A democracy is 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner....
A republic is four sheep electing three wolves to decide what's for dinner......
A constitutional republic is three sheep, four wolves voting on dinner, but the sheep are armed.
or something like that....
Star Trek Episode....
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The Drone War
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Rememeber that episode (TNG i think), where two planets ran wars on computers then based on the results, sent appropriate numbers of their own people to death?
I wonder if we'll see anything like that in the future...... (doubtful)
It was a good premise for a show anyway....
Most engineers have been taught that FORTRAN is the way to solve problems in engineering. If everyone starts out with that prejudice and is stuck there.
Where I work, there is a project to write an engineering application in VB, and it has seemed to be one problem after another after another. (I know i know, VB is crap). The core library functions are in C, in a DLL, so I guess thats a bit of a start.
FORTRAN has been ingrained into the current working generations of engineers, so they're going to use what they know.
Heck, I've even seen SQLPlus code (from Aspen) written very very very FORTRAN like. Instead of using min(), max(), there was a bunch of select looping and checking variables..... Oy.
Re:There's a good chance it's fake...
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Apple PDA?
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Thanks.... this was the best quote...(emphasis mine)
"Why make a hoax? Like I said, this feeds egos. Look, we're all idiots, talking about their fake Apple product. Maybe they'll make Slashdot again. In addition, they want ads. Visitors attract advertisers. "
Here here. 10% is pretty good. The company i "contract" too takes a flat $8. The previous company I worked for was taking $8.50.... before that, (as a W2 then, close to 70%).
Same position, mind you, W2 company, then two contractors..... pretty hot.
I'm a 1099 now, but my accountant advised me to become an S-Corp for a number of reasons. Will be doing so after the new year.
I'm running FreeBSD on my Sceptre (think Dell Inspiron clone).
I re-compiled my first kernel to get the sound card to work, adding a line like "device pcm" or something.
The only problem I have is KDE start up takes two/three "startx" to start. Some kind of DCOP server startup problem. Hunting through google didn't help. Anyone?
In physics, there is no "suck". It's all "blow". Just depends on what side you're on. Pressure goes from high to low, it's called diffusion, 6th grade chemistry.
<br>However, that's not to say that in the low pressure or non-existant pressure it didn't boil away long ago..
As anyone who works in automation engineering could tell you, getting it right the first time isn't always easy. Hopefully the moon mines will be programmable from earth and it would be easy to fix your way out of a jam.
Getting Instrumentation & Electrical Techs up there might be a bit of a pain though.
It would be much easier if we just found some Horta and hired them to work for us. But in a vacuum it might be tough on them...
Before you trash Microsoft, for "YAW" (yet another worm).
But you should trash dumbass SQL Admins who don't set passwords!! WTF, yeah, their installer may not prompt them, but shouldnt someone who knows how to log into an NT or 2K know at least, "Hey, maybe this thing has a password too".
If they don't know that, they should take a sharp stick in the eye.
Not to troll, but does/. have a Cringley story every he writes an article?
I liked the article, but man... he's always on/..
Kind of like having him on the payroll (Katz), but not paying him.....
let's get rid of Katz!!!
Granted, disklabel usage for me wasn't more than "make whole disk for OpenBSD". And that was my big fear with disklabel for FreeBSD. I didn't want to lose my existing partitions. But actually, once I understood what was going on, it made perfect sense.
I thought about Slackware, since I understand they use tgz packages, and was more of a "BSD" than the other Linuxes. However, I like the ease of/usr/ports/ and my experience from OpenBSD and it's ports turned me on to FreeBSD. (I think OpenBSD got ports from Free, but not sure)
Actually no. (Longish story)
I was a Windows/Mac guy...
Tried RedHat in 95/96, but XFree86 wasn't cooperating, so I blew it off. (wasn't 1337 enough, I guess)
In 99 a co-worker who was a Debian contributor (i think) gave me the disk and we tried getting it dual-booting on a laptop. I tried by myself for a number of days, spent alot of time reading debian.org and other stuff. He got it working, eventually.... apt-get was cool....
Got a new laptop, but tried RedHat 6.1(?), that worked so played with that.
Quit that job installed Mandrake at home.
Read an OpenBSD flame-fest on Slashdot, and went to find out what it was all about. I liked their auditing and security philosophy. But I use that box for NAT/IPF, DHCP, a basic firewall. Still running 2.8, had a 138 day uptime until I knocked the power cable loose this past saturday. Got hooked on/usr/ports
Was bored (also on saturday), downloaded latest Debian ISO from linuxiso.org. Fought with dselect and that bs.... said, "piss on it", got the FreeBSD 4.4 iso and installed it.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD have similiar installers. Simple, get the work done.
My current noname laptop (Scepter Soundx S69002X) is running Win98/FreeBSD now. A little tweaking of the XF86Config file and now I've got that ATI Mobility card working to it's full potential.
WRT my Linksys wireless card, FreeBSD picked it up, with pccardd, and I can configure the card using wicontrol, but I can't get it to talk to the rest of the network. I can see PINGs on the wireless activity light on the access point, but no success yet. Anyone??
Not to flame or troll.... but......
How come Debian has such a PITA installer? Mandrake was nice, however, OpenBSD and FreeBSD have mega-top notch installers. Easy to use, easy to configure, just say "go".
I've tried Debian three or four times before giving up... 2 years ago... about a year ago and last week...
Downloading the ISO for FreeBSD 4.4 was the hardest thing I did with that. (Still can't quite get my Linksys WPC11 card to talk to my AP but that's a different issue).
You are obviously ignorant as to how government raises money.
When Congress experiences a shortfall of money they go to the always willing Federal Reserve to sell bonds, and the Fed always buys them. Why? Because the Fed has a license to print money.
Did you know that the Federal Reserve is a private corporation? Do yourself a favor and read "Creature From Jekyll Island" it will open your eyes w.r.t. money in the US.
Now, I'm not saying that it is right, it's not. But that's how it currently is.
And I could argue that SS, healthcare are not Federal issues!
One of the shitty things about Democracy is that you can vote yourself money and entitlements, at the expense of others.
If we returned to a republic, with a Federal government providing for "Common Defence" and not namby-pamby BS liberal handouts, maybe we would have more money for military intellegence and medicine production.
You are free to add 5%, 10%, 15% to you tax return in April 15th, if you feel you haven't paid enough. I doubt you'll be doing that.
Lowering taxes helps stimulate more purchases, increase tax revenues. Ask JFK. He did it during his term, much to his party's chagrin.
In programming, how many "temporary fixes" truly are? You're foolish to think there are such things are "temporary taxes".
NOthing stimulates a sagging economy like a tax cut. The federal government would be insane to pass a tax cut at this time. George W isn't going to make the same mistakes as his father....
<br>Bills to raise taxes have to originate in the House, and clearly they are not interested.
Why does this issue keep coming up? There was an article not too long ago about this very topic. It spoke in general terms and was pretty much un-believeable.
Mod me down as flamebait/troll or whatever the crack smokers choose this morning, but please!!! This topic has been beat to death.
I predict that people will say that they have snuck in *Nix boxes to be Samba servers without official permission. DNS servers anyone? Probably some "secret" ones at some facilities... OpenBSD as firewalls in offices?
No big surprises, move along people, nothing to see here.
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the whole saying is....
A democracy is 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner....
A republic is four sheep electing three wolves to decide what's for dinner......
A constitutional republic is three sheep, four wolves voting on dinner, but the sheep are armed.
or something like that....
Rememeber that episode (TNG i think), where two planets ran wars on computers then based on the results, sent appropriate numbers of their own people to death?
I wonder if we'll see anything like that in the future...... (doubtful)
It was a good premise for a show anyway....
why is this under the apache catagory?
(3rd time i tried this.. why is there a 20 second delay between hitting reply and hitting submit?)
Most engineers have been taught that FORTRAN is the way to solve problems in engineering. If everyone starts out with that prejudice and is stuck there.
Where I work, there is a project to write an engineering application in VB, and it has seemed to be one problem after another after another. (I know i know, VB is crap). The core library functions are in C, in a DLL, so I guess thats a bit of a start.
FORTRAN has been ingrained into the current working generations of engineers, so they're going to use what they know.
Heck, I've even seen SQLPlus code (from Aspen) written very very very FORTRAN like. Instead of using min(), max(), there was a bunch of select looping and checking variables..... Oy.
Thanks.... this was the best quote...(emphasis mine) "Why make a hoax? Like I said, this feeds egos. Look, we're all idiots, talking about their fake Apple product. Maybe they'll make Slashdot again. In addition, they want ads. Visitors attract advertisers. "
For a Public Radio station, everytime I listen to them, they sure to seem to be left leaning. Fucking drives me nuts.
43rd & Locust? You ivy leaguers are nuts!!! That's the kind of neighboorhood you don't stop for red lights in!!!
If WinXP users don't patch their machines, the terrorists win!
Here here. 10% is pretty good. The company i "contract" too takes a flat $8. The previous company I worked for was taking $8.50.... before that, (as a W2 then, close to 70%).
Same position, mind you, W2 company, then two contractors..... pretty hot.
I'm a 1099 now, but my accountant advised me to become an S-Corp for a number of reasons. Will be doing so after the new year.
What do you think the C in LLC stands for? "Limited Liability Corporation"
I'm running FreeBSD on my Sceptre (think Dell Inspiron clone).
I re-compiled my first kernel to get the sound card to work, adding a line like "device pcm" or something.
The only problem I have is KDE start up takes two/three "startx" to start. Some kind of DCOP server startup problem. Hunting through google didn't help. Anyone?
In physics, there is no "suck". It's all "blow". Just depends on what side you're on. Pressure goes from high to low, it's called diffusion, 6th grade chemistry.
<br>However, that's not to say that in the low pressure or non-existant pressure it didn't boil away long ago..
Getting Instrumentation & Electrical Techs up there might be a bit of a pain though.
It would be much easier if we just found some Horta and hired them to work for us. But in a vacuum it might be tough on them...
Before you trash Microsoft, for "YAW" (yet another worm).
But you should trash dumbass SQL Admins who don't set passwords!! WTF, yeah, their installer may not prompt them, but shouldnt someone who knows how to log into an NT or 2K know at least, "Hey, maybe this thing has a password too".
If they don't know that, they should take a sharp stick in the eye.
got me there... /. have a Cringley story every <b>time</b> he writes an article? "
"Not to troll, but does
Not to troll, but does /. have a Cringley story every he writes an article?
/..
I liked the article, but man... he's always on
Kind of like having him on the payroll (Katz), but not paying him.....
let's get rid of Katz!!!
Granted, disklabel usage for me wasn't more than "make whole disk for OpenBSD". And that was my big fear with disklabel for FreeBSD. I didn't want to lose my existing partitions. But actually, once I understood what was going on, it made perfect sense. /usr/ports/ and my experience from OpenBSD and it's ports turned me on to FreeBSD. (I think OpenBSD got ports from Free, but not sure)
I thought about Slackware, since I understand they use tgz packages, and was more of a "BSD" than the other Linuxes. However, I like the ease of
Actually no. (Longish story) /usr/ports
I was a Windows/Mac guy...
Tried RedHat in 95/96, but XFree86 wasn't cooperating, so I blew it off. (wasn't 1337 enough, I guess)
In 99 a co-worker who was a Debian contributor (i think) gave me the disk and we tried getting it dual-booting on a laptop. I tried by myself for a number of days, spent alot of time reading debian.org and other stuff. He got it working, eventually.... apt-get was cool....
Got a new laptop, but tried RedHat 6.1(?), that worked so played with that.
Quit that job installed Mandrake at home.
Read an OpenBSD flame-fest on Slashdot, and went to find out what it was all about. I liked their auditing and security philosophy. But I use that box for NAT/IPF, DHCP, a basic firewall. Still running 2.8, had a 138 day uptime until I knocked the power cable loose this past saturday. Got hooked on
Was bored (also on saturday), downloaded latest Debian ISO from linuxiso.org. Fought with dselect and that bs.... said, "piss on it", got the FreeBSD 4.4 iso and installed it.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD have similiar installers. Simple, get the work done.
My current noname laptop (Scepter Soundx S69002X) is running Win98/FreeBSD now. A little tweaking of the XF86Config file and now I've got that ATI Mobility card working to it's full potential.
WRT my Linksys wireless card, FreeBSD picked it up, with pccardd, and I can configure the card using wicontrol, but I can't get it to talk to the rest of the network. I can see PINGs on the wireless activity light on the access point, but no success yet. Anyone??
Not to flame or troll.... but......
How come Debian has such a PITA installer? Mandrake was nice, however, OpenBSD and FreeBSD have mega-top notch installers. Easy to use, easy to configure, just say "go".
I've tried Debian three or four times before giving up... 2 years ago... about a year ago and last week...
Downloading the ISO for FreeBSD 4.4 was the hardest thing I did with that. (Still can't quite get my Linksys WPC11 card to talk to my AP but that's a different issue).
The formkey error bit you... /. crew)
(thanks for the fix
You "X"ed that OSDN bar on top...
The best government is always the minimal government
Amen, Citizen. No need to hide yourself though, log in and be Patriotic!
You are obviously ignorant as to how government raises money.
When Congress experiences a shortfall of money they go to the always willing Federal Reserve to sell bonds, and the Fed always buys them. Why? Because the Fed has a license to print money.
Did you know that the Federal Reserve is a private corporation? Do yourself a favor and read "Creature From Jekyll Island" it will open your eyes w.r.t. money in the US.
Now, I'm not saying that it is right, it's not. But that's how it currently is.
And I could argue that SS, healthcare are not Federal issues!
One of the shitty things about Democracy is that you can vote yourself money and entitlements, at the expense of others.
If we returned to a republic, with a Federal government providing for "Common Defence" and not namby-pamby BS liberal handouts, maybe we would have more money for military intellegence and medicine production.
You are free to add 5%, 10%, 15% to you tax return in April 15th, if you feel you haven't paid enough. I doubt you'll be doing that.
Lowering taxes helps stimulate more purchases, increase tax revenues. Ask JFK. He did it during his term, much to his party's chagrin.
In programming, how many "temporary fixes" truly are? You're foolish to think there are such things are "temporary taxes".
NOthing stimulates a sagging economy like a tax cut. The federal government would be insane to pass a tax cut at this time. George W isn't going to make the same mistakes as his father....
<br>Bills to raise taxes have to originate in the House, and clearly they are not interested.
Why does this issue keep coming up? There was an article not too long ago about this very topic. It spoke in general terms and was pretty much un-believeable.
Mod me down as flamebait/troll or whatever the crack smokers choose this morning, but please!!! This topic has been beat to death.
I predict that people will say that they have snuck in *Nix boxes to be Samba servers without official permission. DNS servers anyone? Probably some "secret" ones at some facilities... OpenBSD as firewalls in offices?
No big surprises, move along people, nothing to see here.