A friend of mine [...] is supposed to be on the road setting up equipment for clients - not managing servers and workstations. [...] They are finally looking for a network admin, but they also need the guy to be able to setup audio/video/computer gear for their large rental clients.
In other words, management agreed to look for your friend's replacement so that he could be fired, but no one wants to take a position that is two jobs with one paycheck. Your friend's manager is both transparent and silly.
How do you automate the job of someone who's job is to automate?
You set up a wiki front end to your/etc/crontab and let the Wisdom of the Crowd automate stuff. Why pay someone to do it when the power of Web 2.0 will do it for free? Duh. I should be a CIO.
if you have to install libpurple you might as well install a complete Pidgin
Pidgin - A linguistically simplified, mixed and restricted language used in limited contact situations between people who have no common language.
Man one (John): "if true; then yum yum pidgin;"
Man two (Fi): "syntax error"
"if true?; then yum yum pidgin; fi"
"true? command not found"
"look; I'm not trying to discuss metaphysics, I just want to know if pidgin ka-bobs taste good."
"usage: look [-bdf] [-t char] string [file...]"
He had a thick Indian accent. Same guy? Coincidence? No idea.
Stop by your Uni's Computer {Science,Technology,Engineering} department, ask to see the graduate student research lab, and count the number of Indian students. They're all there for two-three years, then graduate, and then they get good industry jobs. The chance it's the same guy is really really low.
I never understood why people watch the opening ceremonies (or parades for that matter).
It's an uncommon event around which to have a party; it's an excuse. I'm going to my friends' house because they host a good party no matter the occasion, and I'm guessing the commercials might be okay.
You're joking, right? This would mean the end of Outsourcing U.S. I.T. jobs to India and other places. Someone in the U.S. would need to pick up the slack. There would be more I.T. security (contract) jobs; someone has to implement the new restrictions.
Your Unreal Tournament 9 might feature realtime ray tracing, but it will run on a dedicated server to which your monthly fee will allow you something like an RDP, VNC, or remote X connection. Quadruple bonus for game companies:
monthly fees
cheating almost eliminated (although people might set up a NN on another cloud to play the game as if it were human)
the game end-of-lifes when they want it to
no pirates
Downsides (from the company perspective):
bandwidth out the wazoo
game companies required to house servers
no pirates (might have to actually spend advertising dollars)
For those sites, buying a certificate is possible, but the costs are high compared to the gains (as this is *only* about protection of the data, not about "being sure this is site XY).
If my data needs encrypted, you'd better be sure as a client I want to know it's going to the right place. As the server, you probably don't care (but you should). You don't want to spend $$ to get a cert with a browser pre-installed CA? Fine, but please provide a way to contact your company through the yellow pages or some other non-website contact info that allows people to call a real person and verify the SSL cert. 99.999% of people won't, but sysadmins will.
A simple bar across the top of the page with a warning that the sites identity couldn't be verified, but that the connection was still encrypted would work just fine.
No, it wouldn't. A simple step makes the monkeys learn to click. A difficult set of steps makes them think about what they're doing, and possibly check with the sysadmin to verify the self-signed cert. Even worse than a simple step though, is a mere notification. It would be ignored, and encryption without assurance of sender/receiver is essentially worthless (although it does limit your exposure to one bad guy at a time instead of multiple).
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries makes the prices (via altering supply), U.S. oil companies ride the wave.
It's kind of like blaming RC Cola for a rise in soda prices. They'll get increased profits as they raise to match Coke and Pepsi, but they didn't start the rise.
so I'd love to take a pill to jump-start me into a condition where I could do 30 pushups and feel fine instead of 10-15 pushups and have my arms feel like rubber. I always end up quitting because I feel like I can't exercise "good enough"
But what if you design rocket cars for other people with the express purpose of getting past the test track inspectors, so that rocket cars get on the track?
[Carpal Tunnel Syndrome] has been shown to be associated with obesity, hypothyroidism, diabetes, pregnancy, family history, rheumatoid arthritis and wrist shape.
So, expect blizzard to get hit with class action lawsuits for WoW?
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A friend of mine [...] is supposed to be on the road setting up equipment for clients - not managing servers and workstations. [...] They are finally looking for a network admin, but they also need the guy to be able to setup audio/video/computer gear for their large rental clients.
In other words, management agreed to look for your friend's replacement so that he could be fired, but no one wants to take a position that is two jobs with one paycheck. Your friend's manager is both transparent and silly.
How do you automate the job of someone who's job is to automate?
You set up a wiki front end to your /etc/crontab and let the Wisdom of the Crowd automate stuff. Why pay someone to do it when the power of Web 2.0 will do it for free? Duh. I should be a CIO.
Somebody wake me up when a computer can convincingly cheat at Candy Land.
if you have to install libpurple you might as well install a complete Pidgin
Pidgin - A linguistically simplified, mixed and restricted language used in limited contact situations between people who have no common language.
Man one (John): "if true; then yum yum pidgin;" ...]"
Man two (Fi): "syntax error"
"if true?; then yum yum pidgin; fi"
"true? command not found"
"look; I'm not trying to discuss metaphysics, I just want to know if pidgin ka-bobs taste good."
"usage: look [-bdf] [-t char] string [file
He had a thick Indian accent. Same guy? Coincidence? No idea.
Stop by your Uni's Computer {Science,Technology,Engineering} department, ask to see the graduate student research lab, and count the number of Indian students. They're all there for two-three years, then graduate, and then they get good industry jobs. The chance it's the same guy is really really low.
Many people don't know what isopropyl will do to your insides. All they see is "alcohol" and $0.99. Not a fun death, I'm sure.
I never understood why people watch the opening ceremonies (or parades for that matter).
It's an uncommon event around which to have a party; it's an excuse. I'm going to my friends' house because they host a good party no matter the occasion, and I'm guessing the commercials might be okay.
It's not hard to remember a sentence that uses more than thirty characters. It's harder to make such a sentence that you can type quickly.
You're joking, right? This would mean the end of Outsourcing U.S. I.T. jobs to India and other places. Someone in the U.S. would need to pick up the slack. There would be more I.T. security (contract) jobs; someone has to implement the new restrictions.
Join us. Summer blockbuster movies are the literary allusions of tomorrow.
Downsides (from the company perspective):
For those sites, buying a certificate is possible, but the costs are high compared to the gains (as this is *only* about protection of the data, not about "being sure this is site XY).
If my data needs encrypted, you'd better be sure as a client I want to know it's going to the right place. As the server, you probably don't care (but you should). You don't want to spend $$ to get a cert with a browser pre-installed CA? Fine, but please provide a way to contact your company through the yellow pages or some other non-website contact info that allows people to call a real person and verify the SSL cert. 99.999% of people won't, but sysadmins will.
Why not use your own private CA and add that CA to your FF deployments?
A simple bar across the top of the page with a warning that the sites identity couldn't be verified, but that the connection was still encrypted would work just fine.
No, it wouldn't. A simple step makes the monkeys learn to click. A difficult set of steps makes them think about what they're doing, and possibly check with the sysadmin to verify the self-signed cert. Even worse than a simple step though, is a mere notification. It would be ignored, and encryption without assurance of sender/receiver is essentially worthless (although it does limit your exposure to one bad guy at a time instead of multiple).
Using hard links, you can make multiple trees using only the storage space of the changed files. Here's one example: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
like installing custom FB apps.
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries makes the prices (via altering supply), U.S. oil companies ride the wave.
It's kind of like blaming RC Cola for a rise in soda prices. They'll get increased profits as they raise to match Coke and Pepsi, but they didn't start the rise.
You just wrote the backstory for my next GURPS Supers character. TY
so I'd love to take a pill to jump-start me into a condition where I could do 30 pushups and feel fine instead of 10-15 pushups and have my arms feel like rubber. I always end up quitting because I feel like I can't exercise "good enough"
But what if you design rocket cars for other people with the express purpose of getting past the test track inspectors, so that rocket cars get on the track?
Shouldn't this be in science.slashdot.org, not idle?
I was just pointing out that the company has an incentive to keep things that way because people will buy more of their products.
All of the images are then pieced together to create a surprisingly precise two-dimensional picture of the object.
So how much of this device is really software on a much larger device like a laptop?
[Carpal Tunnel Syndrome] has been shown to be associated with obesity, hypothyroidism, diabetes, pregnancy, family history, rheumatoid arthritis and wrist shape.
So, expect blizzard to get hit with class action lawsuits for WoW?
WoW causes all that? *whistles*
That's no monkey, that's my wife!