Well, with every other over 60 moving to warmer areas it would only make sense for Fisher to move to a colder area and confuse his opponents, No? His death, is a loss to the chess world but every time someone does the King's Pawn opening we will be paying a slight homage to the man.
To wrap this up nicely, I'm out of that company.. I honestly couldn't take the bureaucracy anymore. I found that small companies are more the place for me. They may not have the financial backing to let me alway do what I want HOW I want but generally let me do it. I move around after they start to show signs of getting too large and that works for me.
Thanks for your insight from the other side of the fence!
I, for one, am grateful for SOX for giving me the backup I need to get IT departments in compliance
So, are you saying that if the network guys kept track of the hardware and what not you'd be happy and I wouldn't of needed three forms of paper work to get a bug tested then three different forms to get that approved then three more to get that actually in to production? SOX took one of the most nimble programming teams I've ever seen and slowed them to a crawl.
I'm all one for accountability, but by the time you get through the red tape you've created a back log so large that nothing really new gets in for innovation and any ideas are seen as dangerous. There was a complete shift in thinking in management from "let the programmers do their thing! Their good and their creative." to "Fill out form I-36b for new way to write existing code"
Since it's not a true implant to get the clock to display floating in the corner of my eye. The actual implant cost me a few points of karma so that's all my cyber samurai had and... Wait this isn't a thing about Shadow Run?
And forget the whole "we willingly bend over for our robot overlords" thing. If they aren't stupid, why do they need an army of MechanoMonsters policing them?
You might not have liked the movie, but I for one welcome out robot overlords...
Mr. Harley: Your impatience is quite understandable.
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry... I wish it were otherwise.
From my SOX experience it was just to create undue bureaucracy in IT department's of publicly traded companies and some other accounting nonsense to make sure the bean counters are actually counting beans that really exist and not saying the kidney beans are jelly beans. SOX wasn't to hold anyone reasonable in a corp when things went bad, it was a knee-jerk law in response to Enron. Like the PATRIOT ACT was to 9/11
I agree with Lewis Black on this one. You don't want another Enron, here's your law: If you can't explain, in one sentence, what it is that your company... DOES... it's illegal!
Not trolling, just having flashbacks! SOX makes me rock back and forth in a corner in the fetal position...
We all send copyrighted emails to one another under a license that does not allow AT&T to retransmit the contents without written permission.
Hasn't the argument flashed on here that once something is created it's copywriten? Or would the timestamp from the email server create a poor man's copy write and therefor they'd be violating a copywrite anyway.
Sorry, this isn't meant as a personal shot at the reviewer or the book, but I just can't resist:
As a dba, I'm constantly looking to learn more about networking and system administration.
Our networking guy got busted watching 2 Girls 1 Cup last week and now I'm stuck pulling double duty while we look for a replacement.
Caught watching What? You know what? I don't want to know...
Both can have quite an impact on the performance of my piece of the puzzle.
Look there's a reason I became a DBA, OK? I can barely calculate a subnet, let alone figure out how to get a new server up and running.
A DBA, as much as I hate to say it, has to be both a programmer and networking guy while being neither at the same time my friend. We can get away with not calculating subnets but we better be able to at least get the servers that our databases are running on back up and running on in case of hardware/network failure or be able to figure out that is IS hardware/network and not our database structures. Where I'm at now, they don't expect you to be a Rambo 1 man IT staff able to take on EVERYTHING, but you better be able to make the server run like it did before the problem if something REALLY bad happens.
Nothing personal... Let's call it professional pride?
Yup, it does eat up too much bandwidth - because broadband providers count on oversubscription of their services coupled with actual rates that don't saturate their network.
Time Warner is the big (only?) cable provider in this area and after canceling their Television service they told me I could get a higher speed connection at the introduction rate for a year. Fine with me, I live in an apartment and they set up accounts by address/name so when I move in 9 months I'm under the impression that I become a new customer again. Anyway, I recently set up a home network for some Nintendo game consoles and a few laptops that recently took up residence in my apartment along with the equipment that was in there to begin with. It's not the large streaming/downloads that most slashdotters are known for but it's far more load than the provider expected when they sold me on the service.
I figured, I'm paying for more, might as well get use out of it.
It doesn't matter which way the popular vote goes, the electoral college elects the president...
Exactly! Which just goes to show any child born in America can dream about growing up and one day winning the popular vote for president... And still be screwed out of the presidency
I was thinking the same thing... I was also trying to decide if the "put-it-in-neutral" dept. was meant for our comments or commentary on the Comcast P2P thing...
My first video game experience was NES playing super Mario brothers on the cartridge that had SMB/Duck Hunt/Track and Field. Before that it was various little kid board games but what really got me interested in games was my older brother teaching me chess.. To this day I still love the challenge of the game and a good match between him and I. Thinking moves ahead of the other players and trying to respond in your predictions where wrong. Other games that deserve mention: 1)Online gaming: MUDs 2)TTRPG: AD&D at a friends house playing a psyonic Dwarf... Badly...
the major short-coming of the Wii is that it does not have a hard drive
What you talkin' bout Willis? It DOES HAVE MEMORY Only 512 and most of that is used for downloads from the Wii Shop. But, I agree. If you rush a product with the idea of "we'll just patch it later" that's just bad programming. I mean WHO who do THAT?
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Well, with every other over 60 moving to warmer areas it would only make sense for Fisher to move to a colder area and confuse his opponents, No?
His death, is a loss to the chess world but every time someone does the King's Pawn opening we will be paying a slight homage to the man.
To wrap this up nicely, I'm out of that company.. I honestly couldn't take the bureaucracy anymore. I found that small companies are more the place for me. They may not have the financial backing to let me alway do what I want HOW I want but generally let me do it. I move around after they start to show signs of getting too large and that works for me.
Thanks for your insight from the other side of the fence!
I'm all one for accountability, but by the time you get through the red tape you've created a back log so large that nothing really new gets in for innovation and any ideas are seen as dangerous. There was a complete shift in thinking in management from "let the programmers do their thing! Their good and their creative." to "Fill out form I-36b for new way to write existing code"
That's the most deprived form of alchemy their is...
Damn! I think I just rolled All 1's
Since it's not a true implant to get the clock to display floating in the corner of my eye. The actual implant cost me a few points of karma so that's all my cyber samurai had and... Wait this isn't a thing about Shadow Run?
Mr. Harley: Your impatience is quite understandable.
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry... I wish it were otherwise.
I agree with Lewis Black on this one. You don't want another Enron, here's your law: If you can't explain, in one sentence, what it is that your company... DOES... it's illegal!
Not trolling, just having flashbacks! SOX makes me rock back and forth in a corner in the fetal position...
Well, the courts have this neat way of getting blood from stones... Just ask anyone who has been through a divorce...
When SCO was pulled from the market, Novell gets their old furniture cuz there's nothing else to really take...
I guess source code is just as good.
I wonder if it's blacker than some emo kid's soul... Or at least they'll claim it to be in some of their bad poetry
A DBA, as much as I hate to say it, has to be both a programmer and networking guy while being neither at the same time my friend. We can get away with not calculating subnets but we better be able to at least get the servers that our databases are running on back up and running on in case of hardware/network failure or be able to figure out that is IS hardware/network and not our database structures. Where I'm at now, they don't expect you to be a Rambo 1 man IT staff able to take on EVERYTHING, but you better be able to make the server run like it did before the problem if something REALLY bad happens.
Nothing personal... Let's call it professional pride?
I figured, I'm paying for more, might as well get use out of it.
We're stopping undead hoards not giant robots! But, thanks for playing!
I know what it is... But does Ash?
And here I thought you where admitting to playing Magic: The Gathering with a comment title like that...
My first video game experience was NES playing super Mario brothers on the cartridge that had SMB/Duck Hunt/Track and Field. Before that it was various little kid board games but what really got me interested in games was my older brother teaching me chess.. To this day I still love the challenge of the game and a good match between him and I. Thinking moves ahead of the other players and trying to respond in your predictions where wrong. Other games that deserve mention:
1)Online gaming: MUDs
2)TTRPG: AD&D at a friends house playing a psyonic Dwarf... Badly...
Look! It's people like you what cause the loss of badger jokes...