GaryOlson

Flash? Really? I thought this was a trust service; not an entertainment service.

quote from the article:

...the music industry, when it began to feel the effects of the technological change coming, doubled down on stupid....

And the video industry is providing the sincerest form of flattery.

Scott Adams has made a fortune for decades documenting this development. I've never seen an MBA who comprehended or laughed or groaned with Dilbert.

The skills necessary to engineer and build effectively usually require a certain patience and humble appreciation. Unfortunately, this allows clueless MBAs and psychotics to run business in self destructive methods.

A completely reworked security framework; among other major changes. We've had a RHEL 6 installation for a few months and are still working thru the changes. Basic Linode users might want to wait unless you really need the Python updates.

Investment company buyouts of entrenched education infrastructure are all about cash. The investment firm will cut any product development budget, raise prices, cut customer service, and eventually drive all the customers away. In the meantime, too many university administrations will waffle over the pain of moving to another platform for about 5 years. See how Oracle is abusing all the Sun education customers it inherited.

Current computer security for companies is analogous to medieval castles: large crude systems with large support requirements and little concern for the security of small individual contributors. Once computer infrastructure effectively moves to less crude large scale centralized forms and provides effective minimal security for every small contributor will the key be available.

My home is my castle; my community infrastructure supports that implementation. Therefore the community does not require a castle. When personal computing equipment is equally robust, large computing systems will not be as necessary and neither will the legal implementations.

Laws and lawyers at the individual level are the key to computer security.

Richardson, TX

College of Engineering Computing Services Manager

http://www.utdallas.edu/hrm/work/

http://ecs.utdallas.edu

Work with faculty and staff in Electrical, Mechanical, Material Sciences, BioMedical, Telecom, and Computer Engineering and Computer Sciences in education and research to build and operate our growing computing and network systems.

Yes, it's government work and sometimes it is not pretty. But Texas has committed to building first class Universities. Also need Windows System Administrator for Computer Science.

makezombie.c is a fake. No processes called "zombie" are running on the system after I invoke this. Also, a real zombie program should randomly chew on other processes until the other process itself is a zombie. This needs more work.

If the flickr image is the actual size, then no wonder it was not noticed. No matter how much I customize all my interfaces -- and with the increasing pixel count of displays -- interfaces are constantly populated with immutable 8 point fonts. Any font less than 14 points is fine for 1985 and VGA displays; but not anymore.

Get FIOS Business service; not the residential. The technical help is more capable; but you pay for it.

So those who do not attend college don't have access to do substantive work? I agree. Too many job postings minimum requirements include a college degree even if the actual work -- substantive or not -- do not need a college education. So, a person cannot start in industry in a less substantive position and move into a position which includes more substantive work.

Many of us won't disagree with the need for building skills thru standard exercises. But, when the maximum efficiency/minimum-personal-commitment bureaucrats have too much input, risk based learning is replaced with no-personal-risk rote learning for all education -- with the obvious failure to society.

Working with project based learning is not all joy and bubbles.

1) learning is the product of the work Just wait until you get industrial sponsorship of the project. Learning gets less focus.

2)students learn from doing Assuming the students have the initiative to DO. Young people often need leadership and direction provided by a leader type figure to drive them to make the attempt. Else, many of them will wander about aimlessly waiting for a peer leader to emerge -- which may never happen and the project stalls.

I am not disinclined to project based learning; but it is not a complete panacea for the current educational system.

If one were alive today, I am sure a buggy whip manufacturing apprentice could provide the same type of nostalgic reminiscence: the smell of the leather, the suppleness of the whip, the acrid taste of the dyes. And comparisons how that new car smell is not as satisfying.

Start by killing all the lawyers. Grade quality, cheating, and instructional quality have all been degraded by litigious students and parents. Caught cheating? Bad grade? Don’t like the faculty? Can’t collaborate with your project group? Universities are under constant assault by undisciplined, immature, lazy students who attack the University system in order to obtain a degree. In the end, the colleges find it easier to pass the cost of failures onto society than fight. I can’t say I blame them.

Although great points were made in the article, I find this to be a failure on the part of the CEO and COO. Their individual profiles on justin.tv are both vague and lacking in focus; public statements often reflect management styles and objectives. If the key directors of a company don't direct, the whole company will suffer regardless of the number of management books they read.

Standardization per se is not the problem. Standardization creates a base pool of knowledge and skills which are necessary to formulate, innovate, collaborate, and build projects.

Instead, standardization should be limited to a well defined subset of academics and education.

Because the alternative is to become just like HP -- where technology and engineering is just an advertising slogan. And one HP is enough.

With cream cheese frosting in a cake, they are irresistible.

Single, dual, multi-blade or electric? Seriously, do you go for the clean contoured shave or multifaceted polygonal surfacing? Is a shave effectively different from peeling?