making it easy causes you to usually drop features and complexity, and thus you end up with a easy to use system with none of the power and flexibility of the original.
this asshat who pushed the buzzword down everyone's throat..I think we've all dealt with his type. It says IT didn't want to do it (then hints that they're dinosaurs for not grabbing onto this new 'paradigm') then even insinuates the USERS didn't want it, preferring email and 'old-fashioned' methods instead.
Damn, this guy must have been a pain in the ass for everyone involved.
I can bundle wine myself. IF they're going to say 'here's a linux release', it should BE a linux release.
So my answer is, conditionally, yes. They should be writing picasa from scratch. Helping the wine project is a secondary point...I am certain the wine developers would be fine if everyone wrote linux clients/apps and bypassed them, even eliminated them. That's sort've the GOAL.
You..you WANT your CPU to only run signed and trusted code?
Mind you, 'trusted' doesn't mean anything about trusted by YOU.
I pray you are confused and do not actually think discouraging hacking is a good thing.
What the heck do you mean by terminal services? Terminal services are what Citrix provides...if by Windows 'Terminal Services', they are a prereq for installing citrix! Either way, I'm confused by what you mean.
While you are technically correct in that sexual reproduction is only one of a few methods for promoting genetic variability (genetic drift), most species-differentiating evolution has been spurred by the presence of sexually reproducing populations. Thus, when we speak of evolution, we almost invariably refer to sexually transferred evolution.
In this vein, parent poster was correct (genetically). The only remaining viable choice for evolution of the species in this case is natural selection.
people do constrain to/strive to moore's law, though. Companies see no point to drastically outpacing it, because they'd be held to that pace. They can't fail to meet it, either, for more obvious reasons.
Consider the fact that its existence plays a part in the minds of people, regardless of whether or not it actually determines the capability of new processors.
Actually, it is better for security, assuming you aren't caught by something unpatched. Single point of failure? Single point of patching!
Typically you don't run one server for a large environment. We run thirty terminal servers, some of them providing individual apps, some full desktops. No issues!
I think corporations ought to take the stance on piracy that pizza places frequently take with scammers (people lying to get a free pizza): do what pleases your customer, don't make THEM bend over backwards to please you. The resultant good PR and sales will more than make up for the low percentage of scammers.
Of course, the RIAA and MPAA think that, since their sales are on a larger scale, the same percentage of theft counts more, so they're willing to lose customers in the effort to discourage the pirates.
question two: aren't client-side applications inherently less secure? A great deal more work has to go into securing them, and thus there exists more possibilities for an overlooked vulnerability?
This may seem insightful...but it really isn't. If you'd worked in a modern telecommute scenario you'd know that there are good collaborative spaces for distance work. Whiteboarding was available over the internet like, ten years ago. Just about every IM client has a whiteboard built-in now. You want to show a bug? Tell them the file and line number. Or if you really can't, just share your screen! There are about a million ways to do that.
Really, this whole article was bunk. It aims to the corporate ladder, something which has only minimal effect on most coders, systems engineers, administrators, etc. If your boss is going to hand you that promotion to sr., or project lead, or what have you, based on facetime? You're obviously not busy enough, because you've got time to go have 'facetime' with a manager. My manager rarely sees me but he knows what email to hit or what number to call when he needs shit done.
But...companies beat Moore's law all the time. The reason it seems like such a hard-and-fast law is because they typically restrict themselves to it's proposed schedule so as not to shoot themselves in the foot; it would be too hard to compete with everyone releasing everything they develop immediately.
"Tell me about yourself" is not an open invitation to a life story. It's a generic question designed to give a candidate time to speak a little about himself and his work habits, passions, etc. It IS related to the job unless the candidate seriously misunderstands what you're talking about. Though unlike my peers, I won't mock someone and boot them out for making a social faux pas of this sort. He may have only been to a few formal interviews. It happens.
Agreed. It wasn't too many years ago I was in your position.
I think the best route to a good job is formal education. Once you've been rubberstamped showing that you can follow directions, meet deadlines, and juggle multiple tasks, a lot more people are willing to look at you. This is the way to go til you get that foot in the door.
I should note, however, that I didn't do this. I worked restaurants in the dish pit or as a runner until I found a little PC repair shop; the work there led to junior contracting work; that gave me systems experience and contacts, which led to a job as head of the helpdesk where I was able to get even more systems experience, and then a junior sysadmin job, a bit more contracting, and now two jobs as senior engineer. I find that my varied background and my CONSTANT pursuit of new knowledge and skills has put me in good standing with my peers, usually looked up to and sought for advice. Without college, I have broken six figures and worked on mainframes, linux and unix servers, windows servers, AD, everything. So nothing is set in stone.
whew. life story.
You're not up on the piracy scene. I've been downloading true DVD quality movies for a while now. A TiVo is essentially a computer. You can make your own with MythTV. It is more controllable and has better features. The media PC IS TiVo, so, maybe do a little research next time. (:
har, har! seriously, though, I was just commenting about this. Don't use HDDs for archives -- they fail. Use tape, DVD, or some other media-only (i.e. no embedded electronics to fail) device.
I guess I can see how you can miss that.. 1) by one, I meant one of the factors (magnetic platters and electronic controller board) 2) this discussion was aimed at removeable mediums for offsite backups; I suppose you could apply a RAID across and then ship the whole RAID somewhere but it would have to be rebuilt onto your controller when you wanted to do a restore
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making it easy causes you to usually drop features and complexity, and thus you end up with a easy to use system with none of the power and flexibility of the original.
Anyone who rejects a fundamental doctrine of a major faith....
that definition sounds familiar.
Hahah
this asshat who pushed the buzzword down everyone's throat..I think we've all dealt with his type. It says IT didn't want to do it (then hints that they're dinosaurs for not grabbing onto this new 'paradigm') then even insinuates the USERS didn't want it, preferring email and 'old-fashioned' methods instead. Damn, this guy must have been a pain in the ass for everyone involved.
I can bundle wine myself. IF they're going to say 'here's a linux release', it should BE a linux release. So my answer is, conditionally, yes. They should be writing picasa from scratch. Helping the wine project is a secondary point...I am certain the wine developers would be fine if everyone wrote linux clients/apps and bypassed them, even eliminated them. That's sort've the GOAL.
You..you WANT your CPU to only run signed and trusted code? Mind you, 'trusted' doesn't mean anything about trusted by YOU. I pray you are confused and do not actually think discouraging hacking is a good thing.
What the heck do you mean by terminal services? Terminal services are what Citrix provides...if by Windows 'Terminal Services', they are a prereq for installing citrix! Either way, I'm confused by what you mean.
Cisco, amazingly enough, uses windows in their IPTV solution.
You've never logged into Linux, have you?
All modern distros DO set up a closed system, only allowing what you asked to be open.
Haha, living in the city, paying even more to pretend you're not.
I hope you can see the absurdity (:
While you are technically correct in that sexual reproduction is only one of a few methods for promoting genetic variability (genetic drift), most species-differentiating evolution has been spurred by the presence of sexually reproducing populations. Thus, when we speak of evolution, we almost invariably refer to sexually transferred evolution. In this vein, parent poster was correct (genetically). The only remaining viable choice for evolution of the species in this case is natural selection.
I don't see the word legal anywhere in parent. Could it be that...she doesn't care?
I guess I'm the only person on the planet to have enjoyed what Alien3 brought to the mythos.
people do constrain to/strive to moore's law, though. Companies see no point to drastically outpacing it, because they'd be held to that pace. They can't fail to meet it, either, for more obvious reasons. Consider the fact that its existence plays a part in the minds of people, regardless of whether or not it actually determines the capability of new processors.
Pointing out what's wrong makes us pedants?
or is it only pointing out what's wrong in what you deem unimportant topics?
Actually, it is better for security, assuming you aren't caught by something unpatched. Single point of failure? Single point of patching! Typically you don't run one server for a large environment. We run thirty terminal servers, some of them providing individual apps, some full desktops. No issues!
I think corporations ought to take the stance on piracy that pizza places frequently take with scammers (people lying to get a free pizza): do what pleases your customer, don't make THEM bend over backwards to please you. The resultant good PR and sales will more than make up for the low percentage of scammers. Of course, the RIAA and MPAA think that, since their sales are on a larger scale, the same percentage of theft counts more, so they're willing to lose customers in the effort to discourage the pirates.
question one: are you a flash dev?
question two: aren't client-side applications inherently less secure? A great deal more work has to go into securing them, and thus there exists more possibilities for an overlooked vulnerability?
This may seem insightful...but it really isn't. If you'd worked in a modern telecommute scenario you'd know that there are good collaborative spaces for distance work. Whiteboarding was available over the internet like, ten years ago. Just about every IM client has a whiteboard built-in now. You want to show a bug? Tell them the file and line number. Or if you really can't, just share your screen! There are about a million ways to do that.
Really, this whole article was bunk. It aims to the corporate ladder, something which has only minimal effect on most coders, systems engineers, administrators, etc. If your boss is going to hand you that promotion to sr., or project lead, or what have you, based on facetime? You're obviously not busy enough, because you've got time to go have 'facetime' with a manager. My manager rarely sees me but he knows what email to hit or what number to call when he needs shit done.
But...companies beat Moore's law all the time. The reason it seems like such a hard-and-fast law is because they typically restrict themselves to it's proposed schedule so as not to shoot themselves in the foot; it would be too hard to compete with everyone releasing everything they develop immediately.
"Tell me about yourself" is not an open invitation to a life story. It's a generic question designed to give a candidate time to speak a little about himself and his work habits, passions, etc. It IS related to the job unless the candidate seriously misunderstands what you're talking about. Though unlike my peers, I won't mock someone and boot them out for making a social faux pas of this sort. He may have only been to a few formal interviews. It happens.
Agreed. It wasn't too many years ago I was in your position.
I think the best route to a good job is formal education. Once you've been rubberstamped showing that you can follow directions, meet deadlines, and juggle multiple tasks, a lot more people are willing to look at you. This is the way to go til you get that foot in the door.
I should note, however, that I didn't do this. I worked restaurants in the dish pit or as a runner until I found a little PC repair shop; the work there led to junior contracting work; that gave me systems experience and contacts, which led to a job as head of the helpdesk where I was able to get even more systems experience, and then a junior sysadmin job, a bit more contracting, and now two jobs as senior engineer. I find that my varied background and my CONSTANT pursuit of new knowledge and skills has put me in good standing with my peers, usually looked up to and sought for advice. Without college, I have broken six figures and worked on mainframes, linux and unix servers, windows servers, AD, everything. So nothing is set in stone.
whew. life story.
You're not up on the piracy scene. I've been downloading true DVD quality movies for a while now.
A TiVo is essentially a computer. You can make your own with MythTV. It is more controllable and has better features.
The media PC IS TiVo, so, maybe do a little research next time. (:
har, har!
seriously, though, I was just commenting about this. Don't use HDDs for archives -- they fail. Use tape, DVD, or some other media-only (i.e. no embedded electronics to fail) device.
I guess I can see how you can miss that..
1) by one, I meant one of the factors (magnetic platters and electronic controller board)
2) this discussion was aimed at removeable mediums for offsite backups; I suppose you could apply a RAID across and then ship the whole RAID somewhere but it would have to be rebuilt onto your controller when you wanted to do a restore
You do mean 1 byte= 8 bits, yeh?