The best example is tourism. The current model is to have many "all-included" cheap packages to some resort facility with everything in it so the tourist doesn't have to even venture out of the complex during the whole vacation. LOW PRICE IS KING.
I think that what you are seeing is just the result of how business is conducted these days and how the money is allocated. currently I have the same perception about things where I work and I believe the change came when the company hired several "genius" executives that had degrees in finance, administration and such from reputable universities.
They came with the current trends in economic analisys "pre-programmed" (to be truthful, that is what is being teched at most universities now) and this type of mentality views projects just as a cash-flow problem, so any money spent "doing things properly" is money spent now, not in six months or two years or longer, so the calculate that a project finished early that just needs "tweaking" in a future date is better and cheaper than a project done the way it is supposed to be done (but taking longer). I see things like that every day and have been "bitten" by that kind of analisys in a couple recent projects.
Sorry if this seems like rambling, I tend to explain too much.
If the internet somehow went "dark" or non-functional, many millions of us who live in countries not in US/Canada or Europe/Japan would end up just as uninformed, under-developed and just plain ignorant as we have been in the past. The internet is the one thing that has allowed an incredible amount of knowledge to permeate troughout the whole planet and taken entire countries out of the dark ages.
Because HR is usually the one that is doing the initial interviews or creating the pool of candidates. So, showing what you have done is contingent in passing this initial filter or bypassing it somehow.
- - deleted - - We can be rid of monolithic operating systems if someone can make a system that boots a minimal browser/front-end that connects to the internet. A combination of BIOS and replaceable flash drive. Sell flash drives with the kernel and the drivers for the display/keyboard and network interface.
Isn't this concept more or less what has been called "network computer", "thin client" or some other names for years?
Personally, I think people will always have some concern about storing their data "out there in the cloud" and demand some kind of local backup or something to that effect.
Where I work there are several "bosses" who are too affraid of the "true boss" to actually DO anything, but in the end think the other people in the company are mind-readers that can do work without any clear objectives. The company's objectives are "top secret" and no one can know them, but we all have to work to make them come true!
The "bean counters" and MBAs that run companies do not care at all for the "geek factor", being "3133t" or things like that. They car about the "bottom line", "percentages", "revenue" and such inmaterial things as money. They'd exchange any geek coolness for $20 any day without thinking about it.
True, but it doesn't matter that it is unfair. I'm sorry to have to say that the courts do not see if the law is fair, just that it is upheld. That is the way to many unjust rulings by strict application of ill-conceived laws.
As I can see it, the circle is driven by the capacity of the personal hardware to run the needed applications. When the app outgrows the hardware's power you begin to centralize computing again. Mainframe is just a physical representation of centralization, just as client-server was to a degree and the current VM-centric scheme is.
'scuse me while I try and calm down my hysterical laughter.
(what U smokin'?)
The concept is almost the same. Just switch away custom-made hardware for commodity hardware running clusterized applications and you have a sort of "virtual mainframe" called "cloud" just because it isn't in your datacenter. The final costs can be just as high, it all depends on how good at negotiating agreements the company is.
Try calling to one of the support lines for the current non-mainframe solutions, including *NIX, and you'll see the difference. Mainframe support at that price is top-of-the-line engineers, not some call-center guy reading a script.
It is an unpleasant experience if you are lucky enough to have it all. I live in the US, my relatives are from Latin America, and whether they can get a tourist visa at all is hit-or-miss. And they are all college-educated professionals with perfectly clean records.
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True, I tried hard not to get on the visas theme as it would take us forever. I understand the need to "protect" the country, but the situation is like closing the fron door and windows and letting the back door wide open and with a "welcome" carpet. I have seen it called "security by absurdity". You only have to check Bruce Schneier's blog to read a number of interesting stories about airport "security".
Every entry point takes fingerprints of every visitor who is not a US Citizen or legal US Resident.
Incorreect. there are at least 20 entry points at the northern border that are unmanned and simply have a phone there asking you tell them you are crossing the border.
I think Canada is one of the relaxed requirements countries
If you fly into Canada and then drive to the USA, you can bypass all that crap, hell you can easily enter and leave without anyone knowing you were here in a few places.
True, and it has been that way since no one knows when
Our security is a complete and utter dog and pony show that is 100% worthless in stopping the Evil-guys.
Because those procedures are created more for show than to stop a determined individual; any one interested enough in entering, will. It is that way entering a country as it is about entering a house or whatever. It is more important the "sense of security" than security in itself.
entering the US. Aren't they asking for retinal scans or fingerprints in some places, now?
no. not some places. Every entry point takes fingerprints of every visitor who is not a US Citizen or legal US Resident.
There is also some pain in the ass procedure that people have to do online. 24 hours before they get on the plane.
The US has just totally lost it both on the entry procedures AND airport security. The only place where the airport security is more of a useless pain in the ass is the UK, but it is a close race. The UK and the US seem to be competing with each other on who can make the most worthless security procedures.
They will be including legal residents too soon. As for citizens, they now need a passport and federal photo-id (I can't understand the americans resistance to have a national ID like almost every other country) to travel. The ones that have to do the online procedure 24 hour before arriving are those from countries in the no-visa-needed program (about 10 countries)
They are asking for most countries (except those on the no-visa list) to scan all ten fingers. You can't have any temporary marks on you fingertips (cuts, burns, etc.) so if you get cut befor the day they ares canning you then you have to make another appointment. If there are any permanent marks, they ask for a medical certificate about that.
- - deleted - -But now? Well, I've heard enough horror stories by now from friends and colleagues about entering the USA that, despite me having no criminal convictions whatsoever, I'm afraid it ain't on my "to-do" list any more.
At least you are European,and from the UK (an ally), what about us latin-americans (all tagged as possible illegal aliens) or those of arab regions. It isn't a "pain", it is a very unpleasant experience to be treated as a criminal because of the low percentage that has had a very bad behaviour.
They are just trying not to get sued again by someone that tries to run the product on a PC 5 to 8 years old that barely runs XP well. As for backwards support (or abandoning it) that worked well for Apple.
I agree, the problem is battery capacity vs how dangrous to operate it is. The Voyager spacecrafts use RTG "batteries" that have lasted what, 20+ years? But I wouldn't want one of those near me.
Regarding programming, the current frameworks and techniques for software development encourage one form or another of resource over-consumption, be it memory, cpu cycles or power.
True, specially now that there are so many "search-engine technology experts" (the ones that tell you: "i searched usin --the search engine of your preference-- and it says you can do it easily, you have two hour to give me results"). These were ones "magazine-technologists".
It doesn't matter how he got that information: that's breaking other laws, and there are other punishments for it. Also, he didn't create those bugs, he merely used what was already there.
To complete my analogy: I may be a robber, but I'm not the one whose job it was to build a complete wall in that house.
I think that it has been established long ago that even if the "door" is open, it doen't imply permission to enter. I've seen the same argument regarding "open" WiFi access points.
In the case of "near-enemies", they only need to have a so-called "win-win" situation: you give me the one I want and I'll do this or the other for you...
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How true!
The best example is tourism. The current model is to have many "all-included" cheap packages to some resort facility with everything in it so the tourist doesn't have to even venture out of the complex during the whole vacation. LOW PRICE IS KING.
I think that what you are seeing is just the result of how business is conducted these days and how the money is allocated. currently I have the same perception about things where I work and I believe the change came when the company hired several "genius" executives that had degrees in finance, administration and such from reputable universities.
They came with the current trends in economic analisys "pre-programmed" (to be truthful, that is what is being teched at most universities now) and this type of mentality views projects just as a cash-flow problem, so any money spent "doing things properly" is money spent now, not in six months or two years or longer, so the calculate that a project finished early that just needs "tweaking" in a future date is better and cheaper than a project done the way it is supposed to be done (but taking longer). I see things like that every day and have been "bitten" by that kind of analisys in a couple recent projects.
Sorry if this seems like rambling, I tend to explain too much.
If the internet somehow went "dark" or non-functional, many millions of us who live in countries not in US/Canada or Europe/Japan would end up just as uninformed, under-developed and just plain ignorant as we have been in the past. The internet is the one thing that has allowed an incredible amount of knowledge to permeate troughout the whole planet and taken entire countries out of the dark ages.
Because HR is usually the one that is doing the initial interviews or creating the pool of candidates. So, showing what you have done is contingent in passing this initial filter or bypassing it somehow.
- - deleted - - We can be rid of monolithic operating systems if someone can make a system that boots a minimal browser/front-end that connects to the internet. A combination of BIOS and replaceable flash drive. Sell flash drives with the kernel and the drivers for the display/keyboard and network interface.
Isn't this concept more or less what has been called "network computer", "thin client" or some other names for years?
Personally, I think people will always have some concern about storing their data "out there in the cloud" and demand some kind of local backup or something to that effect.
One of our "thinks is a boss" has only one, but troublesome nonetheless, we have called her "intense"! Sends email about work on sunday night.
Where I work there are several "bosses" who are too affraid of the "true boss" to actually DO anything, but in the end think the other people in the company are mind-readers that can do work without any clear objectives. The company's objectives are "top secret" and no one can know them, but we all have to work to make them come true!
Of course, that's why none of us is "management"!
The "bean counters" and MBAs that run companies do not care at all for the "geek factor", being "3133t" or things like that. They car about the "bottom line", "percentages", "revenue" and such inmaterial things as money. They'd exchange any geek coolness for $20 any day without thinking about it.
True, but it doesn't matter that it is unfair. I'm sorry to have to say that the courts do not see if the law is fair, just that it is upheld. That is the way to many unjust rulings by strict application of ill-conceived laws.
As I can see it, the circle is driven by the capacity of the personal hardware to run the needed applications. When the app outgrows the hardware's power you begin to centralize computing again. Mainframe is just a physical representation of centralization, just as client-server was to a degree and the current VM-centric scheme is.
The Cloud = Mainframe V2.0?
'scuse me while I try and calm down my hysterical laughter.
(what U smokin'?)
The concept is almost the same. Just switch away custom-made hardware for commodity hardware running clusterized applications and you have a sort of "virtual mainframe" called "cloud" just because it isn't in your datacenter. The final costs can be just as high, it all depends on how good at negotiating agreements the company is.
Try calling to one of the support lines for the current non-mainframe solutions, including *NIX, and you'll see the difference. Mainframe support at that price is top-of-the-line engineers, not some call-center guy reading a script.
It is an unpleasant experience if you are lucky enough to have it all. I live in the US, my relatives are from Latin America, and whether they can get a tourist visa at all is hit-or-miss. And they are all college-educated professionals with perfectly clean records.
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True, I tried hard not to get on the visas theme as it would take us forever. I understand the need to "protect" the country, but the situation is like closing the fron door and windows and letting the back door wide open and with a "welcome" carpet. I have seen it called "security by absurdity". You only have to check Bruce Schneier's blog to read a number of interesting stories about airport "security".
- - deleted - -. They're going to end up with an anti-trust suit if they persist.
Not likely, remember they are "cool".
Every entry point takes fingerprints of every visitor who is not a US Citizen or legal US Resident.
Incorreect. there are at least 20 entry points at the northern border that are unmanned and simply have a phone there asking you tell them you are crossing the border.
I think Canada is one of the relaxed requirements countries
If you fly into Canada and then drive to the USA, you can bypass all that crap, hell you can easily enter and leave without anyone knowing you were here in a few places.
True, and it has been that way since no one knows when
Our security is a complete and utter dog and pony show that is 100% worthless in stopping the Evil-guys.
Because those procedures are created more for show than to stop a determined individual; any one interested enough in entering, will. It is that way entering a country as it is about entering a house or whatever. It is more important the "sense of security" than security in itself.
entering the US. Aren't they asking for retinal scans or fingerprints in some places, now? no. not some places. Every entry point takes fingerprints of every visitor who is not a US Citizen or legal US Resident. There is also some pain in the ass procedure that people have to do online. 24 hours before they get on the plane. The US has just totally lost it both on the entry procedures AND airport security. The only place where the airport security is more of a useless pain in the ass is the UK, but it is a close race. The UK and the US seem to be competing with each other on who can make the most worthless security procedures.
They will be including legal residents too soon. As for citizens, they now need a passport and federal photo-id (I can't understand the americans resistance to have a national ID like almost every other country) to travel. The ones that have to do the online procedure 24 hour before arriving are those from countries in the no-visa-needed program (about 10 countries)
They are asking for most countries (except those on the no-visa list) to scan all ten fingers. You can't have any temporary marks on you fingertips (cuts, burns, etc.) so if you get cut befor the day they ares canning you then you have to make another appointment. If there are any permanent marks, they ask for a medical certificate about that.
- - deleted - -But now? Well, I've heard enough horror stories by now from friends and colleagues about entering the USA that, despite me having no criminal convictions whatsoever, I'm afraid it ain't on my "to-do" list any more.
At least you are European,and from the UK (an ally), what about us latin-americans (all tagged as possible illegal aliens) or those of arab regions. It isn't a "pain", it is a very unpleasant experience to be treated as a criminal because of the low percentage that has had a very bad behaviour.
They are just trying not to get sued again by someone that tries to run the product on a PC 5 to 8 years old that barely runs XP well. As for backwards support (or abandoning it) that worked well for Apple.
I agree, the problem is battery capacity vs how dangrous to operate it is. The Voyager spacecrafts use RTG "batteries" that have lasted what, 20+ years? But I wouldn't want one of those near me.
Regarding programming, the current frameworks and techniques for software development encourage one form or another of resource over-consumption, be it memory, cpu cycles or power.
There's just no respect in this industry.
True, specially now that there are so many "search-engine technology experts" (the ones that tell you: "i searched usin --the search engine of your preference-- and it says you can do it easily, you have two hour to give me results"). These were ones "magazine-technologists".
What will they do with people outside the US where the DMCA does not apply?
Get the US government to invade them?
Why invade and have to take charge of the country when they can just pressure your government to do what they want?
It doesn't matter how he got that information: that's breaking other laws, and there are other punishments for it. Also, he didn't create those bugs, he merely used what was already there.
To complete my analogy: I may be a robber, but I'm not the one whose job it was to build a complete wall in that house.
I think that it has been established long ago that even if the "door" is open, it doen't imply permission to enter. I've seen the same argument regarding "open" WiFi access points.
In the case of "near-enemies", they only need to have a so-called "win-win" situation: you give me the one I want and I'll do this or the other for you...