Does anyone have any idea what someone like that should be making?
Enough to be able to support your family properly without the significant other having to work. I.E. Enough to put a house over your heads, for food, clothing, transport, etc. etc. A modest luxury or two like a vacation away from home every so often, or perhaps a decent home computer or three. Oops! Sorry, I forgot, this is/., so computers are necessities!
I'm sure Venice will be only too happy to help with gondolier training.
Actually I'm being more than half serious. New Orleans will never be the same again. Too many people will decide that the new lives which they will carve out for themselves elsewhere are not too bad. They'll prefer to stay where they find themselves rather than return to a radically changed situation which only has geographic location in common with what was their previous lives.
The whole point of the certification industry is to create a cash flow for the certifying entities, the training establishments, the book authors and publishers. Secondly certifications provide a somewhat nebulous proof of a skill-set so that knowledge-free managers can sleep comfortably at night. That said, well thought out tick-the-box tests do sort the absolute chaff from the grain in a rough and ready sort way. Remember that MCSE == "Must Consult Someone Experienced", and, joking aside, that the LPI series are actually useful, but that you need to achieve level 3 before your knowledge is of any real economic value.
Put the Google Ads at the top of the RH column where they can be seen and clicked on. That will make a considerable difference.
Have a subscription system similar to that used by Linux Weekly News.
whether or not the US population as a whole gets the message that burning Arab Juice is Un-American. I predict that they will and that successive US governments will make a considerable effort to reduce the amount of imported liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The main result will, thankfully, be a reduction in the rate of Global Warming. International Treaties == Nothing, [Patriot|National]ism == Everything.
Make people like this guy, Martha Stewart, and Bernie Ebbers repay their debts in other more productive ways.
While I'm in full agreement with your feelings, the trouble with that form of punishment is that it is impossible for an individual person to legally generate the level of capital required for complete restitution. So they do what they think they can do to get the money as quickly as possible, and get stuck into another round of theft to pay off the debts from the first round. Do we really want that?
My own feeling is that they should be compelled to do a long stretch of "Good Works" (tm), such as teaching hundreds of convicted felons to read for the minimum wage.
I thought that US citizens had the Constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms to prevent federal governments getting into this sort of nonsense. Is it time for a few well aimed assinations? I understand that there is a particularly well qualified Arab in Bagdad who would be only too willing to help with the training. Technology gone completely mad imho. Makes the Soviet Union look positively benign in comparison.
Let's imagine for a moment that the President had decided not to use the Atomic Bomb, and millions of US conscripts, and tens of millions of Japanese had been sacrificed during the invasion battle.
Now answer the question: What would the American people have had to say to their President when it became common knowledge that a Super Bomb had been created which could have avoided this needless expenditure of American and Japanese lives?
Yes, Nuclear weapons are in some ways the product of the Devil, but they have resulted in a period of peace between the major nations the duration of which has never before been experienced.
Are the people who work for you allowed to continue their involvement with their pet Open Source and Free Software projects? If not during work hours in the same way as Google does, what about during their own time?
This will never happen because there is huge quantities of patented code in Windows which belongs to third parties. Microsoft would have to buy in dozens if not hundreds of companies to do this. I can't see that happening.
Otoh. It would be interesting to know exactly what Daniel Robbins, and similar collegues, are doing. My own guess is that he's probably creating a superior and enhanced version of his Portage build system for Vista. And otherwise probably very little, apart from being kept safely out of circulation so that the Free World cannot make use of his talents.
Please don't imagine that your data is safely archived on CD.
Writeable CDs, as opposed to the manufactured read-only recordings, can suffer from bit-rot after only a few months.
The International Telecommuncations Union is an international organization within the United Nations System where governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services. This is the supra-national organisation which should control and operate the DNS in the same way as it ultimately controls all international electronic communication. The first thing that urgently needs to be cleaned up is what is essentially the identity theft of TLD names from small countries with naive governments. I'm thinking particularly of.tv,.cx, and.to. These stolen domain names have been totally corrupted by a bunch of disengenious American 'entrepreneurs'. While the United Nations may not be exactly lily-white in absolutely all its dealings, the magnetude of the UN's sins pales into insignificance compared when compared with the identity theft of not just one, but three nations' names. The next item on the clean-up agenda is to ensure that the three-letter TLD names disappear as soon as possible. Thus all the.com names become.com.us, or whatever country they are actually situated in. Finally the effective introduction of IPv6 is long overdue. It's my belief that the creation of a totally erroneous perception of scarcity value in the current 32 bit addresses is yet another reason to take the administration of the DNS out of the control of a demonstrably corrupt nation.
Pay teachers well enough to attract well educated and intelligent people into the job.
Don't penalize older people, who have a lot to contribute, from joining the teaching work force.
Provide a way for tired, worn out, or simply incompetent teachers to retire gracefully.
Bring back streaming so that bright kids don't have to suffer the indignity of being forced to sit through hours and hours of nothing while the slow pupils plod through the work.
Teach full literacy. The whole of the English speaking world seems to have chucked that in the too hard basket.
Teach mental numeracy. Everybody should, as a minimum, be able to check their change after buying something. You'd be surprised how many cashiers make errors and 'mistakes'.
Actually, provided you read/. at level 4, the US doesn't seem to be doing too badly.
Dogs and pigs both have extremely well developed senses of smell. Both are intelligent animals and could be trained to detect explosives. The cost would be a mere fraction of the two million pounds quoted by QinetiQ. Pigs are used in many countries to find valuable buried fungi. Dogs can find and recognise people by their smell. To start finding the murderers I'd start looking for the explosives. Perhaps now is the time for the Law to be 'adjusted' so that in times of emergency a mans home is not quite the castle is was before 07-JUL-2005.
This book is a refreshing change. It is written by an author who has a fully literate command of English, and is therefore a pleasure to read. The contrast to run-of-the-mill books about computing, all of which usually have the linguistic stamp of a semi-literate ten year old child, is so very obvious. The typology is excellent and has been designed by somebody who is fully aware of both the subject matter and communication techniques. There are a few grammatical inconsistencies, primarily of tense and plurality. The publishers are absolutely potty turning down this really beautiful magnum opus. The author is similarly off the normal track giving away this superb work. He should take his work off-line set up a pay for download site as soon as possible.
Microsoft are setting very generous baits all over the world to take anybody with a decent level of intelligence, experience and creativity out of circulation. Once trapped out of public view in the dungeons of MS Research, the poor geniuses rot intellectually so that they are no longer able to produce competing products.
I can't help but wonder how they feel now that they cannot claim a patent on that as a European business method.
If what you said were true why didn't Microsoft take say FreeBSD
and do the same thing? It's BSD Licensed, UNIX based and a pretty solid system.
MS couldn't change to a unix-like o/s at that point, or now for that matter, because they have too much legacy baggage programming distributed as binaries to support, both their own and other people's.
Apple managed it because they have a _far_ smaller load of legacy applications, which are by and large far better written.
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Enough to be able to support your family properly without the significant other having to work. I.E. Enough to put a house over your heads, for food, clothing, transport, etc. etc. A modest luxury or two like a vacation away from home every so often, or perhaps a decent home computer or three. Oops! Sorry, I forgot, this is /., so computers are necessities!
I'm sure Venice will be only too happy to help with gondolier training.
Actually I'm being more than half serious. New Orleans will never be the same again. Too many people will decide that the new lives which they will carve out for themselves elsewhere are not too bad. They'll prefer to stay where they find themselves rather than return to a radically changed situation which only has geographic location in common with what was their previous lives.
The whole point of the certification industry is to create a cash flow for the certifying entities, the training establishments, the book authors and publishers. Secondly certifications provide a somewhat nebulous proof of a skill-set so that knowledge-free managers can sleep comfortably at night. That said, well thought out tick-the-box tests do sort the absolute chaff from the grain in a rough and ready sort way. Remember that MCSE == "Must Consult Someone Experienced", and, joking aside, that the LPI series are actually useful, but that you need to achieve level 3 before your knowledge is of any real economic value.
Put the Google Ads at the top of the RH column where they can be seen and clicked on. That will make a considerable difference. Have a subscription system similar to that used by Linux Weekly News.
whether or not the US population as a whole gets the message that burning Arab Juice is Un-American. I predict that they will and that successive US governments will make a considerable effort to reduce the amount of imported liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The main result will, thankfully, be a reduction in the rate of Global Warming. International Treaties == Nothing, [Patriot|National]ism == Everything.
While I'm in full agreement with your feelings, the trouble with that form of punishment is that it is impossible for an individual person to legally generate the level of capital required for complete restitution. So they do what they think they can do to get the money as quickly as possible, and get stuck into another round of theft to pay off the debts from the first round. Do we really want that?
My own feeling is that they should be compelled to do a long stretch of "Good Works" (tm), such as teaching hundreds of convicted felons to read for the minimum wage.
I thought that US citizens had the Constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms to prevent federal governments getting into this sort of nonsense. Is it time for a few well aimed assinations? I understand that there is a particularly well qualified Arab in Bagdad who would be only too willing to help with the training. Technology gone completely mad imho. Makes the Soviet Union look positively benign in comparison.
Yes he does, but unless he defends it, under US law, he can lose his rights to it. The Licencing scheme does that.
Interesting, thanks.
Now answer the question: What would the American people have had to say to their President when it became common knowledge that a Super Bomb had been created which could have avoided this needless expenditure of American and Japanese lives?
Yes, Nuclear weapons are in some ways the product of the Devil, but they have resulted in a period of peace between the major nations the duration of which has never before been experienced.
I'd love to know if there were more nukes in the arsenal in Aug 1945? Was it just the two, or were there others?
Are the people who work for you allowed to continue their involvement with their pet Open Source and Free Software projects? If not during work hours in the same way as Google does, what about during their own time?
This will never happen because there is huge quantities of patented code in Windows which belongs to third parties. Microsoft would have to buy in dozens if not hundreds of companies to do this. I can't see that happening.
Otoh. It would be interesting to know exactly what Daniel Robbins, and similar collegues, are doing. My own guess is that he's probably creating a superior and enhanced version of his Portage build system for Vista. And otherwise probably very little, apart from being kept safely out of circulation so that the Free World cannot make use of his talents.
Please don't imagine that your data is safely archived on CD. Writeable CDs, as opposed to the manufactured read-only recordings, can suffer from bit-rot after only a few months.
Time for tin-foil body armor?
Yes I know I can read the puff about them both, but that's just what they want us to believe.
btw, I thought that BeOS was sold to Palm. How come it's Zeta now?
Nonsense! Virtually every day dozens of emails tell me that it's Pfizer who control the root servers!
The International Telecommuncations Union is an international organization within the United Nations System where governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services. This is the supra-national organisation which should control and operate the DNS in the same way as it ultimately controls all international electronic communication. The first thing that urgently needs to be cleaned up is what is essentially the identity theft of TLD names from small countries with naive governments. I'm thinking particularly of .tv, .cx, and .to. These stolen domain names have been totally corrupted by a bunch of disengenious American 'entrepreneurs'. While the United Nations may not be exactly lily-white in absolutely all its dealings, the magnetude of the UN's sins pales into insignificance compared when compared with the identity theft of not just one, but three nations' names. The next item on the clean-up agenda is to ensure that the three-letter TLD names disappear as soon as possible. Thus all the .com names become .com.us, or whatever country they are actually situated in. Finally the effective introduction of IPv6 is long overdue. It's my belief that the creation of a totally erroneous perception of scarcity value in the current 32 bit addresses is yet another reason to take the administration of the DNS out of the control of a demonstrably corrupt nation.
- Don't kill curiosity.
- Pay teachers well enough to attract well educated and intelligent people into the job.
- Don't penalize older people, who have a lot to contribute, from joining the teaching work force.
- Provide a way for tired, worn out, or simply incompetent teachers to retire gracefully.
- Bring back streaming so that bright kids don't have to suffer the indignity of being forced to sit through hours and hours of nothing while the slow pupils plod through the work.
- Teach full literacy. The whole of the English speaking world seems to have chucked that in the too hard basket.
- Teach mental numeracy. Everybody should, as a minimum, be able to check their change after buying something. You'd be surprised how many cashiers make errors and 'mistakes'.
Actually, provided you readDogs and pigs both have extremely well developed senses of smell. Both are intelligent animals and could be trained to detect explosives. The cost would be a mere fraction of the two million pounds quoted by QinetiQ. Pigs are used in many countries to find valuable buried fungi. Dogs can find and recognise people by their smell. To start finding the murderers I'd start looking for the explosives. Perhaps now is the time for the Law to be 'adjusted' so that in times of emergency a mans home is not quite the castle is was before 07-JUL-2005.
This book is a refreshing change. It is written by an author who has a fully literate command of English, and is therefore a pleasure to read. The contrast to run-of-the-mill books about computing, all of which usually have the linguistic stamp of a semi-literate ten year old child, is so very obvious. The typology is excellent and has been designed by somebody who is fully aware of both the subject matter and communication techniques. There are a few grammatical inconsistencies, primarily of tense and plurality. The publishers are absolutely potty turning down this really beautiful magnum opus. The author is similarly off the normal track giving away this superb work. He should take his work off-line set up a pay for download site as soon as possible.
Microsoft are setting very generous baits all over the world to take anybody with a decent level of intelligence, experience and creativity out of circulation. Once trapped out of public view in the dungeons of MS Research, the poor geniuses rot intellectually so that they are no longer able to produce competing products.
I can't help but wonder how they feel now that they cannot claim a patent on that as a European business method.
WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn] caldera n : a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression
If what you said were true why didn't Microsoft take say FreeBSD and do the same thing? It's BSD Licensed, UNIX based and a pretty solid system.
MS couldn't change to a unix-like o/s at that point, or now for that matter, because they have too much legacy baggage programming distributed as binaries to support, both their own and other people's.
Apple managed it because they have a _far_ smaller load of legacy applications, which are by and large far better written.
Not really. Standard NZ school biology because the rats were the only mammals in the country when the Europeans first arrived.