If you worked for any length of time in or with big business, you'd be surprised to find that someone is actually saying "the emperor has no clothes on".
It may seem like common sense, but there are reasons why Officespace and Dilbert are so popular. In some cases truth is stranger than fiction.
I thought bandwidth hogs had a name already. They were called spammers.
Unlike streaming technology that is consistent and less likely to impact other users on the same network (unless they're attempting to stream the same thing from the same sites), spam tends to be bursty and disruptive for other network users.
I'd like to see you try to get a Microchannel card out of a system without a screwdriver.
He was the man considered responsible for some of the largest cuts within IBM's STG (Systems & Technology Group). A lot of programs were cut locally in order to add to the globalization effort, which is just the politically correct way of saying off-shoring. He was considered the standard bearer to what a lot of workers felt was the increased feeling of greed among the current IBM executives. A lot of good programs and people were axed during his tenure which added to the short term bottom line but have shown in the last 4 years to hurt their long term objectives. It's difficult when you ask your top performers to do more for less, until they either leave or you cast them off.
To be honest the newer ps3 slim is much more quiet than the older model, and it's a better "media station" for the purposes of streaming video from a windows machine, or just copying avi files from a DVD to the hard drive.
I think of the 360 as a gaming machine (due to the number of games) trying to be a media station, while the ps3 is a media station that tries to play games. The controls for watching videos in the ps3 are a lot nicer than the xbox.
Damn whipper snappers thinking gopher was old.
I remember maintaining uucp links.
"Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from failure scenarios."
Let's highlight the words that needs emphasis.
"provides", "developers", "tools"
As to whether the developers use them or not isn't always automatic.
"you can protect your applications from failure of a single location"
"can"
Highly available does not meant fault tolerance. The latter allows an application to continue functioning after a component failure. Regardless of the snake oil that has been thrown around, there is no silver bullet that can automagically enable application to be multi-node aware with no chance of deadlock or data corruption. You need to program for this. Again, tools are provided, but that doesn't mean everyone will use them. So in the absense of a fault tolerant application, the cloud provides high availability.
"A sprint (sometimes called a Code Jam or hack-a-thon) is a short time period (three to five days) during which software developers work on a particular chunk of functionality."
I've seen this usually in reference to agile programming. I've seen agile programming used, and I have seen it used badly. Sprints are time boxed units within a scrum format. They're fixed length, start and end at set times, with goals specified within that format. I don't consider "code jams" to be sprints, and it's hard for me to picture 3-5 days as an effective sprint for the newly initiated. One of the first things you're told is the effective percentage of utilization of resources who are new to the sprint, new to the team or new to scrum format is reduced. It is through the iterative process that the people become better, that means multiple sprints to improve and streamline your process. Sprints are a way to prioritize work via planning sessions at the start, and view the good, bad and ugly in the retrospective at the end.
For larger projects this means 3-4 week sprints, with continuity from 1 sprint to the next. It not only requires leadership discipline, but team discipline. It just doesn't seem to be conducive for drawing volunteer work. It isn't a magic glue that allows new people to come together to make code happen.
Muscle mass might also have high social pressures. What we consider "attractive" in the opposite sex can drive this more than anything. Physiologically it has been proven that there are inherent differences between the sexes. Sure that can be overcome artifically via hormones, and maybe our future is one where we're all unisexual bipedal equivalents of androgynous amoeba. That's a lot of genetic behavior to rewire.
How many lightbulbs would they need to convert from 100W to 60W usage (over time) to equal the energy cost of 1 femto second laser blast that "unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America"?
Vancouver to DC is a little different than say Poughkeepsie, NY to Bangalore.
> Personally, Corporations tax rate should be based on the percentage of people that work out of country. 100% of your work force in the US? then no corporate taxes. Base it upon work, not hired employees.
Strangely a simple but elegant solution that is catchy enough that even a politician might consider it. What IBM is doing is effectively negating any argument they would have in hiring ANY H1-B's. They obviously have the qualified workers, they don't don't want to pay them.
This corporate tax gimmick is pretty decent considering the US is considered to have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the "free" world. Unfortunately a law like this might be easy to circumnavigate by using shells and third party contractors.
Such a system would only work for the residents of Oregon...
I would if it would be more cost effective to issue mandatory transponders and put toll roads all over the place. If they're really worried about gas consumption within the state borders, wouldn't they want to catch everyone, including non-residents?
What's to prevent the next step, mandatory anklet GPS units to measure how much you walk vs. how much you drive?
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
