Corporations are a legal fiction that exist at the leisure of the federal government. A corollary of your point is that any sufficiently strong government can allow ever stronger corporations until those corporations are mini governments themselves.
If 802.11g isn't fast enough for home network transfers, I can just sneakernet a drive from place to place.
Of course, you seem to forget that some people do transfer data between hosts on their local network, and that 802.11 features layer 1 and 2 concerns that just don't exist with full duplex wired Ethernet.
I didn't forget. Sneakernet is far more secure and faster.
with universities increasingly funded by corporations to perform all the menial work, the condition of research is pathetic
The worst part is that researchers spend so much time filing for grant money. It's like politicians who spend half of their term campaigning for the next term.
driving equated to the ultimate form of personal freedom
Still does. Try getting anywhere that's not in New York City, San Diego, or Chicago without a car, and you'll be spending a lot of time waiting or being herded where others want you to go. And you'd better plan in advance, because the bus isn't stopping at that quaint roadside diner you just saw.
This is the very reason Apple does well, and hardware companies run by engineering types fail.
And the very reason why Apple doesn't do well in big business, where security sells. Protip: If your computer requires a thrid-party cage to encapsulate it because simple things like bios passwords (nvram security setting, whatever) can't be locked down, you're not paying attention to security enough. Likewise for providing Java but not updating Java security vulnerabilities (I'm still jaded about that one, Apple).
Technology should work for people (or users) and not the other way around.
"Working" means different things to different people. "Working" didn't include *any* security for home users (even of Macs) until 2000ish. For those in the know, "working" included and still includes security (more now than then), because without security, other important features of "working" stop working, or worse, they start working backwards (data gets destroyed or stolen, lawsuits occur, cats and dogs living together). For iPhone users, "working" included 4-number passcodes until other people easily bypassed them, then "working" included auto-wipes on several failed attempts, and arbitrary length passphrases.
net-sec is supposed to be the everyone bitches. To every IT department: you are everyone bitches, we do not care about your concerns
This is where great ideas like storing passwords and credit card numbers in clear text in a publicly accessible database come from. Sony programmers likely said the same thing to Sony's network security team and sysadmins.
I had a buddy recently buy a PC from Best Buy and paid the Geek Squad to hook his new PC up witha new wireless router, the router sat only a few feet on his desk, and still they hooked his PC up using the wireless connection, I changed that for him right way, why would you do that?
At work, where everyone has two gigabit lines to every office, using wireless this way would be silly. At home, where my cable modem is slower than 802.11b speeds, there's no real point in using wired. If 802.11g isn't fast enough for home network transfers, I can just sneakernet a drive from place to place.
There is a difference between graduate research and school homework projects. YOU KNOW THIS. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
Sure, there are usually first-year assignments like "write a flat file DB program that does X, Y, and Z; use no array notation; use threads somehow", but there are also assignments in second or third year software engineering classes or AI classes that are semester-long endeavors involving a small group of students, each responsible for different sections of the code (and usually one slacker who drops out of the class, forcing the others to write his functions).
The only reason a school assignment shouldn't count is if the new graduate can't explain how it works (because then it's pretty obvious they copied the code).
No. I'm content where I am. If I was where they were, passing off (useless) programs to end users and selling the (useless) end user data to advertisers so that the advertisers can eventually annoy the end users with ads for stuff they don't want, then I'd feel guilty. This class (like many MBA classes) isn't about teaching business ethics or making a business you'd be proud of. This class sounds like a sociopath factory.
Why? Have I been Wooshed? I had to inform our own web devs that our website doesn't work without flash and JS, and they didn't see the problem either. It's as bad as a sysadmin suggesting RAID0 because he's never seen a drive die. Maybe troll for the TFB comment? I notified them of their error in 2002 when they changed to the big flash object (back when few people used flash), now that flash is being blocked in companies and iP[od/ad/hone]s don't have flash, it still boggles me why they don't have at least a simple "here's who we are" that's just simple html.
As a professional web developer, we often write code that expects Javascript to work on our sites
You're the kind of stupid that makes a website that's just one big flash object with no links to non-flash content. As much as I hate to hate on them, Toys for Bob has been the same kind of stupid for almost a decade, so at least you're in good company.
What the hell are you talking about? These students made shit tons of money from this. That IS GOOD BUSINESS sense and strategy.
You two are talking about different things. GP wasn't lamenting the plight of business sense and strategy. GP was saying that the US is going to pot because of the philosophies of "release the alpha, never plan on releasing good product" and "ad money! ad money! ad money!" are decreasing the quality of everything we use. Not just in software, either.
If "making gobs of money before anyone figures out you don't provide value (or you provide negative value)" is the only arbiter of good business strategy, then muggers are incredible businessmen.
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Corporations are a legal fiction that exist at the leisure of the federal government. A corollary of your point is that any sufficiently strong government can allow ever stronger corporations until those corporations are mini governments themselves.
Wifi causes cancer and allergies, but Global Warming will make it more tolerable? Go Global Warming!
I've never seen anything even vaguely pro-copyright get above a 2.
I have, but it was about GPL, not the death of Walt Disney + 125 years variety.
That's a realistic goal for kubuntu or xubuntu, but not with Unity ubuntu.
As far as I can tell, everyone wins.
Cable: "There can only be ONE!"
No one will invest in a Bering Straight tunnel with that attitude.
Don't forget this is a Japanese company. TEPCO comes to mind.
Someone should do a remake of the Nuclear Boy educational video with PSN PR Boy and his stinky poo gas.
If 802.11g isn't fast enough for home network transfers, I can just sneakernet a drive from place to place.
Of course, you seem to forget that some people do transfer data between hosts on their local network, and that 802.11 features layer 1 and 2 concerns that just don't exist with full duplex wired Ethernet.
I didn't forget. Sneakernet is far more secure and faster.
with universities increasingly funded by corporations to perform all the menial work, the condition of research is pathetic
The worst part is that researchers spend so much time filing for grant money. It's like politicians who spend half of their term campaigning for the next term.
how does your head fit into that small room?
[sean connery voice]I take a dip in a cold pool first[/sean connery voice]
Men come from Mars.
Women come from Venus.
Politicians come from Uranus.
I'm sorry world. I promise I'll never poo again.
Sony America CEO Howard Stringer, is that you?
driving equated to the ultimate form of personal freedom
Still does. Try getting anywhere that's not in New York City, San Diego, or Chicago without a car, and you'll be spending a lot of time waiting or being herded where others want you to go. And you'd better plan in advance, because the bus isn't stopping at that quaint roadside diner you just saw.
One of the advantages of a wired network is that the data only leaves the premises at well defined locations that you control.
Except right outside the office of the VP of IT who insisted on a wireless keyboard over the objections of his underlings. Wee.
This is the very reason Apple does well, and hardware companies run by engineering types fail.
And the very reason why Apple doesn't do well in big business, where security sells. Protip: If your computer requires a thrid-party cage to encapsulate it because simple things like bios passwords (nvram security setting, whatever) can't be locked down, you're not paying attention to security enough. Likewise for providing Java but not updating Java security vulnerabilities (I'm still jaded about that one, Apple).
Technology should work for people (or users) and not the other way around.
"Working" means different things to different people. "Working" didn't include *any* security for home users (even of Macs) until 2000ish. For those in the know, "working" included and still includes security (more now than then), because without security, other important features of "working" stop working, or worse, they start working backwards (data gets destroyed or stolen, lawsuits occur, cats and dogs living together). For iPhone users, "working" included 4-number passcodes until other people easily bypassed them, then "working" included auto-wipes on several failed attempts, and arbitrary length passphrases.
net-sec is supposed to be the everyone bitches. To every IT department: you are everyone bitches, we do not care about your concerns
This is where great ideas like storing passwords and credit card numbers in clear text in a publicly accessible database come from. Sony programmers likely said the same thing to Sony's network security team and sysadmins.
I had a buddy recently buy a PC from Best Buy and paid the Geek Squad to hook his new PC up witha new wireless router, the router sat only a few feet on his desk, and still they hooked his PC up using the wireless connection, I changed that for him right way, why would you do that?
At work, where everyone has two gigabit lines to every office, using wireless this way would be silly. At home, where my cable modem is slower than 802.11b speeds, there's no real point in using wired. If 802.11g isn't fast enough for home network transfers, I can just sneakernet a drive from place to place.
There is a difference between graduate research and school homework projects. YOU KNOW THIS. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
Sure, there are usually first-year assignments like "write a flat file DB program that does X, Y, and Z; use no array notation; use threads somehow", but there are also assignments in second or third year software engineering classes or AI classes that are semester-long endeavors involving a small group of students, each responsible for different sections of the code (and usually one slacker who drops out of the class, forcing the others to write his functions).
The only reason a school assignment shouldn't count is if the new graduate can't explain how it works (because then it's pretty obvious they copied the code).
Jealous much?
No. I'm content where I am. If I was where they were, passing off (useless) programs to end users and selling the (useless) end user data to advertisers so that the advertisers can eventually annoy the end users with ads for stuff they don't want, then I'd feel guilty. This class (like many MBA classes) isn't about teaching business ethics or making a business you'd be proud of. This class sounds like a sociopath factory.
Hopefully someone will mod you TROLL. Or MORON.
Why? Have I been Wooshed? I had to inform our own web devs that our website doesn't work without flash and JS, and they didn't see the problem either. It's as bad as a sysadmin suggesting RAID0 because he's never seen a drive die. Maybe troll for the TFB comment? I notified them of their error in 2002 when they changed to the big flash object (back when few people used flash), now that flash is being blocked in companies and iP[od/ad/hone]s don't have flash, it still boggles me why they don't have at least a simple "here's who we are" that's just simple html.
As a professional web developer, we often write code that expects Javascript to work on our sites
You're the kind of stupid that makes a website that's just one big flash object with no links to non-flash content. As much as I hate to hate on them, Toys for Bob has been the same kind of stupid for almost a decade, so at least you're in good company.
Even if the defaults are reversed, what is grandma going to do, vet the JS code for every script that wants to run?
"send âoehotnessâ points to Facebook friends. Yet during the term, the apps, free for users, generated roughly $1 million in advertising revenue."
Somebody please just put me out of my misery. Humanity is fucked as a species.
I'd send you hotness but I'm out of mod points.
What the hell are you talking about? These students made shit tons of money from this. That IS GOOD BUSINESS sense and strategy.
You two are talking about different things. GP wasn't lamenting the plight of business sense and strategy. GP was saying that the US is going to pot because of the philosophies of "release the alpha, never plan on releasing good product" and "ad money! ad money! ad money!" are decreasing the quality of everything we use. Not just in software, either.
If "making gobs of money before anyone figures out you don't provide value (or you provide negative value)" is the only arbiter of good business strategy, then muggers are incredible businessmen.
LOL, the QOTD is "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison"
I guess nowadays, they just need the pile of junk.