Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems
I swore I was the only person who'd ever seen Deep Blue Sea. Unless this quote was repeated elsewhere...?
Preacher: Einstein's theory of relativity. Grab hold of a hot pan, second can seem like an hour. Put your hands on a hot woman, an hour can seem like a second. It's all relative. Tom Scoggins: I spent four years at CalTech, and that's the best physics explanation I've ever heard.
Vote Clark. You'll be glad you did. Here's some snippets from his Manufacturing Plan:
STOP REWARDING COMPANIES THAT MOVE JOBS OVERSEAS AND START REWARDING COMPANIES THAT PRODUCE IN AMERICA
Require companies to disclose layoffs in America and job increases overseas. Consumer, investors, and workers all have the right to know which companies are moving which jobs overseas. As President, Wes Clark would work to develop a system of timely reporting to ensure that we have timely and accurate information on companies that export jobs.
Stop rewarding companies that shift jobs overseas. As President, Wes Clark would eliminate government incentives for companies to shift jobs overseas.
Stop tax breaks for companies that move overseas for tax reasons. Wes Clark would close outrageous loopholes in the tax code, like the ones that allow companies to avoid taxes by shifting income to Bermuda. In addition, Wes Clark would institute a 90-day review of all tax and spending provisions affecting large manufacturing firms. The review will focus on eliminating tax and spending provisions that give manufacturing firms incentives to move jobs overseas.
Deny government contracts to firms that move headquarters overseas for tax reasons or shift substantial numbers of U.S. jobs overseas. Wes Clark believes that companies should not be rewarded for moving their headquarters to overseas tax havens or shift substantial numbers of U.S. jobs abroad. As President, he will look for ways to make certain these companies are not rewarded with government contracts.
Start rewarding companies that create jobs in America. As President, Wes Clark would seek to implement tax and spending initiatives - above and beyond the $10,000 job creation tax credit - that provide manufacturing firms the incentive to keep existing manufacturing jobs in the United States.
I want to live in the world that you live in. You "didn't notice" a drive go into warning state and you pulled some overtime to fix it, in effect getting paid for your own mistake.
I had an array show me all red lights (due to a quirk in the RAID card, don't get me started) and pulled a 120-hour week doing a bare metal build and data restore (from old, shitty DDS tape on an older, shittier, SCSI-2 tape drive). I got it done, the users had maybe an hour total that they couldn't access their e-mail at all (and this hour was generally at or around 4am), and saved the day.
I received not an extra cent, and was fired two months later. That's IT for you, baby. Just to give you an idea of perspective.
I'm gonna get my shit together and go to law school, me myself personally.
They can not comment on your work history or their opinion of you.
Of course they can, and they do. "What is your opinion of him as a worker" and "Would you hire him again" are the top two questions on any reference worksheet.
Show me where it says that this is illegal, because if it is, I need to have a sit-down with my last boss.
Agreed. My most recent place of employment used one for primary DNS and DHCP. It ran Solaris 2.6, and in two years there I never had any problems with it.
Pizzaboxes may be ancient, but they get the job done. I wouldn't task one as a high-availability database server or anything like that, but if I have them, I'll use them. DNS, DHCP, firewall, log server, etc. etc.
This article sounds like it was written by a teenager throwing a tantrum about "Waaaah! I can never win when someone has the sniper rifle! WAAAAH!" Anyone who's played a number of online FPSes recognizes this syndrome. Penny Arcade even discussed it.
Basically, any weapon in the hands of a skilled player can be 'teh P!MPZ'. If you don't like the sniper rifle, don't play with it. I guarantee that shortly thereafter you will be writing an impassioned rant about "WAAAAH! The is BULLSHIT! It doesn't take any skill to use! It's ruining the genre! WAAAH!".
"alright you whining pricks, here's your goddamned update, yeah we screwed up and the government got us for it. fuck 'em. fuck you too. take the update. IT'S FREE DAMMIT"
That quote is much funnier when you picture Ballmer saying it, pit stains and all, while making obscene gestures.
Am I the only one who can no longer hear this song without seeing Will Farrell' belly flopping around as he wails on a cowbell?
"I got a FEVA! And the only PRESCRIPTION....is MORE COWBELL!"
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New legislation to get healthcare providers to secure patient records. BIg pain in the patoot, speaking as someone who had to sit through several long ass meetings about it earlier this week.
Bottom line is, there should be no way for patient data to "escape" from the networks of a healthcare provider. THis includes machines with no removable storage (yes, I'm serious), no phone conversations about the data in common areas, etc. etc. etc. A lot of it is commonsense security, some of it is "WTF?", and all of it is a pain to retrofit into preexisting systems. Believe me.
I'm with seeing Thrawn & Co. up on the big screen, but only if George Lucas steps his monkey ass down as writer and director and let's someone talented handle it. He can be Executive Producer and just sit in the back eating corn chips and cackling.
XGA was eXtended Graphics Adapter in Radio Shack (Tandy) terms, but what meant performance wise I was never quite sure. As long as I could play Bard's Tale on it, I was a happy camper.
Haven't they been photocopying books and magazines for years under that clause?
Absolutely. This is because book and magazine publishers aren't the profiteering bunch of fuckmonkeys that the RIAA are. The RIAA says if you didn't purchase it, don't let us catch you listening to it or we swear to God we'll fucking kill you.
A professor photocopying multiple textbooks in order to make a coursepack to hand out to his students == perfectly legal.
A professor ripping multiple purchased CDs in order to make a CD to hand out to his students == Intellectual Property Theft/Piracy/Stealing/A venial sin/the same as sodomizing small boys.
You must buy a physical copy of each full CD that contains the song you want (since these are older songs, the singles are no longer available, so you'll have to just buy the whole thing). There must be a discrete copy of each CD/song/group of songs for each person in the class, including instructors and professors. So, figure 10 songs needed, 10 different full CDs to get the 1 song that you need, PER student.
Students will NOT bring tape recorders to class to record the lecture in order to avoid possibly recording a copywritten song and risking fines and jail time. The professor MAY make a mix CD containing just the songs needed for the class once he has obtained the needed number of copies of CDs (remember, one set of songs per listener), but he may make only one copy per student. These copies must be destroyed when the class is complete in order to reduce risks of accidental redistribution (FINES and JAIL. Your ass == MEAT). New sets of original CDs MUST BE PURCHASED for each new successive semester, and the above rules strongly adhered to.
Play nice, and we'll give you a 15% educational discount.
Thank you for respecting our intellectual property.
Love,
the RIAA
"50 years of profiting from the creations of others"
I'd just hop in the car, slide the ipod into a socket and press a button to play it.
Or, with a Bluetooth-enabled iPod, just hop in the car, browse your music library via the car's LCD screen, and push to play.
The Toyota Prius does something like this with Bluetooth enabled cell-phones as a hands-free solution. The whole idea makes me randy.
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Shortly thereafter (in 2000 mind you) I posted my resume on dice.com and phone calls started rolling in. I interviewed with four or five companies and picked the one for me.
*sigh* God, I miss those days. When I was looking for work in 2000-2001 my phone was ringing off the hook for jobs here, in other states, all over. My only limiting decision was that I didn't have a car, so had to stay local. But like you, I had a CHOICE.
It's a little different now. My resume is MUCH better than it was then, and I still go weeks at a time without so much as an e-mail, and when I get the e-mail it's from a recruiter who doesn't actually have any positions open, just wants my info to put into their hiring database so he can make his quota (Sidebar: I hate recruiters, so if I sound biased, that's why. If I hear, "Sorry, but that position was filled." one more time I'm going to go on a rampage).
I'm all for patience, but we have to face facts that things aren't as they were. I'm personally looking to get out of this field, but building the credentials is going to take time and money, so I need to get a job first.
Thankfully I got this little contract position that I'm working now, but that's only through tomorrow. Does patience mean I'll have to wait another....damn, has it been nine months? I need a drink....for a job?
I think it's great the kind of things we as a community will take and run with. Ellen, the Star Wars kid, Libby Hoeler (oh, don't pretend like it was just me).
so am i to believe that there are people turning to the new york post for stock advice now?
My sentiments exactly. I had this whole nice long well thought out e-mail written out to send to this guy, and then I realized: It's the Post. No one reads the fucking Post.
My favorite part of this article is the fact that this guy is their business columnist. A business columnist giving out stock advice based on the fact that he disagrees with the moral content of the product a company makes. Yeah, OK.
We'll toss our violent video games right after "the adult world" tosses it's violent movies. And sensationalistic journalism exploitative of ACTUAL violence and tragedy. And tabloid TV. And Springer-esque talk shows.
If that were the case, why not launch before christmas.
Because they were busy selling regular iPods at $300-500 a pop. Clear out all that inventory, take the profit, then announce a new product at MacWorld. Simple profit maximization; a pre-Christmas announcement would have hurt current iPod sales as people demanded the Jr. rather than the big boy (which may or may not have been available). If they couldn't get their hands on one, they'd just wait until after Christmas. Meanwhile, iPods sit dusty and alone on the shelves. Post- you have enough time to ramp up production and meet demand. People that were going to buy an iPod already have one, so you're not taking a loss.
The people that are going to buy this (in DROVES) are the people that looked longingly at an iPod but were much too broke to buy one (read: ME and several million other people).
When you can get me a DVD recorder/MP3 player that fits in my pocket, costs $100, and is super simple to use via iTunes, then sure, I'm all over it.
In the meantime though, my money goes to the R&D demigods over at Apple. The fact that it's miniature firewire storage ALONE would make it worth a hundred bucks to me, but it's also designed by the current most successful and easy to use mp3 player?
Though I'll definitely be getting one when the mini iPods are out. 4GB firewire hard drive that fits in a pocket and has a built-in mp3 interface? For $100!?!?!? Yes, please!
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems
I swore I was the only person who'd ever seen Deep Blue Sea. Unless this quote was repeated elsewhere...?
Preacher: Einstein's theory of relativity. Grab hold of a hot pan, second can seem like an hour. Put your hands on a hot woman, an hour can seem like a second. It's all relative.
Tom Scoggins: I spent four years at CalTech, and that's the best physics explanation I've ever heard.
I give it a week before someone spoofs one of these e-mails and uses it to propagate a tasty new kind of e-mail virus.
But then, I'm a cynic.
Vote Clark. You'll be glad you did. Here's some snippets from his Manufacturing Plan:
STOP REWARDING COMPANIES THAT MOVE JOBS OVERSEAS AND START REWARDING COMPANIES THAT PRODUCE IN AMERICA
Require companies to disclose layoffs in America and job increases overseas. Consumer, investors, and workers all have the right to know which companies are moving which jobs overseas. As President, Wes Clark would work to develop a system of timely reporting to ensure that we have timely and accurate information on companies that export jobs.
Stop rewarding companies that shift jobs overseas. As President, Wes Clark would eliminate government incentives for companies to shift jobs overseas.
Stop tax breaks for companies that move overseas for tax reasons. Wes Clark would close outrageous loopholes in the tax code, like the ones that allow companies to avoid taxes by shifting income to Bermuda. In addition, Wes Clark would institute a 90-day review of all tax and spending provisions affecting large manufacturing firms. The review will focus on eliminating tax and spending provisions that give manufacturing firms incentives to move jobs overseas.
Deny government contracts to firms that move headquarters overseas for tax reasons or shift substantial numbers of U.S. jobs overseas. Wes Clark believes that companies should not be rewarded for moving their headquarters to overseas tax havens or shift substantial numbers of U.S. jobs abroad. As President, he will look for ways to make certain these companies are not rewarded with government contracts.
Start rewarding companies that create jobs in America. As President, Wes Clark would seek to implement tax and spending initiatives - above and beyond the $10,000 job creation tax credit - that provide manufacturing firms the incentive to keep existing manufacturing jobs in the United States.
I want to live in the world that you live in. You "didn't notice" a drive go into warning state and you pulled some overtime to fix it, in effect getting paid for your own mistake.
I had an array show me all red lights (due to a quirk in the RAID card, don't get me started) and pulled a 120-hour week doing a bare metal build and data restore (from old, shitty DDS tape on an older, shittier, SCSI-2 tape drive). I got it done, the users had maybe an hour total that they couldn't access their e-mail at all (and this hour was generally at or around 4am), and saved the day.
I received not an extra cent, and was fired two months later. That's IT for you, baby. Just to give you an idea of perspective.
I'm gonna get my shit together and go to law school, me myself personally.
They can not comment on your work history or their opinion of you.
Of course they can, and they do. "What is your opinion of him as a worker" and "Would you hire him again" are the top two questions on any reference worksheet.
Show me where it says that this is illegal, because if it is, I need to have a sit-down with my last boss.
Agreed. My most recent place of employment used one for primary DNS and DHCP. It ran Solaris 2.6, and in two years there I never had any problems with it.
Pizzaboxes may be ancient, but they get the job done. I wouldn't task one as a high-availability database server or anything like that, but if I have them, I'll use them. DNS, DHCP, firewall, log server, etc. etc.
This article sounds like it was written by a teenager throwing a tantrum about "Waaaah! I can never win when someone has the sniper rifle! WAAAAH!" Anyone who's played a number of online FPSes recognizes this syndrome. Penny Arcade even discussed it.
Basically, any weapon in the hands of a skilled player can be 'teh P!MPZ'. If you don't like the sniper rifle, don't play with it. I guarantee that shortly thereafter you will be writing an impassioned rant about "WAAAAH! The is BULLSHIT! It doesn't take any skill to use! It's ruining the genre! WAAAH!".
"alright you whining pricks, here's your goddamned update, yeah we screwed up and the government got us for it. fuck 'em. fuck you too. take the update. IT'S FREE DAMMIT"
That quote is much funnier when you picture Ballmer saying it, pit stains and all, while making obscene gestures.
Don't Fear (The Reaper) by Blue Oyster Cult
Am I the only one who can no longer hear this song without seeing Will Farrell' belly flopping around as he wails on a cowbell?
"I got a FEVA! And the only PRESCRIPTION....is MORE COWBELL!"
New legislation to get healthcare providers to secure patient records. BIg pain in the patoot, speaking as someone who had to sit through several long ass meetings about it earlier this week.
Bottom line is, there should be no way for patient data to "escape" from the networks of a healthcare provider. THis includes machines with no removable storage (yes, I'm serious), no phone conversations about the data in common areas, etc. etc. etc. A lot of it is commonsense security, some of it is "WTF?", and all of it is a pain to retrofit into preexisting systems. Believe me.
I'm with seeing Thrawn & Co. up on the big screen, but only if George Lucas steps his monkey ass down as writer and director and let's someone talented handle it. He can be Executive Producer and just sit in the back eating corn chips and cackling.
If memory serves:
CGA = 2^2 colors
EGA = 2^4 colors
VGA = 2^8 colors
XGA was eXtended Graphics Adapter in Radio Shack (Tandy) terms, but what meant performance wise I was never quite sure. As long as I could play Bard's Tale on it, I was a happy camper.
Haven't they been photocopying books and magazines for years under that clause?
Absolutely. This is because book and magazine publishers aren't the profiteering bunch of fuckmonkeys that the RIAA are. The RIAA says if you didn't purchase it, don't let us catch you listening to it or we swear to God we'll fucking kill you.
A professor photocopying multiple textbooks in order to make a coursepack to hand out to his students == perfectly legal.
A professor ripping multiple purchased CDs in order to make a CD to hand out to his students == Intellectual Property Theft/Piracy/Stealing/A venial sin/the same as sodomizing small boys.
Don't Do It.
You must buy a physical copy of each full CD that contains the song you want (since these are older songs, the singles are no longer available, so you'll have to just buy the whole thing). There must be a discrete copy of each CD/song/group of songs for each person in the class, including instructors and professors. So, figure 10 songs needed, 10 different full CDs to get the 1 song that you need, PER student.
Students will NOT bring tape recorders to class to record the lecture in order to avoid possibly recording a copywritten song and risking fines and jail time. The professor MAY make a mix CD containing just the songs needed for the class once he has obtained the needed number of copies of CDs (remember, one set of songs per listener), but he may make only one copy per student. These copies must be destroyed when the class is complete in order to reduce risks of accidental redistribution (FINES and JAIL. Your ass == MEAT). New sets of original CDs MUST BE PURCHASED for each new successive semester, and the above rules strongly adhered to.
Play nice, and we'll give you a 15% educational discount.
Thank you for respecting our intellectual property.
Love,
the RIAA
"50 years of profiting from the creations of others"
Fairly certain it's Korn Shell (ksh).
/bin/ksh /etc/passwdr /bin/ksh
root@server: > echo $SHELL
root@server: > grep jrashaad
jrashaad:!:206:1::/home/jrashaad:/us
root@server: > uname -a
AIX server 3 4 000XXXXXXxX
So, yeah. Unless the default shell in the 5 series has changed.
I'd just hop in the car, slide the ipod into a socket and press a button to play it.
Or, with a Bluetooth-enabled iPod, just hop in the car, browse your music library via the car's LCD screen, and push to play.
The Toyota Prius does something like this with Bluetooth enabled cell-phones as a hands-free solution. The whole idea makes me randy.
Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Shortly thereafter (in 2000 mind you) I posted my resume on dice.com and phone calls started rolling in. I interviewed with four or five companies and picked the one for me.
*sigh* God, I miss those days. When I was looking for work in 2000-2001 my phone was ringing off the hook for jobs here, in other states, all over. My only limiting decision was that I didn't have a car, so had to stay local. But like you, I had a CHOICE.
It's a little different now. My resume is MUCH better than it was then, and I still go weeks at a time without so much as an e-mail, and when I get the e-mail it's from a recruiter who doesn't actually have any positions open, just wants my info to put into their hiring database so he can make his quota (Sidebar: I hate recruiters, so if I sound biased, that's why. If I hear, "Sorry, but that position was filled." one more time I'm going to go on a rampage).
I'm all for patience, but we have to face facts that things aren't as they were. I'm personally looking to get out of this field, but building the credentials is going to take time and money, so I need to get a job first.
Thankfully I got this little contract position that I'm working now, but that's only through tomorrow. Does patience mean I'll have to wait another....damn, has it been nine months? I need a drink....for a job?
I'm Ellen Feiss, and I have an iPodJr.
I think it's great the kind of things we as a community will take and run with. Ellen, the Star Wars kid, Libby Hoeler (oh, don't pretend like it was just me).
Now, let's start a PAC. Who's with me?
so am i to believe that there are people turning to the new york post for stock advice now?
My sentiments exactly. I had this whole nice long well thought out e-mail written out to send to this guy, and then I realized: It's the Post. No one reads the fucking Post.
My favorite part of this article is the fact that this guy is their business columnist. A business columnist giving out stock advice based on the fact that he disagrees with the moral content of the product a company makes. Yeah, OK.
We'll toss our violent video games right after "the adult world" tosses it's violent movies. And sensationalistic journalism exploitative of ACTUAL violence and tragedy. And tabloid TV. And Springer-esque talk shows.
You get the idea.
You, sir, need to get yourself a job. That would be an EXCELLENT way to capitilize on the success of the trilogy, as well as push their new product.
Plus, Merry and Pippin kick ass.
If that were the case, why not launch before christmas.
Because they were busy selling regular iPods at $300-500 a pop. Clear out all that inventory, take the profit, then announce a new product at MacWorld. Simple profit maximization; a pre-Christmas announcement would have hurt current iPod sales as people demanded the Jr. rather than the big boy (which may or may not have been available). If they couldn't get their hands on one, they'd just wait until after Christmas. Meanwhile, iPods sit dusty and alone on the shelves. Post- you have enough time to ramp up production and meet demand. People that were going to buy an iPod already have one, so you're not taking a loss.
The people that are going to buy this (in DROVES) are the people that looked longingly at an iPod but were much too broke to buy one (read: ME and several million other people).
Bah, just use DVDs instead
When you can get me a DVD recorder/MP3 player that fits in my pocket, costs $100, and is super simple to use via iTunes, then sure, I'm all over it.
In the meantime though, my money goes to the R&D demigods over at Apple. The fact that it's miniature firewire storage ALONE would make it worth a hundred bucks to me, but it's also designed by the current most successful and easy to use mp3 player?
My iPod ... My preeecioussssss...
Give us that, love. It's me birthday...
Though I'll definitely be getting one when the mini iPods are out. 4GB firewire hard drive that fits in a pocket and has a built-in mp3 interface? For $100!?!?!? Yes, please!