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Hmmmm,
Yeah... DirectDraw, DirectInput, Direct3D, DirectWrite, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, and DirectSound (and a few more) were all packaged by the guys over in marketing under the label DirectX.
I personally don't think it really matters what the outside world calls these API packages. I think it was a good move to give them a single marketing label of 'DirectX'. It allows software publishers and hardware manufacturers to seek compliance so they could use the single 'DirectX' logo on the product.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Computer security is now everything security - but protocol isn't keeping up with the risks, warns security expert. I'm not getting the analogy here. Is it a manga thing?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it a manga thing?
Akira? growing and growing until it gets nuts and explodes?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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So that CISSP I just got might be useful? 
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Considering the uselessness of some of the people I've worked with who had one; I hope you got the paper certificate. If you tape it to your wall over a crack it'll help keep the drafts out in winter and save on your heating bill. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I was hired as a DBA.
And a CISSP is a requirement.
No one seems to know why....but they paid for it, so...
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As long as they also let you do the needed coursework on the clock it's their money I guess. *SMH*
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yep. I *did* study some at home, but only when it meant I could avoid other things.
What really pissed me off, though, was the bootcamp they sent me to, and the study materials I had, resembled the actual content of the SIX HOUR LONG TEST not at all.
I still passed, of course. But that was mainly due to being in the biz since 1997...ya kinda pick up things along the way.
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Quote: ..and we don't know how to fix it
Switch it off and on again?
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Google released Spinnaker 1.0, an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform, which companies can use for fast, safe and repeatable deployments in production. I guess that's better than them cancelling it
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But do you like the cut of their jib?
Shoot, now I'm trying to remember what product I used from Spinnaker Software back in the 80s.
modified 7-Jun-17 20:22pm.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: now I'm trying to remember what product I used from Spinnaker Software back in the 80s.
PFS Publisher, maybe?
The Rotarian - Google Books[^]
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They did some kind of MS Works like package if I recall correctly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: multi-cloud
There's more than one cloud? 
Marc
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No only is there more than one cloud, there's more than one type of cloud!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Quote: There's more than one cloud?
One for the rain, one for the storm, one for the snow, one for the hail ... 
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Yeah but they all hold the zombies.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Using freelance web developers could be opening your business up to cyber-attack, survey warns. Never trust them (except me)
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Marc Clifton wrote: I wonder how in-house developers sitting in cubicles with no windows, noisy neighbors, an hour long (if you're lucky) commute, and no training since they graduated college (and we know how useless that is for relevant technologies and practices) fair.
When you pay someone external to do something you expect it to be done in a professional way and to a reasonable standard, and that is not what has happened. If you take your car to a garage to get the brakes changed and they forget to refill the brake fluid and you crash the car, it's not acceptable for them to shrug their shoulders and say "Well if you'd done it yourself you probably would have made the same mistake".
What this article is highlighting is that there is a very high rate of "cowboys" in the freelance game. Other industries have tried long and hard to clean up their industry to get rid of cowboys but you only have to glance at the Q&A forum for questions obviously posted by people (let's be honest here, people in India) who work in codehouse sweatshops without the ability to do the job who are giving clients a very poor end product. It's one of the reasons out-sourcing has lost its appeal.
However when it comes to internal staff it's the employer's job to monitor competency, have processes to ensure quality etc so that "lesser skilled" employees don't cause too many issues.
Marc Clifton wrote: Oh please, do tell me more about the criteria. Not the criteria for the website, but the criteria for selecting 10 contractors.
Probably the ones with the worst English
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Other industries have tried long and hard to clean up their industry to get rid of cowboys but you only have to glance at the Q&A forum for questions obviously posted by people (let's be honest here, people in India) who work in codehouse sweatshops without the ability to do the job who are giving clients a very poor end product.
I don't want to sound "racist" but mostly of the worst questions I see come from asian lands. The other day one QA about a web that had to do DB login and some queries posted a link to a screenshot. The web was for one important bank there (which I am not going to use anymore when I am there)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Someone in the Javascript discussion board was wanting help with client-side One-Time-Password code for an Indian bank 
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: is that there is a very high rate of "cowboys" in the freelance game.
To be honest, I resemble that remark. Then again, I've dealt with a lot of "cowboys" in-house as well, from young (20's) programmers to managers.
F-ES Sitecore wrote: Other industries have tried long and hard to clean up their industry to get rid of cowboys
I think something about the nature of the software development lends itself to cowboy mentality as opposed to more staid practices of teamwork, etc. It's difficult to find a team that doesn't go to one extreme or the other (getting rid of cowboys usually means turning people into cows) and finding a balance between discipline and creativity/innovation. The best clients and employers I've worked for have found that balance across the entire culture.
F-ES Sitecore wrote: However when it comes to internal staff it's the employer's job to monitor competency, have processes to ensure quality etc so that "lesser skilled" employees don't cause too many issues.
Agreed, though that's hard to find.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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There is actually a new wave of remote freelance web developers that call themselves Digital nomad - Wikipedia[^] that are 20 or 30 somethings that live like vagabond types that travel the world. One can find a lot of them in Thailand and other neighboring South East Asian countries living the life.
I would expect that many of them with their decent PhotoShop skills and copy and paste coding style of PHP, JavaScript, and Bootstrap would be creating junk with little support.
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