Do parents have the right to know which of their kids' teachers are the most and least effective? That's the controversy roaring in California this week with the publication of an investigative series by the Los Angeles Times's Jason Song and Jason Felch, who used seven years of math and English test data to publicly identify the best and the worst third- to fifth-grade teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The newspaper's announcement of its plans to release data later this month on all 6,000 of the city's elementary-school teachers has prompted the local teachers' union to rally members to organize a boycott of the newspaper.
According to the linked Times article, United Teachers Los Angeles president A.J. Duffy said the database was "an irresponsible, offensive intrusion into your professional life that will do nothing to improve student learning."
ON-TAP lacks a decent Kerberos stack. It is embarrassingly ancient in its support of encryption types, which makes it pretty much a non-starter for secure NFS.
Those jobs do exist. You just have to know where to find them.
Unless there is a mark that says "Item was bought", I'd argue that most players wouldn't know the difference between a bought or won item anyway.
This is one of the things that I think the Atlantica team really did well on. Because they have an "alternate Earth" as a background, they were allowed to present different cultures with different art styles.
The biggest problems we've seen from a monitoring perspective is that most systems really do have a hard time scaling to large levels and being usable. [A common trick (and one we employ) is to have a multi-tier monitoring system in place, where one monitoring stack monitors the monitoring stack that is actually watching the service/hosts.]
Once one gets past that hurdle, the tricky part is dealing with the "it is OK if X% of my machines are down". Most monitoring systems that I've dealt with are based around the view that they are monitoring a single host/single service and not a collection of hosts where it is OK if chunks disappear. For those types of problems, one still ends up writing a lot of custom smarts it seems.
I'm curious to know how you define a 'corporate farm'. I really hope you don't think that every Xxxx Farms, Inc. is magically part of ADM.
I see Hadoop Summit door prizes.
Who wants a turn-based RPG anymore? It's all about the flashy graphics and real-time combat.
That's why it is interesting watching to see how successful Atlantica Online is going to be (or already is?). A turn-based MMORPG sounds horrible, but they've really done a great job at game mechanics. The irony is that they likely had to do F2P because of the impressions that turn-based gives, but they are probably making money hands-over-fist with the micropayment structure they've setup. It isn't usual to hear of people who have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on it.
Happiness is twin floppies.