Cross operating system compatibility. I can put something (like my tax info) on a true crypt disk on my Mac, and then email it to my mom (an accountant) who can open it on her windows PC.
Which leads to another benefit, my mom is no system administrator, but she can open a file, enter a password, and double click the file within.
Further more, if I want to deal with it - I can put it on my Linux machines.
Finally, if a technician needs to fiddle with the system, I can unmount the drives and let them in with (less) worry about what they may find. (Tend to deal with health care information.) In other words, I can compartmentalize who can see what.
I have worked at two start-ups which succeeded to the point of needing professional management. One failed and the other has shrunk back down (pre-recession) to the management skills of the founder.
"About 21 percent of Silicon Valley’s Class A office space is vacant, as is 20 percent of low-rise so-called flex or research and development space for offices or manufacturing, CB Richard Ellis said."
-- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRGUhtl3yHIM
"Unemployment in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area that includes Silicon Valley was 11.8 percent in November, down from the August record of 12.1 percent, according to California’s Employment Development Department." -- ibid
(Source is from 2010, but I don't think it has changed that much.)
I do hobby and open source stuff, a project here and there when they pay up front. After 20 years of doing some high falutin tech on systems transacting millions of dollars of business per day and gigabytes of data, I have gone back to school for a business degree.
The EFF recently found massive abuse of the system by the FBI, but it's not exactly new news. The ATF lied about the Branch Davidians (saying they were drug runners) in order to get all that nifty heavy military equipment you saw at Waco, but they were never held accountable for their lie.
Timothy McVeigh said the actions on the Branch Davidians was part of the reason he bombed the federal building. So in a way, they were held accountable. And we haven't seen an action like Waco ever since. I am not saying it is right, I'm just pointing it out.
I second this - I have come to find spotlight (Apple OS X's search tool) to be wonderful. It can search through everything - email entries, pdfs, text files, word processing files, etc. (And I am a find . -name "*" -exec grep -Hi searchterm {} \; user.)
Add to that, Apple's file system allows comments and tags to be added as file attributes that spot light searches on.
Perhaps the impetus for IPV6 with encryption. I also believe, the underlying mesh network will require a protocol that TCP/IP runs on top of to answer the (important) questions you put forth.
I'll admit I am inclined towards C++ on these, but one has to admit given the variety of devices out there and potentially the variety of hardware that it could run on, having an abstraction layer like the VM does have it's benefits.
"If your boss is making you work 11 hours a day, it may be a symptom of some other problem the product/approach in the company has. Look for it and find it."
Expanding on this, the OP noted they wanted more features. It takes time to make a mature feature filled product. Best to figure out the features most desired and the "low hanging fruit" features and focus on them.
It sounds like the boss doesn't know the difference between "nice to have" and "need to have." (Among other things like common sense managing people.)
LOL! I have come to realize no matter how insane the proposition is, reality proves to be even insaner!
But let me post this in the internet wylds:
Of course Congress will issue statements of appall and denounce the shooting of Giford - after all, they are in the gun sights. But let me, a voter, one among the many who put Congress into place as our representatives, denounce this shooting, thereby disenfranchising all who put her into Congress to speak for them. -- Scott Auge
Thought Experiment: The length of time one can succeed hitchhiking or riding a bike along an interstate highway before encountering law enforcement.
Thought Experiment: The government says you have no right so one must pay a corporation (bus driver) for the right of movement. Sounds like a fun country to be in.
Until one side or the other is engaging in jewish cook-outs, declaring war on the world, full outright theft from the populace, and leading a populace not to a fear of their rights disappearing, but fear for their very own lives (or fingernails), neither can be compared to the horrors the nazi's perpetrated on the world. I find it ridiculous to compare Dems or Reps, Bush or Obama, to nazis.
It doesn't take a comparison to Nazism to declare something is wrong, unsavory, and of an anti-(fill in the blank) creed.
Sounds like someone needs to offer up some policy documents that are signed by management (in this case required password characteristics). Not all solutions are technical and not all technical solutions are legal.
The best revenge is to become successful. I'll never forget the feeling of driving up to a user group meeting, whom an ex-boss was a participant in, with my new BMW.
The financial guys have been making oodles of money creating nothing but chaos, why not let another industry do so too? I mean, it's the American way these days...
Preach it brother! I left programming and have gone into the business side knocking out another degree (the B.B.A.) I only program for friends now too.
If the dude was offering up stock, the purpose should be for division of dividends - not to try and sell it. Got $10,000 lying around that month? Divide it out as dividends among the stock holders. That is how myself and a couple partners worked it out.
The pay was ALWAYS divided by stock ownership that being the most reliable manner of dividing up the money.
And if the amount of stock offered is measly, walk away... no... run away.
Get rid of cash? I can see no faster way to get the populace to return to gold or silver as a means of exchange. The government can propagate an idea, but that doesn't mean the populace is going to accept it. Just like rubles v dollars in the USSR.
The idea of the government or banks sticking their nose into each and every transaction and getting their bit by regulation is unsettling to me also.
Sometimes I wonder if this phenomenon on the internet is polarizing people. In the common square, one has no choice but to come into contact with differing perspectives on a subject as well the debate on it. However, being able to drive out other ideas and make the site into an echo chamber of ideas seemingly re-enforced over and over might convince some of the correctness of the only argument/position left.
It is interesting how low the subscriber number is for a lot of posts on this subject. Assuming the lower the number, the older the subscriber - generational topics can be identified.
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No malware for my IBM 5120. The old are far to wise for that malarkey!
Cross operating system compatibility. I can put something (like my tax info) on a true crypt disk on my Mac, and then email it to my mom (an accountant) who can open it on her windows PC.
Which leads to another benefit, my mom is no system administrator, but she can open a file, enter a password, and double click the file within.
Further more, if I want to deal with it - I can put it on my Linux machines.
Finally, if a technician needs to fiddle with the system, I can unmount the drives and let them in with (less) worry about what they may find. (Tend to deal with health care information.) In other words, I can compartmentalize who can see what.
I have worked at two start-ups which succeeded to the point of needing professional management. One failed and the other has shrunk back down (pre-recession) to the management skills of the founder.
I think this describes a lot of whats going on:
"About 21 percent of Silicon Valley’s Class A office space is vacant, as is 20 percent of low-rise so-called flex or research and development space for offices or manufacturing, CB Richard Ellis said."
-- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRGUhtl3yHIM
"Unemployment in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area that includes Silicon Valley was 11.8 percent in November, down from the August record of 12.1 percent, according to California’s Employment Development Department."
-- ibid
(Source is from 2010, but I don't think it has changed that much.)
I do hobby and open source stuff, a project here and there when they pay up front. After 20 years of doing some high falutin tech on systems transacting millions of dollars of business per day and gigabytes of data, I have gone back to school for a business degree.
The EFF recently found massive abuse of the system by the FBI, but it's not exactly new news. The ATF lied about the Branch Davidians (saying they were drug runners) in order to get all that nifty heavy military equipment you saw at Waco, but they were never held accountable for their lie.
Timothy McVeigh said the actions on the Branch Davidians was part of the reason he bombed the federal building. So in a way, they were held accountable. And we haven't seen an action like Waco ever since. I am not saying it is right, I'm just pointing it out.
I second this - I have come to find spotlight (Apple OS X's search tool) to be wonderful. It can search through everything - email entries, pdfs, text files, word processing files, etc. (And I am a find . -name "*" -exec grep -Hi searchterm {} \; user.)
Add to that, Apple's file system allows comments and tags to be added as file attributes that spot light searches on.
Perhaps the impetus for IPV6 with encryption. I also believe, the underlying mesh network will require a protocol that TCP/IP runs on top of to answer the (important) questions you put forth.
I'll admit I am inclined towards C++ on these, but one has to admit given the variety of devices out there and potentially the variety of hardware that it could run on, having an abstraction layer like the VM does have it's benefits.
"If your boss is making you work 11 hours a day, it may be a symptom of some other problem the product/approach in the company has. Look for it and find it."
Expanding on this, the OP noted they wanted more features. It takes time to make a mature feature filled product. Best to figure out the features most desired and the "low hanging fruit" features and focus on them.
It sounds like the boss doesn't know the difference between "nice to have" and "need to have." (Among other things like common sense managing people.)
This is a Star Wars joke. All who don't get it should turn in their geek cards.
LOL! I have come to realize no matter how insane the proposition is, reality proves to be even insaner!
But let me post this in the internet wylds:
Of course Congress will issue statements of appall and denounce the shooting of Giford - after all, they are in the gun sights. But let me, a voter, one among the many who put Congress into place as our representatives, denounce this shooting, thereby disenfranchising all who put her into Congress to speak for them. -- Scott Auge
One uses what one can use I guess:
http://news1.capitalbay.com/news/europe_strikes_demonstrator_drives_cement.html
Europe strikes: Demonstrator drives cement truck into gates of Irish parliament
Thought Experiment: The length of time one can succeed hitchhiking or riding a bike along an interstate highway before encountering law enforcement.
Thought Experiment: The government says you have no right so one must pay a corporation (bus driver) for the right of movement. Sounds like a fun country to be in.
I'd rather my restrictions be enumerated than my freedoms. Unfortunately the restriction list seems to be getting longer.
Until one side or the other is engaging in jewish cook-outs, declaring war on the world, full outright theft from the populace, and leading a populace not to a fear of their rights disappearing, but fear for their very own lives (or fingernails), neither can be compared to the horrors the nazi's perpetrated on the world. I find it ridiculous to compare Dems or Reps, Bush or Obama, to nazis.
It doesn't take a comparison to Nazism to declare something is wrong, unsavory, and of an anti-(fill in the blank) creed.
The meaning of terms change. For example, "fast" describing a car in 1910 does not refer to the same speed as "fast" describing a car in 2010.
I post this not as a retort to the parent, but as an observation to the changing meaning of words.
Sounds like someone needs to offer up some policy documents that are signed by management (in this case required password characteristics). Not all solutions are technical and not all technical solutions are legal.
The best revenge is to become successful. I'll never forget the feeling of driving up to a user group meeting, whom an ex-boss was a participant in, with my new BMW.
The financial guys have been making oodles of money creating nothing but chaos, why not let another industry do so too? I mean, it's the American way these days...
Preach it brother! I left programming and have gone into the business side knocking out another degree (the B.B.A.) I only program for friends now too.
If the dude was offering up stock, the purpose should be for division of dividends - not to try and sell it. Got $10,000 lying around that month? Divide it out as dividends among the stock holders. That is how myself and a couple partners worked it out.
The pay was ALWAYS divided by stock ownership that being the most reliable manner of dividing up the money.
And if the amount of stock offered is measly, walk away... no... run away.
Get rid of cash? I can see no faster way to get the populace to return to gold or silver as a means of exchange. The government can propagate an idea, but that doesn't mean the populace is going to accept it. Just like rubles v dollars in the USSR.
The idea of the government or banks sticking their nose into each and every transaction and getting their bit by regulation is unsettling to me also.
If I remember my civics correctly, I don't think the FCC can over-rule Congress.
Sometimes I wonder if this phenomenon on the internet is polarizing people. In the common square, one has no choice but to come into contact with differing perspectives on a subject as well the debate on it. However, being able to drive out other ideas and make the site into an echo chamber of ideas seemingly re-enforced over and over might convince some of the correctness of the only argument/position left.
It is interesting how low the subscriber number is for a lot of posts on this subject. Assuming the lower the number, the older the subscriber - generational topics can be identified.
Just mumbling an observation is all....
Maybe they should write every bill out by hand these days. Might help control the bloat.