a production release candidate.
and all the orange terror alerts before the last election
Terrorists are opportunists. An election is a great opportunity to grab attention. Look what happened two years ago when a train was blown up in Spain, it changed election results.
OK... you are cynical. I don't blame you, it's easy to just point fingers and say that what they are doing is wrong. I'd also like to point out that not all terrorists are part of Al Qaieda. Non AQ threats are just as serious as AQ threats, even if they are not as organized. If these people were talking in the park about a plan to rob a bank, and a policeman overheard this, wouldn't you expect them to be arrested?
I think the point is that military contingency plans are just that, contingency plans. The government and military should be trying to come up with all the possible scenarios that could take place and develop plans for what to do then, even if it is a wost case scenario. Should the FBI wait until someone does attack the New York subway before they take any action?
hey... maybe we should impose the Slashdot effect on all these terrorist websites! Seems like a better idea than constantly taking down news sites.
Funniest disk problem I've seen was with 3 1/2" diskette (quite a few years ago). I got a call from someone saying they saved a file to the disk yesterday but now the computer wouldn't take the disk anymore. They clarified it physically wouldn't go into the computer. Confused, I went up to the person's desk, and it turns out they labeled it after saving the file to the disk, and managed to cover up the metal sliding door on the diskette.
well we could just get some ice from Halley's Comet.
I don't understand the "bundling" problem. Linux distributions brag about all the bundled products they include with them. The problem isn't that it's bundled, it's that certain MS products deep link into or even replace OS libraries that competitors don't have access to. You can't expect them to really sell an OS for home or business use that doesn't have a media player, it makes no sense.
Neither do technical recruiters. I can't tell you how many times I've sent a PDF resume to one and they responded explicitly asking for MS Word format.
Are you volunteering? I'm sure they could send you there right now... can't ensure you'll make it there alive and stay alive very long.
certainly, there are potato chips, corn chips, chocolate chips, ice chips, even banana chips.
Actually I live in the great lakes region. (which is sometimes lumped into the midwest depending on who you ask) As long as you're thinking long term, why would you want to put more dependence on the aquifer which is already being depleted faster than it is being restored? It's bad enough that the great lakes states have to use legal means http://uswaternews.com/archives/arcsupply/5negorea c11.html to keep the rest of the nation from exploiting our resources in the name of business. Maybe the great plains people need to think more about protecting and using wisely what water they do have instead of better ways to deplete it all.
Has Bill Gates ever really been a software architect? He is an incredible businessman who's been very successful in a field he saw as up-and-comming. He may have given some high level conepts or ideas to the real architects, but that's like saying "We are going to build a new fire station for the city, the building should be made with bricks and stuff." I think the Chief Architect title he had was probably more ceremonial than practical description of the work he did.
this can certainly help places (like the mid-western states) That's probably the worst place to use this technology, the mid-west is the farthest point from all the salt water the U.S. borders. Makes more sense in the southwest states.
I'd believe it. From working with IBM's datafeeds for a few years I can tell they have enough problems even getting their own systems to integrate with each other, don't know how they expect to be able to solve everyone else's integration problems. We avoided a simmilar situation, IBM was trying to get us to implement our systems in Websphere, and (with us being a big partner) were willing to give us free hardware and free sofware licenses, but would have required us to spend mutli-million dollars in Global Services consulting.
HP is still big in the corporate and server business, for both x86 and Unix markets. While TFA makes some broad sweeping remarks about HP doing more consumer business than IBM, it doesn't reflect the entire spectrum of HP's product line. Up until 9 months ago I worked for a company that was a distributor/reseller of servers from both companies. Where IBM diferentiates itself is with their army of Global Services consultants. That's where the biggest margins are.
if heat is a problem, I'm sure a couple of P4 heatsink/fans would do the trick. I can heat half my house in the winter with the heat from my hyperthreaded P4 if I left it on all the time.
Everything I've seen about Lenovo the last few months says they lost over $100 million the first quarter of calendar year 2006 and are facing a tough market in China and North America.
I'm not sure how you could turn this particular technology into a weapon. "Excuse me... sir... Mr. enemy, could you just step into that pool of water over there for a minute?" This may lead to other areas of research though that could be used as weapons. "Excuse me... sir... Mr. enemy, would you mind if I attached these electrodes in clay tubes to your skin?"
All these reports of flirting going on, aren't there any modest software companies anymore? I'm not asking them to be prudes, but all this flirting in public just seems like they want attention.
Well, most venture capitalists aren't going to continue to throw money at something without expecting some maturity advances. If these companies are persuing the model where the customer is paying for a service instead of paying for a license to use the software, it's still a good thing right? We're not talking about these companies taking on Microsoft's business model where they charge you 2 or 3 times in licenses to use their software, or software assurance services which don't even cover product upgrades.
But think of all the government censors that will be out of a job once self censoring technologies take hold in more Chineese companies.
I think what the parent post might have been trying to get at, is that not every company will necessarily need these patches even when they are available. If you're not using the products that are outward facing or have the vulnerabilities, and your Oracle database server is secure so that hackers on the internet can't even get to it, then it isn't as high of a priority. I've worked at a number of companies that use Oracle databases but don't use Oracle products for their application server or web interface.
I think it's obvious that after they build this "laser", that they will use it to hold the Earth ransom for 1 Million Dollars!