So, I did a little looking around on the web and my question is where do I buy an HDFury? As far as I can tell it is no more. Nobody seems to have any inventory.
Well, you could try here if you're in Canada, or try here if you're in the UK, or try here if you're in Germany, or try here if you're in Australia, or try here if you're in South Africa.
These were all from a quick google search (it found many others also), and some of them claimed to have the items "in stock". However, the search results did not seem to have any sites in the US which are still selling them, so maybe you're SOL if that's where you live.
In Finland where i come from we have quite a few international companies with english as the working language. I guess that goes for all major international companies in Europe. So if you got skills wanted for a position at a company in Europe i wouldn't say there'd be any problem migrating
And I can bear witness to this.
I don't speak Finnish (despite my best efforts at learning it, my best efforts at speaking/understanding it remain pathetic), but live and work in Finland. Most Finns speak far better English than my attempts at Finnish, and many speak better English than the typical Brit/Yank. In fact, I even changed job from one multinational in Finland to another multinational in Finland. More than 5 years resident in Finland with each of them, as a matter of fact. BTW, I previously lived and worked in North America (despite not being born there either), and migrated to Finland. The climate and taxes are "suboptimal" here, but the people and living conditions are good; overall, it's preferable to anywhere I've lived in the US, Canada, UK, etc.
Yup, distribute across the LAN, and use frequent backups and sensible write permissions.
I have a tree of directories with mostly sensible names on the server (2TB) for stuff that's worth filing away, with automated nightly backup to one of two external 2TB disks. Another 2TB disk contains videos and movies which are supplied on demand to the TV, and a 1TB disk contains music and audio lectures (we've spent a fortune on stuff from the Teaching Company, for instance). The latter two disks are not in the backup cycle, as they are mirrors of disks on two of the workstations at home.
The kids have been instructed that only deletable stuff should be saved locally on a workstation - anything to be retained should be in their directories on the server. The kids have read access to almost all of the server (a few "special" directories are off-limits) but write access only to their own home directories. They know I'll copy the server's stuff to new disks or a new server when the time comes, but workstation disks are just wiped...
Once upon a time, I used to make file links if a particular file reasonably belonged in more than one directory in our tree. However, I stopped this since it was extra work without tangible benefit: locate has never let me down on finding a file.
If the head guy says: "invite this engineer guy into your strategy meetings"
and continues "so you'll have someone to laugh at." Or maybe to throw chairs at.
That's the way large companies often operate: the business managers and marketers claim all the glory for a successful product, and blame the engineers if a product fails.
Chase them down without mercy, crush them, destroy their property with fire, raze their houses to the ground, raise piles of wood and combustibles on the grounds where their dwellings were and throw their spouses and offspring upon them, and then set them on fire. Torture them to death, slice their skin off bloody strip by bloody strip and feed them to fire ants. That for a starter, the real fun comes later.
I suppose you could argue that this is performance art or some other expression of artistic or cultural merit. Have you applied for funding from the appropriate UK or EU authorities? They could hardly refuse, considering some of the barbarous outfits their colleagues are propping up with our tax money. Selling the TV rights and after-market DVDs should return a tidy profit.
but likely to be overturned by India's "supreme court" later on.
I suppose you're hoping that India's Supreme Court will reverse its earlier ruling which recognizes astrology as a science worthy of being taught at universities, and with courses funded by taxpayers. http://www.scribd.com/doc/19043519/Astrology-Case-in-Supreme-Court-of-India. Here's a relevant excerpt from that judgement:
"Since Astrology is partly based upon study of movement of sun, earth, planets and other celestial bodies, it is a study of science at least to some extent."
I know that many admins might look at this as seeing a nail while holding a hammer
Then there are the lawyer-types (including most politicians) and MBA-types (running large companies). They see a screw while holding a screwdriver, and proceed to hammer the screw with the handle of the screwdriver. That's why utilities which have no business being connected to the internet are so vulnerable.
But if it ends up being like other advancements such as those stupid soft keyboards on smart phones it gets harder and harder to find something decent that doesn't have one.
And that was precisely the reason my daughter chose the HTC Desire Z instead of the HTC Desire HD as her birthday present a couple of months ago. They cost much the same, but the Z has a flip-out hardware keyboard, while the HD has a slightly larger screen. The keyboard was an absolute requirement for her, easily outweighing the HD's larger screeen (same number of pixels) and camera with a higher pixel count.
I think you missed that religion and science are branches of philosophy that try to answer different questions.
That is probably the way things should be. If it were, religions would progressively be confined to irrelevancy for everyday life, or perhaps limiting themselves to conducting rites of passage for individuals in society.
Unfortunately, most religions cleave to any of several pre-scientific mythologies which are arbitrarily deemed to be unquestionable "truth", rather than being rooted in abstract philosophical narrative which can be revised based on contemplative analysis and observation. This results in a tendency for religion to attempt to answer questions which are clearly in the domain of science (i.e. testable hypotheses). A well-known example is the "power of prayer", which is susceptible to real-world double-blind testing with statistical analysis of results - hint: prayer was demonstrated to be powerless in the tested scenario. In the worst cases, zealots attempt to override scientific results by aggressively brandishing their stone-age mythology - resulting in the tragedy of ID being taught in science classes.
anyone with a strong science degree is making more money somewhere other than teaching. so either we have to pay science teachers more, or we need to accept that science isn't being taught by science majors. take your pick
Are music teachers ignorant/incompetent in music? Well, science teachers should not be ignorant of science or incompetent in teaching it. If that makes a science teacher more expensive than a music teacher in your country, then so be it. Solve your problem, don't just gripe about it.
and i will bet you a GNP that every other country has the same problem
So you now owe me the GNP of Finland. There is no problem teaching science here in Finland, where teachers traditionally come from the upper half of university graduates (being a teacher does not make one wealthy, but it confers respect and social status), rather than the dregs as in some other countries. Moreover, those who teach math or science in high school are expected to be qualified in the same areas that they teach.
The main opposition force in Egypt during Mubarak's reign, the Muslim Brotherhood [...] and many Egyptians see the chance for a real chance of democracy
Yeah that worked out so well for Iran...
If the people want an Islamist party, let them vote for one in a fair election. The risk is that an Islamist party may be or might become undemocratic, leading to "one person, one vote, one time". Not that this would differ greatly from the current situation where opposition parties and candidates are brutally excluded from any possibility of obtaining power.
Autocracy is not inevitible under Islamist rule, of course: Turkey remains democratic, and the electorate there can eject the Islamists at the next election if they want.
... I've shorted Apple stock. Frankly, I suggest you all do likewise.
I view this as a one-day-only 5% discount sale.
Ancient wisdom: "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". The price and daily change in AAPL may be utterly irrational, but it's still a courageous bet to trade it either way in quantity.
Indeed it did. Especially the free-form queries with parentheses for grouping search terms with boolean operators. And the NEAR keyword, which was key to getting relevant results. I used Altavista right up to the day they dropped the NEAR keyword. On that day, they were surpassed by Google.
What if a parent used the vaccine schedule of Denmark, Norway, Japan or Finland -- countries that give one-third the shots we do (12 shots vs. 36 in the U.S.)?
Methinks the 12 vs 36 is a comparison of apples and oranges. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_schedule, the USA has 14 vaccines in its standard schedule, while Finland has 12. Actually Finland's schedule nowadays includes HPV also, making it 13 (our elder daughter got it). Some of those, of course, involve shots repeated at different ages, but the number of such shots does not greatly differ between countries. Moreover, the measles, mumps, and rubella are still available as a combined shot in Finland, while they are counted separately in that table. So the difference in the number of vaccinations is probably 1, and certainly not 24. The difference in the number of actual shots will vary by region, but is probably small (maybe even negative).
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So, I did a little looking around on the web and my question is where do I buy an HDFury? As far as I can tell it is no more. Nobody seems to have any inventory.
Well, you could try here if you're in Canada, or try here if you're in the UK, or try here if you're in Germany, or try here if you're in Australia, or try here if you're in South Africa.
These were all from a quick google search (it found many others also), and some of them claimed to have the items "in stock". However, the search results did not seem to have any sites in the US which are still selling them, so maybe you're SOL if that's where you live.
In Finland where i come from we have quite a few international companies with english as the working language. I guess that goes for all major international companies in Europe. So if you got skills wanted for a position at a company in Europe i wouldn't say there'd be any problem migrating
And I can bear witness to this.
I don't speak Finnish (despite my best efforts at learning it, my best efforts at speaking/understanding it remain pathetic), but live and work in Finland. Most Finns speak far better English than my attempts at Finnish, and many speak better English than the typical Brit/Yank. In fact, I even changed job from one multinational in Finland to another multinational in Finland. More than 5 years resident in Finland with each of them, as a matter of fact. BTW, I previously lived and worked in North America (despite not being born there either), and migrated to Finland. The climate and taxes are "suboptimal" here, but the people and living conditions are good; overall, it's preferable to anywhere I've lived in the US, Canada, UK, etc.
Microsoft is against it.
They are also against killing puppies
Any evidence or citation for this assertion?
Its not quite cat-sized. I'd say bat-sized.
Is that a brickbat?
Yup, distribute across the LAN, and use frequent backups and sensible write permissions.
I have a tree of directories with mostly sensible names on the server (2TB) for stuff that's worth filing away, with automated nightly backup to one of two external 2TB disks. Another 2TB disk contains videos and movies which are supplied on demand to the TV, and a 1TB disk contains music and audio lectures (we've spent a fortune on stuff from the Teaching Company, for instance). The latter two disks are not in the backup cycle, as they are mirrors of disks on two of the workstations at home.
The kids have been instructed that only deletable stuff should be saved locally on a workstation - anything to be retained should be in their directories on the server. The kids have read access to almost all of the server (a few "special" directories are off-limits) but write access only to their own home directories. They know I'll copy the server's stuff to new disks or a new server when the time comes, but workstation disks are just wiped...
Once upon a time, I used to make file links if a particular file reasonably belonged in more than one directory in our tree. However, I stopped this since it was extra work without tangible benefit: locate has never let me down on finding a file.
If the head guy says: "invite this engineer guy into your strategy meetings"
and continues "so you'll have someone to laugh at." Or maybe to throw chairs at.
That's the way large companies often operate: the business managers and marketers claim all the glory for a successful product, and blame the engineers if a product fails.
Chase them down without mercy, crush them, destroy their property with fire, raze their houses to the ground, raise piles of wood and combustibles on the grounds where their dwellings were and throw their spouses and offspring upon them, and then set them on fire. Torture them to death, slice their skin off bloody strip by bloody strip and feed them to fire ants. That for a starter, the real fun comes later.
I suppose you could argue that this is performance art or some other expression of artistic or cultural merit. Have you applied for funding from the appropriate UK or EU authorities? They could hardly refuse, considering some of the barbarous outfits their colleagues are propping up with our tax money. Selling the TV rights and after-market DVDs should return a tidy profit.
In all honesty, Belgium.
Hey, there are limits, you know.
Risque words like "fuck" or "cunt" or "cocksucker" are tolerated here, but that B-word is going too far...
There's not much you can do about MORONS, one way or another, they may kill themselves.
Crossing dodgy terrain with GPS just provides another way for the floaters to be filtered out of the gene pool.
but likely to be overturned by India's "supreme court" later on.
I suppose you're hoping that India's Supreme Court will reverse its earlier ruling which recognizes astrology as a science worthy of being taught at universities, and with courses funded by taxpayers. http://www.scribd.com/doc/19043519/Astrology-Case-in-Supreme-Court-of-India. Here's a relevant excerpt from that judgement:
"Since Astrology is partly based upon study of movement of sun, earth, planets and other celestial bodies, it is a study of science at least to some extent."
And why isn't this on Idle with the other dross, where it belongs?
I know that many admins might look at this as seeing a nail while holding a hammer
Then there are the lawyer-types (including most politicians) and MBA-types (running large companies). They see a screw while holding a screwdriver, and proceed to hammer the screw with the handle of the screwdriver. That's why utilities which have no business being connected to the internet are so vulnerable.
But if it ends up being like other advancements such as those stupid soft keyboards on smart phones it gets harder and harder to find something decent that doesn't have one.
And that was precisely the reason my daughter chose the HTC Desire Z instead of the HTC Desire HD as her birthday present a couple of months ago. They cost much the same, but the Z has a flip-out hardware keyboard, while the HD has a slightly larger screen. The keyboard was an absolute requirement for her, easily outweighing the HD's larger screeen (same number of pixels) and camera with a higher pixel count.
I think you missed that religion and science are branches of philosophy that try to answer different questions.
That is probably the way things should be. If it were, religions would progressively be confined to irrelevancy for everyday life, or perhaps limiting themselves to conducting rites of passage for individuals in society.
Unfortunately, most religions cleave to any of several pre-scientific mythologies which are arbitrarily deemed to be unquestionable "truth", rather than being rooted in abstract philosophical narrative which can be revised based on contemplative analysis and observation. This results in a tendency for religion to attempt to answer questions which are clearly in the domain of science (i.e. testable hypotheses). A well-known example is the "power of prayer", which is susceptible to real-world double-blind testing with statistical analysis of results - hint: prayer was demonstrated to be powerless in the tested scenario. In the worst cases, zealots attempt to override scientific results by aggressively brandishing their stone-age mythology - resulting in the tragedy of ID being taught in science classes.
anyone with a strong science degree is making more money somewhere other than teaching. so either we have to pay science teachers more, or we need to accept that science isn't being taught by science majors. take your pick
Are music teachers ignorant/incompetent in music? Well, science teachers should not be ignorant of science or incompetent in teaching it. If that makes a science teacher more expensive than a music teacher in your country, then so be it. Solve your problem, don't just gripe about it.
and i will bet you a GNP that every other country has the same problem
So you now owe me the GNP of Finland. There is no problem teaching science here in Finland, where teachers traditionally come from the upper half of university graduates (being a teacher does not make one wealthy, but it confers respect and social status), rather than the dregs as in some other countries. Moreover, those who teach math or science in high school are expected to be qualified in the same areas that they teach.
The main opposition force in Egypt during Mubarak's reign, the Muslim Brotherhood [...] and many Egyptians see the chance for a real chance of democracy
Yeah that worked out so well for Iran...
If the people want an Islamist party, let them vote for one in a fair election. The risk is that an Islamist party may be or might become undemocratic, leading to "one person, one vote, one time". Not that this would differ greatly from the current situation where opposition parties and candidates are brutally excluded from any possibility of obtaining power.
Autocracy is not inevitible under Islamist rule, of course: Turkey remains democratic, and the electorate there can eject the Islamists at the next election if they want.
Seems our summaries are only hitting 70% accuracy lately.
I have not noticed such a dramatic improvement in accuracy of summaries.
... I've shorted Apple stock. Frankly, I suggest you all do likewise.
I view this as a one-day-only 5% discount sale.
Ancient wisdom: "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". The price and daily change in AAPL may be utterly irrational, but it's still a courageous bet to trade it either way in quantity.
Altavista worked great
Indeed it did. Especially the free-form queries with parentheses for grouping search terms with boolean operators. And the NEAR keyword, which was key to getting relevant results. I used Altavista right up to the day they dropped the NEAR keyword. On that day, they were surpassed by Google.
Juilan Assange is an Australia.
Well, if he's an actual country, he has sovereign immunity and can't be sued...
What if a parent used the vaccine schedule of Denmark, Norway, Japan or Finland -- countries that give one-third the shots we do (12 shots vs. 36 in the U.S.)?
Methinks the 12 vs 36 is a comparison of apples and oranges. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_schedule, the USA has 14 vaccines in its standard schedule, while Finland has 12. Actually Finland's schedule nowadays includes HPV also, making it 13 (our elder daughter got it). Some of those, of course, involve shots repeated at different ages, but the number of such shots does not greatly differ between countries. Moreover, the measles, mumps, and rubella are still available as a combined shot in Finland, while they are counted separately in that table. So the difference in the number of vaccinations is probably 1, and certainly not 24. The difference in the number of actual shots will vary by region, but is probably small (maybe even negative).
... by Jimi Hendrix.
FYI http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Electric_ladyland_nude_front_and_back.jpg probably NSFW in USA and other perverted jurisdictions.
Why, somebody might be confronted with their Puritannical objection to the human form.
"If God intended us to be naked, we'd be born that way!" - Oscar Wilde.
...unless the pixelation is removed!
Using their own valuations presented in other court cases, they'd be looking at a settlement in the billions of dollars.