It sounds like "Introductory Computer Science" should be renamed to "Introductory Google". Do you still make your students sit through a lecture on Charles Babbage and Ada Byron?
So...
I'll pull rank back - my degree *is* in aeronautical engineering. Lift is generated by an airfoil by the pressure differential between the upper and lower surfaces of the wing. The pressure differential is caused by the higher velocity of the air molecules over the curved upper surface of the wing as compared to the lower surface. A symmetrical, uncambered airfoil at zero angle of attack generates *zero* lift because the velocity above & below the wing (and therefore the pressures) are identical. That relationship between mass flow and pressure differential *is* the Bernoulli principle. Now, a pressure differential does result in a net force - that's the lift being generated. There is also a downward deflection of the airflow that results from a airfoil when it is cambered or at a positive angle of attack. However, "downwash" is exactly what the other poster described - it is the result of air spilling from the upper to the lower surface at the tip of the wing causing a vortex at each wingtip. The wingtip vortices create the "downwash" effect that causes problems for airplanes that fly too closely behind large planes.
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/downwash.html
Imagine how funny it will be up in first class with every single one of those ego-maniacal twits all on their phones at the same time, all thinking they are the most important person on the plane, and all being pissed-off that everyone else in first class is on the phone too. The airlines could pipe video of the first class free-for-all to the coach passengers as entertainment.
People soft is *currently* a Tuxedo app AND it was bundled with Weblogic & Websphere app servers.
Dude - wake-up and smell the acquisitions. You competed and won against Oracle in a different marketplace - when budgets were high, best-of-breed made sense and having PeopleSoft ERP + Oracle DBMS + BEA middleware was the smart play. Fast forward to Peoplesoft v9+ and beyond that to Oracle Fusion. Oracle has already said that PS will be certified on Oracle middleware - do you really think Oracle would continue being dependent on BEA if they don't own BEA?
My budgets are tighter than ever before, and I'm tired of the constant need to figure out which vendor is causing me today's heartburn. I want *one* throat to choke - and I want my budget dollars to go farther. If I can negotiate an enterprise deal for ERP, CRM, DBMS, Middleware AND OS support - a 3rd party better be willing to bend over backwards to have a chance of competing. BEA doesn't have a clue how to play in that game.
This is the first time BEA has seen $18/share since 2002 - they should look at any offer in this range as a gift from the gods. I remember talking to BEA sales reps back in 1999-2000, and man they were arrogant pricks! They were absolutely positive that you needed them waaaay worse than they needed you. Based on their latest moves, I'm not sure they've learned anything since then...
When Larry snagged PeopleSoft, they hurt BEA very badly - there are lots of PeopleSoft instances out there running under Weblogic, and if everyone else is like us, there is also a project in the queue to dump BEA and switch to the Oracle App Server on the next upgrade. Heck, why not? Why would I bother keeping a 3rd party app server in the mix when my ERP & DBMS are both Oracle, and Oracle can offer me OAS as part of a packaged deal? Combine that with the trend that intranet/extranet portal servers (like Plumtree/Aqualogic) are dead - either replaced by good web development/CMS or open source-based platforms - and IMHO BEA is in very deep dog doo.
Hey! That chick on Space 1999 with the funky sideburns was pretty hot. Anyway, IMHO this doesn't change my contention that no matter who you consider - Heinlein, Asimov, Clark, Bova, Campbell, Gibson, etc - we continue to underperformed the expectations of every one of them. I'm blaming us - not the SF writers. We have made great strides in only very narrow areas of spaceflight. Overall, we have sucked out loud.
The one thing that has remained constant over the last 50 years has been the complete overestimation of how fast our space technology would advance by futurists and science fiction authors. Anyone remember the television show "Space 1999"? How we doing on that lunar colony? However, it really doesn't matter, we won't make it past 2012... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012
...As a manager, I believe my #1 job is to protect my employees from the shit that tries to interfere with their ability to get the job done. The more I can allow them to focus on their goals, the more successful we are. Whether it's keeping the CFO out of our weekly status meetings, or keeping the end users from calling my best developers when they can't remember their passwords - it's my job to remove roadblocks (competing projects, lack of funds, stupid requirements, etc) and to give them the focused time they need to solve the problem and deliver the solution.
IMHO one of the worst mistakes an organization can do is expect someone to be a technical contributor AND a manager. The technical contributor needs to be allowed to focus on the problem and the solution. How many times have you been deep into a coding session, and then had all the threads in your brain flushed because some dickhead stops by your office to ask about some other project? Most of my day is filled with switching from one topic to another - either by phone, email or in meetings. I'm lucky to get 30 consecutive minutes out of a 10 hour day devoted to a single topic. That's my job - field and filter all that crap into a consistent plan that allows my people to actually do the work. If they need to depend on me to hit a specific delivery date with my own contribution - they are in deep shit!
ASP/SAAS misses a huge issue for corporations - the difference between Operating Expenses & Capital Expenses. When I buy a server, a chunk of software & some professional services to implement it, I can capitalize the entire project - including my internal headcount that were devoted to the project. With an ASP or SAAS, the cost goes directly against my G&A operating expenses. The bottom line is whether the annual depreciation expense is greater or less than the ASP/SAAS annual cost. Since in many organizations the Capital budgeting is essentially separate from the G&A budgeting, and depreciation is often not included in the "real" operating expenses for IT, you often get much less push back from the CFO when you propose a Capital project. Put a big monthly expense in your G&A budget for an ASP or SAAS, and they will question it every year.
I don't need to check emails when I get to the office - I have a blackberry and I have replied to all the overnight emails while I was at home taking my morning crap. I listened to my voicemails during my hour long commute, and I probably also participated in at least one conference call with someone in a different time zone. By the time I get into my office at ~8:30, I've done almost 2 hours worth of work. My first useless status meeting usually starts at 9, so that's just enough enough time to walk around and greet all the troops, do a little sucking up to my boss and his admin, get a fresh cup and trek to the conference room. With any luck, I'll have an hour or two between meetings sometime during the day or after 5 PM to get some "real work" (meaning shit passed down to me from above) done. On the hour commute back home, I probably reply to a couple of emails - while doing 75+ on the freeway. Once I get home I typically put in another 2-3 hours on my laptop before the Lunesta kicks in. Wake up and repeat until dead...
If you bind-up all the glucose, then hypoglycemia could result, causing confusion, blackouts or seizures. Managing diabetes is not just about eliminating glucose, it is about balancing many variables - glucose, insulin, exercise, stress, hormones, illness, etc, etc. If one variable goes out of balance, you can get either hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia.
Good luck to Dell - I predict the support costs are going to kill them. Just wait until the calls start coming in because the bought-it-cause-it-was-cheaper dorks can't get Turbotax or the $29 Typing tutor they bought at Costco to install. It's a lose-lose - if they actually sell to the mainstream, the support costs will be huge, OR they'll only sell to the wannabe geeks and a few small-shop IT managers. In the long-run I doubt it moves the needle on the M$ market share.
Answer method #1:
1) Google for the answer.
2) Google for the answer, right mouse-click, view source, ctrl-C.
3) See #2.
Oh, you can't find the answers by googling? You could if you hired me...
Answer method #2:
My rates are $300/hour, I'll send you a SOW.
Someone is going to make a lot of money. Set-up a VM service outside the AU and let users remote in and run P2P clients within the VM. The users bring down the files from the VM directly to their home PCs via encrypted methods - even something as simple as sftp would work. There's no files stored on the ISP inside the AU, no way for the ISP (or anyone else inside the AU) to know what's in the encrypted traffic stream.
Do you understand the difference between Type 1 & Type 2 diabetes? I do not consider needing to give insulin shots 4 times per day to my 21 month old daughter "manageable". She is now 9 and wearing an insulin pump, which means we change her infusion set (a fairly large needle inserted under the skin on her stomach or back) every three days. Type 1 diabetes cannot be managed by diet, exercise & pills!!!
Frequency Hopping AKA Spread-spectrum communications is also the basis for the GPS satellite signals, and nearly every other form of RF data communications used in the last 25 years.
...all we have to do is export all the technology illiterate elementary, middle & high school teachers in the USA. Any credentialed teacher in the US that can't send email should immediately be put on a plane for Bangalore or Taipei. Within one generation, the rest of the world will be just as lazy & technically illiterate as we are...
Wow, I'm jealous of all you guys that had floppy drives on your Commodores. I only had the cassette tape recorder!
I had a VIC-20, then a C-64 (and used various others: Sinclair, TI99/4A, TRS-80 Model III) before moving to the dark side (early PC Clone: EaglePC). I worked with a guy that bought the first version of the Amiga - we ran Fortran-77 on it.
As opposed to RHAT who just tells me it's the app's fault, or that it's fixed in the next release which isn't yet certified for my apps.
Larry is one cold bastard - I really think this accomplishes 2 goals: 1) It targets RHAT right between the eyes, and 2) It gives a very clear warning to every other company in the world what happens if Larry gets pissed.
If Larry does end up trying to buy RHAT, I wonder what the SEC will think. Has there been another recent case where a huge public company so blatantly focused on taking down another public company? This is pretty wild no-limit hold'em these guys are playing.
We aren't a full linux shop - we are a typical midmarket corp IT shop - running Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle DBMS, Oracle App Server, along with a variety of apps backed by either Oracle DBMS or SQLServer. Our infrastructure is a mix of RH linux and MS 2003 Server. All the Oracle products are on RH linux, and we have been paying Oracle and RH for support.
So, now Larry is telling me I can stop paying RH for support, and I can pay Oracle. My cost will be about 1/3 what I'm paying now to RH. When I call for support on one of my Oracle apps, I don't have to worry about whether it is a bug in the app, the DBMS or the OS - the support call is the same and they need to help me figure it out.
Where's the downside for me? If you aren't currently an Oracle customer - fine, keep paying RHAT for support. If you are an Oracle customer, it's a no-brainer.
Type 1 Diabetes, also known as Juvenile-Onset Diabetes currently has no cure, and stem cell research is currently the best hope. Testing blood glucose levels through finger sticks and taking insulin through multiple shots per day or an insulin pump is a poor treatment - with many long-term side effects and the chance EVERYDAY of having a low-blood glucose episode that may cause lose of consciousness and/or seizures. 1 in 600 kids worldwide develop Type 1 Diabetes and they did NOTHING to cause it - which means the incidence is MUCH higher than AIDS. Stop listening to the christian right and start reading actual medical & scientific journals.
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It sounds like "Introductory Computer Science" should be renamed to "Introductory Google". Do you still make your students sit through a lecture on Charles Babbage and Ada Byron?
So... I'll pull rank back - my degree *is* in aeronautical engineering. Lift is generated by an airfoil by the pressure differential between the upper and lower surfaces of the wing. The pressure differential is caused by the higher velocity of the air molecules over the curved upper surface of the wing as compared to the lower surface. A symmetrical, uncambered airfoil at zero angle of attack generates *zero* lift because the velocity above & below the wing (and therefore the pressures) are identical. That relationship between mass flow and pressure differential *is* the Bernoulli principle. Now, a pressure differential does result in a net force - that's the lift being generated. There is also a downward deflection of the airflow that results from a airfoil when it is cambered or at a positive angle of attack. However, "downwash" is exactly what the other poster described - it is the result of air spilling from the upper to the lower surface at the tip of the wing causing a vortex at each wingtip. The wingtip vortices create the "downwash" effect that causes problems for airplanes that fly too closely behind large planes. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/downwash.html
Imagine how funny it will be up in first class with every single one of those ego-maniacal twits all on their phones at the same time, all thinking they are the most important person on the plane, and all being pissed-off that everyone else in first class is on the phone too. The airlines could pipe video of the first class free-for-all to the coach passengers as entertainment.
People soft is *currently* a Tuxedo app AND it was bundled with Weblogic & Websphere app servers.
Dude - wake-up and smell the acquisitions. You competed and won against Oracle in a different marketplace - when budgets were high, best-of-breed made sense and having PeopleSoft ERP + Oracle DBMS + BEA middleware was the smart play. Fast forward to Peoplesoft v9+ and beyond that to Oracle Fusion. Oracle has already said that PS will be certified on Oracle middleware - do you really think Oracle would continue being dependent on BEA if they don't own BEA?
My budgets are tighter than ever before, and I'm tired of the constant need to figure out which vendor is causing me today's heartburn. I want *one* throat to choke - and I want my budget dollars to go farther. If I can negotiate an enterprise deal for ERP, CRM, DBMS, Middleware AND OS support - a 3rd party better be willing to bend over backwards to have a chance of competing. BEA doesn't have a clue how to play in that game.
This is the first time BEA has seen $18/share since 2002 - they should look at any offer in this range as a gift from the gods. I remember talking to BEA sales reps back in 1999-2000, and man they were arrogant pricks! They were absolutely positive that you needed them waaaay worse than they needed you. Based on their latest moves, I'm not sure they've learned anything since then...
When Larry snagged PeopleSoft, they hurt BEA very badly - there are lots of PeopleSoft instances out there running under Weblogic, and if everyone else is like us, there is also a project in the queue to dump BEA and switch to the Oracle App Server on the next upgrade. Heck, why not? Why would I bother keeping a 3rd party app server in the mix when my ERP & DBMS are both Oracle, and Oracle can offer me OAS as part of a packaged deal? Combine that with the trend that intranet/extranet portal servers (like Plumtree/Aqualogic) are dead - either replaced by good web development/CMS or open source-based platforms - and IMHO BEA is in very deep dog doo.
Maybe their secret plan is to resurrect CORBA...
Hey! That chick on Space 1999 with the funky sideburns was pretty hot. Anyway, IMHO this doesn't change my contention that no matter who you consider - Heinlein, Asimov, Clark, Bova, Campbell, Gibson, etc - we continue to underperformed the expectations of every one of them. I'm blaming us - not the SF writers. We have made great strides in only very narrow areas of spaceflight. Overall, we have sucked out loud.
The one thing that has remained constant over the last 50 years has been the complete overestimation of how fast our space technology would advance by futurists and science fiction authors. Anyone remember the television show "Space 1999"? How we doing on that lunar colony? However, it really doesn't matter, we won't make it past 2012... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012
...As a manager, I believe my #1 job is to protect my employees from the shit that tries to interfere with their ability to get the job done. The more I can allow them to focus on their goals, the more successful we are. Whether it's keeping the CFO out of our weekly status meetings, or keeping the end users from calling my best developers when they can't remember their passwords - it's my job to remove roadblocks (competing projects, lack of funds, stupid requirements, etc) and to give them the focused time they need to solve the problem and deliver the solution.
IMHO one of the worst mistakes an organization can do is expect someone to be a technical contributor AND a manager. The technical contributor needs to be allowed to focus on the problem and the solution. How many times have you been deep into a coding session, and then had all the threads in your brain flushed because some dickhead stops by your office to ask about some other project? Most of my day is filled with switching from one topic to another - either by phone, email or in meetings. I'm lucky to get 30 consecutive minutes out of a 10 hour day devoted to a single topic. That's my job - field and filter all that crap into a consistent plan that allows my people to actually do the work. If they need to depend on me to hit a specific delivery date with my own contribution - they are in deep shit!
ASP/SAAS misses a huge issue for corporations - the difference between Operating Expenses & Capital Expenses. When I buy a server, a chunk of software & some professional services to implement it, I can capitalize the entire project - including my internal headcount that were devoted to the project. With an ASP or SAAS, the cost goes directly against my G&A operating expenses. The bottom line is whether the annual depreciation expense is greater or less than the ASP/SAAS annual cost. Since in many organizations the Capital budgeting is essentially separate from the G&A budgeting, and depreciation is often not included in the "real" operating expenses for IT, you often get much less push back from the CFO when you propose a Capital project. Put a big monthly expense in your G&A budget for an ASP or SAAS, and they will question it every year.
I don't need to check emails when I get to the office - I have a blackberry and I have replied to all the overnight emails while I was at home taking my morning crap. I listened to my voicemails during my hour long commute, and I probably also participated in at least one conference call with someone in a different time zone. By the time I get into my office at ~8:30, I've done almost 2 hours worth of work. My first useless status meeting usually starts at 9, so that's just enough enough time to walk around and greet all the troops, do a little sucking up to my boss and his admin, get a fresh cup and trek to the conference room. With any luck, I'll have an hour or two between meetings sometime during the day or after 5 PM to get some "real work" (meaning shit passed down to me from above) done. On the hour commute back home, I probably reply to a couple of emails - while doing 75+ on the freeway. Once I get home I typically put in another 2-3 hours on my laptop before the Lunesta kicks in. Wake up and repeat until dead...
>I think all of the illegal download places should be shut down permanently.
How?
If you bind-up all the glucose, then hypoglycemia could result, causing confusion, blackouts or seizures. Managing diabetes is not just about eliminating glucose, it is about balancing many variables - glucose, insulin, exercise, stress, hormones, illness, etc, etc. If one variable goes out of balance, you can get either hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia.
Good luck to Dell - I predict the support costs are going to kill them. Just wait until the calls start coming in because the bought-it-cause-it-was-cheaper dorks can't get Turbotax or the $29 Typing tutor they bought at Costco to install. It's a lose-lose - if they actually sell to the mainstream, the support costs will be huge, OR they'll only sell to the wannabe geeks and a few small-shop IT managers. In the long-run I doubt it moves the needle on the M$ market share.
...buy a sack full of stainless steel ball bearings, and it won't f'n matter how high you drop them.
Answer method #1: 1) Google for the answer. 2) Google for the answer, right mouse-click, view source, ctrl-C. 3) See #2. Oh, you can't find the answers by googling? You could if you hired me... Answer method #2: My rates are $300/hour, I'll send you a SOW.
This story has been told before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
Rise geeks! Multiply!
Someone is going to make a lot of money. Set-up a VM service outside the AU and let users remote in and run P2P clients within the VM. The users bring down the files from the VM directly to their home PCs via encrypted methods - even something as simple as sftp would work. There's no files stored on the ISP inside the AU, no way for the ISP (or anyone else inside the AU) to know what's in the encrypted traffic stream.
Do you understand the difference between Type 1 & Type 2 diabetes? I do not consider needing to give insulin shots 4 times per day to my 21 month old daughter "manageable". She is now 9 and wearing an insulin pump, which means we change her infusion set (a fairly large needle inserted under the skin on her stomach or back) every three days. Type 1 diabetes cannot be managed by diet, exercise & pills!!!
Frequency Hopping AKA Spread-spectrum communications is also the basis for the GPS satellite signals, and nearly every other form of RF data communications used in the last 25 years.
...all we have to do is export all the technology illiterate elementary, middle & high school teachers in the USA. Any credentialed teacher in the US that can't send email should immediately be put on a plane for Bangalore or Taipei. Within one generation, the rest of the world will be just as lazy & technically illiterate as we are...
Wow, I'm jealous of all you guys that had floppy drives on your Commodores. I only had the cassette tape recorder!
I had a VIC-20, then a C-64 (and used various others: Sinclair, TI99/4A, TRS-80 Model III) before moving to the dark side (early PC Clone: EaglePC). I worked with a guy that bought the first version of the Amiga - we ran Fortran-77 on it.
As opposed to RHAT who just tells me it's the app's fault, or that it's fixed in the next release which isn't yet certified for my apps.
Larry is one cold bastard - I really think this accomplishes 2 goals: 1) It targets RHAT right between the eyes, and 2) It gives a very clear warning to every other company in the world what happens if Larry gets pissed.
If Larry does end up trying to buy RHAT, I wonder what the SEC will think. Has there been another recent case where a huge public company so blatantly focused on taking down another public company? This is pretty wild no-limit hold'em these guys are playing.
We aren't a full linux shop - we are a typical midmarket corp IT shop - running Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle DBMS, Oracle App Server, along with a variety of apps backed by either Oracle DBMS or SQLServer. Our infrastructure is a mix of RH linux and MS 2003 Server. All the Oracle products are on RH linux, and we have been paying Oracle and RH for support.
So, now Larry is telling me I can stop paying RH for support, and I can pay Oracle. My cost will be about 1/3 what I'm paying now to RH. When I call for support on one of my Oracle apps, I don't have to worry about whether it is a bug in the app, the DBMS or the OS - the support call is the same and they need to help me figure it out.
Where's the downside for me? If you aren't currently an Oracle customer - fine, keep paying RHAT for support. If you are an Oracle customer, it's a no-brainer.
Type 1 Diabetes, also known as Juvenile-Onset Diabetes currently has no cure, and stem cell research is currently the best hope. Testing blood glucose levels through finger sticks and taking insulin through multiple shots per day or an insulin pump is a poor treatment - with many long-term side effects and the chance EVERYDAY of having a low-blood glucose episode that may cause lose of consciousness and/or seizures. 1 in 600 kids worldwide develop Type 1 Diabetes and they did NOTHING to cause it - which means the incidence is MUCH higher than AIDS. Stop listening to the christian right and start reading actual medical & scientific journals.