I remote into my servers too, but do you really want to drive eight miles away to diagnose a potential hardware issue, or relinquish physical control to a dedicated hardware monkey?
8 miles...really? I drive farther than that on my *daily* commute. God forbid you have to spend the 12 minutes in the car it will take you to get where you are going. Unless you hosted the servers in your basement prior to this move I doubt that it's going to be that much more time on your part to get to the servers.
There is a big problem with their logic. If the internet has taught us anything it's that the harder you try to regulate, or get rid of something, the more likely it is to stick around. Just look up the Streisand Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
For every one hacker they take down, 2 will pop up in their place. Why? Because you are giving them exactly what they want. Hackers operate for 2 main reasons 1.) Because it is a challenge, and 2.) For the prestige earned when they pull off a great hack.
By focusing on them this way you are simply just making the game more exciting for them.
Not that we haven't made some amazing advances, as much as it is more difficult to impress us. Take for example early America, there were no cars, no one was flying. Education was non existent and people basically thought that anything beyond a plow and carriage was impossible.
Now fast forward to today. Flying is commonplace, computers are everywhere, we have been into space. Technology has truly taught us that nothing is impossible. So instead of saying things like "wow soon we will be able to use a contact to monitor a persons health" or "whoa we are experimenting with using nanites" we just simply say why didn't this happen sooner?
Our problem isn't that this stuff isn't amazing, it's that we now KNOW that the sky is the limit. I mean if someone created a teleporter tomorrow we would think that is cool, but not earth shattering.
Whenever I am buying something online, I always research it. I read forums, sites with reviews, and blogs. Typically you will get everything from "this sucks, don't ever buy it, touch it, or think about it again" to "this thing is the best ever, it gave me true happiness!" The truth will lie somewhere between. Do your research, find that gem of truth that is common across all sources.
But then again it is only $5.99
The thing that annoys me is when someone ELSE posts my picture on the internet. It takes a community to keep an individual safe, and the facebook community is quite security inept.
The thing that annoys me is people who seem to think that they have a right to keep a photo from appearing online just because they appear in it. It's not like the person went into your house, pulled out your photo album and uploaded those photos. If you don't want to appear in a photo a person may or may not put online, don't go out in public. It's as simple as that
Maybe this is just me but I think we should stop forcing websites to conform to each and every states individual laws. We should have a standard that each category of site in the US would have to conform to, but not each state. Certain things obviously would be exempt (like you can't ship alcohol to utah, so sites just plain wouldn't list utah in their shipping info). But I find it absolutely ridiculous that if I were able to pass a law here that says all websites must be in klingon, they have to conform to it. WTF?
In the store where I bought a Aspire, the clerk offered a "refurbished" model with XP for a lower price. I asked him if
they were being returned because they were too slow, and he shamefacedly admitted that was the case.
--dave
This doesn't mean that XP is too slow, most likely the machine either has some manufacturer issues, or some hardware fault, or it is just underpowered.
I'm not getting this law. First off, social security isn't some charity program, paid for by other taxpayers. It is money that the citizens/criminals paid into the system and deserve to get back, regardless of what else they have done in life. Besides, are we really doing ourselves a favor by denying ex-cons their own money that they need to survive in their old age?
Furthermore, if it really is about current fugitives, then wouldn't the government love to know a mailing address for these people so they can arrest them, rather than just refusing SS payment?
My opinion on this is this. A felon went to prison and we(the tax payers, and possibly the felon) had to pay to Catch,detain,try, and finally incarcerate the felon. Not to mention that the felon doesn't generate any revenue while in prison. That comes out to a MASSIVE expense ( I would be interested to know the average cost). So why should we pay them SS on top of all that expense? I would be willing to bet that the total cost of all that is either very close to, or more than what they put into SS and taxes in their lifetime.
The way we deal with this is that every computer in the office has a biometric scanner attached. External to the office users may use a traditional strong password to log in.
Actually there is another factor to speed here. It has to do with the layers that must be traversed in a method call. The order, what they do, and how many are traversed are all going to affect speed.
Here is a picture of Apache on Linux serving a web page:
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/images/392_big01.jpg
And The same page being served on Windows in IIS:
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/images/392_big02.jpg
(Link to article: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=392)
As you can see linux is far less complex, and that is also why it is faster in this instance. That also tends to be why people see speed increases by using another OS, such as linux. It's just simply that the OS doesn't have to work as hard.
I had a couple of Microsofties come in to work to present to us about Virtual Earth. They talked a lot about VE's Silverlight integration, but when asked they admitted that only about 35% of desktop users had Silverlight installed. Even if that is not a high estimate, it's pathetic.
Even if you only care about Windows users, Silverlight is not a suitable technology to roll out to end-users. Flash 9+ has something like 98% market penetration.
Pathetic? If your going to make a broad statement like that lets even the playing field. Look at how long silverlight has been out compared to flash. There is a reason that Flash has a 98% market penetration IT'S BEEN OUT LONGER
For how long it has been out it is actually picking up market share relatively quickly. If you want a fair comparison take a look at how many people had flash installed when it had been out as long as silverlight has.
What tech conference are you going to? Based on your statement I am going to guess it has something to do with Apple products. Most of the tech conferences I go to have a blend of people running mac, pc and linux.
The Smart ForTwo weighs over 2.5 times as much (1880 lbs.) in large part to the hardware required to pass those crash tests.
A 700 lb. car is going to get squashed like a bug in a crash with a vast majority of the vehicles on the road.
I wish people would just STOP assuming that the weight of a car is a good representation of how it would do in a crash. What really matters is the materials used to construct the car, the method used to construct the car, and how the car is engineered.
Why do people assume you need a (literal) ton, or more of steel to move a 180lb person safely?
"whether the Wii's audience will persist after the other systems match its casual-gaming capabilities."
i.e. in the next generation. The Wii is so far ahead in this category that it is laughable to think the others will catch up.
You know it's typically companies with a mindset like this that go bankupt...oh about the time the next gen game systems come out.
I mean look at the XBOX marketplace, there has been a surge in good casual games that are coming out there(braid, castle crashers, etc) I really think you underestimate what M$ and Sony are going to do to combat the Wii
When you go up 30K feet in the air meteors are significantly bigger. By the time they actually reach someplace that *may* be inhabited they are often dust. But at 30k feet they are going to bigger (roughly the size of a pea to the size of your fist I would guess). Also at the speed they are traveling, something that small still has a TON of force behind it, more than likely enough to do enough damage to a plane to take it down.
Just because it holds 20% marketshare doesn't mean it doesn't account for a large portion of traffic. Let me break this out for you based on my companies statistics (collected with omniture):
52% IE6
27% IE7
19% Firefox
2% Chrome, Safari, other
Maybe you should stop using a hammer when plugging in a new hard drive?
They should probably also remove the anvil they are hanging off it once it is plugged in...Seriously how can you snap them? If you have that much tension in the cable you are doing something wrong.
While I think that the fact that no one would turn on the phone is ridiculous, you have to be careful about retribution. Because if the penalty is too severe you have pretty much put the fate of the company in the hands of the lowliest peons.
It's not like the CEO took the call and refused. It was most likely some guy making $8/hr and his manager that refused to do it. Sure, fine Verizon because they are still liable for their employee. But if the penalty is too stiff the people on the phones have a VERY good avenue to extort the company.
OK, then what about by a Cylon invasion? (Which of course, would begin with a nuclear strike.) I doubt that our toaster children would have any trouble with Mccafree or Norton products.
In my experience if we did have a Cylon invasion McAfee and Norton may be our ONLY defense. Upload it and watch as they can no longer function
Some advice I might offer as a young student. Most of my friends who are older students tend to be a bit disconnected from the rest of the University. Don't make that mistake: as much as you might think so, you're not a graduate student, even if you're the same age as them, and your academic life does not only revolve around your department. At the very least, you'll have to fill gen ed requirements. More importantly, as an undergraduate, the university has resources that can be very helpful and enriching to your education. Make friends with some (highly motivated) younger students (even outside your dept) who tend to be more aware of these things and can help you get more connected.
You should be focused on your objective. But undergraduate college years are an excellent time to take some risks and go different directions than you may have previously seen yourself going. Do that: universities are breeding grounds for opportunity, and you might be surprised at what doors you might open for yourself by trying something new.
I can't agree with this more. I am 26, I graduated with my CS degree when I was 25. I had several people that were older than me in the program, and in many respects they were the best students. Mainly I think because they truly understand what a degree can do for you, so they were truly motivated to get their degree. They were also almost always my first picks when we did group projects, because they were capable.
As the parent said, don't make the mistake of disconnecting yourself. The people you go to school with will (most likely) be your peers for many years to come.
So my main point is this, don't let the fact that you are going to be a little bit older than the rest get you down. Stay focused, motivated, and learn your stuff. If you do all that, you will be in demand when you graduate.
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I remote into my servers too, but do you really want to drive eight miles away to diagnose a potential hardware issue, or relinquish physical control to a dedicated hardware monkey?
8 miles...really? I drive farther than that on my *daily* commute. God forbid you have to spend the 12 minutes in the car it will take you to get where you are going. Unless you hosted the servers in your basement prior to this move I doubt that it's going to be that much more time on your part to get to the servers.
There is a big problem with their logic. If the internet has taught us anything it's that the harder you try to regulate, or get rid of something, the more likely it is to stick around. Just look up the Streisand Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
For every one hacker they take down, 2 will pop up in their place. Why? Because you are giving them exactly what they want. Hackers operate for 2 main reasons 1.) Because it is a challenge, and 2.) For the prestige earned when they pull off a great hack. By focusing on them this way you are simply just making the game more exciting for them.
Not that we haven't made some amazing advances, as much as it is more difficult to impress us. Take for example early America, there were no cars, no one was flying. Education was non existent and people basically thought that anything beyond a plow and carriage was impossible. Now fast forward to today. Flying is commonplace, computers are everywhere, we have been into space. Technology has truly taught us that nothing is impossible. So instead of saying things like "wow soon we will be able to use a contact to monitor a persons health" or "whoa we are experimenting with using nanites" we just simply say why didn't this happen sooner? Our problem isn't that this stuff isn't amazing, it's that we now KNOW that the sky is the limit. I mean if someone created a teleporter tomorrow we would think that is cool, but not earth shattering.
Whenever I am buying something online, I always research it. I read forums, sites with reviews, and blogs. Typically you will get everything from "this sucks, don't ever buy it, touch it, or think about it again" to "this thing is the best ever, it gave me true happiness!" The truth will lie somewhere between. Do your research, find that gem of truth that is common across all sources. But then again it is only $5.99
The thing that annoys me is when someone ELSE posts my picture on the internet. It takes a community to keep an individual safe, and the facebook community is quite security inept.
The thing that annoys me is people who seem to think that they have a right to keep a photo from appearing online just because they appear in it. It's not like the person went into your house, pulled out your photo album and uploaded those photos. If you don't want to appear in a photo a person may or may not put online, don't go out in public. It's as simple as that
Maybe this is just me but I think we should stop forcing websites to conform to each and every states individual laws. We should have a standard that each category of site in the US would have to conform to, but not each state. Certain things obviously would be exempt (like you can't ship alcohol to utah, so sites just plain wouldn't list utah in their shipping info). But I find it absolutely ridiculous that if I were able to pass a law here that says all websites must be in klingon, they have to conform to it. WTF?
In the store where I bought a Aspire, the clerk offered a "refurbished" model with XP for a lower price. I asked him if they were being returned because they were too slow, and he shamefacedly admitted that was the case.
--dave
This doesn't mean that XP is too slow, most likely the machine either has some manufacturer issues, or some hardware fault, or it is just underpowered.
I am not sure that this many people on slashdot have ever actually RTFA... A momentous day indeed
I'm not getting this law. First off, social security isn't some charity program, paid for by other taxpayers. It is money that the citizens/criminals paid into the system and deserve to get back, regardless of what else they have done in life. Besides, are we really doing ourselves a favor by denying ex-cons their own money that they need to survive in their old age?
Furthermore, if it really is about current fugitives, then wouldn't the government love to know a mailing address for these people so they can arrest them, rather than just refusing SS payment?
My opinion on this is this. A felon went to prison and we(the tax payers, and possibly the felon) had to pay to Catch,detain,try, and finally incarcerate the felon. Not to mention that the felon doesn't generate any revenue while in prison. That comes out to a MASSIVE expense ( I would be interested to know the average cost). So why should we pay them SS on top of all that expense? I would be willing to bet that the total cost of all that is either very close to, or more than what they put into SS and taxes in their lifetime.
http://xkcd.com/538/
The way we deal with this is that every computer in the office has a biometric scanner attached. External to the office users may use a traditional strong password to log in.
http://images.roosterteeth.com/assets/media/9_4a1565e0d4f1f.jpg
Actually there is another factor to speed here. It has to do with the layers that must be traversed in a method call. The order, what they do, and how many are traversed are all going to affect speed.
Here is a picture of Apache on Linux serving a web page: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/images/392_big01.jpg
And The same page being served on Windows in IIS: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/images/392_big02.jpg
(Link to article: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=392)
As you can see linux is far less complex, and that is also why it is faster in this instance. That also tends to be why people see speed increases by using another OS, such as linux. It's just simply that the OS doesn't have to work as hard.
I had a couple of Microsofties come in to work to present to us about Virtual Earth. They talked a lot about VE's Silverlight integration, but when asked they admitted that only about 35% of desktop users had Silverlight installed. Even if that is not a high estimate, it's pathetic.
Even if you only care about Windows users, Silverlight is not a suitable technology to roll out to end-users. Flash 9+ has something like 98% market penetration.
Pathetic? If your going to make a broad statement like that lets even the playing field. Look at how long silverlight has been out compared to flash. There is a reason that Flash has a 98% market penetration IT'S BEEN OUT LONGER For how long it has been out it is actually picking up market share relatively quickly. If you want a fair comparison take a look at how many people had flash installed when it had been out as long as silverlight has.
What tech conference are you going to? Based on your statement I am going to guess it has something to do with Apple products. Most of the tech conferences I go to have a blend of people running mac, pc and linux.
The Smart ForTwo weighs over 2.5 times as much (1880 lbs.) in large part to the hardware required to pass those crash tests.
A 700 lb. car is going to get squashed like a bug in a crash with a vast majority of the vehicles on the road.
I wish people would just STOP assuming that the weight of a car is a good representation of how it would do in a crash. What really matters is the materials used to construct the car, the method used to construct the car, and how the car is engineered. Why do people assume you need a (literal) ton, or more of steel to move a 180lb person safely?
The only way to get the masses to switch is to force it upon them. Hence the continuing popularity of Windows XP.
And IE6, Herpes of the internet
"whether the Wii's audience will persist after the other systems match its casual-gaming capabilities."
i.e. in the next generation. The Wii is so far ahead in this category that it is laughable to think the others will catch up.
You know it's typically companies with a mindset like this that go bankupt...oh about the time the next gen game systems come out. I mean look at the XBOX marketplace, there has been a surge in good casual games that are coming out there(braid, castle crashers, etc) I really think you underestimate what M$ and Sony are going to do to combat the Wii
When you go up 30K feet in the air meteors are significantly bigger. By the time they actually reach someplace that *may* be inhabited they are often dust. But at 30k feet they are going to bigger (roughly the size of a pea to the size of your fist I would guess). Also at the speed they are traveling, something that small still has a TON of force behind it, more than likely enough to do enough damage to a plane to take it down.
Just because it holds 20% marketshare doesn't mean it doesn't account for a large portion of traffic. Let me break this out for you based on my companies statistics (collected with omniture): 52% IE6 27% IE7 19% Firefox 2% Chrome, Safari, other
Maybe you should stop using a hammer when plugging in a new hard drive?
They should probably also remove the anvil they are hanging off it once it is plugged in...Seriously how can you snap them? If you have that much tension in the cable you are doing something wrong.
While I think that the fact that no one would turn on the phone is ridiculous, you have to be careful about retribution. Because if the penalty is too severe you have pretty much put the fate of the company in the hands of the lowliest peons. It's not like the CEO took the call and refused. It was most likely some guy making $8 /hr and his manager that refused to do it. Sure, fine Verizon because they are still liable for their employee. But if the penalty is too stiff the people on the phones have a VERY good avenue to extort the company.
You sir have obviously never seen Beverly Hills Ninja.
OK, then what about by a Cylon invasion? (Which of course, would begin with a nuclear strike.) I doubt that our toaster children would have any trouble with Mccafree or Norton products.
In my experience if we did have a Cylon invasion McAfee and Norton may be our ONLY defense. Upload it and watch as they can no longer function
Some advice I might offer as a young student. Most of my friends who are older students tend to be a bit disconnected from the rest of the University. Don't make that mistake: as much as you might think so, you're not a graduate student, even if you're the same age as them, and your academic life does not only revolve around your department. At the very least, you'll have to fill gen ed requirements. More importantly, as an undergraduate, the university has resources that can be very helpful and enriching to your education. Make friends with some (highly motivated) younger students (even outside your dept) who tend to be more aware of these things and can help you get more connected.
You should be focused on your objective. But undergraduate college years are an excellent time to take some risks and go different directions than you may have previously seen yourself going. Do that: universities are breeding grounds for opportunity, and you might be surprised at what doors you might open for yourself by trying something new.
I can't agree with this more. I am 26, I graduated with my CS degree when I was 25. I had several people that were older than me in the program, and in many respects they were the best students. Mainly I think because they truly understand what a degree can do for you, so they were truly motivated to get their degree. They were also almost always my first picks when we did group projects, because they were capable. As the parent said, don't make the mistake of disconnecting yourself. The people you go to school with will (most likely) be your peers for many years to come. So my main point is this, don't let the fact that you are going to be a little bit older than the rest get you down. Stay focused, motivated, and learn your stuff. If you do all that, you will be in demand when you graduate.